Broadcasting & Cable - April 29, 2001

Most observers believe the upfront season, the annual high-stakes mating ritual between advertisers and broadcast television networks, will generate fewer dollars this year than last year's record $8.2 billion. Maybe a lot fewer. "Spending is going to be down significantly," says Dan Rank, director of television and radio buying at Optimum Media Direction, which places more than $1 billion in...

• Business
• AT&T's margin of error
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• The syndication strike breaker
• From up close
• Cable
• Cable holds its breath

• Editorials
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• Internet reality check
• Quokka 'quoaks'
• WebWatch

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• The Fifth Estater
• 'I love television'

• Programming
• Breaking a taboo
• Fox News Sunday turns five
• Betting on Zoog
• Spanish expansion
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• Longer days, lower ratings

• Technology
• Sharing digital content
• Coping with higher power costs
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Top of the Week
• Caught on tape
• Broadband bill still alive
• More fallout from Dr. Laura
• Eddie went a-courtin'
• Slow Show at NAB
• Latin spin for Access
• Split shift for Blue
• Born at the USA
• Eyeball counting in Beantown
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye
• Financial Wrap-up
• Financial Wrap-up
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Jessells Column
• Come together

• Voices
• Two Cents
• Two Cents

• Washington
• FTC's dissed content
• Interference called