Broadcasting & Cable - May 6, 2001

Network programmers gathered in darkened screening rooms last week to get their first look at the crop of new shows for the fall. When they make their decisions this week, they'll just have one thing to worry about: Whether strikes will ultimately prevent viewers from seeing what they chose. Like every year, the network chiefs are picking sitcoms and dramas, but, this year, reality has sunk in.

• Business
• Staving off extinction
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Editorials
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• Whither iBlast?
• WebWatch

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• News with a salsa beat

• Programming
• Life after the dotcoms
• Saving it up for sweeps
• Paramount agenda
• Juicing up
• ESPN hikes rates
• No tears for SoapNet
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• Station Break
• Station Break

• Technology
• Keeping it SIMPLE
• Commentary
• Something to watch
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• Top of the Week
• The executioner's song
• Breakthrough for black network
• Pearson's other shoe drops
• Fox O&Os dump Petry
• A Tribal Thursday
• Reaching agreement
• Chris-Craft buy on track
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye
• Bednarskis Column
• Carmela, I'm home!
• Financial Wrap-up
• Financial Wrap-up
• IN BRIEF
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• Washington
• Dirty talk and due diligence
• Martin ready at the gate
• Bell bill hits bumps
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