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| 05.16.2008 |
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Icahn Pesters Yahoo Board
News Briefing for Friday, May 16, 2008 The Rays, Diamondbacks, Astros, Marlins and Cubs have the best records in baseball on May 16. Who’d a thunk it? Good day. Billionaire investor and corporate pest Carl Icahn filed papers to unseat Yahoo’s...
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| 05.15.2008 |
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CBS Corp. Buys CNET
News Briefing for Thursday, May 15, 2008 CBS Corp. is buying CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. CNET Networks’ Web sites, which include CNET, Chow, Gamespot, MP3.com, TV.com, UrbanBaby and ZDNet, will be “combined...
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| 05.14.2008 |
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Analysts Blew It on Cable, DBS, Telco Forecasts
News Briefing for Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The housing market collapse has not dented subscriber and revenue unit growth for cable operators, satellite distributors and the telcos' TV services so far this year, surprising analysts and leading some of them to...
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| 05.13.2008 |
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HBO Shows Get Premium Pricing on iTunes
News Briefing for Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Cable360 tipster Brain Clark tells us he’s on the run from hit men, who have been hired to prevent him from developing online-ad-skipping software. Good day. Apple is expected to announce today that it will sell...
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| 05.12.2008 |
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Dolans Get Newsday
News Briefing for Monday, May 12, 2008 Topic of the morning in the Cable360 newsroom: should Baseball’s Mother’s Day celebration include more than pink bats and wristbands? Good day. Happy broadcast upfronts week! Not really. Owing to the writers...
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| 05.08.2008 |
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Rising Profits for News Corp
News Briefing for Thursday, May 8, 2008 Media companies continue to post impressive quarterly earnings numbers. The latest is News Corp., which reported increased profits for its fiscal third quarter. Operating profit at News Corp.’s TV division was up...
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| 05.08.2008 |
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Home Security No Longer a Killer?
At last year's National Show, Comcast Senior Vice President New Technology Steve Craddock quipped that home security is truly a "killer app" for cable - it's nearly killed everyone who's tried it. That may be changing. Announced earlier this week...
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| 05.07.2008 |
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Sprint, Clearwire, Cable Ops Embark on High-Speed Wireless Venture
News Briefing for Wednesday, May 7, 2008 A consortium including Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Clearwire announced a plan to build a national wireless network that will deliver video and...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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2008 CableFAXIES Awards
View CableFAX: The Magazine's CableFAXIES issue Watch video of Dan Rather at the CableFAXIES luncheon CableFAX: The Magazine's CableFAXIES Awards shouldn't be thought of as a way to pay tribute to an adjunct of the cable business, or an opportunity to...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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Marketer of the Year VP Level and Above: Barbara Hedges and Jeff Gregor
WINNER: BARBARA HEDGES SVP, CONSUMER MARKETING, CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS Barb Hedges knows effective marketing is not just about a catchphrase or clever mailer. Step by step, she has revolutionized Charter's model by centralizing its marketing tactics and...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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The End: A Look Ahead at PR and Marketing
After you finish reading about the winners of the 2008 CableFAXIES Awards, you'll decide to begin something new. So we thought it fitting to end this book with a look ahead — a glance at what cable PR and marketing might look like in five years. To do...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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The Dolans and Newsday: Explaining The Unexplainable
News Briefing for Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Microsoft has crafted an agreement with MTV Networks, NBCU and others to sell downloads of TV shows to users of its Zune portable devices, The Wall St Journal says. But will that and allowing Zune users to share their...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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Joint Effort For a More Diverse Industry: WICT, NAMIC Streamline Research
The cable industry has spoken and we have listened. Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) have come together to streamline our research survey process for WICT's PAR Initiative and...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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The CableFAX Show: A Cablevision Conspiracy?
Video: Mike and Seth analyze conspiracy theories about...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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More Business Verticals
Each business vertical has its own needs. In announcements last week from Comcast about speed boosts for small-to-medium business (SMB) customers and from Cox Business about its MEF-14 certification, for instance, both MSOs referred to requirements of health...
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| 05.02.2008 |
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Investors Hatch Theory Behind Cablevision Stock Decline
News Briefing for Friday, May 2, 2008 It’s good-posture Friday in the Cable360 newsroom. No slouching allowed. Cablevision’s stock price has been sinking this year, while Comcast and Time Warner Cable’s stocks have been on the rise, and some...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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A Rough Road
Small, independent cable operators seeking the much-needed capital to fund new technologies and equipment to compete against multi-service providers such as satellite, utilities and others, are finding the road to financing anything but smooth. In fact, few...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Steady Q1 For Comcast
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008 Down by 5 with 2 minutes to go and they win; that’s why they’re called Wizards. Good day. Investors should avoid screaming May Day, May Day after reading Comcast’s Q1 earnings report, an analyst...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Business Speed and QoS
Two MSOs. Two announcements. Two technologies. Two places on the cable industry's business services spectrum. Comcast announced that it has enabled greater speeds for small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers throughout the country, using its...
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| 04.30.2008 |
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Time Warner to Jettison Cable Unit
News Briefing for Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom is outraged by the latest divisive dispatches from tipster Brain Clark and has severed ties with him. Good day. As expected, Time Warner Inc. announced this morning as part of its first-quarter...
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