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The recession continues unabatted, suppressing advertising revenue. Entertainment program cost, most agree, are out of control. Professional sport rights will this year singlehandedly drive the three-network earnings figure into the [...]

PAY - PER PROFITS Tonight, when Donovan (Razor) Ruddock steps into the ring for a scheduled 10-round fight with (Iron) Mike Tyson, there is something more on the line than [...]

Spain's film, television, music and video industries lost out on about 130 billion pesetas ($695 million) last year because of pirating activities, according to the nation's newly created Anti-Pirating Committee, [...]

Money on their minds The name of the game, popular wisdom holds, is programing. But ranking right with that commodity in the arsenal of modern broadcast operations is money. Increasingly, [...]

Domestic broadcast-cable advertising expenditures in 1985 by the leading broadcast agencies eclipsed 1984's record by 8.9%, reaching almost $15.9 billion. The 34th annual survey by BROADCASTING of the top 50 [...]

There will be a rebound in television advertising. If nothing else, inflation and the anemic comparisons offered by 1991's performance will guarantee, at some point, an increase. But more than [...]

INVESTIGATIVE TEAMS ON WANE AT LOCAL STATIONS Tough economic times have taken toll on local I-teams, although investigative opportunities remain, particularly at networks and in syndication While there are some [...]

How do the networks, agencies and others know whether national ad spending next year will be $22 billion, $23 billion or $25 billion? Considering the recent twists and turns of [...]

COULD THAT BE LIGHT? Cash Storms into Networks; Upfront Is Off `Critical List' The Big Three networks and Fox Broadcasting have begun revising their outlook for the upfront as major [...]

Daily Losses on Crisis Could Hit $27 Million ABC, CBS and NBC plans to launch into 24-hour news coverage of events in the Mideast next week could be the the [...]

With advertising dollars scarce, the networks are doing all they can to hold on to their current advertising commitments. That means fewer scheduling changes, fewer cancellations and fewer holiday specials. [...]

MADRID Ad-deprived Spanish broadcasters have sliced program budgets by up to 25% and the main pay TV operators have slowed pic pre-buys. So you'd think producers would be lifting the [...]

BUYERS ARE STILL SEETHING over CBS' plan to pack an extra minute of commercials into its most popula one-hour shows. But the protests are moving from semipublic forums like the [...]

THE FOURTH-QUARTER SCATTER market continues to chug along, with most buyers reporting more activity than they or the nets had expected. There's not a lot of inventory left, but there's [...]

Network TV * THE BIG THREE NETWORKS AND Fox Broadcasting are all well-sold in primetime, with NBC still open in some of its stronger programs. Fox, which kept back some [...]

WHILE THE SECOND QUARTER was not as dismal as the networks had feared, they're bracing for a tough third quarter following cancellations on as much as $90 million in upfront [...]

NBC in best shape in upfront market But there's pressure in prices for all networks in sluggish time, and barter business is soft Network sales heads and advertising executives predict [...]

Signs of life in TV network advertising The bad news is that television network revenue, as expected, was down last year for the first time is in 15 years. Figures [...]

Last week one advertising agency buyer summed up the nearly completed upfront advertising marketplace for network television, saying: 'Last year was our year ... this year was the networks'. ' [...]

Changing tax laws are one of many reasons that this device is attracting growing interest in financial circles Selling its cable system to a minority-controlled pannership will bring the New [...]

While not exactly a boom for the Fifth Estate, recent months have seen more than the usual number of debt financings and initial public stock offerings (IPO). Harte-Hanks Communications two [...]