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Cable Television Services
Number of Employees 5,000
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NAICS Code Offices of Other Holding Companies: 551112
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NBA, Nets Talk Renewal.(ESPN and Turner Broadcasting System vying for contract with National Basketball Association)
By R. Thomas Umstead ESPN, Turner Are Eyeing Television, Digital-Content Rights The opening round of the National Basketball Association Playoffs is in full swing, but the league hopes to secure more than just viewers from ESPN...
Fast Track.(Turner Broadcasting System agrees to pay for trouble caused by its marketing campaign)(DirecTV expansion to go on despite satellite failure)(The Tennis Channel inks deal with ESPN for coverage of Grand Slam)
Staff Turner To Pay Boston for Trouble John Eggerton Company apologizes for guerilla campaign The office of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino confirms that Turner Broadcasting...
Tackling customer confusion: how ESPN distinguishes what's on TV, web, mobile phone.(MARKETING)
Even as the Seattle Seahawks lined up against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL on Sunday, ESPN set a new-media formation with the debut of its cellular-phone service targeting hard-core sports fans. But the sports giant must tackle the ...
Beta: Ops find value in programming trio.(ESPN, Discovery Networks U.S. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. are highest in perceived value)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
The various cable networks of ESPN, Discovery Networks U.S. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. rank among the strongest in perceived value in the eyes of operators. The various cable networks of ESPN, Discovery Networks U.S. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. rank among...
Turner, ESPN Seek NBA Deal.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Cable hoops fans could be the biggest beneficiaries in the National Basketball Association's TV-rights negotiations with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and ESPN, which could conceivably result in at least one national NBA telecast airing each day Cable hoops fans could be the biggest...
'POWERPUFF' QUARTER.(Industry Overview)
Cartoon Aids Cable Nets' 3% Gain Despite the Survivor craze and the Summer Olympics, basic cable managed to squeak by in the third quarter with a 3 percent increase in primetime ratings. More amazing than that, however, was Cartoon Network's ...
The industry used to produce films, TV programmes, books and music. Now it makes brands.(entertainment)
The motion picture industry is successfully exploiting the brands and merchandise of characters and ideas that it owns. Entertainment companies that own distribution, production and licensing rights to their brands are able to build a circle in which the ideas of distribution and manufactuing blend together. Subsidiary companies that do...
TNT tops May primetime ratings. (Turner Network Television)
Turner Network Television, getting a jump from its NBA playoff games, and TBS SuperStation ranked first and second, respectively, in primetime ratings during May. In fact, the five highest-rated basic cable shows last month were all National Basketball Association playoff...
Nets take their mark as race for '96 Olympics begins. (Television networks bidding for broadcasting rights for 1996 Summer Olympics)
NEW YORK - The race for the 1996 Summer Olympics TV rights has already begun, with broadcast networks talking with basic cable networks about forming alliances before the bidding for rights begins. Sources said CBS Sports is talking to a numbe ...
Wireless ops cry foul on access. (cable television operators; programming access)
It was no coincidence that as congressional lawmakers were hammering out a cable bill last week, the Wireless Cable Association again raised the thorny issue of program access. Two weeks ago, on the eve of a House-Senate conference committee on t It...
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