September 10, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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briefs
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DISCOVERY BUYS HEALTH NETWORK In a move that leaves essentially a single cable entity devoted to health...
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Court TV Sues Camera-Shy New York
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BOIES EXPLAINED THAT THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALREADY OPENS COURTS TO JOURNALISTS. Court...
by warren cohen, inside.com
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Fox Edgy After CNN Poaches Zahn
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The cable-news battle got nastier last week as CNN poached a star anchor from surging rival Fox News Channel,...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Ripley's Flows Upriver To Broadcast Net
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In one recent episode, Ripley's Believe It or Not! turned its lurid gaze toward a man bereft of eyes and...
by will lee
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Weinstein Joins Hindery in Yankee Lineup
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Hollywood heavy hitter Harvey Weinstein is expected in the lineup when the board of the new regional sports...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Business
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Analyst Sees Rebound For Cable Stocks
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CASH FLOW IS RISING WHILE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES ARE DECLINING. Shares of cable stocks...
By MAVIS SCANLON
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briefs
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LIBERTY CLOSES GERMAN DEALS Liberty Media is buying six cable TV firms from German telecom giant Deutsche...
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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HIGH SPEED ACCESS CORP. (NASDAQ: HSAC) High Speed Access has pulled out of AOL Time Warner's ISP access...
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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GAINERS/LOSERS - MSOs AND PROGRAMMERS
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People
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People
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all optical networks Ralph A. Bennett to CEO from president. Dr. Arlen Barksdale to CTO from president...
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General
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After Excite, Operators Look Within for High Speed
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Excite's financial woes have cable operators scrambling to find alternatives that ensure continued...
BY RICHARD COLE
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NBC HOPS ON CROSS-PLATFORM BANDWAGON Joining the cross-platform rage, NBC announced last week that it has...
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OPENTV MARKS 2 MILLION DISH NETWORK BOXES OpenTV last week said that more than 2 million Dish Network satellite...
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Classic in Default After Missing Payment
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Burdened with heavy debt, falling revenue and rising expenses, Classic Cable failed to make $20 million...
by mavis scanlon
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correction
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A word was deleted from the first sentence of the fourth paragraph of a story about broadcasters and video-on-demand...
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FCC Trying on Bigger Caps
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The FCC will kick off a proceeding on Sept. 13 aimed at coming up with new restrictions on cable industry...
BY ERIK WEMPLE
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Gateway Group Opens Contact With Cable
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THE CABLE COMPANY COULD BE THE SERVICE PROVIDER, CHARGING FOR THE PRIVILEGE. The...
by brian santo
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Getting Jammed
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The prospect of a bidding war over the rights to air NBA games could drive cable operators over the edge....
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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markets
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NEW SATELLITE FOR DIRECTV
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DirecTV plans to launch a new high-powered spot-beam satellite, to be built by Space Systems/Loral, that...
Andrea Figler
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Online Campaigns Finally Reach Consumers
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Since upselling digital cable and high-speed cable modems by any means possible is all the rage among operators,...
by christopher schultz
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Powell Affirms Must-Carry Rule
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Chairman Michael Powell's Federal Communication Commission last week once again displayed an unwillingness...
ERIK WEMPLE
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Studios Skip Middleman
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Walt Disney Co. and News Corp. last week formed a joint venture that may allow them to bypass traditional...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Terayon Gets DOCSIS 2.0 Boost
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CableLabs has started work on a new standard for cable modems that it says will significantly increase...
BY K. C. NEEL
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TiVo Readies New Ad Options
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TiVo, once vilified as the ultimate advertising killer, is about to reposition itself as the ultimate TV...
BY JOE MANDESE, MEDIA BUYER'S DAILY
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Yankee Golfer Tees Up Cable Career
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Terry Hicks owes his cable career to golf ? and some well-honed diplomatic skills. In the early '70s,...
by shirley brady
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