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Our nation's defense suffers from a basic flaw: although we now fight jointly, we do not buy jointly. Two recent developments offer hope, however, that the Pentagon will finally be [...]

Know thy enemy. That adage has been repeated since armies first clashed on the field of battle. Understanding enemy intentions, tactics, and vulnerabilities is an essential part of warfare. But [...]

Call it the year of living digitally. In the wake of Tele-Communications, Inc.'s order of 12 million shiny new digital set-top boxes last December, networks are rushing to form digital [...]

Industry is primed to capitalize on compressed, multichannel universe No longer cuaght in the holding pattern of cable reregulation and retransmission-consent negotiations, pay per view is touted as a revenue [...]

More teams opt to bring broadcasting in-house to improve earnings, marketing The National Basketball Association will likely see another healthy jump in local TV and radio revenues this season, a [...]

NEW YORK -- Telemundo and the Rumbo newspaper have entered into an exclusive content-sharing and cross-promotional partnership in San Antonio, the media organizations said. The new alliance will provide Hispanics [...]

With heavy hearts we list the following individuals from the media business who lost their lives or remain missing as a result of last week's terrorist attacks on the World [...]

The controversy surrounding Excite@Home's dismissal of auditor Ernst & Young just days after it had released a grim report on the financial health of the high-speed Internet-access provider subsided after [...]

EchoStar Communications Corp.'s $32 billion hostile run at DirecTV parent company Hughes Electronics last Monday got complicated by the end of the week as a backer stepped forward and at [...]

CPM dips in -5% to -12% range; some buyers holding out for 'afterfront' THE UPFRONT With most of the large networks finished with their business with top agencies, most upfront [...]

A new comedy series and a new version of the network's longest-running live-action show will join Nickelodeon's Saturday-night lineup this fall. Nick has committed to 13 episodes of both The [...]

The cable industry nears a turning point as new services finally start rolling out Four years ago, over a now-famous dinner, Microsoft's Bill Gates was won over by Comcast chairman [...]

EVERYONE KNOWS Johnnie Cochran as O.J.'s defense lawyer. But what most don't know is that Cochran is one of the most successful personal injury attorneys in the country. That's where [...]

Rich Cronin, former Fox Family Channel president and CEO, last week was named to the same post at Sony Entertainment's Game Show Network. Cronin replaces Michael Fleming, who left the [...]

Viacom ponies up $3 billion to diversify its network portfolio Hot on the heels of the completion of its acquisition of CBS, Viacom last week agreed to acquire BET Holdings [...]

Veteran MTV Networks producer Albie Hecht last week was tapped to lead the development and production team for MTV Nets' newly repositioned The National Network. Hecht will add TNN to [...]

In a major restructuring, AT&T last week announced plans to divide into four separate companies that provide services the media giant's embattled chairman, C. Michael Armstrong, had hoped to offer [...]

In an arena where time is finite, the producers of the evening news broadcast must know their audience 'I'll take any old keyboard you have . . .' Even Peter [...]

Pugilistic legend and public-morals lightning rod Mike Tyson will return to the ring next month in a pay-per-view contest via Viacom's Showtime Event Television. Tyson will square off against fellow [...]

Kaplan replaced by several executives with an eye toward new media After a bumpy three-year ride as president CNN/U.S., Rick Kaplan, haunted by several high-profile debacles and flagging ratings, last [...]

In a move that should significantly hasten Adelphia's ability to offer new media services to subscribers in its rapidly expanding mid-Atlantic cluster, the country's seventh-largest cable company last week spent [...]

Michael B[ddot{u}]rgi Second top exec exits as net tries to recapture lost viewers In the second major executive exit from Fox Family Channel in a month, Rick Sirvaitis, president of [...]

MSOs are finally rolling out new-generation services and regaining subs In early 1998 a rapidly expanding Insight Communications acquired an antiquated 40-channel cable system in Rockford, Ill., and proceeded to [...]

As new devices like Two and Replay TV change The way viewers interact with programs, agencies need to find new ways to make the ads reach them Television advertising as [...]

The Time Warner-Disney battle only scratched the surface of a deeper question: who really controls our TV sets? In an extreme move last week that blew the lid off long-festering [...]

Can the cable advertising marketplace finally stand shoulder to shoulder with the broadcast networks? With the kids and syndication upfront marketplaces all but over, the stage is set for the [...]

Operators upset at already-high sub fees, but admit they can't do much Almost exactly a year since its last 20 percent subscriber-fee increase, ESPN is alerting its affiliates to expect [...]

In kids' television brand extension is all the rage As competition for the kids television audience intensifies, cable networks are expanding their brands to be everywhere kids 2-11 and older [...]

Tom Freston remains the invisible hand in MTV Networks' untrammeled growth Andy Kaufman would have appreciated the oddball scene. Picture the Viacom corporate conference room 52 floors above Times Square, [...]

NAACP rebukes cable; NABJ decries drop in black journalists Both the cable and newspaper industries came under fire last week for what the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]

In an effort to find its next break-out hit, Comedy Central last week announced it will create broader-based originals beginning this summer and gussy itself up with a new on-air [...]

Mark Shapiro is betting on the power of nostalgia. The 30-year-old vp and gm of ESPN classic plans to relaunch the network in July as the place to go anytime [...]

Major networks hit first-quarter ratings wall; with many flat Blame it on Monica, Michael and Regis. Some of cable's biggest networks experienced prime-time ratings slides in first-quarter 2000 compared to [...]

VH1 last week announced a wide slate of series, specials and movies for its 2000-01 season, as the network's annual programming budget nears $100 million. New series include Fan, a [...]

AT&T last week took control of Excite@Home Corp., upping its voting power in the high-speed Internet access service to 74 percent in a move that further clarifies Excite@Home ownership issues [...]

Discovery execs eye $5 billion cable upfront as they set program slate Discovery Communications plans to make the blending of traditional programming with new-media content an even higher priority for [...]

Thanks largely to the frenzy of dot.com spending in the fourth quarter, network, cable, syndicated television, magazines, national newspaper, national spot radio and outdoor all experienced double-digit ad-revenue growth in [...]

Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Rainbow programming arm and publisher Primedia last week announced an Internet alliance tapping the regional strengths of New York magazine and Rainbow's New York MetroChannels. Still without [...]

Liberty, CMGI deals position company for big multimedia play Five months ago, Primedia was a sprawling, disorganized empire of consumer, specialty and trade magazines without a cohesive strategy for leveraging [...]