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01/27/2003
Late Breaking News
BY JON LAFAYETTE Charter Communications co-founder and former CEO Jerry Kent denies reports that he has teamed up with an investment banker to buy the troubled MSO. “The reports that I’ve teamed up with Goldman Sachs to go after Charter are inaccurate,” Kent told Cable World late last week. Reports that Charter is for sale […]
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01/27/2003
Martin Calls for Family-Friendly Tier
BY ALICIA MUNDY Kevin Martin, a Republican Commissioner at the FCC, announced what is certain to be a controversial proposal — at least for the cable industry — to give consumers more family-friendly television programming and more options to keep certain networks out of their homes and off their cable bills. In an address last […]
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01/27/2003
Are MSOs About to Become Cable Cops?
BY ANTHONY CRUPI A federal judge last week ordered Verizon Communications to comply with a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) subpoena and hand over the name of a KaZaa user who allegedly downloaded hundreds of MP3 files — in one instance, more than 600 songs in a single 24-hour period. U.S. District Judge John […]
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01/27/2003
Selling In the Heartland
BY ANDREA FIGLER Steve Drysdale walks into the Iowa Eye Center in Cedar Rapids, meanders over to the front desk and asks for Jennifer. “Jennifer who?” the not altogether unkind receptionist replies. “Jennifer Scha —, Scha —.” He rolls his eyes. “I don’t even want to try. I’ll butcher it.” Drysdale, 32 years old and […]
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01/20/2003
Big Growth Spurt In a Small Region
BY MAVIS SCANLON Rhode Island is a little state with a big reputation. Unfortunately, that rep is for government corruption. The misuse of public funds ran rampant at the state’s highest levels in the 1980s, a decade in which Mayor Brian Sarault of Pawtucket was also convicted of soliciting bribes from city contractors. The ’90s […]
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01/20/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Manticom Networks last week announced that it has successfully completed interoperability tests between its Scorpion 4104 and SeaChange International’s VOD System, certifying the switching and transport aspects of Manticom’s integrated solution. Manticom’s Scorpion 4104 is a multigigabit optical Ethernet switching and transport solution that provides scalability from 2.5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. It […]