August 11, 2003
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NEWS
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PORN SENT PACKING
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Cable entrepreneur Bill Bresnan is dropping all adult programming from the former AT&T Broadband systems he bought earlier this year from Comcast.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY AND ANDREA FIGLER
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BASIC SUB LOSSES CONTINUE TO PLAGUE CABLE
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If you want to see how the flag has moved in the continuing tug-of-war between cable and satellite, look no further than Mediacom Communications' second-quarter results.
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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MAG RACK CUTS STAFF, SHIFTS CONTENT STRATEGY
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Rainbow Media's Mag Rack video-on-demand service has gradually shifted to using outside producers and production partners for its up to 40 VOD channels.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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'NIP/TUCK' PROMO LIFTS AFFILIATES
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Nip/Tuck isn't just delivering ratings for FX; it's also got cable affiliates hitting some good numbers.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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BRIEFS
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COMCAST INVESTS IN IP TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
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At the National Show in Chicago this past June, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts made no secret of his interest in exploiting the Internet Protocol standard for use in Comcast's cable networks.
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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HUT-HUT-HIKE!
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ESPN paid heavily to consolidate its position as the destination channel for pro football fans on Sunday nights during the season, but the move has delivered a steady ratings boost to the network.
BY IAN OLGEIRSON, KAGAN
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LATE BREAKING NEWS
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FEATURE
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SEASON OF THE SWITCH
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Trying to predict the NFL team that will emerge as the Super Bowl champion when the preseason has barely begun is as doomed and foolhardy a notion as they come, akin to handicapping the race for the Democratic Party nomination eight months before Super Tuesday.
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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COMMODITY ON CAMPUS
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Twenty-five years ago, before the civil war that changed college football forever, the campus game was the most tightly managed commodity in all of televised sports.
BY KEITH DUNNAVANT
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FALL SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS ON CABLE
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BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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PROGRAMMING
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TV'S GETTING THE ?QUEER? MAKEOVER
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With Bravo's Fab Five making TV history, last week's historic election of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and June's Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay sex, art and life are seeing (queer) eye to eye.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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BRIEFS
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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CLEARING THE LANES FOR THE VOD RUSH
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If you're reading this magazine, you probably figured out long ago that video-on-demand is a great value-add, a churn-busting, revenue-raising, consumer-alluring whizbang of an application that makes regular one-way TV look like something you'd find in a Neanderthal's rec room. Trouble is, the demand for on-demand may soon outstrip operators' ability to provide it.
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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BRIEFS
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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A SLEEPY CITY WHERE HOPES RUN HIGH
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If there seems to be little to distinguish Harrisburg, Pa., from most other medium-sized cable markets, it's probably a function of the area's statistical ?averageness.?
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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COLUMNS
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ALPHABET SOUP
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Comcast's High-Speed Pro goes national ? Cox offers home networking in Fairfax County ? Adelphia rewards loyalty with free PPV ? Honolulu rides high atop broadband wave
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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AOL UNFAIRLY MALIGNED
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I am writing with regard to the piece written by Alicia Mundy in your July 21, 2003, issue of Cable World.
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HOLDING THE LINE ON THE BUNDLE WHILE HUNGER FOR MEDIA GROWS
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Forty-six years ago last week (Aug. 5, 1957), Dick Clark's American Bandstand made its debut on ABC-TV, causing yet more people to subscribe to that newfangled service called cable.
BY PAUL KAGAN
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IF CABLE DOESN'T GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, SOMEBODY ELSE WILL
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Why is high-definition television like cod liver oil? For our parents' generation, cod liver oil was an evil-tasting dietary supplement force-fed to them by our grandparents.
BY MIKE LUFTMAN
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DEPARTMENTS
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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RATINGS
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