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27 / MORE INPUT ON endorsed the association's plan to back the Eureka 147 FIN -SYN DAB system and to serve White House Chief of as U.S. licensing agent, other Staff John Sununu weighs in broadcasters have on the fin -syn battle, reservations about the action. underscoring President Last week, at two separate Bush's interest in a meetings in Washington -the deregulatory solution to the Radio Operators Caucus issue. and a Group Fly -In- broadcasters applauded NAB's efforts, but voiced 29 / SQUARE ONE concerns over potential In February 1990, one of conflict of interest, AM -FM the largest satellite operators parity, the capabilities of and three of the largest the Eureka system to media companies in the broadcast in the L band, world promised to launch and whether other systems a 108 -channel satellite TV might actually better serve service to antennas so Gulf war, economy blamed for low Monte Carlo turnout (page 65) the industry. While most small that U.S. consumers radio operators support could mount them on their 35 / GOLDENSON syndication or a series adoption of an industrywide order from Fox Broadcasting DAB standard, many window sills. A year later, in PERSPECTIVE a different economy, Co. is possible. suggest that prudence is a Hughes Communications is Leonard Goldenson, who necessary first step in that pitching a 1994 Sky Cable sat at the top of ABC for 39 / COLLECTING THE direction. launch to a new set of parties. virtually all of its history, FRAGMENTS talks about what he is doing 44 / PIRATE SHIFTS now, his views on the According to a British COURSE 31 / CBS NEWS industry and about his new Broadcasting Corporation CHANGES book, "Beating the panel session held in New Westwood One last week Odds," which is reviewed on York, attitude and innovation Amid intense industry fired Station Group Executive page 37. in programing are keys to Vice President Michael speculation about the future attracting the young adult of its struggling evening Kakoyiannis and KQLZ(FM) audience. morning host/programer newscast, CBS News 38 CHAO SETS SIGHTS / Scott Shannon. Westwood replaced CBS Evening 49 / DNS, PPV News executive producer Fox Television Stations Chairman Norm Pattiz would move Tom Bettag with CBS Productions, the in -house SUPPORTERS DOWNSIZE said the change company's This Morning executive production division of Fox AMBITIONS control of the Los Angeles, producer Erik Sorenson. Television Stations Inc., is radio stations to its sights on the Competitive pressures and cut "extraordinary" Some view the move as a first setting the hard realities of a operational costs incurred by step toward a revamped launch of two new half -hour worsening economy and evening newscast for CBS. series under the guidance -at "Pirate Radio," of FTSP's vice president, least for the first half of this better position the station Stephen Chao. Studs, a decade -will slow the against other Los Angeles development of DBS and AOR outlets by eliminating 33 / FNN SOLD? new half -hour strip, and Mother Love, a late night PPV, according to major its CHR hybrid sound. A joint venture of Dow talk show strip hosted by a cable and DBS executives at Jones and Group W have former KFI(AM) Los last week's Future of DBS 45 GENDER GAP agreed in principle to Angeles radio personality, and Pay Per View seminar in / purchase the assets of the are both slated for March Beverly Hills. Women account for about financially troubled tests on Fox O &O KTTV(TV) four times as many radio Financial News Network. But Los Angeles. If managers as TV 43 / DAB CONCERNS sales NBC, which found itself successful, a wider test on the sales managers, and almost outbid for FNN, may not be other six Fox O &O's, While the NAB radio half of all radio account ready to walk away yet. Twentieth (Fox) lèlevision board enthusiastically has executives are women,

4 M Wag Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 ON THE ROAD TO according to a new study Hughes Television released by the Radio NAB Network (HTN) division will Advertising Bureau. Also transmit some baseball revealed in the study: some games and other events over 27% of all radio sales the Vyvx National Video managers are women, versus Network fiber optic system. 7% in television, while HTN praised the video 48% of all radio salespeople quality of Vyvx are women, compared transmissions, but both with 39% in TV. HTN and Vyvx say fiber's lack of point -to- multipoint 50 / THE WARNER capability will initially limit its use. ROADSNOW Warner Bros. executives 65 MONTE CARLO are visiting top MSO's across / the country, trying to OUTLOOK convince them just how The Gulf war may have profitable pay per view Looking ahead to NAB (page 62) been only one reason for the can be. lower-than -usual turnout magnetic interference to recorders and formats and at the annual Monte Carlo avionics. Some in both HDTV. This week: flyaway 51 / CABLEVISION Television market last agencies say there is more to newsgathering systems week, with diminishing PLAYS FOR TOPS the feud than policy and other satellite equipment buying power among What Cablevision Systems has differences. is certain is and services. some overseas broadcasters signed up for Showtime's that the FAA has for the and harsh weather also past few years made it very Total Optimization of Pay 64 / FIBER -SATELLITE raised as factors. Services plan, which difficult for broadcasters, BACKHAUL BOND Nevertheless, every major provides the premium especially FM's, to build new distributor was represented stations or improve network with a fixed base Beginning this spring, and some participants said existing facilities. revenue and Cablevision 1DB Broadcast Group and its business remained active. with the flexibility to package Showtime as it likes. But 61 / MOVE TO other MSO's aren't yet ready BOYCOTT CNN to follow suit. The Victory Committee, a coalition of "pro- American" 54 / SELLS FEW TO Founded in 1931 as Broadcasting, the organizations, including News Magazine of the Fifth Estate. SAVE MANY INDEX Broadcasting -Telecasting introduced Accuracy in Media, has in 1946. Television" acquired in 1961. launched a major Advertisers Index 86 Cablecasting introduced in 1972. Emmis Broadcasting, one Broadcasting/Cable campaign to force CNN to At Large 35 introduced in 1989. of the radio industry's fast "Reg U.S. Patent Office. Copyright climbers during the move its reponer, Peter Business 53 1991 by Broadcasting Publications Inc. 1980's, has rejoined the rest Arnett, out of Baghdad. The Cable 49 Incorporating group has called for a Cablecastings 52 of the industry in The Fifth Estate reevaluating its structure for boycott of the cable network Changing Hands 55 the 1990's. Ongoing asset until Arnett leaves. Classified Advertising 75 "III.11Isif) I. sales have helped reduce debt Closed Circuit 6 Broadcasting Datebook 14 but a weak operating 62 / BOUND FOR LAS M Cable focus on Editorials 90 environment keeps Broadcasting (ISSN 0007 -2028) is pub- VEGAS Fortunes 82 the company's future. Fates 8 lished 52 Mondays a year by Broadcast- BROADCASTING Fifth Estater 87 ing Publications Inc., 1705 DeSales begins its Street, N.W., Washington. D.C. Focus on Finance 56 58 / FAMILY FEUD annual "On the Road to 20036. Second -class postage paid at NAB" series, focusing on For the Record 69 Washington. D.C., and additional offices. Single issue $2.50 except special In Brief 88 The long -standing friction the new equipment issues $3.50 (50th Anniversary issue between the FCC and the introductions and International 65 $10) Subscriptions, U.S. and possessions: one year $85, two years $160, Journalism 61 FAA over control of technology issues expected to three years $225. Canadian and other spectrum management and take center stage at the Masthead 20 international subscribers add $40 per use has heated up National Monday Memo 22 year. U.S. and possessions $400 yearly Association of for special delivery, $100 for first- class. considerably since the FAA Broadcasters convention Open Mike 20 Subscriber's occupation required. An- announced a rulemaking in Las Vegas, April 15 -18. Programing 38 nually: Broadcasting O Yearbook $115, Across the Dial $9.95. Microfilm of proceeding that would Over the next eight weeks Radio 43 Broadcasting is available from Univer- expand its ability to deny some of the ground the Ratings Roundup 42 sity Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106 (I- 800 -521- clearance to broadcasters and "Road" will cover Riding Gain 48 0600). Postmaster, please send address other spectrum users includes video graphics and Technology 62 corrections to Broadcasting, 1705 De- Sales St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Top of the Week 27 because of potentially effects, DAB and other 20036. © 1991 by Broadcasting Publi- hazardous electro- radio issues, videotape Washington 58 cations Inc.

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TAMPA -ST. PETERSBURG legedly overcharging them for campaign packaging (although dolls themselves spots. Kahn told BROADCASTING that aie made of nonbiodegradable plas- Buyout he is currently in negotiations with sev- tic). eral other Georgia stations over low- Gillett Holdings is planning to buy est unit rate discrepancies. Meanwhile, out majority voting interest in wTVT(TV) Not likely WXIA -TV, which is not one of three Tampa -St. Petersburg currently held stations to refund money, has filed to Although'Fumer Broadcasting Sys- by station's chairman and chief execu- have case moved to Federal Court tem executives continue to have discus- tive officer, Clarence McKee. Plan and also has filed motion to dismiss sions with MSO's about voluntary would have McKee sell all but 2% of charges. Since Georgia case, Kahn CNN contributions to offset war cover- 51% voting stake and 1% of 21% eq- says his firm has been retained in six age costs, it's now considered unlike- uity stake to new Gillett-owned corpo- other states to handle similar suits. ly to happen, at least in near term. rate entity. Although consideration is Growing number of MSO's ex- not known, original agreement allowed pressed reservations about plan, with Gillett to buy out McKee for $1 mil- Going to strip Times Mirror Cable logging in with lion. McKee's participation in 1987 sta- "no for now" last week. Although Turner executives say company's tion acquisition allowed then -seller Turner secured substantial support, Gaylord Broadcasting to obtain certifi- weekly pro- environment cartoon, Cap- including TCI, Time Warner, Cablevi- Planet, will go to in 1992- cate that deferred taxes on gains tain strip sion Systems and Jones, several other worth tens of millions of dollars. Buyout 93 season. Show, going into its second major MSO's, including Continental, year next fall, have 65 episodes plan is part of still- to -be- completed will Comcast, Cox, Century and Sam- in can by that time, to debt restructuring GM is negotiating be packaged for mons, had reservations about contribu- Whether venture with creditors. stripping. program, tion. of Turner and animation producer DIC Enterprises, Los Angeles, continues LOS ANGELES ATLANTA original production beyond next season is decision to be made later, execu- Go Money back tives said. In related news, Tiger Toys for 'Julie' Three Georgia television stations has acquired rights to market line of According to Viacom Enterprises have returned $212,000 to Georgia poli- action figures (dolls) based on characters president of first -run syndication, Mi- ticians, according to Robert Kahn, at- in Captain Planet. Tiger has $3 mil- chael Gerber, Downtown Julie torney for group of Georgia politicians lion advertising budget for toy line, due Brown, Viacom's hour weekly variety including Governor-elect Zell Miller to hit stores this summer. Executives show featuring MTV video jockey, is that is suing wxIA -Tv Atlanta and inves- talked proudly last week of fact that fig- firm go for 1991 -92, having cleared tigating several other stations for al- ures will come in biodegradable 40% of country. Sales, he says, are being done on "methodical" market -by- market basis, but Gerber expects above 90% coverage for its September More than 200 guests were in attendance at a party Saturday, Feb. 9, given by 1991 launch. Gerber also said half - Twentieth Television to celebrate the 100th episode of L.A. Law. The cast and hour, late night talk show, Johnny creative staff of the series, including show creator Steven Bochco, were joined by B. ..On the Loose, has over 50% cov- NBC executives, including NBC Chairman Bob Wright and NBC Entertainment erage and is firm go for June 24 launch. President Warren Littlefield. The episode will air March 28. Shown below: Bochco; "Preproduction is going to begin Littlefield; Wright; David Kelley and Rick Wallace, executive producers, L.A. Law, May 1, and the program, when it goes and Harris Katleman, president, Twentieth Television. into production, will be day -and- date." Gerber said.

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Mela-sitrrTELEVISION INCORPORATED sition wouldn't do," said one source WIRE(LESS) FRAUD close to situation. But source also said TCI was helped by fact that Wash- ne indication that wireless cable may be heading for big time is dramatic ington's attention was turned elsewhere O rise in fraudulent MMDS applications. Wireless Cable Association is because of war, allowing it to man - expected to file petition with FCC shortly to help stem tide. Problem, as WCA uver more freely in effectively quashing and FCC see it, is that mills have flooded FCC with applications (with hopes H. A. V.E.S's buy of TLC. of financial settlement from earnest wireless operators) causing severe delays in processing legitimate applications. It was believed October 1990 change from 60 -day filing window to one -day filing window would put end to mills, New post hut loophole has allowed for filing of multiple, mutually exclusive applica- Rep firm Katz Communications is tions for MMDS licenses. Mills in business are allegedly telling applicants expected to name Jay Friesel vice presi- that post -filing settlement guarantees them share of new license that can, in dent and general manager, Katz Con- turn, be sold to operators. WCA petition would prohibit "out -of-FCC" tinental Television. Friesel is currently settlement of any kind at any time. There is growing belief that mill practice vice president and national sales circumvents federal and state securities laws. Mississippi Department of State manager, Continental Southeast Group. has launched investigation into practice of company WCA considers mill, Applied Telemedia Engineering & Management. U.S. Federal Trade Com- mission also is believed to be investigating mills. Word also has it that several DENVER states are paying closer attention to firms specializing in marketing of wireless applications. Doing deal Twentieth Century Fox and Tele- also scheduled regional meetings Services over TCI's position on Learn- Communications Inc. hope to sign with local affiliate salespeople in 15 citing Channel carriage that caused agreement this week covering must ies, set for March 5 -14. H. A. V.E.S. to back off its bid for ser- carry, channel positioning and white vice. That move made way for Dis- area carriage of Fox programing on covery Channel, 49% owned by TCI, to TCI systems. Deal would bring Fox pro- NEW YORK purchase TLC. TCI, which "suggest- graming to more than 700,000 ICI ed" to its systems that they drop TLC subscribers in areas where there is no Business as usual and put on Mind Extension Universi- Fox affiliate, and solidify Fox station There appears to be little bad blood ty, and later saying systems themselves channel carriage on ICI cable systems. between Tele- Communications Inc. and could decide on carriage, "didn't do Separate Fox cable feed is targeted Hearst/ABC- Viacom Entertainment anything somebody else in the same po- for launch April 1.

CONFLICTING INTERESTS: AKIN GUMP VS. GARDNER A dispute between Washington communications lawyer Association of America. Pt Mickey Gardner and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, According to Akin Gump, Gardner voluntarily disclosed the firm with which he served for eight years, broke into the the Keating payments to the firm in April 1990, then left in open last week in connection with allegations that Gardner June to open his own law firm representing, among others, received $1.5 million in fees from former S &L tycoon the coalition of Hollywood producers opposing changes in Charles Keating that were unreported to the firm. the financial interest and syndication rules. Akin Gump has Principals were reluctant to discuss the matter publicly. never sought to recover the fees in question. "That would Keating was an Akin Gump client in the mid- 1980's, until a have been preposterous," Gardner said, because of the conflict developed over his attempt to buy Gulf Broadcasting firm's practices as he understood them to be regarding senior stations. Gulf was an Akin Gump client in Texas. The firm partners. says it continued to represent Keating on other matters; The allegations concerning Gardner first broke in the San Gardner, however, says the break between Keating and Akin Francisco Chronicle Feb. 6. Writer George Williamson said Gump was clear cut at the time, and that his own association Gardner interceded in behalf of Lee Henkel's candidacy for with Keating was as a consultant and not as a lawyer. the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, an appointment backed The income to Gardner from Keating during that period is by Keating. The checks by Keating to Gardner were said to in dispute. Gardner contends that Akin Gump partners are have been written during that period. Gardner denies ever allowed to handle clients on their own, and that the firm's approaching the White House or the Hill in Henkel's behalf, bylaws are deliberately silent on the matter in order to allow although he admits to advising him, as a long -time personal such outside representation. Akin Gump agrees that the friend (since 1972), about his desire to become the board's document is silent but says it's a "given" that partners chairman. One former White House official familiar with the cannot hold back income for any professional service without Henkel nomination process told BROADCASTING he knew of specific prior approval. no Gardner involvement in the.candidate's behalf. Gardner says he decided to leave Akin Gump because of FCC Commissioner James Quello, asked about Gardner's continued difficulties over client conflicts. In addition to the effectiveness on the eighth floor, said: "He's always been Keating matter, he was forced to refuse a telephone account very open, candid and honest with me. I'd give him a high because of AT &T and to turn aside independent producers grade for ethical and effective conduct. There is no hanky - because of Akin Gump's representing the Motion Picture panky with this guy."

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Indicates new listing or changed item. Gulf Has Knocked Ott the Front Page," brown which local advertising sales professionals bag lunch with Meg Vaillancourt, reporter, can take advantage of complementary demo- THIS WEEK WGBH -TV Boston, sponsored by Harvard Uni - graphics to enhance their sales revenues." versin's John F. Kennedy School of Government. San Francisco. Information: Mark Mersky. Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press. Poli- (212) 210 -9714. Feb. 17 Advertising Agency General tics and Public Policy. Taubman 275, Harvard, -20- Feb. 20- "The Role of the Media in the Per- Program, by American Cambridge, Mass. Information: (617) 495- Management sponsored sian Gulf War," featuring Marvin Kalb and Gor- Association Advertising Agencies. The Lodge, 8269. of don Manning, consultants to NBC News, spon- Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Information: (212) Feb. 19-20-North Carolina CATV Association sored by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy 682 -2500. winter meeting. Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Re- School of Government, Joan Shorenstein Barone Feb. 17-21--Technology studies seminar for search Triangle Park, N.C. Information: Kelly Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. educators. sponsored by Gannett Foundation Edwards, (919) 821 -4711. Taubman 275, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. In- Media Center. Columbia University, journalism formation: (617) 495 -8269. Feb. 19-24-Museum of Broadcasting pre- building, Gannett Center, New York. Informa- sents "Vladimir Horowitz at Carnegie Hall" and Feb. 20- 24-"Harry Porterfield: Broadcast tion: (212) 280 -8392. "In Celebration of the Piano." Museum, New Journalist," screenings at Museum of Broadcast Feb. 18- Deadline for entries in Charles E. York. Information: (212) 752 -4690. Communications, including "An Afternoon with Scripps Awards of National Journalism Harry Porterfield," on Feb. 23. Museum, Chica- Feb. 20-National Academy of Television Arts Awards, sponsored by Scripps Howard Founda- go. Information: (312) 987 -1500, and Sciences, New York chapter, drop -in lun- tion, open to newspapers, television and radio cheon. Topic: "Programing for the Niche of the Feb. 21- Federal Communications Bar Associa- stations and local cable systems for outstand- 90's." Speaker: Brooke Bailey Johnson, vice tion monthly luncheon. Speaker: Peter Jen- ing efforts to combat illiteracy in their commu- president, programing and production, Arts & nings, ABC's World News Tonight. Washington nities. Information: (513) 977 -3035. Entertainment Network. Copacabana, New Marriott, Washington. Information: (202) 833- Feb. 19- Seminar exploring "critical issues in York. 2684. black radio," music format, sponsored by Mu- Feb. 20- "Triple Demo Power," local ad sales Feb. Broadcast Pioneers seum of Broadcasting. Museum, New York. Infor- 21- Golden Mike workshop sponsored by A &E, ESPN and Life- Award mation: (212) 752 -4690. dinner. Recipient: WOAI(AM) San Anto- time, basic cable networks, to "demonstrate nio. Plaza Hotel, New York. Information: (212) Feb. 19 -"What Coverage of the Persian dynamic, innovative and creative ways in 586 -2000.

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Feb. 27 -March 1 -Texas Cable Show, spon- Atlanta. Future convention: May 27-30, 1992, Sept. 25-28 - Radio- Television News Directors sored by Texas Cable TV Association. San An- Phoenix. Association international conference and exhi- tonio Convention Center, San Antonio, Tex. bition. Denver. May 22 -23-NBC -TV annual affiliates meeting. March 6.9-22nd annual Country Radio Semi- Marriott Marquis, New York. Oct. 1- 3- Atlantic Cable Show. Atlantic City nar, sponsored by Country Radio Broadcast- Convention Center, Atlantic City, N.J. Informa- ers. Opryland Hotel, Nashville. Information: May 29-31- CBS -TV annual affiliates meeting. tion: (212) 673 -9166. (615) 327 -4487 Waldorf Astoria, New York. Oct. 3-6-Society of Broadcast Engineers fifth June American Advertising Federation March 2447 -National Cable Television 8-11- annual national convention. Houston. Informa- Asso- national advertising conference. Opryland, ciation annual convention. New Orleans Con- tion: 1-800- 225 -8183. Nashville. vention Center, New Orleans. Oct. 10-14, 1991 -MIPCOM, international film June 9-13 -1991 Public Broadcasting Service April 7- 9- Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau and program market for N, video, cable and meeting. Walt Disney World Dolphin, Orlando, 10th annual conference. Marriott Marquis, New satellite. Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. York. Fla. Information: (703) 739 -5000. Information: (212) 689 -4220. meeting. April 15.18- National Association of Broad- June 11- 13-ABC -TV annual affiliates Oct 26.30- Society of Motion Picture and Tele- Plaza, Los Angeles. casters 69th annual convention. Las Vegas Con- Century vision Engineers 133rd technical conference and equipment exhibit. Los Angeles. Future vention Center, Las Vegas. Future conventions: June 13-18 -17th International Television Sym- conference: Nov. 11 -14, 1992. Metro Toronto Las Vegas, April 13-16, 1992, and Las Vegas. Technical Exhibition. Montreux, posium and Convention Center, Toronto. April 19 -22, 1993. Switzerland. Oct. 27- 30-Association of National Advertis- June 16-19-Broadcast Promotion and Mar- April 19.24- MIP -TV, international television ers 82nd annual convention. Biltmore, Phoenix. program marketplace. Palais des Festivals. keting Executives & Broadcast Designers Asso- Cannes, France. Information: (212) 750 -8899. ciation annual conference. Baltimore Conven- Nov. 15-20 -Television Bureau of Advertising tion Center, Baltimore. Information: (213) 465- annual meeting. Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas. 21- Broadcast Cable Financial Man- April 24- 3777. agement Association 31st annual convention. Nov. 20-22 - Western Cable Show, sponsored Century Plaza, Los Angeles. Future conven- June 18-21- National Association of Broad- by California Cable TV Association. Anaheim tions: April 22-25, 1992, New York Hilton, New casters summer board meeting. NAB headquar- Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif. York, April 1993, Buena Vista Pal- ters, Washington. and 28 -30, Jan. 7- 10-Association of Independent Tele- ace, Lake Buena Vista. Fla. July 24-27-Cable Television Administration vision Stations annual convention. San Francis- May 15-18- American Association of Advertis- and Marketing Society annual conference. co. ing Agencies annual convention. Greenbrier, Opryland, Nashville. Jan. 31 -Feb. 1, 1992- Society of Motion Pic- White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Aug. 25-27- Eastern Cable Show, sponsored ture and Television Engineers 26th annual tele- May 15-19-Annual public radio conference, by Southern Cable Television Association. At- vision conference. Westin St. Francis, San Fran- sponsored by National Public Radio. Sheraton, lanta. cisco. New Orleans. Sept. 11 -14 -Radio '91 convention, sponsored Jan. 20-24, 1992 -29th NATPE International May 16-19-American Women in Radio and by National Association of Broadcasters. San convention. New Orleans Convention Center, Television 40th annual convention. Omni Hotel, Francisco. New Orleans.

14 oalaiaak keadoasfiae Feb 18 14'11 CANDID FACT It takes top stations and great time penods Feb. 21-National Academy of Television Arts as part of Smithsonian Resident Associate Pro- Hour: The Thief' " and "General Electric The- and Sciences trustees awards dinner and cere- gram's "The Media and Society." Speaker: ater: 'I'm a Fool.'" Museum, New York. Infor- mony. Recipient of Trustees Award: Ted Tom Brokaw, NBC News. Smithsonian, Wash- mation: (212) 752 -4690. Turner, Turner Broadcasting System. Marriott ington. Information: (202) 357 -3030. Feb. National Press Foundation annual Marquis Hotel, New York. Information: Trudy 27- Feb. "Acquisition Financing and Workout awards dinner, including presentation of B. Wilson, (212) 586 -8424. 26- Sol of Broadcast Properties," seminar sponsored Taishoff Award for excellence in broadcasting Feb. 21 -23-- Louisiana Association of Broadcast- by Federal Communications Bar Association, Con- to Roone Arledge, president, ABC News and ers annual convention. Embassy Suites Hotel, tinuing Legal Education Committee. Washington Sports. Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washing- Baton Rouge, La. Information: (504) 383 -7486. Marriott, Washington. Information: (202) 833- ton. Information: (202) 662-7350. 2684. Feb. 21- 23-Society of Broadcast Engineers re- Feb. 27- National Academy of Television Arts gional conference. Sportsmen's Lodge. Los Feb. 26- Deadline for entries in 18th annual and Sciences, New York chapter, drop -in lun- Angeles. Information: (213) 871 -4660. Daytime Emmy Awards competition, spon- cheon. Topic: "Entering 'The Wonder Years': sored by Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Turner Program Services Status in the Grand Feb. 21 -28- -C -SPAN invitational seminar for and National Academy of Television Arts and Sci- Scheme of Syndication." Speaker: Russ Barry, general managers and managers in communi- ences. Information: Trudy Wilson or Nick Nich- president, Turner Program ty relations, government relations, marketing Services. Copaca- olson. (212) 586-8424. bana, New York. Information: (212) 768-7050. and programing. C -SPAN, Washington. Infor- mation: Pat Daniel, (202) 626 -4853. Feb. 26- "Televised Retailing New Business Feb. 27 -March 1 -Texas Cable Show, spon- Expo," sponsored by Cable Television Adminis- sored by Texas Cable TV Association. San Anto- Feb. 22- "Triple Demo Power," local ad sales tration and Marketing Society. San Antonio, Tex. nio Convention Center, San Antonio. Informa- workshop sponsored by ME, ESPN and Life- Information: (703) 549 -4200. tion: (512) 474 -2082. time, basic cable networks, to "demonstrate dynamic, innovative and creative ways in Feb. 26-A brown bag lunch with Robert Feb. 27 -March 3- 1Visions From the Twilight which local advertising sales professionals Novak, CNN, sponsored by Harvard Universi- Zone," screenings at Museum of Broadcast Com- can take advantage of complementary demo- ty's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Joan munications. MBC, Chicago. Information: (312) graphics to enhance their sales revenues." Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics 987 -1500. Dallas. Information: Steve Raymond, (303) and Public Policy. Taubman 275, Harvard, Feb. "Things to Say or Not To Say to a 740-8940. Cambridge, Mass. Information: (617) 495- 28- Casting Director," drop -in breakfast spon- 8269. Feb. 22-23- National Academy of Television Arts sored by National Academy of Television Arts and and Sciences trustees meeting. 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Information: tion: (213) 851 -7372. held in cooperation with Los Angeles Sports (202) 337 -3603. Council. Among speakers: Seth Abraham, Feb. 28 -March "Cable Television Law: Liv- president, Time Warner Sports, and John Se- 1- ing with Reregulation." program sponsored by verino, president, Prime Ticket Network. Bev- Practising Law Institute. PLI Training Center, ALSO IN FEBRUARY erly Hilton, Los Angeles. Information: (301) New York. Information: (212) 765 -5700. 986 -7800 or (212) 502 -5306. Feb. 24- 26-Cable Television Administration and Marketing Society leadership conference. Feb. 26-28-Pay-per-call 900 programing, Washington. Information: (703) 5494200. conference and expo sponsored by Virgo Pub- MARCH lishing, Scottsdale, Ariz. Speakers include Paul Feb. Academy of Television Arts and Sci- 25- FitzPatrick, Weather Channel; J.C. Sparkman, ences forum luncheon. 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IN SEPTEMBER 1990, THERE WERE 15 GAME SHOWS ON THE AIR. Broadcastingo

Founder and Editor Sol TaishoI (1904-1952) 1705 DeSales Street N.W.. Washington, D.C. 200.36 OPEN 1111kE Phone: 202 -659-2340 Editorial Far 202 -429-0651 o Administrative Fax 202-331-17'32o Advertising Fax 202 -293.3278

Lawrence B. Talshof, publisher. Editorial Donald V. West, editor. Mark K. Miller, managing editor. Harry A. Jessell, senior editor. the revenue base is to be divided 14 Kira Greene, John S. Eggerton, ENTRY LEVEL assistant managing editors. ways instead of four? If a market pres- Susan J. Dillon, associate editor. EDITOR: The Jan. 14 "In Brief' column ently has 15 stations, then Eureka 147 Washington carried a Mass Media Bureau item that will require that two transmitters be in- Man Stump, Kim McAvoy, A. Adam Glenn (international), associate editors. 227 staions have gone dark over the last stalled, producing a surplus of 13 chan- Randall M. Sukow (technology), Peter D. lambert, two years, including 175 AM's and 17 nels. If these are then filled, the reve- assistant editors. Patrick J. Sheridan, Janet Sullivan, staff writers. FM's. nues available for the original stations Marsha L. Bell, editorial assistant I notice that the National Black Media may be almost halved. David R. Borudd, art director. Todd F. Bowie, ed tonal production supervisor. Coalition and others have just gone on Eureka 147 does not consider subur- Denise P. Smith, production. record requesting that thousands of new ban services. Either these services must New York stations be introduced and that the ma- be included in the major market trans- 630 Taro n.e '00r 1 2 12 599-2830:Fax:2l2-599 -2837 Geoff Folsle, chief correspondent. jority be made available for minority mitter system, or a ring of suburban Stephen McClellan, chief correspondent (programing). ownership. This would have disastrous transmitters be established around each Lucia Cobo, radio editor (East Coast). Rich Brown, Joe Flint, Sharon D. Mosluvl, staff writers. consequences for all ownerships. market. Since most DAB systems either Hollywood Perhaps I'm missing something, but provide perfect reception, or none at all, 1680 N Nru, 51 90028, 213- 463 -3148. Fax 213-463 -3159 stations are going dark and if large num- suburban stations will either be fully in- Steve Coe, assistant editor. Mike Freemen, staff writer. bers of stations are for sale today, as I cluded or fully excluded from the central Reed E. Bunzel, radio editor (West Coast), 408 -625 -3076. know they are, what prevents a minority urban markets. There is no "weaker sig- Business from owning an existing station? nal" with DAB. Kenneth W. Taishoff, general manager Are we suggesting that increased mi- Eureka 147 is a European develop- Philippe E. Boucher, controller. John M. Arena, assistant controller. nority ownership means free stations or ment. Much of the equipment will be Tracy Henry, systems manager. ones at very little cost? I do not believe supplied by vendors such as Philips, Albert Anderson, office manager Poli F. Noyes, personnel administrator. that a case can be made today that radio Marconi and Telefunken, which are Rhonda Moon, accounting assistant stations are not available to any individ- EBU associates and have a head start, Advertising ual, regardless of race, creed or color, not by Continental, Hams, QEI or BE. Washington 202-659 -2340 who is willing to take the same financial The receivers will be manufactured in Robert (Skip) Tash, VP advertising sales. risks as the rest of us have done. the Orient. The small fraction of equip- Doris Kelly, sales service manager. Mitzi Miller, classified advertising manager. My first station was a small AM. ment that will be manufactured in the New York Gathering the dollars to buy it was pain- United States will require substantial 2t2- 599-2830 Joseph E. Ondnck. East Coast regional sales manager ful. There was no easy way. I suggest royalties to be paid (through NAB) to Rand B. Teitelbaum, sales manager. Lewis Edge a Associates (Southern regional and East that the same should remain true today, the foreign patent holders. If the Eureka Coast regardless of race, creed or color. -Tom 147 system is used here, the licensor equipment) 609 -683-/900: tax. 609-497-0412 Dave Berlyn a Associates: 914-631 -6468. Joyner, president, Joyner Communica- will easily recover the $47 million in- Maallyn Calloway, receptionist. tions Inc., Cary, N.C. vested by the Europeans just from the Hollywood 213- 463-3148 United States application of their inven- John R. Russet, West Coast regional sales manager. tions, while the Europeans' intention Sandra Klausner, editorial- advertising assistant. PROBLEMS WITH EUREKA Schiff a Associates (Western equipment was to develop a government-broadcast- and engncenng) 213.393.9285: fair 213 -393 -2381 EDITOR: The selection of the European ing- by- satellite system for their own Circulation Broadcast Union's Eureka 147 as the use. Kwennn K. Keenan, circulation manager. Patricia Waldron, data entry manager. National Association of Broadcasters With the investment of a couple of Aretha L. Williams, Maureen Sharp, Thomas Simms, "best hope" digital audio broadcasting million dollars and two years' time, the Wayne Byers, circulation assistants system ( "NAB goes for the brass ring United States (together with Canada and Production with DAB," Feb.4) portends disaster Mexico) can easily develop a DAB sys- Harry Stevens, production manager. David N. Whitcomb*, publishing consultant for radio as we know it. Eureka 147 is a tem properly suited to the needs of inde- Corporate Relations fine digital system for government spon- pendent commercial broadcasters. The Patricia A. Vance, director. sored satellite broadcasting, but in American system will equitably accom- Catherine F. Friday, secretary to the publisher. America Eureka 147 is a square peg in a modate all existing stations, deliver the The Broadcasting Yearbook round hole. quality, convenience, and multipath im- David Seyler, manager. Eureka 147 requires the clustering of munity desired by the listener, not vastly Joseph A. Esser, associate editor 14 at each transmitter. All Francesca Tedesco, Any Thew*e, Angelo Callahan, programmes increase the number of services in mar- editorial assistants the programs will have identical cover- kets, and open up new business such as Advertising Representative age. A small market with four stations, digital SCA, FAX and multipoint data. Japan (06) 925 -4452, fax. (06) 925 -5005. for example, would have 10 "spare " This is not the time for American in- channels. The FCC's longstanding poli- stitutions to again sell out to foreign Broadcasting Publications Inc. cy of "more services are better" will interests for a brass ring when we should A Times Mirror Business Publication require that the additional channels be go for the gold for ourselves.-Edward Lawrence B. Taishoft, president. filled with additional services. How are A. Schober, consulting engineer, Had- Kenneth W. Talshot, senior vice president Donald V. West, senior vice president. the four existing services to succedd if don Heights, N.J. Philippe E. Boucher, vice president.

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The other day a rep from a national- This same philosophy holds true for ly recognized television rep firm infomercial time. This unique broadcast met with me over coffee. We were strategy has become increasing popular, meeting for the first time. Because I am so much so that availabilities have got- a TV direct marketer, he wanted to get ten extremely tight and rates have sky- to know me better in the hopes I would rocketed. Just like the shorter -formatted spend some money on his station list. direct response commercials, we're not Before I had the mug to my lips, his looking for prime time access. Infomer- questions started to fly: cials work very well in late fringe, late What was my target market? What's night and on weekends. And these info - my budget? What are my target's psy- mercials are far more profitable to a chographics? station than most syndicated programs "Wait a minute!" I exclaimed. could ever be. "Don't complicate things!" watch TV for two reasons, entertain- You see, stations don't pay program Sales calls to television direct market- ment and boredom. fees for infomercials, and all of the ers are probably the simplest calls a rep Direct marketers want their message available spot inventory is immediaetly can make. For the most part, we are not to air when consumers are watching tele- sold out with an infomercial. This is a interested in ratings, cumes or even psy- vision out of boredom. During these very clean sale. In addition, since info - chographics. We want a fair price and a times we have found that consumers are mercials are usually less than 30 minutes low preemption rate. We want the times less involved in the actual program con- long, this still leaves time for stations to of the day and days of the week that are tent and more willing to make a tele- air make -goods or station promos. in the lowest demand from your general phone call. Infomercials work on the same "pay- advertisers. None of this requires re- Think about your own viewing habits. ing out" goals discussed earlier. Once search, presentations or time consuming The boredom periods are never in prime enough orders or leads have been gener- sales calls. We really aren't that de- time. The periods ated, the slot can be manding. we want tend to be "Sales calls to renewed. And be- Instead, television direct marketers late night, week- cause there isn't a have a more specific and immediate ends and late fringe. television direct budget, we can test goal -paying out. Simply, we must gen- We're looking for marketers are another day or an- erate enough orders or leads to pay for old movies, syndi- other daypart. This the advertising or we cannot renew a cated sitcoms or probably the can lead from a sin- schedule. There isn't any budget. As drama series. simplest calls a rep gle infomercial air- long as we pay out, we will continue to Entertainment ing to several air- spend money on a station -any station. programing is gen- can make." ings per week, per Television marketers have a specific erally prime time, station. dollar amount reserved per unit, or per sports and news, all dayparts we tend to And now comes the really easy lead, for advertising. For example, a shy away from. part...the easy money. The next time widget may sell for $29.95, of which Our schedules also tend to be ordered you call in the "big order" with a "big $12 is reserved for advertising expense. ROS (run of station). However, some percentage" to one of your stations from A schedule consisting of 10 spots for a stations abuse this system and provide a a general advertiser client, take advantge total cost of $1,200 must generate 100 poor rotation. So I recommend ROS but of the moment. Make it a dual effort. sales. If we sell the 100 (or more, if footnote it with suggested areas with a Negotiate from strength -the national possible), the marketer has paid for all specific and reasonable number of spots sales manager is on a high. So now is of the product costs, advertising ex- to air within each. the time to call in a favor and ask for a penses, telemarketing and administrative Two words on preemptions-limit "special" package or a couple of info - costs and made a profit. them! Schedules "blown out" are far mercial avails for your direct response Simply, the formula for television di- too common. Reasonable preemption client. This is the opportunity for all of rect marketing success (evaluation) is: rates are tolerable, but anything over us to test something new. total dollars spent divided by the total 35% is probably not worth my time or When using this dual -effort method, orders received will result in a dollar yours. It's better not to accept the order you don't need to make special calls. It's value that must be equal to or less than under those conditions. good time management. our advertising budget per unit (or per At the end of each flight we need to Think about it...if we can get 10 of lead). know exactly which spots aired. This your stations to "pay out" and bill just Now you can better understand what I factor becomes essential for renewal. $1,500 per week on each of them, you'll mean when I say we haven't any true With it we calculate the advertising cost be adding three -quarters of a million budget to spend. per unit (remember the formula de- dollars to your annual billing. Now, As far as dayparts are concerned, re- scribed earlier) to determine if we can isn't that much simpler than psychogra- member this simple analogy: consumers afford to renew. phics? rt Monday Memo Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 ...... ------db. IL ....------...... ------...... ------...... ------...... --- -Ib. -......

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KPIX - SAN FRANCISCO 9:00 AM 3.9/15 # 1 ,67% from lead in !

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WBZ - BOSTON 3:00 PM 3.6/11 O Rank up from #3 to #2 !

WRC - WASHINGTON, D.C. 9:30 AM 2.2/9 +13% from lead -in !

from Nov. '90 TP share ! - KXAS DALLAS 11:30 AM 4.1/11/ +10% Rank up from #4 to #3 !

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WTVJ - MIAMI 9:30 AM 2.6/10 +25% from Nov '90 TP share !

KMOV - ST LOUIS 8:30 AM 4.8/16 # 2 in time period !

