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02/17/2003
Kids Komeuppance
BY JON LAFAYETTE This could be the year that simple-minded SpongeBob Squarepants gets a lesson in supply and demand. Fewer kids are watching commercial TV. Except for Kids WB, with its Japanese animation hits Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon, and Toon Disney, which is adding distribution on cable, ratings are down this season. If this continues, it […]
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02/10/2003
Operation OK From Tulsa to Muskogee
BY SHIRLEY BRADY You can’t talk about Cox Communication’s cable operation in Oklahoma City — the 45th-ranked market in the country — without taking into account what’s going on 15 notches lower on Nielsen’s list of top markets. That’s because Cox runs Oklahoma City and No. 60 market Tulsa as one business unit. Cox’s Oklahoma […]
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02/01/2003
The On-Demand Continuum
On-demand content—a pipe dream or pending reality? What would make anyone bullish that we have it right? Three reasons: First, consumers not only embrace on-demand content, but also will come to demand it. Second, the technology has progressed to the point of economic and operational feasibility. Third, the entire continuum of on-demand video content is […]
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02/01/2003
IP Meets Voice, Video and Data
As IP becomes universal, cable operators can tap this flexible protocol to deliver a rich array of data, voice and multimedia services.
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01/27/2003
Cablevision Grows On-Demand Stable With Two New Services
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Cablevision is sweetening its iO: Interactive Optimum digital cable offering by adding two on-demand services. By next week, its customers will have access to short films from the AtomTelevision library on a VOD basis, while the MSO last week added Cinemax On Demand to iO’s SVOD lineup. Cablevision is the second MSO […]
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01/20/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Manticom Networks last week announced that it has successfully completed interoperability tests between its Scorpion 4104 and SeaChange International’s VOD System, certifying the switching and transport aspects of Manticom’s integrated solution. Manticom’s Scorpion 4104 is a multigigabit optical Ethernet switching and transport solution that provides scalability from 2.5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. It […]