May 6, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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briefs
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DISNEY PASSES 80 MILLION The Disney Channel has passed the vaunted 80 million-subscriber mark, according...
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MSNBC Presses News Vet Nachman Into Service
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Looking to challenge the leaders in the cable news wars, ratings laggard MSNBC last week hired veteran...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Old News Is Good News for Bravo
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When a television show, whether on broadcast or cable, garners critical praise but scant viewership, it...
by will lee
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On With The Shows
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Cable networks ? both the tried-and-true channels and start-up niche programmers ? will tout...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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People
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People
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adlink Bob McCauley to president, from VP/general sales manager for both KCOP-TV and KTTV-TV in Los Angeles....
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General
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?While Fox Finds an Outlet With In Demand
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., one of the major studios that had balked at making its movies available...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Another Thought About Who Cashes In on Intellectual Property
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To the Editor: Let me preface this by saying that I am certainly not in favor of wholesale copying of entertainment...
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BILL PROMISES BELLS EQUAL INTERNET REGULATION
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It doesn't regulate cable, but it could change the industry's bottom line. That's the reaction among Washington...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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briefs
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BORNSTEIN LEAVES ABC Former ESPN president Steven Bornstein last week resigned as president of Walt Disney...
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Building Morale At AT&T
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When AT&T Broadband employees in Chicago began wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the company's logo to places...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Burke's Law
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The man responsible for making the cable deal of the century pay off ? no one at Comcast Corp. says...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Cable 2002 Talking Points
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JANICE AULL SVP and GM, HBO ?With digital upgrades in place, cable operators have the opportunity...
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Cable Climbs Aboard Powell's DTV Bandwagon
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The cable industry's new, improved digital television statement had been touted so much in advance by the...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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Cable-Tech Zeitgeist
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AMIR BASSAN-ESKENAZI President and CEO, BigBand Networks ?It will be a great year to be a cable sub!...
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Cablevision to Address Debt, Financing Woes
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As Cablevision Systems' first-quarter earnings report highlighted, the company still faces several challenges,...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Comcast Signs VOD Deal With NBC?
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PHILADELPHIA ? In a first for a broadcast network, NBC has agreed to provide free network content...
BY STACI D. KRAMER With K. C. Neel in Denver.
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DISCOVERY END CREDITS ROLLING TO WEB
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Discovery Communications last week came up with a plan that will eliminate most of the end credits from...
Jon Lafayette
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Ed Op(EDITOR'S OPINION)
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Having covered media for the past 23 years, much of that at the local level, I sometimes see things in...
BY W. F. GLOEDE
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ERGEN'S NEW PITCH
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EchoStar's peripatetic CEO Charlie Ergen came to Washington last week (again) to push his proposed merger...
Alicia Mundy
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FOUR NEW NETWORKS FROM MTV
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Looking to expand its digital offerings and provide more music-concentrated programming services, MTV Networks...
Will Lee
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FOX AND CNN QUIBBLE OVER RATINGS
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While MSNBC was trying to get its house in order, Fox News Channel and CNN sniped at each other over the...
Jon Lafayette
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Grande, ClearSource In Overbuilder Merger
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After years of sharing some operational efficiencies and operating in the same geographic area, Grande...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Greek Tragedy
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John Rigas's pride in his family runs deep. He chose the Greek word for brothers, adelphia, for his cable...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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High-Tech Dreams
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Technology will be on prominent display this week at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's...
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INSIGHT POSTS REVENUE GAINS
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Subscriber gains were behind Insight Communications' 10% revenue growth in the first quarter. Last week,...
Mavis Scanlon
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Late Breaking News
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Allen Sells USA Stake Microsoft co-founder and current chairman of Charter Communications Paul Allen has...
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Modem Business Helps Charter's Q1 Results
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Charter Communications' cable-modem product was the star of its first-quarter earnings report. The addition...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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MONSTER SEEKS JOB SEEKERS VIA VIACOM
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Monster, the online job recruiting service, signed a multimedia advertising deal with Viacom's cross-platform...
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New Subs Boost EchoStar Revenue
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EchoStar Communications added 335,000 net new subscribers in the first quarter, helping the direct-broadcast-satellite...
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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Ratings Get Personal
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Our American predilection for hard work and utter self-absorption makes for a fantastically uneasy relationship...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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Stranded Theme in Cards For Hallmark Shoppers
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About 18 months ago the Hallmark Channel was renamed (from Odyssey Network) to take advantage of the greeting-card...
by jon lafayette
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The Connector
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This is the kind of deal that gets Charlie Thurston's motor running. The Suburban Ford Dealers of Detroit...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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The World, or 40 Million Homes, Is Not Enough
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White, as any fashion editor will tell you, is the new black. Monday is the new Thursday among club hoppers....
BY WILL LEE
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Tops in Boxes
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The set-top box market is poised to bounce back after a rocky 2001, and while the immediate future may...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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