TCI to Buy Kerans-Tribune in $627 Million Deal
Net Worth?
Sixth Report And Order on Advanced Television Systems and Their Impact Upon the
Existing Television Broadcast Service
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Title: TCI to Buy Kerans-Tribune in $627 Million Deal
Source: Wall Street Journal (B8)
Author: Jonathan Welsh
Issue: Media Mergers
Description: Telecommunications Inc. Announced that it was going to buy
Kearns-Tribune, the publisher of five newspapers including the Salt Lake
Tribune, for $627 million. TCI cable systems serve about 213,000 Utah
customers.
Title: Net Worth?
Source: Washington Post (Health p. 12)
Author: John Schwartz
Issue: Health
Description: (Tres big article on health information on the Internet.)
Thirty seven percent of the US use the Internet to investigate health
issues. There are 10,000 consumer health information web sites, but how
should users evaluate the quality of the information available? A recent
study found that more than 50% of 160 health information web sites had
"inaccurate or biased information." Here are some good gateway sites --
National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project
; Healthfinder
; FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
; American Cancer Society .
At the FCC
Chairman Hundt's 4/17/97 Speech before the Association of National
Advertisers in Washington,
D.C.
Sixth Report And Order on Advanced Television Systems and Their Impact Upon
the Existing Television Broadcast Service (FCC 97-115, MM Docket No.
87-268).
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