"Our cable brands are a powerhouse for the entire company," says Anne Sweeney, Disney's cable chief.
To brand and how to brand — those were the questions taken up by cable chiefs at Thursday's Hollywood Radio and Television Society luncheon, which also yielded a philosophical debate over how to balance the copyright threat/promotional benefits of YouTube and the era of "personalized entertainment".
Bresnan, based in White Plains, has not operated a cable system since its chief executive, William Bresnan, sold his last cable company to Charter Communications Inc. in 2000.
"Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked the News Corp. chief at a cable industry confab in Washington, D.C., Thursday.
Chief Executive Carl Vogel Carl Vogel, a cable industry veteran hired only a year ago, will assume Barford's duties for an interim period.
In December, a cable from the C.I.A.'s station chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, to the Pentagon argued that the military's hiring of its own spies could have disastrous consequences, with various networks possibly colliding with one another.
The IRA's changing business practices are revealed in a cable by Jonathan Benton, the then deputy chief of mission at the American embassy in Dublin, which reported on meetings with senior Irish police officers and senior officials from the department of justice.
In fact, a revamped CBS News.comunveiled in 2005 was hailed by Heyward and online chief Larry Kramer as a "cable bypass" that would give it the benefits of a news channel without the need to worry about finding distribution.
"Those choices are relevant," said Harold E. Morse, the chief executive of Ovation, a cable arts network.
His father is the chief financial officer of KSM Electronics, a cable parts manufacturer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
