Christian Kane (Cal Cooper) is also the lead singer of outlaw country band Kane. When Cal comes out of the elevator towards the apartment, he's singing one of their songs "Sweet Carolina Rain".
The filmmakers used the KOMO-TV studios in Seattle, Washington as sets - altering the logo to "KQMO-TV" - and many KOMO personalities make cameo appearances, amongst them Dan Lewis, Margo Myers, and Steve Pool.
When this movie was in development in 1998, Joel Schumacher was considered to direct with Renée Zellweger set to star, but Twentieth Century Fox wanted a bigger star and Schumacher and Zellweger dropped out.
Angela Jolie's character Lanie refers to a "Special Thursday Night Game" while doing an on air news hit as a reporter. The NFL did not start having weekly Thursday night games until 2006.
Stockard Channing also played a news broadcaster in Up Close & Personal (1996).