Broadcasting & Cable - June 4, 2000
Cover Story
ESPN Classic rolled down on DirecTV
ESPN Classic, the 24-hour archive stepchild of ESPN, has been moved from anàla carte sports tier to DirecTVas basic packages, effective immediately. Classic will be available-along with ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNews-on DirecTVas Select Choice and Total Choice packages.
- BROADCASTING
- STATION BREAK
- Super Bowl murder trial is Webcast
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- Take the A(AMI) train
- Mosko gets green light
- Masts claim third victim
- ABC sets record
- Kon-TV
- Iris in HD
- WBT ups Pearlman
- Housecalls rings
- Syndication Wrap-up
- What the #%*@!?
- More exposure than he wanted
- News directors promoted
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- Singles Court gets set to serve
- CABLE
- EchoStar 4 short of full house
- Access assessment
- Real numbers needed
- Yuen confident of TV Guide deal
- Whats the damage?
- HOOKED UP
- Cable cross-own rules still intact
- Fritts asks FEMA to keep control local
- Animal Planet renews Call
- FCC to examine TV signal standard
- CNNfn adds series
- Diplomacy in action
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- The weeks tabulation of station sales
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- TVS
- COMBOS
- FMS
- AMS
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- BEHIND THE SCENES, BEFORE THE FACT
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Sorry, right number
- Cable, heal thyself
- Both sides now
- Follow the bouncing UPN
- Do I need 3-D glasses?
- COVER_STORY
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- EDITORIALS
- Radio panacea
- Less than half a loaf
- Its, like, a metaphor
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- The FCCs hearing on America Onlines acquisition of Time Warner
- New York radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony, of wnew (fm), held up a profane sign Thursday referring to female body parts
- IN BRIEF
- As expected, Marci Pool was named executive vice president of original movies and miniseries at Fox Broadcasting Co.
- NAB executive vice president Chuck Sherman entered George Washington Hospital in Washington on Friday for quintuple bypass surgery,
- The International Federation of Journalists expressed concern last week over "disturbing tactics" by police, who disguised themselves as journalists to lure a gunman out of a Luxembourg nursery school where he was holding 25 children and their teachers ho
- Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has spent more than twice as much on broadcast, cable and radio advertising than his rival, Vice President Al Gore.
- Studios USA Domestic Television has pushed into the development fast track with Zobmondo!!.
- A Tampa, Fla., Web entertainment firm has filed suit to put the kibosh on CBS Big Brother,
- House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley is calling for a criminal investigation after Justice Department investigators uncovered a memo describing a proposed strategy for Vice President Al Gore to help a longtime friend and Democratic fund-raiser obt
- DirecTV last week completed one of its remaining local carriage deals and said it would begin providing local TV service in Salt Lake City as of Friday.
- The Ad Council, the Childrens Aid Society and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week announced an ad campaign to raise awareness about community schools.
- Angela Rae, an anchor for the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news at CBS-owned wfor-tv Miami will join the companys flagship station, wcbs-tv,
- Senators not only are writing letters in support of low-power FM but are lending their committee rooms to the cause.
- Corrections:
- Barberie gets her chance with Reege
- Glickman steps down at Carsey-Werner
- INTERNET
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- Gender gap$
- Ratings services take a walk
- Verging on merging
- Taking some heat
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Men make most on coast
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Senators oppose LPFM opposition
- Pitts bows out
- FCC seeks rehearing on pole fees
- No track scandal
- Cables scholars
- NCTA gets two new gearheads
- FCC bends on print combos
- Cap-sized
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