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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS NBC wins the season, but Big Four share drops below 500/o for the first time. » 6

HOLLINGS PREVAILS DoJ won't be reviewing media mergers after all. » 12

BUILDING The Home Depot signs cross -platform deals with two of the biggest media companies. » 12

PAYOLA RETURNS? Music- industry groups seek probe into radio practices. » 14

RATE REJECTION Library of Congress declines to adopt CARP -recommended royalty fees for streamed content. » 14 The World According to Andy Richter was one Contestants of three promising series to emerge at Fox. COVER STORY redecorate friends' homes in TLC's Trading WORSENING The crisis at Adelphia is CABLE Spaces. far from over as new filings reveal the vastness of Rigas family debt. » 16 ORIGINALS DEFINE YOUR TERMS Project for Without a net A look at MTV's unorthodox and Excellence in Journalism says TV news has lost highly successful programming strategy. » 21 its 9/11 edge; news execs disagree. » 18 Spruced up Planned as a fringe show, Trading KCAL ANCHOR DIES Veteran Spaces gives TLC a prime time birost. » 28 newsman Jerry Dunphy spoke to generations The Flip Side Deputy Editor John Higgins's of Southern Californians. » 20 importance PEJ thinks TV news has gone soft with take on the of originals. » 30 TRADING PLACES Fox swaps the stories like NBC's on "The Diet Game." affiliations of its Minneapolis duopoly stations, WFTC(TV) and KMSP(TV). » 20 B &C Eye 4 Broadcast Ratings 34 Changing Hands 41 Programming Washington Classifieds 47

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fHNM Items JOURNALISM letis 9/11: You are there fr.ra. IAN. Maim As part of its Sept. 11 anniversary programming, ABC News, in a BROADCASTING joint project with USA Today, will re -create the disaster from vari- Call it LPDTV ous vantage points inside the World Trade Center immediately Auction action NAB President Eddie Fritts after the planes hit. The documentary will build on a USA Today claims that more than 86% of special report in December, which used floor plans, photos, archi- Sony's Columbia TriStar Domestic all U.S. homes are in markets tectural designs and testimony to tell the story of those who were Television has shot the pilot for with at least one DTV signal. in the buildings and survived. a new daily half-hour syndicated But that doesn't mean they can "We can show through animation what it looked like to the program in collaboration with receive it. One source estimates people inside," says ABC Executive Vice President Paul Friedman. the popular auction site eBay. that nearly 30% of the more "We've come up with hundreds of individual stories, and we will Shot in Los Angeles, the pilot is than 400 DTV stations are be able to demonstrate many scenarios." now in post -production. The broadcasting at low power, ABC, apparently out front in development of its 9/11 plans, also interactive series includes making it difficult (or impossi- plans a detailed look at the reactions of government. -n. T elements of entertainment, mag- ble) to reach many homes. Just azine and game shows and will how many homes? Don't expect give TV stations Local revenue an answer soon. That would opportunities. The pilot includes require calculating the coverage hundreds of participants who of the low -power DTV broadcasters. The NAB isn't brought collectibles to the shoot. planning on that exercise any- The first cut has been screened time soon. The fuzzy math will for eBay executives, including remain. -K.K. CEO Meg Whitman. The two companies are jointly developing the LOBBIES marketing strategy. Launch is set Binzel books for fall 2003. -S.M. Peggy Binzel, EVP of the National Cable & Telecommuni- cations Association, is resigning. Washington cable circles have long buzzed that she was unhappy working for President Robert Sachs and felt that her freedom to operate on the Hill was limited. Binzel came to NCTA with the understanding she would VET PUB TESTS TUBE succeed Sachs. But last fall, Variety, the showbiz bible, is looking to pen its own chapter. Sachs renewed his contract for Execs say the Hollywood mag is fronting a weekend news another three years. Binzel will WAITING GAME chatter -Meet the Press for the entertainment set -to cable head an Atlanta -based trade Speculation is growing that the FCC news nets. The pitch from the magazine's brass, including Peter association, sources say. Sachs won't fill its fifth seat until after Bart and Charles Koones, is that will draw upscale eyeballs the 2002 elections, possibly not has been said be it to trying to until 2003. Nominee -in- waiting à la The Wall Street Journal. Nets pow -wowed with include woo back former EVP David Jonathan Adelstein (above) Krone, who works for mentor MSNBC and Fox, but not CNN, although Bart appears regularly on remains hostage to the battle between Republicans and Leo Hindery and the YES CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline. For his part, Bart says Variety is not Democrats over other nominations Network. But Krone says he has the pursuer, adding, "No deal is presently being discussed." Like and appointments, particularly no interest in the job. -P.A. B &C, Variety is owned by Reed Business Information.-A.R. judgeships. -B.M.

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Winning, and losing too NBC wins season, but Big Four household share dips below 50% for the first time

By Steve McClellan and According to Jim survived in the sitcom Miuily because of genre. Midseason comedies My Wife and big Nielsen -rat- Kids and George Lopez show life. And the

ings declines at reality hit The Bachelor proved to be a ABC, the four -network "weapon" that should help next season. household share of prime It was also crying time at Fox: "It was an time audience has fall - unusual and challenging season," said Sandy ento an historic low this Grushow, chairman of the Fox Television season: 47%. Not only is Entertainment Group. it a record low, but it's Grushow and Fox President Gail Ber- also the first time the man also tried to accentuate the positive, four-network share has noting Fox's second -place finish among dropped below 50 %, a adults 18 -34 and first -place finish with sort of unspoken bench- teens and men 18 -34. Jennifer Garner, shown here with Michael Varian, stars in Alias, mark broadcasters dread one of the few new series that stuck on ABC in the past season, Despite this year's setbacks, Berman to fall beneath. when the network's Nielsen household ratings declined by 25%. noted that three new promising series The season that ended emerged from Fox's schedule this year: with the May sweeps last week is also the UPN and The WB grew at least one -tenth Bernie Mac, 24 and Andy Richter Controls first time that basic cable's share of audi- of a rating point in adults 18 -34 and 18-49. the Universe. ence surpassed the Big Four's. Collectively, It's not news that both ABC and Fox As for The WB, it was a flat year, but basic cable garnered a record 49 share in struggled this year -ABC more so-de- the network touted the fact that it planted prime time, up 8 %. clining by record levels in households and some solid new shows this season with As expected, NBC won both the season adults 18 -49. Reba, Smallville and Jamie Kennedy. and the May sweeps by solid margins and In a teleconference with reporters last It also has a lock on marketers that tar- was the only major network to show week, ABC Entertainment President Susan get really young women. And it broadened growth across households, total viewers Lyne put it plainly and to the point. "We a bit this year, beating ABC among adults and the key demographics for the season, did not perform well this year," she said. 18 to 24. although UPN was up as well. (Lyne can't get much CBS is quick to point out that NBC was blame. She got her job Like ABC, Fox didn't have much to laugh about this season, but its sitcom Bernie Mac, starring the comedian (shown here helped by the Olympics and that, among replacing Stu Bloomberg with little Jeremy Suarez), was a new show on which it can build. regularly scheduled programs, CBS was up in January, when ABC 5% among adults 18-49 for the season and was already in full-disas in second place behind NBC. ter mode.) Counting all programs (including the Lyne last week fo- World Series and Super Bowl), however, cused on what ABC can Fox was second among adults 18 to 49, do to stem the slide and just ahead of CBS. maybe even show a little For the May sweeps, NBC had the best growth next year. growth story but not the only one. CBS There are a few bright was up slightly among adults 25 -54 and spots: Alias, for one, suc- held its ground with adults 18 -49. Both ceeded as a new drama,

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For UPN, it was an up year broadcasting's declines, Poltrack and an up May -in fact the The six -network race argued back. best May the network has had Full season 9/24/01-5/22/02 Of the top 20 cable prime in five years. UPN is poised to time networks, just over half of Rating/share (change)* show strong price increases them (11) were flat or down for Network Households Adults 18-49 Adults 18-34 next year-if only because it's the season. being packaged with co -owned And, just to provide a sense CBS 8.1/13 ( -6 %) 3.9/10 ( -2W) 2.8/9 ( -7 %) CBS, which held the line on ad of how fragmented the TV land- scape is, only seven of those top rates for the season that just NBC 8.8/15 ( +11 %) 5.3/14 ( +10 %) 4.4/14 ( +7 %) ended. 20 cable networks cracked a 1

(Competitors suggest, though, The WB 2.5/4 (NC) 1.6/4 (NC) 1.8/5 ( -5 %) rating in prime time for the sea- that CBS may be willing to son. None of them reached a 2. in rating, from 2000 -01 season shave a bit off its own pricing to NC =No change Source: Nielsen Media Research Still Wakshlag argues that, in goose UPN's up.) a perfectly equitable world, the This season's audience -share Big Four broadcast networks decline for the four major networks was "It's the individual network perfor- would get 47% of the national TV ad -sales about 7% against the 51 share they re- mance that matters," he explained. "This pie next year and cable would get 49 %. tained last season. season you had the broadcast networks That's not going to happen, of course, The audience apparently migrated to moving in dramatically different direc- although Wakshlag firmly believes that cable, because UPN and The WB each tions" in the ratings, he said, a reference to cable may be poised to take in a greater ended the season an average 4 share this sharp declines at ABC and Fox. share of ad dollars in the upcoming sea- season, flat from a year ago. But Jack Wakshlag, chief research offi- son if the networks try to raise their rates The six- network share drops four points cer for Turner Broadcasting System, took beyond a certain level. (7%) to a 55. issue with Poltrack's position. "A lot of it depends on how aggressive ABC alone dropped four points in True, individual performance does broadcasters are in holding to their household share this season and a record count, and it counts a lot, he acknowl- price," he says. "If they want raise rates 25% in household rating. edged. 8 %, then maybe agencies can go to Fox and CBS each declined a share "But, every year, there's some broadcast cable" to meet the cost -increase parame- point, while NBC was up two share points. network that loses ground that the rest of ters set by their clients. On a cost -per- David Poltrack, CBS executive vice them don't make up for, so broadcast is thousand basis, he says, "cable is so much president, research and planning, said the losing 4% to 5% of its audience every year cheaper now. But viewers to cable have four-network decline itself probably does- to cable." two eyeballs just like the viewers to n't mean much in terms of ad sales. Still, cable's gains were as uneven as broadcast. There's no difference."

Man without a title

NBC Entertainment President decision within a couple Zucker essentially now has Jeff Zucker is taking on months. the job that was last held by additional duties, but what of Those opportunities mainly the late Brandon Tartikoff, Scott Sassa? involve starting up or buying when the NBC Entertainment NBC last week decided to new businesses for NBC or president oversaw all West eliminate the title of West possibly developing strategies Coast and entertainment areas. Coast president, which had for companies that are already After Tartikoff left in the early

been Sassá s job, leaving in- house. '90s , the job was split in two, Zucker totally in charge of the Sassa has been operating at with Warren Littlefield programming arena. the network without a contract assuming day -to -day Although he currently has no since December. programming and program title, Sassa is not without a If he does stay at NBC, he'll development and Don Ohlmeyer Former West Coast President Scott Sassa is exploring new job. He is exploring several likely report to company taking on the then -new responsibility options within opportunities to remain with Chairman Bob Wright and /or position of president, West NBC has no but contract. NBC and expects to make a NBC President Andrew Lack. Coast operations. -S.M.

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disputes between the agencies." The FTC Justice denied as had no official comment. In January, the two agencies were pre- pared to announce they would pre- assign industries so that, when a merger came Hollings prevails along, they'd have predetermined the re- viewer. Having a process in place would DoJ won't get oversight of all media mergers eliminate inter- agency battling over mergers and save time, the agencies said. By Paige Albiniak broad discretion to protect consumers in But before they could make the an- fter a prolonged and contentious merger reviews, whereas the Justice Depart- nouncement, the agencies ran into trouble tug -of-war with Sen. Fritz Hollings ment is looking for crime. The FTC pro- on Capitol Hill. Hollings, chairman of the A (D- S.C.), the De- tects the public interest." Senate Commerce Committee, made clear partment of Justice and the But Charles James, assis- he didn't like the fact that James and FTC Federal Trade Commission tant attorney general in Chairman Timothy Mutis had hammered have scrapped a new agree- charge of the DoJ's antitrust out the deal without Congress's knowledge. ment that sent all media - division, still feels merger Hollings also was unhappy that all reviews merger reviews to Justice. reviews would be com- of media mergers would automatically fall Hollings, chairman of pleted more quickly had the to DoJ's antitrust division. two relevant Senate com- two agencies been allowed James and Mutis went ahead with their mittees, had been bucking to proceed as planned. plan in March, still without Hollings' bless- Sen. Fritz Hol lings believes the change ever since word the FTC is bette r- suited to "The Department stands ing. They then encountered nothing but leaked last January. After protect the consumer in by its view that the agree- grief from Hollings, who publicly threat- merger reviews. five months of battling, the ment was good public pol- ened to cut both agencies' budgets. Hol- agencies last week finally gave in to icy working to make antitrust enforcement lings also is chairman of the Senate Appro- Hollings' demands and scuttled the plan. more effective," James said. "Since the priations Subcommittee on the Commerce, Hollings couldn't be more pleased. "I agreement became effective, antitrust inves- Justice and State Departments; that panel think it's appropriate that they abandoned tigations were being commenced within a plays a key role in funding the DoJ and the this agreement," he said. "The FTC has matter of days, and there were no clearance FTC.

