For The Record
Staff -- Multichannel News, 4/2/2000 8:00:00 PM
San Francisco-City supervisor Tom Ammiano said last week that he is reopening the open-access issue here, proposing legislation that would open the high-speed-data platform 18 months from the passage of legislation. AT & T Broadband vowed to fight the issue.
New York-Major League Soccer notified the United States Soccer Federation last Friday that it plans to develop a women' s soccer league.
The cable MSO-owned Women' s United Soccer Association has already submitted its application to the federation, which reportedly will only sanction only one women' s league. The USSF is expected to make a decision in August.
Washington-Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) sent the Federal Communications Commission' s Susan Ness a batch of questions he wants answered before he' ll take up her nomination for a committee vote.
"I have still a number of questions that we need answered," said McCain, who did not appear at Democrat commissioner Ness' March 22 hearing for a second five-year term.
New York-E! Entertainment Television's spinoff magazine concept, E! The Magazine, which was first circulated to the ad community nearly one year ago, is now "on the back burner" pending discussions related to its distribution, executive vice president David Cassaro said last week.
Last year, the magazine was positioned as a Sunday-newspaper supplement.
New York-ESPN/ABC Sports customer-marketing and sales president Ed Erhardt and Coca-Cola Co. vice president Charles Fruit announced a major marketing partnership last Thursday, encompassing broadcast and cable networks, Web sites and magazines.
Cubbies, Habs Boost MSG Value
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