Broadcasting & Cable - April 16, 2000
Cover Story
Excite@Home cuts DSL deal
Essentially going into competition with some cable operators, Excite@Home cut a deal to provide DSL Internet service over telephone lines with reseller Rhythms NetConnections Inc. Rhythms will invest $15 million in At Home Solutions to become the exclusive provider of residential DSL service in markets in which Excite doesnat offer service.
- BROADCASTING
- …and perks to be named later
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- A Star is ordered
- Another Millionaire sweep?
- Clutters in the air
- Syndication Wrap-up
- Wonderland gets canned
- Just Shoot Me-for the fifth time
- Honey, I shrunk the audience
- Once and Again again: for 00-01
- Millionaire just keeps winning
- Talk wins time slot, not Dharma fans
- Bomb is a hit
- Masters scores
- Proceeding with digital radio
- STATION BREAK
- Suing anchors
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- Oscars are prize for ET, Access
- CABLE
- CHANGING HANDS
- Spun cities
- The Week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- s tabulation of station sales
- COMBOS
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- FMS
- AMS
- COVER_STORY
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- EDITORIALS
- Were outta here
- Digital clarity
- Advancing the ball
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Competing applications for new educational broadcast licenses will be granted according to a point system, the FCC said last week.
- Dean Hallett has been named chief financial officer at Walt Disney Studios.
- Olympic-swimmer-turned-sportscaster Donna deVarona has filed a multimillion-dollar age- and sex-discrimination lawsuit against ABC Sports,
- IN BRIEF
- House Speaker Dennis Hastert has given a boost to Rep. Billy Tauzins (R-La.) bid to chair the Commerce Committee.
- The auction of the "guard band" portions of spectrum now used for TV channels 60-69 is set for June 14.
- The House last week passed legislation that would provide $1.25 billion in loan guarantees to help satellite providers offer local TV stations in rural communities.
- Despite a reported improvement in net losses, Cumulus Media Corp.s share price continued its decline last Friday, posting a 52-week low of $11.6875 per share.
- Compaq Computer Corp. plans to roll out DTV receiver cards in some of its PCs by the third quarter.
- ABCs Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? has drawn more than 1 millionviewers playing along with an enhanced-TV version of the telecast since the format started on March 28.
- The eight-night run of CBS mob drama Falcone drew less than spectacular ratings.
- Thomas Power, mass media adviser to FCC Chairman William Kennard, will step down at the end of April to become general counsel of corporate networking firm Fiberlink.
- After speculation that she would be leaving the network, Karey Burke instead received a new two-year deal at NBC and a promotion to executive vice president of series development.
- Satellite radio shoots for June launch
- Please stand by
- OPEN MIKE
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- Warning on mega mergers
- FCC is cable-overready
- Elin nation
- New pole rules set
- Getting serious about broadcasting
- Smackdown showdown
- A deal Diller cant quite match
- Needs improvement
- MGMs new Lysistrata?
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- LPFM lite passes House
- Personal tallying
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Stay or no stay, EEOs here to stay
- Pax chief proposesnew must-carry plan
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Strange bedfellows
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Primed for upfront
- Take a number
- No love lost
- Technology
- NBC buys PowerVu for backup
- NDS and NEC team on personalized TV
- 1080p goes Hollywood
- CUTTING EDGE
- SeaChange launches ad-delivery service
- NextStudio buys Orad multimedia
- Geocast closes infrastructure deals
- IBM managing assets of ET
- KUTV-TV goes with ENPS
- WWOR-TV taps EMC for digital storage
- Hallmark buying Oxtel master control
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