July 24, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Building Musical Diversity
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What do cellist Yo Yo Ma and a tribe of Kalahari Bushmen have in common? They'll both appear on the International Channel this summer.IC will offer 54...
Mike Reynolds
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Building Musical Diversity
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What do cellist Yo Yo Ma and a tribe of Kalahari Bushmen have in common? They'll both appear on the International Channel this summer.IC will offer 54...
Mike Reynolds
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Cable's Political Ploy
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Although the Presidential campaign is relatively low on major new stories and headlines - or gaffes - from Texas Governor George Bush and Vice President...
Mike Reynolds
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Cable's: Political Ploy
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Although the Presidential campaign is relatively low on major new stories and headlines - or gaffes - from Texas Governor George Bush and Vice President...
Mike Reynolds
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Comcast's Dual Role
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While broadcasters and the cable news networks will take center stage with their telecasts from the Republican National Convention, Comcast and its regional...
Mike Reynolds
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Comcast's Dual Role
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While broadcasters and the cable news networks will take center stage with their telecasts from the Republican National Convention, Comcast and its regional...
Mike Reynolds
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Looking for the Election Spike
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How much of a Nielsen uptick can the cable news networks expect from their coverage of the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions?If past is...
Michael Reynolds
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Looking for the Election Spike
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How much of a Nielsen uptick can the cable news networks expect from their coverage of the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions?If past is...
Michael Reynolds
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Showtime Breaks The Mold
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In sizing up the prospects for Queer as Folk and The Chris Isaak Show, Showtime's Jerry Offsay is upbeat.Showtime is importing Queer as Folk, a new dramatic...
Mike Reynolds
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Showtime Breaks The Mold
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In sizing up the prospects for Queer as Folk and The Chris Isaak Show, Showtime's Jerry Offsay is upbeat.Showtime is importing Queer as Folk, a new dramatic...
Mike Reynolds
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Cover Story
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Battling Bigwigs
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What makes a great rivalry? Certainly the character of the players is key to any successful contest. The players should be powerful people. They should...
K.C. Neel
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The Big Picture
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Is ABC Un-American?: TV critics rail on convention coverage
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To say that the American public is fed up with politics is a gross understatement. The two current Oval Office shoo-ins have about as much personal appeal...
Kim Mitchell
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Is ABC Un-American?: TV critics rail on convention coverage
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To say that the American public is fed up with politics is a gross understatement. The two current Oval Office shoo-ins have about as much personal appeal...
Kim Mitchell
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Broadband Content
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Adult PPV Boom
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The movie pay-per-view business may have a long way to go before it realizes its full potential, but the adult movie sub-sector is growing by leaps and...
K.C. Neel
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Streaming Politicians
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C-SPAN and Akamai Technologies are giving a whole new meaning to the words political mainstream, forging a strategic partnership to bring live video...
Cable World Staff
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Streaming Politicians
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C-SPAN and Akamai Technologies are giving a whole new meaning to the words political mainstream, forging a strategic partnership to bring live video...
Cable World Staff
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Tracking PPV Buys
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Nearly one third of all cable customers and more than half of all DBS subscribers have purchased a pay-per-view movie, according to a study conducted...
K. C. Neel
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Tracking PPV Buys
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Nearly one third of all cable customers and more than half of all DBS subscribers have purchased a pay-per-view movie, according to a study conducted...
K. C. Neel
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Broadband
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Cisco Banks On Liberate
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It's hardly chump change, but Cisco's $100 million investment in Liberate Technologies was "a lot less about the money than it was about strengthening...
Jim Barthold
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Coax Sees Small System Gold
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To listen to Coax Corp., there's money to be made in smaller cable systems.The company builds proprietary digital headends that it says let smaller systems...
Jim Barthold
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DSL's Big Stretch
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A Petaluma, Calif., telecommunications equipment maker says it's developed technology to help local phone companies deliver high-speed Internet access...
