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- May 29
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- Kevin Tsujihara
- Universal Banks on Interactive Television
- OBITUARY
- California Amplifier, Vyyo Eye Specs
- Northpoint Opposes Pegasus Spectrum Plans
- CABLES TOP 25
- PROGRAMMING
- WebE1 offers online production
- A Setback for AT & T, A Gain for DBS
- JOURNALISM
- Cheskin flying to Travel Channel
- Little Means a Lot for Charter
- WORLDLINK
- Liberty, HMT & F Cement Ties in Argentina
- Showtime, CBS Pound Out Boxing Deal
- Fox News Net Sues Over TheStreet.com Comments
- Nick, Nick, Nick!
- Diller Faces Struggle with Trio, NWI
- TBS Disaster Film Sinks Fast
- DVD-quality video at 1 Mb/s
- DBS Retrans Talks Down to the Wire
- Promax brings out big guns
- Sens. Seek FCC Sex-and-Violence Review
- Just Shoot Me hits targets
- Mediacom Starts Stock-Buyback Program
- Nielsen to Measure ACTVs Interactive Ads
- Severino upped at CBS
- It has a familiar sound to it
- Ruling of the month
- QVC
- Its ABC by a mile
- ADC, Telcordia Team Up
- Court Gives Cable-Porn Law the Boot
- BROADCAST TV
- ON2.COM
- Anchor has eye surgery
- Foxs split personality
- Dish Piles On the Retail Promotions
- Sex can sell again
- Small businesses get SBTV.com
- TVKO, In Demand Set De La Hoya Deal
- Pace Eyes Major Set-Top Push in U.S.
- Hildenbrand Upped to Exec VP at Cablevision
- Road Runner Launches New Service Platform
- NMT gets ABC mobile fleet
- COMBOS
- FMS
- Tristani shuffles and adds to staff
- Microsoft raises 8-VSB concerns
- Fox Family Prepares For Life After Cronin
- A Net gain for Warner Bros.
- FUTURETV
- In Haims way: Cronin is gone
- Everest to Serve N.Y., Chicago Buildings
- Van accident rings union safety alarms
- NCTA Airs Gripes Over NAB Action
- AMS
- May 22
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- Small market, big technology
- Big final Outer Limits episode
- VIDEO - SERVER MENU
- Cross-platform synergy
- BROADCAST TV
- Thunderbox, a boxing/entertainment weekly hour unveiled at NATPE, has been declared a firm "go" for a September launch.
- WSIs Intellicast.com: Weather for the Web
- Dick Knipfing, described by local media as the dean of TV news in Albuquerque, N.M., has left koat-tv, citing personal reasons-
- CSG Strikes Deals with Cox, SoftNet
- CHANGING HANDS
- FMS
- JOURNALISM
- COMBOS
- Serving up multimedia
- Jerry gets Millionaire-d
- Fighting viruses with DTV
- A TV cameraman is suing kprc-tv Houston, claiming the station fired him for refusing to use a fake pass for access to political events.
- Mass. Utility Set to Forge Into Cable
- HITS Eyes Further Operator Customization
- Cablevision Nears Rainbow Tracking Stock
- WISDOM
- Waga(tv) Atlanta personality Gurvin Dhindsa will leave that station to become an anchor and reporter at wusa(tv) Washington, D.C.
- Nobody walks in Los Angeles
- Odyssey Launches V-Chip PSAs
- Cisco Systems Eyes Move Into Broadband Content, Digital TV
- Cable Nets Spur Growth For USA
- DEATHS
- Reporter charged in Minnesota
- The Cable Guy, Revisited
- VOD Vendors Reach Out and Get Personal
- Israel DTH Launch Date Remains Uncertain
- Cables Churn Rate Staying Put
- VOD, New Services Gaining Momentum
- Novelas all over and a $1M game show
- Leaks in the pool
- CBS is a good Bette
- CABLE
- Video servers: Technologys new team players
- Sands Shift in the Mideast DTH Business
- Spanish-Language Nets Set Game Shows
- Consulting firm BIA Financial Network has officially launched SpectraRep, a company aiming to aggregate DTV spectrum and then represent broadcasters as they pursue new revenues from datacasting services.
