Gemstar Guides Charter To Sign 10-Year IPG Deal.(Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, February, 2001 by DONOHUE, STEVE

Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. gave WorldGate Communications Inc. executives about four days to celebrate record earnings and program-guide distribution news before breaking up the party last week. On Tuesday, Gemstar announced a 10-year interactive program guide licensing deal with Charter Communications Inc.

The MSO plans to offer TV Guide Interactive to most of its digital cable subscribers. The deal boosted Gemstar's stock and had the opposite effect for WorldGate. It was also a bit of a surprise, given that Charter was one of the four MSOs that formed the TVGateway IPG consortium with WorldGate last summer in order to compete with Gemstar's IPG. Charter had recently replaced TV Guide Interactive with TVGateway in several systems, which...

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