June 23, 2003
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NEWS
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?C? FOR ?CASH FLOW?
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AMC has boasted impressive cash flow margins since 1997 when it first topped the 40% mark, and its controversial strategy to include advertising could carry margins even higher.
BY IAN OLGEIRSON, KAGAN
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BRIEFS
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ANOTHER STORMY WEEK FOR GEMSTAR It had been almost too quiet at Gemstar-TV Guide International. Legal issues erupted again last week as a U.S. federal...
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Friction in Broadcast Group Has Diminished Its Clout
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It is a crime to hijack an airplane. And a felony to hold someone hostage. But is it a crime to hijack a lobbying group and kidnap its president? If...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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INVOICE SCAM OUTED
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On June 25, 2002, after Adelphia Communications filed for bankruptcy protection, shares of Cablevision Systems plummeted 30% on renewed fears over the cable industry's accounting practices.
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Senate Panel Moves to Undo FCC Ruling
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A snowball in hell. That's what the bill that passed the Senate Commerce Committee on June 18 is likely to become when it hits the House. The legislation...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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SPECIAL REPORT
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A Clearer Picture
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An exclusive Cable World consumer survey of 1,000 adults indicates that nearly 12 million high-definition TV sets will be sold in the foreseeable future, nearly half of them within the next year.
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HD in the Big Apple
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Showtime CEO Matt Blank did high-definition television a big favor at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show earlier this month when he plugged his own cable operator's hi-def service.
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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IT'S A MYSTERY WHAT WASHINGTON WILL DO
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Washington's regulators are now the focus of hi-def TV fans ? but if you ask someone in Washington when and how the HDTV signal problems will be solved, the answer across the board is: We don't know.
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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The State of HD Programming
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HD programming is ramping up on cable. Insight Communications announces its HD tier offering this week, while Time Warner Cable just revealed its expanded HD lineup starting this fall.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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PROGRAMMING
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BRIEFS
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SPIKED TV: STAY TUNED Viacom's request for a stay of the injunction against the rebranding of TNN to Spike TV was denied Thursday by five New York state...
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MTV2 Cues Up Local Spin for Affiliates
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DirecTV launched local broadcast channels in Louisville, Ky., last week, but Gregg Graff, the Louisville-based SVP of operations for Insight Communications,...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BRIEFS
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COX GETS READY FOR VOIP Cox Communications has begun to take steps toward offering IP-based voice services. The MSO last week announced it will leverage...
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Hollywood Prepares For Nosehair TV Era
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Late in the tenth episode of last season's The Sopranos, button men Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante are standing in the rain out in front of a warehouse...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Clusters Count in the San Joaquin Valley
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Everything about Fresno could be summed up in one word ? cluster. As home to the largest producer of agricultural products in the world, California's...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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COLUMNS
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ALPHABET SOUP
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An all-HD Soup: NBC Cable revs up HD dreams ? Showtime adds HD feather to Karmazin's cap ? Discovery shows producers the ropes ? Fox Sports Net helps ops get in the game
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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GUEST-OP
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A study of exotic Long Island reveals stubborn attachment to primitive linear TV.
BY MATTHEW STRAUSS
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KAGAN'S COLUMN: Cable's Got the Bandwidth, Retailers Have the Goods: It's Marketing Time
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It was obvious to all at NCTA No. 52 (June 8-11) that Chicago and its vast McCormick Place ? allegedly the biggest building in the world under one roof ? had outgrown the cable industry.
PAUL KAGAN
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LOCAL AD SALES: Spreadsheets Don't Lure Reluctant Advertisers to Cable, Jellybeans Do
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Forget the hubbub about how highfalutin interconnects and fancy new research methods will help cable get more national and regional advertising dollars.
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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DEPARTMENTS
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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