April 28, 2003
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PROGRAMMING
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BAD NEWS AT PLYMOUTH ROCK
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The planned launch of CN8, Comcast's regional news/sports/entertainment network, has run into considerable opposition in Massachusetts, mostly due to...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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BRIEFS
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NBA TV SCORES FREE THROW Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision agreed to provide a free preview of NBA TV's coverage of the 2003 NBA playoffs, including...
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Coming Up
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DISCOVERY'S THRILLING LOOK AT ?MAMMALS? Viewers won't care that Discovery Channel's Life of Mammals isn't available in HDTV. Even on standard...
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Hear the One About Viewers 18 to 34?
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Viacom's acquisition of Comedy Central gives it a headlock on the difficult-to-reach 18-to-34 demographic, and ad buyers don't think it's particularly...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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KOONIN TAKES CHARGE OF TNT AND TBS
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A week before facing ad buyers, Turner Broadcasting System placed both of its big general entertainment networks under a single executive, Steve Koonin,...
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THE COST OF COMEDY
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Though network platforms like cable and DBS grab most of the valuation headlines, good old fashioned content still commands coin. Viacom coughed up $1.2...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BRIEFS
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HP'S RAINBOW CONNECTION Hewlett-Packard is helping Rainbow Holdings get its house in order. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP announced that it is designing...
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RETAIL CABLE MODEMS?
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A legitimate retail strategy for cable has proved elusive. MSOs and vendors have been unable to agree on standards and marketing. However, cable modems...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Texas Instruments Gooses Broadband
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How many times has this happened to you? You're downloading a media file ? legally, of course ? and while you're waiting for your movie or...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Low Churn, Heavy Weather in the 'Cuse
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In upstate New York, winter is a pitiless grind, a six-month impasto of snow, ice, subzero temperatures and unremitting gloom. In the center of that...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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COLUMNS
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ALPHABET SOUP
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The ?ultimate home theater?? more DVR for TWC? Comcast HDTV goes west? HD moves from Discovery
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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General
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BRIEFS
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BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR COURT TV AOL Time Warner sold its stake in Comedy Central last week, but its interest in Court TV is off the block for now, according...
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS Ellen Filipiak to SVP-customer care, from SVP-Florida region for AT&T Broadband. ARTEL VIDEO SYSTEMS Walter S. Ciciora to the...
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CABLE'S QUARTER
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The Washington Post Co. is one of media's most venerable brands with operations that span cable, broadcasting and publishing (Newsweek and The Washington...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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CHUGGIN' ALONG
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Time Warner Cable is showing remarkable durability. Revenue is up by about 8%, and total RGUs grew by about 12%. Basic subscribers also continues to...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, >KAGAN
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Competition in the set-top business is good for everyone's business.
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Imagine what it would be like if there were only two makes of cars: General Motors and Toyota. The people on the street where you live could only have...
BY NEIL GAYDON
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E!-Style Reality Central Makes Play for Operators
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Banking on the assumption that there's no such thing as too much reality television, a founder of E! Entertainment Television and a group of reality...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Late Breaking News
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Good Friday for Charter Stifel Nicolaus analyst Ted Henderson upped his rating on Charter to buy from market perform, saying much of the risk in the...
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Networks, Cable Ops Plan More Public Affairs Programs
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Jimmy Carter seems like a do-it-yourself kind of guy. After all, he's devoted one week a year for nearly two decades to Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit...
BY ANDREA FIGLER AND SHIRLEY BRADY
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of April 14-20, 2003 ...
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Road Trip: NCC Seeks to Sway Media Shops
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Maybe the senior executives for spot cable company National Cable Communications won't be the next dreamy boy band, but they will try to perform the...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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SVOD Customers Light Up Quarter for Time Warner
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Has the year of VOD, HD, SVOD and DVR finally arrived? For Time Warner Cable, anyway, the answer is yes, if its first-quarter operating results are any...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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The Quiet Man
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When was the last time a cable operator announced it wasn't taking a yearly rate increase? Or that it was giving away digital service free to customers...
BY K. C. NEEL
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