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10/27/2003
COULD CABLE'S VIRTUES REALLY ‘ALL GO AWAY’?
From day one, cable has been competitively challenged. First it was the broadcasters, then Washington, D.C., on behalf of the broadcasters in the late 1960s, then municipalities in the franchise wars of the ’70s and ’80s, the banks in the credit crunch of the early ’90s, telcos and overbuilders, the FCC in the rate re-reg […]
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10/27/2003
GOING UP AGAINST MOTHER NATURE
Similar to the Denver market, the great outdoors in and around Spokane, Wash., is the biggest competitive threat to cable operator Comcast Corp.’s television subscription business. Just look at the statistics. Spokane residents are 128% more likely to be out on the water zooming around in their powerboats; 104% more likely to be camping in […]
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10/27/2003
KOBE, LEBRON… MICHAEL? LET'S PLAY SOME HOOPS
Scandals and injuries, hot youths and still-passionate old-timers — the NBA season tip-off this week could give SoapNet a run for its money in the melodrama department. But whether the frenzy of media interest surrounding Kobe Bryant’s rape trial or the possibility of Michael Jordan’s return or the promise of LeBron James will put big […]
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10/27/2003
NOTABLE SCIENTISTS CLIMB ABOARD FOR LIFT-OFF OF CABLE SCIENCE NET
Carl Sagan, whose PBS series Cosmos was watched by more than half a billion viewers, once said, “It is suicidal to create a society dependent on science and technology in which hardly anybody knows anything about science and technology.” Now his widow and fellow scientist, Ann Druyan, is picking up the gauntlet of popularizing scientific […]
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10/27/2003
THE SPORTS NET THAT FOX BUILT
On a hot, sunny, September afternoon in L.A., tucked away in a warehouse-size studio on the second floor of Fox Sports Networks headquarters, it was business as usual on the set of Best Damn Sports Show Period. Hosts Chris Rose and John Salley joked with guest host Steve Harvey in between segments of the grueling […]
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10/27/2003
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS
It’s a showdown, all right. Cox Communications and ESPN last week upped the ante in what is turning out to be one of the fiercest — and most public — battles over programming costs yet. ESPN president George Bodenheimer took his argument to Washington Thursday. ESPN’s fees, he said at a press conference, are justified […]