May 8, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Mark Lazarus: Making the Play for Turner Sports
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It's been a busy time for Mark Lazarus since being named president of Turner Sports last November. Mike Reynolds talks with Lazarus who is responsible...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Raven Gives History Wings
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Like many Americans of her generation, Abbe Raven's life and career have been shaped by the changing dynamics of 20th Century history. Her father's service...
Tim Clark
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Repurposing with a Purpose
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Repurposing or redeployment? Multipurposing or multiple deployment of assets?Call it what you will, but, according to TV executives, the industry will...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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The Golden Goose: Searching for rate hike alternatives
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The cable industry that gathers in New Orleans this week for its annual trade show needs some fresh, out-of-the-box thinking on the complex, intertwined...
Matt Stump
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Broadband Content
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Block-by-Block Content Providers Bridge Gap
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Content providers eager to leave the narrowband world for the new high-speed Internet often find themselves in uncharted waters, with as many dangers...
Karen Brown
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Opening the Interactive Ad Door
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Spurred on by the revenue prospects of targeted advertising, interactive digital advertising platforms are growing throughout the cable industry.Digital...
Rani Long
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Broadband
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'Super' Headends
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It used to be that the cable headend was a compact little area behind the system office with a few racks of equipment to receive and deliver video signals...
Jim Barthold
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ADC Telecom Pushes Quality, Not Quantity
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ADC Telecommunications Inc. has a way system operators can use non-upgraded networks for conventional circuit switched telephone services.The telco-turned-broadband...
Jim Barthold
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Breen Cruises on Motorola's Fuel Injection
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Even his enemies, of whom there are surprisingly few, readily admit Ed Breen is one terrific salesman.Thus, it came as no real shock last year when the...
Jim Barthold
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Coordinates: Internet Access by U.S. Location
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Of the estimated 67 million Americans who access the Internet, 70% go online from home, in comparison to 57% at work. Approximately 33% of Internet users...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Cox's Theory: Take Retail Approach
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Like politics, all cable modem retail sales are local. And what's more local than the cable system itself?That's why Cox Communications Inc. is opening...
Jim Barthold
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Don't NOC It: There's Gold in Them Thar Headends
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As cable headends get more complex and intelligent, so do the demands on the employees who manage them. And, of course, the rewards."High buck, high...
Jim Barthold
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False START
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It was, in retrospect, a misguided notion. Standardized, interoperable cable modems would create a retail rush and remove the cost from service operators'...
Jim Barthold
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It Isn't Your Father's Channel Changer Anymore
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It used to be when you talked about set-top bells and whistles, you were talking about the kinds of warning devices lepers wore during the Middle Ages...
Jim Barthold
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S-A's McDonald: Last Man Standing and Proud of It
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With most of his competition succumbing to mergers, partnerships or buy-outs, Jim McDonald, president/CEO of Scientific-Atlanta Inc., sees himself as...
Jim Barthold
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S-A: It's More Than Just Transmission
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Conventional industry wisdom is that Scientific-Atlanta Inc. is the place to go if you need a headend or transmission gear, but when it comes to putting...
Jim Barthold
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The Set-Top Box Full of Goodies
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It's 2002, and you and the family have just walked into The Wiz, where the neon and flashing strobes draw your eyes like mosquitoes to a golfer's unblemished...
Jim Barthold
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Business
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Taxing the NET
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There's no better time for a good, old-fashioned, heated tax debate than in a presidential election year. But this year's debate isn't so old-fashioned.The...
Aldo Morri
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Video by Any Other Name...
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In 1998, the FCC reallocated television channels 60-69 (the 746-806 MHz band) to fixed, mobile and broadcast public safety services and minimized their...
John Harney
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Marketplace
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IPO Watch
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These are the top companies offering IPOs this week.1. Carescience Inc., # shares and offer prices TBA.2. Digitalwork.com Inc., 6.25M shares offered,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Market Comment
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INTERNET STOCKS SLIDE - Internet stocks slid for a second day May 3 as investors opted to stay on the sidelines ahead of upcoming economic reports.The...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Fighting Over The Adult Brand
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With only two players, the adult-oriented TV entertainment niche may be a testing ground for just how important brand recognition will be in a broadband...
Debbie Narrod
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The CAB View
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Joe Ostrow, president/CEO of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau, has lived through his share of advertising revolutions. First came broadcast television,...
Rani Long
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Unlocking Digital Marketing Doors
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Now comes the harder part.Many cable systems have been marketing digital services for a year or two. The truck chasers have all been satisfied, and most...
Rani Long
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People
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People
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A&E CarolAnne Dolan has been named VP-documentary programming and administration. She will oversee the programming strategy, production and editorial...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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In the Trenches: Ask First, Dig Later
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Well, in these go-go days of laying fiber optic cable everywhere and anywhere this had to happen eventually. It seems that some firms have been digging...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Merger Mania: MediaOne Payoff
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Well, we know five people who really want to see AT&T fulfill its manifest destiny and acquire MediaOne Group. The company's top five honchos stand to...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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On Screen: Rockin' at the Old Folks Home
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Now that those insufferable Baby Boomers are toddling toward retirement, everyone is eager to meet their musical needs. First VH1 says it will launch...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Pigs in a Poke: Battle of the Boars
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Faced with the threat of a lawsuit by Excite, Pac Bell last week backed off its "Web Hog" TV ads, which suggest that cable-modem service is sluggish...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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All That Jazz Get ready for summer sizzle
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As cable execs convene in the Crescent City this week, the industry's eye remains focused on the retransmission war between Walt Disney Co. and Time...
Mike Reynolds
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Another Opening, Another Show
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This week marks the second leg of my Y2K show odyssey. Last month, I was in Las Vegas with the National Association of Broadcasters. Next month, I'll...
