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03/17/2003
Here come cable-ready DTVs. Operators can either invest in a centralized platform now or miss the boat.
BY WES HOFFMAN The recent NCTA-CEA agreement on cable-ready digital TVs gives cable operators reason to be optimistic about the ability to create a long-overdue retail counter-presence to satellite competitors. But it also creates a fork in the road. One way leads, despite the promise of plug-and-play, to continued spending on expensive, proprietary in-home equipment. […]
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03/01/2003
ET 03
Broadband’s brain trust met in Miami to debate issues ranging from CE, enterprise opportunities, multimedia over IP and evolving architectures. Budget-bloodsucking technologies that can’t document a solid return on investment up front just aren’t going to happen. And anyone who says that broadband engineers aren’t thinking cashflow and investment optimization couldn’t have been anywhere near […]
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02/10/2003
Emmy Aggression
BY VERNE GAY In the greater Los Angeles area, there was a broadcast executive — quite possibly two or three or even a whole crowd of them — whose jaw noticeably slackened as the evening of Jan. 19 wore on, minute after grueling minute. By night’s end, this person may have had the overwhelming sensation […]
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02/01/2003
Broadband: Broadband Plus Show Picks
As I write this, I’ve just returned from December’s "Broadband Plus, The New Western Show" in Anaheim, Calif. The convention’s name was changed to Broadband Plus for 2002, but word has it the new moniker will be dropped in 2003, and the confab once again will be the Western Show. Two downers about December’s get-together: […]
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01/27/2003
Selling In the Heartland
BY ANDREA FIGLER Steve Drysdale walks into the Iowa Eye Center in Cedar Rapids, meanders over to the front desk and asks for Jennifer. “Jennifer who?” the not altogether unkind receptionist replies. “Jennifer Scha —, Scha —.” He rolls his eyes. “I don’t even want to try. I’ll butcher it.” Drysdale, 32 years old and […]
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01/13/2003
Cox's Launching Pad Salutes the Customer
BY SHIRLEY BRADY During his 16 years overseeing Cox’s Hampton Roads, Va., system, former General Electric engineer-turned-marketer Franklin (but call him Frank) Bowers has won numerous awards for running the most profitable Cox system — but that’s not his only accolade. His subscriber base has mushroomed from 135,000 to more than 415,000 thanks to strategic […]