May 24, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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Comedy Goes Full Tilt with Summer Originals
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Comedy Central viewers won't be experiencing the rerun blues this summer, as it will serve up the biggest batch of original programming in its history.Beginning...
Mike Reynolds
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Cow and Chicken Spins Off I Am Weasel
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Breaking out from under the udder and wing of Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel will debut as its own series on Cartoon Network.The global escapades of international...
Mike Reynolds
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Mais Oui! USA Sports Readies for June French Open
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Think of the Parisian spring. Think Venus and Martina. Think red clay. Think USA.For the sixth straight year, USA Sports will telecast tennis' second...
Mike Reynolds
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Nick Signs Deals with Pro Sports Leagues
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Having inked three deals last week, Nickelodeon and its digital entry Nick GAS are looking to play ball with pro sports leagues down the road.The kids...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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30 YEARS STRONG: SCTE heads toward 2000
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It was all a bit simpler 30 years ago. When the cable industry's engineers first decided to organize themselves to trade information and improve their...
Matt Stump
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Business
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Adelphia Q1 Shows Strength on New Services: Falcon, Lenfest announce first quarter results; Seagram stock takes dive
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Adelphia Communications Corp. last week maintained its stance as a longterm player in the media business with the announcement of its first quarter earnings,...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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DUTCH AUCTION: Blonder Tongue Laboratories Inc.'s announcement last week that it'll commence a so-called "Dutch Auction" tender offer to purchase for...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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CAB Forecasts Record 1999 for National Cable
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National basic cable networks are expected to increase their advertising sales this year by 29% to $8.63 billion, an all-time high, according to estimates...
Mary Reinholz
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Encore Launches New Look, New Deals
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In a fresh effort to reposition itself as a first run premium movie channel second only to HBO, Encore Media Group LLC announced a $20 million makeover...
Mary Reinholz
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People
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People
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ARIZONA CABLE TELECOM. ASSN.: The following have been inducted into the Arizona Cable Television Pioneer Hall of Fame (ACTPHF) : Larry Douglas, NPG Cablevision,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Broadcast Angst: Getting Jiggy on Thursday Nights
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ABC is instituting a hiring freeze for all divisions, a 25% reduction in travel and entertainment expenses and the cancellation of all major off-site...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Executive Suite: USA Sues Perth for Getting New Job
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USA Networks last week smacked former entertainment division topper Rod Perth with a lawsuit, claiming that Perth fibbed about future job prospects in...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Industry Dish: Crotchy's Antics Get The Hook
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Well, boys and girls, it looks like the end of the road for Crotchy, the Clown. The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled recently that Crotchy, aka Scott A....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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The TV Link: Is TV Making People Sick?
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Harvard researchers say eating disorders among teenage girls in Fiji may be linked to TV.Since the tube arrived in the island nation, which didn't even...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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'70s' Stalwarts Pepper TV Land's Autumn Schedule
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TV Land will ring in the new TV season with a half-dozen series, while Nick at Nite will add a trio of Seventies' vintage show to its lineup over the...
Mike Reynolds
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Analysts Neutral Over US West-Global Crossing Merger
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The latest telecommunications mega-merger between U S West and Global Crossing probably won't send big shockwaves into the broadband market, according...
Karen Brown
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Analysts: Broadcasters' Fall Season Lacking
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With the broadcast networks completing their upfront presentations last week, the annual mating dance between cable networks and advertisers is about...
Mike Reynolds
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AOL Targets Customer Loyalty; Launches Shop @ AOL
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AOL said last week that it would introduce a new online shopping service and noted that subscribers had spent $1.8 billion on goods and services offered...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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At Deadline: SkyConnect Demonstrates Digital
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SkyConnect Inc. has been invited to demonstrate its digital program insertion technology at CableLabs, the company said last week.The demonstration includes...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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AT&T to Test Smaller Nodes, Central Power: Salt Lake City to be among several potential sites for new upgrades
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AT&T Corp., preparing for huge customer demand for its converged voice, video and high-speed data services over broadband networks, last week said in...
