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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 5, 2001
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NEW VORK — Television viewers may need to turn to other channels next fall to see two of their favorite series: Frasier and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
TV shows play field of studios,stations
Both are becoming free agents, and negotiations between the studios that produce the shows and the networks that air them are being closely watched by people in the industry.
Jamie Kellner, the WB's chief executive, said in January that he was willing to give the show's producers every cent Buffy makes to keep it on the WB.
The Associated Press
"We will take all the revenue we can generate with Buffy and we'll give it to you in a giant wheelbarrow." Kellner said. "And if that's not enough, then take it to somebody else."
"I if a great show became available, we'd always listen." CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves has
At issue in negotiations is both the fee paid by the network to Paramount to air the show, and the duration of the contract. According to published reports, Paramount wants a three-year deal and NBC has been reluctant to commit for that long.
NBC West Coast President Scott Sassa called his talks with Paramount about Frasier the most cordial he had ever been involved in.
CBS is mentioned most often as a suitor — the comedy of Frasier would be a comfortable fit for CBS' mostly older viewership.
Yet NBC's exclusive negotiating window closed at the end of Thursday, meaning Paramount was free to shop the show to other networks.
A switch to another network is rare in the TV industry and almost unheard of when the original network still wants the show. Many observers doubt Frasier will be going anywhere.
The dispute over Buffy, currently one of the WB network's most popular and critically acclaimed shows, has been publicly more contentious.
The WB has offered a $1.6 million fee per show while 20th Century Fox, the studio that makes Buffy, has been asking for up to $2.5 million, said executives close to the talks who requested anonymity.
The Fox studio is aligned with the Fox network, which is considered a potentially compatible home for the edgy drama, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar. The WB's exclusive negotiating window also ends this week.
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4 Arrests
5 Pie nut
10 Exist
13 Ancient region in
Asia Minor
16 Netherlands
Antilles island
18 Firey
19Actor Sydney
20 Aim
22 Eyelid swellings
23 Toddler's injunes
24 That's _ toks?
25 Mental springs
26 Bullet block
27 Fleses to bed
28 Wildebeest
29 Isaac's oldest
30 Low points
31 ___ the truth?
34 Participate in charades
35 Toledo's lake
36 Threaded fasteners
37 Seats for tots
38 RRs on trastes
39 1862 battle site
40 Another time
41 Casual 'assent
42 Fresh
43 Che Guevara's
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45 Map collection
46 Expression of
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47 Latino
Italian
49 Sys.'s op
50 Humorist Nash
52 Embankment
54 August sign
56 Cabinet parts
57 Trains to box
60 Co. founded by
H. Ross Perot
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1 Respectful Hindu title
2 Maine town
3 Heated argument
4 Italian gentleman
5 Hawksbill's carapace
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| 6 | Indefinite pronoun |
| 8 | Staplstick ammo |
| 8 | __Cruz, CA |
| 9 | Knee bone |
| 10 | Messes up |
| 11 | Pool stick |
| 12 | Lincoln's nickname |
| 13 | Journalist Hentoff |
| 19 | Financial backer |
| 17 | Kander's partner in musicals |
| 24 | Steeple top |
| 27 | Danger |
| 28 | Boobs |
| 30 | __Lumpur |
| 32 | Lync poem |
| 33 | Boastful |
| 34 | Alcove |
| 37 | Tear open |
| 39 | Aiw-Jaffa |
| 41 |Actor Nicolas |
| 44 | Chinese soup ingredients |
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle
46 Head cavities
50 Profit figure
36 Mournful cries
57 Hackneyed
10 into proper
plate
51 Von Bismarck
and Graham
58 Sketch artist
59 Ladder part
61 Wordless yes
62 Vanity
63 Excitement
64 Gardner of films
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