Cable World Staff
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Business
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AT&T's Euro Play
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Excite, the U.S.'s largest broadband provider, is merging with European-based Chello Broadband NV to create the largest high-speed Internet provider...
Tom De Martini
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AT&T's Euro Play
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Excite, the U.S.'s largest broadband provider, is merging with European-based Chello Broadband NV to create the largest high-speed Internet provider...
Tom De Martini
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Briefs
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NO YAHOO! FOR LEHMAN While most Wall Street investment banks ballyhooed the better-than-expected 4Q earnings of Yahoo! last week, there is a lone contrarian...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Zenith Jettisons Cable Biz
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Zenith Electronics has departed the cable business, selling its Network Systems division to Motorola for an undisclosed amount of cash.The sale marks...
Jim Barthold
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Zenith Jettisons Cable Biz
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Zenith Electronics has departed the cable business, selling its Network Systems division to Motorola for an undisclosed amount of cash.The sale marks...
Jim Barthold
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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. SMTC Corp., 9.63M shares offered; $14 high/$12 low offer prices.2. Talarian Corp., 4M shares offered;...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Market Comment
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EARNINGS PRESSURE NET STOCKS - With the exception of ZDNet, which is being acquired by CNET, Net stocks across the board fell July 19 as concerns over...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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People
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People
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Arbitron Cable Services Beth Bryan has been named account manager in the Midwest region. Formerly, she was an account executive with AT&T Media Services,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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On Screen: ESPN's Game Day
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ESPN is bringing the network game show craze to cable this fall and secured the services of ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire executive producer Michael...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Stop the Madness!: Powerpuffs Fly High
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Cartoon Network recently emblazoned a Delta Express 737 jet from wing to tail with its crime-fighting cuties, the Powerpuff Girls. The deal marks the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Talk About Hardball: Behind the Scene Dugout Debacle
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New York Yankees fans should circle July 31 on their calendars. It's an off-day for the defending champs, but proceedings in a Manhattan court could...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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AT&T's Wireless March
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The other shoe has dropped. AT&T, as promised, is accelerating its broadband fixed wireless telephony and data service and adding new markets where it...
Jim Barthold
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AT&T's Wireless March
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The volume turned up for ReplayTV last week when Time Warner Cable selected the company to conduct a test of its digital recording technology in conjunction...
Tim Clark
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AtDeadline...
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* Reacting to AT&T's 10% rate hike affecting about 1 million Chicago area cable customers, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Judiciary...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Battling Bigwigs
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There is a saying that "old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." When it comes to the entertainment and media titans,...
K.C. Neel
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Cisco Banks On Liberate
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It's hardly chump change, but Cisco's $100 million investment in Liberate Technologies was "a lot less about the money than it was about strengthening...
Jim Barthold
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Cleaning Out the Executive Suite
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The ink is barely dry on the AT&T Broadband/MediaOne merger, and already six top executives in MediaOne's Atlanta office hit the skids. The migration...
K.C. Neel
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Cleaning Out the Executive Suite
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The ink is barely dry on the AT&T Broadband/MediaOne merger, and already six top executives in MediaOne's Atlanta office hit the skids. The migration...
K.C. Neel
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Coax Sees Small System Gold
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To listen to Coax Corp., there's money to be made in smaller cable systems.The company builds proprietary digital headends that it says let smaller systems...
Jim Barthold
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Comcast 'Prefers' Cisco
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Cisco Systems will get preferential treatment from Comcast over the next three years, thanks to a binding memo of understanding the two companies signed.Comcast...
Jim Barthold
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Comcast `Prefers' Cisco
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Cisco Systems will get preferential treatment from Comcast over the next three years, thanks to a binding memo of understanding the two companies signed.Comcast...
Jim Barthold
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CTAM's Customer Focus
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"Mining the New Cable Economy" may have been the theme of CTAM's annual confab last week in Boston, but ways to provide reliable customer service repeatedly...
