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- 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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