March 25, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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CNBC WAKES UP EARLIER CNBC is beginning its live Business Day programming an hour earlier beginning on...
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Comedy Central Adds Conan and Serves Tennis
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Comedy Central last week signed an exclusive repurposing deal to rebroadcast NBC's Late Night With Conan...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Fine Living Launches But Awaits Carriage
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Scripps Networks' new Fine Living Channel launched last week, but executives wouldn't say just where it...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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They'll Always Have Paris, and Saigon, Too
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As everyone knows by now, the 2000 census awoke cable ? both programmers and operators ? to...
by will lee
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Interactive TV
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Source Closes As Insight Takes Control
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After nearly a year of looking for a buyer or an equity investor, Source Media, which sought to forge a...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Business
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Boylan's Departure Adds To Gemstar's Headaches
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With the departure of a key executive, a delay in a potentially lucrative legal ruling and disappointing...
by mavis scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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MICROSOFT (NASDAQ: MSFT) Microsoft's interactive TV plans took another hit as Charter Communications said...
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DEAL WRAP
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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People
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People
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a&e networks Gerard Gruosso to EVP and CFO, from SVP and CFO. Gruosso has been with A&E for 17 years. amc...
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General
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briefs
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CONCURRENT FORECASTS HIGHER VOD REVENUES With eight additional VOD deployments due this quarter, Concurrent...
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briefs
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CHARTER HIRES S-A FOR ITV SERVICES Charter Communications selected Scientific-Atlanta's service arm, SciCare...
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Cableready Plans NCTA Food Drive
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Cableready is organizing a food drive during the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention...
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Celebration on FCC's ISP Ruling May Have Been a Bit Premature
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After a week of celebration, the cable industry and its investment analysts may be facing a serious hangover....
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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CHARTER ENTERS HDTV PICTURE
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Charter Communications is joining the ranks of cable operators using their bandwidth to embrace high-definition...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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Cost a Key to Putting PVRs in Set-Top Boxes
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Putting personal video recorders into cable set-top boxes may be more difficult and more expensive than...
by richard cole
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Early Start in Courting Businesses Pays Off for Cox
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Six of the seven top MSOs currently offer some kind of Internet service to businesses in their franchise...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Ed Op(EDITOR'S OPINION)
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If you are at all familiar with the physical sciences, you know that despite all the claptrap to the contrary,...
BY W. F. GLOEDE
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Empire Building
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It sounds so simple. Own a team. Start a network. Count your riches. Or better yet ? own both and...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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FCC Chairman Cajoled Cablers on HDTV Transition
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It's not certain whether the board members of the National Cable Telecommunications Association were prepared...
BY ALICIA MUNDY AND STACI D. KRAMER
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Fuzzy Math
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It sounds so rational when NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol explains why cable can afford to be the home...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Jedai Revamps Management Lineup
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Jedai Broadband Networks, a company building equipment using advanced gigabit Ethernet technology and optical...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Late Breaking News
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TV Groups Oppose EchoStar On Friday, the heads of six organizations, including the National Association...
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Lay of the Land
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In the land of cable sports, the territory is not divided into 50 states, but into 25 chunks with some...
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Newhouse Talks Add to Pressure on AOL TW
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Wall Street is concerned about reports that the Newhouse family wants to renegotiate its cable TV partnership...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Play Ball
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Last week ESPN, which is adding games to its baseball schedule, launched a new promotion campaign for its...
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Startup Says It Can Cut Cost Of VOD Streams
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Internet Photonics Inc., a startup based in Shrewsbury, N.J., and Marlborough, Mass., says it has devised...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Sternberg Gets Fox Sports World Responsibilities
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Fox Cable Networks last week put David Sternberg in charge of its fast-growing portfolio of international...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Unsportsmanlike Content
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In the early days of the Golf Channel, circa 1994, hours of airtime to fill and a dearth of tournaments...
BY WILL LEE
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Watching a Digital Net Help Sell Digital Cable
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Network-sponsored promotions designed to help cable operators upsell top-tier services are fast becoming...
by christopher schultz
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We the People Establish This Service
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Residents of Braintree, Mass., and its surrounding areas have made history before. John Adams and John...
by steve goldstein
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Will Allen's Digeo Tackle Middleware?
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Far from being hailed as a victory for rival middleware companies, Charter Communications' pullback from...
BY RICHARD COLE
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