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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith and John Malone were sitting in their respective offices last Tuesday, both watching the same show: a C-SPAN broadcast of the Federal Communications Commission hearing on cable-TV rates. Smith, the chairman of Bell Atlantic, was in his Arlington, Virginia, office; Malone, the boss of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was at TCI headquarters in Denver. Both executives were appalled as they watched the FCC announce a 7% reduction in cable rates, on top of a 10% rollback ordered last year. Malone immediately telephoned Smith. "Ray," Malone said in an emotionless voice, "this is a bigger hit than...
...time they met the next day in the midtown Manhattan offices of Bell Atlantic's law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Smith had calculated that the rate reduction would slash TCI's cash flow by $1.8 billion and thereby reduce the company's value by a comparable amount. But Malone wouldn't hear of it. "I will not sell my company at the bottom of the market," the cable executive said, "and you'd be crazy to pay more than top dollar with this level of uncertainty...
...sing-song-y ambience, but things never get boring. Moxy Fruvous mixes things up, offering a funny song about a poor guy whose girlfriend says, "Hon drop dead, I'd rather go to bed/with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, Leave on the light for bell hooks." There's also an ode to the e-z recliner chair, "The Lazy Boy," and a cover the "Spiderman" song. These guys even top the diversity of Phish, with a song about Morpheus, Greek god of sleep--in French no less...
...when treating a woman well sometimes means taking her to Taco Bell instead of McDonald's, such finesse is refreshing...
...communications industry and the quest for films, TV shows and other programming to run on the much anticipated electronic superhighway. Companies now feel compelled to bulk up to colossal size to compete with giants like Time Warner or huge telephone-cable-TV combines like the proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications...