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04/29/2004
Multicultural Moves
"Al Filo de la Ley" (At the Edge of the Law), Univision’s plunge into US-produced weekly drama, launches Tues. The Spanish-language law procedural focuses on immigration, civil rights and criminal cases taken by an LA firm. Jorge Aravena, Natalia Ramirez and Ximena Rubio co-star. — Condista is adding HITN-TV to its assortment of Latino nets […]
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04/29/2004
TWX Earnings
Time Warner reported 1Q profits more than doubled, fueled in large part by growth in its cable division and the healthy performance of its networks. On an earnings call, media and info div chmn Don Logan talked up VoIP, saying it will be available in almost all markets by year’s end, but cautioning "this is […]
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04/29/2004
Think About That For A Minute
Lobbyists for the "public interest" groups who are permanent residents of the Washington scene are at it again, but this time it seems even they aren’t listening to their own arguments. In the last couple of days articles and press releases have issued forth from these folks both attacking the cable industry for "cross subsidizing" […]
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04/28/2004
Deals
Comcast [CMCSA] notified the FCC that it expects to acquire about 30K subs in GA and SC from US Cable on Fri, or thereabout. But don’t look for the acquisition to change the MSO’s share of multichannel HHs. Comcast’s market share will remain at 28.9% because it’s already credited with all the subs in the […]
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04/28/2004
Charter Changes
After resigning from Vulcan in the fall, Bill Savoy now has cut ties with Charter [CHTR], departing the MSO’s board last Fri. Jo Allen Patton (Paul Allen’s sister and CEO of Vulcan) is expected to replace him. The board was slated to meet yesterday to vote on her nomination. Paul Allen’s former #2 also resigned […]
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04/28/2004
Uh Oh, TiVo
NDS [NNDS] won back its contract with DirecTV [DTV] in March, a development that could spell doom for TiVo [TIVO]. Throughout NDS’ 3Q conference call, pres/CEO Abe Peled and CFO Rick Medlock spoke about linking back up with the big dish company, expounding on how the partnership will help NDS’ global reach. NDS also has […]