Broadcasting & Cable articles from April 2004

Broadcasting & Cable archives from April 2004

NAB seeks to delay people meters.(Breaking ...)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Broadcasters TV Board asked Nielsen to postpone the rollout of local people meters in New York. It's scheduled for April 8, but Nielsen has been catching heat from broadcasters, particularly Fox, and...

Reality returns to CBS.(Breaking ...)(Big Brother and The Amazing Race return to CBS Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... LOS ANGELES -- Big Brother and The Amazing Race will return to CBS for a fifth summer season. They premiere back to back Tuesday July 6. Big Brother will then settle into its regular three nights a week: Tuesdays at 9 p.m., Thursdays at 8, and...

Cable issue headed for high court?(Breaking ...)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is the last hope for cable operators seeking to bar competing Internet providers from their high-speed networks. Last week, the federal appeals court in San Francisco refused to reconsider its October decision...

United Paramount Network: where the girls are? The network is in the midst of a sex change.(Top of the Week)
April 5, 2004... It's not surprising. Two years after Dawn Ostroff left womanly Lifetime for UPN, the network once known for brawny WWE wrestling and nerdy Trekkies finds itself watched by young, hip, urban females. Helped by supermodel Tyra Banks and...

Right hooks.(In The Loop)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Conservative commentators usually attack liberals, not their own. So when radio host G. Gordon Liddy, of Watergate fame, recently duked it out with Fox News talkmeister Bill O'Reilly, it was a treat. The first volley was fired on MSNBC's...

Indecent exposure.(fines on indecency telecast)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Conventional wisdom says news and sports are traditionally exempt from indecency concerns. But in a climate of fear, station executives have discussed adding a tape delay. Two incidents raised a red flag: a KRON San Francisco newscast (a...

Power to the people.(In The Loop)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Public activists are taking it to the streets--and the suites. They kicked off a drive this week to sign up tens of thousands of citizens demanding new TV election coverage and kids-programming quotas when stations go digital. MoveOn.org,...

Stern und drang.(In The Loop)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... The FCC might blush at profanity, but they profit by it. B&C hears that its latest victim, Infinity Radio, will be socked with a six-figure fine for raunchy programming by favorite whipping boy Howard Stern (below). Not content with one fine...

In its own twist on NBC's The Apprentice, FOX signed billionaire Sir Richard Branson, to star in an unscripted "drama," Branson's Big Adventure.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... In its own twist on NBC's The Apprentice, FOX signed billionaire SIR RICHARD BRANSON, to star in an unscripted "drama," Branson's Big Adventure. In the show, a group of wannabe entrepreneurs will join the founder and chairman of the VIRGIN...

NDC will work with the TV Guide Channel to guide viewers through 1,200-plus hours of Olympics coverage from Athens this summer.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... NDC will work with the TV GUIDE CHANNEL to guide viewers through 1,200-plus hours of Olympics coverage from Athens this summer. Olympics events will run on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, BRAVO and TELEMUNDO. The Olympics will get its own dedicated section...

With plenty of legal news these days--Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, and the usual suspects--Court TV is creating the Court TV Legal News Service.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... With plenty of legal news these days--KOBE BRYANT, SCOTT PETERSON, and the usual suspects--Court TV is creating the COURT TV LEGAL NEWS SERVICE, which will make its legal expertise available to local stations and cable news networks. The...

Going into its 16th season, the cast of The Simpsons has now sat out two table reads while they lobby for more money.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Going into its 16th season, the cast of The Simpsons has now sat out two table reads while they lobby for more money. Each voice actor makes $125,000 per episode, according to published reports, but the group is pushing to make $360,000 each, a...

He's booked until 2009.(Late Night)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)(Jay Leno)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Jay Leno won't be leaving The Tonight Show before 2009. The square-jawed comic signed a new NBC pact last week that will take him into his 18th year as host. Leno's current deal wasn't up until December 2005, but network executives locked him...

After just two episodes, HBO ordered a sophomore season of Western drama Deadwood.(Fully Programmable)(Home Box Office)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... After just two episodes, HBO ordered a sophomore season of Western drama Deadwood. Its debut three weeks ago drew 5.8 million viewers, the pay net's biggest audience for an original-series premiere....

