MTV Sues Fox Over Executive
Date: 04 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Viacom Inc's MTV Networks is suing News Corp and its Fox Kids Worldwide unit, contending they illegally hired Richard Cronin, senior vice president of MTV; suit also names Cronin, contending he broke his contract with MTV; Fox claims it hired Cronin after MTV terminated his contract early (S)
Full Article
TV Notes; Tight Race for the News
Date: 05 November 1997
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Race between network evening news programs tightens as CBS Evening News gains viewers and ABC's World News Tonight loses them; networks held onto positions at end of sixth official broadcast television season, with NBC-TV first, ABC-TV second and CBS-TV third (S)
Full Article
Woman in the News: Christine Todd Whitman; Just in Time, a Listener
Date: 05 November 1997
By Brett Pulley
Brett Pulley
Woman in the News Column profiles life and career of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman following her narow victory over Democratic opponent James E McGreevey; photo (M)
Full Article
Chung Joins Walters and Sawyer at ABC
Date: 04 November 1997
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
ABC News announces that Connie Chung, formerly of CBS, has signed on as correspondent and substitute anchor (M)
Full Article
How the Polls On Election Day Were Conducted
Date: 05 November 1997
Two Election Day polls were based on questionnaires completed by voters as they left voting stations across New York City and throughout New Jersey; both polls were conducted by Voters News Service (S)
Full Article
Sunday Circulation Decreases At Many Big City Newspapers
Date: 04 November 1997
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Sunday sales of newspapers are dropping at many of biggest Sunday papers; Audit Bureau of Circulations reports five of country's eight biggest papers that publish on Sunday reported declines on weekends; three of them, Washington Post, Daily News and Chicago Tribune, show large losses in six months ended Sept 30; Daily News attributes drop in Sunday readership to price increase in April that it rolled back in September; weekday circulation results for six-month period at biggest papers are also mixed; USA Today reports continued growth in sales of its Monday through Thursday papers; The New York Times reports growth in sales outside New York region that were big enough to offset losses closer to home; The Times gained 22,000 in average Sunday sales outside New York, but net increase is only 6,000 because of declines in sales in metropolitan New York (M)
Full Article
Journal; What, Me Worry?
Date: 04 November 1997
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column describes returning to news beat after four-month leave-of-absence (M)
Full Article
SEALY TO BE SOLD TO MANAGEMENT AND AN INVESTOR GROUP
Date: 04 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sealy Corp says company will be sold to management and an investment group led by Bain Capital; terms of sale not disclosed (S)
Full Article
APPLE IS CUTTING THE NUMBER OF DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTORS
Date: 04 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apple Computer Inc says it is cutting number of its domestic distributors from five to two as of Dec 1 to more effectively manage company's shrinking sales; Ingram Micro Inc and Microage Inc will be remaining distributors of Macintosh computers in US; Techdata Corp, Inacom Corp ad Merisel Inc will sell Macs overseas (S)
Full Article
FIRSTMERIT IN CASH AND STOCK DEAL FOR COBANCORP
Date: 04 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Firstmerit Corp agrees to buy Cobancorp Inc for $157 million in cash and stock (S)
Full Article