November 27, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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NASCAR's High-Octane Programming to Rev Up Cable
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Like race teams at track-side garages preparing their charges, NASCAR's new network partners are looking to improve ratings and production performance...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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TOP of the LEAGUE
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Juggling cable and satellite channels becomes a Shell game for Fox executiveJeff Shell has a lot of cable networks in his dugout.Serving as president/CEO...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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Ops Love L.A.
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MSOs Find Fun and Reward In Fragmented, Savvy Market In an era when cable operators have worked overtime and spent millions of dollars to control entire...
K.C. NEEL
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The Big Picture
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Raging Over Rates
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Hysteria will again trump reason It's that time of year again, when millions of people all over the country get glad holiday tidings from their cable...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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Broadband Content
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WAITING FOR SET-TOPS
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Making set-top boxes available for purchase at retail is not as simple as it soundsIt seems like such a simple proposition, such a simple idea.Two newlyweds...
DAVID CONNELL
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Interactive TV
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Who'll Make it to the Interactive AGE?
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The fledgling interactive TV landscape prompts a variety of success strategies for ITV service and content providers.The interactive television space...
TIM CLARK
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WIRED
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Jerry Kent of Charter Communications says emerging technologies, such as interactive TV and video-on-demand, will transform Paul Allen's $7 billion investment...
K.C. NEEL
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Broadband
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Battery Backups Critical
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In his presentation at this year's SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies - now available as an online audiovisual lecture on the SCTE Web site - Ralph...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Broadband
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The Interactive TechnologiesCHAPTER 3 An excerpt from "The Last Mile: Broadband and the Next Internet Revolution"This is the fun part. We truly believe...
Jason Wolf and Natalie Zee
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For Vendors, VoIP is the End Game
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Vendors, as a rule, do what their customers want. For that reason, you'll hear a lot of vendors these days talking about telephony switches and migratory...
JIM BARTHOLD
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Business
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OVERBUILDERS: The New Generation
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Half a dozen new companies have been formed, and funded, in the past year to offer broadband services in already-cabled metropolitan areas.It's a new...
DEBBIE NARROD
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Two Views From the Hill
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During their time in the House of Representatives, Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., and ranking member Rick Boucher, D-Va.,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Two Views From the Hill
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U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher CW: What will be the most important issue facing the cable industry on Capitol Hill next session?Boucher: I think the largest...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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AIDS Day
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MTV Staying Alive MTV is contributing to AIDS awareness with a triple whammy of original programming for MTV's U.S. and international networks for World...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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History Lesson
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It's Stilla the Thrilla "It's gonna be a killa, a chilla, a thrilla, when I get the gorilla in Manila."Muhammed Ali's fightin' words did more than set...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Recount This!
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TV Journalists Spar Over Spot It's not just politicians fighting in Florida.Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith, one of the swarm of reporters covering...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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'Tis the Season to Raise Rates
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Annual cable rate increases are as reliable as Big Ben, but at least one operator is keeping different time than other MSOs who are staying within the...
K.C. NEEL AND ANDREA FIGLER
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AMSO Content Takes on Local Flavor
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When it comes to building customer loyalty, cable operators know there's no place like home - particularly for MSOs who can deliver a magic blend of...
RICHARD COLE
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Bandies Offer Content Pointers
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It may not be the Oscars or the Emmys, but for the first time cable operators have industry-wide awards for the best broadband content.At this week's...
RICHARD COLE
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BBC Attaches to the Web
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In a keystroke of convergence across The Pond, BBC America is importing Attachments, a drama about a group of twentysomethings working at a dot-com startup.In...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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BigBand Server Bridges HFCs, Web
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"The Network" doesn't really exist. What's there is a multiplicity of networks - individual cable installations, a now-fractured telephone network, hundreds...
BRIAN SANTO
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Broadband Audience Grows Two-Track Minds
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Internet users spend an average of 3.8 hours a week watching TV while they're online, and the growing popularity of broadband is likely to increase that...
RICHARD COLE
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Cable Gains on DBS
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Cable companies are fighting back on the digital battlefront, reducing the price lead held by digital broadcast satellite providers, a study found.Cable...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Can Everyone Fit in the Fat Pipe?
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There could be money for all Enticing offers for DSL and satellite services are hitting consumers fast and furiously these days.Verizon has blanketed...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Drafting and Design
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ACD, Inc. ACD, Inc. has been serving the needs of the CATV industry for more than 15 years. Over the years we have grown and adopted the latest CADD...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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E! Adds Adventure in 2001
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E! is taking its pursuit of celebrity to the ends of the earth.Celebrity Adventures, a half-hour weekly show scheduled to premiere in the second quarter...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Fiber's For Werner
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The future is fiber, says Tony Werner."This is an exciting time to be leading in technology development, and the Aurora Networks team is poised at the...
K.C. NEEL
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HSA-ISP Deal May Be Too Late
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The agreement giving High Speed Access the right to negotiate with ISP Channel's cable affiliates may have come too late for some cable systems.ISP Channel...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Integrating Advertising PACKAGES
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A move toward cross-media marketing deals provides advertisers another way to play the game.With the holiday shopping season at hand, Sony PlayStation...
JENNIFER PENDLETON
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More To Follow In ISP Pipeline
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Industry experts see other cable operators opening their systems to independent Internet service providers in the wake of Time Warner's agreement with...
MAVIS SCANLON
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NAACP Gives MSOs Wake Up Call to Promote DIVERSITY
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A wake up call.That's what most cable executives said when the NAACP gave the industry an overall "C" grade earlier this year for its efforts to diversify...
K.C. NEEL
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NCTA, CEA Box on Set-Top Rules
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The cable industry and consumer electronics companies are in each other's faces again over proposed set-top box rules at the Federal Communications Commission.The...
DAVID CONNELL
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People
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Comedy Central John Sanborn to VP/CCO-new media. Richard De Croce, from VP-international sales at Winstar Worldwide to VP-international.CTAM Dana Beales...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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PREMIUM PERSPECTIVE
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Patty McCaskill uses her experience to determine what programming Charter Communications' customers want to see and what platform they want to see it...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Remanufactured Equipment
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Remanufacturing Services It's not necessary to purchase all new technology to upgrade your services. Simply purchase remanufactured, previously installed...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Remote Controls
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Remote Controls Contec is proud to announce our latest digital remote in the CheckMate[TM] Series, the RT-U49C. It features Point and Press[TM] Programming,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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ROAD SHOW
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On the road again, I just can't wait to be on the road again ...That seems to be the marketing philosophy for many cable networks who have invested in...
SHELLY GABERT
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Satellite Equipment
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Satellite Export & Engineering, Inc. Patriot Antenna Systems Offers Cost Efficient Offset VSAT Antennas, from 45cm to 1.8 Meters. Unique & Elliptical...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Set-top Repairs
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Repair Services Contec is the only set-top repair company in the United States that can offer authorized digital warranty repair from Motorola, Philips,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Tech's the Western Show Star
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With some cable programmers shunning the major conventions, technology will again be the star of this week's Western Cable Show in Los Angeles.The California...
K.C. NEEL
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The Somers of AT&T's Discontent
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AT&T Broadband's CEO speaks his mind about technology, interactive TV and the big breakupWhen Dan Somers took over from Leo Hindery at the helm of AT&T...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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VOD Companies Take Aim at PVDRs
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PVDRs might be coming, but that doesn't mean video-on-demand companies are going to cede the personal video digital recording niche to the TiVos and...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Yanks, MSGN Look to Extra Innings
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Having reached a one-year accord that will keep the New York Yankees on Madison Square Garden Network in 2001, the regional network and the ball club...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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