Broadcasting & Cable - November 4, 2001

As satellite TV rivals, EchoStar and DirecTV grabbed 20% of the multichannel video market and virtually halted cable's subscriber growth. Now EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen is threatening to cut more deeply into cable with his deal to combine with DirecTV.Looking for howls of protest? Try sighs of relief.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• Facing the regulators

• Editorials
• Two birds in the hand

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• In-house entrepreneur

• Programming
• A hitch in Fox's stagger plan
• Competition, Southern-style
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• 5th Wheel gets rolling

• Technology
• NYC stations form tower coalition
• Putting some Wow in DTV

• Top of the Week
• The Court may set precedent
• DOD grabs sat pix
• Preparing to say nay to Eye
• Hollywood takes on PVRs
• How now, down Chao?
• I love TVNY
• Cable: Get with the program
• Paxson appeals FCC carriage ruling
• Squeeze play in Pittsburgh?
• 2000 wow! 2001 ow!
• The week that was
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye

• Washington
• Band of colluding broadcasters?