Broadcasting & Cable - June 05, 2000
BROADCASTING
CABLE
CHANGING HANDS
CLOSED CIRCUIT
COVER_STORY
EDITORIALS
| FATES and FORTUNES
FIFTH ESTATER
IN BRIEF - IN BRIEF
- As expected, Marci Pool was named executive vice president of original movies and miniseries at Fox Broadcasting Co.
- The FCC's hearing on America Online's acquisition of Time Warner
- NAB executive vice president Chuck Sherman entered George Washington Hospital in Washington on Friday for quintuple bypass surgery,
- The International Federation of Journalists expressed concern last week over "disturbing tactics" by police, who disguised themselves as journalists to lure a gunman out of a Luxembourg nursery school where he was holding 25 children and their teachers ho
- Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has spent more than twice as much on broadcast, cable and radio advertising than his rival, Vice President Al Gore.
- Studios USA Domestic Television has pushed into the development fast track with 'Zobmondo!!.
- A Tampa, Fla., Web entertainment firm has filed suit to put the kibosh on CBS' 'Big Brother,'
- New York radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony, of wnew (fm), held up a profane sign Thursday referring to female body parts
- House Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley is calling for a criminal investigation after Justice Department investigators uncovered a memo describing a proposed strategy for Vice President Al Gore to help a longtime friend and Democratic fund-raiser obt
- DirecTV last week completed one of its remaining local carriage deals and said it would begin providing local TV service in Salt Lake City as of Friday.
- The Ad Council, the Children's Aid Society and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week announced an ad campaign to raise awareness about community schools.
- Angela Rae, an anchor for the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news at CBS-owned wfor-tv Miami will join the company's flagship station, wcbs-tv,
- Senators not only are writing letters in support of low-power FM but are lending their committee rooms to the cause.
- Corrections:
- Barberie gets her chance with Reege
- Glickman steps down at Carsey-Werner
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