Broadcasting & Cable - October 12, 2003

At first blush, the CBS Thursday-night drama Without a Trace doesn't look like one of the hottest properties on broadcast television. Ratings and buzz are good, but the sophomore series is not yet a blockbuster on the order of CSI or Law mp; Order. Yet cable channels are salivating over the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama, which boasts two coveted syndication features: self-contained ep...

• Business
• S&P Toughens Up on Cable's Credit Rating
• Gemstar-TV Guide Mends Fences With Time Warner
• Changing Hands
• Changing Hands

• Editorials
• Editorials
• Airtime
• Why Cable Originals Are Crucial
• Bednarski's Column
• Wright's Happy Night
• Two Cents
• Two Cents

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• A Quiet Warrior for Ownership Deregulation

• Programming
• More Bucks Boost Trading Spaces
• Post-9/11 Becomes a Television Plot
• A Pageant Twist On Makeovers
• WBZ-TV Producer Pens 'Strangler' Story
• Syndie Insider
• Market Focus
• Big Little Market
• Syndication Watch
• Nothing's Jumping Out

• Special Report
• Cable Syndication
• Original Lessons a Boon in Picking A&E's Off-Net Fare
• Hallmark Channel's Anderson Searches for Older Gold
• Station Operations
• Broadcast's Big Bang
• Odetics Airo Is Reborn
• Don't Forget To Tell IT

• TV Buyer
• Chevy To Brand Telemundo Special
• Ebb and Flow
• Weakness Seen in Scatter Sales

• Top of the Week
• Fox's Ailes Is B&C's First 'TV Journalist of the Year'
• NBC Eyes Big Ideas: VOD, DTV Multicast
• Synergy Equals $500M
• Fox, ESPN Think It's America's Pastime Again
• Arnold's New Role Cost $16M
• TNT Banks on Law & Order
• Chicago Wins! Boston Wins!
• Networks Have a Sinking Feeling
• Breaking...
• Breaking…
• Fast Track
• Fast Track
• In the Loop
• In the Loop
• FCC Set To Lay Down Law to DTV Laggards
• Station Break
• Station Break

• Washington
• Capital Watch
• Court resurrects access threat