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05/12/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Comcast enhanced its VOD lineup in New Jersey with real time news feeds from NBC. About 725,000 subscribers in the state can now access NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw, Dateline NBC and Meet the Press. Local content for the NBC News on Demand lineup includes WNBC’s Today in New York morning […]
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03/31/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Comcast’s souped-up Philadelphia VOD model is now available to 700,000 subscribers in New Jersey. Like Philly, more than 1,000 hours of on-demand content are divided into three “buckets.” The first bucket is free content (no additional charge), accounting for 80% of the lineup and including 140 shows from A&E, History, Comedy Central, […]
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03/24/2003
‘Not Like Anywhere Else in Texas’
BY ANDREA FIGLER Drive down almost any street in Austin and you’re bound to come across at least one bumper sticker imploring those who hold sway over such matters to “Keep Austin Weird.” Likely you’ll see more than one of them. This may be the capital of Texas, the state that brought the nation its […]
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03/17/2003
The Little System That Could Sell Ads
BY K. C. NEEL With a little more than 59,000 basic customers, Cox Communications’ Roanoke, Va., system is hardly among its bigger operations. But that hasn’t stopped the ad sales department from being one of the MSO’s top performers. Indeed, the Roanoke ad sales team, headed by Cox Media GM of ad sales Tim Morgan, […]
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03/17/2003
It's Spring, and Hope Again Springs Eternal
BY STACI D. KRAMER It’s that moment when anything and everything is possible. Opening day 2003 is just around the corner. The Chicago Cubs haven’t lost yet, the star that signed the megabucks contract hasn’t fizzled and that new rookie pitcher still has promise. For cable, where most viewers watch regular-season games, this baseball season […]
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03/01/2003
Gaming by Cable: Is Your system ready to Play?
THERE'S DEFINITELY MONEY TO BE MADE IN INTERACTIVE GAMING VIA CABLE. GETTING TO THAT POINT, HOWEVER, MEANS CLEARING TECHNOLOGICAL HURDLES THAT ARE AS MUCH IN THE SET-TOP AS THEY ARE IN THE NETWORK.