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04/14/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Time Warner Cable of Maine is rolling out digital phone service, with an official market launch set for next month. The $39.95 service includes unlimited calls within the continental U.S. Caller ID displayed on a TV set and access to voice mail via e-mail will be added later. As of last week […]
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03/31/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Comcast’s souped-up Philadelphia VOD model is now available to 700,000 subscribers in New Jersey. Like Philly, more than 1,000 hours of on-demand content are divided into three “buckets.” The first bucket is free content (no additional charge), accounting for 80% of the lineup and including 140 shows from A&E, History, Comedy Central, […]
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03/24/2003
Tracking cable's acronyms without a scorecard is tough for journalists. What's it like for customers?
Every year I attend CableLabs’ dog-and-pony show designed to explain the murky world of high tech to reporters, and every year I come away more confused than the year before. It’s not so much the topics that are confusing, it’s the jargon that makes me bleary-eyed. What is it with the cable industry and its […]
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03/17/2003
HD in NYC… VOD on the run… Dieting HSD hogs… Cox dials up No. 10… Scripps opens up about Philly
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Cablevision is now offering HD boxes in greater New York. Customers with HD-capable TV sets can get hi-def feeds of MSG Network, Fox Sports Net New York, HBO and Showtime. Digital subs (216,500 of them as of Dec. 31) pay a $25 upgrade fee to install the Scientific-Atlanta 4200HD box. ••• Time […]
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03/17/2003
The Little System That Could Sell Ads
BY K. C. NEEL With a little more than 59,000 basic customers, Cox Communications’ Roanoke, Va., system is hardly among its bigger operations. But that hasn’t stopped the ad sales department from being one of the MSO’s top performers. Indeed, the Roanoke ad sales team, headed by Cox Media GM of ad sales Tim Morgan, […]
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03/03/2003
Bandwidth is like the Long Island Expressway. Add lanes, they fill up. Thank God for Gig-E.
JIM BARTHOLD By a show of hands, how many of you have heard some variation of this tune? “Cable’s broadband pipe is limitless. We don’t need to do anything ever again and we’ll still have bandwidth left over for any new service that comes along.” We’re not hearing that so much anymore, but, if you […]