1. The Big 4 networks - led by NBC - report increased profits and revenue for 1995

2. National Association of Broadcasters president Eddie Fritts meets with FCC commissioners to discuss children's television policy

3. NBC announces a 14 sitcom, 12 drama slate for Fall '96

4. Senate Commerce Committee hears suggestion of dumping FCC commissioner panel in favor of a single telecommunications czar

5. "The Mark Walberg Show" (not to be confused with Mark Wahlberg; Mark L. Walberg {no "h"} is a South Carolina native best known for his longtime stint as host of PBS' "Antiques Roadshow" from 2002-19 and hosting USA's revival of "Temptation Island" since 2019 {as well as the original 2001-03 FOX version}) bites the dust

6. ABC & FOX announce their new shows for Fall '96 (with many of ABC's offerings coming from new parent company Disney; notable examples included ABC offerings "Clueless" {based on the 1995 movie with several, though not all, of the film's cast reprising their roles}; legal drama "The Practice"; "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" {based on the Archie Comics title and featuring "Clarissa Explains It All" alumna Melissa Joan Hart in the title role} and "Spin City" {titled just "Spin" here; this project reunited Michael J. Fox with "Family Ties" creator Gary David Goldberg}; while FOX's notable fall offerings included "Big Deal" (a short-lived "Let's Make a Deal"/"Truth or Consequences" hybrid which had the bad luck of a Sunday 7:00 slot {meaning either getting clobbered by "60 Minutes" or preemption via NFL coverage running long}) and "Millennium" {from "X-Files" creator Chris Carter})

7. A look at station swaps and trades (such as the swap between KYW-TV 3 and WCAU-TV 10 in Philadelphia) becoming more common to avoid high tax bills

8. A look at how FOX planned to put its style on their newly-acquired baseball coverage

9. Baseball ad sales improve after a dismal showing for 1995 (with the sport reeling from the 1994 strike)

10. US West sues Time Warner; alleging that the latter's acquisition of Turner broke their partnership agreement

11. Pay-per-view industry meeting on improving marketing and relations with cable operators
12. Bell Atlantic boasts of buy rates of 330% for video-on-demand system
13. Headline News becomes first news outlet to go digital with Avid disk-based (vs. tape) editing system
14. IndeNet's Digital Spot Servers digital recording system enters beta testing

Other pieces of interest include: ABC, CBS & NBC reporting prime-time share drops to record-low 53%; Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) makes a somewhat surprising suggestion by saying broadcasters should receive access to digital spectrum without public service requirement; CBS gives up on Spanish-language CBS Americas radio network; Columbia-TriStar boasts ad rate of $100,000 per 30 seconds of ad time when "Mad About You" enters syndication in the fall; broadcasters ask FCC to be less strict in closed-captioning enforcement; an overview of the 1996-2000 MLB deal with FOX, NBC, ESPN and Liberty Media's Prime Sports regional networks (which wouldn't begin until 1997; by which time they had been rebranded under the FOX Sports Net banner) along with each team's local over-the-air, cable and radio broadcast station; as part of the new deal, ESPN gains rights to post-season baseball for the first time; KCBS-TV 2 in Los Angeles, citing local news struggles, moves the equally struggling "CBS Evening News" to 5:30 p.m. to take the 6:00 slot for themselves; Disney - perhaps wanting a break from buying up stuff - lets deal to buy the California Angels lapse following a dispute with city leaders over renovating Anaheim Stadium (involving the stadium being reverted to baseball-only following the recent departure of the NFL's Los Angeles Rams {who played at the stadium from 1980-94} for St. Louis; and the Mouse would eventually acquire the team in 1997); the 10th annual Soul Train Music Awards being cleared in 86% of country; WFOR-TV 4 in Miami getting exclusive reports from Lissette Campos, who along with a cameraman managed to post as tourists to enter Cuba so they could cover reports of two planes with the anti-Castro "Brothers to the Rescue" organization being shot down by the Cuban Air Force, killing all four on the two planes; WABC-AM 770 dumps Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz's Sunday night show after Dershowitz called fellow WABC talker Bob Grant a racist, replacing him with Dr. Laura Schlesinger (Grant would himself be canned by WABC a few weeks later following remarks related to the 1996 plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown - specifically Grant saying to a Carl from Oyster Bay {future Newsmax contributor Carl Limbacher} that Grant was worried that Brown was the sole survivor); Jonathan Rodgers named new president of Discovery Networks; Philadelphia-based Comcast, already majority owner of the NBA's 76ers and NHL's Flyers, looking to acquire MLB's Phillies; Debra Lee named as president/COO of BET Holdings (freeing up founder Robert Johnson to focus on strategic development); good PPV numbers come in for the Mike Tyson vs. Frank Bruno fight (won by Tyson in a TKO to claim WBC heavyweight title, while Bruno was medically forced into retirement under risk of possibly going blind in one eye); MTV seeking to expand international reach; Sci-Fi Channel set to become exclusive home of "Sightings"; Disney announces effort to help struggling ABC series "Second Noah" with 4-hour marathon airing on March 29 on Disney Channel; Klasky-Csupo (studio behind Nickelodeon's "Rugrats") inks deal with Nick parent MTV Networks; Lifetime's website devotes space to female race car drivers such as IndyCar driver Lyn St. James (who Lifetime was sponsoring); NBC announces coverage online of Sandy Pittman's efforts to become the second American woman to climb Mount Everest (she succeeded; but nearly lost her life when she and her party were caught up in a blizzard that struck shortly afterwards that led to 8 people - including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall - dying, either from falling during the descent or from exposure); IBM unveils MPEG-2 encoder/decoder chips; C-Span asked by the White House not to air a portion of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner where Don Imus made jokes about President Clinton's well-known womanizing (Imus also joked about CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather's delivery, comparing it to someone being held hostage); Tribune granted a duopoly waiver by the FCC to allow the purchase of bankrupt WB affiliate KTTY-TV 69 in San Diego; Andy Hill, head of CBS' in-house production firm, quits after clashing with CBS Entertainment president Les Moonves; the 2nd episode of "The Dana Carvey Show" (following a premiere blasted for risque content - especially considering that the show followed the more family-oriented "Home Improvement" - including a bizarre skit depicting President Clinton {played by Carvey} trying to show off his compassion by having a baby, kitten and puppies suckling off multiple prosthetic nipples {!}) sees a 30% drop and Pizza Hut and Taco Bell {then owned by PepsiCo} pulled their sponsorship {the title had the sponsor incorporated, much like shows in the 1950s and 1960s or like most sports halftime and postgame shows during the 1990s and beyond}, though PepsiCo didn't completely cut ties with the series); CBS considering a partnership with PBS for educational projects by fall 1997 (to comply with new regulations regarding educational kids programming) and Bonneville International (a media company owned by the LDS faith) announces plans to launch a division producing family-friendly entertainment