A Look Back at Cable News
Date: 08 January 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Ratings of three major cable news networks in 2000 and events that caused ratings to spike noted; graph; photos (S)
O dia 8 de janeiro de 2001 foi um segunda-feira sob o signo de ♑. Foi o dia 7 do ano. O presidente dos Estados Unidos foi William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Se você nasceu neste dia, você tem 25 anos de idade. Seu último aniversário foi no dia quinta-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2026, 151 dias atrás. Seu próximo aniversário é no dia sexta-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2027, em 213 dias. Você viveu 9.282 dias, ou cerca de 222.789 horas, ou cerca de 13.367.372 minutos, ou cerca de 802.042.320 segundos.
Date: 08 January 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Ratings of three major cable news networks in 2000 and events that caused ratings to spike noted; graph; photos (S)
Date: 08 January 2001
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Interview with Liu Chang Le, whose Phoenix Satellite Television has begun first 24-hour Chinese-language news channel, beamed from Hong Kong into mainland China by satellite; he must balance market's hunger for information with government's view that certain kinds of information threaten national security; cultivates close ties to Chinese leaders; Rupert Murdoch is his partner through News Corp's Star unit; photo (M)
Date: 08 January 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Eight television stations Rupert Murdoch's News Corp plans to buy from Chris-Craft Industries are set to extend their accord to be affiliates of Viacom's UPN network through next television season; purchase will thus make Murdoch UPN's most important station owner; UPN competes with News Corp's Fox network for young male audience; News Corp president Peter Chernin says company might eventually seek UPN stake (M)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered two-year-old James Bulger when they were 10 years old after luring him from shopping mall in Liverpool, England, in 1993 complete sentences in government detention facility; High Court judge issue ruling prohibiting news media from revealing any details about them after release, citing concern for their future safety; photos (M)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column on his late journalism teacher Hattie M Steinberg, who taught him fundamentals that seem so relevant in current information age (M)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eastman Kodak Co will reassign most if its 3,500 customer-service employees to various business units to make service more effective; workers not reassigned will be part of central customer-service unit (S)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Ciphergen Biosystems fall 30 percent after company says fourth-quarter revenue will be as much as 15 percent below its expectations (S)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gliatech shares fall 38 percent after company voluntarily halts distribution of its anti-scarring gel because supplier recalled raw material used to make product; Gliatech says supplier recalled material because it might contain particles from aluminized-paper lid liner (S)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Motorola Inc is expected to report lower fourth-quarter earnings on Jan 10 (S)
Date: 09 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp will build 100,000 fewer cars and trucks in first quarter North American than it had planned last month, to try to reduce dealer inventories as sales slow; will produce 1.2 million vehicles, down 21 percent from last year's first-quarter output of 1.521 million; plans to produce 562,000 cars and 638,000 trucks (S)