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08/13/2004
I Scream, You Scream: Newbie Joins Name Game
Coming up with a new network is undoubtedly tough these days, but naming it may be just as hard. Horror/thriller/suspense-based net Scream Channel (Cfax, 4/14) looks like it may be joining a slate of startups that had to change their names because of potential legal entanglements. Miramax apparently got shirty over the proposed name "Scream" […]
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07/30/2004
Take Me Out to the Brawl Game
Time Warner Cable was quick to react to MSG yesterday after the NY sports net said both it and Fox Sports NY would drop off the MSO’s lineup if a carriage agreement wasn’t hammered out before Sun (Cfax,7/29). Cablevision [CVC], which owns the 2 nets, is reportedly asking for a 38% percent increase in its […]
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07/02/2004
2-Track Mind: Adelphia Has Options as Court OKs Plan
A U.S. bankruptcy court’s approval of Adelphia’s $8.8bln blueprint to emerge from Chapter 11 doesn’t answer all the questions surrounding the MSO’s future. The ruling opens the door for Adelphia to sell off assets, either in a single outright deal or a piecemeal land grab by people like Cox, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Adelphia […]
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06/23/2004
Why Wait?
At least one headhunter’s a little surprised that NCTA doesn’t plan to get started on its search for Robert Sachs’ successor sooner rather than later. "If I were talking to them, I’d tell them to take advantage of the summer to get organized and get started on it… to not be cavalier, but to be […]
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06/23/2004
Ready to Rumble
A day after reporting that 4Q revenue increased 20% due to significant PPV buys (Cfax, 06/22), WWE’s [WWE] Linda McMahon tells us the company hopes to fill its coffers by adding 2 PPV events to this year’s roster, bringing the total number of "Smackdown" and "Raw" events to 12. Other initiatives are in the works. […]
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05/03/2004
An Unfunny Thing Happened on the Way to New Orleans
Not even a month after announcing its planned Jan ’05 launch (Cfax, 3/25), the Chicago-based Stand-Up Comedy Television (SCTV) (booth #1031) has run into a legal hiccup. Andrew Alexander, CEO of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy empire, last month took action against the network’s cofounders, brothers Joseph and Avi Fox, asking that they stop using […]