- Britains Yes TV Drops IPO Value
- Start-Up Eyes Overbuild in Buffalo
- CABLES TOP 25
- Pax TV to Debut Four New Series
- Telemundo to Acquire Gems Television
- Turner Touts Webs Role in Media Plans
- Pax TV pushes its own
- The WB wants laughs
- Court TV, ESPN to Cover Ray Lewis Murder Trial
- Dub-and-ship ads
- Fox builds on hits
- Broadcasting clusters
- Ed Masry, the boss of law siren Erin Brockovich (portrayed by Julia Roberts in the Sony Pictures blockbuster docudrama), has been added to the legal team of Twentieth Televisions Power of Attorney.
- Rumors are swirling that the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an Internet entertainment site, will file soon for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- Fox maneuvers for NASCAR net
- CARLSEN
- Showtime to offer TiVo auto-record
- Cablevision tries RCNs strategy
- Meeting VOD demand
- SET Focuses on Upcoming Heavyweight PPV Events
- PROGRAMMING
- Harmonic launches SatBox access
- WebMD TV Searches for Signature Show
- Lets hear it for the airwaves
- ICTV adds Yack
- Diller buying Trio
- May 15
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- Kids Upfront Looks Nearly Wrapped Up
- BellSouth takes to the sky
- Here He Comes Again, Paulinas Guy
- Jermoluk Steps Aside at Excite@Home
- MNI Summit Examines State of Global Industry
- Cable upfront wins the battle for bucks
- BellSouth Pops Plans for DBS Regional Service
- Disney Weighs In on AOL-Time Warner
- How UBO funds its groove
- Frestons Team Vows To Soup Up CMT
- Feud cranks up
- Comcast Rebrands Suburban, Garden State
- TECHNOLOGY
- VOD: Moving from concept to reality
- TVN Hires VOD Exec
- Analyst Views: Stocks Are a Buy, DBS Ails
- The entertainment industry last year gave nearly $2 million to the committees that work on getting their respective parties elected to Congress,
- Networks Announce Cable-Carriage Deals
- Clear Channel spins, contd.
- McCain: FCC should move on LPFM…
- USA
- Charter goes tapeless
- Vendors Offer Bandwidth-Management Plans
- Kiss Convergence Goodbye, Welcome Exploitation
- PROGRAMMING
- Health Net To Shift to WebMD TV
- Umansky recalled
- Australian Exec Faces Heady Task at JV
- NxtWave teams with TeraLogic
- Cynthia Hamilton Augustine
- COMBOS
- Set-Top Silicon Moves Add Flexibility
- Gralnick Out at CNN, Replaced by OHearn
- Microsoft Deal Signals Standards Sea Change
- Barry Thurston is a firm go
- FCC Chairman William Kennard last week predicted that AT & Ts merger with MediaOne Corp. would be approved "within a matter of days," but
- Time Warners Collins Named NCTA Chairman
- Aiming the missiles of September
- JOURNALISM
- Regent Communications Inc.
- Has Playboy stooped to Conger?
- FOX FAMILY
- Youve got TV (AOL style)
- Messianic Intensity: NCTA 2000
- UPN makeover
- Selling U: Groups launch TV sales school
- Pax PSAs
- HSA, Lucent Team Up On IP-Telephony Plans
- Convergence Draws Cable to T-Commerce
- RADIO
- A real dogfight
- Big City Radio Inc.
