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Shows that ABC has put on the air since new ownership took over the network in 1986, including MacGyver' (left) and Prime Time Live' (right/ may not always win their time period. But their lower costs (a trend reflected at the other networks) have proved a particular boon to the company as advertising expectations have also been lowered. Programing costs at ABC this year were projected at $1.9 billion, an im- pressive sum, but one that repre- sents an annual increase in real- dollar terms of only 1% annually since 1986. And if revenue growth returns, observers expect considerable upside because of the loweredprogram costs.

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By Geoffrey Foisie, ups and downs in the non -programing er way, how has the leadership at the Rich Brown and Joe Flint portion more or less balancing each three television networks controlled other out, programing costs have, it costs so well? The truth about programing costs would seem, increased very little, if at The lion's share of programing surprises even some network all. money still goes to Hollywood, but it is executives. Like outside observ- Several weeks ago, ABC made the now often targeted at less costly ers, they assume the programing bud- same revelation when Chief Execu- genres. During the 1985 -86 broadcast get is drawn ever upward by the pull tive Officer Dan Burke detailed the season, ABC had 50 hours of miniser- of a Cosby renewal, the bidding for a network's programing costs. Although ies- including two 12 -hour "novels for new sports contract or other big- ticket he intended to portray a network television" -compared with only 12 items. For the most part, the networks squeezed by costs, the facts Burke hours total in the 1990 -91 season. are happy to let stand that misimpres- presented showed instead that ABC's In the networks' salad days, there sion: in lobbying or negotiating it helps total programing costs since 1986 was also a richer mix of hour -long them play the aggrieved party more have increased at a compound annu- shows, including Dynasty, Dallas and convincingly. al rate of 3.9 %. Discounted for infla- other prime time soaps. Now, the gen- But the truth, according to some tion, that nominal -dollar increase - eral impression is that the types of recent evidence from the networks, is from $1.64 billion in 1986 to $1.98 shows being put forward are less am- that programing costs really have not billion in 1991 -amounts to a real - bitious. increased that much, if at all. First, dollar increase of only 1% per year. The low -cost genre is best repre- CBS senior vice president, finance, How can the networks square their sented by reality shows, in all day - Peter Keegan, told some station ex- tightly controlled budgets with their parts. In 1986, ABC was running, be- ecutives that, excluding sports rights complaints about budget- busting Hol- tween 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., a fees, total costs at the network since lywood contracts, sports rights fees sitcom, a game show and a daytime 1986 have been roughly flat. With the and news event coverage? Put anoth- soap. Either of the first two shows

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might have been comparable in cost ding wars. That still leaves 5% to 10% for an additional three years for about to the current infotainment offering of sports budgets represented by non - $7 million. The Home Show. But the incremental rights costs, but there, salaries are The reduction in staffing at the cost of the third half -hour of The being kept in check. For instance, news divisions has been well report- Home Show pales in comparison to second -team announcers no longer ed. NBC News has cut its staff from the soap that aired in 1986, Ryan's make $500,000 annually, said Jim approximately 1,300 in 1986 to about Hope. Bukata, senior vice president, produc- 1,000 today; the downsizing at CBS is For those expensive shows still tion, Trans World International. said to have been greater. Each of the airing, the networks admit to being Similarly, network news divisions network news divisions has lost about stingier on what portion of produc- have managed to keep costs down for 100 positions in the past year alone. tion costs they are willing to shoul- correspondents. A former top network Despite all their cost -containment der. Said William Klein, CBS Enter- executive said a number of those top success, one executive suite denizen tainment senior vice president for correspondents are making roughly says there is still a problem. Although business affairs: You hear howling 60% of what they were making five costs have been kept in check since and pain that network license fees years ago. If reports are correct that 1986, that earlier year was already haven't kept pace with costs. In fact, NBC last week renewed Bryant Gum - "too high a base." One consultant it is hard to argue strenuously with bel's contract for roughly the same who had access to ABC's financial that assertion." terms as before, then the networks statements said program costs in As for sports costs, it seems a nev- appear to be successfully keeping 1979 were only 64% of revenue. By er- ending truth that the best way to costs down on anchor salaries as 1987, they had risen to roughly three - avoid such costs is to stay away, as well. NBC News, it was reported, ex- quarters of net revenue, about where ABC has largely done, from the bid- tended the Today anchor's contract they remain today.

CAMERAS IN THE COURT SORT OF Rape coverage draws big audience; technical glitches mark opening days

By Rich Brown testimony continued throughout the week. The cable network on Monday As the William Kennedy Smith averaged a 1.1 rating and 3.1 share trial got underway last week, on a 24 -hour basis among cable NBC News had some unex- households, representing 625,000 pected company in revealing the iden- households. Its highest opening -day tity of the alleged rape victim in the rating was from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., when case. While NBC News stood by its the network attracted a 2.5/6.2, or controversial decision of intentionally 1.46 million viewers. identifying the woman, CNN acciden- WlllNm Kin ;th Trial CHIA. By Wednesday, CNN's ratings had tally revealed her identity through grown to a 1.7,5.3 on a 24 -hour basis,

some technical slip -ups. representing more than 1 million Identity of alleged rape victim was protect- The biggest problem in protecting homes. From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., the ed during live TV coverage that drew big the alleged victim's identity came from audiences for CNN and Court TV. network had a 5.1/11.4, representing a gray dot that was intended to cover more than 3 million homes. The the face of the woman as she testified has no allies on the issue. Wednesday ratings more than dou- last Wednesday. The dot had been "If the name is relevant in the story, bled the 0.7 rating that the network arranged by the court as a way of then we should have no hesitancy has averaged on a 24 -hour basis dur- shielding her image on the press pool about using it," said David Bartlett, ing the current quarter. feed. But National Teleproduction, the president, Radio -Television News Di- Court TV did not have ratings on its company that was brought in to oper- rectors Association. "I agree entirely gavel -to -gavel coverage because ate the dot, failed to keep up with her with [NBC News President] Michael Nielsen does not rate networks with movements and revealed her face to Gartner that we are in the news dis- under 10 million subscribers, accord- a national live audience via CNN. To semination business and not the ing to a spokesman for the cable net-

avoid further slip -ups, the cable net- news repression business. I am very work. But a Warner Cable system in work on Thursday covered the gray impatient about the journalist as soci- Cincinnati, which is able to monitor dot with a larger blue dot. ologist." audience viewing, reportedly showed CNN slipped earlier in the week by Press controversies aside, the trial Court TV ratings more than tripling the accidentally telecasting the alleged proved to be a boon for cable net- numbers it had shown during the pre- victim's name during trial coverage. works CNN and the fledgling Court vious week. Court TV, which is the Most media organizations, includ- TV. Both managed to draw away pool camera for the trial, has avoided ing CNN, have taken strong positions some of the weekday audiences with problems in revealing the alleged vic- in not identifying the alleged victim. their live coverage. tim's identity by blocking her image But that is not to say that NBC News CNN saw its audiences build as the with an electronic mosaic.

4 Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting 'CHECKBOOK THe Meek

JOURNALISM' THE TRUTH responsibility to supervise employes. ABOUT PROGRAM BOUNCES BACK COSTS / 3 FCC TO TAKE Despite the wide- OVER OVERCHARGE spread belief that CASES / 34 By Rich Brown program costs are The FCC is expected escalating out of this week to assert control, reports from The early testimony in the cele- the networks suggest jurisdiction over the lowest - brated rape trial of William Ken- they have managed enforcing unit- charge law, a nedy Smith last week was to reign in that expense. move that will pre -empt marked by the revelation that a key Substituting low -cost a plethora of witness had been paid $40,000 by the genres like reality shows lawsuits for relatively expensive candidate syndicated tabloid show A Current Af- broad- miniseries and hour -long against fair. Although the payment raised casters. The agency is dramas accounts for a questions in the courtroom about the also likely to adopt big part of the effort. credibility of the witness, it failed to new rules laying out bring out the usual industry corn - PG HEARING / 11 broadcasters' obligations in providing plaints that have been raised in the an FCC hearing .,,rratn á In candidates with past over "checkbook journalism." last week, 2 -ghz Broadcasters clinging "reasonable access" to Last week's revelation was met with microwave users to hope of flat retail sales the airwaves. surprisingly little criticism from media objected to allocation of this season (p.43). watchers, said David Bartlett, presi- spectrum to cable DREAMING dent of the Radio- Television News Di- television, telephone Malone's recent other industries OF A FLAT rectors Association. One problem in and comment that com- to launch speaking out against such practices seeking pression to the home CHRISTMAS / 43 personal communi- this low could be that the issue of compensa- should be available With year's cations services. in 18 to 24 months has projections for tion has become a sticky one, he said. Chairman Alfred sent a ripple through consumer holiday "Is there a substantive difference Sikes's response: "I'm the industry. The spending, broad- between paying $150 for a limo drive not sure that what timeframe is faster casters are hopeful or $40,000 for an interview? Yes, we have here is world - than many had thought, that retailers' ad about $39,850. But does that consti- ending in nature." and its an open spending will at least tute an ethical I'm not sure question as to whether match last year's. Some difference? NEWS AROUND I'm prepared to make that call," said programers will be stations are reporting Bartlett. THE CLOCK / 18 ready to fill the new that sales are slightly channels. up. A spokesman for A Current Affair CBS News unveiled plans to launch an would not confirm that the show had paid early- morning EBS MOVE TO $40,000 for exclusive rights interview STATION to newscast in early 1992, DIGITAL / 48 Anne Mercer, a friend of the alleged rape ADMONISHED FOR joining NBC and The second of six victim. "Sometimes we compensate for ABC in an anchored HOAX / 31 FCC regional stones of interest to the public, and in so overnight news The FCC has workshops on the doing, we are no different from any other business now characterized as Emergency Broadcast network or syndicated show of this type," dominated by CNN "spontaneous, System could shed said the spokesman. and All News Channel. isolated" the broadcast some light on costs and The announcement of a false murder effectiveness of Compensation remains a common with the coincides confession by KROQ -FM competing new EBS practice at syndicated shows, said Av network's cancel- Westin, executive producer, Inside Los Angeles last technology being lation of Night watch. year. The agency laid proposed for adoption. Edition. 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JUST SAY NO Taking firm and unprece- dented stance against FCC's broadcast indecency policy, Evergreen Media's WLUP(AM) Chicago informed agency last week it would not pay $6,000 fine for allegedly in- decent programing. "[N]one of the material broadcast is in- decent," it said. Refusal means if FCC wants to press case it will have to get Justice Depart- ment to sue Evergreen in federal court. "We certainly will pursue it," said FCC official. VIEWERS DRAWN TO PEARL HARBOR SPECIALS FULL WEEK FOR 'TODAY' Last week's glut of programing marking the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor As expected, NBC an- appears to have translated into a ratings success for television and radio nounced it will restructure its stations across the country (BROADCASTING, Dec. 2). Saturday morning children's While it was still too early at press time to know just how successful all the lineup, filling 8 -10 a.m. with networks were in attracting audiences to their Pearl Harbor specials, a two - Saturday Today, a seventh hour production by ABC News on Thursday won the night with a 24 share in the day of Today. Although not rul- overnight ratings. Regularly scheduled programing on NBC scored a close ing out the possibility of us- second with a 23 share during the 8 -10 p.m. period, while CBS lagged with a 14 ing animated programing on share. Saturday morning, the net- ABC's special, Pearl Harbor: Two Hours that Changed the World, was jointly work is counting on a strict line- produced with Japanese broadcaster NHK and featured host David Brinkley up of live- action programing (left). Other specials were scheduled on the actual anniversary of the bombing to attract children and teen- last Saturday, including CBS's Remember Pearl Harbor, cohosted by General agers. Saturday Today will H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Charles Kuralt (right). debut on Aug. 1, 1992. There had been some speculation that Japanese advertisers would be skittish about advertising on programing tied to the sensitive issue, and indeed For other late -breaking news, none appeared on the first of the specials on ABC. But even with the absence see "In Brief, "pages 72 -73. of Japanese advertisers, ABC was able to sell out advertising on the special by late November, according to a network spokeswoman.

NEWS DEPARTMENTS Business 42 Cable 28 The NBC three -day `workout Radio 31 Technology 48 Network agrees to clean up credits clutter, hold affiliates meeting Television 18 Top of the Week 3 By Geoffrey Foisie General Electric management prac- Washington 34 tice in which GE employes and cus- NBC last week conducted an in- tomers can make specific sugges- FEATURE SECTIONS tensive three -day "workout" tions on which GE management is Advertising/Marketing 43 session between top manage- required to make immediate yes -or- Bicoastal 19 ment and several score affiliate exec- no decisions. Attendees included the By the Numbers 60 utives that resulted in almost two doz- NBC affiliate board, members of the Changing Hands 47 en changes in operating procedure, promotion committee and the Closed Circuit 15 affiliate Datebook 50 some of which will be implemented marketing advisory group. Editorials 74 immediately. NBC President Bob Among the decisions made last Fates & Fortunes 68 Wright also gave a presentation he week was to hold a two- to three -day Fifth Estater 67 intends to repeat this week in a affiliates meeting in Washington in For the Record 61 closed- circuit telecast for all network March. Such a meeting had previous- In Brief 72 affiliates. ly been canceled. Monday Memo 71 The workout meeting, at the Ritz NBC also agreed to a proposal by Ratings Week 26 Carleton in Rancho Mirage, Calif., affiliates to reduce the length of end - was based on a several -year -old of -show credits as part of a larger ef-

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fort to reduce clutter. Some of the vertising, using its public service cam- that we still need more data and re- credits, said one of those attending paigns. But for now, Hudson added, search on societal views." the workout, are required by union Among the 20 or so decisions reached at the workout, contracts, but NBC said it would try to We will be putting more some will re- reduce the remainder. Said Pier quire more research, Mapes said. Mapes, president, NBC -TV: "We will programing time on in "There is a lot more data which needs be putting more programing time on in prime time just by trying to to be gathered, all strategic," he said. prime time just by trying to clean it up clean it up a little...." "It will take some time to get them a little, if we can." done." Betty Hudson, senior vice presi- Pier Mapes, president, NBC -TV Jim Waterbury, president and gen- dent, corporate communications, said eral manager of KwwL(TV) Waterloo, the network is considering taking an NBC would prefer to discuss and re- Iowa, was named chairman -elect of "aggressive" approach to condom ad- view the matter: "We have a sense the NBC affiliates board.

Sikes sees 'rollback' of network -cable ban Relaunch of rulemaking for relaxation or repeal of crossownership restriction expected this week

By Harry A. Jessell relax or repeal the ban at this Thurs- hand, Commissioner James Quello day's (Dec. 12) open meeting. may champion the cause of local sta- FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes pre- The FCC proposed and received tions opposing any modifications. dicted last week that the FCC's comment on repealing the ban three All the broadcast networks have upcoming review of the ban years ago but never acted. Then - been urging the FCC to repeal the against broadcast networks' owning Chairman Dennis Patrick favored re- ban, most recently in comments on cable systems will lead to a relaxation peal, but could not persuade either of the FCC's "attic -to- basement" review of the ban. his co- commissioners at the time, of all broadcast regulations (BROAD- "I certainly favor some relaxation," James Quello or Patricia Dennis, to CASTING, Nov. 25). But of the three, Sikes told reporters assembled in his go along with him. Capital Cities /ABC has been most ad- office last week (see story, page 36). In the upcoming reprise, Sikes may amant. "Modification of the rules "And it is through that proceeding that have an easier time finding a majority, would be in the public interest," said the determination will be made as to even though he is working with four Mark MacCarthy, vice president, gov- the level of relaxation," he said. "I other commissioners rather than two. ernment affairs, CapCities /ABC. think we will get some rollback." Commissioners Sherrie Marshall and Opposing change have been local Responding to pressure from the Ervin Duggan have indicated that they broadcasters, led by the networks' broadcast networks, the FCC is ex- may be willing to vote for at least a own affiliates. The networks have pected to relaunch a rulemaking to relaxation of the ban. On the other tried to win their affiliates over by promising various safeguards, but so far the affiliates are not buying. NIELSEN KIDS' MEASUREMENTS QUESTIONED Allied with the affiliates are the Na- Aconsortium of broadcasting, cable, programing, syndication and ad- tional Association of Broadcasters vertising agency executives met at ABC last week and has sent a and the Association of Independent letter to Nielsen Media Research questioning the validity of its measure- Television Stations. "People are view- ment system for children's viewing and asking for the company to look ing this as a network relief issue," into improving the system. Children's viewing according to Nielsen's said David Donovan, vice president, Television Index was off 12% in October and about 15% in September. legal and legislative affairs, INTV. "lt About 25 people attended the meeting including John Sias, president, is not. It is a cable concentration is- ABC Television Network Group. The meeting, according to some execu- sue. In all likelihood, cable MSO's tives, focused less on the viewing dropoff than on the long -term problems would acquire broadcast networks." that have plagued measuring it. "The frustration with Nielsen was as high Permitting network -cable crossown-

and broad as I have seen it," said one attendee, adding that "though the ad ership with safeguards would constitute agency people will deny it, not a single person came to bat for Nielsen." relaxation of the ban. In its FCC com- Although no one from Nielsen was invited to the meeting, the compa- ments, CapCities /ABC proposed limit- ny's presence was felt. During the meeting, a letter and data arrived from ing network ownership to systems serv- Executive Vice President John Dimling, defending Nielsen's measuring ing no more than 10% of all cable system. Nielsen said NTI data from November show viewing levels to be homes; requiring network -owned cable about equal to those of a year ago and said the reason for the recent systems to carry local broadcast sta- decline was a legitimate decline in viewership, not a "button- pushing tions and to give the stations channel - issue." Spokesman Jack Loftus said Nielsen would be `delighted" to positioning rights, and prohibiting net- discuss the issue and added that there is "no doubt" that children's works from bypassing broadcast viewing is the most difficult to measure. -iF affiliates in markets where they have cable systems.

10 Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting TOP OF THE WEEK PCs ALLOCATIONS DEBATED BEFORE FCC Public safety and business users doubt spectrum sharing

By Peter Lambert Warner Telecommunications Presi- dent and former FCC Chairman Den- Despite claims made at the FCC nis Patrick and National Association last Thursday, Dec. 5, that proof Regulatory Utility Commissioners posed personal communica- President Kenneth Gordon encour- tions services (PCS) threaten the reli- aged the FCC to swiftly allocate new ability of existing public and private and shared spectrum -including 2- AND ARLEDGE MAKES 21 ghz now those microwave services, FCC Chairman frequencies used by ABC News President Roone Ar- Alfred not PCS use. Sikes concluded, "I'm sure emergency services -for ledge last week became the 21st that what we have here is world -end- Joining Patrick and Gordon in en- "Broadcasting Hall of Fame" ing in the to open li- nature." couraging commission nominee to accept induction dur- If fell censing to all including cable Sikes's comment short of tip- comers- ing the magazine's 60th anniver- ping the hand how it and /or telephone companies commission's on -were sary celebration this week (Tues- will accommodate current and would - PCS proponents AT &T, Qualcomm day, Dec. 10) at the Mayflower be users of the 1- to 3 -ghz bands, he Inc. and American Personal Communi- Hotel in Washington. appeared to underscore the FCC's cations; the Rural Telephone Coalition; The entire first 60 honorees National Economic Research Asso- list is published today, beginning ciates, and minority venture capital in- on page 37 of BROADCASTING'S vestor Communications Syndicated anniversary supplement. Inc. Saying the cable industry is moving toward "a more sophisticated and ca- signal interference. Tests in Houston pable infrastructure," Patrick said with PCN America and review of Time Warner has no interest in even- spectrum sharing proposals "to date tually becoming an "alternative telco." have indicated that it is not possible to But given the FCC's categorizing PCS overlay any PCS -type modulation regu- as a service not subject to telco scheme over colocated microwave lation, he said, "we're very interest- paths," he said. ed." Bailey and Associated Public Safe- On the question of how PCS should ty Communications Officers spokes- be regulated, Patrick noted that regu- man B.E. Wenke also questioned lations such as a ban against PCS suggestions that voluntary frequency cells in residential St. Petersburg, migration will solve their problems, Time Warner's Dennis Patrick Fla. -where Time Warner is conduct- even given a proposal by American ing PCS tests -"is an example of the Personal Communications that PCS policy statement of two months ago: it kind of regulations that impede devel- licensees pay for their move. will authorize new and/or improved opment of services." Nothing, he said, Said Bailey: "If they would offer us mobile voice and data services. should inhibit the large investments it something in the 1- to 3 -ghz band, However, two of 11 afternoon wit- will take to get mobile voice and data there would be no problem. We can- nesses representing police, fire, utili- services off the ground. not go higher." Nor, he said, would ties and other 2 -ghz microwave users Left in glaring doubt by the end of a right -of -way requirements allow most objected to expedient allocation of day -long en banc hearing were microwave users to migrate to fiber- some spectrum to cable television, whether spectrum-sharing technol- optic interconnection. Moving, he esti- telephone and /or other industries ogies would prove effective in the field mated, would cost the nation's micro- seeking to launch PCS businesses. and whether, alternatively, PCS will wave users $4 billion -$7 billion. AT &T They warned the commission that operate effectively in bands outside and Qualcomm said tests of whether existing public safety and business in- the 1- to 3 -ghz range, which the mi- PCS can go higher, to 6 ghz, remain terests should not be forced to share crowave users said they cannot va- inconclusive. spectrum with "unproven technology" cate without compromising reliability. Projecting mass use of PCS, more that might interfere with microwave Carl Bailey, representing petro- jobs, and new domestic revenues signals. Nor, they said, should they be leum, railroad and utility company mi- from business and then consumer forced to relinquish their spectrum crowave users, disputed claims that markets, NERA Vice President without compensation, nor without code -division multiple access or time - Charles Jackson said the PCS alloca- other reliable frequencies instead. division multiple access technology tion "is the most important proceeding Yet witnesses as diverse as Time will allow spectrum sharing without before the commission."

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C [WI t4rnrrBrmJne 11IRidaR..anl TOP OF THE WEEK Fin -syn changes moving along By Harry A. Jesse!!

