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03/21/2005
Upfront Preview: They’re Mad as Hell–So Why Do They Keep Taking It?
This time last year, advertisers were fed up with the upfronts—and they had the stats to show why. The Association of National Advertisers led the charge, announcing that they’d officially had it with the annual melee in which up to 85% of network (and up to 35% of cable) is pre-sold over three sleepless days […]
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03/01/2005
Comcast Puts Edge on Training
Only Smart Technologies Need Apply"—the subhead to our January cover story on innovation—is a phrase that equally well describes the needs of today's broadband workforce.
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01/24/2005
Sachs’ Legacy: Keeping the Regulators Out and the Programmers In
In July 1999, when Robert Sachs started as the president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, he had a simple mandate: Keep the regulators’ noses out of cable’s business. Sachs, who departs his post later this spring, has earned nearly unanimous accolades for achieving that goal. He has established one of the […]
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12/29/2004
Not in the News: Headlines We'd Like to See in '05
As we’re believe that anyone dedicated enough to be in the office today deserves a bit of levity, we engage in the annual CableFAX tradition of presenting industry headlines we’d like to see in the coming year. We Surrender: Broadcasters Give Up Multicast Fight NAB Checks Roget’s Thesaurus and Determines ‘Primary’ Synonymous with ‘Original’ and […]
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12/17/2004
Programmer's Page
By Seth Arenstein Final Answer It wasn’t long ago when execs would sooner give blood than give answers to our CableFAX 100 questions. No longer. They responded with such gusto this year that space dictates many answers appear only in the 100’s online version (https://www.cablefax.com). Some favorites: When Lifetime’s Meredith Wagner was asked whether it’s […]
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12/06/2004
Consumer Electronic Group’s a Uniter, Not a Divider
Jim Berry piled up a considerable hotel tab the last two years while attending the Consumer Electronics Association’s hi-def briefings. But the CEA’s media spokesperson believes the results have been worth the reimbursements his organization has had to lay out. Berry has participated in 20 of CEA’s 25 hi-def briefings held in each of the […]