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NBC's Mapes sees big-three networks settling at 55% audience share by end of decade Broadcasters need the security of syndication revenues if they are to play a meaningful role in [...]

Network also decides not to take back inventory from affiliates or change compensation agreements to facilitate future cuts; new-found affiliate solidarity likely to continue Tony Malara, president affiliate relations, CBS [...]

3 CBS made adjustments to its proposed TV network compensation plan last week under pressure from its affiliates. But the remaining question was whether the changes were sufficient to move [...]

Operating cash flow dropped by more than 20% among most of the TV station group owners who reported third-quarter cash-flow numbers recently. The culprit behind the bad news was the [...]

It opposes Media Access Project's petition to move court appeal from Chicago to San Francisco; denies MAP charge it conspired with Schurz Communications The CBS Television Network Affiliates Association last [...]

In what it called a 'precedent-setting move,' Fox Inc.'s syndication division--Twentieth Domestic Television--said it would not seek a portion of any retransmission-consent monies its broadcast clients receive from cable systems. [...]

One plan has network taking back 15%-20% in exchange for inventory give-back With the wounds still agape at CBS from its battle with affiliates over compensation cuts, NBC has also [...]

June TV station revenue was up 1.2% over same month in 1991, according to monthly 'flash report' compiled for Television Bureau of Advertising. TVB said survey of 187 affiliates showed [...]

TV station owners last week reported a mix of second-quarter revenue gains and declines. Even those reporting higher revenue did not see performance returning to the level of the 1990 [...]

Television revenue edged up 2% in May, according to the monthly unaudited 'flash' report released by the Television Bureau of Advertising. The results were generally considered disappointing for the first [...]

Many experts believe the financial pressures faced by today's TV broadcasters go well beyond the current recession to reflect more fundamental, long-term declines. It certainly seems harder now to maintain [...]

Despite Gulf War comparisons, revenue growth mostly weak First-quarter financial results for TV station owners are evidence that a recovery in the broadcast economy still has a way to go. [...]

CBS plans to cut compensation to its TV network affiliates this year and will probably announce the move this summer. Upon learning of the decision in Las Vegas last week, [...]

Cosmos Broadcasting said fourth-quarter national revenue gained 6% and local revenue was up 2%, but that a sharp drop in political spending caused total fourth-quarter revenue to fall 5%. Earnings [...]

TV station revenue for the first month of the fourth quarter compared poorly with October 1990. Two publicly reporting affiliate groups, Pulitzer and Gannett, both showed an 11% decline. A [...]

SCI TV, with $140 million in bank debt due in three weeks, said it was trying to negotiate an extension of the due date. The group owner was to have [...]

As the three broadcast networks continue, as Tony Malara, president, CBS Affiliate Relations, put it last week, 'to fight for their life in the balance sheet,' network compensation to affiliates [...]

The big question facing the three networks and Fox is: How bad will the fourth-quarter scatter market be? If the current read is right, the networks and Fox may have [...]

Federal banking guidelines, which may discourage loans to broadcasters and cable operators, are again under review. The three regulatory agencies that oversee banks have requested public comments on the 'highly [...]

In the latest casualty in the financially troubled public television business, WNET(TV) Newark, N.J. (New York), last week announced a dramatic restructuring that will result in 69 layoffs and reduced [...]

The good news is that the first-quarter financial results reported last week by publicly-held group owners were expected to be bad. The bad news is that the results lived up [...]

MONDAY MEMO A bankruptcy commentary from Lewis J. Paper, partner, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Washington Bankruptcy. It used to be a term that concerned only relatively few companies throughout the [...]

Until recently TV station operating margins in 1990 were not projected to be down much compared to last year. But flat local advertising revenue and recent events in the Middle [...]

Over the past couple of months I have noticed a new word creep into the vocabulary of The Wall Street Journal and other publications. The word is 'go-go.' It is [...]

NBC to increase affiliate compensation Move comes at a time when ABC and CBS, suffering from financial problems, have begun efforts to reduce payments to TV affiliates Taking advantage of [...]

Grant Broadcasting goes into Chapter 11 Grant Broadcasting System Inc. filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy for its three independent television stations last week. The filing would protect the three UHF's, WBFS-TV [...]

TV networks post 6.4% revenue gain in 3d quarter Third-quarter 1986 revenue for the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks increased by 6.4% over the same period a year earlier, [...]

ABC lays its compensation cards on the table Network proposal for two-year, $10.5-million cut in affiliate compensation meets cool reception; discussion on matter to continue, but some see cut as [...]

Networks contemplate cuts in affiliate compensation Downside talk follows ABC board meeting in Chicago; no formal proposals have been made; CBS expected to broach subject with affiliate board in January [...]

KTLA(TV) Los Angeles was sold last week by Golden West Broadcasters to Tribune Co. for $510 million cash. That works out to a daily increase of $285,000 in the station's [...]

Revenue gains held to single digit; group owners say strong network scatter market may be responsible for offseting absence of political ads The moderate quality of second-quarter station advertising left [...]

Grant Broadcasting System submitted reorganization plan Grant Broadcasting System submitted reorganization plan to Philadelphia bankruptcy court late Friday afternoon. Plan, reached after three weeks of negotiations with most major syndicators [...]

WTTV goes into bankruptcy Indianapolis VHF files for Chapter 11, victim of increased competition and soft advertising marketplace; WQTV Boston in involuntary liquidation The management of WTTV(TV) Bloomington, Ind. (Indianapolis), [...]