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• The Twilight of the Moguls

  - 2008-02-25

  John Malone helped build a generation of media titans like no other—only to cut them down to size and reveal them as mere mortals. Just ask Barry Diller. I f the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old chestnut says, then it makes perfect sense that...

  Tags: Barry, Cable, IAC/InterActive Corp., Liberty Media Corp., network, NETWORKING, News Corp., QVC, TCI, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs

• Life during consolidation. (Backtalk).(changing cable television providers)

  - 2002-11-25

  Lately I've been thinking that I qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records. If not that, I deserve my own little nook in The Cable Center, with a tasteful brass plaque attesting to my fortitude in embracing change. Why? Because...

  Tags: cable, cable television, Cablevision Systems Corp., TCI

• Here's What I Learned at CTAM University.(Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing's executive-management program)(Column)

  - 2001-07-09

  I used to think I had a pretty good handle on what makes a successful cable player: Cash flow. Subscriber counts. Nielsen ratings. Digital-cable and modem penetration. These are the benchmarks that we rely on to gauge a company's success. Three weeks...

  Tags: Cable, CEO, Harvard Business School, HBS, NETWORKING, Southwest Airlines Co., TCI, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Big Deals Are Nothing New.(Historical overview of cable mergers)

  - 2000-09-18

  '90s Mega - Transactions Were Decades in the Making America Online Inc.'s pending $140-billion purchase of Time Warner Inc. may be the latest "biggest deal ever" in the cable television industry. But if history is any indication, oth '90s...

  Tags: cable, bank, TCI, acquisition, cable company, merger, Ted

• BUSINESS BRIEFS.

  - 2000-06-01

  Millennium Digital buys Antec gear DULUTH, Ga.-Millennium Digital Media will incorporate Antec's new 1550 nm ITU Return Laser Transmitter into its 870 MHz Maryland upgrade project. The node-based product allows operators to combine and deploy up to 20 ITU wavelengths on a single...

  Tags: Adelphia Communications Corp., Antec, broadband, Cable, Components, HARDWARE, International Telecommunications Union, Modems, network, NETWORKING, TCI, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS

• Revisiting Digital.

  - 1999-10-25

  With the days becoming shorter, the weather noticeably nippier and, most alarming, our waistlines expanding accordingly, Bob and I have rediscovered the joys of the treadmill and digital cable. It's now been two years since we had the digital- ...

  Tags: cable, Cablevision Systems Corp., TCI

• WHO'LL FILL THE GAP?

  - 1999-10-18

  Ted Hearn contributed to this report. Execs Ponder Fate of Hindery's Causes From raising millions of dollars for Cable Positive to boosting his company's participation in the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and o ...

  Tags: AT&T Broadband, cable, TCI

• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-08-02

  CBS signed new long-term contract extension with CBS TV CEO Leslie Moonves and named him to board, ending speculation that he would move to Warner Bros. to replace departing Robert Daly and Terry Semel. Terms weren't disclosed, but Moonves said extension is for about 5 years. Deal is...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., Cable, CBS Corp., FCC, Government, NETWORKING, notebook, TCI, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TV

• AT&T Files First Report Since Swallowing Up TCI.(quarterly earnings report)(Brief Article)

  - 1999-08-02

  In its first full quarter since closing its $43 billion acquisition of Tele-Communications Inc., AT&T Corp.'s net income rose by about 8 percent to $1.59 billion, or 49 cents per share. As a whole, AT&T reported revenue of $15.9 billio ...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., cable, company, earnings report, TCI

• AT&T Begins TCI Brand Fadeout.

  - 1999-08-02

  Five months after closing its deal with Tele-Commumcations Inc., AT&T Broadband & Internet Services will begin its consumer rebranding effort on Tuesday (Aug. 3). In what president Leo J. Hindery Jr. called the largest brand transitio Five months...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., brand, cable, TCI