ABC's brand strength and Cross - platform construction broad scope provides unparal- leled reach and opportunity for Home Depot builds deals with Disney and purchase Home Depot products The Home Depot." Viacom; Disney's is estimated at $10014 for an unspecified number of its The Viacom deal involved a business units and is developing big tie -in with last week's Coun- By Steve McClellan In the largest single ad buy it a line of paints to be sold in try Music Awards on CBS, where The Home Depot and its has ever done, Home Depot Home Depot stores. the first "Home Depot Human- agency Initiative Media agreed to spend approximately "This is just the start of an itarian Award" was presented. struck cross -platform $100 million over three years on expanding long -term relation- The award recognizes a commit- deals last week with two of the three Disney broadcast and cable ship," said Bob Nardelli, chair- ment to serving others. Viacom biggest media companies, Dis- networks: ABC, Disney and Life- man, president/CEO of Home cable channel CMT, Infinity ney and Viacom. The one with time. Disney has agreed to de- Depot. Before Home Depot, country-music stations, CBS TV Disney was the bigger. Sources velop a home -decorating pro- Nardelli was an executive at stations and Westwood One estimate its value at $100 million, gram for the hardware/home- NBC parent General Electric radio network are among Via- although none of the parties improvement chain to advertise and a finalist for the CEO spot com outlets involved. Sources were commenting on the finan- in; The Disney Paint Program will there but lost out to Jeff In melt. say the overall value of the deal cial arrangements last week. be launched next January. As Said Disney President Bob is smaller than Disney's, but no Here are the details: part of the deal, Disney agreed to Iger, "Disney's, ESPN's and word on how much smaller.

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Another raging success from MTV Networks! TOP OF THE WEEK Music biz asks for radio probe Groups say consolidation's ing on legislation to reform the statement says. "For the leading to payola -like radio, a staffer confirmed. country format, the same tactics that hurt listeners The wide- ranging groups four groups control access include the Recording In- to 56% of the format's 28 By Paige Albiniak dustry Association of Amer- million listeners." roups representing recording artists, ica, American Federation of The petitioning groups record companies, songwriters, mer- Musicians, American Feder- are upset by payola -like G chandisers and consumer advocates ation of Television and Ra- Sen. Russell Feingold (D- practices in which artists want the government to take a hard look at dio Artists, Association for Wis.) is working on a and pay legislative proposal to record companies radio consolidation, hinting that some prac- Independent Music, Future reform radio. for radio-station promotions tices by large group owners smack of payola. of Music Coalition, Just in return for airtime for In a statement delivered to Congress Plain Folks, Nashville Songwriters Associa- favored artists. They also want the FCC to and the FCC Friday, 10 independent tion International, National Association of investigate how vertical integration in radio industry groups urged "the government to Recording Merchandisers, National Federa- has forced up concert- ticket prices and made revise the payola laws to cover independent tion of Community Broadcasters, and the it difficult for non -affiliated artists to book promotion to radio, to investigate the Recording Academy, a part of the National tours. Clear Channel runs a concert-promo- impact of radio consolidation on the music Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. tion company, SFX Entertainment. community and citizens, and to work to "Today, for the contemporary-hit radio/ "Artists, songwriters, labels and retail- protect non -commercial space on both the top -40 formats, only four radio station ers," says Mike Bracy, of the Future of Mu- terrestrial radio bandwidth and the emerg- groups-Chancellor, Clear Channel, Infinity sic Coalition, "are united in opposition to ing Webcasting models." and Capstar-control access to 63% of the large broadcasters' claim that consolidation Sen. Russell Feingold (D -Wis.) is work- format's 41 million listeners nationwide," has improved commercial radio."

yet, the June 20 date gives the CARP is thrown back industries an opportunity to hash out a rate on their own, Library of Congress won't accept radio streaming royalty rate which Congress would prefer. Two weeks ago, Senate Judiciary By Paige Albiniak 0.14 cents per song per listener Peters, registrar of copyrights. Committee Chairman Patrick adio broadcasters will get for Internet -only radio stations. By law, Billington must issue a Leahy (D -Vt.) and ranking another chance at reduc- The fees would be paid to final decision by June 20; it is member Orrin Hatch (R -Utah) R ing the fees they will pay record companies and artists, possible that decision will pushed the industries to negoti- to stream their signals over the who initially wanted more but include new rates. But Billington ate an independent settlement or Internet. That's after the Library then accepted the suggested also could remand the whole possibly face legislation. of Congress refused to adopt rates. Radio broadcasters already process back to a new CARP. The House is also getting into the rate agreed to last February pay fees to music publishers That would be expensive, the act. The House Courts and by the Copyright Arbitration ASCAP and BMI but much less sources say. Administrative costs Intellectual Property Subcom- Royalty Panel (CARP). than those CARP says should be alone last time ran more than $1 mittee has penciled in a June 13 Since February, radio broad- paid to record companies. million, not counting legal fees. hearing to examine the CARP casters and Internet -only Web - CARP is managed by the U.S. This proceeding covers 1998- process; in April, House Judi- casters have been lobbying Copyright Office, part of the 2002. This fall, the Copyright ciary Committee Chairman fiercely against the rate, which Library of Congress. Librarian Office is supposed to hear arbi- James Sensenbrenner (R -Wis.) CARP said should be 0.07 cents of Congress James Billington tration for the next four years. collected comments from in- per song per listener for tradi- rejected the rate based on the While sources say inter- indus- volved parties in order to begin tional radio broadcasters and recommendation of Mary Beth try negotiations aren't going on writing reform legislation.

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The company is on the hook for family debt, now said to total $3.1 billion

By John M. Higgins Rigas family will have at least $1 billion in Iclphia Communications is far personal debt backed primarily by 60 mil-

I rom out of its financial crisis even lion Adelphia common shares that were A though founder John Rigas and his worth $170 million or so on Friday, a day family surrendered control of the ailing after the Nasdaq lifted a week -long trading cable operator. halt on Adelphia stock. The resignation of Rigas and his three The Rigases are being rocked by new sons from Adelphia's board was aimed at disclosures of just how extensively they coaxing bankers into affording Adelphia used the publicly traded company to bene- some badly needed cash to cure bond fit themselves. It has been known for years defaults, continue operations and keep the that Adelphia systems leased real estate company out of bankruptcy court. Rigas- and cable converters from Rigas- family family companies agreed to steer $1 billion companies. Removals of Rigas family worth of securities and cash flow from pri- But The Wall Street Journal revealed all vately held cable systems to Adelphia to sup- members from the board sorts of financial streams to the Rigases. port loans that the cable company co- signed. and executive suites 'do not Even as their holdings exceeded $3 billion, The big surprise from last Thursday's they were steering Adelphia units to buy disclosure statements is the increasing size address current leverage office furniture from a store controlled by of family debts that Adelphia is on the and Liquidity concerns: the family, according to the paper, which hook for as well. also reported that Adelphia was helping -Oren Cohen, Merrill Lynch On May 2, Adelphia said it would be pay for a golf course being built adjacent liable for $1.6 billion of the family's debt, to the house of ex -CFO Tim Rigas. Family which analysts expected to total around rate of 91 cents on the dollar, three times members regularly drew on company cash $2.7 billion. Now the company says it is what the same bonds have been fetching in for other personal affairs. Now two federal liable for $2.5 billion and the family's debt the open market. grand juries are investigating the family's now totals $3.1 billion. Adelphia offered no At the end of the day, it looks like the dealings with the public company. explanation for the rising debt levels, but it continued to alarm Wall Street executives. Merrill Lynch junk -bond analyst Oren Cohen said that the removals of insider- Payne promoted at B &C dealing Rigas family members from Adel - Rob Payne has been named national sales phia's board and executive ranks "do not manager/special projects at BROADCASTING & CABLE address current leverage and liquidity con- magazine, said Paul Audino, the magazine's publish- cerns, which could still lead to a bank- ing director, and Lawrence Oliver, vice president and ruptcy." group publisher. At the center of the crisis is $3.1 billion Previously, Payne had been the magazine's sales development director. in Rigas -family loans- backed by Adel - In his new post, he will work closely with B &Cs phia's credit buy cable systems, plus -to sales -management team to identify and develop new various securities of Adelphia itself. areas of growth, particularly in special sections, sup- To bolster Adelphia's balance sheet, the plements and events. Rigases agreed to turn over $1 billion Payne joined BROADCASTING & CABLE in 1998, having worth of Adelphia securities plus $90 mil- sold syndicated programming for MGM, New World /Genesis and Samuel Goldwyn. Also, he had lion in annual cash flow from their pri- Rob Payne gets a new post at held programming and research positions at rep vately held cable systems. Analysts said the this magazine. firm Blair Television, now part of Petry. family turned over convertible bonds at the

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AT PRESS TIME: propose that CBS give back HBO for more than a decade. if tapes or transcripts are not FCC DELAYS 60 -69 mornings to its affiliates. He ... The Shield lost another provided. Infinity appealed its AUCTION, AGAIN figures that, with Bryant advertiser, bringing the notice of liability for a 1997 The FCC Friday delayed for a Gumbel gone from The Early number of advertiser broadcast of the song "You sixth time the auction of spec- Show and with CBS looking defections to 16, according to Suck" by KROQ-FM trum now used for TV chs. for ways to reduce affiliate the Parents Television Coun- Pasadena, Calif. A listener 60 -69. Bidding is now planned compensation, a compromise cil, which has orchestrated a complained that the song, for Jan. 14. Auction of chs. 52- is to give local stations the campaign against the FX aired before 10 p.m., included 59 will go forward June 19 as early -morning slot, where CBS series. The total number may profane terms for anatomy. scheduled. FCC Chairman is a distant third. "To win be north of 20, because some Infinity said it didn't know if Michael Powell said delay of against The Today Show and original advertisers, like Gen- it had aired the original or the upper -channel auction is Good Morning America is a eral Motors and John Deere, edited version of the song. necessary to give lawmakers real uphill battle. But the opted out after screening early Broadcasters complained that time to work out a stations that do local news in episodes. The latest to flee is the FCC was reversing its compromise. Broadcaster Bud the morning are doing W.C. Bradley, maker of Char- long -standing policy of requir- Paxson argues that another phenomenally. It would be Broil grills.... ing transcripts, but agency postponement violates the law. extremely beneficial to CBS Production on TNT's origi- staff said procedure had not because of its O &Os in major nal drama Witchblade was changed. PROBE BIG MEDIA, markets." temporarily halted after series Commissioner Michael SENATORS SAY Meanwhile, CBS and Land- star Yancy Butler, checked Copps declared that the previ- Sens. Fritz Hollings (D- S.C.), mark Communications agreed into a rehabilitation clinic. ous policy placed "inordinate Herb Kohl (D -Wis.) and Mike on a long -term affiliation pact Witchblade producers said the responsibility on the DeWine (R -Ohio) want the for WTVF(TV) Nashville, actress is being treated for an complaining citizen." FCC to complete an investiga- Tenn., and KLAS-TV Las alcohol- related problem. tion of media consolidation by Vegas. Sources said Landmark Witchblade is slated to kick THE SENATORS FROM the end of the year or before got compensation in seven fig- off its second season June 16, BROADBAND, USA the FCC acts to change any ures but it will be phased out and, so far, the premiere is On Tuesday, Sen. Joe Lieber- media -ownership rules, over the course of the long- still on.... man (D- Conn.) will introduce whichever comes first. term pact. A prime time dose of Nick- legislation that calls on the "Diversity of voices and elodeon's SpongeBob administration to present its opinions are vital to competi- NOTED SquarePants grabbed a 4.5 rat- national strategy (the Bush tion as well as the discourse of Bridget Potter has been ing May 17, making it cable's administration says it has one, our democracy," the three named executive producer of best- watched show May 13 -19, but it hasn't been seen). Sen. wrote. "Given the substantial, The Caroline Rhea Show, the according to Nielsen. John McCain (R-Ariz) is ongoing consolidation in the first-run talk/variety show Nickelodeon notched a expected to introduce a dereg- media industry and recent for fall from Warner 1.9 average in prime, ulatory bill next month. court decisions striking down Bros. Domestic second only to rules that restrain this trend, Television Lifetime's 2.0. CORRECTIONS we are extremely concerned Distribution. The May 20 Focus, on page that this competition and dis- The ex -NBC FCC UPHOLDS 33, misidentified Tony course is at risk." The FCC is executive INDECENCY FINE Kiernan. He is general currently looking at several oversaw Sat- The FCC Friday manager at KHSL -TV Chico, media -ownership rules. urday Night upheld a $2,000 Calif., with operating respon- Live and Late fine against Infin- sibility, except programming, EARLY SHOW Night With ity Broadcasting, for KNVN(TV) Chico. GIVEBACK? Conan TNT's affirming a new Also, the new mayor of Witchblade is policy allow- New Orleans is C. Ray Nagin. At CBS's meeting with O'Brien. She taking an FCC affiliates this week, Meredith was also head of unexpected ing indecency A photo caption on page 28 of Corp.'s Station Group original hiatus. complaints to be the May 13 edition had an President Kevin O'Brien will programming at investigated even incorrect first name.

