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They get it. They really get That's what a review of 23 Web sites produced by or for MSOs says about cable and the Web. Among the trends: customized channel [...]

Executives of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to turn the paper's lagging Saturday broadsheet into a tabloid to boost sales. The approach met board resistance but finally prevailed. Research by Urban & Associates Consultant Chris Urban found that the best prospects for additional Saturday readers were Sunday-only readers who did not have time to take the paper seven days a week, and sports fans.

Pulitzer Publishing Co. has appointed Cole C. Campbell as the managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. The former editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has a reputation for supporting public journalism and has a collaborative approach to management. Campbell has to reverse dwindling readership and sagging single-copy sales at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and must earn the loyalty and respect of the newspaper staff in order to succeed. The paper has daily circulation of approximately 316,000.

The Yow family of Gibsonville, N.C., was dumbfounded the day 13-year-old Debbie announced that she was going out for basketball. In the Yow household, basketball was a sport for anyone […]

Cable Says It's Improving - What Do Key Buyers Say? It's time for the local/spot sales report card, and this year cable might get away without a parent-teacher conference. Maybe. [...]

The Fox Cable Networks Group and Charter Communications Inc. have been on the same page lately. Charter and the programmer this week agreed on a wide-ranging deal that puts the [...]

My name is Staci and I'm a DirecTV sports .junkie: 'NHL Center Ice,' 'MLB Extra Innings,' the regional sports tier and the NCAA 'Mega March Madness' package. That puts me [...]

Streamed Sports Still Swimming Against Current For sports fans, streaming media promises to be Internet nirvana. Even at today's nascent stage, there have already been a number of opportunities for [...]

When an earthquake shook Seattle last month, thousands of viewers turned to Cable News Network, Fox News Channel or MSNBC for the latest news. But a smaller crowd was watching [...]

Not too long ago, a Web site was just an option. That's not the case anymore. In today's environment, any organization that relies on communications needs to make good use [...]

The Fox Sports New England regional sports-news show, which made its debut last week, is off to a slow start, largely because the network has been unable to break the [...]

As for the style: Think homer. The dreaded 'we' -- as in, 'We won tonight' -- is not uncommon. In Houston, the Southwest regional show, anchored by Keith Lebowitz and [...]

One month has passed since Fox Sports Net Ohio launched its 11 p.m. regional sportscast, and it earns a 'B-plus' grade. The 30-minute program moves fast, does a good job [...]

Fox Sports Net is set to launch the second. phase of regionally targeted sports programming when Midwest Sports Tonight debuts Tuesday. It will air at 7 p.m. on weeknights when [...]

The folks at Fox Sports Net's Regional Sports Report are patting themselves on the back for being first with a broadcast report that Erik Williams' holdout was over and he [...]

Fox Sports Net is pleased with the early ratings for Regional Sports Report. 'We're hoping to do a 1.0 household rating in each market,' general manager Steve Liverani said. 'We're [...]

Memo to Fox Sports Network: Your regional coverage is a swell idea. The new 6:30 p.m. newscast with local inserts and the continuing 11 p.m. Regional Sports Report: Rocky Mountain [...]

Like them, feel lukewarm about them or hate them, television critics and reporters who write and talk about the ambitious new Fox Sports Net Regional Sports Reports all seemed to [...]

It doesn't yet have a name or a Web address, but if all goes as planned, an intriguing and potentially powerful local Internet experiment partnered by Cablevision Systems Corp. and [...]

Broadband ISPs Tap Into Their Own Medium According to legend, when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, 'Because that's where the money is.' Today, crafty high-speed [...]

When Dallas Stars goalie Eddie Belfour got shellacked by the New Jersey Devils in game one of the 2000 Stanley Cup playoffs, it almost looked like d[acute{e}]j[grave{a}] vu all over [...]

Local Web sales may be the next big growth area for cable operators. For more and more operators, using the Internet as an ad sales vehicle isn't a question of [...]

Mergers changed the Internet landscape for MSOs during the year since the last Multichannel News review, and not always for the better. A few sites have been left intact with [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Jim Courier officially retired from the men's pro-tennis circuit last week, but the Grand Slam champ will still be at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- The National Show looked good to Decker Anstrom, the former National Cable Television Association president who watched this year's edition as CEO of The Weather Channel. 'It [...]

St. Louis (!) as the wired world's testbed In another century, St. Louis was the gateway to the West. If you wanted to make your fortune, explore untouched lands or […]

As far as bad days go, try this one on for size: You wake up Monday to discover that a meltdown of the main stock in your portfolio has whacked […]

For more than two decades, ESPN has brought highlights and low moments from the world of sports to millions of viewers, providing coverage from every angle -- from gushing superlatives [...]

There's More on the Cable Dial Than time, Oxygen THEY'VE RECEIVED MOST OF THE INK RECENTLY, BUT Lifetime Television and Oxygen are not the only cable channels that women watch. [...]

Stay-at-home celebrants will have plenty of choices on cable on New Year's Eve, whether they're looking for gimmicks, movies or live news coverage. For some networks, it's business as usual, [...]

How Disney and the NHL plan to give hockey some badly needed heat The last time it looked like all the pieces were in place for the National Hockey League […]

The hockey season has been under way for a month, but the National Hockey League and ESPN fired the real opening salvo of their new partnership last week with the [...]

When Tom Hicks, owner of the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, bought Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers in early 1998, he made it clear that one of his goals was [...]

CHICAGO -- Has any cable-industry executive ever been fired for failing to produce a diversified work force? None of the attendees at the National Show's human-resources roundtable here last month [...]

Combined, the first-quarter-1999 primetime numbers of the 10 networks highlighted in this article add up to less than the total of the three top-rated basic-cable networks. Each of them also [...]

When Multichannel News first started to keep track of MSOs' Web sites, the list was a short one. These days, it's the rare MSO that doesn't have a presence on [...]

ST. LOUIS -- As eight teams battled their way through the second round of the National Hockey League playoffs, smaller teams of network and league executives met in New York [...]

ST. Louis -- Regulators close to Charter Communications Inc. expressed surprise and relief, but also a touch of consternation, upon hearing of the MSO's merger with Marcus Cable Co. L.P. [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Consumers buying into HDTV right now are getting in on the ground floor while the rest of the house is still being built. In the glee of [...]

Competition has come to the west coast of Florida, but not in the form of a price war. After years of searching, when hopes had all but faded, St. Petersburg [...]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch is undergoing management changes, mainly due to an independent survey conducted by Synectics. The survey revealed that in order to develop an effective long-term strategy, serious changes would have to be made in the newspaper's management, because many employees felt that creative and innovative ideas were not being sought or valued by management. As a result, managing editor Foster S. Davis resigned in Mar 1996, long-time editor William Woo will be replaced, and other management changes will occur.

The Pulitzer Publishing Co, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has formed a new wholly owned subsidiary Pulitzer Sports II, which acquired a minority interest in the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. Editor William F. Woo was the only staff member to be aware of the acquisition and managing editor Foster Davis thought the plan was an excellent idea.