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WHITE HOUSE SENDS LOUD AND CLEAR FIN -SYN SIGNAL Sununu letter stresses President's desire for FCC to avoid 'unnecessary government interference' in new rules; Barrett forsakes Hollywood proposal

White House Chief of Staff John she said, it will have no comment on it. cording to sources, Andrew Barrett has Sununu last Friday weighed The Sununu letter was aimed at clari- rejected the two -step negotiating solu- into the raging battle over the fying and affirming a passage in the 411 - tion to fin -syn favored by Hollywood as financial interest and syndication rules, page annual report of the President's "too regulatory and too complicated," underscoring in a letter to Capitol Hill Council of Economic Advisers, which according to FCC sources. Asked to the President's interest in seeing the was released last Tuesday. "Govern- comment on that report, Barrett tersely FCC resolve the issue in line with his ment restrictions on ownership, carriage confirmed it: "I was never a supporter "aversion" to govern- of it." ment regulation of busi- Without Barrett, the nesses. two -step option appears "The President has dead. Commissioner repeatedly stated his Sherrie Marshall is still aversion to unnecessary pushing the idea, but she government interference was counting on Barrett with private markets and for one of the three votes his desire to continue the she and the option need deregulatory spin efforts to carry the day. he led in the Reagan - The two -step option Bush administration," would allow networks to said Sununu in response negotiate for financial to the letter from House interest in programs Telecommunications from outside producers, member Michael Oxley but only after they have (R- Ohio). "And he has agreed to license the pro- made equally clear his The FCC is under intense scrutiny as the March 14 vote grams for network air. opposition to the govern- on the new tin -syn rules approaches. The only other comment's picking winners and losers -to or syndication or programing inhibit missioner who has even been consider- regulatory or other policies that favor or competition, reduce efficiency and are ing the two -step option has been Ervin protect particular competitors at the ex- generally an effective means of address- Duggan. According to sources, he was pense of competition. ing any problems of market power that not enamored of the option, but saw it as "The President expects his appointees may exist in these markets," it said in the only viable way of preventing the at the departments and agencies to carry part. networks from unfairly extracting rights out these principles in their particular In another development, a group of from program producers. spheres to the extent they can do so communications policymakers on the FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes and FCC consistent with legal framework enacted Hill led by House Energy and Com- Commissioner James Quello long ago by Congress," Sununu said. merce Chairman Ernest Hollings (D- rejected the two -step proposal and are The letter delivers a severe blow to Mich.) wrote Sikes reaffirming that now looking at plans built around a cap Hollywood producers arguing for preser- Congress desires to leave resolution of on the percentage of prime time pro- vation of tough fin -syn regulations to fin -syn to the FCC and, in essence, graming in which the networks could protect them from what they see as the pledging not to interfere. "Your deci- obtain financial interest and syndication undue market power of the networks. At sion should not be guided by private rights. least that was the way the networks, interests, nor by your perceptions of the With prospects for the two -step fad- which have been pushing for no regula- ability of either the networks or the pro- ing, Quello was attempting to fill the tion, were reading it. "The Bush admin- duction community to create political vacuum with his transitional 50 -50 plan, istration has confirmed its clear commit- consequences to your actions," the let- which has already won the qualified sup- ment to competition over regulation," ter says. port of Sikes. "There are elements of said George Vradenburg, CBS senior Hollywood and network lobbyists em- the plan that are very consistent with my vice president -general counsel. braced the letter as supportive of their views," the chairman said. Reached late last Friday, Barbara position, while Hill sources and FCC The Quello plan would allow the net- Dixon, a spokeswoman for the Coalition officials took it as a declaration of neu- works to acquire financial interest and to Preserve the Financial Interest and trality. syndication rights in up to 50% of their Syndication Rule, said the coalition had Meanwhile, Hollywood's position at prime time programing. It would impose not seen the Sununu letter. Until it does, the FCC appeared to be eroding. Ac- no cap on in -house productions and

Broadcasting Feb 1$ 1,91 Tap if the MA 27 would allow the networks to syndicate all they produce. In calculating the hours of programing COUNTDOWN TOFIN -SYN it could acquire interest in, a network Y would have to subtract the hours of pro- ss °R° ° j graming produced in- house. The twist is T D4Y ° intended to insure that some portion of ,, %// each network's schedule will contain - c programs in which the network has no !- interest. 'J To protect independent television stations, Quello's plan also proposes to prohibit network syndicators from "war- ehousing" off-network programs- JAN F E B M A R withholding them for the syndication -`"11 market -and from selling programs to - -- . 14 their owned -and -operated stations. Most important, all the restrictions would sunset after several years. etwork sources assumed FCC Commissioner Sherrie Marshall was taking Because of Sikes's support, parts of N a reading of the Bush administration's fin -syn attitudes in the wake of a the Quello plan are likely to turn up in Council of Economic Advisers report when she had breakfast with the Office the preliminary draft of the fin -syn order of Management and Budget's William Diefenderfer and Janet Hale at the that FCC staffers were racing to assem- White House last Wednesday. But Marshall says fin -syn wasn't on the menu. ble last week for delivery to the commis- The only business she discussed with her "old friends," she said, had to do sioners this Wednesday (Feb. 20). with cable and telco regulation. The staff is already disposed towards Even if Congress and the White House adhere to their hands -off policies, a schedule cap option. In an options fin -syn will more than likely continue to live on after the FCC's March 14 paper circulated among the commission- vote. First of all, one or more disgruntled parties will probably petition the ers last month, it scored well. FCC for reconsideration, a review process that could take several months. Quello and his staff have been trying After that, it could also be taken to the U.S. Court of Appeals. to rally support for their plan. Given Diane Killory, former FCC general counsel now representing the Coalition Marshall's known antipathy toward a to Preserve FISR, said she would leap at the opportunity to challenge a new schedule cap, they could save time by fin -syn rule built around the 50% cap advocated by FCC Chairman Alfred skipping her office. "I'm highly skepti- Sikes and Commissioner James Quello. Such a rule would be "difficult to cal about the plan," she said, adding sustain" before the U.S. Court of Appeals, she said. If the FCC concludes that it is abitrary and would be "difficult "regulatory intervention" is needed to protect producers, she said, "how do to administer." you justify turning half the schedule into a free -for-all ?" Barrett and Duggan, the other possi- FCC Commissioner Andrew Barrett hasn't said much about fin -syn beyond ble third votes, declined comment on the reiterating that he will base his vote on the record. Trying to make good on schedule cap plan. that promise, Barrett will be sequestered at local libraries this week and next to In private conservations, according to read the proceeding's voluminous comments. one commissioner, network executives Battling with the Motion Picture Association of America over cable copy - have said they are willing to accede to right law some four years ago, the National Cable Television Association some kind of "percentage -of- schedule" prepared two "white papers" chronicling what the association viewed as the cap if it is tied to a sunset. (The net- major studios' anticompetitive behavior over the years. The first, released in works have little choice, considering November 1986, was entitled, "The Compulsory Cartel: A survey of the that it appears to be the best they are Motion Picture Studios' Drive for Dominance over Program Supply and going to get from the two commissioners Exhibition." It was followed by "How Hollywood is Muscling Independent most sympathetic to their call for relief.) Theaters, Producers and Television Stations." The papers would now be no As the negotiations continue at the more than a footnote if not for the fact that copies have mysteriously appeared FCC in the weeks ahead, the networks on the desks of some FCC staffers writing the fin -syn order. "It just sort of are certain to try to weaken the restric- surfaced," said one of the staffers. Since no one knows the source of the tions in the Quello plan. "The devil is in copies, no one knows the motive behind them, but whoever is responsible is the details," said one network execu- no friend of Hollywood. tive. Many of those involved in the fin -syn fray, along with members of Con - Fox, which is looking for rules that gress and the press, will celebrate fin -syn eve (March 13) as guests of Fox for would allow it to continue to be both a screening of the studio's new film, "Class Action," at MPAA headquarters. network and program syndicator, has Not on the invitation list, however, will be those most involved in fin -syn: mixed feeling about the Quello -Sikes FCC commissioners and staff. Due to rules prohibiting them from talking proposal. According to a Fox source, the about an item with affected parties a week before a vote, Fox felt they would provision giving networks the right to not be comfortable at the gathering. syndicate in -house production gives it Notwithstanding BROADCASTING's "Countdown to Fin -Syn" graphic everything it needs since it has no ambi- above, FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes told reporters last week there is a possibil- tions other than to syndicate programs it ity the fin -syn item could be bumped from the March 14 meeting agenda. produces itself. However, the source Traditionally, any commissioner can postpone an item merely by asking. But, said, the prohibition against selling to Sikes assured reporters, he does not intend to be the one. -RAJ owned and operated stations is a big

2i Tap dlMwog M-iwtliM hU 18 1911 problem. Unlike the O &O's of other The Sununu letter is the upshot of issue a statement saying the CEA report networks, the Fox stations rely heavily three days of high -powered lobbying at was not intended to influence the FCC on off -network fare, and exclusion from the White House that was triggered with proceeding. bidding on any programing would put the release of CEA report. By Thursday afternoon, the White them at a competition disadvantage. In an effort to mitigate the report's House position had become so confused To Hollywood, the percentage of impact, according to sources, Holly- that Oxley wrote Sununu asking for clar- schedule approach is anathema. Jack wood lobbyists -including MPAA's ification. Sununu had a reply on his desk Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Valenti and, possibly, Ken Duberstien, Friday. Copies of the letter were widely Association of America and a spokes- former Reagan White House Chief of circulated. man for the coalition, said the approach Staff, and Craig Fuller, former chief of In retrospect, Hollywood's raid on the "would kill the business. It would put staff for Vice President Bush-went to White House seems to have backfired. every independent producer out of busi- the White House and apparently per- Said one network executive: "Valenti ness." suaded the White House press office to overplayed a nonexistent hand." -IBU,IGA

HUGHES LOOKS TOWARD NEW SKY CABLE INVESTORS Many attribute DBS stalemate to tight economy and program access, some say cost and risk simply too high

Prospects for the launch of Sky Ca- ble, the proposed high -power direct broadcast satellite service to very small antennas in the United States, appeared to dim last week, as Sky Cable permittee Hughes Communications conceded it has begun square-one discussions with a new set of potential investors outside the original Sky Cable group, which last month quietly erased its drawing board. Liberated by "former partners" NBC, News Corp. and Cablevision Sys- tems "to have discussions with other parties regarding DBS," Hughes's discussions with "a few qualified interested parties" outside the original group have become "more formal" this month, said Hughes Vice President Jim Ramo. He declined to describe or cate- gorize those companies in any terms. Ramo said that Primestar-the mid - power Ku -band service launched last fall by nine MSO's and GE Americom- could "perhaps" bring strategic value, as well as equity, to Sky Cable. "But," he said, "we are not now talking with Primestar." As for any further negotiations with its original prospective partners, he said: "There are a set of terms and conditions that would have to be reworked to go ahead. The likelihood" under any fresh Hughes says it will continue to pursue this vision of television's future agreement with those companies, he said, "is that there would be a lower tiations have reached a stalemate. With and out of the group. Many doubted that investment than originally proposed," no federal legislation or business agree- Sky Cable, or any other proponent, when those partners tentatively commitments assuring Sky Cable access to ca- could, in the current economic climate, ted $75 million each. In addition to its ble programing, they said, NBC and raise the $1 billion needed to launch and $75 million share, Hughes alone was to News Corp. remain unlikely to risk tens operate through breakeven, a high -pow- risk another $325 million to build the of millions of dollars to start the 200 - er DBS service -with or without access system (BROADCASTING. Feb. 26, watt, 108- channel service to I8 -inch to programing. Said one broadcast net- 1990). dishes in early 1994. work executive: "The idea is not gone, Although the original group left the If the access issue led the parties to a but the committee of have -nots is gone. door open to a "reconfigured" partner- stalemate, "heavy financing" ended the [News Corp. subsidiary] Fox is gone. ship, they made clear that year-old nego- game, suggested a variety of sources in NBC is gone."

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Top of the Week 29 The "window" to put together the Weighing in with Ramo, Hubbard mer 1991 launch" of the service, "de- "risky" project, said another network said: "I'm sure that Hughes...will go spite delays caused by Comsat Video source, "may have disappeared with the forward with or without" the original Enterprises' failure to comply with its coming of a tough economy; people are partners. Currently negotiating with memorandum of understanding, which really stretched these days." Any recon- Hughes to co- operate DBS services at outlined its desire to join the SkyPix figuration, the source projected, "would the same orbital position, Hubbard noted venture as a strategic partner." Press be on a much smaller scale," not only in that 1990 sales of DBS equipment in reports of the $100 million pre-tax write- terms of each party's upfront invest- Japan, where only two channels are down and staff cuts undertaken by CVE ment, but also in the overall scope and available, reached $3 billion. "You can- parent Comsat (BROADCASTING, Jan. cost of the system. For some, those not prevent a superior technology from 21), said the release, "indicates that doubts extended to SkyPix's ability to happening," he said. CVE and its president Robert Wussler raise the $100 million to $200 million it may not have been in the financial posi- seeks to launch a midpower DBS service Skypix: Schism and doubts tion to begin talks with SkyPix." next summer. In response, CVE Vice President Ar- A week after NBC Cable President In the midpower DBS realm, SkyPix thur Sando said: "From the beginning, Tom Rogers said his company's ardor also showed signs of retrenchment, as we applauded the SkyPix concept. How- for DBS had "substantially cooled" SkyPix President Brian McCauley de- ever, it was SkyPix that did not live up over lack of cable program access legis- ferred public appearances and press in- to the memorandum of understanding. lation (BROADCASTING, Feb. I1), NBC quiries, and the company issued a broad- Furthermore, the restructuring of our ho- Senior Vice President Tom Wolzein side shot at Comsat Video Enterprises, tel business had absolutely nothing to do said: "A lot of issues have been left two months after CVE dropped out of with our activities regarding SkyPix." open. Hughes knows what our issues negotiations to invest $100 million or Asked whether SkyPix, like Sky Ca- are, and that is the best way to leave it." more in the 41 -watt, 80- channel Ku- ble, had also reduced its original $200 Late last week, a News Corp. source band service. million target, and whether it would gain said it is "waiting for a response from In a "news update" release described commitments by its first- quarter 1991 Hughes [on] a new feasibility propos- by a SkyPix spokesman as, in part, an deadline, the spokesman declined com- al." However, the source said, "it real- effort "to officially clarify what we be- ment, insisting, however, that the sum- ly is on the back burner." Late last year, lieve happened," SkyPix last week said mer 1991 launch remains "on tar- News Corp. reached agreements with its it remains "well positioned for a sum- get." -pot bankers to refinance $7.6 billion in non- public debt. In the near future, Murdoch a variety of assets. is expected to sell GULF WAR UPDATE Charles Dolan, chairman of Cablevi- sion, which has viewed access legisla- CNN reported Friday that missing CBS News correspondent Bob Simon and tion as unnecessary, could not be crew were being safely held in Baghdad by the Iraqi government, a report reached for comment. that a CBS News spokesman said corroborates the network's own information. convinced that DBS will be ab- "I'm Simon and his crew- British producer Peter Bluff, U.S. cameraman Robert solutely destroyed if things go on as they Alvarez and Nicaraguan cameraman Juan Caldera-disappeared Jan. 21 while with proponents seeking to control are" traveling without military escort near occupied Kuwait. the programing and consumer equip- CBS News anchor Dan Rather, who travelled to Riyadh last week with ment, as well as satellite operation, said plans to broadcast from the region indefinitely, was scheduled to begin Delbert Smith, Washington attorney and reporting from the Saudi Arabian city on Friday. CBS News and NBC News at DBS expert. "The bankers will not fi- press time had not yet been able to follow the lead of CNN and ABC News in nance all of it," he said. Smith suggest- obtaining visas into Baghdad. ed that only a consortium modeled on Covering the war in the Persian Gulf would likely cost CNN more than American Mobile Satellite Corp. seek- $36 million, or $5 million per month, should the conflict continue into the ing to control only the space segment of spring, according to Ed Turner, vice president of newsgathering for the cable the business could hope to find the mon- network. NBC News President Michael Gartner earlier this month placed the ey to launch DBS in the U.S. and end a broadcast network's war costs since Aug. 2 at $35.7 million. ABC and CBS permits languishing in FCC decade of have not disclosed coverage costs. files. Others suggested that advances in U.S. networks have agreed on new coverage guidelines prohibiting use of video compression technology might on- camera pool reports by one network's correspondent on another network. eventually allow DBS delivery from Exceptions to the new rule would include coverage of any major breaking smaller, less expensive, satellites. developments, such as an initial gas attack, according to NBC News foreign Conceding that a failure to gain the editor John Stack. The new rule was enacted following CNN's use of on- necessary funds to launch Sky Cable camera pool reports by ABC News correspondents. would be damaging for DBS, DBS pio- In other pool developments, network news executives last week were neer Stanley S. Hubbard said that his seeking an expansion of the pool system in the event of a ground war. NBC own United States Satellite Broadcasting News's Stack said the four pools currently assigned to cover the ground action is "not dependent on anyone" and is would be "insufficient" in trying to keep up with military action along the close to reaching its second investment border. agreement with a broadcast station CNN Headline News was forced to evacuate its facilities and temporarily group owner. A year ago, another group go black on Feb. 11, following bomb threats at the cable network's offices in owner, Nationwide Communications, Atlanta and Washington. The network went black for a collective seven and its parent Nationwide Insurance, minutes of commercial breaks during the hour-long evacuation, which ran committed an unspecified to the amount from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET. startup of 200 -watt USSB in 1994.

30 Top of the Week Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 STUNTING WILL LIKELY TURN SWEEPS TIDE In close race, special programing may win day; in that scenario, CBS appears to have upper hand

In what is shaping up to be the clos- est sweeps race in seven years, only two- tenths of a rating point separate first place NBC with a 12.6 rating and ABC and CBS, which are tied behind NBC with a 12.4 rating for the sweeps month as of last Wednesday. The last sweeps month that was this hotly con- tested was the May 1983 ratings period that ended with CBS on top with a 15.1 rating, NBC second with a 14.9 and ABC third with a 14.7. Although half of the month remains, and the order of finish changes almost daily, CBS appears to have the best position for the second half of the month. ABC's 'Whatever Happened CBS's 'And Th e Sea Will Tell' NBC's 'Love, Lies to Baby Jane' and Murder' "The finish will come down to the strength of each network's Sunday and Love, Lies and Murder, left to air. The weekend wraps up with an Ed Sullivan Monday movies," said Larry Hyams, four -hour movie airs Sunday, Feb. 17, special tonight, Monday, Feb. 18. In director, audience analysis, ABC. and Monday, Feb. 18. In addition, NBC addition, CBS still has yet to air its four - Hyams pointed out that the specials and airs a made -for starring Mark Harmon, hour, two-night movie, And the Sea Will movies will make the difference because Long Road Home, on Monday, Feb. 25. Tell, the Grammy awards and the Miss the series strength of each network has The network has aired two made -fors, USA pageant. not enabled any network to pull away The Marla Hanson Story and The "We feel we're in a very good posi- from the pack. "The sweeps to date Chase, as well as a Perry Mason movie. tion, going into the last two weeks in a mirrors the closeness to date of the regu- CBS, meanwhile, still had its nostal- virtual tie with all of our big events still lar season. Basically, it's up to the mov- gia weekend left to air, which kicked off to come," said Poltrack. "We think we ies and minis," he said, adding: "With Saturday night (Feb. 16) with an All in have a significant amount of upside po- the numbers this close, it's anybody's the Family 20th Anniversary Special. A tential, but we also see a possible down- guess." Mary Tyler Moore special was set to air side because we're relying on special CBS's David Poltrack concurred: "I last night, Sunday, Feb. 17, and the events to bring in good numbers." -SC don't think anyone can predict it at this point. It could wind up in a three -way tie." If movies and specials are to be the BETTAG OUT, SORENSON IN AT CBS deciding factor in the sweeps, CBS, based on what product it has left to air, is in an New executive producer expected to revamp evening news enviable position. CBS has managed to remain in the race during the first half of the month, buoyed mainly by the first - Amid intense industry speculation more often and providing on- the -scene place numbers racked up by the Hallmark about the future of its struggling reports in the manner of local newscasts. Hall of Fame Sarah, Plain and Tall. The evening newscast, CBS News Accordingly, Sorenson's station back- made -for, starring Glenn Close, shot last week replaced CBS Evening News ground was believed to be among his down ABC's big gun, the two-part Son of with Dan Rather executive producer key attributes in getting the job. Soren- the Morningstar, which came in third Tom Bettag with CBS This Morning ex- son has served in various capacities at place on Sunday, Feb. 3. In addition to ecutive producer Erik Sorenson. Some KCBS -TV Los Angeles, beginning in the two -part movie, ABC has already observers characterized the move as a 1984 as an executive producer and even- aired the theatrical Big, a Barbara Walters first step toward a revamped evening tually becoming news director, vice special, a special with Joanna Kerns and newscast for the network. president and station manager of the Robert Urich hosting, and a special epi- The suddenness of Sorenson's ap- CBS -owned station. He joined CBS sode of America's Funniest Home Vid- pointment came as a surprise to affili- News in 1977 at network affiliate KFMB- eos. Hyams said that for the remainder of ates, although there had been some indi- Tv San Diego and worked four years at the month, the network will rely on series cation of planned changes just a week WBBM -TV Chicago before moving to Los strength, with only two made -fors, What- earlier at a presentation by CBS News Angeles. Industry observers said his ex- ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Fire: President Eric Ober before affiliate perience at the local level was expected Trapped on the 37th Floor, remaining board members in Washington. Accord- to be a plus in making the newscast and two theatricals, Bull Durham and ing to one station executive, Ober's more responsive to affiliates. Dead Pool, left to air. plans for the evening newscast have CBS affiliates have been growing im- NBC still has its two -part mini -series, called for breaking out of the studio patient with the network's evening

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Top aflM Week 31 newscast, which has consistently placed said, adding: "For years, the evening third in the ratings since the outbreak of news has never paid attention to the lo- war Jan. 16. For the week ending Feb. cal affiliates." 10, CBS's 9.9/18 lagged behind ABC's Philip A. Jones, president of CBS af- World News Tonight with Peter Jen- filiate owner Meredith Broadcasting nings with 12.4/22 and The NBC Nightly Group, said Sorenson's appointment News with Tom Brokaw with 10/18. made sense given diminishing ratings ABC News has held the top spot among and Ober's apparent desire to make his evening newscasts since late 1989, mark on the newscast. while CBS and NBC have been battling "This is one element of steps to im- for second place. prove the evening news, and I applaud Critics have pounced on CBS News them," said R.M. (Mick) Shafbuch, for what many characterized as a slow vice president and general manager, start in covering the outbreak of war. KOIN-TV Portland, Ore., chairman of the The division's problems have spawned a CBS affiliates advisory board. "The number of critical articles examining the program itself is due for an overhaul. future of CBS's evening newscast, in- Erik Sorenson The problem isn't just Dan Rather." cluding speculation that anchor Dan evening news post was believed to have In announcing last week's personnel Rather could be replaced or possibly been from the latter camp, 48 Hours shifts, Ober said the network was poised teamed with female anchor Lesley Stahl executive producer Andrew Heyward. to "lead a new CBS News flagship or Connie Chung. (A CBS News Sorenson, 35, is described by former broadcast" in the 1990's. "I think you spokesman last week insisted there were co-workers as a good manager who will see some changes," said a CBS no plans to add a co- anchor.) Rather has would not hesitate to experiment with News spokesman, "although I can't say more than two years remaining on his $3 the evening newscast and possibly how and when." million -per-year contract with CBS. change some of its staffing. "He's will- Several CBS affiliates gave Sorenson An article in The Wall Street Journal ing to try things and he's not set in his high points for adjustments he had made suggested CBS News staffers had be- ways," said one ex -CBS News staffer. to CBS This Morning since becoming come divided between those, such as One long -time CBS observer said executive producer in October 1989. Rather and Bettag, who were devoted to Bettag's exit represented the removal of Among those changes was the replace- more traditional daily newsgathering, a certain mindset at the evening news- ment of co -anchor Kathleen Sullivan and others who were more focused on cast that has been in place for more than with Paula Zahn, and the addition of prime time news features and specials. 15 years. "Those guys are still trying to such contributors as entertainment re- One of the prime candidates for the top do the news like they did in 1985," he porter Steve Kmetko. Although the show is consistently in third place, said KOIN -TV's Shafbuch, "I'm patient FOX DELAYS NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE enough to know that it takes some time The Fox Broadcasting Co.'s national news service has become a victim of to establish some consistency." the recession. Jamie Kellner, Fox president, confirmed the service has been Prior to arriving at the network, Sor- delayed indefinitely due to Fox affiliates that have decided they can't now enson had mixed success during his proceed with plans to start up local news operations. years with KCBS -TV. The executive col- As spelled out last June, Fox's news service would provide a daily feed of lected more than a dozen Emmys and a packaged national and international news stories that affiliates would incorpo- Peabody Award while at the station, but rate into local nightly newscasts. The plan was contingent on a majority of Fox also created a short- lived, low rated affiliates participating. Currently, less than 24 Fox affiliates have a newscast. "newswheel" at KCBS that was general- Fox hopes to ease the cost burden of local news start-ups by negotiating a ly regarded as a critical failure. lower bulk rate with equipment vendors (Sony or JVC) and other suppliers. Along with naming Sorenson to his Those negotiations are still going on. new post, CBS News selected CBS Eve- Fox had hoped to start the service as early as the second quarter, 1991. In ning News senior producer Susan Zir- fact, the news unit responsible for the service, based in Washington, is now insky as senior broadcast producer of the feeding hourly, nightly Persian Gulf war updates. According to Preston program. Zirinsky replaced 30 -year CBS Padden, Fox senior vice president, affiliate relations, plans still call for some News veteran Bill Crawford who, ac- form of abbreviated news service to start in the second quarter. What form it cording to a CBS News spokesman, is will take remains unclear. being considered for reassignment in the But the severity of the recession will determine when the full service can division. The spokesman added that begin. Last June, Kellner was hoping to have between 80 and 100 affiliates in the CBS This Morning acting executive pro- news business when the service launched. Sources say only about 40 or 50 ducer Ted Savaglio, producer of the affiliates would be ready to take the service this year. Many stations have show, was a leading candidate for the postponed plans to start newcasts, including affiliates in Boston, Cleveland and full time morning position. Cincinnati. "We need to have strong affiliate support" for the news service, said Yet to be determined is the next stop Kellner. "Because of the recession, our plans have been delayed." Kellner said at CBS News for Bettag after five years he did not know when the full news service would roll out. as executive producer of CBS Evening Dennis Thatcher, general manager, Fox affiliate WOIO(TV) Cleveland, con- News and 21 years with the network. firmed the station's decision not to start a news operation as planned this year. "Sitting around wallowing in what's "We're committed to providing news, but sobered by early indications for going on in the politics at CBS makes no [advertising] demand here in 1991," said Thatcher. "It's not a question of if, sense when there's only one thing to be but when. This year? No." done, and that is to concentrate on the war," said Bettag. -s

32 Top of the Week ßeedesliM Fob lt 1l91 DOW JONES -GROUP W BUYING FNN Joint venture believed to be paying up to $90 million for cable and radio networks preparing to file for bankruptcy; possibility NBC could reemerge as bidder

Ajoint venture of Dow Jones and was intentional or accidental, most Westinghouse Broadcasting has agree with one close observer that reached an agreement in princi- FINANCIAL NEWSNETWORK "you haven't heard the last of NBC." ple to purchase the assets of Financial But if NBC does not, or simply News Network, including its cable and chooses not to, acquire FNN, what business radio networks. happens to CNBC is the question on Sources put the price at $90 million much of the cable industry's mind. The which, even when added to the $12.75 common reaction is that if CNBC was million received from the sale of The not able to overtake FNN when it was Learning Channel (see box), is not near- managed by a small company, it will ly enough for FNN to pay off its $88 have an even more difficult time with million in debt to lessors and $54 million two media giants at the helm. in bank loans. The $90 million figure is If the sale goes as planned, Dow Jones- said to be the top -end amount, so the Group W are expected to take over man- price could end up being lower if fewer agement of the channel in early March, assets are purchased. The definitive according to Mike Wheeler, FNN presi- agreement between FNN and Dow Jones- dent. Dow Jones will have daily editorial Group W is expected to be signed in the control over FNN, and Group W will next few weeks. At the same time, FNN handle affiliate sales, advertising sales, will file for bankruptcy protection under marketing, public relations and financial Chapter 11. The banks are said to be first administration. The board will be com- in line to be paid, and it is possible the prise six members, three from each part- lessors may band together to contest the Doug Ramsey on FNN set ner. There are no plans for changing ei- sale, since they will likely get less than ther daytime or prime time programing, half of the money owed them. were also considered in the running for according to Mitzner. With the bankrupt- Even with the definitive agreement FNN, no one other than Group W -Dow cy proceedings though, it seems unlikely signed, the possibility still remains that a Jones and NBC, made a serious offer, that any major changes to the channel bidder-namely CNBC parent NBC- according to sources. Some feel NBC could be implemented until the end of the could emerge at any time during the thought there were no other serious year or the beginning of 1992. No deci- bankruptcy process. That process is ex- bids and kept its price low. Regardless sion has been made on the fate of FNN's pected to take up to three or four months of whether NBC's loss of the channel 325 staffers. -sus to complete, or until shareholders and other creditors have approved the deal. FNN SELLING CHANNEL STAKE TO DISCOVERY Several sources close to the deal caution LEARNING that NBC, which is thought to have bid «o days after Infotechnology reached a preliminary agreement to sell FNN in the neighborhood of $60 million, to Dow Jones and Group W (see above), FNN announced it reached an should not be counted out. NBC, which agreement in principle to sell its 51% stake in The Learning Channel to the according to sources had been courting Discovery Channel for $12.75 million. (The Appalachian Community Service several media and cable companies to Network, which owns 29% of TLC, has also signed off on the deal and join it as a partner, is now trying to Discovery hopes to get the approval of the remaining owners, TLC employes, arrange MSO support should it again which will put the overall purchase price around $26 million.) make a bid. NBC had no comment on Discovery Channel Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Hendricks the transaction, except to say through a said in a statement: "We are developing a plan to dramatically stengthen the spokeswoman that "we are evaluating our strategic alternatives." programing of the Learning Channel." Hendricks has often sketched a future vision of Discovery in which it has several networks under Discovery's broad Dow Jones and Group W got together umbrella serving various programing niches. There have also been published when USA Network partners MCA and reports that Discovery might use the channel to launch, with British media Paramount backed out of a partnership magnate Robert Maxwell, World TV, an international- oriented channel. arrangement with Dow Jones. Dow had When FNN first put the service on the block last fall, Discovery was one of never actually made a bid, simply join- several parties to show interest, but Hearst -ABC Video Enterprises eventually ing in Group W's bid. Until then, Group emerged as the leading bidder, ready to pay $33 million. W had talked with other companies But Hearst couldn't gain a firm continued carriage commitment it desired about joining forces, but held off mak- from Tele- Communications Inc. (which owns 49% of Discovery) for TLC and ing a decision, according to Donald backed out of the deal, allowing Discovery to reenter the bidding. But TO Mitzner, president of Group W Satellite said there is no carriage quid pro quo for TLC now that Discovery owns the Communications. Dow Jones had been network. In fact, several TCI systems have dropped TLC in favor of Mind Group W's first choice, said Mitzner, Extension University, which recently signed a deal with TCI. and when Dow became available "we The parties hope to close by April 30, with the first order of business being both jumped at each other." to prevent any further TLC defections. ass While Time Warner and King World

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 TN aí 1M trswk 33 YEAS AND NAYS OVER EFFECTIVE COMPETITION Comments at FCC on new standards find cable interests predicting dire consequences if adopted, while satellite interests are in favor of them

The vast majority of cable systems" if it satisfies one of three alternative ments of" cable operators. would be subject to local rate reg- standards: its franchise is served by six The Community Antenna Television ulation if the FCC redefines its or more broadcast signals and its pene- Association said that rate regulation is "effective competition" standard, the tration rate is less than 50 %; another "in all likelihood unconstitutional." National Cable Television Association multichannel video provider is available Barring that, CATA said it would be said last week. And that, continued the to at least 50% of homes, and it meets "counterproductive...and is uniquely NCTA in comments filed in the FCC "good actor" qualifications of provid- burdensome on small systems." CATA effective competition rulemaking, ing above -average basic service at be- believes that systems with fewer than "could threaten future improvements in low- average rates (BROADCASTING, 3,500 subscribers should be exempt. cable programing and facilities." Dec. 10, 1990). Because many of the cable com- But the Justice Department backed the Many in the cable industry say if an menters agree with NCTA that "the vast FCC on the six -signal standard and the imperfect law or regulation provides sta- majority of cable systems" clearly do multichannel video test, although it re- bility in the regulatory environment, it not face competition as it may be newly jected the inclusion of a behavorial test would be better than years of instability defined, several comments dealt with ei- that compares prices charged by differ- while perfect laws or regulation are ther changing the proposed definition or ent systems. Any local regulation should sought. Turner Broadcasting expressed assailing the "good actor" standard. have "straightforward, objective tests," this sentiment in its comments, saying: United Artists, Jones Intercable and Justice said, and local authorities should "The view of some [is] that regulatory Viacom said that in the absence of rate bear the burden of proof that no compe- action is needed to avoid enactment of regulation the price of basic cable ser- tition exists. legislation that may be even more dam- vice is "remaining well within the reach The Satellite Broadcasters and Com- aging." But Turner said the "Congres- of most family budgets, while the costs munications Association of America sional process does not require the com- of many other forms of entertainment (SBCA) said competition is the only mission to critically injure basic cable (such as live theater and sports events) way to guarantee improved quality and for the purpose of saving it." soared in the stratosphere." But they reduced rates. The SBCA said the cur- And Continental Cablevision Inc. warned that "any test that puts a 'good rent market does not need rate regula- warned that "stability will not be actor' label on a business has a substan- tion, but suggests instead that the com- achieved ...if the commission adopts un- tial potential for abuse." mission's competitive aims can be met if reasonable or arbitrary tests...that are NCTA said because "cities already it would "energize the competitive envi- unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny." have ample authority under the Cable ronment it so dearly espouses. Comments suggest that the FCC's pro- Act to impose customer service stan- As it is now defined, effective compe- posals may be unconstitutional, and that dards if they choose, the commission tition is based on the existence of three local rate regulation will become tangled should not artificially incorporate such broadcast signals. Under the proposed in local courts. The Competitive Cable standards into its definition of effective redefinition, a system would be said to Association said the FCC's proposals are competition." If the FCC does so any- face "effective competition" and con- "constitutionally suspect...[and] danger- way, NCTA believes that the "good ac- tinue to be exempt from local regulation ously encroach on the free speech entitle- tor" should give "cable operators sufficient flexibility to choose from among various competitive packaging and pric- INDECENCY EXEMPTION FOR NEWS IN ALL BUT NAME ing options and to make investments in technology and programing." FCC Chairman Al Sikes last week stopped just short of declaring an The California Cable Television As- exemption for newscasts from the FCC indecency enforcement, saying the sociation said national rate caps would FCC's dismissal earlier this month of a complaint against National Public hurt systems in states where the cost of Radio's All Things Considered "could be read by some to be a de facto news living was higher, or that are facing state exemption." tax levies on cable. During the broadcast, a tape recorded phone conversation of alleged mob- Programers such as Arts & Entertain- ster John Gotti was played, in which he uses the words "fuck" and "fucking" ment, however, believe the redefinition 10 times. The tape had been introduced as evidence at a Gotti trial. may force operators to place such ser- Material that may be indecent as entertainment may not be as "serious vices on higher, more expensive tiers, or news," Sikes said at an informal press briefing in his office. "In a serious drop them all together. NBC Cable said news context, this material takes on a far different tone and texture and is not the rules would make it more difficult intended to pander or titillate." for new services to launch. The FCC is preparing to dismiss another complaint against WGBH(TV) The National Association of Broad - Boston for a newscast sexually explicit photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe casters took the opportunity to push for on the ground that the broadcast occured after 8 p.m. when the FCC's including signal carriage rules "as part authority to enforce the indecency prohibition is not settled. But even if the of a larger plan to provide some compet- newscast had occurred prior to 8 p.m., Sikes said he would still have itive check on cable systems." The championed dismissal. "I would not have found that to be in violation of the NAB also said the standard for multi- broadcast rules," he said. channel competitors should be expanded from 10% penetration to 33 %. -PIS

34 Top of the Week Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 AT LARGE

THE GOLDENSON TOUCH

"Leonard Goldenson can do no wrong in my eyes," says a senior hand on the Capcities /ABC team. "Without him the rest of us wouldn't be here." No greater praise, perhaps, for the age- defying executive who still keeps an oar in at 77 West 66th. And now he's written a book.

In writing this book, or in going through the process of television. They were using radio as a means of presenting thinking about it, did you come to any idea about what distin- television. Then we came along and said: "Television is more guished ABC from the other networks? like motion pictures, and, therefore, things should be drama- Fortunately, we went after the young families of America, tized, whether they're comedies or whether they're real dra- which CBS and NBC did not do. They stuck pretty well with mas, or what not." I think that distinguished us for the young most of the top talent they had in radio and converted them to families of America.

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 At Largo 35 Basically, 011ie Treyz recommended this. During the first can't operate a network like you run a bank. You've got to be three years, of course, Robert Kintner was outlining the opera- in a position where creative people are given their head. tion, but then we let him go and I brought in 011ie. And I kept They've got to be given the opportunity of expressing them- raising the question with 011ie: How do we crack NBC and selves, and to take chances. he Paul who was CBS? And brought in Laserfeld, in charge of There was a question at the time about whether you saw research at Columbia University, and he came back and said anyone there who could have continued leadership inside the the way to do it is to go after the young families of America. corn pany. CBS and NBC were old -age oriented because of the fact that I express it in the book that I checked with Wall Street, two or they took this talent off radio. three of the top people down there. And they said that if I when we cast our programs, we were casting young, So decided to step away, they thought that obviously somebody virile people, and basically we tried to select subjects that would move in and take over the company and probably try to would have a greater appeal to younger people, and it worked dismember it. They could sell off certain assets and come out very well. Unfortunately, we didn't have the circulation that pretty well. And I just didn't want that to happen. It took us 35 NBC and CBS [had], so a lot of our shows that were very good years or more to build the company to be competitive, and I couldn't last longer than 13 weeks or so, because of the fact wanted ABC to be continued as it was, and it is. we weren't getting into the market. Tom [Murphy] wanted me to continue actively, and I said: Now ABC is up there at 98% or 99% of TV households. Are "No. My time has come. I'm approaching 80 years of age, we now not very far from the time when the broadcast net- and I think it's time for me to pass the baton on to you works will lose their edge? fellows." And I said: "I'll be glad to be a member of the Oh, they may be having 45 to 60 channels on cable. I think board, chairman of the executive committee, but I don't want cable will become somewhat more like radio, trying to direct anything to do with the management." And I've stuck to that itself to a specific audience. They're going to have to pick out rigidly. want to try to reach, whereas the networks, what audience they What is your long view of the broadcasting industry today? as we know them, reach a mass audience and will try to reach With respect to its own survival, its own vitality, with what's the public broadside. likely to happen to it in the next 10 years. We at Capcities /ABC have three cable networks, as you As tar as the networks arc concerned, they're going to contin- know -ESPN, which is sports; Arts & Entertainment, which ue to be the mass medium. Where they may have 63 percent of is the articulate minority, and Lifetime, which is basically your prime time audience now, between the three of them, reaching women. And other networks are coming along that your number of sets in use is increasing and will be up to 100 are going to do that same thing. But the conventional net- million by the year 2000. And even if you get down to 58% to works- including Fox, if it becomes a network, which I think 60% of the total audience in prime time, you've got 58 million it will -will be broadside. And even today the three networks to 60 million homes. among them cover about 63% of the audience in prime time. I'm telling you, there's no medium that can reach that So the idea of DBS or the telephone companies doesn't number of homes, no matter what. I'm talking among the three really worry or impress you? networks. And therefore I think it's going to continue to be the Neither the telephone companies nor any of the others. When mass medium. it comes down to the short strokes, technically they may be So what do you think are the next challenges for ABC? able to deliver a signal, but what's the point? What is that signal? They miss programing. AT &T can't do anything that Well, I think that certain challenges lie ahead. Television anybody else can't do, really. If they find the proper way of networks have to be strengthened under the financial interest rule. That must getting programing, then they might have a chance. change. And I think the networks should be given the freedom to One of things that struck me about the book was the the produce as they wish, just as other people in the industry can contrast between you as a showman and as a businessman, which you ordinarily think of as being two different types of today. The networks are under tough competitive conditions personalities and abilities. You seem to go like a chameleon with cable and videocassettes and everything else. I think it's from one to the other. Do you recognize that in yourself and very unfair, and my own opinion is that that should, and must, in your career? change. What the FCC is going to do, I can't answer, of course. I don't think we had any choice. In the first place, we didn't have the money. We didn't have the talent. We didn't have the Let us assume that the FCC does relax the rules enough to stations. So, as a consequence, you had to be very business permit a merger between a network and a studio. Does that automatically make sense? oriented. I hope I had a little feeling for show business as well. Having come out of the motion picture industry, you had to Not necessarily. No matter whether a studio would be part of a know what pictures had mass appeal and what ones did not. It network or vice versa, in my opinion, a television network certainly wasn't necessarily research. It was a gut feeling as to could never use -from its own group-more than about five what would or would not do well. hours a week, exclusive of public service, like 20/20 or Diane Do you feel that the Capcities merger may have been one of Sawyer and Sam Donaldson. If you get above five hours a your greater accomplishments? week, in my opinion, they're not reaching out to get the best possible talent to put on the best shows possible in television. It was terrific in that it came along at a time when I was And that would be a serious mistake. approaching 80 years of age, and I was ready to turn the baton However, I do think they should have the opportunity. over to a younger organization. It couldn't have come at a finer time, and I was very pleased with it myself. Will there always be three networks? And you kept it in the hands of broadcasters. There might be tour. But I think there will always be three Exactly. That was my intention. And I think it's highly impor- networks, without any question, as mass media, and I think tant that a network be held in the hands of broadcasters. You they'll be successful. Now, true, they may have to make

36 At Large Broadcasting Feb 18 1990 adjustments as far as operations are concerned. I don't think Do you miss the battle? Do you miss the fray? there's any doubt about that. But every industry has. Naturally you miss it, but that's lite. You've got to recognize Have you paid any attention to the discussion about repealing there comes a time in your life when you've got to get off that the prime time access rule? seat and turn it over to younger people, and I'm very pleased. The prime time access rule? I didn't know anything was Are you pleased by the state of the medium that succeeds you? Do you like the way things are going. happening so far. I didn't know anything was going to happen. We welcomed it 20 years ago. By having the access rule, it cut I think by and large I'm pleased. You know, everybody has down the time we had to service as far as the networks were their own ideas about programing, and that's what makes concerned. It made a great difference for us at that time, but horseraces. By and large, I'm very pleased with the way I'd like to remove the access rule now. Capcities has handled it. If I had to do it again, I'd do it again.