Broadcasting & Cable/ 5-27 -02 17 TOP OF THE WEEK It depends on what 'hard' is

PEJ says TV study news lost was somehow scared straight or its 9/11 edge; news execs fundamentally changed by the challenge the definitions attack on American and the war on terrorism," PEJ says. By Dan Trigoboff "Were it not for the Israeli- TV news got a harder edge in the wake Palestinian crisis," the study says, of Sept. 11, says the Project for Excel- "the story of network television lence in Journalism, but it didn't last. this year would likely have been Some news executives, though, strongly ques- the trend toward its becoming tion the organization's definition, which does- even softer than before Sept. 11." n't classify the Enron collapse or the Catholic ABC's evening news was first Church sex scandals as hard -news stories. in hard news for the period Jan. NBC coverage of "The Diet Game," with Tom Brokaw, may "Despite the war on terrorism and con- 1 -April 5, with 54 followed by typify what provides grist for the PEJ's critique mill. %, flict in the Middle East, the news Ameri- CBS (unchanged from last year at cans see on network television has softened 53 %) and NBC (47 %). Within considerably since last fall, to the point that classifications vague at best. "Is business hard news, military and foreign coverage has it now looks more like it did before the ter- and economy a hard story or a soft story?" replaced many domestic issues, PEJ says. rorist attacks than immediately after," says he asks rhetorically. "Aren't crime, law and An NBC News spokeswoman observes that PEJ's new study. "Celebrity and lifestyle business hard stories? What about an "these studies are often based on old assump- coverage, which last fall had all but van- important story about a new drug? Aren't tions on what news is. The fact is, the country ished from evening news and was subordi- stories about investors, the fines against has responded to all three nightly newscasts nated even in morning news, has returned Merrill Lynch hard news? If those are soft with an increase in viewership, and that's the to levels close to those of last summer." stories, I'm guilty as charged." most important study. "A CBS spokeswoman Cutbacks have left the networks inade- Researchers counter that those Enron says the network has "always been commit- quately staffed to cover world events over a ted to hard news. That hasn't sustained period, researchers suggest, forc- 'The country has responded to all changed since 9/11." ing a redefinition of the news that divides Counters PEJ Director Tom three nightly newscasts with an stories into breaking and feature and Rosenstiel, "The evening news is departs from the beat reporting of the past. increase in viewership, and that's only 19 minutes a night. The Whereas fewer than half of evening - the most important study: networks have two hours every news stories would fit the PEJ definition of morning and often an hour in hard news a year ago, 80% did so just after -NBC News spokeswoman prime time to do those other sto- Sept. 11. Starting with the new year, ries. They've shrunk the hard - though, the percentage fell back to just and Catholic Church stories, while promi- news hole. `What happened today' is now over half. In 1977, the study notes, two - nent, did not dominate mornings or effectively about 81/2 minutes." thirds of evening -news stories dealt with evenings and would have only marginally Researcher Andrew Tyndall, who sup- what the study terms "hard news." affected the counts had they been classified plied the study's raw data, acknowledges But news execs argue the study's classifica- as hard news. The story of Andrea Yates, there may be an "intermediate group" tions seem arbitrary, overly narrow. "Hard the Houston woman who drowned her chil- between the study's defined "hard news" news" classifications include government, mil- dren, say, was a bigger story on morning TV and celebrity/lifestyle news. "There's no itary, domestic and foreign affairs. Major sto- than Enron was, and the Catholic Church doubt that there's been a dramatic change in ries like the Enron collapse and sex scandals in story accounted for only 2% of evening - the levels of hard news since October," he the Catholic Church fall into the categories of news and 1% or morning-news stories. says, "although I believe those levels were business/economy and religion, respectively. Feature stories, the study said, are back to unsustainable. But there were those who ABC World News Tonight Executive 20% of evening newscasts and, predictably, commented that 9/11 was a wake -up call for Producer Paul Slavin voices concern about even more in the mornings. The overall find- the media. This report has documented that the study's methodology, finding the story ings refute "the idea that television journalism there was no radical, permanent change."

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visit www.kodak.com /go /story there's more to the story' TOP OF THE WEEK KCAL news anchor Jerry Dunphy dies

The veteran newsman was stricken en route to work

By Dan Trigoboff Dunphy was frequently cast in small

Although past 80 and already having movie roles, as well, typecast as a television Jerry Dunphy's was a voice that spoke to generations of Southern survived two heart attacks, open - newsman or even as himself. The TV Californians. heart surgery and a shooting during anchor Ted Baxter played by the late Ted a robbery attempt in 1983, Los Angeles Knight on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, with his second wife. He is also survived by news anchor Jerry Dunphy, who died on was reputedly based -with much exagger- grandchildren and great -grandchildren. A May 20, was a newsman to the end. He ation -on Dunphy. statement from his family called the news- suffered his fatal heart attack May 15 on Twice- married, Dunphy had five chil- man "a constant beacon of truth and guid- his way to work. dren from his first marriage and one child ance in our ever-changing world." Dunphy was perhaps the best -known of Los Angeles' broadcast journalists, and he had his own star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. His news intro- "From the desert Twin Cities exchange to the sea to all of Southern California"- was heard by generations of Southern Cal- Fox switches the affiliations of its Minneapolis stations ifornians. "We are," said a tearful Pat Harvey as By Dan Trigoboff Minn., facilities to facilitate the merger of she informed the KCAL(TV) audience of is swapping the affiliations of its the stations' news departments, Fox said, her colleague's death, "painfully aware Minneapolis duopoly. WFTC(TV), under Vice President and News Director [that Dunphy's refrain] will never be heard Foxnow on a UHF channel (29), will Dana Benson. Each news department will again." become the UPN outlet, while UPN affili- have separate talent but will share manage- Los Angeles media- notorious for ag- ate KMSP(TV), on a VHF channel (9), will ment, assignment desks and equipment. gressiveness on celebrity stories -had been become the Fox outlet. KMSP and WFTC Vice President and uncharacteristically quiet about Dunphy's The affiliation change has been expected General Manager Carol Rueppel said the heart attack and hospitalization, apparently since Fox established its duopoly last year. deal "aligns the best of both Fox and UPN. adhering to the wishes of his family. Fox took over WFTC in We're not stripping one KCAL itself had barely updated the a swap with Clear Chan- Our intention is to station for the benefit of story between the time it reported Dun - nel, KMSP when it the other. Our intention phy's heart attack Thursday until his death, acquired the Chris -Craft make both stations is to make both stations although the station aired and posted a group. KMSP has had destinations for destinations for slightly touching tribute on its Web site. The sta- the stronger local news, slightly different audiences." tion also planned an hour -long tribute. morning and sports different WFTC will now carry The KCAL story on Dunphy's death presence in addition to audiences. UPN's prime time pro- recognized not only Dunphy's accomplish- dial the stronger spot. -Carol Rue ppel, KMSP/WFTC gramming behind its cur- ments as a broadcast -news pioneer but also The two stations will rent 5 -7 p.m. comedy his career as a decorated Air Force captain no longer compete in block, strengthening its in World War II. late news. WFTC will now carry a half-hour appeal to young adults, Rueppel said. Dunphy had been with KCAL since the newscast at 10 p.m., and Fox's network The Sept. 8 switch date coincides with mid 1990s, but he also spent years at programming will now lead into the mar- the beginning of network and syndication KCBS -TV- including a historic stint in the ket's leading 9 p.m. newscast on KMSP. fall launches and the NFL season. A six - 1960s with its predecessor, KNXT(TV)- The two stations' operations will be figure promotion campaign is expected and at KABC -TV. combined at KMSP's new Eden Prairie, over the summer.

20 Broadcasting & Cable /5-27 -02 CABLEORIGINALS MTV Operating without a net

Cable's most unorthodox By Allison Romano pordering a new game programming show last year, MTV staffers piled into a strategy thrives conference room and took their positions. At this point at by taking other networks, a tape would roll, and the decision makers chances would screen a few pilot episodes. At MTV, though, the executives were joined by Stryker, a personality at rock bastion KROQ -FM Los Angeles, who, with the help of some other MTVers, performed a live, mock version of a genre -twisting game show called Who Knows the Band? It debuted in the fall. You've stepped inside the MTV development lab. Of all the cable networks', its program -development process is, perhaps not surprisingly, the most unconventional. Want proof? The Osboumes, the big MTV hit, was born out of appearances on Cribs, MTV's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous knock -off, in which the rocker and his family were first featured. In a busy year, most basic -cable networks might green - light just five pilots, putting two or three on the air as regular series. A broadcast network might make 20 pilots. MTV moves at lightning speed, pumping out 50 potential projects. The mantra, quite simply, is that more is more. It's determined to stay a teenager forever, even if it is turn- ing 21 this summer. Its programmers are encouraged to think like their fickle, finicky teenage audience. "We don't have the luxury of running a Seinfeld or Cosby Show for a decade," said Van Toffler, president of MTV and MTV2. Days in fhe life of Ozzy "Our audience demands us to be on the edge." Or over it. Osbourne make for one of basic cable's Viacom's MTV will spend $236 million on programming highest -rated this year27% of its total revenue, according to Kagan World original series ever.

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Media. Cable heavyweights but MTV audiences can flee owed by any one show or one franchise." like Lifetime, TNT, TBS and quickly. "The 21- year -old of When an idea makes the cut, MTV ESPN spend more, but their today does not like the same moves fast. A new series could be on the programming expenses ac- thing as the 21 -year old of last air just months after the first pitch meeting. count for 35% to 50% of year," said President of Enter- Focus groups, marketing, promotion - their revenue. tainment Brian Graden, the who has time? MTV never even advertised MTV's costs depend on programming wunderkind The Osbournes, which now reigns as one of the show, of course. A game who recently added VH1 basic cable's highest -rated original series or in- studio show could run MTV and MTV2 President programming to his duties. ever. Van Toffler must reinvent as low as $50,000 per "They are re- his 21- year -old franchise expert at Development flows both internally and episode. Reality shows come to keep it forever young. inventing themselves," said from the outside. About half of MTV's in slightly higher, around Zenith Media's Roy Roth- projects come from outside producers. $200,000 to $300,000. A stein. "When you're pro- Sometimes MTV signs up rookie produc- scripted drama or a real- gramming for 18- to 24 -year- ers, "the guy under a rock reading comic ity/scripted hybrid could olds, you have to refresh and books," observed Toffler. Or established run $1 million per episode. make bold moves." talent like Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler. The Oshournes' first It's also about balance. Director Spike Jones called President season now looks like a When the pop phenomenon MTV Networks Music Group Judy bargain. MTV spent about à la 'NSYNC and Britney McGrath to get her to watch tapes of an

$200,000 total for the Spears was just beginning to unknown Johnny Knoxville and kick - show. The Osboumes and MTV President of blast sky high, Total Request started another MTV hit, Jackass. Entertainment MTV are still trying Brian Live to Graden psyches out this looked like program- "We let people with an idea go ahead hammer out a deal to year's 21- year-old viewer. ming gold. But Graden and make television," Toffler explained, bring the show back. The wanted a "less saccharine" "instead of having a team of writers and two - season deal in the works may pay the show for nighttime. So he introduced Tom show runners reshape their idea." family $20 million. Green. "It's a constant dance," he said, "to McGrath recalls comedian Tom Green's There could be an option for a third year, make sure you never become overshad- coming into the office and shaving himself

Why does everybody from President Bush to rival network chiefs love this MN hit about a foul- mouthed dad and his dysfunctional family?

