Broadcasting & Cable - May 12, 2002

Media consolidation had a big impact on BROADCASTING mp; CABLE's Top 25 Media Groups this year: Twenty positions were occupied by different companies last year. Just last week, Vivendi closed its deal to buy back control of USA Networks Inc., which moved it up a notch to the No. 2 position, knocking Disney back to No.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• Oh, those glum overachievers
• Ganging up on sports fees
• Putting the V in VOD
• This time, smaller was OK
• NCTA wrap-up

• Editorials
• Editorials

• People
• Facetime
• Facetime
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Turner's chief shopper

• Programming
• Where football is king
• Dobbs stock still grows at CNN
• Let there be HDTV
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• Hosts and other news

• Technology
• NCTA Briefs
• HD set-tops take center stage
• iTV gets first standard

• Top of the Week
• PBS's 2nd digital deal
• Guess what? An auction postponed
• It could be Half-Adelphia
• Clear Channel fights back
• The week that was
• This May, it's good old NBC
• Network mystery lineups
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye