Broadcasting & Cable - June 10, 2001

The snails have replaced the bulls. After last year's frenzied, $4.6 billion cable upfront, this year's advanced ad-sales market is soft and drawn out. Cable executives are trying to remain upbeat, waiting for the market to break. But the soft economy has advertisers wary, and, rather than commit in the upfront, they may test their luck in the scatter market.

• Advertising
• No winter of discontent

• Business
• Promote more, preempt less
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• Five blind mice

• Editorials
• Editorials

• Interactive Media
• IPGs waiting for their day in court
• ChoiceSeat sets reorg
• Defining personalized
• WebWatch
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• People
• Facetime
• Facetime
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Going home at the FCC

• Programming
• Some like it local
• Filling schedules
• All eyes on Indiana
• Lineup dancing
• A May affair with Blind Date
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF
• Station Break
• Station Break

• Technology
• Getting the TotalView
• Battle of the set-top boxes
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Top of the Week
• Down to the wire
• A deal ends a war
• A sweeping slump
• Syndie ads: Half-bad news
• AT&T rethinks M'soft set-top
• Running out of time
• The price of power
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye
• Bednarskis Column
• Branding a perception
• Financial Wrap-up
• Financial Wrap-up
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Voices
• Airtime
• Technology validated
• Open Mike
• Open Mike

• Washington
• Don't mess around with Slim
• Lights, cameras, litigate
• Bell tolling for Bell bill
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF