July 10, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Classic TV Gets E! Treatment
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Next month, E!'s franchise show will go behind the scenes with some of TV's most controversial and popular series pasts.Eight is Enough: The E! True...
Tim Clark
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Classic TV Gets E! Treatment
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Next month, E!'s franchise show will go behind the scenes with some of TV's most controversial and popular series pasts.Eight is Enough: The E! True...
Tim Clark
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Odyssey's Family Affair
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When it comes to family programming, the Odyssey Network wants to broaden its appeal."We're trying to redefine family television to the family public,...
Tim Clark
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Odyssey's Family Affair
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When it comes to family programming, the Odyssey Network wants to broaden its appeal."We're trying to redefine family television to the family public,...
Tim Clark
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Peacock Predicts Sydney Profits
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NBC is paying the International Olympic Committee $705 million in license fees for exclusive U.S. rights to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
Tim Clark
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Peacock Predicts Sydney Profits
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NBC is paying the International Olympic Committee $705 million in license fees for exclusive U.S. rights to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
Tim Clark
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Summer Fare With Latino Flair
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As broadcasters await their regular fall scolding for lack of minority faces, cable nets are firing up a bevy of original shows and features this summer...
Tim Clark
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Summer Fare With Latino Flair
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As broadcasters await their regular fall scolding for lack of minority faces, cable nets are firing up a bevy of original shows and features this summer...
Tim Clark
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Cover Story
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Premiere PROGRAMMERS
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Not long ago, it was difficult to find one cable TV show that could be considered popular. Not cult popular, but a show embraced by TV viewers in a way...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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The Big Picture
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Waiting on the FCC
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For once, the cable industry has time. In a world where technological advances outrace the creation of viable business plans and competitors materialize...
Matt Stump
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Waiting on the FCC: Access ball is in Kennard's court
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For once, the cable industry has time. In a world where technological advances outrace the creation of viable business plans and competitors materialize...
Matt Stump
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Broadband Content
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Installations Made Easy
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Road Runner is hoping a CD will literally Connect well with new customers and strengthen its hold in the broadband market.The high-speed Net service...
Karen Brown
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Installations Made Easy
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Road Runner is hoping a CD will literally Connect well with new customers and strengthen its hold in the broadband market.The high-speed Net service...
Karen Brown
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Broadband
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A Streaming Mess
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Although the case is far from over, the recent federal court order to break up Microsoft could eventually alter the flow of the Internet's streaming...
Karen Brown
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Great Lakes Creates HITS Interface
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Great Lakes Data Systems may be a data system mouse that roared.The California-based company recently fielded the first billing system with a compliant...
Karen Brown
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Business
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Gambling Bill's Stretch Run
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The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act has moved out of a House committee and is on its way to the full House for a vote before the summer recess. The...
Tom de Martini
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Gambling Bill's Stretch Run
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The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act has moved out of a House committee and is on its way to the full House for a vote before the summer recess. The...
Tom De Martini
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Marketplace
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IPO Watch
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These are the top companies offering IPOs this week.1. InfoVista, 6M shares offered, $12.31 high/$10.58 low offer prices.2. Global Foods Online Inc.,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Market Comment
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NET STOCKS FALL - With the exception of Women.com, whose shares gained 26%, most Internet stocks fell back July 5 as earnings concerns continued to weigh...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Liberty Bell Road Show
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Out of the ocean and onto the highways. A year after Discovery Channel plucked Liberty Bell 7 from the sea, the network is creating a traveling exhibit...
Rani Long
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Music (Web) Choice
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Music Choice, provider of commercial-free digital music via cable, satellite and the Internet, is extending the entertainment options of its 50 audio...
Rani Long
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Between the Lines
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Funny Business: Puppets and Midgets
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What a busy week for the gang at Comedy Central! First they sign Robert Smigel (creator of our favorite TV pooch, Triumph the Insult Dog) to do his own...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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In the Trenches: Boycott Blues
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Conservative Christian busybody James Dobson and his Focus on the Family group are up to their old tricks again. This time Dobson is flapping his family-friendly...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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On Screen: No Fish Story
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Discovery Channel's Shark Week is one of the oldest continuous programming stunts in cable. Needless to say, keeping it fresh is always a challenge....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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On Screen: The Big OZ
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Do The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd's 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon" really sync? A quick poll of Cable World staffers says yes, and we can thank...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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ACCESS NOW
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At least one ISP is planning to take on AT&T now that the Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled that the operator's Internet access is a telecommunications...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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AtDeadline...