A University of Missouri senior was the pick of 60% of ESPN viewers for a year contract--$95,000--as SportsCenter anchor.(Fully Programmable)(Entertainment and Sports Programming Network)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... A University of Missouri senior was the pick of 60% of ESPN viewers for a year contract--$95,000--as SportsCenter anchor. Actually, the salary was $70,000, but he upped it to $95,000 in a sports-trivia segment on the two-hour finale of the...

HDNET is close to landing high-definition rights to Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution's youthful drama Smallville.(Fully Programmable)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... HDNET is close to landing high-definition rights to WARNER BROS. DOMESTIC CABLE DISTRIBUTION's youthful drama Smallville. Billionaire Mark Cuban's network, with some 1 million subscribers, is said to be paying about $100,000 per episode to...

NBC picked Anna Perez, deputy assistant to the president and counselor for communications.(People & Power)(National Broadcasting Company Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... NBC picked ANNA PEREZ, deputy assistant to the president and counselor for communications for National Security Advisor CONDOLEEZA RICE, as executive vice president of communications for NBC. She replaces PATRICIA STEELE, who held the post for...

Discovery Channel's incoming Executive Vice President and General Manager Jane Root.(People & Power)(Discovery Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... DISCOVERY CHANNEL's incoming Executive Vice President and General Manager JANE ROOT is eager to "get inside the heads of American viewers." Root, currently controller of UK's BBC2, takes over Discovery in May. She says her reputation in Britain...

Corrections and clarifications.(Fast Track)(Correction Notice)
April 5, 2004... Belo Corp. CEO Robert Decherd owns 15% of the company's shares and 23% of the voting power. A profile of Decherd in the March 29 edition contained incorrect data on his stock holdings. A chart accompanying a story about the gap between...

Ad-ed value: Hallmark, Court TV tout sponsorship, audience quality.(Top of the Week)
April 5, 2004... Cable works. That's the message the networks are pushing at their annual ad-market dog-and-pony shows this year. And they offer proof. Hallmark Channel execs, for example, boasted last week of product-placement deals the network has signed...

USA wins, without a body slam.(Top of the Week)(USA Network Inc)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... USA Network is back. The channel hasn't been a cable champion since the World Wrestling Entertainment defected to TNN (now Spike TV) in 2000, taking hefty Nielsen ratings with it. Thanks largely to original hit Monk and off-net runs of Law...

Fox buying WPLG?(Station Break)(Fox 2000 Pictures)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... MIAMI -- Is FOX negotiating with Post-Newsweek to buy WPLG? That's the rumor swirling around Miami for a couple of weeks. However, sources at Fox say it just ain't so. Fox is already over the current ownership cap, and the fact is, of all...

Farewell to the news.(Station Break)(Peter Brown leaves Viacom International Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... BOSTON -- Peter Brown, news director for Viacom duopoly WBZ/WSBK in Boston, is hanging up his mike after 26 years in the business, the last 10 in his current post. The reason: "In the eight years since my daughter was born, I literally have...

Hailing the Lake effect.(WJAR Providence, Art Lake birthday celebration)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... In a business where on-air lineups change with the frequency of the weather, veteran New England weatherman Art Lake is a rare exception. On April 6, WJAR Providence, R.I., and the state's governor and lieutenant governor will join friends,...

Still no disaster plan?(Radio-Television News Directors Association, meetings)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... LAS VEGAS -- Two and a half years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many newsrooms still don't have a crisis plan or the background they need to help keep news and information flowing to the public in the event of another attack. Therefore,...

Sometimes two ain't better than one: Fox's NYC duopoly falls short of expectations.(Top of the Week)
April 5, 2004... When Fox purchased the Chris-Craft station group in August 2000, it got duopolies in three big markets. What clout! Mitch Stern, then the chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations, boasted that those station combos would turn into lean,...

Politicians sneeze, National Association of Broadcasters catches a code; indecency task force weighs self-regulation.(Top of the Week)
April 5, 2004... Station owners, network executives, and critics of media "indecency" huddled in private last week to figure out what to do about the state of radio and TV. After a whole day, they pledged to do better. "The proof is in the pudding," FCC...

