Kirch vows low-cost digital set-top boxes

Mingling at Mifed

Star ups stake in Channel V

Net Ten exceeds profit forecasts

Film Four preps low-budget pic arm

TVA wraps first two pix for Fox Family Channel

Bank sees media heydays

Polygram nets profits

Chris-Craft crafts 221% gain despite TV losses

News-on-Demand bows in Asia

Troubles at Poland's TVN

PBS sponsorships on rise

London's ITN, PBS team for newscast

C'rights all right as Senate ratifies two WIPO treaties

Cinar finds making profit is child's play

Centropolis taps Fritz

NEA alum Alexander joins 'Cider'

Big Bird gets raise

Horror spec enters new Dimension

Berry gets in character for Dandridge bio

Wright to helm Rogue's slasher thriller 'Cherry'

'Husband' vows renewed; doc on saint set

Attorney Silverman joins Shandling in Grey case

Falling Primestar

Nielsen still rates with ABC, CBS

Wonder tapped for MusiCares honor

Televicentro swap meet

How auds pick pix

'Pleasant' pleasure

Disney shows 'Pride'

Legitimate benefit

Red Hour pumps up

MGM closes in, again

'Will & Grace' & NBC for full season

CBS, Fox TV lure Arsenio

Helmer Ackerman inks 5-year deal with Par TV

Jay-Z tops sales again

Goodwill hunters target showbiz

Fox profits swept away by Yankees

Showtime sets pic about Harvey Milk

TenPercenteries

Col TV inks deal with Mac

'Brown' canceled in New Haven

Howard, Grazer to get NATPE honors in Jan.

Hearty upped at CTW

NBC News ups Wald, Sherwood

Conn. venue shuttering after 'Holiday' ice perf

Jackson hosts ESPN kudocast

Shepherding scribes

Sterling in as prexy at pubhouse Henry Holt

NATO prexy presses troops to eye future

Telemundo deal: Nick in Spanish

Livent sets date for financial redux

UFA pacts with investment partners

USSB boasts subscriber revenue gains in quarter

AT&T, TCI urge FCC to quickly OK merger

Brown crowned

Japan to offer b'cast licenses for HDTV

Italian pic series set Nov. 9-14

India toon house opens

RAI mulls Canal Plus plan

India delays TV CEO choice

Heston writes 'Dear Abby' letter

'Judy' puts 'Edition' to bed in Gotham

Gotham pic crix set Dec. 16 nods

Cine-Groupe, Medialab team for toon pix, TV

New Mouse pagoda

Hewitt adds singing to 'Summer' job

Zales sr. VP of ESPN web unit

Harper in 'Heaven' about Buck

Euro kudocast on Sundance cable

Syndie rulings mixed

New Line seeks 'Truth'

Bridges in ring as 'Barnum'

Van Damme re-enlists for 'Universal II'

Holly, dad collaborate on TV deal

DreamWorks in 'Loud' talks

CBS passes 500-week day lead marker

U eyes tiger tale for Sly

Fox's Series lowest rated

Masterson to topline Wells' first WB series

New P'gram plot

We're all living at the age of innocence

Cronkite to host 'Images'

'Beds' goes bicoastal

Cinesite breaks f/x ground in digitized 'Pleasantville'

Rush to judgment

Baton sees transition year

Banff TV group taps McQueen

Coscient in rights offering

Bobby opens 'Doors'

Indonesia dims for Star

Nova to host science confab

Griffin prod'n arm goes to the Welles

Inside Moves

Canal Plus Poland frees funds

MTV adds sat'lites to its Euro reach

Pole goes digital

Village Road InterCom debuts Hungary plex

'Honeymooners' intro'd by Polsat

Music to their ears

Becker gets $3 mil lifeline

Biz women step out to support Step Up

Kirch commits to DF1 push

Canuck firms link on 'Beastmaster'

Wavelength releases 1st all-digital pic

Mansons, NL ink TV pact

MGM slims down exec ranks

D'Works, U share couch on shrink pic

'Santa' holiday tale under Polson's tree

HBO's 2-min. drill lands NL's 'Boogie'

'Jesse' rates full-season NBC order

KTLA to b'cast Glenn in HDTV

Freeman is NBC's 'Port' authority

Tucci inks to go 'Deep'

New web fare ailing

Players

French kiss 'Zorro'

UPN reshuffles laffers

Posse out for 'Fosse'

AFI has 'Bella' gala

Emily Torchia

'Pleasant' surprise

Young scribes reign supreme

'Arliss' stays alive

Wiatt co-CEO in ICM shuffle; 2 others upped

Warner races to ink sports scribe

E! to hawk biz-related ware thru Internet store

Vini, vidi, Visa at the Carousel Ball

Rogers denied bid

Year of the gentlemen

Peacock feathers fly

Screening features Drew docu

The case of the antsy agents

Albert E. Thomas

'Happiness' infects B.O. in L.A., Gotham

Exec Shuffle

Viennese will stage movie theater sit-in

WB Int'l TV pacts with UFA

'Violin' duet in Montreal

Freeman eyes 'Freedom'

Argentine cablers ink with Cinecana

Shrinking Galaxy

French open 'Files'

Crix pick 'Moon,' 'Laughed'

Euro biz leaders ask EU for foreign quotas

Turner donates time

Clear Channel revs more than double in 3rd qtr.

