Broadcasting & Cable - July 23, 2000
Cover Story
Quantel, the UK-based manufacturer of broadcast graphics and effects systems, has completed a $76.6 million management buyout from parent company Carlton Communications.
Quantel, the UK-based manufacturer of broadcast graphics and effects systems, has completed a $76.6 million management buyout from parent company Carlton Communications. Underwritten by venture-capital firm Lloyds TSB Development Capital, the buyout had been expected since November, when Carlton announced a proposed merger with United News and Media.
- BROADCASTING
- PBS elects coverage
- Price moving to N.C.
- Pax, NBC share and share alike
- No red X marks the spot, or does it?
- Phoenix reporter ruled guilty in attack
- Group requests Gumbel tape
- Networks get reality check
- NBC retakes 18-49
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- West Wing is the critics choice
- Syndication Wrap-up
- STATION BREAK
- Promos by any other name…
- Colorado anchor dies
- LeMay joins CNN
- PEOPLES CHOICE
- Synditel: So long for now
- CABLE
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- The weeks tabulation of station sales
- AMS
- AMPLIFICATIONS
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- TVS
- COMBOS
- FMS
- COVER_STORY
- EDITORIALS
- COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
- The brighter side
- EDITORIALS
- Full speed ahead
- FATES and FORTUNES
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Atlanta TV stations experienced additional tension on an already difficult story when Piedmont Hospital officials tried to deny wxia-tv and wsb-tv reports that Sen. Paul Coverdell had died Tuesday night.
- Correction:
- IN BRIEF
- Wall Street smiled last week on the long-awaited news that the Justice Department had cleared the $23.5 billion merger of radio giants AMFM Inc. and Clear Channel Communications Inc.
- Wcvb-tv Boston became the second station in the market to change its anchor lineup last week,
- Fewer than two in 10 DTV owners rely on over-the-air signals for their programming, according to a survey released last week by the National Consumers League.
- Dick Kurlander, vice president, programming, Petry Television, has resigned effective Aug. 15.
- CBS cant get enough of Big Brother.
- Pegasus Communications, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., has closed a deal to sell its 11 broadcast towers to tower operator SpectraSite Broadcast Group,
- Prompted by a flurry of media coverage, a group of AT & Ts institutional investors, primarily religious groups, have sent a letter to AT & T
- DES, a Los Angeles-based media-application service provider whose clients include DreamWorks SKG, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Universal, has introduced the Global Media Engine,
- In a media marriage sparked by the heat of competition, CNet was set to take over ZDNet last week in a $1.6 billion stock swap.
- Nader, Cronkite testify on reporters behalf
- INTERNET
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- Yanks pitch sports net
- Leaked ATSC memo slaps 8-VSB
- Washingtons big week
- Hearing the blind and helping
- NBC fights 35% cap
- NBC comps new phase
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Once burned, twice shy
- NTIA finds minority ownership dwindling
- Long-distance dispute
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Close, but no cigar
- DBS chafes at must-carry rules
- Just call it Al-lywood
- Dereg for all
- Clarification:
- BEHIND THE SCENES, BEFORE THE FACT
- Per-sub eye-popper
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Super HDTV at CBS?
- Bathroom humor at CTAM
- Spelling stand-up
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