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May 31
- French Channel Debuts In D.C.
- Fast Track
- Herman E!-xits
- Idol: Ratings and Voting Off-Key
- NYC Braces for Local Ratings
- Fallen Comrades
- Nielsen's Whiting Stands Firm
- RCN Writes Up a Chapter 11
- Razzle Dazzle
- Will Sweeps Be Swept Away?
- Liberty Adds VoIP to Mix in Puerto Rico
- An Overview of Time Warner’s Businesses
- Puerto Rico’s Ripe for a Rollup
- GSN’s Key Letters: ITV
- Comcast Teams With Microsoft
- Fates & Fortunes
- Gay? Go!
- Dance Fever
- Tussle Over Tiering in Conn.
- Ashcan Alleys To Powerbroker Corridors
- Hola! Prime Time
- Dream Merchant
- Wisconsin Channel Is in Demand
- NECN Woos Cox for Deal in Rhode Island
- P-Cube Controller Makes Its U.S. Return
May 28
- Brenner Out at In Demand
- MBC Mulls Reid for Top Spot
- Seriously, Dude, You're Canned
- CBS Wins Thursday
May 27
- Herman Out at E!
- Terayon CEO Rakib Resigns
- Continental Names Bunch of Veeps
- NBC Ups Program Researcher
- New Frontier Up in 4Q
- Fuel Feeling Experimental
- Schwartz Joins MSNBC
- Verizon, DirecTV Are California Dreaming
- Chapter 11 for RCN
- Ad Buyers Offered New Spot Tracker
- Rainbow, Voom Feeling Just Divine
- Time Warner Cable Fights Child Abuse
May 26
- Roland Retires from WNYW
- Centennial Exploring P.R. Sale Again
- Georgia Network-Integration Center on ADC’s Mind
- Roberts Takes Comcast Chairman Post
- ESPN Details 25 th -Anniversary Programming
- TBS Wants Last Laugh
- Starz Encore Promotes Miles-Ley
- Fox Sports World Nets Premier League
- There Is an E! in G4TechTV
- Lifetime’s Division Goes Out with a Bang
- Dorian to Host BBC America’s The Telly
May 25
- NECN’s Balboni to Offer Cox New R.I. Deal
- Destination: Ratings for TNT, NBA
- Peacock Crows; Eye Doesn't Blink
- Four on Call for WWE 24/7
- King World Shows Clean Up
- Dish Adds Ill., Ore. Local Markets
- MTVN’s Logo a Go in February
- MSNBC Gets a Meteorologist
- Bright House Names Two Fla. VPs
- XY.tv to March with Patton
- Ganeless to Leave USA
- BigBand Picks up ADC's CMTS Business
- Shaw Picks Telution; Rogers Goes 5 Mbps
- Gillespie Joins CNET from TechTV
- CBS Wins Big on Monday
- SMC Router OKed for CableHome 1.1
May 24
- MTV’s Road Rules Heads to Chile, Argentina
- Ian Will Be GSN’s Valentine
- RCN Inks Expanded Starz Encore Deal
- Surf’s Up for Atlantic Broadband
- Broadcast, Cable Journalists Get Middling Grades
- Liberty, Net2Phone Launch VoIP in Puerto Rico
- Microtune Shipping ‘VideoCaster’ Upconverter
- ADC Goes Across the Pond
- Fuller, Clark Team Up on Bandstand
- SCTE to Standardize DOCSIS-HMS Communications
- The House that Newhouse Built
- Playing for Keeps
- Repackaging Premium Channels
- ABC Begins To Rebuild
- Ciena Closes on IP, Focuses on Cable
- MSOs Grasping Guides
- Bright House’s Headquarters
- Breaking…
- Station Break
- Liberty Media Eyes an Asset-Stock Swap
- Cablevision Adds ITV Maps
- American Idol vs. Speed Dialers
- The Future of TV Makes a Guy Blue
- Scared Smart
- Keeping Up at Home
- Ma Bell Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
- Sale of Cerritos Cable System Expected Soon
- CBS Stations Soar in Sweeps
- Selleck Soars in A&E’s D-DAY Remembrance
- All HD, All the Time
- Rainbow Needs More Credit
- Labor Woes Help ESPN’s Deal With NHL
May 23
- American Idol vs. Speed Dialers
- WFSB Contest Angers Competition
- Moonves, Zucker Trade Shots
May 21
- Discovery Gets Down to New Business
- Stewart Prosecution Witness Charged
- Executive Exodus at CSG
- Dewey Handles Turner's Funny Money
May 20
- Jogging on Sesame Street
- Jones-Tarver Nets 360,000 PPV Buys
- Dish Gets Sirius
- Dewey’s an Original at TBS, TNT
- Frog Wears Kmart Clothes
- Comcast Pushes MS Software
- UPN Adds Three for Fall
- HHS Video Propaganda Illegal
- Dish Now Local in All 50 States, D.C.
