April 19, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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All-Soap Opera Channel to Suds Up in 2000
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In a move that has taken nearly as long to unfold as some story lines, Disney/ABC Cable has decided to create an all-soap opera cable channel, centering...
Mike Reynolds
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Fox Family Inks Big Deal for it's itsy bitsy time Series
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Fox Family has inked a three-year deal with The itsy bitsy Entertainment Co. (TibECo) and Hasbro to produce it's itsy bitsy time, a series aimed at preschoolers...
Mike Reynolds
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Marciano Film Adds Punch to Showtime Card
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Proponents of pugilism and film fans alike may want to circle May 15 on their calendars, as Showtime will give new meaning to the concept of Saturday...
Mike Reynolds
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TCM Celebrates its Success on its 5th Anniversary
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Turner Classic Movies celebrated its fifth birthday with a 30% jump in its subscriber count.With a number of recent launches by Time Warner Cable, Frontiervision,...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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WHITER : Biding time while the value rises
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The troubles the cable MSO formerly known as Tele-Communications Inc. has had with delivering subscribers to the partnership have been brewing...
Matt Stump
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Business
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Liberty Media Group Gets Interactive, Again
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Liberty Media Group was at it again last week, investing in interactive media company ACTV, Inc.Liberty, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T Corp., but...
Joshua Cho
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TW 1Q Results Mostly Rosy on All Fronts
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The Time Warner companies last week posted record first quarter earnings from almost all of its segments for the three-month period ended March 31, 1999."It...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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ADELPHIA GAINS: Wall Street traders liked Adelphia Communications Corp.'s announcement last week that it's buying Harron Communications Corp. Adelphia's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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HGTV Sponsors "Plant a Row for the Hungry" Campaign
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Home & Garden Television has begun a series of 30-second public service announcements encouraging gardeners and others to join a grassroots campaign...
Mary Reinholz
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History, IST Team for "Enlightened Journeys"
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Seeking to expand its brand into the wide world of travel, the History Channel has joined forces with IST Cultural Tours in a licensing deal that will...
Mary Reinholz
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People
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People
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@ HOME: Steve Brookstein has been appointed VP-affiliate relations for East Coast operations. He has been a regional SVP of Comcast Cable Communications...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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Adelphia and TCA Go On Buying Spree
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Once dismissed by Wall Street as likely candidates for the auction block, both Adelphia Communications Corp. and TCA Cable TV last week continued to...
K.C. Neel and Joshua Cho
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AMC Net Launches New Affiliate Web Site
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In an effort to provide information more quickly and efficiently to its affiliates, AMC Networks has launched a new Internet site that lets cable operators...
Mary Reinholz
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Anstrom Bolts: Who'll Fill His Shoes?
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With last week's announcement that National Cable Television Association president-CEO Decker Anstrom would depart the trade group to head up The Weather...
Eric Glick
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At Deadline: SeaChange Intros Video Streaming System
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SeaChange International Inc. will introduce a high-bandwidth video streaming system aimed at high-speed data service networks at this week's National...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Cable Modem Growth Rolls Toward 1M Mark
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With Internet usage still exploding, the number of cable modem users in North America has sailed past the 750,000 mark and at least two MSOs have now...
Alan Breznick
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Cable Nets Cluttered with Non-Programming
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When it comes to clutter, TBS Superstation and E! Entertainment are at the top of the cable charts.Those are two of the findings from the "1998 Television...
Mike Reynolds
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Cable Operators Plot Ways to Control Modem Usage
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It's the kind of problem everybody who has a service would want: too many users.That's what could face cable operators soon as cable modem popularity...
Jim Barthold
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CBS Leaps into Internet Investment Fray
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CBS Corp. is getting caught up in the Internet frenzy currently taking place on Wall Street and the media/entertainment realm.The eye said last week...
Joshua Cho
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Century Franchise Customers Get Their Say
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When Ed Saterstad wants to know what his subscribers are thinking, all he has to do is call up their files.Saterstad, GM of Century Communications Corp.'s...
Jim Barthold
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Cox, Comcast Gain Greater Control of
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Bowing to pressure from its Network partners, AT&T Corp. is ceding some control over the high-speed data venture's management and beefing up its...
Alan Breznick
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Digital Signal Processing: Technology finds its way to TV sets
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Volume three, issue three of DigiPoints spotlights the most basic customer terminal in our industry - the TV set - and how Digital Signal Processing...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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DirecTV and EchoStar in talks with ISPs, AOL
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Seeking a leg up on cable and each other, DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. are jousting for an agreement with America Online Inc. to offer...
Alan Breznick
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Hongkong Telecom Tabs S-A for Internet Delivery
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Hongkong Telecom CSL (HKT), a Cable & Wireless plc company, will use Scientific-Atlanta Inc.'s PowerVU IP satellite delivery technology to deliver broadband...
Jim Barthold
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IBS Changing Name, Increasing Internet Focus
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International Billing Services Inc. (IBS) hardly rolls off the lips of most cable industry people. Better known as CableData Inc.'s sister company, IBS...
Jim Barthold
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ISPs and Cable Square Off at Senate Hearing
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The scuffle between Internet Service Providers and cable operators went another round last week as two industry titans clashed publicly over the future...
Eric Glick
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NetGame Offers Affordable Web Access Via New Router
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NetGame Ltd. is hoping to snare business customers wanting affordable high-speed cable Internet access with its new two-way, fully integrated router.The...
Karen Brown
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Promoters Set Woodstock '99 for July PPV
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In 1969, it was peace, love and Woodstock. Thirty years later, cable operators are hopeful that they will soon be able to say Woodstock '99, Viewer's...
Mike Reynolds
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Sprint Readies MMDS High-Speed Service
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Multipoint multichannel distribution service (MMDS) high-speed data delivery last week went from a cable industry nuisance to a full scale threat.Sprint...
Jim Barthold
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TCI and Texas Town Try to Settle Rate Hike Woes
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Representatives from TCI of Arlington, Texas, met with city officials last week to see if the two sides could settle rate disputes which date back to...
K.C. Neel
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Two DBS Rivals Plot Local Signal Strategy
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With four major satellite TV reform bills now before Congress, DBS rivals DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. are prepping to offer local...
Alan Breznick
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Washington Update: Kennard Wants Cable Ops to Offer Senior Discounts; Lawmakers Continue to Wrestle with SHVA Reform
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The top cop at the FCC isn't letting rate regulation die without a fight.As part of his ongoing campaign to warn consumers that the commission no longer...
Eric Glick
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