October 23, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Lifetime Earns Strong 3Q Ratings
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Lifetime continues to march forward with its "Television For Women" brand initiative. The network's new original series, Strong Medicine, is strong-arming...
TIM CLARK
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Nick Rolls Out New `Diverse' Toons
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Continuing to reach out to all kids, Nickelodeon will bow a pair of animated series next week touching on different kinds of diversity issues.Viacom's...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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SHOW ME THE CABLE MONEY
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This year's presidential and congressional races have been dogged by talk of campaign finance reform and questions about which companies and "special...
DAVID CONNELL
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The Big Picture
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Back to the Future
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Silicon Valley execs are a welcome throwback Intertainer's Jonathan Taplin did not come to Santa Clara, Calif., to tap dance. And suddenly the cable/broadband...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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Broadband Content
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Alliances Boost Satellite B-band
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The satellite industry's place in the broadband arena received a boost last week as two companies, PanAmSat's NET-36 and EchoStar Communications, announced...
DAVID CONNELL
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eBay Wants Airtime
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Online auction house eBay wants to move to the tube.eBay is talking to the major broadcast networks, among other television programmers, about developing...
K.C. NEEL
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Interactive TV
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ITV Future Still Sketchy
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Interactive TV should reap millions of dollars for operators, but just how much operators stand to make remains to be seen.The Internet has bolstered...
TIM CLARK
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Broadband
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DSL Forum Gears Keep Grinding
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Digital Subscriber Line. Slowly they turn, step by step, inch by inch ...The DSL Forum's push to set an industry-wide customer premises equipment (CPE)...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Western Digital, S-A Attack Personal Video Recorders
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The market for digital video recorders (DVRs) that work within cable's infrastructure expanded last week when data storage industry leader Western Digital...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Business
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Viacom Opens Ad Doors, Changes Name
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Looking to grab a bigger slice of companies' advertising budgets, Viacom, as expected, officially opened the door to marketers interested in tying in...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Between the Lines
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Coming Up Roses
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A Promotion by Any Other Name ... As Jerry Garcia once sang, "My, oh, my, it must have been the roses ..."Well, frankly, it was the dozen red roses HGTV...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Fear Itself
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Discovery Gets Scary Phobias and fears. Appropriate topics during this most frightening of seasons and the subject of a survey and six-part series, Things...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Squawk On
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Five Years and Running Maybe it's the diving penguins or the briefcase indicator, but for CNBC, there's no squawking about Squawk Box. The financial...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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Arris Marriage Dissolved
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While most other companies are getting married these days, one pair is calling it quits after five years together. Antec and Nortel Networks are breaking...
JIM BARTHOLD
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AT&T Taps Qpass for Commerce
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AT&T Broadband has chosen Qpass to provide "eWallet" transaction services for the MSO's advanced interactive TV platform.Qpass will provide a secure...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Bell Sounds on Heavyweight Promotion
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The heavy lifting is about to begin on the promotion for the upcoming heavyweight title tilt between Lennox Lewis and David Tua.Billed as "The Royal...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Congress Orders Northpoint Tests, Continues Negotiating Rural Loan Bill
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In what some satellite TV lobbyists are claiming is an "unprecedented" move, Congress has drafted legislation that would force Northpoint Technology...
DAVID CONNELL
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DirecTV Unveils Interactive Service
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DirecTV, Wink Communications and Thomson Multimedia announced the culmination of DirecTV Interactive last week. Powered by Wink, the new service delivers...
TIM CLARK
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History Channel Hits the Road
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The History Channel is going back to the future, "Making the Past Come Alive" and letting the public in on the fun. The History Channel Time Machine...
RANI LONG
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Kennard Wants Report on Broadcasters' Public Interest
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Continuing his tirade against the broadcast industry, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard has asked the Mass Media Bureau to conduct...
DAVID CONNELL
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Levin is `Confident' of Merger's Success
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Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin is not sweating regulators' concerns about his company's proposed merger with America Online; at least that's what he's...
DAVID CONNELL
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Mytvtaxi's Web Strategy
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To compete in any business these days, you need to have an online presence. Cable TV ad sales executives may find it helpful to be able to offer Internet...
RANI LONG
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NFL Looks Long
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Seeking to build its fan base and drive technology abroad, the NFL is teaming with Fantastic Entertainment and GlobalMedia.com to provide games and related...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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PPV Takes A 3Q Revenue Hit
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With only one boxing match, pay-per-view event revenue was knocked down in the third quarter.Revenue totaled $66.8 million in the third quarter this...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Ruling on Vivendi Merger Unsettles News Corp.
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The European Commission's ruling that Vivendi and Seagram sell a 22.7% interest in BSkyB has created a headache for the European satellite TV company's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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What's Broadband? It Depends on Whom You Ask
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Ask any of the 580 or so people who attended CTAM's conference in Santa Clara, Calif., last week what broadband is, and chances are you'll get almost...
K.C. NEEL
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Why I Think the Telcos Will Win
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For some reason, people ask me who will win the high-speed data battle.Being a journalist, I give substantially fuzzy answers that let me maintain neutrality...
JIM BARTHOLD
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WINFirst Bets $1 Billion on Fiber Networks
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WINfirst is putting its money - $1 billion - where its mouth has been.That's how much the Denver-based overbuilder will spend over the next five years...
JIM BARTHOLD
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