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Articles in March 2, 1998 issue of Television Digest with Consumer Electronics

• DTV applications filed
• Cablevision Industries - founder Alan Gerry to provide $10 million to finance campaign of National Cable TV Center and Museum
• MTV - revenue growth
• Britain's 5th-largest - cable MSO, General Cable considering merger
• Federal court jury - in Amarillo, TX, acquitted TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey on charges of defamation of the cattle industry
• Sandra Gong - appointment as VP-finance for Fox Broadcasting
• Randy Gerstenblatt - appointment as director-integrated sales and marketing at ESPN
• DirecTV, continuing attack - launches TV ad campaign focusing on consumer frustrations with cable
• Yamaha will stage - US debut of DSP-A1 home theater amplifier
• Franklin Electronic Publishers - drop in profits
• Gary Lauer - appointment as president and CEO of MetaCreations
• Matsushita will adapt - M2 game technology for game editing functions, graphics and other business applications
• DTV notebook - FCC extends deadline for comments on regulations on fees for using digital television signal
• NPR is under less scrutiny - National Public Radio; salary cap violations
• Apple co-founder Steve Jobs - will be the key speaker at the Apr 5, 1998 session of the National Association of Broadcasters convention
• Comsat - losses for 1997
• Lack of program access - complaints in cable television due to lack of competitors
• FCC relaxed EEO rules - allowing religious broadcasters to consider religious belief or affiliation as job qualifications
• Susan Weinstein - appointment as VP-sales and marketing for Primetime 24
• 'Plastic' TV augurs thin, flexible video displays
• Alrenco and RTO - shareholders approved merger of chains
• Richard Elwood - named director of finance and operations at SC and T International
• Alan Weingarden - named as Hills Department Stores senior VP-chief information officer
• V-chip extension expected, TV ratings to get FCC okay
• Senate Antitrust Subcommittee - to hold hearing on Apr 1, 1998 regarding competition in cable and video
• Rep. Markey - D-Mass - and Rep. Shays submit bill to repeal Telecom Act provision ending cable regulation on Mar 31, 1999
• Hearst-Argyle TV - profit
• Local DBS pressed
• "Urgent" and "critical." - Assn of National Advertisers to counter proposal in Florida to tax advertising
• Rob Strickland - appointment as senior VP-chief technology and information officer of the Weather Channel
• HRRC urges campaign to kill WIPO bill
• Sega farms out Genesis
• Universal Security Instruments - losses
• Sanyo will market - CDMA digital cellular phones in US
• Kathleen Heap - appointment as international marketing manager for Philips Digital Entertainment Group
• New glass supplies in flux
• FCC has corrected - digital television allotment table
• President Clinton called - for moratorium on Internet taxes
• ABC and ESPN boost Disney - Disney Channel profits
• CAI Wireless - loss of $40.8 million
• House Commerce Committee - believes the FCC sent too many people to the National Cable Television Association convention in 1997
• National Ad Review Council - reports 1997 as the 26th year of continuous success for the advertising industry's self-regulation
• Paul Slagle - promotion to VP-integrated sales and marketing at ESPN
• 'Updates' for Philips AV component
• Tandy income rises, sales down
• Go-Video nears assembly deal
• Bill Heys - appointment as Earthlink-Sprint sales and marketing VP
• GT Interactive was sued - by shareholders for false financial statements
• Cable rates increased 1.8% - in Feb 1998
• Telco-cable wars heat up
• Comcast - lost $81.4 million
• Viacom - profits
• Hughes Network Systems - awarded contract to Blonder Tongue Labs for manufacture and marketing of DirecTV digital satellite receivers
• Judith Allen - appointment as VP-marketing strategy of MediaOne
• Licensed broadcast stations - as of Jan 31, 1998
• Sony expands TV, DVD lines
• Product Innovations Lab - to operate from Samsung Electronics America Ridgefield, NJ, headquarters
• C-Phone has filed registration - at SEC for resale of up to 2.2 million shares
• Patrick Mountain - joins Philips Digital Entertainment Group as national sales manager
• General Instrument - introduces ATSC encoder to compress and multiplex television signals
• Ads, 'eyeballs' for good kids' TV
• Showtime - Showtime Entertainment Inc.'s revenue
• Gannett is buying - its 21st TV station
• Financier Michael Milken - agreed to pay $47 million to settle SEC complaint on violation of 1991 order barring him from the securities industry for life
• Sumner Redstone - to receive IRTS Gold Medal Award
• Marian Hanson - appointment as VP-special events marketing for ESPN
• Audiovox is shipping - first dual-mode CDMA digital phone
• DBS called threat to home video
• Montgomery Ward will carry - Thomson RCA Network Computer in Apr 1998 as part of end-cap display
• David Chamberlain - appointment as Techmedia sales VP
• Denver-based Lumivision - releases first digital video disk title with Dolby Digital multichannel audio in eight languages
• A.H. Belo-owned WFAA-TV - displaying high definition television on 32" monitor
• European Commission - searching for consultants to handle competitive implications of digital set-tops
• General Instrument - lost $45.9 million
• Capstar Bcstg. agreed to swap - 11 major-market radio stations it is acquiring from SFX Bcstg. to Chancellor Media for radio stations in small-to-medium markets
• PBS and NPR in arbitration
• Chandra Years - promotion to director of marketing, promotion and publicity at Twentieth Century Fox International TV
• Gore Commission - is not justified in imposing a broadcast regulatory system
• Cobra Electronics signed - credit agreement with 2 banks
• Funai is testing waters - for Sylvania audio products

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