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03/10/2004
CTAM Kick-off
Comcast [CMCSA] is hoping to move soon on retail and telephony, vp, biz dev Tom Nagel told CTAM Digital’s opener in L.A. Nagel said Comcast hopes to be in stores by ’05. [Mon, Cox [COX] said it’s looking to step up its telephony retail presence this year (Cfax, 03/08).] Other themes at the VoIP session […]
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03/03/2004
Law and Order
Tuesday’s complex agreement with EchoStar [DISH] brings Gemstar-TV Guide [GMST] one-step closer to tidying up a litigious mess and some 9mln subs nearer to full distribution of TV Guide Channel. EchoStar will make a one-time $238mln cash payment ($190mln for licensing intellectual property and $48mln for Gemstar’s declining C-band Superstar/Netlink Group LLC (SNG), UVTV distribution, […]
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03/02/2004
Deals
Atlantic Broadband closed its $735mln acquisition of Charter [CHTR] systems with 228K subs Mon, and assumed management of the systems and their 450 employees immediately (Cfax, 9/4/03). Charter plans to use proceeds to repay bank debt and increase liquidity. The sale represents another return of cable’s old guard, with Continental Cablevision vets Dave Keefe and […]
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02/19/2004
Job Well Done
Cfax favorite Bill Bresnan is stepping down after 10 yrs as chmn of the Cable Center to focus on his re-emergence into the cable biz, CableFAX’s CableWORLD (02/16) reports.
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02/11/2004
NCTA: Don't Overdo Overbuilders
The $5mln question at today’s Sen subcommittee hearing on cable rates will be how lawmakers view a GAO study that examines a tiny sample of overbuilders. It’s possible lawmakers may use it as reason to rush out and give overbuilders some breaks. (Heck, they’ll see some tempting factoids in the report: monthly cable rates being […]
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02/11/2004
Public Affairs
Court TV’s Henry Schleiff and others frequently urge us in the media to focus attention on cable’s public affairs programming (Cfax 02/06). We’re listening. CableFAX/CableWorld has established an annual award for cable’s finest public affairs programming. Programmers are urged to overnight relevant shows (airdates from Mar ’03 through Feb ’04) with a short note to: […]