Broadcasting & Cable - March 12, 2006

After cutting a $67 billion deal to buy BellSouth last week, AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre got a gift from Washington. Congressional leaders agreed to allow the giant phone companies a national franchise license, allowing AT&T and other telcos a painless entry into the cable industry’s core business of video services.

• Deals
• Deals

• Market Eye
• Slow and Steady

• News
• Ad Trackers Spot the Spots
• Networks Seeing Stars
• Tribune Teams With The Tube To Offer Music
• Industry Rates Nielsen Sale
• BC Week
• Where to be and what to watch...
• Fast Track
• Fast Track
• Flash!
• Flash!
• Station to Station
• The Distribution Derby
• Take Five
• NBC U’s Digital Chief
• Washington Watch
• 'Las Vegas' Blasted at FCC

• Opinion
• Airtime
• Memo to the News Networks
• Editorial
• Roses and Thorns

• People
• Fates and Fortunes
• Fates & Fortunes
• Fifth Estater
• Sale Plays Matchmaker Again

• Special Report
• Kids and Family Programming
• In the Family Way
• What Children Teach Their Parents
• NAB Buyers Guide
• Tribune Tries Video Squeeze Play
• Keep It Simple, Suppliers!
• ESPN Eyes Future Upgrades Today
• Sinclair Just Kicking the Tires
• ABC Seeks Second-Generation HD
• Clear Channel Seeks a Dialogue
• Shopping Vegas, Thinking Houston
• Shopping in High Gear
• NBC Will Gear Up for More HD

• Syndication
• 'Geraldo’ Pounds the Pavement