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Time Warner Cable of Houston plans to add up to nine channels of high-definition television programming to its digital-cable lineup. The Dec. 13 channel additions will also include 11 new [...]

Both Showtime Net works Inc. and Starz Encore Group LLC will add new channels to their digital packages, officials from both companies said last week. Showtime is targeting 'Generation Y,' [...]

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- DirecTV Inc., stepping up its battle for Latin American market share against direct-to-home rival Sky Latin America and Brazil's mighty Organizacoes Globo, is getting into the [...]

Discovery Health Channel will launch its first integrated national affiliates' campaign this summer, an educational program geared to run through the 2000-2001 school year. Dubbed 'Food for Fuel,' the educational [...]

Cox Communications Inc. planned to send video-on-demand vendors a request for proposals last Friday, hoping to launch its first VOD trial by the end of the second quarter. While Cox [...]

In the midst of a programming revamping, The Nashville Network is jumping on the bandwagon of cable's hottest trend: scripted fictional series. TNN will debut its first original dramatic series, [...]

NEW YORK -- A&E Network will kick off 'Child Stars Week' on Biography starting Labor Day, Sept. 6, with the world premiere of Ron Howard: Hollywood's Favorite Son. It will [...]

WITH THE LAUNCH of the next generation of video-on-demand packages, including free VOD, drawing near, basic networks are falling into three camps: those that willingly offer free content, those pushing [...]

NEW YORK - Fox Kids Worldwide Inc. plans to bring 'attitude' to the kids programming it will debut this summer on the Fox Family Channel, but the shows will be [...]

Ameritech Corp. has delayed plans to build cable systems in five Chicago suburbs, claiming that it can't compete because it can't offer Home Box Office and Cinemax. The reason: Continental [...]

NEW YORK--Come January, contestants won't be able to win $5,000 of Ben Stein's money any more. Win Ben Stein 's Money, cable's first Emmy Award-winning game show, will depart Comedy [...]

I, Claudius - the award-winning 13-part miniseries that debuted 26 years ago - will re-air on Trio starting April 21, at 8 p.m. Trio's broadcast of the 1976 classic will [...]

Making a strong move into cyberspace, Viacom Inc. is forming an Internet division that will include online sites that its MTV Networks unit is creating for kids and music, officials [...]

NEW YORK -- Looking to capitalize on one of its key brands, Cable News Network is expanding Moneyline with Lou Dobbs to one hour and broadening its coverage to include [...]

Time Warner Cable is getting ready to join the digital dance. The long-awaited foray into digital by the cable industry's second-largest operator will begin in mid-June in Austin, Texas, with [...]

Game Show Network is debuting its own kids versions of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as part of a Friday-night block of children's and family-oriented programming that it is premiering [...]

Cox is looking to its past to build its future in new media. Cox Communications Inc., perhaps more than any other cable operator, has a chance to succeed in producing [...]

HONG KONG - Rupert Murdoch stepped up plans last week for the Japanese television business with an announcement that News Corp.'s Star TV programming group plans to launch a direct-to-home [...]

I smell a rat, and it's gnawing around Ameritech Corp.'s Swiss-cheese-like announcement on how it now has to delay building cable systems in five Chicago suburbs because 'today's laws favor [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Proclaiming itself the first compressed basic network, The Television Food Network announced that it will convert from an analog to a digital signal on July 1. TVFN [...]