MCN - December 14, 2003

The annual ritual of pre-holiday investor conferences came to a close last week, with one common theme seeming to permeate the cable presentations: new technology rules. Sure, there was the usual touting of year-to-date financial performance, some 2004 financial guidance and the occasional dig to pricey programmers.

• Broadband Week
• Briefs
• Prepare For File Shares
• Terayon's Flexible Traffic Cop for Broadband Data Networks
• Ops See Home-Net Promise
• New Chiefs Join Pace, Cedar Point
• Translation Please
• Technology '04-Play: It's OCAP Middleware

• Finance
• Viacom Nets: A Bargain at Any Price
• Brodsky: Fallacies Underlie Stock Declines
• Industry Stocks
• Downgrade Clips Terayon's Wings
• Flowing Cash Drives NTL

• Marketing and Advertising
• Ad Forecasts Call for a Sunny 2004
• ESPN Out to Prove Case for Sales Impact

• Opinion
• My Turn
• Sprint, MCI and Cable
• Readers Weigh In
• In Today's World, Efficiency Is Key
• MSOs Missed Out on TVS Chance

• People
• People

• Policy
• MacBride Joins NAB's Legal Staff
• Ergen Firm Wants Rival's Spectrum

• Programming
• New Network to Target Young Adults
• History, NBA Hoop It Up With 'Classics'
• Programming Briefs

• Through the Wire
• Through the Wire

• Top Stories
• Local Weather Forecast: Enhancements Due
• Cox-ESPN: Barbs, Talks Ensue
• Baseball Looks to a Network All Its Own of Its Own
• 'Media Actives' Affect Viewing Patterns: MTVN
• Dolan: I'm Committed to Cable
• MSOs, AT&T Set Table For VoIP Rollouts
• For Insight, VoIP's the Next Wave
• Sell Adelphia Debt or File?
• An Overhaul Is Afoot for Game Show
• This Just In
• This Just In