May 19
- CBS Drops Saturday Dramas
- ESPN Renews NHL Deal
- Comcast Rates with Fitch
- FCC Gets a la Carte Letter from House
- New Series from The N
- MTV, VH1 Send Fans to Madonna’s Pit
- Cartoon Has Jones for Khaki
- Two Upped at Scripps Networks
- Galavisión Adds Five New Shows
- Things Get ‘Chilli’ on Lifetime’s Strong Medicine
- Adelphia Relaunches Southern California Web Site
May 18
- ADC Now Owns KRONE
- Rosenblum Goes Statewide at Time Warner Cable
- Barton: Cable Indecency Law Coming
- Plug Pulled on Stewart Show
- MTV2 to Fight for Its Right to Party
- The WB Gets Real
- Knology Taps Arris for Telephony Gear
- Tony Randall Dies at 84
- Carey On for Gemstar-TV Guide
- MTV Sets Air Date for Prom Date
- Two Guilty of Defrauding Adelphia
- Eye Has It on Monday
- Kasenna Purchases VOD Firm
- Sí TV Acquires Three Shows, Adds Five
- Harden Ascends to New Ascent Post
- Flynn Upped at MGM TV
May 17
- DirecTV to See if Local Plays in Peoria
- SCTE: Up, ‘InfoScope’
- Get SET for Three Music-Video Channels
- Vyyo Buys Xtend Networks
- Level 3 Expands VoIP Service
- Time Warner Strikes a Chordiant Deal
- Democrats, Republicans Meet in the WWE Ring
- Starz Encore Shows Gove Some Love
- Lifetime Reveals Summer Plans
- NFL Net Heads to Caymans
- Estrada Upped at Univision
- Taking the OnRamp
- Discovery Campaign Thinks Funny
- High Flyer
- Fates & Fortunes
- New CNN Digs
- G4TechTV’s Goal: Sub Growth
- The Right Stuff
- Who's Who at NBC Universal
- Nick at Nite Fans Controversy’s Flames
- Giving VOD a Nod
- But the Pilot Was Funny…
- Some A La Carte Calls Cite Net 'Porn’
- ESPN: Men Are Watching
- American Idol Outrage: Your Vote Doesn't Count
- Changing Hands
- Jazzing Up Cable IPGs
- Chillin’ With Children — And Their Parents
- The Parent Trap
- Identity Crisis
- Pulling It All Together
- Mix and Match
- Twins Rights Victory for Fox
- NBC: What To Watch
- A Cable Shopping List For Bandwidth Differentiation
- Anime Network’s Linear Move
- Hot Seat
- Catch the Fever
- What It All Means
- Scoop Dreams
May 16
- KCNC's Maass Scoops Majors
May 14
- NBC Promotes Programmers
- 72 Hours of Rabbit Season for Boomerang
- mtvU, Linkin Park Are ‘Breaking the Habit’
- Court TV Sets Henry Lee Debut
- Bennett: Liberty Thriving, Except for Stock Price
- Eisner Still Getting $1M Salary
- Frasier Goes Out with Bang-let
May 13
- Court TV Mounts thePlatform
- ESPN Videogames Gets Some Star Power
- Viacom Hires New Lobbyist
- Seriously, Dude, Fox Is Sorry
- WB Renews Reba, Grounded, What I Like
- SBCA to Stations: Use It or Lose It
- TNA Wrestles Slot on Fox Sports Net
- Viacom Adds Some Washington Muscle
- MMTC Opposes a la Carte
- Ackerman Resigns from OpenTV
- CEOs, CTOs to Speak at SCTE Expo
May 12
- Music Choice Chooses to Sue AOL
- Fox Assumes Mouse's Alias
- Lynn Joins Showtime
- In-Stat/MDR Sees PVR Boom
- Motorola Rolls Out New HFC Gear