Hit and run: networks try new ways to stretch their development dollars.(Special report: cable originals)
April 5, 2004... Sci Fi Channel chief Bonnie Hammer thought Anonymous Rex was a fantastic book--and would make great TV. She first pored over Eric Garcia's sci-fi tale of dinosaurs disguised as humans and living among them when she took the network's helm in...

Young and the rested: kid shows reign as the king of cable.(Cable Originals)
April 5, 2004... Sex and the City commanded a global following. The Sopranos numbers are off the charts. But talk about cable viewers, and the winner and still champion is kids. That's right. Those too young to buy birth-control pills or worry whether Tony will...

When Cable met Improv; a new twist on an old format scores with viewers.(Cable Originals)
April 5, 2004... Schlumpy? Maybe. Inappropriate? Usually. But Larry David is also a trendsetter. When the co-creator of Seinfeld starts shooting the fifth season of his HBO improvised sitcom, the always outrageous Curb Your Enthusiasm, he'll have company. ...

"We have to be perfect": in wake of indecency flap, a tougher look at content.(Indecent Exposure)
April 5, 2004... Washington just can't stop hammering the TV industry. In Hollywood, though, the fear is less about what's happening now than about what could happen later. In football terms, the industry is deeply committed to a prevent defense. Suddenly...

Ratings: March 15-21.(Syndication Watch)(television programs)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 5, 2004... RATINGS | March 15-21 Nielsen Media Research Top 25 Shows Adults 18-34 RANK PROGRAM AA GAA 1 Seinfeld 4.6 5.7 1 Friends 4.6 5.5 3 ...

Home Delivers Heart:the show about the relationship and emotional growth aspects of one's life.(Syndication Watch)
April 5, 2004... A daughter wishes her mom would start living her own life. A sister wants her twin to stop living in her shadow. A struggling student hopes to marry his girlfriend but can't afford the wedding. What they can't fix, Universal Domestic...

NATPE moves to Mandalay Bay.(Syndie Insider)(National Association of Television Program Executives)
April 5, 2004... The National Association of Television Program Executives is switching from the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas to the Mandalay Bay, with the convention planned for Jan. 25-27, 2005. The show will also be held there in 2006. Mandalay Bay...

NBC into Total Health.(Syndie Insider)(National Broadcasting Company Inc)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... NBC Enterprises and NBC News this fall will premiere a new weekly half-hour syndicated series titled Your Total Health. It will be hosted by NBC News Correspondent Hoda Kotb, a six-year veteran of NBC News. Dr. David Agus, an oncologist at Los...

A Regis spike.(Syndie Insider)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Who knew that Regis Philbin, the 72-year-old host of Buena Vista's Live With Regis and Kelly and ABC's Super Millionaire, would be almost as big a draw for viewers of Twentieth's On Air With Ryan Seacrestas teen idol Britney Spears? ...

The prime time race.(Programming)(Illustration)
April 5, 2004... THE PRIME TIME RACE Top 10 Basic Cable Shows MARCH 22-28 Total Households (in millions) PROGRAM DATE NET NHS 1. WWE Raw 10p 3/22 SPK 4.0 2. WWE Raw 9p 3/22 ...

Nielsen ratings: March 22-28.(Programming)(Illustration)
April 5, 2004... NIELSEN | March 22-28 | RATINGS abc MONDAY Week 27 5.6/9# 8:00 47. ABC Monday Movie of the Week--NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 5.5/8 8:30 47....

At a glance.(Market focus: Tampa/St. Petersburg)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 5, 2004... AT A GLANCE The Market DMA rank 13 Population 3,847,000 TV homes 1,644,000 Income per capita $18,897 TV revenue rank 16 TV revenue $296,100,000...

Southern vitality.(Market focus: Tampa/St. Petersburg)
April 5, 2004... Tampa-St. Pete's rep as a sleepy Gulf Coast resort town is history. The booming market produces an average 40,000 new jobs annually and recently surpassed Miami-Ft. Lauderdale as Florida's biggest TV market. It's the birthplace of Home Shopping...

