Broadcasting & Cable - January 12, 2003

So this is it for NATPE in New Orleans. Next week, when the programming convention begins its last confab in The Big Easy, it might look like NATPE but only in the way a toy train looks like a real one. Once a great big convention, NATPE is now not very big at all. The gathering will attract something like 10,000 to the giant Ernest N.

• Business
• Diller Shopping HSN
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Editorials
• Editorials
• Two Cents
• Airtime
• It's Not Easy To Leave The Big Easy
• Bednarski's Column
• It Pays To Be Smart

• People
• Facetime
• Facetime
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Local Boy Loves Covering New York

• Programming
• Chrysler Ends Martha Deal
• New Syndie Weeklies Are a Diverse Bunch
• Critics See What's Next on Cable
• Former TNT Exec DeBitetto Joins A&E As Program Chief
• 500 Channels, Not Enough Buyers
• Syndie Insider
• Market Focus
• A Slow, Steady Comeback
• Syndication Watch
• John Walsh: More Wanted

• Special Report
• NATPE 2003
• Where the Buys Are
• The Agenda

• TV Buyer
• Package-Goods Advertisers Turn to Product Integration
• Idol Signs Three Major Sponsors
• Ebb and Flow
• Syndie Likes How '03 Is Shaping Up
• Hot Spots
• Hot Spots

• Technology
• New KSND Digital Facilty Takes Ops to the Bank
• Denver Tower in Limbo

• Top of the Week
• Cable's Catching a New Non-Scripted Wave
• Hecht Is Main Dude At Mega-Macho TNN
• The Dereg Blues Brothers
• Lack Bolts for Sony Music
• Comcast Puts Squeeze On Programming Fees
• Eye, Aye for ET Clone
• Warner Finds Homes For Sharon and Ellen
• TCA Briefs
• Fox Feels Like 50 Million Bucks About Joe
• Former CBS Exec Wyman Dead at 73
• NAB Seeks New Lobbyist as May Flies to ATA
• Viacom Presses Claim for 9/11 Business Interruption
• TV Hits the Highway
• Fast Track
• Fast Track
• In the Loop
• In the Loop
• Station Break
• Station Break

• Washington
• Capital Watch
• Small Broadcasters Push Big Change