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* Things are getting nasty between the folks at Excite and Cablevision Systems. According to a countersuit filed by Excite last week, CVS is...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Cartoon
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With Cartoon Network since its inception in October 1992, Mike Lazzo has aided the network's growth in distribution, ratings and original programming....
Mike Lazzo
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Cartoon's Road Trip
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CartoonNetwork.com is extending the idea of democracy to their viewers and Internet users, who are being encouraged to vote for what they want to see...
Rani Long
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Collecting more vendors
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Shop At Home, a cable and Web-based TV shopping company, has acquired four new vendor relationships and will sell through www.collectibles.com, the company's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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CoreComm Glasses Over Last Mile
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With fiber optic prices on a Teflon-coated downward slide, a competitive local exchange carrier, CoreComm, is taking glass from the street to the residence.CoreComm,...
JIM BARTHOLD
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CoreComm Glasses Over Last Mile
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With fiber optic prices on a Teflon-coated downward slide, a competitive local exchange carrier, CoreComm, is taking glass from the street to the residence.CoreComm,...
Jim Barthold
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Discovery
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The EVP-GM of the Discovery Channel for the past 11 years recently turned back the network's cameras to the prehistoric epoch and made Nielsen history.Michael...
Michael Quattronne
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Doral Neighbors Band Together
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Doral, Fla., residents recently managed to negotiate more favorable cable franchise deals with two competing cable providers.Representatives of 15 private...
K.C. Neel
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Doral Neighbors Band Together
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Doral, Fla., residents recently managed to negotiate more favorable cable franchise deals with two competing cable providers.Representatives of 15 private...
K.C. Neel
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ECW Grapples With Viacom
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Extreme Championship Wrestling is threatening to take Viacom-owned TNN to court over the network's decision to drop coverage of the ECW circuit in favor...
Mike Reynolds
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ECW Grapples With Viacom
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Extreme Championship Wrestling is threatening to take Viacom-owned TNN to court over the network's decision to drop coverage of the ECW circuit in favor...
Mike Reynolds
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ESPN ESPANOL
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ESPN is teaming with Major League Baseball to become the first national, English-language basic cable network to offer its affiliates the opportunity...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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ESPN'S Classic Revival
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ESPN Classic is fast becoming a grand slam for ESPN. What was originally the Sports Classic Network with a paltry viewership of 7.5 million homes has...
Tim Clark
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Frankel Heads Warner's Unit
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Effective January 2001, Eric Frankel will be President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. He has been with Warner Bros. for more than twenty...
Tim Clark
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Hallelujah Hammond
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Looking to draw from genre devotees and a cross-over crowd, producer Verity Records and marketer Spring Communications hope fans get the word about gospel...
Mike Reynolds
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HBO
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Some will argue that Chris Albrecht's success is directly attributed to HBO's deep pockets - the network boasts an annual original programming budget...
Chris Albrecht
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History Channel
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Elevated this spring to EVP/GM of The History Channel, Abbe Raven has shaped the programming rosters at both History and A&E. She helped launch A&E in...
Abbe Raven
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LIBERATE NUMBERS
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Liberate Technologies announced third-quarter revenue jumped 78% to reach $9.1M, while its pro forma net loss rose slightly, year-to-year, from $9.5M...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Liberty Bell Road Show
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Out of the ocean and onto the highways. A year after Discovery Channel plucked Liberty Bell 7 from the sea, the network is creating a traveling exhibit...
Rani Long
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Lifetime TV
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Some may criticize Lifteime for airing an abundance of weepers about romance or women in distress, but clearly the network knows what its audience likes."It's...
Dawn Tarnofsky-Ostroff
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Made in Maine
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Resort Sports Network (RSN), an information source for outdoor enthusiasts based in Portland, Me., is partnering with Portland communications firm VIA...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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MATCH RESULTS
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The Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWFE; Nasdaq) announced earnings for the 4Q and fiscal year 2000. 4Q revenues were $116M vs. estimates of $94M, while...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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MTV
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Since Brian Graden joined MTV as EVP-TV programming in December 1997, MTV has been on a major Nielsen roll.With the end of second quarter 2000, MTV has...