- Hedgehog Stays in Fox Box
- Roberts Opposed to New Telecom Law
- DirecTV, Thomson Extend Set-Top Pact
- Peacock Is Proud Parent
- Green Heads GMA Weekends
May 11
- Murder Brings Tough Call for News Nets
- NBA Brings TNT Even with Nick
- ESPN: Men 18-34 Watching More, Not Less
- Comcast Ups Schweber
- WB Picks Up Mountain
- Cox, CSG Extend Pact
- Pax Adds 10 for Fall
- Extreme VOD
- C-COR.net Acquires Alopa Networks
- Lifetime: Television for Reba
- Level 3 Forms VoIP Alliance
- Gotuit Indexing Resort Sports Network
- Lifetime Wrangles Reba
May 10
- 'Friends' in Need
- USC Auditing Anti-Nielsen Hispanic Study
- A Syndie Star Is Born
- G4TechTV Is Born
- Twins Sports Net Folds
- Comcast: TechTV + G4 = G4TechTV
- ESPN Gets Book Smart
- Brown: John Rigas Said He Was Underpaid
- Cablevision: Spinoff Documents This Week
- Wanted: Partridge Family, Call VH1
- Now MTV’s Faking the Video
- EchoStar Summit a Sellout
- Apatov Joins Weather Channel
- Nortel’s ‘9000’ Living on the Edge
- Less Is More
- Howdy, Partners
- The Long Goodbye
- FCC’s Ferree an A La Carte Fan
- 'Call It What It Is — Censorship’
- ESPN Sidesteps the Middlemen
- NATOA: Don’t Offset the FCC’s Fees
- Sell Adelphia? Maybe Not
- Station Break
- Ailing Tauzin Makes Emotional Return
- Fates & Fortunes
- The Shrum Factor
- Allen’s Still a Broadband Bull
- Fitted for Lawsuit
- CEOs: Disney Bid Hurt Our Stock
- John Sie Retiring as Starz CEO
- Charter Deal Wins Praise
- Against à la Carte
- Set-Top Vendors Show and Tell
- Playboy Takes Soft Approach to Hard Content
- MEDIA GIANTS: Bleeding
May 7
- Friends Wins Thursday; CBS Second
- Bravo to Wing It on Memorial Day
- Pioneer Exits Set-Top Field
- Brown: Adelphia Kept Deloitte in the Dark
- Sie You Later
- Sie to Retire as Starz Encore CEO
- Comcast Flexin’ at Gaylord Texan
- Lifetime Makes Providential Decision
- Lifetime Acquires Providence
- Showtime’s Queer Is Here for One More Year
May 6
- Fox News: Billboard Owners Spoiling Our Fun
- Fisher Exiting Lifetime
- MTV to Bring Viewers ‘the Future’
- Shapiro to Head Fox Television Studios
- WB Picks First Pilot
- MTVN Flexes Cross-Net Power
- NCTA Re-Elects Officers
- Shaw Filters Out Spam
- News Corp. Eyes New Network
- Media Top $1B in PSA Time
- GolTV Scores Comcast Launch
May 5
- Turner Gets Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and 2, Ella Enchanted
- ABC Slates Pepsi Show/Sweepstakes
- Animal Planet’s Corwin a Cover Boy
- Survivor Auction Starts May 9
- Crew Survives Chopper Heart-Stopper
- Sundance: The British Are Coming in July
- TV One, Comcast PSAs Back African-American Voting
May 4
- Showtime Renews Queer as Folk
- MSOs, Vendors Form Java Group, Eye Standard
- Tillman Tribute Too Blue for Broadcasters
- WAM! Has Table Talk About TV Content
- HDNet Gets Up Close with Roy Firestone
- Nortel, Nuera Team Up on VoIP
- Charter Rings Up Nortel for VoIP
