Broadcasting & Cable - May 19, 2002

The Plan It may not be the most elegant way to describe the mission of The WB, but, at its upfront last week, President and COO Jed Petrick put it in a simple framework. "There are 80 million viewers under 20 years old. That's a lot of belly rings and tattoos." The network that has broadcast prime time's youngest-median-age viewer (30) will introduce six series this fall (seven if you count Gil...

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Cover
• NBC: For the No. 1 net, it's steady as she goes
• Don't mince words, Jimmy
• ABC: A strategy for stemming the slide
• CBS: Searching for the fountain of youth
• FOX: Back to the drawing board—and drawing a lot
• PAX: A growing emphasis on original production
• UPN: Synergy, yes, but weblet still goes its own way
• Faith, hope and stability
• Hispanic-American TV booms

• Editorials
• Editorials

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• A proud parent of DBS

• Programming
• Consolidate to survive
• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• No Big Easy NATPE in '04

• Special Report
• Serving up TV's next generation

• Technology
• Kick-starting enhanced DTV
• Bot's news on wheels
• SkyStream's broadband vision
• National Geo goes HD
• A step toward digital STL

• Top of the Week
• The week that was
• CBS takes flak for Pearl tape
• Now it's a real Adelphiasco
• FCC spares DTV rod
• Redrawing USA map
• Changes in the big offices
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye