Anchor's Pay Package May Change Standards
Date: 20 December 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
News of Katie Couric's huge new salary is met with proclamations from some agents that it will set new pay standards for television news industry at large; but news execs trying to shave costs in dry advertising climate say they generally would--and probably could--hold the line; reported yearly salary of $15 million to $16 million for Couric--co-anchor of NBC's Today Show--seems to give her top salary in television news; some agents for other television news anchors say they plan to using salary to their advantage in coming months; some other television anchors' salaries noted (M)
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World Business Briefing | Asia: China: TV Rights Granted
Date: 20 December 2001
By Craig S. Smith (NYT)
Craig Smith
Star TV unit of News Corp is granted rights for new Chinese-language entertainment channel in small area of Guangdong Province (S)
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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Terror Fears Vs. Free Speech
Date: 21 December 2001
By Michael Wines (NYT)
Michael NYT
Lower house of Russian parliament overwhelmingly endorses amendments that would bar news media and compute networks from 'popularizing or justifying terrorism and extremism' (S)
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Media Moguls Over Munich
Date: 21 December 2001
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch and Liberty Media's John C Malone attempt to gain partial or complete control over Munich-based Kirch Group, which owns significant portion of all commercial German television programming and is in difficult financial position; photos (M)
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3,241 Breakfasts Down, None to Go
Date: 21 December 2001
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Godfrey Sperling Jr, columnist for Christian Science Monitor, presides at breakfast at St Regis Hotel in Washington at which Sen Tom Daschle answers questions from some 60 newspaper reporters, the 3,241st such gathering for journalists and newsmakers that Sperling has assembled since 1966, and the last; recalls remarks at breakfasts past that made big news; photo (M)
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3 Photographers in Tora Bora Are Detained by Afghan Fighters
Date: 21 December 2001
By Barry Bearak
Barry Bearak
Three photojounalists--David Guttenfelder of Associated Press and Tyler Hicks and Joao Silva of New York Times--are detained by Afghan tribal fighters at behest of American special forces because they had taken pictures of American troops; memory cards for digital cameras are confiscated (M)
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Saudis Assail 'Media Blitz' Against Them In the West
Date: 21 December 2001
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
Saudi Arabian defense minister Prince Sultan and ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar bin Sultan denounce what they call unfair and biased Western news coverage; they say media portrays Saudi Arabia as teaching hatred of non-Muslims in its schools and of being supportive of Osama bin Laden; Prince Bandar, in interview on CNBC, says Saudis condemn Sept 11 attacks and consider bin Laden and his followers evil, but Western media refuse to convey this in their coverage (M)
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DANAHER IS PAYING $325 MILLION FOR MARCONI BUSINESS
Date: 21 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Danaher Corp agrees to buy Marconi PLC's Commerce Systems division for $325 million to expand sales of environmental-testing products and services (S)
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VALERO ENERGY GETS CLEARANCE FOR ULTRAMAR PURCHASE
Date: 20 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Valero Energy Corp has its $5.3 billion acquisition by Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Cop cleared by FTC (S)
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JDS UNIPHASE TO BUY I.B.M. TRANSCEIVER UNIT
Date: 20 December 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
JDS Uniphase Corp agrees to buy optical-transceiver unit of IBM for as much as $425 million; IBM will receive $240 million in JDS stock and $100 million cash for business (S)
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