Broadcasting & Cable - April 15, 2001

As television production becomes increasing elaborate, broadcasters are constantly looking for ways of getting more efficiency from their production tools. Over the years, the production switcher has gone from being a simple machine to switch from camera A to camera B to a full-featured production system.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• Tales of the city

• Editorials
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• Looking for more laughs
• NBCi new casualty of ad slump
• TV-NEWS SITES
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Discovery's early adopter

• Programming
• May sweeps: Bounty before the drought?
• Light at the end of the sales tunnel
• Keeping the wheel turning
• Rehabilitating NYPD Blue
• Commentary
• Eye of the beholder
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Station Break
• Station Break

• Special Report
• Cameras flex their resolution
• CGs generate own whistles
• Short Cuts

• Technology
• WLS-TV's on-air lessons
• Working together
• The need for common ground
• De-bugging e-TV
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Top of the Week
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Two scenarios
• Back to the future
• DTV receivers get better
• Busting Daniels' last deal
• And the number is?
• Westward? No
• B & C Eye
• B & C Eye
• Financial Wrap-up
• Financial Wrap-up
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Jessells Column
• Don't cut off your nose…

• Washington
• Score one for cable op