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01/10/2005
Editor’s Letter: Looking for Allen
Dysfunctional is an adjective that increasingly is being used to describe Charter by executives inside and outside the industry. The lightning rod for these digs usually is Charter’s biggest investor, Paul Allen, who is not giving the MSO the care and attention it needs—unless that means bringing in a roster of "consultants" to "oversee" the […]
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01/10/2005
Meet the System–San Francisco Bay Area: Meet the New Cable Company, (Not the) Same as the Old Cable Company
Imagine the plight of Barbary Coast dance hall girls: Night after night they’d find themselves in the arms of yet another drunken sailor promising eternal love, and morning after morning they’d wake up to the grim realization that all they’d had was yet another one-night stand. Strip away the 19th century tawdriness and the tinkling […]
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01/10/2005
Texas Techs Calendar Rolled Out
Time Warner Cable Houston has diversified. The system now sells calendars—a company first—in addition to video, high-speed and phone services. The brainchild of senior director of marketing Donna Hargis, the project benefits kids in need and highlights the weather-defying heroics of cable technicians. The 2005 calendar features tasteful (no beefcake) photos of a dozen technicians […]
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01/07/2005
Plugging Along: Cable Plays Up Examples of Partnership
That piece by Saul Hansell in The NY Times Thurs highlighting cable’s "bottleneck control" over the way Americans watch TV had tongues wagging at CES and MSO boardrooms. The story focused on how those increasingly advanced set-tops provided by cable companies make it hard for the flashy devices displayed at the show to control the […]
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01/07/2005
Maxwell's Vegas Floor Walk
Ran into the CableLabs contingent in the DirecTV booth (by the way, easy to see the News Corp influence on the new, glitzier booth) as the ear-pluggers looked at the new "Mix Channels" [see ‘DBS @ CES’ below]. Earlier, sardonic but aggressive DirecTV CEO Mitch Stern and crew touted local HD channels via MPEG-4 (coming […]
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01/07/2005
Competition
TVG Network will launch an ITV horseracing app with EchoStar during 1Q, making it the 1st interactive horseracing application available nationwide. Using a remote, viewers will be able to access racing news, live odds, race results, etc. Viewers in certain markets may be able to place wagers via their remote on races at TVG’s exclusive […]