WQXR said it would expand its existing programming partnership with Caramoor.
Some of the existing programming on HDNet, including mixed martial arts matches and the newsmagazine "Dan Rather Reports," will remain in place on AXS TV, Mr. Cuban said.
"I will only answer questions on our future schedule, and not on existing programming," he told journalists at the channel's winter launch, suggesting the teatime show Richard and Judy may be next in line for the axe.
Acquisition of the Fox Family channel would strengthen Disney's influence with younger audiences, give it another outlet for its existing programming as well as expand the Disney brand name overseas.
Still, Disney argued similarly when it acquired Capital Cities/ABC in 1996 that the broadcast network would give it distribution for existing programming, and that ability has not always benefited either the film division or the network.
Will the tools to take advantage of multicore chips come from a trickle-down of high-end scientific computing techniques, the extension of existing programming languages or the spread of previously obscure languages, driven by the needs of web developers?