Assistant Attorney General James Rill told reporters in Washington last week that work on the Justice Department's rec- WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ommendation for modifying the finan- CC Commissioner Andrew Barrett (left) and newly appointed White cial interest and syndication consent I House Chief of Staff Samuel Skinner (right) have much in common. As decrees is on a "solid schedule." the 1974 photo suggests, they are, for instance, protégés of former Illinois We have ample staffing on it to Governor James Thompson (center). The photo was taken on the occa- move it along," Rill said prior to a sion of Barrett and Skinner being honored as two of Chicago's 10 speech sponsored by the Practising outstanding young citizens. At the time, Thompson was the U.S. attorney Law Institute and the Federal Com- for Chicago, Skinner was an assistant in his office and Barrett was head munications Bar Association. of the local chapter of the NAACP. According to Barrett, he and Skinner But Rill declined to predict when the have been friends since Barrett was a law student and intern in the U.S. recommendation would be issued, attorney's office in the early 1970's. As Bush's secretary of transportation, saying he did not want to lock the Barrett said, Skinner was instrumental in Barrett's appointment to the department into timetables. FCC in 1989 and reappointment a year later. Barrett is not the only He also declined to say what the apparent beneficiary of the White House shake up that put Skinner in and recommendation would say, although John Sununu out. Commissioner Sherrie Marshall may also be a winner: it is assumed, given Justice's com- Sununu was reportedly antagonistic toward her reappointment to the ments to the FCC, that it will call for FCC for her failure to toe the administration line on fin -syn. -au relaxing the decrees to conform them with the FCC's new fin -syn rules. Until then, the networks are effectively DIGITAL DEBUT barred from taking advantage of the General Instrument and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology new rules to acquire interest and syn- provided the first public demonstration of digitally compressed high - dication rights in some of their prime definition television transmission in Washington last week. As their Digi- time programing. Cipher -the first of four all- digital systems among six proponents -en- For some network lobbyists and tered testing at the Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC) in lawyers, Rill's comments confirmed Alexandria, Va., GI invited the press to view the results of real -time their back -channel reports that Jus- encoding and decoding via a backup system set up 12 hours earlier in its tice's action was forthcoming, possi- downtown Washington office. bly by the end of the month. "We see the United States in a leadership position, and we believe When the recommendation comes, it that, when testing is done, it will be obvious that HDTV is digital, now," will not be soon enough for the broad- said Robert Rast, vice president of HDTV business development for GI's cast networks. They asked Justice last VideoCipher Division. July to trigger the process for modifying Rast attributed the appearance of repeated, intermittent picture break- the decrees by issuing a recommenda- up during the 16 -by -9 display of a variety of HD materials to shipping, late tion to Los Angeles Federal District arrival and hurried setup of the compact, two -rack system late the previ- Court Judge Robert Kelleher, who has ous night. Overall, the images, including high- motion rodeo sequences, overseen the decrees since they were appeared artifact -free. He said the primary system at ATTC had pro- entered to settle antitrust suits against duced no similar breakup. In attendance, Keiichi Kubota, senior scientist the networks more than a decade ago. for NHK America, described the equipment as "very stable" and the After receiving comments from interest- pictures as "beautiful." ed parties, Kelleher will decide whether Proclaiming the dawn of digital TV, Rast said he believes a U.S. lead in and to what extent the decrees should HDTV will save research and development, not manufacturing, jobs. "I think be changed. high- definition revenues will be used to fund R &D in the United States in the The networks had hoped for prompt future," he said. As to FCC criteria for choosing among digital systems, Rast action so they could benefit from new said "it's possible that politics," including protectionism, "will play a part if fin -syn rules when making program there's no clear winner on the technology side." deals for 1992 -93 early next year.

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WASHINGTON meeting with the staff on a quarter- ly basis. SILENT TREATMENT FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes at a ATLANTA press conference last week declined TURNER NEWS the opportunity to endorse Com- missioner Sherrie Marshall for reap- Ted Turner, as always, is in the pointment next year. Asked wheth- news-or in this case, may be out of er he would endorse his fellow it. (1) Insiders say Dec. 21 looks Republican for another term, Sikes like the date for Turner -Fonda nuptials offered "no comment." That has been (it's her birthday), probably at his his standard response to reappoint- Montana ranch. (2) There's specula- ment questions involving others over tion he's in the running for Time the years, he said. Sikes and Mar- The Museum of Television and Radio in magazine's Man of the Year award, shall have been at odds more often New York hosted a reception last Monday although editors may have soured than not, and speculation has been (Dec. 2) celebrating Paradigm Entertain- on the choice as word spread. that Sikes would withhold endorsement's Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus. a made -for -TV movie that aired last SAN DIEGO ment or promote his own candidate Sunday on ABC. Hosting the celebration for the slot. was I. Martin Pompadur (at right), chair- METER READ man, president and CEO of RP Compa- nies, his wife, Marian Pompadur, and ac- Look for Nielsen Media Research IMPORTANT OMISSIONS tor Richard Thomas, who starred in the to make San Diego the newest metered movie. RP Companies provided limited market. The ratings service has al- The FCC's new political broadcast- partnership financing for Paradigm. ing rules, headed for likely adoption ready signed tcNSD(TV) and XETV(TV) this Thursday (see story, "Top of and may have a third customer as the Week "), are also significant for wally. NBC found that about 80% early as this week. Service is expected what they will not do. First, they of its affiliates had been pre- empting to be up and running by November will not prohibit stations licensed to the 30- second update and adjacent 1992. corporations from giving away ad 30- second network promotional spots time to candidates. Lack of that prohi- to insert their own local news up- SACRAMENTO bition reflects the Federal Election dates. NBC has opted to float the 30- LESS IS MORE Commission's inability to decide second promotional spot at various whether such give -aways constitute points during the hour, a move that Entering its first major sweeps test illegal campaign contributions. Sec- has not endeared it to the many since rolling back its prime time line- ond, rules will not impose tough or NBC affiliates that can no longer pre- up to 7 -10 p.m. (PT) last Septem- elaborate requirements for identifying empt the network at the top of the ber, KCRA -TV's earlier 10 p.m. news- sponsors of negative ads. Such re- hour. The move was a topic of discus- cast averaged a 10.9 rating and 20 quirements, of on -screen letters and sion at the NBC affiliate meeting share (NSI, Oct. 31 -Nov. 27) Mon- images of certain size and duration, last week. days through Fridays during the were advocated by People for the November sweeps, dropping 29% of American Way. However, rules its share and about half a rating GETTING TOGETHER will note that candidates who adhere point compared with its 11 p.m. But to PAW's guidelines can be assured In a meeting last Friday with na- that is far from the whole story. of having met basic identification re- tional and foreign correspondents, Ste- According to a syndication re- quirement. phen Weiswasser, executive vice search analyst, the station still grosses president, ABC News, said his job double its normal advertising reve- was not to implement cuts but that nue, since the cost per point for local NEW YORK he could not guarantee that there spot in prime time is $232, com- would not be more cuts, according pared with the $111 per rating point at TAKE FROM THE TOP IT to sources at the network. The num- 11 p.m. By achieving close to an NBC News last week quietly ber -two man at ABC News since 11 rating, the analyst said, the station dropped all top-of -the -hour network Oct. 2 has recently embarked on a se- could gross (before agency com- news updates in a move that is ex- ries of meetings with the network's missions) $30,624 per newscast or pected to save the division several an- news staff, expressing an interest in $10.3 million for the season.

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AND CBS MAKES IT THREE IN OVERNIGHT NEWS Network will launch anchored live service early next year, joining ABC and NBC; `Nightwatch' is canceled, 50 plus laid off in Washington

By Rich Brown scheduled to launch on Jan. 6, 1992. ABC executives are anticipating that After months of hemming and affiliates representing more than 80% hawing on its plans to enter the of the country will pick up the broad- overnight live news race, CBS n cast, with most stations carrying two- News has unveiled an early morning and-a-half to three hours nightly. Firm newscast scheduled to launch in late commitments from affiliates are ex- February or early March 1992. Their pected this week. entry marks the latest in the increas- "It's going to look and feel like a ingly crowded overnight news busi- new broadcast from ABC News," ness, which just last month saw the said David Bohrman, executive pro- launch of a new service by NBC ducer, World News Now. "We have a News. lot of airtime and we can try new ways The launch of the as-yet -untitled of doing things." CBS broadcast coincides with the can- Bohrman said World News Now cellation of the nine -year -old Night - will resemble ABC News shows while watch and the recution of more than at the same time making a mark of its 50 positions in the Washington bu- own. He added there will be a "strik- reau. There are roughly 20 Nightwatch Now joined by CBS and ABC, NBC was ing difference" between the ABC editorial staffers and 30 technicians at first with an anchored overnight news ser- News telecast and NBC Nightside, CBS's Washington production facili- vice. Above: NBC News Channel President which he described as a very generic- ty, which will now house only the Bob Horner with anchor Sara James. looking broadcast. Face the Nation broadcast. The launch of NBC Nightside has Nightwatch, which was reportedly los- had some effect on the number of ing more than $3 million a year, will part, which has provided ample oppor- clearances for All News Channel, ac- be seen in reruns up until the launch of tunity for such competing news serv- cording to vice president and general the new service. ices as All News Channel and CNN. manager Charles Dutcher. But while As planned, the new overnight CBS NBC News, the first of the three the news service has lost hours at such broadcast will be based in New York broadcast networks to launch an over- stations as KXAS -TV Dallas and KPRC- and will air Monday through Friday night anchored news service, last TV Houston, it has also picked up new from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. ET. Unlike the month averaged a 0.7 rating in its ini- hours in the last month at stations in- prerecorded Nightwatch, the new CBS tial three weeks of NBC Nightside. cluding KCNS -TV San Francisco and broadcast will feature both live news The rating outpaced the 0.4 rating wGNX -TV Atlanta. At least one sta- and taped reports. No staffmg for the scored by CBS's Nightwatch as well tion, WFLA -TV Tampa, Fla., is running broadcast had been announced at press as the 0.2 CNN rating and the 0.1 both NBC Nightside and All News time. Headline News rating during the 2-6 Channel as well as CNN. Overnight news launches are costly a.m. period. All News Channel now supplies for the networks-ABC executives "The news audiences are changing overnight news to roughly 65 markets have estimated their upcoming overall the time, and we're going into dif- representing almost 30% of U.S. night service will cost more than $10 ferent dayparts where the audiences households. Part of All News Chan- million to launch and more than $3 are," said Don Browne, executive nel's ability to maintain stations in the million in annual operating costs-but vice president, NBC News. "It's go- face of new competition might be tied an increasing number of stations ing to be competitive, there's no ques- to its new all -barter policy, which, across the country have shown interest tion about it." beginning in January 1992, will allow in providing news during the daypart. ABC News in about two weeks will stations, in most cases, to switch to The network news divisions until now begin rehearsals on World News Now, barter as their contracts come up for have been slow to commit to the day- an anchored overnight news service renewal.

18 Television Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting Broadcastingx

Founder and Editor Sol Telsboff (1904-1982) 1705 DeSales Street NW. Wasnington. OC 20036 Phone 202.659.2340 up with the TV set Editorial Fax 202-429 -0651 c Administrative Fax 202331 -1732 a Advertising Fax 202- 293.3278 e,,ing Burbank to Sixth Ai, Lawnrroe B. Talahof, chairman from David Persson, publisher Editorial Donald V. West, senor vice president and editor Mark K. Miller, managing editor Harry A. Jewell', senior editor Kira Greene, John S. Eggerton, assistant managing editors Calculated move de possibly as early as sion, is close to finishing Washington "The NBC numbers spring 1992. A pilot is be- a deal to become VP, Randall M. Sukow, Peter D. Lambert (technology), Patrick Watson, 'ssistant editors keep coming up too high- lieved to be completed general sales manager, Patrick J. Sheridan. Janet Sullivan, John Gallagher, I it must be under Meidel. Another ;raft enters think for sales presentations. Marsha L. Bell, editorial assistant rigged." That was how WBDTD had no com- name making the rounds David R. Borueki, art director David Poltrack, se- ment. is Paramount's Dick Denise P. Smith, Kenneth Ray, production. nior VP, planning and re- Montgomery, senior VP, New York search, CBS, reacted Western regional sales 630 Third Ave.. 10017.212- 599- 2830:Fax 212.599 -2837 is to Geoff Foote, chief correspondent to receiving a calculator Ship ahoy manager, who said Stephan McClellan, chier correspadent (Programing/ sent him last week by According to an INTV be in position for a Rich Brown, Joe Flint, Sharon D. Moshev', assistant editors. his counterparts in NBC official, Viacom plans to similar post at Twentieth. Hollywood research. The gift was take advantage of its 7680 N Vine St. 90028. 213 -463.3148. Fax 213.463.3159 bayside INTV locale (San prompted by Poltrack's Meanwhile, on the Steve Co., assistant editor prediction two weeks Francisco, Jan. 8 -10) Mike Freeman, staff writer. Paramount front, New E. radio (West by underwriting a night- Reed Bunzel, editor Coast). 408.625-3076 ago (with two days re- York rep sources say time excursion for 700 Advertising maining in the Novem- Joel Berman, senior VP, ber sweeps) that guests Jan. 10 on the New York CBS national sales manag- 212. 599 -2830 could tie NBC with a "San Francisco Spir- Lawrence W. er, will be promoted to Oliver, advertising director a 150-foot yacht op- Leslie Lllllen Levy, marketing services director strong finish. According it," executive vice presi- Joseph E. Ondrick. Last Coast regional sales manager to Poltrack the NBC erated by Pacific Ma- Randi T. Schatz, sales manager dent, general sales manag- rine Cruises out of San Joan Miller, executive secretary executives spoiled the sur- er, filling the vacancy Sandy Bacchus, anvearsing assistant. Francisco Bay. prise in their haste to to be created by Meidel's Hollywood generate publicity. 213- 463 -3148 "They departure early next Nancy J. Logan, West Coast sales manager must have contacted Sandra Klausner, editorial-advertising assistant year. some of the New York pa- Coming Si goings Washington 202 -6592340 pers right after they In firming up the sales Doris Kelly, sales service manager In the wake of Pine - Mitzi Miller, classified advertising manager sent it because I got some ranks at Twentieth Televi- lands Inc.'s laying off a Advertising Representatives phone calls from re- sion, Chairman Lucie dozen WWOR -TV staff- Lewis Edge & Associates (Southern regional and porters asking me about it Salhany continues to tap East Coast equipment. 609- 683.7900 Fax 609 -497-0412. before I received it," into her connections at ers, including program di- Dave Bedyn It Associates: 914 -631 -6468 Yukarl Media Inc. (Japan) (06) 925.4452. he said. Poltrack may get Paramount Domestic rector Farrell Meisel, Fax (06) 925.5005 the last laugh, howev- Television, according the station is said to be Business er; he remains confident to sources. Following the looking at the New Philippe E. Boucher, vice president and controller. CBS will unseat NBC appointment two York station's current VP, Circulation in the year-end prime time weeks ago of Paramount's program development, 8003234345 ratings race. general sales manager, Bob Woodruff, to take P O. Box 715. Brewster. N Y 10509-9873 Greg Meidel, as president over PD responsibil- Fax - 914.878 -7317 Talk talk of Twentieth's syndi- ities. One source close to Production the said Although The Jenny cation division, word has independent Harry Stevens, production manager. Woodruff has been active- Debra D. Funkhouser, production assistant Jones Show is the rookie it that Buena Vista ly in pro- Corporate Relations and sole member of its Television's VP, Eastern involved graming as well as pro- Patricia A. Vance, director syndicated talk show fold, regional sales manager Warner Bros. Domes- Ken Solomon, who was duction; WWOR -TV has Broadcasting & Cable Market Place tic Television Distribution at Paramount when expanded its news pres- (formerly The Broadcasting Yearbook) ence and produces The is looking to expand its Salhany was president of Editorial Howard Stern Show. 908- 464 -6800 talk portfolio. WBDTD the syndication divi- Circulation has scheduled appoint- 1- 800521 -8110 ments with New York rep Advertising 212 -599.2830 firms and stations for its latest talk project fea- CAHNERS CONSUMER /ENTERTAINMENT turing former wcAU -Tv PUBLISHING DIVISION Philadelphia talk show John J. Beni, senior vice presidenegenerai manager. Neil Perlman, senior vice president/group publisher host Jane Whitney. Lawrence B. Talshoff, adviser According to rep sources, CAHNERS PUBLISHING COMPANY Warner Bros. is going Terries M. McDonnell, president/chief operating officer. to pitch stations for initial REED PUBLISHING (U.S.A.) INC. 13 -week commitments Robert L KrakeK, chairmanichief executive officer. to test drive the talk vehi- Viacom plans to roll on the river ha New Orleans

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Television 19 NBA SWEEPS NOVEMBER, BUT ABS WINS WEEK `Wizard of Oz' and `Shrunk the Kids' fail to draw large audiences, but `E.T.' scores big

By Steve Coe well. If those two had done 14 ratings CBS also notched an uncharacteris- and if NBC came down comparative- tic Friday night win, beating ABC to In concluding the most hotly con- ly, we could have tied. The last time the kid- and -teen audience by schedul- tested November sweeps in histo- 'The Wizard of Oz' aired it did a 14.8 ing a special airing of Rudolph the ry, NBC outdistanced second - rating, so it wasn't out of the realm of Red -Nosed Reindeer from 8 to 9, place CBS by three- tenths of a rating possibility," he said. which averaged an 11.6/21, followed point and came out six -tenths of a Instead, `Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' by Circus of the Stars & Side Show, rating point ahead of third-place ABC. averaged a 12.6/19 on Tuesday Nov. which pulled in a 12.3/22 from 9 to The final Nielsen tabulations had NBC 26, and 'The Wizard of Oz' averaged 11. winning its seventh consecutive No- a 12.3/21 on Wednesday, the last day NBC was quick to point out that, vember sweeps with a 13.2 rating and of the Nielsen -monitored sweeps. like the entire season, CBS's perfor-

21 share, while CBS averaged a Although the performance of the mance for the week of Nov. 25 -Dec. 1 12.9/21 and ABC finished with a two movies was not good enough to was generated by special programing. 12.6/20. Overall, the three networks boost CBS past NBC in the sweeps, Between specials and movies slotted showed a 2% increase this November those movies along with specials and on nights usually scheduled with se- versus a year ago. the network debut of `E.T. the Extra- ries, CBS aired nine -and -a -half hours David Poltrack, senior vice presi- Terrestrial' propelled CBS to its sev- of special programing in the week dent, planning and research, CBS, enth weekly ratings win of the 11- compared to NBC's two hours and who with two days remaining in the week-old season. ABC's one. sweeps predicted that CBS could tie 'E.T.' pulled in an 18.4/34 from 8 Through 11 weeks of the season, NBC, said the weaker -than- expected to 10:30 on Thanksgiving night, lead- CBS's lead remains more than a full performance of two CBS movies ce- ing CBS to a 16.7/31 average for the rating point ahead of NBC. CBS's av- mented the network's second -place night, dwarfing second-place NBC's erage is a 14.0/23, followed by NBC's fmish. "Neither 'The Wizard of Oz' 9.0/17. ABC and Fox tied for the 12.7/21, and ABC's 12.2/20. Fox is nor 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' did night with a 7.4/14. averaging a 7.7/13.

It's a fact. Three's Company is one of only two For each new generation of kids, every sitcoms to remain in the top ten among syndicated is first run. sitcoms for 28 consecutive sweeps. For millions of adults, it's still their all -time favori How does it do it? Simple. Every season, the program. Three's Company audience re- generates itself! And for stations across the country it's 222 half For millions and millions of teenagers, it's "this hours of pure, audience -grabbing laughter! season's" newest hit. ORBIS CHANGES ITS NAME TO CAROLCO TELEVISION `Terminator 2' is big ticket in new film package; syndicator outlines offerings for fall 1992

By Mike Freeman marketed Carolco V straight -cash movie package. Following through New York -based Orbis Commu- with a standard pay -per-view (on Re- nications is changing its name quest and Viewer's Choice PPV ser- to Caro lco Television (its parent vices) window in January 1991, then is Carolco Pictures) and putting to- pay cable (Showtime) and network gether its biggest ticket movie package (ABC) windows, "T2" will trigger in to date, led by the big hit "Terminator syndication June 1998. The station 2: The Judgment Day" and a batch of trigger date is in close proximity to the new first -run specials and series. date Warner Bros.' Volume 29 re- Hilary Hendler, who was installed leases its 1989 hit theatrical "Bat- as president and CEO of then -Orbis man." Communications earlier this year Hendler stressed that "stations, (BROADCASTING, July 1) says the rather than the syndicator, will pick name change to Carolco is intended to the other titles from our library and "better emphasize the Carolco con- will tailor [Carolco Vi to their needs," nection." citing recent Carolco Pictures titles "Terminator 2" (starring Arnold such as "L.A. Story" (Steve Martin), Schwarzenegger), which has grossed "Rambling Rose" and "Basic In- over $400 million worldwide since its stinct" as among the available theatrical release last summer, is choices. After a station committee The big gun in Carolco's (nee Orbis) movie clearly the big name draw of the newly packages the titles, Hendler says the package: "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" other reason.

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Saurs- Nrisen Cassandra Aonkng Roporra Nov. 1982 -16 1989. 1991 LAI Fnteno.nme ^. Ltd rgnR add, rani ence in New Orleans in January. Carolco TV is also placing a new as early as spring 1993. Barren Films On the first-run horizon for the syn- emphasis on made -for -TV product, will also be producing Tracks of Glo- icator is the fall 1992 weekly Country- with Singapore Sling, a two-hour de- ry, a four -hour miniseries telling the line USA, a half -hour barter series tective telefilm to be shot on location story of Marshall "Major" Taylor, an showcasing some of Nashville's up- in Singapore by Barren Films of Aus- Olympic cyclist who won a medal at and- coming singing talent. Hendler tralia. If the all -barter presentation the turn of the century. Glory is sched- says that an 800 -number request line generates sufficient ratings, Hendler uled to trigger just prior to the 1992 will allow viewers to choose their fa- says that production on 22 first -mn Summer Olympics in Barcelona next vorite songs. episodes could begin for distribution July. A high -profile venture with NBC Productions will have Carolco TV handling the distribution of several CLASTER PUTS ON THE 'DAWG' specials under the title Untold Stories, with two -hour specials focusing on Animated first -run strip targeted for fall '92 aviator Amelia Earhart and silent movie star Charlie Chaplin, the latter project timed to coincide with Carolco By Mike Freeman is purely comedic, completely nonvio- Pictures' Chaplin movie bio being lent. In the same way that 'Who produced by Richard Attenborough. Ctaster Television is looking to re- Framed Roger Rabbit ?' revived the The teaming with NBC Productions, vive the "squash and stretch" notion that you can safely portray a which has been aggressively produc- cartoon genre of such classic car- rabbit getting his arm stuck in a door ing syndicated series for LBS Com- toons as Road Runner, Tom & Jerry or crushed by a safe, we feel Stunt munications (on Memories) and and Bugs Bunny with its new syndicat- Dawgs can achieve the same effect Rysher Entertainment (Saved by the ed Stunt Dawgs. Bragging the partici- with light -handed cartoon humor." Bell), is a first for Carolco Television. pation of veteran stunt specialist and The concept of a cartoon devoted to Hendler says other specials on slate director Hal Needham ( "The Longest the antics of Hollywood stuntmen, include Motown Merry Christmas and Yard," "Smokey and the Bandit I & Claster says, came from Needham and Country Christmas for December II "), Claster Television will be offer- was pitched to Franklin- Waterman 1992, and an Academy Awards Pre- ing the first -run strip for fall 1992 Co., which is headed up by Jeff Fran- view special cooinciding with the syndication on a straight barter basis. kin. Franklin, who has brought the March 1993 awards ceremony. "The whole tone of these cartoons remastered animated Casper cartoon Is there ever eno

From the East Coast to the West Coast... on ten hour -long Benny Hill Specials, independents and affiliates alike, viewers are and one outrageous two -hour extrava- always ready to watch Benny Hill. ganza, The Crazy World of Benny Hill. Now you can give them what they want by And when that's done, simply start all playing 111 fresh -as -a -daisy half- hours, over again! finalizing a deal with a Los Angeles - Targeting 7 -8:30 a.m. morning slots based animation house. Claster Tele- and 3:30 -5:30 p.m. early -fringe slots, vision, which is a division of Hasbro Claster will offer the series to stations Toys, is budgeting production at on a 2- minute national/4- minute local $275,000 -$300,000 per episode, ac- barter split in the fourth quarter, 3/3 in cording to Claster, which translates to the first and third quarters and 2.5/3.5 $12 million for 40 original episodes. in the second quarter.