'BEATING THE ODDS': HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT SUCCEEDED Leonard Goldenson's just -published book, "Beating the ries. There is, for example, the anecdote of how Goldenson's Odds," is in fact three different books: autobiography, dentist, Dr. Arthur Epstein, brokered one of ABC's major oral history and corporate history. At each of its formats it film package acquisitions. sometimes succeeds, sometimes disappoints, but even in the A chapter is devoted to each of several dayparts, including latter reveals something of ABC's chairman for more than 30 news and sports, and to radio, which includes a discussion of years, described as broadcasting's "unknown soldier" corn - how ABC set up its multiple -networks. Goldenson also tells, pared to CBS's William Paley and NBC's David Sarnoff. along with others, how the the ABC television network built The book's title derives from Goldenson's penchant for its affiliate roster after starting out in 1952 with five owned gambling. The gamble that is the subject of the book is the stations and only nine primary affiliates, which in total one Goldenson, then head of Paramount Theatres, took by covered about 35% of the country. paying $25 million for ABC in 1952. The game, also being Goldenson's biography of the corporation completely played by CBS and NBC, was "...trying to be ahead of overwhelms the individual portrait. We leave behind the man everyone else on trends in public taste." To succeed, as from Scottsdale, Pa., who played high school football, went ABC did beginning in the mid- 1970's, Goldenson used con- to Harvard, and earned his first post -college paycheck as a tacts with Hollywood, his willingness to take risks and the stock broker. Occasionally he provides insight into his man- achievements of those he hired. agement style, saying, for instance, that like financier Ber- Three of those hired to lead the network stand out in nard Baruch, he could "...think young by being with youn- Goldenson's recounting of the history: Robert Kintner, 011ie ger people." Goldenson is giving his profits from the book to Treyz and Elton Rule. Kintner effectively came along with United Cerebral Palsy, which he and his wife helped found the purchase of the network and was assured the helm for the after discovering that the disease afflicted their first daugh- following three years, to Goldenson's ultimate displeasure: ter, Cookie. "...a very tough guy, was nobody's fool, and he knew Now a Capital Cities /ABC board member who travels to Madison Avenue, or as Bob Weitman used to call it, the New York roughly once a month from his Florida home, Gaza Strip. He knew the network business, but had no Goldenson provides a few events in ABC's corporate history vision." not found in other ABC histories, such as Sterling Quinlan's That acquisition also saw prior ABC owner Edward Noble "Inside ABC," or the more recent Huntington Williams's require the sale of Paramount's Chicago station to CBS, in a "Beyond Control." We learn why Goldenson does not like negotiation that contributed to Goldenson's general disregard Frank Sinatra, and that before selling to Capital Cities /ABC, for William Paley. At one point in "Beating the Odds," he sought out IBM as a possible white knight. Goldenson gets in a dig while discussing his philosophy But exhibiting the discretion of the legal profession at about public taste: "...this isn't a Tiffany business. It's which he was trained, Goldenson sometimes avoids subjects Woolworth and K mart." about which his recollection is crucial. For instance, he To replace Kintner, Goldenson chose Treyz. Said the provides a surprisingly abbreviated and antiseptic discussion author. "I came to regard him almost as a son or younger of the Justice Department's case during the 1940's which brother.... Without 011ie, ABC might very well have failed to forced the Paramount studio to sell its theater division-the achieve parity. At the very least it would have taken many country's largest-which Goldenson ran for 10 years. years longer." Similarly, in one short paragraph he treats his first unsuc- "Beating the Odds," begins as an autobiography in an as- cessful attempt to get Hollywood's studio chiefs -and his told -to -Marvin Wolf format. What makes the book different acquaintances-to provide programing for television. More from other ghost-written autobiographies is that Wolf also information about the FCC deliberations on the failed. ABC - includes, at Goldenson's suggestion, the recollections of ITT merger can be found in a biography of ITT chairman roughly 80 other industry executives and acquaintances. Harold Geneen than here. Goldenson also leaves many board These recollections are interspersed throughout, playing a deliberations unrevealed and only describes the board near greater role as the book recounts more recent operations of the end, in a kind of tribute. the television network, prior to its acquisition by Capital But that reticence is a reflection of the man, a corporate Cities/ABC in 1985. deal maker and leader of others who kept his place at the top The oral histories are never long enough to be boring and of ABC while helping bring ABC itself to the top. In some of them, such as remarks by Art Buchwald or Brandon "Beating the Odds," he still seems to keep some cards close Stoddard, excel in the telling, while others, such as those of to the vest, but the book will make him less an "unknown Treyz or writer /producer Roy Huggins, tell interesting sto- soldier." p

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 At Largo 37 PROGRAMINa

FOX TRYOUT: WILL IT PLAY IN L.A.? In -house production division is readying two half hours for station test and eye toward wider distribution

Fox Television Stations Produc- "underlying tension" gives the program ting on the L.A. station. Chao said that tions, under Executive Vice Presi- an "off- kilter dynamic" compared to Michael Lambert, president of domestic dent Stephen Chao talked to other dating shows. "When the women syndication at Twentieth Television, is BROADCASTING last week about Chao's were commenting on their dates, the full being kept abreast of the series' develop- two most recent projects for the Fox range of emotions emerged," Chao ment and could option it for syndication. pipeline. Chao is readying Studs, a new said. "A girl could say how much of a In another possible scenario, Peter Cher - half -hour dating strip, and The Mother good time she had with a guy dining and nin, president of FBC's entertainment Love Show, a half -hour talk show strip, dancing on the Queen Mary, but then division, could decide to put the series for March R &D tests on Fox O &O one of the other girls would say the same on the Fox programing service. KTTV(TV) Los Angeles (BROADCASTING, guy only took her to a movie. It can The same routes, said Chao, are open Feb. Ii). The in -house development create humorous and awkward situa- to The Mother Love Show. Mother Love mill, which has created Fox Broadcast- tions." is a former local radio personality from ing Co.'s America's Most Wanted and Mark DeCarlo, a Los Angeles -area KFI(AM) Los Angeles and a standup corn - COPS, and Twentieth Television's syn- standup comic, hosts Studs, which was ic who was discovered by Chao and dicated series, A Current Affair, hopes created by in -house development execu- Nathanson. The early line on the format to have its latest test projects picked up tives Brian Graden and Scott St. John, is that it will not be a celebrity -driven by FBC or Twentieth for national distri- and will be produced by Howard Schultz. half -hour talk show, but rather an bution as early as spring 1991. Run -throughs are taking place at Fox "eclectic cross -section of everyday peo- Calling Studs a "relationship show," Television Center in Hollywood, with ple" will be the subject of topical seg- rather than a dating show, Chao said that production of 35 episodes (or seven ments (i.e. dating, phobias, night- the format of the program is a "double - weeks' worth of episodes) slated for on- mares). edged sword," in which two men date air testing beginning March 11 on "Mother Love's humor is very hip the same three women, after which they KTTV(TV). and insightful," Chao said. "We're are all brought together for in- studio Chao says that Fox Television Sta- looking at the show as a late night vehi- comments and comparisons by the wom- tions Inc. president and general manager cle." Love's debut on KTTV(TV) is set en. One pair is eventually judged of KTTV(TV), Greg Nathanson, who for March II, some time after 11 p.m., "dream dates" by a studio audience. would be the one to decide on a larger Chao says. Bonnie Burns is producing. When asked whether Studs was basically scale test of the show on the other six Over the period of the past several a derivation of Warner Bros. Domestic Fox O &O's (which account for just over months, the word at Fox was that devel- Television's Love Connection, Chao dif- 20% U.S. coverage), has given the go- opment dollars were tightening in light ferentiated the Fox project by saying the ahead for 6 -8 p.m. (PT) weekday slot- of the worsening economy and parent company News Corp.'s long -term debt, but Chao says that's overstating the NBC SAYS JOHNNY'S ITS MAN case. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told Fox affiliate board mem- hi BC dismissed several reports last week that the network wanted to dump bers last January that he has secured Johnny Carson as host of the long -running Tonight Show and replace him refinancing, and Chao says "there is no with current substitute host Jay Leno. Tonight remains the top -rated network more than the typical prudent restraint" entertainment late -night program, in households and key demographics. for development of new programing. The reports cited unnamed "industry sources" as saying NBC wanted "Everyone in the industry is being Carson out and Leno in, because Leno reportedly draws a younger audience tighter and tighter with development than Carson. The reports said. that NBC would move to get Carson out some dollars," said Chao, who added that he time after his 30th anniversary as Tonight host, Oct. I, 1992. currently has a reality -based pilot in de- In response, NBC issued a statement that said: "The Tonight Show Starring velopment strictly for FBC. "It just Johnny Carson is an NBC institution which remains enormously popular with makes business sense in today's econo- viewers. We expect our long and close association with Johnny to continue. my. In a broad macro -competitive envi- He will be the one who decides when he will leave the show, and he has given ronment, certainly there is the chance no indication that he is prepared to do so." that these shows can fail, but Fox re- Carson's ratings have taken a turn for the worse in the first quarter, due in spects the value of the idea and its ulti- some part to viewer interest in the Gulf War. In January, Tonight slipped to mate execution. If they didn't, we second place behind Nightline, in both households and key demos. wouldn't have COPS, America's Most Wanted or A Current Affair on TV." .INt<

38 Programing Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 PROGRAMERS TARGET THE 'TWENTYSOMETHINGS' At panel session in New York, executives talk about techniques for attracting fragmented viewing segment

Attitude and innovation in programing are keys to attracting the elusive young adult audience, according to a British Broadcasting Corpo- ration panel session, "Turning on the Twentysomethings," held last Monday in New York. Comparing television in the U.S. and the U.K., Janet Street-Porter, head of youth programs for the BBC, criticized U.S. programers for creating "brilliant" programing for viewers up to age 14 and then abandoning that audience once they have reached their mid -teens. At the BBC, Street -Porter has created several issue -oriented programs aimed at 16-25 year olds, including Reportage, a fast- moving current affairs show, and the World, a travel se- Rough Guide to L -R: Link, Pittman, Chao, Jonathan Crane, BBC, New York, and Street-Porter ries. The original shows, packaged alongside Star Trek -The Next Genera- tion and other imported shows on Mon- "I agree with going for an attitude of programs oriented exclusively to day and Wednesday evenings, attracts 1- rather than an age bracket," said Fox's teenagers because the economics won't 2 million viewers to BBC 2. "You can Chao. "I think it's a mistake to go after support it," said Gordon L. Link, exec- achieve 16 to 35 year olds with current an age. You go after a sensitivity and an utive vice president, worldwide director affairs programs and not a music video attitude." of media services, McCann- Erickson. in sight," said Street -Porter. Chao warned of the dangers of ap- Part of the problem is that teenagers are There was some disagreement among pealing exclusively to a teen audience. not properly identified through existing panelists over the value of targetting a He said Fox's Tribes, the short-lived ratings, he said. particular age group. Programers should teen -oriented soap opera, was successful "The television networks have been be targeting psychographic and not nec- in attracting teen audiences but failed to infatuated with the baby boomers," said essarily demographic groups, said Rob- attract 35- year-olds and other age groups Link, "and I suspect that people under ert Pittman, CEO and president, Time more desirable to a wider group of ad- 30 years old are not getting a lot of Warner Enterprises, and one of the orig- vertisers. sustenance in terms of what's important inators of MTV. The American youth "Historically, you haven't seen a lot to them." audience, he said, has been fragmented by a wide variety of radio formats and cable networks. "We don't have a homogeneous youth group," said Pittman. In the SMILE, YOU'RE A FIRM GO U.S., you're dealing with a lot of fragmented groups that have each had a lot King World's "Candid Camera" is cleared for of reinforcement." fall having cleared over 50% of country Fox does not consider demographics and instead concentrates on innovation when creating original programs for its King World last week declared its wcco -'i'v Minneapolis will replace Fam- television stations, said Stephen Chao, new strip, Candid Camera, a ily Feud with Candid Camera. King said executive vice president, Fox Television firm go, with just over 50% of that so far, about 35% of stations signing Stations Productions. the country cleared for a fall 1991 start. on will put the show in access, and "In forming a program, we don't con- Clearances include WCBS -TV New another 35% will air it in early fringe. sciously go out for a particular age York and Kvw-Tv Philadelphia, both of The remaining 30% will put the show group," said Chao. "Rarely in conver- which have agreed to clear the show in in late night, King said. Among those is sations do we talk of demographics, age early fringe, said Michael King, presi- WAGA -TV Atlanta, which has told KWP

groups, men and women, blacks and dent and chief executive officer, KWP. it will put the show at 1 1:30 p.m., a time whites." King also reported that KABC -TV Los slot currently occupied by 20th Televi- Street-Porter and others on the panel Angeles, KBHK -TV San Francisco and sion's Peronsalities. Other stations emphasized the need to have programs WBZ-TV Boston have picked up the show clearing the show include WDIV -TV De- with "attitude" when targetting younger for prime access. troit, WRC-TV Washington, KcPQ -TV Se- audiences. According to King, both WBZ-TV and attle and KDKA -TV Pittsburgh.

Broadmsting Feb 18 1991 Programing 39 KWP announced the show last May, The company has signed Pizza Hut as a couple of segments. "We're hiring when it also acquired distribution rights a major sponsor of the program, which people like this, and others, to do some to the 40- year-old Candid Camera li- is expected to spend a minimum of $15 bits. It's experimental. We want to see brary from the show's creator, Allen million (and up to $25 million) in adver- what they can do," said King. He said Funt (BROADCASTING, May 21, 1990). tising and a point -of-sale promotion tied others, from both the television and film Funt has also been signed as creative to its 6,600 retail outlets. "We're mak- worlds, would try to shoot segments for consultant to the show. Funt's son Peter, ing a tremendous commitment to this the show. "We aren't changing the who produced an earlier syndicated ver- show," said King. The program will show much from the pilot," said King. sion of Candid Camera, will not be in- have a staff of 100, in addition to several "We just want the segments to be as volved in the KWP version. consultants, include 30 producers and 11 funny as they can be." KWP will spend roughly $20 million field production teams that will roam the Test shooting has already begun on producing the new Candid Camera, and country looking for funny bits to create the show. One segment that may be add- will spend millions more, perhaps as and shoot. ed, that wasn't in the pilot, is a home much as $10 million, promoting the KWP is also talking with prospective video segment. It's an idea the show's launch of the program. "I think we've contributing producers such as Peter executive producer, Vin Di Bona, is rewritten the book on commitments to Colefield, producer of the Pepsi spot quite familiar with. He also produces promotion," said King. "We'll spend with Ray Charles. John Small, the music America's Funniest Home Videos and whatever it takes." video producer, will also try his hand at America's Funniest People for ABC. -sn

PROGRAM CHIEFS VENT FRUSTRATIONS Network entertainment heads lament tendency of advertisers to shy away from controversial themes

peaking to a gathering of advertis- versy does not appear to exist. "We all movie of the season," he said. After the ers and ad agency executives last have horror stories," he said, noting that program aired, the network did focus 5 week, NBC Entertainment Presi- six ad spots were pulled from the net- testing that showed that not only did the dent Warren Littlefield said the network work's airing of "Moonstruck" because audience want such programs, "they has "the sense that we are out of sync one of the characters was having an ex- said it was our responsibility to deal with with you." tramarital affair. these issues," said Littlefield. The network is frustrated, said Little- Littlefield cited an NBC made - for -TV But advertisers rejected the movie in field, because when quality programs movie, The Tracy Thurman Story, about droves. "When it came time to selling dealing with controversial themes are a woman who was physically and sexu- the time, we lost a lot of money" on aired, advertising is often pulled, or not ally abused. "It was our highest rated Thurman, said Littlefield. He said part placed on such shows to begin with. The of the problem could be a "communica- dilemma, said Littlefield, is that the net- lion gap." "We want to know that you work feels viewers want such program- [the advertisers] are making the deci- ing, but if advertisers don't support it, it sions and not special interest groups." will be difficult to air such shows in the AT THE MOVIES Littlefield said that communications future. ITC's Movie of Month Network de- could improve, perhaps, if the networks Littlefield's comments came during a buts in March with telefilms screened potentially controversial pro- panel session with the three network en- Oceans and Fire (starring Greg- grams for advertisers earlier, and if ad- tertainment presidents and moderator ory Harrison and Billy Dee Wil- vertisers curtailed the use of independent Grant Tinker, at a Feb. 12 -13 meeting of liams), followed by Haunted by screening groups and become more ac- the Association of National Advertisers Her Past (Susan Lucci) in April, tive in screening programs themselves. in New York. within movie package that has CBS's Sagansky also lamented the The other network program chiefs been sold in 101 markets, repre- fact that advertisers, or agencies, have agreed with the tenor of Littlefield's re- senting 72% national coverage. forced networks out of the mass audi- marks. "Programs reflecting society are MOM stations signing for cash ence business. "It has become a surgical positive," said Robert Iger, president, package are WABC -TV New York, strike," he said. The networks have em- issues ABC Entertainment. "Societal KABC -TV Los Angeles, WCVB -TV braced an attitude toward older viewers often include controversial subjects such (50 them Boston, WXYZ -TV Detroit WEWS- -plus) of "let eat cable," said as So be is AIDS and abortion. it. It TV Cleveland and KMGH -TV Den- Sagansky. "And they are." Older view- unfortunate that advertisers, or their ver. er defections are the single biggest rea- agencies, we are not sure which, are ITC has also cleared Volume son for continued network erosion over reluctant to support such programs. We IX-World Premiere Network in the past year, he claimed. lose millions on this issue." 105 markets, representing 81% "The fact is we are all chasing the CBS Entertainment President Jeff Sa- coverage of U.S. Theatricals in same narrow audience" of 18 -to-49 year gansky concurred, suggesting that ad- Volume IX include "Jacknife" olds, said Sagansky. He questioned the vertisers, or agencies, sometimes seem and "Better Off Dead" wisdom of such a strategy, given the hypersensitive on the controversy issue, "bulge in income growth of the older avoiding some programs where contro- audience." SM

40 Programing áMloefiy Feb 1S Ml FALL SEASON UNDER WAY FOR NETWORKS 'Tis the season for television to pick and choose among pilots and projects

The current fall development slate turn to series television for actor Brian cently deceased husband led a secret boasts a return to network televi- Keith. George Schenck and Frank Car- life. Mark Egan and Mark Solomon are sion for several veterans of the dia are executive producers of the half- executive producers. industry, including Norman Lear, who hour drama, which has received a pilot Scorch, also by MTM, will be pro- is readying three projects: one for mid- commitment from the network. duced in association with Saban Enter- season this year and two for next season. An untitled Angie Dickinson project, tainment. Dan Wilcox will serve as ex- In addition, Ed Asner is returning to with War and Remembrance producer ecutive producer. network television and Angie Dickinson Dan Curtis as executive producer, is a My Old School, a half -hour comedy and Brian Keith are set to star in pro- half -hour drama from MGM/UA Televi- from Castle Rock Entertainment, looks jects; all three will portray cops. Balls, a sion. Robert Collins also serves as exec- at the lives of four college friends in the half -hour comedy from Lear's Act III utive producer as well as writer and di- 1970's. Productions, will star Walter Matthau in rector. The project has also received a The War Room, under consideration what is described as a "restoration com- pilot order from the network. last year, is from the Paltrow Group edy" reminiscent of the flamboyant Detectives, from Orion Television, is about a group of presidential speech - comic style of the 17th century. The a reality -based series about detectives writers. Columbia is producing the pro- project has received a pilot order from working on sensational cases. The project. Another Columbia project is Tach, CBS. Lear's other project, Love Child, ject has received a six- episode order about a black teacher at a private school. also a comedy, has not been paired with from ABC. Norman Steinberg is executive produc- a network, but will star Miriam Margu- Noble Quest, from Warner Brothers er. Both Columbia projects have relies. The two projects join Lear's other Television, with David Wolper as exec- ceived pilot orders from the network. project, Sunday Dinner, which will be utive producer, is about a Vietnamese Touchstone Television has received placed on CBS's schedule some time war child who sets out in search of his pilot orders for a Ken Estin project and a this spring. All of Lear's projects are American father. The project has re- Strawther and Murphy project, both produced with Columbia. ceived a pilot commitment. half -hour comedies. Estin served as pro- As is the case during development Warner Brothers has a pilot commit- ducer on The Tracy Ullman Show, and season, networks and production compa- ment from ABC for a comedy to feature Strawther and Murphy were executive nies are continually either changing the Alice star Linda Lavin, about a woman producers of Night Court. premise of a show or its characters or who starts a new life while re- establish- Vidiots, a half -hour comedy from pulling the plug entirely. Here is a list of ing a relationship with her daughter. MGM/UA Television, Steven Tisch Pro- some of the projects in development for The Collons, from Paramount Televi- ductions and CBS Productions, has a the four networks. sion, is a spinoff of MacGyver and has a pilot commitment. pilot order. Palace Guard, Cannell Productions, ABC The Commish, from Stephen J. Can - is an hour action show which takes place in posh hotels. The project has been 1945 is an hour drama from Knots Land- nell Productions, was one of the passed- given a pilot order from CBS. ing creator David Jacobs about soldiers over projects in the development hopper Mimi and Me, from Warner Brothers, returning to their small town after war. last year. The show has a pilot order also has a script is a romantic comedy about a dentist and Jacobs is exective producer on the Lori- from ABC. Cannell artist who take over a detective agency. mar project, which has a Pilot commit- commitment for CompuCop, about an NYPD Mounted, in development last ment. Without a Clue is a half-hour android policeman. season, has received a pilot order from comedy from Paramount, set to star 227 The Human Target, from Warner last - CBS. The two -hour pilot has been com- star Jackee. ABC has given the studio a Brothers, is also a carry-over from pleted and focuses on mounted police pilot commitment. season's hopefuls and has a pilot order. in New York. Touchstone TV has two projects in The project is based on a D.C. Comics In addition, CBS has given MGM/UA development with ABC: Home Movies character. a script and a project from former Roseanne ex- Manhattan Exclusive, another Lori- order for a remake of Have Gun: Will Travel. ecutive producer Matt Williams. The mar pilot order, focuses on an unortho- by Also, Pink Panther, which has been former is produced by Neil Marlens and dox reporter. The project is produced in development for more than two years, Carol Black, husband and wife team that Cosgrove -Meurer Productions. is apparently still alive. Schenck -Cardia created The Wonder Years. Home Mov- Productions is developing the project for ies is about a man in his 30's who looks CBS CBS. back at the significant times in his life. In addition to the Lear projects, CBS has The project has received a six -episode commissioned a pilot from Gary David NBC order from ABC and is expected to be Goldberg's UBU Productions about a ready for mid -season 1991. The untitled group of friends and their relationship Ed Asner returns to television as Mur- Williams project is set to star comedian from childhood to adulthood. Knights of doch, a Chicago detective. Fred Silver- Tim Allen, who plays a suburban resi- the Kitchen Table is a half -hour comedy man, Dean Hargrove and Joel Steiger dent whose attitude differs markedly and is produced in association with CBS are executive producers of the Viacom from his neighbors. This project has also Entertainment Productions. project. The hour drama has been given received a six -episode order from ABC. Ruth Harper, from MTM Entertain- a script order and is waiting to find out if Streets of Beverly Hills, from ment, is a half -hour serialized comedy a pilot will be ordered. MGM/UA Television. will mark a re- about a woman who discovers her re- The network has given a six- episode

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Programing 41 order to Touchstone Television for a Lives of Black Jack Savage. The one- Fox half -hour comedy about a woman in her hour comedy action series created by 30's who inherits a car-repair garage. James Wong, Glen Morgan and Can - Strawther -Murphy will serve as execu- nell, is about a 17th century pirate ghost Fox has given a pilot commitment for an tive producers. who teams up with a current day pirate untitled project from Paul Haggis, to be Touchstone has also been given a pi- businessman to right their past wrongs. produced by MTM Entertainment. lot order for a half -hour comedy from Relatively Crazy, a half -hour comedy Castle Rock Entertainment is produc- Carol Bumett's Kalola Productions. from Lorimar and Jeff Franklin, has ing a pilot being developed by the the- Burnett and Marsha Brandwynne are ex- been given a pilot order from the net- ater group Artificial Intelligence. ecutive producers. work. Renny Harlin is developing a half- NBC has also given script commit- Reasonable Doubt, set to star Marlee hour project to star Colin Quinn of ments to Touchstone's Dudes in Space Matlin and Mark Harmon, is a one -hour MTV's Remote Control. Quinn will play from David Babcock and Them Torkel- Lorimar project that has been given a a raucous private detective. sons from Lynn Montgomery. Both are pilot commitment. Until Proven Guilty is an hour drama half -hour comedies. Orion has been given a script order for from Lorimar about a court reporter who The network has given Cannell Pro- Excalibur, an updated version of "King solves cases by examining court testi- ductions a I3- episode order for The 100 Arthur." mony. ßt RATINGS ROUNDUP Week 21 NTI Network Prime Time Report for week of Feb. 4 - Feb. 10

I st column tells rank, 2nd column tells position compared to last week: -Down in rank from last week, -Up in rank from last week, 0- Premiere broadcast. 3rd column tells rating, 4th column tells network, 5th column tells show.

63 9.7/16 A Life Goes On 1 21.5/33 N Cheers 32 14.5/27 A 20/20 64 9.6/15 C 48 Hours 2 21.1/35 C 60 Minutes 33 14.3/22 A Who's The Boss? 65 9.3/17 Young 3 19.2/29 A Amer. Funniest Videos 34 14.2/22 A Growing Pains A Riders 66 9.2/16 Guns Of Paradise 4 18.8/28 A Amer. Funniest People 35 14.1/22 A Wonder Years C 66 9.2/16 Top 4 18.8/29 A Roseanne 36 13.6/24 N Carol & Company C Cops Spec. 68 8.3/14 N Dark Shadows 6 18.6/28 C Murphy Brown 36 13.6/23 A Going Places 69 8.1/12 F Get A Life 7 18.5/28 C Designing Women 36 13.6/21 N Night Court 69 8.1/13 Good Sports 8 18.3/31 A Barbara Walters Spec. 39 13.5/20 A Davis Rules C 71 7.9/12 C Top Cops 8 18.3/31 A Family Matters 39 13.5/21 N Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 72 7.7/12 Flash 10 18.0/30 N Golden Girls 41 A 13.3/21 C Evening Shade C 72 7.7/14 C Sons & Daughters 11 17.5/30 A Full House 42 12.8/20 A Movie: Morning Star, Pt.2 74 7.6/12 A Fantasies 12 17.4/27 N A Different World 42 12.8/21 C Cher 75 7.4/13 N Super Bloopers & Jokes 12 17.4/29 N Empty Nest 44 12.7/21 C Knots Landing 76 7.3/14 N Midnight Caller 14 17.2126 C Murder, She Wrote 45 12.3/19 A MacGyver 77 7.2/11 F Tot. Hidden Video Spec. 14 17.2/27 N Unsolved Mysteries 46 12.2/18 N Blossom 78 6.9/12 F America's Most Wanted 16 16.8/26 N The Cosby Show 47 12.1/21 C Sea Of Love 47 12.1/19 And The Fatman 78 6.9/11 F Beverly Hills, 90210 17 16.4/25 C Movie: Lucy & Desi C lake 49 11.7/17 F Married...With Children 80 6.8/11 F Parker Lewis 17 16.4/26 A Coach 50 11.6/22 Dear John 81 6.6/11 F True Colors 19 15.8/24 N Matlock N 51 11.4/19 Dallas 82 6.5/10 N Exposé 20 15.7/26 N L.A. Law C 51 11.4/20 N Law And Order 83 5.8/10 F Cops 2 21 15.5/23 C Major Dad 53 11.2/17 F In Living Color 84 5.7/10 F Cops 21 15.5/26 A Perfect Strangers 53 11.2/19 thirtysomething 85 5.5/10 F Totally Hidden Video 21 15.5/24 N Wings A 55 10.5/16 Father Dowling 85 5.5/10 A Twin Peaks 24 15.2/23 N Heat Of The Night A 85 5.5/9 A Under Cover 24 15.2/23 F The Simpsons 55 10.5/17 N Seinfeld 88 5.4/10 C Uncle Buck 26 15.1/24 N Movie: M. Hanson Story 57 10.4/18 N Fanelli Boys 89 5.3/9 C Lenny 27 15.0/23 C Rescue: 911 58 10.2/18 N Amen 58 90 4.7/7 N Real Life/J. Pauley 28 14.8/23 A Movie: Big A 10.2/17 A Primetime Live 90 4.7/8 N Sunday Best 29 14.6/23 A Anything But Love 60 9.9/17 N L.A. Law Spec. 61 9.8/15 92 4.5/8 F Parker Lewis Spec. 29 14.6/22 A Doogie Howser, M.D. F Babes 61 9.8/17 C Movie:Dirty Dancing 93 3.9/6 F Comic Strip Live 29 14.6/23 N Movie: The Chase 94 3.6/6 F Against The Law

42 Programing Broadcosfing Feb 18 1991 RABIO

OPERATORS E NDORSE NAB'S DAB OBJECTIVES Radio group operators, brokers are enthusiastic about NAB position on DAB but question "proprietary interest" and haste in backing Eureka system

At its annual winter meeting in Na- Heritage Media, Dallas. "This issue is Broadcasting, Washington, D.C., ples, Fla., last month, the Na- just moving so incredibly fast that we shared Fiddick's concerns. "I have tional Association of Broadcast- are not comfortable making decisions questions about all three components of ers radio board voted to back the Eureka and recommendations that will have an this proposal," he said. "I don't believe 147 system of digital audio broadcasting incredibly long -term effect on our indus- the Eureka system will function reliably (DAB) with the ultimate objective of try without knowing more than we do." or economically in the L-band. I'm retiring all AM and FM stations within Fiddick said he is pleased NAB is ac- afraid the NAB plan will cause severe 20 years (BROADCASTING, Feb. 4). Eu- tively looking at the DAB issue and said economic dislocation, when minimizing reka is a technological subsidiary of the the association is right to "get out in economic dislocation was one of the pri- European Economic Community, and front." Still, he said, "it complicates mary objectives of the task force. I'm the 147 system backed by NAB has been matters that they are proposing a propri- also concerned that the NAB's licensing proven to operate successfully on the etary interest in Eureka. They are enter- agreement with Eureka will discourage UHF band. Under NAB's plan, every ing uncharted waters, approaching the development of competing systems." U.S. broadcaster would be allocated a regulators as a proponent and not as a Odeneal said his concerns are shared by DAB assignment and would simulcast representative of the industry as a many broadcasters who "at this point until DAB receiver penetration was such whole." have different impressions of which way that the AM and FM bands could be Fiddick said DAB is inevitable and we should proceed, and who feel we're vacated. desirable for the industry and that radio, moving very quickly on an issue of para- The enthusiasm of the board at the TV and FM stereo all prove "there's no mount importance to the industry." Florida meeting, however, was not re- denying a technology whose time has Odeneal said NAB's objectives are peated last week in Washington when come, and that will be true for digital as honorable and that NAB believes its ac- the Radio Operators Caucus and a "fly- well." He questioned, however, the tions are necessary to "take control in in" of radio group executives fell short possible limitations of the Eureka sys- managing the introduction of digital of backing NAB's full proposal. In fact, tem in the U.S., specifically its to broad- broadcasting in the U.S." Unfortunate- while both groups endorsed NAB's I1- cast on a frequency near 1.5 GHz. "We ly, he said, NAB's "proprietary interest point list of DAB objectives, both meet- know it works in a spectrum that isn't could discourage the garage developers ings were plagued by considerable con- available to us [UHF], but it's question- if they believe the adoption of Eureka is cern over some of the finer points of able whether it works in the L- band." a foregone conclusion." One of those NAB's plan for implementing the Eure- Randy Odeneal, partner of Sconnix "garage developers" is Gannett, which ka plan. As one major group head told BROADCASTING, "the radio board didn't have as much time [as we did] to prepare for the NAB proposal and it sort of got steamrolled." The broadcaster said in- formed group operators "were much more up to speed" on DAB and had some genuine concern with NAB taking an active role as a proponent of any DAB system. Primary areas of concern include whether the Eureka system can function reliably in the L -band, as well as NAB's proposed role as U.S. licensing agent for the Eureka system under its for -profit NAB Technologies Inc. How- ever, the "inevitability" of DAB led some executives to praise the NAB's efforts to control the process and not let the process control broadcasters. The endorsement of NAB's l l DAB Shown above at roundtable discussion, Recruiting/Retaining Good People, at 1991 Radio Washington sponsored by NAB (1 -r): Tom McKinley, senior VP, opera- not the Eureka Group Head fly -ln in objectives, but system, tions, Noble Broadcast Group; Stuart Young, VP, general counsel, United Broadcast Co.; L. was "not to be intended as a vote of no Lowry Mays, Joint board chairman and president and CEO, Clear Channel Communications; confidence in the Eureka system," said Cul Venters, chairman, Voyager Communications Group, and Martin Greenberg, president Paul Fiddick, radio group president of and CEO, Genesis Broadcasting.

óroadtastbtg Feb 18 1991 lld.43 discussed its system for transmitting or increased market competition. A gradual implementation of DAB is DAB within the FM band at the Radio Jerry Lee, president of WEAZ -AM -FM the best route for broadcasters, accord- Operators Caucus meeting and intends Philadelphia, supports the NAB posi- ing to Paul Leonard of Dallas-based Star to demonstrate it at the NAB convention tion. "With the NAB behind DAB and Media Group. The emphasis should be in Las Vegas in April. the FCC very pro-DAB, I don't think on a managed approach that can benefit Understandably, other parties with a there is any question that it is going to all, he said. potential interest in DAB also were not happen," he said. He thinks NAB's in- Fiddick cautioned that broadcasters encouraged by NAB's Eureka plan. Ron volvement is practical. "I think it makes must be sensible about introducing DAB Strother, president of Strother Commu- sense, frankly: we can make sure that we by understanding the consumer technol- nications of Hammond, La., said NAB get a technology that is going to meet ogy as well as the needs of the radio is "wagging the tail before the dog" by our needs. The purpose of the NAB is to industry. He said that only when FM set endorsing any DAB system before it is make sure that we get the best technol- penetration reached 90% nationwide was fully tested and before such questions as ogy and best services for its members." FM considered economically viable, and AM -FM parity, amount and location of Resistance to change is natural, said "DAB will come about even slower spectrum and a system's ability to tier Lee, but he cautioned broadcasters not than that." Thus, while NAB pushes the (or create classifications) are fully ex- to remain passive. "Nobody likes to go Eureka system because it is "three to plored. "Whether we like it or not, these out and make changes, and if the NAB five years ahead of other DAB sys- issues must be addressed and the prema- wasn't out fostering change, then some- tems," Fiddick said it is a mistake to try ture action of NAB is a surprising move body else is going to foster it on us. We to put a new system in place all at once. from a trade association that is on record have to roll with technology," coun- Said Fiddick: "You can't give birth to a as opposed to Pioneer Preference." Pio- seled Lee. fully -formed human being." -RIB, « neer Preference, Strother explained, re- fers to a pending rulemaking at the FCC that would give an entrepreneur a preference for helping to develop a new technology. "NAB should be commended SHANNON OUT AT PIRATE, for addressing the DAB question, but it also needs to address all the interrelated issues that go with the Eureka system." MOORE IN AT WW1 Strother also said he is concerned that adoption of the Eureka system, devel- Westwood One last week fired said. oped by a European consortium, could Station Group Executive Vice Westwood One Chairman Norm Pat- give European receiver manufacturers - President Michael Kakoyian- tiz told BROADCASTING that "Pirate is a several of which are part of the consor- nis and KQLZ(FM) morning host/pro- very expensive radio station to run," tium-an unfair advantage in the programer Scott Shannon in a move to bring and explained that the 2.7 AQH and duction of DAB receivers. "Does this control of the company's radio stations million cume it earned in the fall Arbi- mean that we are going to perpetuate a to Los Angeles and to cut the "extraor- tron book was not sufficient to produce move into foreign technology by further dinary" operational costs incurred by the cash flow necessary to operate a high allowing other members of the European the station known as "Pirate Radio." profile CHR station. With Shannon Broadcasting Union to also profit from Kakoyiannis was replaced by Robert gone, KQLZ will move more heavily into this move, especially when the semi- Moore, the former vice president and rock, ending the AOR -CHR hybrid that conductor business in the U.S. already is general manager of Greater Media's Pattiz suggested had not achieved its po- lagging ?" he asked. KRLA(AM)-KLSX(FM) Los Angeles. Shan- tential in the market. "This way we can "We must introduce and move asser- non will continue to host his weekly All build on the cume we've already got tively with new technology," Strother Request Top 30 Countdown show for instead of blasting a new hole for our- said. "However, because we're looking Westwood One, but will no longer have selves," he said. at reordering and restructuring an entire any management responsibilities at the Pattiz said that rumors that the entire industry, the type of system that is im- station, a Westwood One spokesperson "Pirate" air staff had been fired were plemented conceivably could determine completely untrue. "We have not blown the destiny of that industry." The ques- out all the disk jockeys," he said. "Disk tion of AM -FM parity- leveling the ra- jockeys come and go all the time, but I dio-playing field by improving the sta- wouldn't be surprised to hear some of tions currently on both bands -is a valid the same voices on Pirate a few months issue that many broadcasters are just be- from now that I do today." He indicated ginning to understand, according to that any changes at KQLZ(FM) will be Richard Blackburn, president of Black- made jointly by Bob Moore and station burn Associates, a media broker in general manager Nancy Lichter. Washington. He said if AM stations sud- The company's New York stations - denly find themselves somewhat equiva- WNEW(AM) and wYNY(FM) -may experi- lent to FM's, depressed AM prices could ence some fine -tuning at the hands of rise and the distinct advantage enjoyed Moore, but will be spared any major by FM could be "severely impacted." changes, Pattiz said. "Both stations Such questions are still hypothetical, have carved niches in the market, and however, and Blackburn cautioned are doing fine," he said. "The area we broadcasters not to speculate on an un- needed to concentrate on is Los Ange- certain future of either higher AM prices Scott Shannon les." -RIB

M Rodio Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 MORE CAREER RADIO GROUP OWNER CUTS STAFF

ADVANCEMENT Group broadcaster Ragan Henry has closed the doors of his Bethesda, Md., office. It housed some operations of his U.S. Radio, which manages some of the nine AM's and nine FM's owned by Henry. Four employes were cut FOR WOMEN IN from the payroll, including Bob Hughes, chief operating officer, and Peter Ferrara Jr., division vice president. RADIO THAN TV, "We were going through a complete evaluation of our position, finishing up on our budgets for the year, and it was something that made sense from a business point of view," Henry said. Four other employes of the Bethesda STUDY SHOWS office will be transferred to the company's Philadelphia headquarters. Other news from Henry last week: the $8.65 million sale of WKSG(FM) Mt. Clemens, Mich. (Detroit) to Major Broadcasting Inc. fell through. Henry said Women account for approxi- the proposed buyer, headed by C. Robert Allen, "decided not to go forth with mately four times as many ra- the dio sales managers as televi- deal." sion sales managers, and almost half of all radio account executives are women, ment's annual survey. tions conduct two sales meetings each according to a new study released by the Contests are used by 79% of all week, versus one per week in TV. More Radio Advertising Bureau in New York. stations as an incentive for sales staffs, than half (53%) of radio salespersons see The study, conducted for RAB by and 59% of all salespersons said they such meetings as useful; those who do Charles Warner of the Journalism favor such contests. Those who did not not cited too much emphasis on budget School of the University of Missouri, generally had problems with those con- and not enough on brainstorming. indicates that 27% of all radio sales tests currently in use at their stations. Strongest motivators/incentives among managers are women, versus 7% in TV. Most often cited as a problem are sales salespeople are money, recognition, client Additionally, 48% of all radio salesper- contests that are structured unfairly, usu- satisfaction, contests. Sales managers see sons are women, compared to 39% in ally giving the station's top biller the their salespeople's key motivators as mon- TV. The numbers for the television in- greatest chance to win the contest prize. ey, acceptance/belonging, professional dustry are based on a parallel study Regardless of size, most radio sta- goals, benefits and meetings. 1s Warner conducted for the Television Bureau of Advertising in New York. Warner also concluded that 81% of salespersons in the top 99 radio markets, and 61% of those in markets 100 -plus, are compensated on a straight commis- Are yo targeting 2 5- 54 sion or draw /guarantee /commission system, which the study suggests is the P -ofessionals ?? least effective means of motivating sales staffs. The compensation system of choice among those surveyed is one in which salary and commissions are paid Then set your sights on monthly, pool paid quarterly and bonus paid upon achievement of stated billing objectives. Average compensation for a the N station's top salesperson in the top 99 envi ronlY-1 nut e V markets is $70,000 vs. $56,000 for the top salesperson regardless of market size. The average radio salesperson earns $32,000, while a station's lowest - -Daily 60 second objective environmental tip for radio paid salesperson earns an average of -Feature fits all formats $20,000. Nationwide, the average gen- -Sponsor mention within program. No barter spots! eral sales manager earns $66,000; -Great local sales tool $83,000 in markets one through 99, ac- -Good feature for securing 52 week local agreements cording to the study. Other findings: -Market exclusive guarantee Almost three quarters (74 %) of sur- -Available on cassette vey respondents said their sales managers carry account lists. Turnover within radio sales depart- Your listeners are waiting for this feature. So ments continues to be a challenge, with don't let your competition have it. some 37% of radio account executives Lakes Productions collect leaving Call Finger for demonstration materials their jobs in the last 12 607- 273 -0317 months-43% in markets 100 -plus. Ac- cording to RAB, this turnover rate is The environmi nut e is sponsored by higher than in any other industry mea- Eastman Kodak Company sured in Sales and Marketing Manage-

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NOW-TO SPOTS Bridgeport, Conn. -based American Comedy Network will produce a radio campaign to promote recycling for the Advertising Council. The campaign will promote recycling as "the every day way to save the world." American Comedy Network wrote, performed and produced six spots the Ad Council will begin STINGING ENDORSEMENT distributing in mid -February. Plans are to distribute them to Jeff Pollack, chief executive officer of the Pollack Media Group (1), and rock approximately 5,000 U.S. radio musician Sting (r) were among more than 300 attendees of a private kick- stations with the anticipation that the off party for the eighth annual Pollack Programing & Management Conference stations will donate more than $25 held in Los Angeles. The meeting brought radio station executives, record million in air time. label executives and musicians together with Pollack consultants for three days of day -long panel sessions and night time parties. In a session called Major A LITTLE TRAVELING Format Trends and Niche Programing, Pollack said dance music and rap formats are on the rise, and that contemporary hit radio, young adult -oriented MUSIC radio, and rock 40 formats will experience an audience decline. He said Unistar Radio Programing is stations with young AOR formats that don't play 1960's or 1970's music and offering The Traveling Wilburys: who don't use an aggressive rotation or "rebellious ad slogans" will fade. Together and Solo, Feb. 15 -17. The three -hour special will be hosted by WYSP(FM) Philadelphia personality Ed Sciaky and will Minneapolis, Dallas and international HISPANIC MARKETS include interviews with the band. bureaus in London and Tokyo. Classic cuts from the solo careers of A recent analysis by Katz the bandmembers (Jeff Lynne, Hispanic Radio reveals that Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, George ONE MINUTE FOR THE Arbitron's fall 1990 in -tab samples are down in 43% of the Harrison and the late Roy ENVIRONMENT Orbison) will also be featured. The Hispanic -weighted markets when program is available on a A team of broadcast journalists, compared to last year's spring swap /exchange basis to stations in the an environmental educational group numbers. top 170 Arbitron markets. and a U.S. corporation have The decline is notable because entered into a partnership to produce 33 of the 35 weighted Hispanic BUREAU BOOST a daily radio feature called The markets have experienced Environminute. The Center for increases in the size of the Hispanic American Public Radio's award - Environmental Information will population. winning program, Marketplace, adds serve as the primary source of feature According to the Katz Hispanic two new regional bureaus to its information and the Eastman numbers, Arbitron's in -tab index is a roster. The latest additions are Kodak Co. will be the program's 98.8 for the weighted markets for Cleveland Public Radio and the exclusive sponsor. the fall 1990 survey. Alaska Public Radio Network, Ithaca, N.Y. -based Finger This index is a comparison of Anchorage. This brings the total Lakes Productions is producing the the Hispanic in -tab percentage number of Marketplace bureaus to 13 feature, which will be available to relative to the Hispanic population including New York, Chicago, stations at no cost on a market percentage. Market -by -market Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, exclusive basis to stations, indices in some instances drop as Washington, Charlotte, beginning March 4. low as 55.

