Broadcasting & Cable - April 23, 2000
Cover Story
CUTTING EDGE
Following up on last yearas big Grass Valley router purchase, DBS operator EchoStar Communications has ordered $9.4 million in routing equipment from Grass Valley Group. Grass Valley will install Series 7000 DV routing systems with nearly 1.
- ADVERTISING UPFRONT
- Advertising Upfront
- BROADCASTING
- STATION BREAK
- Felicitous move
- CBS joining the family
- NBC additions
- A family affair
- Syndications print model
- Syndication Wrap-up
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- Survivor: Highly ratted
- Pluto, meet Spot
- Sweet 16
- King of the cable
- Still on air, still in court
- WJLA-TV hires news director
- Detroit comings and goings
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- Two court shows drop out
- CABLE
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- FMS
- AMS
- CHANGING HANDS
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- COMBOS
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- Life on the shelf
- EDITORIALS
- Do-it-yourself EEO
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- The cable industry will open its networks to competing Internet service providers because it is a "competitive necessity,"
- The Consumer Electronics Association is sponsoring the International Electronic Cinema Festival (IECF), which will be held in the U.S. for the first time May 15-19 at the Portland Hilton Hotel in Portland, Ore.
- IVillage, whose high executive turnover makes it a friend to Internet headhunters, tapped former Lifetime Television President Doug McCormick to be its new president.
- PanAmSat Corp. successfully launched the Galaxy IVR bird Tuesday night from Kourou, French Guiana.
- Senn Moses has been named executive vice president of marketing at Fox Broadcasting Co.
- UPN is going to produce original programs for a good part of the coming summer months.
- IN BRIEF
- Columbia TriStar Television Distributions first season of weekend series Battle Dome is coming to an end with its first annual National Championship.
- Entravision Communications Co. LLC is being sued for allegedly defrauding an entrepreneur who says she was promised finders fees for helping the company buy more Univision TV affiliates.
- The National Association of Broadcasters is fighting with the Recording Industry Association of America over whether broadcasters should be required to pay copyright fees when they stream broadcasts over the Internet.
- VH1 will unveil a digital channel at this years National Cable Television Association convention in New Orleans.
- Cable Television Labs has completed the first round of PacketCable interoperability testing of a variety of equipment developed according to PacketCable and DOCSIS specifications.
- Satellite communications service provider DigitalXpress has ceased operation.
- Correction:
- Dharma & Greg hits 8 top-10 markets
- SAG, AFTRA vow to strike
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Some gains, no pain-yet
- EchoStar currently carries four local broadcast stations in 28 cities:
- New Shell game
- When down is up
- Happy holidays from AT & T
- Pax gets pieces of NBC
- Columbia TriStar Television picks TV vet
- AT & Ts fight for MediaOne
- DirecTV offers local stations in 22 cities:
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- HD sponsor talks heat up
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Data cooperative additions
- Two serving UPN
- The cel-ling of the VP
- Net ads banner year
- EEOuch!: Stations want stay
- Low blows over low-power FM
- Cable fights free ride for program guides
- Technology
- Medialink signs with Video Networks
- Theyve reinvented Montreux
- Angenieux, Carl Zeiss offer HD lens adapter
- Sportvision gains Coachs Edge
- Datacasting for dollars
- EchoStar sticks to Grass Valley route
- Leitch Technology to join Nasdaq
- Beehive produces open for HBO special
- DiviCom wins business in China
- KTVT on-air with Euphonix
- Klotz Digital wins XM contract
- JVC intros upconverter
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