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| 07.24.2008 |
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Cuban: On HD Fraud, Running NCTA and Gas Prices
CFAX: If you ran NCTA for a day, what would be the first thing you’d urge cable operators to do regarding HD? MARK CUBAN: Besides offer HDNet and HDNet Movies? In a perfect world, I would tell them to promote picture quality as a selling point over...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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The Hottest Operators: 2008 Top Ops Awards
In the past we’ve honored the MSO of the Year and the Independent Operator of the Year, and left it at that. We’re expanding on that tradition for this summertime edition of CableFAX: The Magazine — there is just too much good work being...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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MSO of the Year: Insight Communications
Had you told us one year ago that Insight Communications would be our MSO of the Year we would have laughed, probably not politely. Insight was supposed to be history by now, gobbled up by Time Warner Cable, Jerry Kent or perhaps a private equity firm...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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CableFAX: The Magazine's 2008 Top 10 Places to Work in Cable
We’ve all seen the headlines telling us that jobs are being lost like hair off the head of a hedge fund swindler on the lam. A July 3 New York Times headline: "Employers Cut Workers for a Sixth Month." Is the cable industry a safe place to...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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The End: A Look Ahead at Cable Advertising
After you finish reading this magazine, you'll decide to begin something new. So to maintain the CableFAX: The Magazine tradition of ending each issue with a beginning — a look ahead — we’ve assembled senior executives to discuss trends in...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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Independent Operator of the Year: WOW!
It’s a rare company that could tempt us to bestow top honors on an overbuilder. But then WOW! (aka WideOpenWest) is not an ordinary operation. “Service driven,” “doggedly competitive” and “obsessively focused on the...
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| 07.22.2008 |
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A Living Billboard for The Sportsman Channel
The last time we checked, ESPN knew of some 30 or so children that were named for the all-sports programmer. Somewhere in this great land there are kids of both sexes existing with names like Espy, Esp, E and plain, old Espn. Honest. [Reports that there's a kid...
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| 07.15.2008 |
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Tru2way and the Triumph of Industrial Design
On a conceptual level at least, cable’s competitive edge against wireline and wireless rivals got sharper with this year’s tru2way announcement. The tru2way agreement on interactive television and set-top box technologies among the six large MSOs...
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| 06.30.2008 |
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AMC Casts Numbers Six and Two for The Prisoner
AMC has cast Jim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line) as Number Six, and Ian McKellen as his jailor and inquisitor, Number Two, in its new version of Patrick McGoohan's allegorical spy series from the 1960s, The Prisoner. The six-part miniseries will premiere...
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| 06.30.2008 |
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Hallmark’s No Bull Push
The July 4th weekend generally finds Americans spending time away from their TVs. To counter that trend Hallmark Channel will be trying to rope in viewers (literally) from 5 major cities beginning today. Fortunately this aggressive tactic ties (or hog ties)...
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| 06.26.2008 |
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Will GE Buy Yahoo?
Now that Yahoo shares have fallen into the doldrums as prospects fade for a deal with Microsoft, market pundits revel in scoffing at this company and its management. But the critics are too quickly discounting Yahoo's iconic brand. As Yahoo states in its 10K...
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| 06.23.2008 |
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CableFAX’s Content Business Launches
CableFAX parent company Access Intelligence today launched Content Business (www.cablefaxcontentbusiness.com), an online premium service featuring proprietary coverage of cable content, ratings, programming, distribution and advertising trends. CableFAX...
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| 06.17.2008 |
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The CableFAX List: Summering With Cable
Summer is upon us, and with the change of seasons comes new TV shows. CableFAX read up on cable’s new summer offerings, looking for shows that might keep us indoors near the TV and the AC. We ranked the five cable shows premiering this summer that we...
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| 06.11.2008 |
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Verizon at Brink of Strike
Battle lines are forming for a strike at Verizon that could begin in early August and end up as an industry-changing confrontation. On Aug. 2, existing contracts expire between Verizon East (the combined wireline operations of the former NYNEX and Bell...
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| 06.06.2008 |
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A Green Partnership
It’s been clear for some time that partnerships were critical to cable’s marketing. We were reminded of that point several times recently. Tuesday morning, June 3, USA Today reported that Charter Communications was partnering with oil companies by...
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| 06.03.2008 |
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The CableFAX Show: On Location in NOLA
Video: Mike and Seth go on location in NOLA, giving their...
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| 05.29.2008 |
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A Short Note From Our Editor
Dear Friend of CableFAX, At CableFAX we always jealously guard your time. So here’s a brief note about our awards programs for the remainder of 2008 for CableFAX: The Magazine. * Our Most Influential Minorities in Cable issue will be...
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| 05.22.2008 |
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Missing—NCTA Sessions About Competition
NEW ORLEANS—Competition was mentioned at the NCTA show both in the sessions and on the exhibit floor. However, there were no sessions specifically focused on cable operators’ experiences confronting the industry’s competitors. This was a...
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| 05.21.2008 |
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Investment Analysts See Upside for Cable Shares
NEW ORLEANS—At an NCTA panel at the Cable Show called “Street Smarts: Investment Analysts on Cable’s Competitive Crusade,” financial analysts from UBS Securities, Goldman Sachs, Wachovia Capital Markets and Deutsche Bank Securities...
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| 05.20.2008 |
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Geography Is Destiny
NEW ORLEANS—At the NCTA Big Show, a session on international cable (“Geography Lessons: Understanding Cable’s New World Order”) highlighted two extremes in cable’s competitive status, both dependent on the unique cable and...
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