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PPV AND DBS: PARTNERS IN UNCERTAIN FUTURE Slow economy will take its toll on growth of pay - per -view and DBS delivery, say panelists at seminar in Los Angeles; sports remains principal drawing card for services

At least for the first half of the vanced Communications, a DBS pro- "head" from over more than 4 million decade, competitive pressures gram service applicant, took issue, call- PPV subscribers. and the hard realities of a wors- ing C -band a "totally dead" growth At a closing panel on the pay -per- ening economy will slow development market. Apple believes that what he view movie industry, Steve Rockabrand, of direct broadcast satellites and pay - called the wider applications of Ku -band executive director, pay TV, Paramount per -view services, according to cable satellite systems have more potential. Pictures, said that Wussler's prediction and DBS executives at last Tuesday's Wussler had even gloomier predic- of a day- and -date $100 million PPV Future Of DBS & Pay- Per -View semi- tions for the long -range future of the movie event was from "outer space." nar in Beverly Hills. That was the appar- DBS business. "Ultimately, 1 think fi- Citing Paramount's unexpected recent ent consensus of the morning's "DBS: ber optics to all businesses and homes is success with "Ghost," which has Ultimate TV or Alternate TV ?" panel, still 20 years away, but that is the ulti- grossed over $200 million in box office the first in the all -day industry forum mate delivery system that will make ca- revenues, Rockabrand said a straight sponsored by Paul Kagan Seminars Inc. ble and DBS pass," Wussler said of the PPV window could hamper the drawing New medium power C -band DBS sys- expanded channel capacity and high -def- potential of such films. tems have been launched over the last inition capabilities of fiber optics. Levin, whose TVN Entertainment couple of years at a cost that Larry Ger- In the short -term or at least more than DBS movie service offers up to 10 dif- brandt, Kagan's senior research analyst, midway through the 1990's, said Wussler, ferent movie channels, said that the ma- put at $3 per household (compared to medium power C -band DBS services and jor studios would like to expand their $420 per household given as the startup standard cable services will be fueled by markets, but acknowledged that the stu- cost of a cable system). The "allure of the emergence of pay -per -view services. dios don't want to do it at the expense of DBS" is still bringing on new DBS suit- Wussler predicted that one of those indus- "cannibalizing" the theatrical market. ors, he said, although a "dying" credit tries will see a $100 million PPV debut of Kagan's Larry Gerbrandt led off "PPV market is forcing those players to down - a major motion picture. Foregoing the Events: How Healthy is the Golden size their ambitions. traditional theatrical window, such an of- Goose" by disclosing Kagan research One of those players, Comsat Video fering, he predicted, will earn $25 a that showed live boxing events and Enterprise's president and CEO, Robert wrestling account for a staggering 89% Wussler, sounded a note of restraint, of total pay -per -view event gross reve- downplaying what in past years have nues nationally. Of 32 PPV events in been widespread predictions of a robust 1990 with a cumulative gross of $136 DBS industry. Wussler, whose own million, wrestling accounted for $72.5 combined satellite delivery company million, boxing for $48.6 million, live laid off one -third of its 200 employes concerts for $11 million and entertain- last January (In Brief,' Jan. 21), has ment (principally movies) for $4.4 mil- downsized his estimates that 50 -80 lion. Although the entertainment sector channels on a cheaper mid -power C- accounted for only a 3% share of PPV band DBS system is more viable than revenues, 38% of the total PPV exhibi- the more expensive but higher quality tion is filled by movie and special pro- Ku -band DBS systems. With tighter graming. credit markets, Wussler said, DBS will Gerbrandt opened a can of worms, be staying with C -band for the foresee- however, when he said that the movie able future. studios took a 67% share of PPV reve- Agreeing with Wussler's C -band as- nues and talked of the concern a number sessment were fellow panelists Jeffrey of cable operators have expressed over Reiss, president and CEO, Reiss Media the apparent erosion of the traditional Entertainment, Ann Kirschner, execu- 50 -50 revenue split with PPV producers. tive vice president, PrimeTime 24 and Tom Neville, vice president of Show - Stu Levin, president and CEO, TVN time Event Television, which is getting Entertainment. However, G. Gordon into more aggressive production of PPV 97ussler Apple, senior vice president of Ad- boxing matches, said PPV started with a

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 cibo! 50-50 split, but did not think it created split from revenues, but in a break from pay -per -view's growth, but Sharon Si- much incentive for the cable operators to other cases, Kulis said that cable opera- dello, vice president, PPV TV, Turner promote upcoming PPV events. "The tors picked up part of the financing for Home Entertainment, said that the slow- best way to reward cable operators is for the fight's promotion. He said that Event down in the growth of addressable performance, with incentives to better chipped in $6 million for promotion, and households has changed PPV into a market and sell those events," Neville the fight drew 1.75 million households. "transaction business," rather than a said. Equally perplexed, Bruce Karpas, Marty Lafferty, vice president, PPV "buy rate business." She stressed that president of Reiss Media Productions, Olympics, NBC, said that 40% -45% of the average buyer of Turner -produced asked what should be done if 20% of his the PPV revenue will go to cable affili- wrestling events is also a buyer of mov- cable operators generate 80% of the rev- ates, but added that 20% "retail floata- ies and concerts. "We're talking about enues, while the rest asked for the same tion" markups will be available to opera- predominantly 20-39 year olds who are 50 -50 splits. tors and "special incentives" for upscale viewers that have a variety of Rick Kulis, president of Event Televi- nonaddressable household subscribers to tastes," she said. sion, blamed distributors for "starting" the 1992 summer Olympic Games from Sports, said Basil DeVito, senior vice with 50-50 splits, then discovering that Barcelona, Spain. (see box below) "With president of marketing for World Wres- "cable operators did not spend a cent" an advantageous split and sales incentives, tling Federation, continues to be the on promotion. For the recent Buster we feel that a 6 % -10% buy rate is attain- bread- and -butter of PPV. Nonmarquee Douglas -Evander Holyfield heavy- able and disirable," Lafferty said. events, like college track meets and weight title fight, Kulis said Event Tele- The panelists concurred that sports women's basketball, have "no other vision offered cable operators a 15% events have been the dominant factor in outlet," he said. dtw

WARNER BROS. ON THE STUMP FOR PPV MOVIES Company visits cable systems around country with study showing economic benefits of PPV outweighing costs

Wamer Bros. is determined to top 15 MSO's and presenting the results systems are doing right, Warner Bros. improve pay -per -view movie of a study of 11 of the top PPV cable hopes to convince others to jump on the buy rates. It has spent the past systems in the country. By showing the bandwagon. IO weeks on the road visiting nine of the rest of the cable industry what those 11 Warner wants to share its knowledge because "it helps our business, too," said Edward Bleier, president, Warner Bros. domestic pay TV, animation and OPERATORS GIVEN PRICE RANGES FOR PPV OLYMPICS network features. He said the response from MSO's has been positive and that Tlie Olympics Triplecast packaging and pricing has been completed, but it "one or two constructive things emerge ill offer cable operators a lot of flexibility in setting prices at individual from each meeting." Although lack of s) stem. As some in cable industry had hoped, full coverage of the event may channel capacity is the strongest argu- end up being sold for as low as $100. ment against PPV, Bleier said the study Cable operators will be allowed to sell the three packages at 20% above or Warner is presenting shows the econom- below the event's suggested retail price, according to Marty Lafferty, vice ic benefits of PPV outweigh the costs. president, Pay- Per-View Olympics. The Bronze package, offering either the Of the MSO's contacted, Bleier said one first week of the Olympics or all weekend coverage, has a suggested price of is beginning to install addressability S95, meaning operators can sell it for $76 to $114. The $125 Silver package, with every new subscriber. Another, offering all 15 days of coverage plus a 50% discount on Olympics catalogue said Bleier, is escalating the launch of a merchandise, could be sold for $100 to $150. The 20% range also applies to second and third PPV channel. the $170 Gold package, which offers a variety of extras, but also includes an The 11 systems researched are not the additional $25 for the U.S. Olympic Committee. best systems, said Bleier, but are among The Olympics Triplecast plans to release more details about the event at the the best performing 20 or 25 systems, Texas Cable Show in Austin at the end of February. An additional one or two and reflect a variety in approaches to on -air talent personalities will be announced, as well as details of programing PPV. Movie buy rates at those systems for the final weekend. According to Lafferty, viewers will be able to call and were as high as $4.15 monthly per PPV request some of the "esoteric sports" such as archery and tae kwon do at no subscriber, down to $1.78 a month. extra charge. The first image awareness commercial for the PPV event, set to What contributes to the systems' suc- debut in March, will also be unveiled at the Texas show, said Lafferty. cess, according to Warner's study, are a Olympics Triplecast executives continue to have discussions with Showtime number of factors, although even the top Event Television about getting involved in marketing the PPV event. Accord- I l systems utilize only a few of the key ing to Lafferty, those discussions are expanding to include SET parent elements. If they used all the elements, Showtime as well. HBO has already signed on to help with consumer they could achieve movie buy rates of up marketing, but Lafferty said that involvement by the two pay services will be to $10 per PPV subscriber each month, non -duplicative. -som according to Bleier. The ideal PPV system is four chan-

Sti Cable Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 nels, with three offering simplified "movie -of- the -week" scheduling, with CABLEVISION FIRST ON TOPS the capability for viewers to tune in to a movie after it has begun. The fourth MSO adopts new Showtime /TMC packaging, pricing plan channel should offer a mix of lower- profile movies and events. In the study, only Time Warner Cable Brooklyn - Cablevision Systems has become TOPS dictates what we are allowed to /Queens met this criteria. In January, it the first MSO to sign up for Show - do with [Showtime]," he said. All it implemented three stand -alone movies time's Total Optimization of Pay dictates is a price it must pay to Show- of the week channels, keeping Viewer's Services plan for both Showtime and time, Lowe added. Showtime is current- Choice on the fourth channel. The Movie Channel. The sign -up was ly available primarily via Cablevision's Stand -alone services also work better not unexpected, since Cablevision highest level of service, Rainbow Gold. than systems airing PPV networks such Chairman Charles Dolan has done a lot Between its basic service, called Family as Viewer's Choice or Request, even to shake up how basic and pay services Cable (where Showtime can sometimes when compared to the best network af- are packaged, and was thought to be be bought but includes extra equipment filiated systems, according to Warner's interested in the plan early on (BROAD- costs), and the Gold package, is a Rain- study. In addition to Time Warner, only CASTING, Dec. 17, 1990). bow package that includes HBO. One KBLCOM's Paragon Cable in Minne- The agreement Cablevision has signed possibility is that Cablevision may bring apolis, San Antonio and Portland, Ore., is a "standard TOPS agreement," ac- Showtime down to that level. Showtime

are among the top l 1 PPV systems that cording to Jack Heim, Showtime execu- has long criticized Cablevision for mak- have three stand -alone channels. Garden tive vice president. That means, according Showtime inaccessible. State Cable TV of Cherry Hill, N.J., has ing to Heim, that Cablevision will pay a Showtime is not telling Cablevision two stand -alone PPV channels and Com- flat rate equal to what the MSO pays how to package, but it has been offering cast in Philadelphia has one stand -alone Showtime now. Showtime will take "a suggestions to MSO's on the possibili- channel, along with Viewer's Choice, very low percentage" off any additional ties. But Heim acknowledged that the Cable Video Store and a Continuous subscribers Cablevision signs up, so that likeliest scenarios involve dual HBO and Hits channel, part of Warner Bros.'s even with the retail price cut in half to Showtime marketing. "When the smoke eight -market test of movie -of- the -week $4 or $5, the MSO does not need to fully clears, the safest way for an operator to scheduling. double its penetration figure to generate generate growth is to do something that The study also said the systems with the same amount of revenue it now re- sells both HBO and Showtime, so they the best movie PPV buy rates performed ceives. are not trading one for the other. There better than other cable systems through- Cablevision has not yet formalized its was never a plan to go out and share out the country with PPV event buy rates plans or timeframe for repackaging shift," he said. and revenue. Showtime, according to Peter Lowe, di- Under TOPS, the revenue Showtime Other aspects necessary to reach the rector of programing. "Lower price is takes in from Cablevision will now be $10 mark, according to the Warner not necessarily part of the plan," he calculated on all basic subscribers. If, Bros. study, include optimum addressa- said. "The bottom line is it gives us for example, a system has 10,000 sub- bility to allow for easy ordering, a PPV extraordinary flexibility in the way we scribers, and currently pays Showtime manager at the system level, a dedicated sell the service." Lowe also said that $5 for each of its 1,000 pay subscribers, barker channel, cross -channel promotion how TOPS is implemented may vary that $5,000 is calculated out to about 50 and a simplified PPV guide. -sty from system to system. "Nothing in cents per existing subscriber. That rate

TITAN LOOKING BEYOND WRESTLING: WWF STUDY FINDS THAT LOWER PRICE POINTS DON'T LEAD TO HIGHER BUY RATES itanSports, which produces World Wrestling Federation and at a convenient time." Hot Ticket will run several events, is expanding its horizons. Its newly created Hot times during a month, mirroring the frequency of movies, Ticket banner, which will bring cable operators four $5.95 and allow WWF's promotion in its television network, live events this year, plans to look beyond the wrestling ring events and publications to work to maximum benefit, Titan (BROADCASTING Jan. 28). said. Skip Desjardin, Titan's manager of PPV marketing, said WWF priced last August's event at $19.95 in 10 selected Hot Ticket won't necessarily be limited to wrestling events. markets and $29.95 in 10 other selected markets, while the Titan has produced a few boxing events in the past and national price was $24.95. The overall buy rate for the event Desjardin said the firm is involved in the World Bodybuild- was 4.6%. WWF selected nine sample markets at the $24.95 ing Federation. He also wouldn't rule out concert events. level to compare with the results in the $19.95 and $29.95 Hot Ticket will be distributed through Viewer's Choice, markets. The buy rates in the nine sample markets at $24.95 Request TV and direct to cable systems. The revenue split was 5.7 %. The $19.95 markets also produced a 5.7% buy will be 45% for cable operators, with no guarantee require- rate. In the $29.95 markets, the buy rate was 5.2%, but the ment. price increase was high enough to offset the lower buy rate to The idea behind Hot Ticket, said Dick Glover, Titan - make it the most profitable, Desjardin said, adding that it Sports senior vice president, business affairs, is "to allow told WWF that "we ought not to automatically accept the new fans to sample the WWF on PPV at a reasonable price operator's claim that if we lower the price, we'll do better."

Broadcasting Feh 18 1991 e.re, SI would increase each year "reasonably," However, Heim said seven to eight of the basics [of marketing pay TV] in according to Heim, using the example of the top 15 MSO's have signed up to test many systems is still a priority, as far as 53 cents the first year and 56 cents the TOPS in a selected system. The TOPS maintaining and growing the pay TV second year. But as the operator contin- program is meant to be MSO -wide, business," said Rick Sperry, vice presi- ues to grow, the price per basic unit will which is one of the elements operators dent, marketing. continue to drop, according to Heim. do not like. But according to John Math - Still, there are parts of TOPS that On top of that increase, Showtime wick, group vice president, marketing, make sense, said Sperry. Although he will add charges to help it pay studio Jones InterCable, he considers that, declined to give specifics, he said Com- costs. Showtime's contracts with movie along with other elements of TOPS, to cast has planned to look into "other studios are dependent upon the extent of be negotiable. Jones still has not decided packaging alternatives" with Showtime, its penetration, and as that grows, so if it will go forward with TOPS. It is noting that the same approach is not will the amount of money it has to pay currently renegotiating its contract with correct for every cable system. out. Showtime, and a TOPS agreement is Cox Cable, another top 10 MSO, has Operators still complain though, that part of those discussions, said Math - not made up its mind on TOPS, but, like all the risk lies with them, and other than wick. other MSO's, plans to keep an eye on Cablevision and KBLCOM, which has a Nor has Comcast made a decision on how Cablevision fares, according to TOPS agreement only for The Movie TOPS, but it seems to be leaning in the Dave Andersen, vice president, public Channel, no one else has signed up. direction of saying no. "Execution of affairs /cable. -s U

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NO GO IN MILLI' been exploring expansion into leading up to the 1994 World Cup, Western Europe (BROADCASTING, with Soccer Partners USA. The Philadelphia Phillies have Feb. 11), has also begun to move into decided not to put their traditionally Eastern Europe. The part-TCI- CABLE - BROADCAST DEAL untelevised home opener on PPV owned cable channel has formed a after all ( "Cablecastings," Feb. 11). joint venture with Prime Time Tonight is extending "It is just not feasible at this time. Czechoslovakian film producer and its boundaries by adding information have We done extensive research in music company Bonton, one of from the broadcast networks and this area and just don't feel the that nation's first independent media pay -per -view services to its tune -in timing is right for this season," said firms. service for operators who request Dave Montgomery, Phillies The joint venture hopes to it. The additions are scheduled for executive vice president. It is construct and operate a national later this year. unlikely that any other Phillies television station in Prague and is Dana Michaelis, general games will end up on PPV since seeking a broadcast license for that manager of PTT, said the PTT board, Prism, the cable service that holds purpose in Czechoslovakia, as which includes cable MSO's TCI, the Phillies PPV rights for the next well as separate licenses in Poland Cox and Newhouse, will allow seven years, is unwilling to let any and Romania. individual systems to decide other games go to PPV. whether to carry broadcast listings in the service. LEGAL LEARNING SOCCER ON Michaelis declined to estimate how many of PTT's 10 million SPORTSCHANNEL EXPERIENCE subscribers will eventually see Courtroom Television Network, The World Series of Soccer kicks broadcast listings. PTT is looking at set to launch in July, has announced off on SportsChannel America adding, for example, a 24- second two legal education programs to Saturday, March 9. The segment to the three- minute insert supplement its live trial coverage. international competition is a 12- that appears on the Weather Citizens Law, which will be game series featuring the U.S. Channel. One insert would be PPV, directed at non -lawyers, will Men's World Cup Team against another would be split, 12 seconds supplement weekday trial teams from around the world. The of PPV and 12 seconds of broadcast. coverage. And /n Practice, weekend first game is the United States against In both instances the segment programing aimed at the legal Olimpia, the South American club would be a graphic listing only, profession, will offer continuing champion from Paraguay. The series carried at the end of the three - education for lawyers. Both will continue through August, with minute segment. include programing by state and matches against teams representing ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox national bar associations. Mexico, Canada, Uruguay, listings, localized for individual Argentina, Ireland, Portugal, Italy systems, would be carried. PTT Union. The series carries information from 20 cable CURTAIN RAISING and the Soviet is part of SCA's arrangement for 300 networks, including four pay The Family Channel, which has hours of soccer programing services.

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MORE FOURTH GILLETT SUES SCRIPPS HOWARD QUARTER OVER WMAR -TV DEAL BREAK -UP Scripps Howard's termination of its agreement to buy WMAR -TV for $154.7 REVENUE million has prompted a lawsuit from the jilted seller, Gillett Holdings (GHI). A major point of dispute between the two parties concerns the NBC affiliate's financial results, which Scripps Howard claimed deteriorated to a WEAKNESS point allowing for the termination of the contract. The two parties also disagree on whether the transfer of license had in fact received final governmental approval. As expected, CBS reported a substantial fourth -quarter operating Filed on February 8 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of lawsuit loss of $329.5 million, offsetting Illinois, Eastern Division, the asks the court to declare that GHI had in fact satisfied its under the sales agreement; that Scripps Howard earlier gains in 1990 and leading to a obligations had breached the contract, and to award OW the WMAR -TV purchase price plus full -year loss of $50 million on a 10% Scripps Howard has 20 days from the point of being revenue increase, to $3.26 billion. The other expenses and costs. which to file essentially broadcast -only company said served in a response. outside attorney, Robert Markey, most of the losses were due to the televi- A letter from Scripps Howard's G. to attorney said that the company viewed WMAR -TV's sion network, where a previously an- GHI's recent performance as when compared with the results of the for nounced write -down of a four -year base- "...materially adverse operations ball contract and fourth -quarter revenue 1989 and your client's forecasts, budgets and internal projections for 1990." softness were added to "increased news The contract's "materially adverse" change clause did not apply to financial and entertainment programing costs." declines caused by "...market conditions in the Baltimore, Maryland, metro- Fourth -quarter profit for the CBS politan area, general economic conditions and changes in the broadcast owned TV stations and radio division industry generally..." but the two parties are disputing to what the decline was "slightly lower," on flat sales, de- should be attributed. spite the addition of political revenue. As for the disagreement over final governmental approval, GHI said that For the year, however, both divisions while the FCC's transfer approval had been challenged in court by the two had record profits. petitioners, Chesapeake Television and Pac West Television, both of them had effectively agreed to drop their objections prior to the February 1 deadline CBS Chairman and Chief Executive granting Scripps Howard an option to terminate the agreement. Officer Laurence Tisch again warned that the company faces rough times in 1991 and that the television network is "currently expected" to show an operat- a $34- million gain in foreign exchange earnings of $4.2 million for the fourth ing loss -this, despite the fact that CBS trading. Helping corporate results was quarter compared to $2.8 million, in the accelerated estimated losses on its base- the fact that losses from News Corp.'s prior year's period. For the year, the ball contract to the 1990 results. In cor- Sky TV were included only until the earnings were $13.2 million, compared porate results, CBS sold part of its mar- time of its merger with its main competi- to $8 million in 1989. Parent company ketable securities portfolio in the fourth tor in November. Liberty Corp. said the results "...largely quarter, resulting in a write -down that Some broadcasters specifically cited reflect substantial political revenues in reduced interest expense. The sale of the incremental political advertising dol- addition to two nonoperating items -a mostly government securities took place lars for their financial assistance. Mer- noncompete payment from the television in the first quarter and should result in a edith said: "The only operation to re- station sale and reduced interest cost due gain, further helping to offset weak op- cord improved profits in the second to debt payoff. Growth of operating erating fundamentals. quarter was the broadcasting group, earnings was restrained by a continuing Also reporting last week was News which benefited from lower programing weakness in advertising." Advertising Corp., where second -quarter revenue in- expenses and strong political advertising problems caused Jefferson -Pilot Com- creased 39% and profit was up 42 %. sales." Similar fourth-quarter operating munications to report flat revenue for the Profit growth in the U.S. was particular- revenue from the Post Newsweek sta- fourth quarter and year and operating ly strong, rising 71% in the second quar- tions increased 4.7 %, "bolstered solely income declines of 33% and 20%, re- ter to $309.1 million, accounting for by revenue from political advertising." spectively. more than two -thirds of the company's For the year, the Washington Post divi- A 13 -week quarter for Gannett -ver- total. Revenue was up 54% for the quar- sion showed a 2% decline in revenue, to sus 14 weeks in 1989, saw broadcasting ter, which the company attributed to $179.4 million, and a 4% decline in revenue decline 10% to $107 million. "substantially improved results from the operating income, dropping down to For the 52 -week year-versus 53 weeks group's film and broadcasting opera- $68.9 million. in 1989-division revenue was off tions." Also helping the bottom line was Cosmos Broadcasting said it had net 3%. -F

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Rains 53 EMMIS BROADCASTING: THE PERILS OF SMULYAN Debt -burdened radio group owner chose sales of a few to save many; suspense over financial health still lingers because of lackluster operating environment

Eramis Broadcasting may manage to est cuming stations in the country. Station Market work its way out from under a pile Format Emmis's co- located WQHT(FM) is also of debt without significant "re- WFAN(AM) All sports New York a strong contender in the New York mar- structuring." Or it may not. Events dur- WQHT(FM) Dance (HR New York ketplace. The station programs a dance - ing the company's new fiscal year, KPWR(FM) Dance OR Los Angeles oriented CHR and has posted leading which begins next week, will say a great WKQX(FM) Adult contemp. Chicago 18 -34 shares over the last year, consis- deal about whether the large radio group WCDJ(FM) Jan Boston tently outranking most of its format operator will continue in its present WAVA(FM) CHR Washington competitors. form. KSHE(FM) AOR St. Louis Dance CHR is also the format carried Among the current worries is the W101.(FM) CHR Minneapolis by Emmis's KPWR(FM) Los Angeles. To nine -station group's slow revenue WENS(FM) Adult contemp. Indianapolis compete against increased competition growth, up only 1.5% in the third quar- from new full- signal urban contempo- ter ending last November. At least partly rary (KKBT(FM)) and a more dance -ori- due to the weak industrywide market- ented KIIS- AM -FM, KPWR(FM) vice presi- place, lack of revenue growth has also dent and general manager, Phil held back cash flow, which in the year Newmark, is keeping Emmis's top bill- ending next week, will barely match in- ing station "tight to the format." The terest on the debt. station's ratings are recovering from an The good news is that Emmis has earlier decline (which also hurt Kiis -FM been able to reduce that debt, from $225 and KQLZ(FM)) and continues to be million in long -term debt as of a year ranked near the top in the target demo- ago to about $175 million today. That graphic of 18-34. KPWR(FM) should also feat has been done by selling certain benefit from the just -announced demise stations: KNRJ(FM) Houston for $30 mil- of "Pirate Radio" (see page 44). lion- bought fewer than two years be- In Washington, on -air problems with fore that for $21.4 million -and the morning team made last year diffi- KJCXX(FM) San Francisco, for $18.5 mil- cult for Emmis's mass- appeal CHR sta- lion. Emmis chairman and president, tion, WAVA(FM) Arlington, Va. The sta- Jeffrey Smulyan, termed the sale a Jeffrey Smulyan, Emmis tion brought in a new program director, "wash." chairman and president revamped the morning show and is re- There are still plans to sell two more the four stations being sold, said First bounding in the market. Randy Bongar- stations: WLOL(FM) Minneapolis and Boston's Bob Kricheff, contributed little ten, Emmis executive vice president, WCDJ(FM) Boston. Minnesota Public Ra- in the way of cash flow, so their subtrac- operations, is serving as interim manag- dio has already agreed to pay $12 mil- tion from the group's financial results er and said there will be no format lion for most of the assets of WLOL and will not greatly affect Emmis's ability to changes. that license transfer is currently before service debt. Emmis's KSHE(FM) St. Louis is the the FCC, where it has attracted three Their departure will also presumably market's second -ranked station among petitions to deny. allow Emmis's management to focus its 12 -plus listeners and leads in its target If wt.OL is sold, Emmis will use the attention on the remaining stations, plus demographic. The album -oriented rock proceeds to pay down the $13 million in Smulyan's other enterprise, the Seattle station, however, is currently under bank principle due over the next 12 Mariners. Although there are no direct FCC investigation for a broadcast by its months, said Paul Taubman, vice presi- financial ties between Emmis and the morning air personality, John Ulett dent, Morgan Stanley. He added that baseball team, said Smulyan, creditors (BROADCASTING, Feb. 4), and faces up earlier prepayments of the loan will proof the latter have as part of their collater- to a $25,000 fine for the on -air piece, vide Emmis with a more favorable pay- al some of Smulyan's personal stake in which claimed the U.S. was under nu- ment schedule in future years. Emmis. clear attack. Emmis recently reformatted WCDJ(FM) Emmis's other link to sports is the The two remaining Emmis properties, to new jazz, but has not received an group's biggest success, WFAN New WKQX(FM) Chicago and WENS(FM) India- adequate offer, said Smulyan, who York. The station, noted for having in- napolis, are adult contemporary formats, probably hopes to receive at least $15 troduced a new format, all sports, to the but neither ranks at or near the top of its million. radio business in 1988, is the company's respective market. One reason Emmis has managed to top biller (over $20 million for calendar Emmis's debt situation could be im- sell stations at all in an almost nonexis- year 1990), although the format is also proved if, rather than using station -sale tent marketplace has been the diligence labor- intensive. proceeds to pay down the remaining of Morgan Stanley, which, along with Scott Meier, vice president and gener- $125 million in bank debt, it could in- life insurance companies Aetna and al manager, WFAN, said the all -sports stead repurchase some of the $50 million CIGNA, controls two "leveraged" format provides top -ranked numbers in in debt securities that carries a higher, funds that own roughly a quarter of Em- the target audience of males, aged 18- 145/e% interest rate. Smulyan said only mis. 34, as well as a strong 25 -54 share. In that "all options" were being explored With the exception of KNRJ Houston, morning drive, it is up against the high- with the banks. -LS, OF

54 Business Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 CIIANGIN6 HANDS CLOSED! visual, 251 kw aural and antenna 1,040 PROPOSED STATION TRADES feet above average terrain. KFAA is NBC affiliate on ch. 51 with 5,000 kw visual, By volume and number of sales 500 kw aural and antenna 932 feet above KXXX -FM, San Francisco, average terrain. Last Week: California from Emmis KWB-TV Davenport, Iowa Sold by Dav- AM's $3,654,539 6 enport Communications Ltd., debtor in Broadcasting Corporation FM's $3,054,741 8 possession, to A & H Footwear Inc. for $3 to Peter Bedford for million cash at closing. In addition, buyer 3 AM -FM's $795,400 shall assume, pay, discharge and perform $18,500,000. TV's $7,383,000 4 all obligations and liabilities of seller. Sell- er is headed by Brandt, Total $14,887,680 21 Gary Richard Elliot B. Evers Greenblatt, Kathleen N. DeBoeuf, Lee Year to Date: Hanna and Edward Hanna. Lee Hanna has Broker 5% interest in licensee of KSAS -TV Wichi- AM's $7,851,539 27 ta, Kan., and permittee of KAAS -TV Salina, FM's $34,118,103 36 Kan. Edward Hanna is 1% shareholder of AM -FM's $31,406,378 26 Pueblo Television Corp. and through tv /USA Pueblo Ltd. is permittee of TV's $80,468,000 12 KPCA(TV) Pueblo, Colo. Buyer is headed Total $153,844,020 101 by Allan Greenblatt (50 %) and Herbert

For 1990 total see Jan. 7. 1991 Baoeucesnuc. Somekh (50 %), and presently are limited partners of assignor. KUB is Fox affiliate on ch. 18 with 3000 kw visual, 300 kw Providing the Broadcast Indus- aural and antenna 1,010 feet above average try with Brokerage Services terrain. WFYR -FM Chicago Sold by Summit -Chi- Based Strictly on Integrity, WALI(AM)- WROG(FM) Cumberland, Md. cago to Major Broadcasting for $19 mil- Discretion and Results Sold by Tschudy Communications Corp. lion. Seller is headed by James Wesley, to James P. O'Leary for $1.8 million. Sell- Owen Weber and Adrian Cox, and also er is headed by Earl Judy Jr., who owns owns five AM and six FM stations in New RANDALL E. JEFFERY WBRJ(AM)- WEYQ(FM) Marietta, Ohio: York, Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas, Atlan- WSKO(FM) Buffalo Gap, Va.; WMQc(FM) 407-295-2572 ta, Denver and Dayton, and cable systems Westover, W.V., and WCRO(AM) Johns- in Georgia (including Atlanta) and North ELLIOT B. EVERS town, Pa. (sold pending FCC approval). Carolina. Buyer is headed by Thad, John, 415-391-4877 Buyer heads Laurel Broadcasting Inc., li- Luke and Charles Allen, brothers, whose BRIAN E. COBB censee of WISL(AM) Shamokin, Pa. WALT is deal with Ragan Henry for WKSG(FM) Mt. fulltimer with oldies format on 1230 khz CHARLES E. GIDDENS Clemens, Mich., for $6.75 million and I kw. Broker: Cecil L. Richards Inc. 703-827-2727 ( "Changing Hands" Jan. 14) did not go through. Aliens have no other broadcast WRQR(FM) Farmville, N.C. Sold by interests. WFYR has continuous soft hits WRQR Inc. to Hardy Broadcasting Inc. format on 103.5 mhz with 4.3 kw and for $1.05 million. Price includes $150,000 RADIO and TELEVISION BROKERAGE antenna 1,548 feet above average terrain. cash at closing and $900,000 assumption FINANCING APPRAISALS Broker: H. B. LaRue Media Brokers. of seller's liabilities. Seller is headed by Sam Floyd and Ronald L. Stone, and have KPOM -TV Ft. Smith and KFAA(TV) Rog- 20% interest in WFAI(AM) Fayetteville, ers, both Arkansas Sold by J.D.G. N.C.; 25% interest in WASC(AM) Spartan- Television Inc. to Westark Broadcasting burg, S.C.; 33.3% interest in WAAJIAM) Ltd. for $4.383 million. Price includes Huntsville, Ala., and 50% interest in $1.5 million cash at closing, $1.883 mil- WSJC(AM) Magee, Miss. Buyer is headed lion seller term note at 10% and $1 million by H. Steve Hardy (50 %) and Steven I. seller bridge note at 10 %. Seller is headed Cohen (50 %), and has no other broadcast by Duane Harm, and is 95% owned by interests. WRQR has adult contemporary Griffin Television Inc., licensee of format on 94.3 mhz with 1.95 kw and KWTV(TV) Oklahoma City. Buyer is head- antenna 407 feet above average terrain. MEDIA VENTURE ed by G. Bradford Bulkley, who has 13.94% ownership in and is general part- WBUX(AM) Doylestown, Pa. Sold by PARTNERS ner of Communications Partners Ltd., Central Bucks Broadcasting Co. to Net- WASHINGTON, DC which has in KFMX work Broadcasting Corp. for $ I million. interests Radio Ltd. ORLANDO (99 %), Cordell Publications Ltd. (24 %), Price includes $425,000 cash at closing, SAN FRANCISCO Civic Communications Corp. (2.6 %) and $100,000 escrow deposit and $475,000 Hoker Broadcasting Inc. (11.2 %). KPOM is payable in three equal annual installments NBC affiliate on ch. 24 with 2,510 kw Continues on page 57. dsadreltq IsY 1$ 1591 Redness 55 FOCUS ON FINANCE

Media stocks were mixed in market that showed overall ings -per-share gain (see page 53). After gains two weeks ago, growth. Time Warner was up 9.72 %, probably some MSO stocks were off, including Falcon Cable, down helped by reports that company was getting closer to 5.27 %; TCI, down 6.93%, and Cablevision, down 1.79%. agreement to sell partial interest in some of its operations to Financial News Network dropped 73 %, to 1/2, coincident with foreign investors. Orion Pictures dropped 12.09% coincident announced sale of company for estimated $90 million. Pro- with report detailing company's liquidity problems. Sony's ceeds fall short of matching creditors' claims exceeding $140 Castle Rock subsidiary denied it had intentions to buy studio. million, which may explain why equity value dropped. News Corp. was up 9.63% just prior to reporting second - Westwood One was up 26% to 21/4, following Donaldson, quarter earnings released last Thursday showing 53% earn- Lufkin & Jenrette positive report on its debt restructuring.

Stock Index Notes: T- Toronto, A- American, N -NYSE, O- NASDAQ. Bid prices and common A stock used unless otherwise noted. P/E ratios are based on earnings per share for the previous 12 months as published by Standard and Poor's or as obtained by Broadcasting's own research.

Market Markei (losing (losing Capitali- Closing Closing Capitoli- Wed Wed Net Perrent PIE ration Wed Wed Net Percent P/E ration

Feb 13 Feb 6 Change Change Rotio(000,000) Feb 13 Feb 6 Change Change Ratio100,000)

BROADCASTING BROADCASTING WITH OTHER MAJOR INTERESTS

B(BHC) BHC Comm. 52 49 1/2 2 1/2 05.00 12 1,450 N (BLC) A.H. Belo 31 7/8 32 7/8 1 03.05 25 614

(CCB) Cap. Cities/ABC 480 472 8 01.69 16 8,180 A (AK) Atka-1y Comm. 2 7/8 3 - 1/8 - 04.17 -3 46

©(CBS) CBS Inc. 167 1/4 165 3/8 1 7/8 01.13 13 3,915 N (AFL) American Family 23 1/2 24 1/2 - t -04.09 18 1,994 fl(CCU1 Clear Channel II 3/4 II 1/4 1/2 04.44 -125 I O (ACCMA) Assoc. Comm. 29 1/2 29 1/2 01.72 74 541 (JCOR) Jacor Commun. 2 3/8 2 3/8 00.00 -I 23' N (CCN) Chris-Craft 29 3/4 28 3/4 1 03.47 2 732

O (OSBN) Osborn Commun. 6 5 3/4 1/4 04.34 -8 40 O (DUCO) Durham Corp. 25 26 1 - 03.84 13 219

O (OCOMA) Outlet Comm. 10 9 1 01.11 11 58 N (GCI) Gannett Co. 41 42 1/8 - 1 1/S -02.68 17 6,656

N (PL) Pinelonds 17 1/4 17 5/8 - 3/8 02.20 297 N (GE) General Electric 66 3/4 66 1/2 U4 00.37 14 59,093

A (PR) Price Commun. 7/5 7/8 00.00 133 7 O ((ACC) Great American 2 7/8 2 7/8 30.44 70 O (SAGS) Sage Bag. 7/8 I - IA - 12.50 .t 3', A (HTG) Heritage Media 3 3/4 3 7/8 - I/8 -03.23 -6 175

1 9 O (SCRP) Scripps Howard 45 44 1 02.27 16 454 N (JP) JeRerson -Pilot 41 40 02.50 1,429

O (SUNNC) SunGroup Inc. 3/4 3/4 00.00 -1 5 N (LEE) Lee Enterprises 28 5/8 29 I/8 - 1/2 - 01.72 16 679

O (TLMD) Tekmundo 5 5 3/8 - 1/4 - 07.00 -2 122 N (LC) Liberty 47 5/8 45 1/2 2 1/8 04.67 10 356 O (TVXGC) TVX Group 9 3/8 9 7/16 -1/16 - 00.67 68 O (LINS) LIN 67 70 -3 -04.29 -19 3,596 O IUTVII United Television 30 28 1U 11/2 01.50 3 309 N (MHP) McGraw-Hill 57 7/8 56 1/4 7/8 02.88 119 2,738

A (MEGA) Media General 21 518 22 5/8 - 1 - 04.42 27 572

N (MDP) Meredith Corp. 26 1/4 25 1/8 1 IA 04.47 -20 452

O IMMEDC) Multimedia 71 1/2 70 1 1/2 02.14 18 792

A (NYTA) New York Times 23 7/8 23 318 1/2 02.13 51 1,780 PROGRAMING N (NWS) News Corp. Ltd. 11 3/8 IO 3/8 1 09.63 6 2,785

O (PARC) Park Commun. 15 3/4 14 3/4 1 06.77 16 305 2 5/8 2 1/2 1/8 05.0 2 O (IATV) ACTV Inc. O (PLTZ) Pulitzer Puh. 22 20 1/2 1 1/2 07.31 8 214 00.00 5 O (ALLT) All American TV 2 3/4 2 3/4 O (STAIN) Stauffer Comm. 118 118 00.00 48 144 00.00 13 257 N (CRC) Caroler( Pictures 8 1/2 8 1/2 (TMC) Times Mirror 30 5/8 31 - 3/8 - 01.21 19 3,984 3/4 25.00 18 24 O (DCPI) dirk dark prod. 3 3/4 3 (IRS) Tribune Co. 43 7/8 44 - 1/8 - 00.29 16 2,898 N 119 3/4 118 1/2 1 1/4 01.05 20 15,758 (DIS) Disney (TBSA) Turner Bcstg..A' 15 16 - 1 - 06.25 106 2,386

1 7/8 1 3/8 -73.34 5 34 O IENNIC) FNN 1/2 (WPO) Washington Post 242 226 16 07.07 15 2,719 5/8 5/8 00.00 3 A (FE) Fries Entertain. (WX) Westinghouse 29 3/8 28 3/8 1 03.52 8 8,259 A (HMI) Heritage Ent. 9/16 5/8 - 1/16 -10.00 -1 5 N (HSN) Home Shop. Net. 5 5 00.00 14 451 4 (IBTVA) IBS 1 5/8 1 1/2 IA 08.33 18 CABLE (KWP) King World 28 7/8 28 3/4 1/8 00.43 13 1,092 O (KREN) Kings Road Ent. 1/8 1/8 00.00 0 A (ATN) Acton Corp. 5 3/8 S 3/8 07.50 -4 7

N (MC) Matsushita 134 3/4 120 14 3/4 12.29 17270,430 O (ATCMA) ATC 39 11/2 38 1/2 1 02.59 37 4,198 (NNH) Nelson Holdings I S/8 I 5/8 00.00 -I 7 A (CVC)CabkvlsionSys.'A' 20 5/8 21 - 3/8 -01.79 .1 466

(NNET) Nostalgia Net. 5/8 5/8 00.00 3 A (CTY) Century Comm. 8 3/8 7 1/4 1 1/8 15.51 7 473

N (OPC) Orion Pictures 10 11 3/8 - 1 3/8 -12.09 28 25S O (CMCSA)ConRasl IS 5/8 15 3/4 - 1/8 -00.80 -10 1,778

N (PCI) Paramount Comm. 44 518 43 I/8 1 1/2 03.47 29 5,084 A (FAL) Fakon Cabk 9 9 12 - 1/2 -05.27 .7 60 N IPLA) Playboy Ent. 4 7/8 5 - 1/8 - 02.5 26 93 O (JOIN) Jones Inlercabk 9 1/8 9 1/4 - 1B -01.36 -6 115 O (QNTXQ) Qintex Ent. 1/8 1/8 00.00 26 N IKRII KnighlRidder 50 1/2 50 5/8 - 1/8 -00.25 15 2,539 O (QVCN) QVC Network 7 1/8 6 5/8 1/2 07.54 .17 114 T (RC1.A) Rogers'A' 9 3/4 9 3/4 00.00 17 349 0 (RVCC) Reeves Commun. 6 3/4 6 3/4 00.00 -16 85 O (TCAT) TCA Cable TV 15 3/4 15 1/2 1/4 01.61 67 375 O (EPICA) Republic Pio.'A' 7 3/4 8 1/2 - 3/4 -08.83 47 36 O (TCOMA) TC1 15 1B 16 1/4 - I 1/8 -06.93 -23 5,784 A (SP) Spelling Ent. 4 3/8 4 I/S 1/4 06.06 27 136 N (TWX) Time Warner 110 100 1/4 9 3/4 09.72 -6 5,761 O (JUKE) Video Jukebox 4 1/2 4 1/2 00.00 .34 42 HIUAECAI United Art.'A' 13 3/8 13 3/8 00.00 -19 1,878 O (WONE) Westwood One 2 1/8 111/16 7/16 25.92 -1 24 (VIA) Viacom 24 1/2 25 3/4 -1 1/4 -04.86 -85 2,748

56 Business Broadcasting feb 18 1991 STOCK INDEX (CONT.)

Market Market Closing (losing Capitali- (losing Closing Capitol/. Wed Wed Net Percent P/F ration Wed Wed Net Percent P/F lotion

Feb 13 Feb 6 Change Change Rata X000,000, Feb 13 Feb 6 Change Change Ratio ;000,000)

EQUIPMENT IL MANUFACTURING SERVICE

©IMMM) 3M 90 3/4 87 12 3 1/4 03.71 14 19.422 Oa IAFTI) Am. Film Tech. 4 1/8 3 5/8 1/2 13.79 12 35 3/4 I 1B 12.85 97 110 ©I ARV) Arvin Industries 21 3/8 20 1 3/8 06.87 18 375 O IBSIM) Burnup & Sims 9 7/8 8 LICCBL) C -Cor Electronics 5 1/8 5 1/8 02.50 5 21 ULCER) Color Systems 3 1/2 3 5/8 - 1/8 -03.45 -4 33 488 O (CTEX) C -Tec Corp. 16 7/8 16 7/8 05.46 .30 263 N fCQ) Comsat 27 1/2 26 I/8 I 3/8 05.26 8 N ICHY) Chyron 7/8 3/4 1B 16.66 -2 8 N(CDAI Control Data 12 1/2 12 5/8 - 1/8 -01.00 -3 536 A COH) Calm II 3/8 10 3/4 5/8 05.81 8 21 (DNB) Dun & Bradstreet 47 7/8 47 3/4 1/8 00.26 17 8.713 N (EK) Eastman Kodak 45 7/8 44 1/8 I 3/4 03.96 45 14.315 (FCB) Faute Cone & B. 22 3/4 22 3/8 3/8 01.67 11 241 N /IRS) Harris Corp. 25 1/2 25 3/4 - 1/4 -00.98 8 1,032 O (GREY) Grey Ads. 127 130 - 3 -02.31 11 146

N (IV) Mark 1V Indus. 10 1/2 9 5/8 1 1/2 16.66 2 130 O (IDBX) 1DB Commun. 8 3/4 9 - 1/4 -02.78 100 57 O (MATT) Matthews Equip. 2 1/8 2 1/8 06.25 100 II N (IPGI Interpublic Group 39 39 00.00 17 1.333

1 04.00 12 655 O I MCDY) Mkrodyne 4 n06 3 7/8 - 3/16 20.96 55 16 N IOMC)Omnicom 26 25 48 7/8 3 1/8 -06.40 23 21,069 IIMCOMI Midwest Comm. 3I/32 1 - 1/32 -03.13 2 3 O ( RTRSY) Reuters 45 3/4 - -1 217 (MOT) Motorola 57 1/4 56 3/4 112 00.88 14 7.464 N ISAAI Saatchi & Saatchi 1 1/2 1 3/8 1B 09.09 (PPI) Pico Produce- 3/8 5/8 - 1/4 40.00 2 O TLMT) Telemation 1/4 1/4 00.00 1 (SEA) Sci- Atlanta 15 1/2 15 7/8 - 3/8 -02.37 8 356 O (TMCII TM Commun. 9/32 1/4 1/32 12.50 -1 5 01.05 -12 11 ISNE) Sony Corp. 52 1/2 51 3/8 1 1/8 02.18 27 17,052 A UNV) Umtel Video 7 7/8 7 1/2 3/8 09.52 107 ) Tektronix 22 5/8 20 7/8 1 3/4 08.38 -7 606 O (WPPGY) WPP Group 2 7/8 2 5/8 1/4 748 (TEK( VAR) Varian Assoc. 39 7/8 39 1/8 3/4 01.91 -186

(WGNIt I Wegener 7/8 5/8 1/4 40.00 -3 4 WW (ZE) Zenith 6 7/8 7 1/8 -01.79 -2 187 Standard & Poor's 400 434.97 358.07 +76.9 +21.4%

et al., for $829,539 in assumption of sell- Inc. is also 100% voting stockholder of 'Changing Hands' er's liability. Transferor, Dudley, is Northern Radio of Michigan Inc., licensee WKLT -AM -FM Kalkaska, Continued from page 55. transferring 50% of company stock. He is of Mich. also 75% shareholder of Jett Communica- WJML(AM) has adult contemporary format at 9%, with three -year $700,0000 noncom- tions, licensee of WTMA(AM) Charleston, on 1110 khz with IO kw day; WJML -FM has pete covenant included in total purchase S.C., and 90% shareholder of Southern adult contemporary format on 98.9 mhz price. Seller is headed by Herbert Barness, Communications Inc., licensee of with 100 kw and antenna 800 feet above John E. Knoell, Donald Meredith and au- WSUY(FM) Charleston, S.C. Transferees average terrain. thor James A. Michener and has no other are F. William Stewart (25 %), Leslie P. KsMT(FM) Breckenridge, Colo. o Sold by broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Garnett (18.75%), Rebecca T. Robbins Summit Broadcasting Inc. to Gardiner Douglas A. Hawley, Network Broadcast- (18.75%) and James D. Ryberg (18.75%), Broadcasting Corp. for $750,000. Price ing Corp. (100% GP), Joseph L. Wesley and have no other broadcast interests. includes $25,000 escrow deposit, (50 %) and Marion M. Wesley (50 %), hus- WAJY has adult contemporary format on $525,000 cash at closing (of which band and wife, and Lorena Kerr and has 102.7 mhz with 3 kw and antenna 328 feet $200,000 is for five -year noncompete cov- no other broadcast interests. WBUX has above average terrain. enant, and $200,000 five -year promissory easy listening format on 1570 khz with 5 WJML -AM Petoskey, Sold by note at 1 %. Seller is headed by Ron kw day and 500 w night. -FM Mich. Petoskey Broadcasting Co. to Northern Fowler and has no other broadcast inter- KTZR(AM) Tucson, Ariz. Sold by Tuc- Radio of Petoskey Inc. for $795,400. Price ests. Buyer is headed by Clifton H. Gardi- son Wireless Inc. to Radio Pantera Inc. for includes $375,000 cash at closing, ner (75 %), Rex R. Miller (15 %) and Pat- $975,000. Price includes $100,000 cash at $70,400 escrow deposit, $60,000 six -year rick J. O'Keefe (10 %) and has application closing, $50,000 down payment, $20,000 promissory note at 14 %, $65,000 six -year pending for KKMX -AM-FM Hayden, Colo. payment of past due payroll taxes, noncompete covenant, $95,000 consulting ( "Changing Hands," Feb. 4). KSMT has payable $675,000 assumption of two notes agreement and $130,000 assumption of adult rock format on 102.3 mhz with 3 kw and $130,000 note payable to seller at seller's liabilities and obligations. Seller is and antenna 230 feet below average ter- 10 %. Seller is headed by Robert D. headed by Tim Achterhoff, Harvey J. Ne- rain. who 70% Valley Broad- Greenlee, owns of deau Jr., Lillian Boonstra Trust, Frances WGHB(AM) Farmville, N.C. Sold by At- casting Inc., licensee of KXKT(FM) Atlan- Soya, Dalton Hille, Estate of P.B. Rogoski lantic Coast Communications to Rivercity KOIL(AM) whose CP tic, Iowa, and Omaha, and Dave Dexter. Principals have interests Radio Inc. for $325,000. Price includes are pending. Buyer applications currently in Greater Muskegan Broadcasters Inc., $280,000 cash at closing, $12,500 escrow by (49 %), is headed Xavier Murrietta licensee of WMUS -AM -FM Muskegan, deposit and $22,500 assumption of seller's Francisco Garcia Jr. (51 %) and Francisco Mich.; WPLY Inc., licensee of WPLY(AM) promissory note. Seller is headed by J. Garcia Sr., and are currently in manage- Plymouth, Mich., and Great Duluth Thomas Lamprecht, and has no other broad- ment and sales at KTZR. KTZR is fulltimer Broadcasting Co. Inc., licensee of KQDS- cast interests. Buyer is headed by Frank and has AOR format on 1450 khz with I AM-FM Duluth, Minn. Buyer is headed by Canale and Carol D'Antonio, and has no kw. Northern Broadcast Inc. (100 %), Richard other broadcast interests. WGHB has South - WAJY(FM) New Ellenton, S.C. o Sold by A. Dills, William Langer Gokey and em gospel format on 1250 khz with 5 kw William G. Dudley III to W. Greg Ryberg, Bruce P. Peterson. Northern Broadcast day, 2.5 kw night. Broker: Gary Whittle.

