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• Watch your synchronizers, and other 'platforms'

  - 2004-08-26

  Think of it as Platform Diving: The Home Game. In a clever bid to boost the ratings, profits and profiles of its sister networks, NBC has spread the Olympic wealth to USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo and its HDTV channel. The upshot is you can watch someone you've never...

  Tags: Cable, Games, MARKETING, MSNBC, NBC Universal Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, upshot

• Cable loses feds on HIS.(Regulation)(high-speed Internet service)

  - 2004-04-12

  WASHINGTON -- In the legal battle to keep its high-speed Internet service deregulated, the cable industry might have lost its best friend: the federal government. The Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission last week drop WASHINGTON --...

  Tags: cable, FCC, High-speed Internet, U.S. Department of Justice, upshot

• SEPARATE WAYS: AT&T's breakup plan not ringing managers' bells; Stock price drop reinforces reservations.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-10-30

  NEW YORK - Money managers are putting AT&T Corp. on hold. Investors expressed disappointment with the telecommunications giant's strategy to break the company into four separate businesses, covering wireless, broadband, business and consumer s NEW YORK - Money managers are putting AT&T Corp....

  Tags: AT&T Corp., cable, company, stock, stock price, upshot, wireless

• Operators outline major '92 technical push. (cable television broadcasters to adopt major technological initiatives)

  - 1992-03-02

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Cable operators last week outlined plans for major new technological initiatives this year. Those plans included speeded up installation of fiber, new forms of addressability and even breathing life into addressable interdicti SAN FRANCISCO -- Cable...

  Tags: cable, cable television, engineering, fiber, network, TCI, upshot