Not every family graces the The show became the water - Brian Graden, MTV covers of Rolling Stone and cooler smash all networks crave. entertainment president. But Entertainment Weekly. Or MTV served up its hard -to -reach they can afford to live dines with President Bush teen audience and their baby anywhere: and can boast that Mom boomer parents, eventually Even so, the Osbournes aren't is one of People commanding $100,000 per ad packing for Europe -or magazine's "50 Most spot. Some episodes attracted as anywhere -just yet. Despite

tl,fkkk1 Beautiful People." many as 6 million viewers, and, indications in the press from the Just how did Ozzy over 10 shows, The Osbournes Osbournes, there's still no deal. Osbourne and his fam- averaged a 5.6 rating. MTV has now negotiated with ily become the toast of USA Network alone has been three different representatives hot television? pitched on series for rockers for the Osbournes. The deal qi'J;11 It wasn't Ozzy's Tommy Lee and Billy Idol. "Ozzy batted around may have MTV 5u sot017 notorious rocker antics like is lovable; you root for him," ponying up million for ti , rash $20 two Wirdf biting heads off bats or even said USA President Doug more seasons. the moving boxes labeled Herzog. "At heart, it's a family The family already had The and became the stories all "dead things" that captivated show." season, of creative control this with viewers. In fact, it was the At last month's National Cable final for each water-coolerkslera eash approval episode. nead opposite. What seemed to cap- Show, News Corp. President and The question now is whether tivate was Ozzy's struggling COO Peter Chemin said that, of even a family as strange as this with his TV, sticking his foot in any show on television, he most can sustain viewers' interest. the water bowl or running covets The Osbournes. "I mean this as a damage control over his Contrary to rumors, the compliment," Graden daughter Kelly's tiny tattoo. Osbournes are not likely to responded. "The Osbournes are The Osbournes made everyday spend next season at their crazy enough that the madness life interesting. second home in London, said will continue. " -A.R.

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in front of Graden. "We said, 'OK, you can MTV can, however, be the possessive freedom to buy and develop projects. have a show'" partner that most producers dread. The "I don't want the developers worrying Some shows flop or bum out fast. Ani- network tries hard to nab rights to an idea, about pleasing Brian Graden. They are on the mation worked with Beavis & Butt -head, preferring to contract producers as free- line for the audience, not me," said Graden. but another animated series, Spy Groove, lancers. (Plenty of budding producers in He never wants his staff to imitate its flopped. Controversial but popular Jackass Los Angeles and New York claim to be own hits. Despite The Osbournes' success, was a one -season wonder. An idea for a MTV producers but are roving freelancers.) he insists he won't make another series sock- puppet show never took hold. "Sometimes it can take longer to do the about an aging rocker and his family.. Even the best MTV shows usually don't deal than to make the show," said Real That doesn't mean The Osbournes won't last more than two or three seasons. The World producer Murray. inspire new up -close shows with stars-say, Real World is the exception, largely When MTV owns a show, it controls a series following P. Diddy as he searches for because every element, from location to domestic and international play, and most a new musical star (MTV won't comment). cast, changes. "By definition," said Graden, of the proceeds stay in MTV coffers. Some Not every new project needs -or gets- - a pilot. "You can blow $10 million on 10 pilots or on 100," Graden said. "We might work through 200 'noodles' a year" on the way to 15 or 20 new shows. Live presentations give developers a low -cost picture of a show. "Of course, you'd build a set and add graphics later. But, if the meat of an idea is there, we know it," said Senior Vice President of Music Development Lois Curren, who supervised The Osbournes. Sometimes they just wing it. Former MTV executive and current USA Network Presi- dent Doug Herzog recalls working on the first Real World season in 1992. "We took Super 8 cameras and filmed kids in a loft for three days around Thanksgiving." Producers did something similar for The Osbournes. MTV orders fewer episodes than other networks, and its seasons are shorter. The Osbournes' did 10 weeks of episodes; NBC's Friends does nearly two dozen. There are no theme nights, no nights for MTV original -programming hits include (clockwise from left) The top Osbournes; Jackass; original animation hit Beavis and Butthead, which was one of MTV's earliest break -the -mold hits; dramas. The two "appointment" and Remote Control. spots are TRL on weekdays at 3:30 p.m. ET and the "10 spot," which has become a "when you're casting new 21- year-olds shows, like an animated version of Spider- horizontal block for popular originals like every year, the characters aren't even al- Man slated for a winter debut, have to be The Real World. Other than that, MTV is lowed to grow older." licensed. When the rights get too pricey, intentionally slapdash. Shows play at differ- Producers say MTV jumps for projects MTV is willing to license, Graden said. ent times several days a week, in attempt to other networks would never touch. The network's internal development reach different viewers. "There's more willingness to be brave and resembles a system of farm teams. There "For them to imitate the structure of a bold. You don't have to dumb down your are eight development groups under traditional network would be negative," said idea to appeal to a wider audience," said Jon Graden, including reality, news and docu- Lifetime's head of research and TV historian Murray, who produces Real World and Road mentary, and music -related groups. Ideas Tim Brooks. "That would remind teens that Rules with his partner Mary-Ellis Bunim. flow among them; the music group pro- the network is really run by grown -ups." MTV gives producers an unusual amount duces The Osbournes, but Cribs, where the A new batch of originals is being read- of creative space, said veteran outside pro- family was "discovered," is from MTV's ied for launch. But there's no rest for an ducer Allison Grodner, responsible for news and documentary group. Each team, MTV developer, especially with a program- CBS's Big Brother and MTV's reality/drama staffed with four to 14 people, gets a devel- ming retreat next month. hybrid Flipped. "A lot of networks would opment allowance. Some, like the scripted "It's like seeing people prepare their mas- have wanted to see a lot on paper, have back and documentaries groups, naturally com- ter's thesis," said McGrath. "You need to be and forth meetings, and see dailies." mand a bigger allowance, but all have the reading the tea leaves of the culture."

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hold record for TLC, which that night also beat all broadcast networks in adults 18-49. And each hour-long episode costs TLC a mere $90,000, a fraction of what broad- HOME. cast networks spend. Trading Spaces wasn't expected to be this big. "We really saw it as a fringe show, revi- desecraton talizing our how -to slate," said TLC Pro- gramming Vice President Roger Marmet. TLC's Trading Spaces is a TLC needed to spruce up its late -day- breakout hit, at just time schedule, which started with soft, $90,000 an episode woman -targeted chronicles, such as A Wedding Story and A Baby Story, and then shifted into "hammer-and -nails" shows. By John M. Higgins Three years ago, then- General Manager Jana Bennett saw that the abrupt shift dis- Home- improvement shows don't turbed TLC's audience flow, driving many get a better "money shot" than women away. She wanted a better bridge this. Pam is led into her suburban between early and late afternoon. Tacoma, Wash., living room, where two Months earlier, TLC executive producer good friends and a designer have worked Hosted by Paige Davis, Wading Places has Steve Schwartz's wife had pointed him to friends redecorate each others' homes. two days on a surprise redecoration. Pam an article in Metropolis magazine about the and her husband have in turn been redeco- BBC's Changing Rooms, which was part rating a room in the friends' house. Now it's less mike, so fans got the audio of her cry- game show, part home -improvement show. time for "the reveal," when a TV host escorts ing from the next room. She is now forever The premise was simple. Two couples Pam-her eyes tightly shut-into her house known to fans as Crying Pam. (friends or relatives) trade houses. Armed to see the makeover for the first time. And there are many, many fans of TLC's with a 000 budget ($1,000 in the U.S. ver- Her friends had repainted her living breakout hit, Trading Spaces. Since its launch sion), a designer and a carpenter, contes- room walls chocolate brown. And the in September 2000 as a late -afternoon show, tants repaint, reupholster and accessorize a bricks around her fireplace -the fireplace its ratings have steadily grown to the point single room in 48 hours. Neither side gets she begged not be touched -were now where the show regularly scores a 2 or 3 to see the room until it's finished. concealed behind a white wood panel. Nielsen household rating in prime time, Schwartz realized it might be a good 4 Pam began sobbing. Hard. "I have to peaking one Saturday night in April at a 3.2 p.m. ET bridge, to carry TLC's 0.4. -0.5 leave the room," she choked out. Fortu- for a "celebrity" episode featuring but a sin- early -aftemoon household rating through. nately, she neglected to turn off her wire- gle Dixie Chick. That was an all-time house- Repeating the British episodes wouldn't

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... AN, A, now a unit of Endemol, which makes NBC -- .... hit Fear Factor. BBC America was scheduled to carry Changing Rooms, so TLC christened its show Trading Spaces. TLC asked several producers to bid on the show and picked Ross Television, which is accustomed to TV-on- the-cheap through shows on RC sister net Discovery Channel, as well as HGTV and TNN. Although the fast season's ratings were strong, expenses ran too high. "The biggest expense you have in a show like this is travel," Schwartz said, pointing to the 15 permanent producers, designers and crew. "Ross is located in Knoxville, Tenn., and the travelling nature of the show made it very expensive." So TLC put out another request for bids Pat Robertson generated 5156 million in annual profit running Bonanza and gave the show to Banyan Productions, on the old Family Channel. which is located in Philadelphia, doser to a wider variety of East Coast markets. THE FLIP SIDE What's the appeal? Although there are By John M. Higgins often strained reactions to some of the designers' stranger color, upholstery or lighting choices, most homeowners express happiness, not outrage. What's so original Banyan producer Denise Kramsey cred- its the recurring cast of designers, carpen- about ters and host Paige Davis: "Fans really originals? identify with them." Self- described addict Karen Manghisi, a The broadcast nets put fresh product on -air every day New Jersey college admissions director, likes all the way the contestants do the work It's upfront season, so ad works aren't doing what their Lifetime is more consistent but are largely at the mercy of the design- agencies are peppered by a broadcast rivals do every day: with originals (and brags a bit ers' sometimes odd whims. The designers swarm of cable networks try- putting fresh product on the less), and, of course, smaller ing to get a slice- sometimes air. Two weeks ago, the broad- networks like Food Network, "seem to especially enjoy raising the bar just a crumb-of the cast networks announced their HGTV and TLC put on tons of with their designs, knowing full well the S8 billion or so that buyers new fall -season schedules, originals-though, at $25,000 neighbors have little power to stop them." should commit by August. which include 45 new series. to $100,000 per episode, (You know ad buyers are No one thinks to call that they're cheaper shows than TLC is in production on a third season being overwhelmed when "original programming." scripted dramas. of 80 episodes, hopefully sprinkled with a TechTV-which gets a 0.1 or When reality show Combat Of course, there's the few celebrities. Conversations have been so Nielsen rating -starts Missions ended recently, USA question of how big a contri- scheduling upfront pitches.) Network had no original bution originals make held with Valerie Bertinelli, Rosie O'Don- Sitting through many of series in prime time (two anyway. Pat Robertson gener- nell, Danny Bonaduce and Joan Lunden. these presentations, we were make -or-break series are corn- ated a whole lot more cash (No appearance fees are paid, and the bemused by how aggressively ing in June). TNT has one flow running Bonanza on the cable networks position their whole series, Witchblade, on old Family Channel ($156 mil- celebs actually have to do the labor.) original productions as the schedule. TBS has Ripleys lion in annual profit) than And, of course, TLC is inevitably looking unique initiatives. Believe It or Not. Haim Saban did loading it Yes, was impressive when has for imitations. Marmet said the BBC is pro- it Everyone cut back on with original programming HBO started mixing its own movie-production slates, but as Fox Family. In fact, new ducing While You Were Out, a show in movies in with theatricals and players like TNT still bray owner Disney just wrote off which, say, a husband sends his wife to her when USA and the Turner about how King of Texas is $463 million of Saban's old sister's house for a weekend, then redeco- nets began trying their own part "of a rich tradition of programming ideas. series and original movies. presenting Original So if Robertson could make rates the kitchen. Meanwhile, a crew is spy- But we're more than two Westerns." tons of money on Bonanza ing on the wife with hidden cameras to see decades into the development That's 30 years after ABC reruns, how big an effort the network Movie Disney make what she's doing while the husband is work- of cable- business, came up with the of should with and some of the biggest net- the Week. originals for ABC Family? ing. The show launches July 6. Spooky.

