FEG Shareholders Likely to Take Offer
Wall Street Analysts’ Advice: Take News Corp. Bid Before It’s Withdrawn
In Depth
A Modern TV Success Story
Thriving Network Grew From a Focus on Young Viewers
KATZ GIVES THUMBS UP TO FALL SYNDIE SHOWS
Ad Sales Firm Touts ‘My Wife and Kids,’ ‘Tyra,’ ’24’ to Stations
A Tip o’ the Hat to Marketing
Partners Helped Build Thriving Net by Targeting Teens
Cable Hit With Satellite Attack
EchoStar Brandishes VOD Service; DirecTV Bolsters Interactivity
JUST THE FACTS
Title: Chairman, The WB How long in current position: Since May 2004 Year of birth: 1957 Place of birth: Perth Amboy, N.J. Greatest accomplishment at The WB: Succeeding for a second time in launching a new network, with the same…
DISCOVERY PLANS VOD EXPANSION IN 2005
While Discovery was one of the last programmers out of the gate with a video-on-demand offering last fall, it is making up for lost time with ambitious on-demand plans for 2005. As part of its on-demand growth strategy, Discovery Communications…
Comcast Plans Phone Service
Rollout Goal Pleases Markets; Shares Erase Earlier Price Loss
Let CBS’s Error Be a Lesson to TV News
Schadenfreude. Journalists, a competitive lot to be sure, revel in it when it comes to the misfortunes of one of their own. In any newsroom in the country on any given day, you can hear somebody talking about “the groaner”-or…
HEYWARDS IN THE RACE
Bernard “Bernie” Ecclestone, the richest man in the United Kingdom, with a fortune Forbes estimates at more than $3.5 billion, called Los Angeles nearly three years ago to discuss an intriguing business proposal. It involved some U.S. broadcast television rights…