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Date: 31 October 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
WBBM-TV, Chicago affiliate of CBS, cancels experiment in which it offered no-frills, late-night news program in belief that it could improve ratings without flash and sensationalism; acts after poor ratings that showed no sign of improvement (M)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
News Corp, which planned to sell part of its Sky Global Networks to public in November, postpones sale because of market conditions; News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch, is interested in using Sky Global to acquire DirecTV, satellite business owned by Hughes Electronics unit of General Motors; despite decision to postpone offering, News Corp is talking with Microsoft Corp about selling nearly $1 billion stake in Sky Global, which would give Microsoft 3.5 percent of company; such an investment would act as further endorsement of value of Murdoch's spinoff (M)
Date: 30 October 2000
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
Bloomberg, financial information company, will announce that its New York City radio station, WBBR-AM (1130), will shift its format today from business to general news (M)
Date: 30 October 2000
By Adam Nagourney and Marjorie Connelly
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds voter opinions about Hillary Rodham Clinton and Repr Rick A Lazio appear largely static as candidates enter final week of US Senate campaigns, despite three televised debates and barrage of television advertisements and attacks; finds some of Lazio's central attacks against Clinton have yet to take hold; finds voters are equally divided over which candidate would do better job of improving New York's economy; finds Clinton with 8-point, 49-41 percent lead over Lazio, statistically unchanged from September; poll's other findings discussed; chart; photo (M)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Greif Brothers Corp acquires industrial packaging business of Finland's Huhtamaeki Van Leer Oyj for $620 million in cash and assumed debt (S)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wachovia Corp will buy Republic Security Financial Corp for about $344 million in cash (S)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Electric Power Co, owner of 11 utilities in 11 states and Europe, will split its regulated utilities from its less-regulated businesses, creating two wholly owned companies; rules out merging Seeboard, natural gas and power distributor it owns in England, with Yorkshire Electricity, British utility it partly owns (S)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stone Energy Co, independent oil and gas company, acquires Basin Exploration in stock swap valued at $380 million and assumption of $48 million of Basin's debt (S)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pep Boys--Manny, Moe & Jack, major retailer of auto parts and service, closes 38 unprofitable stores, about 6 percent of its total, and 2 distribution centers as part of restructuring plan to cut costs; about 1,500 jobs are eliminated (S)
Date: 31 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BCE Inc, largest telecommunications company in Canada, will pay 35.71 Canadian dollars a share in cash and stock for Teleglobe Inc, top long-distance company (S)