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Gannett to buy TV stations in Bangor and Portland, Maine Properties to be divested by family-controlled firm
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Gannett Co., the Virginia-based media giant, said yesterday it
plans to acquire WCSH-TV (Ch. 6) in Portland, Maine, and WLBZ-TV (Ch.
2) in Bangor from the Maine Broadcasting System.
The acquisition would effectively end the Maine broadcasting
presence of a family that started its first radio station in 1925 and
has been operating either radio or TV stations in the state ever
since.
The Maine Broadcasting System describes itself as one of the few
family-controlled media companies ...
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Gannett to buy TV stations in Bangor and Portland, Maine Properties to be divested by family-controlled firm
The Boston Globe
; Gannett Co., the Virginia-based media giant, said yesterday it plans to acquire WCSH-TV (Ch. 6) in Portland, Maine, and WLBZ-TV (Ch. 2) in Bangor from the Maine Broadcasting System. The acquisition would effectively end the Maine broadcasting presence of a family that started its first radio
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Local Dominance could drive deals.(Paxson Communications Corp. may sell some TV stations)
Multichannel News
; ... owns or has pieces of several local cable news channels, newspapers and TV stations. And ... station to create a 24-hour local cable news channel, according to Anstrom. In-Las Vegas ... its TV stations, Belo owns Texas Cable News and NorthWest Cable News, and is partnering ...
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FCC punts on carriage of digital TV stations.
Multichannel News
; WASHINGTON - Federal regulators last week postponed for several months a decision on whether cable operators are required to carry the digital signals of TV stations. The Federal Communications Commission sidestepped that issue in adopting rules to give incumbent TV stations free digital TV
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TV stations and wireless cable: a partnership?
Broadcasting & Cable
; In need of marketing and financial help, wireless cable operators are trying to forge partnerships and other alliances with local broadcasters. Discussions are under way in a number of markets. And on behalf of its memebers, Wireless Cable Association plans to court broadcasters at the National
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FCC Is Poised to Liberalize Media Ownership Rules for TV Stations, Newspapers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ... Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 1--The Federal Communications Commission ... newspaper and TV station could not share news or business resources under the commission ... Gannett Co. Inc., The E. W. Scripps Co., and News Corp., which currently own a newspaper ...
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All TV stations to reduce showing Bollywood films
New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 02-20-2001 All TV stations to reduce showing Bollywood films Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: National Kuala Lumpur -- KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - All local television stations have agreed to reduce showing Bollywood films which the National Mufti Council has described as being
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TV stations set accord on hostage coverage
The Boston Globe
; ... the agreement will restrict Boston's six news stations to a single pool camera on the ... positive. Under ideal conditions it will give news organizations, including our own, more ... That sentiment was echoed yesterday by news directors at Boston TV stations. They said ...
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 "The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)")
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STATIONS' CAMPAIGN COVERAGE CALLED LAX; CRITICS SAY THAT LOCAL TV STATIONS ARE "PROFITEERING" ON PRICEY POLITICAL ADS WITHOUT GIVING SUFFICIENT AIR TIME TO ELECTION ISSUES.(GENERAL NEWS)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; ... Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and broadcast-news legend Walter Cronkite. The increased role ... the elections, Triad residents told the News & Record they couldn't wait for the ... campaigns that WXII broadcast in weekend news reports. I'm proud of it, Pulitzer said ...
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New TV stations tightens competition for advertisements. (Industry).(Statistical Data Included)
Indonesian Commercial Newsletter
; ... audience. Entertaiments will make up 70% of its programs and news 30%. For the time being foreign programs are dominated by foreign ... local program to dominate 60% of its programs with main contents news, sports and films. TVRI, the state-owned TV station, will also ...
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20% OF RADIO, TV STATIONS ACCEPTING ADS FOR CONDOMS
The Journal Record
; ... a survey reports. Some TV station owners, however, say they are reluctant to risk offending viewers with the ads and believe news and public programs are a better way to address the AIDS epidemic and teen-age pregnancy. Other stations see such ads as condoning ...
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