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• People.(recent appointments in cable broadcasting industry)

  - 2006-10-23

  By Staff Altitude Lou Personett was named executive producer for Altitude Sports & Entertainment. He will continue to direct the Denver Nuggets television broadcasts and others as needed. Atlas Media...

  Tags: Atlas, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., marketing, IP, sales, cable, broadcasting

• Fox Cable will rise with Turner South buy.(Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)(Fox Cable Networks Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2006-02-27

  Fox Cable Networks Group continued to build its sports empire, purchasing Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Turner South regional network. Fox Cable Networks Group continued to build its sports empire, purchasing Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Turner South regional network.

  Tags: cable, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Dramas set, cable attacks with emphasis on laughs; Comedy Central, TBS, Discovery, TLC among nets playing to their strengths.(Special Report: Fall TV)(Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Learning Channel Inc.)

  - 2005-09-19

  Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN

  Tags: cable, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV

• Seeking a payoff from 'free on-demand'.(cable television advertising)

  - 2005-07-25

  When it comes to attracting new advertising revenue, many cable executives hope that the best thing in their sales lives will be free. Ad-supported free video on demand, that is. The idea of turning free ondemand programming...

  Tags: advertisement, cable, cable television, Comcast Corp., on-demand, programming, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., VoD

• Upfront relief: Cablers: we hit dollar marks.

  - 2005-07-11

  This year the cable upfront, though still mopping up some final deals, has proved bleaker than expected for sellers. But despite the tough marketplace, a number of cable programmers--large and small--maintain they secured the dollar-volume increase This year the cable upfront, though still mopping...

  Tags: ABC Inc., cable, Procter & Gamble Co., Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Patient high-def approach pays for TNT: late to the HD fold, basic cable's top-rated net makes up for lost time.

  - 2005-04-04

  Sometimes slow and steady will win the race. When HDTV euphoria hit several years ago, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. stayed on the sidelines, taking a more measured approach to launching high-definition iterations of its networks. Costs wer Sometimes...

  Tags: cable, NBA, patient, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Conduit-based regulation of speech.

  - 2005-04-01

  ABSTRACT Architecture is destiny. As much as information today determines the contemporary wealth of nations, the physical world retains its relevance. Architecture affects crime rates, arguably even collegiality among professors. The interplay between the physical and the ethereal likewise shapes the constitutional doctrine...

  Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, broadcaster, broadcasting, cable, conduit, Democracy, FCC, Internet, M., media, NBC Universal Inc., network, radio, regulation, Reno, Richard, Robert, scarcity, spectrum, technology, telecommunications, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV, U.S., Van

• Cable upfront is quieting down.(Brief Article)

  - 2004-06-07

  With the broadcasters taking center stage last eek, cable continued to quietly write upfront orders. Sources said top-tier programmers like Turner Broadcasting System Inc., MTV Networks, Discovery Networks U.S., USA Network and Lifetime Telev With the broadcasters taking...

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• Media mogul Ted Turner to become star on Hollywood sidewalk

  - 2004-04-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP ? Hollywood was poised to walk all over US media mogul Ted Turner when he is immortalised with his own star on Tinseltown's Walk of Fame. The billionaire founder of Cable News Network CNN television, will join the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and Bob...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cable, ceremony, Hollywood, movie, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Hispanic Audience Catches Attention of Cable Networks.

  - 2003-11-12

  By Caroline Wilbert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--The company behind Food Network and Home & Garden Television is researching a decorating, cooking and gardening channel targeted at Latinos. E.W. Scripps Co., which has been testing a...

  Tags: Atlanta, Cable, network, NETWORKING, programming, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Turner Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., U.S.