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The New York Times published a three-part series on Tucker Carlson Saturday. The series said segments on immigration and demographic change are a hit with Carlson's audience. 'Every second that [...]

Hating your cable provider has almost become a rite of passage in America over the past six decades. Despite real progress in on-time delivery, trouble-call reductions and improving service quality, [...]

The biggest and best tests // Don't choose an ISP until you've read the results Find out how the UK's top service providers score in Internet Magazine's exclusive ISP labs […]

This issue's overview of ratings data for the Latin American multichannel industry once again looks at four major pay-TV markets-Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico-and begins with combined multicountry data for [...]

A series of unrelated conditions and circumstances caused the ad valorem tax assessments on cable television companies in Kentucky to become excessive, which rendered the tax unduly discriminatory throughout the [...]

Media consolidation had a big impact on BROADCASTING & CABLE's Top 25 Media Groups this year: Twenty positions were occupied by different companies last year. Just last week, Vivendi closed [...]

The introduction of digital television in Oct 1998 broadened the choice of television channels in the UK to over 130. The channels available to an individual viewer depends upon their receiver. Viewers with Sky digital satellite receivers, for example, have access to 50 pay channels, pay-per-view options, the free services and a number of audio channels. Viewers who opt for digital terrestrial or cable television will have a slightly different range of options. Interactive television services, including home shopping and banking services, will become available during 1999

Byline: Josef Adalian Donald Glover's critically hailed FX comedy is shaping up to be a commercial success. Including three days of DVR replays, last Tuesday's series premiere drew 1.8 million [...]

Digital cable is all the rage in cable these days. Big operators are fixated on it; programmers are cobbling together new networks to fill the extra channels it creates. But [...]

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 [...]

BROADCASTING & CABLE'S powers that be are topped by Time Warner, whose TV networks, cable systems, movie studio, books and magazines generated more than $20 billion last year. But look [...]

Without technology improvements, current hybrid/fiber coax systems cannot even come close to the reliability standards set by the public switched telephone network As broadband telecommunications services enter a highly deregulated […]

The possibility of delivering telephony over the hybrid fiber coax (HFC) cable television system appears near in light of the commercial production of network interface units in early 1996. At present, per-line costs are estimated in the $200-$350 range. However, many problems with powering, noise immunity, spurious distortion and modulation still remain. Despite these, industry vendors are optimistic that their platforms will render voice over HFC commercially feasible., Voice over HFC nears as consensus forms on key technology issues. As a dozen or so suppliers of voice-over-HFC (hybrid fiber/coax) systems refine their products, some broad trends are emerging. [...]

As U.S. programmers spread their wings over overseas markets, Britain's BARB research sheds light on what programming flies - and what bombs. It seems like everybody has an international version [...]

America is on the cusp of a technological retailing revolution. By the end of this decade, most of us will be able to shop 24 hours a day from our [...]

The growing popularity of cable television has pressured cable networks to constantly provide original programming. In response, cable networks are showing films that are all different from those shown by broadcast television networks ABC, CBS and NBC. Different networks focus on different themes. USA shows films that are pure entertainment while HBO tackles more risky subjects. However, similar to broadcast television movies, the leading roles in cable features go to well-known actors. Thus, it is neccessary for actors to have an agent to land roles in cable films and series., A whole new market for performers, playwrights, and directors has opened up, and it's right in your living room. No, it's not practicing monologues in front of your cat. It's [...]

Cable television is available to about 400,000 British homes but other companies have not produced the networks. OFTEL and the DTI should act against companies with franchises which have not built their networks. There are about 30 UK cable TV stations but not all cable companies offer them, although they may provide foreign ones. Reception varies. Cable telephone services are usually cheaper than BT or Mercury. Satellite installation costs are higher than cable, but running costs are similar. Some satellite stations are free. Satellite systems Amstrad SRD 510 and the Pace PRD 800 were tested.

Only about half the Fifth Estate economy suffered in the recession last year. Analyzing, for the first time, the performance of the Top 100 companies by industry segment, BROADCASTING'S exclusive [...]

TERRESTRIAL TV is facing problems so profound and on so many levels that toward the end of a two-hour interview, Jack Hsiao-Cheng Chi, senior specialist, department of planning, National Communications [...]

By Ronald Hawkins New York Bureau Chief The days when cable was too hip to care about ratings are long past. Now it's a race to see which network can [...]

This month, the picks include the MEDLINEplus service, which offers excellent information sources (with the exception of one component) through an unusually pure and pleasant interface, and the free online [...]

Overall, the impact of cable in the broadcasting arena remains undeniable. Season-to-date (Sept. 23, 2002, to May 18, 2003) and based on cable networks measured by Nielsen Media Research, ad-supported [...]

Earlier this year, it seemed that it might happen: As the broadcast networks struggled with a difficult ad climate, a number of analysts predicted that home shopping network QVC might [...]

There's plenty of doom and gloom in the media when it comes to portraying Internet companies. It seems as though every technically challenged hack delights in wiring stories about e-commerce […]