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Date: 30 July 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
British Broadcasting Corp enters three-year contract with WLIW/Channel 21, Long Island-based PBS station, that will provide three half-hour BBC World news programs, live from London, every day to WLIW and about 25 other public television stations; WLIW has carried evening newscast from ITN, another British network, but that contract ends Nov 1 (M)
Date: 29 July 1998
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Cable News Network will enlist former CBS newsman Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for its coverage of John Glenn's return trip to space aboard space shuttle Discovery; Cronkite anchored launching in 1962, when Glenn became first American to orbit Earth (S)
Date: 30 July 1998
By Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert Op-Ed column examines case of Jeffrey Blake, serving sentence of 36 years to life for double homicide because of breakdown in criminal justice system in New York; notes that only evidence against him was testimony of man named Dana Garner, who claims to have witnessed three other, unrelated homicides as well, and who has refused to testify at Blake's post-conviction hearing; says police, prosecutors and press see case as cheap, not worth getting excited about, but fact is that Blake is probably innocent (M)
Date: 30 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Akzo Nobel NV drops 14 percent after company posts lower-than-expected second-quarter earnings; net income rose 5 percent, to 483 milion guilders (S)
Date: 29 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Grupo Televisa SA reports worse-than-expected earnings and declining TV ratings; second-quarter operating income fell 9.3 percent, to 358.4 million pesos ($39.9 million); graph (S)
Date: 29 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Compdent Corp agrees to be bought for as much as $182 million by private investment group, which includes TA Associates Inc, NMS Capital Partners and Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner Inc; acquisition is worth as much as $182 million before company's long-term debt is refinanced (S)
Date: 30 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dobson Communications Corp agrees to buy Sygnet Wireless Inc for $337.5 million in cash and to assume $310 million in debt (S)
Date: 30 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nextel Communications Inc says Craig McCaw and his family exercised option to buy about 10 million shares in company in cashless transaction (S)
Date: 29 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Network Associates will buy Cybermedia Inc for $130.2 million in cash (S)
Date: 30 July 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Del Monte Foods Co postpones its initial public offering, citing market conditions (S)