Jim Barthold
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C-Cor Merges, Changes Name, Company Focus
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Venerable cable distribution equipment vendor C-Cor Electronics Inc. last week took the next step in becoming an end-to-end broadband network provider...
Jim Barthold
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CableLabs to use NDS Testing Technology
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NDS Americas Inc. will develop test tools for CableLabs' OpenCable certification effort to ensure interoperability between set-top boxes and point of...
Jim Barthold
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COULD IT BE YES, IT COULD.: Here it comes again . . .
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Back in the late '70s, Dolly Parton had a crossover hit that went something like, Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to, and...
Jim Barthold
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DSL Outperforms Cable Modems, Test Says: But contends test methodology conducted in S.F. Bay area is flawed
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Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) outraced cable modems in a month-long test conducted by Keynote Systems in the San Francisco Bay area.Keynote's results...
Jim Barthold
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EchoStar Announces First Quarter Results
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The FCC last week approved EchoStar Communications Corp. $1.2 billion purchase of satellite assets held by News Corp. Ltd. and MCI WorldCom Inc.Under...
Alan Breznick
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ICTV Signs Deals, Looks for Distribution: Microsoft's Web TV and WorldGate still dominate Internet TV market
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Overshadowed by such giants as Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc. and US West Inc., tiny ICTV is scurrying to find a profitable niche in the developing...
Alan Breznick
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Interactive Tests Move in Fits and Starts: Field trials are uncertain in an industry that continues to consolidate
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There's been a lot of talk about interactive advertising in the cable industry, but so far there hasn't been much action.Now, after a couple of delays,...
Karen Brown
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Liberty and Viacom: Pump Up the Volume
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Liberty Media Group Inc. and Viacom Inc. last week made sweet music together by cutting a deal designed to position both companies at the forefront of...
Joshua Cho
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MCI Silent on Wireless System Purchase: Additional acquisition would continue consolidation trend in wireless cable
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MMDS companies have become hot properties in recent weeks, with MCI Worldcom Inc. and Sprint Corp. in an MMDS buying frenzy. Last week, MCI Worldcom...
Jim Barthold
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NAB to FCC: Set Digital Interoperability Standards
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Broadcasters are calling on the FCC to set digital TV standards, saying that voluntary negotiations over the complex and controversial process have failed.After...
Eric Glick
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NCTA Confab Blows into the Windy City June 13-16
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When cable conventioneers arrive at the McCormack Convention Center in Chicago next month for the NCTA Cable '99 Expo, they'll enter through a giant...
Karen Brown
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RBOCs Edge Toward Offering Internet Service
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Intense lobbying efforts by the regional Bell companies and some of the smaller independent telcos has apparently paid off as a high powered lawmaker...
Eric Glick
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SCTE Cable Tec Looks at Future Perspectives
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Two panels of industry leaders will present their perspectives on the cable industry's future at this week's Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers...
Jim Barthold
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Sprint Ends Cable Association with Cox
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An era quietly ended last week when Sprint Corp. finished buying out Cox Communications Inc.'s remaining interest in its wireless operations Sprint PCS...
Jim Barthold
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Telephony on Hold: MediaOne AT&T's Focus
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It didn't come as a surprise to many industry observers last week when AT&T Corp. chairman C. Michael Armstrong admitted that joint venture phone talks...
K.C. Neel
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TW Levies Fines on New Jersey System Cable Pirates
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Time Warner Cable stirred up some controversy earlier this month in New Jersey after it obtained credit card information from a black-box dealer and...
K. C. Neel
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Two MSOs Pay Out Largest Rate Settlement
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Cablevision Systems Corp. and Adelphia Communications Corp. were ordered by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to refund customers in the state...
K.C. Neel
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