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Pace selling set-tops to Time WarnerSet-top box manufacturer Pace is planning to soon ship an order of its 510 line of low-end set-top boxes to Time Warner Cable, said Graham Williams, Pace vice president of technology. Mr. Williams said that…
The unrelentingly bad advertising market caught up to AOL Time Warner in a big way last week when Morgan Stanley Dean Witter reduced estimates for the company’s 2001 and 2002 earnings and revenue, leading other analysts to do the same.The…
l Cablevision, the nation’s seventh-largest cable operator, is developing a new technology that would bring the search engine capabilities of the Internet to digital cable, sources said. Users of the Internet are able to navigate through a vast array of…
The once powerful reign of syndie action hours appears to be waning with the demise of weekly stalwarts “Xena” and “Baywatch Hawaii.” Instead, expect a bevy of alternative fare to hit the small screens this fall.Rising costs and eroding ratings…
Advertisers are buying local cable programming based on potentially misleading Nielsen data, according to an unreleased analysis of Nielsen Media Research numbers by the Television Bureau of Advertising.That analysis, obtained by Electronic Media, measures the viewer shortfall for local cable…
A former news photographer is trying to syndicate his minute-long commentaries to TV stations after his own station decided to drop them out of fear of offending advertisers.Wayne Perry, who was a news photographer at Clear Channel Communications-owned Fox affiliate…
Announcing a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings results for its complex asset portfolio, an autonomous Liberty Media Corp. had its first accountability session with Wall Street last week-without its boss.John Malone, Liberty’s chairman and consummate deal-maker, was conspicuously absent from…
It sounds like “The Sopranos,” but it’s not.Trio, USA Cable’s “emerging” popular-arts digital network, has acquired “I, Claudius,” the much-honored 13-hour BBC 1972 miniseries about an unlikely, anxiety-ridden family leader, a scheming mother named Livia and various more-or-less bloodthirsty, crazed…
For years, the media industry’s Washington trade associations have been fighting for deregulation.As it turns out, that’s been good for the stockholders of many of the companies that survived the ensuing waves of consolidation and convergence. But it’s also been…
If you thought “Survivor” was child’s play, now there’s “Moolah Beach.”Fox Kids Network and Fox Family Channel will soon premiere “Moolah Beach,” a reality show that strands a dozen contestants ranging in age from 12 to 16 on a remote…