TOP MARKET INDIES MAKE GAINS IN SYNDICATED SWEEPS In New York and Los Angeles, programing in key early fringe and access helps fuel year-to -year improvement

By Mike Freeman pendent stations continued to register gains with successful counterprogram- Using year-to -year time period ing in key early -fringe and prime ac- Claster Television's 'Stunt Dawgs' gains in the top two markets as cess dayparts. a barometer, independent sta- CapCities/ABC -owned stations series to Claster, again looked to the tions showed more significant growth maintained their domination of the af- Timonium, Md. -based syndicator to than their affiliate counterparts in the filiate ranks but, on the whole, Fox - distribute the series. just completed November syndicated and Tribune Broadcasting -owned in- Flint Dille, who most recently sweeps. dependent stations scored the most wrote the script for the animated fea- Network O &O's in the nation's top significant year-to-year sweeps gains. ture "An American Tail: Fievel Goes two markets -New York and Los An- The following is an analysis of the West," is writing the bible for the geles- posted little or no sign- on -to- November sweeps ratings race in series, and Claster says he is close to sign-off ratings growth, while inde- those markets. (All metered ratings h Benny? Never!

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A V A I L A B L E P R O M THE BENNY HILL SHOW® DON FF N A comic phenomenon. Produced by FROM DLT-WHERE THE LAUGHS LAST. ENTERTAINMENT LTD. THAMES (212) 245 -4680 (213) 937-1144 INTERNATIONAL 1991 DLL Eme rainTP Ltd All gM1A roxrved y are from the Nielsen Station Index Filling the 4-5 p.m. slots on WCBS, [NSI].) King World's Candid Camera (1.8/5) LAUGH TIME and Inside Edition (2.7/7) turned in New York 160% and 85% rating declines post - nbune Entertainment is plan- Tribune's wptx(TV) measured the larg- Geraldo, respectively. In prime ac- Wing on offering an hour-long est gains in the market, a 20% im- cess, Columbia's Married... with Chil- weekly, The Apollo Comedy provement over November 1990 rat- dren (8.7/15) and Viacom's The Hour spinoff from Tribune's ings, with a 4.9 rating/12 share sign- -a Cosby Show (9.6/16) posted 33% and syndicated weekly variety series on/sign -off just overtaking Fox's 25% share increases for wwoR's sec - Showtime at the Apollo -for syn- ww(TV) (4.5/11, itself up 2% over ond- ranked 7 -8 p.m. slots. dication in fall 1992. The latest year -ago ratings). Pinelands Inc.'s su- Key morning gains were made by Apollo incarnation will showcase perstation, wWOR -TV, dropped 3% NYW's Good Day New York at 7 -9 stand -up comedians, and will be from year -ago ratings with a bottom- a.m. (3.4/15), increasing its rating hosted by actress Phyllis Stick- 48% over last year, while KABC bene- ranked 3.7/9. ney. WABC -TV again yielded a top -ranked Erred from Buena Vista's Live with Re- 8.0/20 sign -on/sign -off average, but gis & Kathie Lee's (7.9/33, a 33% experienced a slight decline versus its with a 3.7/14 in the latest sweeps, but rating increase) and Multimedia's Sal- year -ago average (8.1/21). The ABC the hour talk show was down 26% ly Jessy Raphael's (8.1/32, up 27 %) O&O, nonetheless, had 36% higher from its showing on the network O &O year- to-year improvements at 9 -11 ratings than second -place WCBS -TV a year ago (5.0/13). In the 3 -5 p.m. a.m. The talk show increases spilled (5.9/15, down 3% from November slots, the four -program Disney After- into early fringe, with Paramount's 1990). WNBC -TV dropped 2% of its noon kids block posted an 8% share The Maury Povich Show second - rating average with a 5.7/14. increase with a 4.7/13, which helped ranked 4.9/14 providing VNBC with a Much of wPix's upward surge was wPtx's 5 -7:30 p.m. sitcom block real- 20% rating increase at 4 p.m. and due to a solidifying of morning and ize a 15% share increase with an lead -in muscle for Multimedia's Don - afternoon time slots. By slotting Tri- 8.0/15. Warner Bros.' Full House ahue (6.1/15, up 33 %). However, bune Entertainment's Geraldo, which topped out the winning independent King World's The Oprah Winfrey WCBS originally had in its 4 p.m. slot block with a 9.7/18, a 63% improve- Show tightened its grip on the 4 p.m. last season, wPrx realized a 75% rat- ment over 21 Jump Street in the 6 hour, registering a top -ranked ing improvement in its noon time slot p.m. slot last season. 12.2/31, a 15% increase for KABC. Welcome to th

Why take a chance when you can take Too young adults, and an unusually large share of men, Close For Comfort' This superbly produced making it an ideal player for early or late fringe. ensemble comedy, starring Ted Knight and Nancy Too Close For Comfort: great programming Dussault still delivers solid ratings wherever it's flexibility, perfect demos, and the durability that programmed. comes with outstanding production values! Year after year, it attracts large numbers of Los Angeles Copy (9.7/15), which improved 37% on Year- to-year sweeps gains were non- FIRST -RUN BYRON ET's lead -in for WNC. Tribune Enter- existent for the network O &O's, tainment's Now It Can Be Told stum- KABC -TV held on to the sign- on/sign- Talk show host Byron Allen's bled for KTLA with a bottom- ranked off crown with a 6.1/15, followed by BYCA Television Distribution 4.9/8 (down 20% in rating), but Full KNBC-Tv's 5.9/15 and KCBs -TV's company will expand production House improved 55% over its lead -in 5.1/13. Tribune -owned KTLA(TV)'s on The Byron Allen Show from with a third-ranked 7.6/12 at 7:30. 4.1/10 was tops among independents, weekly syndication to first -run Full House's lead -in from access making an 8% rating gain; Fox O &O stripping in fall 1992. The talk may have been a key contributor to KTrV(TV)'s 3.8/10 represented a 3% show will be sliced down to a KTLA's 8 -10 p.m. prime time movie increase; Chris -Craft/United TV's half -hour and will continue to be block, whose fourth- ranked 8.7/13 av- KCOP(TV) dropped 8% of its rating offered on a barter basis for late erage was up 13% from last season. with a 3.3/8 clocking; and Disney - night. Byrne Enterprises has been That also led KTLA's hour newscast to owned KCAL(TV) turned in a 12% im- named to handle national barter move up 14% with a 4.9/9. The Tri- provement with a 2.8/7. advertising sales. bune station's recently launched 7 -9 The major highlight in L.A. was a.m. newscast also improved 11% KT rV's vast improvement in the 6:30- gain with a fourth -ranked 7.1/11. with a fifth- ranked 2.0/8 average. 8 p.m. prime access slots. Sister divi- For the other contenders, the prime Despite continuing to rank seventh sion Twentieth (Fox) Television's access race was extremely tight, with in the market with its 8 -11 p.m. news- Studs kicked off access with a third - King World's Wheel of Fortune casts, Disney's KCAL continued to ranked 6.5/11, a 57% increase over (9.6/15) and Jeopardy! (11.5/17) atop climb with a three -hour 3.4/9 average, year-ago programing. At 7 p.m., 7 -8 p.m. for KCBS, each posting respec- up 17% over last season's rookie KTTV hit the jackpot, with Columbia's tive 17% and 14% year- to-year gains. newscasts. In the affiliate news race, Married... with Children winning the K -W's other syndicated strips, Inside KABC maintained its hold, with its 4- time period with a 9.9/16 average, a Edition (7.3/12) and Candid Camera 6:30 p.m. news block (7.1/16 aver- 129% rating surge over November (6.6/10), each posted 1% and 20% age) winning each half -hour except 6 1990's tracking of M'A'S'H. Howev- gains in KAC's access slots. Para - p.m. However, KNBC continued to er, Twentieth's A Current Affair mount's Entertainment Tonight hold the winning hand at 11 p.m., dropped 28% of its Married lead-in, (7.1/11) dropped 16% of its year-ago with its newscast averaging a 7.3/19, but nonetheless turned in an 8% year ratings, followed by the studio's Hard down 4% from last year. omfort Zone.

NAVE BOOTH #381

A V L A B E F R O M TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT DON TAFFNER'S There's safety in winning numbers.

FROM DLT-WHERE THE LAUGHS LAST. DIV ENTERTAINMENT (212) 245 -4680 (213) 937 -1144 LTD. 1991011fnk.Miim,M LW. All ripM.rwr.M. Broadcasting's Ratings Week M Nov 25 -Dec 1

MONDAY 13.7/20 18.3/27 16.1/24 NO PROGRAMING 13. Evening Shade 16.0/24 14. Fresh Prince 15.8/24 8:00 66. Young Riders 8.1/12 8:30 11. Major Dad 16.5/24 20. Blossom 13.7/20 2. Murphy Brown 21.0/30 9:00 17. NFL Monday Night 10. NBC Monday Night 9:30 Football -San Francisco Movies -A Mother's 49ers at Los Angeles Rams 26. Memories of M *A *S *H 10:00 Justice 16.7/25 14.3/24 18.8/29 10:30 TUESDAY 15.6/25 12.3/19 13.1/20 NO PROGRAMING 8:00 7. Full House 17.6/27 Fly Away 26. CBS Tuesday Night 34. I'll 12.0/18 8:30 8. Home Improvemt 17.4/26 Movie-Honey, I Shrunk the 9:00 3. Roseanne 19.5/29 Kids 12.6/19 21. In the Heat of the Night 9:30 9. Coach 17.2/26 13.6/20 10:00 21. Law and Order 43. Homefront 10.9/19 35. Rescue: 911 11.8/20 10:30 13.6/23 WEDNESDAY 10.1/17 11.0/19 14.1/24 NO PROGRAMING 8:00 42. Dinosaurs 11.1/19 55. Brooklyn Bridge 9.1/15 11. Unsolved Mysteries 44. Doogie Howser 10.8/18 60. Royal Family 8.5/14 8:30 16.5/28 9:00 45. MTV 10 10.7/18 9:30 31. CBS Movie Special - 28. Seinfeld 12.5/21 10:00 The Wizard of Oz 12.3/21 57. Civil Wars 8.6/15 41. Quantum Leap 11.2/20 10:30 THURSDAY 7.4/14 16.7/31 9.0/17 7.4/14 49. Cosby 10.4/21 62. Slmpsons 8.4/17 8:00 85. Pros and Cons 4.5/9 54. A Diffnt. World 9.5/18 78. Drexell's Class 6.3/12 8:30 5. CBS Movie Special - 9:00 80. FBI: Untold Stories 5.9/11 E.T.: The Extra -Terrestrial 47. Cheers 10.5/19 73. Beverly Hills 90210 18.4/34 9:30 76. American Detect. 6.9/12 57. Wings 8.6/15 7.4/13 10:00 39. Primetime Live 11.4/22 71. L.A. Law 7.5/15 10:30 57. Brooklyn Bridge 8.6/18 FRIDAY 10.6/19 11.6/21 4.9/9 8:00 36. Family Matters 11.6/21 36. Rudolph, the Red -Nosed 79. Simpsons 6.0/11 8:30 45. Step By Step 10.7/19 Reindeer 11.6/21 85. Charlie Hoover 4.5/8 25. Matlock 13.1/23 9:00 64. Perfect Strngrs 8.2/14 83. In Living Color 5.2/9 9:30 68. Baby Talk 7.7/14 31. Circus of the Stars 87. Herman's Head 3.8/7 10:00 12.3/22 56. Reasonable Doubts 26. 20/20 12.6/24 10:30 8.7/16 SATURDAY 7.8/14 9.1/16 12.0/22 5.6/10 8:00 70. Who's the Boss? 7.6/13 33. Golden Girls 12.2/22 75. Cops 7.1/13 8:30 71. Growing Pains 7.5/13 53. CBS Saturday Movie - 47. Walter & Emily 10.5/18 64. Cops 2 8.2/14 Burbs 9:00 74. TheYoung Riders The 9.6/17 19. Empty Nest 13.8/24 87. Charlie Hoover 3.8/7 9:30 7.3/13 28. Nurses 12.5/22 89. Get A Life 3.1/5 10:00 38. Dame Edna's Hollywood 62. The Commish 8.4/16 67. P.S. I Luv U 8.0/15 10:30 11.5/22 SUNDAY 13.2/20 17.9/27 9.7/15 8.7/13 7:00 81. Eerie, Indiana 5.6/9 77. True Colors 6.8/11 49. Life Goes On 10.4/16 1. 60 Minutes 23.7/36 7:30 84. The Torkelsons 5.0/8 68. Parker Lewis 7.7/12 8:00 16. Am Fun Home Vid 15.0/21. 6. Murder, She Wrote 60. Hot Country Nights 39. In Living Color 11.4/16 8.5/12 8:30 15. Am Fun People 15.7/22 18.0/26 51. Roc 9.7/14 9:00 18. Manied w /Childn 14.0/20 NBC Sunday Night 9:30 21. ABC Sunday Night 24. CBS Sunday Movie- 30. 51. Herman's Head 9.7/14 Movie -Big Hallmark's: One Against the Movie -Fatal Friendship 10:00 13.6/21 Wind 13.4/21 12.4/19 82. Sunday Comics 5.3/8 10:30 WEEK'S AVGS 11.3/19 14.2/23 12.1/14 7.1/12 SSN. TO DATE 12.2/20 14.0/23 12.7/21 7.7/13

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THE QUICKENING PACE OF DIGITAL COMPRESSION New technology may arrive before programing is available to fill additional channels

By Sharon Moshavi plans to test triple channels of MTV starting in 1992. Malone's words and Digital compression may be com- actions have managed to move the in- ing faster than many in the cable dustry before; his comments at last industry had thought, and the year's Western Show about TCI's in- question remains whether programers terest in pay per view gave that fledg- will be ready to meet the hastening ling business a huge boost. TCI, one challenge of filling the new channels of the least addressable MSO's in the compression will make available. industry, is now going ahead with ex- Tele- Communications Inc. Presi- tensive upgrading of homes to PPV. dent John Malone, speaking at the Some believe Malone's public state- Western Cable show in Anaheim two ment about a shorter timeframe for weeks ago, sent a ripple through the digital compression is merely giving TCI's John Malone: compression to the voice to what a few already know. cable industry by predicting an earlier home predicted in 18-24 months timeframe for digital compression "What Malone said won't speed the (and increased channel capacity) than comments convinced some that the fu- process up a lot. He's just acknowl- most had thought likely. He said com- ture may arrive sooner than they think. edging that technology is moving fast- pression to the home would be avail- "When John Malone makes predic- er than most people thought," said able in 18 to 24 months, with "large tions about various timetables in our Dave Pangrac, American Television & scale" rollout in two to two -and -a -half industry, a lot of people take note," Communications' director of engi- years. While cable programers have said Marshall Cohen, executive vice neering and technology. been planning for the future, Malone's president, MTV Networks, which has Malone's digital compression pre- dictions seem to be in sync with hardware manufacturers'. Scientific -Atlan- GUTKOWSKI TO HEAD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ta last week submitted its proposal for a digitally compressed standard to TCI MSG Network President Robert Gutkowski has been named president and CableLabs, among others (see sto- and chief executive officer of Paramount Communications' Madison ry, page 29). S -A's proposal, or what- Square Garden. No network replacement has yet been named. ever standard is chosen, will enable As head of Madison Square Garden, Gutkowski will have responsibility cable operators to expand channel ca- for the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, MSG television and radio pacity considerably without needing to networks, the MSG Entertainment Group, the operations of the Garden;. upgrade any other part of their system. arena and the newly opened Paramount Theater. Since August, when the Unlike PPV, digital compression is then -president resigned, Gutkowski had taken over the responsi- Garden's not yet a reality, and though many in bilities of president of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, which the industry concede Malone's 18- presents concerts, college basketball, tennis and other events at the two month timetable, two years is sooner venues. than most had thought for a large -scale is over the Garden Gutkowski said he taking as it embarks on "an rollout of compression. Discovery the of business, awfully positive path." On television side the "we are Networks Chairman John Hendricks, view how we can make MSG Network mo always looking at pay per and sitting beside Malone on the dais at the He said MSG its eye a few PPV event ideas such as attractive." "has on" Western Cable Show, said he was and concerts. "taken by surprise" at Malone's 18- Gutkowski said he will be looking to appoint a president for MSG. month timetable. Hendricks's own Network in the next couple of weeks. "Paramount always looks to' ' prediction had been more than a year promote talented people from within," he said, although he did not rule longer. But if Malone is right, ever- going for out outside the company a replacement. hastening digital compression may in- Gutkowski, 43, joined Paramount Communications in 1983 as viceit` crease cable programers' rush to cre- president, advertising sales, for Paramount Pictures Domestic Television ate and announce new channels. Distribution, and became president of MSG Network in 1985. Hendricks said he believes there may

28 Cable Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting be a race to establish those services, of willingness to support programers return to one of nuturing and paying since he believes only 10 or so chan- and programers' refusal to take for new services." Operators will nels will be devoted to networks; the chances to launch-could mean that need to make commitments before rest will be PPV programing. "If you technology will run ahead of program- channels go up on the satellite, he want to launch a channel, you need to ing, and programers may be left be- said, and not as they presently do, be first in the niche. Now is the time hind. waiting for channels to launch and to announce," he said. The "cable industry is just begin- then deciding whether or not to carry But many programers do not see ning to wake up and realize it needs to them. this as the time to announce. While nurture new services," said Lloyd Turner Broadcasting System is one many have ideas for expanding their Werner, senior vice president, Group company that is starting to place itself niches into several channels (as MTV W Satellite Communications. "If op- in position for increased channel ca- plans to do), no one views this as the erators won't pay for anything new, pacity. The company has had many time to launch, given the lack of chan- there won't be anything on those chan- ideas for channels, but is now finally nel capacity and operators' unwilling- nels." Werner is hopeful, though, that creating a cohesive plan to go ahead ness to pay for additional programing. "sometime in the middle of next year with some of those ideas, according to But the vicious cycle -operators' lack the philosophy of the early 80's will a Turner spokesman.

HDTV/COMPRESSED NTSC SYSTEM IN WORKS SA, Zenith, AT &T combine to produce method of sending, via satellite, digital signals to both terrestrial broadcasters and cable systems

By Sharon Moshavi

Scientific- Atlanta has joined forces with Zenith Electronics Corp. and AT&T to develop a single system to transmit both digital high-definition television and digitally scientists compressed standard NTSC signals to Atlanta cable systems. System and Zenith and AT &T have already Modulation been at work developing Digital Spec- an all- digital Same Zenith trum Compatible -HDTV, HDTV Set simulcast HDTV system. S -A will now team with Zenith to support DSC- High HDTV and AT &T/ HDTV's adoption as an FCC stan- Definition Standard T Zenith TV Uplink , dard. In teaming up with Zenith and Compression Scientific. S to develop the Atlanta AT &T, -A has agreed System satellite system that will transmit the Zenith Modulation HDTV signal to both broadcasters and Standard Scientific. TV Atlanta cable systems. In addition to develop- Compression Standard TV ing the satellite technology for HDTV, SA will contribute to the testing of the HDTV system over the satellite. Jerry Pearlman, Zenith chairman, of HDTV," said AT &T's Warwick. Last week, S -A also submitted a president and chief executive officer, That same satellite transmission proposal to CableLabs, Tele- Commu- said Scientific-Atlanta's satellite sup- plan for HDTV will send S -A's digital nications Inc., Viacom International, port refines and improves DSC -HDTV compression system for standard TV HBO and PBS to have its digital com- for national distribution applications. signals to cable systems. This corn- pression system (called Vector Quanti- The ability to be transmitted nationally mon transmission structure, called zation, or VQ) become the standard via satellite should help strengthen the end -to-end video transmission, will be for the cable industry. This system AT &T- Zenith HDTV standard pro- developed under a separate agreement would allow two HDTV signals or posal in the eyes of the FCC, said between S -A and Zenith. The same four to 10 digitally compressed stan- William Warwick, president of AT &T decoder will work for receiving both dard signals in one satellite transpon- Microelectronics. HDTV and digital compression sig- der. If the system is accepted as the And, because the HDTV transmis- nals, according to William Johnson, standard by the cable industry, Zenith sion will essentially piggyback on dig- S -A chairman and chief executive of- will manufacture its HDTV sets to ital compression transmission, which ficer. Additionally, the same tuner handle digitally compressed TV sig- is a technology that consumers are will be able to accept HDTV signals nals, so those sets will not require a likely to have before HDTV, the sys- via over -the -air broadcast or through a separate decoder, according to Ze- tem "will help hasten the emergence cable system. nith's Pearlman.

