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Meeting Queen Elizabeth on Nov. 28 at CNN London are AOL Time Warner’s Richard Parsons, left, Andy Bird (hidden), David Levy, Nan Richards, Ivar Fitje, Chris Cramer, Norman Pearlstein and Walter Isaacson.Mr. Isaacson looks on as CNN.com Europe editor Nick…

PROFILE: Jack Perry

Title: President and CEO of Decisionmark, a technology and data company focused on broadcast spatial analysis that is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Background: Mr. Perry joined the company in 1996 after working at several software companies, including Interactive Resources, CE…

NBC set to buy by the Bay

NBC this week could move a step closer to owning a San Francisco television station.The Peacock Network has intensified its separate negotiations with Young Broadcasting to buy KRON-TV and with Granite Broadcasting to buy KNTV in a bid to finally…

At Press Time

Discovery eyes NBC’s Saturday morning lineupLos Angeles-Discovery Communications is said to be on the fast track to close a deal with NBC within two weeks to make a time buy of the Peacock Network’s Saturday morning lineup, according to a…

Clarification

* In “Nov. sweeps key for local stations” (EM Nov. 26), Peggy Carpenter-Johnson, the author of the article, is the former news director at WIAT-TV in Birmingham, Ala.

Voting via TV using Wink system

Wink Communications has developed a system that will allow voters to cast their public election ballots over TV sets.The company, along with cable operator Charter Communications, wants to test the system in San Luis Obispo, Calif., a small community on…

NATPE might break into pieces

NATPE appears to be preparing a December 2002 or January 2003 conference for its international and new media clients, while a spinoff gathering designed for domestic sales teams is being planned for the spring.Meanwhile, New Orleans tourism execs are poring…

NBC, Fox in dead heat for No. 1

NBC’s apparent threadbare win over Fox in the key adults 18 to 49 demographic-still contested late last week by Fox-could make the November 2001 sweeps as hotly debated as the November 2000 ballot-counting controversy in the presidential election.At the end…

Powell: TV wastes spectrum

With more consumers than ever paying to get their television from cable and satellite services, federal regulators may need to assess whether broadcasting is wasting spectrum.At least that was one of the pitches from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell…

Local Market Spotlight: Chicago

Though station managers in Chicago said the TV ad market is down for the year, they have seen an increase in sales since the Sept. 11 attacks and hope the increase will help improve their fourth-quarter numbers.“Everybody in the market…