DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - It's beginning to look as if more than 60,000 cable television subscribers in 12 states will lose a local television station because of a dispute between Mediacom Communications Corp. and Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair has insisted that Mediacom pay $1 million more than the cable provider is willing to pay to carry its television stations.

Video-on-demand system provider SeaChange is acquiring the remaining assets of Liberate Technologies, following the sale of the North American business to a joint venture of the Comcast and Cox cable television companies in the United States.

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Cable television provider Cox Communications Inc. is exploring the sale of some Louisiana operations, including systems in Lake Charles and Alexandria and in smaller cities, the company said.

The country's largest cable provider said that profits were buoyed by demand for digital television and high-speed Internet services.

The world's largest cable-televisio n provider benefited from the purchase of Adelphia Communications and record sales of phone and digital-TV services.