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01/27/2003
Adelphia Gears Up With BigBand BMR
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Adelphia Communications continues to fight for its survival, and its latest move sees the company looking beyond the boardroom. Last week, BigBand Networks announced that Adelphia had deployed the vendor’s Broadband Multimedia-Service-Router (BMR) for digital broadcast services at four head-end system locations in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania. This marks the first time […]
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01/27/2003
BIG CHILL DEEP-FREEZES COMCAST SERVICE IN JERSEY
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Operators, for the most part, were spared outages, possible hypothermia and other frozen effects of last week’s continuing severe cold spell in the Northeast. MSOs reported no service problems last week, with the exception of Comcast. Officials at its New Jersey system blamed the winter chill for a power outage that affected […]
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01/27/2003
Did you see the big game? Was it at a party with lots of people? You were not alone, and that's a good thing.
BY W. F. GLOEDE Though this magazine went to press before yesterday’s Super Bowl, I feel confident in reporting today that a) the Pirates won and b) the game got the highest rating in all of television for the year 2003. I’ll even go so far as to postulate that the commercials during the game, […]
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01/27/2003
Cablevision Grows On-Demand Stable With Two New Services
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Cablevision is sweetening its iO: Interactive Optimum digital cable offering by adding two on-demand services. By next week, its customers will have access to short films from the AtomTelevision library on a VOD basis, while the MSO last week added Cinemax On Demand to iO’s SVOD lineup. Cablevision is the second MSO […]
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01/27/2003
What a Difference A New MSO Can Make
BY K. C. NEEL After years of frustration and failed programs, AT&T Broadband employees in Portland, Ore., finally feel good about their jobs now that Comcast Corp. owns the system. “I’ve never been as excited as I am right now,” says Curt Henninger, the system’s SVP. “I can see myself working for Comcast for the […]
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01/27/2003
Investors Eye Cash Flow As Earnings Season Starts
BY MAVIS SCANLON It’s earnings season, and cable investors are looking for answers. Specifically, they want to know how quickly MSOs are apt to reach the free cash flow mark. Operators have spent years upgrading their systems to allow for advanced services and new revenue streams. But the costs have been huge. And so free […]
