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06/30/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Federal investigators have reportedly started cracking Cablevision System’s books in the wake of Cablevision’s accounting investigation at AMC. A report in Newsday on Thursday said the Department of Justice and the FBI opened an investigation into Cablevision after the company revealed on June 18 it found about $18 million in improperly accrued expenses […]
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06/02/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY Comcast brought HDTV to Los Angeles last week. The launch was “timed so our customers will be able to watch the NBA finals with picture resolution that is up to six times sharper than analog,” says Debi Picciolo, regional SVP for Comcast Southern California. The service offers HBO, Showtime and local ABC, […]
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05/12/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Comcast launched its first national Hispanic ad campaign, created in partnership with Los Angeles-based agency Castells & Asociados. The campaign, which promotes Comcast’s new CableLatino programming packages, targets Hispanic consumers 18-to-49-years-old. The TV and radio spots, plus related direct mail and marketing collateral, are slated for San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Los […]
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03/10/2003
Rainbow Adds an ‘E’ Before VOD
BY ANTHONY CRUPI At last week’s Kagan VOD Summit, Kagan World Media COO and senior analyst Larry Gerbrandt cracked that the first time he heard the expression XOD, he thought it meant adult-on-demand. The X is a variable, of course, one that a lot of players in the on-demand space choose to adapt to their […]
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02/24/2003
Jamie Kellner isn't against PVRs, he just wants to engage in a smarter debate over their impact on programming.
BY STACI D. KRAMER When Jamie Kellner discussed his concerns over personal video recorders during a lengthy interview with me last April, no one could have imagined that the ensuing furor over his remarks would go right on reverberating almost a year later. After all, who would guess that a story in Cable World would […]
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02/24/2003
Late Breaking News
BY JON LAFAYETTE Mag Rack announced five new video magazines for hotel distribution at last week’s Texas Cable and Telecommunications Association show, but that’s not all the Rainbow Media subsidiary has in the works. The video-on-demand programmer is developing content and a VOD strategy to reach Hispanics, said Mag Rack EVP and GM Matt Strauss. […]