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Al-Jazeera, All the Time With the only broadcast news bureau in Afghanistan and exclusive footage of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, the Al Jazeera network has heightened its presence on global satellite systems. But criticism from the Colin Powells of the world that the network can be a soapbox for extremists may slow its much-needed revenue growth. By Andrea Figler, Cable World 10/15/2001 10:48:54 AM At Cost-Cutting 20th Century Fox, Assistants, Temps and Interns Suffer Most The way to balance the books at the News Corp. subsidiary it turns out, is by ending overtime for the lowest-paid workers and using interns instead of temps. Higher up the ladder, execs were reportedly told to ‘limit themselves.’ By Elizabeth Hackett 10/15/2001 1:05:00 AM How Would Cosell Put It? Lately, Monday Night Football’s Schedule Is Lugubrious The games haven’t been very good, either -- and that is testing one of the most consistent franchises in prime time. Tonight’s Cowboys-Redskins matchup features two 0-4 teams -- a first in 32 years of ABC broadcasts. By Warren Cohen 10/15/2001 12:44:39 AM She Makes What??? The Incredible, Variable Publishing Salary Survey Never known for its high salaries or its willingness to talk about same, the publishing industry still pays less than other entertainment businesses. And ranges from house to house still very much apply -- with Random House apparently among the most generous. An Inside analysis. By The Inside Staff 10/15/2001 12:30:12 AM BOX-OFFICE REPORT: Denzel’s Training Day Holds Off Bruce’s Bandits Not very much separates last week’s No. 1 film, which is estimated to have taken in $13.55 million, and Willis’s new movie, which grossed $13.46 million. Total revenues for the top 10 are up from the same period last year and the year before, despite a preoccupied public. By Gitesh Pandya 10/14/2001 7:38:54 PM 26 NY Times Staffers Tested for Anthrax as a Precaution, Including Top Editors Initial results come back negative, but Cipro is handed out just in case. This evening, executive editor Raines -- one of the 26 -- calls staff together and promises full disclosure. By Seth Mnookin 10/12/2001 8:16:06 PM You've Got No Mail: Hollywood Studios React to New York Anthrax Scare Paramount, Disney, Sony and Warner Bros. were among the companies whose mailrooms were holding letters and packages Friday; source says, "If they are waiting for a check or a contract or something like that, it could be a problem." UPDATE By David Robb 10/12/2001 5:59:00 PM CRITICAL REACTION: Bandits Has Identity Crisis; Corky Romano Declared Historically Sucky Also: Awesome action -- but only awesome action –- in Iron Monkey, a Crouching Tiger wanna-be. By Stephen Totilo 10/12/2001 5:31:49 PM NBC Employee Tests Positive for Skin Anthrax -- Suspicious Letter Leads to Times Building's Closing Woman affected is assistant to Tom Brokaw who was opening his mail -- is expected to recover fully. Times reporter Judith Miller received threatening letter with white powder. Fox News also received letter with powder. UPDATE By Steve Battaglio 10/12/2001 12:14:55 PM World Wrestling Federation, Relative Pussycats After Sept. 11, Still Lets It Bleed -- For Ratings? Although the company has softened incendiary program names and donated to the World Trade Center relief effort, more blood has splattered the screen recently than even the most hard-core fans can remember. By T.L. Stanley 10/12/2001 11:12:09 AM RATINGS REPORT: Survivor 3 Premiere Down But Still Competitive With NBC's Comedies Overnight results show CBS holding down its losses despite prime time's current rough reality climate and the disruption of a presidential press conference. