March 24, 2003
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PROGRAMMING
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BRIEFS
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NEW SHOWS FOR NICK At its upfront presentation for media buyers last week in Manhattan, kids TV leader Nickelodeon announced seven new shows for the...
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Coming Up
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WOODS'S ?RUDY? WELL WORTH WATCHING James Woods gives a heroic performance as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in USA Network's...
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FOOD ADDS SHOWS TO DAYTIME RECIPE
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Food Network is whipping up a new batch of cooking shows for an expanded daytime and weekend lineup. The how-to programs will air as part of a newly...
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TV Guide Channel Updates to Dodge The Digital Blues
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In a bid to remain relevant in a digital television world, TV Guide Channel executives are telling operators how the old-fashioned scrolling network...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BRIEFS
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TECHNOLOGIC PICKS 2003'S MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED Technologic Partners announced the winners of its Investors' Choice awards at the conclusion of its two-day...
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CONEXANT CASHES IN ON NETWORKING CHIPS
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Home networking has drawn a hive's worth of buzz over the past few years, and vendors are gearing up to meet the inevitable consumer demand. Count Conexant...
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Tale of Two VOD Vendors
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Both SeaChange International and Concurrent Computer Corp. talked dollars and sense this month, although only one of the video-on-demand vendors had...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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VOD? NO PROFITS YET
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VOD profits will require yet still more patience. One vendor, Concurrent Computer Corp., showed diminishing near-term expectations. Revenue skidded by...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Who's Minding the Bandwidth Hogs?
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Peer-to-peer file sharing has emerged as broadband's serial-killer app ? it just keeps on killing, relentlessly driving high-speed data usage while...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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?Not Like Anywhere Else in Texas?
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Drive down almost any street in Austin and you're bound to come across at least one bumper sticker imploring those who hold sway over such matters to...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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COLUMNS
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Tracking cable's acronyms without a scorecard is tough for journalists. What's it like for customers?
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Every year I attend CableLabs' dog-and-pony show designed to explain the murky world of high tech to reporters, and every year I come away more confused...
BY K. C. NEEL
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General
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All Quiet on the Digital Channel Advertising Front
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Silence. Flat-out silence. That's what I kept running into when trying to get cable operators to talk about how they sell ? or plan to sell ?...
Andrea Figler
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BRIEFS
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CHARTER FILLS EMPTY EXECUTIVE POSTS Charter Communications made strides toward filling out its depleted executive corps last week with the addition of...
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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AMC David Ladik to VP-original programming and development, from director, original programming and development, for VH1. CARD & ASSOCIATES Lorine Card...
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Cable Stocks Are Actually Beating the S&P This Year
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What a difference three and a half months can make. To cable stocks, that is. Since the start of the year, shares of the top cable operators were up...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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FAB FIBER?
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Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is showing new life. A recent survey shows there are currently 110,000 homes passed by FTTH with an estimated 10,000 actual...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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FOX TAKES EARLY LEAD
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Even with a new round of bombs bursting over Baghdad, Fox News Channel maintained its ratings leadership over CNN, which had its shining moment a decade...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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FOX's WAR?
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If early ratings are any indication, Fox News might just be the information source for the war. The channel beat CNN during the first night of the conflict...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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High Fuel Costs Have Operators Cutting Corners
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Cable operators are sucking it in to suck up soaring gas prices. The Labor Department reported Friday that the Consumer Price Index rose at its fastest...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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High Stakes in the war for cable news supremacy
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To understand why a genuine historic moment in cable television arrived last Wednesday night, all one need do is remember 1991. It was a mild January...
BY VERNE GAY
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Late Breaking News
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Liberty Raises $1.5 Billion Liberty Media beefed up its war chest to nearly $5 billion after completing a complex $1.5 billion bond offering late Friday....
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More Planned Developments Hooked Up by Fiber Providers
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Fiber-to-the-home providers are now squarely on the cable industry's competitive map, according to numbers released by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council....
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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PARTYING LIKE IT'S 1999?
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Cable stocks are on a nice run. The Kagan MSO average outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 11% since the beginning of the year. That's remarkable, considering...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Powell's Ownership Problem
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Cannons to the right of them, cannons to the left, the media ownership proceeding at the Federal Communications Commission is starting to look like the...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of March 10-16, 2003 ...
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Snow Stays Mostly on Roofs and Not TVs in Denver
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Comcast's Denver system took a licking from the blizzard of '03 but kept on ticking. Some 15,000 video subscribers ? roughly 2% of the system's...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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THE COSTS OF WAR
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While broadcasters will take the biggest hit in this war ? CBS faces the double shot of higher operational expenses and increased losses from its...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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