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02/17/2003
Getting Local in New York's Capital
BY JON LAFAYETTE Time Warner Cable is making news in Albany. In October, it launched Capital News 9, a 24-hour local news channel. The service has raised TWC’s profile in New York’s capital city and contributed to a boom in local ad sales, executives there said. The launch, said Stephen Pagano, president and GM of […]
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02/10/2003
In Demand Distributing VOD Movies in Hi-Def
BY JON LAFAYETTE If high-definition television and video-on-demand are going to be the cable industry’s next big things, then In Demand is offering operators a way to double-down on their bets. In Demand said it has begun to acquire the rights to distribute VOD movies in hi-def format and will make its first title, My […]
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02/10/2003
Hi-Def Outlook Getting Sharper For Showtime
BY JON LAFAYETTE Premium networks are putting a premium on picture quality. Showtime Networks said it will be making a bigger commitment to high-definition television by producing six of its series and all of its original movies in HDTV. “We have been investing and growing our investment as the marketplace grows,” said Glenn Oakley, SVP […]
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02/10/2003
Operation OK From Tulsa to Muskogee
BY SHIRLEY BRADY You can’t talk about Cox Communication’s cable operation in Oklahoma City — the 45th-ranked market in the country — without taking into account what’s going on 15 notches lower on Nielsen’s list of top markets. That’s because Cox runs Oklahoma City and No. 60 market Tulsa as one business unit. Cox’s Oklahoma […]
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02/03/2003
Now that Super Bowl XXXVII is done, it's time to play political football in Washington.
BY W. F. GLOEDE I love broadcasters. I really do. Covered them for years at my old shop. Eddie Fritts, who heads up the National Association of Broadcasters, is a decent and very engaging guy. One hell of a lobbyist, too. But what the broadcasters did last week can only be characterized as a cheap […]
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02/01/2003
Compressing the HDTV Issue Into One Word
As a broadband cable engineer looking to launch high definition television (HDTV), you can compress many of the hassles you’ll have to solve into this word: bandwidth. HDTV has a voracious appetite for it, but its hankering for elbowroom on your network doesn’t mean that the other video, data or voice services you’ve already launched […]