Broadcasting & Cable - October 1, 2000

Some cable companies are worried that any open-access conditions the FCC or FTC impose on AOL-Time Warner could be transferred to others. "Regulators need to know that AOL-Time Warner is a unique situation," said one lobbyist, noting that the merged entity will own both a massive distribution pipe and tons of content.

• BROADCASTING AND CABLE EYE
• Troubling precedent
• Old soldier
• Action, yes. Christian…?
• Digital TV
• Digital makeover
• Reality TV
• Virus survivors
• Syndication
• Bring out your dead

• Business
• Texas two-step
• Is Ergen in DirecTV hunt?
• Indirectly after DirecTV

• COVERSTORY
• Broadcast nets roll em
• They rave, they crave
• Is Berman the Fox fix?

• ChangingHands
• ChangingHands
• StationTrades
• TVs
• Combos
• FMs
• AMs

• Common Ground
• Seven burning questions

• EXECUTIVEEDITOR
• The center didnt hold

• Editorials
• COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT
• Donkeys, elephants and Cardinals
• Editorials
• COMMITTED TO THEF IRST AMENDMENT
• Red flag

• Interactive Media
• Interactive Media
• INBRIEF
• Surfing for laughs

• People
• Technology
• BACKSTORY
• FATES and FORTUNES
• Broadcasting
• Cable
• Journalism
• Radio
• Programming
• Advertising/Marketing/PR
• Internet
• Deaths
• FACETIME
• His own Odyssey
• FACETIME
• Lehrer Ties up the debates
• Comfort level
• Common bonds: precious sons
• THE FIFTH ESTATER
• Stephen E. Jacobs, senior vice president, Networked Systems Businesses, Sony Broadcast & Professional Co.
• Still a storyteller

• Programming
• Pax taps Waterston
• INBRIEF
• Wilsons first hire
• Rawis more
• Sabrina soars
• TVs pole position
• The ailing Dr. Laura
• Fox Family, take two
• Court taps into privacy
• Chicago anchor firing lights fires

• StationBreak
• StationBreak
• D.C. lineup change
• High-priced ticket
• Richard Kimble on the line

• SyndicationWatch
• SyndicationWatch
• ETs set for 20th anniversary

• TOP OF THE WEEK
• Sydney see-saw games
• BLOOMBERG STOCK INDEXES
• FINANCIAL WRAP-UP

• Technology
• Lake-effect DTV hits Michigan
• NBC stretches Olympic assets with Sekani pact
• INBRIEF

• Top of the week
• Fox crowds the plate
• CTTD has Tom Arnold late-night plans
• INBRIEF
• Lots of innings left for post-season scramble
• Hubbard plans cable channel
• UPN gives back time to affiliates
• FCC: Attack reply coming ... late
• Paddens HELPFUL letter to hollings
• Belo, Cox start Mas! news channel in ariz.
• AOL,TW find pol pals
• EEO rules get fed court scrutiny

• Voices
• AIRTIME
• A fourth wise man
• TWO CENTS
• TWO CENTS
• EXCERPT

• Washington
• FCC alters LPFM rules
• McCain to Studios: Just say Cut!
• INBRIEF
• High Court support
• Richmond court tackles access appeal