Jim Barthold
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AT&T Cable Boosts Service in Booming Mile High City
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Joe Stackhouse knows the cable business from the bottom up. But he actually doesn't think he works for a cable company anymore.As regional VP for AT&T...
K.C. Neel
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AtDeadline...
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* As expected, AOL-Time Warner unveiled its future management plan splitting the company's leadership among execs at America Online Inc. and Time Warner...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Basic Cable Inches Ahead
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Basic cable's average primetime ratings registered a 1% increase to a 25.8 over the period March 27-April 30.That compared with a 25.6 average primetime...
Mike Reynolds
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Bugs and Mickey Mix It Up
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Last week's ABC TV carriage showdown between Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc. may have been ostensibly over retransmission consent, but the real...
K.C. Neel
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Court TV Hits Benchmark
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Adlink in Los Angeles and Time Warner CityCable of New York City have begun to insert advertising on Court TV, which raises the number of national insertable...
Rani Long
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Delivering On The Promise
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It's been six months since Dan Somers took over as president and CEO at AT&T Broadband. In that time, he has focused the MSO on operations, put his management...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Dog-Eat-Dog Data Competition
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A neighborhood is torn apart as residents turn on one another for being online too long. A garage gets defaced with spray-painted graffiti reading "Web...
David Kravets
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DSL Systems Seek Law and Order
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Unlike the cable modem world, there isn't a DOCSIS sheriff keeping order in the Digital Subscriber Line market.Instead, DSL systems are largely a wide...
Karen Brown
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e-Media Racks Up Deals and Bucks
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With a major private financing stepladder and two new streaming partnership projects under way, e-Media LLC is on a roll as it hits the National Cable...
Karen Brown
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Energized DBS Keeps Growing and Growing and Growing...
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"It's pretty clear that DBS is going to gain market share that will potentially exceed cable over the next 5 to 10 years."That stark prediction comes...
Tim Clark
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Excite Dives into DSL Pool
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A month ago the nation's largest cable-modem Internet portal said it was getting into the DSL business.It's not because Excite Corp. believes DSL...
David Kravets
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Hot Crises Haunt Cable
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Attendees at this year's NCTA show in New Orleans are being shadowed by the specter of regulatory scrutiny, consumer dissatisfaction and a very public...
K.C. Neel
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HSA Rolls Out National IP Service
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High Speed Access Corp. (HSA) will spend at least $100 million over the next three years on a nationwide rollout of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony...
Jim Barthold
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Hughes to Offer Two-way DirecPC Service
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Hughes Electronics Corp. said it would offer worldwide, two-way satellite Internet access by year's-end in an effort to compete with mushrooming DSL...
David Kravets
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IP, Modems Accelerate BBand Developments
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A pricey deploy-ment deal for IP cable-telephony and strong first quarter numbers for digital set-tops and cable modems set the pace for broadband developments...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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MSOs Cry Foul to ESPN Rate Hike
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ESPN's recent notification that it will raise rates 20% has cable operators steaming.By contract, ESPN must notify its affiliates three months prior...
Mike Reynolds
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MSOs Post Lackluster 1Q
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Despite subscriber gains from digital and high-speed data services, a gaggle of MSOs posted lackluster numbers, and shareholders responded by pushing...
K.C. Neel
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Nick Primes Friday Slot
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Nickelodeon is stretching its Friday night roster to 10 p.m. beginning September 15. The hour expansion arrives in the wake of ABC's discontinuation...
Tim Clark
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Partners Concoct Digital Ad Insertion Scheme
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SeaChange International Inc. has teamed with Cox Communications Inc. and ESPN Inc. to insert local advertising into satellite-delivered digital programming.Digital...
Jim Barthold
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Rates Rock Main Street
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Cable operators take heed: An increasing number of consumers are souring on annual cable rate hikes that continue to exceed inflation.Cable World's annual...
Matt Stump
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RCN, MediaOne Keep Competition Fierce in BEANTOWN
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Competition is changing the way cable operators do business around the nation, but never more so than in suburban Boston, where telecommunications providers...
Jennifer Pendleton
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Services at the Speed of Tsunamis
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Webster defines isolation as separate from others. By itself that might define Time Warner Cable's Oceanic Cablevision.Rather than hurting the system,...
K. C. Neel
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Strrretching End-to-End
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Chromatis Networks Inc. and Antec Corp. are stretching the end-to-end network."This is an end-to-end solution - one end of it just changed," said Barry...
Jim Barthold
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Telcos Breathe Life into VDSL
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Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) technology may finally prove to be very good for telcos looking to compete head-to-head with cable for...
Karen Brown
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The Overbuild BUBBLE
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The march toward direct competition for local customers is turning into a sprint in many markets as competitive service providers gain momentum in obtaining...
Kathy Neel
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The Race is On
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As the 21st Century sprints ahead, the cable industry finds itself in a multi-event track meet. Cable's rolling out digital set-tops and interactive...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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VDSL May Imperil ADSL's Future
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Very High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line can carry upwards of 20 Megabits per second of voice, video and data, while its older sibling Asymmetric Digital...
Karen Brown
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Weather Channel Hails New Promo
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The Weather Channel is predicting a successful summer of local ad sales and marketing opportunities for affiliates with its "Live by it. Win by it! Sweepstakes."It...
Rani Long
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Will G.lite Melt?
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What if you built a standard that didn't become standard?That may be the situation facing G.lite, telephony's rough equivalent to the DOCSIS cable modem...
Karen Brown
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Wireless Broadband: FRIEND OR FOE?
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From Microsoft Corp. to America Online, it seems everybody is jumping on the wireless bandwagon. Some observers even believe wireless is poised to beat...
Sheila Galatowitsch
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