Three at ABC Get New Positions In Revamping of News Division
Date: 09 March 2000
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC-TV realigns management of its news division giving three executives new duties under division's president David Westin; Westin names Paul Friedman, who has been executive producer of evening newscast, World News Tonight, to new management position, executive vice president and managing editor for news coverage; Friedman will also help select new executive producer of newscast; Westin names Phyllis McGrady to new post supervising all division primetime programs, as well as its morning show, Good Morning America; Bob Murphy is named senior vice president for multimedia; he will supervise all aspects of news division's expansion into digital and wireless technologies (M)
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Two Were Counted Out Before the Count Was In
Date: 08 March 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Peter Marks article on television coverage of March 7 primaries (M)
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Exit-Poll Data Is Held Back To Avoid Leaks
Date: 08 March 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Voter News Service, which conducts Election Day exit polls, on March 7 delays release of its findings by two hours in effort to stop early leaks by on-line publications (M)
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TV NOTES
Date: 08 March 2000
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
NBC announces that it has quit National Assn of Broadcasters, Washington-based organization charged with representing industry's interests with Congress; cites its 'continued unwillingness to embrace a forward-looking strategy'; HBO has its biggest Sunday night in three years on strength of If These Walls Could Talk 2, also its highest-ratest original movie in three years; HBO's The Sopranos also gets high rating, even though it is moved up an hour to make room for If These Walls Could Talk 2; photo; NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw continues its dominance of network news broadcasts in February sweeps (M)
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A SOFTBANK FUND FOR EUROPE
Date: 09 March 2000
By Stephanie Strom
Stephanie Strom
Softbank Corp of Japan, one of world's largest investors in budding Internet-related companies, has assembled $1 billion war chest to deploy in Europe, together with its two European investment partners--epartners, a unit of News Corp, and Vivdeni, French telecommunications company (S)
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A Battle in South Africa Over Racism and Press Freedom
Date: 08 March 2000
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
South Africa's Human Rights Commission issues 36 subpoenas to editors in investigation of racism in media; photo (M)
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BELGIAN CORPORATION AGREES TO PURCHASE DICTAPHONE
Date: 09 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV acquires Dictaphone Corp for about $510 million in stock and assumption of $425 million of Dictaphone debt (S)
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BUDGET ENTERS MARKETING ALLIANCE WITH HOMESTORE.COM
Date: 08 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Budget Group says it will get $64.8 million in Homestore.com Inc stock in marketing alliance that links Budget with largest Internet list of homes for sale; under 10-year agreement, Budget will get almost 1.1 million shares of Homestore.com; Homestore.com's logo will go on Budget's fleet of 45,000 Ryder and Budget rental trucks (S)
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ROSEMORE TO BUY OUTSTANDING SHARES OF CROWN CENTRAL
Date: 08 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rosemore Inc offers to buy all outstanding common shares of Crown Central Petroleum Corp in deal valued at about $83 million; Crown is weighing merger proposal by Apex Oil Co (S)
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TWO MAKERS OF COMPUTER NETWORK EQUIPMENT TO MERGE
Date: 09 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apex Inc and Cybex Computer Products agree to merger valued at $1.14 billion that will bring together two rival makers of equipment for managing computer networks (S)
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