Broadcasting & Cable - March 18, 2001

Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) dropped a bomb on broadcasters last week, suggesting Congress might need to impose a hard deadline to knock them off the analog spectrum they are supposed to return in 2006."I am concerned that this 'soft' deadline is thwarting the certain and swift transition to digital," said Tauzin, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

• Business
• Where's the halo?
• No toddlin' town for Eigner
• UPN goes regional
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands
• Combos
• FMs
• AMs
• Station Trades

• Cover
• Eight tips for Web producers
• No payoff yet
• Making a grab for local bucks
• $$$ makes the WWW go round
• So is the Internet a bust?
• Great expectations
• Getting Specific
• AOL, Time Warner look to sync and swim
• CBS plays the quiet one and slips under the radar
• Disney prepares for a marketing evolution
• Reorganization savings add up for News Corp.
• NBC's objective: broadband and streaming ads

• Editorials
• Editorials
• A new sheriff in town
• Wakeup call

• Interactive Media
• Video no demand
• Common Ground
• Digging for background

• People
• Facetime
• Facetime
• Time flies
• Out and speaking out
• Ten times a charm?
• Black is golden
• Fates and Fortunes
• Internet
• Fates and Fortunes
• Broadcasting
• Cable
• Journalism
• Programming
• Technology
• Advertising/Marketing/PR
• Obituaries
• The Fifth Estater
• Destined for politics

• Programming
• IN BRIEF
• Mammoth results
• Syndies turning to cable
• Job performance
• Healthy ratings for PAX TV's Doc
• Perris joins Odyssey
• Bravo viewers mob Godfather
• Magnum to develop programming
• Made-for spy movie
• New Line's new pres
• CBS wins the week
• Cable nips nets' Sunday
• Battered, bruised XFL

• Special Report
• The Great Wait
• HBO: digital to the Max
• Discovery's digital world
• MTV Networks listens up
• Starz shoots for just that
• Digital cable: Ready to hatch

• Technology
• S&W: The price is right
• IN BRIEF
• WHYY picks Motorola
• IN BRIEF
• PacketVideo And $100M
• DTV Tech Center?
• iBlast tests EAS
• WGBH taps DSP

• Top of the Week
• A buyer's upfront?
• Add news or ad time?
• Desperately seeking Katie
• Promotions at TVinsite
• Market sinks, CNBC soars
• Merger most Powell
• Keeping his pledge
• WCW on the ropes
• B and C Eye
• B and C Eye
• Sony and Pearson
• CBS ekes profit from B-ball
• Fred Upton: Media investor
• All stats, all the time
• Bednarskis Column
• Tag-team news
• Financial Wrap-up
• Financial Wrap-up
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Emmis eliminates 120 jobs in TV group
• Ch. 52-59 auction slated for next year
• NBC orders more Fitzgeralds
• Reversal asked on DTV-receiver rules
• New drama in real time
• Hollings: Networks will ride dereg wave
• Digital Wanna Carry

• Voices
• Two Cents
• Voices