Rani Long
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CTAM's Customer Focus
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"Mining the New Cable Economy" may have been the theme of CTAM's annual confab last week in Boston, but ways to provide reliable customer service repeatedly...
Rani Long
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Disney Wants FCC Intervention
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The riff between Time Warner and Disney continues to widen, with Disney asking the FCC to force AOL-Time Warner to split its content and conduit units...
K.C. Neel
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Disney Wants FCC Intervention
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The riff between Time Warner and Disney continues to widen, with Disney asking the FCC to force AOL-Time Warner to split its content and conduit units...
K.C. Neel
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DSL's Big Stretch
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A Petaluma, Calif., telecommunications equipment maker says it's developed technology to help local phone companies deliver high-speed Internet access...
Cable World Staff
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Flying the Koop
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Health website Drkoop.com, listed in Barron's magazine in June as one of 227 Internet companies likely to go belly up, is now in critical condition and...
Tom De Martini
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Flying the Koop
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Health website Drkoop.com, listed in Barron's magazine in June as one of 227 Internet companies likely to go belly up, is now in critical condition and...
Tom De Martini
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Has the Sweet Science Soured?
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It hasn't been the best of times for the pay-per-view industry's boxing events. According to a recent PPV study issued by Showtime Event Television,...
Mike Reynolds
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Has the Sweet Science Soured?
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It hasn't been the best of times for the pay-per-view industry's boxing events. According to a recent PPV study issued by Showtime Event Television,...
Mike Reynolds
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Internet 101
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Officials at UBS Warburg were red-faced last week, as a majority of the company's 12,000 global workforce failed to pass a three-hour Internet test.UBS...
Tom De Martini
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Internet 101
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Officials at UBS Warburg were red-faced last week, as a majority of the company's 12,000 global workforce failed to pass a three-hour Internet test.UBS...
Tom De Martini
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PPV Revenues Flounder
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Pay-per-view event revenue, despite a major second-quarter uptick, fell 30% during the first half of 2000, according to a report from Showtime Event...
Mike Reynolds
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PPV Revenues Flounder
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Pay-per-view event revenue, despite a major second-quarter uptick, fell 30% during the first half of 2000, according to a report from Showtime Event...
Mike Reynolds
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Predicting Oracle's Future
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Wall Street wags are wondering what's going to happen to Oracle in the wake of the abrupt resignation of COO Ray Lane earlier this month. Investor concerns...
K.C. Neel
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Predicting Oracle's Future
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Wall Street wags are wondering what's going to happen to Oracle in the wake of the abrupt resignation of COO Ray Lane earlier this month. Investor concerns...
K.C. Neel
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere There's a Sign
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Recently, I drove over an abandoned railroad crossing, complete with rusted tracks, high weeds and corroding warning lights.A romantic person would have...
Jim Barthold
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere There's a Sign
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Recently, I drove over an abandoned railroad crossing, complete with rusted tracks, high weeds and corroding warning lights.A romantic person would have...
Jim Barthold
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TNN Climbs into the Ring
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TNN believes it can body slam its way into the primetime top 10 of cable networks with the addition of World Wrestling Federation programming, backed...
Jennifer Pendleton
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TNN Climbs into the Ring
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Special to Cable World TNN believes it can body slam its way into the primetime top 10 of cable networks with the addition of World Wrestling Federation...
Jennifer Pendleton
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TW's VOD Play
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The volume turned up for ReplayTV last week when Time Warner Cable selected the company to conduct a test of its digital recording technology in conjunction...
Tim Clark
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TW's VOD Play
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The other shoe has dropped. AT&T, as promised, is accelerating its broadband fixed wireless telephony and data service and adding new markets where it...
Jim Barthold
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Wall Street Overkill
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Being an analyst isn't easy. Pressure to pick winners has sent many analysts to their psychoanalysts. But now, Wall Street analysts have their lives...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Wall Street Overkill
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Being an analyst isn't easy. Pressure to pick winners has sent many analysts to their psychoanalysts. But now, Wall Street analysts have their lives...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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