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Friday, June 19th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Brannon Braga Named Executive Producer of Star Trek: Voyager Paramount Network Television's Emmy Award-winning Star Trek: Voyager begins production on its fifth season this week. Production resumes with an episode entitled "Night" which will premiere Wednesday, October 14 (9:00-10:00 PM) on UPN. In the episode filming this week, Voyager encounters a large "void" of space where they will be forced to travel without contact with other worlds or beings. The result leaves the entire crew in a state of cabin fever -- and Captain Janeway doubting her decision to lead the U.S.S. Starship Voyager on its original mission. Additionally, Brannon Braga has been named executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager. Braga will serve alongside Rick Berman as executive producer of the series who most recently served as co-executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager and has been an integral creative force on the show since its inception. Braga began his career with Star Trek when he received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Writing Internship which later led to a permanent writing post on Paramount's Star Trek: The Next Generation. Braga has written over 50 Star Trek episodes, including the critically-acclaimed final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "All Good Things" for which he won the Hugo Award. Star Trek: Voyager will air Wednesdays at 9:00 PM this fall on UPN. The series chronicles the 24th century explorations of the Starship U.S.S. Voyager as it searches for a way back to Earth from the remote reaches of the Delta Quadrant. Cahners Acquires A.F. Lewis & Co. Directory and Database Business Cahners Business Information acquired A.F. Lewis & Co. Inc., the leading directory and database provider in the graphic communications market. The acquisition will enhance the products that Cahners' New York-based Graphic Arts Monthly magazine and related titles offer their readers and advertisers. Graphic Arts Monthly is a management and technology magazine serving the commercial printing industry. A.F. Lewis & Co., also based in New York, publishes the Graphic Arts Blue Book, the comprehensive directory of printing companies and industry suppliers. The directory is published in seven regional editions. "This acquisition reflects Cahners' strategy of being the key information provider in our markets," said Brian Nairn, executive vice president at Cahners. "It extends our ability to provide the kinds of information our readers and advertisers in this industry need, in the form they prefer it, when they want it." Ron Andriani, Cahners group vice president and publishing director of Graphic Arts Monthly, added, "A.F. Lewis & Co. will function as a market access tool for our Printing, Publishing & Converting Group. The vast A. F. Lewis & Co. database is a storehouse of accurate, in-depth industry information, including detailed company data, equipment profiles and managers' names and titles." Cygnus Publishing Acquires Magazines Cygnus Publishing announced that it has acquired Law Enforcement Product News and Public Safety Product News from General Communications, Inc. The move is the latest effort in securing the Company's position as a publishing leader in business-to-business magazines, custom publications and expositions. Law Enforcement Product News is a product news tabloid and direct response publication servicing the law enforcement industry. The publication has over 30,000 subscribers who receive informative editorial content six times a year featuring products and services manufactured for the law enforcement, corrections and security industry. A typical reader is an active duty officer in a management role. Public Safety Product News is the only publication to serve all five segments of the public safety sector. It is also published six times a year and provides valuable editorial content for firefighters, emergency medical services, search and rescue, 911 emergency response, airport safety and security personnel. Its over 25,000 subscribers are also typically active duty management personnel. Both magazines offer online companions to their magazines which can be found at www.law-enforcement.com and www.publicsafety.com respectively. Broadway's Biggest Night Continues On Tony Awards Online The American Theatre Wing's 52nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards, presented with the League of American Theatres and Producers, was broadcast from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7, on both the PBS and CBS television networks. Although, the broadcast is over, the magic of Broadway's biggest night continues every day on Tony Awards Online, the official website of the Tony Award. Using a new streaming video technology called SoftwareVision 2, visitors to www.tonys.org can see and hear video excerpts of interviews with 1998 Tony Award winners and celebrity presenters. Originally recorded during the Tony Awards Online Webcast -- "Backstage at the 1998 Tony Awards" -- the interviews offer an exclusive opportunity for theatre fans to relive this year's Awards ceremony. The Webcast clips feature such Broadway celebrities as Angela Lansbury, Bebe Neuwirth, Swoosie Kurtz, Gregory Hines, Anthony LaPaglia and American Theatre Wing President Isabelle Stevenson. In addition to coverage of the annual Tony Awards, Tony Awards Online celebrates Broadway every day with theatre news, celebrity interviews, show and ticket information, feature articles, quizzes and a forum discussion area. 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