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Date: 14 August 2000
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Preparation by television networks for coverage of Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles discussed (M)
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Date: 14 August 2000
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Preparation by television networks for coverage of Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles discussed (M)
Date: 14 August 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Peter Marks Media column on cuts that three major television networks are making in prime-time coverage of this year's presidential conventions and widespread expectation that coverage will be further reduced in 2004; notes that slack is being taken up by cable networks like CNN, which plans to continue gavel-to-gavel coverage; photo (M)
Date: 14 August 2000
By Bill Carter and Geraldine Fabrikant
Bill Carter
Sale of TV stations owned by Chris-Craft Industries to News Corp, owner of Fox network, is expected to be announced formally this week; $3.5 billion sale of 10 stations would give News Corp leader Rupert Murdoch ownership of two powerful TV stations in several major cities, including New York and Los Angeles; would also give him extended control of dissemination of local news in New York, where he would own both Channel 5 and Channel 9 as well The New York Post newspaper; deal raises questions about how News Corp will handle Federal Communications Commission restrictions on cross-ownership of newspapers and TV stations in same city; also throws into question what may happen to UPN network, owned by Viacom, which also bid for the Chris-Craft stations; UPN is slated to become the Paramount Network in January; Murdoch photo (M)
Date: 14 August 2000
By Adam Clymer With Marjorie Connelly
Adam With
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds most of 4,339 delegates at Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles think of themselves as moderates, but that their views on variety of major issues are more liberal than those of public, or even Democratic voters generally; finds ideological distance between Democratic delegates and rank and file is similar to gap displayed at recent Republican convention, where delegates were strikingly more conservative than ordinary Republicans or ordinary Americans; poll's findings detailed; photo (M)
Date: 14 August 2000
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Television's broadcast networks, despite great effort and hundreds of millions of dollars of promotion, are still also-rans on Web; traffic to their various sites badly lags behind big portals like Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft's MSN; Wall Street has all but written off broadcast companies as Internet players; publicly traded shares of NBC Internet and ABC's online cousin Walt Disney Internet Group are down more than two-thirds this year, and CBS has delayed plans to spin off its Internet operations into separate company; photos; chart of stock prices of network Internet spinoffs; chart of visits to network sites (M)
Date: 13 August 2000
By Jerry Nachman
Jerry Nachman
Jerry Nachman Op-Ed article anticipates media coverage of Democratic national convention, and recalls bygone time when journalists held their own political views close (S)
Date: 13 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Article describes bobble-headed dolls used by baseball teams as promotion; Alexander Global Promotions manufactures them (S)
Date: 13 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Article surveys vacancy rates for office space around nation (S)
Date: 14 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hutchison Whampoa, holding company owned by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, buys 51 percent of Andala, giving the Italian company money to bid for a mobile phone license; Hutchison will join with Tiscali, an Italian telecommunications and Internet company, in bid for one of five licenses Italy will sell this year; Tiscali's stake in Andala is cut to 25.5 percent from 58 percent (M)
Date: 13 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Merrill Lynch is alone among leading securities firms to split its ratings of companies by short and long time spans (M)