June 21, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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Animal Planet Roars as Ratings Trumpet Its Success
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Choose your metaphor: Gallop like a thoroughbred, fly like an eagle or sprint like a cheetah. Whichever you prefer, there's no mistaking that Animal...
Mike Reynolds
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Media Giants Spread their Tentacles to Develop Web Sites
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No matter what they call them, the leading cable and broadcast content players on the Internet are frantically scurrying to create even bigger, deeper,...
Alan Breznick
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Music Could Be Next Medium to Scale Internet Frontier
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Now that cable modems and the broadband pipes that serve them are becoming tangible to the general public, media companies are starting to turn their...
Joshua Cho
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Business
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TCA's Nichols Has His Say about Cable Industry
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The cable industry got a little smaller recently with the announcement that Cox Communications Inc. had entered into an agreement to acquire TCA Cable...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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QWEST STOCKS STEADY: Stocks for Qwest Communications International Inc. stabilized at $35.00 after an initial drop of 25% from the previous week in the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Finding Bandwidth and Marketing to Hispanics a Challenge
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When it comes to targeting Hispanics for cable, there are two big challenges: how to market to this ethnic group; and how to fit Spanish-language programming...
Linda Hardesty
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People
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People
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MTV NETWORKS: Bruce Friend has been promoted to SVP-international worldwide research and planning where he will be responsible to build upon the collaboration...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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No Regs: Murdoch Bullish on Cable's Future
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Either out of sincerity or an attempt not to insult his audience, News Corp. chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the closing session of Cable '99...
Joshua Cho
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PEDAL TO SILICON: Installation Help from Cisco
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Cisco Systems Inc. thinks it has a way to help operators speed the cable modem and digital set-top box installation process.The networking powerhouse...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Web Action: Snapping Up Net Content Sites
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Further boosting their role in cyberspace. CBS Corp. and News Corp. both made big new investments in major Internet content sites last week.CBS, which...
Alan Breznick
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General
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Amid Cable's Promise, One Investor Bails
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While most industry execs and analysts attending the National Show in Chicago last week were promising that cable is ready to execute on its broadband...
Joshua Cho
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Are African-American Viewers Underserved?
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Are cable operators really ready for another service aimed at African-Americans?That was the query posed by BET Holdings Inc. chairman Robert Johnson...
Mike Reynolds
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Brown's Vision Just 'Peachy' These Days: Company's tools enable PC applications to run over digital cable
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Dave Brown has an analogy he likes to use about computer power."I bought a computer in 1991 for business school. It was a state-of-the-art 486 33 MHz,"...
Jim Barthold
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Cable Modems Never Far from the Spotlight
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Cable modems and what they can do - real or imagined - garnered their share of the National Show spotlight once again last week.For example ... * Philips...
Jim Barthold
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Cable Ops Spending Mega Bucks to Upgrade Plant
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The day of the ubiquitous two-way broadband cable plant seems to be dawning with all the major operators upgrading their plant up to 750Mhz. In fact,...
Joshua Cho
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Cable's Downdraft Blows in 'Windy City'
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Giddy after a succession of mergers worth $140 billion, the cable industry is confronting the thought that it is time to implement those acquisitions...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Chips and More Chips Get National Show Attention
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While cable modems and digital set-tops were garnering the attention last week at the National Show, the things that make them run were drawing their...
Jim Barthold
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Competition for Women's Market Heats Up
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The stakes to reach female viewers grew higher last week as Oxygen Media firmed up distribution and programming plans, while an as yet-unnanmed entry...
Mike Reynolds
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Copper-Paved, 2-Way Cowpath Gets Notice
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Unless you've been working on a federal grant studying the nocturnal habits of fishermen angling for striped bass in Papua, New Guinea, you've probably...
Jim Barthold
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FCC Impatient with Cable's Digital Struggles
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Despite some indications that the digital television revolution is chugging along, there are still snags on the tracks, according to a wide array of...
Eric Glick
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FCC Sides with Networks in EchoStar Flap
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Not all the action took place in "the Windy City" last week.In a resounding victory for Outdoor Life and Speedvision Networks, the FCC denied a program...
Eric Glick
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Fox Tries To Derail Turner South Effort
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Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s push to return to its roots this fall via a regional entertainment network has hit a legal hurdle over professional...
Mike Reynolds
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GI and HITS Fill Niche Market with Satellite Product
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It was a market waiting for a niche product, so General Instrument Corp. and Headend In The Sky (HITS) obliged.GI's satellite business was flagging;...
Jim Barthold
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Marketing Gurus Strategize on Digital Upgrades
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When it comes to implementing the right strategy to recruit customers from analog cable to new and far more expensive digital service, the options appear...
Karen Brown
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Microsoft, WorldGate Try to Make a Splash
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Despite rumors of impending major carriage agreements, Microsoft Corp.'s WebTV Networks walked away from Chicago last week with no new cable distribution...
Alan Breznick
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MSOs Dial Up: Other Businesses for Skilled Workers
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MSOs forging ahead into new telecommunications frontiers are finding the financial reward of expanding into new markets is offset by the challenge of...
Karen Brown
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National Show Deals Push Enhanced TV
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Striving to make interactive TV a reality after years of false hopes, several developers of interactive and video-on-demand services (VOD) struck content,...
Alan Breznick
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National Show Marked by Many Cable Deals
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Fresh off its mega-deal with NBC, AT&T Broadband & Internet Services was tracking other digital retransmission-consent deals with broadcasters at the...
Mike Reynolds
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NCTA Zeroes In on Anstrom Replacement
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The effort to replace outgoing NCTA president-CEO Decker Anstrom officially kicked into high gear last week as the 48th National Show wound down.Who...
Eric Glick
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Portland Case: Access Relief From FCC
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Cable operators gathering in Chicago for the National Show last week got a shot in the arm when FCC chairman William Kennard called for local regulators...
Alan Brenznick, K.C. Neel and Eric Glick
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Programs for Lady Cable Engineers Expand
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It is a long-standing observation, but it is also a telling truth: At the annual Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers convention there are never...
Karen Brown
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Scientific-Atlanta Adds Boxes to Explorer 2000 Series
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A fresh crop of digital set-top box rollouts was announced at the National Show in Chicago last week, and almost all were variations on the same theme:...
Karen Brown
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TAKING A BREAK: Low key show in the "Windy City"
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The cable industry took a breather in Chicago last week. After a year of $160 billion worth of cable systems sales, last week's NCTA national show seemed...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Tech Talk Moves to Future IP Possibilities
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What a difference a venue makes. A month ago, at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Cable Tec Expo in Orlando, the show buzz surrounded...
Jim Barthold
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Telecos Sing Praises of ADSL for Internet Access
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Even as MSOs are in an all-out marketing blitz of cable modem rollouts, telcos are striking back with a big push for Internet access via Asymmetrical...
Karen Brown
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Time Warner Taps DiviCom as Its Digital Supplier
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Time Warner Cable's decision to select DiviCom Inc. as its digital headend supplier for its New York City metropolitan franchise area, using Scientific-Atlanta...
Jim Barthold
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