June 4, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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Brown Joins CNN
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Last week CNN, continuing to remake its programming and personality roster, hired ABC News' Aaron Brown. Brown will join CNN later this summer and anchor...
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Cable Narrows Sweeps Gap With Broadcast
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Even the finale of a hit like Survivor: The Australian Outback couldn't beat back cable's viewership increases ? or lift broadcast out...
by linda moss
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Cable Nets Avoid Minority Scorn
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As the broadcast networks continue to get poor grades ? or worse ? for their efforts at increasing diversity both on and off the air, cable...
BY WILL LEE
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FOX SPORTS, TELERED MAKE PLAY FOR THREE NETWORKS
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Looking to create a worldwide Spanish-language TV sports operation, Fox Sports International and TeleRed Imagen S.A. of Argentina are pooling their properties,...
linda moss
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You'll Never Hear the End of It, MuchMusic Says
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If young TV viewers want a network that's all music, all the time, they shouldn't head to MTV: Music Television. At least not according to officials...
by linda moss
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Business
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Diva Sings Lead in VOD Band
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THIS WEEK, DIVA EXPECTS TO ANNOUNCE TWO ADDITIONAL CHARTER DEPLOYMENTS ? IN ST. LOUIS AND DALLAS. Six months after it withdrew...
by mavis scanlon
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Malone Puts on Squeeze
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Liberty Media Group extracted better terms for its complex transaction with United-GlobalCom and United Pan-Europe Communications, and now it's trying...
Mavis Scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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MOTOROLA Saying Motorola will likely have a ?protracted? recovery from its recent weakness, Moody's Investors Services cut its debt rating...
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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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People
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america online Louis A. Borrelli Jr. to SVP of AOL Broadband from EVP and CEO for Marcus Cable. com21,...
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General
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A Spider Moves Into the Garden
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?YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT PLATFORM YOUR SHOWS WILL BE RUNNING ON ? WE RUN ON ALL PLATFORMS.? Spiderdance,...
BY DAN MITCHELL
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Adding Up Tacoma's Cable Bill
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Three years after Tacoma Power launched Click! Network, its broadband and cable arm, it is still locked in a fierce battle for customers with AT&T Broadband,...
BY M. SHARON BAKER
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Amid Fight Over Subscribers, Microsoft Talks Streaming With AOL
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New developments in the love-hate relationship between giants AOL Time Warner and Microsoft could create ripple effects for other in the broadband arena,...
BY RICHARD COLE
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briefs
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E-COMMERCE RINGS UP $345B Despite the Internet sector's woes, e-commerce boomed in 2000 and will continue to grow, says a study released by AOL and IDC....
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briefs
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FOOD BITES OFF MARKETING QUEST Food Network this month launches its biggest consumer-marketing program. Called ?Taste the Adventure,? the...
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Cable Wins Round Two in Battle Over Pole Fees
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CABLE'S RELIANCE ON POLE ATTACHMENTS IS CAUSING RUN-INS WITH UTILITIES. When high-powered cable-industry lawyers head for work...
BY ERIK WEMPLE
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Channel Space? Who Needs Channel Space?
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MTV's Tom Freston isn't impressed with the economic model for digital networks, which have thin distribution and low ad rates. ?How...
BY LINDA MOSS
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COM 21 APPROVAL
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Broadband-system supplier Com21 received Level 2 approval from Excite for its DOXport cable modem. The product, a single-chip modem with Ethernet...
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Comcast Shuts Out Satellite Subscribers
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DIRECTV'S PENETRATION IS LOWER IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA THAN IN MARKETS OF COMPARABLE SIZE. The Philadelphia 76ers' progress through...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Covad Rings Up Losses As DSL Growth Slows
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BOTH CABLE COMPANIES AND THE INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS HAVE SWOOPED IN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION It's crunch...
BY DAN MITCHELL
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Cracking the Digital Safe
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Old-fashioned cable piracy may not survive on the digital seas. But a new generation of hackers may arise to plunder the industry. The consequences of...
BY DAVID CONNELL
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ESPN Says Big Ads Catch Viewers in Web
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When it comes to Internet advertising, ESPN is discovering that bigger is sometimes better. Last September The Walt Disney Co.-owned cable network unveiled...
By JON LAFAYETTE
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FORD BUYS GEMSTAR GUIDE AD PACKAGE
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Ford Motor Co. signed a long-term advertising agreement to be on Gemstar-TV Guide's interactive program-guide platform. The IPG platform includes the...
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Future On Display
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WHAT'S ON TAP IN CHIGAGO IS LESS A CELEBRATION OF CABLE'S PRESENT THAN A PARADE OF THE INDUSTRY'S FUTURE. When the NCTA convenes...
by paul kagan
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Has Barry Diller Figured Out the Internet?
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?This is a very talented individualistic woman with a perspective on creative business affairs,? Diller says of new wife (and...
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How Low Can You Go?
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?Thirty dollars a month [for cable] is still cheaper than taking a family of four to see one movie,? says one critic of low-priced...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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letters to the editor
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Wow, if this is what to expect from CableWorld, I am a little surprised. Your cover ?story? (?The Latest Dish,? May 14) goes...
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Mindy Herman's True Hollywood Story
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In her Hollywood office, Mindy Herman has a pair of framed jerseys signed by players from the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers pro hockey franchises,...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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moviewatch: still waiting for its final cut
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Moviewatch has postponed its own premiere. The upstart cable network about movies was slated to launch late this year. Now it looks like it won't see...
Linda Moss
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MTV's Taking It Live to the Web ? in Europe
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MTV'S U.S. OPERATION WILL CONTINUE ITS MTV 360 PROGRAM TO PUSH BROADBAND ADOPTION When MTV Networks launches its 24-hour broadband...
BY RICHARD COLE
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P&G Bets $300M On Viacom Plus
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Procter & Gamble Co., one of the nation's largest advertisers, last week agreed to a cross-platform marketing venture with Viacom worth $300 million....
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promises, promises: don't hold your breath waiting for these nets
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Remember the Puppy Channel? Its founder is still hoping his dream will get ?adopted by one of the big...
Linda Moss
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Racing Group Puts Wussler At Wheel
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A new racing group has turned to television veteran Robert Wussler to help get it on the air. Last week Team Sports Entertainment Inc. announced that...
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Ratings
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| TOP 50 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF MAY 21-27, 2001 |
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shorts
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EURO RIVERDELTA RiverDelta Networks said it received Euro-DOCSIS qualification for its broadband-services router 64000. The company can now sell the...
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The Show Must Go On
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There's no business like show business ? except, perhaps, for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, which is looking at a 9% dip...
BY K. C. NEEL
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timeline Some highlights in Barry Diller's storied career
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Early ?60s: Starts his Hollywood career in the William Morris mailroom. Leaves as junior agent. 1966: Joins ABC as a fledgling...
Staci D. Kramer
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What's on Leo Hindery's Mind?
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The former AT&T Broadband head says more cable consolidation probably isn't in the cards. But for all the talk of multiple services, he argues,...
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Winning on the Web
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With dot-com entertainment companies dropping like flies, cable channel Web sites are springing up like weeds. The National Cable and Telecommunications...
BY JANICE RHOSHALLE LITTLEJOHN
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