Broadcasting & Cable - October 15, 2000

Elliot DeBear, senior VP, business development, SFM/Media Planning, New York, joins Independent Media Services, New York, as senior executive VP.Mike Lum, account executive, Katz Television Group, New York, named manager, program time sales, direct marketing division.

• Dr. Laura gets bumped
• IN BRIEF
• Geocast reaches for echostar
• Lilley to lobby for News Corp.
• Eyewitness creator dies
• Excuses, excuses
• GVG goes to the mall
• Middle East turmoil dominates TV news
• For Zatso, not so greatso

• B and C Eyeregulation
• Regulation
• Hes no chicken
• Sports TV
• Does heartland want NY Series?
• Syndication
• Backtracking stock
• Gadzooks! its Zobmondo
• Hassel-off
• Just call us UPN

• BLOOMBERG STOCK INDEXES
• FINANCIAL WRAP-UP

• Business
• Sprucing up for a sale

• CHANGING HANDS
• FMs
• Changing Hands
• Station Trades
• TVs
• Combos
• AMs

• Common Ground
• Learn from their mistakes

• Editorials
• Editorials
• So close
• Who am I?

• Interactive Media
• StreamGenie improved
• Walk, dont run, to new media
• IN BRIEF
• Nick.com revamps
• DirecTV offers Wink
• E! online partners with MetaTV
• BBC America gets animated Randy
• Best Buy Broadband
• INBRIEF
• BBC America gets animated Randy
• StreamGenie improved
• Best Buy Broadband
• Focus on delivery

• People
• FATES & FORTUNES
• Broadcasting
• Cable
• Journalism
• Programming
• Radio
• FACETIME
• Unemployed, again
• People
• Dr. Lauras ATONEMENT
• Figure the figures!
• Rob Reiners rib roast
• Backstory
• THE FIFTH ESTATER
• Success is the family way

• Programming
• Every Witch way but up
• Katsky on new laugh track
• Candice Bergen renews with Oxygen
• IN BRIEF
• Net catches Herzog
• Touched grounded
• Ed bowls over the competition
• Incorporeality TV
• USA Acquires Movies
• The Eye opens With a twinkle
• Moviewatch moves few
• McMahon: Hollywood took a dive
• Kinder, gentler politics

• SpecialReport
• The automation evolution
• Two bangs for the automation buck
• The auto pilots

• StationBreak
• Station Break
• Boston media figure injured in fall
• Sell him a bridge
• Philly Press aide joins KYW-TV
• Irked over access
• Denver News Director resurfaces

• SyndicationWatch
• Arresting development

• Technology
• WRAL-TV opts for hi-def news

• Top of the week
• Birth of a notion
• Court scraps reply rules
• Not too bad, so far
• IN BRIEF
• EU OKs VIVENDI
• CLINTON SEEKS SPECTRUM REVIEW
• BASEBALL SLUMPS
• FCC PLUGGING LEAKS

• Voices
• TWO CENTS
• EXCERPT