TV Executive's 'Real People' View
Date: 15 September 1996
By Cynthia Magriel Wetzler
Cynthia Wetzler
Paula Walker, vice president and news director for WNBC-TV in New York, discusses how she approaches the news and determines what stories her station should carry; calls herself an old-fashioned journalist, looking for exclusive, enterprise stories developed by her own reporters; photo (M)
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Can't Sleep? Check Out the Polka
Date: 15 September 1996
By Aaron Barnhart
Aaron Barnhart
Success of overnight television program ABC World News Now discussed; photos (M)C
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Plan to Cut TV Channel Angers Women's Groups
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Plans by Tele-Communications Inc to drop Lifetime Channel, service aimed at women, from cable systems in several areas of the country have prompted unusually angry, well-organized protest from women's groups and many prominent political figures, who call decision blow to interests of women; TCI has announced it intends to drop number of cable channels, including Lifetime, by Oct 7, to make room for all-news channel being created by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Inc, a channel in which TCI has a deal to become a partner; among those criticizing cable company are Sen Bill Bradley, Repr Patricia Schroeder, Libby Pataki, wife of New York State Gov George E Pataki, Repr Peter A DeFazio of Oregon, who represents the district, including city of Eugene, which has most viewers of any region affected by TCI decision (L)
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Africa Outgrows A Magazine From Paris
Date: 15 September 1996
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Jeune Afrique, newsmagazine devoted to African affairs, is seen losing its influence after three decades of serving, for many, only independent source of printed news about continent; Paris-based magazine had grown accustomed to being only source of revealing accounts of political events in France's former African colonies; but since advent of democracy in much of region beginning in 1990, Jeune Afrique has been hard pressed to compete with aggressive new African newspapers that dig for their own news and pull few punches; circulation and advertising are down in Jeune Afrique (M)
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Mexican Publisher Arrested on Tax Fraud Charge
Date: 14 September 1996
By Julia Preston
Julia Preston
Police arrest owner of El Universal, one of Mexico's biggest newspapers, on charges of criminal tax fraud and evasion; newspaper accuses Government of cracking down on dissent in press (M)
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ACCESS HEALTH SHARES CLIMB ON EXPANSION OF SERVICES
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Access Health Inc rise 18 percent after company says it will provide health information services to one million Florida Blue Cross and Blue Shield members in next 15 months; Access Health shares rise $7.6875, to $50.50 (S)
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UNIVERSAL OUTDOOR UNIT TO BUY TANNER-PECK
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Universal Outdoor Holdings Inc says its Universal Outdoor Inc unit has agreed to buy closely held Tanner-Peck LLC and TOA Enterprises LP for about $74.1 million in cash and stock (S)
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Everen to Trim Operations
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Everen Securities Inc will close municipal bond operations in New York and Boston amid declining sales and shrinking profit margins; it will maintain offices in Chicago, Denver and San Francisco (S)
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Compuserve Retracts Official's Prediction of a Profit for the Year
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Compuserve Corp retracts remarks made earlier by Steven Stanbrook, company's president of international operations, who said troubled on-line service would make a profit this year; Robert J Massey, company's president and chief executive, says company is 'not projecting operating results for Compuserve or for any of its operations beyond the second fiscal quarter'; Massey says Compuserve expects second-quarter loss of 10 cents to 15 cents a share and is not making any further projections (M)
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Japan Says Its Economy Shrank for First Time Since '94
Date: 14 September 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Japan's economy contracted in second quarter, first time economic output has declined since 1994's final quarter, but Government says nation's recovery is continuing; Economic Planning Agency says that gross domestic product shrank seven-tenths of 1 percent in April-June quarter from prior three months, or at annual rate of 2.9 percent; output surged at 12.2 percent annual pace in first quarter (M)
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