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01/27/2003
Adelphia Gears Up With BigBand BMR
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Adelphia Communications continues to fight for its survival, and its latest move sees the company looking beyond the boardroom. Last week, BigBand Networks announced that Adelphia had deployed the vendor’s Broadband Multimedia-Service-Router (BMR) for digital broadcast services at four head-end system locations in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania. This marks the first time […]
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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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01/13/2003
Cox's Launching Pad Salutes the Customer
BY SHIRLEY BRADY During his 16 years overseeing Cox’s Hampton Roads, Va., system, former General Electric engineer-turned-marketer Franklin (but call him Frank) Bowers has won numerous awards for running the most profitable Cox system — but that’s not his only accolade. His subscriber base has mushroomed from 135,000 to more than 415,000 thanks to strategic […]
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01/13/2003
2003 What's in Store for Cable
BY KEITH DUNNAVANT CALL IT THE KILLER APP, BECAUSE, AT LEAST FOR NOW, THE satellites can’t do it. Video-on-demand subscriptions are poised to grow rapidly in 2003. All major MSOs have now deployed some form of VOD; programmers, ranging from ESPN and Discovery, to smaller players, such as Wisdom Television and Atom Films, are providing […]
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01/06/2003
Changing Tunes In Music City USA
BY STACI D. KRAMER Nashville has moved far past the loopy, droopy country music capital portrayed in Robert Altman’s classic film of the same name. Just as country music has evolved over time — think Shania Twain instead of Loretta Lynn — so has “Music City USA.” Today’s Nashville boasts of its NFL Tennessee Titans […]
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01/06/2003
SPORTS NETS Get Closer to Home
BY STACI D. KRAMER Brushing aside the notion that bigger is better when it comes to regional sports networks, several large cable operators and team owners are betting they can run successful regional sports networks (RSNs) anchored by only one major league team and, in one case, only college and high school sports. For multiple […]