Broadcasting & Cable - August 6, 2000
Cover Story
The next big thing?
In some ways, it's hard to take Northpoint Technology seriously. The startup's vision of a sprawling wireless TV network combining the advantages of cable and direct broadcast satellite is a grand one. But Northpoint is controlled by neophytes in the television business, and their service, if rolled out nationally, would cost at least $1.
- BROADCASTING
- NBC takes 18-49
- Its the highway for Shumway
- Sears drops radio doc
- X-Files accident investigated
- WMAQ says so long
- GET WITH THE PROGRAM
- Gifford goodbye is a ratings grabber
- STATION BREAK
- Moves over Miami
- Taking a plea
- Station launches in San Antonio
- New newscast in Des Moines
- Syndication Wrap-up
- Dennis, anyone?
- Miller Time on MNF
- PEOPLE'S CHOICE
- Blind Date finds true happiness
- CABLE
- CHANGING HANDS
- The week's tabulation of station sales
- PROPOSED STATION TRADES
- The weeks tabulation of station sales
- CHANGING HANDS
- COMBOS
- FMS
- AMS
- EDITORIALS
- FIFTH ESTATER
- IN BRIEF
- Ice-T and Dick Wolf are teaming up once again.
- Ed Lover has been added as an on-air commentator for Columbia TriStars sports/entertainment
- CBS summer reality series Survivor is alive and healthy, very healthy.
- Walters close to closing ABC deal
- IN BRIEF
- It may or may not be a bargain, but they wont give it away—XFL inventory that is.
- The New York Post reports that NBC has been sued by several employees charging racial and sexual harassment,
- Everybody Loves Raymond was named best comedy and The West Wing top drama at the 2nd Annual Family Television Awards.
- Studios USA has teamed with 3D animator Brilliant Digital Entertainment to distribute syndicated content over local TV station Web sites.
- Lockheed Martins takeover of Comsat won FCC approval,
- Writers and actors grumbling about the influx of reality TV may have some new company: directors, camera people, and boom operators.
- Clear Channel Communications Inc.s wspd(am) Toledo, Ohio, has been ordered by a Lucas County judge
- Last Tuesday DirecTV was named in two class action lawsuits alleging violation of federal and California antitrust laws.
- NCTA complains whdt abusing must-carry laws
- INTERNET
- TOP OF THE WEEK
- Market mixed on radio stocks
- FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
- Medias millennium malaise
- Information please
- Regis lives, and reigns
- Maybe GOP needed life line
- Pseudo gets real in Philly
- NBC, Tribune feed broadband need
- FCC delays 60-69 auction
- WASHINGTON WATCH
- Trust me, not them
- Solons worry about AOL-TW merger
- LPFM fight goes on
- FCC eyes impact of ownership changes
- BEHIND THE SCENES, BEFORE THE FACT
- Hurry up and wait
- CLOSED CIRCUIT
- Ed TV
- Changes at the top
- Tantalizing titles
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