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January 2002Jan. 8-10, SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies, sponsored by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, at the Fairmont, San Jose, Calif. Information: 800-542-5040 or www.scte.org.Jan. 8-11, 2002 International CES, sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association, at the Las Vegas…
In yet another reversal, NATPE has re-booked hotel rooms in New Orleans for its 2003 and 2004 conventions.Organizers of the National Association of Television Program Executives convention have now blocked off 6,000 rooms for each future event, according to sources,…
In a mixed bag for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the Federal Communications Commission last week approved all but one of the company’s 15 TV station transactions that had been pending at the agency for almost four years.However, the FCC also fined…
It has been a rocky year for the syndication business. The playing field continues to shrink, owing to the ongoing phenomenon of vertical integration, through which program distributors also have become TV station owners. The most glaring sign of the…
KNSD-TV opens street-level studioNBC-owned KNSD-TV, San Diego, began broadcasting its newscasts last week from a new facility-a glass-enclosed street-level studio in the heart of downtown near the historic Horton Plaza Fountain. Construction on the studio began this summer in the…
Negotiating RussertThe morning after he was toasted for having moderated “Meet the Press” for 10 years and for signing a new contract to continue with the top-ranked newsmaker show for an unheard of 12 more years, Tim Russert awoke to…
The annual NATPE convention, once the crown jewel of the syndication season, has struggled in recent years to remain viable in a rapidly evolving marketplace. That struggle took a near-fatal turn this year when the major distributors, citing the high…
At a time when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is roaring into an unsettled television program marketplace with intriguing new formulas for profitability, its chairman has declared that the last independent Hollywood studio is an eager merger and acquisition candidate.Alex Yemenidjian, MGM’s affable and…
The Federal Communications Commission last week proposed new equal employment opportunity regulations intended to encourage broadcasters and cable operators to reach out to minorities and women when filling job vacancies-hopefully all without running afoul of the courts.Representatives of the FCC’s…
Channels 52 to 59 won’t be limited to broadcastersThe Federal Communications Commission last week announced that the winning auction bidders for broadcast channels 52 to 59 will have the flexibility to pick the technology they want to use to serve…