The October 23, 2000 was a Monday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 296 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, October 23, 2025, 246 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, October 23, 2026, in 118 days. You have lived for 9,377 days, or about 225,052 hours, or about 13,503,168 minutes, or about 810,190,080 seconds.
Date: 24 October 2000
Two Manhattan community newspapers, Our Town and West Side Spirit, both owned by News Communications Inc, begin providing neighborhood news and cultural listings to EdificeRex.com, Web site that offers news and building services guides to residents of about 250 luxury apartment buildings in Manhattan (S)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Edward Wong
Edward Wong
Katherine W Fanning, former owner of Anchorage Daily News who later was editor of Christian Science Monitor, dies at age 73; photo (M)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Charles Savage, Miami Herald reporter on front lines of newspaper's circulation war with newly renamed South Florida Sun-Sentinel, finds himself in uncomfortable position relative to covering his own paper's public relations battle plans (M)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News have more than doubled their profit margins, to nearly 19 percent, but that is still less than the 21 percent margin set by their parent company, Knight-Ridder; this has prompted talk about 5 percent budget cuts and increased anxiety in newsrooms; two Philadelphia dailies have been caught between local advertising downturn and 14 percent uptick in newsprint prices; making 21 percent in 2001 without budget cuts is improbable; journalists wonder how often their newspapers can go through budget and staff shakedowns and still keep journalistic ambitions intact; photos (M)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Joel R Anderson's company, Anderson News of Florence, Ala, has risen to become nation's largest magazine wholesaler, delivering 4 of every 10 magazines on retail racks nn United States; Anderson is symbol of swift consolidation that has left battlefield littered with defunct wholesalers, large and small; consolidation has drawn attention of Justice Dept's antitrust division and has created mounting, intense consternation among publishers, who say they find it more difficult and expensive to get their publications distributed; some even blame wholesalers for deaths of Details, Mirabella and Life magazines; Anderson claims he is being squeezed by large retailers to offer more service and better prices, reducing his gross profit on each copy sold; he also feels that too many magazines are being published for dwindling retail racks available; photos (M)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan
Changes in technology, coupled with court decision providing broad legal protections, have made pornography more easily obtainable in home and transformed it into $10 billion annual industry in US; financial rewards are so great that some of biggest distributors of sex on film and on Internet include country's most recognizable corporate names, including General Motors Corp, EchoStar Communications Corp, AT&T Corp, Liberty Media, Marriott International, On Command, LodgeNet Entertainment and News Corp; major satellite and cable companies do very little marketing of X-rated products, which are not mentioned in annual reports except in vaguest of euphemisms; hotel industry estimates at least half of all guests buy pay-per-view movies, which may generate about $190 million in annual sales; Americans buy or rent at home more than $4 billion annually in graphic sex videos from retail outlets and spend additional $800 million on less explicit sexual films; sex is one of few things that prompts large numbers of people to disclose credit card numbers on Internet, where one in four regular users, or 21 million Americans, visits more than one of 60,000 sex sites at least once per month--more than go to sports or government sites; photos; map; charts (L)
Date: 23 October 2000
By Richard L. Berke and Janet Elder
Richard Berke
Latest New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that even after absorbing three debates and months of campaigning, American voters are thoroughly ambivalent about their choices for president, still vexed by doubts about Vice Pres Al Gore's sincerity and Gov George W Bush's preparedness; voters view Gore as more caring, closer to them on issues and generally more capable than Bush, but they do not fully embrace him; many perceive Gore as too smart for his own good and believe that in debate spent too much time showing off his knowledge and not enough talking about his personal side; Bush helped his candidacy in debates, but nearly half of those surveyed voice particular doubts about his ability to navigate international crises; neither candidate has established appreciable edge 15 days before election, in what has become closest presidential race since 1980; among likely voters, Bush draws 44 percent, with 42 percent for Gore; Ralph Nader is supported by 4 percent of likely voters and Patrick J Buchanan 1 percent; charts (M)
Date: 24 October 2000
PBS is offering major presidential candidates two-and-a-half minutes to address public on topics of their choosing after The Newshour With Jim Lehrer, beginning on October 25 and running through November 3 (S)
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
USA Networks says it may seek to merge its Ticketmaster unit and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, affiliated Internet business that USA Networks brought public in 1998; USA Networks wholly owns Ticketmaster and still holds majority stake in Ticketmaster Online (S)
Date: 24 October 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Constellation Energy Group plans to split itself into wholesale power-generating business and retail-services company that will include Baltimore Gas and Electric Co utility; Goldman Sachs Group will invest $250 million in generation business and receive stake of as much as 17.5 percent; that business will keep Constellation name while retail buisiness will be called BGE Corp (S)