December 4, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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PPV Boxing Packing Weak PUNCH
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The millennium year wasn't a momentous one for the sweet science in the pay-per-view arena.Although cable operators are awaiting one last drop from the...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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Jackass is the butt of critics' ire, while Bull rides high on basic
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TV critics know what they like, but they're sure about what they hate.So when asked to name both their favorite and least favorite new shows on basic...
RAY RICHMOND
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WHAT'S THE BUZZ?
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Early word's good for Battlebots and Strong Medicine, but will sizzle mean success?Jay Leno mentions your cable program more than once a week. The Wall...
JEAN BERGANTINI GRILLO
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The Big Picture
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So, What Do You Hear?
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Gossip and tire-kicking, not news, rule Show Several years ago a columnist for one of the many trades covering the television industry sat down the week...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Broadband Content
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Streaming Could Give PC Edge
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Within four years, a PC could serve as the average home's central entertainment platform, panelists at the Western Cable Show panel on streaming video...
RICHARD COLE
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Yahoo! Searches Streaming Video
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Yahoo!, the 800-pound gorilla of the Internet, has seen the future of broadband, and they call it FinanceVision. And ShoppingVision. And SportsVision.At...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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Taking an INTERACTIVE CUE
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Digital Convergence develops new products to take consumers directly from print, TV or radio ads to the Web.Special to Cable World Imagine this: A 25-year-old...
JEAN BERGANTINI GRILLO
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Broadband
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CableLabs[R] at Year-End 2000
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The cable industry wraps its millennial year with strong technical progress in its three advanced service areas - high-speed data, digital video and...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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NCTA Calls For Technical Papers
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Summaries of proposed technical papers of interest to the broadband cable television engineering community are being sought by the National Cable Television...
BRIAN SANTO
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Pioneer Box Muscles Up
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To run interactive TV, you need power. Pioneer says its new set-top box, with a single-chip design, provides all the muscle the industry's been seeking.Cast...
BRIAN SANTO
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Terayon Gives Operators View for Local Control
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Cable operators have had the ability to select individual channels out of an encoded, multiple-stream satellite feed using Terayon's CherryPicker systems....
BRIAN SANTO
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Business
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Round Two: Must Carry Issue Must Rise Again
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When the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA), DirecTV and EchoStar Communications filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications...
DAVID CONNELL
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General
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AT&T `Blip' Slaps Vendors
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AT&T Broadband's decision to curtail construction and equipment spending until next year won't likely affect the company's long-term ability to morph...
K.C. NEEL
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Broadcom Buys Into PVRs
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Broadcom continued its acquisition binge by purchasing VisionTech, which supplies digital video/audio MPEG-2 compression and decompression chips for...
BRIAN SANTO
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Building the Online Brand
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E-commerce experts develop guidlines to heighten the effectiveness of online advertisementsTruth be told, banner ads are mostly boring.In fact, according...
JEAN BERGANTINI GRILLO
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Cable Diversity Initiative
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The Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association (CTHRA) drafted an industry-wide diversity initiative designed to help companies deploy...
K.C. NEEL
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Cable Seeks Access Middle Ground
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As the America Online Time Warner merger struggles to a close, the cable industry appears to be seeking a middle ground on the open access issue.While...
DAVID CONNELL
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Digital Conversion Offers Solutions
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Tough issues dissolve in thin air Recently, I spent an afternoon at the Association for Maximum Service Television's 14th annual "Digital Television...
DAVID CONNELL
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Gateway Leads to New Turmoil
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Just when the technology was beginning to settle down, with the industry pretty much united on two-way digital transmission, the DOCSIS standard, and...
BRIAN SANTO
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Ops Replay PVR Options
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ReplayTV's move to target cable operators as the main market for its personal video recorders isn't guaranteed to rescue it, cable officials say.The...
ANDREA FIGLER
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People
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BBC America Scott Langerman to VP-new business from senior counsel Turner Entertainment Group.The Cable Center James O'Brien to president/CEO of The...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Powell Warns Cable Operators about Digital Delay
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FCC Commissioner Michael Powell warned that cable operators could be used by some in Congress as scapegoats if the television industry's transition to...
DAVID CONNELL
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Western Word: Be Quick or Be Dead
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Turtles beware.Cable operators are in a furious race to retain market share while garnering new revenue streams from digital services. Speed evolved...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Women's Nets Facing Off
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The battle among the women's cable networks intensified with new shows, new subs and a new name on display at the Western Cable Show.Rainbow Media's...
MICHAEL REYNOLDS
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