October 30, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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Fox Sports Has Come a Long Way, Baby
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In going from tractor pulls, Pro Beach Soccer and Women's World Water Ski Tour to covering MLB, NFL and NASCAR, one can say the national programming...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Satellite Subscribers are Sports Fans
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Satellite subscribers love their sports and will pay more than $1 billion for the rights to watch out-of-market pro and college action by 2005.According...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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AT&T Broadband Sees Earnings Jump
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AT&T Broadband's high-speed data customers nearly tripled in the third quarter, helping push revenue for the unit up 10.8%. The unit saw sales of $2.4...
MAVIS SCANLON
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What's Next for AT&T?
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The AT&T spinoff of AT&T Broadband - the cable industry's largest company - should rekindle investor interest to the sector.In what was widely viewed...
MAVIS SCANLON
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The Big Picture
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Verizon Has the Last Laugh
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Passing on TCI looks good now Somewhere Ray Smith is laughing.The former head of the regional Bell company Bell Atlantic (now Verizon after the GTE merger)...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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Broadband Content
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NBA Takes ITV to the Hole
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The NBA is getting into the interactive game by offering The NBA Beat, an interactive talk show made available on NBA.com TV.The streaming audio show,...
K.C. NEEL
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RespondTV, OpenTV Sign Deal
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RespondTV has signed non-exclusive agreements with OpenTV and WorldGate Communications to allow the middleware companies to move interactive content...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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CNN Piles on the Miles
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Visitors to CNN.com, CNNSI.com and CNNfn.com now will be able to receive frequent flyer miles as well as discounts on car rentals and hotels as part...
K.C. NEEL
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GAO Finds Broadband Bottleneck
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There was good news and bad news from the General Accounting Office last week on the state of competition in the Internet service provider market. The...
DAVID CONNELL
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Broadband
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HITS OKs Terayon's CherryPicker
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Several years back, the only way you'd have heard a HITS executive talking about a CherryPicker was in a farm field or a courtroom. That was when CherryPicker...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Time Warner, Cisco Attack Commercial Customers
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The concept isn't new; the implementation is.Time Warner Communications is serving small, medium and enterprise business customers in the Tampa, Fla.,...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Business
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AT&T Shifts From Growth to Focus
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Now that AT&T is dismantling its corporate empire, it looks like it will be AT&T Broadband riding the cable wires into consumers' homes rather than the...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Between the Lines
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New York, New York
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Subway Series a Local Affair The Subway Series may not have played big for Fox outside the Apple, but New Yawkahs have certainly been tuning into the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Not Funny
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Lame Logo Alert Comedy Central will unveil their new on-air look today, part of which entails a spruced-up logo. While the network yearns to be the king...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Package Deal
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Box Wraps Up MTV2 Looking to get in harmony with the interactive and advertising worlds, MTV Networks, as expected, is combining the operations of The...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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AOL/TW Review Extended
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The Federal Trade Commission agreed to extend its review of the America Online Time Warner merger for two weeks while all sides attempt to hammer out...
DAVID CONNELL
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AT&T Bill Languishes as Hill Session is Prolonged
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As the Congressional session winds down, it appears that two bills relating to the cable industry may suffer different legislative fates as lawmakers...
DAVID CONNELL
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Broadcasters Back Into Must Carry Suit
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The fight over satellite TV must carry rules continues to widen as a group of broadcasters has decided to jump into the fray, and cable interests, including...
DAVID CONNELL
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Cap Fight Could Go to High Court
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Time Warner and AT&T are trying to get the 30% ownership cap overturned any which way they can, and Time Warner is attempting to bring the fight to the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Comcast, Disney Negotiations Drag On
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Staring at deadlines impacting a half-dozen markets, including its home base of Philadelphia, Comcast at presstime was continuing to negotiate a retransmission...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Deep Fiber Means Deep Pockets
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Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) has been a network dream for years. While technologically feasible, it has had a single large drawback: money. Fiber, and the...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Defining VOD
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Industry pundits who gathered at last week's Paul Kagan VOD Summit felt the video-on-demand name doesn't clearly define its versatility or depth of content...
TIM CLARK
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Gilmore, Tauzin Introduce FCC Reform Bill
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It's a little late for a vote, but U.S. Rep. Paul Gilmore, R-Ohio, and House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., will introduce...
DAVID CONNELL
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Grant Co. Consumers Landing a New `Gig'
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When the communications-starved folks of Grant County, Wash., demanded a new gig, their utility provider brought them a gigabit of full duplex Ethernet...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Malone Remains a Major Player in AT&T's Future
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John Malone may have been conspicuously absent during AT&T's breakup announcement last week. But make no mistake, he has been and will continue to be...
K.C. NEEL
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Setting a New Standard
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A new approach toward media buying? Traditional advertising buying, which has been slow to adapt to the Internet, is now being done in cyberspace. The...
RANI LONG
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The Suit Defense
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Gemstar fights hard for its patent protectionGemstar-TV Guide International's interactive program guide (IPG) patents may or may not be bulletproof....
K.C. NEEL
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Turner Plans for Rebuilding Basketball Season
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Coming off a year of declining ratings, Turner Sports is tipping its coverage of the 2000-01 NBA season with a new scheduling lineup and some heavy promotional...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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WebTV, FTC Settle
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WebTV Networks has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that advertising for the WebTV system was deceptive and in violation of U.S. law....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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