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They get it. They really get That's what a review of 23 Web sites produced by or for MSOs says about cable and the Web. Among the trends: customized channel [...]

Cable Says It's Improving - What Do Key Buyers Say? It's time for the local/spot sales report card, and this year cable might get away without a parent-teacher conference. Maybe. [...]

The Fox Cable Networks Group and Charter Communications Inc. have been on the same page lately. Charter and the programmer this week agreed on a wide-ranging deal that puts the [...]

My name is Staci and I'm a DirecTV sports .junkie: 'NHL Center Ice,' 'MLB Extra Innings,' the regional sports tier and the NCAA 'Mega March Madness' package. That puts me [...]

Streamed Sports Still Swimming Against Current For sports fans, streaming media promises to be Internet nirvana. Even at today's nascent stage, there have already been a number of opportunities for [...]

When an earthquake shook Seattle last month, thousands of viewers turned to Cable News Network, Fox News Channel or MSNBC for the latest news. But a smaller crowd was watching [...]

Not too long ago, a Web site was just an option. That's not the case anymore. In today's environment, any organization that relies on communications needs to make good use [...]

The Fox Sports New England regional sports-news show, which made its debut last week, is off to a slow start, largely because the network has been unable to break the [...]

As for the style: Think homer. The dreaded 'we' -- as in, 'We won tonight' -- is not uncommon. In Houston, the Southwest regional show, anchored by Keith Lebowitz and [...]

One month has passed since Fox Sports Net Ohio launched its 11 p.m. regional sportscast, and it earns a 'B-plus' grade. The 30-minute program moves fast, does a good job [...]

Fox Sports Net is set to launch the second. phase of regionally targeted sports programming when Midwest Sports Tonight debuts Tuesday. It will air at 7 p.m. on weeknights when [...]

The folks at Fox Sports Net's Regional Sports Report are patting themselves on the back for being first with a broadcast report that Erik Williams' holdout was over and he [...]

Fox Sports Net is pleased with the early ratings for Regional Sports Report. 'We're hoping to do a 1.0 household rating in each market,' general manager Steve Liverani said. 'We're [...]

Memo to Fox Sports Network: Your regional coverage is a swell idea. The new 6:30 p.m. newscast with local inserts and the continuing 11 p.m. Regional Sports Report: Rocky Mountain [...]

Like them, feel lukewarm about them or hate them, television critics and reporters who write and talk about the ambitious new Fox Sports Net Regional Sports Reports all seemed to [...]

It doesn't yet have a name or a Web address, but if all goes as planned, an intriguing and potentially powerful local Internet experiment partnered by Cablevision Systems Corp. and [...]

Broadband ISPs Tap Into Their Own Medium According to legend, when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, 'Because that's where the money is.' Today, crafty high-speed [...]

When Dallas Stars goalie Eddie Belfour got shellacked by the New Jersey Devils in game one of the 2000 Stanley Cup playoffs, it almost looked like d[acute{e}]j[grave{a}] vu all over [...]

Local Web sales may be the next big growth area for cable operators. For more and more operators, using the Internet as an ad sales vehicle isn't a question of [...]

Mergers changed the Internet landscape for MSOs during the year since the last Multichannel News review, and not always for the better. A few sites have been left intact with [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Jim Courier officially retired from the men's pro-tennis circuit last week, but the Grand Slam champ will still be at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- The National Show looked good to Decker Anstrom, the former National Cable Television Association president who watched this year's edition as CEO of The Weather Channel. 'It [...]

For more than two decades, ESPN has brought highlights and low moments from the world of sports to millions of viewers, providing coverage from every angle -- from gushing superlatives [...]

There's More on the Cable Dial Than time, Oxygen THEY'VE RECEIVED MOST OF THE INK RECENTLY, BUT Lifetime Television and Oxygen are not the only cable channels that women watch. [...]

Stay-at-home celebrants will have plenty of choices on cable on New Year's Eve, whether they're looking for gimmicks, movies or live news coverage. For some networks, it's business as usual, [...]

The hockey season has been under way for a month, but the National Hockey League and ESPN fired the real opening salvo of their new partnership last week with the [...]

When Tom Hicks, owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, bought Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers in early 1998, he made it clear that one of his goals was [...]

CHICAGO -- Has any cable-industry executive ever been fired for failing to produce a diversified work force? None of the attendees at the National Show's human-resources roundtable here last month [...]

Combined, the first-quarter-1999 primetime numbers of the 10 networks highlighted in this article add up to less than the total of the three top-rated basic-cable networks. Each of them also [...]

When Multichannel News first started to keep track of MSOs' Web sites, the list was a short one. These days, it's the rare MSO that doesn't have a presence on [...]

ST. LOUIS -- As eight teams battled their way through the second round of the National Hockey League playoffs, smaller teams of network and league executives met in New York [...]

ST. Louis -- Regulators close to Charter Communications Inc. expressed surprise and relief, but also a touch of consternation, upon hearing of the MSO's merger with Marcus Cable Co. L.P. [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Consumers buying into HDTV right now are getting in on the ground floor while the rest of the house is still being built. In the glee of [...]

Competition has come to the west coast of Florida, but not in the form of a price war. After years of searching, when hopes had all but faded, St. Petersburg [...]

The best way to appreciate the scope of Fox Sports Net might be to spend an evening in front of a TV armed with DirecTV Inc.'s 'Total Choice' package and [...]

The combination of advertisers wanting to be heard in the increasing din of the media marketplace and ad sellers wanting to exploit the growing number of media properties under their [...]

Nets vie intensely for the small, early-morning business audience. JOYCE GOLDSTEIN, 69, manages five stock portfolios, including a six-figure one for a 26-women investment club, from her home in a [...]

Pope John Paul II needs better public-relations advice. With the pope's visit this week, cable-news networks must once again juggle images of faith with coverage of events that began with [...]

Despite the flurry of announcements about new TV-tuner cards for personal computers and the continued chatter about convergence, don't expect the PC to become a full-fledged TV substitute anytime soon. [...]

There was a time not too long ago when it was unusual for a cable network to have a Web site, let alone ongoing sites or areas developed in conjunction [...]

Richy Glassberg and James Kinsella firmly believe that they know the answer to one of the most vexing questions of the Internet age: how to best measure Web traffic. They [...]

In August 1994, Pat Mitchell was at breakfast in St. Petersburg, Russia, when her boss, Ted Turner, uttered the words that would send her on the kind of odyssey that [...]

Sometimes, a primetime Emmy nomination means more to a cable network than the possibility of winning the prestigious award. The real reward is more than one golden moment in the [...]

If all goes as planned this time around, AMC's American Pop will launch July 1, two months after its initial launch date. But don't try clicking the remote to find [...]

A dog named Blue and her best friend, Steve, are at the forefront of a new wave of programming for the preschool set. Nearing the end of its second season, [...]

ST. LOUIS - The more things change in the metro cable market here, the more they stay the same - although operators here insisted that they're now moving to expand [...]

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Blues have put pay-per-view on the back burner with the announcement that the National Hockey League team's controversial foray into that arena last season [...]