Broadcasting & Cable - January 8, 2001

Broadcasters will meet this week and next in an attempt to achieve some consensus on the key modulation component of the digital transmission standard. Sources expect the industry to come out of the meetings backing 8-VSB, but that doesnat mean the issue will be settled.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• AT&T stays cautious
• Station Trades
• IN BRIEF
• ABC and Disney grab The Grinch
• Charter Boosts Junk-Bond Sale
• Lawyer Tapped For TW Internet post

• BusinessINBRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Cover
• Queen of the ring
• Saturday-night livening

• Editorials
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• Protecting digital content
• Cable TV Sites
• Common Ground
• Ask every 100th visitor

• People
• Backstory
• FACE TIME
• People
• PI for Sale
• VQTs Swan song
• Curtis gets new desk
• Fates and Fortunes
• Cable
• Fates and Fortunes
• Broadcasting
• Programming
• Journalism
• Advertising/Marketing/PR
• Radio
• Internet
• Obituaries
• Fifth Estater
• Committed to the cause
• Pierre M. Sutton

• Programming
• Stuebers Back
• Litton alights in La-La Land
• NATPE launches: The late, late shows
• Station Break
• Toy Story III
• WEHT Owner Dies
• Md. Media Win
• Beantown Buzz
• Hibernation ends
• On the rebound
• IN BRIEF
• Touchstone TV Taps PATMORE as VP/Drama
• IN BRIEF
• Sarnoff New Coo of VH1 and CMT
• Moral Court Gets a Needed Upgrade
• No more Housecalls

• Special Report
• Card Sharks
• NATPE 2001: A TV odyssey
• Off-net sitcoms get last laugh
• The trend is no trend
• Ananda
• The Bravest
• Caroline
• Cheaters
• Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Crossing Over With John Edward
• The Fifth Wheel
• Hard Knox
• Hot Ticket
• Iyanla
• Mutant X
• The Other Half
• Pyramid
• Rendez-View
• Talk or Walk
• Urban Latino
• Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?

• Technology
• Hi-def detectives
• AccessDTV tackles PCs
• C-Cube bets on DoMiNo
• Cutting Edge
• Cutting Edge
• ET Gets New look for 20th Season
• TWC increases Captioning
• Motorola Masters Canada
• Time Warner Boosts VOD in Tampa
• SBE Offers More Frequency Help
• The Sopranos Hit Hi-Def

• Top of the Week
• Doctoring the Health Channel
• Fox slashes its Web sites
• FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
• Jessell takes B & C helm
• B and C Eye
• Hold Your Digital Horses
• B and C Eye
• General Criticism
• Familiar Faces Face Off
• Hold your Horses
• Nick of Time
• Diller: A-B-C-ya Later
• Canadian COFDM
• IN BRIEF
• Foxy Mulligan
• IN BRIEF
• Seriously Sirius
• Moll is New Clear Channel Chief
• IN BRIEF
• Jessell's Column
• Plumbing problem

• Top of the week
• A Peacock and a Rainbow
• Tauzin takes over combined Commerce
• FCC foreigner rules could whack Fox
• Coulda, shoulda
• Thats the way it was
• INBRIEF
• A Pax Bonanza
• McCain irked at NAB over Low-Power FM
• Infinity Deal Delayed

• Voices
• TWO CENTS
• Voices

• Washington
• Rule irks all players
• Bush summit sans media