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May 31
- Discovery Adds Series Pair
- Charter Eyes 2nd VOD-Server Provider
- TWC Drives Audi to Alaska
- Bishop Eyes Boost in Board Women
- The Return of Ren & Stimpy ?
- Lifetime Gets Its Ya-Ya s Out
- Philly station hit with discrimination suit
- Ohio anchor files age-discrimination suit
- AP TV promotes Groce
May 30
- NASDAQ to Delist Adelphia
- Memorable Memorial Day for TLC
- Thomson to Buy Grundig's Set-Top Biz
- Disney Sets Kim Possible Sweepstakes
- Cox targeted by EEOC
May 29
- Diva Goes Chapter 11
- Wallace biased vs. Bias
- Paxson Not Suing FCC Over Auction Delay
- nCUBE Claims Patent Win
- Charter Launches HDTV
- Adelphia Exec Details L.A. Needs
- TNN Goes on Blind Date
- Deceptive drug ads targeted
- Oprah stays put in Greensboro
- Tow Gets Two Adelphia Seats
May 28
- Gunman storms CBS' L.A. studio
- Williams to Replace Brokaw in 2004
- MediaCom likes WB, UPN skeds
- Andrea Thompson joins Court TV
- AFL-CIO Opposing DBS Merger
- ACTV Loses Disney Patent Suit
- Game Show Network Lines Up Lingo
- WorldLink Named TNN's Infomercial Rep
- Comcast Faces Privacy Lawsuit
- Vendors Gear Up for Cable-Tec Expo
- Adelphia Outlines Rigas Family Deals
- Binzel leaving NCTA
- ABC goes inside the towers
- FCC schedules/delays spectrum auction
May 27
- FCC Restricts Cable in MVDDS Auction
- CARP is thrown back
- Minn. OKs Privacy Bill
- Twin Cities exchange
- Station Break
- 'Queer' Merchandise Spins Onto the Web
- Showtime Travels Far for New Image Spots
- Fates & Fortunes
- Editorials
- MTV Operating without a net
- Friedman expands game-show role
- Changing Hands
- Fisher in, Black stays
- Love That Clorox Ready Mop
- Part 1: Why Billing Systems Matter
- HBO, SET Slate $20M to Push Fight
- Fisher — and Black — In at Lifetime
- Rigases Lose Grip On Adelphia
- Justice denied as Hollings prevails
- IN BRIEF
- A healthy, stable market
- Hallmark Scores With Epic Mini
- Local Ties Run Deep
- Dish Distant-Signal Challenge Falls Short
- KCAL news anchor Jerry Dunphy dies
- Hollings Crushes Merger-Review Deal
- Adelphia: From bad to worse
May 24
- NBC, IBS team with HotJobs
- Court ices 'Cupcake'
- Fox's Minn. twins to trade afiliations
May 23
- EchoStar, DirecTV tap Grand Rapids
- NAB's Holy joins FCC
- KCOP cuts, moves news
- ABC wins lawsuit
- Nick Maintains Wide Kids' Lead
- PEJ study: Serious news was temporary
- Home Depot Signs Disney Deal
- HDNet Adds Arena Football Games
- Rigases All Leave Adelphia Board
- Rigases All Leave Adelphia Board
- DirecTV Expands Ad-Sales Categories
- Mets Go Bilingual on MSG
- CCTA's Hirschfield to Depart
May 22
- Wolfe exits PBS
- ABC, Smithsonian team up on 9/11 video
- Friedman remains big Wheel
- LMN Goes Digital with Ad Insertion
- Adelphia Misery Touches Major Vendor
- Liberty Eyes Astrolink Assets
- Showtime Meets Soldier's Girl
- Minnesota Passes Telecom-Privacy Bill
- Salomon Sees Zero Value in Adelphia
- DirecTV Pirate Fined $1M
May 21
- Court TV honors heroes
- XM opens performance studio
- NBA Boosts Turner; Lifetime's Back
- Cable snares share
- RUS: Can DBS Merger Save $1B?
- AOL Time Warner Invests in TestU
- CBS wins Monday night
- Broadcom Bows Set-Top, Modem-Chip Combo
- Nanotech: Cable's Next Big Thing?
