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Belo group details cost-reduction plan A day after Belo announced the completion of its $5 million purchase of KSKN-TV in Spokane, Wash., the group announced a cost-reduction strategy that includes the reduction of management committee salaries by 5 percent, the…
Columbia TriStar pulls NATPE floor plans Adding on to the half-dozen or more syndicators to pull out of the upcoming NATPE convention, Columbia TriStar is the latest of the major studios to scrap its plans to take booth space on…
Two House panels passed bills last week that make it easier for the federal government to wiretap customers of cable broadband and cable-delivered phone service.Both the House Commerce and House Judiciary committees approved measures clarifying that cable companies are not…
With a little less than 11/2 years left on his $5 million- to $7 million-a-year CNN contract, Larry King seems to be in renegotiation mode. Mr. King, CNN’s highest-profile and highest-paid on-air personality, was spotted having breakfast last Thursday morning…
Twentieth, Studios USA pull out of NATPENews Corp.’s Twentieth Television and Barry Diller’s Studios USA syndication divisions are among the latest on a list of a half-dozen major distributors to pull out on booth space at the upcoming 2002 National…
Due to a soft national economy, the Anchorage, Alaska, market was already down, but after last month’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, station managers are uncertain just how low those numbers will go.“We had a sizable amount of…
Because it ended with nearly three weeks of earth-rattling drama and tension that riveted viewers by the millions, the third quarter produced ratings with talking points to spare for all news organizations, even if they are still skittish about hawking…
AT&T Broadband modifying Western Show plansAT&T Broadband will cut back its presence at the Western Cable Show this November from an expected 45 to 50 executives from all around the country to just a handful from the California area. The…
Practically the only way NBC could top Oct. 3’s special terrorism-themed episode of “The West Wing” would be to get soon-to-be departing New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to make a presidential election run against the show’s incumbent President Josiah Bartlet.Buoyed…
What it is: Omneon Video Networks’ Extended File System is a new feature of the company’s networked content server that allows servers to connect with each other and share files. The EFS functionality was introduced at NAB 2001.How it works:…