Broadcasting & Cable - May 7, 2000
Cover Story
Cable, utility firms are poles apart
The National Cable Television Association is preparing a counteroffensive against electric companies that see a bonanza from a new court decision allowing them to increase fees they charge cable companies to string lines on their utility poles.
- BROADCASTING
- Barker price is right
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- Going for the green
- Seinfeld crew takes a dip
- Syndies set to fill gaps
- Syndication Wrap-up
- Paxson pushes for JSAs
- ABC on total (viewer) roll
- Doublecross-ed
- The Truth will out
- Here they come
- Brainchildren
- STATION BREAK
- Summoning an icon
- D.C. news crew badly burned
- Report your sheriff
- The news also rises
- A wild and Carsey guy
- CABLE
- Can a sports guy do entertainment?
- Not necessarily enough news
- Despite vows, the cable war goes on
- HOOKED UP
- South Park stays put
- CBS Franks tapped for Viacom Sr. VP
- Ong to head Nat Geo net
- Direct TV expands
- Z Music goes to heaven
- Seagram reduces stake in USA
- NAMIC answers NAACP criticism
- Fed slaps AT &T on the wrist
- PEOPLES CHOICE
- CABLES TOP 25
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- s tabulation of station sales
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- COMBOS
- FMS
- AMS
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- EDITORIALS
- What were they thinking?
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Douglas H. McCorkindale will succeed John J. Curley as CEO at Gannett Co. Inc.,
- A listless Odyssey
- Fox drama Party of Five went out in style but still failed to attract much of an audience.
- LPFM: Read all about it!
- IN BRIEF
- ABCs celebrity version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? got the network off to a blistering start for the May sweeps.
- In an attempt to stem a downward trend in prime time ratings, Nickelodeon will put greater emphasis on kids rather than the recycled sitcoms of Nick at Nite.
- The Inspiration Network is not for sale, according to president and CEO David Cerullo.
- Trinity Broadcasting won its fight to keep its Miami TV license.
- Embattled wowk-tv Charleston, W.Va., News Anchor Tom McGee filed a $15 million counterclaim against his employer,
- 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.
- Troubled Cumulus Media Inc. will save some $111 million in cash since Clear Channel Communications Inc. has agreed to renegotiate a recent radio-station swap with the Milwaukee-based company.
- The FCC will accept applications from non-commercial organizations seeking to establish low-power radio stations in Alaska, California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Mariana Islands, Maryland, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Uta
- Martin Umansky died in Wichita last week at 83.
- Corrections:
- INTERNET
- NCTA CABLE 2000 SPECIAL
- Ncta cable 2000 special
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- FCC public-interest reading too broad
- Drums on the Potomac
- FCC delays 60-69 scramble
- Nondisclosure costs AT & T little
- Merger gains and pains
- Krasnow to deliver NBCs daytime goods
- Disney triumphant
- Hurts so good
- What theyre arguing about
- AOLs key exec lineup
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- A primer on retrans and must-carry
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- New labeling bill excludes TV
- High speed, low power
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Pulling the plug on Imus
- Clear Channel settles in Florida
- Chairman staying put
- Will the real Van Toffler…
- Technology
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