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Cable 29 THE PRICE OF LIBERTY JUST WENT UP Public offering of BET, stock split, restructuring boost fortunes of TCI spin -off

By Sharon Moshavi tures in an increasingly fractionalized at the end of October that will result in television industry, according to Dix- a 20-to-1 split of both class A and B When Tele- Communications on, who describes the company "as stock (likely to come late in the first Inc. first spun off Liberty essentially a mutual fund representing quarter of 1992). More investors may Media Corp., Wall Street an- TCI's interests." The four pieces of be attracted once share size is down to alysts were discouraging of the invest- Liberty's portfolio that Dixon points a more palpable level, and that change ment. Now, boasting a stock price that to with interest are the QVC Network will make Liberty more heavily trad- has doubled in the past month, thanks shopping service; the Video Jukebox ed, analysts say. But, according to largely to the November public offer- network, the interactive music video Bear Stearns's Goldman, who calls ing of Black Entertainment Televi- channel; International Cablecasting Liberty a "quasi- private company," sion, one of its holdings, and the com- Technologies, the digital audio cable the stock will not trade more heavily pany's October stock split and service, and Encore, the low -priced unless the small circle of stockholders restructuring announcement, the Lib- premium movie service. decides to sell some shares, enabling erty portfolio is looking more attrac- Another reason for Liberty's stock Liberty to become more broadly tive. "Liberty is now looked at as a surge is the reclassification announced held. cable programing player, and cable programing is hot," said Bear Stearns's Ken Goldman. TCI RESTRUCTURES IN WAKE OF UAE TAKEOVER Liberty, a non -operating company whose portfolio contains TCI's minor- ele- Communications Inc.'s takeover of United Artists Entertainment ity cable system and programing inter- became official last week, enabling the MSO's board of directors to ests, has seen its stock price rise from confirm the appointments of several senior-level UA executives and an average of $330 a share since it restructure TCI's senior- management hierarchy. started trading in March to its current Fred Viera, former UAE president-chief operating officer, was named $610. The price went up dramatically executive vice president of TCI. Also named to the same title was Donne the last week of October, when the Fisher, TCI's chief financial officer and treasurer. That brings to three the split was announced, then climbed number of executive vice presidents at TCI; the other is J.C. Sparkman, steadily after the BET offering. who is also the MSO's chief operating officer. BET's public offering has been a Other UAE executives who have been hired by TCI include: Brendan success, analysts say, which has them Clouston, formerly UAE's senior vice president and chief fmancial offi- figuring that if one piece of Liberty's cer, now TCI's senior vice president, strategic planning, and Stephen portfolio is such a good buy, the rest Brett, former executive vice president -legal at UAE, is now TCI's senior may be as well. "People now are vice president and general counsel. Brett replaces John Draper, who has looking at Liberty and saying these are joined TCI spin -off Liberty Media Corp. as general counsel. Also hired early -stage investments in rapidly de- from UAE was Gary Howard, former senior vice president and chief veloping areas of the business," says administrative officer. He becomes a TCI vice president, reporting directly analyst Chris Dixon of PaineWebber. to TCI President John Malone, with the responsibility of "continuing the BET has also boosted the value of process of rationalizing TCI's various businesses," according to the the Liberty portfolio. One of the main company. problems when Liberty spun off was In addition, Marvin Jones, former president and chief operating officer that no one knew what any of the of UAE's cable division, has formed his own company, Marvin Jones holdings were worth, according to Associates Inc., which has been hired by Liberty Media to advise on cable Frederick Moran of Donaldson, Luf- operations and investments. ant kin & Jenrette. When Liberty was launched "you couldn't really sink your teeth into the valuation of the DISNEY, BET REACH AGREEMENT WITH BMI assets," he says. The BET offering has not only helped analysts make an MI has reached music licensing agreements with the Disney Channel assessment, but has also shown that III and Black Entertainment Television, effectively ending anti -trust liti- the value of the assets is higher than gation in federal court against BMI by the cable industry. All parties, once thought. "The value of BET is including programers, the National Cable Television Association and the three or four multiples of what TCI Community Antenna Television Association have agreed to drop all had valued it at," Moran says. appeals and cross -appeals arising from the decision by the court last year. Owning stake in Liberty offers buy- Both the Disney and BET agreements call for a through -to -the- viewer ers a way to diversify media invest- license, which BMI had initially opposed. The music licensing organiza- ments in a wide variety of burgeoning tion had wanted separate licenses for cable programers and operators. The companies, letting them reduce risk agreements extend to June 1992, with options for extensions. ant while entering new programing ven-

30 Cable Dec 91991 Broadcasting Broadcastingm

FCC ADMONISHES KROQ -FM FOR MURDER HOAX Broadcast called `spontaneous, isolated event'; blame laid on errant disk jockeys

By Reed E. Bunzel Chuck Kelley, chief of the FCC's sion came to the same conclusion that Mass Media Bureau Enforcement Di- company management did in deciding The FCC has officially admon- vision, told BROADCASTING that the that the event was "an isolated event ished Infinity Broadcasting's commission concluded that Infinity where some employes made a huge, 'MOO-FM Los Angeles for broad- accurately represented how the situa- huge mistake" and that station man- casting a false murder confession in tion occurred and the details of what agement had no reason to believe this which an "anonymous caller" happened, and decided that "the was going to occur. claimed to have brutally killed his girl- blame falls primarily on the employes Karmazin said that the entire inci- friend. in question." However, KROQ-FM also dent was an embarrassing and unfortu- The broadcast, which aired June 13, was admonished "because the event nate event that "won't happen 1990, sparked a massive criminal in- took place at the station, and the li- again." The hoax broadcast and sub- vestigation by law enforcement agen- censee ultimately was responsible for sequent fallout also "probably turned cies on the West Coast, and subse- the fact that this hoax, which was con- out to be a significant event for radio, quently was featured on NBC -TV's trary to the public interest, was in fact because it has made the industry more Unsolved Mysteries. broadcast." The admonition was for- sensitive to the subject. Not only will Infinity management did not learn mally voted by the commission, Kel- these three employes, not do this sort that the broadcast was a hoax until ley said. of thing again; DJ's in general won't April 1991, when law enforcement of- Infinity President Mel Karmazin do it because they have seen what can ficials presented the company with in- said he was satisfied that the commis- happen if they do." formation that indicated the broadcast was a hoax perpetrated by KROQ -FM personalities Kevin Ryder and Gene BLOCH RAISES OFFER TO $2 MILLION FOR UPI Baxter and Arizona disk jockey Doug Roberts, who subsequently was hired T he ante has been raised in the bid to purchase UPI Radio Network, by the station (BROADCASTING, April according to Sonny Bloch, the talk show syndicator who last week 22). increased his offer to $2 million. Bloch previously bid $1.5 million after In a public notice released last Colombian-based radio group Primera Cadena Radial Colombiana (CAR - week, the commission concluded that ACOL) offered $1 million in cash. Should CARACOL counter the $2- the hoax broadcast was "a spontane- million offer, Bloch says he is prepared to go higher. ous, isolated event, orchestrated solely Bloch contends that his attempts to purchase UPI Radio have been by certain on -air personnel who subse- hindered by "closemouthed" executives at UPI's headquarters in Wash- quently engaged in a cover -up. Nei- ington, including UPI President Peter VanBennekom, who Bloch says ther station management nor the li- continually refuses to acknowledge Bloch's bids. "We're having trouble censee knew, or had any reason to communicating with them, so I've advised my attorneys to go to the suspect, that the broadcast was actual- bankruptcy courts, who represent the creditors, and advise them that we ly a hoax. Further, the commission keep coming up with offers and they're not communicating with us." noted, upon learning that the broad- Bloch says he suspects "something is wrong because of the way the cast was a hoax, management prompt- bidding is being handled," and alleges that "funny money -type things are ly effectuated disciplinary and remedi- going on." Bloch refuses to further speculate on the definition of "funny al action." money" except to say that "I suspect something is not right." The commission further stated that While primarily interested in UPI Radio as an adjunct to his Florida -based Infinity "did not abdicate its basic re- Independent Broadcasters Network, Bloch also is considering a joint venture sponsibility to supervise its em- proposed by a group of UPI European managers who are interested in ployes" but, because "licensees are acquiring the wire service. That venture is in the initial planning stage. ultimately responsible for the actions Bloch says he has learned that VanBennekom intends to conclude of their employes [thus they] will not negotiations for UPI Radio by the end of the year. VanBennekom could be excused for past violations by rea- not be reached for comment. - son of subsequent remedial action."

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Radio 31 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE IN PLENTYWOOD Residents of rural Montana town collect cash to keep local radio station from going dark

By Patrick Sheridan der; 200 miles to the east is Minot, three years. She had no sales staff to N.D., and Billings and Great Falls, speak of.... She simply ran out of the The prospect of KATQ -AM -FM both Montana, are 350 and 400 miles, means to pay the debt," says Nielsen, Plentywood, Mont., going dark respectively, to the west. The closest who along with local pharmacist Rob- did not sit too well with the good big city is Minneapolis. ert Mann led the community drive. people of northeast Montana. So, in- It's as rural as rural gets. Much of the debt that plagued KATQ stead of lamenting the loss of local And yet the not -for -profit corpora- was inherited, and worse, there was service or blaming the station's mis- tion formed by community activists little in terms of real estate or equip- fortunes on the slumping broadcast raised more than $142,000, with no ment to show for it. marketplace or the region's agricultur- single donation exceeding $5,000. KATQ's problems began in the late al woes, folks in Plentywood and sur- The motivation? "We'd be without 1970's and early 1980's when KATQ rounding Sheridan County decided to anything that would do the local news, (AM) went on the air to join KATQ -FM, do something about it. items of local interest. It's strictly a which went on the air as Montana's They're buying the station. homebody station. Dogs get lost and first FM in 1962. Although some of Plentywood, population just over cats get lost. Somebody's house is on the debt that has been passed on to 2,100, is the largest town in a county fire. Last year the high school burned subsequent owners can be traced to of about 5,000 residents. People make down. It's been a series of tragedies, putting on the AM, some can be traced their living from the land, but the past but we think we've turned it around," to problems following KATQ(AM)'s be- two decades have been hard-there says Mary Nielsen, a retired farmer coming the emergency broadcast sta- have been far more years with and chairman of Radio International tion for northeast Montana. A previ- droughts and grasshopper infestations KATQ Broadcast Association Inc.'s ous owner apparently failed to put all than years with rain and bumper board. the necessary equipment in the sys- crops. Produce prices are lower than "We were about to lose the radio tem, and subsequent owner took on they were in the 1950's. station. The present owner [Joy Fan- additional debt to bring the station into Plentywood lies south of Regina, ning] had been operating it pretty full compliance with EBS standards. Canada, about 50 miles from the bor- close to single -handedly for almost That debt, too, was passed along.

UPDATED PLAY CELEBRATES BILL OF RIGHTS

his weekend (Dec. 14 -15) commercial and public radio networks will join forces in a nationwide, non- exclusive broadcast of a revised edition of Norman Corwin's landmark broadcast, "We Hold These Truths," first aired in 1941 to mark the sesquicentennial of the signing of the Bill of Rights. The hour -long drama, updated by Corwin, features over 80 different characters and invites listeners to consider the freedoms and privileges secured by the Bill of Rights. The radio play, which 50 years ago was heard by over 60 million listeners, is being presented this year as a major closing event to note the bicentennial of the Bill of Rights. "We Hold These truths" was taped last weekend at Evergreen Studios in Burbank, Calif., with participation from such actors as James Earl Jones, Richard Masur, Brenda Vaccaro, Ben Vereen, Tom Bosley, Bill Bixby, Richard Dysart and Hector Elizondo, writers Studs Terkel and Ray Bradbury and producer Steven Bochco. The program was produced by Right at Home is a Otherworld Media of Freeland, Wash., and WETA-FM Washington. Distri- free, saleable 60- second bution to public radio stations is being coordinated by American Public daily feature with tips on Radio, while the National Association of Broadcasters has enlisted ABC, home improvement, home CBS, NBC, Mutual and the Unistar radio networks to distribute the fix-up projects and more! program to commercial stations nationwide. "We Hold These Truths" will not be simulcast, but affiliated commercial stations can air the radio For information on satellite play the weekend of Dec. 14 -15 and a second time before Dec. 16. and toll-free telephone Major funding for the program has been provided by the Pew Charitable distribution, call 24 -hours Trusts, with additional support from the Ahmonson Foundation, the 800 -221 -6242. American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Commis- sion of the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. NAB's partici- at pation in the distribution of the program is due, in part, to the fact that its P president and chief operating officer, Edward O. Fritts, chairs the corn- mission's Bicentennial Communications Advisory Committee. ats Right at Hare Is undetCennK by the National Association of Home Builders

32 Radio Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting It all ended up in Fanning's lap. "I was just a flunkie who worked here. NORTH EAST FILLS THE OVERNIGHT The owner took it dark for a few days, and I just hated to see it go off. One New network offers 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. music, interviews thing led to another, and I went over to the bank and took over the whole By Reed E. Bunzel Heart of the Night, a blend of South - mess," Fanning says. em charm and nighttime conversation, It's been one calamity after another Insomniacs, truckers and other followed by American Home Maga- since: glitches, equipment failures, overnight radio listeners in the zine, which wakes early risers with fires, antennas knocked out by light- U.S. northeast corridor now can music, agricultural news and informa- ning or high winds. The station's ser- tune in to a new programing network tion. News will be broadcast twice vice was interrupted over 150 times in whose broadcast day begins at 6:00 each hour through the night. Fanning's first year as licensee. every evening and continues until 6:00 Fanning had a decision to make: the next morning. North East Satellite WNMA WANTS REVIEW either manage the debt or improve the Entertainment, which programs a mix In the latest action in the pro- equipment. She opted for the latter, of adult contemporary music, high - posed move to Atlanta and the debt began to mount again. profile personalities, news and weath- of WHMA -FM Anniston, Ala., li- KATQ owed about $300,000 to the er, currently is being carried by some censee Sapphire Broadcasting, bank and about $50,000 to various 20 affiliates from Connecticut to managed by former media broker services such as AP and BMI. Pennsylvania. NESE is completely ad- Tom Gammon's Crown Broad- "I never took on operating debt. I vertiser- supported; stations pay no casting, asked the FCC to review basically kept the stations going by fees for the service. the Mass Media Bureau's recom- signing on myself every day. I hired The Rochester, N.Y. -based net- mendation to deny the move. very few people, but things got ugly work is the brainchild of founding The FCC ruled on Oct. 25 that last year...I looked at throwing it out partners Robert Scott, Kenneth Unger any benefits of a move would be to a broker, and I looked at religious and Charles Brucato, with financial offset by a "disruption to exist- broadcasters. Our reach into Canada is support from Thomas Golisano, presi- ing service" at Anniston very attractive to them. I really gave dent of Paychex Inc., also of Roches- (BROADCASTING, Oct. 28). The that a lot of thought, but the town ter. Scott said he anticipates a large application for review countered: wasn't thrilled with that [idea] and following from evening workers and "The ultimate folly of denying people spoke pretty loudly [against] it. nighttime travelers seeking a consis- [Sapphire's] petition...is We decided that wouldn't work here. tent radio signal on major Northeast that the 'listeners' in the so- called loss And the town showed me in more interstate highways, and described the area do not and will not listen to ways than one," Fanning says, "that overnight service as "similar to morn- wHMA, either they wanted me to stay." ing and afternoon drivetime." The because shadowing problems preclude useful recep- Nielsen's group did the rest by ne- network currently is targeting affiliates tion or because they prefer sig- gotiating the $300,000 bank debt in a 13 -state area ranging from Maine nals that are closer to home." down to about $185,000. "We had to Delaware to Michigan. Hoyt Goodrich, a general part- kids opening up their piggy banks; we The NESE programing night begins ner of Bridge Capital Investors, had one senior citizen in the nursing at 6:00 p.m. with Nighttime Live with one of two groups financing home give $29.45. It was probably all John Garabo, which features AC mu- WHMA -FM, said the loss- of -ser- the lady had. We had three people in sic, live interviews and news updates. vice argument was not used once one household-each of them gave From 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the in any other grants made by the $5,000. That was our largest contribu- network airs Nunzio in the Night, a FCC under the 1989 community - tor," Nielsen says. combination of "unpredictable hu- of- license rule. "It doesn't sound Approximately $100,000 will go di- mor, music and other program fea- like we're getting a fair shake to rectly to the bank, and KATQ has tures," according to Scott. At 2:00 me," he said. ,K opened a new -equipment account at a.m. DJ Stevie Brooks presents In the the bank with the remaining $42,000. The bank will also receive advertising in lieu of money for the outstanding balance. By the time the commission from the Children's Health News Network, a free, weekly radio approves the transfer, KATQ should be FREE Health news service, concentrating on prenatal, pediatric and operating debt free. News Feed adolescent health and medical topics. From now on the board will manage the bookkeeping and Fanning will The radio newsfeed service is offered by Children's National continue running the station. Medical Center in Washington, D.C., one of the nation's So, as far as radio is concerned, in premier pediatric health care facilities. spite of drought and hard times, it's For more information still a wonderful life in Plentywood. on this newsfeed, contact the "It's been amazing," Nielsen says. Children's Health News Network "People are still coming into the sta- at Children's National Medical Center, tion asking if we need more mon- National Medical Cenkr (202) 939-4500. ey."

Broadcasting Dec 91991 Radio 33 Broadcastingo

FCC TO SHIELD STATIONS FROM LOWEST- UNIT-CHARGE SUITS BY CANDIDATES At upcoming open meeting, commission is also expected to adopt new political broadcasting rules for a `more faithful' interpretation of statutory obligations

By Harry A. lessen tion of the statute," said one official. forcement of the law-one from Re- Also this week, the FCC expects to publican Senators Mitch McConnell To the relief of broadcasters, the issue notices to several stations advis- (Ky.), Warren Rudman (N.H.) and FCC is planning to assert total ing them that they are liable for fines Commerce Committee member John jurisdiction over enforcement of and lesser penalties for violations of Danforth (Mo.) and one from Demo- the so-called lowest-unit -charge law, various political broadcasting rules. cratic Senator Sam Nunn (Ga.). The pre- empting lawsuits against broadcast The stations were among 30 the FCC former carries special weight because stations by political candidates claim- "audited" in July 1990 for compli- of Danforth's close relationship with ing to have been overcharged for cam- ance with the rules. FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes. paign spots. "It looks as if the FCC will move to Alarmed by the growing number of According to FCC and industry lawsuits (real and threatened) in state sources, the five commissioners are courts, broadcasters, led by the Na- heading toward a unanimous vote for The rules are an effort tional Association of Broadcasters, full preemption sometime this week, to bring order out of the lobbied hard over the past few months possibly at the scheduled open meet- to convince the FCC to assert jurisdic- ing on Thursday (Dec. 12). chaos of the FCC's tion and pre-empt courts in determin- In a related matter, the FCC is ex- existing political ing lowest- unit -rate liability and reme- pected at the Dec. 12 meeting to adopt dies. new comprehensive rules laying out broadcasting "It makes perfect sense," said Da- broadcasters' obligations under the enforcement. vid Donovan, vice president, legal and provision of the Communications Act legislative affairs. "What you will do requiring stations to provide candi- if you don't pre-empt is expose broad- dates with "reasonable access" to the pre-empt and provide greater clarifica- casters to multiple lawsuits in multiple airwaves and to sell time to them at tion for broadcasters, and we view that jurisdictions." their "lowest unit charge" or "on par as very encouraging," said Jeff Bau- But the scope of the preemption with...[their] most favored commer- mann, executive vice president and was still in dispute late last week. FCC cial advertiser." general counsel, National Association Chairman Alfred Sikes and General The rules will for the most part cod- of Broadcasters. Counsel Robert Pettit were trying to ify existing policies and staff interpre- According to Baumann's reading of narrow the preemption somewhat and tations, including a full- disclosure re- the FCC last week, the preemption to attach complaint procedures that quirement promulgated in September ruling and the rules were still unset- would give candidates access to 1990, the sources said. Because the tled, with key elements the subject of broadcasters' commercial advertising rules may contain some new twists, debate among the commissioners. records. The procedures would give they said, the FCC will assert that they That reading was confirmed by complainants the "discovery" oppor- apply prospectively only. FCC insiders. "This is one of those tunities similar to what they would FCC officials said the rules are an things where there is no one right an- have in court, one FCC official said. effort to bring order out of the chaos swer," said one official immersed in Among other things, the Republican of the FCC's existing political broad- the proceedings last week. "And with Senators, in their letter, said a candidate casting enforcement, which has Congress looking over our shoulder, "should have reasonable access to the evolved over the years and confound- we are going to be very cautious." commercial records...to insure that the ed FCC officials, broadcasters and As the FCC got down to business on candidate has been treated as the most candidates alike. The rules will be "a political broadcasting last week, it re- more faithful, more literal interpreta- ceived two letters calling for strict en- Continues on page 41.

34 Washington Dec 91991 BrOadastfag SLIM CHANCE FOR POLITICAL AD REFORM IN '92 Wide differences in House, Senate versions expected to slow legislation; veto likely

By Randy Sukow ers sell all "eligible" candidates ad- the broadcasting station," such as vertising time at their lowest unit rate breaking news. The Danforth amend- prospects appear to remain dim and on a nonpre -emptible basis ment also limits the period candidates for passage of political advertis- (BROADCASTING, June 3). The bill are eligible for the lowest unit rate to ing reform legislation in 1992 - also sets voluntary spending limits for within 30 days of primary elections or at least for the legislation as now Senate candidates only. Senate cam- and 45 days of general elections, ex- written -due in part to wide differ- paigns that remain below the limits cept for Senate candidates eligible for ences between the "lowest unit rate" between primary and general elections the 50% discount. provisions passed by the House and would be eligible for a further 50% The House bill, passed by voice the Senate in 1991. In any case, Presi- discount on the lowest unit rate, a vote a few days before Congress fin- dent Bush is expected to veto either controversial provision for broadcast- ished its 1991 session last month, con- bill if one of the plans reaches his ers. tains lowest- unit -rate language similar desk. S. 3 also would create a govern- to the Danforth amendment's. H.R. House and Senate conferees are ex- ment- funded voucher program to de- 3750, however, does not provide the pected to meet sometime in early 1992 fray costs for long blocks of political 50% discount for House or Senate to hammer out the differences between advertising (one to five minutes). members. the Senate's campaign reform bill (S. An amendment submitted by John James C. May, executive vice pres- 3), authored by David Boren (D- Danforth (R -Mo.), ranking minority ident, government relations, National Okla.), and the House Campaign member of the Senate Commerce Association of Broadcasters, gave S. 3 Spending Limit and Election Reform Committee, softened S. 3 for broad- little chance of passage when it was Act (H.R. 3750), introduced by House casters by allowing pre -emptions of passed last spring, and the political Administration Committee member spots until they are paid and by mak- climate has not changed since then, he Sam Gejdenson (D- Conn.). ing clear that broadcasters will not be said. The House and Senate bills "are The Senate bill, passed last May by penalized if a spot is pre- empted by fundamentally incompatible. It's go- a 56 -42 vote, requires that broadcast- "circumstances beyond the control of ing to be exceedingly difficult to come

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Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Washington 35 up with a single version treating "Both of those are veto material." are not acceptable to broadcasters. House and Senate members alike," NAB's position also has not H.R. 3750's lowest-unit -rate section May said. Two similarities in the bills: changed. The 50% discount provision "tracks right on line with our board spending limits and public financing. and special exemptions for senators position," May said.

SIKES SLAMS HOUSE TIME BROKERAGE BILL Chairman hopes to testify against proposal; he says he is in favor of relaxed foreign ownership rules for countries that reciprocate, allowing networks to own cable systems, allowing limited telco entry with video dial tone and letting TV stations air different material when they begin HDTV broadcasts

By Harry A. Jewell against broadcast networks' owning cable systems (see "Top of the FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes told Week "); (3) permitting telephone reporters last week he opposes companies to have limited ownership House legislation restricting joint in programing should they provide venture and so-called time brokerage video dial tone service; and (4) permit- agreements among broadcast stations. ting TV stations to simulcast HDTV "I would not urge that that law be programing different than the pro- passed, and I look forward to testify- graming broadcast over their NTSC ing against it," Sikes said in an wide - channel. ranging press conference in his Wash- Sikes also hinted that the FCC may ington office. begin a proceeding next year to repeal Responding to questions, Sikes said or relax the prime time access rule, he supports: (1) relaxing foreign own- which several broadcasters and one ership restrictions; (2) relaxing the ban program syndicator have demanded.

