March 20, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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MLS Shoots to Increase TV Ratings
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Major League Soccer's 2000 campaign will be a season of change, both on the field and on the tube.Entering its fifth season, MLS is now helmed by former...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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A Giant's Passing
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The measure of any man is the legacy he leaves. Consider-ing the brains, wallet and heart possessed by Bill Daniels, the father of cable television left...
Matt Stump
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Broadband Content
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Classic Rock Set to Roll
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Content on the Internet typically follows a familiar pattern: first you see the supermarket approach and then you see the specialty shop.That is the...
Karen Brown
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Broadband
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EmpowerTel Takes IP Switch Forward
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EmpowerTel Networks Inc. has taken the voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) switch to its next level by adding built-in interactive capabilities that...
Jim Barthold
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Equator, Hitachi Hope to Change Course of DTV
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The combined efforts of Equator Technolo-gies Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. have produced a third generation Media Accelerated Proces-sor for Consumer Appliances...
Jim Barthold
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Lucent Acquires Dutch Company
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Lucent Technologies Inc. has planted its flag on the European continent by acquiring privately held DeltaKabel Telecom cv, a Gouda, Netherlands cable...
Jim Barthold
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Tech Talk Review
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DigiPoints, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers monthly Web-based digital data tutorial, has introduced a number of terms and principles...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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TollBridge Moves to Cable Telephony
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TollBridge Technologies Inc. has taken the short step between voice-over-digital subscriber line (DSL) and voice-over-cable."Because we're IP (Internet...
Jim Barthold
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Business
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Ameritech Left Wondering?
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SBC Communications Inc. still hasn't decided what it's going to do with its Ameritech New Media cable business, leaving a number of cable operators in...
Joshua Cho
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News Corp. Funds Overseas Net Ventures
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is setting up another Internet fund to go with the epartners fund it established last year. This time, the fund will be devoted...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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Getting on Track - AT&T Corp. overwhelmingly approved the creation of shares to track the performance of the company's wireless operations, the largest...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Bravo Pumps Up Distribution
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Bravo for Bravo!After one year as a traditional advertiser supported network, Bravo's distribution has grown from 35 million homes to 44 million, with...
Linda Hardesty
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People
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A&E
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Thomas Heymann has been promoted to SVP/GM of the network's new division, AETN Interactive. He had been VP-AETN Enterprises. Prior to joining A&E in...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Cheap Talent Costs: Mammoth Numbers
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Nothing like content that's 20,000 years old. The Discovery Channel rewrote the documentary cable ratings books last week with a mammoth 7.8 rating for...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Sending e-classifieds: Hey, Atlanta's Not so Bad
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Scientific-Atlanta isn't messing around when it comes to job recruitment. The company issued a press release via PR Newswire last week announcing it's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Tech Watch: I Want My DVD
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Studies on new technology are a dime a dozen these days, but something from Baskerville Communications Corp. caught our eye. The London-based firm expects...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Turncoat: A King-size Download
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As if the print guys didn't have enough to worry about in the Internet age, writer Stephen King unveiled his new short story, Riding the Bullet, on the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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A&E Announces Executive Promotions
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A&E Network is about to get a little more historical.Dan Davids, who had been serving as EVP/GM of the History Channel since the network debuted in January...
Mike Reynolds
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ADC Strengthens Wireless Offering
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ADC Telecommunications Inc. has added carrier class service capabilities to its fixed wireless platform. The system is part of the company's telco solutions...
Jim Barthold
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Adelphia Snags Pa. Telecom Contract
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A consortium of companies led by Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Business Solutions subsidiary, has snagged a five-year $228 million contract to provide...
Jim Barthold
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AT&T B'Band Biz On Track - Finally
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AT&T Broadband & Internet Services may be getting its act together finally. Ma Bell's cable unit cut its first real telephone partnership deal with Insight...
K.C. Neel
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AtDeadline...
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* One of the first shoes to drop in the wake of the merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. came last week when German media conglomerate...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Bosco Leads Cisco's Cable Charge
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All services to all devices. That is the mantra coming from Cisco Systems cable executives as they help broadband operators prepare for business in the...
Matt Stump
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Coalition Fights Net Regulation
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As the head of the House Commerce Committee was promising in Washington, D.C., last week to resist efforts to tax or regulate the Internet, the cable...
K.C. Neel
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Court TV Approaches Primetime Bench
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Hoping to make advertisers and viewers offers they can't refuse, Court TV unveiled three primetime series and its first consumer marketing campaign at...
Mike Reynolds
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Dawn Of Digital
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The dawn of digital cable TV has arrived. Millions of cable households have a myriad of TV programming choices to satisfy their personal tastes and interests....
Dave Zorrow
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EchoStar Blasts NBC at FCC
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DBS-broadcaster retransmission consent negotiations are starting to look as ugly as some cable-broadcast deals.EchoStar Communications Corp. cried foul...
Matt Stump
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Fox Family Rocks
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Looking to help advertisers "travel at the speed of kids," Fox Family Worldwide threw its cybersales efforts against children's programming into over...
Mike Reynolds
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MLS Joins Women's Soccer Hunt
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While the U.S. national team was competing for the prestigious Algarve Cup in Portugal last week, things were heating up on the women's soccer front...
Mike Reynolds
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New Media's Love Fest
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The digital divide means different things to different people. In the world of finance, it means that old media companies such as cable operators aren't...
K.C. Neel
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OpenCable Specs Released
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CableLabs has released a final OpenCable Network Interface (OCNI) specification revised to reflect the recent agreement between the cable industry and...
Jim Barthold
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Soft Money Means Big Bucks
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Sen. John McCain thinks soft money political contributions have corrupted the election process. Vice President Al Gore says soft money should be banned,...
Linda Hardesty
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Speculation Surrounds P&G's Marketing Strategies
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The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau isn't worried about fallout from Procter & Gamble's recent stock tumble.In fact, the topic of P&G probably won't...
Linda Hardesty
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The View from the Top
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Cisco Systems CEO/president John Chambers has come along way from his childhood in West Virginia.Cisco, as much as any company, typifies the promise...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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When Networks Collide
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The convergence of media was likened to a car crash at last week's National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Television Internet Conference 2000...
Joshua Cho
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Wireless Groups Battle over Transport
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A high-speed data delivery standards battle could be looming for the re-emergent broadband fixed wireless industry.Wi-LAN Inc. and Philips Electronics...
Jim Barthold
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Yahoo! Needs eBay, but Fails to Make a Deal
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Shares of eBay Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. rebounded late last week after a precipitous decline sparked by merger/alliance rumors between the two companies.CNBC...
Joshua Cho
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