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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 […]
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01/20/2003
The CES used to be enemy territory for cable execs.Not this year. Still, there's much work to be done.
BY STACI D. KRAMER What a difference a year makes. Last year, a cluster of cable CEOs and other industry executives ventured into enemy territory at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I’m not sure what they expected. What they got was a wake-up call. After years of Waiting for Godot, HD was no […]
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01/20/2003
Late Breaking News
BY JON LAFAYETTE Negotiators for the cable industry are turning to the marketing experts for advice in one important aspect of the plug-and-play talks: labeling. CTAM board member Joe Rooney, SVP of marketing, Cox Communications, chairs the new Labeling Working Group, charged with providing “a marketing perspective on labeling and nomenclature issues relating to consumer […]
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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
The Race for First Place
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Now that the first bit of business between the cable industry and the consumer electronics side has been put to rest, the race to get cable-compatible hi-def sets on the market is underway. Alliances are being formed, technologies merged. It’s as if everyone involved is playing a particularly heated game of Risk […]
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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 […]