The demos.(Market focus: Tampa/St. Petersburg)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
April 5, 2004... THE DEMOS Abundant sunshine beckons Tampa residents outdoors, where boating, fishing, and golf are the popular pastimes. Despite the area's long association with spring training, there is only lukewarm interest in the market's...

Cable prices: inch up.(EBB & Flow; advertising rates)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Cable advertising remains a buyer's market on national and local levels. Scatter pricing for the 2Q is up from last spring's upfront by single digits, while local spot remains flat. "The cable scatter market is getting a little stronger,...

Channel grab: Federal Communications Commission wants spectrum reserved for newsgathering back.(Washington)
April 5, 2004... During the Iowa Caucuses, Howard Dean wasn't the only one living a nightmare. As the one-time Democratic frontrunner's presidential hopes flamed out on Jan. 19, Dave Busiek, news director of KCCI-TV Des Moines, was having a bad time, too. His...

Warp speed.(Capital Watch; access to high speed internet services latest promise made by presidential candidates)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... The information superhighway is today's version of a chicken in every pot. Once upon a time, White House hopefuls promised a healthy dinner for everybody. Today, President Bush promises to bring video and other super-fast Internet services to...

Radio days.(Capital Watch; National Public Radio lobbying FCC to allow digital radio stations to offer second signals )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... TV stations aren't the only outfits planning to offer more than one channel after they go digital. Radio stations also want to get into the act, at least those signed up with National Public Radio. The network wants the FCC to let digital radio...

Target: Big Media.(television industry, new bills)(Maurice Hinchey)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Longtime dereg foe Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) is taking his best shot at bringing down Big Media. In a sweeping new bill, he proposes to roll back the FCC's June 2 ownership deregulation, shrink the 39% station-ownership cap Congress enacted...

Pay to play.(Capital Watch; Federal Communications Commission hikes taxes for all telecom licensees )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Owners of UHF stations will notice a hefty hike in this year's FCC bill. The commission is proposing annual fees for all telecom licensees it regulates, including broadcast stations, cable systems, and DBS operators. While fees drop for most...

Digital defense.(Capital Watch)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... The latest tax spin: Republican anti-tax activist Grover Norquist (above) is backing DBS providers' bid to drop as many local broadcasters as they can in favor of digital network superstations. "This is a win-win for taxpayers," explains the...

Swinging for the Fences: with cubs fever rising across the United States, superstation World's Greatest Network has a unique opportunity to show off how much it has changed.(WGN-TV Chicago)(Advertisement)
April 5, 2004... On a Thursday evening in late February, hundreds of people gathered in a large tent in downtown Chicago. TV trucks hummed outside, ready to send live reports back to CNN, MSNBC, ESPN and a bevy of local stations. Inside, security guards, wires...

Birth of a nation's superstation: WGN executives were aghast when the channel was first put up on satellite, but the 'curse' turned into quite the blessing.(World's Greatest Network)
April 5, 2004... Shelly Cooper will never forget the day he learned WGN'S signal had been put up on satellite. It was Nov. 8, 1978 and Cooper, then the station's general manager, was in a hotel conference room in Arizona, carrying out his duties as chairman of...

Defining a brand: original programming will advance an agenda that includes a new branding campaign and more promotion.
April 5, 2004... One of the first things Bill Shaw did after taking over as president and general manager of Superstation WGN was to assemble a SWOT meeting. "It's a Harvard Business School practice," he explains, "You allow everyone in the organization to...

Focus on family: a public affairs campaign puts the accent on World's Greatest Network's target audience.
April 5, 2004... When a child goes missing and is believed to have been taken across state lines, an alert system jumps into action, sending pictures and other information to law enforcement agencies across the U.S. Until recently, the system had no national...

Controlling the news: Sundance's NewsLink runs production devices from one interface.(Technology; Sundance Digital Inc.'s NewsLink 2.0 interface allows one operator management of a newscast)
April 5, 2004... Newscasts produced with only one operator? That's what Sundance Digital is aiming for. Its NewsLink 2.0 grabs control of different devices involved in the playout of a newscast and brings them all under the management of one interface. And...

