September 15, 2003
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NEWS
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CABLEVISION CALLS IT VOOM
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Cablevision Systems' direct broadcast satellite service, which has been viewed with skepticism on Wall Street and in the cable industry, is about to become a reality ? as soon as Oct. 1.
BY MAVIS SCANLON AND SHIRLEY BRADY
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ADELPHIA READIES PRICE HIKES ON DIGITAL PACKAGES
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Starting next month Adelphia Communications will begin revamping all of its digital programming packages, raising prices anywhere from $5 to $10 for video and up to $26 for video bundled with high-speed data services, Cable World has learned.
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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CITIES ANXIOUS OVER COMCAST'S SAN JOSE SUIT
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Local franchise authorities nationwide will be focusing their attention this week on a legal battle between Comcast Corp. and the city of San Jose, Calif., that could alter the way municipalities address cable franchises.
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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AND THIS LITTLE CABLE CO-OP WAS THE FIRST TO GO HI-DEF
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High-definition television is coming to Oregon. And surprisingly, the first operator to offer the new service is a local telephone/cable cooperative that serves only 1,700 rural customers.
BY K. C. NEEL
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BRIEFS
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LATE BREAKING NEWS
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NAT GEO SEEKS EXPLORER WANNABES
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National Geographic Channel is urging viewers and affiliates to don hiking boots and become explorers this fall.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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PLUG-AND-PLAY OK DOESN'T CONNECT WITH DBS
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The Federal Communications Commission has given its blessing to the plug-and-play agreement hammered out last December by the cable industry and consumer electronics industry.
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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THE GIANT IS NEXT
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Comcast dominates the cable market in Oregon by virtue of its control of the Portland metropolitan market, in which about half the state's population resides.
BY IAN OLGEIRSON, KAGAN
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TWO NEW HI-DEF CONTENT SERVICES READY TO ROLL
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With the price of HDTV sets expected to plummet this year, cable operators are shoring up their hi-def content with two new services launching today.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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FEATURE
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
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The office of the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has historically been the province of the arcana of communications law. But it has also made a fine bully pulpit, a place in which ideas form and from which solutions emanate.
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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DANGER: GAP AHEAD
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If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, then it must seem at times that the folks at Kaitz, NAMIC and WICT are laying it brick by brick.
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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TEAMWORK IN SEVEN EASY STEPS
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The launch strategy of this summer's hottest show.? Hitting stores and doctors' offices to urge women to put their own needs before others' (for a change).? Keeping kids safe through fingerprinting and helmet-safety awareness campaigns. These are a few of the winning entries that will be presented at the first Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing collaborative marketing seminar, being held this week in New York as part of Diversity Week.
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PROGRAMMING
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TNT HITS THE COURT WITH SPIKE LEE
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TNT is prepping the biggest NBA marketing campaign in its 20-year partnership with the league in tandem with one of the highest-profile names in cable these days: Spike Lee.
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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BRIEFS
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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COMCAST EXPANDS ITS DPIS
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Digital programming insertion is cable's Six Million Dollar Man. After years of technical fine tuning and a radical re-engineering of the existing corpus, DPI is better, stronger, faster. The only problem is, as was the case with Steve Austin, the thing always seems to be moving in slow motion.
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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KAZAA HEADS LOOK TO CRASH VOIP PARTY
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The first tray of canapés is making the rounds and a bottle of wine or two has been uncorked, but the VoIP party isn't exactly raging.
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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BANDWIDTH ON THE RUN
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By the end of '03, nearly a fifth of all U.S. homes will have cable modem service, and by the end of '07, nearly a quarter will.
BY BRIAN SANTO, KAGAN
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BRIEFS
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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FIGHTING THE ELEMENTS IS A FULL-TIME JOB
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When Mediacom Communications began upgrading its systems in earnest, throughout 2001 and into '02, it ran into more than a few challenges in and around Mobile, Ala.
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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COLUMNS
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COMPLYING WITH REPORTING RULES WHILE MAXIMIZING REVENUE WILL BE NO EASY TASK
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Fifteen years and three networks have taught me and my cable finance and accounting colleagues something that everyone is about to learn: We need to replace the historical ?doing more with less? motto for our finance and accounting departments if we are to rise above the obstacles that plague us today.
BY BRUCE N. LAZARUS
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DEPARTMENTS
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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RATINGS
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