Trib picks Nix

Mashawn Nix, formerly supervising producer for Columbia-TriStar TV's
cancelled Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, has joined Tribune
Entertainment as director, unscripted and reality programming and
development.

That will include Beyond with James Van Praagh, the syndicated hour hosted by
the 'psychic' and targeted for fall 2002.

Before joining Columbia, where she was also a senior producer on Donnie
& Marie
, Nix's production credits included NBC's Leeza and Fox's
Liars.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.