Mall music merger

Argentina opts for U.S. norm

Parker's the one to veep Reprise in black market

Hearst-Argyle boosts revenues, cash flow

Inside Move

Peacock puts 'Wind' beneath wings

Peacock's nosedive

Online-music player Rio moving forward

Now Sassa's the must-see

Wallace shifting to NBC stations slot

E! sells showbiz online

Studios USA to try 'Free Speech'

Gen. Powell salutes H'w'd for mentoring

MGM posts $40 mil loss on offering eve

Beacon inks for distrib of 2 pix abroad

Troubled trio of pix pushed at fortnight

Viner, Raffin unveil new firm

Sunshine falls on Alpert

Lyonne inks for 'Trickbaby'

'Pleasant' edges out 'Magic'

Van Diem gets 'Game'; admen turn 'Studman'

Clinton salutes dozen with Medal of the Arts

GreenStreet pacts with Kimmel/Karsch

Maher defends Reagan comment

Peacock taps Swanson to lead Olympic charge

Lam gets China CTW post

Jewison to receive Canadian Film Centre's 1st life award

All alone on B'way

Fonda up with cable's 'People'

Debt puts Argentine cable on S&P watch

World Briefs

Cumulus Media reports revenue jumps

Times Square pacts for millennium gala

Exec trio tapped at Artisan

Fox bunts to first with Series

Exec Shuffle

Guests set for 'Docs Rock'

BSkyB soccer bid shy of majority

Univision posts strong 3rd quarter

Traveling money

Unapix moves management

HBO Brazilian boost

Pixar's net profit drops in 3rd qtr.

Top Spanish indies to launch Nirvana

Telefilm Canada topper ankles for political race

Ex-skinhead lauds 'American History X'

Ethnic B'cast, TV France pact

Cablers in India urge passage of b'cast bill

Canal Plus nabs 'Sympatico'

Nat'l Geo taps Kabler for director post

Oscar deadline for foreign pix Monday

Zemeckis gives $5 mil for USC digital center

McEwan nabs Booker prize

NL books Cruise

High-def spat sharpens against MPAA

Cusack set for sitcom

Family begets Boyz, Girlz Channels

DirecTV in game with college package

Nielsen on the Net

Richard H. Berger

Intermedia reigns with 'Company,' 'Mary'

McCurry casts ballot with CNN

The Write Stuff

Sony nabs 'Killers'

Pelletier, Lindner build Swankytown

Miramax in class action legal tussle over overtime

Ovitz kicks off bid for NFL franchise

EchoStar picks up BBC America

U takes 'Mammy' o'seas

CLT-Ufa adds Turckheim pic

UIP's Peregrino tops Latin arena

Chase to build Venezuela plexes

'Ned,' 'God' nab N.Y. festival top pix nods

Furthur taps Levine as VP

Pax family valued

CBS adds 'Mysteries'

Eye net crowns 'Queens,' complies fully with 'Law'

Kimball to exec prod. Kilborn's 'Late Late'

Sentimental fare's fair game for spoof

'Late August' tops Zeitgeist list

Fine Line ups Greenberg

Helmer Pugliese to hear 'Voices'

Gov't honors Cameron for service to Mexico

Brooklyn Acad sets bow sked

UIH to buy top Chilean cabler VTR

'Steel' hits Radio City

'Bosoms' fills out casting

Jimmy Caesar

Jack Haskell

Rolland M. Brooks

Bruce Williamson

Charleye Wright

Marvin P. Gay

American History X

Footloose

Soldier

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous

Aznavour on Broadway

Thirst

Celine Dion

Cracker

Fosse: A Celebration in Song & Dance

Getting Off

CHiPs '99

Return With Honor

Carriers

Talk of Angels

Getting and Spending

Fucking Amal

Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Mamaloshen

Cabaret

Killer Joe

Antony and Cleopatra

Amadeus

Insomnia

Oprah Winfrey Presents: David & Lisa

Talk of Angels

Russian Meat

Only Clouds Move the Stars

Single Action

Fishes in August

The Giraffe

Return with Honor

Amazing Women by the Sea

Trap for a Cat

Beautiful Sunday

Pizza, Booze, Smokes

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

The Penknife

The Herd

Southern Border

It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux

Razor Blade Smile

Watching the Detective

Wasteland

Maiden Work

Richter, the Enigma

Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie

The Outskirts

Julio and His Angel

Imuhar: A Legend

Examining the Life of the Private Investigator in Late 20th-Century America - Where's Marlowe?

True Moments

Fucking Amal

Soldier

Drylongso

Dark Harbor

Today or Never

Three Businessmen

Red, White & Yellow

There's No Fish Food in Heaven

Getting Off

Love from Ground Zero

Cake

Reunited

The Week That Girl Died

The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean

Inferno

Inferno