Broadcasting & Cable - May 14, 2000
Cover Story
WASHINGTON WATCH
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week introduced his own bill addressing the FCCas controversial effort to roll out low-power FM stations.The bill would let the FCC launch the service, which Senate Commerce Committee Chairman McCain supports, as long as it doesnat cause any "harmful" interference. That fact alone isnat much to NABas liking.
- BROADCASTING
- Feud cranks up
- Spanish Broadcasting System
- Umansky recalled
- A real dogfight
- ABC sweeps up
- A diverse Web site
- Geppetto by a nose
- Turned off by Emmis TV
- Adding up Emmis
- STATION BREAK
- Spring-breaking
- Walking for office
- A different objective
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- UPN makeover
- Fox re-ups Mad TV
- Homes & Hideways and Hanover a go
- Pax PSAs
- Syndication Wrap-up
- Financials file in
- Salem Communications
- Big City Radio Inc.
- Regent Communications Inc.
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- Sweeps a downer, even for hits
- CABLE
- Tim Brooks: Televisions numbers man
- Facing a squeeze
- DirecTV linking with Blockbuster
- Deal points
- Digital self-promotion
- BellSouth takes to the sky
- NAMIC builds a bridge
- HOOKED UP
- Roberts Excite roller coaster
- Dolan says no Yankees deal yet
- MBC: Things go better with Coke
- Health network changing name
- MSOs still have the edge
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- CABLES TOP 25
- CHANGING HANDS
- Clear Channel spins, contd.
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- The weeks tabulation of station sales
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- TVS
- COMBOS
- COVER_STORY
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- Wise Bill
- EDITORIALS
- Unwise bill
- Off-base Billy
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Network news veteran Jeff Gralnick is stepping aside as executive vice president of business news for CNN and producer of the Moneyline News Hour, a year after arriving from ABC.
- Nasdaq trader Hispanic Broadcasting Corp.-formerly known as Heftel-is moving to the New York Stock Exchange and swapping its "HBCCA" ticker symbol for "HSP."
- After growing 15% from 1998 to 1999, radio revenue was off to a good start in first quarter 2000 as ad spending improved by 21% over 1Q 1999,
- IN BRIEF
- The entertainment industry last year gave nearly $2 million to the committees that work on getting their respective parties elected to Congress,
- Cumulus Media Inc.s stock price perked up last Tuesday, after the Milwaukee-based radio-station consolidator said it had hired KPMG L.L.P. as its auditor.
- Has Playboy stooped to Conger?
- After the cancellation of PBS conservative-leaning program National Desk, Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) wants the service to make sure it continues to air programs that reflect conservative views.
- A St. Louis TV cameraman has sued Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and his bodyguard for roughing him up during an interview attempt at Jefferson City Airport in April.
- Several key members of Congress are "deeply concerned" about Northpoint Technologys plan to launch a terrestrial multichannel service using frequencies dedicated to direct broadcast satellite services.
- Time Warner Cable Chairman Joe Collins takes over the reins of NCTAs board of directors, replacing Time Warner Vice Chairman Ted Turner, whose term expired.
- AT & Ts merger with MediaOne Corp. may be approved "within a matter of days," FCC Chairman William Kennard said last week.
- FCC Chairman William Kennard last week predicted that AT & Ts merger with MediaOne Corp. would be approved "within a matter of days," but
- Veteran NBC daytime executive Susan D. Lee is leaving the network, and Sheraton Kalouria is joining it to oversee NBCs daytime soap operas.
- A federal judge in Virginia last week threw out a Henrico County law requiring cable companies to offer Internet rivals access to broadband pipelines.
- Paxson, Journal do JSA
- INTERNET
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- Routing favoritism
- …while House pushes to kill LPFM
- fINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Does screen bias go both ways?
- NCTA pans retrans
- NAB on AOL-TW offensive
- Cable upfront wins the battle for bucks
- Hollywood heads East for posh presentations
- Selling U: Groups launch TV sales school
- Barry Thurston is a firm go
- How UBO funds its groove
- Mitsubishi says no to CBS
- McCain: FCC should move on LPFM…
- All religion, all the time
- Fending off false fees
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Multichannel measurement
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Smoothed feathers
- Win one for the V.I.P.er
- Technology
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