Broadcasting & Cable - August 20, 2000

The Clinton Administration plans to give FCC Commissioner Susan Ness up to one more year in office, informed sources say.Democrat Nessa term officially runs out when Congress adjourns for the year, likely in October. But the president may grant officials one more year when Congress is out through what is known as a recess appointment.

• BROADCASTING
• Syndication Wrap-up
• STATION BREAK
• FCC signs off on $23.5B radio deal
• Diversity diva
• Whats behind WBs Static Shock waves?
• GET WITH THE PROGRAM
• Do-it-yourself diversity
• Bye, bye to American High
• Its nutty: Fox gets Klumps rights
• ABC takes the gold
• In-flight drama
• Costello meets KING-KONG
• Virginia Beach newscast expands
• Personal foul
• Klansman in the can
• PEOPLES CHOICE
• Regis roars as other talkers whisper

• CABLE
• Hearst-Argyle, TW reach retrans deal
• TW chases charges on Road Runner
• Who wants to be a Running Mate?
• Adelphia 2Q revenue rises 16.5%
• Cable survived Survivor
• HOOKED UP
• Time Warner re-ups MTV networks
• DirecTV, NRTC, Pegasus come to billing agreement
• BET jazz on Web
• PEOPLES CHOICE
• CABLES TOP 25

• CHANGING HANDS
• The weeks tabulation of station sales
• CHANGING HANDS
• PROPOSED STATION TRADES
• TVS
• COMBOS
• FMS
• AMS
• AMPLIFICATION

• EDITORIALS
• COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH EST
• Straight talk

• FATES AND FORTUNES
• ASSOCIATIONS/LAW FIRMS
• OBITUARY
• FATES AND FORTUNES
• BROADCAST TV
• CABLE
• ADVERTISING/MARKETING/ PUBLIC RELATIONS
• PROGRAMMING
• JOURNALISM
• RADIO
• TECHNOLOGY
• INTERNET
• ALLIED FIELDS

• FATES and FORTUNES
• The final door

• FIFTH ESTATER
• Lighting up the night
• Gary Considine

• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• John Goodmans upcoming sitcom at Fox has been given an official name, Normal, Ohio.
• Walter F. DeHaven, currently vice president and general manager at UPN stations wsbk-tv Boston and wlwc(tv) Providence, has been named VP/GM at CBS wbbm-tv Chicago.
• The FCC last week made a third request for information from AOL and Time Warner,
• United Press International and Media-1st.com have created a joint streaming-video news service available for syndication to Web sites.
• NBC finalized its long-reported deal with Dutch producer Endemol Entertainment Friday,
• A November hearing date has been set for the suit filed against Black Entertainment Television by its former CFO, Dwight Crawford.
• Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is finally building its long-sought TV duopoly in Buffalo, N.Y.
• Iyanla Vanzant, author of a slew of spiritual self-help books, has locked up a development deal for a syndicated project with Buena Vista.
• The network capitalizing on convergence in a head-on way is changing its name.
• A caller to Howard Sterns radio show has been arrested
• Preliminary DNA results did not link Cleveland TV personality Joel Rose to sexually oriented mailings under investigation.
• Liberty looking at AT & T?
• Fox fates and fortunes

• INTERNET
• Television.com taps Infospace
• Yet another word from our sponsor
• Intertainer brings VOD to PCs
• DOTS NEW MEDIA CAFE
• RealNetworks offers content
• iSky becomes WildBlue
• Hold that Tiger
• Let your fingers do the surfing
• Entertainment Online set for NYC

• Special report
• Measuring the market
• Broadcast TV equipment companies

• TOP OF THE WEEK
• Whose clicker is it anyway?
• The uncertainty of UPN
• GOP is POd
• Fox in the UPN house
• Start spreadin the news
• How the FCC counts Fox
• Taking Survivor" lessons
• Thomson huddles with CBS on hi-def
• fINANCIAL WRAP-UP
• CLOSED CIRCUIT
• NBC signs Thongster
• CLOSED CIRCUIT
• GOPs telcom trio
• Spot gains
• High point for Lowe
• Panasonic: Back into HDTV fray?

• special report
• Bigger is better