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Date: 30 June 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
CNN names Stuart Varney and Willow Bay new co-anchors for Moneyline News Hour, early-evening business news program that Lou Dobbs, who recently resigned, created and anchored for 19 years (S)
Date: 30 June 1999
By David W. Dunlap
David Dunlap
Renovated plaza of General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue will be background for CBS morning news program with Bryant Gumbel that will begin in Nov; Donald J Trump and Conseco Inc bought building for $800 million last year; photo (M)
Date: 30 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pinnacle Holdings Inc, which rents space on communications towers to companies in southeastern US, agrees to buy 1,850 towers from Motorola Inc for $255 million in cash, adding sites across North America (S)
Date: 29 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Staar Surgical Co, Monrovia, Calif, is evaluating $15-a-share cash buyout offer from undisclosed suitor; offer values Staar at $210 million (S)
Date: 30 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commnet Cellular Inc, cellular telephone company, agrees to sell stakes in several Iowa service areas to Midwest Wireless Communications for about $83.3 million in cash; Midwest will also assume $3.4 million Commnet debt; Commnet says its 27 partners are also selling their stakes in territories to Midwest, which provides wireless phone service in Minnesota, in transaction valued at $141 million; other partners will receive stakes in Midwest (S)
Date: 29 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boyd Gaming Corp agrees to buy Blue Chip Casino, riverboat in Michigan City, Ind, for $273.5 million to enter Chicago-area gambling market; Boyd will pay $255 million for riverboat casino and another $28.5 million for hotel and parking garage that is under construction and will be attached to casino complex (S)
Date: 29 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
USA Global Link Inc agrees to acquire CVF Technologies Corp for $100 million in stock; combined company will be called Global Online Inc (S)
Date: 30 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hudson United Bancorp, second-biggest bank in New Jersey, agrees to buy Philadelphia-based Jeffbanks Inc and Southern Jersey Bancorp for total of $425 million in stock; Hudson United will pay about $371 million for Jeffbanks and $54 million for Southern Jersey Bancorp (S)
Date: 29 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A O Smith Corp, Milwaukee, to buy Magnetek Inc's electric motors unit for $250 million (S)
Date: 29 June 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Energy Department reports average gasoline prices at pump fell 1.1 cents last week, to $1.113 for gallon of regular, self-service gasoline (S)
Date: 12 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Avondale Industries will start talks with Litton Industries, which made last bid that topped Newport News Shipbuilding Inc's offer; Avondale says Litton's $504 million cash offer could lead to proposal that is superior to its merger agreement with Newport News (S)
Date: 06 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Corp says third-quarter profit fell 47 percent, to $168 million, compared with $319 million in year-earlier quarter; net income was $97 million; revenue fell 3.8 percent, to $3.1 billion from $3.22 billion (S)
Date: 06 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rival television networks NBC and Fox are teaming up with National Geographic Ventures to expand National Geographic Channel to US; Fox, subsidiary of News Corp, will own 50 percent of channel's operations worldwide, except for areas covered by National Geographic UK; General Electric's NBC and National Geographic will each own 25 percent; financial terms undisclosed (S)
Date: 07 June 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
On-line coverage of war in Yugoslavia gives evidence of a convergence in what is offered by newspapers and television networks; newspaper sites, which are heavy with wire service dispatches, are building up their on-line staffs and taking a more multimedia approach; television sites, in turn, are trying to add the depth that is newspapers' stock in trade, featuring full packages with graphics, maps and extensive background material; wire services appear best able to adapt to instantaneousness of the Web and its 24-hour cycle; photo; table (M)
Date: 31 May 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC News is revealed to have paid friend of Columbine High School killer $16,000 for exclusive broadcast rights to home videos and other materials; ABC's Good Morning America then presented what it called exclusive interview with Nathan Dykeman without disclosing on air that Dykeman had been paid; photo; network insists payment and interview were not connected, but critics raise strong ethics issues, since paying subjects could encourage embellishment of stories; 18-year-old Dykeman was widely sought for interviews about his friendship with Dylan Klebold, and previously got $10,000 from The National Enquirer; media's pursuit of other students and parents in Littleton, Colo, recounted (M)
Date: 28 May 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Decision by board that governs Nasdaq stock market to add evening trading session puts new pressure on newspapers, wire services and television networks already competing to get latest market information to their readers and viewers; yet Nasdaq's plan to continue using traditional 4 PM closing for day's prices could make potential production headaches for newspapers less severe than they had feared; they had faced prospect of having to update stock listings after 10 PM to reflect late trading (M)
Date: 21 May 1999
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller
Public Lives profile of WNBC-TV news dir Paula Walker Madison notes that she is one of few black female news directors in US; says she has become 'pulse' of WNBC's 11 PM news broadcast, top-rated news program in nation's No 1 market; photo (M)
Date: 09 June 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Lou Dobbs is leaving as Cable News Network executive vice president and anchor of financial news show Moneyline to start own Web site, Space.com; was in charge of all of CNN's financial news coverage and president of financial news cable channel CNNfn; his show is CNN's most lucrative in terms of advertising revenue; Space.com will offer news, educational and fictional entertainment content about space, including science and business content; Venrock Associates reportedly will be venture's primary investor; CNN names Jeff Gralnick and David Bohrman to replace Dobbs on interim basis; photo (M)
Date: 07 June 1999
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC News establishes rule that programs that pay nonnews sources for materials like videos and photographs must disclose financial arrangements; acts in response to New York Times report that ABC paid a teen-ager associated with the gunmen in shooting at Columbine High School $16,000 for a home video and other materials; used materials along with an interview with the teen-ager, Nathan Dykeman, on the morning news program Good Morning America; photo (M)
Date: 10 June 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Lou Dobbs, after resigning from CNN, says he does not plan to jump to rival television network; Rich Zahradnik, key CNN executive, is leaving with Dobbs to join his Space.com as president (M)