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The past 12 months did not produce any major shifts in among the country's Top 25 TV-station groups. Several companies changed positions from last year, but all of this year's [...]

The events of September 11 unfolded in real time and were witnessed via television by hundreds of millions well beyond the view of the familiar skyline of New York City [...]

BROKERS MAY HAVE LAMENTED that there were not as many individual station deals in the television industry in the past 12 months as in previous years. But the transactions in [...]

RTNDA president warns against 'stalkarazzi'; has message for regulators: Let us do our jobs CNN's Reliable Sources was taped, in the can and ready to air. But the panelists and [...]

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, [...]

Months before the announcement of the breakup between CBS and Post-Newsweek's WJXT(TV) Jacksonville, Fla., other stations in the market had figured out that Post-Newsweek President Alan Frank and station General [...]

Byline: Dan Trigoboff Special to TelevisionWeek Thanks to cable, off-network dramas are selling better than ever. When Universal brought 'Law & Order'' to cable on A&E in 1994, the much-coveted [...]

The marketing of TV's latest off-network sitcom megahit began in 1998 on the living room set of 'Everybody Loves Raymond,'' when, with video cameras rolling, series star and co-creator Ray [...]

Edward R. Murrow's power to send images over the airwaves preceded the advent of television. Unaided by satellite phones or hand-held cameras, the man for whom the Radio-Television News Directors [...]

The evening of Oct. 13 promises to be among the more memorable of Andrew Heyward's professional life. Not only did CBS lead among networks in winning eight of the Radio-Television [...]

More evidence of CBS-owned stations' squeezing prime time to add extra commercial spots was offered last week by Hearst-Argyle competitors in Boston, where CBS'S WBZ-TV competes with Hearst's WCVB-TV, and [...]

How the U.S. Emergency Alert System works--and doesn't When terrorists struck Sept. 11--the closest this nation had come to a national emergency on its own turf--it was not enough to [...]

National Geographic says it's answering the call of local stations when it begins offering a new source of archival footage from Afghanistan as well as other footage through a news [...]

Among the many departures at Secaucus, N.J.-based New York-metro station WWOR-TV since its purchase by Fox is News Director Will Wright, but he will leave having had a significant impact [...]

Ad sales in the Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.-Asheville, N.C., market have not dropped as precipitously as in other markets this year, or since Sept. 11. But the market was something of an [...]

Former KDVR(TV) Denver Managing Editor Scott McDonald has pleaded guilty to securities fraud. He had persuaded colleagues to invest hundreds and thousands of dollars with him, investigators say, only to [...]

TV news anchors Melanie Moon of KPLR-TV St. Louis and Harris Faulkner of KSTP-TV, who have discussed their experiences being stalked with BROADCASTING & CABLE, discuss them with A&E's Investigative [...]

'It may have been a little deceptive,' Lowell Register acknowledges. 'But it was not false.' Register Communications' WPGA(TV) Macon, Ga., ran spots last week suggesting the station would soon be [...]

Popular KYW-TV Philadelphia newswoman Siani Lee was killed in a car crash in Chester County, Pa., Sunday afternoon. Oct. 28. The 39-year-old had co-anchored the 6 p.m. news with veteran [...]

MORE NEWS IN MOTOWN Ken Jobe, newly hired news director at CBS'S Detroit duopoly, will be taking over an operation slightly smaller than one be runs at Hearst-Argyle's WLWT(TV) Cincinnati. [...]

KDKA-TV--and other CBS stations--accused of employing compression to run additional spots during prime time When CBS-owned KDKA-TV Pittsburgh got called for delay of game while broadcasting a Steelers game last [...]

CBS's Jacksonville affil, WJXT, considers turning independent With affiliation talks stalled over network compensation, Post-Newsweek is prepared to take its Jacksonville, Fla., CBS affiliate WJXT(TV) independent this summer if a [...]

RTNDA objects to Pentagon's monopoly of high-resolution satellite images from commercial operator The Radio-Television News Directors Association may protest the government's monopolizing high-resolution commercial satellite images of Afghanistan. A nearly [...]

