April 5, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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Discovery Set to Kick Off Another Eco-Challenge
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It's been billed as the world's toughest expedition race. And with good reason as 55 teams from 27 countries engaged in such disciplines as camel riding,...
Mike Reynolds
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Lifetime Makes April Childcare Month
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Looking to raise public awareness of child care issues, Lifetime Television will present a host of short- and long-form programming elements during April.Lifetime,...
Mike Reynolds
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Business
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Wireless Cable Gets MCI Plug; Century 3Q
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The troubled competitive step child of the cable industry got a booster shot last week when MCI Worldcom Inc. made investments in wireless cable operators...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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BLOOM OFF THE ROSE: Wall Street investors continued to pummel shares of Comcast Corp. and Comcast Special last week following the March 22 announcement...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Court TV Debuts New $10M Thumbprint: New logo, slogan, programs on tap for network beginning April 12
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Court TV announced a $10 million multimedia makeover, including a new thumbprint logo and new slogan, "Inside Crime, Inside Justice," that will debut...
Mary Reinholz
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Romance Classics Courts Internet Users
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For its second consecutive June promotion with Bride's magazine, Romance Classics is creating an online sweepstakes centered on what is being billed...
Mary Reinholz
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People
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BRAD MARKS INTERNATIONAL: Linda Sands has been named managing associate & director-new media. Prior to joining the company, she had been manager-operations in Los Angeles for William E. Simon & Sons, the banking investment firm of William E. Simon, former
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CABLE POSITIVE: The following have been named to the board of directors: Maggie Bellville, VP-operations, Cox Communications Inc.; Tom Stapleton, senior...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Couch Potato Alert!: TV Dinners Return
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Try to imagine our glee when we heard that C.A. Swanson and Sons will reintroduce the official "TV Dinner" to celebrate the company's 45th anniversary....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Executive Suite: Seibert Turns Up at MTV Schulman Lands at A&E
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Who says you can't go home again? Not Fred Seibert, who should feel right at home in his new post as president of Viacom's MTV Networks Online division.Seibert,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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NCAA Blues: Women Rule the Courts and Ratings
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You Go Girls! ESPN last week kicked butt with its NCAA women's title tournament but things weren't so hot over at CBS, where the NCAA men's championship...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Tuning In: Always Leave Them Wanting More
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Remember Susunu Denpa Shonen (Don't Go For It, Electric Boy!), Japan's favorite TV show featuring the exploits of Nasubi, a comedian locked in a tiny...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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At Deadline: Diller Receives Clearance For Film Purchases; CBS Buys King World for $2.5 Billion in Stock
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Barry Diller's deal to buy film assets from Seagram Co. came closer to completion when the October Films board of directors approved the sale of their...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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AT&T Receives EC Approval for BT Joint Venture
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AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications Plc moved one step closer to getting clearance for a key joint venture after the European Commission outlined...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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BENEFICIAL STUDY And another great round of ratings
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The Women in Cable & Telecommunications Foundation has done the industry a favor in its latest research report, "Benefits of Balance: Increasing Employee...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Blonder Tongue Intros MDU Net Access: Single satellite feed can service several buildings with high-speed data
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Blonder Tongue Laboratories Inc. has introduced technology to help Hughes Network Systems Inc.'s DirecPC deliver Internet services from single DirecPC...
Jim Barthold
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Cable Keeps On Trucking In First Quarter Ratings
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Cable's march against broadcast, despite a slight slowdown in its advance during March, continued at a strong pace during the first quarter of 1999.Basic...
Mike Reynolds
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CERTIFIED WITH PRIDE: Behind the milestone, a dedicated team
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A process that began in September 1995 hit a major milestone in March 1999 when two vendors' high-speed cable modems were authorized to bear a "CableLabs...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Comcast Mulls MediaOne's Box Strategy: Philosophical differences toward technology plays out
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Comcast Corp. has not dismissed out-of-hand MediaOne Group Inc.'s open standards-based digital set-top box strategy, a Comcast executive said last week."We...