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/12/2001 11:11:03 AM RETAIL ROUNDUP: Jackie Reminds Oprah Who's the Fairest 'O' of All Winfrey's book club boosts The Corrections to No. 1, but the favorite poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- and a flotilla of other Jackie titles -- steal the show. By Kori Anderson 10/12/2001 10:02:28 AM WEB RATINGS: In Frantic Hunt for News, Readers Peruse the Foreign Papers Web sites for The Times of London and the Guardian -- as well as Pakistani paper The Dawn -- have recorded spikes in the number of U.S. visitors. The BBC has been among the biggest gainers. By Rafat Ali 10/11/2001 7:34:07 PM Playboy Rethinks Its Web Strategy and Lays Off 90 Employees Cuts represent 13 percent of the total staff -- online subsidiary takes the biggest hit. In an interview, CEO Christie Hefner says she is still bullish on the Internet. By Greg Lindsay 10/11/2001 7:19:05 PM Finding Richard Jewell to Be a Public Figure, Georgia Court Sides With Newspaper In libel suit against the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, appellate panel says former security guard should be considered as the well-known person he became after the Atlanta Olympics bombing. In the process, his case became a lot harder to prove. By Joseph Gomes 10/11/2001 6:21:40 PM Fox Cable to Employees: We’re Not Paying for Parties, Lunch or The Journal Sharp memo from CEO Jeff Shell lays out strict cost-cutting measures and warns 'there will invariably be certain examples made, please don't be one of them.' By Will Lee, Cable World 10/11/2001 5:07:19 PM BOX OFFICE PREVIEW: Billy Bob Bank Robber -- and Another SNL Auteur Thornton and Willis's Bandits, Kattan's Corky Romano and dusty martial arts target Training Day. By Gitesh Pandya 10/11/2001 4:19:19 PM Ziff Davis Media Closes Its Hard-Hit Magazine, Expedia Travels Being at the nexus of the Internet and travel is not a good place to be at the end of 2001. Decision is first by new CEO, Robert Callahan. EXCLUSIVE By Mark Miller, Folio: First Day 10/11/2001 2:37:54 PM Lynne Cheney, VP's Wife, to Write Patriotic Children's Book for S&S Proceeds from America: A Patriotic Primer will be donated to disaster relief funds. Kids will be guided through American history letter-by-letter. By PJ Mark 10/11/2001 2:12:24 PM In $2.7 Billion Deal, NBC Learns to Speak Spanish Network acquires Telemundo Communications Group, betting big on the fast-growing Hispanic market. Should calm speculation that it is being shopped around by parent GE. Or maybe not. By Kenneth Li 10/11/2001 1:45:20 PM RATINGS REPORT: Viewers Elect NBC Wednesday But ABC's Jim Hangs In NBC's White House drama helps dominate the night. ABC's new Jim Belushi comedy cools but still builds on its Wife & Kids lead-in. By Tom Bierbaum 10/11/2001 1:03:30 PM Usually Overrun by Hype, Frankfurt Book Fair Is Subdued and Supportive 'Emotions are coming to the surface, meetings are more personal,' says one publisher. This connection hasn't made American-focused books any more palatable. However, Talk Miramax sells Italian rights to Giuliani's books. By Sara Nelson 10/11/2001 12:01:01 PM Cable Ad Spending Slowdown May Have Hit Bottom But networks have added commercial inventory to make up for softness in pricing. By Carol Krol, Media Buyer's Daily 10/11/2001 11:47:05 AM NEW SALES: Sign a Gentleman Bandit, Then Off to the Fair It's Frankfurt time, where it's either business as usual or eerily different --depending on whom you ask. By Hanya Yanagihara 10/11/2001 8:47:45 AM White House Appeals to TV Networks to Curb Broadcasts of Bin Laden Statements 'At best, Osama bin Laden's message is propaganda, calling on people to kill Americans. At worst, he could be issuing orders to his followers to initiate such attacks,' says spokesman Ari Fleischer. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice holds conference call with news outlets and is promised co-operation. By Reuters 10/10/2001 4:18:30 PM At 17, Nick McDonell Is the Talk of Frankfurt Grove Atlantic signs up a novel from the high school student (and son of Us editor Terry McDonell). 'I met Bret Easton Ellis when he was 19 or 20,' says publisher Morgan Entrekin. 'This work is as interesting, as assured.' By Sara Nelson 10/10/2001 2:49:15 PM RATINGS REPORT: ABC's Tuesday Comedy Meltdown Continues ABC hits a record low as Bob Patterson gets battered again, as CBS wins the night in households and challenges in adults 18-49. Meanwhile, the WB's Gilmore Girls launches its second season with record results. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/10/2001 12:44:05 PM Newspaper Metro Staffs Man the Grief Beat In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the Times commits to running a full page of human-interest casualty sketches until every victim whose family wants a memorial has been covered. How the reporters are coping. By Seth Mnookin 10/10/2001 12:20:23 PM National Book Award Finalists Include Franzen, Solomon, Erdrich List, which will be announced later today, has some omissions including Seabiscuit and Fast Food Nation By PJ Mark 10/10/2001 12:16:39 PM The Mother of All Film Festivals: AFI, L.A. Fest, and American Cinematheque May Merge To compete in stature with Sundance and Cannes, Los Angeles film institutions are eyeing a three's-company partnership. By Andrew Hindes 10/10/2001 10:30:53 AM Further Media Consolidation, Once Likely, Now Seems Inevitable The events of Sept. 11 have become a handy argument for lifting the few restrictions on cross-ownership and caps on shares of marketplace. But, truthfully, the government was heading there anyway. Inside handicaps the deals that companies are itching to make. By Kenneth Li 10/10/2001 8:43:55 AM Company Enlists Specialists to Help Celebrities Get Their Dotcoms Back It's too late for Hilary Swank -- whose domain name is used for a porn site -- but start-up that built and managed high-profile Web sites is trying to avoid having others lose their online identities. UPDATE By David Robb 10/9/2001 7:10:24 PM Extending Tasini's Scope, High Court Backs Freelancers Against National Geographic Justices let stand an appeals court ruling that said the organization needed to obtain new copyrights before including photographs in a CD-ROM collection. In June, they did the same for writers suing over electronic databases. By Joseph Gomes 10/9/2001 6:16:59 PM Summer Box Office Will Be Seeing Starz The pay TV service ended up with the bulk of this past season's theatrical winners. But HBO landed the biggest prize with Dream Works' Shrek. By Deanna Myers, Pay TV Newsletter 10/9/2001 5:14:46 PM Al-Jazeera, In-Demand Arab TV Network, Has an In-Demand Web Site, Too The newly launched AlJazeera.net has been overwhelmed by traffic in recent days -- 40 percent from the U.S., it says -- as a source with unparalleled video access to Bin Laden and the Taliban. 'We are getting a lot of requests for an English language service and we are planning for it,' says site's general manager. By Rafat Ali 10/9/2001 4:03:48 PM RATINGS REPORT: NBC's Crossing Jordan Loses A Few More Bodies The new coroner drama with Jill Hennessey drops for the second straight week. Meanwhile, CBS comedies dominate 8-9:30 p.m. as NBC's Link Weakens. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/9/2001 12:53:52 PM Military Thriller Designated Survivor Is Dead -- Again Angry phone calls prompt Warner Bros. to flip-flop on script about attempted government overthrow -- starring a plane attack on Washington. By Elizabeth Hackett 10/9/2001 9:36:05 AM Limbaugh Tells Audience: 'I Am, for All Practical Purposes, Deaf' News comes after conservative talk-radio host signs $250 million contract and listeners begin noticing that his voice had changed. Vows to continue with show; distributor says it is 'committed' to airing him through 2009. By Seth Mnookin 10/8/2001 6:04:14 PM Danny, We Hardly Knew Ye The CBS Friday sitcom is the first new series of the 2001-02 season to get the axe. But failure on the night could be contagious. By Stephen Battaglio 10/8/2001 5:08:56 PM Even Before Sept. 11, Ad Sales Were Headed Down at Major Newspaper Chains The New York Times Company was off the most in August compared to a year ago, but others also posted double-digit percentage declines. A chart shows the results, category by category. By Seth Mnookin 10/8/2001 4:16:22 PM Not All U.S. Telecasts Wrapped in Stars and Stripes Overseas cable channels carried in the United States offer pointedly different perspective on the events of September 11 and their wartime aftermath. By Andrea Figler, Cable World 10/8/2001 4:06:46 PM RATINGS PROJECTION: NBC's Dominance Grows in Week Two of the New Season Friends and West Wing deliver the network's easiest in-season win in nearly two years. By Tom Bierbaum 10/8/2001 2:51:48 PM BUZZ BOOKS: Suddenly, Mideast Political Science Sells Like Potter As publishers rush to sign up works on Bin Laden, terrorism and the Taliban, a few titles have