The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories.
Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.
From Washington: Washington D.C., the front-runner in the competition to be the new home of the beleaguered Montreal Expos, is promising a $440 million ballpark package as an inducement.
From New York: The Energy Department says it's in negotiations to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve... to aid refiners recovering from this month's hurricanes.
From Los Angeles: A new technology verifies a child's age and gender while using the Internet. The product is intended to help kids avoid child predators online.
From Los Angeles: The Securities Exchange Commission has issued a cease and desist order against General Electric.
From Los Angeles: Oil giant Halliburton has been in the news a lot lately... Mostly because of its subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root, or KBR. That company has been accused, among other things, of over-charging the government for fuel and other services in Iraq.
From London: Ireland has proposed a drastic solution to a sticky problem. At tax on chewing gum.
From Washington: US Airways plans to ask a bankruptcy court judge today to impose emergency pay cuts of 23 percent on its major unions.
Features
What to see this weekend
A new Robert Redford film on the life of Che Gueverra opens this weekend. But it's not the first time someone has tried to capitalize on the communist icon. Dan Grech reports. Then comedian Tim Bedore serves up a review of another weekend premiere: the launch of TV's "Wife Swap."
Just playing some baseball
There are a couple of big developments in the business of baseball this week. Host Kai Ryssdal talks to sports commentator Michael Knisley about how they play into Major League Baseball's big picture.
Cable vs. broadcast
With the start of the new TV season, the traditional broadcast networks are shaking in their boots. Marketplace's Tess Vigeland talks to Variety's Michael Speier about the growing threat of cable on the Big Four networks.
Friday, September 24, 2004
