Pols push free airtime

Par and Cruise buying 'Time'

U plan foes, fans pack public sesh

Trimark catches 'Moonlight'

Willis playing 'Apocalypse' now

DGA noms in 1st-timers club

Oldman may get 'Lost' at NL

Oscar watch

A&M Associated taps Barbis

Moerk ankles WB for Peters

Fox vid, Saban play

Globes help NBC conquer Nielsens

CTW has eyes for older kid audience

CBS Radio transmits sales duties to Interep

Financial briefs

Stockbuster video

WB taps McCormack to lead research

Golden touch for 'Evita'

ABC offers dial-up TV ratings primer

Col. Parker, manager of Elvis, dies

Bomb threats disrupt FCC

'Men' seeking stability

ILM effects Blau rise to VP

'Hamlet' rules kingdom of B.O. exclusives

'Rivera' edges 'King' in demo

Out of South Africa

Mayfair in 'Hurricane'

Short takes

Riordan sees tax breaks as multimedia magnet

RKO bows scribe fellowship

Births

CBS, Trump ink beauty of a partnership

Moroney to Belo prexy

Peacock orders 'Something' more

HBO skeds Black History Month shows, film tour

Siegel ankles CAA, hits books

Artear hangs a shingle in Miami

The DGA nominations list

Assuras joins Eye on People

L.A. Opera season brims with 'Fedora,' exotica

TPEC taps Licata chair

Laurence Austin

King Hu

Gilberto Martinez Solares

Saul B. Marantz

Adriana Caselotti

Ferguson upped to Island sr. VP

Bomb threat targets DGA

More than pretty pix

Lensers int'l pedigree historic

Lensers bask in spotlight

Exec Shuffle

Junos fete 3 Canucks with Achievement prize

Sogetel inks indies

Italo pic prod'n inches upward

Survey says plexes will fuel Brit tics

Monte Carlo on roll

India, U.K. firms team for music joint venture

Hoyts making travel plans for Euro markets

BVTV to rep CW's 'Grace'

'60 Minutes' to do seg on Nazis in Canada

Faux Mouse money in big bauble scam

Young turks

The shoplifter was a liar

Repeat 'City' in spin cycle

'Bliss' sticks in ratings mire; Col chops 'Woods'

Searchlight finds pic pair

Lion losing UA monikers

Besson's 'Element' to be Cannes opener

Berlin fest slate expands

Court unplugs Kirch

Goldcrest OKs 'Ono'

Euro royalty societies ink deal

Fox taps McHugh VP-G.M. at WAGA

First Media affils drawing top bids

Perelman's plans for Marvel nixed

Biz cheers copyrighter

Gogham's veep duties at U expand

An electronic adventure

Phoenix pulls the plug on 'Don Quixote' coin

Redstone keynotes

Shotmaker fills 2 top exec slots

Yanover upped to Disney veep

Wolper Org. taps Burrows

Davis adds Par pair

Henson, MSN ink programming pact

ASC awards set noms

Political ad spending hits record $400.5 mil

Gooding exits Paradigm again to ink with CAA

PGA noms go to 'Fargo,' 'Flynt' 'Shine,' 'Patient' and 'Hamlet'

Medialab, 4MC pair up for L.A.-based studio

'Evita' album rises to number 2

USA Network trumps net window for six features

TCI gives subs their MTV, VH1

Fine Line chats up Beyer's 'Talk'

Blowup on Hall set

MGM at a prelim

Tapping into the source

Oscar winners

Bending tradition

Singing Oscar's praises

Disney song dynasty challenged

'Conspiracy' to blame for Gibson's bruises

Hitched

It's a 'Rosie' top ten

Coronet sets relaunch fete

'Way' inks rights deals

'Homegrown' in the can

Pirates lose 14,000 vids in joint NYPD-MPAA raid

CBS firms kids sports

Peacock ups Constantinople

Lovitz ankles play over TV obligation

Norstar opens L.A. office

May, Cagan to top new Zomba unit

Births

NBC makes switch in Latin news

Eye on People taps Zahn to host series

Feigelson goes A.W.A.L. with new diskery

FCC nominee exits

Undercover techniques cost ABC News $5.5 mil

Effinger moving to Lifetime TV

Trib reups 'Geraldo'

Hong Kong broadcasting laws intact, China says

O'Connell tapped for Packer gaming

Beeb revamps int'l distrib arm

Cisneros segues

Levrier to top France 3

Berlin Fest kids sked set

Mexico's 1996 B.O. boom doesn't translate locally

United in talks for J&M stake

Foxtel's Booth shifts to JSkyB

Kloiber ousts Mouse

CNN en Espanol to kick off in March

Aschman outlines Kodak's biz picture

NAB may change LMA stance

Startups cost AMC

Corrections

'Manhattan' leap

RIAA pushes property pact

New plans for Povich, Chung strip

Kay Lenard

Ron Holden

Ronnie Cowan

Florence Haley

Oscar watch

Fox senior VP stripes for Singh

Krasnow, MCA Music ready to end alliance

Samples frowning over 'Smile's' R

Tech trouble brings Par to crashing halt

Comedy net may return

ShoWester to fete Loeks

A piece of the Rock

Eszterhas nails 'Male'