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The ubiquitous Biography

A &E's new schedule serves up its hit series in various disguises, including biopics

By Allison Romano Miniseries A&E is launching documen rama isn't out of favor at A&E, it's The Lost tary Cold Case Files as a weekly World is just on hiatus. Until recently, the one of series and bringing back Minute D cable net hoped to have three origi- five A &E by Minute. Sabison said he's originalsi nal dramas on the air by fall. Now, with developing three more docu- 100 Centre Street burning off and a second mentary series but would not series out of the picture, only period detec- elaborate. Also on the schedule tive series Nero Wolfe remains. are five originals, including four- According to A&E Senior Vice President hour miniseries The Lost World of Programming Allen Sabinson, documen- and six -hour series Napoleon. taries and original movies and miniseries are Sister net The History Chan- plenty to fuel the network. "Will we back Apted, Married in America, which debuts nel is rolling out five new series including away from drama ?" he asked. "No. Are in June. Apted plans to revisit the subjects Basic Training, Secret Passages and Secrets of economic conditions favorable? No." of his documentary, newlywed couples, the Ancient World. Among History specials A&E is still trying to get mileage out of every year to update the story. will be TR and the Birth of a Superpower. its Biography franchise. Spinoff series TV- Ography, launching June 3, delves into the stories behind TV shows and stars. It is part of A &E's upcoming programming Fisher in, Black stays slate, which also includes tributes and stunts for Biography's 15th anniversary and Lifetime names courting her to replace 1eie,itly ousted ABC 1,000th episode. On Friday nights, starting programming vet Barbara Television President Steve Bomstein. later this year, A &E will stage Bio in a Fisher, former president of Universal Stu- Fisher EVP of entertainment Movie, airing a classic movie interspersed dios Network Programming, replaces Dawn with Biography segments. Two more Biog- Tamofsky- Ostroff, now UPN's head of enter- raphy cousins, Bio in a Year and Street By Allison Romano tainment. As executive vice Scenes, pop up as specials. LItetime seemed to president of entertainment,

A &E is looking to jump -start its ratings neatly wrap up a two - Fisher will oversee pro- after several flat months. Viewing levels are for-one executive deal gramming, scheduling and up slightly for May but remain around 1.1. last week. Cable's top -rated production. It's her first shot Sunday nights have been retooled and network tapped veteran at network programming. At now feature Nero Wolfe (which is averaging programmer Barbara Fisher Universal, she created such a 1.7 rating this season), City Confidential, to be its next head of pro- hits as Just Shoot Me for and, through the summer, Law & Order. gramming. Her appoint- NBC and The Steve Harvey Barbara Fish er's mandate: But TNT takes over exclusive rights to Law ment signals that Carole Grow Lifetim é s success. Show for The WB. "It will & Order come September, when A&E will Black will stay as president be nice to be the buyer," she debut off-nets of Third Watch in its place. and CEO of the women's net. said, "instead of the seller for a change." A &E's documentary lineup is high- Black's contract expired last winter, but With Lifetime regularly topping cable lighted by Old Friends, produced by Julia industry sources say she is ready to re -up Nielsen ratings, Fisher isn't under pressure Roberts, which traces the lives of and life- with Lifetime. Earlier this year, talk was that to make radical change. "I do have to be long connections among three women. A Black might take the top spot at ABC Fam- vigilant to continue [the success] and documentary series from director Michael ily and, more recently, that ABC might be improve on it, though."

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ORIGINAL SERIES PREMIERE Hosted by MELISSA GILBERT SATURDAY JUNE 1 8/7C

MUM .\H Programming

B roadcastWatch COMPILED BY KENNETH RAY MAY 13 -19 Broadcast network prime time ratings according to Nielsen Media Research

Week Q. U NBC O A TV lJl 1 7.3/11 9.4/15 8.7/14 5.7/9 0.8/1 2.4/4 3.9/6

B:00 23. King of Queen 8.2/14 88. The Hughleys 2.1/3 26. Fear Factor 8.1/13 48. Boston Public 6.0/10 110. Miracle Pets 0.5/1 58. 7th Heaven 5.0/8 8:30 27. Dinotopia, Part 2 30. Yes, Dear 7.9/12 83. One on One 2.5/4

9:00 8.0/12 7. Ev Lys Raymnd 12.7/19 101. Touched by an Angel 82. The Parkers 2.6/4 27. Third Watch 8.0/12 53. Ally McBeal 5.4/8 78. Angel 2.9/4 9:30 13. Becker 10.3/15 0.8/1 83. Girlfriends 2.5/4

1000 a8. TV Guide's 50 Best 20. Mary Tyler Moore 15. Crossing Jordan 96. Diagnosis Murder

1030 Shows 6.0/10 Reunion 8.7/14 10.1/16 1.1 2 7.6/12 8.8/14 8.6/14 4.8/8 0.6/1 2.6/4 3.4/5

8:00 22.ONBC's Funniest 75. Sffyrthe Vampire 20. JAG 8.7/14 110. Mysterious Ways 0.5/1 73. Gilmore Girls 3.4/6 8.5/14 3.2 /5 8:30 33. Dinotopia, Part 3 67. That Show 4.3/7/7 9:00 7.4/12 9. Frasier 11.3/17 23. The Guardian 8.2/12 56. 24 5.2/8 89. Roswell 1.8/3 72. Smallville 3.5/5 105. PAX Mystery Movie- 9:30 23 Scrubs 8 2/12 Diagnosis Murder: 10:00 Last Laugh o.' 1 27. NYPD Blue 8.0/13 18. Judging Amy 9.4/15 31. Dateline NBC 7.5/12 1030 6.3/11 6.6/11 9.8/17 5.1/9 0.9/1 2.5/4 2.9/5

8:00 39. My Wife 8 Kids 6.6/12 58. Magic's Biggest 42.60 Minutes I1 6.3/11 42. Ed 6.3/11 109. Candid Camera 0.61 77. Enterprise 3.1/6 75. Dawson's Creek 3.2/6 8:30 40. According /Jim 6.511 Secrets Revealed 5.0/9

9:00 56. Drew Carey =.2 12. The West Wing 101. Touched by an Angel 55. Bernie Mac 5.3/9 .. Enterprise 1.9/3 83. Felicity 2.5/4 10 4 17 9:30 5'. The Amazing Race 2 0. Primetime Special c r 1, 1000 94. Diagnosis Murder Edition .. .. 6. Law 8 Order 12.821 g 10:30 :12 3.9/6 13.0/21 17.8/28 2.9/5 0.8/1 3.6/6 2.6/4

8:00 11. Survivor. Marquesas 1. Friends 21.1/34 110. Its a Miracle 0.5 1 ;:. Charmed :. í 3 11.1 1 8 78. Fox Movie 5 Peaal- 8:30 / 71. WWF Smackdown! The Nutty Professor 9:00 3.6 ó 70. ABC Big Picture 2.9/5 105. Touched by an Angel 3. CSI 16.3/25 4. Will 8 Grace 14.6/22 73. Charmed 3... 5 9 :i0 Show -Con Air 3.9/6 0.7 1

10:00 96. Diagnosis Murder 8.CSI 11.4/18 2. ER 17.5/28 130 1.1;'2 5.2/10 6.6/12 8.2/15 6.8/12 0.8/1 1.6/3 2.0/4

8:00 60. America's Funniest 48. The Price Is Right:

Home Videos 4.9/9 U.S. Navy 6.3 :1 93. UPN's Movie Friday- 8:30 37. MA5H Reunion 101. PAX Family Movie- 89. Flix Friday -The Mask 3'. Dateline NBC 7.3/13 Rumble in the Bronx Special 6.8 12 Trapped 0.8/1 2.0 4 9410 63. Instant Classic Pe PP 1.6'3 Bloopers 4.5/8 9:30 35. 29th Annual Daytime 10:00 Emmy Awards 6.9 :2 16. Law 8 Order: Spedal 42.20/20 6.3/12 105. Weakest Link 0.7 : 1030 Victims Unit 10.0/18

5.4/10 4.5/8 4.7/9 4.4/8 1.1/2 KEy: RANKING /SHOW TITLE/PROGRAM RATING /SHARE 8:00 69. Cops 4.0/8 99. Diagnosis TOP TEN SHOWS OF THE WEEK ARE NUMBERED IN RED 78. Survivor: Marquesas 42. NBA Playoffs -L.A. Murder ESTIMATED AT HOUSEHOLDS; : 0 N UNIVERSE 105.5 MILLION 8:30 2.9/6 fakers vs. Sacramento 62. Cops 4.7/9 2 ONE RATINGS POINT IS EQUAL TO 1,055,000 TV HOMES 53. ABC Saturday Night 6.3/13 9:00 63. Ultimate Manilow! 63. AMW: America Fights YELLOW TINT IS WINNER OF TIME SLOT (NR).NOT Movie -Air Force One 4.5/8 Back 4.5/8 RANKED; RATING/SHARE ESTIMATED F00. PERIOD SHOWN 9:30 83. Just Shoot Me 2.5 5 94. All Around the Town 5.410 PREMIERE PROGRAMS LESS THAN 15 MINUTES IN

10:00 1.2 2 LENGTH NOT SHOWN S -T -D SEASON TO DATE 47. The District 6.1/11 81. Law 8 Order 2.' 5 SOURCES: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, CBS RESEARCH 10:30 - 6.5/11 11.1/19 8.7/14 6.8/11 0.8/1 2.1/3

).W 68. The Simpsons 4.2/8 51. NBA Playoffs- Boston 17.60 Minutes 9.7/18 105. Candid Camera úc. Wonderful World of 0: 7:30 Celtics vs. New Jersey 46. The Simpsons 6.2/11 - Ftix From the Frog Dinosaur - Disney- Nets 5.9/12 Sleepless in Seattle 8:00 4.9/8 99. Doc 8:30 5. Survivor. Marquesas 52. NBC's Outtakes 5.7 9 / 31. The X -Files 7.5/12 9600 Finale 13.4/21 35. The Practice 6.9/10 66, 9:30 10. The Cosby Show: A 101. All Around the Town 0" .r' Look Back 11.2 :' 1000 14. Survivor. Marquesas 19. The Practice 9.2/15 10:30 Reunion 10.2/17 6.1/10 8.8/15 9.5/16 5.3/9 0.8/1 2.6/4 2.8/5 6.3/10 8.1/13 8.8/15 5.7/9 0.9/1 2.7/4 2.5/4

34 Broadcasting & Cable /5-27 -02 Programm;n SyndicatiorlWatch MAY 6 -12 Syndicated programming ratings according to Nielsen Media Research

TOP 25 SHOWS

HH HH Rank /Program AA GM Friedman expands game -show role 1 Wheel of Fortune 8.6 NA 2 Jeopardy 7.8 NA Columbia TriStar Domestic Television has renewed a 3 Friends 6.8 8.2 4 Seinfeld 6.0 6.5 multiyear contract with Harry Friedman, who will remain 5 Entertainment Tonight 5.8 5.9 as executive producer of both Wheel of Fortune and Jeop- 5 Oprah Winfrey Show 5.8 5.9 ardy, the two highest -rated series in first -run 7 Everybody Loves Raymond 5.7 6.3 8 Judge Judy 5.5 8.1 syndication. He also takes on the added rote of executive 9 Seinfeld (wknd) 4.9 5.6 consultant for CTDT's new game show Pyramid. The deal fol- 10 Wheel of Fortune (wknd) 4.4 NA 11 Entertainment Tonight (wknd) 3.9 4.0 lows Friedman's fourth Emmy win (outstanding game show, 12 Live With Regis & Kelly 3.5 NA Jeopardy) on May 17. 13 Everybody Loves Raymond (wknd) 3.3 NA 13 Judge Joe Brown 3.3 4.5 The executive producer for Pyramid is Stephen 13 Friends (wknd) 3.3 3.5 Brown, who has written, produced and created 16 Frasier 3.2 3.5 17 King of the Hill 3.1 3.5 more than 20 game shows (including Love Harry Friedman 17 Maury 3.1 3.3 Connection and the Newlywed Game remake) for be 19 The X -Files 3.0 3.2 will executive syndication and cable. 20 Inside Edition 2.9 2.9 consultant for 21 Divorce Court 2.8 3.6 Friedman had this to say about his role on upcoming remake 22 Stargate SG -1 2.7 2.8 of Pyramid. Pyramid: "I'll be helping get the production 23 Hollywood Squares 2.6 NA 23 ER 2.6 3.0 going, using the knowledge I've gained over 23 The Practice 2.6 2.8 the years in understanding the marketplace as it pertains to game shows."