Chairman Sikes will testify against House time brokerage restrictions "It is conceivable we will do something on PTAR in this next year." PTAR limits the amount of network and off-network programs that network affiliates in the top 50 markets When it comes to the finest in radio and may air during prime time. If radio stations are prohibited from television journalism, the name says it all. entering into time brokerage arrangements and other cooperative ventures, Edward R. Murrow's accomplishments embody the purpose of the RTNDA Murrow many will fail, said Sikes. "We can Awards -to recognize radio and television journalism's very best work. say we are going to make sure [broad- This year's RTNDA Murrow Awards entry deadline is January 31, 1992. All material casters] cannot own more [stations], entered must have aired in calendar year 1991. Competition is open to all U.S. radio and they can't engage in strategic partner- television stations. ships, they can't cooperate in pro- Awards are presented in five categories: Overall Excellence, Spot News Coverage, Con- graming and sales," Sikes said. "It's tinuing Coverage, Investigative Reporting, and News Series/Documentary. going result in [Mass Media Your station could be one of ten to receive a Murrow Award at RTNDA's gala presenta- just to tion, September 23, 1992, in San Antonio, Texas. For more information, contact RTNDA. Bureau Chief] Roy Stewart getting more notifications that this or that station is going to go dark," he said. "Maybe that's the intention of the Congress. Maybe its intention is to retire frequencies." the inside- the Radio- Television News Directors Association Sikes ridiculed -Belt- 1000 (onnecticut Ave., NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 659 -6510; fax (202) 223.4007 way mentality that opposes time bro-

36 Washington Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting kerage deals because they diminish diversity. "How many rock 'n' roll REPUBLICANS LINE UP AGAINST speakers do we need for the culture to be defended against tyranny ?" Sikes said he shares Congress's RBOC RESTRICTIONS concern that broadcasters not enter time brokerage agreements, in which a By Randy Sukow chief counsel and staff director. broadcaster effectively turns over con- Communications Subcommittee trol of its station to another party. Key congressional and adminis- Chairman Daniel Inouye (D- Hawaii) "We are going to look closely at tration Republicans were united introduced the bill just before the end what constitutes a de facto transfer of last week in opposition to of the 1991 congressional session a license, and we will preclude that House and Senate bills aimed at re- (BROADCASTING, Dec. 2). It would from happening," Sikes said, noting stricting the regional Bell operating prohibit RBOC's from offering infor- that time brokerage is among the is- companies' (RBOC's) delivery of ca- mation services in their local tele- sues raised in the FCC's review of ble television and other information phone service regions in almost all radio ownership rules. services. cases. S. 2112 is similar to H.R. Sikes said he would support relax- Voices from the Senate Commerce 3513, introduced earlier by House ation of the restrictions on foreign Committee, House Telecommunica- Telecommunications Subcommittee ownership of telecommunications fa- tions Subcommittee and the Justice member Jim Cooper (D- Tenn.), which cilities and broadcast stations, but Department criticized the legislation sets an even tougher entry test Washington only on a reciprocal basis. "If there is during a conference spon- (BROADCASTING, Oct. 14). by Practicing Law truly a reciprocal opportunity-Great sored the Institute Danforth does not quarrel with In- Britain is often cited as the most likely and the Federal Communications Bar ouye's goal: protection of classified because of our common language -I Association. advertising revenues for daily newspa- don't have a problem with it," Sikes Senator John Danforth (R -Mo.), pers, which are likely to be among the ranking minority member of the Com- first media affected by RBOC said. "But I am absolutely confident infor there are a number of legislators that merce Committee, will oppose the In- mation services. But both the House would." formation Services Diversity Act (S. and Senate bills go too far by protect- Current rules limit foreign owner- 2112) as it is now written, said Walter ing cable and broadcasting, McCor- ship to 20% of an FCC licensee or McCormick, the committee's minority mick said. "At what point is [S. 2112] 25% of a company that controls a licensee. Sikes said the FCC may waive the 25% holding company cap. The FCC is more likely to grant waivers of the 25% cap for common carriers be- Use the AccuCall 900 Service Bureau. cause, unlike broadcast stations, they are not involved in defining American culture, he said. Sikes said he continues to oppose the lifting of all impediments to cable owning programing, believing such a Profit move would lead to telephone compa- 900# nies buying up cable systems and "one monopoly displacing another." Best payout! Perfect Date voice personals, soaps, However, under the FCC's pro- InstaSports ` hotline. lottery results, posed video dial tone regime, in which horoscopes, stocks, news and more. telephone companies are primarily You get 600 Highly accurate 3-day forecasts and common carriers providing video dis- current weather for 2001 U.S. & world tribution for a host of programer -cus- per call. cities - updated hourly. tomers, he said, "there are legitimate The best sound and voice quality. program participation" opportunities Based on 2 minute for the telcos-owning a minority in- 900 numbers also available for services terest in the program services or own- calls at 950 a minute. you generate. ing outright several of the services. Broadcasting should be allowed to Promotional Marketing Kit Provided! simulcast unduplicated HDTV programing when the HDTV technology becomes available in a few years, Sikes said. "The broadcasters are go- Accu- Weather, Inc. ing to be incurring a large investment 619 W. College Avenue, State College. PA 16801 bill to go HDTV, and this is one way they could stimulate a more rapid de- (814) 234 -9601 x 400 Fax (814) 23 &1339 velopment of what they are investing in," he said. A Leader In Voice Information Services

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Buena Vista Television 0Bucne VIM. Tdcrinnn 17th aimed at protecting a unique industry, the consent decree governing the 1984 or to what extent is it aimed at protect- breakup of AT &T. "In the [Justice] Annual ing a dominant, entrenched industry Department's view, this development Course On like cable television ?" he said. is likely to lead to new services and Current regulatory safeguards and improvement to existing services, as antitrust law are adequate to prevent well as a wealth of additional benefits RBOC's from establishing informa- to consumers." INVESTING tion- services monopolies, said James Matthew Rinaldo (R- N.J.), ranking Rill, assistant attorney general, anti- Republican on the House Telecom- IN trust division. "All together, the pro- munications Subcommittee, also said visions of H.R. 3515 would effective- the Cooper bill's entry test was too BROADCAST ly prohibit the BOC's from providing stringent. As written, the bill would electronic publishing or other informa- prohibit RBOC's from offering infor- tion services for the foreseeable fu- mation services until 50% of the STATIONS ture," he said. homes and businesses in their markets Rill praised U.S. District Court have access to a rival local telephone

January 13 & 14 February 10 & 11 Judge Harold Greene's decision to lift service and 10% are subscribing to it. Washington, D.C. San Francisco the RBOC information -services re- "It would be very, very difficult for a striction, which had been written into Bell company to meet that test," Ri- the modified final judgment (MFJ), naldo said. "The Economics of Broadcasting" W A S H I N G T O N W A T C H Anthony M. Hoffman President, Hoffman contour overlaps most of the Atlanta Shutz Media Capital Inc. EQUAL TIME HAS NO PRICE ADI. The FCC said WLTK was "Evaluating and The FCC said WFBQ-FM clearly competitive with other stations Indianapolis did not violate the in the market and should be Financing the Deal" agency's personal attack rule and Richard L. Geismar permitted to purchase exclusive was not obligated to provide John program rights. President, Broad Street Ventures Price with equal time to respond. "Federal Controls" Price alleged that WFBQ's Bob and and "The Tom Show referred to Price as AUCTION ANTICIPATED Acquisition Contract" "Yankee Doodle Hitler" and made Republican and Democratic other comments comparing him to John T. Scott congressional staffers appearing at last a Nazi. Price claims these remarks Partner, Crowell & Moring week's conference on constituted an attack, and as such telecommunications policy, sponsored he deserved notice of the "Tax Considerations" attack and a by the Practicing Law Institute and complete tape or transcript of the the Federal Communications Bar Lester W. Droller show. Price also contends that because Association, generally agreed that Partner, he was seeking political office, he the Congress would authorize some Reavis & Pogue Jones, Day, was due equal time to respond. The form of spectrum auction next year. FCC found that the Bob and Tom "There has been an interesting act was a parody and not intended as evolution on this issue.... [Last and for station owners /managers serious discussion of political and year] there was a `hell -no' attitude on controversial issues. The FCC also auctions," said Michael Regan, BROADCAST said that because no competing minority senior counsel, House REGULATION candidate appeared on WFBQ, equal Telecommunications TODAY time rules did not apply. The February 12 -13 Subcommittee. But general commission noted that WFBQ notified San Francisco, CA dissatisfaction with the current Price of the broadcast and offered lottery system for assigning spectrum Price response time that he March 9 -10 rejected. for new services is forcing both Washington, D.C. sides of the aisle to reconsider. ROMAN CONQUEST Senate Communications FCC granted WTLKÇrv) Rome, Subcommittee Chairman Daniel For Detailed The Course Ga.'s request to be included in the Inouye (D- Hawaii) is among those Brochure and Registration Information, Atlanta television market. FCC who have changed positions on Contact: rules prevent TV stations from spectrum auctions. Earlier this fall, Inouye praised a plan proposed by FEDERAL PUBLICATIONS acquiring non -network program exclusivity against stations up to 35 subcommittee member Ted Stevens 1120 20th St., N.W. miles away. Despite being 56 miles (R- Alaska) to auction 45 mhz out of Washington, D.C. 20036 Atlanta, WTLK's signal covers 200 mhz planned for transfer from or Call: DAVID KLINE from much of the city, while its grade-B government to private applications. (202) 337 -7000

40 Washington Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting LOWEST UNIT CHARGE Continued from page 34. Global ReLeaf favored commercial advertiser." Nonetheless, at least one commissioner resisting the Sikes -Pettit addition, arguing any decision on new comes in all complaint procedures should be put off until the candidates and broadcasters have had a chance to comment on specific proposals. shapes and sizes. The new political broadcasting rules would, among other things, codify a full- disclosure policy first set forth by the FCC in September 1990 in an at- tempt to correct some problems dis- covered two months earlier in the 30- station audit. The September 1990 policy states that broadcasters "should disclose to candidates all rates and the availability of package options available to commercial advertisers." According to one FCC official, the full -disclosure rule, as proposed, is limited so candidates cannot "cherry- pick" from discount packages offered different commercial advertisers and fashion a deal superior to anything any single commercial advertiser has struck. The intent is to get candidates a deal as good as -not a better than- the most favored advertisers', the official said. According to FCC and industry sources, the full -disclosure rule and others drawn from the 1990 policy state- It's a fact. Planting trees is one of the best and easiest ways ment will be applied prospectively or to help reduce global warming and other serious environmental retroactively only to September 1990. problems. Broadcasters had feared the FCC would characterize the rules as mere "clarifi- That's why thousands of Americans - of all shapes and cations" of existing policy and, by so sizes are doing their part for Global ReLeaf right in their own to - doing, permit them to be applied cases prior to September 1990. communities. And it's why we need more trees to shade our Among me proposed reforms head- homes, beautify our town and country landscape, and reduce the ed for likely adoption is repeal of a heat -trapping CO2 build-up in the earth's atmosphere. 1978 policy allowing stations to ex- clude political advertising during So grab your shovel and start planting. And call our special newscasts. If adopted, stations would Action Line 900 -420 -4545. The $5.00 charge actually pays have to sell time to candidates de- -1- manding spots within newscasts just for planting a tree while supporting Global ReLeaf action across as they now must sell them time in any the country. And, we'll also rush you detailed information on other type of programing or daypart. Global ReLeaf. You can make a world of difference. The five commissioners hope to make the final determinations on which of the 30 audited station will receive tentative fines and the amounts 1-900-420-4545 of the fines. Of the 30 stations, only Chronicle Broadcasting's KRON -TV San Francis- c,.uw co appears to be facing a stiff fine for a lowest -unit -charge violation. The LE Ar Mass Media Bureau recommended in

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CBS DROPS BELOW $150 FLOOR OCTOBER CHILL $200 400 TV station revenue for the first month of the fourth quarter compared poorly with October 1990. Two publicly reporting affiliate groups, Pulitzer and Gan- nett, both showed an 11% decline. A broader unaudited survey of several dozen station owners showed that affiliate groups were off 10 %, with na- 300 tional/regional spot down more than local. Independents, a cate- $--- St.P 500 gory including Fox affiliates, was CBS Stock Price off 2 %, with spot showing a 2% increase. r

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11/21 12/19 1/23 2/20 3/20 4/24 5/22 6/19 7/24 8/21 9/25 10/25 10/30 11/7 11/14 11/21 11/27 1990 1991 1991 DEBT REDUX SCI TV, with $140 million in bank debt due in three weeks, The future of network television is being debated through the price of said it was trying to negotiate an CBS stock, and that debate has taken a sharply pessimistic turn over the extension of the due date. The last two weeks with 15% drop to below $150, a level that seemed CBS's group owner was to have sold at to hold up the stock for five- and -a -half years. least one of its six TV stations to There has been no company news inciting shareholders' heavier -than- raise the principal repayment but usual selling, although two weeks earlier CBS announced a $322 -million blamed "industry downturn and write -down of its major league baseball and football telecast rights. More restrained financial markets" for proximate to the sell -off were two negative research reports on CBS, one its failure to do so. Under its by Poors, which downgraded its rating on and Standard & CBS debt, $655- million bank loan agree- another Tinker NatWest, which slashed a 1992 earn- by John of County ment, SCI also owes $150 mil- ings- per-share for CBS from $11.08 to $8.30. lion in 1992 and again in 1993. report most the prime time ratings improve- Tinker's said of company's For the first nine months of were or no new ments from special events programing existing shows; that 1991, SCI TV's cash flow has not entertainment series had succeeded. Thus, Tinker questioned the net- covered its $48.3 million in cash work's ability to gain advertising revenue share and reduced the network's interest payments, despite a 2% next -year results from a $30- million profit to a $15- million loss. operating decline in interest rates. Also, the NBC network operating results, said Tinker, The decline of CBS and company also had accrued $34.2 also affects their perceived asset value. He cut his total CBS value million in non -cash interest, pay- estimate from $248 to $210 per share. Tinker also suggested, as did S &P, able by issuing additional debt. that free cash flow will actually be negative in both 1992 and 1993, largely Revenue fell 14% for the third because of payments for sports rights fees. continued quarter and 11% for the first nine wondered not why the stock fell but why it had Some people have not months of the year. Meanwhile, the $150 level earlier. In response, PaineWebber securities dropped below cash operating expenses increased analyst Alan Gottesman said, "Some people thought earlier this year CBS 1% and 3.5 %, respectively, pri- was being dressed up for a sale. When a deal didn't pan out, investors then marily a result of higher "program looked at the stock as an early-bird special on an economic recovery." contract rights expenses." As a So far, the recovery has proved elusive, but Gottesman has kept his 1992 result, the company said, cash earnings estimate at $10 per share because he thinks the network's ratings flow plunged 44% and 35 %, re- gains put it in a position to benefit, should advertising pick up. Others are spectively, at its one independent similarly sanguine, including Ed Atorino of Salomon Brothers. -s and five affiliate TV stations. -sr

42 Business Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting AD AGENCIES RESULTS HOLD CAPITAL IDEA bird- quarter earnings of major advertising agencies generally held up, leading A ckerley Communications said to some speculation that the agency business might rebound. Omnicom Group it plans to hire an investment said its third- quarter domestic results were roughly flat, after eliminating "dives- banking firm "to investigate oth- titures net of acquisitions." The company reported third- quarter revenue of er sources of capital which might $275.4 million and pre-tax income of $19.2 million, up 37 %. be available to replace some of Interpublic Group said gross income for U.S. -based operations jumped 33 %, to the company's long -term debt." $138.3 million, for the third quarter. Foote, Cone & Belding said operating Two months ago, Ackerley rene- income, excluding its share of a European joint venture, declined, largely due to a gotiated its senior bank loan to direct -marketing and printing facility. extend repayment of some princi- Third- quarter revenue was up 1 %, to $86.8 million. Grey Advertising said pal repayments-$35.6 million recently that absent some restructuring charges, the company's operating profit was due in 1992. The new agree- for 1991 would be ahead of that reported in 1990. ment added a $9.5 million credit Agency stocks had been underperforming the market but in the past two line, of which Ackerley has al- months have picked up. Susan Decker, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, attributed ready borrowed $6.5 million. In the improvement to "early signs the scatter market is tightening and that national the third quarter, its broadcast advertising in spot and magazines is showing less negative comparisons." -w revenue dropped 8 %. -a Advertising Marketing

FLAT CHRISTMAS WOULD CHEER BROADCASTERS If the holiday season were no worse than a year ago, stations would be happy

By Joe Flint ference Board, a New York -based down "moderately" in the Northeast business organization, the average and the West and down "sharply" in Omy in a year like 1991 would household will spend about $375 on the South. The Conference Board calls broadcasters be content with a gifts this Christmas. That is a 3% de- for improvement in the Midwest. holiday season that is flat, com- cline from what was projected last Overall, more than 33% of house- pared to the year before. And that is year; last year's projection was a 4% holds will spend less than $200 on what they have to look forward to. decline from 1989. presents. Says Fabian Linden, execu- With the typical American household Spending, the survey says, will be tive director of the Conference expected to spend less on Christmas Board's Consumer Research Center: shopping this year, broadcasters again "The prevailing economic environ- face the possibility of a disappointing ment is less positive than last year at fourth quarter. this time. Gross national product is Although one large -scale survey of marginally lower, the unemployment retailers provides cause for optimism, rate is higher. Also, there will be sub- many broadcasters would be happy if stantially fewer shopping days than this year's fourth quarter were flat. last year between Thanksgiving and While many retailers and depart- Christmas-only 26 days, compared ment store chains are said to be wait- with 32." ing until the last minute, stations do Contradicting the report is a survey not expect this holiday season to be by the accounting firm of Deloitte & any worse than last year, which, all Touche and DDB Needham World- things considered, is something to be wide that is optimistic about the holi- thankful for. Still, the public is not day season. The survey of more than expected to return to stores in full 1,000 retailers and about 3,000 con- force. In a Morgan Stanley Investment sumers shows the "holiday sales pic- Research report, economist Steve ture a bit brighter than a year ago." Roach lowered his forecast for real Full resiliency, the study says, is still consumer demand in the fourth quarter "not a near-term reality for retailers to 1.5% annualized growth. Broadcasters hope Santa will deliver the and consumers." To fight the current According to a survey by the Con- goods this Christmas. economy, the study reports, retailers

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Business 43 Celebrating the Bill of Rights On this 200th anniversary Testing the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, The First Amendment was tested in 1991 The Freedom Forum salutes in many ways -most seriously during the First Amendment, the Persian Gulf War. The USA's top editors, the cornerstone of free press, reporters, military officials and scholars free speech and free spirit gathered at The Freedom Forum's for all people. At home and abroad, World Center to search for ways these freedoms will determine to keep the flow of information the quality of life in the 21st Century. open and responsible during wartime.

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CBS and Coca -Cola have teamed up in a multimillion -dollar, joint - promotion campaign for the upcoming 1992 winter Olympic games. George Schweitzer, CBS senior vice president, marketing and communications, called "Medals & Millions" a value -added, Olympics-themed promotion that will offer 16 $1- million grand prizes for each night of Olympics coverage, "the largest advertising, promotion and publicity effort ever for a single event on the network." Game cards will be available with Coca -Cola products and viewers can check the numbers on their cards with the number on the screen to see if the card is a winner. Print and radio will be used extensively to promote the campaign. Schweitzer also said he expects the network to sell out the remaining 17% of ad inventory for the games, and the network, he added, does not anticipate taking a write -down on the games.

plan to increase promotions and advertising efforts. RESHUFFLING THE KIDS' Normally, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleve- MARKET IN WAKE OF NBC land, non -auto sales rise 20% or more from September through December. Syndicators, Fox, CBS and ABC hope To date, the 1991 pace has been flat, and the near-term outlook for consum- to make gains from NBC's exit ers "remains uncertain." By Flint Still, there may be reason for en- Jos make the remaining inventory all the couragement. Lisa Churchville, gener- more valuable," he says. al sales manager, WMAQ -TV Chicago, With NBC's announcement that Rich Goldfarb, senior vice presi- says retail spending in the fourth quar- it is getting out of the Satur- dent, Turner Program Syndication, ter is better than fourth quarter last day morning children's pro- agrees that "an incredibly strong mar- year. A good sign, she says, is that the graining business, as expected ket last year will now be even station is "having more trouble sepa- (BROADCASTING, Oct. 21), none of its tighter." He also points out that rating stores in commercial pods." competitors will mourn the loss. In- NBC's decision to get out of chil- Even the hard -hit New England area stead, they and media buyers are an- dren's programing could open up may have something to smile about ticipating an even tighter marketplace more time periods for syndicators if this Christmas. wBZ-TV Boston gener- than at the present. Still, there may be the network is unsuccessful in getting al sales manager Tony Vinciguerra enough alternatives to keep pricing 100% clearance for its new program- says retail is "slightly better" com- reasonably close to current levels. ing, which will be a Saturday version pared with a year ago. Linda Sullivan, The network children's market is of Today, a one -hour version of Saved general sales manager, WJAR(TV) said to be in the $200 -million range. by the Bell and additional programing Providence, R.I., says that while "it Of that, NBC, media buyers estimate, yet to be announced for 11 -12 a.m. is a little too early to tell, indications accounts for roughly $60 million. Turner Broadcasting System recent- are things will be at least flat and Spending on syndicated programing is ly acquired Hanna-Barbera, which perhaps better this year." also in the $200 -million range. could be in need of a home if an The same is true for WNUV -TV Balti- "Obviously when there is less in- animation channel is not in Turner's more, where general sales manager ventory to buy, the natural tendency is near future. Mike Kelly is expecting this year to be for the remaining inventory to go up," Whether NBC's decision will have flat, "which, compared to the national says Lou Abitablio, executive vice others question their own commitment economy, is very good." And in Indi- president, Bohbot Communications, to children's programing remains to be anapolis, Sharon Chaffin, general "however, since there are more avail- seen. News programing is not as cost- sales manager, wRTv(Tv), says her able alternatives, that scenario may ly as children's programing, and there station is also projecting a flat fourth not take place." are (as yet) no advertising limitations quarter. "At this point," she says, Still, increases or not, the NBC on it. "thank heavens, it is no worse than money will likely stay in the market. Also, growing concern about the flat." Fox has increased its Saturday chil- validity of Nielsen's measurement of One potential bright spot for broad- dren's lineup from two hours to three, children's viewing has many program- casters is the news that retail chain and it may be the big winner to ers worried about makegoods and a Wal -Mart will begin testing using tele- emerge from NBC's decision. possible restructuring of the measuring vision in four markets. According to Tim Duncan, executive director, system. For now, however, an already one report, the retail chain decided Advertiser Syndicated Television As- solid marketplace for broadcasters, that price -wise, newspapers are not a sociation, is also hoping to see gains syndicators and cable programers just sound investment. from NBC's departure. "This will got better.

