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...beaned Piazza during a midsummer game in the Bronx, and in this eye-for-an-eye city, there's a law about facing the music. Says Knoblauch of the Series: "I hope everyone comes out of it safe," but he speaks for himself. Speaking for New York is Mike Padden, a legal-aid lawyer who lives in Manhattan, works in Brooklyn, has represented some pretty scuzzy characters from Staten Island, roots for the team in the Bronx, has attended a game or two in Queens and has downed a beer or three at Gallagher's. "Clemens...
...make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed under a completely unfair burden by this whole contrived crisis...
...buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network will probably forgo broadcasting HDTV altogether and instead cram a combination of several standard-definition channels and even some pay-TV programs into the digital pipe. Infuriated public watchdogs see this as sleight of hand. "They get all this spectrum for free, and nobody else...
...HDTV transmission, they can "multicast" several channels of lower-grade digital pictures, which, to the average couch potato, are indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other networks are also hinting that their channels won't be devoted solely to pure HDTV. Says Charles Jablonski, a senior executive at NBC: "We have yet to see a compelling reason to forfeit our flexibility...
...stalled, stymied by the media mogul's insistence that EchoStar switch to a Murdoch-approved descrambling technology. Some industry observers contend the technology issue is only a smoke screen for other problems faced by the venture. The deal was thrown further into doubt late last week when Preston Padden, Murdoch's top satellite executive, resigned, reportedly after clashing with EchoStar chairman Charles Ergen over control of the venture. "The EchoStar deal left me without a real job," Padden told TIME. "I have nothing but respect and affection for Mr. Murdoch, but I am out of here...