Broadcasting & Cable - May 08, 2000
BROADCASTING CABLE CHANGING HANDS EDITORIALS FATES and FORTUNES FIFTH ESTATER
| IN BRIEF - A listless Odyssey
- LPFM: Read all about it!
- IN BRIEF
- ABC's celebrity version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? got the network off to a blistering start for the May sweeps.
- Fox drama 'Party of Five' went out in style but still failed to attract much of an audience.
- In an attempt to stem a downward trend in prime time ratings, Nickelodeon will put greater emphasis on kids rather than the recycled sitcoms of Nick at Nite.
- The Inspiration Network is not for sale, according to president and CEO David Cerullo.
- Douglas H. McCorkindale will succeed John J. Curley as CEO at Gannett Co. Inc.,
- Trinity Broadcasting won its fight to keep its Miami TV license.
- Embattled wowk-tv Charleston, W.Va., News Anchor Tom McGee filed a $15 million counterclaim against his employer,
- Wabc-tv New York News Director Bart Feder is joining interactive broadband TV news network The FeedRoom as vice president of news, the latest in the Internet brain drain.
- Troubled Cumulus Media Inc. will save some $111 million in cash since Clear Channel Communications Inc. has agreed to renegotiate a recent radio-station swap with the Milwaukee-based company.
- The FCC will accept applications from non-commercial organizations seeking to establish low-power radio stations in Alaska, California, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Mariana Islands, Maryland, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Uta
- Martin Umansky died in Wichita last week at 83.
- Corrections:
INTERNET Ncta cable 2000 special NCTA CABLE 2000 SPECIAL Ncta cable 2000 special Technology TOP OF THE WEEK
|