- Fujinon HD lenses break the ice
- DirecTV Adds a Blockbuster Ally
- New Publisher at Cablevision Magazine
- Niche-Event Providers Welcome Digital Push
- TVS
- Rainbow Spinoff Plans Could Emerge Soon
- Spain Says Hola to Digital Terrestrial
- NAMIC builds a bridge
- TNT, CNN/SI Sign Courier for Wimbledon
- Win one for the V.I.P.er
- DirecTV linking with Blockbuster
- Dolan says no Yankees deal yet
- LIBERTY
- Turned off by Emmis TV
- May 8
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- Lewis Is No Meal Ticket
- DEATHS
- Fed slaps AT &T on the wrist
- A listless Odyssey
- Brainchildren
- Second-time charm?
- Wabc-tv New York News Director Bart Feder is joining interactive broadband TV news network The FeedRoom as vice president of news, the latest in the Internet brain drain.
- South Park Creators Renew at Comedy Central
- Nondisclosure costs AT & T little
- Here they come
- High speed, low power
- ASSOCIATIONS/LAW FIRMS
- AMC Honors Women Film Pioneers
- GALAVISIÓN
- TV Guide Channel Adds a View-er
- WOW Gets Texas-Wide Thumbs-Up
- WWF Knocks Out Fight on PPV
- EchoStar Offers Dish-Lease Model
- Embattled wowk-tv Charleston, W.Va., News Anchor Tom McGee filed a $15 million counterclaim against his employer,
- FX gets a makeover
- Trinity Broadcasting won its fight to keep its Miami TV license.
- COMBOS
- Crown Media IPO Goes Off at $14 Per
- Oh, look. Another Internet first
- Cable Reaches Out to Hispanic Market
- WORLDGATE
- PROGRAMMING
- India Opens Door to Satellite Platforms
- Charter Picks Diva for VOD Rollout
- Tug-of-war over point-and-click turf
- A primer on retrans and must-carry
- Z Music Gives Way to Video Rola
- Pulling the plug on Imus
- Men Behaving Badly
- VNI Aids Charters InterconnectPlans
- San Francisco-
- TECHNOLOGY
- Alex Thompson
- JOURNALISM
- New faces at top of NCTA
- DBS D.C. Point Man Stays Lean
- Paxson pushes for JSAs
- Dolgin to Head Fox Sports Net
- VH1s Divas, Men Get a Sales Boost
- Tales from the PEG-Channel Front
- NECN comes into its own
- Krasnow to deliver NBCs daytime goods
- In Demand Carries Psychic PPV Event
- The news also rises
- The Truth will out
- Koreans Lambaste Murdoch Over DTH Plan
- Comcast May Have New Rival in Indy
- A SeaChange to VOD
- Brazils Globo Cabo Unleashes SWAT Team
- Europes Zone Vision Eyes More Countries
- William Styslinger
- AMS
- He built his competition
- Syndies set to fill gaps
- HSN Readies Spanish-Language Version
- The Inspiration Network is not for sale, according to president and CEO David Cerullo.
- VOD User Interfaces Evolve
- Seagram reduces stake in USA
- Martin Umansky died in Wichita last week at 83.
- South Park stays put
- Douglas H. McCorkindale will succeed John J. Curley as CEO at Gannett Co. Inc.,
- Nick Extends Kids Friday-Night Block
- Ex-Owners Forgery Costs AT & T $4.5M
- UPC Primed for New Projects
- Cable Positive Taps Villano as Chief
- Cox Express Speeds Digital Rollout in Ariz.
