Word: msnbc
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...hour news competition, as Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel, available initially in 17 million homes. It will vie for viewers with the granddaddy of 24-hour TV news, CNN (whose owner, Turner Broadcasting, last week became part of Time Warner, TIME's parent company), and with MSNBC, the ambitious TV-and-Internet news service launched in July by NBC and Microsoft...
...Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides CNN as it merges with Turner Broadcasting, broke a prior agreement by carrying the joint Microsoft-NBC news network MSNBC in this critical market instead of Fox News. Fox chief Rupert Murdoch says he will press for a permanent injunction against Time Warner's upcoming purchase of Turner and seek monetary damages. "Every city's cable system does have in effect a monopoly," says TIME's Richard Zoglin. "Cable companies...
...future. "Assuming the candidate has been decided before the convention," says Lane Venardos, who oversaw CBS's coverage, "I can't imagine us going through this kind of rigmarole again." Jeffrey Zucker, his counterpart at NBC, points out that with such cable channels as CNN, C-SPAN and MSNBC providing full coverage, the broadcast networks are under less obligation to do so. "It's their party, and they can throw it the way they want to," says Zucker. "But that doesn't mean we have to cover it. And I'm not sure that in the future we will...
...special convention-edition products, ranging from macaroni and cheese with elephant- and star-shaped macaroni from Philip Morris to Hefty storage bags from Tenneco to a "roll back the beer tax" mug from Anheuser-Busch. Also included are raisins by Dole Food, baseball caps from Warner Bros. and MSNBC, and a copy of the new book by G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour--and all in a red-white-and-blue tote...
...system will almost certainly improve. Microsoft and NBC have vowed to pump $80 million to $100 million a year into the venture, and the channel has access to all of NBC's news-gathering resources. Its chief problem is distribution. MSNBC is carried so far in 22.5 million cable homes, a record number for a start-up cable channel, but still far behind CNN's 68.5 million. (CNN is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which is in the process of merging with Time Warner, parent company of TIME.) And a new competitor from Fox, due in October, won't make life...