Broadcasting & Cable - November 11, 2001

It is in the 1930s that the "American Plan" of ad-supported radio flourishes, making it unlikely that proponents (and there were many) of the "European Plan" of a government-operated medium will prevail. The attractiveness of free, high-quality entertainment as an antidote to the Great Depression results in burgeoning audiences for the newly created radio networks, a key to wooing adverti...

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• The rise of radio news
• The rise of television entertainment
• The rise of television news
• The rise of FM and satellites
• The rise of cable television
• The rise of mega-media
• 70 & counting

• Editorials
• The long view

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Media-merger overseer

• Programming
• A true tri-state market
• Goodbye, Fox Family Channel
• MLB blues: TV black eye?
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• Springer staying put—for now

• Special Report
• Managing the digital future
• Understand the basics

• Technology
• No national alarms

• Top of the Week
• Weaver of programming magic
• New approach to syndie sales?
• Bad spot!
• EchoStar-DirecTV players square off
• Bleak news gets even bleaker
• The economy takes its toll
• The week that was
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye

• Washington
• Accentuating the positive
• Safety takes priority