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Business 57 \\SH1YGÏ)\

INTERFERENCE ISSUE HEATS UP BETWEEN FCC, FAA Some see power struggle intensifying between two agencies over alleged broadcast interference to aircraft navigation frequencies

The FCC's recent decision to seek after the FAA was told by Congress to casters, especially FM's." comments on aviation receiver examine EMI. According to sources at FM and TV broadcasters, other spec- specifications is seen by many as both agencies, the FCC may not have trum users and the FCC have opposed the latest development in an ongoing sought, or ignored, FAA input on poten- the FAA's attempt to reduce electromag- feud with the Federal Aviation Adminis- tial avionic interference from mobile sat- netic interference to avionic receivers by tration (FAA) over spectrum manage- ellites. In Washington politics that short setting severe restrictions on the geo- ment. The feud, which some say dates shrift amounted to "a big loss" for the graphic location of RF transmitters and back to the late 1970's, has heated up FAA, as one FCC staffer put it. towers (BROADCASTING, Jan. 7). The since 1987, when Congress required the Since 1987, the FAA has, as a matter FAA uses computer models to predict FAA to consider the effects of electro- of policy, extended its clearance process potential interference from new ground - magnetic interference (EMI) on avionics from physical hazards based on height based transmitters. when allowing broadcast tower con- and location to include EMI. For broad- Although the FAA has statutory au- struction and modifications. In an effort casters and other spectrum users whose thority to investigate EMI effects from to cool down some of the interagency towers are, or will be, located sufficient- FM antennas on the Instrument Landing friction, a meeting was held Feb. 6 with ly near an airport, the EMI provision has System (ILS), the FCC, believes Wil- high -level advisers from both sides. It is added costly delays for many, and has liam Hassinger, assistant Mass Media too early to know if the meeting will meant the denial of applications for oth- Bureau chief, has the authority to regu- prove beneficial, but many believe it at ers. Barbara Waite, an attorney with late both the spectrum and, more to the least indicates a cooperative future is Venable, Baetjer Howard & Civilette, point in this matter, receiver standards. possible. said the latest FAA rulemaking is an However, the commission has tradition- The receiver proceeding, many be- attempt to "codify what they've been ally refused to regulate avionics, claim- lieve, may be hampered by lingering doing for years." She said the FAA's ing that its primary responsibility is reg- staff friction from an FCC mobile satel- intrusion into the FCC regulatory field ulation of the airwaves. But sources lite proceeding that took place shortly "is increasingly a problem for broad within the FCC say there is a high prob- ability aeronautical receivers will be the exception. COX'S CAPITAL MAN Unless, as Hassinger put it, "differences can be resolved at a policy level." Alex Netchvolodoff, administrative assistant But with the change in administra- to Missouri Republican Senator John Dan- tions (a new FCC chairman and three forth, joins Cox Enterprises as its vice presi- new commissioners, and a new FAA dent of government affairs. Netchvolodoff will administrator) has come a change in the establish for the first time a Washington office senior advisers, and it is at this level that for the organization, which has broadcast, ca- "a dialogue" has begun. The FCC's ble and publishing interests. A life -long friend Robert Pettit, general counsel; Renee of Danforth, the St. Louis, Mo., native was Licht, deputy general counsel, and Has- with the senator when he was Missouri's attor- singer met Feb. 6 at the FAA with Ken- ney general and ran Danforth's first senate neth Quinn, chief counsel; David Ben- campaign in 1976. He has been the senator's nett, manager, Air Space and Air Traffic administrative assistant since 1977. Law Branch, and Patricia Lane, Air Netchvolodoff starts his new job March 1. Space and Air Traffic Law attorney. He said Cox presents a unique perspective Hassinger said the meeting was de- because of its cross -interests and that the com- signed to bring the dialogue "to higher pany has been able to "work out a lot of the tensions" among the cable, management at the FAA." That alone, broadcast and publishing divisions. While other communications groups such he said, is a major change from the past. as Westinghouse have shut down their government relations operations, Cox But he added: "I don't feel like we were decided it was time to have a permanent presence in Washington. making much progress." Danforth is the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee Nothing is likely to change for at least and a cable reregulation legislation. Conflict interest chief proponent of of another month, which is when Quinn laws prevent his former boss Netchvolodoff from lobbying or his committee reportedly said he would resume the dis- staff a members. for year. However, he can talk to other cussion. Quinn is a newcomer to his position and is not completely familiar

58 Washington Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 with all the issues involved, according to two agencies have worked successfully pattern, and several ILS are often used sources inside the FAA. (An FAA in eliminating signal leakage from cable when a flight pattern into an airport is memo has been circulated among the systems. not a direct line. Washington's National staff that forbids their speaking with the From the FCC's point of view, too Airport is an example where the last media without prior approval from the many FAA decisions affecting broad- portion of the approach is within an ILS chief counsel). Also, the FAA has a casters are getting bogged down at mid- cone that covers airspace above The higher priority in investigating the recent level FAA management. There is also American University in Northwest USAir accident in Los Angeles. the belief that many at the FCC find it Washington. Because of a concentration Broadcasters, not surprisingly, say the difficult to work with Gerald Markey, of FM signals near the campus, the ILS problem is with the FAA model. Wheth- manager of the FAA's spectrum engi- has too much interference to work. er the interference ills are imaginary or neering division. Some in the FCC fear However, flying in that part of the ILS not, John Allen, an airspace consultant Markey wants to have his "own little zone is restricted because that zone also from Fernandina Beach, Fla., said: FCC" and others, on both sides,point to includes the air space above the White "The FAA really has not been open - earlier struggles where it is believed that House. minded to some of the cures." The con- Markey recieved less than fair treatment In other areas where there is interfer- flict, he said, "could have been resolved from the FCC. ence, a plane would pass through it a lot earlier, if they would have just sat It was this mid -level stalemate that quickly. Most important, the FCC be- down and talked." prompted the Feb. 6 meeting. lieves, those planes likely to be affected Lawrence Behr, president of Law- But the spectrum debate is a serious are probably using poor quality receiv- rence Behr Associates Inc., himself an one, and Hassinger, as did many at both ers. And that's where John Furr's peti- instrument pilot, said the "FAA is really agencies, emphatically stated: "We are tion comes in. quite intractable in their concept as to not trying to negotiate risk." But the Fun, a San Antonio, Tex., broadcast what constitutes electro- magnetic radia- FCC contends that the FAA's computer engineering consultant, filed a petition tion." He said "modern avionics that model is not accurate. Those familiar for rulemaking to set standards for avia- are allegedly affected by this, as far as with the model, which includes FAA tion receivers that filter out potential

we know, are immune to it." He said and FCC personnel and antenna engi- interference ( "In Brief," Feb. 1 1). The the issue "looks more like a power neers, said the FAA model indicates that Furr petition said "using improved am- struggle." interference is already rampant, and that plifier components and/or placing filter When the two sides have talked, it has new towers will only exacerbate the devices on the avionics input...would often been described as quibbling, al- problem. The "FAA has taken the attenuate the mixing frequencies but not though some on both sides agree that stance that all telecommunications seem the desired frequency." more recently solutions are being found to represent a threat to aircraft," Hass - "This wasn't a problem 10 years ago on simpler, nontechnical, peripheral is- singer said. because there were fewer FM's and few- sues during monthly interagency meet- Although the FCC has so far "been er ILS's...but with more FM's and ings since mid -1990. For example, the unwilling to grant an application with an ILS's, the likelihood of a collision is [FAA Notice of Hazard] based on what real," said one FCC staff member. [the FCC] considers a flawed model," It is no secret to those in the broadcast OFS ALTERATION Waite said, "I'm not sure how long engineering field that "there is some bad that's going to continue." blood between the agencies," said Bob Wireless cable, SMATV and Broadcasters and engineers do not du Treil. Compounding the problem, he other alternative providers of agree that the interference is wide- said, is the fact that "no one at the FCC video programing got a little help spread, saying, if that were so, the least [is willing] to stand up against the from their friends at the FCC that would happen is that pilots would be FAA." But Furr's petition, he and oth- when the commission amended its complaining about it, and there probably ers believe, "may be a good way for the rules governing the Operational- would have been a well -publicized inci- FCC to get control." Fixed Sevice (OFS) channels. The dent as a result of it. As it is, many at Some in the FCC, including Has - ruling makes available a 6 mhz the FCC and in the field say they know singer, agree. He said Furr's petition is wide band in the 18 ghz band to of no instances where interference has "going right to the heart of the matter... distribute video programing point - rendered a plane's navigation system in- we're giving it a lot of thought." to-point. The FCC also eliminated operable. The problem, they believe, is There are others who believe that the restrictions on the number of purely theoretical. FAA is eyeing a bigger prize: a piece of channels one licensee can have. However, sources inside both agen- the action on all spectrum use applica- Ralph Haller, chief of the Private cies say that there are areas where FM tions. Radio Branch, said the ruling will signals can interfere with ILS. The FCC Broadcasters need not worry about the have no affect on the number of claims that in the "real world" the few FAA "codifying" their practice just yet. channels a service provider can areas where there is interference, it is Both sides agree that FAA rulemakings make available to consumers, but not a problem because it generally oc- take considerably longer than FCC rule - may affect the size of a service curs outside a plane's normal flight pat- makings. But in a time when the FCC is area by allowing operators to tern or far enough away from an airport given a lot of credit for speeding up its build "a more competitive config- that the affected avionics are not needed. FM branch, "the FAA is threatening to uration for their systems." How- As an illustration, the ILS generally render some of [it] moot," as communi- ever, he said "no one should get operates in the 108-115 mhz band (three cations attorney Larry Roberts put it. overly excited about this...[it] is broadcast signals can, when originating Whether it is a genuine political pow- intended for the transport of video close to one another, have the cumula- er struggle or not, Allen said; "We in signals point -to -point only." tive effect of creating a signal in the the field are waiting to see which giant is 108 -115 mhz band), emits in a conical going to win." -Ps

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 w.,h1.N.. Si INFINITY FIGHTS INDECENCY FINE Broadcaster responds to commission inquiry with 36 -page document arguing that two- year -old broadcast did not warrant fine; company promises to fight fine and indecency charge

While conceding its Howard ing indecency guidelines, dwelled "on festly inequitable treatment must not be Stern Show is "sometimes out- sexual matters, including sexual inter- permitted to stand." rageous and often deals with course, orgasm, masturbation, lesbian- Infinity also contends that the FCC sexual themes," Infinity Broadcasting ism, homosexuality, breasts, nudity, and ignored the results of a Gallup study that argued last week that a two -year-old male and female genitalia....[It] con- demonstrates that no children 12 and broadcast of the show does not warrant tained frequent and explicit verbal refer- under listen to the Howard Stern Show an FCC fine for broadcast indecency. ences to sexual activities and organs that on an unsupervised basis. Responding to a complaint from a were lewd and vulgar and that, when Under existing case law, broadcast in- New Jersey woman, the FCC last No- taken in context, were made in a pander- decency cannot be banned, only "chan- vember tentatively fined the group ing and titillating fashion." neled" to times with a small risk of broadcaster $6,000 for the December But Infinity argues in its defense that undersupervised children listening. 1988 segment simulcast on WXRK(FM) nothing in the broadcast fits the generic Seeking to supercede legal precedent, New York, WYSP(FM) Philadelphia and definition of indecency affirmed by the Congress in 1988 passed a law banning W3FK(FM) Washington. U.S. Court of Appeals that requires indecency totally. That law, however, "The complaint of one woman who "patently offensive descriptions of sex looks as if it may fall before a court does not wish to listen to the program acts, organs or excretory activity." challenge on constitutional grounds. represents an attempt to suppress pro- Recognizing the lack of such descrip- In addition, Infinity says the fine is tected speech and thereby deprive an tion, it says, the FCC relies on a July unfair because it "cannot rationally be adult audience of that opportunity rather 1990 staff ruling that detailed descrip- reconciled with a host of other...dismis- than simply partaking of other available tions are no longer necessary for a find- sals [of indecency complaints] involving broadcast fare," Infinity said in its 36- ing of indecency. "Even assuming that facts indistinguishable from those pre- page response to the FCC Notice of Ap- the 1990 staff ruling in fact placed this sented here." parent Liability for Forfeiture. significant, substantive gloss on the It says the fine of stations in Philadel- "While the program is not designed court's decision, the [fine] represents an phia and Washington for a complaint to appeal to everyone (and certainly not attempt to impose liability on Infinity directed at the New York station "is to children)," it says, "it is not indecent based on a staff ruling which occurred inconsistent with the commission's past within the judicially approved plain some two years after the broadcast in practice and would create substantial en- meaning of the term, and children do not question," it says. "This type of mani- forcement problems for the future." -iii in fact listen to it." Contrary to other broadcasters en- snared by the FCC for indecency, Infin- FIGHTING BACK ity has promised to fight the fine and the charge of indecency all the way into the Other than Infinity Broadcasting, Evergreen Media Corp., Dallas -based federal courts. licensee of six radio stations, is the only broadcaster even making noises If the FCC, despite last week's plead- about taking on the federal government in court over indecency. ing, affirms the fine, Infinity has the The FCC fined Evergreen's WLUP(AM) Chicago $6,000 last month for three option of not paying it. To collect and segments of a Steve and Garry Show broadcast in August 1987 and March make the indecency charge stick, the 1989. It plans to go one step further than other stations hit with indecency Justice Department would have to sue fines by petitioning the full commission later this month to reconsider the fine. Infinity in federal district court-a step Should that fail, it may invite a review of the case by a federal district court that would be time-consuming and cost- by refusing to pay the fine. But it is a call Evergreen will make only after all ly for both sides. its administrative remedies at the FCC are exhausted, said Scott Ginsburg, Since the FCC stepped up its indecen- Evergreen chairman and president. "We're going to take it one step at a cy enforcement, every station that has time." been fined has paid up to avoid further It would not be an easy decision in light of the legal costs a full blown legal expenses. The one exception thus federal court case would entail, Ginsburg said. From a business standpoint, far is Dallas -based Evergreen Media. It you pay the fine, he said. "But from an emotional and principle plans to petition the full commission for $6,000 standpoint, you fight it." Regardless of what Evergreen does, Ginsburg reconsideration of the fine but is unsure believes the programing in question did not violate the indecency prohibition whether it wants to take on the federal and that the FCC acted arbitarily in fining the station. The programing was prosecutor (see box). "virtually impossible to distinguish" from programing that the FCC dismissed At issue in the Stern case is a broad- indecency complaints against, he said. cast in which, according to a transcript, Eric Bernthal, Evergreen's communications attorney in Washington, agreed there was talk of a "guy who plays the that triggering a court fight will have to be carefully considered, even though piano with his penis" and a "big black is Litigation could run into six figures, Bernthal said. lesbian...out of her mind with lust." the fine unwarranted. "That's a hard decision for a businessman to make with today's economics," In its Nov. 29 notice, the FCC said he added. the broadcast, in violation of its evolv-

N ttFmhiMF Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 JOTJRIYALISM

GROUP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO 'PULL PLUG' ON CNN'S ARNETT Coalition including AIM asks for public to boycott CNN until network removes Arnett from Baghdad; group says reporter is helping to spread Saddam Hussein's propaganda by reporting under Iraqi censorship guidelines

The Victory Committee, a coalition The U.S. Voice of Baghdad exempts it from the Iraqi embargo. of "pro- American" organizations "Any other waivers given to other news including Accuracy in Media, has organizations should also be revoked launched a major campaign to force and no new waivers should be granted," CNN to move the network's reporter, the letter said. Peter Arnett, out of Baghdad. At a Washington press conference last o week, AIM Chairman Reed Irvine called In other related developments last week, for a boycott of CNN until Amett reports that CNN let Iraqi officials use r M ...... e....t..om. leaves. He said the committee would run its satellite telephone in Baghdad added ads in national publications and newspa- r::.....o..r...... ur...ru...... +.r.r.r:M w to the controversy. CNN said it only let pers urging the public to contact Ted 3.11. ` Iraqi to call .....:....cr...,...... ti,..,...r:': :w:óIlsoin+``wúwá authorities use the phone Turner, chairman of CNN parent Turner r Amman, Jordan, to arrange for visas for Ant'. 00.w+ Broadcasting System, and tell him to journalists entering Iraq. But executives u.r,..+Mmíuíu,w..' "pull the plug on the voice of Bagh- w.....-. rsÑ at the broadcast networks alleged that dad." Irvine said Amett's broadcasts are . M' ...S,..âCmd. CNN let Iraqi officials use the phone in helping to "spread Saddam Hussein's Sometimes you've gut to gel angry lad OM box of those times. exchange for the CNN's special treat- propaganda in America." CNN, Irvine :Please-mail the coup.. today. ment. Arnett responded on -air to the said, is doing a "grave disservice to the Wary Quasar, IIrS[ Smut, N.W, W.Ymtm.D.C. charge. He said: "If you don't have one allied cause." [a phone hook -up), you're on the outs CNN's Arnett is one of a few Western and pretty sour about it." 1* reporters permitted to remain in Bagh- CNN also aired a shot of Arnett argu- dad since the war broke out and has The Victory Committee's anti -Arnett ad ing with Iraqi censors. He later reported come under heavy fire for reporting un- that he had pictures of fires iil Baghdad der Iraqi censorship guidelines. AIM is Irvine was later asked if he thinks but was not allowed to air them. also trying to enlist radio talk show hosts Arnett should be treated in that manner. Two weeks ago, Arnett was blasted to its cause. "I am not saying that should happen to by Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) for Irvine promises to take the same ac- Arnett," he replied. But Irvine said, it is being an Iraqi "sympathizer." A letter tion against ABC News "if they start "wrong" to have "our correspondents from 39 House members also corn - doing the same thing." ABC's Bill Bla- in Baghdad." Irvine said the press will plained that CNN was being used as a kemore returned to Baghdad last week. only help Hussein carry out his "psy- propaganda tool by Hussein. They asked Irvine said he has called ABC twice to chological war against us." network officials to stop the broadcasts. see if "anyone will discuss the morality He said the Victory Committee is In response, Turner said that at "no time of what they're doing." He also said seeking contributions to help pay for ads has the network misrepresented the con- ABC has indicated to him that it did not in other papers. The committee has ap- ditions under which the news in that have a "high opinion" of Arnett's proached USA Today about running its country is gathered and reported. We broadcasts. ad. Besides AIM, the other groups in- remain in Baghdad to do our best to "In war time, the rules change. The volved in the effort include the Ameri- report that side of the story." press cannot remain neutral," said Ir- can Conservative Union, American De- Also defending CNN's Gulf War cov- vine. He said that after World War II, fense Foundation, Americans for High erage was Larry King, host of the net- William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), a Brit- Frontier, Blinded American Veterans work's Larry King Live. At a Washing- ish citizen who broadcast propaganda Foundation, Vietnam Veterans Institute, ton Metropolitan Cable Club luncheon for Hitler, and Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose), Conservative Congressional Committee last week, King said he could not "fath- an American citizen who did the same and Concerned Women of America. om" the criticism directed at Arnett. He for the Japanese, were arrested and The group also wrote President Bush said the other networks' complaints stem tried. The British, Irvine said, hanged urging him to revoke the waiver the Joyce as a traitor. Treasury Department granted CNN that Continues on page 67

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Journalism 61 ON THE TECHNOLOGY ROAD TO

Looking ahead to the NAB convention in Las Vegas, BROADCASTING -in an eight -part series -previews what's new on the hardware side. This week: Satellites.

FLYAWAY SATELLITE SYSTEMS SHOW STAR POTENTIAL Performance of easily transportable uplinks in Persian Gulf widely praised; other systems expected to attract attention at convention include remote control antenna systems, uplink services

One of the most common and five in use by ABC News, four by CBS Defense Department and two by CNN. memorable images of the month - and two by NBC, McGuinness said. CNN, a pioneer of news coverage using old Persian Gulf war has been Other customers include the BBC, ITN flyaway systems, bought its first system TV correspondents reporting live from a and Spain's Telephonia network. from Midwest in the mid- 1980's. "CNN roof in Dhahran, Riyadh or Tel Aviv as "There were a lot of them already in the was the first one to take our unit out and Scud or Patriot missiles fly by in the field. But in the last couple of months, check it out and was the first to buy our background. Those pictures and several we've been producing systems at about S -1," Ritemire said. "Since their main others from the region are being sent the rate of one a week to assist with the reason for living is news, it's a perfect with new flyaway portable satellite immediate demands of the Gulf activi- thing for them. They can fly anywhere at transmission systems, increasingly pop- ty," McGuinness said. a moment's notice." ular products with the major news net- Pete Ritemire, marketing communica- The stripped -down Midwest S -1 por- works in recent years. tions manager, Midwest Communica- table uplink system sells for about Flyaway systems with their latest en- tions Corp., Edgewood, Ky., said he $200,000 with several options available. hancements will be among the highest has also noticed an increased interest in Three versions of the Advent system profile pieces of satellite on display at flyaway systems since the war began. will be shown at NAB, ranging in cost the National Association of Broadcasters Midwest will show updated versions of between $119,000 (£60,000) for sys- equipment exhibition at the Las Vegas its S -1 and S -2 flyaway systems at NAB. tems delivering simple data and audio Convention Center, April 15 -18. Along "It seems to have generated a lot more information to $338,000 (£170,000) for with the usual range of newsgathering interest with the local press and different high -end, full-motion video systems. trucks, satellite receivers and related companies that have been looking at sat- New remote control and test monitoring gear, a number of new ancillary satellite ellite communications. They see the features have been added to the systems services are planned for introduction at feed coming over and happen to see one to be displayed in Las Vegas, McGuin- the NAB. of these dishes in the background and ness said. "We're very dominant [in flyaway they give a call," Ritemire said. "I Another flyaway system currently in system sales]. There are, at this point in don't know how many of them are really development will be shown by BAF time, I would say, in excess of 30 of our going to turn into qualified customers Communications Corp., Peabody, systems active in the Gulf region that really have a need for that type of Mass. "It can be used for either 50-hertz alone," said Steve McGuinness, a direc- unit, but certainly a lot more people are or 60 -hertz European- or U.S. -standard tor of Advent Communications Ltd., aware of them now." [transmissions] and it can be used for Chesham, Bucks, England. Among the Midwest knows of three of its systems video, audio or VSAT. The customer Advent systems now in the region are in use in Saudi Arabia: one by the U.S. can configure it any way he wants,"

62 Woolen Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 said Charles Angelakis, BAF president broadcast commercials to TV stations in and chief executive officer. An updated satellite rather than duplicated tape version of the prototype BAF system form, will feature its two- month -old Sat- shown at the International Broadcasting ellite Shuttle service. Through the ser- Convention in Brighton, England, last vice, Cycle Sat guarantees delivery of a fall will be at NAB. The finished system copy of video clips in 23 North Ameri- is expected to be ready by June. can cities in two hours or less in the The BAF system will operate with a desired videotape format (Type C, U- 2.4 -meter portable satellite antenna from Matic, Betacam SP, VHS, MII or D -2). Andrew Corp., Orland Park, Ill. "There A customer may uplink a spot from one are multitudes of flyaways [in the Gulf Andrew 1.8 -meter flyaway antenna of the 23 cities to a receive point where region]. One network is operating one of the spot is duplicated in the desired for- our new 1.8 -meter flashpacks," said May 1. The center of the facility will be mat and delivered by courier to its in- Dave Neubauer, manager, earth station a Broadcast Television Services 3000 tended destination. application engineering, Andrew. "I routing switcher, capable of 400 inputs Satellite Shuttle has already been used don't believe, to my knowledge, there and 400 outputs. Customers will pay for several applications. "One of the are any larger -than- flyaway dishes set monthly fees for the ports, which can be greatest uses has been to get television up to broadcast because everything is so remotely accessed at their locations. commercials from ad agencies in Los transportable" with flyaways, he said. IDB is establishing The Switch in part- Angeles to New York to get late -break- That new 1.8 -meter dish will be nership with Beers Enterprises Inc., a ing commercials into network clearance among Andrew's NAB product intro- Westboro, Mass., broadcast consulting offices," said Rebecca Allmon, market- ductions. It breaks down into eight and marketing company. "We're selling ing manager. The rates for delivery be- pieces that can be loaded as check -in this to anybody who has need for trans- tween Cycle Sat's Los Angeles and New baggage on any commercial airline, and mission, be they radio or television net- York locations is $460 (not including most components are manufactured with works, stations, teleports, sports venues, duplication and delivery). a lightweight aluminum alloy, Andrew major production facilities, hotels, hos- The National Supervisory Network said. The dish can operate in C, X and pitals or convention centers," said IDB (NSN), Avon, Colo., will seek to attract Ku bands. Andrew will also introduce a spokesman Michael Teeling. new customers to its satellite -connected new line of TriFold 4.5 -meter and 3.7- Cycle Sat Inc., Forest City, Iowa, a remote station engineering system with meter earth station antennas for mobile company specializing in delivery of its new PrivateLink Service, or receive /transmit applications in the Ku band. The 4.5 -meter version can also be used in C -band. Scientific -Atlanta will introduce the You've 8860 -series of satellite antenna control If Got systems. The controllers will be "software upgradeable to adaptive predictive the Time... program tracking. It's a new antenna control concept that you can buy, and We've Got the Space! eventually, when more satellites go to incline orbit tracking, you can upgrade Occasional and Full -time that with software changing and you're s pi C and Ku Band Transponders automatically there," said Dwight ptiá Duke, vice president, broadcast satellite Domestic and International systems. The 8860 and 8861 versions of the system will be available at the NAB Videoconference Coordination show. The 8862 will be available by late f,: summer. No prices have been set. 24 Hour Service -u/ Few new products are expected among the satellite newsgathering truck News and Sports Backhaut companies. Midwest will offer a new Syndication Services version of its S -23 vehicle featuring more space for editing equipment. BAF will offer new satellite and microwave news vehicles with similar space- saving enhancements. "In our booth outside, we're going to have our truck that we sold to the NBC affiliate in Reno, KRNVrrv)," Angelakis said. A number of new satellite services for broadcasters are to be shown at NAB. The most highly featured item from IDB Communications Group, Culver City, Calif., will be The Switch, a Manhattan Great American audio /video transmission center to serve TELECOMMI NICATIONS SERVICES customers in the New York area starting 85 Merrimac Street, Suite 502 Boston, MA 02114 (617) 720 -1557 Fax (617) 720 -0803

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Technology 63 "BYOB -Be Your Own Bell," as NSN between stations are also possible over able time promoting use of its new President Bill Sepmeier calls it. Broad- PrivateLink, which is controllable with a GSTAR -4 satellite, launched last No- cast groups can interconnect their sta- personal computer and NSN's software. vember. Comsat World Systems, Wash- tions with two -way telephone communi- Most of the new products and services ington, will promote use of its INTEL - cations over the NSN system. Data to be shown by GTE Spacenet, McLean, SAT-K satellite planned for video transmissions, CD- quality audio, NTSC Va., have not been announced. But the linking to Europe and South America, video frames and several other inputs company does expect to spend consider- beginning in 1992. -us

VYVX- HUGHES FORGE FIBER- SATELLITE ALLIANCE Hughes Television Network to backhaul some sports programing over Vyvx NVN fiber network, beginning with 1991 baseball season

Many have predicted the day sat- Vyvx NVN will then route the signal ellite and fiber optic technol- to the local rights holder. Stations oper- ogy would compete in video ating local team networks will continue distribution in both network -to- affiliate rt. to feed affiliates through HTN and other distribution and in video to the home. satellite carriers in the foreseeable fu- But two companies last week announced ture. "Fiber makes sense in point to a plan that could lead to long -term coop- point or for trunking on heavily -used eration between the industries in the fu- routes. Satellite makes sense when you ture. have off-shore points or multiple receive Vyvx National Video Network locations," Tagliaferro said. "Fiber is a (NVN), Tulsa, Okla. -based national fi- tool we're adding to our bag of tricks." ber optic video service, and Hughes Dehvin L. Hofhof John Tagliaferro "Today, the fiber network obviously Television Network (HTN), New York, has a hard time competing with the big a division of IDB Broadcast Group and transmit/receive centers equipped with point- to-multipoint [satellite] network," the established leader in satellite distri- DS3 (45 megabits per second) digital Bothof agreed. But that will change bution of baseball and other live sports coder /decoder (coder) units operating in within a few years "once the whole events, announced a joint agreement. 43 of those 65 cities by this spring. [Vyvx NVN] network is in place and all Starting with this year's Major League Vyvx NVN already holds agreements of our switching is in place. We will Baseball season, Vyvx NVN and HTN with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN for find ourself very competitive to some will integrate their systems for distribu- occasional -use and regular distribution level of multipoint." tion of several games. HTN will also of news and sports video between their Transmissions to and from the two look for fiber applications for its other Washington and New York studios. Canadian baseball cities, Montreal and regular and occasional -use video trans- (CNN also links Atlanta and Washing- Toronto, will also be distributed by sat- missions. ton.) CBS used the network several ellite only. Vyvx NVN does not extend Both parties declined to give details of times in 1990 to backhaul such major into Canada, and there are no immediate the agreement other than to say it is a sports events as the Super Bowl, NCAA plans for expansion there. The network multiyear pact. "It's not so much that basketball tournaments and baseball's does, however, have transmit/receive we don't want to give a total dollar All -Star Game. centers in all the U.S. baseball cities. value. A lot of it just depends on the "Hughes Television Network special- Baseball will be the early application amount of use. It is based on how their izes in providing sports transmission ser- of the fiber network but not the only business allows them to use us," said vices for baseball, professional basket- one. "IDB can be expected to be using Vyvx NVN President Delwin L. Bothof. ball and hockey," said John Tagliaferro, the Vyvx fiber network in association There are no built -in quotas or limits to president, IDB Broadcast Group. (IDB with the service it provides all of its HTN use of the Vyvx system, he said. acquired HTN in 1989.) Most of the TV customers domestically and internation- The agreement does not enforce any stations holding rights to local teams' ally for news, sports and special exclusivity on either company. HTN is baseball telecasts have been HTN clients events," Tagliaferro said. "We're going free to use other fiber carriers (it current- for several years. to phase in fiber as we see that their ly uses a smaller local fiber distributor HTN will choose which games to performance is what we expected." for Baltimore-Washington links) and backhaul to local rights holders on a IDB -HTN has so far been satisfied Vyvx NVN is free to arrange deals with case -by -case basis. "For backhaul, my with the quality a DS3 fiber network can other satellite distributors. "There is a suspicion is that it would be 90% of the provide. HTN participated in a test of working relationship, though, that is time if there were no other consider- Vyvx NVN involving a New York -to- hard to replicate with someone else," ations," Bothoff said. But fiber use will Cleveland link last summer. The goal Bothof said. be limited at first by the expense of was to "take a look at the quality of Vyvx NVN, a subsidiary of Williams establishing a link -fiber optic, coaxial fiber transmission and compare it to C- Telecommunications Group, Tulsa, op- cable or microwave, depending on the and Ku -band delivery...The quality of erates an 11,000 -mile fiber optic net- most economical and convenient service the Vyvx transmission was very impres- work passing through 65 U.S. metropol- offered in each city -to the Vyvx NVN sive," Tagliaferro said. Both companies itan areas (BROADCASTING, July 16, transmit/receive center. HTN will bear agree that fiber and satellites deliver 1990). The network is expected to have that cost. equivalent, broadcast-quality video. -us

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WAR, ECONOMY PRODUCE DOWNBEAT MONTE CARLO Bad weather in Europe also blamed for lower turnout at TV marketplace; but while many of the potential buyers from U.S. stayed away or sent European representatives, some sellers say business was not off by much

Alower -than-usual turnout at the annual Monte Carlo Television Market last week may have re- sulted from factors other than the fear of travel during the Gulf War, according to participants. Cited were slowing economies in some countries that affect broadcasters' buying power and the unusually harsh winter weather across Europe last dt. o4 week that slowed travel to the Rivieria rnk_ resort town and prompted some Europe- an executives to cut their stays short. While no official figures were available prior to the market's closing, Monte Carlo representative Wilfred Groote, quoted in local press, calculated a roughly 10% drop in overall attendance from last year's estimate of 2,300. As of Tuesday night, he said, a total of 1,250 buyers and 1,040 sellers had registered for the market, but through last Tues- day, only 1,000 buyers and 800 sellers were in attendance. The quiet start on the market's first day, Sunday, Feb. 10, left some exhibi- tors concerned, and traffic in the halls of the Loews Hotel, where the market is centered, never reached past years' volume. But attendance did appear to pick up midway through the market and seats at the market's hot spot, the Loews main bar, remained as hard to get as ever. All major distributors were present, although some top U.S. executives sent European teams in their stead. Staying home were Warner Bros. International Television President Michael Solomon, Viacom President of International Raul Lefcovich and Buena Vista International Television President Etienne de Villiers. Vice President for International Jim cas, vice president of sales at Para- Among senior U.S. executives mak- Marrinan. mount, echoed what almost all exhibi- ing the trip to Monte Carlo were MCA Most distributors agreed there were tors were saying: "There are fewer TV International President Colin Davis, fewer buyers than usual. Word on the people, but not necessarily less busi- Paramount International TV President floor, for instance, was that only two ness." Bruce Gordon, Twentieth Century Fox Australian companies were represent- Added Armando Nunez Jr., senior TV International President Bill ed- Australian Broadcasting Corp. and vice president of program distribution at Saunders, New World International the Nine Network. Virtually no Middle International Broadcasting Systems, President Jim McNamara, Orion Pic- Eastern TV buyers came, except for two "The core selling and buying people are tures Television International President buyers from Israeli Cable Programing. all here. The periphery businesses, such John Laing and ITC Senior Executive But the drop in buyers aside, Joe Lu- as home video and some coproduction,

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 International 65 have been affected most. age and travel safety concerns, Monte "There are fewer long- distance trav- Carlo officials canceled all major public DISTANT ellers, for obvious reasons," said Susan events, including an opening gala din- SIGNALS Crawley, manager of international sales ner. Also canceled were world premiere for Britain's Yorkshire Television. "But screenings of new mini series, among there are more U.S. distributors than we them The Strauss Dynasty from German Revenue review had heard. No one likes to miss a busi- producer -distributor Beta Film, which Canal Plus, Europe's leading pay ness opportunity." Crawley added: said they will screen the program at the TV channel operator, increased "This market seems to have slowed upcoming MIP -TV market in Cannes. revenue by 10.6% in 1990 to down this year. Buying has slowed Britain's Itel also canceled a premiere of 5.485 billion French francs, or down, but we were talking about that at the HBO coproduction The Josephine approximately $1.097 billion. The MIPCOM" (last October's international Baker Story. firm's 1989 revenue was 4.96 billion TV market in Cannes, France). Some events were on as scheduled, French francs, or $992 million. Crawley explained many European however, including a cocktail reception The bulk of 1990 revenue comes broadcasters currently have well -stocked with actress Audrey Hepburn sponsored from subscribers, now totalling program libraries and are concerned that by Australian distributor Beyond Inter- 3.033 million for its French pay their country's economies may be hurt national. Hepburn is hosting Beyond's service (up 158,000 from the by recessions in the U.S. and the UK, new series, The Garden of the World. previous year) and 40,000 for its new and by the Gulf War. "People are more Prince Albert of Monoco's royal family, Belgian service, with additional cautious in screening programs. They which runs the market and associated subscribers in joint pay channel know what they want. They're not festival, also kept to tradition with a ventures in Germany (89,000 sweeping up product. Decisions are tak- small (and more low -key than usual) an- subs) and Spain (88,000 subs). ing longer." nual dinner for participants. -Anna tarugati, In recognition of the market's shrink- European correspondent Tighter rein WAR TAKING ITS TOLL ON CNN Soviet broadcaster Gosteleradio will be replaced by a new state radio CNN could end up spending some $35 million to cover the Gulf war if the and TV company that will conflict continues into the spring, according to Ed Turner, CNN vice apparently reinforce greater central president of newsgathering. government control over the Turner, who addressed the subject last Monday, Feb. 11, in a satellite service, Associated Press reported linkup to the Monte Carlo TV market as part of a roundtable on CNN's role in last week. Leonid Kravchenko, the Gulf crisis, spent much of the discussion defending the cable network from head of Gosteleradio, will run the criticism regarding the degree of its news analysis and the presence of CNN new state -owned company under reporter Peter Arnett in Bagdhad. direct appointment by Soviet Calling the war "the biggest spot news story of a generation," Turner President Mikhail Gorbachev. In a disagreed with those who maintained CNN was not airing enough news wire service interview, Kravchenko analysis. Said Turner: "Since the beginning of the conflict, we've had 475 said the media entity will continue guest experts giving analysis. We've also had 17- minute stories explaining the to allow state censorship and would background of the crisis. Whether on camera, or by radio microphone, we do tolerate "no pluralism" in the our best to cover this story as it unfolds as we would cover any disaster. But current political crisis. this one is global and has roots in almost every city and town, at least in the U.S." 'P.M.' partners Turner noted that "the unfolding dynamic of the story" lends itself to live and continued coverage, adding "There will be time further on for longer, An international magazine show thoughtful pieces." based on the syndicated U.S. hit PM In Monte Carlo, roundtable participant Evi Dimitri, director of international Magazine is in the works from relations for the Greek public broadcaster ERT, charged CNN with a lack of Westinghouse Broadcasting is impartiality in covering the Gulf, claiming it only gave the American point of International. Westinghouse view. Responded Turner: "We're getting enormous criticism that we're not looking for coproduction partners being good Americans, that we're not patriotic enough, that we're not doing from among European enough to give the American point of view." Arguing that CNN tries to give broadcasters for 26 episodes of the titled as many points of view as possible, he added, "the only editorial directive we half -hour show, tentatively on received from Ted Turner was to try to be fair." V. /.P.. The show would focus Panelist Michele Cotta, director of news and current affairs for France's royalty, newsmakers, celebrities commercial network TFI, expressed concern CNN is becoming a propaganda and entertainment events. vehicle for Iraq, and others in the audience criticized Arnett's presence in Bagdhad under severe censorship restrictions. "There has been journalistic Saban sales profit from having him there," Turner argued. "It's significant that Arnett International said it has was able to bring us the first pictures of the residential destruction of Saban Bagdhad." concluded sales to Australia's Seven France's La Cinq, Regarding CNN advertising rates, Turner said they had gone up in some Network, Antenne 2 and M6 and the UK's audience viewing periods by 500%, but added that "the irony is that as the British Sky Broadcasting. audience goes up and as ad rates go up, the more commercials we have pre- empted to cover breaking events."

