July 23, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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At ESPN, the ?Extra? Means Interactive
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ESPN Networks continues to step up its interactive pace. Last week the network said its single-screen programming...
by staci d. kramer
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BET Gets Blast of Viacom Synergy
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Can the news-gathering resources of CBS give Black Entertainment Television a higher profile? Corporate...
by will lee
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Bloomberg Jumps Ahead In Net Race
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Michael R. Bloomberg has reportedly already spent more than $8 million of his own money in a quest to become...
BY WILL LEE
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briefs
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CHILD-ISH GLEE OVER RATINGS AT LIFETIME The big Monday night cable-net catfight pitting Delta...
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More Sopranos, But When?
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HBO has apparently made an offer to David Chase that he couldn't refuse. The creator and executive producer...
BY WILL LEE
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OXYGEN BREATHING WITHOUT BERGEN
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Oxygen's fall programming schedule is a mix of celebrities, ?real? people, and even a celebrity-hosted...
staci d. kramer
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Interactive TV
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A Room With An Interactive View
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Just down the coast from this week's Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing conference in...
BY RICHARD COLE
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Source Media's Financial Woes Get Deeper
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Analysts are all but certain that the curtain is about to fall on Source Media Inc., one of the cable industry's...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Business
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AOL Time Warner Revenue Falls Short
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Turns out AOL Time Warner is more vulnerable to the economic slump that's pounded the advertising market...
by mavis scanlon
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briefs
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CONCURRENT AHEAD OF REVENUE PACE Concurrent Computer announced it would beat its fourth-quarter revenue...
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MEDIACOM GETS FINANCING, CLOSES ACQUISITIONS
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It's official: Mediacom Communications catapulted to the eighth-largest MSO in the country last week with...
mavis scanlon
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Rigas Family Selling $385M in Adelphia Stock
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The Rigas family is looking to raise some cash. About $385 million dollars, to be more precise, through...
by mavis scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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TIVO (NASDAQ: TIVO) AOL Time Warner and Samsung will work together to develop a next-generation AOLTV set-top...
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DEAL WRAP
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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People
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People
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com21, inc.clear channel entertainment Paula Balzer to chief marketing officer from president...
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General
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?A Brand People Trust?
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The last few years have seen satellite companies create some memorable advertising campaigns, most notably...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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AOL FORMS TECH PARTNERSHIPS
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AOL Time Warner last week struck a strategic marketing and technology deal with Samsung Electronics to...
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AT&T: No Biz As Usual
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Bidders for some of AT&T's smaller cable systems have run into an unexpected roadblock. Until the nation's...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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briefs
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BILLIONS OF BROADBAND BUCKS There's bucks in broadband, the Brookings Institute says ? at least if...
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briefs
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LIFETIME HOOKS UP WITH BARNES & NOBLE Lifetime is forming is own book club via its website, Lifetimetv.com....
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Building a Business on Betty Boop
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A Los Angeles-based company is looking to create a video-on-demand business online with B-movies. Movieflix...
by richard cole
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Cablevision Rocks on With Band Contest
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James Dolan knows a thing or two about noise. Back in the days when the Cablevision Systems president and...
by jon lafayette
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Downturn Hits Revenue Per Subscriber
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The honeymoon is indeed over. After more than two decades of double-digit growth, revenue from local ad...
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ESPN, USA Pay Steep Greens Fees
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THE GOLF CHANNEL DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT FOR PGA TOURNAMENTS BUT WILL BE THE EXCLUSIVE HOME OF THE...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Has It Been Too Easy For Cable in the Capital?
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Cable industry lobbyists these days must smile when they check out the media news dispatches spilling out...
by erik wemple
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Hitting The Books At Comcast University
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Every two weeks for the last two years, Comcast Cable president Steve Burke has told the groups of executives...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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I'm Barry Diller: Fly Me
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With online travel agency Expedia.com packed in his suitcase, USA Networks chairman Barry Diller is booking...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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iNexTV Shuts
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In yet another sign that the Web isn't quite ready for television-style video streaming, Ampex-owned iNexTV...
RICHARD COLE
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Is Ergen Really Done Bidding For DirecTV?
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Charlie Ergen is out of the bidding for rival DirecTV. Or is he? Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. appeared to...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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JACKSONVILLE GIVES AT&T MORE TIME ON COMPLAINTS
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AT&T Broadband has until the end of August to put up or pay up in Jacksonville, Fla., where the city government...
STACI D. KRAMER
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Location is Everything
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Cox marketer Art Reynolds says the company's digital campaigns cost little given how many new...
BY K. C. NEEL
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markets
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Networks Eye Ad World's Big Spenders
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The true fate of how the current advertising downturn will affect ad-supported cable networks lies in the...
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New Arbitron System Could Mean Big Bucks for Cable
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New ratings systems are registering cable viewership as higher than that measured by Nielsen. And that...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Oxygen Promotion Pushes Women Into Politics
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Geraldine Laybourne's Oxygen Media is promoting powerful women. While its upcoming entertainment campaign...
by staci d. kramer
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quote
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?What a business!?? Ed Tettemer, co-founder of Philadelphia's...
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Talk About Sky-High Taxes
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In an attempt to keep Hughes Electronics, parent of DirecTV, from moving out of the state, California's...
ANDREA FIGLER
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The War Over 1.1
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The heightened competition in the cable modem market has many vendors fearing a shakeout. ...
BY BRIAN SANTO
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They Pitched Cable Before It Was Cool
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If Red Tettemer weren't already known for its high-profile advertising work on behalf of the cable industry,...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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Universal Inks VOD Deal
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Universal Studios last week became the first major Hollywood moviemaker to make films available for video-on-demand...
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MAKING MONEY IN VIDEO-ON-DEMAND
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AND YOU THINK BILLS ARE TRICKY NOW?
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Many operators see video-on-demand and subscription VOD as a potential cash machine that will churn out...
BY K. C. NEEL
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CLOGGED PIPES, AND HOW TO FIX THEM
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While cable systems managers view video-on-demand as the killer app that can stave off competition from...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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IT CAME FROM THE INTERNET
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The promise of video-on-demand couldn't be clearer: Jerald Kent, president and CEO of Charter Communications,...
BY RICHARD COLE
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THE BIG PAYOFF?
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Cable operators have bet the plant, investing billions of dollars in upgrades to make two-way, interactive...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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THE PERILS OF MARKETING
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With video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand, a little marketing can be a dangerous thing, as...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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