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To: Justin C who wrote (22423)	7/6/2000 8:26:24 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

>>Thursday's Houston Chronicle had a brief announcement that the local Time Warner Cable would finally add Fox News Channel to its lineup effective Friday. Up until then Time Warner had excluded FNC because of its comepetition with Time Warner's CNN. It cited "viewer requests" as its reason for adding FNC. I suspect that subscribers' bailing out of cable and going to satellite also contributed to the sudden change. I believe that Houston was one of the cities where Disney offered free DirecTV connection in their winning battle with Time-Warner. Something like 10,000 tried to switch. Funny but DirecTV very often offers free hookups. Either way, anyone who ever sees how well DirecTV works will want to make the switch so I'll bet the Disney action heightened awareness greatly. Also not to be ignored is the pending merger with AOL, Time-Warner has to try to act nice for the interim.