July 31, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Femme Filmmakers Feted
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Hailing women who helped the early years of cinema, Turner Classic Movies will devote its Thursday night schedule during August to "Women Film Pioneers."The...
Mike Reynolds
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Femme Filmmakers Feted
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Hailing women who helped the early years of cinema, Turner Classic Movies will devote its Thursday night schedule during August to "Women Film Pioneers."The...
Mike Reynolds
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Starz! Heats Up Originals
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Since 1998, Starz! Pictures has rolled out three to four original films a year. Early last year a batch of new originals aired, but the premium channel...
Tim Clark
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Starz! Heats Up Originals
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Since 1998, Starz! Pictures has rolled out three to four original films a year. Early last year a batch of new originals aired, but the premium channel...
Tim Clark
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Cover Story
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Convergence PIONEERS
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So what's it take to be considered a convergence pioneer anyway?When we first posed this question to some consultants in the media business, we got some...
Barry Henderson
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The Big Picture
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Welcome America!: The media descends on Philly
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Perhaps you heard that some Philadelphia cops were videotaped beating the stuffing out of an alleged car thief as they dragged him from a police cruiser...
Jim Barthold
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Welcome America!: The media descends on Philly
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Perhaps you heard that some Philadelphia cops were videotaped beating the stuffing out of an alleged car thief as they dragged him from a police cruiser...
Jim Barthold
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Broadband Content
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Small Towns Hip to Web
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A new Arbitron study says that Internet usage in markets ranked 76th and smaller equals that of larger markets. It also suggests that dot.com and e-commerce...
K.C. Neel
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Small Towns Hip to Web
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A new Arbitron study says that Internet usage in markets ranked 76th and smaller equals that of larger markets. It also suggests that dot.com and e-commerce...
K.C. Neel
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Staking a Claim to WorldGate
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Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable and Cox Communications are putting their money where their interactive subs are.The four...
Jim Barthold
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Staking a Claim to WorldGate
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Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable and Cox Communications are putting their money where their interactive subs are.The four...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Broadband
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AT&T's Telephony Deal
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AT&T finally closed a joint venture deal to deliver local phone service over Insight Communications, the U.S.' eighth largest MSO. Analysts say they...
Tom De Martini
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Lucent Converges
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Lucent Technologies is offering a new look."Twelve to 18 months ago the service provider market was segmented by technology with cable providers competing...
Jim Barthold
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Business
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Fox Sports: Comcast Deal Unfair
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Comcast's gambit to significantly expand its regional sports programming by purchasing Washington, D.C.-based Home Team Sports (HTS) and Midwest SportsChannel...
Tom De Martini
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Fox Sports: Comcast Deal Unfair
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Comcast's gambit to significantly expand its regional sports programming by purchasing Washington, D.C.-based Home Team Sports (HTS) and Midwest SportsChannel...
Tom De Martini
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Seagram Merger in Danger
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French regulators are firing holes through the merger between Seagram and Vivendi, sending Seagram's CEO, Edgar Bronfman, back to Paris to meet with...
Tom De Martini
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Seagram Merger in Danger
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French regulators are firing holes through the merger between Seagram and Vivendi, sending Seagram's CEO, Edgar Bronfman, back to Paris to meet with...
Tom De Martini
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Marketplace
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IPO Watch
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These are the top tech companies offering IPOs this week.1. Vastera Inc., shares TBA; no offer price listed.2. Microtune Inc., 4M shares offered; $15...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Market Comment
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CHIP PLUNGE - A steep fall in semiconductor stocks July 26 pushed the Nasdaq deeper into negative territory. The Dow Industrials also struggled, even...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Addressing Target Advertising
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ACTV is collaborating with software and service supplier Net Perceptions to give consumers a personalized programming, promotional and commerce experience.The...
Rani Long
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Beating Breast Cancer
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Women of all ethnic groups are targeted in International Channel's October public affairs outreach campaign, "Sharing Hope: Facing Breast Cancer.""International...
Rani Long
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Between the Lines
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Building Brand: South Park's Perfect Fit
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Here at Cable World, we love our cartoon characters as much as the next couch potato. But wearing a Daffy Duck T-shirt is about as far as we're willing...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Clean Living: Martha Stewart's Revenge
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This is hard to digest, but apparently both men and women get more worked up over feather dusters than feather dances. Yes. According to a new study...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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On Screen: Rock 'n' Roll's Best
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If you were lucky enough to be a kid or a teen in 1964, you most likely watched The Beatles' first live U.S. performance on The Ed Sullivan Show. That...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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Addressing Target Advertising
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ACTV is collaborating with software and service supplier Net Perceptions to give consumers a personalized programming, promotional and commerce experience.The...
