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By George Winslow Channels Expand Base Of Homes, Platforms It has been nearly 20 years since News 12 went on the air in 700,000 Cablevision Systems Corp. homes on Long [...]

SYDNEY -- The axing of local news services in regional and rural Australia has prompted an Australian Broadcasting Authority investigation into the adequacy of the provisions for such services. The [...]

Add video-streaming rights to the list of issues igniting tensions between cable operators and cable networks. Charter Communications Inc.'s decision to break off negotiations with ESPN for distribution of ESPNews [...]

CBS introduced Katie Couric as its newest star employee, but her boss Scan McManus stole the show at the Television Critics Assn. press tour with a spirited defense of the [...]

I CONFESS TO HAVING A SOFT SPOT FOR Dan Rather, especially given the unceremonious sendoff he received last week by CBS News. After Rather spent 44 years gathering and delivering [...]

The BBC on Tuesday announced the launch of an Arabic-language TV news channel in 2007 to rival Al-Jazeera. Coin for the venture--some 19 million [pounds sterling] annually ($34 million)--will come [...]

The hottest night in television will be one big political reality show Thursday, as the four broadcast nets provide live coverage of the first presidential debate. ABC News, CBS News [...]

The U.S. news networks agreed to let the American military censor out certain images of Saddam Hussein's court hearing Thursday in Baghdad, one in a bizarre series of events surrounding [...]

Chuck Dolan's satellite programming service Voom has launched the first 24-hour high-definition all-news channel in the U.S. HD News becomes the 21st exclusive high-def network offered by the Voom service [...]

NBC News' evening newscast drew the most viewers during the November sweeps, but it settled for a rare tic with the Alphabet in the coveted news demo of adults 25-54. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Died-in-the-wool Dems may still be licking their wounds over the California recall results, but one nonpartisan group is lashing out at the major news nets. The Alliance for [...]

Viewer interest in the Iraq war may diminish following Baghdad's fall last week, but that's not stopping some of the all-news networks from bulking up their resources there. Meanwhile, back [...]

DENVER - Tele-Communications Inc., eyeing a possible move into the news business, is readying its first 'journalistic experiments' in public affairs programming. TCI will hold a telephone press conference today [...]

A decision by ProSiebenSat 1 execs to scale back news programming on its Sat 1 channel could trigger sanctions from German state media regulators, a German state media watchdog warned [...]

NEW YORK -- Last year, a lot of ink was spilled talking about the sea change going on in the networks' morning and evening news shows. Katie Couric left NBC's [...]

For a medium that gets tagged as illiterate, TV is giving viewers more and more to read. Take financial cabler CNBC, which is increasingly crowding out the talking heads in [...]

It became known as the Katrina effect, and it shaped the response to Hurricane Rita by the public and the media. While Rita brought high winds, floods and a big [...]

Latin America's largest federation of labor unions, the Workers' Unified Central (CUT), bowed a weekly newsmagazine show on national television on Saturday. The 30-minute show aired at 2:15 p.m. on [...]

AS THE STORY ON PAGE 6A ILLUSTRATES, U.S. CABLE operators will likely have their hands full when Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. buys DirecTV. What Murdoch has done with British Sky [...]

MILAN -- Rupert Murdoch's newborn Italo pay TV platform Sky Italia will launch a news channel on Aug. 31. SkyTG24 'will have something in common with its brothers Sky News [...]

LONDON -- A government report has lambasted rolling news service BBC News 24 for not being sufficiently distinctive from other 24-hour services such as Sky News. Report, produced by former [...]

NEW YORK -- Time Warner Inc.'s publishing unit Time Inc. and its cable programming group will offer news on demand in Orlando, Fla., starting in late 1994, Time Warner said. [...]