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In Depth

Rx for salvaging a career

A sad-eyed pediatrician sits in a sparsely furnished office in a Denver suburb, hoping to resuscitate a career that has spun wildly out of control. Suspended from his practice after a series of medical errors in a case that ended…

Correction

In the February local sweeps chart (March 18, Page 16), independent station WTBS-TV was inadvertently left out of the Atlanta market. To see a complete version of the Atlanta market, please go to EMonline.com.

Virtual news sets get more affordable

Thanks to recent advances in graphics card capabilities for PCs, TV stations that once viewed the adoption of virtual studio technology as too expensive can now consider implementing such solutions, since the costs have dropped drastically this year.Broadcasters no longer…

It’s getting worse for AOL TW

The most astounding thing about the problems and challenges vexing AOL Time Warner is that they are happening at all.Eighteen months ago, the merger of the companies was heralded as a bellwether for integrating new and old media and mining…

Briefly Noted

Uncle Miltie dead at 93Milton Berle, the legendary vaudeville comedian who became TV’s first comic superstar, died in his sleep on March 27 at his home in Los Angeles at age 93, according to his publicist Warren Cowan. Since suffering…

The Insider

In for a dollar, in for a million on `Jeopardy!’With apologies to that long-distance phone advertiser who touts the value of a single buck, you’ll have to wait for the May sweeps to see just how much a dollar is…

‘Celebrity Justice’ has that ‘Extra’ something

Some insiders are calling it television’s “anti-Enquirer.”Telepictures’ upcoming newsmagazine strip “Celebrity Justice” has already garnered the kind of national attention that most upcoming shows drool over. Currently a regular segment on fellow Telepictures series “Extra,” “Celebrity Justice” found and aired…

The WB’s multiplexing plan

The WB next season plans to multiplex at least five hours of its prime-time programs on its own network and the Turner cable networks, where it will ask advertisers to pay up to 85 percent of the initial unit prices…

Next, please

They moved in and out of the room at a five-minute clip-same lines, same verse. But it was the syncopated rhythm of the pro watching these actors audition that was worth noting.His name is Joseph Middleton, and he is a…

Cross-ownership rule apparently in limbo

Even before Michael Powell officially assumed the Federal Communications Commission’s chairmanship in January of last year, industry lobbyists were confidently predicting that his appointment meant imminent doom for the agency’s newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership prohibition.But more than a year later, the rule,…