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...many years ago -- or was it only months? -- the traditional broadcast networks were relegated to the endangered-species list. Viewers were drifting to cable; industry seers were predicting a future of countless channels and "video on demand"; and ABC, CBS and NBC were fighting to remain relevant. Now it seems everybody wants to get into the network act. Warner's new WB Television Network, which premieres with a weekly two-hour block of sitcoms this Wednesday night, is one of two aspiring "fifth networks" making their debut this month. Next week the United Paramount Network -- a joint | venture by Paramount...
...after NBC went to the FCC to accuse Fox of trying to improperly acquire six more stations and thus exceed the limit on the number a company may own. NBC also asked the commission to investigate whether Fox is violating the 25% limit on foreign ownership of a U.S. broadcast station. (Fox is owned by Murdoch's News Corp., an Australian company, but Fox claims it is effectively controlled by Murdoch himself, who is an American citizen.) Just how high the stakes are in the battle was made clear by the jugular quality of Murdoch's response. Denying that...
...maintain that the networks, as gatekeepers of the airwaves, should not be allowed to own shows) and the networks (which view the rules as an outmoded relic of the days when the networks were the only game in town). The FCC has finally come down on the networks' side. "Broadcast television is doing great against all its competitors," says FCC chairman Reed Hundt. "((The agency)) wants to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise all of their competitive energies...
Still, the networks are busy looking for new ways in which they can profit from the afterlife of their shows. NBC is engaged in exploratory talks with Ted Turner, the Atlanta cable entrepreneur who has long hankered to own a broadcast network. NBC views Turner's cable networks TBS and TNT as a promising market for NBC reruns. Explains network president Braun: "Historically, what's always happened is that the broadcast networks create the value for a show and the third parties are able to exploit it in the aftermarket. Now the networks can participate in the value they create...
...been a less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news...