Stone tackling pic on the NFL

Super Bowl draws $9 mil in movie ads

Sundancing to distrib'n

'Patient' charts top noms for SAG Awards

Indies translate well

'Ellen' homes in on Tuesday

Banderas not pleased with Playgirl pix

Sony: Bird is word

Dino-might Benz

Outtakes

Hammer-ing home horror pix

'Grass Harp's' sour note

'Love' and rain at DGA

Gooding's rep-ertoire

Col TriStar TV ups Kearns

Guthy-Renker nabs Carman

'Thesis' tops Spanish nods

Feb. talk set for DBS LAX talk

'Bible' in Slamdance's good books

Assesing the fest

Winter chill o'seas

U.K. pic admissions up 8% in 1996

'Earth' handed off to Baton

Spanish digital duel heats up

Alliance buys out CBC Showcase stake

Alliance buys out CBC Showcase stake

Canal Plus may sell German TV stakes

Lit picks

Laugh Factory beams cutups to colleges

James gets NBC 6-pack

TW's Road Runner Net link goes west

Songwriter files Death Row suit

Showtime at 'War'

'Defenders' revamps on tap

A&E purchases Gershwin spec

Rat pack perf found

Silicon Graphics bows new Octane workstations

Oldie gold in Japan

Meredith rounds up First Media stations

Granada vows to stay in Sky

Trib coffers burst fourth, and for '96

Paper: Rank Distrib for sale

Corrections

Clarification

Scribes get clause on 'Ninja'

Showtime commissions 'More Tales'

Shimmel inking for LaFace prexy post

Alliance, BBC team

ShoWest Awards going live on TNT

'Don,' 'Homer' in mini battle

Alphabet to try 'Spy' Mondays

Scripters engaged to 'Marry' pic

Fox 2000, Obst near Jewell of a deal

Silberling draws 'Figure'

Parretti gets ultimatum

Sony Classics team to reup

Sundance: 'Sunday' best

E! ticket: Disney, Comcast

Musicland again tries buying time

Wall St. upbeat on cable

B.O. bowl estimates point to five-way tie

Granada vows to stay in Sky

Rank to ankle pic distrib'n

Marvel-ous battle of comic-book characters

Hilton's hostile bid throws ITT into play

NATO to fete Washington

'EZ' does it: CBS juggles three nights

Hughes Bros. Turn out 'Pimp'

SAG studying squeeze on supporting salaries

Fox packs 'Super' win

C4 bombshell: Grade ankling as chief exec

Overseas B.O. hits a high note with 'Evita'

U plans Nick attraction

Corrections

AFI, Otis team on digital media lab

Jacobson producing 'Joe'

Yates heeds 'Call'

Oscar watch

C-W renews Carlson deal

DiCaprio gets double duty in UA's 'Mask'

Fox 2000 to go 'Mobile'

Inside move: Fourth 'Butt Bowl' looong on ads

$400 mil of red ink, Marvel tells court

TCI Intl. offers buyback

Hilton's hostile bid throws ITT into play

Moving into media

Carlton eyeing Rank buy

Globes add golden glow to 'Shine's' B.O.

E! to keep eye on biz

FCC nom likely for Powell

CPB top dog Carlson ankling pubcast org

Foursome win some at box office

Berlin sets sidebar slate

German feevee standout

Teuton TV touts terrific year for ad coin: $7 bil

Japanese 'Evita' rolling

'South' lives on in the north

ABC's of downsizing

Mexico says wait and see to standard on digital TV

Turner beefing up Asia ops

Nippon movie tix revenue off in '96

Chinese video biz going postal to stress rentals

Corley exiting MGM slot

Technicolor realigns itself

Nick's Kids' picks set for April 19

Museum of TV, Radio sets Paley fest lineup

Exec Shuffle

Bombay Packer: Indian TV buy mulled

Morisette, Braxton, Shakur top AMAs

Arnold wants Forman to take 'Wings'

Twilight of the Golds

Del McCoury Band

Hey Hey We're the Monkees

Hey Hey We're the Monkees

Del Mccoury Band

Twilight of the Golds

The Talented Tenth

You Shall Give Me Grandsons

You Shall Give Me Grandsons

George B.

Colin Fitz

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

Robinson in Space

Fierce Creatures

Beverly Hills Ninja

Eight Days a Week

Soulmates

Broken Silence

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health

Who's the Woman, Who's the Man

Shanghai Grand

King Ubu

A Petal

Black Mask

Jungle Story

Gridlock'd

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Red Address

Out of Order

Cry Me a River

Second-Hand Smoke

Eye of God

End of Summer

Love Jones

The Twilight of the Golds

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

The Fight in the Fields

The Steward of Christendom

Marking

Sled

The Bitter End

House of America

His and Hers

Kiss Me, Guido

New School Order

Vilna's Got a Golem

You Say What I Mean But What You Mean Is Not What I Said

Comic 'House' of Perversion Earns 'Yes' Vote for Posey

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