As of February sweeps Wheel has No. 1 TOP OFF -NET SITCOMS (the latest available ratings), been in viewership for 72 consecutive sweeps periods. Jeopardy has been No. 2 for 65 consecu- HH HH AA GM tive sweeps. Friedman has been executive producer of both since 1999. 1 Friends 6.8 8.2 CTDT continues to talk up off - network sitcom King of Queens in the marketplace, with 2 Seinfeld 6.0 6.5 3 Everybody Loves Raymond 5.7 6.3 the first deal likely in the next couple of weeks. It's set to debut in fall 2003. Sources 4 Seinfeld (wknd) 4.9 5.6 say the company is looking for an initial five -year deal to cover the first 125 episodes 5 Everybody Loves Raymond (wknd) 3.3 NA (through 2003). Still to be determined is whether the distributor will add an automatic - 6 Friends (wknd) 3.3 3.5 extension clause based on how long the show remains in production for network TV. According to Nielsen Media Research Syndication Service Ranking Report May 6 -12, 2002 Only the first three years of the off -network package would be exclusive to broadcast HH /AA Average - Audience Rating (households) syndication, with a cable window likely starting in year four. The cash -plus -barter deal NH /GAA - Gross Aggregate Average One Nielsen rating - 1,008,000 households, which rep- would give stations 5.5 minutes to sell weekdays, CTDT 1.5 minutes. Two weekend resents 1% of the 100.8 million TV Households in the airings would be split evenly, with stations and the distributor both getting 3.5 United States NA - not available minutes. Double runs are optional. -Steve McClellan

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KCOP TRIMS NEWS burden smaller stations. On June 3, Fox -owned UPN Lobbying went on right into affiliate KCOP(TV) Los the final days. Hull met with Angeles will change its hour broadcasters hoping for a veto newscast at 10 p.m. to a half - on Monday and with on -air tal- hour at 11 p.m. The Fox ent and other station employ- duopoly management will ees on Tuesday. Bundgaard his move Seinfeld from its 11:30 side would have been dose to spot on KTTV(TV) to 10 having enough votes to p.m. on KCOP, to be override a veto. followed by Frasier. The KCOP newscast had EFFRON JOINS MSNBC shown growth in recent Longtime Post -Newsweek sweeps but was down during news exec Mark Effron will Can you see me now? the sweeps that ended last leave P-N to become WBCQ -CA Cincinnati, which lays to being the first low -power week, finishing last behind co- claim MSNBC's vice president for TV station on satellite, spoofs Verizon's "Can you hear me now ?" ad owned KTTV, KTLA(TV) live news programming. In series in a recent set of spots. and KCAL(TV) in the more than 25 years at P -N, crowded news time slot. Effron -a protégé of the late John Frenzel, programming branding, the station offered no influence over news local -news legend Jim director for KTTV and KCOP, in a flier "a news story on you content." Local Naples Daily Snyder-was a producer, said: "We feel these comedies or your family and how they News Editor Phil Lewis called assistant news director, news will give KCOP great counter - have impacted Southwest the invitation "disturbing" and director and station manager programming to the other Florida, which will air in the a "blurring of the line between before overseeing its news local stations and will give the M -F 5 p.m. -6 p.m. newscast." advertising and content." department. station a solid lead -in for UPN Asked about the ethics of Had he stayed with Post - 13 News at 11 p.m." such a pitch, GM Steve ARIZONA BANS Newsweek, Effron would Fox execs said Larry Perrett Pontius said he regrets the NONCOMPETES have had to relocate to will remain news director at flier and offer, adding that Arizona Gov. Jane Hull has Detroit, where company head- KCOP and Jose Rios will re- nothing like it will be done signed a bill outlawing non- quarters moved when Alan main at KTTV, with each again. A few sold spots have compete clauses in broadcast Frank replaced Bill Ryan as station retaining its own news already run, and, although contracts. Such clauses gen- president. Instead, he'll staff. Attempts to further merge Pontius says the station is erally ban an employee who relocate to New Jersey. the departments have been embarrassed by the situation, leaves a job - sometimes even stymied by each station's having the rest will run as well -but, when fired -from working for MILLER TO KM NEWS contracts with different unions. he adds, with clear separation a competitor for a period. As expected, former WFAA- from the news portions of the The right -to -work state TV Dallas news exec John FORT MYERS FLIER MIRE newscast. "We should have seems an unlikely one for a Miller will replace Linda NBC affiliate WBBH -TV Fort done that from the first." law against noncompetes, but Levy as news director at Myers, Fla., says it only The offer dearly violates re- Republican State Senator KTVT(TV) Fort Worth, wanted to link the histories of cent Radio- Television News Scott Bundgaard, its original Texas. Levy will move to local businesses to the current Directors Association guide- sponsor, said his bill is entirely KRLD(AM) as news director celebration of the network's lines opposing favoritism consistent with free enterprise. at the all-news station. 75th anniversary. But, in toward advertisers or content Opponents of the bill, includ- presenting $5,000 advertising generated by anything but ing the Arizona Broadcasters All news is local. Contact Dan "partnerships," in addition to "journalistic merits." "It Association, argued that the Trigoboff at (301) 260 -0923, commercials, promos and a should be dear to all advertis- bill overrides parties' right to e -mail [email protected] or share of the NBC anniversary ers," they say, "that they have enter into contracts and would fax (413) 254 -4133

36 Broadcasting & Cable /5 -27 -02 Programming FocusKnoxville

THE MARKET The nearby Smokies are favorable tower sites for Knoxville, Tenn., stations going digital. DMA rank 62 Population 1,208,000 TV homes 478,000 Income per capita $15,987 TV revenue rank 62 TV revenue 570,000,000 COMMERCIAL TV STATIONS Rank* Ch. Affil. Owner

1 WBIR -TV 10 NBC Gannett

2 WVLT -TV 8 CBS Gray

3 WATE -TV 6 ABC Young 4 WTNZ(TV) 43 Fox Raycom A healthy, stable market 5 WBXX -TV 20 WB Acme WVLT -TV "Volunteer TV" General Manager Chris Baker loves SEC football. And why not? 6 WPXK(TV) 54 Pax Paxson A December game in prime time -if the University of Tennessee is one of the teams 'November 2001, total households, 6 a.m.-2 a.m., Sun. -Sat. involved -can bring the station a 50 rating. SEC football averaged a 17/39 last fall; CABLE /DBS the Vanderbilt -UT game did a 31/65, Baker says. And most stations in Knoxville, Tenn., need all the ratings wins they can get against powerhouse WBIR -TV. Cable subscribers (HH) 334,600 Those numbers may be attainable this fall, but they won't be available. Except for Cable penetration 70% Acme -owned WBXX -TV, no station in the market has yet agreed to participate in ADS subscribers (HH) ** 95,600 Nielsen's metered measurement, planned to begin in October. While Nielsen cites the ADS penetration 20% superiority of meters over diaries and remains committed to making meters the stan- in increased DBS carriage of local TV? No dard every market that can support them, stations complain about the costs and the timing: Budgets for 2002 were already complete when Nielsen made its Alternative Delivery Systems, includes DBS and other non -cable services, according to Nielsen Media Research announcement, local execs say. Participation will not likely come before 2003, if at all. Local stations are preparing to go digital, moving their signals to taller towers. WHAT'S NO. 1 The rugged Smoky Mountains terrain that brings tourists and dollars into the market Syndicated show Rating /share * ** also provides favorable spots for transmission towers. "Basketball coaches always Wheel of Fortune (WBIR-TV) 13/22 say," notes WTNZ(TV) GM John Hayes, "you can't coach height." Fox affiliate WTNZ, Network show ABC affiliate WATE -TV and NBC affiliate WBIR -TV share a tower on Sharp's ridge, not Friends (WBIR -TV) 19/29 far from WVLT -TV's; WPXK's will be on Cross Mountain. The market is healthy, neither nor its Evening newscast overall, overperforming underperforming; population and revenue rankings are identical at No. 62. "Employment is good here," says WBIR -TV 18/33 Hayes. "Automotive advertising is good. So are health care, retail, fast food. As a Fox Late newscast station, fast food is always a good category for us." Notes Baker, "The market seems to WBIR -TV 11/31 rise above the lows. It's not as prone to economic fluctuations. We in television still November 2001, total households struggle to find good employees. It's a good market for employment." -Dan Trigoboff Sources: Nielsen Media Research, BIA Research

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Industry division, public -radio proposal, court decision keep new licenses on ice

By Bill McConnell An NAB official said the industry's major

W, I) broadcasters clamoring for Stations in waiting trade group would not comment until its more channels, the FCC is work- Group Allotments /applications replies are due next month. In own coming overtime to bring hundreds of ments, NAB endorsed a ban on new non- elayed auction of new stations to the FM dial. But, ironically, 350 commercial licenses in the commercial band. broadcasters commercial and non- The FCC was considering barring non- -both Additional FM profit-are creating some of the biggest allocations 135 commercial operators from commercial por- hurdles to getting those stations on the air. tions of the dial. It also floated other options, Not that the courts and Congress including permitting public broadcasters to haven't done their part. Last summer, fed- Noncommercial FM acquire commercial frequencies only when applications 920 eral judges struck down an FCC plan to there are no competing commercial appli- require public broadcasters to bid against cants and providing opportunities to add for-profit operators for new stations on the new noncommercial FM and TV channels commercial band. Now nearly all the com- Total licenses /applications 3,110 on a community-by- community basis.

mission's options appear destined to land Source: FCC Although the FCC argued that Con- the regulators back in court. gress did not intend to exempt nonprofits The dispute stems from a 1997 law that from auctions of other channels, federal threw out the FCC's decades -old compar- ments of the country, there is not a lot of appeals judges ruled that a strict reading of ative- hearing process. Instead, lawmakers spectrum left." Forcing nonprofits to bid the law shields them from bidding for ordered the commission to put new com- or excluding them from the channels al- those frequencies. mercial channels out for bid. Congress, together as the FCC had suggested would The decision forced the FCC to delay however, exempted channels reserved for leave new stations an option only for the an auction of 350 new FM allotments and nonprofit operators, located between 88 most deep -pocketed radio businesses, even to forget even thinking about scheduling and 92 MHz. in medium -size markets, he said. bids for another 190 FM channels that Public -radio stations have always had Broadcasters are likely to fight the NPR have been either added to the allotment the right to apply for channels outside their reserved band, but whether Congress meant for them to participate in the new 'We're really dealing with the last available spectrum. auction process was hotly debated. In large segments of the country, there is not a lot of Two weeks ago, NPR floated its own spectrum left: -Gregory Lewis, NPR plan in comments to the FCC. Under NPR's scenario, noncommercial operators would be allowed to apply for a commer- proposal, says Gary Smithwick, a Washing- table or seized from operators that broke cial allotment in a market only when no ton attorney representing applicants for agency rules. i noncommercial channels were available. In roughly half a dozen licenses that have Because the licensing rules also apply to that case, a commercial allotment would be been stalled. TV channels, the dispute is preventing the M reserved for nonprofit operators, which "NPR's plan is good for NPR," he says. FCC from going ahead with bids for 1,650 would compete against each other accord- "But there are broadcasters out there who low -power TV and translator permits. ing to a point system. are not afraid of competition and want to Also, any future broadcast allotments for "We're really dealing with the last avail- bring these stations online. Any approach full-power TV would be blocked until the able spectrum," says NPR Associate Gen- that gives the advantage to NPR will end issue is resolved. eral Counsel Gregory Lewis. "In large seg- up in court." The easiest solution would be for Con-

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gress to clarify the 1997 law's auction pro- claim any new allotment for free. The federation is represented by Washing- visions. FCC Chairman Michael Powell NPR officials insist that nonprofit opera- ton -based Media Access Project. has asked lawmakers to amend the law but tors would get the advantage in very few Similarly, the Association for Public says he can't wait to see whether consensus markets. In a study of 25 randomly picked Television Stations is calling on the FCC to for new legislation builds. In the meantime, allotments from the 350 licenses ready for give "first -come, first -served" priority to he reserves his ire for the judges, whose auction, in only four markets would an auc- noncommercial TV operators applying for Wiling he says clearly contradicts any logi- tion be blocked under NPR's plan, they say. translator licenses when they show there is cal reading of congressional intent because The National Federation of Community a need to fill gaps in a market's public -tele- it would give public broadcasters power to Broadcasters endorsed NPR's proposal. vision coverage.