- Three MSO Heads on Going Public
- Washington Pols Jump On Digital-Divide Bandwagon
- SkyStream unveils cable router
- Cable Campaigns for Election-Ad Dollars
- D.C. news crew badly burned
- Merger gains and pains
- FMS
- HBOs Americanos Seen In Homestead
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Liguori May Have Right Rx for FX
- Z Music goes to heaven
- Boom Times in Cable Town Again
- FCC delays 60-69 scramble
- RADIO
- FX Bullish on Distribution
- May 1
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- DOCSIS 1.1 Modem Engine Starts Purring
- Real Rashad
- Small MSO Buys ISPs-and Gets DSL
- Headlines
- Free Net time for politicians
- Road Runner, Rampt Team Up on Searches
- Princeton Video Champions Virtual Ads
- MSOs Tread Carefully Into Retail World
- Philbin offspring mounts the barricades for dad
- Disney Offers Extension
- JOURNALISM
- COMBOS
- Spurs, Blazers Tap PPV for NBA Playoff Games
- Overbuilders Pitch Bundled Bill Harder
- Raycom served by Leitch
- Tyson Pay TV Date Moves to June 24
- Tough spring for Springer
- Hint: USA Buys Net
- TVS
- Fresno Mulls Access Issue
- NCC Shops Around One-Stop Concept
- Ascent Agrees to Sell Teams
- Overbuilds Add to Worker Shortage
- Telefnica Eyes Stake in Argentinas Multicanal
- WB closes door
- Barrys on the prowl again
- TV misses the moment
- VH1 Classic Gears for Launch
- The FCC wants to delay until September the auction of spectrum now used by ch. 60-69,
- SCTE Body Wants Input on Forced-Tuning Issue
- Headlines
- Memphis Operator Sues for Utility Data
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Adelphias Buffalo Works Get Aid Boost
- Consolidation Grips Mexico's Cable Industry
- Beefed up and tweaked
- Interactive-TV Firms Play Merger Game
- The Big Three
- Convergys Ups CEO Orr
- Sci Fi Eyes All Original Summer
- Entertaindom execs exit stage right
- Top 25 Cable operators
- TeraBeam, Lucent Extend Bandwidth Limits
- AMS
- The Other Gatekeeper: AT & Ts Matt Bond
- Cox Continues to Surprise on Upsells
- For nets, its gut-check time
- Discrimination suit
- Galaxy hurtling into fire sale
- Justice OKs Viacom Deal
- DirecTV Taps Telco Exec as President
- DBS battles Northpoint
- FMS
- Showtime, MGM Sign Output Deal
- New Uplink Economics Spur Indian Channels
- Fox TV Stations Chairman and CEO Mitch Stern last week handed off the day-to-day chores at the 22 Fox owned-and-operated TV stations.
- Van Toffler
- CNBC, Pax TV Nab Senior Golf
- InterMedia@Home Hosts Internet Seminar
- Comedy tonight, on NBCs site
- Analyst: Beware Junk Spectrum
- Internet-Tax Issues Divide Lawmakers
- PLAYBOY
- MSOs Can Press 1 for Voice Web Options
- Brad Siegels Hot Seat Rests on Many Fires
- Kids Upfront Is Moving-Slowly
- VALUEVISION
- High-power diversity
- Texas City Weighs Penalties
- Luring subscribers to DBS
- ADVERTISING/MARKETING/ PUBLIC RELATIONS
- Turnover Starts to Sweep Asian Programmers
- A SeaChange for TV Guide on VOD
- PPV Nets Target Original Programming
- TNTs Hallowed Ground a Three-Pointer
- USA Clears Pilots for Wednesday Takeoffs
- Fox compresses with Tandberg
- COMEDY
- Trevose, Pa.-
- Hundt Looks Back at His Personal 1984
- Automating DirecTV
- Headlines
- Andrews returns, behind the lens
- Liberate licenses Font Fusion
- Pace Micro, Philips Set-Tops Spin Box as Home Gateway
- A Dallas anchor has filed suit in a Texas court charging several leading media-ethics experts with violating journalism standards by fabricating facts to fit an ethics scenario.
- Ed Goren has been promoted to president of Fox Sports. He had been executive producer since Fox sports came into being, with the networks acquisition of an NFL package in 1994.
- NBC signs ER, but for millions less
- BROADCAST TV
- Bethesda, Md.-
- MERGE, THEN DIVEST
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