July 9, 2001
|
|
PROGRAMMING
|
|
briefs
|
BLACK STARZ! READIES FIFTH ANNUAL FILM FEST Black Starz! launched its fifth annual Pan African Film Festival...
|
|
|
ESPN, CHARTER TRY QUIET
|
ESPN and Charter Communications agreed to take a time out last week as negotiations continue over the fate...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
|
|
|
Playboy Overcomes Shyness With $70M Heat Wave
|
Playboy Enterprises is poised to become the main purveyor of adult pay-per-view content on TV. Playboy...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
|
|
|
Press Tour: Something Old, Something New
|
When industry scribes gather in Pasadena, Calif., this week for the biannual Television Critics Association...
by marc berman
|
|
|
Ratings Race Tightens in Second Qtr.
|
Gainers barely outnumbered losers in second-quarter basic-cable results, indicating that many of the top...
BY TOM BIERBAUM
|
|
|
This Just In: MSNBC Battles Identity Crisis
|
Although it's not uncommon for networks to reshuffle programming, MSNBC is overhauling its entire prime-time...
by marc berman
|
|
Business
|
|
Battered Terayon Gives Back Gains
|
Investor excitement over Terayon Communication Systems' announcement that it would post better-than-expected...
by mavis scanlon
|
|
|
briefs
|
COMCAST REDUCES EXCITE HOLDINGS Comcast lowered its stake in struggling Excite From June 22...
|
|
|
CHARTER ON TRACK TO BE 30% DIGITAL
|
By the end of this year, 30% of Charter Communications' customers should be digital cable customers, marking...
Mavis Scanlon
|
|
|
GLOBO CABO CUTS JOBS IN BRAZIL
|
Globo Cabo, the largest cable television company in Brazil, plans to cut about 20% of its workforce to...
|
|
|
Street Says Mediacom's Mission's Possible
|
Investors are counting on Rocco Commisso being able to repeat his performance reducing debt and cutting...
by mavis scanlon
|
|
Marketplace
|
|
companies in the news
|
AOL TIME WARNER AOL Time Warner unit AOL Hong Kong terminated its ISP operation in Hong Kong, leaving an...
|
|
|
DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
|
...
|
|
|
INSIDER SPOTLIGHT
|
...
|
|
People
|
|
People
|
com21, inc.abc cable networks Eric Hollresier to SVP-media relations from VP of Tierney Communications....
|
|
General
|
|
Actors' Deal Boosts Cable Payments
|
Last week Hollywood producers and actors averted the threat of a crippling strike, agreeing to a new three-year...
BY WILL LEE
|
|
|
Ads Become Content On Streaming Media Sites
|
In the heady early days of the Internet, many pioneers saw the new medium as a noncommercial source of...
by richard cole
|
|
|
AOL and HBO Share Goodwill With Turner
|
Turner Broadcasting's AOL Time Warner corporate siblings, America Online and HBO, will sponsor the Goodwill...
CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
|
|
|
AT&T System Sales Close
|
AT&T Broadband closed three previously announced transactions with Charter Communications, Comcast and...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
|
|
|
AT&T Tells Customers: ?Call Back?
|
Besieged by consumer complaints about poor service, AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable operator,...
BY LEE HALL
|
|
|
AT&T: Bye-Bye To BayTV
|
AT&T Broadband is pulling the plug July 31 on the San Francisco Bay Area's only local cable news service,...
BY RICHARD COLE
|
|
|
briefs
|
NFL INTERNET RIGHTS UP FOR GRABS The National Football League may not plan to stream live games on the...
|
|
|
Cable Squeezed In Upfront Ad Derby
|
Despite increasing ratings, cable networks remain tensed for a beating in the advertising upfronts, the...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
|
|
|
CBS Charging For Big Brother
|
CBS is streaming live video from Big Brother 2 24 hours a day on the Internet, like it did last...
BY RICHARD COLE
|
|
|
corrections & clarifications
|
On page 98 of the 6/4 issue, we reported that NCTA tech no-shows included ZDTV. TechTV ? ZDTV's new...
|
|
|
ESPN Scores $200M Deal for NCAA Games
|
A new $200 million pact between NCAA and ESPN will give the sports network an even firmer grip on collegiate...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
|
|
|
KO Nation Down For the Count
|
KO Nation, the Home Box Office boxing series that tried to bring hip-hop sizzle to the sweet science,...
WILL LEE
|
|
|
Liberty Media Should Ride Waves of Media Change
|
I've got a hunch that these dormant days of summer '01 will soon give way to some of the biggest changes...
by paul kagan
|
|
|
markets
|
...
|
|
|
MSNBC.com Sees Business Streaming News At Work
|
On July 15, 1996, MSNBC flickered to life on cable television and the Web simultaneously ? the...
BY GREG LINDSAY, INSIDE.COM
|
|
|
no joke: a quiz for csrS
|
Customer service representatives at cable systems get lots of questions about what's on cable networks,...
|
|
|
OpenTV Hopes Static Buy Makes It a Player In U.S.
|
OpenTV Corp.'s acquisition of Static 2358 Holdings Ltd., a London-based streaming-media and games company,...
by k. c. neel
|
|
|
Ratings
|
TOP 50 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
|
|
|
The Oracle Of Adelphia
|
On any given Friday, a group of politicos ? a member of Congress, maybe, or a state legislator,...
BY JENNIFER PENDLETON
|
|
|
Time Warner Wins Another Late-Fee Ruling
|
Once again, Time Warner Cable has beaten back an effort by some Wisconsin subscribers to overturn the operator's...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
|
|
|
Toss That Sales Brochure!
|
Last month Toni Littleton faced what might have been a nightmare project. The marketing coordinator of...
by jon lafayette
|
|
|
What Happened to All Those E*Trade Ads?
|
As everyone in the industry knows, cable-ad spending is on the rise. The problem, though, is that it's...
by christopher schultz
|
|