pledged to keep "Headend in the Sky," Cable's other association the dominant digital cable -delivery system for smaller markets, available with com- ACA is the long- distance lobby trying to raise its voice in D.C. petitive pricing. ACA's FCC lobbying has been handled By Bill McConnell "It became readily apparent a long time by association President Matthew Polka, In a sea of Washington lobbyists, the ago that small systems needed their own who puddle -jumps from Pittsburgh on a American Cable Association is easy to voice in Washington," says Mike Haislip, regular basis, or by Christopher Cinnamon, overlook. president of Armstrong Cable Services. head of Chicago law firm Cinnamon Its not hard to see why. The trade group "The costs of providing service stay very Mueller. Last month, ACA members in for independent cable operators isn't based expensive when spread over 200 or even town for their annual Washington confer- in Washington. Nor are its lawyers. Nor are 200,000 customers versus 2,000,000 cus- ence added the FCC to their usual round any of its members. tomers." Armstrong, with 210,000 subs, is of Capitol Hill visits to get some face time But with a host of key issues on the the country's 18th -largest MSO. By con- with commissioners and staff. front burner at the FCC and Congress, trast AT &T /Comcast, which would be the So far, ACA has barely been even a Pittsburgh -based ACA is aiming for a country's largest if allowed to merge, would small player in agency rulings, where it has higher profile and a much boast 21.2 million. been overshadowed by the NCTA, say cur- bigger voice in Washington. ACA needs to become a rent and former agency staffers. It's a dif- Unlike the main cable true player at the FCC, ferent story in Congress, however, where trade group, the National where some of its key ACA, then named Small Cable Business Cable & Telecommunica- issues are bubbling. The Association, helped persuade lawmakers to tions Association, ACA's FCC will decide by mid- exempt small cable systems from rate regu- members don't own pro- summer whether to let lation after lawmakers socked the industry gramming networks. They program- access rules ex- with a host of new regulations in 1992. are just cable -system opera- pire Oct. 5. ACA also is "ACA gets a fair amount of traction, ACA Presid ent Matthew tors; most are small, al- Polka reps sm aller operators. asking the FCC to block given their numbers," says an aide to Rep. though a handful rank EchoStar's plan to acquire Edward Markey (D- Mass.). "They provide among the top 25 MSOs. DirecTV and is helping members apply for an unfiltered perspective not clouded by By focusing on delivering cable service, waivers to the FCC's mandated emergency- dominant programming interests." ACA members say they reflect the true alert system improvements. The group also It also helps that ACA's 930 member sys- concerns of cable operators. They oppose is on the same side as NCTA in opposing tems are scattered around the country and NCTA on many issues. For instance, the open -access rules for Internet service but have systems in many lawmakers' districts. ACA is fighting to preserve program -access would lobby for an exemption for small NCTA, Polka tells policymakers, is the lob- Hiles, which require programmers affiliated systems if the FCC changes course and byist for the top 10 cable behemoths except with MSOs to sell their programming to decides to mandate carriage of competing for No. 9 Mediacom, an ACA member. other systems. ISPs on cable systems' platforms. ACA took its current name in 1999 after ACA isn't shy about asking regulators to Perhaps ACA is making headway at the a rival group, Cable Telecommunications impose conditions or block mergers either. commission at long last. In order to curry Association, was absorbed by NCTA. NCTA is loath to comment on what often ACA's endorsement for its FCC merger SCBA was formed in 1993 but didn't hire is a combination of two of its members. review, AT &T /Comcast officials last week Polka and other paid staff until 1997.

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Combos KHDY -FM Plainview, Texas Format: Sports WJTN(AM) and WWSE -FM Jamestown, Price: $750,000 Broker: Elliot B. Evers, Media Venture N.Y. Buyer Raman Communications (Brad Partners Price: $5.9 million Moran, president); owns three other sta- KBMW(AM) Breckenridge, Minn. Buyer. Media One Group LLC (James tions, none in this market Price: $1.2 million T. Embrescia, managing member); no Seller: Rolling Plains Broadcasting (Ken Buyer. Triad Broadcasting Co. (David J. other broadcast interests Lane, president) Benjamin, chairman/CEO); owns 41 Seller. Goldman Group (Michael Facilities: 97.3 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 742 ft. other stations, including KLTA -FM Goldman, president) Format: Tejano Breckenridge Facilities: WJTN(AM): 1240 kHz, 500 Broker: Bill Whitley, Media Services Seller: W -B Broadcasting Inc. (Thomas W day, 1 kW night; WWSE -FM: 93.3 (muh M. Vertin, president)

MHz, 27 kW, ant. 643 ft. Facilities: 1450 kHz, 1 kW Format WJTN(AM): Full service; AMs Format: Country WWSE -FM: AC KQAM(AM) Wichita, Kan. Comment: Seller has filed an application Broker: Ray Rosenblum Price: $2 million to move the tower of the station. The Buyer: ABC Radio Inc. (John Hare, buyer will also operate KGWB-FM FMs president, ABC Radio); owns 63 other Wapeton, N.D., under a JSA WRNO -FM New Orleans stations, none in this market Price: $12.5 million Seller. Entercom (David J. Field, presi- -Information provided by Buyer: Clear Channel Communications dent/CEO) BIA Financial Networks' (Randy Michaels, chairman/CEO, Radio); Facilities: 1480 kHz, 5 kW day, 1 kW Media Access Pro No. 1 radio -station group owns 1,213 night Chantilly, Va. www.bia.com other stations, including WYLD(AM), WODT(AM) and FM, KFXN -FM, WNOE -FM, and WQUE -FM all New Orleans. Sellen Wilks Broadcasting LLC (Jeff Wilks, CEO) SAGA Communications Fadlities: 99.5 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 1,004 ft. of New England, Inc. Format: Classic rock ED CHRis77 i.\ - Presiders[ CEO Comment: Clear Channel is exchanging KKND -FM Port Sulphur, La., for to WRNO -FM plus $12.5 million (see has agreed purchase the Assets of below) KKND -FM Port Sulphur (New Orleans), WKNE AM /FM WKVT AM /FM La. Keene, NH Brattleboro, V "I' Price: Swap (see item above) Buyer. Wilks Broadcasting LLC (Jeff from Wilks, CEO); owns 11 other stations, including KMEZ -FM, WSJZ -FM and Tele -Media Company WYLA -FM New Orleans Sellen Clear Channel Communications of Vermont, LLC (Randy Michaels, chairman/CEO, Radio) ROBERT T m c - Chairman Facilities: 106.7 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 981 ft. Format Modern rock )r $9,075,000 . Closed May 1, 2002 WVPI -FM Charlotte Amalie, V.I. Price: $1 million Buyer: Pan Caribbean Broadcasting de We were privileged to represent Tele-Media Puerto Rico (Richard J. Friedman, presi- in this transaction. dent); owns one other station, not in this market Sellen Benjamin Broadcasting Corp. Frank Boyle Co., LLC (Johnathan K. Cohen, president) Tel: 203 969.2020 Fax 203 316.0800 Fhnvkchrkrmac)Lrccm Facilities: 104.3 MHz, 45 kW, ant. 1,608 ft. Format '70s oldies /classic hits

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The proposal has taken a bit more than a year to reach its current stage and could be a round of comments and a public hearing away from enactment -a fairly rapid pace for negotiating the bureaucratic obstacle course. Unions credit the fervor and safety concerns generated by Alpert's and other accidents, as well as cooperation from government and area broadcasters.

Safety experts like Cohasset, Mass. - based Mark Bell have long noted that the victims of accidents may not always be limited to members of the industry and that injury to passers -by or spectators near an electrically charged area could lead to massive liability.

Recommended codes for newsgathering vans would require training, equipment and inspections Certification and training, says Bell, are a to prevent injuries- especially those caused by contact with overhead electrical wires. necessity. "This is about professionalism, and all sides need to step up their safety awareness and practices," he contends. "Do we need more reminders that home- For ENG -van safety grown in -house safety practices, as have been used for almost 30 years, don't California proposals could be nation's first regulations work ?" Bell also urges that the unions stop de- By Ken Kerschbaumer and period in 2000-spurred Southern Califor- fending people who are involved in safety- Dan Trigoboff nia's five labor unions working in TV news related suspensions. "Companies need The massive bums and injuries suf- to initiate efforts toward the nation's first backing, too," he says. "Unsafe is unsafe." fered by KABC -TV Los Angeles set of regulations for news vans. Proposed Changes required by the present pro- reporter Adrienne Alpert two years safety regulations would require training, posal, according to documents filed by ago when the mast of an electronic news - equipment and inspections in an effort to California's Occupational Safety and gathering van she was working from hit prevent incidents like Alpert's, which are a Health Standards Board, would add an 34,500 -V power lines cost her a hand, a leading cause of industrial accidents and average of $1,500 in additional costs for a foot and parts of her remaining limbs. injuries -especially from contact with new ENG vehicle, no more than $3,000 to Her injuries-and others from accidents overhead wires (see box for a list of regula- retrofit an existing one. in several states during a remarkably brief tions). Early proposals from the five unions

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involved would have been more stringent, Truck manufacturers find themselves overhead wires, but the vehicle was parked requiring vans to be equipped with alarms doing what they can to help limit potential on a sloping surface. warning of the proximity of live wires, and injuries and deaths. Jack Feldman, Shook But training is paramount, maintains would have required at least two crew Electronics sales rep, Latin America, says Raymond Enama, senior program manager members for operation of an ENG van. his company has been endorsing the use of and senior instructor for San Diego Gas & The unions are the American Federation two products to help deal with the issue of Electric: "If Adrienne Alpert had been of Television and Radio Artists, the NAB ENG safety: the Wilburt DeTect and trained and understood the hazards, she Employees and Technicians, the Interna- SigAlarm High Voltage Power Line Prox- would not have gotten injured." Alpert left tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, imity Warning System. He says the addi- the van after its mast contacted a power the International Alliance of Theatrical and tional cost is around $2,800. HIFI line; if she had stayed inside, she likely Stage Employees, and the Communica- endorses the SigAlarm. would have escaped injury. tions Workers of America. The Wilburt device, Feldman says, has Enema has seen plenty of accidents that Conrad Tolson, of California's Occupa- three functions: a sonar that will detect resulted from someone's thinking that, as tional Safety and Health Standards Board, obstructions, an electric -field detector and long as the wires aren't touched, they're safe. says neither proposal could win a consen- an angle meter. "If the vehicle has too However, the wires aren't insulated and have sus of the drafting committee -which much tilt, you can't raise the mast." The an electrical field that can be deadly. comprised representatives of TV labor and "tilt" problem was a factor in the accident "For 50,000 volts and below, you need management, along with representatives that maimed Alpert: Had the vehicle been to keep operating equipment 10 feet from public utilities and government. The level, the mast would have cleared the away," he says. committee considered not only the costs of such proposals but also their lack of stan- dardization and demonstrated safety improvements. A plan for safety Not everyone agrees. One of two comments that the Standards Board needs to Regulations proposed by enabling the crew to assess seen locations on the California's Occupational the risk of elevating the vehi- vehicle. address is from the Sierra Vista, Arizona - based Hazard Information Foundation Safety and Health Standards cle mast into power lines that A single safety manual Board would require: may not be directly over the issued for each vehicle. (HIFI), which advocates installing proxim- Constant- pressure mast vehicle. It can also prevent All ENG work to be ity alarms on masts. HIFI recommends switches because they need the mast from being raised if performed in accordance that if, as with overhead electrical wires, constant attendance to the angle is too great with Cal/OSHAs Article 37 of the hazard cannot be eliminated by design, operate and are located to Proper illumination to the High -Voltage Electrical guard or warning, "then rely on human enable continuous observa- help locate overhead Safety Orders. protective gear." tion of the overhead hazards in less- than -daylight Employee training and The other comment is a clarification environment by the conditions. certification at least once a sought by ABC regarding quarterly operator. Installation of audible year. Level- indication device to and visual warning alarms to Safety inspections of inspections. Bell is concerned at how a let the operator know alert the driver that the vehicles every quarter, company of ABC's size can't figure out whether the vehicle is on mast is elevated. including in-the -field how to spend an hour every three months level or sloping ground, Warning signs in easily inspections. 1 to inspect a vehicle.

