The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 32

4C I TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 2003 THE HERALD EMPLOYEE SUPPORT BDX Magazine rates workplaces TOP 10 The top 10 in alphabetical for working mothers as I determined by Working Mother magazine i Abbott Laboratories Booz Allen Hamilton Bristol-Myers Squibb Eli Lilly and Co Fannie Mae General Mills IBM Prudential Financial SC Johnson and Sons I Wachovia Corp i pared with the 67 percent nationwide measured by the Society for Human Resource Management realize that working mothers are the sandwich generation they have children and older relatives to take care said Kimetha Firpo president of the Washington-based not-for-profit Center for Designing Work Wisely have to work hard to keep the worklife programs fresh at a time when they are struggling in a recession and they have to make sure they are not simply paying lip-service to the work together so that human resources can tell finance that a cut may improve the bottom line of a company but will also increase Child-care for older children is the latest growing trend tracked by the magazine is a growing interest in programs for teens and so-called tweens because companies are realizing that employees need support at all stages of their Kir-schenbaum said Elder care is another issue companies are taking into account 98 percent of the 100 best offer elder-care resource and referral com top 100 list offer flex time That compares with 55 percent nationwide according to the 2003 benefits survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management Susan Seitel president of Minneapolis-based research firm Work Family Connection said companies have striven to be more family friendly because they want to retain their best employees Some training managers to help employees and penalizing them if they Seitel said human resources and finance departments are being forced to pany to work said Clark who had a 3-day workweek since Ryan was born felt comfortable stepping away from my spot because I knew I could come back to This type of support helped Ikea get a spot among the top 100 companies for working moms in Working Mother I8th annual survey published in its October issue companies are very committed to worklife programs for their employees despite the tough economic says Jill Kirschen-baum editor-in-chief of Working Mother All the companies in the Flexibility and benefits for child- and elderly care helped companies top the list of 100 BYANUSHASHRIVASTAVA Associated Press NEW YORK When Cindy 7-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia and for months required daily injections and medicines Clark have to quit her job in sales at Ikea to take care of him The furniture company gave her six months leave freedom my company allows workers to have in their personal schedules is conducive to my idea of a good com MEDIA FCC lets Univision-HBC deal go through FROM THE believe Univision competes primarily with ABC NBC and CBS for valuable advertising said Aida Levitan president of the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies wanted to see Hispanic media strengthened in any way it could be she said as NBC has strengthened Telemundo by cross-promoting its Advocacy groups said they were looking to the new company to better serve the Hispanic community hope is that this will improve the quality of TV and radio because it will have greater efficiencies and more resources for public-service announcements and public-affairs said Raul Yzaguirre president and chief executive of National Council of La Raza As expected the five charged that the motivation behind the ruling was nothing more than Bush administration politics based on Republican campaign contributions from Univision and Hispanic Broadcasting (HBC) executives deal will create unacceptable market power in Spanish-language media in this Menendez said the tenets of this merger virtually all Latinos would see and hear their news and entertainment from a single source: APPEAL POSSIBLE Philip Verveer a lawyer for SBS which had galvanized the opposition said the company had not decided whether to appeal the decision Others see the new Univision as capable of making a stronger case to big advertisers to spend more in Spanish-language media MERGER FROM 1C work The $1 billion-revenue Univision also owns a second broadcast network a cable channel the top Spanish-lan-guage website and a record label dwarfing its closest competitors in Spanish-lan-guage broadcasting: Hialeah-based Telemundo which has 24 TV stations and the Coconut Grove-based Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) which owns about 25 radio stations Both those companies had opposed the deal on the grounds that it would stifle competition They were among thousands of businesses organizations and individuals who sent petitions or bought ads to support or denounce the merger US Rep Bob Menendez a New Jersey Democrat FRONT PAGE members voted along party lines with the two Democrats dissenting As a condition of