August 23, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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SET Packs Cash Punch in First Half of '99
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For the first half of 1999 the pay-per-view event industry set new records, racking up an eye-popping $267 million in revenues and easily surpassing...
Cable World Staff
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Time Warner Gives Nix to Embryonic Chix Channel
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Just two months after announcing plans to start up the Women's Channel, a new cable TV channel for women, Time Warner abruptly dropped the project this...
Karen Brown
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The Big Picture
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FREE LUNCHES: A Chinese menu of telecom freebies
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The era of "free" marketing in telecommunications is upon us.A company called FreePC will ship 20,000 PCs free to selected consumers in exchange for...
Matt Stump
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Business
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Fox, Mediacom Score Revenue Home Runs
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Rupert Murdoch's Fox Entertainment Group and parent company News Corp. last week announced results for the year ending June 30, 1999.The recently public...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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REVENUES BELOW EXPECTATIONS - Shares of ADC Telecommunications Inc. fell 7% last week as investors focused on lower than expected revenues cited in ADC's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Nielsen Media Rates with VNU to Tune of $2.7 Billion
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Nielsen Media Research Inc. is being acquired by Dutch publisher VNU NV for $2.7 billion. VNU will pay about $2.5 billion in cash for Nielsen, as well...
Cable World Staff
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Quad Looks at How Audiences View the TV
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The search for a deeper understanding of how people watch television - not just how many - is putting the spotlight on a method of audience analysis...
Jennifer Pendleton
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People
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People
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A&E: Risa Rosenthal has been named VP-direct response and advertising and will be responsible for all direct response advertising for A&E Television...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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On Screen: TBS White House Thriller Delivers
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TBS Superstation may be one of cable's oldest cable networks, but it's just a pup when it comes to the highly competitive world of original movies. That's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Sprucing Up: TNN Tanks Country Variety/Talk
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CBS Cable's The Nashville Network, which has been trying to spiff up its programming to lure those all important young, male viewers instead of the displaced...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Surprise Exits: Shea Ankles E!; Bohrman Bolts
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E! Entertainment staffers were surprised by the exit of their top executive, Fran Shea after just nine months.Meanwhile, David Bohr-man was given the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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Adelphia Brings Galaxy Systems into its Constellation
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Adelphia Communications Corp. is in the final throes of buying Galaxy Cablevision Inc., which will give the Coudersport, Pa.-based MSO a total of 2.4...
K.C. Neel
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AOL's Pittman Defends Narrowband World
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AOL Online Networks President Bob Pittman issued a strong defense of today's narrowband world while sketching out AOL's plans for a broadband future...
Matt Stump
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AT&T-MediaOne Customer Cap Haunts Pact
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If several consumer groups get their way, AT&T's Corp.'s pending acquisition to buy MediaOne Group will become a new test case of U.S. antitrust policy...
Eric Glick
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Backo Fights Cable Signal Crime for NCTA
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With a Clint Eastwood role in the wings, Dan Backo elected, instead, to be Inspector Gadget.Backo was a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, assigned...
Jim Barthold
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CAB Reports Cable Advertising Revenues on the Rise
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The first two quarters of 1999 generated $4 billion in advertising revenue for cable networks, a 29% jump compared to the first six months of 1998.If...
Cable World Staff and Wire Services
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Cable Trolls for Content to Keep Customers
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If you build the broadband pipe, they will come.But you can't keep them unless you show them something interesting, industry experts now add.Eager to...
Karen Brown
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Cablevision Gets Ready to Unload Rainbow
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Cablevision Systems Corp. may finally be close to spinning off its Rainbow Media Holdings Inc. unit after years of failed merger talks with Showtime...
K.C. Neel
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Cablevision Refutes Excite Rollout Report
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Cablevision Corp. officials are curtly denying a report in the cable industry press last week that the New York-area MSO had decided not to roll out...
Karen Brown
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CAPTIVE AUDIENCE LIES WAITING
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Guess again. Some words can hurt almost as much as logs and rocks, although in different ways.C'mon, 'fess up. You know you wince when you hear ...DentistGovernment...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Copyright Issues Add Rancor to PVR Talks
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The copyright debate between personal video recording companies and content providers broke out into the open last week at a Kagan Seminars Inc. conference,...
Matt Stump
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Encore Licenses Disney Films
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A new long-term licensing deal for all theatrical releases from Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax and Dimension units was inked last week between...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Excite Gets AT&T Content Deal
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Staking its claim in the Internet TV gold rush, Excite beat America Online Inc. to the punch last week by unveiling a technology distribution deal...
Alan Breznick
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FCC Study: Fewer Women, More Minorities in Cable Biz
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Are women an endangered species in the cable industry? Indeed, women in the industry's workforce appear to be on the decline, according to a new study...
Eric Glick
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Heavyweight Investors Help Wink IPO to Nearly Double
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The folks at interactive media company Wink Communications Inc. had a good idea last week that their initial public offering was going well.According...
Joshua Cho
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Home Networking Puzzle: Who's Going to Connect It?
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Start with an interactive set-top box in the living room running a host of TV and Web-based applications. Add an information appliance terminal in the...
Matt Stump
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Kintzer, Cadden Join CW
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Intertec Publishing has named Sam Kintzer, group publisher of Millimeter magazine and a 15-year veteran of the entertainment publishing industry, to...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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MediaOne Cracks Piracy Ring
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Two men who were allegedly part of a multi-million dollar cable piracy ring were nabbed last week in Riverside County, Calif., after a sting operation...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Network Marketers Spruce up Digital Images
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How do basic and premium cablecasters win a round in the ongoing fight for channel-surfing eyeballs? Desperately combating short attention spans and...
Susan Hornik
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Open Access Tide Seems to Turn for AT&T
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After weeks of being pummeled in the open access war raging across the U.S., cable operators last week got a break, as a series of events appeared to...
Cable World Staff
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Talented Workers Needed for Cable Industry
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The cable industry is expanding and as are the number of employees needed to construct, sell and manage those new businesses, according to an annual...
K.C. Neel
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Time Warner Dips its Toes into VOD Market
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After gingerly dipping its toes into the video on demand (VOD) market through its now-defunct Full Service Network, Time Warner Cable is jumping in with...
Karen Brown
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TiVo, Replay Both Receive Cash Infusions
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Gearing up for the first personal video recorder retail wars this fall, TiVo Inc. and Replay Networks Inc. both unveiled fresh cash infusions by major...
Alan Breznick
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TWE Control to be Retooled
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MediaOne Inc. has given up its 50/50 management control of Time Warner Entertainment Inc. and Time Warner Inc. will consolidate the TWE assets in its...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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VOD Heads Toward $3.1B Industry
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Time Warner Cable's announcement of the first large-scale video on demand (VOD) tests got an added validity boost courtesy of a report released last...
Karen Brown
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