- Wilson to Head Fox Network
- Liberate Climbs the ‘OnRamp to OCAP’
- NBC Rocks on Monday Night
- Ergen Could Compromise on DTV Delivery Plan
- Daly Upped at ESPN
- CSG, Navic: Pay Cable Bill with Remote
- Affils Take Showtime Subs on Thrill Ride
- TLC to Debut Trading Spaces Outtakes
- Oxygen Wants Girls to Behave Badly
May 3
- Cable Execs: Increasing Scale Not a Necessity
- Nextel Would Pay $500M ENG Bill
- Comcast, Time Warner Complete Restructuring
- Cablevision Launches Interactive Games Service
- NFL Network to Air 54 Preseason Games
- Pace HD Box Gets TV Guide Interactive
- Walberg Hosts Pax Game
- Court TV Commands Hotel VOD Deal
- Ailing Tauzin a Surprise National Show Arrival
- Fuse Gets Warped on Wednesdays
- Court TV Courts More Carriage
- NBC Tops Sunday Ratings with 10.5
- EWTN Adds Grant, Continues Canadian Drive
- Comcast Gives Oxygen Full Rollout in Chicago
- Reichenbach Returns to Discovery in New-Media Role
- Turner Gears Up Ad Sales Around Sex, Cartoon
- Blue Ridge Gets Disney Kids’ Programming for SVOD
- Cable Lawyer: A la Carte Would Face Court Buzz Saw
- Edge TV Pitched in N.O.
- Motorola’s ‘DCT 6412’ Out of the Box
- IP Unity Deals with Cedar Point, Integra5
- HorseRacing TV Hits Pimlico Before Preakness
- Fox News to Open Airport Newsstand
- Vigoto Offers DVR Solution
- MyDTV Rolls Out Enhanced ‘TV Agent’
- TVN to Launch Music on Demand
- Siemens Calls Cablevision
- First Course
- A Student of the Technology Game
- Dating Hell
- An Innovator Who Inspires, Too
- Net-Tax Ban Struggles
- Diary of a Mad-for-Cable HD Watcher
- Top Cable CFOs at BCFM
- Comcast Expands Its Local HD Hat Trick
- HGTV Lineup Digs Up 16 New Series
- Customers Place Premium on VoIP Reliability
- Stations' Rights
- Spot by the Year
- What a Year It’s Been For Affiliates
- The Cable Guy With Satellite Roots, Too
- 'Stargate’: Rise of a Fertile Franchise
- May Premium: SVOD Lineup
- Two Heads Are Better Than One
- Elder Statesman
- Disney to Offer SVOD Premieres on Cablevision
- Ready for iTV's Closeup
- NCTA Smart Guide
- Extreme Discovery
- Jim Brown to Court: 'I Lied’
- TWC Taps Esmertec for Software to Build Set-Top Apps
- VOD’s the Ticket for Some TV Startups
- A Passion for Her Work
- Townsend Joins MBC
- Running the Risky Businesses
- Revolutionary Spirit
- A Cable Sampler
- Cable Shows Connect
- Motorola DVR Sees Double
- Click Your Pick
- "It's the Bundle, Baby"
- Arris Debuts DMTS
- Rutledge Rises, Bickham Boards
- Thank Heavens for 'Betsys'
- Still Learning, Still Teaching
- Babes in Newsland
- Turner Swims Into VOD
- Seven Things That Will Change Cable TV in 2004
- Broadband Is His Baby
- Cablevision's New Visionaries
- The Usual Suspects
- Quiet, Nosy Navic Might Be Watching
- Look Sharp
- Fates & Fortunes
- What Younger Women Want
- Edge TV Swells Ranks of 'Game’ Nets
May 2
- Cox Readies Dish-Busting ‘Bueno’ Hispanic Tier