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26th of April 1993 News
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A News Niche Grows in New England
Date: 26 April 1993
By Glenn Rifkin
Glenn Rifkin
When The Associated Press gave its annual broadcasters' awards earlier this month, the Boston television market got a surprise. Beating out the three local network affiliates for best newscast was New England Cable News, which had been on the air less than a year. For New England Cable News, a 24-hour-a-day news and talk-show service modeled after Cable News Network, the award was affirmation that the 100-person news operation it had built from scratch in this Boston suburb was sound. Now the network, a $10 million joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and Continental Cablevision, faces a tougher task: getting people to tune in. A Plethora of Options To an audience already crammed with network and local news offerings, newspapers and countless newsmagazines, and even CNN itself, why add regional CNN?
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Investigation Into Press Leaks Begins in Trade Center Blast
Date: 27 April 1993
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
Federal officials began an inquiry yesterday to identify the unnamed law-enforcement officials who provided information for an article in The New York Times on the World Trade Center bombing in the face of a Federal judge's order barring prosecutors and the defense from discussing the case with news organizations. Several law-enforcement officials were questioned, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Shanghai Journal; Chinese Find Their Voice: A Radio Call-In Show
Date: 26 April 1993
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
The managers of the Caoxi Vegetable Market knew that city health officials would never notice if they dumped garbage on the ground. But they hadn't figured on talk radio. "The garbage is strewn about, attracting rats," sputtered a caller whose remarks were broadcast live over Radio Orient in Shanghai, the hottest station in the country. "It's ugly. And it's unsanitary. Imagine! Rats right next to food stalls!"
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Newspapers Redefining Themselves
Date: 26 April 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
The publishers of the nation's major newspapers are meeting here today and this is some of what they are talking about: selling advertising in telephone books and using new technology to supply soap opera updates. Many publishers have found that they cannot make as much money as they were accustomed to making the old-fashioned way, so across the country they are entering businesses that are sometimes so far from the traditional that they barely involve news -- or even, for that matter, paper.
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President Asks for Time and a Little Tenderness
Date: 26 April 1993
By Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill
Offering an edgy accounting of his first 100 days in office, President Clinton told newspaper executives meeting here today that he has been judged too early and too harshly by his partisan opponents and by the press. "When people say to me, 'Well, what did you do in your first 100 days?' -- well, what did the other guys do in their first 100 days?" Mr. Clinton said in a rambling, largely unscripted speech in which he offered a belated but vigorous defense of the economic bill that Congress blocked last week.
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BRITISH AIRWAYS TO ADD CONVERTIBLE STOCK OF USAIR
Date: 27 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
British Airways P.L.C. said yesterday that it was exercising rights to buy $86.3 million of USAir Group Inc.'s series T convertible preferred stock to preserve its 24.6 percent stake in the United States airline. In a statement, British Airways said the move was in response to USAir's proposals earlier this month to sell 10 million new common shares. The rights to purchase the convertible shares are part of the Jan. 21 alliance between the two airlines, when the British airline paid $300 million to buy 19.9 percent of USAir's voting stock. The series T stock is convertible into 3.27 million common shares at a rate of $26.40 a share.
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IVAX TO ACQUIRE TWO PLANTS FROM ELF ATOCHEM
Date: 27 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Ivax Corporation, based in Miami, said yesterday that it had signed an agreement with Elf Atochem North America Inc. to acquire two manufacturing plants and other assets for $58 million in cash and stock. Ivax's specialty chemicals unit, Ivax Industries, will absorb the assets and become a separate public company, Ivax said.
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Mergers Show Decline of 22%
Date: 27 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The value of mergers and acquisitions, a sluggish sector since 1989, declined 22 percent in the first quarter from the period a year earlier, according to Merrill Lynch & Company. The value of mergers announced in the first quarter dropped to $18.1 billion from $23.1 billion, according to Merrill Lynch Business Brokerage and Valuation. The number of transactions fell 2 percent, to 569 from 581.
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Comptronix Case Is Settled
Date: 26 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A group of Comptronix Corp. shareholders settled a lawsuit against the scandal-tinged company's former auditor and three regional investment banking concerns for $10.5 million. KPMG Peat Marwick, Comptronix's former accountants, and the Robinson-Humphrey Company, Stephens Inc., and Morgan Keegan & Company admitted no wrongdoing in settling the charges.
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COMPANY NEWS
Date: 27 April 1993
EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rochester, has completed the acquisition of Vortech Data Inc. of Richardson, Tex. Terms were not disclosed. SPHINX NATURAL RESOURCES INC., Fort Smith, Ark., said it was acquiring 40 percent of Malvy Technology of Paris for $13 million.
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