Broadcasting & Cable - June 25, 2000
Cover Story
Batter up!
ABC Sports, ESPN and Little League Baseball have agreed to a new six-year deal (through 2006) to televise the annual Little League World Series, which will expand next year from eight to 16 teams. ABC will televise the U.S. championship and World Series starting in 2001. ESPN and ESPN2 will carry eight regional championship games each year.
- BROADCASTING
- Fired-up fans
- Here comes the fire
- Storm of protest
- Syndicators still see stars
- Alpert update
- Liberty exits insurance will bank on TV, digital
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- The Tiger effect
- NBC takes two
- Strike up the band
- The Scottish curse
- Man of mystery
- Priceloin.com
- STATION BREAK
- TXN folds
- Fishman at 40
- Syndication Wrap-up
- PEOPLES CHOICE
- Basketball batters Friends, Seinfeld
- CABLE
- CABLE'S TOP 25
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- The weeks tabulation of station sales
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- TVS
- COMBOS
- FMS
- AMS
- Amplification
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- Family resemblance
- EDITORIALS
- Avoiding broadband chaos
- Required reading
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Correction
- A law that would protect children from "harmful" material on the Internet remains enjoined after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia agreed with a lower court last week that it violates the First Amendment.
- Barbara Walters confirmed that she is talking with ABC about renewing her contract, which is up in the fall, and CBS, about possibly jumping ship.
- IN BRIEF
- NBC has won the Radio-Television News Directors Associations Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence.
- Excite@Home and three major shareholders agreed to delay an insider deal being challenged by other major shareholder Cablevision Systems.
- Moodys took a shot at Cumulus Media Inc. and Cumulus stock price dove to a 1½-year low last Thursday.
- Rep. Mike Oxley (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill with the catchy title "FCC De-Politicization Act of 2000."
- The House Telecommunications Subcommittee plans to vote on a bill Tuesday that would require the FCC to complete most merger reviews within 90 days,
- Looks like House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) just realized what some broadcasters mean when they talk about leasing up to 7.5 Mb/s of the 19.4 Mb/s chunk of digital spectrum to potential datacasters.
- Time Warner Cable has agreed to transmit the electronic program guides offered by local stations until the FCC decides whether broadcasters are entitled to demand carriage of their EPG signals.
- Marsha MacBride, mass media and cable adviser for FCC Commissioner Michael Powell, will leave that post to join Disneys Washington office Aug. 1.Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS), which provides Web-support services for broadcasters looking to off
- Where are you, Howard Cosell?
- INTERNET
- HBO moves to Talk City
- AOLTV could jump-start ITV
- Excite@Home gets clicking
- DOTS NEW MEDIA CAFE
- Digital Island gets $45M equity boost
- Disney Interactive into PlayNow.com
- Pinnacle ships StreamGenie
- ICTV garners $87M investment
- WEB-enhanced help for Jerrys kids
- Behind the Music parody jumps to TV
- Disney.com has new theme-park feel
- OLYMPICS TECHNOLOGY
- Olympics/Sports Production Special Report
- NBC, Sony team in Olympic effort
- Panasonic gears up for Sydney
- Olympics Technology
- Olympics/Sports Production Special Report
- The Games plan
- Olympics coverage
- Olympics/Sports Production Special Report
- NBC goes for the GOLD
- NBCs Olympian effort/The stats on Sydney
- Olympics/Sports Production Special Report
- SPORTS PRODUCTION
- OLYMPICS/SPORTS PRODUCTION SPECIAL REPORT
- The road show
- HD on wheels
- Video switch hitter
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- FCC vet Chessen joins RespondTV
- For the voyeur in us
- USAI reorganizes operation
- Dillers French resistance
- ABC joins 8-VSB critics
- Cable wins in Portland
- Radio roars; Emmis scores
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Texan Wood eyed as FCC possibility
- House gives victory to religious broadcasters
- NAB asks FCC for DTV help
- DeWine, Kohl warn against big media
- BEHIND THE SCENES, BEFORE THE FACT
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Salomon makes Cooperative pitch
- Stations sign on dotTV line
- MediaOne for the money
- Ex post facto Fox-proofing?
- Northpoints in-crowd
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