Music major Gerberding puts acting skills in the service of advertising The first time she made a sale for radio advertising, recalls Joan Gerberding, 'as I walked out the door, [...]

Former Columbus, Ohio, late-night-movie host Jerry Beck died of a heart attack in Millersport, Ohio, last week at 58. He was one of the early hosts of the camp-style movie [...]

Two Springfield, Ill., TV stations were drawn into a controversy over a commercial for Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Lieutenant Governor Corinne Wood, which showed the fire-hall at the World [...]

WCBS-TV New York will keep the Sunday-morning newscast it began following the Sept. 11 attacks for the foreseeable future. Although the program has rotated time slots as well as anchors, [...]

Jesse Ventura last week asked that Minnesotans boycott the local media which, he says, are our to destroy people. He offered his call to inaction during a 2 1/2-hour guest [...]

Fox-owned KDVR(TV) Denver will be airing stories from the Denver Business Journal regarding local business and economics as part of a new partnership. The station will air a segment called [...]

Amid the growing number of mail-delivered anthrax exposures, the California Highway Patrol is making its mail-handling training tape available to TV stations, both in California and elsewhere, and asking them [...]

Fox Stations stayed h-house last week when Jeff Murri was promoted from general sales manager to VP/GM at WJBK(TV) Detroit, a job that includes local ad sales and marketing for [...]

Young Broadcasting-owned KRON-TV San Francisco cut loose veteran anchor Pete Wilson shortly after the revelation that he would be leaving the soon-to-be-independent station for ABC-owned KGO-TV. Wilson has been hosting [...]

News anchors from Los Angeles's 10 major local TV stations will jointly headline a special program encouraging tolerance--particularly against the Muslim community there--in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. [...]

Bill Peterson, whose VP/GM job at WRAL-TV Raleigh, N.C., was eliminated last month, re-emerged last week at WPTV(TV) West Palm Beach, Fla. He replaced Bob Jordan as VP/GM. Sources say [...]

CBS-owned KUTV(TV) Salt Lake City is finally getting a news director: Steve Charlier from KING-TV and KONG-TV Seattle. When Pat Costello left in 1998 for WBBM-TV Chicago, Brian Shiffer stepped [...]

Gets first crack at reaching terrorist; submitting questions poses problems CNN got the inside track on being the first Western media outlet to question Osama bin Laden since the Sept. [...]

ABC outlets in New York, San Francisco and L. A. send reporters to Pakistan to cover Afghanistan To New Yorkers, the nation's war against terrorists is 'a local story no [...]

Thanks to a last-minute extension on the carriage deal between Cox Cable and Allbritton Communications, ABC's Monday Night Football game between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys will be carried [...]

After five years on the job and 15 with the company, Jan McDaniel is out as vice president and general manager of CBS-owned WCCO-TV Minneapolis. Rene LaSpina, fresh from a [...]

Popular Miami meteorologist Bryan Norcross is returning to full-time, on-air duty at WFOR-TV. The hurricane expert had been working as an emergency weather specialist for more than a year, as [...]

University at Missouri officials have distanced themselves from the policy at university-owned KOMU-TV Columbia, Mo., barring station employees from wearing patriotic symbols on air. That policy, implemented by News Director [...]

Belo last week completed the $5 million purchase of KSKN-TV Spokane, Wash., a WBUPN affiliate that it had been operating under a local marketing agreement. The acquisition gives Belo a [...]

After a week of negotiation with Bill Maher, Citadel Communications put his show Politically Incorrect back on its stations last week. Citadel took the show off nearly two weeks ago [...]

Kimberly Godwin, vice president for news operations at the NBC TV stations division, was named VP, news, for KNBC-TV Los Angeles. She replaces Nancy Bauer-Gonzales, who left the station to [...]

Jim Hart, who had announced his retirement as head of Scripps Television in the spring, has been tapped by the company to step in at WPTV(TV) West Palm Beach, Fla., [...]