66 hAutrlit>rl Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 'Arnett' Continued from page 61.

from "jealousy." Dan Rather, King SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE said, "would have been there without benefit of a plane." Stations in San Francisco and Memphis have joined the growing list of He said the CNN reporter was doing properties experimenting with various synergistic news efforts as a way of what any journalist would do. He noted dealing with the current state of the economy. that public opinion is against Arnett, but Among the latest additions, NBC affiliate KRON -TV San Francisco has in this case, King said the public is signed a deal to produce a 10 p.m. half -hour newscast for airing on market "wrong." independent KOFY -TV. In Memphis, NBC affiliate and market news leader As for King's views on the war and its WMC -TV has just started rebroadcasting its 5 p.m. news hour, retitled Action impact, he said the media will never be News Encore, at 7 p.m. weeknights on competitor WLMT(TV). Other shared be; the same. "CNN won't broadcasting news efforts launched in recent months include: the introduction of a 7:30 won't be. What it [the war] did for this p.m. newscast on independent WFrv(TV> Washington, produced by NBC - industry is boundless." He said that if owned WRC -TV Washington; WADL -TV Detroit airing the evening newscast of this were 1939, "Hitler would be my CBS affiliate WJBK -TV there; ABC affiliate WNEP -TV Scranton, Pa., producing guest. And Tojo would be on Ted Kop- a 10 p.m. newscast on Fox affiliate WOLF -TV and CBS -owned wax(Tv) Miami pel." As for the cable industry in gener- rebroadcasting its I I p.m. newscast at 12:30 a.m. on wozuTV). wcix also al, King said, "cable is where you hang provides local news updates during the WDZL prime time schedule. up your own coat." -too

BETTING ON NETWORK NEWS CREDIBILITY TWO SIDES OF The next five years will determine whether network news "will survive in the form we now know it," said NBC News's Tim Russert last Tuesday (Feb. 5). The Washington bureau chief joined CBS diplomatic correspondent WAR COVERAGE Bill Plante in a discussion of "Changes in Television Network News Cover- age in the 1990's," a course offered as part of the Smithsonian Institution's Resident Associate Program's "Media and Society" series in Washington. The jury is still out on the perfor- According to Russert, should network news not last, it would be "equiva- mance of Western press in cover- lent to the loss of a national treasure." Noting the various network correspon- ing the Gulf War, but both West- dents "dedicated...day in and day out" to covering specific beats, he asked: ern and Arab journalists at a Washington "Who else is going to play that role ?" The print press "can no longer do it briefing last week offered criticism and alone," he said. He added that he "is confident" that despite tightened encouragement on the role of the media. bottom lines and increased competition, network news will ultimately survive. David Smith, Washington-based chief In response to a question on why three networks are needed to cover the war correspondent for the UK's Independent in the Persian Gulf, Plante replied that "in the next five years, there may not Television News, said that while the me- be three.... That's not impossible because the numbers aren't there." While dia had an extraordinary technical ca- he declined to speculate which major commercial broadcast network might pacity to tell the story of the crisis, it fold, Plante added to Russert's earlier comment that "the only thing we [the was suffering from a kind of "editorial networks] have going for us is the reporters' credibility." adolescence.... We're spending so much time waiting to go live, we don't have the time to get the story." Smith also argued that while the Western media has never been been so the Arab world itself. I don't think this Washington correspondent for the Pales- prepared for war, he was concerned is true at all." tinian Al Fajr, agreed that in the context journalistic practitioners were ignoring Part of the misunderstanding, suggest- of absence of freedoms in the Arab basic principles. "Tell this story like ed Barry Zorthian, former chief U.S. world, Arab journalists "end up being we'd tell any other story." he suggest- public affairs officer during Vietnam, bureaucrats in the bureau of informa- ed, "from both sides. We shouldn't be may be that information filtered through tion." Also, said the United States In- catering to jingoism." the Pentagon is for consumption by the formation Agency's David Pollack, But Arab journalists at the panel, American media and the American pub- chief of Middle East Research, the Arab which was sponsored by the Center for lic and does not take into account the media covering the crisis is "very deep- Strategic and International Studies, not- impact on foreign audiences made possi- ly divided, as is the Arab world itself." ed that part of the difficulty may be a ble by rapid satellite communication. Regardless of its limitations, howev- lack of understanding about the Arab Several Arab journalists participating er, the role of the Arab press in the world. also noted the Arab media has weak- region should not be underestimated, ar- According to Mohamed Hakki, Wash- nesses of its own. "Certainly in the gued Hamdi Fouad, Washington bureau ington Bureau Chief for the Saudi news- Middle East, there is no such thing as a chief of the Egyption Al Ahram. "If paper Okaz, "there is a perception in the free press or free communications. there is any serious change in the Arab West, and in the U.S. particularly, that There is censorship," argued CSIS's world, it will be as a result of the role it knows more about the Arab world than Shireen Hunter. Ghassan Bishara, played by the Arab press." -KM

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As compiled by BROADCASTING from of license from Radio Ingstad Colorado Inc. to Weld 54.3% of shares. Transferees are Kozloski, Norman Broadcasting Co. Inc. for $405,000. Seller is headed W. Johnson and Cathy Donovan, and is also licensee Feb. 7 Feb. 13 and based on through by Tom, James and Roben Ingstad, brothers, and of KIKC- AM -FM. Filed Jan. 25. filings, authorizations and other FCC ac- Randy Holland. Ingstads and Holland own separately WJML -AM -FM Petoskey, MI (AM: tions. and collectively, through various licensees, radio sta- BAL9101I8HU; 1110 khz; 10 kw -D; FM: tions throughout the West. They are also selling BAPLH910118HV; 98.9 mhz; 100 kw; ant. 800 ft.)- KSQI(FM) Greely, CO (see "Changing Hands" Janu- Abbreviations: AFC -Antenna For Communications; Seeks assignment of license from Petoskey Broadcast- ary 28). Buyer is headed by Joseph J. Tennessen AU- Administrative Law Judge; alt.- alternate; ann.- ing Company to Northern Radio of Petoskey Inc. for (35 %), and has no other broadcast interests. Filed Jan. announced; ant. -antenna; aur. -aural; aux. -auxiliary: $795,400. Seller is headed by Tim Achterhoff, Harvey 30. ch. -channel; CH -critical hours.; chg.-change; CP- J. Nedeau Jr., Lillian Boonstra Trust, Frances Soya, construction permit; D -day; DA -directional antenna; WXSF(FM) Bicknell, IN (BAPH910129HY; 105.7 Dalton Hille, Estate of P. B. Rogoski and Dave Dex- Doc.- Docket; ERP- effective radiated power; Freq -fre- mhz; 3 kw; ant. 100 ft.) -Seeks assignment of CP ter. Principals have interests in Greater Muskegan quency; HAAT -height above average terrain; H &V- from Robert M. Mason to Media Five Corp. for Broadcasters Inc., licensee of WMUS -AM -FM Muske- horizontal and vertical: khz- kilohertz; kw- kilowatts; $5,001. Seller has applications pending or granted for gan, MI; WPLY Inc., licensee of WPLY(AM) Plym- tic. license; m- meters: mhz -megahertz; mi.- miles; FM's in Iowa. Texas, Montana, Illinois, Indiana and outh. MI, and Great Duluth Broadcasting Co. Inc., MP- modification permit: mod. -modification; N- night; Louisiana. Buyer is headed by Keith A. Doades (50 %) licensee of KQDS -AM -FM Duluth, MN. Buyer is pet. for retort. -petition for reconsideration; PSA- presun- and Joyce A. Doades (50 %), and has no other broad- headed by Northern Broadcast Inc. (100 %), Richard rise service authority; pwr.- power; RC -remote control; cast interests. Filed Jan. 29. A. Dills, William Langer Gokey and Bruce P. Peter- son. Northern Broadcast Inc. is also 100% voting S- A- Scientific -Atlanta; SH- specified hours; SL- studio WKJM(FM) Monticello, IN (BALH910I24HX; location; TL- transmitter location; trans. -transmitter; stockholder of Northern Radio of Michigan Inc., li- 95.3 mhz; 1 kw; ant. 520 ft,) -Seeks assignment of censee of WKLT -AM -FM Kalkaska, MI. Filed Jan. TPO- transmitter power output; U or unl.- unlimited license from WKJM Inc. to Bomar Broadcasting Co. visual; 18. hours: vis.- w- watts; *-noncommercial. Six Lafayette for $525,000. Seller is headed by Robert J. groups numbers at end facilities changes items refer to of of Truitt, Roger Bauer. Edward Mugg, Robert V. Rohr - WMDC -FM Hazlehurst, MS (BALH9I0122HT; map coordinates. One meter equals feet. 3.28 man. James E. Young, Essie E. Nussbaum and son 100.9 mhz; 3 kw: ant. 295 R.) -Seeks assignment of Kent A. Nussbaum, and Jeffrey A. Pence, and has no license from Copiah County Broadcasting Company to other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Anthony Copiah County Radio for $170,000. Seller is headed OwNENSNIta ENSURES Bove Sr. (29.33 %), Frank Bove, (14.66 %), James C. by Albert Mack Smith, and has no other broadcast Mareuccilli (14.66 %) and Thomas M. Mareuccilli interests. Buyer is headed by Joseph K. Hollingsworth (14.66 %), who also have 14.81 %. 14.9 %. 7.4% and (50 %) and Wayne E. Thompson (50%), and has no Applications 7.3% interest, respectively, in WMRI Inc., licensee of other broadcast interests. Filed Jan. 22. KTZR(AM) Tucson, AZ (BAL910130EA; 1450 WGOM(AM)- WMRI(FM) Marion, IN, and is permit- KIKC -AM -FM Forsyth, MT (AM: I tee WMJC(FM) Bremen, IN. Filed Jan. 24. khz; kw -U) -Seeks assignment of license from Tuc- of BTC910125EC; 1250 khz; 5 kw -D; FM: son Wireless Inc. to Radio Pantera Inc. for $975,003. KLJB -TV Davenport, IA (BALCT910201KG; ch. BTCH9I0125ED; 101.3 mhz; 100 kw; ant. 1,010 Seller is headed by Robert D. Greenlee, who owns IS; 3000 kw -V; 300 kw -A; ant. 1,010 ft.) -Seeks ft.)-Seeks transfer of control from NEPSK Inc. to 70% Valley Broadcasting licensee of Inc., of assignment of license from Davenport Communica- Peter P. Kozloski (sale includes WAGM -TV Presque KXKT(FM) Atlantic, IA; and KOIL(AM) Omaha, NE: tions Ltd., debtor in possession, to A & H Footwear Isle. ME, see above). Filed Jan. 25. applications are pending to sell these station's CP's, Inc. for $3 million. Seller is headed by Gary Brandt, KIPP(FM) Mesquite, NV (BALH910124GS; 97.5 Buyer is headed by Xavier Murrietta (49 %), Francisco Richard Greenblatt, Kathleen N. DeBoeuf, Lee Hanna Garcia Jr. (51 %) and Francisco Garcia Sr.. and are mhz; 100 kw; ant. -295 ft.)-Seeks assignment of and ,Edward Hanna. Lee Hanna has 5% interest in license from A.G.P., Inc to Mesquite Broadcasting currently in management and sales at KTZR. Filed Jan, licensee of KSAS -TV Wichita, KS, and permittee of 30. Corp. for $49,000. Seller is headed by Dale Glen KAAS -TV Salina, KS. Edward Hanna is 1% share- Gardner, Mary S. Anderson and Dayle Perkins, and holder of Pueblo Television Corp., and through KPOM -TV Ft. Smith and KFAA(TV) Rogers, tvU- has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by SAPueblo Ltd. is permittee Pueblo. CO. both Arkansas (KPOM: BALCT910I29K1; ch. 24; of KPCA(TV) Glen S. Gardner. Filed Jan. 24. 2,510 kw -V; 251 kw -A; ant. 1,040 ft.; KFAA: Buyer is headed by Allan Greenblatt (50%) and Her- BALCT910129KJ; ch. 51; 5,000 kw -V; 500 kw -A; bert Somekh (50 %), and are presently limited partners WGHB(AM) Farmville, NC (BAL9I012BEB; 1250 ant. 932 ft.) -Saks assignment of license from J. D. of assignor. Filed Feb. 1. khz: 5 kw -D, 2.5 kw -N) -Seeks assignment of license from Atlantic Coast Communications to Rivercity Ra- G. Television Inc. to Westark Broadcasting Ltd. for KXDJ(FM) North Fort Riley, KS is headed by Duane dio Inc. for $325,000. Seller is headed by J. Thomas $4.383 million. Seller Hann, and (BAPH9I012BGL; 102.5 mhz; 50 kw; ant. 150 ft.)- Lamprecht. and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is 95% owned by Griffin Television Inc., licensee of Saks assignment of CP from Anita Kay Cochran to is is headed by Frank Canale and Carol D'Antonio. and KWTV(TV) Oklahoma City. Buyer headed by G. Lesso Inc.; purchase agreement to be filed as amend- Bradford has no other broadcast interests. Filed Jan. 28. Bulkley, who has 13.94% ownership in and ment in near future. Seller is headed by Anita Cochran, is general partner of Communications Partners Ltd., and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed WRQR(FM) Farmville, NC (BALH910117GE; which has in interests KFMX Radio Ltd. (99 %), Cor- by Larry Steckline (100 %). and owns KXXX(AM)- 94.3 mhz; 1.95 kw; ant. 407 ft.)-Seeks assignment of dell Publications Ltd. (24 %), Civic Communications KQLS(FM) Colby, KYUU(AM)- KSLS(FM) Liberal license from WRQR Inc. to Hardy Broadcasting Inc. Corp. (2.6 %) and Hoker Broadcasting Inc. (11.2 %). and KWLS(AM)- KGLS(FM) Pratt. all Kansas. and for $1.050 million. Seller is headed by Sam Floyd and Jan. Filed 29. KXLS(FM) Enid. OK. Steckline's son Greg Steckline Ronald L. Stone, and have 20% interest in WFAI(AM) KBLF(AM) Red Bluff, CA (BAL9I0128EA; 1490 owns 100% of Communications Group Inc.. licensee Fayetteville, NC; 25% interest in WASC(AM) Spartan- khz; I kw -U) -Seeks assignment of license from of KEGS(FM) Emporia, KS, and is permittee of new burg. SC; 33.3% interest in WAAJ(AM) Huntsville, Theodore S. Storck to KBLF Inc. for $120.000. Seller FM at Augusta, KS. Filed Jan. 28. AL. and 50% interest in WSJC(AM) Magee, MS. is headed by Theodore S. Storck, and has no other KTQQ(FM) Sulphur, LA (BALH9I0128GM; Buyer is headed by H. Steve Hardy (50%) and Steven broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Earnest R. I. Cohen (50%), and has no other broadcast interests. 100.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 300 ft.) -Seeks assignment of Hopseker (42 %), Karen J. Hopseker (42 %), Joseph B. Filed Jan. 17. license from KSIG Broadcasting Co. Inc. to 21st Cen- Fiala (8 %) and Susan Fiala (8 %), and has no other tury Communications Inc. for $429,500. Seller is WBUX(AM) Doylestown, PA (BTC910131EA; broadcast interests. Filed Jan. 28. headed by Louis M. Basso Jr. and Louis M. Basso III, 1570 khz; 5 kw -D, 500 w -N)-Seeks transfer of con- KSMT(FM) Breckenridge, CO (BALH910117HZ; his son, and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is trol from Central Bucks Broadcasting Company to Net- 102.3 mhz; 3 kw; ant. -230 ft.) --Seeks assignment of headed by Mary J. Martin (33.3 %), Keith B. Martin work Broadcasting Corp. for SI million. Seller is head- license from Summit Broadcasting Inc. to Gardiner (33.3%), her son, and Christopher J. Dunn (33.3 %). ed by Herbert Bamess, John E. Knoell, Donald Broadcasting Corp. for $750,000. Seller is headed by her son -in -law, and has no other broadcast interests. Meredith and James A. Michener (the auth- Ron Fowler, and has no other broadcast interests. Filed Jan. 28. or??)tktktktk. Buyer is headed by Douglas A. Hawley, Buyer is headed Network Broadcasting Corp. (100% GP), Joseph L. by Clifton H. Gardiner (75 %), Rex R. WAGM -TV Presque Isle, ME (BTCCT9I0125KF; Miller (15 %) and Patrick J. O'Keefe and Wesley (50 %) and Marion M. Wesley (50%), husband (10%), has ch. 8; 58.9 kw -V; 5.37 kw -A; ant. 350 ft.)- -Seeks application pending for KKMX -FM Hayden, and wife, and Loretta Kerr, and has no other broadcast -AM CO transfer of control from NEPSK Inc. to Peter P. Koz- (see "Changing Hands" February 4). Filed interests. Filed Jan. 31. Jan. 17. loski (sale includes KIKC -AM-FM Forsyth, MT, see KFKA(AM) Creaky, CO (BAL9I0130EB; 1310 below). Tranferors are Thomas P. Shelburne III, Debo- WBRX(FM) Patton, PA (BTCH910125GU; 94.7 khz; 5 kw -D, I kw-N, DA -N; ant.) -Seeks assignment rah Honkus and George Wensel. and are transferring mhz; I kw; ant. 551 ft. )-Seeks transfer of control

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 hr lb bard N from Kennedy Broadcasting Ltd. to C.N.W. Inc. for broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by N. John Doug- WMGM -TV Wildwood, NJ, and permittee of LPTV 585,000. Seller is headed by John A. Kennedy Jr., and las (100 %), David Cherhoniak and M. Fred Brown, WO7CE Atlantic City; principals own same interests in also owns WHUM(AM) Hughesville, PA, and LPTV and has no other broadcast interests. Action Jan. 30. WENY Inc.. licensee of WENY(AM)- WLEZ(FM) and Vero is WENY-TV Elmira, NY; TV translator WO6AR Hor- W69B0 Beach, FL. Buyer headed by Paul E. WTVX(TV) Ft. Pierce, FL (BALCT901010KG; Gregg, Betty Watkins (Paul E. Gregg. guardian) nett, NY, and permittee of TV translator W0713.1 (the- ch. 34; 5000 kw -V; 500 kw-A; ant. 973 ft.) -Granted and Philomena Alston. Filed Jan. 25. ca, NY. Action Jan. 31. app. of ssignment of license from WTVW Inc. to WPGH -TV Pittsburgh (BALCT9I0118KE; ch. 53; Krypton Broadcasting Corp. for S8 million. Seller is WCHP(AM) Champlain, NY (BTC90I203EF; 760 2338 kw -V; ant. 1,010 ft.) -Seeks assignment of li- headed by C. E. Feltner and is licensee of WNFT(TV) khz; 25 kw- D)-- Granted app. of transfer of control cense from Channel 53 Licensee Inc. to Sinclair Broad- Jacksonville, Fla.; Krypton Broadcasting of Birming- from Estate of Marvin D. Clapp (deceased) to Dora L. cast Group Inc. for $55 million (see "Changing ham Inc.; Krypton International Corp., and Krypton Clapp, executrix, and Carl J. Auel for no financial Hands" Jan. 28). Seller is headed by Michael Finkel- Broadcasting of Ft. Pierce Inc. Buyer is headed by consideration. Auel is 50% owner of KKXX(AM) Par- stein, and owns KTXL(TV) Sacramento, CA; Frank K. Spain and is licensee of WTVA(TV) Tupelo, adise and 51% owner of KKMC(AM) Gonzales, both WTXX(TV) Hartford, CT; WDZL(TV) Miami. and Miss., and is permittee of KZJC(TV) Flagstaff, AR. California; 25% owner of WCHP(AM) Champlain, WPMT(TV) Harrisburg, PA. Buyer is headed by Action Feb. I. NY; 25% owner of WLVI(AM) Royal Palm Beach, brothers David D. Smith %), J. Smith 33.3% owner of WORL(AM) Christmas, 49% owner (25 Duncan WCOA(A (FM) Pensacola, FL (AM: (25 %), Robert E. Smith (25 %) and Frederick G. Smith of WTWF(AM) Woodville, 100% owner of BAL901213E8; 1370 khz; 5 kw -U; FM: BAL- (25 %). and is parent of or has interest in Commercial WWLO(AM) Gainesville, all Florida, and 51% owner H90121 100.7 mhz; 100 ant. 1,555 ft.)- Radio Institute Inc. licensee of WPTT-TV Pittsburgh of KKNO(AM) Gretna, LA. Action Jan. 31. Granted app. of assignment of license from Norman S. (recent) sold, see "For the Record" FebruaryFeb I I ; Drubner to Brem Broadcasting for 82.23 million. Sell- 30 M) Fayetteville, NC (BAsignme4EB; Chesapeake Television Inc. licensee of er is headed by Norman S. Drubner, who has interests 1230 khz; I -Granted app. of assignment of Baltimore; WTTE Channel 28 Inc., permittee of in KXYQ(Ata )Fe Portland, OR, and KI- license from Beasley Broadcasting Co. to WFAI Radio KOFF(TV) Omaha, NE; Channel 63 Inc. licensee of VA(AM) Santa Fe and Albuquerque, both Inc. for 575,000. Seller is headed by George G. and WIIB(TV) Bloomington, IN, and Bay Television Inc., NM. Buyer is headed by Edmond J. Muniz (80%) and Shirley W. Beasley, husband and wife, and Sam permittee of WTTA(TV) St. Petersburg, FL. Filed Jan. Barry Richards (20 %). Muniz has 33% interest in Floyd, and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is IS WLTS -FM Slidell, LA; 100% interest in WYAT(AM) headed by Gardner H. Altman Sr. (51 %) and Henry W. WAJY(FM) New Ellenton, SC (BTCH910I24GN; New Orleans. and 65% interest in WGCM -AM -FM Hoot (49 %). Altman is 100% shareholder of Ahoskie 102.7 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 328 ft.) -Seeks transfer of Gulfport, MS. Action Jan. 31. Radio Inc., ultimate owner of WRCS(AM)- control from William G. Dudley Ill to W. Greg Ry- WQDK(FM) Ahoskie, NC. Hoot is sole owner of WBBK(AM)- WDKZ(FM) Blakely, GA (AM: berg, et al., for 5829,539. Dudley is transferring 50% WTSB(AM) Lumberton, NC. Action Jan. 31. BTC901203EA; 1260 khz; I kw -D; FM: of company stock. He is also 75% shareholder of Jett BTCH901203EB; 93.5 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 328 ft.)- WJKA(TV) Wilmington, NC (BALCT880930KH; Communications, licensee of WTMArn Charles- Granted app. of transfer of control from Hirsch Broad- ch. 26; 4325 kw -V; 432.5 kw -A; ant. 1644 ft.)- ton, SC and 90% shareholder of Southern Ceston, casting Inc. to Jerry D. Braswell for $120,000 in stock Denied app. of assignment of license from Wilmington lions Inc., licensee of Charleston, SC. purchase. Seller is headed by Thomas J. Palmer, who Telecasters Inc. to Roy H. Park Broadcasting Inc. for Transferees are F. William Stewart (25 %), Leslie P. is station manager at WCLA -AM -FM Claxton, GA. $7.25 million. Seller is headed by Katherine R. Ever- Garnett (18.75 %), Rebecca T. Robbins and Buyer is headed by Braswell (51 %). H.C. Van Buskirk ett, Jacob H. Froelich Jr., George Lyles Jr., Dorothy James D. Ryberg (18.75 %), and has no other broadcast and Carolyn M. Van Buskirk (19%), and have Bullock and Robinson O. Everett, and have interests in interests. Filed Jan. 24. 0,-. same interests in Triple B Broadcasting Corporation, Fayetteville -Cumberland Telecasters Inc., licensee of KDDD(AM)- KMRE(FM) Dumas, TX (AM: BA- licensee of WNUE(AM) Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Action WFCT(TV) Fayetteville, NC, and Guilford Telecasters L910I30EC; 800 khz; 250 w -D; FM: Jan. 30. Inc., licensee of WGGT(TV) Greensboro, NC. Ever - BAPLH9I0130ED; 95.3 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 260 ft.)- ens own Wilson Telecasters, licensee of WWRD(TV) KAIM -AM -FM Honolulu (AM: BTC901205EA; Seeks assignment of license from Lone Star Radio NC, and Pacific Media Corp., licensee of g70 khz; 50 kw -U; FM: BTCH901205EB; 95.5 mhz; Wilson, Broadcasters Inc. to Xtra Cattle Co. Inc. for undis- KECY -TV El Centro, CA. Buyer is headed by Park 100 kw; ant. 421 ft.)- Granted app. of transfer of closed price. Seller is headed by G. R. Chapman. and Broadcasting Inc. (100 %), subsidiary of Park Commu- control from Christian Broadcasting Association to Bil- has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by nications Inc. Roy Park controls 89.3% of stock of ly Graham Evangelistic Association through change in Phillip L. Haaland (80 %) and Karlyle R. Haaland Park Communications. Park Broadcasting is parent of manner of nominating and removing directors. Trans- (20%), and has no other broadcast interests. Filed Jan. licensees of WNCT-AM-FM-TV Greenville, NC; ferees are William F. Graham and son W. Franklin 30 WBMG(TV) Birmingham, AL; KWJJ -AM -FM Port- Graham B. Barrows, Allan C. Emery Jr., III, Clifford land, OR; KJJO -AM -FM St. Louis Park, MN; Middlebury, John R. F. Bennett and George M. Cons, George WNAX(AM) Yankton, SD; WSLS-TV Roanoke and 100.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 300 ft.) -Seeks assignment of Wilson. officers and or directors of Christian Several WTVR- AM -FM -TV Richmond, both Virginia; license from Straus Communications in the Champlain serve as directors of Billy Broadcasting officers or WHEN(AM)- WRHP(FM) Syracuse and WUTR(TV) Valley to Dynamite Radio Inc. for 5575.000. Seller is Evangelistic Association. George M. Wilson, Graham Utica, both New York; WDEF- AM -FM -TV Chatta- headed by R. Peter Stmas, and has interests in WEL- officer and director of CBA and BGEA, is a director of and -M Johnston City, FMnPater- V(AM)- WWWK(FM) Ellenville. NY, and WFTR- Northwestern College. licensee of noncommercial KEZX-AM-FM Seattle, WA; WPAT-AM-FM Pater-P, IA. AM-FM Front Royal, VA. Buyer is headed by Ancho- KTIS St. Paul and Duluth. all -AM -FM KDNW(FM) son, NJ, and KWLO(AM)-KFMW(FM) Waterloo, IA. ny J. Neri (60%). and Anthony A. (30 %) and Paul D. -FM Waterloo, IA; KFNW- Minnesota; KNWS -AM Action Jan. 24. Neri (10 %), his sons, and has no other broadcast AM -FM Fargo, ND; KNWC -AM -FM Sioux Falls, SD, interests. Filed Jan. 18. and WNWC(FM) Madison, WI. Action Feb. 4. KBYE(AM) Oklahoma City (BAL90I031EG; 890 khz;; I app. assignmentt of KH FM) Walla Walla, WA (BALH910123G ; Q KMVTKMVT( TV)TV Twin Falls, ID (BTCCT901126KG; for L. Win Holbrook, trustee, nCISCI Is.Inc. 100.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. -13 ft.)-Seeks assignment of -Seeks ch. II; 316 kw -V; 31.6 kw -A; ant. 1,190 0.}- for 5315,000. Seller has no other broadcast interests. license from Four W Broadcasting Inc. to KHSS Inc. Inc. transfer of control from KMVT Broadcasting to Buyer is headed by Charles C. Freeny III (45 %), James for $225,000. Seller is headed by Thomas D. Hodgins, consideration in transfer Susan Spear Root for no cash P. Freeny (45 %) and Jeffrey Bodley (28 %), and has no Stephen and Christopher Snell, brothers, and Beatrice Revo- of estate. Seller is headed by Chapman S. Root other broadcast interests. Action Feb. 4. Tumbeaugh. Snells each are 33.3% owners of United cable Trust. Buyer is headed by Susan Spear Root. co- Broadcasting Co., licensee of KEEN(AM). trustee, Charles L. Caravati, Charles I. Moore Jr. and WSIX(AM) Nashville, TN (BAL9012I3EF; 980 license KBAY(FM) San Jose, CA. Tumgeaugh is administra- Chapman J. Root II, and have no other broadcast khz; 5 kw-U)--Granted app. of assignment of tor of estate of Roger Tumgeaugh, which has interests interests. Action Jan. 30. from Capstar Communications Inc. to Bible Broadcast - ing Network Inc. for $600,000. Seller is headed by R. in KCVR(AM)- KWIN(FM) Stockton, CA. Buyer is KXEO(AM)- KWWR(FM) Mexico, MO (AM: headed by John Ramstad, and has no other broadcast Steven Hicks, David Manning and Kim Borrow, and is BTC901129EA; 1340 khz; I kw-U; FM: interests. Filed Jan. 23. licensee of WJDX(AM)-WMSI(FM) Jackson, MS; and BTCH901129EB; 95.7 mhz; 100 kw; ant. 992 ft.)- WSSL -AM -FM Greenville, SC. Buyer is headed by Granted app. transfer Radio of of control from KXEO Lowell L. Davey, Georgeanna Davey, Keith Wohlen- Actions Inc. to Ruth Anne Mongler, Trustee for Revocable haus, H. Ron White, R. Lindsay Poteat, Joseph J. KSPE(AM) Santa Barbara, (BAL901 I I5EB; Trust in stock transfer. Seller is headed by Mongler, CA Mast and Joy A. Davey (each 14.29 %). Bible Broad- 1490 khz; I kw- Grunted app. of assignment who represents estate Jerry Johnson (deceased). U)-- of of casting Network is non -profit, non -stock corporation license from Pacific Broadcasting Co. to Spectacular Mongler also owns 100 shares common stock of of which is licensee of KCEV(FM) Wichita, Kan.; WA- Broadcasting Inc. for S302.000 in transfer of stock. KDNT Radio Inc., licensee of KDNT(AM) Denton, VO(AM) Decatur, WYFK(FM) Columbus, WY- Seller is headed by Richard E. (50%) and Richard C. TX. Action Feb. 4. FA(FM) Waynesboro and WYFS(FM) Savannah, all Marsh (50%), father son. Robertson Scott and and C. WTYO(AM) Hammonton, NJ (BAL901213ED; Georgia; WFCE(FM) Tarpon Springs, WYFB(FM) Robertson C. Scott Jr. and Harvey Pool. Buyer is 1580 khz; I kw -D, 7 w- N)- Granted app. of assign- Gainesville and WYFO(FM) Lakeland, all Florida; headed by Richard and Richard E. Marsh. who are C. ment of license from Hammonton Broadcasting Co. to WHPE(FM) High Point and WYFL(FM) Henderson, currently separating partnership in KDB(AM) Santa South Jersey Radio Inc. for 5100,000. Seller is headed both North Carolina; WHGG(FM) Knoxville and Barbara, CA. Action Jan. 30. by Ronald S. Gold and Laurence O. Spector, and has WYFC(FM) Clinton, both Tennessee; WYFG(FM) KOBO(AM) Yuba City, CA (BAL901003EB; 1450 no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by How- Gaffney, WYFH(FM) North Charleston and khz; 500 w- U)-- Qranted app. of assignment of license and L. Green (50 %). Donald M. Simmons (50%) and WYFV(FM) Cayce, all South Carolina, and WY- from Richard E. Bleau, bankruptcy trustee, to Douglas Joseph J. Tackler, and is licensee of WOND(AM) FI(FM) Norfolk, WYFJ(FM) Ashland and WYFK(FM) Broadcasting Inc. for 580,000. Seller has no other Pleasantville, NJ; WMGM(FM) Atlantic City; Luray, all Virginia. Action Jan. 31.

78 lar Te sord Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 KFNA(AM) El Paso, TX (BAL901127EA; 1060 ERP: .048 kw H &V; change ant.: 2,221 ft.; TL: 23690 Indianapolis WAJC(FM) 104.5 mhz -Jan. 24 appli- khz; 10 kw-D)-Granted app. of assignment of license Volcan Rd., Julian, CA. cation for CP to change ERP: 50 kw H&V; ant.: 492 from Norman Fischer Associates to K -Fina Results ft.; TL: 2.3 km NW of intersection of N Meridian and & Temecula, CA KRTM(FM) 88.9 mhz -Jan. 25 ap- Inc. for Seller is bankruptcy trustee, and E 38th St., Butler University Campus, Indianapolis. $100,000. plication for mod. of CP (BPED900223MA) to change have no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by ERP: 1.15 kw H &V; change ant.: 453 ft.; TL: 30025 Robert Coral (40%), Armando de Leon Jr. (40%), Ogden, KS KQLA(FM) 103.9 mhz -Jan. 17 appli- Front St., Temecula, CA 92390. Aida Manges de Otanez (10 %) and Enriqueta Gomez cation for CP to change Iraq: 103.5 mhz; change ERP: (10 %), and have no other broadcast interests. Action Grand Junction, CO KPRN(FM) 89.5 mhz -Jan. 50 kw H &V; change ant.: 305 ft.; class: C2 (per docket Feb. 4. 22 application for mod. of CP (BPED880920IH) to #90 -16). H change ERP: 50 kw &V. Coushatta, KSBH(FM) 92.3 mhz 18 ap- KRGE(AM) Weslaco, TX (BAL901 I I3EC; 5 kw- LA -tan. U)-Granted app. of assignment of license from Sun- Holmes Beach, FL (no call letters) 98.7 mhz -Jan. plication for mod. of CP (BPH880415ME) to change belt Radio Group Inc. to Christian Ministries of the 25 application for mod. of CP (BPH861208MW as freq: 94.9 mhz; change ERP: 25 kw H&V; TL: located Valley for 5300,000. Seller is headed by Richard N. mod.) to change ERP: 23 kw H &V; ant.: 328 ft.; TL: on Farm Rd., 1.1 km W of LA 485, 2.1 km SW of Lea, Dain Schult. Martin T. Gatins and Jo Ann Wad- PN Pine Key just W of Florida State Rte 693, FL; Powhattan, Natchitoches Parish, LA; class: C3 (per dell, and is licensee of KRRG(FM) Laredo, TX. Buyer change to class C3 (per docket #89 -424). docket #89 -447). is headed by Elias Garza, Eli Garza, Enrique Garza and Savannah, GA WEAS -FM 93.1 mhz. -Jan. 18 ap- Fairfield, ME WEZO(FM) 93.3 mhz -tan. 16 ap- Andrea Garza, and have no other broadcast interests. plication to change ERP: 81.3 kw H &V; ant.: 981 ft.; plication for mod. of CP (BPH88101IME) to change Jan. 31. Action TL: approx. 7 km NW of 1 -95, Hwy 204, Chatham ERP: 13.5 kw H &V; ant.: 440 ft.; TL:RFD 3 Box 5860 county. GA. Skowhegan, ME. Chicago (no call letters) 88.3 mhz -Jan. 29 applica- Dewitt, MI WQHH(FM) 96.5 mhz-Jan. 28 appli- NEW STATIONS tion for mod. of CP (BPED880324MA) to change cation for mod. of CP (BPH870914MR as mod.) to ERP: .15 kw H &V; ant.: 128 ft.; TL: 10044 S Central change TL: .8 kw SW of the intersection of Cutler Rd. Actions Park, Chicago. and Francis Rd. Lindsay, CA (BPH880504ME)- Granted app. of Lindsay Broadcasting for 103.3 mhz; .528 kw H &V; ant. 751 ft. Address: 12550 Brookhurst St., Ste A, Garden Grove, CA 92640. Principal is headed by Lin- da Ware and has no other broadcast interests. Action SUMMARY OF Jan. 28. Belle Plaine, IA (BPH890526ME)- Returned app. BROADCASTING & CABLE of Robert M. Mason for 95.7 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 328 ft. Address: 1943 Greenview, Northbrook, IL 60062. Principal is 100% stockholder of CP (BPH870819NE) at Mt. Monis, IL. and is individual applicant of CP tre (BPH880229MD) at Charlestown, IL. Action Jan. 23. BROADCASTING Mansfield, PA (BPH900116MW)- Grunted app. of Jennifer Lamb for 92.3 mhz; .417 kw; ant. 866 ft. Address: 5252 Salisbury Dr.. Newark, CA 94560. Principal has no other broadcast interests. Action Jan. SERVICE ON AIR CP's' TOTAL' 30. Commercial AM 4,984 242 5,226 Socastee, SC (BPH871231ND)- Granted app. of Puritan Radiocasting Co. for 99.5 mhz; 3 kw H &V; Commercial FM 4,372 929 5,301 ant. 328 ft. Address: 11560 Rolling Green Court, Res- ton, VA 22091. Principal is headed by Dorothy P. Educational FM 1,438 298 1,736 Rackley and Ronald D. Rackley, and has no other broadcast interests. Action Jan. 30. Total Radio 10,794 1,469 12,263

Palacios, TX (BPH860422MF)- Dismissed app. of Commercial VHF TV 552 18 570 Bay Broadcasting Ltd. for 100.7 mhz; 3 kw H &V; ant. 984 ft. Address: Hwy 35 East, Bay City, TX 77414. Commercial UHF TV 563 184 747 Principal is headed by Oak Creek Communications and Educational VHF TV 125 3 128 Brenda Clark, and has no other broadcast interests. Action Jan. 22. Educational UHF TV 229 16 245 Sall Lake City (BPED901105MJ)-.Granted app. of Total TV 1,469 221 1.690 Salt Lake Baptist Academy for 88.3 mhz; .5 kw; ant. - 1,187 ft. Address: P.O. Box 20555 West Valley City, VHF LPTV 185 165 350 UT 84120. Principal is headed by Rev. Marshall War- neke, Eric Martinez, Scott Arrington and Ron Escu- UHF LPTV 594 1,056 1,650 dero, and has no other broadcast interests. Action Jan. 29. Total LPTV 779 1,221 2,000 FM translators 1,863 311 2,181 07 F A C I L I T I E S C H A N G E S VHF translators 2,714 2,811 UHF translators 2,248 382 2,630 Applications AM's Orange, CA KSRT(AM) 830 khz -Jan. 29 applica- CABLE tion for mod. of CP (BP810209AK) to make changes in antenna system. Total subscribers 53,900,000 Graham, NC WSML(AM) 1190 khz -Jan. 30 application for mod. of CP (BP850905MD) to augment Homes passed 71,300,000 nightime standard pattern. Total systems 10,823 FM's Household penetrationt 58.6% Wrightsville, AR (no call letters) 107.7 mhz-Jan. 25 application for mod. of CP (BPH87I109ME) to Pay cable penetration 29.2% change ERP: 2.7 kw H &V; change ant.: 489 ft.

Burney, CA (no call letters) 89.7 mhz -Jan. 25 ' Includes off-air licenses t Penetration percentages are of TV household universe of 2 s petition for reconsideration of grant is denied. 92.1 million. ' Constructor permit. Instructional TV fixed service. Studio-transmit- link. research. Julian, CA KBNN(FM) 100.1 mhz-Jan. 24 appli- ter Source. Nielsen and Broadcasting's own cation for mod. of CP (BPH850710MC) to change

For The Record 71 Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Bowling Green, MO KPCR -FM 100.9 mhz -Jan. ALP12M2- ESD-20 special (DA)(BT) 21 23 5IN 158 power to 25 kw. change mhz; ERP: 22 application for CP to freq: 94.1 0601W. Claremore, OK KTRT(AM) 1270 khz -Feb. 4 ap- 25 kw H &V; change ant.: 270 ft.; class: C3 (per docket Chapel Hill, NC WUNCTV ch. 4 -Jan. 29 appli- plication (BP900405AY) granted for CP to add night #90 -131). cation for CP to change ERP: 100 kw H (vis); ant.: service with I kw; change night TL to E of Hwy. 66, Newark, NJ WHTZ(FM) 100.3 mhz -Jan. 17 appli- 1,017 ft.; change TL: Jones Ferry Rd., at Chatham 4.5 km SW of City, Claremore, OK and make changes cation for CP to change ERP: 6 kw H &V; ant.: 1,361 County Orange County line. 6.5 mi SSW of Chapel in antenna system; 36 15 58N 95 38 23W. ft. Hill, NC; antenna: Dielectric TF-5CM 35 51 59N 7379 St. Joseph, TN WJOR(AM) 1040 khz -Feb. 4 ap- 10 .22W. plication (BP900912AE) granted for CP to correct co- Scranton, SC (no call letters) 102.9 mhz -Dec. 14, Provo, UT KZAR -TV ch. 16 -Jan. 28 amended: ordinates to: 3500 52N 87 30 46W, and make changes 1990 application for mod. of CP (BPH880804MM) to application (BMPCf8905I9KG) to change ERP: 5,000 in antenna system. change ERP: 2.9 kw H &V; change ant.: 466 ft.; TL: .9 kw H &V; change ant.: 187 ft.; TL: 2 mi W of Mona, km SW of intersection US 301, State Rd. 72 at New Waxahachie, TX KBEC(AM) 1390 khz -Feb. 4 UT off Old Canyon Rd.; antenna: Dielectric TFU- Hope, SC. application (BP900404AH) granted for CP to add night 36J33050(DA)(BT) 39 48 54N 1 1 1 53 39W. service with 270 watts and change TL: to Waxahachie, Fredericksburg, VA WBQB(FM) 101.5 mhz -Jan. Actions TX 32 26 45N 96 48 15W. 18 application for mod. of CP (BPH8906261F) to change antenna supporting structure height. AM's FM's TV's Paradise, CA KKXX(AM) 930 mhz -Feb. 4 appli- Tuscaloosa, AL WTUG(FM) 92.7 mhz-Jan. 30 cation (BP891010AD) granted resubmitted nunc pro application (BMPH90I 1131G) granted for mod. of CP Honolulu KHA1 -TV ch. 20 -Jan. 29 application for tunc: CP to add night service with 500 watts. (BPH9002201D) to change ant.: 328 ft.; change class CP to change ERP: 467 kw (vis); ant.: 2,040 ft.; TL: from 225C2 to 225CI. Paikea Ridge, .4 km SE of Palehua, City and County Bellevue, NE KKAR(AM) 1180 khz -Feb. 4 appli- of Honolulu; change antenna: Andrew Corp. cation (BP900405CE) granted for CP to increase day Juneau, AK KSUP(FM) 106.3 mhz -Ian. 30 appli-

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application (BMPH901 1 141E) returned for mod. of CP application (BMLH900320KD) granted for mod. of plication (BPCT901I08KF) granted for CP to change (BPH860507PT) to change ERP: 1.35 kw H &V; ant.: license to increase ERP: I.1 kw H &V (pursuant to ERP: 316 kw (vis); ant.: 1,502 ft.; TL: 4217 Stewart 492 ft.; TL: Cordes Ave., 0.35 km N of 4 mi Rd. .8 docket #88 -375). Ave.. Holiday, FL; antenna: Andrew ATW I2V3- ETC1-I0, (DAXBT).

