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CableFAX DailyThursday, May 6, 2010 Page 5TMBUSINESS & FINANCEexperienced a 18% jump in subs,now totaling 34.2mln. Due to continued cost cutting, adjusted EBITDAincreased 31%, while Crown’s netloss totaled 2.3mln, compared to aloss of 7.5mln a year ago.On the Circuit: SCTE is makinggood on its efforts to bring moreprogrammers into the group, withHBO and Turner joining SCTE’sstandards setting program (Cfax,3/22). Discovery is an existing programmer SCTE member. They willbe actively involved in the creationof standards designed to acceleratedelivery of new video services.People: Charter CTO MarwanFawaz added evp, ops to his title.He will oversee Charter’s East andWest operating groups, customercare, HR and business intelligencegroup, in addition to continuing tolead Charter’s network and technology organizations. -- MeganDelany, Charter vp, sr counsel offederal govt relations, is no longerwith the MSO. No immediate wordon whether Charter will put someone else in the DC office. -- Currenthired former AOL and RainbowPR exec Matt Frankel as svp, corpcomm. He’s based out of Current’sNY office. -- Broadstripe promotedDebra Wood to CFO.Business/Finance: ActiveVideoNetworks acquired TAG Networksto add the network game platformto its CloudTV interactive streamingplatform.CableFAX Daily /MMDSBRITISH SKY:. 36.21 . (0.43)DIRECTV: . 35.23 . (0.36)DISH: . 21.82 . (0.34)DISNEY:. 35.34 . (1.25)GE:. 18.10 . (0.48)NEWS CORP:. 16.99 . (0.69)MSOSCABLEVISION:. 26.81 . (0.41)COMCAST:. 19.74 . (0.13)COMCAST SPCL: . 18.73 . (0.18)GCI: . 5.94 . (0.15)KNOLOGY: . 12.80 . (0.32)LIBERTY CAPITAL: . 44.19 . (0.69)LIBERTY GLOBAL: . 26.47 . (0.94)LIBERTY INT: . 14.99 . (0.37)MEDIACOM: . 6.59 . (0.01)RCN: . 14.67 . (0.01)SHAW COMM:. 18.44 . (0.22)TIME WARNER CABLE:. 54.99 . (1.07)VIRGIN MEDIA: . 17.16 . (0.94)WASH POST: . 500.82 . (1.88)PROGRAMMINGCBS: . 15.58 . (0.62)CROWN: . 1.80 . (0.02)DISCOVERY: . 37.59 . (1.28)GRUPO TELEVISA:. 18.99 . (0.6)HSN: . 31.96 . 1.20INTERACTIVE CORP:. 21.77 . (0.37)LIBERTY: . 35.83 . (0.23)LIBERTY STARZ: . 54.44 . (0.95)LIONSGATE:. 6.93 . (0.07)LODGENET: . 5.95 . (0.16)NEW FRONTIER: . 2.00 . 0.01OUTDOOR: . 6.74 . (0.03)PLAYBOY:. 4.25 . 0.01RHI:. 0.27 . (0.01)SCRIPPS INT: . 45.55 . (0.5)TIME WARNER: . 31.88 . (0.79)VALUEVISION: . 2.85 . (0.18)VIACOM:. 37.67 . (0.69)WWE:. 17.70 . (0.52)Company05/05Close1-DayChAOL:. 21.13 . (0.12)APPLE: . 255.99 . (2.69)ARRIS GROUP:. 12.13 . (0.11)AVID TECH: . 14.50 . (0.19)BIGBAND:. 3.38 . (0.13)BLNDER TONGUE: . 1.20 . -0.00BROADCOM:. 33.84 . 0.19CISCO: . 26.55 . (0.01)CLEARWIRE: . 7.56 . (0.15)COMMSCOPE:. 30.44 . (0.16)CONCURRENT: . 5.51 . (0.14)CONVERGYS:. 12.49 . (0.05)CSG SYSTEMS:. 22.48 . (0.31)ECHOSTAR: . 18.60 . (0.16)GOOGLE: . 509.76 . 3.39HARMONIC: . 6.79 . (0.19)INTEL:. 22.17 . (0.23)JDSU: . 13.70 . 0.11LEVEL 3:. 1.43 . (0.02)MICROSOFT: . 29.85 . (0.28)MOTOROLA: . 6.87 . (0.09)PHILIPS: . 31.18 . (0.74)RENTRAK:. 22.52 . 0.54SEACHANGE: . 8.25 . (0.06)SONY:. 33.28 . (0.2)SPRINT NEXTEL:. 4.18 . 0.08THOMAS & BETTS: . 40.68 . (0.29)TIVO: . 16.80 . (0.34)TOLLGRADE: . 6.31 . (0.04)UNIVERSAL ELEC: . 20.77 . (0.63)VONAGE:. 1.74 . 0.16YAHOO: . 16.49 . 0.17TELCOSAT&T: . 25.77 . (0.13)QWEST:. 5.42 . 0.17VERIZON:. 28.68 . (0.07)MARKET INDICESDOW: . 10868.12 . (58.65)NASDAQ:. 2402.29 . (21.96)TECHNOLOGYADC: . 7.73 . (0.3)ADDVANTAGE: . 2.69 . 0.17ALCATEL LUCENT: . 3.02 . 0.01AMDOCS: . 31.10 . (0.38)AMPHENOL:. 44.11 . (0.66)Value-Added Benefitsfor CableFAX Daily Subscribers OnlyAs part of your CableFAX Daily subscription, did you know that you can view the latest industry Datapoints from our partnersincluding Nielsen, Rentrak, comScore and MediaBiz?Plus as a subscriber, you also have access to an archive of CableFAX Daily stories and articles most relevant to your business needs.Browse articles by topic, keyword search, or download recent issues.gg Log onto www.cablefaxdaily.com15860