48 Business Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting Changing I lands This week's tabulation of station and system sales ($250,000 and above) CLOSED! WTKN -AM /WHVE -FM, KTMA -TV Minneapolis Sold by estate of Tampa, Florida from KTMA Acquisition Corp., debtor, to Son - PROPOSED STATION TRADES light Television Inc. for $3.3 million. Susquehanna Radio By volume and number of sales Terms: $2.5 million cash at closing and Corporation to Paxson $800,000 three -year noninterest- bearing note. Seller is headed by Don Johnston, This Week: Broadcasting, Inc., for trustee, and has no other broadcast inter- AM's 0 $1,172,509 0 6 $7.3 million. ests. Buyer is headed by Robert Beale (55% voting stock) and Linda R. Brook, FM's 0 $10,000 0 1 and has no other broadcast interests. KTMA- AM -FM's 0 $2,140,000 0 4 Charles E. Giddens TV ch. with 1740 kw is independent on 23 0 Randall E. Jeffery visual, 174 kw aural and antenna 1,150 feet TV's D $4,800,000 2 above average terrain. Total D $8,122,509 D 13 and WTLJ(TV) Muskegon (Grand Rapids -Kal- Brian E. Cobb Year to Date: amazoo- Battle Creek), Mich. Sold by Brokers Video Mall Communications to Tri-State AM's 0 $71,290,508 D 246 Christian TV Inc. for $1.5 million. Terms: FM's D $211,603,609 0 264 $1.47 million cash at closing and $30,000 escrow deposit. Seller is headed by Marvin AM -FM's D $330,086,849 0 202 D. Sparks, and is also licensee of wTJc(Tv) TV's D $1,058,904,400 D 79 Springfield, Ohio. Buyer is headed by Garth W. Coonce, and has application Total D $1,671,885,366 0 791

pending for purchase of WGGH(AM) Marion, For 1990 total see Jan. 7, 1991 BacomcAsnaia. Providing the Broadcast Indus- ill. It is licensee of WFCr(TV) Marion, Ill.; try with Brokerage Services WAQP(TV) Saginaw, Mich.; WNYB -TV Buffa- Based Strictly on Integrity, lo and wwM(TV) Angola, Ind., and is li- partners in WNUA(AM) Chicago. Buyer is censee or permittee of several LPrV's. headed by Marina Kats, and has no other Discretion and Results. Coonce also heads Radiant Life Ministries, broadcast interests. wPGR has oldies format licensee of wLXi -TV Greensboro, N.C. wry on 1540 khz; with 50 kw day. BRIAN E. COBB is on 54 with 4,395 independent channel KLEE(AM)- KOTM -FM Ottumwa, Iowa CHARLES E. GIDDENS kw visual, 440 kw aural and antenna 1,000 Sold by Kleeco Radio Inc. to FMC Broad- 703-827-2727 feet above average terrain. casting Inc. for $400,000 for terms payable RANDALL E. JEFFERY WQPM -AM -FM Princeton, Minn. Sold by in 20 years. Seller is headed by Gary John- P.M. Broadcasting Co. to Segue Communi- son, trust officer for Daniel C. Palen estate. 407 -295 -2572 cations Corp. for $1.2 million. Approved Estate also owns 50% of WGLB -AM -FM Port ELLIOT B. EVERS sale to John V. Montgomery last year for Washington, Wis. Buyer is headed by 415-391-4877 $410,000 ( "Changing Hands," Sept. 3, Thomas A. Palen (100%) and Beverly Pa- 1990) did not close. Terms: $260,000 es- len, wife of late Daniel Palen. Beverly crow deposit, $740,000 cash at closing and Palen is currently vice president of Kleeco $200,000 for four -year noncompete cove- Radio. KLEE has country, news-talk format RADIO and TELEVISION BROKERAGE nant. Seller is headed by Terrence P. Mont- on 1480 khz 500 w day and 333 w night. FINANCING APPRAISALS gomery, and has no other broadcast inter- KOTM -FM has contemporary hit format on ests. Buyer is headed by Paul B. 97.7 mhz with 6 kw and antenna 200 feet Steigerwald (30% voting stock), former above average terrain. general manager and program director for WKXM -AM -FM Winfield, Ala. Sold by Ad Midwest Communications Inc.; he has no Media Management Corp. to Harper-Main- other broadcast interests. WQPM(AM) has ord Broadcasting for $365,000, payable in contemporary country format on 1300 khz 144 equal monthly installments. Stations with 1 kw day, 83 w night. WQPM -FM si- were purchased in 1989 for $142,500 when mulcasts AM programing on 106.3 mhz wKxÌ -FM was not yet on air; application for with 3 kw and antenna 300 feet. license is pending. Seller is headed by WPGR(AM) Philadelphia Sold by Kiss James B. Pate, and has no other broadcast MEDIA VENTURE Ltd. to All Star Radio Inc. for $800,000. interests. Buyer is owned by general part- Seller is headed by Kenneth O'Keefe, and ners Maxine Harper (67%) and Jack Main - PARTNERS is licensee of wYXR(FM) Philadelphia; WPIT- ord (33%), and has no other broadcast in- AM-FM Pittsburgh; WXKS -AM -FM Everett- terests. WKXM(AM) has country format on WASHINGTON, DC Medford, Mass.; WRFX(FM) Kanapolis, 1300 khz with 5 kw day and 30 w night. ORLANDO N.C.; WHIT-AM-FM Buffalo and WKQG(AM)- wKXM -FM has oldies format on 105.9 mhz SAN FRANCISCO wPxY-FM Rochester, both New York. Gen- with 3 kw and antenna 328 feet above aver- eral partners in KISS Ltd. are also general age terrain.

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NEW EBS TECHNOLOGY VYING FOR ADOPTION As part of its current rulemaking, the FCC is holding a series of regional workshops to generate ideas on improving country's emergency warning network

By Peter Lambert warnings before and during hurricane and tomado watches over the past sev- The FCC will continue its efforts eral years, the 1989 World Series to improve the nation's Emer- earthquake in San Francisco and other gency Broadcast System tomor- local and regional emergencies. An row (Dec. 10), hosting the second of upgraded EBS must reach the popu- six regional workshops, this one at the lace through all available outlets, in- Federal Regional Center of the Federal cluding cable systems, few of which Emergency Management Agency in are interconnected with local or re- Maynard, Mass. gional emergency services agencies, Promising more than a simple ex- they say. change of ideas and plans, debate Tests of several systems are ongo- there could shed more light on a brew- ing in Texas, Missouri, California and ing controversy over the costs and ef- Colorado. And according to Frank Lu- fectiveness of competing new EBS cia, senior EBS engineer for the FCC, technology now being proposed for KPIX -TV San Francisco was one of many the commission may extend the win- adoption by the FCC. outlets covering the 1989 earthquake dow for comments on its EBS notice An ongoing FCC notice of inquiry of inquiry for another three months on new technology could lead the to disseminate considerable data in beyond the Dec. 31 deadline, depend- commission to mandate the use of a short bursts, and it could automatical- ing on progress in those tests. An as- specific alerting system, or to set ly turn on a new generation of con- sociated notice of proposed rulemak- minimum system requirements, within sumer radios coming out next year, ing (to be closed for comments by next the next year. In either case, a signifi- thereby alerting consumers not already February) would reduce the minimum cant market could be at stake for man- tuned in. EBS tone transmission time from 25 ufacturers. Additionally, radio stations could use seconds to eight seconds. Virtually settled, it appears, is that RDS to offer money -making, value- Driven in part by criticism that EBS any new system will involve transmis- added services, such as delivering call shortcomings have been given short sion of digital data, in addition to, or letter readouts to consumer radio dis- shrift at the federal level, FCC Chair- instead of, the current two-tone, in- plays or participating in services that man Alfred Sikes and Defense Com- band audio signal that warns of an allow consumers to call up frequencies missioner Andrew Barrett have taken emergency message to come. according to format, once car radio an active role in pushing for change. However, in a fashion similar to the manufacturers begin delivering a new In addition to the technology inqui- current digital audio broadcasting de- generation of receivers next summer. ry, the FCC has scheduled workshops bate, camps are split between those In -band equipment would build on in Atlanta in February; Kansas City in who propose an in -band technology existing EBS equipment, providing March; at the annual NAB convention and those who propose a subcarrier digital data at substantially lower data in Las Vegas in April; Dallas in May; technology. Both systems would re- rates, carrying nothing beyond infor- Washington in August and Seattle in quire that broadcasters purchase new mation about the nature, magnitude, September. digital encoding, receiving and decod- location and duration of an emergen- "Broadcasting constitutes the only ing equipment. cy. But it could cost one -quarter to truly effective means of providing Subcarrier, radio data system (RDS) one -half as much as the subcarrier sys- emergency information to the public equipment would supplant old equip- tem. very quickly," says Sikes. The Dec. ment and likely cost more, about In any case, broadcasters and others 10 workshop "and future workshops $1,200 for the average small- market agree the current system is flawed. will improve and perfect this vital station. However, RDS would be able They point to incomplete or lagging communications link between nation-

48 Technology Dec 91991 Broadcasting al, state and local government and the and personal computer hardware and The Primary Entry Point (PEP) Ad- public." software. Primary "Common Program visory Committee- maned by engi- Not all the debate will focus on Control" stations would spend closer neers from 37 stations that would be cost. Much argument also will go to to $3,000 on Sage I. tied together for a national EBS net- the issue of effectiveness. "We believe broadcasters will buy work -began tests of WRSAME at Lloyd Collins, chief engineer for the system to put their calls on the new WBAP(AM) Fort Worth, Tex., several KCMO-AM -FM Kansas City, Mo., be- Delco radio," says Lebow. "You months ago and moved the equipment lieves EBS must remain in -band be- could say, then, that if he buys it for to KCMO three weeks ago. Last week cause a listener must be able to hear that reason, the EBS upgrade is at no the FCC extended PEP's test authority the familiar EBS tone to "turn his direct cost." through next April. Collins says he head and listen" for the emergency But KCMG's Collins says concerns also hopes to test other in -band sys- information to come. He also quesi- about cost, multipath in FM and TV tems, including one being developed tons whether the RDS data can weath- and reliable AM delivery have led at by Santa Clara, Calif. -based Time and er FM or TV multipath interference or least one significant group of radio Frequency Technology (which already survive AM delivery. broadcasters to all but settle on an in- builds EBS equipment) and the Im- On the flip side, Jerry Lebow, pres- band approach. proved Colorado EBS system. ident of Sage Broadcasting's Sage Alerting Systems Inc. (which made its first public stock offering in Novem- NAB AND IN- BANDERS REMAIN AT ODDS ber), argues that radio listeners and TV viewers have become desensitized Relations between the National Association of Broadcasters and in -band by weekly two-tone signal tests and digital audio broadcasting proponents got no prettier last week, as often shut off their sets. American Digital Radio Inc. and Strother Communications Inc. declined Lebow argues that his system would invitations to present some details on their in -band systems to the meeting best assure the widest automatic dis- of NAB's DAB Task Force Technical Advisory Group on Jan. 23 -24, semination of the most complete infor- 1992. mation. With Sage's RDS -based Sage Each of those in -band proponents pointed to NAB's affiliation with the I system, he says, AM and FM listen- Eureka L -band DAB system and the presence of competing in -band ers or TV viewers would all hear a proponents -Acorn Project/USA Digital partners, Gannett Broadcasting sounder and get the emergency mes- and CBS Radio-on the advisory committee as their reasons for a negative sage, but the FM subcarrier would car- RSVP. ry control data to AM and TV stations "I'm sorry to hear these two gentlemen have decided not to participate; and cable systems and receivers. it handicaps our ability to make the most informed decision," said Describing Sage I as "a peace divi- advisory committee Chairman Don Wilkinson, chief engineer of KOMO- dend" initially developed for NATO (AM) Seattle. Arguing that NAB's advocacy of the Eureka system in L by Bosch in Germany, Lebow says the band "definitely" does not preclude NAB's adoption of a viable in -band system would use a 57 khz subcarrier FM and/or AM -FM DAB system, Wilkinson added, "We all have stations to deliver specific emergency informa- that will benefit or suffer from the right or wrong decision." tion at data rates able to address re- According to SCI President Ron Strother's Dec. 3 letter to Wilkinson, ceivers 36 times faster than the Weath- the NAB -Eureka "alliance has made it difficult" for SCI and its partner er Radio Specific Area Message LinCom Corp. "to market and secure financing of our systems. It does not Encoder (WRSAME) system, the in- go unnoticed that our own trade association is our competitor." Addition- band system developed by the Nation- ally, he said, the fact that Gannett and CBS have recused themselves from al Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- the January meeting "provides little comfort. If they cannot be present at tration's National Weather Service and any of the presentations or share in the proprietary information of other manufactured by Nemar in Dallas, system developers, then it would seem their appointment to the group says Lebow. serves no purpose." Sage control data could automati- In his own Dec. 3 letter to Wilkinson, American Digital Radio President cally "capture" and switch on or Edward Schober said: "We cannot expect the advisory group with its override all radio, broadcast and cable present membership to be able to provide unbiased evaluations of DAB signals, as well as activate outside si- technology, nor expect the NAB to serve as an impartial independent party rens and electronic message boards. in digital radio development while the Eureka/NAB affiliation remains Self-testing every 10 seconds would active." supplant weekly audible tests. Schober said he will keep Jan. 23 "open on my calendar" in the hopes And when Delco and other manu- that the NAB will "shed their special relationships" with Acorn and facturers begin selling RDS receivers Eureka by then. next year, broadcasters could begin Both Strother and Schober said their companies still plan to participate delivering call letters, stock informa- in NAB's April 1992 convention in Las Vegas. tion and other data display services to Noting that Gannett and CBS were appointed to the group before they radio listeners on the road. RDS became involved in Acorn, Wilkinson said he expects the group "will get would also make it possible for listen- some disclosure from Acorn. In my own estimation, that is to the disadvan- ers to dial in stations by format. Users tage of their competitors who don't attend," he said, adding, "but I believe would need to spend about $1,200 on the task force recognizes the potential for undue influence." -+e a decoder, frequency agile receiver

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Indicates new listing or changed item. York. Information: Beth St. Paul, (201) 585 -6430, or Christmas celebration. Merlon Tribute House, Bala Patricia Karpas, (201) 585 -6429. Cynwyd, Pa. Information: Cathy Schmidt, (215) 668 -2210 or Lisa Stuchell, (215) 443 -9300 THIS WEEK P.C. 111-"The Computer Manipulation and Cre- ation of Audio and Video: Assessing the Down- Nr. 12- International Radio and Television Society D ec. 613- "Producing Newscasts," seminar for side," colloquium sponsored by the Annenberg Christmas benefit. Featuring entertainment by The broadcast journalists sponsored by Poynter Insti- Washington Program, Communications Policy Temptations. The Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, New York. tute. Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla. Informa- Studies, Northwestern University. Washington. In- Information: (212) 867 -6650. tion: (813) 821 -9494. formation. Sharon Duffy, (202) 393 -7100. Dec 15- Deadline for entries for The International Mt. 9 --CBS Inc. meeting for prospective minority iu 1111- "The Road to Results," affiliate ad sales Sports Video and Film Festival 92. Information: purchasers of KLOU(FM) St. Louis. CBS Head- workshop sponsored by MN Network. Portland, (305) 893 -8771. quarters, New York. Information: Mark Perlman, Ore. Information: Elizabeth Miropol, (312) 565- (212) 975-6339. 2300. D ec 9.13 --PaineWebber 1991 media conference. 1612 -Cable Television Administration and ALSO IN DECEMBER McGraw -Hill Building, Mezzanine level, New York. Marketing Society service management master Information: (212) 713 -1460. course. Atlanta. Information: (703) 549 -4200. Dec. 1S-Hollywood Radio and Television Society Ilse 9-13- Lectures on First Amendment issues by Dec 11 -"The Road to Results," affiliate ad sales holiday party. Century Plaza, Los Angeles. Infor- journalists and public figures workshop sponsored by MN Network. Seattle. In- sponsored by Colum- mation: (818) 769-4313. bia University Graduate School of Journalism as formation: Elizabeth Miropol, (312) 565-2300. O «. 19-New York Women in Film 14th part of Freedom Week celebration. World Room, D ec 11 -Gala dinner honoring the First Amend- annual Christmas luncheon. Guest speaker: Columbia University Graduate School of Journal- ment and Justice William J. Brennan Jr. sponsored Academy ism, award actress -director New York, Information: (212) 854 -4150. by Columbia University Graduate School of Jour- Jodie Foster. Waldorf-As- toria. Information: (212) 679 -0870. S ec 1I- Advertising Women of New York show- nalism as part of Freedom Week celebration. The case luncheon. Grand Hyatt, New York. Informa- Rotunda of Low Memorial Library, Columbia Uni- kw 27- Deadline for technical papers for Cana- tion: (212) 593 -1950. versity, New York. Information: (212) 755 -1190. dian Cable Television Association 35th annual convention and cablexpo. Papers on any communica- Dec IS- BROADCASTING magazine 60th anniver- kw 11.12- Occupational Health and Safety Act tions engineering topic related to cable television sary dinner and Hall of Fame inauguration. May- compliance seminar sponsored by National Cable are eligible. Information: (613) 232 -2631. flower Hotel, Washington. Information: Joan Miller, Television Institute. Information: (303) 761 -8554. (212) 599 -2830. 1m.11.13- -Ninth annual Private Cable Show. Wes- Dee 31- Deadline for applications for advanced management training for public broadcasting ex- Ba. 10 --New York Women in Cable and Cable tin Resort, Hilton Head, S.C. Information: (713) 342- ecutives being held in February. Sponsored by Television Administration and Marketing Society 9655. Stanford University, Alaska Public Radio Network, present the 1991 Cable Follies and presen- special S ec 12 -Women in Cable, Greater Philadelphia Management Action Programs, Inc. and the Corpo- tation of the Roy Mehlman Innovator/Leadership chapter and Philadelphia chapter of Cable Televi- ration for Public Broadcasting. Information: Karen Award. The Hudson Theatre, Hotel Macklowe, New sion Administration and Marketing Society annual Cox, (907) 277 -2776. MAJOR MEETINGS

J. 6111, 1992- Association of Independent ciety/Alpha Epsilon Rho national convention. Radio Symposium and Exhibition. Montreux, Television Stations annual convention. Nob Hill Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Washington. Informa- Switzerland. Complex, San Francisco. tion: (803) 777 -3324 or (412) 357 -3210. lu.. 14-17, 1992- Broadcast Promotion and J. 1616,1992-National Association of Broad- Api 5-7, 1992 -Cabletelevision Advertising Bu- Marketing Executives & Broadcast Designers casters winter board meeting and legislative fo- reau 11th annual conference. Marriott Marquis, Association annual conference and expo. Seat- rum. La Quinta, Calif. New York. tle, Wash. Information: (213) 465 -3777. Future Jul. 21-24, 1992 -29th NATPE International Api 611, 1992 -American Association of Ad- convention: June 13 -16, 1993, Orlando, Fla. convention, New Orleans Convention Center, vertising Agencies annual convention. Ritz -Carl- tees 23 -26, 1992- National Association of New Orleans. ton, Naples, Fla. Broadcasters board of directors meeting. Wash- Jul. 25-29, 1992-49th annual National Reli- Api 1612, 1992- Television Bureau of Adver- ington. gious Broadcasters convention. Washington. In- tising 37th annual meeting. Las Vegas. Informa- July 2-7, 1992-International Broadcasting Con- formation: (201) 428 -5400. tion: (212) 486 -1111. vention. RAI Center, Amsterdam. Information: tea 30-kb. 2, 1992 -Radio Advertising Bureau Api 1615, 1992- MIP-TV, international televi- London-44 (71) 240 -1871. Managing Sales Conference. Nashville. sion program marketplace. Palais des Festivals, Avg. 23-27, 1992 -Cable Television Administra- France Feb. 74, 1992-26th annual Society of Motion Cannes, Information: (212) 689 -4220. tion and Marketing Society annual convention. Picture and Television Engineers Advanced Api 12 -16, 1992 -National Association of San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco. Informa- Television and Electronic Imaging conference. Broadcasters 70th annual convention. Las Ve- tion: (703) 549 -4200. Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Infor- gas Convention Center, Las Vegas. Future con- Sept. 9-11, 1992- Eastern Cable Show spon- mation: (914) 761 -1100. vention: Las Vegas, April 19 -22, 1993. sored by Southern Cable Television Association. Feb. 9-14, 1992 -14th International Market of Api 22 -24, 1992- Broadcast Cable Financial Atlanta. Information: (404) 255 -1608. Cinema, N and Video. Loews Hotel, Monte Car- Management Association 32nd annual conven- Sept. 9-12, 1992 -Radio '92 convention, spon- lo. Information: (33) 93-30 -49-44 or (fax) (33) 93- tions. New York Hilton, New York. Future con- sored by National Association of Broadcasters. 50 -70-14. ventions: April 28 -30, 1993, Buena Vista Palace, New Orleans. Lake Feb. 12.14, 1992- Satellite Broadcasting and Buena Vista, Fla.; and 1994, Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, Calif. Sept. 23-26, 1992 -Radio-Television News Di- Communications Association winter conference. rectors Association conference and exhibition, Reno, Nev. Wry 24,1992- Public Radio annual conference. San Antonio, Tex. Information: (202) 659 -6510. Feb. 2624, 1992 -Texas Cable Show, spon- Sheraton Hotel, Seattle. Od. 14-17, 1992 -Society of Broadcast Engi- sored by Texas Cable TV Association. San An- 34, 1992 -National Cable Television Asso- M neers annual convention and exhibition. San tonio Convention Center, San Antonio, Tex. ciation annual convention. Dallas. Future con- Jose, Calif. Information: (317) 253 vention: -1640. Alma 4-7, 1992 -23rd Country Radio Seminar, June 6 -9, 1993, San Francisco. U s,. 20-22, 1992-LPTV annual conference and sponsored by Country Radio Broadcasters. Ms/ 27-30, 1992 -American Women in Radio exposition, sponsored by Community Broad- Opryland Hotel, Nashville. and Television 41st annual convention. Phoenix. casters Association. Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas. Mardi 2524, 1992- National Broadcasting So- bee 1613, 1992- NAB/Montreux International Information: 1 (800) 255 -8183.

