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08/11/2003
COMMODITY ON CAMPUS
Twenty-five years ago, before the civil war that changed college football forever, the campus game was the most tightly managed commodity in all of televised sports. One matchup made it to the air each Saturday, except for a few special occasions, and thanks to the iron-fisted control of the NCAA, the major powers who drove […]
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08/11/2003
FALL SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS ON CABLE
Black college football game schedule is still being finalized. MAAD Sports Profiles (Thur. 11:30 p.m.) and MAAD Sports (Sat. 12 p.m.). Enhances its TV partnership with NBC for the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships with new Sunday primetime coverage starting Oct. 5 from host site Oak Tree at Santa Anita. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association […]
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08/11/2003
HOLDING THE LINE ON THE BUNDLE WHILE HUNGER FOR MEDIA GROWS
Forty-six years ago last week (Aug. 5, 1957), Dick Clark’s American Bandstand made its debut on ABC-TV, causing yet more people to subscribe to that newfangled service called cable. Nearly three decades later (1985), ABC would sell out to Disney and 18 years after that (2003), Disney, via ESPN, would be jitterbugging intensely with cable […]
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08/11/2003
LATE BREAKING NEWS
The Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network officially notified Time Warner Cable that the cable operator is in breach of its carriage contract, YES Network spokesman Bob Davis confirmed late Friday. The regional sports network alleges that Time Warner Cable breached its contract with YES last month when it started offering its subscribers the choice to […]
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08/11/2003
MAG RACK CUTS STAFF, SHIFTS CONTENT STRATEGY
Rainbow Media’s Mag Rack video-on-demand service has gradually shifted to using outside producers and production partners for its up to 40 VOD channels. This evolution paved the way for last week’s sudden dismissal of Mag Rack’s entire production and programming staff, including SVP of programming and production Michael Connor. A Rainbow spokesman confirmed the layoffs […]
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08/11/2003
PORN SENT PACKING
Cable entrepreneur Bill Bresnan is dropping all adult programming from the former AT&T Broadband systems he bought earlier this year from Comcast. “This isn’t something new, it’s consistent with what Bresnan Communications has done in the past,” says Jodie Rees, the company’s recently hired VP of marketing. “Since the founding of our company, it’s been […]