Broadcasting & Cable - March 24, 2002

Nearly everybody cut ad budgets in 2001. Nearly everybody. Trying to jump-start lagging sales, particularly after Sept. 11, car dealers bucked the trend and wound up increasing their ad spending by 4% in 2001, much to the relief of TV stations where, typically, car dealers are the largest advertisers.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing hands

• Cover
• Car Talk

• Editorials
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• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• A grass-roots touch

• Programming
• Covering wide open spaces
• Farewell to a pioneer
• Cable news-net battle brews—in Raleigh?
• Syndication Watch
• Bucking a trend

• Special Report
• How low can you go?
• Leitch offers an Opus
• Pinnacle's ties that bind
• IN BRIEF
• Encoda's smart Mart

• Technology
• Comcast SportsNet goes HD
• Tandberg's DTV switch
• Never enough fiber
• MassTech appeal
• HPA retreat a success
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Top of the Week
• Hard liquor ads on the rocks
• DTV: Put up or pay up
• Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, no
• NFL lofts scheduling bomb
• Tennis Channel, anyone?
• The week that was
• Cable starts to roll on high-def
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye
• IN BRIEF
• IN BRIEF

• Voices
• Open Mike
• Open Mike

• Washington
• Hollings threatens FTC's Muris