Broadcasting & Cable - June 23, 2002

When it comes to working the federal government, few players maneuver more deftly than the broadcasting industry. The likes of NBC, CBS, Fox and Tribune have loosened FCC ownership rules. They've prompted Congress to guarantee carriage of their TV stations' signals on cable and satellite TV. New spectrum that would have cost cellular-phone companies billions of dollars has been handed to them f...

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Editorials
• Editorials

• People
• Fates & Fortunes
• Facetime
• Facetime
• Fifth Estater
• An accidental mogul

• Programming
• Rich in opportunity
• The new news battle
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• Station Break
• Station Break
• Syndication Watch
• Creative deals for Becker

• Technology
• Fennell to head Pinnacle
• DTV interference issues loom
• ATI buys NxtWave

• Top of the Week
• Ted says he's sorry
• Hill blocks 700 MHz auction
• 9/11 dominates RTNDA's Murrows
• Fees set, fight certain
• Philly's new TV head count
• Stephanopoulos to anchor This Week
• A little nicked on diversity
• P&G makes a Discovery
• Syndie ad sales swing upward
• The week that was
• B and C Eye
• B&C Eye

• Washington
• Merger plan divides industry
• Cable keeps pole position
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