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| 10.02.2008 |
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Valuable Diamond: TBS Expects Baseball Success to Continue
The Brewers-Phillies on Wed afternoon threw out the MLB postseason's 1st pitch on TBS, and the net hopes that 4 divisional series and 1 league championship series will help it continue the clutch playoff hitting it displayed last year. With 4 games within...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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CTAM Chatter: Summit Full Steam Ahead
With the markets yo-yoing and financial uncertainty abounding, it may seem like a hard sell to get execs to attend industry conventions right now. But organizers for CTAM Summit (Nov 9-11, Boston) are hoping that the industry sees the current situation as all...
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| 09.30.2008 |
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Zohm Zohm: WiMAX Rolls Out In Baltimore
Although currently in an observational role, cable is no doubt watching closely as Sprint officially bowed in Baltimore Mon its long-awaited WiMAX wireless mobile service. Slated to be a key part of many cable ops' future product bundles, the service must...
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| 09.26.2008 |
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Green(er) Pastures: CableLabs CEO Green to Leave in '09
As soon as CableLabs announced that pres/CEO Dick Green would retire in Dec '09 when his contract expires, tongues started clacking about who might replace the well-respected technologist. The board's got plenty of time to home in on a candidate. Green has...
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| 09.24.2008 |
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DTV Doings: Sen Commerce Looks Again at Transition Before Congress Adjourns
The panic over Wall St outranked the panic of the Feb 17 DTV transition, with only a few senators popping in and out for the Sen Commerce Committee's DTV hearing Tues afternoon. Nonetheless, a fair amount of hand-wringing ensued over the impending analog...
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| 09.23.2008 |
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Smashing Sunday: Cable Excels At 60th Primetime Emmys
On Mon morning, AMC gm Charlie Collier's raspy voice told the story: the net and cable strode to the Primetime Emmys armed with an estimable number of nominations, and when the pair took home several key and unprecedented honors a well-deserved flurry of...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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WiMAXing Without Relaxing: Wireless Data JV Faces Challenges
While it certainly possesses game-changing potential, cable's aggressive wireless data play through the Sprint/Clearwire jv must still navigate a current funding shortfall, any future tech pitfalls and possible near-term competition before WiMAX's true yield...
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| 09.19.2008 |
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Dolan Says—No Private Plans, Asset Sales Unlikely Now and DSL Stinks
Don't look for a Cablevision asset sale anytime soon. "My answer probably is different than even a month and a half ago," CVC chief Jim Dolan said at Goldman Sachs investor confab Thurs. "The shutdown of the credit markets makes the purchase of...
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| 09.18.2008 |
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Dish Talk: DirecTV Banking on Video, Fretting over DOCSIS 3.0
It wasn't too long ago that DirecTV's management team was feeling the pressure to come up with some sort of wireless solution. But that weight has been lifted with Liberty Media taking over News Corp's stake in the satellite company. "We suggested that...
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| 09.16.2008 |
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Employment Survey: DiversityInc Chief Knocks Cable
There's nothing like a firebrand to kick-start Diversity Week. NAMIC's conference provided fire at 9am when DiversityInc co-founder Luke Visconti blasted cable as he began the 2-hr Town Hall session with his interpretation of results from the latest NAMIC...
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| 09.12.2008 |
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Diversity Today and Tomorrow, A Roundtable
CableFAX: The Magazine: It seems cable’s made good progress on diversity in its lower and middle ranks, but there’s still plenty of work needed to make upper management more diverse. Does that continue to be the case? Adria Alpert Romm, Senior EVP...
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| 09.09.2008 |
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Lifetime Moving Corp Comm/PR West
Lifetime has decided to move its corp comm and PR staffs to its Century City office. The move becomes effective Jan 1 and will hit roughly 20 jobs. Veteran PR hand Meredith Wagner has agreed to move to California, a memo from Lifetime chief Andrea Wong said...
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| 09.04.2008 |
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TiVo vs DISH—Patent Squabble Still Lingers as DirecTV Inks New Deal
Is it Round 25 yet? TiVo and DISH face off in a TX Court Thurs over whether the DBS player can continue to use its current DVR service. The contempt hearing centers on whether DISH should have disabled all DVR functionality, not just TiVo-infringing...
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| 09.02.2008 |
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Network DVR—How Does TiVo Fit into the Mix?
With Cablevision winning a major victory in its quest to launch a remote storage DVR, we've wondered just what possible network DVR proliferation could mean for TiVo, as it has been busy trying to sign software deals like the ones inked with Comcast and Cox...
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| 09.02.2008 |
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WICT'S New Magness Classes Announced
The 18th and 19th Betsy Magness Leadership Institute were announced by WICT today. The women will be part of a year-long leadership training course and join some 400 alums. The classes will be facilitated by Grace Killelea, VP, Talent & Leadership...
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| 08.22.2008 |
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Revving Replays: DVR Use Continues Upward Trending
Although many advertisers, and by extension programmers, may find time-shifted viewing nettlesome, growth in DVR usage for cable shows has been so brisk that the trend warrants a closer look—particularly considering that such viewing greatly coalesces...
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| 08.21.2008 |
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Here We Go Again: MASN Files FCC Complaint Against Comcast
We thought the hatchet had been buried when Comcast launched MASN in Aug '06 after facing FCC pressure to carry the DC-Baltimore RSN. But MASN has filed a program carriage complaint against the MSO, which currently carries both MASN and MASN 2 in the DC area...
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| 08.20.2008 |
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Mystery Shopper: DTV Details Still Fuzzy
Despite countless DTV transition news conferences, workshops, press statements, studies, Websites and so forth, misinformation is still trickling out to consumers. With much of Washington enjoying the last couple weeks of summer vacation and the FCC just...
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| 08.19.2008 |
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Targeted Touring: FCC Commissioners to Visit 81 DTV Endangered Markets
The FCC commissioners are about to rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles. With the DTV transition 6 months away, the FCC has made a list of the markets most in danger of being left behind when the country turns off analog on Feb 17. Over the coming months...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Game On: Cable Suits Up For Another Season
Football season is fast approaching, and this year features some notable pigskin changes in cable along with a pesky Achilles' heel and a key unknown. Perhaps most notable is Comcast's Fri launch of Big Ten Network following acrimonious discussions during...
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