April 29, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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briefs
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WE's McENROE HOSTS CHILDREN-THEMED ORIGINAL NIGHT Rainbow Media-owned women's network WE announced last...
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Court TV Orders $160M In Programs
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With four new prime-time series, another original film production, and more than 300 hours of original...
BY WILL LEE
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ESPN Sweetens Bitter Pill of Next Rate Hike
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Weeks before it sends out notices to cable operators letting them know how much its rights fees will increase,...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Holy Reruns! TV Land Adds Batman, Gidget
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With help from the original television Batman, Adam West, TV Land and its corporate sibling, Nick at Nite,...
BY WILL LEE
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Rukeyser Show Bullish for CNBC In Prime Time
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Louis Rukeyser's debut on CNBC on April 19 certainly proved to be a ratings boon for the business channel;...
BY WILL LEE
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Turner Aims to Master Drama, Comedy Domains
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It wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement of drama, but at least it made the advertisers laugh. As the closing...
by will lee
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Business
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MSG PICKS UP TAB FOR REBATE STEMMING FROM LOSS OF YANKS In the better-late-than-never department, Cablevision...
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Growth in Basic and New Services Boosts Q1 for Cox
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Kicking off the first-quarter earnings season for MSOs last Monday, Cox Communications reported robust...
by mavis scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA (NYSE: SFA) In an unusual move, Merrill Lynch cuts its intermediate term investment...
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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INSIDER SPOTLIGHT
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People
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abc family & kids Laura Nathanson to EVP-ABC Family & Kids sales and marketing, from EVP-national sales...
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General
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A Time of Churn For the Cable Industry
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In these troubled times, ?churn? has taken on a greater meaning than mere subscriber turnover....
by paul kagan
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A&E ENTRUSTS BRAND TO TBWA/CHIAT/DAY
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A&E Network hired ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day for the creative and strategic portion of its advertising account....
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Adding Advertising in An On-Demand World
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Cable operators have never been in the charity business ? free subscription video-on-demand promotions...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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AT&T Pulls Plug on Nonpaying Subscribers
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AT&T Broadband lost 1.3% of its customers ? a whopping 179,000 of its 13.6 million subscribers ?...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Cable Focus on VOD Left Spiderdance Stuck in Web
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In a bearish market, a little hibernation is to be expected. Execrable puns aside, however, interactive...
by anthony crupi
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Content's King
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A big piece of the future of television is in the hands of Jamie Kellner. Kellner, a launcher of broadcast...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Diva Frets as Charter Turns to Concurrent
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Charter Communications, which has paired with Diva to bring video-on-demand service to 12 markets nationwide,...
BY MAVIS SCANLON AND ANTHONY CRUPI
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For the Birders
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Matt Strauss likes to pitch Mag Rack as the only programming unique to video-on-demand that helps give...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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From ESPN to EXPN
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ESPN, which last week unveiled EXPN, an action sports on-demand offering, has been been building a VOD...
by staci d. kramer
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Hello, Please Try Our VOD Free ? For Now
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Here's a sure way to sell anything: Enlist the cable operator and the telemarketer, two of Joe Consumer's...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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If It Weren't for Cable, What Would Congress Do?
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After several years of remaining largely under the radar on Capitol Hill, the cable industry emerged at...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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INTERACTIVE BUSINESSES GIVE LIFT TO USA NETWORKS
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Strong revenue and cash flow growth at interactive businesses Expedia and Hotel Reservations Network helped...
Mavis Scanlon
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Johnson & Johnson Gets Into Movie Biz With TNT
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Simultaneously harking back to the days of Texaco Star Theater and emulating the more recent pedigree of...
by jon lafayette
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Late Breaking News
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Patent Report Hurts Gemstar Gemstar-TV Guide International shares plunged Friday on news that an attorney...
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Life Beyond Ratings
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Ad-supported basic cable networks may only be paying lip service to cable operators' hunger for video-on-demand...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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MICROSOFT HAS LAYOFFS IN ITV UNIT
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Microsoft announced last week that it would lay off about 60 people in an attempt to jump-start its stalled...
Anthony Crupi
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New Direction for Salary Survey
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The Cable Television Human Resources Association is expanding and reconfiguring its annual compensation...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Online Unit Heads AOL Earnings Woes
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When AOL Time Warner installed Bob Pittman as CEO of America Online earlier this month, investors feared...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Peace Pipe Passed Over Piracy Issues
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Entertainment and consumer electronics industry leaders called a truce last week, coming to an agreement...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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Playboy Jumps Into SVOD With Cablevision
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Playboy Entertainment Group is getting into the subscription video-on-demand business with Cablevision...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Scientific-Atlanta's Bottleneck Solution
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As operators scramble to optimize sufficient bandwidth with which to offer customers pipe-clogging video-on-demand...
by anthony crupi
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Starz Encore Pumps $45M Into Campaign
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Last week Starz Encore Group kicked off its latest and most extensive branding campaign to date, hyping...
BY K. C. NEEL
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The Set-Top Box Knows What You Want to Watch
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Ten years ago Bruce Springsteen rasped his way through a new song called ?57 Channels (And Nothin'...
by anthony crupi
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Viacom Down, But Bullish
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Viacom's revenue and bottom-line profits declined in the recent quarter, but management remained bullish...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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VOD Strikes America
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A&E NETWORKS VOD and SVOD content is in the works from A&E, Biography and the History Channel. ABC CABLE...
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We're Ready for VOD. Now Bring on the Content
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Skeptics who say the public isn't ready for video-on-demand should drop by my house around 6:30 in the...
by josh sapan
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Will Murdoch Use SES To Launch in U.S. Skies?
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News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch may have found another entryway to the U.S. multichannel market. SES...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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