Dallas KDFW -TV ch. 4-Jan. 31 application (BPCI500821KE) granted for CP to change ant.: 1,305 ft.; antenna: DCA TF- 6BM(S); 32 35 17N 96 58 Broadcasting m 34W. The News Magazine of the Fifth Estate Lake Dallas, TX KLDT(TV) ch. 55 -Jan. 17 application (BMPCT901119KE) granted for mod. of CP 1705 DeSales St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 -4480 (BPCT8404I3KE) to change ERP: 3033 kw (vis)- (max-DA); ant.: 466 ft.; antenna: BASC SC- 30DASM,

Please send . (Check appropriate box) (DA)(BT); 33 00 19N 96 59 00W. Broadcasting UMagazine Huron, SD KIID -TV ch. 12 -Jan. 23 application (BMPCF900725KF) granted for mod. of CP 3 years $225 0 2 years $160 0 1 year $85 0 6 mos. $42.50 (BPCT6408I3KM) to change ERP: 275 kw (vis); an- mes ;errr must be preoao) 6 tenna.: 259 m; TL: 19 km SW of Huron, Warren (International subscribers add $40 /year for surface delivery) Township; ant.; Alan Dick Co., Inc. VTA- 12H(BT); 44 I1 39N 98 1905W. Broadcasting Yearbook 1990 The complete guide to radio, television, cable and satellite facts and figures -$115 (if payment with order $95). Billable orders for the CALL LETTERS Yearbook must be accompanied by company purchase order Please give street address for UPS delivery. Off press April 1990 Existing FM's WSB Inc.; Dallas ORDER TOLL -FREE USING VISA OR MASTERCARD 1- 800 -638 -7827 KLRX(FM) KKWM -FM KMMK(FM) KLTN InterMart Broadcasting of Las Vegas, NV Name Vegas Inc.; Las Payment enclosed KMXI -FM KMXI Rogue Broadcasting Corpora- Company Bill me tion; Lake Oswego. OR KQKD -FM KVCU Victoria Broadcasting System Address Home? Yes No Inc.; Redfield, SD KQPW(FM) KOQO -FM GKC Broadcasting Ltd.; City State Zip Fresno, CA KRZE -FM KNTF Boulder Ridge Cable TV; On- Type of Business _ Title /Position tario, CA KTWI(FM) KWSI Confederated Tribes Warm Are you in Cable TV operations 0 Yes Signature Springs ReserveCIR; Warms Springs, (required) O No OR KTWS(FM) KIDD -FM Confederated Tribes For renewal or address change Warm Springs ReserveOR; Bend, OR place most recent label here WAAS(FM) WCEZ Clayton Radio Inc.; Colum- bia, SC WESQ(FM) WUIE North Carolina Wesleyan Col- lege; Rocky Mount, NC

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Washington D.C. Metro combo, CHR WZYO -FM WXLO/WFGL Worcester seeks experienced and Country WOSI -AM, seeking experienced, en- business manager. Responsibilities include A/P, ergetic, motivated sales rep to handle established SIMMONS EFANIED wlNNtiYMrt NR, G /L, barter management, and financial re- account list. First year potential $40K plus. Com- porting. Knowledge of Solomon Ill and JDS a plus. pany benefits include 100% paid hospitalization, General manager, retired. Forty year broadcast Please call Michael Cohen, General Manager, vacation, TAPSCAN support, and creative pro- veteran. Could be of value to you, from babysitting WXLO/WFGL, 146 Worcester Center, Worcester, duction. Send resume to VP /GM Jack Alix, property to total hands -on operation. All areas MA 01608. 508- 752 -1045. EOE M/F. WZYO/WOSI, PO Box 1129, Frederick, MD 21701. considered. Prefer upper Midwest, Sunbelt, San EOE. Francisco Bay Area. Reply Box B -7. Immediate opening for GM/GSM at Northern Account executive: 50,000 watt AOR needs per- 20+ year pro will provide management, sales, Colorado's leading FM radio station K99-FM. K99 son with proven track record in both agency and staff recruitment, training, programing, promo- is hands market leader in the Ft. - down the Collins direct. Must be outgoing, a great listener, and tions, small /medium markets on interm basis. Greely- Loveland market and on a fast growth have the ability to create and sell ideas. Send Start-up and turnarounds welcome. Can provide We need lead track. someone to the station to the resume to Lynne Lessin, GSM, 1140 Rose Hill maintenance. Reply to Box 5 -6. next level. We will pay for results. unhesitatingly Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901. EOE. Everybody looks good on paper so be prepared $10,000 guarantee! 20 years in radio with sales/ to convince us that you can lead our fine staff. We management/programing seeks GM slot in med/ won't entrust our loyal people to just anybody. Oregon lifestyle. Account executive for long -time small mkt. Results or money back! Mike 919 -452- Forward resume, etc. to Alan Beck, Vice Presi- market leader. Cover letter and resume to: Sales 2498. dent, Brill Media Company, 420 N.W. Fifth Street, Manager, KRKT AM /FM, 1207 SE 9th, Albany, OR Suite 3-B, Evansville, IN 47732. You may fax your 97321. EOE. GM available, aggressive, competitive leader. cover letter and resume if desired to 812 -428- Sales & training, value added selling, heavy pro- 4021. Attention: Alan Beck. EOE. Account executive: Professional radio sales vet- motion, programing, bottom line oriented. 25 eran with management experience to handle ma- years experience all markets. Call Bob 412 -547- jor market agency list. Minimum of four years ex- 6703. General sales manager: We lost a good one due perience required. Please send resume and Available now! General manager /sales manager. to husband's move. Need a motivator with superi- salary requirements to: General Sales Manager, Prefer southeast. Top 100 markets. CRMC. Make or communication and people skills to direct ex- WTOP Newsradio 15, 3400 Idaho Avenue, NW, it happen for you in 1991 and beyond! Fred J. perienced FM team and supervise separate AM Washington, DC 20016. No calls please. EUE. sales department. Excellent working conditions, Webb 615 -855 -3930. Call now! top support staff, great radio market. We believe in unique promotions, client service, vendor/co-op West Palm Beach, Florida: AE, opportunity at a Absolutely, positively the best in the business! programs. What can you bring to the table? Con- major AM /FM, excellent ratings. You must be ex- Hard- driving sales tactician looking to GM medi- market tact VP/GM Deane Osborne, WOFXANMLX, 250 perienced and good! Direct and agency. Contact um station. Excellent at training, team results. Will GSM W. Court St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. EOE. GSM, 407-965-9211. EUE. building and producing consider in right market. Make that call! Rod 719 -520-1671.

WKIK, Leonardtown, Maryland. Looking for gen- Sizzle! Sizzle! Does your station sparkle and eral manager with strong sales background. Will shine to attract listeners and sales? Experienced IMP WANTED ANNowiclaS handle major house accounts; recruit, train and GM available with strong sales. programing, and supervise sales people; and assume many other engineering background. Developed sales pro- responsibilities. Owner will offer equity opportunity Disc Jockeys needed: We have jobs in all mar- grams to generate new business and train sales- based on performance. Call Robert E. Johnson, kets. Earn what you're worth. All formats. Call people. Make your station sizzle with Jim Meeker 301- 475 -8937. EOE. Radio Placement Services now. 516- 367 -6273. 206 -353 -1668. Prefer to stay in the West.

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Classified 75 General manager currently employed and suc- General sales manager: Midwestern network af- cessful seeks to head small group. Strengths in- TELEVISION filiate looking for seasoned take-charge profes- clude leadership, sales, collections, organization sional. Must be marketing-oriented with heavy lo- and administration. No miracles. just solid busi- IMP WANTED MANAGEMENT cal and national experience. A great opportunity ness practices. Reply to Box 8 -31. for the 90's style manager. Resume to Box B -34. EOE. 14 years management sales and on -air experi- KAET /Channel 8, part of Arizona State University, ence. Great motivator and leader. Great people seeks an individual to direct overall program ser- KRON -TV in San Francisco is searching for a skills with knowledge of budgets and expense vices and to supervise managers of programing, local sales manager. Qualified candidates must control. Prefer turnaround in Oregon or Southern production, creative services and program devel- possess a minimum 5 years experience as a local, Washington state. Reply to Box B -32. opment. Duties include long range program plan- national, or general sales manager in a TV station ning; preparation of program services budget rein a Top 25 market that is highly competitive. Must Highly successful sales manager /sales trainer, quests, expenditure approval, and monitoring of have proven track record in generating non- tradi- stuck in small market "Mom and Pop" operation, budget status. Advises and counsels general tional sources of revenue for television, including wants to move up to a stable company with good management regarding KAET program services creating on -air promotional tie -ins with advertisers benefits and opportunity for advancement. Reply and related support systems. Represents KAET and developing off -air revenue sources. Experi- Box B -33. management to internal and external groups as ence with radio and print sales or other media is assigned. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Coll - preferred. Excellent leadership /management ege/university degree at the graduate level; and qualities, with emphasis on motivation, training, SIIYATNNS WANTED ANNOUNCERS ten years of progressively responsible manage- and development is required. In return we offer an ment experience in television operations: includ- excellent salary and benefits package. Please Experienced mature announcer interested in re- ing five years recent experience as program man- send resumes in confidence to: Jan van der Voort, turning to radio. Seek on -air with mor, country or ager, executive producer, production manager -- Vice President, Human Resources, PO Box 3412, preferably in public, non -commercial television oldies format. Available now. Ed 703 - 799 -0739. San Francisco, CA 94119. EOE. station(s). ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE QUALIFICA- Hard -working, intelligent NT with over three TIONS: Knowledge of the philosophy, principles, General sales manager: WNOL -TV Fox 38 New years experience seeks bigger and greener pas- and practices of public broadcasting; television Orleans. Innovative, aggressive, highly motivated tures. Willing to relocate. Todd: 814 -662 -2044. station organization, management and opera- leader with track record of success in difficult tions; legal and regulatory rules governing televi- markets. Must be a big picture, no frills pro with Mayor market pro seeks spot with Lite/AC, ADLT sion broadcasting and related activities; strategic ability to build and grow a winning department. STDS, MOR/TALK in med /mjr market. "WW1- planning and budgeting. Skills in personnel lead- LSM & NSM experience. Indy background. strong style of radio preferred. Richard 314- 822 -3310. ership and supervision; excellent written and oral knowledge of marketing & research tools, under- communication skills; and ability to direct colla- stands sales promotion, strong trainer & innovator. Talented female talk show host hard to find? borative /cooperative work of creative programers A sense of urgency, high energy & enthusiasm a Here I am. Call today, before your competition and artists. MINIMUM STARTING SALARY is must. capable of developing & implementing stra- does. 212- 603 -9064. $50,000, plus excellent benefit package including tegic plans. This is a "roll up your sleeves & dig in retirement, vacation/leave, and insurance; plus re- position" for a manager who welcomes challenge. duced ASU tuition for employee, spouse and de- Rush resume to: A. Oliva, WNOL -TV, 1661 Canal SITUATIONS WANED THINKS pendent children. DIRECT LETTER of application Street, New Orleans, LA 70112. No phone calls. and resume to ASU Employment Section, Aca- EOE 14 year pro, last 5 as a CE. Want radio or ra- demic Services building, Room 236, Arizona State General sales manager: Top 30 network affiliate medium to large market. Family man. Pre- University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1403. Please dio/TV, has immediate opening. Minimum three years fer Midwest. SBE certified. 608 -788 -3074. attach resume which includes complete history of work experience including details of duties and sales management experience required. Send re- responsibilities and inclusive dates of employ- sume to Box B -36 EOE. ment for each position. Application deadline SITUATIONS WAITED IMTPS 3/15/91. PROVIDE NAME AND ADDRESS of at HELP WANTED TECHNICAL least three references who have directly super- Dynamic 14 year radio veteran seeking medium vised you or are qualified to evaluate your work Maintenance engineers: Houston Public Televi- to major market play by play and sports talk posi- performance. Please indicate in letter of application. Mark 805- 871 -2108. tion the source of your referral for this position; i.e., sion seeks two maintenance professionals for specific media advertisement, employment agen- state -of- the -art technical facility. Candidates will Award -winning, serious journalist, good voice cy, minority or women's organization, personal be well rounded engineers with experience in and production skills, dedication to accurate and contact, or other source. An equal opportunity/af- troubleshooting complex analog and digitial sys- timely news coverage, seeks new challenges in firmative action employer. tems to the component level. Knowledge of Sony news- intensive, medium or major market station. BVH -2000 and studio cameras desirable. Must Prefer Midwest, all considered, will relocate. Con- enjoy working with people in a technically pro- tact Mark Dorroh, c/o WYAV -104, PO Box 1020. gressive environment. Position 1: Requires a mini- Myrtle Beach. SC 29577, 803 -448:1041. mum of 5 years experience. Minimum salary - $35.000. Position 2: Requires 2 -3 years experience. Minimum salary - $29,000. Send resume Nap WAITS SAES and a list of 3 professional references post- SITUATIONS WANTED PROGRAMING marked by March 8, 1991 lo: Laura Gonzales, PRODUCTION L OTHERS Local sales manager: KJCT TV (ABC) has an KUHT-TV, 4513 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX immediate opening. Ideal candidate will possess 77004. Houston Public Television is an equal op- a minimum of five years TV Seeking part time (2 mornings, 2 evenings, sales experience. portunity employer. Women and minorities are en- Strong organizational, communication and leader- week -ends avail.) to assist/look after the interest- couraged to apply. No phone calls please. take the stress of publicist/broadcaster in Manhat- ship skills a must. Looking for an idea person who is Indie, Mem- tan. Nick: 212-473-0177. goal oriented. Send resume along with a sales Chief engineer opening with UHF philosophy to Jan Hammer, Station Manager. phis, TN. Requires working chief; Varian and TTC Four years experience Hot NC PD. With winning KJCT TV, PO Box 3788, Grand Junction, CO 5MW transmitters. Resume to Ray Mclnturff, 1- team now. Seeking medium market. Jim Ayers. 81502. KJCT TV is an equal opportunity employer. 615- 256 -3030. Fax 1- 615- 244 -7442. EOE. 912- 729 -7644 evenings Eastern. National sales manager: WBFS -TV 33 Combined Maintenance engineer: Expanding teleproduc- Broadcasting Inc., one of South Florida's leading lions center with satellite uplink facilities, requires independents, needs someone who can hit the a person experienced in the maintenance of 1 ", MStBlAIE01S ground running and make the most of our position 3/4" and 1/2" VTRs, cameras and associated stu- as a market leader. Experience as a national sales dio equipment. Position requires a minimum of Make money In voiceovers. Cassette course of- manager or rep required. Background selling two years maintenance experience. New facility fers marketing and technique for success in com- sports a plus. Send resume to General Manager, construction including tuition waivers and state mercials and industrials. Money-back guarantee. WBFS -TV, 16550 NW 52nd Avenue, Miami, FL retirement plan is included. The community of Ox- Call for info: Susan Berkley, 1 -800- 333 -8108. 33014. EOE/M.F. ford and surrounding area offers exceptional rec- reational opportunities and modest cost of living Jerusalem live radio call -In available immediate- Local sales manager wanted by Southeast net- expenses. Salary: $20,000- 25,000, depending on ly. #1 market. experienced, American Broadcast work V.H.F. Applicant must have experience experience. Submit resumes via mail or Fax to Journalist in Israel, accepting reasonable offers working with local direct accounts and agencies. Hugh R. Paul, 201 Bishop Hall, The University of for hosting /producing telephone call -in with studio Minimum of 5 years local experience. Candidate Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Phone calls guests. Fax: Sheila Zucker 011- 972 -2- 250457 or must have the ability to lead and the desire to welcome at 601 -232 -5917, Fax 601- 232 -5918. write PO Box 4485, Jerusalem. Israel. succeed. Send resume' to Box B -35. EOE. EOE/AA. Deadline extended to 3/8/91.

M Classified Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Assistant chief engineer: Top rated NBC affili- HELP WANTS MOCNAMIMG ate; prefer candidates with RCA - G Line Transmit- SIIYATNIMS WANTS =MIMAI ter experience, as well as studio equipment main- t700Nf7100 A OTHERS tenance expertise: should have FCC or SBE Senior maintenance engineer, 20 years. D2, Be- certificate: will consider maintenance person Program/Community affairs director: WSYX -TV tacart, Chyron, 1 ", TCR, BVW75SP, Ikegami, Cal- ready to move up. Send resume to: Len Smith, (ABC) Columbus, Ohio currently has an opening gary + Seoul Olympics, major market, post, stu- Chief Engineer, WTOV-TV, Box 9999, Steuben- for the above position. Candiates should have at dio + remotes. Resume 204 -831 -5249, Fax 204- ville, OH 43952. EOE M /F. least five years program director experience and 474 -1180 be able to show a strong track record of success, On -line editor. Immediate opening. Nationally along with research and program production abili- 14 year broadcast engineer: In all aspects of recognized state -of- the -art production facility ties. Resumes should be send to Tony Twibell, broadcasting including 6 years as a chief engi- working with Fortune 501 clients tor commercial Vice President and General Manger. WSYX -TV, neer, 6 years International SNG /ENG. Special broadcast. Progressive midwestern community. Job #01219101. PO Box 718, Columbus, OH event planning & coordinating. Looking to get out Experience with Beta and 1" computer editing, 43216. (No phone calls please). Company is an of DC. Resume, Box A-48. creative skills required. Salary commensurate with EOE and encourages qualified minority and wom- Prech- experience. Send resumes, tapes to: John en applicants. tel, Hawthorne Communications, Inc., 300 North 16th Street, Fairfield. IA 52556. EOE. Attention: Freelance production personnel in Transmitter vacation relief operator: WCBS -TV, Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and Penn- SIMMONS WAITED NEWS New York is taking applications for transmitter sylvania. Need personnel base for cameras, au- in operators. Individuals should be experienced dio, tape, video, font and Still store for sports Excellent, experienced sportscaster looking for a the operation of TV transmitters and remote con- programing productions. Send resume and refer- fine station in which to work, also knowledgeable with radio trol systems. Applicants only transmitter ences to: Unit Manager, c/o Southland Produc- newsperson. 216-929-0131. experience must have a maintenance back- tions, 655 -H Pressley Road, Charlotte. NC 28217. ground. Familiarity with Harris transmitters and TV EOE. equipment helpful. General Class Radio -tele- Breaking aweyt CBS News producer/writer with management phone Operator licenses preferred. Send resume experience. Twenty-five years in the to Joe Fedele, Technical Operations Dept., broadcast trenches. Peabody and Emmy credits. Twin Cities Public Television (Minneapolis/St. Ready for new vistas fresh WCBS-TV, 524 W. 57 St., NY, NY 10019 or Fax to and air! Charles Kuralt Paul) seeks a highly creative series producer to 212- 975 -4299. EOE. (CBS) and Bill Moyers (PBS) among my advo- develop format and pilot segments for an enter- cates. Call Norman Morris, 201- 239 -8622. taining new national children's series on values and moral decision- making for eight -to-twelve 10 years traffic /operations: Including special Requires least years experi- planning coordinating, NSF Minn NtNMS year olds. at six of event and SNG/ENG quali- ence as a producer, preferably of children's, edu- ty control, Internationally and domestic. 717 -339- cational and/or magazine format programs. Na- 0210. /reporter. non -returnable tape 5:00 anchor Send tional series experience a plus. Starts mid -March. to KLAS, PO Box 15047, Las Vegas, NV 89114. I Send reel, cover letter & resume by March I to: want to be your news director! 16 years experi- EOE. Box 5, KTCA -TV, 172 E. 4th Street. St. Paul, MN ence in management and reporting. Please call 815 -968 -5911. TV news reporter: General assignment reporter 55101. EOE. for dominant NBC affiliate. Minimum two years television reporting experience. Strong writing Producer for hour evening newscast at ABC affili- Fourteen years as reporter /anchor /producer/ and reporting skills are a must. A full time position. AE/AND looking for management position. Award ate in heart of New England. Candidate will have Resumes and tapes to: Bill Knupp, News Director, winning, team leader with solid, proven journa- WICU -N, Box 860. Erie, PA 16512. EOE. experience putting together a dynamic newscast, write compelling copy. have backbone and au- lism/management/PR skills. Call Beth 504 -833- 1332. General assignment reporter: College degree thority to lead with strength and finesse. We're looking for an idea person who will go the extra required. Strong writing and reporting skills a Award winning Midwest TV anchorman seeks an award winning newscast. must. Live experience helpful. Send resume and distance to produce Sunbelt relocation. 15 years experience. #1 news If you're journalist who wants to be on a non-returnable tape to Ralph Bristol, News Direc- a solid ratings. Reply Box A -29. tor, WGEM -TV. 513 Hampshire, Quincy, IL 62301. winning news team contact Morrie Goodman No phone calls. EOE/MF. News Director, WGGB -TV. 1300 Liberty Street, Springfield, MA 01102 or call 413-733-4040. EOE. News directors: Freelance news photographer/e- Host for national weekly environmental program. ditor available in Pittsburgh PA and surrounding Great presence, strong journalism a must. Send area. Betacam SP or 3/4 ". Ron Bruno 412 -276- resumes to Box B -37. EOE. 0497.

TV weathercaster: Weatherperson for dominant Street smart, experienced, educated radio jour- NBC affiliate. This full time position requires a nalist seeks entry level position in TV. On/of air. person with a minimum of two years of television SITUATIONS WANTS MANANMMB r Have tape. Bill Dubensky 814 -938 -3118,814 -938- weathercasting experience and knowledge Of me- 5031. Resumes teorology and presentation techniques. Broadcasting CFO /Controller for last 8 years. and tapes to: Bill Knupp, News Director, WICU- Most recent 4 years as CFO with one of the worlds TV, Box 860, Erie, PA 16512. EOE. Meteorologist, 3 years medium market experi- largest TV station and program production cen- ence anchoring weeknight weather. Energetic ters. Annual Director: Northwest television network affiliate is program production was 2,300+ and accurate, a real crowd pleaser. Reply to Box seeking an aggressive and creative individual to hours (soap operas, game shows, etc.) with total B -43. direct (2) weeknight newscasts. College degree revenues of $60 million +. Available immediately with a minimum of 2 years television news direct- 713-879 -4040. ing experience required. Send resumes only to: Director/team leader, Proven excellence in both Box B -38. EOE. the newsroom and the control room. Background GM ready to lead. Motivator, trainer, producer, includes writing, producing, and BASYS system Producer: Northwest television network affiliate is twenty year sales pro, programing, production, management as well as proficiency with most seeking a top -notch experienced news producer organization and turnaround expert. Costs down technical equipment. Presently directing hour for our weeknight late evening newscast. Degree profits up. Ready now. Reply to Box B -40. newscast at top 10 network 080. Looking for new in Journalism along with at least 2 years produc- worlds to explore and new challenges to tackle in ing experience. Send resumes only to: Box B -39. news, programing or community service. Reply to Experienced fi- EOE. Television CFO /Controller. N Box B -44. nancial manager seeking new challenge. I can We're losing Michelle Gaillun from top anchor help your organization with cost control, system team in the market and we need a front line re- implementation and other aspects of TV finance. placement. Successful applicant will combine Willing to relocate. Please reply to Box B -41. SITUATIONS WANTED PROGRAMING strong camera presence with solid judgement, good writing and energy on set and in the news- PRODUCTION & OTNERS room. Send resume and non-returnable tape to: Top 10 meteorologist with strong on -air pres- WSYX -TV, PO Box 718, Columbus, OH 43216, ence. One of the few energetic, warm and friendly Ex- network producer fed up with freelancing. 25 Attn: Job #02089101B. No phone calls please. meteorologists who also holds AMS seal and BS yrs in news. public affairs: dots. mags, investiga- Company is EOE, M/F and encourages qualified in Meteorology. Extremely accurate! Looking for tive, hard news, studio. Team player, hard worker. minority a ^d women applicants. high visibility. Reply Box B -42. creative. Will travel, relocate. 914.478 -1705.

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Heavy ment position with 2 -3 years experience in com- Kline tower includes 6-1/8" coax. Purchase in Complete low power studio. Two years old. Low puter graphics. Must have the ability to create and place with land and building, or move anywhere. used prices. Cameras, editing console, PC -based execute computer graphic designs. storyboards, Call Bill Kitchen, 303-786 -8111. auto ad inserter, 3/4" tapes and players, micro- and print materials for all of PGA Tour Produc- wave link, cables, racks...the works. Great value. tions. Knowledge of a computer paint system is Transmitters, radio & television: TTC manufac- Call 601- 957 -1122. Ask for Wyatt Emmerich. Will essential. Send tapes and resumes to: Mrs. Beth tures state -of-the -art low power and full power sell whole or part. Larson, PGA Tour Productions. 8160 Baymea- television; and FM transmitters 10 watts to 50Kw, dows Way West, Suite 300. Jacksonville. FL solid state from 10 watt to 8Kw. 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78 dessified Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 RADIO Help Wanted Management Situations Wanted Announcers Help Wanted Management

Director of Marketing General Sales Manager Build Your Station Image & Promotion WOWT -TV, Omaha MIX 105 WNSR Radio seeks a top notch with manager to lead its marketing and pro- A Major Network Voice! motion team. The successful candidate Chronicle Broadcasting NBC affiliate will be a strategic thinker with at least searching for experienced, high- energy five years experience in marketing and! GSM. Must demonstrate skills in.... Veteran ABC network announcer or brand management, preferably in Bill Owen will record your ID's, broadcasting. Public relations skills, Sales planning/management promos, intros, commercials etc. customer focus and an understanding Inventory control/pricing of Baby Boomers essential. Must He's been a familiar voice on ABC be People development willing to work in a smoke -free environ- for years; "the voice" of WABC -TV New business strategies ment. Call Karen Peterson at 212 -752- the past 5 years; currently "the Effective rep relations 3322 to request an application. voice" of WWOR -TV, NYC. Create a major "network sound" for your TV Strong writing, presentation and research or radio station! Just $900 per 1 hr. skills a must. Experience in small to medi- session in -of- the -art um -sized markets a plus. state studio, unlimited announcements & play. EOE M/F Send letter outlining background to: Sturges Dorrance, (914) 268-2036 General Manager, Situations Wanted Announcers 582 Babbling Brook Lane WOWT Television, Valley Cottage, NY 10989 3501 Farnam St. ATTENTION, NEWS.TALK Omaha, NE 68131. AND FULL -SERVICE /AO I IMM'w CABLE STATIONS! NEWS & INFORMATION. Help Wanted Programing Morning host at news talk legend seeks better o,.rw Cana eun spot. Funny, topical personality does bits, Promotion & Others phones, commentary. keeps drivetime rolling, makes everyone around him sound better. WOWT an equal opporlunily employer Also superb interviewer and talk show host for DIRECTOR OF middays or evenings. PROGRAM OPERATIONS Reply Box B -15. Help Wanted Programing Washington, DC Area Promotion & Others Rapidly expanding nationwide cable television network seeks experienced. DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION imaginative, energetic individual to su- TELEVISION POST PRODUCTION pervise all phases of programing operations and on -air promotion. We are National cable network is seeking a Help Wanted News proven Director of Production/Post Production. looking for a person with Responsibilities include: restructuring strength in all aspects of production and development of Production and who will coordinate the activities of our Post Production departments, along technical staff, traffic department, pro- Medical Reporter with Remote crews and establishing motion and production. We will relo- training programs. Applicants should cate the successful candidate. Mail or Segment Anchor have 3 -5 years of operational fax letter and resume with salary histo- knowledge in production and post ry to Mia: Our Emmy award winning, nationally syndicated production, a strong technical television is medical background, supervisory experience, show seeking an outstanding Nostalgia Television Network reporter who can also anchor our medical news and strong communication skills. Salary is commensurate with experience 3575 Cahuenga Blvd., Suite 495 segment. "Life Choices" is broadcast in top 60 Please submit resume to Los Angeles, California 90068 markets including Los Angeles and Chicago. If you're Fax: (213) 969 -8971 a sensitive, creative and energetic feature reporter Resources with excellent story telling skills, a sincere interest in Director of Human Attn: PP health -related topics, a team player, and minimum of E! Entertainment Television 3 -years on-camera reporting experience, rush a tape 1800 N. Vine Street We'll give you and resume to: Hollywood. CA 90028 Kathy Ward, Executive Producer, all the credit. Life Choices, PO Box 555, Columbus, OH 43216

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Broadcasting Feb 18 991 Classilisd » ALLIED FIELDS Employment Services Continued Help Wanted Programing, Promotion & Others

DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS JobLiner. 7oMr Carrer i, en the Gwe Planned Parenthood the nation's oldest and largest reproductive health care agency, has an immediate opportunity in our Communications Division fora Director of Media Relations. Television And Radio Successful candidate will: plan, implement and evaluate media relations strategies and activi- Jobs Updated Daily! ties ; interpret, advance and create greater awareness of Federation goals, programs and services for a variety of targeted audiences. You will develop public relations strategies, promote PPFA's public image and promote the concept and acceptance of family planning. 1- 900 - 786 -7800 Requirements include: minimum of 5 years' experience in public relations, preferably with a On 24 Havre A Day S2.29 national, service -oriented organization (must include two years of supervisory management 7 Days A Wak! per mmme experience). Excellent writing, interpersonal and communications skills. If you have demonstrated your ability to MANAGE THE MEDIA, and know how to implement proactive media strategies, send your resume in confidence to Director of Recruitment 8 Miscellaneous Staffing, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., B10 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019. We are an affirmative action employer. Parenthood® JPlannedFederation of America, Inc

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Field Service Engineer SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA For Sale Stations Basys LaKart, a worldwide leader in the NATIONAL SALES broadcast automation field seeks an experienced service engineer to install, MANAGER troubleshoot and support our automation FORECLOSURE systems. AUCTION We're looking for a skilled, high The Ideal candidate will have a Technical 2 MD RADIO STATIONS AFtita r energy NSM with strong NY and LA degree or equivalent, a solid Audio/ Video isy, agency connections to sell national, background, strong communication skills, COMPRISING BUILDINGS, TOWERS, regional, paid, religious and the willingness to travel and the ability to F.C.C. LICENSE AND 900- number time. Station or Rep a work well under pressure. Please send BROADCAST EQUIPMENT background mandatory. RBC is a resume and salary requirements to: ' two-station Indy group based KNOWN AS in Ventura County. Here's your STATION WDLE (FM) ? chance to live in God's country- Human Resources Basys LaKart, Inc. Federalsburg. MD e anywhere from Malibu to Santa Barbara, and sell nationwide 287 Grove Street STATION WSMD (AM) Newton. MA 02166 La Plata, MD Fax resume and salary history to Fax (617) 244 -6752 u} I RBC, NSM Search: (805) 485-6057. or SALES ON RESPECTIVE PREMISES TUESDAY. FEB. 26. 1991 5\s5 AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES °if1/ A/IAOT AT 11:00 A.M. -WDLE BROADCASTING 112 S. MAIN ST. (Federalsburg) Located in Caroline County (Maryland Eastern Shore). formerly Employment Services Continued WCTD -107.1 MH2 - Class A. Antenna Employment Services Heights - 408', 4.84kW.

AT 3:00 P.M. -WSMD California DUMP ROAD (La Plata, MD) ' Located in Charles County (Maryland 1 Broadcast Job Bank TV'S JOB LISTING LEADER Western Shore) near Washington, As little as a TOTAL OF $6 PER WEEK taps you inla ' For application information call DC 1 KW. Daytime 250 watts critical MediaLir s unparalleled N lob listing service. hours, post sunset authority 35 (916) 444 -2237 NO OUTRAGEOUS PER MINUTE CHARGES i watts. Antenna Height -200'. NO STALE, OUTDATED LISTINGS ' California Broadcasters Association ' Financing is available by contacting JUST 60-75 NEW, CONFIRMED Ed Mr. Jon Lewson 212 -850 -5342. For TV USTINGS PER WEEK complete details, contact TVS JOB LISTING LEADER SINCE 1986 Auctioneers. 7/A ttrs.ta'1WfA Ii rr>:s To subsoil* cal 800.237 dorna 408418.5200 A.J. BILLIG & CO., /V.OI7VLrG AUCTIONEERS THE NATIONAL JOB LISTING SERVICE 16 Fayette Street, 411rQ FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY Baltimore, MD 21202 THE BEST JOBS ARE ON THE LINE 1-900-234-INFO ext. TV (BB) 301 P O Boa 51909 Pacific Grove. CA 93950 -752 -8440 S2 per minute From and touch tone phone

80 Classified Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 For Sale Stations BROADCASTING'S High Power TV Station CALIFORNIA CLASSIFIED License WASV -TV62, AM /FM combo w great signal in non RATES Asheville, NC competitive market. Financing available for All orders to piace ,._s fied ads & all corre- qualified buyer. Asking 1.8M with 20% down. spondence pertaininy lo this section should Liquidation Priced at 8X CF be sent to: BROADCASTING, Classified De- S350,000 Call 415-937-9088 partment. 1705 DeSales St., N.W., Washing- ton. DC 20036. 202 -659 -2340 (Information 1- 800 -444 -9233 LaFrance Media only). Payable In advance. Check. money order or credit card (Visa or MasterCard) Full and cor- FOR SALE rect payment must accompany all orders. All Fun -day, individual seminar for radio investors, given WRPX AM 740 privately to you. Group owner/operator with 22 years orders must be in writing by either letter or experience and ex -NAB General Counsel explain sta- Hudson, WI St Paul /Mpls Fax 202 -293 -3278. If payment is made by tion search negotiation. financing. FCC rules, take- Good Signal, Huge Potential credit card, indicate card number, expiration over, and many other topics you Choose Learn how to date and daytime phone number. buy in today's environment Call Robin Martin or Erwin Fast Growing Area Deadline is Monday at noon Eastern Time for Krasnow today for details anti a brochure Cash $325,000 the following Monday's issue. Earlier dead- The Deer River Group (612) 455 Washington, D.C. - (202)659.3331 Bill Starr -8250 lines apply for issues published during a week containing a legal holiday. A special notice announcing the earlier deadline will be IDAHO: AM/FM, Cash Flow published above this ratecard. Orders, NEWLY LISTED! changes. and/or cancellations must be sub- OKLAHOMA: AM /FM, Class A with upgrade mitted in writing. NO TELEPHONE ORDERS, NO. CAL. CLASS C COMBO CHANGES, AND /OR CANCELLATIONS WILL NEVADA: AM /FM, Cash Flow Positive Cashflow /Additional Growth BE ACCEPTED. COLORADO: AM /FM, Ski Resort, Cash Flow Asking $875K with $275K Down When placing an ad, indicate the EXACT category desired: Television, Radio, Cabe or Allied Fields; Help Wanted or Situations Want- PACIFIC NORTHWEST C -1 COMBO CONTACT: Bob Austin 303 -740 -8424 ed; Management, Sales. News, etc. If this Positive Cashflow on Good Terms information is omitted, we will determine the Asking $1 1 M with $350K Down appropriate category according to the copy NO make goods will be run if all information is LARGE MARKET FM Brett E. Miller (805) 523 -7312 not included. No personal ads. A GREAT TOP 50 NORTHEAST RADIO Rates: Classified listings (non -display). Per MARKET! Great staff, format, frequency, issue: Help Wanted: $1.20 per word, $22 facilities, real estate, high tower. Low weekly minimum. Situations Wanted: 606 per overhead! (Unusual circumstances forces word. $11 weekly minimum. All other classifi- the sale of this jewel.) DON'T MISS IT' AM - FM cations: $1.30 per word, $24 weekly mini- Fax now 1- 803 -297 -7186. mum. COMBO Rates: Classified display (minimum 1 inch upward in half inch increments). Per issue

Help Wanted: $90 per inch. Situations Want - FOR Greater Sacramento Area ed: $50 per inch. All other classifications. SALE $120 per inch. For Sale Stations, Wanted To KAVI AM -FM, Rocky Ford Colorado; C -1 Available Buy Stations, Public Notice & Business Op- upgrade available; absentee owner will portunities advertising require display space. Agency sell for $50,000 or best offer; Reasonably Priced commission only on display space. Terms Blind Box Service: (In addition to basic ad- Contact Kim Love 307 -672 -7421. vertising costs) Situations wanted: $5 per ad per issue. All other classifications: $10 per ad per issue. The charge for the blind box ser- Send responses to Box B -45 vice applies to advertisers running listings FOR and display ads. Each advertisement must SALE have a seperate box number. BROADCAST- Nonhen, Wisconsin vacation area. Medium Market AM (full time) FM -6KW. Appx 65K cash flow plus ING will not forward tapes, transcripts, portfo- good owner salary. Prime Real Estate. Full modem lios, writing samples, or other oversized mate- Inside and broadcast equipment Top dog -25 plus rials; such materials are returned to sender 10, UHF -TV FOX NET, TERMS $850K Medium Markel _.great cash buy. Terms to A-1 credit Do not use folders, binders or the like and radio track record. Be prepared for full financial OH. (CIN.MKT.) FM CLASS A $750K disclosure on first call. or don't call. Nothing released MO. (ST.LOU.) 50KW "DEAL" $3.5M Replies to ads with Blind Box numbers until Credit established WY. 100KW w /CASH FLOW $1.950M should be addressed to: Box (letter & num- Packerland Consultants: 414-235-2625 Larry Lewis -Chicago 708 -690 -3292 ber). c/o BROADCASTING, 1705 DeSales St., NW, Washington. DC 20036. Please do AZ. AM /FM CASH FLOW $225K not send tapes. ID. AM /FM GREAT MARKET $249K Word count: Count each abbreviation, Ini- FM FL. AM 5 KW (JAX.MKT.) S295K TEXAS AM AND COMBO tial, single figure group figures FL AM E.COAST TERMS $125K or of or letters FL AM ORL.MKT. TERMS $300K as one word each. Symbols such as S350,000 FL. AM 10KW E. COAST 5500K 35mm, COD, PD,etc.. count as one word Owner retiring FL. FM CLASS A (OFF -AIR) $1B7K each. A phone number with area code and FL AMFM GREAT TERMS $650K the zip code count as one word each. FL AMFM 50KW GULF COAST 52.8M The publisher is not responsible for errors in AM/FM (318) 377 -1667 FL 100 KW RESORT $2.1M printing due to illegible copy -all copy must Doyle Hadden -Orlando 407 -365 -7832 be clearly typed or printed. Any and all errors must be reported to the Classified Ad- vertising Department within 7 days of publi- TURN BANKRUPT STATIONS & cation date. No credits or make goods will INTO BUCKS HADDEN ASSOC be made on errors which do not materially ORLANDO affect the advertisement. Buy or lease failing stations and make l-a07-ihs-71W them low overhead satellites of your Publisher reserves the right to alter classified copy to conform with the provisions of A NATIONWIDE MEDIA BROKER $UPER STATION, Call Dan at Marti for Title VII of the Ciyil Rights Act of 1964, as details on PLAN A. 1385 AYERSWOOD CT, amended. Publisher reserves the right to 817-645 -9163. WINTER SPRINGS, FL 32708 abbreviate. alter, or reject any copy.

Broadcasting Feb iS 1991 t]esdNad SI FATES & FOII.TTMS

radio and film services. Mike Atterberry, national sales manag- MEDIA Tim Gardner, operations supervisor, Palm- er, KMIX(AM) Turlock, Calif. and KMJX- er Radio Network, adds duties as operations FM Lake Oswego, Ore. (Portland, Ore.), supervisor, co -owned KLYF(FM). joins KUPL-AM -FM Portland, Ore., as na- Martin J. Waters, senior VP and gener- tional sales manager and vendor market- al manager, TVRC Inc., joins Indepen- Chris Fricke, controller and business ing director. dent Television Network Inc. (ITN), manager, KSDK(TV) St. Louis, joins New York, as president and general WKYC -TV Cleveland, as director of per- Kenneth R. Better, VP, marketing and manager. Mayo P. Smith, executive VP, sonnel and labor relations. business development, MMT Sales Inc., finance and administration, Eastman Ra- New York, named corporate VP, mar- Jerry Dalrymple, VP, KWTV(TV) Oklaho- Inc., joins York, as keting and business development. dio ITN, New senior ma City, named executive VP. VP and chief financial and administra- Rose Lagler, account executive, Univi- tion officer. Michael Schuster, general sales manag- sion, joins Northwest Television Sales, er, WGBA(TV) Green Bay, Wis., Christine Hikawa, VP, broadcast stan- joins Portland, Ore., as account executive and WJJA(TV) Racine, Wis. West (Milwaukee), as manager. dards and practices, East and general manager. Coasts, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., New Chuck Duncan, senior account execu- York, named corporate VP, broadcast Charles W. Turner, general manager, tive, Katz Radio Representatives, joins standards and practices, succeeding Al- TKR Cable Co., Elizabeth, N.J., joins WFMa(FM) Menomonee Falls, Wis. (Mil- fred R. Schneider, retired. Storer cable televison, Plainfield, N.J., waukee), as general sales manager. system, as general manager. Bob Saunders, account executive, KvIL- Margaret T. Vyndce, VP and controller, AM-FM Highland Park, Tex. (Dallas), WREG -Tv Memphis, adds duties with joins KLRX(FM) Dallas -Fort Worth, as lo- parent company, The New York Times cal sales manager. Broadcast Group, as group controller. Thoren J. Schroeck, VP and general Dennis Patton, VP and general manager, manager, KADY -TV Oxnard, Calif., joins In Court Television, Woodbury, N.Y., KWTV(TV) Oklahoma City, as VP, sales named VP, corporate marketing and and marketing. business development, Rainbow Pro- graming Holdings Inc. Keri T. Palmer, controller, Austin Kel- ley Advertising Inc., Atlanta, named Tammy Kay Kinzer, VP, group sales, VP, finance. Dean F. Lukehart, account Reams Broadcasting Corp., Toledo, supervisor, Austin Kelley Advertising, Hikawa Alam Ohio, named VP and general manager, named VP, account supervisor. co -owned WZRZ(FM) Cincinnati. Runa N. Alam, Alam Capital Inc., joins Appointments at WGNO(TV) New Or- Richter & Co. Inc., New York, as man- Lisa J. Allen, medical reporter, KTVI(TV) leans: Vincent Manzi, national sales aging director, entertainment business. St. Louis, joins Cablevision Systems Corp., manager, named director of national Woodbury, N.Y., as editorial director. sales; Karen Nally, account executive, Polly Runyon, manager of development, named local sales manager; Mike La- Bob Cole, operations manager, KVET- Performing Arts Research Center, New bonia, account executive, named region- (AM)-KASE(FM) named York Public Library, joins WYNC Austin, Tex., gen- al and Rogers, eral manager. sales manager, Chris Communications Group, New York, as marketing manager, named sales and managing director, development. Pamela Weisburg, from Simpson marketing manager. Thacher & Bartlett law firm, joins ESPN Alan Murdoch, general manager, WOMP- August B. Taconi, marketing manager, Inc., Bristol, Conn., as counsel. AM-FM Bellaire, Pa., (Wheeling, W. United Artists Cable of Mississippi Va.), joins WCYL(FM) Boyertown, Pa. Larry Trimmer, VP, Cromwell Group, Gulfcoast, Biloxi, Miss., named adver- (Reading), as VP and general manager. Nashville, named executive VP. James tising sales manager. Dave Hoeffel, program director, E. MacFarlane, general manager, Crom- Appointments at BBDO New York: Guy WPST(TV) Trenton, N.J. (Princeton, well Group, named group VP. McCarter, manager, program develop- N.J.), named operations manager. Anita Van Petten, executive VP, World ment, named VP; Rita Bettino, Robert Larry Bear, program director, WNNJ -FM International Network, Los Angeles, Furth and Jim Pallini, assistant media Newton, N.J., named operations manag- named president and chief operating of- planners, named media planners. er, WNNJ -AM -FM there. ficer. Michael Jhuboolall, systems programer, Cary D. Jones, VP and general manager, Philipp Bros., New York, joins Katz WFLD(TV) Chicago, joins WHNS(TV) SALES AND MARKETING Media Data, there in same capacity. Asheville, as general manager. N.C., Claudia Deichstetter, account executive, Dale W. Laackman, corporate VP, syn- DDB Needham, Chicago, named ac- dication, Mediatech Inc., Chicago, joins Willie Piekiel, air personality, count supervisor. Christopher L. Black, American Medical Association, Chica- WWRM(FM) St. Petersburg, Fla., joins media planner, DDB Needham, Chica- go, as director, division of television, WTOG(TV) there, as account executive. go, named media supervisor.

