Veteran cable and TV business journalist John Higgins passed away on Monday night of a heart attack in a hospital near his home in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was 45. For more than a decade, Higgins was
one of the most enterprising reporters writing about the business of TV and cable. He was the business editor of
Broadcasting & Cable since 1997. Previously he worked at
Multichannel
News in a similar capacity. --Wayne Friedman