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The company will also groadcasters want to create a broad - provide exclusive live and on- cast -technology lab, along the lines of NAB board members say they're interested demand streaming -media services to Digicast, which has broadcast CableLabs, to help the industry de- in such a plan but so far have seen no proposal. more than 220 live sports and velop compelling digital products and ser- All of them agree the main issue is funding. entertainment events over the vices. They just aren't sure how to pay for it. Donovan likely will ask NAB, MSTV and Internet to a global audience. For the past year and a half, the Association the Consumer Electronics Association to chip for Maximum Service Television (MSTV) has in, along with the companies that make up VOD VIA DBS? been and pushing the idea of a the TV industry, including manufacturers. VOD- technology company Predi- -off on- Wave says it has developed high -tech lab where new ideas could be incu- "Broadcasters are not going to sit for a technology for delivery of video - bated and tested before rollout to the public. special assessment or allow part of their dues on- demand over satellite. The At the National Association of Broadcasters' to be taken for a lab; plus not all broadcast- technology is based on a predic- winter board meeting in January 2001, MSTV ers are part of NAB," says a broadcast exec- tive statistical algorithm and strongly pitched the idea. The industry was just utive. "It could only be done with voluntary built around a streamlined no packet -based standard system finishing up months of fight- contributions. There's incorporating patented hardware ing over which broadcast - way you could mandate and software. transmission standard would The lab would be a any group to pay." be better -8 -VSB or kind Broadcasters are strug- IKEGAMI SCORES of inventor's COFDM -and the engi- gling with the down econ- All Mobile Video is sending 13 neering types thought it playground, with omy, the tough transition to Ikegami HK-388PW digital cameras to Japan for World Cup Soc- would be good if broadcast- the serious goal of digital television, and the cer coverage. The cameras will ers had a place of their own developing killer lack of a digital business be used by facilities provider to find out, instead of hiring plan other than how to stay Charter UK to broadcast out the work or leaving it to TV applications in business. That's exactly matches. The Ikegami HK- companies with their own why a tech center built to 388PW uses newly developed no home could agendas. bring broadcasting into the 640,000 -pixel 2/3 -inch FIT CCDs be without. and can instantly convert But the industry settled future might just save the between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect on 8 -VSB, MSTV changed industry. "It's a tough deci- ratios. leadership, and the economy soured. By the sion on both ends," says the executive, "but time the annual NAB convention rolled that's the reason we need a broadcast lab XTEND TRIALS SERVICE around that April, the idea had faded. But more than ever before to enhance the broad- Xtend Networks will demo its ago, began cast business." broadband -delivery system for two weeks MSTV board members use by cable operators at SCIE talking about it again, and MSTV President What about the Alexandria, Va. -based Cable -Tec Expo June 4 -7 in San David Donovan made a public pitch for it at Advanced Television Test Center, which still Antonio. The 3 -GHz system the annual meeting of the Advanced Televi- exists and is a co- venture of the major broad- cable ops to offer high- allows sion Systems Committee in mid May. cast networks and the broadcast -related trade speed Internet and DIV without Now Donovan and MSTV are developing associations? ATTC was intended mainly to affecting programming. It uses The new the standard DOCSIS system and a long -promised proposal that they plan to test digital-TV transmission standards. the company's XHub interface at present to the NAB at some point, although lab would be a kind of inventor's playground, the fiber node to increase it probably won't be ready for NAB's annual with the serious goal of developing killer TV bidirectional bandwidth. board meeting in Washington June 10-12. applications no home could be without.

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Broadcast TV York, as director, international Sandy Montgomery, VP, advertising sales marketing. broadcast operations, Ellen Flahive, national sales Obituary KOMO -TV Seattle, named director, PBS Sponsorship Howard Randolph Holder Sr., former president of Clarke VP /station manager. Group, New York, promoted Broadcasting Corp., died May 6 in Athens, Ga. He was 85. to executive director. Holder, a highly decorated WWII veteran, began his career at Cable TV Jennifer Saltzgiver, WOC(AM) Davenport, Iowa, as announcer from 1946 to 1947. He Larry Fischer, executive VP, manager, original series operations, Time Warner development, MTV, Los went on to become news director and part owner of WRFC(AM) Cable Advertising Sales, Angeles, joins Oxygen Media, Athens, Ga., from 1948 to 1956. He became president of Clarke Stamford, Conn., appointed Los Angeles, as director, Broadcasting Corp. in 1956, holding that post until 1990, and president. development. had been chairman of Clarké s board since 1990. Holder was president of the Georgia Association of Broadcast- Programming Journalism ers (1961) and Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Tina Exarhos, senior VP Mark Eifron, VP, Post - Association (1963). He also sat on the board of the Associated Newsweek Inc., communications and music Stations Press Broadcasters (1983 -91). He was inducted into the Georgia marketing, MTV: Music Hartford, Conn., joins Associated Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1993. Television, New York, named MSNBC, Secaucus, N.J., as Holder is survived by his wife, Clementi; a son, H. Randolph executive VP, marketing. VP, live news programming. Holder Jr., president of Clarke Broadcasting Corp.; three At Bravo Networks, New Wendell Edwards, education daughters; and three grandchildren. York: Todd Tarpley, VP, reporter, WOOD -TV Grand interactive, A &E Television Rapids, Mich., named reporter, Networks, New York, joins as KHOU Houston. M -TV VP, interactive media; Greg Scorecard Collaborative, region domestic television Varhely, manager, interactive Technology Lincoln, Mass., joins as senior sales, Studios USA, New media, appointed director, Jeffrey Huppertz, VP, market- VP, global performance. York, joins as account Independent Film Channel, ing and business development, executive, New York. VOD /SVOD. ClearBand LLC, Schaumburg, Advertising /Marketing /PR Vivian Schiller, senior VP, Ill., named VP, North At National Cable Correction CNN Productions, Atlanta, American cable, OpenTV, Communications: Greg Gold- Chris Wegemer is VP, market- joins Discovery Civilization Mountain View, Calif. man, senior account ing, for LW'IN Global Channel, Bethesda, Md., as At Crown Castle executive, WAGA -TV Catholic Network, not GM. International, Houston: Jimmy Atlanta, joins as sales national marketing manager as Darren Metzger, director, R. Taylor, VP /GM, Texas manager, Atlanta; Jenne indicated in the May 20 issue. international home video and region, named president, Madayag, sales planner, San software, Nickelodeon/MTV spectrum site management, Francisco, promoted to P. Llanor Alleyne Networks, New York, joins Houston; Robert E. Paladino, account executive; Kristen [email protected] Hallmark Channel, New VP/global leader, Balanced Wenzel, manager, Northeast 212-337-7141

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manufacturer in 1984. His first job at Sony was product man- Homeward bound ager for broadcast monitors, building on the knowledge that After a year in France, Golson returns to broadcast technology he had gained at Barco. His first challenge: to take Dwring the past two decades, broadcast -technology man- the company's Trinitron tube ufacturing vet Chris Golson spent much of his time that was a hit with consumers earning his stripes as Sony's "format -war guy." He joined and get the TV engineering Sony in 1984, just as the Betacam format was rolling out, community to love it as well. and, in the 1990s, played a key part in Sony's battle with JVC and "It was hated by the networks Panasonic in a battlefield littered with half -inch tape formats. And because it hid all the problems even though he left the tape battles behind him when he joined with the signal," he recalls. "It server manufacturer Quantum in 2000 and now, at computer - made everything pretty when workstation and server manufacturer SGI, where he is senior direc- engineers wanted to see how tor, media industries, he is still the tape warrior. bad everything was." "For 15 years, we've been hearing about how tape is going to die And so Golson went to and be taken over by servers. That will never happen because tape Japan, where hundreds of has its place and servers have their place," he says. "What's hap- thousands of Trinitron sets Chris Golson pened is, servers have become firmly and reliably established, but were coming off the produc- Senior director, media tape also continues either in acquisition and backup archiving. industries, SGI tion line, in an effort to get There are some developments in laser recording, but, for now, I Sony to help with development B. June 18, 1952, Mexico City; of a professional monitor that B.A., history, Tufts University, would sell only in the hun- think tape will be around." Since he was 19, he has made 1974; Summer Management dreds: not an easy task. Program, Harvard Business He experienced something the United States home. The "I appealed to their engi- School; filmmaking, Emerson of a culture shock when he freedom here, he says, is what neering side and started point- College; national sales man- moved from video -centric made him stay. ing out defects in terms of ager, Barco, 1981 -82; East Sony to computer-centric com- He earned a degree in his- purity and linearity," he says. Coast sales manager, Elector, panies Quantum and SGI. tory at Tufts University and 1982 -84; product manager, "And I started to appeal to "What I've been able to then attended Emerson Col- broadcast monitors, 1984 -87, their intellectual side and get- learn is that all of the problems lege to become a filmmaker. Northwest regional sales man- ting them hooked on improv- of trying to integrate servers in He then moved to New York ager, 1987 -89, director, mar- ing the quality of the television the video world don't exist in with his girlfriend of the time. keting, 1989 -90, VP, display sets." the SGI world," he says. "If we She had aspirations of becom- products marketing, 1990 -92, Last year, Golson returned want to integrate our SGI ing a television reporter; he Sony; broadcast and production to Europe, renting a house on 1992 -98, VP, servers into servers from other aspired to be a filmmaker. marketing, the French Riviera to kick national sales, 1998 -99, VP, manufacturers, we don't need Tiring of the starving -artist back, relax and recharge. He marketing, 1999 -2000, Sony PCI [PC interface] boxes to thing, though, Golson found also fulfilled a dream of having Broadcast and Professional do that. We can do that seam- inspiration in his girlfriend's his father's papers established Group; VP, corporate lessly. is in His Ethernet our RS422 medium and found employ- marketing, Quantum, 2000 -01; in museums the region. connection." ment at Barco, a video- monitor current position since April; m. father landed in France during Golson was born in Mexico manufacturer. More than 30 Catherine, 1992; daughter Lisa World War H. City and spent the first 19 years years later, he's still in the Today, Golson is back in Sil- of his life in Europe because his industry, having spent 18 of ground that Golson acquired icon Valley and back in the father sold mining equipment those years at Sony. growing up came in handy industry he calls home. throughout Europe and Africa. The multicultural back- when he joined the electronics -Ken Kerschbaumer

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Rawle Moore /DIREQOa OF Floeoct /212- 463 -6445 Attention, GMs, news directors and sales managers. Go directly to http: /www.rtnda.org/. / EDITORIAL/NEW YORK Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 from an advertiser. Click on "ethics," then on Harry A. Jessell'Eono, IN CetEE /212- 337 -6964 P.J. Bednarski /fonte /212- 337 -6965 " RTNDA code of ethics." Read it. Post it. Follow it. Stephen McClellan 'Neon Eotroa /112.331 -7023 John M. Higgins "Omar EDUae /212- 337 -7024 Last week, a red -faced WBBH -TV Fort Myers, Fla., had to explain a flier sent to adver- Susan Oualtrough /MANetING (onmi /212-463 -6432 "a family Ken Kerschbaumer /ASstsraxr MANAGING FDITOO /212 -337-7011 tisers offering news story on you or your and how they have impacted Southwest Allison Romano /5tefr Weft(R/212- 337 -7027 Florida, which will air in the Monday -Friday 5 p.m. -6 p.m. newscast." The price: $5,000. Linda Moss /CONtfIDUr1NG Eotwaa/212 -463 -6592 P. Llanor Alleyne /Eonoaul Assis *Nï /2123377141

The explanation: Oops. Show of hands now. Who doesn't recognize that as an ethical DESIGN /NEW YORK van -TV Reno, Nev., Todd J. Gast /Ater DtRtcto. /212- 337 -7017 breach wide enough to drive your ENG through? Not KOLO appar- Miguel Romero/ASilsreer ART Dietcwe /212- 337 -7144 ently, which floated a similar flier with, coincidentally, a similar $5,000 price tag. EDITORIAL /WASHINGTON Donald V. West /Fonte At LARGE/202 -463 -3701 Less egregious, but also instructive, was WSTM -TV Syracuse, N.Y.'s, submission of a John S. Eggerton /DErun EottoI /202 -463 -3712 list its Dan Trigoboff /Scoisl Eotroa /301 -260 -0923 top -10 along with proposal for a three -year contract to air New York State Lottery Paige Albiniak /AsslsTaot Eottoe /202- 463 -3708 drawings. No. 2 on the list: "Positive special- events news coverage of lottery events." Just a Bill McConnell /Assister Eotroa /202 -463 -3706 Kim McAvoy /CONglaurtot EDtroM /540 -341 -4234 joke, said station management. Try just an embarrassing front -page story in the local news- Doris Kelly/Offre[ Masada/202 -463 -3711 paper driven by competitor's We would advise leaving the jokes Letterman. INTERNET/NEW YORK criticism. to Dave Levin /DUttioi or WEI Oruanoas/212 -463 -6736 Back when a Chattanooga station tried selling news time (and prompted our song par- ADVERTISING/NEW YORK Paul Andino/Pueuseieo Dtamma/212337-7111

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