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06/23/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY NBC Cable president David Zaslav is ramping up for the July 31 launch of Bravo HD+, which will feature about 50% acquired programming. The balance will be Bravo content such as The West Wing and Cirque du Soleil’s Varekai in hi-def. “We’ve spent the last seven months acquiring content that we think […]
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06/23/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Viacom’s request for a stay of the injunction against the rebranding of TNN to Spike TV was denied Thursday by five New York state judges who conducted a rehearing en banc last week. Viacom had filed a petition for the rehearing when its request to overturn a preliminary injunction by a Manhattan judge […]
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06/23/2003
Cable's Got the Bandwidth, Retailers Have the Goods. Now, It's Marketing Time
It was obvious to all at NCTA’s The National Show No. 52 (June 8-11) that Chicago and its vast McCormick Place — allegedly the biggest building in the world under one roof — had outgrown the cable industry. After a visit to another gargantuan venue, New Orleans’ Morial Centre, in 2004, Bob Sachs and Barbara […]
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06/23/2003
A Clearer Picture
K.C. Neel An exclusive Cable World consumer survey of 1,000 adults indicates that nearly 12 million high-definition TV sets will be sold in the foreseeable future, nearly half of them within the next year. This would mean that the total number of HD sets in use should double to about 11 million by this time […]
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06/16/2003
Alas, There Remain Cynics
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Let’s just get this out of the way and be done with it: This year’s NCTA confab was, to put it charitably, a sleepy affair. The booth exhibits were smaller than in years past, the term “floor traffic” demands to be qualified by ironic finger quotes and the show’s lone buzz moment […]
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06/16/2003
Attack of the Reregulatory Republicans?
BY ALICIA MUNDY An unlikely band of six Republicans stands poised to undo the new network ownership cap of 45%, voted by the Federal Communications Commission on June 2. A bipartisan bill, S-1046, sponsored by Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), would roll back the network cap to 35%. The bill will likely be […]