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03/08/2004
Cox-ESPN: Who Won? Who Cares!
We asked CableFAX Daily readers to tell us whether Jim Robbins’ public negotiating stance helped Cox get better terms from its ESPN carriage deal. Our response was, in a word, underwhelming. By our deadline, our poll respondents could be broken down into two identifiable groups: 250 Cox employees (each of whom stuck with the talking […]
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03/08/2004
C-Span Proves the Value of a Nickel
By John P. Ourand To the outside world, it looks like C-SPAN has had an easy ride for the past 25 years. Not only does it feature powerful lawmakers and regulators as its most prominent on-air stars (and who are, not coincidentally, the network’s biggest supporters), it is consistently held up by industry representatives as […]
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03/08/2004
A Day in the Life…of Linda McMahon: WWE's Garden Party Just a Warm-Up for the Battles Ahead
By Shirley Brady Linda McMahon is the opposite of her muscle-bound stars. No, it isn’t that she’s petite and chic. It’s that she’s no phony: She’s in charge. The CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment was backstage at Madison Square Garden taking meetings and overseeing WrestleMania XX, while WWE stars such as Undertaker and Kane towered […]
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03/08/2004
Media Biz Spreads Its Political Chips Around
In a September 2000 article in the Columbia Journalism Review, Charles Lewis, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity and a former producer for 60 Minutes, said the media industry "is widely regarded as perhaps the most powerful special interest today in Washington." Media companies win influence in D.C. "the old-fashioned way," Lewis […]
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03/08/2004
Meet the System: Princeton
Steve Simmons was looking for the ideal situation that would get him back into cable. What he stumbled upon was something he hadn’t counted on-a subscriber base so desperate for high-speed data service that a simple mail drop yielded an 80% response rate. Simmons, the former CEO of Simmons Communications, had cashed out and sold […]
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03/08/2004
My Back Page: Short, or Long, Term?
One of the cable industry’s mantras has been the creation of long-term value for owners and shareholders. Ever since Dr. John Malone convinced analysts John Reidy and Paul Kagan about the wonders of valuations built off cash flow, as opposed to the old-fashioned concept of profit, the industry has invested and managed for the long […]