September 6, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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ESPN Celebrates Two Decades with Top Sports Events
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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of its launch, ESPN will take a look back at a generation's worth of great games, memorable moments and major news...
Mike Reynolds
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Match ESPN's Top 20 Jocks and Win Prizes
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"Joe D. The Yankee Clipper. Only No. 22? Fuhgettaboudit. Julius Erving. Dr.J. Just 43rd? With that ABA hair and the hops? He was Jordan before Jordan....
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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A SERVER WORLD
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Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the purchase last week of StarDivision, a company that makes an office suite of software products similar to the gigantically...
Matt Stump
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A SERVER WORLD: Where will the applications reside?
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Sun Microsystems Inc. announced the purchase last week of StarDivision, a company that makes an office suite of software products similar to the gigantically...
Matt Stump
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The Big Picture
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We note the premature passing of Marc Lustgarten, 52, one of Cablevision Systems Corp. key executives over the past 24 years. Lustgarten joined Cablevision...
Matt Stump
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Business
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New FCC Rules Spur Diller Talks with ABC
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USA Networks, Inc. chairman Barry Diller is having discussions with a number of media companies in the wake of loosened Federal Communications Commission...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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ECHOSTAR RISES ON ALLIANCE NEWS - EchoStar Communications Corp., the No. 2 satellite TV company, rose $8.09 to $83.63 after it said it had formed an...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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On Screen: Fox: When Good Jetliners Go Bad
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The Washington Post reported last week that FAA officials are taking a dim view of a Fox Broadcasting Co.'s special in which it would crash a real 747...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Retail Woes: ESPN Closes Three Stores
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Walt Disney Co. closed its three ESPN retail stores last week, not surprising since Disney has seen some declining sales at its Disney Stores enterprise.Disney...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Scoring Big: HBO Delivers Ratings, Emmys
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What a week for HBO! First the pay network earns a cart full of Emmys and then Cher brings home the ratings bacon.Ironically, it wasn't all that long...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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South of the Border: Miami Amplifiers a Hot Item
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The Miami Herald last week reported that a new type of entrepreneur is springing up around the Port of Miami - the kind who steals amplifiers off the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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AN OPEN CABLE SUMMER
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The OpenCable( project at CableLabs( took several giant steps forward this summer, according to Lisa Lee, the project's director.One major step was the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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AT&T vs. FCC Cap: How Big is Too Big?
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AT&T Corp. last week lobbied regulators with a vengeance in a last ditch effort to derail impending cable ownership caps that would force the telecommunications...
Joshua Cho and Eric Glick
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Cable Ops Tops Among Presidential Donors
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According to recent figures, cable operators are among the top donors to the likes of presidential hopefuls Al Gore and George W. Bush. And the generosity...
Eric Glick
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Cable's Ratings Growth Leads Broadcast Networks
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Basic cable's ratings growth slowed in August, but the medium still parlayed the gains into a sizable lead over the broadcast networks.The medium posted...
Mike Reynolds
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Can Discovery's Cachet Translate to the Net?
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Seeking to establish a dominating presence on the Internet, Discovery Communications Inc. is rapidly developing and expanding online areas for science,...
Alan Breznick
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Cox Plans Series of Bundled Marketing Tests
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Cox Communications Inc., which offers voice, video and data in a half a dozen markets, is launching a series of bundled marketing tests this month to...
Matt Stump
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Custom Care Focus of AT&T-Jupiter Program
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When Kunimasa Takahashi came to Colorado three months ago, he figured he knew the score. He'd worked with several AT&T Broadband & Internet Services...
K.C. Neel
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Dennis Whips Up Rates for WC
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Hurricane Dennis may have pummeled the Southeast coast, but it made for sunny days at the Weather Channel.The all-weather channel posted its seventh-highest...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Encore Joins Trade Group
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Encore Media Group is the latest addition to the Advanced Television Copyright Coalition, a group pressing for recognition of copyright issues related...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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ESPN at 20: Bodenheimer Talks Sports
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Since it launched Sept. 7, 1999 in Bristol, Conn., ESPN has expanded into a top brand and empire that includes six domestic networks, 20 international...
Line Here
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ESPN/ABC Plan Full Season of Enhanced TV
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Despite a less than auspicious trial of TV-Web convergence last January, ESPN and ABC Sports will offer an "enhanced TV" programming service over the...
Alan Breznick
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Fox Inks Retransmission Pact
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Fox Entertainment Group will get a digital boost thanks to a long-term retransmission consent pact with AT&T Broadband and Internet Services.The agreement...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Holyfield/Lewis Rematch Planned for Nov. 13
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With marketing/media combinations for the Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad welterweight unification title tilt about to hit at speed-bag levels, cable...
Mike Reynolds
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IS HISTORY OUR LATEST FATALITY?
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In the 1960s, a fad proclaiming that God was dead swept the nation. Even Time magazine, not yet having to compete with television and tabloids, splashed...
Jim Barthold
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MTV Nets Announces New Interactive Subsidiary
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Switching course somewhat in cyberspace, MTV Networks Online is crafting a new company to focus on its three major music Web sites while abandoning earlier...
Alan Breznick
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NCTA to FCC: Cable's Competitors are Flourishing
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The National Cable Television Association, Cablevision Systems Corp. and Comcast Corp., among others, told the FCC that the cable industry faces more...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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NRTC Sues DirecTV Second Time for Contract Breach
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In an increasingly nasty fight between DBS partners, the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative has sued DirecTV Inc. for the second time in two...
Alan Breznick
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Ohio Viewers Get Full Interactive Digital TV
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Columbus, Ohio became the second city this summer to go online with digital interactive service through a partnership between Source Media Inc. and cabler...
Karen Brown
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S-A's Digital Success Marks Turning Point
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Digital has been very, very good to Scientific-Atlanta Inc., and, if company predictions are right, it will continue to be.The Atlanta-based vendor reported...
Jim Barthold
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Team Marketing Efforts Pay Off
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The AT&T Cable Services Connections newsletter, the fourth largest monthly print product in the U.S., is sold out for the year. The newsletter, which...
K.C. Neel
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Terayon Wins DOCSIS OK
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Terayon Communications Systems Inc. became the 11th cable modem manufacturer to win DOCSIS 1.0 certification from CableLabs last week, even as fellow...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Will SNET Fast Forward Out of Video Business?
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Southern New England Telephone (SNET) must continue to operate its cable service for another year even though regulators allowed the company to halt...
K.C. Neel
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Wireless Operators Zero In On MDU Marketplace
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Even as the franchise cable industry goes through a period of consolidation with mega MSOs offering a full array of voice, video, Internet and data products,...
Karen Brown
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Worlds.com Moves Road Runner to Third Dimension
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Road Runner cable modem clients will be able to expand to the third dimension thanks to a partnership announced between the broadband Internet service...
Karen Brown
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