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Articles in March 16, 1998 issue of Television Digest with Consumer Electronics

• FCC Cable Bureau Chief - resignation of Meredith Jones
• If FCC doesn't approve - Sec. 271 application of the Telecommunications Act
• FCC began rulemaking - Federal Communications Commission; Emergency Alert System
• Sierra Design Labs - launching of Quickframe HD360
• Peter Mann - NBC Cable Networks VP for national sales
• Final DVD audio specs due in June
• Acquisitions spur Recoton profits
• EchoStar will launch - Top 60 programming package
• Ultimate sales rise, profits decline
• James Peters - appointment as Staples U.S. president
• SkyPerfect TV, new Japanese DBS - service roll-out on May 1, 1998
• American Radio Systems - financial performance
• FCC Cable Bureau hopes to have - plan for studying the the effect of cable program prices on cable rates
• KPIX-TV - switching of digital TV allocation
• Jeffrey Wayne - appointment as president of Jones International Networks cable programming networks unit
• Making telecom equipment - accessibility issues
• Elbit, blaming shutdown - losses for the 4th qtr of 1997
• EIA has new name - Electronic Industries Alliance
• Glove-compartment CD changer - launching of the Aiwa ADC-M55 changer
• James Illson - appointment as COO of Merisel
• Rep. Kennedy - Edward Kennedy's retirement plans
• BET Holdings - financial performance
• FCC request - partial remand of the Lutheran Church Mo. Synod case
• WBNS-TV - digital TV services
• USA Bcstg. said it agreed - acquisition of WNGM-TV
• Bay Networks said more than - number of cable modems installed to date
• Gemstar and GI in StarSight suit
• CEMA expressed 'strong support.' - TV ratings system; Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association
• Sansui will shift focus - Sansui Electronics Corp.'s changes in new product strategy
• Retroactive factory warranty - 10th anniversary of Cambridge SoundWorks
• DTV hospital issue aired
• RCN Corp - stock split
• Credit rating of cable industry - annual report of Moody's Investor Service
• WJLA-TV - acquisition of digital TV equipment
• Edward Byrnes - appointment as senior VP for ad sales of Recovery Network
• Nick Carrington - death of British Sky Broadcasting CFO - Obituary
• Sega halts U.S. Saturn sales
• Polk defends minimum price policy
• Toshiba will invest - construction of a manufacturing plant in Japan
• Kevin Rupkey - resignation as Warrantech Consumer Products Services president
• FCC sped LMDS auction - Federal Communications Commission; LEC Message Distribution System
• Jones Intercable - financial performance
• Govt. gets low grades
• Chmn. McCain - scheduled speakers for the digital TV session of the National Association of Broadcasters
• House Intellectual Property - subcommittee hearing on direct-to-home TV
• U.S. Dist. Court - decision on the constitutionality of pole attachment provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
• Bang & Olufsen - launching of the BeoVision Avant TV
• Low-cost MPEG-2 chips
• Fujitsu announced - development of LSI MPEG-2 decoder
• Ask Company to buy Proxima
• General Magic - financial performance
• Program access debated
• Congress shouldn't - legislative investigations into digital television standards
• Deborah McDermott - newly elected directors of the TV Bureau of Advertising
• DTV broadcasting in Japan's - full-time service in the three largest cities
• C.W. Metcalf - scheduled speech at the National Association of Broadcasters 98 convention
• NEC and Thomson will develop plasma displays jointly
• National Semiconductor - decline in 3rd qtr income
• Crazy Eddie will mark return - opening of a retail outlet in Wayne, NJ
• CD Warehouse
• Kathleen Hurley - appointment as Learning Co. new School Group VP for marketing
• Senate Commerce Committee - approval of a bill on the use of Internet filters in schools and libraries
• EchoStar and Cablevision agree
• Clear Channel Communications - acquisition of 40% of Grupo Acir
• Thomson and Sarnoff Labs - launching of digital television encoders
• DTV boosts 'marriage.'
• Robert Hopkins - TV Engineering Achievement Award recipient
• DTV postponement in Japan - digital TV services
• Digital Video Systems - acquisition of a production facility in China
• 3Com sues Microsoft and Casio
• Sanyo-made cellular phones - launching into the US market
• Panasonic Interactive Media - introduction of the Secret Writer's Society product
• Differences seen on broadcast ownership inquiry
• Congress must decide - transfer of Federal Communications Commission to the Portals office complex
• DBS is "no small startup." - government assistance for direct broadcast satellite television
• Local TV ad revenue - 1997 statistics
• Paxson Communications - acquisition of KBSP-TV and divestment of WNGM-TV interests
• Robert Wehling - keynote address at the TV Bureau of Advertising marketing conference
• Color TV continues early 1998 surge
• Limited-edition minicomponent - launching of the Silver Signature system

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