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04/20/2004
Programming Deals
Lifetime signed its first home entertainment distribution deal, with Warner Home Video becoming the exclusive US distributor of its original movies, select specials, series and long-form titles. — Speculation overseas is that Liberty and Viacom would be ideal suitors for Hallmark Intl, which put itself on the block last week.
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04/19/2004
5 Qs (Roughly) with TV Turnoff exec dir Frank Vespe
[Editor’s Note: Nonprofit TV Turnoff is sponsoring this week’s "National Turnoff TV Week."] Why do we need to turn off TVs this week? The average American school child is going to spend more time in front of the TV than in the classroom this year. All that TV time has negative consequences for health, education […]
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04/19/2004
MaxFAX
The good news: Dr John, the Night-tripper has just released a new album. And the show floor will be bigger; but Jazz Fest will be gone after Sunday. But the parties are back (a little). Among the fun ones: Sunday night Court TV celebrates passing 80mm subs (no easy feat, that) with, appropriately enough, an […]
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04/19/2004
Can Hi-Def Push Cable and Broadcasters to Make Nice?
As any historian knows, revolutions usually brew for years before they cause full-scale upheaval. In the case of high-definition programming, Time Warner Cable’s 1998 agreement to carry CBS’ high-definition and digital signals was akin to the Boston Tea Party—a galvanizing event that brought the seeds of revolution home to the masses. Time Warner Cable, with […]
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04/19/2004
A Day in the Life: Debbie Egner
By K.C. Neel Falling over to one side as one attempts to balance professional and personal lives is endemic in corporate America. So it was refreshing to see that Debbie Egner has found equilibrium between the two. It wasn’t always so, says Egner, SVP, sales operations, for Starz. It took her years to understand that […]
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04/19/2004
HDTV National Services: What’s on Cable (and Satellite)
BRAVO HD+ Blue Ridge Communications, Cablevision, Cox, GCI Cable, Insight, Mediacom, Patriot Media, Service Electric, Sunflower Broadband (and, on satellite, Voom) CINEMAX HD Adelphia, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox, Service Electric, Sunflower Broadband, Time Warner Cable (and Voom) DISCOVERY HD THEATER Antietam Cable TV, Astound Broadband, BendBroadband, Blue Ridge, Bright House Networks, Buckeye, Cebridge, Charter, Cox, Insight, […]