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01/20/2003
The CES used to be enemy territory for cable execs.Not this year. Still, there's much work to be done.
BY STACI D. KRAMER What a difference a year makes. Last year, a cluster of cable CEOs and other industry executives ventured into enemy territory at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I’m not sure what they expected. What they got was a wake-up call. After years of Waiting for Godot, HD was no […]
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01/20/2003
Comcast Begins Big VOD Push
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Here’s a scenario for you: You’re sitting around the house on a cold January afternoon. You’ve been told by your local cable company that they’ve got a surprise in store for you, which is why you’re home in the middle of the week. Trucks pull up outside of your house at odd […]
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01/20/2003
IT'S A DEAL
BY ANDREA FIGLER AND MAVIS SCANLON Despite repeated objections from its largest shareholders, the Adelphia Communications board of directors late last week OK’d revised employment contracts to hire former AT&T execs Bill Schleyer as the company’s new CEO and chairman and Ron Cooper as the cable operator’s COO and president. It will ask the U.S. […]
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01/20/2003
The Importance of Being Earnest
BY ALICIA MUNDY Two words provide an object lesson in the vital importance of proper and competent political representation in Washington: Charlie Ergen. The proposed merger of his EchoStar Communications with General Motors’ Hughes Electronics unit’s DirecTV seemed, at least at the outset, a pretty good idea. Lawmakers, angry over ever rising rates, were eager […]
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01/20/2003
Late Breaking News
BY JON LAFAYETTE Negotiators for the cable industry are turning to the marketing experts for advice in one important aspect of the plug-and-play talks: labeling. CTAM board member Joe Rooney, SVP of marketing, Cox Communications, chairs the new Labeling Working Group, charged with providing “a marketing perspective on labeling and nomenclature issues relating to consumer […]
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01/20/2003
The Politics of Inertia
BY ALICIA MUNDY As the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on telecom issues entered its fourth hour last Tuesday, a reporter sneaking out was begged by a Federal Communications Commission staffer: “Take me with you.” It was that kind of hearing. And only the first of many to come now that Big John McCain is back […]