approval HBC plans to sell a radio station in Houston and another in Albuquerque NM to comply with new media-ownership rules DOMINATION FEARED reaching its decision the FCC found that the merger will serve the public interest convenience and the FCC said in a statement FCC stated that the wide variety of programming alternatives available to Spanish-speaking audiences the ease of entry into the Spanish-language format and the viewing patterns of Hispanics do not indicate that the Hispanic or Spanish-speaking audience constitutes a separate insular or competition SBS and other opponents had argued that the Spanish-language market is separate from the larger English-language market and that a combined Univision-HBC would unfairly dominate the smaller Hispanic arena Dissenting FCC Commissioner Michael Copps said TOURISM the merger should not have been permitted on those grounds one company to have a hammerlock over the news and entertainment that fastest-growing minority population receives is in the interests of neither that minority nor anyone else in this he said Now that the long-expected approval was official analysts said it could spur a merger between SBS and Telemundo or other Hispanic media players that feel they need to get bigger to compete with Univision and SBS would be logical as SBS is highly leveraged and they do need to get some equity said David Joyce senior equity analyst at Guzman Co in Miami Telemundo could also team up with the US subsidiary of TV Azteca Azteca America which is struggling to get full distribution in the United States Telemundo formerly purchased programming from Azteca Sources close to Azteca said its president Ricardo Salinas has talked informally The Bahamas-based company operates hotels and casinos around the world including one in the United Arab Emirates Atlantis The Palm will be a joint venture with the Dubai government which has spent billions of dollars attracting visitors to the Persian Gulf state and now has one of the world's fastest-growing tourism economies The 1000-room Atlantis will sit on one of two islands three miles into the gulf that Dubai is creating from scratch Ill -S'ilil OVER! This year Working Mother gave particular weight to three issues: flexible scheduling advancement of women and child-care options with Telemundo Joyce said those parleys could take on more urgency now has good quality Salinas said but it needs the distribution channels that parent NBC could provide Grupo Prisa is negotiating with the struggling Miami-based chain Radio Unica according to a recent report in Hispanic Market Weekly As a foreign corporation however limited to no more than a 25 percent stake in a US media company and that Joyce said could put Prisa in the market for another US media partner EFFECT ON VIEWERS Viewers and listeners meanwhile will likely see little effect from the merger The former HBC Chairman and Chief Executive McHenry Tichenor Jr will continue to run the stations as president of Univision Radio Univision said Tichenor and Ray Rodriguez president and chief operating officer said their combined company would remain open to outside advertisers and performers to resemble palm trees with more than a dozen fronds The $15 billion project will increase beachfront by 75 percent The Middle East has long attracted vacationers from Europe and Asia who are drawn by balmy climates and relatively short flying times about six or eight hours either way said Scott Berman a hotel analyst for Pricewater-houseCoopers in Miami Kerzner will market the Dubai Atlantis to Europeans and Asians leaving the Bahamas Atlantis to cater to the' North American market Kerzner said The 75-acre Atlantis The Palm will have a water park twice the size of the one in Nassau Kerzner said but no casino since gambling is illegal in DubaL The Dubai resort could grow to 2000 rooms the company said in a press release That would leave it smaller than the original which has 2300 rooms now and plans on adding another 1200 in a $600 million expansion already underway And last week Kerzner announced it was buying the neighboring Club Med in Nassau In the interview Kerzner said the company will limit the Atlantis franchise to a few mega-resort destinations centered on water parks last thing we would ever do is put Atlantis on a 300-room hotel" he said Rpadlntf itgoo cyclln Plans set for $650M Mideast luxury resort Limos Bars Massages Not South Beach Virgin Atlantic ATLANTIS FROM 1C Kerzner is considering bringing Atlantis resorts to Europe and Asia in the same way Disney exported its theme parks to Tokyo and Paris said company President Butch Kerzner been looking in the past two years to find some other venue to build another Atlantis and take the brand more Kerzner revealed in a telephone interview THE WAIT 'iiSEC'TTli 'HUT- 'jrsur 93iU UTO flan "SET -tinM -x H5 (1- uD nur UU-nmi'i inn i 13 'v-i wi Fir Maratruuntrn 'EEEUi iEC' 'It-1 J5331 -i HI -i 13 i-eii- lt 11 3UL21TI I clLU'Xi'vIVT nV'FliU'UZii 1 HUldO' QTT''i Mu! 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