Broadcasting & Cable - January 29, 2001

FCC Chairman Michael Powell last week named Marsha MacBride his chief of staff. She formerly served as his legal adviser on mass-media matters before becoming a lobbyist for Walt Disney Co. last August. She also was the executive director for the FCCas Task Force on Year 2000 Conversion when Powell chaired that effort.

• Business
• Lets break a deal?
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands
• TVs
• COMBOs
• FM
• Station Trades
• THIS WEEK
• SO FAR IN 2001
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Excite takes massive non-cash write-down
• Deregulate, with exceptions

• Editorials
• Commentary
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• Cable-TV Sites
• Get serious about piracy
• To ease encoding logjam
• Common Ground
• Becoming acclimated
• IN BRIEF
• Microsoft TV gets Mixed Signals
• IN BRIEF
• Palm Programming
• TechTV Reaches 75 million Viewers

• People
• Facetime
• Fraziers franchise
• Backstory
• Facetime
• Vote WWF!
• Butensky still Batting
• Fates and Fortunes
• Allied Fields
• Fates and Fortunes
• Broadcasting
• Cable
• Programming
• Radio
• Journalism
• Advertising/Marketing/PR
• Internet
• Associations/Law Firms
• Obituary
• Fifth Estater
• Peter Liguori
• Remembering his roots

• Programming
• Ad markets slipping
• Affils to UPN: Dont retread on me
• XFL, sweeps top NBC affiliates agenda
• Seinfeld doubles down
• Courts get short shrift
• Fox affiliates succumb
• Down to the wire
• Women at work
• Who decides whats good for children?
• Sports producers: Weve got game
• HBO gets real
• Plugging in the TV
• IN BRIEF
• Travel TV
• Cartoon Resurrects the Justice League
• IN BRIEF
• A Cybill Action
• MSNBC afternoons with Mitch
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Reporting Crime in Salt Lake City
• Survivor to Talk about Successor
• Saved by the Camera in Charlotte, N.C.
• Pols Station Promos Pulled in Boston
• Syndication Watch
• Iyanlas personal arsenal

• Technology
• Delaying digital TV
• Canada to test COFDM in Toronto
• IN BRIEF
• DBS Pirates Zapped by DirecTV
• IN BRIEF
• COFDM Covers the Inauguration
• Super Bowl, Super Transmission

• Top of the Week
• From rosy future to pink slips
• ABC plans digital pay service
• B and C Eye
• B and C Eye
• Bankrolling Bush bashes
• WB on the move
• Playing in Peoria
• Good timing?
• Bednarski's Column
• The low spark of Vegas
• Financial Wrap-up
• FINANCIAL WRAP-UP
• IN BRIEF
• Violent Fare target of Planned Senate Bill
• IN BRIEF
• Copyright Office Streaming Dedision Challenge from NAB
• Al McGuire dies at 72

• Top of the week
• More than just syndication
• Assessing where duty lies
• Mandel: A NATPE fan
• NATPE dicey, but some score
• Giving it up in Colorado
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Charter, Fox Sports face off in St. Louis

• Voices
• Two Cents
• Two Cents

• Washington
• Trust but verify
• Mfume warns of another boycott
• Hedlund: Satellite TV cant be trusted
• NAB has banner year
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• High Court will Rule on Pole Fees
• Airtime-Free Reform