April 1, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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TBS SHIFTS AND GOLF ADDS ANNOUNCERS AND ANALYSTS TBS last week announced changes to its broadcast of Atlanta...
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Discovery Kids Finds a New Playground on Broadcast
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Taking the science of sharing content across network platforms to a novel realm, Discovery Networks and...
by will lee
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Shapiro Invites Extended Clans To ABC Family
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Angela Shapiro wants a bigger family. Shapiro, ABC Family's new president, is planning to broaden the struggling...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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YES Adds More Subs; Dolan Balks
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Last week Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network added 250,000 AT&T Broadband subscribers and 100,000...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Business
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Liberate Expects to See Long-Promised ITV Lucre
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Waiting for interactive TV services to be deployed in North America has been about as agonizing as watching...
by mavis scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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NEWS CORP. (NYSE: NWS) To comply with new accounting rules, News Corp. disclosed it will take a noncash...
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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EARNINGS RELEASE DATES ? MSOs AND PROGRAMMERS
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People
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People
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adc Colin Everett to VP-MSO sales, from VP-cable media solutions for Nortel Networks. Philip Styrulund...
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General
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12 More Get DOCSIS 1.1 Nods
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Cable Television Laboratories last week certified a record 12 more cable modems as meeting its DOCSIS 1.1...
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briefs
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TURNER SHUFFLES RESEARCH Turner Broadcasting System's new research chief created a new corporate research...
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briefs
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COX LAUNCHES CONTENT FOR BROADBAND SERVICE Cox Interactive Media last week launched broadband content programming...
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Cable's Ancient Issues Return to Center Stage
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Just when all the talk about cable began to center on its new broadband adventures, three ancient issues...
by paul kagan
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Charlie's Angel
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Back in the '70s, they were two teenagers at Oak Ridge High School, in the hills of Tennessee, running...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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Corrections
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The regional sports map titled ?Lay of the Land? on pages 20 and 21 of the March 25 issue contained...
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GM Asserting Control Over Local Ads
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The top advertising executive at General Motors, the nation's largest TV advertiser, last week accused...
BY JOE MANDESE SPECIAL FROM MEDIA BUYER'S DAILY
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L.A. OPERATORS PREVIEW POSITIONS
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The four main cable operators in Los Angeles are expected to set the stage for franchise-renewal negotiations...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Late Breaking News
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Judge Halts Verizon Sale A federal judge halted Adelphia Communications' takeover of overbuilder Verizon...
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Liberty Seeks to Vote AOL TW Stake; Industry Keeps Eye on Malone
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Against a backdrop of increasingly worrisome operational and financial problems at AOL Time Warner, John...
BY MAVIS SCANLON AND K. C. NEEL With Staci D. Kramer in St. Louis
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Making Fewer Chips Do More Cuts Set-Top Costs
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Cost-conscious cable operators face a dilemma: how to put the new services subscribers increasingly demand...
by richard cole
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New Ways Offered for Stretching Bandwidth
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Video-on-demand. High-definition television. Interactive TV. High-speed Internet. Voice over cable. All...
BY RICHARD COLE
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News of Additional $2.3B Debt Sends Adelphia's Stock Over the Edge
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The devil is in the details. Or, in the case of Adelphia Communications' semi-disclosures last week about...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Putting the Squeeze on Viewers for 30 Minutes
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Finally, it's here: An orange juice ad that lasts 30 minutes. Tropicana calls it Nu-TV ? for ?nutricious?...
by christopher schultz
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Reaction to Cable Modem Ruling Was Sober
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To the Editor: Your recent story on the FCC's cable modem ruling [?Celebration on FCC's ISP Ruling...
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Setting Sail for the Digital Future
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Ben Hooks is on the prowl for small, rural cable systems. As CEO of Buford Media Group, based in Tyler,...
by andrea figler
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TURNER SWINGS FOR HISPANIC SUBS
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With a direct-mail campaign called ?Home Run,? Turner Network Sales is helping 50 top markets...
Christopher Schultz
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