Broadcasting & Cable - September 14, 2003

A new channel is taking on BET, for 20-plus years the only major network targeting African-Africans, and it's coming well-armed. Launching Jan. 1, TV One boasts a healthy $130 million in startup funds, backing by media-industry heavyweights Radio One and Comcast, and former Discovery Networks U.S. chief Johnathan Rodgers at its head.

• Business
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Editorials
• Editorials
• Airtime
• FCC's Bundling Strategy Unraveled
• Bednarski's Column
• Freedom To Disagree
• Two Cents
• Two Cents

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• A Flutist Who Became an Engineer for NAB

• Programming
• Will Fall Cool Down Cable's Summer Hits?
• Syndie Insider
• Ellen , Starting Over Get Early Debuts
• Book Excerpt
• The Brotherhood
• Market Focus
• The O.C. Gets Fox Fall OK
• TV in Smallville
• Syndication Watch
• Correcting Crossing

• Special Report
• Black Programming: Progress and Problems
• Networks Tout Improved Minority Numbers
• Johnson Raps Cable Industry for 'Lip Service' to Blacks

• TV Buyer
• Cheers and Jeers on 'Alcopop' Ads
• Report: No More Baby Steps for Interactive TV
• Ebb and Flow
• Cable Scatter Is Hard To Deduce

• Top of the Week
• Prime Time Doing Fine
• Sex and Syndication
• His Wife Is a Candidate So Anchor Is Ousted
• Few Advertisers Pull Back on Upfront Buys
• Senators Promise Perseverance on Rereg
• Dolan: High (Def) on DBS
• Life of Reilly Won't Be Easy
• NBC Scores Big With Early Tuesday Debuts
• FCC Gives DTV a Plug-and-Play Push
• After Ritter's Death, Status of Rules Uncertain
• Fast Track
• Fast Track
• In the Loop
• In the Loop
• Station Break
• Station Break

• Washington
• Bureau With a View
• PBS Moves Forward on New Pull Transmission Method
• Finance-Reform Battle in High Court
• Capital Watch