Brian Graden
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Music (Web) Choice
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Music Choice, provider of commercial-free digital music via cable, satellite and the Internet, is extending the entertainment options of its 50 audio...
Rani Long
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MYSTERIOUS PAX
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NBC will air several episodes of Mysterious Ways, the new PAX show, before they bow on the hybrid broadcast/cable channel. NBC will air multiple episodes...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Neighborhood War
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After nine months of arduous negotiations, the Mission Viejo, Calif., planning commission approved guidelines for Cox Communications to vacate a controversial...
K.C. Neel
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Neighborhood War
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After nine months of arduous negotiations, the Mission Viejo, Calif., planning commission approved guidelines for Cox Communications to vacate a controversial...
K.C. Neel
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Nickelodeon
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Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite is cable's top-rated network in total-day measurement for four years running, thanks to the efforts of EVP/GM Cyma Zarghami....
Cyma Zarghami
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PHONE BIZ
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AT&T Broadband is expanding its local telephony service in the San Francisco Bay Area by offering phone services to residents in Santa Clara, Calif....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Premiere Programmers
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Cable's top programmers take a back seat to no one anymore. With plenty of awards and solid ratings, cable's best programmers are ushering in a new era...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Qwest's Sketchy Plans
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Qwest chairman Joe Nacchio last week assured employees that the company's merger with U S West won't derail plans to deploy video throughout the U.S....
K.C. Neel
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Qwest's Sketchy Plans
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Qwest chairman Joe Nacchio last week assured employees that the company's merger with U S West won't derail plans to deploy video throughout the U.S....
K.C. Neel
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REAL UPDATES
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Seattle-based Real Networks unveiled two new products to deliver music and other broadband programming to Internet users. Real will allow media companies...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Relevant Numbers
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A report from online data tracker AdRelevance discloses that in-house advertising accounts for nearly 20% of all available online ad inventory. The company...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Sci-Fi Channel
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Last November, Bonnie Hammer was named EVP/GM of Sci Fi Channel.With USA Newworks since 1989, Hammer oversaw cable's kingpin WWF programming and created...
Bonnie Hammer
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Showtime
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As president-programming, Jerry Offsay has responsibility for all programming functions of Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI), supervising originals, acquisitions...
Jerry Offsay
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SHOWTIME SHOWCASE
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Showtime Networks is offering free previews to cable, DBS and C-Band systems from July 14-16 of its Showtime Unlimited package....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Stop the Madness Cablevision's strongarm techniques
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I'm not much of a consumer advocate. Never haggled much on prices. The Kia automobile salesman must have adored me in March when I bought a new Sephia...
Tom de Martini
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TARGET PRACTICE
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A MediaOne installer was shot at as he walked on the roof of a customer's home in LaQuinta, Calif. Homeowner Curtis Sadler first started shouting at...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three
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As CTAM's Boston gladfest approaches, I have a dark secret to confess: my father worked in the marketing department of Philadelphia-based chemical giant...
Jim Barthold
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TNT
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While January's presentation of The Virginian underscores the network's obsession with westerns, TNT Originals are branching out.Characterized by high-quality...
Robert DeBitetto
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TNT's Primetime Makeover
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Playing up its movies, sports and original series, TNT will revamp its primetime schedule beginning in August.The move comes as TNT struggles to hold...
Mike Reynolds
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TNT's Primetime Makeover
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Playing up its movies, sports and original series, TNT will revamp its primetime schedule beginning in August.The move comes as TNT struggles to hold...
Mike Reynolds
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TOSHIBA WEB SALES
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Toshiba America struck a deal with BuyNow to sell DOCSIS cable modems on the Internet. Toshiba will establish a Web site, www.toshibamodems.com, by the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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TRADE COMPLETION
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Adelphia Communications and AT&T BIS have completed a consolidation trade involving seven cable systems which serve 25,450 basic subscribers. Adelphia...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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TRW UPGRADE
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TRW has completed a software upgrade that allows companies to transmit filings complete with graphics and hyperlinks directly to EDGAR, the Securities...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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