the market locked up. A biography on Bin Laden and David Halberstam's War in the Time of Peace had strong sales last week. By PJ Mark 10/8/2001 1:40:56 PM Ads for Violent Video Games Still Plentiful After Attacks Despite a brief dropoff -- and some tweaking of content -- advertising in gaming magazines remains strong, as publishers and manufacturers expect the best holiday season in five years. One strategy: Imagining violent themes as "anti-terrorist." By Greg Lindsay 10/8/2001 11:34:07 AM RATINGS REPORT: Reba and the WB Hit a Friday-Night High Note The WB's new show premieres perform nicely -- but other network rookies are already in trouble. By Tom Bierbaum 10/8/2001 9:46:49 AM Film Festivals Pay Per View Distributors, claiming festival screenings limit an art film's commercial potential in smaller markets, ask the rarefied events to pony up for the product. By Stephen Totilo 10/8/2001 8:47:28 AM Networks Ignore CNN Embargo on Middle East News Channel's Footage of Attacks On Afghanistan CNN was supposed to have a six-hour jump on Al-Jazeera's images of U.S. and British air strikes -- but ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox picked them up immediately. Meanwhile, TV continues to wait for the Emmy Awards. UPDATE By Stephen Battaglio 10/8/2001 12:19:33 AM BOX OFFICE REPORT: Training Day Delivers More Denzel Glory Acclaimed cop drama scores $24.2 million over weekend, the biggest opening of Washington's career and the second largest October debut ever; picture leads collective box office to a Columbus Day record. UPDATE By Gitesh Pandya 10/6/2001 5:57:14 PM It's the Battle of 'I Was Buddies With JFK Jr.' Tell-All Books Richard Blow, whose book was just picked up by Henry Holt, once had the genre to himself, but now Kevin Hynes is shopping around a proposal complete with ticket stubs to basketball games and letters. Blow must deal with confidentiality agreement as a former employee of John Jr.; Hynes was 'just' a friend. By Sara Nelson 10/5/2001 5:02:28 PM Crisis Coverage Escalates to a Crawl How the streaming banner at the bottom of your TV screen -- a "crawl," in industry parlance -- became one of the networks' crucial and ubiquitous tools after September 11. By Warren Cohen 10/5/2001 2:30:24 PM CRITICAL REACTION: WB's Maybe It's Me A Malcolm-To-Be But the network's other sitcoms Raising Dad and Reba won't keep anyone home on Friday night. By Jesse Oxfeld 10/5/2001 1:04:26 PM RATINGS REPORT: Viewers Have Got To Have Friends While Thursday's newcomers struggled and returning shows cooled from last week's premiere levels, NBC's Friends continues to enjoy a season-eight renaissance. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/5/2001 12:35:47 PM CRITICAL REACTION: Consensus Is Denzel Is Oscar-Caliber; Film's Not Bad Either In addition to Training Day, Joy Ride gets strong reviews among the crop opening today. Romantic comedy Serendipity is found to be, in a word, cloying. By Stephen Totilo 10/5/2001 12:26:19 PM Newsweek's Whitaker Now Sees Chance to 'Get People's Attention' on Foreign Affairs In a sit-down with Inside, editor says where he was when he heard the news, and details the commitment he received from the suits not to stint on coverage. Says he finds satisfaction in helping 'our readers sort out the larger issues and figure out how to think about it.' By Seth Mnookin 10/5/2001 12:01:46 PM Salary Survey: Cracking the Code of the Agent Paycheck In Hollywood, for every agent making $500,000, you'll find three taking home less than $50,000. Compensation varies widely from firm to firm, with Byzantine (and highly mysterious) formulas. As Inside names agencies and numbers in a handy chart, remember: no one ever said life was fair. By Elizabeth Hackett 10/5/2001 12:39:37 AM WEB RATINGS: Big Traffic on Movie Sites Is Summed Up in Three Names -- Harry, Frodo and Luke Studios' Internet strategies tend to be quite modest, typically less than 1 percent of the advertising budget. But certain key franchises -- Harry Potter, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings -- are able to tap into a rabid following. The Potter Web site was drawing big numbers a year before the release date. By Rafat Ali 10/5/2001 12:33:38 AM NEW SALES: Even More Sept. 