Jim Barthold
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Disney Channel Projects Target Kids 9-11: New slate features youth-oriented telefilms and original series
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Stepping up its series and original film production, Disney Channel has taken the wraps off several new projects.Aimed at the kids aged 9-11, Disney...
Mike Reynolds
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Feds Will Be Watching: FCC Issues Consumer's Bill of (Rate) Rights
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As the FCC drew the final curtain on upper tier rate regulation last week, public officials issued a final warning to cable operators to keep rates in...
Eric Glick
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Food Network Unveils New In-Restaurant Series
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Food Network is seeking to broaden its audience base by taking them out to eat.As an integral part of its third-quarter programming slate, Food Network...
Mike Reynolds
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GI, Telcordia Team Up on IP Telephony
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The cable industry's inexorable move toward IP telephony continued last week as General Instrument Corp. and Telcordia Technologies Inc. (formerly Bellcore)...
Jim Barthold
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IBM Expands Presence in Digital Arena
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IBM Corp. continues to look for ways to use its digital expertise in the broadcasting and cable industries."We think that IBM's competency really plays...
Jim Barthold
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Is Cox Poised For Acquisition Spree?
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Cox Communications Inc. is looking to acquire cable systems, Cable World has learned, but MediaOne Group, Inc. is not one of them.According to a source...
Joshua Cho
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LodgeNet, AT&T to Offer High-Speed Data: Hotel video provider adds Internet access to list of offerings for travelers
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Business travelers will no longer have to give up faster Internet speed when they go on the road and stay in hotels serviced by an alliance of LodgeNet...
Jim Barthold
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Media Ad Spending Up Slightly in 1998
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Advertising spending in all media increased by only 8.3% in 1998, the lowest annual percentage increase in seven years, according to Competitive Media...
Mary Reinholz
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Millenium Bug Bites Small Cable Operators: FCC report warns of Y2K glitches potentially in program origination sources
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Are you ready for the new millennium?As over-hyped as the so-called Y2K bug may be, the FCC released a study last week urging caution to all sectors...
Eric Glick
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MSOs Dismiss Consumer Rate Hike Fears: Most cable operators agree press stories are overstated, but fair
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As doomsday predictions of rising cable rates permeated the press last week, cable executives were pooh-poohing the hoopla as a lot of hype over nothing."We've...
K.C. Neel
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Murdoch Makes Regionals His Own
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Despite industry debate over whether the regional sports business can survive skyrocketing rights fees and narrowing margins, News Corp. chairman Rupert...
K.C Neel and Mike Reynolds
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QVC's Q Records Resurrects "Live at Gilley's"
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On April 6, record stores around the country will begin receiving a second release from QVC's fledgling Q Records, "Live at Gilley's," a four-volume...
Mary Reinholz
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Standoff in Tacoma: Click! Network vs. AT&T
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Click! Network began hooking up customers in Tacoma, Wash., last fall and currently boasts a customer count of more than 4,000. At the same time, AT&T...
K.C. Neel
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The Industry According To AT&T's Hindery
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Declaring that the cable business has now become "the broadband industry," former Tele-Communications Inc. president Leo Hindery forecast the end of...
Alan Breznick
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Time Warner Considers Spinoff of Web Assets: CNNfn will launch a web site to tap new viewers beginning in July
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With its eye on a possible public spinoff of its Internet properties, Time Warner Inc. plans to introduce another major financial news and information...
Alan Breznick
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TiVo and Replay Gear Up for PVR Battle
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Jostling to reach the consumer market first, the two purveyors of new "personalized TV" devices announced fresh equity investors last week and revealed...
Alan Breznick
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Washington Update: Cable, Telecommunications Companies Pay to Play; NCTA and NAB Divvy Up Campaign Contributions
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It seems that cable, telecommunications and entertainment companies are among the more generous when it comes to campaign contributions.During the 1998...
Eric Glick
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