--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Evening Bridge - April 25, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY - Adelphia will pay $715 million to settle an ongoing fraud investigation, the Justice Department announced this afternoon. The money will be put into a fund for those who lost money after the company's founding family allegedly looted the cable operator and used it as their personal "piggy bank."
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SBC said the effort marked its best-ever quarterly increase in DSL lines --- Qwest, which releases first quarter results next week, said investors can expect the company to report net income thanks to a gain of about $250 million on the sale of its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless --- Shaw launched digital phone service in Edmonton. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What's New --------------------------------------------------------------------- In this week's edition of The BRIDGE, which will be released tomorrow morning, we continue our in-depth coverage of on-demand with a list of seven gotta-haves for operators deploying this burgeoning service. We also take a global view of broadband and on-demand deployment and follow the video-on-demand data trail. Every time a consumer clicks on a VOD offering, data is exchanged with a headend server ... but what should operators do with all that data? To get this issue hot off the press, sign up for The BRIDGE at http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/subscribe.cfm. Why wait? It's FREE! --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Week Ahead --------------------------------------------------------------------- Comcast will release first quarter results Thursday. Insight reports 1Q results the same day. In addition, the nation's satellite radio companies, XM and Sirius, report first quarter results Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. DirecTV's Spaceway 1 satellite, which will support the company's efforts to expand HDTV, is set for launch early Tuesday morning. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PrimeTime Players --------------------------------------------------------------------- Close Pts. + % Chg 52-Week BLS 26.10 0.29 1.12 % 24.46 - 28.96 CVC 26.61 - 0.09 - 0.34 % 16.13 - 31.64 CHTR 1.32 0.03 2.33 % 1.19 - 4.64 CMCSA 32.39 0.58 1.82 % 26.25 - 34.50 CSGS 16.31 0.32 2.00 % 14.02 - 21.215 DTV 14.07 0.06 0.43 % 13.88 - 18.81 DISH 29.50 - 0.15 - 0.51 % 26.95 - 34.85 GMSTE 4.21 0.05 1.20 % 3.97 - 6.39 GE 36.38 0.28 0.78 % 29.55 - 37.75 ICCI 11.73 - 0.05 - 0.42 % 7.83 - 12.15 IACI 22.23 0.41 1.88 % 19.16 - 34.35 L 10.24 - 0.05 - 0.49 % 8.33 - 11.28 LBTYA 42.14 - 0.03 - 0.07 % 28.60 - 47.70 MCCC 5.87 0.02 0.34 % 5.06 - 8.55 MSFT 24.99 0.01 0.04 % 23.82 - 30.20 MOT 15.77 - 0.01 - 0.06 % 13.83 - 20.87 MBND 1.32 0.10 8.20 % 0.96 - 2.05 MWAV 1.17 0.00 0.00 % 0.85 - 2.78 NNDS 31.10 0.25 0.81 % 19.60 - 40.00 NWS 16.53 - 0.05 - 0.30 % 15.305 - 19.41 NXTL 29.28 0.39 1.35 % 21.18 - 30.50 OUTD 14.55 0.05 0.34 % 12.50 - 19.30 PAX 1.07 0.05 4.90 % 0.48 - 3.81 PIO 17.53 0.47 2.75 % 17.01 - 30.85 Q 3.55 0.00 0.00 % 2.56 - 4.86 SBC 23.32 0.12 0.52 % 22.78 - 27.29 SFA 30.99 0.55 1.81 % 24.61 - 36.50 SIRI 5.14 0.04 0.76 % 2.01 - 9.43 FON 23.31 0.24 1.04 % 16.83 - 25.80 TWX 17.45 0.09 0.52 % 15.41 - 19.90 TIVO 6.30 0.24 3.96 % 3.45 - 9.12 UCOMA 9.09 - 0.09 - 0.98 % 5.80 - 10.23 VZ 34.06 0.00 0.00 % 33.71 - 42.27 VIA 35.59 0.28 0.79 % 32.56 - 41.22 DIS 27.20 - 0.10 - 0.37 % 20.88 - 29.99 XMSR 27.40 0.87 3.28 % 20.35 - 40.89 ===================================================================== For all the industry critical news - see: The BRIDGE War Room - http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/research.cfm SkyREPORT - http://www.skyreport.com SkyRETAILER - http://www.skyretailer.com The BRIDGE - http://www.mbc-thebridge.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- -To modify your subscription to The Evening Bridge, visit http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/register.cfm We welcome your comments and suggestions. 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