June 17, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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NEW DISNEY SHOW SOAKS UP VIEWERS LIKE SPONGE
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Disney Channel has accomplished what appeared to be impossible with the launch of its new animated show,...
Jon Lafayette
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Oprah Gives Oxygen Breath of Fresh Air
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Having invested a reported $20 million in Geraldine Laybourne's Oxygen Media, TV talk show titan Oprah...
by jon lafayette
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Sorcher Tapped to Lead Effort to Update AMC
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AMC, which plans to transform itself from an old movie network to a contemporary arts channel, last week...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Time Warner Serves Up 15-Year Carriage Deal
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The Tennis Channel signed a 15-year carriage deal with Time Warner Cable, which plans to add the network...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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People
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People
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a&e television networks Michael Castro to VP-production services, from director, production services. amc...
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General
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Adelphia Saga Plunges Toward Chapter 7 or 11
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If the bankruptcy filing from Century Communications Corp., a unit of Adelphia Communications is any indication,...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Adelphia to the SEC: The Rigases Did It
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An internal investigation launched after Adelphia Communications disclosed that its founder, John Rigas,...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Adelphia's Debts Turn Into Vendors' Shortfalls
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Adelphia Communications' equipment vendors are bracing for the ripple effects of the MSO's inability to...
BY K. C. NEEL
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brief
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MSOs DEAL WITH DCT-2000 DEFECT As if inflated cable rates weren't shocking enough, an announcement by Motorola...
Anthony Crupi
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CABLE GROUP WANTS SATELLITE TO JOIN ITS BATTLE AGAINST PIRACY
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A voluntary group formed to battle cable piracy years ago seeks to do the unthinkable these days: unite...
by andrea figler
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Cable Will Miss Tyson's Pay-Per-View Punch
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Mike Tyson's walk through his ?wonderful payday? June 8 with Lennox Lewis sent me running to...
by paul kagan
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CTAM AIMS TO CLEAR UP HDTV PICTURE
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CTAM will be focusing on the marketing of high-definition television at its upcoming summit in Boston....
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Ed Op
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Bless me cable for I have sinned. I have subscribed to DirecTV. While you rightfully may be thinking in...
BY W. F. GLOEDE
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Food Network Unwraps Promotion
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Normally one wouldn't associate Oscar Mayer with the more haute fare served up on Food Network, but the...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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FORMER UPN HEAD WARE EYES JOB IN CABLE
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Adam Ware, who left Viacom's UPN network, where he was COO, is reportedly eyeing several top cable posts....
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How an Army of Elves Captured the Mall
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Local advertising sales have been growing for cable operators for the past several years, but as in the...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Industry Seeks Distance From Adelphia Troubles
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With Adelphia Communications' shares and bonds sinking lower daily, Cablevision Systems, Insight Communications...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Is Cable Finally Able to Play in The Big League?
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Toledo, Ohio, is a long way from the huge ad agencies in New York that disburse billions of dollars to...
BY VERNE GAY
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Late Breaking News
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New Adelphia Disclosure In an 8-K document filed late Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission,...
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LINS TO COMCAST
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Adlink's SVP-marketing and communications, Vicki Lins, is leaving the Los Angeles-based advertising cooperative...
K. C. Neel
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Local Cable Ad Insertable Networks
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| First quarter 2002 ranked by local ad subs |
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Low-Tech Cable Theft Proves Hard to Crush
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Two years ago, in a private ceremony attended by two friends and an oversize dog, Massachusetts resident...
by anthony crupi
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MSNBC SETS NEW AFTERNOON SLATE
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The former Crossfire combatants on CNN ? Pat Buchanan on the right and Bill Press on the left ?...
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Networks Try to Resist Pressure to Cut CPMs
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Ad buyers and sellers slowly but surely were completing their upfront deals last week. Some networks with...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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PROGRAM ACCESS RULES EXTENDED
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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-1 to extend the program access rules for five more years,...
Alicia Mundy
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Rainbow Lures Ops With Local Lucre
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Kim Martin will fly to Salt Lake City this week armed with stacks of marketing kits, but she'll be lacking...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Selling Starstruck Subscribers
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When the curtain goes up in Hollywood for the 2002 ESPYs on July 10, the audience will be filled with celebrities...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Tech Is Turning Pixels Into Spots
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Think of the broadcast networks during the upfront season as a ravenous shark, a great white swimming through...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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Tow's Hedges May Provide Cushion in Collapse
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People who know Leonard Tow say he's smart, shrewd and financially astute. And even though the stock he...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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