Ohio now.(Cutting Edge; Dispatch Broadcast Group agreement with WorldNow creates online news platform )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Dispatch Broadcast Group, based in Columbus, Ohio, has tapped WorldNow to create the largest online news platform in Ohio. WorldNow will provide an online news platform for Dispatch's three Internet properties: WBNS.com, WTHR.com, and The Ohio...

Live from Athens.(Cutting Edge; NBC Olympics to use digital video transmission equipment in coverage of 2004 Olympic Games)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... NBC Olympics will use digital video transmission equipment from Scopus Network Technologies for its 24-hour, continuous coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games from Athens Aug. 13-29. NBC will transmit the signals from the International Broadcast...

'LIN'ch pin.(Cutting Edge; LIN Television Group agreement with Video Communications Inc. )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... The LIN Television Group can't get enough of traffic-and-billing-system provider Video Communications Inc. (VCI). LIN renewed its agreement with the company for another five years. The TV group, with 23 stations in 13 markets, runs 14 stations...

Time is money: Florical's "Join In Progress" returns lost ad revenues.(Technology)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Given all the advances in TV technology, it's surprising the concept of joining a program in progress hasn't become passe. When a sporting or other event runs long, viewers either miss part of the next program or have to tune in at odd times to...

Proper proposal: Wide Orbit offers more-accurate inventory info.(Technology)(TV traffic system with a research-and-proposal function)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Wide Orbit claims an industry first: the first TV traffic system with a research-and-proposal (R&P) function. Traditionally, research tools from third-party vendors, such as TV Scan and OneDomain, are integrated into traffic systems. Those...

Let freedom reign: Bissonette heads NYC antenna effort.(Tech Q&A)(New York City)(Interview)
April 5, 2004... On Sept. 11,2004, the city of New York is expected to break ground on the Freedom Tower, the building that will stand on the footprint of the Worm Trade Center. How long it will take to complete is unknown; estimates are anywhere from three to...

Operation digital: suppliers step up to help stations make the transition.(Special Report)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... The buzz heading up to the NAB convention Las Vegas April 17-22 is largely about news technology, but that doesn't mean developments in station operations are missing. Ask engineers what the biggest challenge facing their stations is, and...

Serving up content: broadcasters embrace IT to speed workflow.(Road To NAB)(National Association of Broadcasters)
April 5, 2004... The IT explosion has put video servers and storage near the top of almost every NAB shopping list. For stations in an increasingly competitive marketplace, the use of servers becomes crucial, making transfer of content easier and faster. ...

StorageTek offers server alternatives.(Back It Up)(Storage Technology Corp.)(StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... Backup storage libraries will be the focus of StorageTek and its StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System. It's the company's first offering in what it calls a family of modular library products, supporting multiple virtual storage (or MVS, the...

Mighty modules: new signal-processing equipment is designed to save money and space.(Road to NAB)
April 5, 2004... A TV facility is only as good as its ability to distribute quality signals, and not just to viewers. The move to digital has brought broadcasters a wealth of new challenges, whether synching the audio and video signals or converting analog to...

Power rangers: when stations upgrade to DTV, antenna vendors cash in.(Road to NAB)(Digital television)
April 5, 2004... Broadcasters are boosting their DTV signals to full power. And that means big business for antenna suppliers. Their analog business has also improved. Many stations opted for a "minimal system" when they launched DTV, says Jay Martin, vice...

Lift for transmitter sales: as stations raise power, vendors get a boost.(Road to NAB)
April 5, 2004... Perhaps no piece of DTV technology offers more variety than transmitters, which range from low-power VHF systems in the $50,000 range to high-power UHF systems that approach $1 million. And that's a good thing because today's broadcasters are...

Bits and bucks: new encoders open door to more revenue streams.(Road to NAB)
April 5, 2004... HDTV means big pictures for viewers and big demand for encoders. More important, producing high-quality HDTV at lower bit rates leaves bandwidth available for networks to dabble in multicasting, data services, and other new forms of digitally...

Changing hands.(Business)(selling and buying of broadcasting stations)
April 5, 2004... TVs NEW Charlottesville, Va. PRICE: $1 million BUYER: Gray Television Inc. (Robert S. Prather Jr., president/ COO/director) SELLER: Charlottesville Broadcasting Corp. (Margot Polivy, president) FACILITIES: Ch. 19, 2,380...

