Programming Briefs

New York -- USA Network's coverage of the second round of the 1998 Masters golf tournament earned a 3.9 Nielse

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Through the Wire

No Leo In This Den

Suppose you're American Movie Classics, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. holds a chunk of your equity

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Judge Bars Qwest from Vonage Case

A federal judge last week barred Qwest Communications International Inc. from entering the case involving the Minnesota government's effort t

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Briefs

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Insight Builds T-Commerce 'Mall' in Ky.

Without much advance fanfare, digital-cable customers in Lexington, Ky., last month saw a new application appear on their set-top boxes: a re

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Ozzy Tops Cable Ratings

MTV: Music Television reality series The Osbournes was basic cable's top-rated programming last week in househol

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Slump Hasn't Depressed Ad-Sales Execs

For local cable advertising executives, the future is not quite here yet. Most of them say that it's a bit too soon to focus on interactive t

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CBS Won't Pull HDTV Programming

Under pressure from Congress, CBS agreed Thursday to continue broadcasting in HDTV even though the high-resolution digital programmin

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France Telecom Continues Local Cable Exit

In a move to unload its domestic broadband holdings, France Telecom S.A. said last month that it agreed to merge certain cable assets with th

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AT&T Faces Pocahontas Overbuild Arrows

Encouraged by neighboring communities that have competition in their local cable markets, the city of Pocahontas, Iowa, has chosen to launch

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