- Hallmark picks Gilbert
- A&E to launch TV-Ography
- Kaiser study shows TV sex impacts teens
- Trio Focuses on Censorship
- A&E, History Reveal Programming Plans
- KCAL newscaster Dunphy dies
May 20
- Fisher to head Lifetime programming
- Fitzgerald Adds Livewire Acting Post
- Supreme Court passes on EchoStar case
- Showtime Spins Queer Merchandise
- WWE buys back NBC stake
- O'Hearn Leaves CNN
- Consolidate to survive
- FOX: Back to the drawing board—and drawing a lot
- FCC spares DTV rod
- Hispanic Nets Offer Up Strategies
- Good News, Despite Gemstar Write-Off
- Montgomery to Leave Adelphia
- 'Yankers' Puppet Pranks Fall Flat
- RCN, WOW Pull Back But Add VOD, Tiering
- Serving up TV's next generation
- UPN: Synergy, yes, but weblet still goes its own way
- Discovery Names 'Storyteller' as President
- NHL Gets New Digital Channel
- Editorials
- Cablevision Will Revamp 'Power to Learn'
- Pegasus Seeks Financial Stability
- The week that was
- PAX: A growing emphasis on original production
- Akamai Gains On 'Distributed Edge'
- SkyStream's broadband vision
- Station Break
- ABC: A strategy for stemming the slide
- CBS takes flak for Pearl tape
- PWC Focuses on Revenue Leakage
- National Geo goes HD
- A step toward digital STL
- Ops Fear DTV 'Cliff'
- SureWest Eyes WINfirst
- CBS: Searching for the fountain of youth
- Hispanic-American TV booms
- Fates & Fortunes
- THE WB: Pitching to the belly-ring/tattoo demographic
May 17
- Sinclair continues fight on LMA divestitures
- Nielsen: Slight 1Q Cable Ad Uptick
- FCC Opens Cable-Relay Eligibility
May 16
- MSTV appeals for TV-spectrum delay
- FCC: All multichannel distributors welcomed
- Holy People Meter! Batman Punches Demos
- UPN posts fall lineup
- CFO Tim Rigas Out at Adelphia
- Reporter exits WPVI-TV over book flap
- Ally WTC necklace an eBay hit
- EchoStar Plans Dish Wallet
- Win-WIN Situation for SureWest
- Montgomery Leaves Adelphia
- Tow's Next Target: Kailbourne
May 15
- Univision Closes Spanish Upfront
- CBS defends airing of Pearl video
- Tow: Rigas' Departure Changes Nothing
- Rigas out as Adelphia crisis deepens
- McLeodUSA Unloads Systems in Midwest
- Boylan Recruits Gemstar Execs
May 14
- Galavisión Details New Programming
- ABC nixes Politically Incorrect
- Campbell to run Discovery's U.S. nets
- Pittsburgh TV deal languishes
- Emmis persists in fight for Honolulu duopoly
- 4Kids opens lid on `Fox Box'
- DirecTV Bird Reports Anomaly
- ABC announces fall programs
- Expanded Lineup for Bandies
- New ISPs approved for AOL Time Warner
- Charter gets The Word
May 13
- Nintendo Plans Online Adapters
- Tow Wants Three Adelphia Seats
- The WB unveils fall schedule
- NBC announces fall lineup
- Bud, SoBe, E! Get Wild
- CMT Buttresses Long-Form Series
- AT&T, CSG to Arbitration Again
- Twins strike out in court
- WRC-TV looks in-house
- Changing Hands
- Kaitz Foundation Names Grant Winners
- Ganging up on sports fees
- Diageo Pours Liquor Ads on to Unwired Network
- Integration, VOD Make Headway
- Nat Geo Sponsors School Field Trips
- More Animated Disney Series to Air on ABC
- NTL Files Pre-Packaged Chapter 11
- Bilotti to Cable: Ignore Street's Pressure
- Fates & Fortunes
- iTV gets first standard
- Cox Tacks on Decade in San Diego
- NBA Playoffs Drive Ratings Gains for TNT, TBS
- Crossing the Threshold of the Gateway
- Discovery Solutions to Explore Cross-Media World
- Microsoft Takes Heat Off ITV's Liberate
- Modem/Routers Stage Home-Net Land Rush
- Cable is All About Family
- Job One for Austin: Forget How to Spell 'Merger'
- Station Break
- NCTA wrap-up
- NCTA Briefs
- Fleming's Back in the Game
- Upfront, Cross-Media Fight for Spotlight