The long ride home: news pro remains devoted to TV.(The Fifth Estater)
April 5, 2004... Robert Long became vice president and news director of KNBC Los Angeles through diligence and hard work. But he kicked off a fledgling press career by having a beer with Castro's bodyguard. Consider it a genius for timing. "A terrible...

Thirteen/WNET New York.(Broadcast TV)(appointment of vice president)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... DEBORAH CROSS MACFARLANE, director, development and membership, Thirteen/WNET New York, promoted to VP.

WCBS New York.(Broadcast TV)(WTXF Philadelphia)(appointment of local sales manager)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... At WCBS New York: ALAN S. CLACK, executive VP/director, sales, Viacom Television Stations Group, New York, named director, sales; BARRY OFFITZER, general sales manager, WTXF Philadelphia, named local sales manager.

Larry Solitrin, design director, KYW Philadelphia and WPSG Philadelphia, promoted to creative services director.(Broadcast TV)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... LARRY SOLITRIN, design director, KYW Philadelphia and WPSG Philadelphia, promoted to creative services director for the stations.

Comcast.(Cable TV)(Comcast Corp.)(appointment of vice president)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... REG GRIFFIN, director, communications, Comcast, Southern Division, Atlanta, named VP, communications and community affairs, Southern Division Atlanta.

Insight Communications.(Cable TV)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... At Insight Communications: DAN DEYHNG, director, business operations, Comcast Cable Communications, Savannah, Ca., named district VP, Lexington, Ky.; N. SCOTT BEHN, senior VP, Lazer Communications/Three-Sixty Networks, St. Cloud, Minn., named...

Fox Group.(Programming)(appointment of executive VP)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... RITA TUZON, senior VP, litigation, Fox Group, Los Angeles, named executive VP, business and legal affairs/general counsel, Fox Cable Networks, Los Angeles.

Gartner Inc.(Programming)(appointment of vice president)(IFC, Digital Media and World Picks)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... ROBERT DAVIS, consultant, Gartner Inc., Stamford, Conn., named VP, technology and production, IFC, Digital Media and World Picks, New York.

MTV.(Programming)(MTV Networks Inc.)(appointment of VP, public affairs and strategic partnerships)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... At MTV, New York: IAN V. ROWE, director, strategy and performance measurement, USA Freedom Corps, Washington, named VP, public affairs and strategic partnerships.

Homestore Inc.(Programming)(appointment of director)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... ROBERT L. CARL, VP, investor relations and corporate communications, Homestore Inc., Los Angeles, named director, investor relations, GemstarTV Guide International, Los Angeles.

PBS.(Programming)(PBS Enterprises Inc.)(appointment of senior advisor)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... RONNIE GUNNERSON, consultant, PBS, Alexandria, Va., named senior advisor, foundation relations.

ESPN.(Journalism)(Entertainment and Sports Programming Network)(appointment of sideline and feature reporter)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... JILL ARRINGTON, sideline reporter, CBS Sports, New York, joins ESPN, Bristol, Conn., as sideline and feature reporter, College GameDay and Sportscenter.

Mark Condron, associate producer.(Journalism)(KPIX San Francisco)(appointment of sports producer)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... MARK CONDRON, associate producer, HBO Sports, New York, to sports producer, KPIX San Francisco.

Fox Sports Net.(Journalism)(promotion of sports anchor/reporter)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... CAROLYN HUGHES, sports anchor/reporter, Fox Sports Net, Los Angeles, promoted to host, Fox Sports Net Across America.

Fox News Channel.(Journalism; Kran Chetry named anchor for Fox News Channel )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... KIRAN CHETRY, overnight newsreader, Fox News Channel, New York, promoted to anchor, Fox and Friends First, and host, Fox News Live Sundays.

KYW New York.(Journalism; Ji Young Min joins KYW New York )(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... JI YOUNG MIN, reporter/backup anchor, News 12 Network, New York, joins KYW New York as general assignment reporter.

HDNews.(Journalism; names Patricia Wu anchor)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2004... PATRICIA WU, reporter, WNYW New York, joins HDNews, New York, as anchor.