50 Datebook Dec 9 1991 BroadastIng ence in the media and must obtain their employer's JANUARY On Dec. 10, in Wash- consent for a leave of absence for the academic 1992 60 for 60. year. Information: (617) 495 -2237. ington's Mayflower Hotel, BROAD- Ica. 6-Deadline for entries for the 42nd annual Jaw 31- Deadline for entries for the 1992 Van- CASTING will celebrate its 60th an- Green Eyeshade Award honoring excellence in guard Awards sponsored by National Cable Televi- journalism sponsored by Society of Professional niversary and inaugurate its Hall of sion Association. Information: (202) 775 -3669. Journalists, Atlanta professional chapter. Winners Fame. Sixty honorees will be in- Jo. 31-FA. 2-California Broadcasters Association chosen in 26 categories. Full -time journalists from ducted that evening; others will be winter conference. Wyndham Hotel, Palm Springs, the southeastern states are eligible. Works must named annually. Proceeds Calif. Information: (916) 444 -2237. have been printed or aired between Jan 1, 1991 go to the and Dec. 31, 1991. Information: Kat Yancey, (404) Museum of Television and Radio Jam. 3144. 1- "Getting a Jump Start on Cable 496 -9957. and the Broadcast Pioneers Library; Issues," ninth annual conference sponsored by Minnesota Association of Cable Television Admin- lam. 7-Deadline for entries for Commendation arrangements for tickets ($350 istrators. Radisson Executive Conference Center Awards sponsored by American Women in Radio each) may be made through Joan and Hotel. Plymouth, Minn. Information: Linda Ma- and Television. Information: (202) 429 -5102. Miller at (212) 599 -2830. gee, (612) 782 -2812. Jaw 7-6- "Essential Skills in Public Affairs," two - day course for cable system managers sponsored by Community Antenna Television Association. FEBRUARY 1992 Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Burlingame, Calif. Infor- Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Los Angeles. Informa- mation: Ellen Neill -Dore, (703) 691-8875. tion: Colleen Harkins, (703) 549 -4200. Folk 1- Deadline for entries in 1992 Best of the Best Promotion Contest sponsored by National As- Jaw 74-"Essential Skills in Public Affairs," two - Jaw 14-15-14th annual International Sport Sum- sociation of Broadcasters. Information: (202) 429- day course for cable system managers sponsored mit. New York Marriott, New York. Information: 5300. by Community Antenna Television Association. Hy- (212) 239 -1061 or (301) 986 -7800. Minnesota Broadcasters Association and att Fair Lakes, Fairfax, Va. Information: Ellen Neill - hr. 23- Jaw 1S- Drop -in luncheon sponsored by National Society of Broadcast Engineers winter conference. Dore, (703) 691 -8875. Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New The Radisson Hotel, Minnetonka, Minn. Informa- Jaw 7- 19-Association of Independent Television York chapter. Speaker: Jennifer Lawson, executive tion: Tascha Renken, (612) 926-8123. Stations annual convention. San Francisco. Infor- vice president, national programing and promotion FM. 4-Deadline for entries in 1992 National Media mation: (202) 887 -1970. services, PBS. Copacabana, New York. Informa- tion: (212) 768-7050. Owl awards sponsored by Retirement Research J. S- Preview screening of PBS documentary, Foundation. Entries must have been produced in for for INPUT '92 "Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio," law 15- Deadline entries spon- the United States and broadcast between Jan. 1 sponsored by The Radio Hall of Fame at the Muse- sored by South Carolina ETV. Those who are eligi- and Dec. 31, 1991. Information: (312) 915 -6868 or um of Broadcast Communications and General Mo- ble to apply include directors, producers, writers (312) 664 -6100. tors. Chicago Cultural Center. Chicago. Informa- and videographers at PBS stations, as well as inde- tion: (312) 987 -1500. pendent filmmakers who produce programs for hr. 4.5-South Carolina Cable Television Associa- tion winter meeting. Downtown Marriott, Columbia, public television. Information: Sandie Pedlow, (803) 1m. S-Deadline for 11th annual Northern Califor- 737 -3208. S.C. Information: Nancy Horne, (404) 252 -2454. nia Radio and Television News Directors Associa- Arizona Television Association an- tion awards. Information: Darryl Compton, (415) Jw. 14-Newsmaker luncheon sponsored by Inter- FA. 4-5-- Cable 561 -8760. national Radio and Television Society. Waldorf-As- nual meeting. Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, Ariz. Infor- toria Hotel, New York. Information: (212) 867 -6650. mation: (602) 955 -4122. Jam. S-- National Academy of Television Ans and Sciences, New York chapter, drop -in luncheon. Jaw 19-Federal Communications Bar Association Speaker: Anne Sweeney, senior vice president, luncheon. Speaker: Dr. Thomas Stanley, FCC chief program enterprises, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite. Co- engineer. Washington Marriott, Washington. Infor- pacabana New York. Information: (212) 768 -7050. mation: Mary Blasinsky, (202) 833 -2684. I. -Deadline for entries for ADDY Awards, J.. 25.24-NATPE International convention. New sponsored by The Advertising Club of Metropolitan Orleans. Washington. Information: (301) 656 -2582. km. 21 -23 --47th annual Georgia Radio-Televi- FOCUS J . U-1i --Association of Independent Television sion Institute sponsored by Georgia Association of Stations annual convention. Nob Hill Complex, San Broadcasters. Georgia Center for Continuing Edu- Francisco. cation at the University of Georgia. Athens, Ga. Information: (404) Jaw 1-1- "Essential Skills in Public Affairs," two- 395 -7200. ON CHILDßEN: day course for cable system managers sponsored Jaw 25.21 --49th annual National Religious Broad- by Community Antenna Television Association. casters convention. Washington. Information: (201) Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, Burlingame, Calif. Infor- 428-5400. TII6 BEAT OF Tllß FUTURE mation: Ellen Neill -Dore, (703) 691 -8875. Jaw 27-Nebraska Broadcasters Association Leg - Jaw 9-16-"Essential Skills in Public Affairs," two - islative/Hall of Fame banquet. Cornhusker Hotel, The Columbia University Grad- day course for cable system managers sponsored Lincoln, Neb. Information: Richard Palmquist, (402) funded by Community Antenna Television Association. Hy- 333 -3034. uate School of Journalism, att Fair Lakes, Fairfax, Va. Information: Ellen Neill - from J... 21-- National Academy of Television Arts and by a grant The Prudential Dore, (703) 691 -8875. Sciences, New York chapter, drop -in luncheon. Foundation, is bringing together J . 13--- Deadline for entries for Community Radio Speakers: Janeen Bjork, vice president and direc- Program Awards honoring the best community ra- tor of programing, Seltel, Inc; John von Soosten, leading experts in children's dio broadcasts, station -based and independent vice president and director of programing, Katz issues for a media conference productions that exemplify outstanding and cre- Television Group. Copacabana, New York. Infor- ative use of radio. Sponsored by National Federa- mation: (212) 768 -7050. with print and broadcast journal- tion of Community Broadcasters. Information: Wen- 3544. 2-Radio Advertising Bureau Manag- ists. This seminar will be national dy Muzzy, (202) 393 -2355. l ing Sales Conference. Nashville. in scope and impact. Jaw WU-National Association of Broadcasters law Deadline for entries for the 24th annual joint board meeting and legislative forum. Palm 31- Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards sponsored Dates: February 3, 4, and 5. Springs, Calif. by the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Com- For please Jaw 13- Deadline for entries for the Anson Jones mittee and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. En- further information, call Award competition honoring excellence in health tries must have been published or broadcast in the 212 -854 -3861 or write: communication to the public. Sponsored by Texas United States for the first time in 1991. Information: Medical Association. Entries must have been Jennifer Phillips, (202) 333 -1880. broadcast between Jan. 1, 1991, and Dec. 31, FOCUS ON CHILDREN Jaw 31- Deadline for application to Harvard Uni- 1991. Information: (512) 370 -1389. versity Neiman Fellowships for Journalists. Appli- 705 Journalism Bldg. 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Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Datebook 51 Fob. 5 --20th annual faculty industry seminar fob. 11-12-The Georgia Cable Television Associa- sored by Country Radio Broadcasters. Opryland sponsored by International Radio and Television tion annual convention. Peachtree Plaza Hotel, At- Hotel, Nashville. lanta. Information: Nancy Horne, (404) 252 -437t. Society. Theme: "Surviving in the 1990's: Is Broad- Mora 6 4-11th annual Northern California Radio casting on Its Way Up or Out ?" New York Marriott Feb 1l -12 -North Carolina Cable Television As- and Television News Directors Association conven- East Side, New York. Information: (212) 867 -6650. sociation winter meeting. Washington Duke Inn, tion and awards. Clarion Inn, Compton, Calif. Infor- Feb. 54-Urban Network third annual conference. Durham, N.C. mation: Darryl Compton, (415) 561 -8760. Stouffer Concourse Hotel, Los Angeles. Informa- Feb. 12.14- Satellite Broadcasting and Communi- B1á 6.2,Radio and Television News Directors tion: (818) 843 -5800. cations Association winter conference. Reno, Nev. Association region two super -regional conference. Clarion Inn, Compton, Calif. Information: Darryl Fob. 6- "Computers for Video, Video for Comput- Fob. 17-11- Broadcast Cable Credit Association Compton, (415) 561 -8760. ers," all -day tutorial sponsored by Society of Mo- credit seminar. Town and Country Hotel, San Die- tion Picture and Television Engineers. Westin St. go. Information: Cathy Lynch, (708) 296 -0200. Mara 7-10-- National Association of Broadcasters Francis, San Francisco. Information: (914) 761- state leadership conference. Washington. 1100. Feb. 9-24 -- Broadcast Cable Financial Manage- ment Association and Broadcast Cable Credit As- Nord 11- Newsmaker luncheon sponsored by In- Feb. 64---American Women in Radio and Televi- sociation board of directors meeting. Town and ternational Radio and Television Society. Waldorf- sion board of directors and foundation board meet- Country Hotel, San Diego. Information: Cathy Astoria Hotel, New York. Information: (212) 867- ing. Washington. Information: Donna F. Cantor, Lynch, (708) 296 -0200. 6650. (202) 429 -5102. Fib. 24- Federal Communications Bar Association Ma 12- 1S- National Federation of Community Feb. 7- Newsmaker luncheon sponsored by Inter- luncheon. Speaker: Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Broadcasters annual conference. Seattle. Informa- national Society of Radio and Television. Waldorf- president of WETA. Washington Marriott, Washing- tion: Wendy Muzzy, (202) 393 -2355 Astoria Hotel, New York. Information: (212) 867- ton. Information: Mary Blasinsky. (202) 833 -2684. 6650 Nora 14-The Green Eyeshade Awards program Fob. 24- 26-Michigan Broadcasters Association sponsored by Society of Professional Journalists, Feb. 7 --26th annual Society of Motion Picture and mid -winter conference. Lansing Center, Lansing. Atlanta professional chapter. Atlanta Airport Marri- Television Engineers advanced television and Mich. ott, College Park, Ga. Information: Kat Yancey, electronic imaging conference. Westin St. Francis, (404) 496 -9957. San Francisco. Information: (914) 761 -1100. Feb. 24 -29-- Advanced management training seminar for public broadcasting executives sponsored Ntwa 18-Presentation of International Broadcast- Fob. 9-14-27th annual management development by Stanford University, Alaska Public Radio Net- ing Awards for "world's best radio and TV commer- seminars for broadcast engineers sponsored by work, Management Action Programs, Inc. and the cials," sponsored by Hollywood Radio and Televi- National Association of Broadcasters. University of Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Palo Alto, sion Society. Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles. Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. Information: (202) Calif. Information: Karen Cox (907) 277-2776. Information: (818) 769 -4313. 429 -5346. 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RADIO NELP WANTED SALES HELP WANTED PROGRAMING PRODUCTION AND OTHERS HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT Well, I have Interviewed a lot of potential sales reps and have found a few great employees. But I Production director /morning person for estab- need more for MN, CO, UT, TX, GA, NC, and NE. If GM's /GSM's needed for expanding group. Must lished Midwest AM /FM. Top -notch production you are aggressive, know how to sell and be computer literate and love to teach. Send your equipment, professional yet fun staff, excellent op- close,want to earn an excellent income while trav- resume, a sales kit, your earnings history and an portunity. Located 1 -1/2 hrs from Chicago in beau- eling selling our products to radio stations just FAX overview of your sales and management philoso- tiful Illinois River Valley area. Send resume and me your resume at 615-646-3628. EOE. phies to: 723 Lari Dawn, San Antonio, TX 78258. tape to Joe Hogan, Operations Mgr., WLPO/WAJK, EOE. PO Box 215, LaSalle, IL 61301. EUE. Sales manager, Pacific Northwest, resort com- Station manager needed for midwest combo. munity... #1 rated station needs a sales manager to Must have sales and management skills needed lead statt to the next level of growth. Must be a SITUATIONS WANTED MANAGEMENT for turnaround. 70,000+ market. Replies confiden- trainer, understand the meaning of rate integrity tial. Resume, compensation requirements, career and leadership. We offer a great benefit program, objectives to Box T -16. EOE. retirement (an unheard -of commodity in radio), lots Station owners: Contemplating selling your sta- of winter recreation, 15 golf courses and wonderful tion? We are two radio men with 44 years broad- National sales manager wanted for leading Soft environment to raise a family. Forward resume, cast experience seeking ownership /management Adult Contemporary station in major East Coast salary requirements to Box T -20. EOE. opportunity. We have the knowledge and experi- market. Looking for an aggressive, goal- oriented, ence but lack capital. 419- 243 -0043. well -organized radio Minimum sales executive. of Radio syndication company seeking aggressive five years sales experience is necessary. Bottom line operator: Take charge management. Success- salesperson willing to work with small base plus ful Mature, 30 years broadcaster; national/local sales, applicant should be detail oriented, have excel- commission. Must have broadcast sales experi- lent telephone skills, be able to execute a light winning programing/promotion, successful recruit - ence. Send resume to: 32 East 57th St., New York, collections policy, and provide fast, effective fol- er/trainer, knows balance sheets/p &Is. Solid refer- NY 10 022 Attn: T. Siciliano. EOE. low-up to clients. Ability to travel frequently is a ences. Reply to Box T -22. must. National sales experience and experience in Start 1992 right: Successful group VP, GM, GSM, selling a soft adult contemporary station is helpful. done it all. Detailed organizer, motivator, record, Send resume to: J. Christopher Broullire, General NELP WANTED TECHNICAL references, degrees. 20 -year achiever. Reply to Sales Manager, WASH -FM, 3400 Idaho Avenue Box T -23. NW, Washington, DC 20016. EOE. Chief engineer for Utica-Rome's top combo, Tab charge GM: 25 years experience sales, group AM - General manager, Central California: Our timt is owned Class B FM and 5K directional programing, new construction, upgrades reve- for must have - looking for an unusual radio station general man- operation. Candidate this position nue- ratings driven. Prefer South all considered. maintenance and administrative skills. Must - ager who is first and foremost a hands -on sales strong John Parker 502 -247 -0090. person. Our general managers are the best sales possess SBE certification or FCC General Class people in their markets and can train and lead their license. Send resume with salary history to staffs to be #1. If you would like to join our success WIBX/WLZW, PO Box 950, Utica, NY 13503, Atten- SITUATIONS WANTED PERSONALITY/TALENT team and have managerial experience in small or fion: Thomas Yourchak, General Manager. EOE. medium markets, this position may be for you. We Looking for morning drive or also welcome applications from GSM's ready to Radio personality. move up. Resume and references to Box T -15. PM drive. 20 yrs. radio experience. Hatter, 319- 752 -0394 EOE HELP WANTED NEWS Salesman or manager sales for AM -FM small WTOP Newsradio 15, Washington, DC: Washing- SITUATIONS WANTED ANNOUNCERS market in West Texas, within hour's drive Lub- of ton's all -news radio station has an immediate open- bock. Same ownership past thirty years. Reply to ing for a managing editor. Applicants should have Announcer, 18 years In radio, seeks stable posi- Box T -18. EOE. prior major market news management experience, tion at AC station. Other formats considered. Mike, well GM/GSM for Arizona sports station. Sales back- developed people skills and demonstrated 904- 255 -6950 leadership ground, stable employment and quality references ability. No calls. EEO /F. Send letter and resume desired. Great opportunity for someone seeking to: Joe D. Gillespie, Director, News & Pro- MISCELLANEOUS graming, WTOP greater responsibility and career advancement. Newsradio 15, 3400 Idaho Ave- nue, NW, Washington, DC EOE. Reply to Box T -17. 20016. Make money in voiceovers. Cassette course offers marketing technique for in Pennsylvania single station/AM -FM market, and success com- Trainers: National Public Radio seeks editor/ train- mercials and industrials. Money -back guarantee. seeking experienced manager. Forward resume, er to with reporters to and producer/trainer work Call for info: Susan Berkley, 1- 800-333 -8108. including sales record. Positive equity situation enhance their reporting and production skills. Re- available. Completely confidential. Reply to Box T- quirements include: BA or equivalent experience; 4 Attention managers: One station market's certi- 19. EOE. years of journalistic and editorial experience; ability fied coverage maps, market information 1990 pop- to produce and/or write for broadcast news; ability Write Niles Associates, PO Box General sales manager wanted for Benchmark ulation. Charles to train reporters with limited experience. Salary Minneapolis, MN. Communications' WZNY -FM (Sunny 385115, 105) and its commensurate with experience. Send cover letter recent L.M.A. partner WGUS -AM/FM (Big Gus) in and resume to: NPR Personnel-#625, 2025 M Augusta, GA. We radio's are one of fastest growing Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. EOE. groups offering a dynamic opportunity in this beau- TELEVISION tiful southeastern market ( #109). You must have a HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT proven track record as an experienced sales man- Radio news editors: A major radio network has ager who can train, motivate and deliver strong immediate part -time editor openings in the news power ratios. Can you continue the winning tradi- department. Position responsible for editing tape Local sales manager: Candidate must have mini- tion of Sunny 105, as well as bring this AC /Country, for broadcast, conducting interviews with news- mum three years TV sales experience, a strong FM/FM/AM combo to a position of market domi- makers, broadcasting closed-circuit feeds, editing, knowledge of ratings, research marketing and nance? Excellent opportunity and compensation. recording and carting correspondent reports. Posi- sales. Management experience preferred but Enormous potential. Send resume with perfor- tion requires three years experience as writer, edi- would consider a hard charging account executive mance and income history (no phone calls please) tor or reporter at major market station or network. looking to move up with a great company. Rush to: Joe Mathias, General Partner, Benchmark Com- Strong editorial and technical skills a must. Quali- resumes to Personnel Department, WUTV-TV, 951 munications, 2164 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Wash- fied candidates are invited to send a resume to Whitehaven Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. No ington, DC 20007. EOE. Box T -21. EOE M/F. phone calls please. EUE.

54 Classified Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting Local sales manager: Mid -Atlantic, top fifty, National production development officer: KTCA- Field producer: Opportunity available for a creative, strong, growing affiliate looking for an exceptional TV, Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis/St. mature individual Good journalism background a sales leader. The winning candidate will be highly Paul, is seeking first -rate development pro with must. On camera experience required with a mini- motivated, a real team player and a television mar- demonstrated abilities in corporate fundraising and mum of 3 years hands-on experience in news or keting professional for the 90's. Major emphasis on marketing. Foundation fundraising experience an magazine style stories. One of the country's top new business, vendor, selling value, and growing added plus. Job involves working in creative envi- Christian television programs offers an excellent sal- the television market. Position available immediate- ronment on projects of quality and excellence. Sal- ary and benefits package. Send 1/2 inch reel and ly for the right individual. Resumes to Box T -5. An ary: $40s. Send resume by Dec. 17 to: Box 13, resume to: Personnel Director, PO Box 819099, Dal- EOE -M/F station. KTCA -TV, 172 E. 4th St., St. Paul, MN 55101. las, TX 75381 -9009. EOE. EOE/AA Business manager: WTTV, Channel 4, Indianapo- Executive producer: We are looking for a team lis, one of the country's leading independents, leader with great news judgment, excellent people needs a financial manager. Originating Indiana NIL? WANTED TECHNICAL skills, superb writing ability, and extraordinary pro- University Basketball, Purdue Basketball and many ducing talents. Successful candidate should have other live events and programs requires a profes- Maintenance engineer needed for state of the art a college degree and significant experience as sional with a strong background, preferably with facility. Position requires thorough knowledge of large market producer or previous experience as independent experience. We are owned by River studio maintenance and UHF transmitters. FCC an executive producer, managing editor or news City Broadcasting, one of the fastest growing oper- and /or SBE certification required with a minimum director. Send resume and cover letter to: Bob ators of television and radio stations. Replies will of 2 years experience. Send resume to: WHSL-TV, Cashen, News Director, WAVY -TV, 300 Wavy be kept in the strictest confidence. Send resumes 1408 N. Kingshighway, Suite 300, St. Louis, MO Street, Portsmouth, VA 23704. No phone calls to: General Manager, WTTV, 3490 Bluff Road, Indi- 63113. No telephone calls. FOE. please. FOE. anapolis, IN 46217. EOE M/F. Television uplink/maintenance engineer: Televi- TV weathercasters wanted: Seeking to build a TV UHF TV station and wireless cable system in tax - sion maintenance engineer needed to participate weather dept. from scratch. At least one year on -air free Cayman Islands now seeking permanent staff in design, maintenance and operation of live 24- experience. Colorgraphics weather system experi- in all positions. Experienced only need apply. CiTV/ hour broadcasting operation. Heavy emphasis ence a plus. Send air tape to: National Weather US Office, 130 Prim Road Suite 233, Colchester, VT placed on uplink experience. Requires 3-5 years Network, PO Box 786, Jackson, MS 39205. FOE. 05446. EOE. current hands -on maintenance experience, ability WHAG Job director/an- to troubleshoot to the component level, and com- -TV opportunities: Sports sports coverage, anchor early Sales manager: If you are fed up with the highly mitment to engineering excellence. Must be a team chor. Coordinate late evening sportscasts and perform general leveraged pressures from investor ownership, why player. AS degree in Electronics or equivalent ex- and sports assignments. Minimum two years experi- not start the new year off right! We are an industry- perience. If you would like the excitement of live Send resume, salary requirements and non- respected family owned group of five small -medi- television and want to work for America's #1 cable ence. tape. reporter: um market affiliate stations. Our station has a terrif- shopping network, then mail or fax your resume to: returnable 3/4" demo Sports reporting required for general ic career growth opportunity. We are the dominant Mike Cavanaugh, QVC Network, Goshen Corpo- Strong background and weekend sports anchor NBC station in a two-station market. We seek a rate Park, West Chester, PA 19380, FAX 215-430- sports assignments Send resume, salary requirements and non- sales leader who can properly market our position 2368. An equal opportunity employer, M /F. duties. and lead our staff of professionals into the chal- returnable 3/4" demo tape. News reporter: Gener- lenging 90's. You will be responsible for our exten- Overnight tape/master control operator: Sign al assignment reporter. Minimum one year radio or sive regional market and direct the efforts of our station off /on. Record satellite programing for tape television news experience required. Strong writing superior Petry national sales team. The person se- delay. Verify daily commercial play list and dub ability a must. Knowledge of VCR shooting and lected should have the potential to quickly move up commercials, PSA's and promos. Load daily com- editing preferred. Send resume, salary require- to GSM. Excellent fringe benefit package. Contact mercial play list into automation computer. Send ments and non -returnable 3/4" demo tape. Televi- Charlie Webb, VP/GM, W VA -TV, PO Box 1930, resumes to Roye Baird, KTVA -TV, 1007 W. 32nd sion news photographer: Entry level position to Bluefield, WV 24701. 304- 325 -5487. EEO/MF. Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99503. EOE. shoot and edit 3/4" videotape for daily news stories. Requires creative individual who is able to General manager: Small, privately owned broad- Electrical /electronic engineer position is avail- meet deadlines. Experience preferred. Send re- cast group has an opening for general manager. able which requires a BS degree and 3 -5 years sume, salary requirements and non-returnable 3/4" Excellent lifestyle and working environment avail- experience in video systems and secondary digital demo tape. WHAG -TV is an NBC television affiliate able. Experience in station and /or sales manage- communications. Experience with military systems located in Arbitron s 192nd market. We offer a ment required. Please respond to Box T -24. FOE. desired. BDM Management Services Company comprehensive benefit package, including a provides technical support services to the Army 401(k) retirement savings plan and a (IRS) Section Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Chaffee, 125 Flexible Spending Plan. A pre -employment Arkansas. Send resume and salary requirements to drug screen will be required of applicants given HELP WANTED SALES Ms. P.A. Jenkins, BDMMSC, PO Box 10990, Fort final consideration. Application deadline for these Smith, AR 72917. An equal opportunity employer. positions is December 16, 1991. Telephone calls Apply to: We need a hustler! Mid -sized syndicator looking from applicants will not be accepted. Chief engineer: WBRE -TV 28, Wilkes- Barre, PA. Street, for a strong West Coast salesperson to work large Personnel, WHAG-TV, 13 East Washington NBC affiliate. Candidate must have experience is an equal and small market territory. Willingness to travel Hagerstown, MD 21740. WHAG -TV with ENG systems, UHF transmitters and studio hard, work the phones, and be a team player are opportunity employer. facilities. Good people skills and prior manage- necessary requirements. Send resume to Box T- ment experience at station level a must. Resume 13. EOE. News producer: Produce 5:30/11:00 newscasts to: William Harper, WBRE-TV, 62 South Franklin St., weekdays. Applicants must be able to demon- Wilkes- Barre, PA 18773. EOE. strate expertise at writing copy, editing tape and Broadcast sales experi- supervising the assembling of the newscasts. Must Local account executive: Chief engineer: Assistant to chief engineer that is required. Send resume to: LSM, WBFS, have strong leadership and organization ability. ence ready to become a chief. Applicant should have College degree in communications pre- 16550 NW 52 Ave., Miami, FL 33014. EOE. knowledge of latest technology with experience broadcast ferred. Please send resumes to: Judy R. Carrier, administratively. Dominant NBC affiliate. Great Administrative Assistant, WCYB-TV5, PO Box 2069, company and benefits. Ideal quality of life. A rare General sales manager: Opportunity available Bristol, VA 24203. Minorities and women encour- opportunity. Salary DOE. Please send resumes to: with small market, group owned station. Previous aged to apply. No phone calls. FOE. Deadline for Judy R. Carrier, Administrative Assistant, WCYB- sales management experience required. Progres- accepting resumes is December 16, 1991. TVS, PO Box 2069, Bristol, VA 24203. Minorities sive company also provides further growth oppor- and women encouraged to apply. No phone calls. tunities. Please respond to Box T -25. EOE. you EOE. Deadline for accepting resumes is December Consumer reporter /consumer specialist: If 16, 1991. have what it takes to produce Chattanooga's best consumer news, we want to meet you. We will provide a producer, the best news crew in the HELP WANTED NEWS Southeast, SNG. ENG and computers. You must KELP WANTED MARK171111 be experienced, aggressive and a self -starter. An- chor skills a plus. This is not a beginner's job! Send Reporter: Come join the Emmy winning NBC affili- non -returnable tape and resume showing your best region: in NC, is also the home of the Regional marketing manager Western ate Charlotte, which work to: Jim Church. News Director, NewsChannel regional marketing manag- News We a compelling journal- Major TV rep firm seeks NBC Channel. seek 9, 410 West 6th Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402. er to develop new business for station clients. We ist who can write and deliver the story in competi- WTVC is an equal opportunity employer. are looking for an energetic sales pro with experi- tive local news market. You must be outstanding in ence in product marketing/promotion and TV me- live settings. Our requirements include at least five dia to call on top level manufacturer, retail and years TV news experience and a college degree. ll Assignment editor: KSDK, NBC St. Louis affiliate, agency executives. This new position, based in this sounds like you, send resume, references and #1 all news time periods. Qualified applicants Los Angeles, offers tremendous growth potential, a non -returnable tape showing your abilities to Ken must have ability and minimum 3 -5 years experi- excellent compensation and benefits, some travel Middleton, News Director, WCNC -TV, 1001 Wood ence to handle an aggressive desk. Send resume required. Confidential replies to Box T -26. An equal Ridge Center Drive, Charlotte, NC 28217 -1901. and tape: News Director, KSDK, 1000 Market opportunity employer. EOE. M/F. Street, St. Louis, MO 63101. No calls. EOE.

