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01/27/2004
Super Bowl Shuffle: MSOs, Retailers Make Last-Minute HD Push
The Super Bowl is the kind of HD-driving event that multichannel video providers, CE makers and sports fanatics dream about. MSOs are doing their part, with Time Warner Cable working furiously to get CBS HD carriage deals in all its markets. As of Mon, it had shored up carriage in all but 7 of 31, […]
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01/27/2004
Silver WICT
Due to its popularity, WICT will add a 2nd Executive Development Seminar to its calendar late this year on the west coast, vice chair Robin Sangston of Cox [COX] told the group’s Chapter Leadership Conference last night in DC. In fact, EDS will be re-branded as a prerequisite for attending the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, […]
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01/26/2004
Dial M for Molasses: Dialup's Fast Enough for Net's Slowpokes
HSD has been cable’s bread and butter for 2-3 years, a product that’s easy and inexpensive to deploy, and one that seems to incite a nearly inexhaustible demand. (Studies claim the Top 10 MSOs saw HSD take rates rise from 55.6% to more than 60% in FY ’03.) As much as HSD has saved cable’s […]
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01/26/2004
Programming
Fox Sports Net and the Sonics agreed to a multi-yr deal that will have the cable net televise at least 70 games beginning next season. — FX greenlighted 13 episodes of "Rescue Me," starring Denis Leary. The net’s 3rd original drama focuses on the lives of men in a NYC firehouse. — Props to CNN […]
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01/23/2004
Rock On: DVR Boxes Drive S-A's 2Q Earnings, Cox Steps Up S-A Orders
S-A [SFA] beat Wall St expectations Wed, reporting strong set-top sales for 2Q, particularly for the Explorer 8000. It shipped 260K of the DVR boxes, a sequential increase of 47%, with the boxes available to 75% of basic subs in S-A’s footprint. S-A’s customer base also is growing with Cox [COX] for the 1st time, […]
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01/23/2004
Touchdown!
Yes, Dish subs, there will be a Super Bowl. A judge ruled Thurs to extend a restraining order keeping Viacom [VIA] from pulling CBS stations and cable nets from EchoStar [DISH] until March 3. Viacom actually made the request, also asking that a preliminary injunction hearing slated for today be moved to Feb 27 (also […]