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09/30/2005
Cable's Impresario
As preparations are made for The Cable Center Hall of Fame inductions next month, we ask that you indulge us as we veer from our usual programming essay. Instead, we’ll add to the Bill Daniels legend. (And if you’re not sure how Bill Daniels relates to cable programming, we think you should spend time at […]
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06/06/2005
The 10 Toughest Jobs in Cable
Our hands-down winner this year is Adelphia’s CFO Vanessa Wittman, who certainly has had cable’s most complicated job for the past two years. Sure, she’s not splicing fiber in the snow. Nor is she on the front lines dealing with irate consumers. But as the point person at Adelphia, she’s had the difficult task of […]
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06/01/2005
Women in Tech Winner, 2005
Charlotte Field, senior vice president of national communications engineering and operations for Comcast Cable, is the 2005 Women in Technology award winner in recognition of her significant contributions to the cable industry.
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04/01/2005
Calm Before the Storm?
Cablevision chmn Chuck Dolan has made another move at the company’s chess board, telling his board of directors that he plans to propose that the board reduce from 15 members from 12. Dolan said he’ll raise the matter at the MSO’s April 18 board meeting. The announcement came in a Mar 29 letter that was […]
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03/29/2005
M.C. Antil's Cablefolks
Dobson Left Mark Quietly A cable heavyweight that, most likely, you never heard of passed away last week. And the fact you didn’t know him was just the way he would have wanted it. Dan Dobson was the quintessential behind-the-scenes guy, a selfless, aw-shucks cowboy whose area of genius was, quite simply, getting things done. […]
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01/01/2004
Innovator of the Year: Mark Coblitz, Strategic Technologist
Necessity may have been the mother of plug-and-play. But it was Mark Coblitz’s leadership that brought this inventive deal with the consumer electronics (CE) industry to life. It’s only the latest of his ongoing efforts to expand cable’s platform.