- Lifetime Sends Heroic Message
- In Demand Sets PPV Wrestling Series
- Liberty Unit Buys OpenTV, ACTV
- Turner's chief shopper
May 12
- Fleming Back in the Game
May 10
- Sinclair to run third Nashville station
- Sinclair to run third Nashville station
- E! Pulls Plug on Talk Soup
- Granite sets preferred-stock buyback
- Interactive Alias
- DirecTV Broadband Targets Cable
- Insight Beats 1Q Estimates
- Playboy Renews Reality Series
- Mucha Replaces Disney's Dryer
- Cable One Battles Pole Rates
May 9
- Black mayors support EchoStar merger
- Ferguson to pick up Radio award
- Pax TV renews four series
- Mucha promoted at Disney
- Nick Picks DIC Flicks
- Bundling `Essential' to RCN
- Robbins, Schleyer Back Cablevision
- Kirch, NTL Declare Bankruptcy
- Charter Could Leave CableLabs
May 8
- NCTA appoints new board
- Adelphia Puts 2.75M Subs on Block
- Charter Taps Convergys for Billing Services
- Nets flexible on VOD
- Woodcock out at KCBS-TV
- OpenTV First Investment for Boylan's LBIT
May 7
- Selip hired for Donahue show
- Hallmark, Wendy's team up to promote Adoption
- Millionaire to be scaled back
- TI, Motorola Team Up on Cable Modems
- Wendy's to Sponsor Hallmark's Adoption
- DirecTV Bird Launches on 2nd Try
- Adelphia to Settle Racial-Harassment Suit
- Cablevision to Launch ESPN ITV Channel
- New ITV Trade Association Formed
- Bergen Hits the Streets with Oxygen
- Cartoon Plugs In Robot
- Crocs Return to Animal Planet
- WWF becomes WWE
May 6
- Viacom buys KCAL-TV
- Discovery re-signs McGowan
- Livin' Large clearing big
- Wink: Upfront Going Interactive
- Callahan: Why Malone Failed in Germany
- Comcast, Charter: No New Modem Taxes
- GAC Adds 1.7M Subs in 1Q
- Kellner: Consumers should pay to zap ads
- CBS stations credited in capture
- Banfield goes on Location
- Tower plan may not hold up
- KOLO-TV proposal suggests news time for sale
- Fox News Launches Affiliate Web Site
- ESPN Creates Domestic Sports Group
- New president for King sales
- Microsoft meets the IPG
- Word Allies Protest Mediacom
- PPV Events Struggle For Operator Respect
- Bornstein Bolts as ABC TV Chief
- Kutztown Muni Befuddles Ops
- 'Breaking News' Finds Home: Bravo
- Weather Links to Cable-Modem Promo
- Doing the ABC reshuffle
- Cable takes the high-def high road
- Seattle Acts to Protect Data Privacy
- As Service Levels Rise, Gripes Persist
- Pioneer to Debut Home-Net Gateway
- Another DTV threat
- Urban-Centric Pay Net Plans Debut
- FX Shifts Primetime Focus to Movies From Series
- Trying to be Cheery
- Once Sellers, They're Cable Buyers Now
- Telco-dereg bill hits the Senate
- Changing Hands
- More than it can swallow?
- Grande, ClearSource Will Combine Forces
- HBO, SET Pitch Aggressive Card
- Interactive Games Try a Set-Top Play
- Fates & Fortunes
- Potential Grows as Cable Connects America
- MSOs: Playing hard to get
- MTVN Charts Course Amid Op Cost 'Squeeze'
- Journalists' survival schools
- Pushing cable on demand
- A flair for the dramas
- Little Ops Say the Squeeze Is On
- Houlton, Maine: Town in Transition
- Station Break
May 3
- Studios USA to deliver Good News
- Discovery's McGowan to Get New Post
- Dish Drops TV Polonia
- DirecTV Rewards PPV Customers
- 12M with 'Major' Cable, DSL Providers
- Lists better left to Letterman
- Toshiba: King of Cable-Modem Hill
- NTL Bankruptcy Plan OKed
May 2
- Senator drafts bill to regulate DTC ads
- Lauer stays with Today
- Avanswers Shculman to retire
- DiSalvo upped at King World
- MTV pegs August for VMA
- Copps Wants Media to Clean It Up
May 1
- Top MSOs commit to Powell's DTV plan
- Malveaux joins CNN
- Kager joins NBC Media Sales
- Nielsen to meter Knoxville
- Fox's Gibbs joins Wall $treet Week