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This afternoon, PTC analyst Kristine Looney is sitting in her cubicle, whose bookshelf holds volumes by Ann Coulter and G. Gordon Liddy. Headphones over her ears, hand on the remote, she is watching the March 13 episode of Crossing Jordan. Suddenly, she hits the pause button. Why? "'Damn,'" she says. "And also they were talking about drugs." Looney, 25, transcribes the quote--"Damn. The second suitcase is still out there"--and it goes into the Entertainment Tracking System (ETS), the PTC's database on more than 100,000 hours of programming. "We track even those minor swears," says Looney...
...quickly in the 1990s, says Lundberg, with interests in everything from chicken farms to electronic-cable manufacturing. Then reports leaked that the management had granted an option to an outside company for a 5% stake in Elektrim's most valuable asset, the wireless firm Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, or PTC. Major Western shareholders swooped in. Lundberg sold off interests in nearly 80 companies, slashing staff levels from 30,000 to 15,000 by last December. They will be down...
...then refocused the company on telecommunications with acquisitions worth more than $1 billion. Today Elektrim boasts more than 2.5 million subscribers through its voice, video, mobile and fixed-line telephone networks. Early last year Elektrim clashed with the German giant Deutsche Telekom over a controlling interest in wireless company PTC. Lundberg has apparently prevailed, but a lawsuit launched by Deutsche Telekom in Polish courts blocked further investments and forced her to take out a loan that increased PTC's debt load 55%. It took a last-minute $1.2 billion sale to Vivendi of a 49% share in a subsidiary that...
...Parents Television Council (PTC), a conservative watchdog group, has issued its annual report on the year's most (and least) offensive shows, which is always a fun read, filled with lots of dirty words. This year, the WB scored a unique double: Its "Dawson's Creek" was named the filthiest of PTC's "dirty dozen," while its squeaky-clean "7th Heaven" placed high on the group's "diamond dozen" list. "Creek" earned Most Objectionable honors with its Pacey-beds-his-teacher plotline...
...outrageous to stand out among the many references to raging hormones, penis size, masturbation, and the like," notes PTC. "7th Heaven," however, got PTC props for showing "the importance of supportive families... and parental involvement in the moral, spiritual, and academic education of their children." But back to the bad shows: The dirty dozen also included "Ally McBeal," (for featuring "penis size, oral sex, and the differences between marital and nonmarital intercourse"); "Spin City" ("condones heterosexual promiscuity and homosexuality"); and "Ellen" (you can figure that one out yourself...