Rani Long
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AT&T's Telephony Deal
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AT&T finally closed a joint venture deal to deliver local phone service over Insight Communications, the U.S.' eighth largest MSO. Analysts say they...
Tom De Martini
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Beating Breast Cancer
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Women of all ethnic groups are targeted in International Channel's October public affairs outreach campaign, "Sharing Hope: Facing Breast Cancer.""International...
Rani Long
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C-SPAN's Online Convention Play
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C-SPAN has inked deals with AOL and Yahoo! to provide live streaming video coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions.Under the AOL deal,...
Mike Reynolds
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C-SPAN's Online Convention Play
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C-SPAN has inked deals with AOL and Yahoo! to provide live streaming video coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions.Under the AOL deal,...
Mike Reynolds
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Cable TV's Financial Coverage Exploding all over
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It's "earnings season" on CNBC. Bring the champagne and Kleenex because you may need both. And don't forget the earplugs.Cable television's coverage...
Tom De Martini
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Cable TV's Financial Coverage: Exploding all over
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It's "earnings season" on CNBC. Bring the champagne and Kleenex because you may need both. And don't forget the earplugs.Cable television's coverage...
Tom De Martini
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Cable's Original Idea
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When it comes to primetime, basic cable is largely original. According to a survey of its membership, the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau reports...
Mike Reynolds
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Competitive Jitters Threaten AOL-TW
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AOL and Time Warner were on the hot seat in Washington, D.C., last week, denying that their $133 billion pending merger was anti-competitive and defending...
Tom De Martini and K.C. Neel
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Competitive Jitters Threaten AOL-TW
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AOL and Time Warner were on the hot seat in Washington, D.C., last week, denying that their $133 billion pending merger was anti-competitive and defending...
Tom De Martini and K.C. Neel
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Convergence Pioneers
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So what's it take to be considered a convergence pioneer anyway?When we first posed this question to some consultants in the media business, we got some...
Barry Henderson
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Enter the 'Dralion'
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Following its first run with Cirque de Soleil's Quidam last fall, TVN will toss its promoter's hat back into the ring with the troupe's latest show,...
Tim Clark
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Enter the `Dralion'
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Following its first run with Cirque de Soleil's Quidam last fall, TVN will toss its promoter's hat back into the ring with the troupe's latest show,...
Tim Clark
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Guide War in the Making?
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Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable and Cox Communications want to guide their subscribers to interactivity.The four have...
Jim Barthold
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Guide War in the Making?
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Adelphia Communications, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable and Cox Communications want to guide their subscribers to interactivity.The four have...
Jim Barthold
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Judge Slays Napster "Monster"
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A U.S. federal court ruled that Napster is encouraging "wholesale infringing" against the music industry and ordered the upstart Internet firm to shut...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Lucent Converges
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Lucent Technologies is offering a new look."Twelve to 18 months ago the service provider market was segmented by technology with cable providers competing...
Jim Barthold
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Merger Fallout Fails to Trip USA
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USA Network CEO Barry Diller says "the cloud" of the impending Seagram/Vivendi merger that hung over the company has lifted, and he looks forward to...
Tom De Martini
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Merger Fallout Fails to Trip USA
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USA Network CEO Barry Diller says "the cloud" of the impending Seagram/Vivendi merger that hung over the company has lifted, and he looks forward to...
Tom De Martini
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PPV's Cure for the Summertime Blues
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Summer is one of the hottest PPV movie seasons, and this year is no exception.In fact, it's a $1 billion summer, according to Gavin Harvey, SVP-marketing/brand...
Tim Clark
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PPV's Cure for the Summertime Blues
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Summer is one of the hottest PPV movie seasons, and this year is no exception.In fact, it's a $1 billion summer, according to Gavin Harvey, SVP-marketing/brand...
Tim Clark
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SBC Switch
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SBC Communications and Verizon Communications will try to jettison their cable TV holdings, The Wall Street Journal reported July 28.It has been speculated...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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SBC Switch
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SBC Communications and Verizon Communications will try to jettison their cable TV holdings, The Wall Street Journal reported July 28.It has been speculated...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Testing TiVo
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Marking the first broad deployment of a personal TV by a cable operator, Comcast will offer TiVo's Personal TV Service to 220,000 of its Cherry Hill,...
Tim Clark
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Testing TiVo
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Marking the first broad deployment of a personal TV by a cable operator, Comcast will offer TiVo's Personal TV Service to 220,000 of its Cherry Hill,...
Tim Clark
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Wink and a Nod
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Advertisers who deliver interactive ads ought to be happy with the latest pitch from Wink Communications.The self-dubbed "leader in enhanced broadcasting...
Rani Long
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Wink and a Nod
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Advertisers who deliver interactive ads ought to be happy with the latest pitch from Wink Communications.The self-dubbed "leader in enhanced broadcasting...
Rani Long
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