Table of Contents
Week of 12/24/1999

Articles

CanalSatellite may top 1.4 million

 

Murdoch flips stake

 

UCI unveils its first multiplex in Italy

 

'Coronation' helps crown ITV holiday ratings winner

 

'Millionaire' creator, helmer get 'Dirty'

 

Celebs support BBC funding

 

Oz meteor shower

 

Salter Street will buy back shares

 

Six hurt in storms at Disneyland Paris

 

World Briefs

 

SkyPerfecTV to list shares, double capital

 

Inside move

 

Santa's staying up

 

Viola tapped for PS NBC

 

Big Entertainment becomes H'wood.com

 

Col TriStar climbs Andes for new pact

 

Judge Judy holds high court in Oz

 

Gallic anni bash honors Miz Melly

 

Comcast buys out op for $750 mil

 

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

 

Nat'l Geo scores for NBC

 

'Fortune' ups helmer Corwin

 

ESPN getting iced on hockeycasts

 

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

 

'Anna' still Thai'd up by Siam censors

 

Grimaldi files 'Gangs' suit over credits

 

First and goal for 'Sunday'

 

Brooklyn Acad will fete Weill in spring season

 

R&B star Curtis Mayfield dies at age 57

 

Norman E. Rothstein

 

Exec Shuffle

 

A welcome 'Irony'

 

Oz justice throws out suit

 

Nine loses exclusive for New Year's Eve

 

Digital doldrums

 

American players eye German cabler

 

CNBC will ring in 2000 with first int'l trades

 

Fox Sports Oz taps Malone

 

Rex Allen

 

Xmas cuts into coffers

 

Goodspeed gets $2 mil for new site

 

Bravo taps prod'n, programming exex

 

Six webs join in hoopcast

 

Hoops droops at NBC

 

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

 

TV pioneer, ABC chair Goldenson dead at 94

 

'Sunday' big, but weekend slow anyway

 

Cablers' ratings lose zip in '99

 

'Lambs' in a stew

 

20th TV sets up 'Attorney'

 

Niemi tapped veep of music biz at Peacock

 

Sanchez tapped news anchor at UPN 13

 

All about 'Mother'

 

News Corp. names Fite info chief

 

ABC will hit rivals with 'Million'-athon

 

Tolins, Hutton plays now just a 'Memory'

 

Stanley Meyer

 

Financial Briefs

 

Eyes on the prize

 

Branson may seek Millennium Dome

 

Italians flock to 'Jesus' mini

 

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

 

Fox Kids 'Psycho' for toon

 

Pax's 'Live' for Y2K DOA

 

Fuller ducks Interview

 

Carlton sells Solid State arm

 

Pilowsky tapped by UIP

 

Eye to reward loyal viewers

 

TV's Lone Ranger Moore dies at 85

 

Network TV 101

 

News good for NBC in '99

 

Record ticket prices fuel concert grosses

 

News Corp. finds Time for a deal

 

Grappling with gains

 

KABC tops primetime, local news

 

Board bans 'Anna' as insult to Thailand

 

Nadjari revisits super-8

 

Sony taps Brown participation VP

 

Cablevision's Dolan Jets' high bidder

 

'Maury' moving to WPIX

 

Arnold rules foreign B.O.

 

Italy bows list of New Year's honorees

 

Clinton speaking to kids on Nick New Year's spec

 

IBM reups with Grammy

 

AMC ringing in 2000 with Stooges shorts

 

Daniel Angel

 

Runaway success

 

Kushner-Locke finds profit in its Search

 

Village inks cinema deal

 

Sony taps Brown veep

 

'Now, Voyager' helmer Rapper dead at 101

 

DVD org files suit

 

Murdoch aide tapped by Tories

 

World cinema is still waiting to say Bravo

 

Fox cancels tiny 'Ally' experiment

 

Catholic org blasts NBC

 

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

 

Inside Move

 

Nixed show irks global b'casters

 

CBS, Viacom stockholders just say 'yes'

 

A toast to showbiz

 

Microsoft set to sponsor pitch session at NATPE

 

Break a leg, 2000!

 

John Carter

 

Peter Jeffrey

 

Andy Wiswell

 

Ted Zeigler

 

Kenny Baker

 

Robert Wagenhoffer

 

Sandy Prudden

 

Fred Ford

 

Reviews

Macy Gray

Kendra Shank

Season's Beatings

Nickellennium

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

Jolson & Co.

One 4 All

Herod's Law

Much Ado About Everything

Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Stories


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