June 16, 2003
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NEWS
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Attack of the Reregulatory Republicans?
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An unlikely band of six Republicans stands poised to undo the new network ownership cap of 45%, voted by the Federal Communications Commission on June...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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BRIEFS
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COX TWEAKS ITS HD DECODER POLICY Cox Communications is shifting its HD strategy by forcing HD customers in Northern Virginia to buy their HD decoders...
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Distant Signals Battle Doesn't End With Miami Court Ruling
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Both EchoStar Communications Corp. and broadcasters claimed victory last week after a Miami judge ruled the DBS provider cannot grandfather existing...
BY K. C. NEEL
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NEW FRONTIER SEES PROFITS IN VOD SERVICE
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Demand for adult content on cable and satellite helped buoy New Frontier Media's earnings, giving the adult provider a small profit of $700,000 for its...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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TWC PLOTS DIGITAL AD INSERTION DEBUT
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Time Warner Cable plans to launch digital advertising insertion on ten networks ? including TechTV, Fox Sports World Español, SoapNet, International...
Andrea Figler with Shirley Brady
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PROGRAMMING
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BRIEFS
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FX WINS ONE, LOSES ONE The executive producer/show-runner of FX's The Shield has re-upped thanks to a new deal worth nearly $6 million over two years,...
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Disney Invites Kids To the SVOD Party
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ABC's bid for the 2010 and 2012 Olympics included a tie-in for the Disney Channel, which would have given kids entrée to the biggest regularly televised...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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YES CRIES FOUL OVER TWC TIER
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It was at last week's National Cable & Telecommunications Association show in Chicago, behind closed doors, that Time Warner Cable first told executives...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BRIEFS
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N.H. GOV. CHANNELS GRAHAM BELL IN VoIP CALL New Hampshire governor Craig Benson last week made the 25 millionth voice-over-IP call from Cedar Point Communications'...
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MAKE WAY FOR MICROSOFT
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Microsoft's mission to gain a foothold in digital set-top boxes continues to evolve with the latest iteration manifested as an improved IPG to manage...
BY IAN OLGEIRSON, KAGAN
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Microsoft Unveils New IPG Strategy
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has never been known for his humility, but at last week's National Show, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Kansans Have Gone Digital in a Big Way
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If there's one thing Time Warner Cable in Kansas City has gotten good at it's crisis and disaster management. In less than two years, the system has...
BY K. C. NEEL
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COLUMNS
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Spike TV's Self-Evident Rationale for Its Existence
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At the Playboy Mansion last week, Ice-T said it best. ?Why not? was his answer to my burning question of the evening: Why start an all-men's...
ANDREA FIGLER
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General
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A Collective Fit of Good Spirit
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The cable industry reveled in its successes last week as 16,700 executives converged in Chicago for the annual NCTA show. Checking pesky and potentially...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Alas, There Remain Cynics
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Let's just get this out of the way and be done with it: This year's NCTA confab was, to put it charitably, a sleepy affair. The booth exhibits were smaller...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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AMC NETWORKS John Pezzini to VP-Western division, from director, Western division. BLUFFVIEW CAPITAL Cable television pioneer Nate Levine and investment...
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Defining High Definition
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If there was an overall theme to the National Show this year, it was certainly high-definition TV. With hi-def services such as ESPN, Discovery, HBO,...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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Is advertising an art or a science? It's both, often simultaneously.
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I'm quite pleased to be given an opportunity to start a conversation about advertising within the pages of Cable World. Bill Gloede was nice enough to...
BY JOE OSTROW
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PUTTING THE PEDAL TO THE METAL FOR GROWTH
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Around 3 p.m. last Tuesday, the floor of the McCormack Place Convention Center was decidedly quiet. The CEO tours were over, Michael Jackson was gone...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of June 2-8, 2003 ...
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TIGHT WITH A BUCK
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Wall Street has begun calling for additional investment in infrastructure needed to deploy advanced services such as on-demand products. However, MSO...
BY IAN OLGEIRSON, KAGAN
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