Last month’s Net-Aid concert is said to have attracted huge global TV ratings, 2.3 million web hits. But show only “netted” about $1 million in contributions from those watching/listening. Washington Post
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SURPRISE BUYER
Young Broadcasting came out of nowhere to pay record $823 million for San Francisco NBC affiliate. Now it has a big rock to push uphill to make it work. San Francisco Chronicle
A REALLY BIG SHOE
Sixty international broadcasters assembled in London to organize the BBC’s year-end, 28-hour TV millennial bash “2000 Today.” Messages from the Pope, UN Secretary are a given, but “seven virgins go into a cave and …”? Variety
WHIFF OF COLOGNE
Three hundred dealers/70,000 people sniff out the latest in contemporary art at the Cologne Art Fair, Europe’s biggest new-art bazaar. Financial Times
OUT OF AFRICA
Smithsonian, undergoing $100 million renovation, has difficulty finding funds for large new gallery on African culture, set to open next month. Washington Post
MAKE NICE SUBVERSIVES
Installation art at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International – “the thrill is always finite, comprehensible and either fun or morally uplifting, digestible and quickly gone.” New York Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TONIGHT:
Steve Martin hosts, Oprah Winfrey to get honorary prize. The writers? There’s “little glamour among the actual nominees this year.” – (AP) Cleveland Plain Dealer