December 2, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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BRIEFS
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ORIGINALS ACCOUNT FOR 72% OF CABLE PROGRAMMING A survey conducted by the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau...
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CHUCK WOOLERY GETS REAL
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Do game show hosts really know all the answers? Do they wear pants behind those lecterns? The answers to...
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Coming Up
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TNT FOOTBALL FLICK FACES LONG ODDS TNT's latest movie is a real Hail Mary pass. Second String, premiering...
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Weather Channel Takes Off with ?Storm Stories?
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There's a fresh wind blowing at the Weather Channel, which is adding more long-form programming to its...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BIGBAND TAKES VOD ?EDGE?
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Seth Kenvin may have lost his Upper East Side honk somewhere in the hills of Fremont, Calif., but he's...
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BRIEFS
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MOTOROLA, SEACHANGE TEAM UP ON GSRM PROJECT Motorola Broadband and SeaChange International are co-developing...
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Movidis Thinks Small
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Although consolidation seems to have squeezed out the little guy ? try getting a cup of coffee that...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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USNA Seizes 100 Midshipmen PCs
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From the way the United States Naval Academy reacted to the discovery that some of its midshipmen were...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Ship Comes in for Cox San Diego Customers
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Turn on FreeZone, Cox Communications' new advertising-supported video-on-demand service in San Diego, and...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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General
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BETWEEN THE LINES
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The surface calm surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's approval of the merger between AT&T...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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BRIEFS
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HOTZ BUMPED UP TO SVP AT NBC CABLE Mark Hotz was promoted to SVP of marketing at NBC Cable Networks. Hotz,...
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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CABLEVISION SYSTEMS Victoria Salhus to SVP and deputy general counsel, from VP, associate general counsel....
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Cable's Rate Hikes Are Starting to Hit the Streets
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'Twas the month before New Year's and notices were out. Cable rates are rising, of that there's no doubt....
BY K. C. NEEL AND STACI D. KRAMER
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COMCAST: COMPETITORS DECRY UNFAIR PRICING
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No question the Roberts family runs a hard-nosed operation: Comcast is not afraid to go to court with its...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Follow the Leader
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This time last year Cox Communications and Comcast were neck and neck in the race to merge with AT&T Broadband...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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HOW HIGH IS UP?
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Cable industry rate increases have been rising roughly in tandem with the consumer price index since the...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Late Breaking News
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Charter Layoffs Expected Charter Communications is expected to announce this week an operations reorganization,...
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Look for Signs of Growth At the Anaheim Show
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Just a few short months ago, in the teeth of the corporate governance storm, the venerable Western Cable...
BY PAUL KAGAN
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Minnesota Phone Group Bundles Up Against Cable
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Telephone companies across the country could be once again aiming their sites at cable customers by offering...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Music Choice Service Lets Subs Program Channels
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Music Choice has found another way to live up to its name. The company, which provides digital music channels...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Positions (Really) Wanted
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They knew it was coming since last December when Comcast Corp. announced it was buying AT&T Broadband....
BY K. C. NEEL, SHIRLEY BRADY AND MAVIS SCANLON
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of November...
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Santa Takes Fall, Blames Dish
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Santa Claus creeps quietly across the roof of a house, trying to step gracefully over a satellite dish....
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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The picture is bright and getting brighter for consumer adoption of hi-def television.
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When my grandfather splurged on an expensive piece of new technology called a television, it was because...
BY SEAN BRATCHES
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TOP FIVE REASONS TO ADMIRE COX?
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#1 MAKES THE MOST OF EACH SUBSCRIBER ? HIGHEST REVENUE PER SUB IN THE INDUSTRY #2 REDUCED CHURN THROUGH...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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