CableFAX DailyTMThursday, May 6, 2010 Page 6Think about that for a minute.Hair on Fire!There are an alarming number of quotes in the papersthese days from folks in Washington who sound like they’rerunning around with their hair on fire. The crisis: the Internetis about to fail. The Internet and broadband communications in general are on a precipice of dangerous proportions if the FCC doesn’t do something RIGHT AWAY! Whatthey want the FCC to do is claim new authority over broadband ISPs under “Title II” of the Communications Act anddeclare them a “common carrier.” That, in turn, will give theFCC power to create stiff new “networkneutrality” rules.Naturally you have to accept a wholeseries of assumptions to get to thispanicked position. First, you have toassume there is a serious, imminentproblem with the current operation ofSteve Effros the broadband Internet. There isn’t.The panic is that ISPs could, theoretically, deny access to certain web sites, or start chargingmore for the same service to different Internet applications or information sites, or offer different levels of serviceand all of those things would “destroy” the Internet. Noneof those scenarios have much, if any, factual support.They haven’t happened, even though they could have forthe past decade.Then you have to take the recent Court ruling that theCommission doesn’t have the jurisdiction to imposeheavy regulation on broadband suppliers under Title Iof the Act and conclude that the only way to “save” theInternet from immediate demise is to claim new authority by reversing all prior decisions of the FCC on thissubject, then say you are going to “forebear” from applying almost all of the regulations called for in Title II andonly invoke “network neutrality” to assure the “free, openInternet” survives!instances of broadband service providers actually doingany of the nasty things the “hair on fire” crew (and thatincludes lawyers and lobbyists for some very big companies, and even some regulators and legislators as wellas the “public interest” folks) say they are trying to prevent. Ironically, others are in a better position to do thosethings, and may already be doing some of them.Let’s just consider some numbers, compliments of an article in last week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, on Apple.That company has distributed 4 billion “apps” from astore it controls on the Internet to proprietary devices itcontrols. Access and approval for those apps is totallyApple’s decision. Folks using this closed system, controlled by one company, use 64% of all wireless mobilebrowsing minutes on the Internet. “Free” and “open” arecertainly not the words that would characterize this business model. It controls far more Internet activity than anyone ISP, but there seems to be no “hair on fire” suggestion that the FCC should regulate their “net neutrality.”Google gets over 60% of all “search” queries on the entireInternet, a pure “gatekeeper” function if there ever wasone! They reportedly favor their own associated servicesin “results” for maps, directions, price checks and maybemore. All the things the “hair on fire” folks fear the ISPsmight do. Well, it appears it’s already being done! Googlealso gets special, “fast-lane” Internet delivery over mostcompetitors because they have the clout to install theirown proprietary servers nationwide. Is there any serious“fire drill” suggestion that Google and Apple would be afar more logical starting point to regulate, if you are reallyworried about a “free, open Internet”? Not yet.Why?. To be continued.Amazing. As is well documented, there are virtually noT:703-631-2099steve@effros.comHOW HAS YOUR COMPETITION MODIFIEDTHEIR ADVERTISING STRATEGY?Want the answer? Just Ask Nielsen. Nielsen delivers fast, insightful advertising information that helps you gaugeadvertisers’ strategies across a complete range of media. Let Nielsen show youhow to spend more wisely and better reach your most valuable audiences.For moreinfo, visitwww.nielsen.com/media

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