November 13, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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FX Rallies Around Surging Series
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Son of the Beach grabbed FX Network's highest ratings for an original series.The first run of 13 episodes earned a 1.46 rating, a 217% jump compared...
TIM CLARK
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Game Show Network Buys Real Shoppers
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Game Show Network is looking to bring real people to a game show in a somewhat surreal shopping and entertainment setting: the giant Mall of America...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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PPV Movie Payoff Is Thorne's Pitch
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Gary Thorne expects to help operators sell more movies.Named president/COO of Hubbard Media Group's new Moviewatch channel, Thorne says research shows...
TIM CLARK
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Sunshine Pens Wireless Deal
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Sunshine Network has wired a deal with a wireless company for its 10 p.m. regional sports news show.As part of a multifaceted marketing alliance, Nextel...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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HEY, YOUNG SPENDER
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Cable reaches out to target tricky tweens They're fickle and faddish. They're gaining self-awareness, yet they experience heavy peer pressure. They're...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Madison Ave.'s New Golden Children
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Tweens are in demand. Just ask Madison Avenue."There is definitely more of an interest in this group," says Donna Speciale, supervising director of national...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Still in Touch With the Audience
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"Your daughter is how old?""Eleven," I say."Then she still loves you and depends on you but tells you to `get away, idiot.'"That's not a bad encapsulation...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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The Big Picture
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Here's TelecomClick.com
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Newly expanded `Cable World' Web site arrives This is a 21st century tale, namely one of how to deal with the rapidly growing need to manage the broadband...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Broadband Content
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Local News Goes `Web-centric'
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Each time Time Warner Cable adds a new local news channel, its broadband Web takes on increased importance, company officials say.Broadband will allow...
RICHARD COLE
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Video Hits to Click
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Music video fans will be able to create their own shows via digital set-top boxes under an agreement between Universal Music Group and French-owned middleware...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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AT&T Interactive Test on Schedule
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Though AT&T Broadband is launching its first interactive TV venture using WorldGate Communication's technology, that won't be the only item on AT&T's...
K.C. NEEL
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Broadband
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Broadcom Buys SiByte
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Broadcom is continuing its buying binge, agreeing to pay about $2 billion in stock for privately held SiByte.Broadcom's latest and largest acquisition...
RICHARD COLE
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UtiliCorp Taps Advent
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UtiliCorp Communication Services, a power company entering the competing telecommunications services field, has selected Advent Networks to give it an...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Business
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AT&T Serves as Debt Warning
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AT&T's credit-rating cut is a wake-up call for those cable investors unconcerned about rising debt levels and over-burdened balance sheets.The telecom...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Institutions Shuffle MSO Shares
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Major financial institutions have been shuffling their stakes in some of the leading cable operator stocks.The California Public Employees Retirement...
MAVIS SCANLON
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General
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Adelphia Finds Sexy Strategy
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Adelphia Communications, one of the few cable operators with a long-standing policy against adult programming, has come up with a novel strategy in Los...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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AT&T Runs SpotOn Test
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AT&T Broadband will test addressable interactive television advertising with its digital cable customers in Aurora, Colo., before the end of the year.The...
RANI LONG
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C-SPAN Jumps Into Must Carry
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C-SPAN will become the first cable industry player to wade into the satellite TV industry's lawsuit against the government's must-carry rules.C-SPAN...
DAVID CONNELL
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Cable Boxes Add to Media Merger Shocks
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The rollout of advanced set-top cable boxes could upset a media world already dealing with the aftershocks of mergermania.For example, the gargantuan...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Cable Likes GOP Edge
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Even with the election results muddled, cable industry leaders are expecting Washington to be a friendlier place, especially at the FCC.For example,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Cable Revenues Gain
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Cable and satellite providers continued to post respectable revenue gains last year thanks in large part to the rollout of new services, according to...
K.C. NEEL
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Cablevision Keeps Street Guessing on Rainbow
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For months analysts and investors who follow Cablevision Systems have hungrily awaited two events even as the company's once skyrocketing stock has stagnated...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Comcast's RGUs Up
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The bright spot of Comcast's earnings announcement last week was RGU, or revenue-generating-unit, growth.The Philadelphia-based company ended the quarter...
MAVIS SCANLON
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FTC Delays AOL/TW Decision
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The Federal Trade Commission has again delayed a final ruling on the America Online Time Warner merger, with regulators and company representatives failing...
DAVID CONNELL
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I Want My MTV - Broadband
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MTV Network is offering marketing materials to support cable operator's broadband services campaigns.AT&T Broadband is using MTVN's material in a retention-and-acquisition...
RANI LONG
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Mediacom Buys AT&T Systems
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Continuing its low cost-per-subscriber acquisition binge, Mediacom Communications last week signed a definitive agreement to purchase cable television...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Ratings Race Winner Declared
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Unlike the Presidential race, there was a clear-cut winner among those watching elections results on cable: CNN.The battles for primetime, extended prime...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Satellite Jumps on Broadband Wagon
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StarBand Communications, a joint venture of Gilat Satellite Networks, Microsoft and EchoStar Communications, has released the first two-way broadband...
DAVID CONNELL
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Vote Margin Could Mean Little Change
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Though the margins were thin, the likely prospect of Republicans controlling both the White House and Congress should have the cable industry licking...
DAVID CONNELL
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WICT Unveils `Benchmark' Survey
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The cable industry is not doing enough to move women to the top of the corporate ladder, a new report says.The Women in Cable and Telecommunications...
DAVID CONNELL
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