November 19, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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briefs
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BETA SAYS OPS WANT NAT GEO, BIO, LIFETIME MOVIE In the continuing horse race for carriage among emerging...
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Comedy Central Gets Fabulous Debut
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The outrageous British comedy Absolutely Fabulous made a successful return to Comedy Central last week,...
by tom bierbaum
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Fox and Cox Bicker Over National Geographic
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After securing a large distribution deal with Time Warner Cable for the National Geographic Channel, Fox...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Sharing the Pain
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The ongoing battle over programming costs may soon get downright ugly. Networks hit hard by the ad recession...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ AND WILL LEE
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STARZ PITCHES FREE SVOD
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Starz Encore is making deals with cable operators ? Adelphia Communications and Cablevision Systems...
by staci d. kramer
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Wisdom Working To Help Itself
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For Wisdom Television, a fledgling network that takes self-help as its programming theme, finding an interested...
by will lee
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Business
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Cablevision Results Hurt by MSG Unit
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Despite a reversal of cash flow losses in Cablevision Systems' high-speed-data business and gains in its...
by mavis scanlon
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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COX COMMUNICATIONS (NYSE: COX) Cox Business Services launched Cox Carrier Services, a local telephone service,...
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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GAINERS/LOSERS-CABLE TECH COMPANIES
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People
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People
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aol time warner Hugh Stephen to SVP-international relations and strategic policy, Asia Pacific, from VP-public...
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General
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AOL Time Warner Signs AT&T Confidentiality Pact
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AOL Time Warner signed an agreement with AT&T that will allow it to receive confidential financial information...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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AT&T to Sell Rainbow Shares
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Cablevision Systems said on Friday that AT&T Corp. will sell 12.765 million Class A tracking shares of...
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Beer-Priced Set-Tops For Champagne Tastes
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Cable operators are holding back on a large-scale transition to the most advanced set-top boxes, but that...
BY BRIAN SANTO
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brief
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Cable Television Laboratories adopted middleware software developed by the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)...
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CABLE OPENS UP BROADBAND LEAD OVER DSL
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AOL Time Warner's cable division has widened its lead over AT&T Broadband in signing high-speed Internet...
BY RICHARD COLE
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Cable's New Sheriff Packs Technology
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Something looked wrong to Cable One executives who examined the operating results from their franchise...
BY RICHARD COLE
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Charter Toppers Sign on Dotted Line
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In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Charter Communications released details...
BY MAVIS SCANLON AND STACI D. KRAMER
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CNN/SI Could Get NBA Spin
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AOL Time Warner and the National Basketball Association, currently negotiating for a new cable-rights contract,...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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correction
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A story in the Nov. 15 issue should have pointed out that Ameritech New Media's americast cable service...
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Cox Communications Shows Excite the Door
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Things got a little tougher for the already beleaguered Excite last week. Cox Communications told...
BY K. C. NEEL
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DirecTV Still Glad to Have McGwire on Team
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Mark McGwire was the perfect face for DirecTV's 2001 Major League Baseball ?MLB Extra Innings?...
by christopher schultz
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EchoStar Deal Forces FCC Into Uncomfortable Position
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If it approves EchoStar Communications' $25 billion buyout of rival DirecTV, a deregulatory-minded Bush...
BY ERIK WEMPLE
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Ethernet Gear Could Open Commercial Door
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Aurora Networks is betting that MSOs will look to enter the lucrative commercial Ethernet business. Based...
by k. c. neel
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High-Speed Customers To Get Soft Sell
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BroadJump is putting more sell into self-install. The Austin, Texas-based company, whose Virtual Truck...
by jon lafayette
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Is Classic's Bankruptcy First of Many?
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Classic Communications filed for bankruptcy last week, a rare event in the cable industry and one that...
BY K. C. NEEL
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JUNIPER BUYS PACIFIC BROADBAND
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Juniper Networks bolstered its presence on the broadband cable scene last week with a deal to buy Pacific...
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Lazarus Takes Over Sales Job at Turner
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Taking on one of the biggest jobs in cable ad sales during one of the most anemic media markets in memory...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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Liberty Forges Ahead With European Expansion
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Liberty Media Corp. made another aggressive move in the European cable market last week even as the company...
by staci d. kramer
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Major Suppliers for Digital Cable and Set-Top Boxes
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markets
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Not All Operators Choose To Go for the Gold
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Many local cable systems are pinning their hopes for a first-quarter ad sales revival on the 2002 Olympic...
by christopher schultz
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OXYGEN GOES BASIC IN N.Y.
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Geraldine Laybourne's Oxygen will gain a coveted spot on the analog tier of Time Warner Cable's New York...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Schleyer Shuffles Executive Team
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AT&T's new management continues to fill in its executive ranks and reorganize its operating hierarchy....
BY K. C. NEEL
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SCIENTIFIC-ATLANTA BUYS BARCONET
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Scientific-Atlanta pulled out its checkbook to bolster its international presence last week, agreeing to...
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TECHTV HIT WITH LAYOFFS
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TechTV last week became the latest programmer to cut its staff, citing a weak ad market and a downturn...
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Venture Funding for Cable Rises
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Despite shrinking equity returns, venture capital firms continue to invest in the cable industry. An exclusive...
BY MARIAM RONDELI, KAGAN WORLD MEDIA
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Western Show a Chance To Focus on Technology
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The sudden retreat of the Taliban to the boondocks of Afghanistan on Nov. 14 (Asian time) was predicted...
by paul kagan
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Where High-Tech Meets Highway 1
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When OpenTV and its partners decided to show off the nation's first fully interactive television service,...
by richard cole
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WICT FOCUSES ON LEADERSHIP
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Women in Cable and Telecommunications has a new image and focus. The organization's overhaul follows a...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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