'Coronation' helps crown ITV holiday ratings winner

Celebs support BBC funding

Inside move

Santa's staying up

Big Entertainment becomes H'wood.com

Comcast buys out op for $750 mil

Lane coming to 'Dinner' in Roundabout's new digs

2,000 and pun: Pre-H'wood news, Variety-style

'Anna' still Thai'd up by Siam censors

UCI unveils its first multiplex in Italy

Salter Street will buy back shares

Six hurt in storms at Disneyland Paris

Judge Judy holds high court in Oz

Nat'l Geo scores for NBC

ESPN getting iced on hockeycasts

First and goal for 'Sunday'

CanalSatellite may top 1.4 million

Murdoch flips stake

'Millionaire' creator, helmer get 'Dirty'

Oz meteor shower

SkyPerfecTV to list shares, double capital

Viola tapped for PS NBC

Col TriStar climbs Andes for new pact

Brooklyn Acad will fete Weill in spring season

Norman E. Rothstein

World Briefs

Gallic anni bash honors Miz Melly

'Fortune' ups helmer Corwin

Grimaldi files 'Gangs' suit over credits

R&B star Curtis Mayfield dies at age 57

Exec Shuffle

Oz justice throws out suit

Digital doldrums

Xmas cuts into coffers

Hoops droops at NBC

CNN/Warner will rush video of Y2K's dawn onto shelves

'Sunday' big, but weekend slow anyway

ABC will hit rivals with 'Million'-athon

Tolins, Hutton plays now just a 'Memory'

Nine loses exclusive for New Year's Eve

Fox Sports Oz taps Malone

Rex Allen

'Lambs' in a stew

Sanchez tapped news anchor at UPN 13

All about 'Mother'

Bravo taps prod'n, programming exex

Cablers' ratings lose zip in '99

20th TV sets up 'Attorney'

Niemi tapped veep of music biz at Peacock

News Corp. names Fite info chief

Stanley Meyer

A welcome 'Irony'

American players eye German cabler

CNBC will ring in 2000 with first int'l trades

Goodspeed gets $2 mil for new site

Six webs join in hoopcast

TV pioneer, ABC chair Goldenson dead at 94

Financial Briefs

Grappling with gains

KABC tops primetime, local news

Cablevision's Dolan Jets' high bidder

Arnold rules foreign B.O.

Fuller ducks Interview

TV's Lone Ranger Moore dies at 85

Nadjari revisits super-8

Sony taps Brown participation VP

'Maury' moving to WPIX

Branson may seek Millennium Dome

Italians flock to 'Jesus' mini

Fox Kids 'Psycho' for toon

Pax's 'Live' for Y2K DOA

Carlton sells Solid State arm

Network TV 101

Record ticket prices fuel concert grosses

News Corp. finds Time for a deal

Eyes on the prize

U.S. vid rights resolution for 'Decalogue' distrib'n

Pilowsky tapped by UIP

Eye to reward loyal viewers

News good for NBC in '99

Board bans 'Anna' as insult to Thailand

Italy bows list of New Year's honorees

Catholic org blasts NBC

CBS, Viacom stockholders just say 'yes'

Microsoft set to sponsor pitch session at NATPE

Ted Zeigler

Robert Wagenhoffer

Fred Ford

Clinton speaking to kids on Nick New Year's spec

AMC ringing in 2000 with Stooges shorts

Daniel Angel

Village inks cinema deal

World cinema is still waiting to say Bravo

Fox cancels tiny 'Ally' experiment

Nixed show irks global b'casters

Break a leg, 2000!

Peter Jeffrey

Sandy Prudden

IBM reups with Grammy

Runaway success

Kushner-Locke finds profit in its Search

DVD org files suit

Murdoch aide tapped by Tories

A toast to showbiz

Kenny Baker

Sony taps Brown veep

'Now, Voyager' helmer Rapper dead at 101

BVT finalizes prod'n team for talk cooker 'Harriott'

Inside Move

John Carter

Andy Wiswell

Macy Gray

Kendra Shank

Nickellennium

Bud Greenspan's Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing

Jolson & Co.

Season's Beatings

One 4 All

Herod's Law

Much Ado About Everything

Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Stories