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12/28/2004
Programming
Science Channel premieres "Rendezvous with Saturn’s Moon," Jan 13, 8pm ET, featuring final preparations on the eve of the Huygens space probe’s historic landing on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The next night at 9pm ET, Science lets viewers witness the day’s landing and the probe’s 1st photographs. — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and NBC’s Tom Brokaw […]
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12/28/2004
Guest Columnist
Susan Greene Cable programming has had an immense impact on society, culture and the way we relate to ourselves and our world. Due to our industry’s rapid growth and the lightning pace of our business, we often don’t have a chance to stop and reflect on the tremendous changes we have wrought. That is why […]
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12/28/2004
CableFOLKS
by M.C. Antil Network Tag Lines Without the Filter While watching cable network promos I wondered what it would be like if Jim Carrey’s character in "Liar, Liar" produced tag lines for cable networks. (If you recall, Carrey played a cynical lawyer incapable of lying, no matter how hard he tried.) As I contemplated the […]
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12/27/2004
Out of Sight, Out of 'heim: Show's Gone, But Options Abound
How soon they forget. With December almost gone we’ve been surprised to by how little nostalgia we hear for what used to be the 12th month’s cable gathering, Western (though we fielded numerous inquiries from folks trying to figure out how to get a copy of CableFAX 100). Typical is CTAM’s Char Beales. When we […]
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12/27/2004
Stork Visit
An emotional week for the CableFAX and Ourand families ended happily. Just 2 days after CableWORLD editor John Ourand buried his dad, John’s wife Anne gave birth to child #3, as Bridget Mary (5lbs, 7 oz) joined the clan late on Christmas Eve, some 3 weeks early. Mother and daughter are doing great.
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12/22/2004
Book Review
Just finished Dick Martin’s "Tough Calls: AT&T and the Hard Lessons Learned from the Telecom Wars" (Anacom, $24.95). The former chief of PR’s recounting of his days at AT&T as it morphed into—and out of—a cable company makes for an interesting number of lessons not fully learned. For a cable guy reading this book, it […]