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Articles in Jan 12, 1998 issue of Television Digest with Consumer Electronics

• By end of 1998 - Worldgate Communications' set-top box forecast
• FCC finalized earlier tentative - TV channel allocation for public service agencies
• Lea Sloan - executive appointment at Paxson Broadcasting Inc
• CE sales rose 5.2% in 1997 - CEMA
• Echostar signs Philips deal
• Mark Stein - executive appointment at Marantz - Consumer Electronics
• 'Just a matter of time' before Fox is no. 1 - Roth
• FCC should approve DTV - digital television allotment changes
• PBS continues "full steam ahead." - Public Broadcasting Service
• Susan Saxenmeyer - executive appointment at TCA Cable TV Inc
• Clarion said it will establish - regional headquarters in four world markets - Consumer Electronics
• Microsoft uses CES to unveil - AutoPC software - Consumer Electronics
• Len Ciciretto - executive appointment at Yest Entertainment - Consumer Electronics
• CBS will quickly offer - base for high-definition television programming
• Washington Post - quarterly dividend
• House Telecom Subcommittee - bill blocking General Services Administration from paying for FCC's move to office building
• DTV launch to include high-definition by satellite
• Rent-Way, continuing breakneck - consolidation activity - Consumer Electronics
• Thomas Hicks - executive appointment at 2Connect Express - Consumer Electronics
• Gemini Industries will expand - PC speakers line - Consumer Electronics
• 1998 Ad
• TV networks WB and UPN
• PTV must be noncommercial - Duggan
• Stephen Lacy - executive appointment at Meredith Cable Inc
• Zenith hires turnaround specialist
• Sega announces layoffs, new platform
• Alan Baldwin - executive appointment at Batteries Batteries - Consumer Electronics
• Satellite Bcstg - new access rules
• Issue of how much capacity - direct broadcast satellite TV
• Disney management - accused by pension fund of improper personal ties
• Mitsubishi drops direct view
• RCA debuts energy-saving VCRs
• RIAA said it has settled - Recording Industry Association of America - Consumer Electronics
• DVD-ROM 60-disc changer - marketed by Sanyo-Fisher - Consumer Electronics
• Lowered expectations greet HDTV
• Comsat declined to respond - congressional request for details on lobbying costs
• Campaign for Working Families - campaign to air antiabortion ads on California TV stations
• Alan Kessman - resignation as Executive Information Systems chairman and president
• Plasma readies for retail
• Voice It Worldwide announced deal - Applied Voice Recognition - Consumer Electronics
• Craig Electronics closes
• Nearly all U.S. TV - TV station forecast
• Magness estate settled
• NTIA Dir. Larry Irving - National Telecommunications and Information Administration; FCC TV ownership rules
• PBS and Comark Digital Services - digital television joint venture
• Musicland - Dec. 1997 sales - includes Dec. 1997 sales of TransWorld Entertainment and Noodle Kidoodle - Consumer Electronics
• Microsoft launches palm PC
• Tops Appliance City - 4th qtr 1997 sales - Consumer Electronics
• Next big live HDTV broadcast - KXAS-TV; high definition television
• Sony buys into NLS
• Paxson will convert - TV station call letters
• Circuit City demonstrates Divx player
• U.S. Satellite Bcstg - transfer of channels to DirecTV Inc - Consumer Electronics
• Stephen Reynolds - executive appointment at Video Update - Consumer Electronics
• Chyron said it will supply - routing and graphics equipment in Winter Olympics
• Shopping channel ValueVision - merger
• Nixon considered attack using FCC
• Dennis Seely - executive appointment at Gulfstar Communications Inc
• DTS-encoded audio CDs - Image Entertainment distribution contract - Consumer Electronics
• Video Update and Moovies filed - proxy statements - Consumer Electronics
• Seagate Technology warned - operating losses - Consumer Electronics
• CES notebook - high-definition television forecast
• FCC underwriting rules challenged
• LIN TV stockholders - acquisition
• Gregory Clark - executive appointment at Loral Space and Communications
• Retailers report mixed holiday results
• Nintendo cuts games price
• Sun TV and Appliances - 3rd qtr 1997 losses - Consumer Electronics