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03/03/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Cox Communications last week launched Totally Hollywood TV in San Diego. Part of the MSO’s FreeZone service, THTV, which Cox began trials of in late November, features movie previews of upcoming releases on VOD. “We’re very pleased with consumer response,” says Debby Mullin, VP of marketing and new media advertising. “We are […]
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03/03/2003
Rockin' on the Outskirts of Cleveland
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Perhaps no figure was more emblematic of postwar Cleveland than Lou Boudreau. For 13 years, the Indians shortstop was Cleveland. In 1948, the year the Tribe won its last World Series championship, Boudreau hit a career high .355, drove in 106 runs and garnered the American League MVP title. What’s more, he […]
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03/01/2003
ET 03
Broadband’s brain trust met in Miami to debate issues ranging from CE, enterprise opportunities, multimedia over IP and evolving architectures. Budget-bloodsucking technologies that can’t document a solid return on investment up front just aren’t going to happen. And anyone who says that broadband engineers aren’t thinking cashflow and investment optimization couldn’t have been anywhere near […]
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03/01/2003
HDTV RISING: Reception and Processing Lessons-Learned
Time Warner in Raleigh, N.C., and Cox in Las Vegas learned that high-definition TV demands extra care in signal reception and processing. With the quantity of programming on the rise and the price of display monitors in decline, the stars are aligning over high-definition television (HDTV). Are cable engineers ready to play their role in […]
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02/24/2003
Pride Really Means Something in Toledo
BY STACI D. KRAMER Buckeye CableSystem prides itself on meeting or beating customer service standards. But unlike companies that rely solely on call center stats, this one can gauge its performance based on the number of calls to the chairman’s home. Every year Buckeye’s customers get a report from the top brass — and an […]
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02/24/2003
At Starz, The Letters Line Up to Spell SVOD
BY K. C. NEEL John Sie wants to retire. But he has a few things to do first. The founder and chairman of Starz Encore Group wants to make sure his company’s subscription video-on-demand product is widely deployed. And he wants the world to know that the current high-definition TV standard isn’t the best solution […]