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In light of today's events, all cable industry diversity week events in New York have been cancelled. This includes the Kaitz dinner on September 13.

Proponents of dual must carry have failed again to make a statutory case for the government’s imposition of redundant broadcast signals on cable systems already facing capacity challenges, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association stated in reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission’s docket on digital broadcast carriage.

The cable industry reported solid increases in deployment of broadband services during second-quarter 2001, adding more than two million new digital customer units, a National Cable & Telecommunications Association study revealed today.

Competition in the multichannel video market continued to increase over the past year, and "there is ample evidence now for the Commission to conclude that video competition has fully taken hold," the National Cable & Telecommunications Association stated in comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission today.

National Cable & Telecommunications Association Board Chairman and Insight Communications President Michael S. Willner announced today that NCTA has extended the employment contract of President & CEO Robert Sachs through December 31, 2004.

The cable industry now passes more than 60 million households with its high speed Internet service, and the industry’s deployment continues at a rapid pace, NCTA President & CEO Robert Sachs told a meeting of the Telecommunications Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in Seattle, WA today.

While cable telephony is still a relatively young business, cable companies now serve some 1.3 million residential subscribers in 20 states, according to a just-released National Cable & Telecommunications Association white paper: "Cable Telephony: Offering Consumers Competitive Choice."

As cable networks concluded five days of programming previews Saturday at the Television Critics Association’s Press Tour here, the varied offerings highlighted the diversity and innovation that cable has brought to television.

NCTA President & CEO Robert Sachs's comments regarding the Henrico County Case.