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• 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

• Prime Cable, TCI and Bravo Showcase the Chicago Arts Scene on National Television; Bravo Crew Taping on Location July 22 & 23

  - 1999-07-19

  CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 19, 1999--

  Tags: TCI, TV

• Competition Thrives in Windy City.(cable television)

  - 1999-06-14

  Mayor Pat Gordon remembers the years before competition came to Oak Forest, Ill. Like 1997, when then-candidate Gordon's door-to-door campaign kept turning up unhappy Tele-Communications Inc. subscribers in the south Chicago suburb of 25,000 Mayor Pat Gordon...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., cable, cable television, CSR, TCI, TV

• TCI Announces DigitalPLUS Advanced Digital TV Broadcast Antennas Family; TCI Has Money Saving Solution for Terrestrial Broadcasters

  - 1999-04-19

  LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--April 19, 1999--

  Tags: digital television, TCI, TV

• TCI Awarded Contract to Manufacture and Install a Digital TV Antenna System for Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation

  - 1999-04-16

  SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 16, 1999--

  Tags: digital television, TCI, TV

• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-02-15

  AT&T Chmn. Michael Armstrong is taking reins of company's cable telephony business as part of management reshuffling in which TCI Pres. Leo Hindery will report directly to him instead of to AT&T Pres. John Zeglis, as planned. To ensure company's "massive cable rollout gets the attention it deserves," Armstrong,...

  Tags: ABC Inc., AT&T Corp., Cable, chancellor, commission, FCC, Government, notebook, radio, TCI, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TV, Washington

• TCI and RF Technologies Announce a Strategic Alliance to Supply Innovative Products for Digital Television Transmission Systems

  - 1999-02-02

  SUNNYVALE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 2, 1999--Technology for Communications International TCI and RF Technologies Corporation RFT announce the formation of a strategic alliance to develop, market, and manufacture innovative products for the new digital television DTV transmission systems that TV broadcasters must install over the next four years to meet FCC licensing...

  Tags: digital television, strategic alliance, TCI, TV

• Set-Top Obsolescence: TCI's and @Home's Plan.

  - 1999-01-25

  DALLAS -- Tele-Communications Inc. and @Home Network are putting the final touches into a way to deliver Web-based services to the TV that they hope will minimize potential digital set-top obsolescence. While terms still need to be worked out, ...

  Tags: set-top, TCI, TV

• Argentina: TCI reduces stake in TyC.

  - 1999-01-04

  TCI, that controls a 40% stake in the Argentinean spoting cable television and TV sports program producer TyC Torneos y Competencias, is negotiating with its partners CEI Citicorp Holdings and Telefonica Internacional, to sell off part of its TCI, that...

  Tags: cable television, TCI, TV

• Chicago Sends `Cable Cowboy' to Boot Hill.(TCI, Chicago program persecutes cable television pirates)

  - 1998-12-21

  When a former installer who called himself "The Cable Cowboy" bragged on local television that he'd never be caught doing illegal hookups, he probably never thought that he'd be busted by the city. But Cowboy operated in Chicago, th ...

  Tags: cable, cable television, TCI, TV