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When you think of the E.W. Scripps Co., you probably think about all those newspapers and the 120 years of ink-stained tradition. Or perhaps about the solid collection of nine [...]

After unfulfilled promises, a downturn on Wall Street and its first serious competition, cable is hoping to capitalize on its assets If 1996 was the cable television industry's wake-up call, [...]

The war for TV homes is heating up as DBS attempts to win over cable's subscribers It was insult upon injury. After losing a referendum last month that would have [...]

It seems that every broadcaster has a strong opinion of David Smith, the latest king of TV-station consolidation. Critics say his business techniques push the regulatory envelope (see story, 'Top [...]

Newly merged giant reaches the most homes with its 14 stations; Tribune ranks second A Year of mergers and station trading, spurred by government deregulation, has shuffled BROADCASTING & CABLE'S [...]

Peter Barton says his job is to stay in the center of the programing 'deal stream.' And that he does. As president and CEO of Liberty Media Corp., Barton oversees [...]

Building US West's future on video-telco convergence Of all the Baby Bells, US West arguably has been the most successful video player. Its $2.5 billion investment in Time Warner's cable [...]

FCC orders new investigation of foreign ownership complete with gag order; NBC keeps up the pressure on 'special advantages'; Fox charges 'blatant' intervention The FCC last week escalated its investigation [...]

Superlatives come easy in describing John Malone, the president and chief executive of TCI. He is commonly described as the most figure in the cable industry. Many consider him the [...]

South Dakota Republican Larry Pressler has been a member of the Senate Commerce Committee for 15 years, but never a force. That changed Nov. 8 when the American public handed [...]

Scattered about Trygve Myhren's cluttered office are the mementos of a long and distinguished career in cable: a framed copy of the 1984 Cable Act, which freed cable from regulation [...]

Cox Chairman and CEO Jim Kennedy didn't miss a beat when Cox's $4.9 billion cable partnership with Southwestern collapsed under the weight of the FCC's tough new cable regulations. Determined [...]

DIRECTV President Eddy Hartenstein is poised to deliver a new breed of television This is probably the single most complex television start-up in history,' says DIRECTV President Eddy Hartenstein. With [...]

Last year President Clinton tapped Roy Neel to help bring out of the chaos of the fledgling administration. This year, as the new president of the united States Telephone Association, [...]

Ervin Duggan, who makes the leap from FCC commissioner to Public Broadcasting Service president this week, is ready to 'rattle tin cups' or do whatever else it takes to make [...]

Bell Atlantic's Ray Smith has been plotting a TV revolution, and if he closes on the telco's proposed $30 billion merger with Tele-Communications Inc. next year, he just might pull [...]

Tele-Communications Inc. last week announced 'zero payment' retransmission-consent deals with 14 stations (see story, page 6) - deals it hopes will serve as models for the next station owner who [...]

Major League Baseball's 28 teams will receive some $353 million in local broadcast and cable revenues in 1993, according to Broadcasting & Cable's exclusive annual survey of the teams' electronic [...]

Labor Day signals the unofficial end of summer, and as people return to the workplace and the classroom, the television industry hopes they also return to their TV sets. HUT [...]

'There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, Leads on to fortune.' -- William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar The tide for broadcast television is [...]

Upgrading or building a new DTV tower can be complicated If there is one thing above all others that will discourage a TV station from offering digital television, it's the [...]

If you bounce around commercial Websites on the Internet, it won't be long before you'll be invited to click and listen to a news sound bite, a radio station's live [...]

Broad coalition plans defense against computer, filmmaker attack Broadcasters thought they had reached the end of their eight-year digital TV standard-setting odyssey last December. Instead, they now find themselves facing [...]

As part of his quest to transform Westinghouse into a media powerhouse, chief executive Michael Jordan wants the company to be a major player in cable. It's Don Mitzner's job--as [...]

Twenty-six years ago, Peggy Charren, a mother of two children, and a group of like-minded friends firm suburban Boston decided to do something about what the3' considered the sorry' state [...]

Executive roundtable weighs consolidation, megamedia, telcom reform Vertical integration isn't all it's cracked up to be, says NBC President Bob Wright. Although network rivals Fox and ABC now are linked [...]

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, the FCC has begun an investigation of possible rules violations by a shortwave licensee that airs messages of so-called hate groups and [...]

More than half of cable subcribers are eager to sample one or more of the longpromised interactive TV services, according to a Broadcasting & Cable survey of 1,000 random cable [...]

National Cable Television Association President Decker Anstrom's short-term view of cable's future includes scaled-down capital improvement plans, failed programing services and even some loan defaults and bankruptcies all the result [...]

Reed Hundt has caught the attention of Washington with a regulatory style that is long on assurance, but short on reassurance; no one yet knows what he'll do next National [...]

With most second-generation satellites already in orbit, carriers are turning their attention to startup cable networks and other new business. If all goes well, a McDonnell Douglas Delta rocket will [...]

Larry Ellison's 22% stake in Oracle is worth $2 billion. That leaves him several billion dollars poorer than software rival Bill Gates, but at 49 he should have time to [...]

'Low profile' may exaggerate the visibility of Reed Hundt, soon to be thrust into prominence at the FCC. An unauthorized profile. In 1985 Metropolitan Cablevision had the capital and the [...]

You've missed Seinfeld and you forgot to tape it (or, as likely, haven't mastered the timer on your VCR). No problem. Just click through an on-screen menu and order the [...]

I keep wondering what two nice broadcasters like us are doing in a I place like this,' said PBS's Mark Richer, appearing on a panel during the NAB's Multimedia World [...]

Bell Atlantic does not plan to produce any TV programs, but that is about the only aspect of the TV business the nation's largest telephone company does not have its [...]

Al Sikes hasn't always had an easy time of it in his three and a half years as chairman of the FCC, but as he heads out the door Jan. [...]

For Bell Atlantic, the future is now. The $ 13-billion-a-year regional Bell operating company last Tuesday announced plans to build an integrated broadband fiber-to-the-curb network in Dover Township,N.J., next summer [...]

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last Thursday struck down the FCC's new fin-syn rules, edging the big-three broadcast networks ever closer to becoming full [...]

You might not think of a professional basketball team as a major producer of local programing, but that is what many of them have become in recent years. Convinced it's [...]

National Cable Television Association President James Mooney visited key members of the House of Representatives to talk about cable legislation last week. And that is as it should be, considering [...]

Some expect 'Red Lion' to be declawed given appropriate test case Congress shall make to law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...' The First Amendment turned 200 [...]

Cable's compulsory copyright license is in play. Both houses of Congress have begun reviews of the license that could lead to repeal or significant modifications within the next few years [...]

The politicians who are pressing claims against stations for alleged overcharges for campaign spots under the lowest-unit-charge law urged the FCC last week not to pre-empt their bringing suits in [...]

A buoyant Jim Mooney will lead a resurgent cable industry into annual convention in New Orleans this week, followed by the usual Washington and credit market problems but more confident [...]

APRIL 9: THE NEXT MAGIC DATE FOR FIN-SYN Sikes postpones fin-syn for public airing of opposing plans; hopes for compromise at FCC dim, but private talks between parties possible It [...]

White House Chief of Staff John Sununu last Friday weighed into the raging battle over the financial interest and syndication rules, underscoring in a letter to Capitol Hill the President's [...]

For two days and one night in late November, the FCC's Joe DiScipio drove around the Denver area in an unmarked government-issue car looking at radio and television towers. His [...]

FIN-SYN COMMENTS FLOOD FCC Two big guns took aim at the FCC's financial interest and syndication rules last week when former Secretary of Labor William E. Brock, on behalf of [...]