Fox, Cox Move Past Retrans Dispute.(Fox Cable Networks Group and Cox Communications Inc. end dispute about retransmission of Fox programming)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, August, 2001 by FORKAN, JIM

In moving from contentious retransmission-consent wrangling to cooperative affiliate promotion partnering, Fox Cable Networks Group and Cox Communications Inc. seem to following a line uttered by the ape character Limbo in 20th Century-Fox's Planet of the Apes: "Can't we all just get along?" It wasn't all that long ago that MSOs such as Cox and Time Warner Cable butted heads with Fox over retransmission of its television stations.

But all parties seem to have let bygones be bygones, as FCNG seeks to help these MSOs pad their coffers and boost consumer awareness of new products through aggressive affiliate promotions. "We [Fox and Cox] have had issues in the past," acknowledged newly promoted Fox Cable vice president of affiliate marketing, sports Sol...

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