82 Fates & Fortunes Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Louise M. Johnson, account executive, tants to sales department. Appointments at Telemundo Group Inc., FitzGerald & Co. Inc. advertising, and board New York: W. Gary McBride, senior Ralph Doran III, partner VP, marketing and sales, named presi- Cranston, R.I., named VP. account su- member, Pringle- Dixon -Pringle, Atlan- pervisor. dent, network; Donald M. Travis, VP ta, joins Burkhardt & Christy Advertis- and general sales manager, named presi- Stuart Naar, director of marketing and ing, New York, as president. dent, station group; Peter J. Housman research, WHTZ4FM) Newark, N.J. (New Charles Lichty, manager, Prudential In- H, senior VP and chief financial officer, York), adds duties with parent compa- surance Co., York, Pa., joins WrrF-FM- named president, business and corporate ny, Mainte Communications Group, TV Harrisburg, Pa., as marketing repre- affairs, and Augusto A. Failde, from Cleveland, as director of sales marketing sentative. Group Resource Inc., named director of and research, radio division. special projects. Richard Torbett, local sales manager, James Petrie, sales manager, wwAX(AM) Randy Freer, VP, CNN /Headline WCYB -TV Bristol, Wash., named general News, Turner Broadcasting Sales, Olyphant, Pa. joins WEMR(AM)- sales manager. WYMK(FM) Tunkhannock, Pa., in same named senior VP, Turner Entertainment capacity. Helen Karas, account manager, adver- Network Sales, New York. tising, The Daily News, joins Arts & Lonnie Burstein, director of program- Jan McKay Cha- Entertainment Network, New York, as ing, WTXF -TV Philadelphia, joins MCA loner, partner and account executive, New York advertis- TV, Los Angeles, as VP, director of director, Corey ing sales. research. Sharon S. Garcia, corporate Chaloner Millen clerk, MCA Inc., Universal City, Calif., Ken Scott, sales manager, WWSW -AM -FM named assistant secretary. design, New Pittsburgh, joins WCOL -AM -FM Colum- York, joins NBC - bus, Ohio as general sales manager. Tony Garland, independent consultant, TV, East Coast, as New York, joins MTV Europe, London, executive creative Robert Riordan and Donna Tauriello, as director of research, market planning director, print ad- managers of advertising sales, Eastern and business development. vertising. region, USA Network, New York, named directors, advertising sales, East- Brad West, music director, WYNK -AM- Donald E. Carter, FM Baton Rouge, adds duties as assistant Chaloner ern region. president, Acker - program director. Kerry Boehme, director of station rela- ley Communica- Joe Bonadonna, air personality, tions, Preview, The Best of the New, tions Inc., Seattle, retired. WMMR(FM) Philadelphia, named pro- joins TeleRep, New York, as director of gram director. Appointments at Backer Spielvogel research, cougar sales team. Bates Inc., New York: Robert Desat- Ann Neff, account executive, Central re- nick, VP, management representative, Appointments at Katz: Stephen Friend, gion, Prevue Networks Inc., Tulsa, named senior VP; Louise Gaumond, ac- general manager, Firehouse Four Res- Okla., named director of national account supervisor, and David Nes, ac- taurant, Miami, joins Banner Radio, Los counts. Caroline Neu, national telemar- count director, Paris, named VP's. Angeles, as account executive; Paul keting supervisor, United Artists Cable, Smith, account executive, Adam Young joins Prevue Guide Channel, Tulsa, Ray Heacox, VP, Western regional Inc., joins Katz Independent Television, Okla., as manager of affiliate relations. group manager, MMT Sales Inc., joins New York, executive, sabers as sales Jan Mittenthal, coordinator, talent rela- KNBC -TV Los Angeles, as local sales team; Jill Anderson, West Coast sales manager. tions, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, New manager, Teen, Los Angeles, joins Katz York, named manager of talent rela- Karri Weeda-Schrand, sales trainee, Continental Televison, there as sales ex- tions. WLWT(TV) Cincinnati, named account ecutive, silver team, and Pandorah Francis, account executive, wwMG(FM) Scott Goodfellow, bureau chief, The executive. Christian Shelby, N.C., joins Katz Television Science Monitor Television Thomas and Radio, Washington, named execu- S. Marsillo, account executive, Group, Charlotte, N.C., as sales execu- SportsChannel New York, named New tive VP, Monitor Television Inc., Bos- tive. Account executives named senior ton. York sales manager. Denis F. Coleman, account executives, Katz Radio: Me- assistant New York local sales manager, lanie Mexic, Dallas; Jay Craven, Los Tom Michel, director, Western region, Cable Networks Inc., named New York Angeles; Jeff Weinand, Los Angeles; In Court Television, Los Angeles, named to same sales manager, co -owned News 12. Mark Gray, New York; position, Bravo televi- Jeff Shrinsky, sion. Cynthia Burnell, director of East- Gayle Halebian, local sales manager, New York, and Mike Jennewein, St. ern region, In Court Television, Wood- KRLA(AM)-KLSX(FM) Los Angeles, Louis. bury, N.Y., named director of Southeast named general sales manager, succeeded region, Bravo. by Derek Beesemeyer, national sales manager. Chris Miller, program director, KQLD(FM) Port Sulpher, La. (New Or- Patti Brown, from KLAC(AM) -KZLA -FM PROGRAMING leans), joins KLRX(FM) Dallas in same Los Angeles, joins WZEZ(FM) Nashville, capacity. as account executive. Bill Brady, Anne E. McCloskey, director, properties air personality, WNNZ(AM) Springfield, Mass., joins WQBK(AM) Appointments at WRKO(AM) Boston: management, HMG Sports, Events & Rensselaer, N.Y. (Albany), Walter Bissett, from WGRZ -TV Buffalo, Licensing, New York, joins NBC -TV as program N.Y., named account executive; Laura there as director, sports and news mar- director. Hallahan, from The Pathfinder Fund, keting. Barry S. Goodman, prime time Joseph Hillenbrand, general sales man- and Kathy Stimpson, production assis- marketing director, NBC -TV, named di- ager, Raycom Sports Division, joins tant, WBUR(FM, Boston, named assis- rector, entertainment marketing. The American Sportsradio Network,

óoaisarsNq Feb 1t21fl1 Fates L Fortunes 83 Chicago, as senior VP. vertising sales and marketing, The lotte, N.C., joins KHAK -AM -FM Cedar named senior VP, Iowa, as program director, suc - Doug Parker, director of programing Comedy Channel, Rapids, program director, and public service, of Colum- marketing; Steven Paul Mark, senior ceeding Tim Closson, VP, business management, Nickelo- WUBE(FM) Cincinnati. bus, Ohio, joins WBNS-TV there as VP, At named senior VP, programing, succeeding John Haldi, re- deon/Nick Nile, legal and business affairs; Sarah Miller, Gene Walsh, VP, tired. :;°' senior VP and chief financial officer, "` media planning, Jack Morrow Jr., The Comedy Channel, named senior xk NBC Productions formerly of Ap- VP, finance and administration; Michael since 1987, will plause Inc., joins Klinghoffer, VP, programing and pro- leave post March Hanna- Barbera duction, HA! The TV Comedy Net- 29 to become in- work, and Bell, VP, programing and Productions Inc., Art dependent media operations, The Comedy Channel, Los Angeles, as consultant in Bur- ,. named VP's, programing. _ senior VP and bank, Calif. general manager, Kenneth Locker, executive VP, Carol- Walsh joined licensing and mer- co /Gimbel, joins RHI Entertainment ° 'A NBC New York's chandising. Inc., Los Angeles, in same capacity. Walsh press department I Maryann Schulze, Scott Drake, from KxOA(AM) Sacramen- in 1961 and was Morrow from Paramount to, Calif., and Karen Clauss, from appointed VP, press and publicity in Domestic Televi- WEGX(FM) Philadelphia, join KXLT(FM) 1975; he shifted to Burbank in 1977. Los Tribune Enter - sion, Angeles, joins Denver as air personalities. NBC Productions will be charter client. tainment Co., Chicago, as director of station relations. Dave Rudat, farm service director and Bob Kramer, former staff editor, Ameri- production manager, WIBC(AM) India- ca ' s Mostost Wanted, joins Professional Hamilton S. Cloud, partner and founder, napolis, joins Agn America, agricultural J Video Services Corp., Washington, as Imaginary Entertainment, joins Playboy news and weather programer, there as staff editor. Entertainment Group, West Hollywood, account executive. Calif., as VP, production. Ellison, from WDJY(FM) Wash - Steve Paskay, producer, America's Fun- Sherry in on , oins WKYS(FM) there as air r Mike Merlis, managing partner, Spicer named J niest Home Videos, Los Angeles, sonality. & Oppenheim, joins Deloitte & Touche co- executive producer, and Henry Kim- and Ange- entertainment consulting, Los mel, supervising producer, named pro - Loren Omoto, systems manager, Minne- les, as director, business management ducer. sota Public Radio, St. Paul, adds duties group. as production director. John Tobin, promotion director, The Rick Dees, host, ABC's Into the Night Gary Group, joins Dees Entertainment, Appointments at USA Network, New Levine, director, traffic starring Rick Dees and Rick Dees Week- Los Angeles, as VP, communications. York: Mindy operations, named VP; Monica Foster, ly Top Forty, KIIS -AM -FM Los Angeles, Appointments at Presson Perspectives manager, program acquisitions, named forms Dees Entertainment there. Mary and com- news documentary production Bi .ney,, program acquisitions, and Jane Clayton, business consultant and head, pany, Clearwater, Fla.: Liz Summer, in- Blaney, manager, program administra - Dees Creations, named president, Dees dependent talent, Tampa, Fla., named named director, programing sched- Entertainment, and Silver, execu- reporter; Chris Presson, from WTUL(FM) Jack uling and administration. producer, Rick Dees Morning Show, Tampa, named field producer, and KIIS -FM Los Angeles, adds duties as ex- Amos Carreiro, from Cape Cod Cab- Appointments at WFLZ -FM Tampa, Fla.: ecutive producer, Rick Dees Weekly To levision, named researcher. Marc Chase, program director, named 40. FM operations; B.J. Harris, as- Arthur Cohen, director of radio, North- director, program west Public Radio, Pullman, Wash., sistant program director, named Dan Taylor, air personality, WNSR()FM director; Jeff Kapugi, music director, New York, named host of syndicated joins Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul- named assistant pprogram g director, and The Rockin' Gold Radio Show. Minneapolis, as network manager, clas- sical music service and program direc- Hawk Harrison, air personality, adds Stephen J. Cohen, former VP and gener- tor, KSJN(FM) there. duties as music director. al manager, WCAU Philadelphia, -TV Patricia Jackson, independent producer, joins Courtroom Television Network, Buzz Knight, program director, Pe P WLVQ(FM) WNOR- Los Angeles, joins J2 Communications New York, as executive producer. Columbus, Ohio, joins AM -FM Norfolk, Va., in same capacity. there as director of programing and ac- David Brugnone, director of marketing, quisitions. Dowden Communications, joins KBL John Moore, program director, WEED- WVOT- Jason Raff, story coordinator, Preview: Sports Network, Pittsburgh, as director (AM) Rocky Mount, N.C., joins The Best of the News, joins Lifetime of affiliate sales and marketing. (AM) Wilson, N.C., as air personality. Television, Astoria, N.Y., as segment Craig Chambers, director of sales, Ca- Appointments at Sheridan Broadcasting Network, New York: Lopes, V producer. ble TV Business, joins Action Pay Per Jerry news and sports programing, named ex- Mark Stephan, former account execu- View Network, Santa Monica, Calif., as ecutive VP, programing and operations; tive, Arbitron Ratings Co., joins Prime VP, affiliate sales, Western region, suc- Thad Hill, VP, network operations, Network, Dallas, as research director. ceeding Ronald Norberg ( "Fates &For- tunes, lao. 7). VP, network operations and en- Annette Zimand, director of human re- Bry- tertainment programing, and Glenn sources, Arts & Entertainment hu- AAppointments at Comedy TV, New PPo Y ant, VP, sales, Eastern region, named New York, named senior director, hu- York: Mark Rosenthal, executive VP, VP, media and marketing research. man resources. affiliate sales and marketing, MTV Net- works, adds duties as director of net- Tim Roberts, air personality and assis- Jody Hecker, senior program coordina- work; Lawrence Divney, senior VP, ad- tant program director, WTDR(FM) Char- tor and program analyst, Seltel, joins

84 Fates & Fortunes Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 Group W Television Sales, New York, Merci Dee, host, Heart of Chicago, Sales and marketing managers named at as program research manager. WON -TV Chicago, named director of AKG Acoustics Inc., San Leandro, community affairs. Calif.: David Roudebush, named corpo- Michael Rosenfeld, and senior producer rate David A; How - Maus, anchor, writer, Explorer, National Mike CBS Radio News, named director of national sales; How- Geographic Television, Washington, New York, 'oins Minnesota Public Ra- and Mullinack, named director of inter - series producer. Mair, pro- dio, St. Paul, as news and information Julia national sales; Jesse named ducer, Explorer, named co- executive service. international sales manager, Western producer. Todd Howard, weekend producer, hemisphere, and David Talbot, named KOVR(TV) Sacramento, Calif., named 11 national sales manager. p.m. producer. Appointments at Panasonic Broadcast and assign- N.J.: Harvey PUBLIC AFFAIRS Gene Stephens, producer Systems, Secaucus, NEWS AND ment editor, KVUE -TV Austin, Tex., Mabry, district sales manager, Pana - joins Conus Communications, as region- sonic Audio Video Systems Group, al coordinator, Southwest regional coop- named region manager, South region; Dorie Klissas, senior field producer and erative, located at KXAN -TV Austin, Tex. Larry Coha, service engineer, named reporter, Financial News Network, New Appointments at KTBC -TV Austin, Tex.: systems sales engineer; Greg Boren, York, joins CBS Sports there as asso- technical managerg and senior technical ciate producer, Olympic profile unit, Stephanie Winn, weekend anchor, named noon co- anchor; Ken Snow, noon system CBS's coverage of 1992 winter Olym- trainer, NBC -TV, J. Van mans pics in Albertville, France. co- anchor, named executive producer; Mary Benton, education reporter, adds agerg of facilities maintenance, WKYC -TV named district sales manag- Thomas J.R. Kent, acting foreign edi- duties as weekend anchor, and Kathie Cleveland, er, Cleveland and Pittsburgh; David tor, AP, New York, named international Smith, promotion assistant, KVUE -TV Wiswell, director of engineering, WGVU- editor. Austin, Tex., named news promotion FM-TV Grand Rapids, Mich., named dis- producer. Gregory Pirio, chief, Portuguese ser- trict sales manager, Detroit; Jim Thibo- vice, Voice of America, Washington, Jacqueline Gallardo, producer, Ocurrio deaux, district sales manager, named named chief, English -to -Africa branch. Asi, Telemundo, joins KVEA(TV) Coro- Western region manager; Max Hernan- Robert Fasbender, managing editor, na, Calif., as director of news. dez, service engineer, named system Sports News Network, joins Consumer J ¡m Farrell, from WBBH -TV Fort Myers, sales engineer; R. Skip McWilliams, Communica- News and Business Channel, Fort Lee, Fla., joins WRSP -TV St. Petersburg, Fla, formerly from Midwest , tions, named district sales manager, N.J. as supervising producer, as weather anchor, Good Morning Flori - Cincinnati; Ronald A. Williams, former- McLaughlin. da. ly with Sony Broadcast, named district Julie Kirtz, general assignment reporter, Duane Brozek, weekend anchor, WROC- sales manager, Los Angeles; Douglas WKRN -TV Nashville, joins Hearst Broad - TV Rochester, N.Y., named weeknight Robertson, sales representative, Indus - casting, Washington, as correspondent. anchor. Jerry Fiore, anchor and report- trial Audio Video, Houston, named dis - Appointments at WJCT-FM Jacksonville, er, WROC -TV, named weekend anchor trict sales manager there; Kenneth Fla.: Donna M. Goddard, executive di- and reporter. Erickson, director of engineering, WHO - rector, marketing, Community Benefits Kimberlie A. Kranich, children's televi- AM-FM -TV Des Moines, Iowa, named Corp., named director of membership; Sion producer and news producer, wTAJ- district sales manager, and Gordon Bax- Dan Kossoff, director of special pro- TV Altoona, Pa., joins wPSX -Tv Clear- ter, regional sales manager, BTS, named VP, special projects, and jects, field, Pa. (University Park), as producer named district sales manager, Pacific Twinda Braswell, manager, volunteer and director, rural America documentary Northwest area. sevices, named director. unit. Kam Carman, The Weather Channel, Jodi Chapman, writer, anchor and re- Atlanta, joins WJBK -TV Detroit as week - porter, WHO(AM) Des Moines, Iowa, PROMOTION AND PR end weathercaster. named assistant news director. Lynde McCormick, executive business Patty Craig, former 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. editor, Rocky Mountain News, joins anchor, KBJR -TV Superior, Wis. (Du- Sue Norris, manager, creative affairs, Monitor Television Inc., Boston, as spe- luth, Minn.), joins KGGM -TV Albuquer- NBC Productions, Burbank, Calif., cial TV and radio correspondent. que, N.M., as noon anchor. named director, creative affairs. Jerry Burke, marketing director, Azzo- Jeff Barnd, anchor, WGME -TV Portland, Susan L. Schulman, head, corporate Mesner, joins WBAY -TV Green Bay, Ore joins WBFF(TV) Baltimore in same communications, Arts & Entertainment Wis. as Fox Valley, Wis., bureau Network, joins Brown and Powers Inc., caP acit. chief,. y' New York, as VP. Tim Sturgess, sports anchor and report - Virginia L. Simon, freelance public rela- er, KCBD -TV Lubbock, Tex., joins KLBK- TECHNOLOGY tions writer, Burlington, Vt., joins Ver- Tv there as sports director and week- mont ETV, Colchester, Vt., as editor night anchor. and writer. Appointments at ESPN Inc., Bristol, Alec Murdock, anchor and reporter, Steve Svendsen, assistant editor, Ace & Conn.: Joe Lion, senior consultant, Sys- Continental Cablevision, Los Angeles, Edie 2, Hollywood, named editor. rems Group Inc., named systems pro - joins KULR -TV Billings, Mo., as co -an- analyst; Mike Armatta, freelance Steven Vedro, new technologies manag- chor, 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. news. gram engineer and technician, named senior er, WHA -TV Madison, Wis., joins Net - Susan Krivelow, freelance writer, series remote operator, and Robert Hollis, stu- work Resources information technology producer and show producer, WHDH -TV dio technician II, named studio techni- consulting firm there as senior consul- Boston, named 6 p.m. producer. cian III. tant. kaaleatlq Feb IS 1991 sportscaster of the year by National James of West Palm Beach, Fla. Sportscasters and Sportswriters Associa- FIELDS Diane Newton WUHQ- ALLIED tion. King, 34, anchor, TV Battle Creek, Mich., was shot to District directors elected at National Ca- death in her driveway in Marshall, Susan Thomas Platt, director, affiliate ble Television Association, Washington: Mich. Feb. 9. Threats King received liaision and special projects, CBS Inc., Henry Harris, from Metrovision Inc., from male admirer interested in getting joins National Association of Broadcast- Atlanta, district 5; John D. Evans, into broadcasting business are being in- ers, Washington, as administrative di- Hauser Communications, Arlington, vestigated. King worked at KJCr(TV) rector, government relations. Va., district 6; Lee C. Howley, North Grand Junction, Colo., before joining Coast Cable, Cleveland, district 7, and WUHG -TV two years ago. She is survived Helen A. Britton, Joseph S. Gans Sr., from Cable TV by husband, Bradford; daughter, Kateri, communications Inc., named independent small system and son, Marier. Contributions can be consultant, New director. made to: Diane King Children's Trust York, joins Coaxi- Fund, Old Kent Bank, 57 West Michi- Ralph H. Justus, director of engineer- gan Mall, Battle Creek, Mich. 49016. al International ing, regulatory and international affairs, televi- Inc., cable science & technology department, Na- Michael F. Kohler, 26, lawyer, Wiley, sion consulting tional Association of Broadcasters, Rein & Fielding law firm, Washington, firm, Denver, as Washington, joins Electronic Industries died Feb. 10 at George Washington Uni- VP, program plan- Association's Consumer Electronics versity there of multiple blunt -force in- ning and market- Group, there as director of engineering. juries. Death is still under investigation. ing. Kohler worked for law firm's communi- VP Trustees of The Jerry Marcus, and general manager, cations group. Britton KRIV(TV) Houston, named 1991 recipient Museum of Houston Chapter American Wom- Tramontte Watts, 38, air personality, Broadcasting elected Frank A. Bennack of of en in Radio and Television's Heritage WFLZ -FM Tampa, Fla., died of cancer Jr., president and chief executive officer Award. Feb. 12 there. Watts began radio career of The Hearst Corp., chairman of board, in Cleveland and later moved to Florida, succeeding museum founder and first working at stations including WHYI(FM) chairman, late William S. Paley. Fort Lauderdal, Fla. (Miami), WGUL -FM Bruce Godfrey, VP, investment bank- DEATHS Newport Richey, Fla., and WRBQ -FM ing, Daniels & Associates, Denver, Tampa, Fla. He is survived by wife, named senior VP, investment banking. Debbie, and son, Eric. Donations can be Phyllis M. made to: The Tramontte Watts Cancer Cheryl Idell, associate director, media Reinsch, 80, wife Fund, Barnett Bank, 4700 Cypress research, Western International Media, of J. Leonard Blvd., Tampa, Fla. 33607. Los Angeles, named VP, director of re- Reinsch, retired Robert Strunsky, 84, former director, search. Thomas J. Watson, from Lucille chairman of Cox Ball Productions, joins Western Interna- Broadcasting corporate affairs, CBS Inc., died of can- tional Media, as associate director, net- Group, died of cer Feb. 6 in Kingston, N.J. Strunsky joined CBS in 1944 and worked as ad- work and programing research. cancer Feb. 8 in vertising copywriter, corporate spokes- Thomas F. Gillett, VP, business devel- Atlanta. She worked as volun- man, director of press information and opment and technology transfer, Cable executive speech writer. He also had Television Laboratories, Boulder, teer for United Way campaigns, stint at Simon & Schuster as director of Colo., joins Media Management Ser- advertising. Surviving him are wife, vices Inc., Englewood, Colo., as part- Reinsch family social services and child welfare programs. Martha; three daughters, Mary, Martha ner. Her and husband was chairman of Cox from and Jane; three grandchildren one great- grandchild. Harvey Gersin, executive VP and prin- 1939 to 1973 and broadcast adviser to cipal, Reymer & Gersin Associates Inc., Democratic party from 1945 to 1952 and John Steinbeck IV, 44, writer, died after joins Norman Hecht Research Inc., currently has cable interests in Florida. surgery for back ailment Feb. 7 in Los Syosset, N.Y., as senior consultant. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Angeles. Steinbeck worked as freelance Lee Burdick, communications attorney, Reinsch is survived by a daughter, Pe- journalist primarily for CBS in Vietnam Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, nelope R. Bohn of Atlanta, and son, after war. Washington, transferred to San Francis- co office. Holland Cooke, operations manager, INDEX TO ADVERTISERS wrOP(AM) Washington, resigned to form Classified Ads 75 -82 Claster Television, Inc., 8 -9 C -SPAN media consulting practice there. Cover 4 Employers Reinsurance 11 F & F Productions, Inc. New board members, WNET(TV) New- ark, N.J. (New York): Elihu Rose, part- Cover 1 Finger Lakes Productions 45 Great American Tele- ner, Rose Associates Inc.; Stanley S. communications Services 63 King World 15, 17 Media Ven- Shuman, executive VP and managing ture Partners 55 Orbis Communications 19, 21, 23 Petry 46 -47 director, Allen & Co. Inc.; Donald Stewart, former president, Spellman Professional Cards 73 Program Exchange, The 24-25 Ryder College, Atlanta, and H. John Green - Communications, Inc. 26 Services Directory 72 Television iaus, president and CEO, Nabisco 18 2/3, 12 -13 Brands Inc. Program Enterprises 7 Univision Viacom Cover Washington International Teleport 16 Glenn Brenner, sports anchor and director, WUSA(TV) Washington, named 1990

86 Fates á Fortunes Broadcasting Feb 18 1W1 FIFTH FST4TER

MAURICE FRENCH: SETTING THE STANDARD FOR SMPTE

Maurice French's two -year term service in Canada, he says, and a forum as president of the Society of for technical information exchange was Motion Picture and Television needed. SMPTE has been everything Engineers ended Jan. 1. He can look Canada needed and "Canadian partici- back on two significant achievements pation has also had profound and benefi- for the society. French led SMPTE's cial effects on the Society as a whole," efforts to expand its international pres- he says. ence through the creation of several new French had been a TV studio techni- chapters around the world and, during cian for the BBC in London during the French's term, SMPTE revised its stan- late 1940's and early 1950's when he dards- setting process to fit today's rapid decided to immigrate to Canada. "At pace of technological change. that time, the TV industry [in Canada] "It was very evident to me that the attracted a lot of people from Europe and growth of the television industry on a various other countries around the world worldwide basis became imperative to because it was, indeed, a beginning," the economic vitality of the industry," he says. He moved to Toronto and said French. SMPTE's simultaneous joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. trend toward international expansion (CBC), where he stayed until his retire- "and the exchange of information and ment last Oct. I . ideas was to the industry's benefit," he had documented and approved them. "It With that retirement, French is spend- adds. was absolutely essential if standards ing more time enjoying the athletic hob- When he began his term as president were to become effective and useful that bies of his life outside of television. He in January 1989, SMPTE had only an the work be accomplished in a timely has extended skiing trips planned this Australian section outside of the U.S. manner," he says. "That does not mean winter in Switzerland and Utah. Down- and Canada. (A SMPTE local section is that we can short circuit the criteria for hill skiing is a recent avocation -an made up of at least 50 engineers. There consensus and full discussion, but it did even older hobby is the marathon. are currently 25 sections, including 17 in mean that where admin- French estimates he has the U.S.) Since then, SMPTE has added istrative procedures Maurice Lindsey French run some 75 races, in- groups from the Soviet Union, the newly could be improved, we Retired manager, technological cluding several Boston united Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. should work toward that planning, Television Production marathons and one race SMPTE was already well established end." Center, Canadian Broadcasting along the legendary as a world leader in technical standards During French's Corp. (CRC), Toronto, and past route of the Greek sol- before the moves to expand. It has had term, and with the key president, Society of Motion dier in 490 B.C. be- close relationships with other interna- efforts of the society's Picture and Television tween the plains of tional standards organizations, such as engineering vice presi- Engineers; b. Sept. 1, 1925, Marathon and Athens. the International Radio Consultative dent, Stanley Baron of London; studio operations He also coaches dis- Committee and the European Broadcast- NBC, and Sherwin director, British Broadcasting tance running for local ing Union. "There's no question about Becker, director of en- Corp., 1949 -1954; lighting athletic clubs. it. SMPTE standards are quite readily gineering at the soci- director; supervisor, remote But French will not accepted by the respective bodies." But ety's White Plains, operations; manager, film run too far from televi- the recent additions heighten SMPTE's N.Y., headquarters, operations, CBC, Toronto, 1954- sion matters. "Just re- 1985; manager, technical international stature, French says. SMPTE developed new cently I was asked to planning, 1985 -1990; m. Bridgid French believes the trend will contin- rules that are expected chair the [CBC's] ad- Tynan (deceased), 1950; ue. A New Zealand section is expected to cut in half the aver- vanced television pro- children: Michelle Bridgid, 29; within 18 months and a South African age time to complete duction facility Sean, 27. commit- and second Australian group are also work on a standard tee, which set about to strong possibilities. Even some Japanese The rules were approved by SMPTE's test the new echnologies in post -pro- engineers, who have several standards board of governors during the society's duction," he says. He will also be a societies of their own, "feel that a recent TV conference in Detroit. continuing influence on SMPTE. SMPTE section would also be benefi- French's association with SMPTE be- The Increased rate of integration be- cial" for information exchange, he says. gan in 1959. He was one of the founding tween video, film and computer technol- The other chief priority of French's members of the Toronto section, the so- ogies will be the next big development term was cutting the time needed to set a ciety's first Canadian delegation. Over to affect the society, he predicts. In a SMPTE standard. Engineers complained the years he has held nearly every im- few years, IBM could be as important to two years ago that technologies were portant officer's position at the local and the SMPTE conferences as Sony and becoming obsolete by the time SMPTE overall levels. TV was a new, growing Eastman Kodak are today.

áMimfiN Feb u 1911 Fah MEW 17 IS BRIEF

Former Association of Independent CNN's Mugs continue to drop each week, rium' has for the past 48 hours dominat- Television Stations president, Preston although they are still three to four times ed U.S. media with obviously narrowly Padden, now with Fox Broadcasting, is higher than before Gulf war. For fourth channelled portrayals of civilian among 12 candidates vying for six seats week of war, Feb. 6 -12, CNN had prime deaths," he said. Sikes also complained on National Association of Broadcasters time 3.6 rating/5.6 share among cable broadcast media seem to put more em- Television board. Ballots are being mailed households, down from 4.7/7.3 in third phasis on "immediacy" than on provid- Feb. 25, and final results will be an- week, and 5.9/8.8 in second week. Av- ing accurate picture of what is going on. nounced March 27. Among those elected erages for broadcast networks for fourth On other hand, Sikes generally praised to NAB's radio board (* indicates incum- week among cable households were: CNN's war coverage. "It's been a great bent): District 1 (New England): Richard 11.7/18.2 for NBC, 11.5/18.0 for ABC plus for them. It's been a great plus for Osbome,* WKXL -AM-FM Concord, N.H.; and 10.6/16.5 for CBS. On 24 -hour ba- the American viewing public," he said. District 3 (Pa.): W. Leroy Schneck,* sis, CNN had 2.7/8.1, compared with Cable network's reports from Baghdad WNAE(AM) - WRRN -FM, Warren, Pa.; Dis- 5.2/15.5 for ABC, 4.9/14.6 for CBS and during first hours of war were "nothing trict 5 (W.Va., Ky.): Walter May,* 4.8/14.3 for NBC. Although CNN is short of phenomenal." WPKE(AM)- WDHR(FM) Pikeville, Ky.; Dis- trying to line up advertisers to pay trict 7 (Fla., Puerto Rico, V.I.): Dean $20,000 for 30- second spots that used to Lack of affordable fimadag was reason Goodman,* WLVE-FM Miami; District 9 cost $5,000, ratings decline and belief $2.3 million deal for KWA-w Shreveport, (Ga., Ala.): Houston Pearce,* WTSK(AM)- that ratings will go back to normal when La., by Viacom subsidiary VSC Corn - WTUG -FM Tuscaloosa, Ala.; District 11 war is over are making advertisers reluc- munications to Bimey Imes fell through. (Ohio): C. Richard McBroom, worm tant to pay such prices. "Our negotiations with Viacom were (AM )-WNDH -FM Napolean, Ohio; District very satisfactory, [but] we felt that the 13 (Mich.): Ross Biederman, WTCM -AM- FCC Gahm.. Alfred Sikes last week joined cost of the money proposed by the banks FM Traverse City, Mich.; District 15 critics expressing concerns about U.S. me- for financing was just too expensive," (Tenn. and Ark.): Bayard Walters, Crom- dia's average of Persian Gulf War. CNN said Imes, who owns four TV stations well Group, Nashville; District 17 (III.): and other news organizations with re- and one newspaper. According to Via- Wayne Vriesman, WGN(AM) Chicago; porters in Baghdad have to be "judi- corn, station has been taken off selling District 21 (Minn., S.D., and N.D.): Jerry cious" in their coverage, Sikes said at block, but it would not rule out consider- Papenfuss,* KBEW(AM) Winona, Minn., informal press briefing in his office. "I ing favorable offers. and District 25 (Ore. Wash.): Harold find it phenomenal that a man who said Debt' Ted, half -hour comedy starring Ju- Greenberg, KMAS(AM) Shelton, Wash. he is going to 'turn Israel into a cremato- lia Duffy, will join ABC's schedule in special preview on Friday, March 8 at 8:30 p.m. Series will debut in its regular time WHITE HOUSE OPPOSES CABLE REREG slot on Friday, March 15 at 9:30. Series replaces Going Places, which will have The administration reiterated its opposition to cable reregulation in the completed its season order. Baby Talk, "Economic Report of the President," released last week. The White which had originally been on ABC's fall House's strong stand is likely to make the congressional debate on cable far schedule but was pulled after original more partisan than it was last year. It is believed that House and Senate star Connie Selleca walked off set, is Republicans will refuse to support reregulation legislation and that a lack of produced by Weinberger Co. in associa- consensus on the issue will only make passage more difficult. Plus, the tion with Columbia Pictures Television. chances that Bush will veto such a bill appear more likely given the policy stated in the report. Kushner-Leda Co. has received order from The report also calls for spectrum auctions and describes the FCC's finan- CIS to modem Outlander, futuristic one- cial interest and syndication rules as "ineffective" (see above). hour drama series for network's action - Last year the White House weighed in on the cable debate and communicat- adventure late -night schedule. Company ed in several letters to the Hill that reregulation was not the way to deal with already produces Swearing Bullets, slat- consumer complaints concerning cable rate increases. Instead, the administra- ed to be part of network's late -night tion said competition should be introduced by lifting restrictions in the 1984 lineup following run of America Tonight Cable Act that keep local phone companies from offering cable services. in 11:30 p.m. time slot. President Bush was prepared to veto legislation that would have reimposed Viacom rate regulation. Enterprises' president of first- run syndication Michael The report sounds the same theme. It suggests that communications policy Gerber confirmed that half-hour should foster competition by lifting restrictions that prohibit local phone talk strip David Madmen has been pulled companies from "acting as cable operators. These restrictions reduce the after being sold in 35% power of competition to discipline cable prices and services and give cable of U.S. Lack of quality time periods and operators inadequate incentives to adopt the latest technology," the report apparent weakening of advertising econ- said. omy were two main factors Gerber considered in "returning" show to Hart- a le trief acadaaNae Ieb 1tt 11f1 man. Gerber said he was unable to give Broadcasting Co., Vienna, Va., and Colleen Dudgeon, one of few female ma- firm pre-June production commitment Wayne Vriesman, VP, radio group, Tri- jor market TV news directors in country, for fall. bune Broadcasting, Chicago. resigned last Wednesday from wBBM -TV Chicago after 10 years with station to Despite reports that MCA TV has pulled NBC affiliate KRON -TV San Francisco, "pursue personal interests." New sta- late night strip, My Tarr Show, MCA has named Poo Moon, formerly of wsz- tion VP -GM William Applegate had not TV's syndication president, Shelly Tv Boston, as co- anchor of new half - selected replacement last Friday. Station Schwab, says company is continuing to hour newscast station is producing for is ranked third among 10 p.m. newscasts distribute show and production has been independent KOFY -TV San Francisco. and second among 5 p.m. newscasts. completed for season. However, ac- knowledging lackluster ratings, Schwab said it is unlikely to go back into production for 1991 -92 season. ORION INCREASES METROMEDIA PRESENCE

It looks as though 24 -hour cable channel rion Pictures Corp. shareholder and Metromedia head John Kluge (who devoted to Persian Gulf War may be in owns 68% of Orion stock) has retained Salomon Brothers to explore works at NBC, despite network's state- possibly selling Kluge's stake in the studio. News that Metromedia has ment that while it was looking at ways to retained Salomon comes one week after Orion added five Metromedia Com- expand its war coverage, 24 -hour chan- munications Corp. executives to its board, giving Metromedia and Kluge nel was not one of them. Although NBC control of the board. With this appointment, seven of the 13 Orion directors spokesman Joe Rutledge described are linked to Metromedia. NBC's activity merely as "ideas being Orion has been subject of sales rumors for years now and new board kicked around," source at Long Island, appointments and retention of Salomon has many speculating that Kluge, who N.Y. -based Rainbow Programing Hold- is close to Orion Chairman Arthur Krim, wants to get out of ailing film studio ings Inc., which is co -owned by NBC and control of board to get sale moving. Most recent Orion sale rumor had and Cablevision Systems, said NBC be- Castle Rock, which is 33% controlled by Sony's Columbia Pictures, buying gan bringing equipment and telephone studio. However, published reports later said Sony has no plans to buy Orion. lines into Rainbow. control room over Sony did say that it may purchase additional distribution rights to Orion films weekend of Feb. 9 for setting up chan- and Orion is said to be in negotiation with several studios as it tries to raise nel. But source also said as of last Fri- equity to cover its debt. (Orion is $509 million in debt.) Last year, Orion day (Feb. 15), NBC technicians were signed a $175 million distribution deal with Sony -owned Columbia Pictures. saying project was on hold. Sharon Pat- Orion executives have declined to comment on the sale rumors. Last Novem- rick, Rainbow president, said no such ber, Orion retained Salomon Brothers to find equity for its worsening balance activity was taking place. sheet. The new board members are: Howard Finkelstein, president of Metromedia Communications Corp. and also president of Metromedia HotelNet Inc.; Britain has opened bidding for its 15 re- Michael S. Kaufman, a managing director of Kluge & Co., a division of gional commercial TV channels and nation- Metromedia Co.; Silvia K. Merkle, a managing director of Kluge & Co., a al breakfast -time TV license. As part of division of Metromedia Co.; Arnold L. Wadler, senior VP, secretary and reregulation calling for auction of fran- general counsel of Metromedia Co., and Seymour H. Wigod, a senior VP of chises, UK's Independent Television Metromedia Co. Commission will accept applications Orion closed last Friday at 105/s, up 3/s. through May 15 and expects to award 10 -year licenses by October. Majority of existing franchisees are expected to hold onto channels, in part because compet- MPAA'S LATEST SALVO AGAINST EUROPEAN QUOTAS ing bidders must pass program quality threshold established by ITC, but also The Motion Picture Association of America has asked U.S. Trade Represen- because uncertain times in broadcast tative Carla Hills to invoke potentially retaliatory trade provisions against market there have put off potential bid- the European Community for its quota limits on U.S. TV programing. MPAA ders. Applicants will be made public and asked that the Special 301 provision of the 1988 Trade Act be initiated, public comments on bidders are due designating the EC a "priority country" for erecting what MPAA called June 26. barriers against U.S. copyright industries. Special 301 would require Hills to negotiate the removal of the trade restrictions within six months or to recom- NAB has added four members of Radio mend retaliation to the President.

Operators Caucus KO(' 1 to its Digital Au- Meanwhile, an extensive study released last week has revealed shrinkage in dio and Satellite Sound Broadcasting Task the U.S. share of global TV programing trade. While U.S. distributors of Force. ROC, organization representing programing to TV worldwide may have taken in an extra $200 million in major radio groups, endorsed nearly all 1990, they lost 2% in.their share of global TV traffic and will drop another 9% of NAB's DAB implementation goals by 1995, according to the study by consultants Frost & Sullivan. U.S. during meeting in Washington last week exporters still dominate world TV trade, however, with exports in 1990 of (see page 43). Four new task force mem- $1.9 billion representing 69% of an international trade totalling $2.8 billion. bers are: David Gingold, president, But in 1989, U.S. program exports of $1.7 billion represented 71% of the total Barnstable Broadcasting, Waltham, trade of $2.4 billion, and the report predicted that by 1995 the U.S. share will Mass.; Scott Ginsburg, president, Ever- be just 60% of the market, although that will represent $3 billion in program green Media Corp., Irving, Tex.; Randy exports. Odcneal, general partner, Sconnix

Broadcasting Feb 18 1991 EUITORLAI,S

Committed to the First Amendment and the Fifth Estate

as was pointed out by several hundred listeners who did not PARTY LINE REDRAWN take his broadcast lightly. No Missourians were prompted to take pot shots at water towers, however, and both the station and the morning man, 11 he value of the First Amendment to this country was put who was suspended and docked a week's pay, have apolo- in perspective last week by contrast to its absence else- gized to the FCC and provided assurances that the incident will where. The depressing news out of the Soviet Union was not be repeated. That seems to us as far as it need go. that that troubled country was apparently reversing its course on the thawing of press restrictions. In the throes of political crisis, the Soviet government has decided that, as the head of a new state -controlled radio and television company put it, there MARK OF EXCELLENCE can be "no pluralism" in state -owned media and that it is acceptable to censor or alter news reports to serve political ends. Clearly, a press whose freedom is unprotected by law is CBS is making one of its strongest sweeps showings in a hostage to political fortune, and thus is not free at all, but recent outings. Contributing importantly to that perfor- merely subject to varying degrees of servitude. mance was its capture of the number one program in the There had been reason to hope Mikhail Gorbachev's social weekly Nielsen rankings for the first week of February. That reforms would make such party -driven censorship a historical winning show was not the network's perennial top 10 resident, curiosity, but hope is too frail a thing to underpin a nation's 60 Minutes, or a high -profile sporting event or even a steamy communications media. It certainly makes us appreciate this mini -series, but a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, Sarah, country's bedrock of constitutional protections (and spurs us to Plain and Tall, a gentle story about love and commitment that work that much harder for broadcasters' full stake in those was the most watched television movie in more than two freedoms). years. It is a fitting tribute to Hallmark and its longstanding Lest we be too smug, in defending their censorship crack- commitment to quality drama, and to television. down, the Soviets cited limits on Persian Gulf coverage by this With Sarah, Hallmark marked the beginning of its 40th country and others. We don't buy the comparison, but ques- season on TV as sponsor of both a regular series and later a tions remain about the Pentagon's handling of information series of specials featuring such names as Basil Rathbone, about the war. We are also reminded that this country provides Richard Burton, George C. Scott, Mary Martin, Robert Red- the model of media freedom for the rest of the world. The ford, Alec Guinness, Bert Lahr, Maurice Evans and a host of U.S. government must not let that freedom, or that example. others. Hallmark Hall of Fame has far outlived its contempo- become a casualty of war. raries in the early marquee- sharing days of programs with names like Lux Video Theater, Ford Star Jubilee and Alcoa Playhouse. And yet, the name seems not the least anachronis- tic. The Hallmark Hall of Fame has come to stand not for a PLAYING WITH FIRE program sponsored by a greeting card company, but for quality television drama. the fortunes This page has a history of defending broadcasters' free- Sarah. Plain and Tall illustrates that while of and fall, the dom to program as they choose. That position hasn't various networks and program genres rise televi- very changed, nor will it. It has also counseled, however, that sion audience still cares enough to watch the best. they choose responsibly, given their position as the preeminent communications medium in the world. A valuable lesson in the abuse of that power has been provided by KSHE( FM) St. Louis, whose morning personality aired a faked bulletin announcing that the United States was under nuclear attack, complete with an Emergency Broadcasting System-like tone and the sound of explosions in the background. It was back in 1939 that a country in the shadow of a world war had the wits scared out of it by Orson Welles and his War of the Worlds radio adaptation featuring realistic news bulletins of a martian attack. Since then, such bogus bulletins have been treated as the broadcast media equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater. Given that the broadcast medium has the responsibility to spread the word in the event of a genuine nuclear attack, crying wolf is clearly irresponsible, particularly with the country currently at war. According to KSHE's morning man, he was motivated by his Swiniar concern for how lightly he felt his listeners were taking the Drawn for BROADCASTING by Jack Schmid prospects of a nuclear war. Those good intentions notwith- 'Y did listen to the forecast. According to them, we' re stuck in 13 standing, it was, as he also conceded, "a very bad mistake," inches of 'partly cloudy.' "

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