11 Books and, Somehow, a Few Unrelated Titles Business is slowly stabilizing, with publishers buying books that have nothing to do with terrorism, the World Trade Center, or a changed world. By Hanya Yanagihara 10/5/2001 12:29:59 AM CRITICAL REACTION: Nice Try, But No Cigar For Sorkin's Special West Wing The super-hyped episode daringly brought terrorism into the Bartlet White House, but it came with a soapbox. By Lara Cohen 10/4/2001 5:40:15 PM Actors and Agents Remain Deadlocked Despite Legistlative Hearings California labor commissioner's legal counsel tells Inside that agencies' proposal doesn't go far enough in protecting actors against potential conflicts of interest. Little is expected to happen until November SAG elections. By David Robb 10/4/2001 5:13:07 PM RETAIL ROUNDUP: Oprah Gets Her Hands on The Corrections The fat and quirky novel exceeds even its publisher's wildest expectations. And in nonfiction, empowerment outmuscles Jabez. By Kori Anderson 10/4/2001 4:55:08 PM Primedia Lays Down Its Arms -- Will Divest Gun and Photo Titles to Calm Wall Street Its stock hovering at $2 a share, the company had promised divestments of $250 million to offset its $515 million purchase of EMAP USA. But bankers say unloading Guns & Ammo and Shooting Times -- among others -- won't meet the goal. By Lindsay Morris, Folio: First Day 10/4/2001 1:53:32 PM RATINGS REPORT: West Wing's Terrorist Episode Triumphs, While ABC's Jim Shows Promise NBC's dramas score record ratings while ABC's new Jim Belushi sitcom prevails over poor reviews. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/4/2001 1:04:01 PM Newspaper and Magazine Astrology in Deep Denial After September 11 Long a bedrock of readership and advertising, many of the folks who pen daily, weekly and monthly horoscopes have made no mention of the terrorist attacks -- and don't intend to. Joyce Jillson, however, says she will no longer predict that a relationship will "crash and burn." By Stephen Totilo 10/4/2001 12:26:13 PM After Call Allegedly From Government, ISP Closes Down IRA-Sympathetic Site Internet entrepreneur says all of his company’s Web sites were shut down until he agreed to take off iraradio.com, a streaming audio outlet dedicated to reporting on Northern Ireland. U.S. crackdown on terrorist groups is thought to be the reason for the attention. By Joseph Gomes 10/4/2001 12:15:04 AM Knopf and Carlisle & Co. Double-Deal for 25-Year-Old Newcomer After brokering British journalist's Behind the Veil, the Random imprint and the literary agency ink a $1 million dollar deal for two novels from a twentysomething first-timer. By PJ Mark 10/4/2001 12:12:04 AM University Presses Let the World Know They Could Spell 'Osama' Before Judith Regan Could By circulating a list of 465 books related to the events of Sept. 11, these publishers hope to boost sales of once-obscure titles. A couple -- The New Jackals and Twin Towers -- have already broken out; others, like Blast Mitigation for Structures need a little help. By Karen Jenkins Holt 10/3/2001 6:45:00 PM Calling Attack Story a 'Marathon,' NY Times Editor Names a Czar for Coverage In a memo that encourages the staff to get rest, Raines buries the lead: Michael Oreskes, once (and future?) head of paper's TV division, is pulled back to print side to run its investigations of events Sept. 11. By Seth Mnookin 10/3/2001 3:45:00 PM We Are the World -- Uh, Trade Center Charity events for terrorist attack victims became the new hot ticket –- but can the suddenly cold tickets survive? By Lara Cohen 10/3/2001 2:07:52 PM Record and Movie Industries Sue 3 Post-Napster File-Swapping Services After getting a court to slay the online giant, the exchange of music -- and movie files -- has continued to grow. So next up in the crosshairs are the prominent, more-decentralized outlets, Morpheus, Grokster and KaZaA. By Warren Cohen 10/3/2001 12:35:40 PM RATINGS REPORT: UPN Finds There's Plenty Of Life Left In Buffy The vampire slayer delivers record numbers on a night that sees NBC start strong with Scrubs and ABC misfire with Bob Patterson. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/3/2001 12:26:02 PM CRITICAL REACTION: ABC'S According to Jim Is A Brutal Viewing Experience The new family sitcom starring Jim Belushi has no fans among TV critics. By Jesse Oxfeld 10/3/2001 11:58:10 AM Despite Its Sept. 11 Overtones, Warner Bros.' Designated Survivor Is Still Alive Hollywood is reconsidering the conventional wisdom that no one will want to see violent movies once they have seen the real thing. Case in point: After saying film about an attack on Washington had been shelved, studio continues to develop it. By Elizabeth Hackett 10/3/2001 12:32:19 AM The Man Who Hates the New York Times Dares to Compete With It Obsessive reader Ira Stoll, who tries the Times's soul with his conservative scowl of a Web site, smartertimes.com, tilts again at the paper by planning his own New York daily. Flush with bravado, he's offering six figures to whoever runs it. By John Cook 10/3/2001 12:25:57 AM CABLE RATINGS REPORT: Terrorist Attacks Give News Channels Their Biggest Audience Gains of the Year For the first time this year, CNN is out in front of Fox News. General entertainment channels, however, slip in third quarter -- HBO's Band of Brothers settles in after two weeks of declines. By Tom Bierbaum 10/3/2001 12:12:47 AM Eying Nickelodeon's Cartoon Writers, Guild to Hold Mock Vote on a Union Today’s election won’t be binding, but could spur organizing drive at six shows. Company calls it a ‘publicity stunt.’ By David Robb 10/3/2001 12:06:15 AM Salon Bets You'll Pay for News Coverage, Long a Freebie Web Staple A bold, visionary move exploiting the nation's newfound fascination with breaking content -- or a last bid for survival? Says Slate competitor Michael Kinsley, "We've tried different things with varying degrees of desperation, and they're trying things with varying degrees of desperation." By Greg Lindsay 10/2/2001 6:21:08 PM CRITICAL REACTION: ABC's Bob Patterson Can Use Some Self Help Of Its Own Jason Alexander's first post-Seinfeld entry is a dud; NBC's Scrubs shines. By Jesse Oxfeld 10/2/2001 12:57:38 PM RATINGS REPORT: A Slight Dip For Crossing Jordan, A Plunge For Weakest Link NBC's new Monday drama stands up fairly well to tougher week-two competition, but The Weakest Link stumbles at 8 p.m. without its Brady guest stars. UPDATE By Tom Bierbaum 10/2/2001 12:37:12 PM BUZZ BOOKS: Inspirational Tracts See Jump in Sales Some well-known titles on coping with despair -- from Rabbi Harold Kushner and the Dalai Lama, among others -- are holding their own at the bookstores. By Sara Nelson 10/2/2001 12:52:09 AM TV Critics Push the Emmy Envelope In a prelude to what's shaping up as a rather solemn affair this Sunday, Inside asked nine big-deal TV reviewers to predict the results -- and declare their own favorites. Their enthusiasm was underwhelming. By Warren Cohen 10/2/2001 12:28:43 AM First 5 Days of Attack Coverage Cost Broadcast Networks More Than $180 Million The new estimate from Competitive Media Reporting is sharply below earlier projection of $320 million. But factor in losses to local broadcasters ($93.2 million) and cable TV ($31.7 million) and the overall number is about that high. By Joe Mandese, Media Buyer's Daily 10/2/2001 12:20:34 AM BBC Undercover Documentary to Become Knopf Book Knopf buys U.S. rights to a print version of Beneath the Veil -- British journalist Saira Shah's look at life of women under the Taliban -- for about $600,000. By PJ Mark 10/2/2001 12:06:50 AM Stock Offering Means Future Network Will Have a Future Having dumped Business 2.0, company hopes to raise $48.5 million to reduce mounting debt; founder Christopher Anderson's role greatly diminished. By Greg Lindsay 10/1/2001 1:25:50 PM After Leading Writers' Union to Court Victory, Tasini Faces Challenge in Election From the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately dept.: Lead plaintiff in successful lawsuit on behalf of freelancers is under the gun for how he handled the case and how he has tried to come to a settlement with publishers. By Lindsay Morris, Folio: First Day 10/1/2001 12:41:19 PM Broadband Confidential: AT&T and Comcast Are Speaking Again The two sides sign a confidentiality agreement getting them back on track toward a $50 billion deal for AT&T Broadband. By Mavis Scanlon, Cable World 10/1/2001 12:20:47 PM
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