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Classified 55 Photographer: WCNC -TV, the Emmy winning NBC Executive producer, national production devel- affiliate in Charlotte, NC, seeks a talented individ- opment: KTCA -TV, Twin Cities Public Television, FIELDS ual with at least five years shooting experience. Minneapolis/St. Paul, is seeking outstanding exec- ALLIED Our team needs a highly creative journalist who utive producer to develop national arts, cultural KELP WANTED INSTRUCTION can tell the story when Shooting spot news or se- and humanities productions and oversee national ries. Experience setting up live shots is mandatory. foundation fundraising. Candidate is someone with College degree preferred. EOE. M/F. Send resume national production credits and strong foundation Graduate assistantships: Assignments for quali- and non -returnable tape to Doug Stacker, Chief fundraising experience. Candidate can generate fied MA candidates. NPR public radio station or Photographer, WCNC -TV, 1001 Wood Ridge Cen- ideas, develop ones own or other station's ideas, student operated radio station; involvement in pro- ter Drive, Charlotte, NC 28217 -1901. do foundation fundraising, and project -manage or graming, news, marketing, audio production; TV/film production; monitor performance, produc- WJBF -TV wants executive -produce projects as required. This is an an aggressive reporter with ex- tion, and news labs. Tuition waiver plus stipend up perience. Good anchor /producing skills helpful. outstanding opportunity to work in a highly creative environment to $5,000 per academic year. Begins Fall 1992. Send resume and non-returnable tape to Pete Mi- dedicated to excellence. Salary: $40s. Send resume by Dec. 17 to: Box 14, KTCA -TV, 172 Contact Dr. William R. Rambin, School of Commu- chenfelder, Dept. ND-4, WJBF -TV, 1001 Reynolds nications, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Street, Augusta, E. 4th St., St. Paul, MN 55101. EOE/AA. GA. EOE. LA 71209 -0320. 318-342 -1390. EOE/AA. Wanted: Topnotch producer. We want more than a show stacker. We need a sharp, creative, enthu- Seton Hall University Department of Communica- siastic newscast architect who can supervise, lead SITUATIONS WANTED MANAGEMENT tion broadcasting teacher: Broadcasting assistant news personnel. Must be production savvy and /associate professor to teach undergraduate media research, theory and criticism, with a special- must be an excellent writer. No beginners. Please Consulting: Manager highlighted in WSJ article ization in broadcast history and ethics and laws send 3/4" tape, resume and references to Liz Grey about LPN available for consulting. More than (with potential for graduate level teaching in corn - Crane, News Director, WTNH -TV, 8 Elm Street, seven years experience managing profitable munication research), beginning September 1992. New Haven, CT 06510. No calls. EOE. LPTVs. For rates contact Ken 312-951- Shapiro Candidate should have solid grounding in tradi- 0871. 1636 North Wells Street, Chicago, IL 60614. Freelance reporter: For production of video news tional and contemporary media theory and re- releases on health issues. Northeast region. Non- search. Ph.D. required and evidence of scholarly returnable tape and resume to: Jim Burns, Burns activity with significant teaching experience. Ten- Media, 850 Seventh Avenue, NY, NY 10019. EOE. ure track position. Send application, vita and three letters of reference to: Dr. Donald J. McKenna, Producer: Top 50-75 Northeast market. Major in- SITUATIONS WANTED NEWS chair; Department of Communication; Seton Hall dependent. Strong writing skills a must. Take tradi- University; South Orange, NJ 07079 -2696. Applica- tional news into the 90's with creative flair for vi- tion deadline: January 20, 1992. Seton Hall Univer- suals. "1:30 stackers" need not apply. Reply to Box Excellent, experienced sportscaster looking for a sity is a private institution affiliated with the Roman T -10. EOE. fine station in which to work. Also knowledgeable Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, NJ approximately newsperson. 216-929-0131. 15 miles from New York City. Communication is the KELP WANTED PROGRAMING largest department in the College of Arts and Sci- ences with curricula cycles in broadcast -film, pub- TV weather = Rocket science? I don't think so. PRODUCTION A OTHERS Weather for people, not space shuttle astronauts! lic relations- advertising, journalism, communica- Reply to Box T -29. tion graphics, speech and theater, and a new MA Assistant art director to help lead top TV graphics in Corporate and Public Communication. Seton department. WABC -TV New York seeks a highly Hall is an affirmative action /equal opportunity em- skilled, hands-on design manager. Major market Experienced reporter who's able to bring the ployer. experience and strong management skills needed. news home to your viewers. I can do it all! Medium News and promotion experience necessary for a market. Susan 216- 871 -5189. Assistant/associate professor: The Department high -pressure environment. Experience with state - of Communications seeks an experienced televi- of- the -art computer design and production equip- sion theory and production faculty member for a Experienced anchor /producer /reporter: Energet- ment a must. Send resume and reel to: Art Director, full -time tenure track position beginning August ic, creative and outgoing female ready to work for WABC -TV, 7 Lincoln Square, NY, NY 10023. No 1992. Doctorate in Communications desired/Mas- your station and community. Medium market. Call phone calls please. We are an equal opportunity ter's degree required. Successful candidate will 409- 758 employer. -3577. have significant professional media experience. For a complete application, a candidate must pre- Promotion/community relations: If you have at Hardworking reporter: Energetic female reporter sent: 1.) A letter of application and a resume; 2.) A least three years experience handling promotion of looking for small to medium market. Willing to relo- resume videotape on either VHS or U- Matic; 3.)At a network affiliated commercial television station, cate anywhere. Can also write, shoot and edit! Call least three current letters of recommendation. Sala- are creative and a good organizer, have strong 617 -484 -0320. ry dependent on qualifications. Review of appli- people skills, we have a position for you. Applicant cants will begin February 1, 1992, but the position must be able to take a project from conception to will remain open until filled. Submit application to: completion. We'll challenge you with multiple pro- Dr. Ralph R. Donald, Chairman, Department of jects and tight deadlines. We offer health and life SITUATIONS WANTED Communications, 305 Gooch Hall, UT Martin, Mar- insurance, company -paid retirement program, tin, TN 38238 -5099. UT Martin is an equal oppor- paid holidays/vacations, and attractive earnings PERSONALITY/TALENT tunity/affirmative action employer. Women and mi- potential. We are located in the North/East section norities are encouraged to apply. of the country. Please send resume T -27. to Box Hardworking minority female seeking entry-level Please do not send tapes. EOE. Mat. profJentry level, tenure track, beginning talent and/or trainee position - prefer the weather August 1992. Teach core courses in Broadcasting department. Please reply to Box T -11. WNYC Public Radio a TV currently seeks a pro- Sequence, related courses depending on back- duction technician to work in the TV production ground. Strong professional experience and Ph.D. department. Responsibilities include setting up ba- expected. Applications deadline extended to Feb- sic lighting, audio, floor manager, generator, field ruary 1, 1992. Send letter, current vita, transcripts, camera, editing, studio staging functions and all three letters of reference, evidence of teaching MISCELLANEOUS other elements of the studio, location and post competence, statement of research interests to: production operations. Requirements include a BA David A. Haberman, chair, Dept. of Journalism and degree in Communications or satisfactory equiva- Primo people - The news director's friend! We can Mass Communication, Creighton University, Oma- lent, and a minimum of two years recent operation- deliver the best talent .. immediately. Call Steve ha, NE 68178 -0119; 402-280-2825. Creighton Uni- al experience in TV production. Applicants must Porricelli or Fred Landau at 203- 637 -3653, Box versity is an affirmative action /equal opportunity have a motor vehicle driver's license valid for oper- 116, Old Greenwich, CT 06870-0116. employer. ation in NY. Salary: $25,466 4- complete benefits package, including 3 wks vacation. If interested, Station owners Kennedy's first presidential flag Broadcast journalism: Instructor or assistant pro- please resume fessor to send to WNYC Personnel, Dept. color 11" x 17* portrait January 1961. M.D.'s an- teach undergraduate Courses in Commu- 13P, 1 Centre Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY tique collection. Holiday gift limited supply nications. Course load to include news reporting, writing 10007. No phone calls. EOE. $4,000.00 mint. Order now. Charles Niles 8 Asso- for electronic media and broadcasting. Minimum qualifications: ciates Broadcast Consultants, PO Box 385115, M.A. in Communications or Producer /executive producer: Florida ABC affili- Minneapolis, MN. related area and significant professional experi- ate seeking two producers. If you like long hours ence; terminal degree and experience preferred. and an opportunity to do something more than be a Send letter of application, vita and at least three Fine producer, you're our person. Enjoy life in the Job hunting? As broadcasting's biggest employ- letters of recommendation to Don A. Grady, Chair, sun and working with a great group of people. ment- listings consultant, we're preparing for yet Department of Journalism and Communications, Must be a newsroom leader with a minimum of two another major expansion in 1992! Ask about our all 2800 CB, Elon College, Elon College, NC 27244. years experience. Must be flexible in producing new "Portfolio of Services ". Media Marketing, PO Review of applications will begin January 31, 1992. style, willing to take chances, and more than a Box 1476 -PSB, Palm Harbor, FL 34682 -1476. 813- Minority and women candidates are especially en- show stacker. FOE. Send resumes to Box T -28. 786 -3603 or FASTFAX: 813- 787 -5808. couraged to apply. EOE.

56 Classified Dec 91991 Broadcasting The American University School of Communica- TV weethercasting workshop: Produce your on- Buy, sell, employment. DataBank Computer list- tion in Washington, DC seeks Graduate Fellows to air demo tape in studio with two camera set -up, ings. Modem: 300 to 2400 baud, MNP -5, V.42bis. assist in teaching and professional duties while chroma key, colorgraphics computer system, $0.99 minute. Average seven minutes. 900 -329- earning a Master's degree in Journalism and Pub- weather set etc... and get not only a demo air 8080 lic Affairs. This 10 -month program begins in Sep- tape... but real experience in front of the camera. tember. Program includes Washington internships Professional AMS TV weathercaster with 10 years and a faculty with top professional credentials. For experience on -air will coach and critique you and more information, write to: School of Communica- assist. Weekend workshop bookings available. tion, Graduate Journalism Committee, The Ameri- Other times by appointment. Call National Weather can University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Network: 601- 352 -6673 for dates 8 info. Washington,DC 20016 -8017. TELEVISION Assistant professor of speech and mass com- WANTED TO BUY ECUIPMENT munication in television studies. Tenure -track posi- HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT tion contingent upon state funding. Qualifications: Used 1" or VHS videotape. Looking for large Doctorate or MFA degree and experience in teach- quantities. Will pay shipping. Call Carpel Video, ing television courses required. Ability to teach 301- 694-3500. LOCAL SALES MANAGER radio courses and /or introduction to electronic me- Orlando market. Immediate opening. Independent dia desired. Professional production experience Top dollar for your used AM or FM transmitter. Call TV station. Must have 3 -5 years TV sales management Professional, preferred. Responsibilities: Teach undergraduate now. Transcom Corp., 800 -441 -8454. experience. aggressive go -get- and graduate courses in studio and field television ter a MUST. Resumes accepted through 12/13/91 only, send resumes along with references and sal- production. Possible assistance in the develop- FOR SALE EfONLPMdT ary requirements to: Wayne Spracklln, WKCF -TV, ment of a campus television station and cable ser- 602 Courtland Street, Suite 200, Orlando, Flori- vices, teaching in radio, and supervision of elec- da, 32804. (407) 645-1818. EOE. tronic media interns. Closing date: February 5, AM transmitters: Continental/Harris 1 KW, 1992. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, CCA/MCM 2 5KW. CCA/Harris 5KW, Harris/RCA three letters of'recommendation and graduate tran- 10KW, Harris/CCA 50KW. Transcom 800-441- script to Ronald J. Matton, Chairperson, Depart- 8454 ment of Speech and Mass Communication, Tow- HELP WANTED NEWS son State University, Towson, MD 21204 -7097. FM transmitters: RCA 20KW. Collins 10KW, CCA Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. An 2.5KW, Collins 1KW. Transcom 800-441 -8454. affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. SCIENCE TELEVISION JOURNALIST AM and FM transmitter, used, excellent condition. Guaranteed. Financing available. Transcom. 215- HELP WANTED STILES Network seeking Science TV Reporter. Daily 884 -0888. FAX 215 -884 -0738. deadlines and extensive traveling. Qualifica- Nearly 100 markets already taken: If you have FM antennas. CP antennas, excellent price, quick tions: Undergraduate degree in science field, what it takes to live on $2,000 in commissions per delivery from recognized leader in antenna design. 4 years as science journalist, 2 years report- month while you build your own business into a six - Jampro Antennas, Inc. 916 -383 -1177. ing science on TV. No calls. Send resume, figure income, call us now. We need good people print samples to Box T -12. EOE. with media sales experience in: Buffalo, Charles - TV antennas. Custom design 60 KW peak input ton/Huntington, Colorado, Des Moines/Omaha, Du- power. Quick delivery. Excellent coverage. Recog- luth/Superior, Idaho, Knoxville/Bristol, Las Vegas, nized in design and manufacturing. Horizontal, el- Minneapolis/St. Paul, Montana, Pittsburgh, Ra- liptical and circular polarized. Jampro Antennas, ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR/ leigh- Durham, San Diego, West -Central Texas. We Inc. 916 -383 -1177. market the world's largest stock library of animated EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Blank videotape: Betacam, 3/4" ii 1 ". Broadcast effects, plus pre-produced TV commercials and WCNC -TV, the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, NC, quality guaranteed and evaluated. Betacam - 20's custom characters like Jim ( "Hey Vern, It's Ernest ") needs an experienced journalist to join our $4.99. 3/4" - 20 minutes $5.99, 3/4" - 60 minutes - Varney and much more. Call Lee Michaels at Cas- EMMY award winning team and assist in run- $8.99. 1 - 60 minutes $24.99 in quantity. Magneti- corn Syndication, 615- 242 -8900. ' cally examined, cleaned and packaged. Guaran- ning our news operation. WCNC -TV is also the teed to perform as new. Sony, 3M, Fuji, or Ampex. home of the NBC NewsChannel. Our ideal can- HELP WANTED TECHNICAL For more info. call Carpel Video toll free, 1 -800- didate has recent management experience 238-4300. plus a background as an executive producer Challenging employment opportunity: Major or producer who has successfully produced supplier for Broadcast Computer System for radio B roadcast Equipment (used): AM/FM transmit- newscasts, series, specials and special and TV is immediately seeking several support ters RPU's, STL's antennas, consoles, processing, events. We require a minimum of ten years Sys- turntables, automation, tape equipment, monitors, team members. Products include Broadcast experience and a college degree. If this and etc. Continental 3227 Magnolia, tem Ill, Real World Accounting, WordPerfect, Communications, sounds like the situation you have been waiting X- Windows/MOTIF. The mission of the Decision, St. Louis, MO 63118. 314 -664 -4497, FAX 314 -664- for, please send resume description of current Inc. support team is to install computer systems 9427. duties and news philosophy, references and a and to train and support the operators. The position involves frequent travel including some internation- Lease purchase option. Need equipment for your non -returnable tape showing your creative ca- al travel. Must have strong teamwork attitide. Appli- radio, television or cable operation? NO down pay- pabilities to ment. NO financials 8 cants with an understanding of radio/TV broad- up to $70,000. Carpenter Ken Middleton, News Director casting and some knowledge of computer Associates, Inc. Voice: 504 -764 -6610. Fax: 504- operations will be considered first. Mail resume 764-7170. WCNC -TV, and cover letter to Business Manager, 402 South 1001 Wood Ridge Drive, 1000' Standing in Albion, Nebraska. Heavy Center Ragdale, Jacksonville, TX 75766 or fax complete tower. includes Purchase in place Charlotte, NC 28217 -1901. information to 903 -586 -6751. All replies held confi- Kline tower 6-1/8" coax. with land and move anywhere. Call Bill dential. EOE. building, or Kitchen, 303-786-8111. EOE. M /F.

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES UHF TV transmitters 2 avail. 30KW, 110KW. Low band 4 good Klystrons low price. Bill Kitchen, Sun- Government jobs $16,040- $59,230/yr. Now hiring. belt Media. 303-786 -8111. EARLY DEADLINE Call 1 -805- 962 -8000 Ext. R -7833 for current federal list. Equipment financing: New or used. 36-60 months, no down payment, no financials required NOTICE Jobs are now available in the radio and television under $35,000. Refinance existing equipment. industry. Subscribe to "Hot Leads" today. 5 issues Mark Wilson, Exchange National Funding. 1 -800- Due to the Christmas for $15.00/10 issues for $20.00. Send check or 275 -0185. We do start-up business. money order to: WWW Publishing Company, PO Holiday, the deadline Colorgrephlc Systems Inc. Live Line Ill graphics Box 2233, Natick, MA 01760. For info call 1.800 - for 523.4WWW. unit. Includes computer mainframe (Cremco). Ter- Classified minal w/keyboard. Digipad 5 includes power supply, Palette interface and stylus. $5,000 contact Advertising will be EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Brenda 317 -552 -0804. Noon, Friday On camera coaching: Sharpen TV reporting and Used television production equipment: List your December 20, 1991 for anchoring/teleprompter skills. Produce quality equipment for sale or purchase from one of the demo tapes. Critiquing. Private lessons with former most extensive used equipment inventories in the the December 30, 1991 ABC News correspondent. 914- 937-1719. Julie industry. Media Concepts, Inc. - Celebrating 10 Eckhart. Eckhert Special Productions. years of excellence. 918-252-3600. issue.

BroadcasUnN Dec 9 1991 Classified S7 HELP WANTED PROGRAMING, PROMOTION A OTHERS ALLIED FIELDS EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ON -AIR PROMOTION SaoDiegod0 mo otLiri PRODUCER K O T V TV Anchor, Weather, KG V, San Diego's leading TV station now ha, Mo Reporter, Sports, Sales, KABC -TV, an owned station of Capital MO Producer & Entry Level. the following employment opportunities: Cities/ABC, Inc., has an immediate need for a dynamic On -Air Promotion Produc- Commercial 1- 900 -786 -7800 er. Producer /Director EE info. from of markers C 51.95 per min. Position requires 3+ years experience Ñ News and Program Radio Disc Jockey, News, Sales producing fresh, effective spots at the Producer /Director U Program Director & Entry Level local or network level, excellent writing ti 117W. Hodson SNd 611, R S. 17J47 CNtopo, & 6,1605 40 skills, and a strong working knowledge in On -line Computer Editor all aspects of production. Familiarity with animation and graphics is a plus. Please call Jobline 10 for specific duties and We offer a competitive salary/benefits requirements. Minorities and women are package. For immediate consideration, encouraged to apply. 7A woo -. ww/111f-4r send your resume and tape to: a/Va(tbrrlVLWIC ,IebLitieV : (bI9) 237 -li'?:iII Press: Ft, Radio jobs. updated dally Capital Cities /ABC, Inc., Equal Opportum Employer M /I` /fi,1 El I Television jobs, updated daily Personnel Department El Hear "talking resumes" 4151 Prospect Ave., Dept PP /B, I To record "talking resumes" and Hollywood, CA 90027. SITUATIONS WANTED MANAGEMENT employers to record job openings Equal OpportuMty Employer i] Weekly memo to improve your job THE INTERIM search technique TELEVISION EXECUTIVE 1 -900- 726 -JOBS '10° per mrn (5 6 2 7) In today's broadcast economy you may have cut staff and expertise too far. Re- hiring may not be the answer. Hire an "Interim Executive" with 28 years of television experience. My skills and expertise TV'S MOST include: General Manager TRUSTED JOB Sales strategies for the '90's News positioning for #1,2 or 3 LISTING SERVICE Labor negotiations Since 1986 Program strategy, negotiation, scheduling ask around - People n the business will tell you why Long range plans Our da ly updated phone lines provide Director of Children's Team building 50 -70 NEW. CONFIRMED OPENINGS PER WEEK Special projects Programing, PBS To Subscribe call 800- 237 -807 /Caldumla 409648-5200 M you need a seasoned, mature professional We are seeking an experienced pro- hire THE INTERIM TELEVISION EXECUTIVE. graming professional to direct PBS's ser- Call Stan Pederson at 417- 831 -4235. vices in children's programing. Respon- THE BEST JOBS ARE ON THE UNE P O Bo. 5,909 PacAdc Grow. CA 93950 sibilities include working closely with PBS member stations and producers to identity station needs, assess and develop MISCELLANEOUS new proposals, and monitor ongoing series. Will also work with other PBS pro- We'll give you graming staff on program strategies, services, and schedules, and represent PBS all at conferences and meetings. Qualifica- the credit. Blows money and/or coupons tions: BA degree with 6 -8 years experi- IT'S EASY TO DO. Just ence in programing; thorough children's include your personal or Patrons try to catch working knowledge of TV /film production as many as they can preferred. Must have company Mastercard or excellent judgment (309) 788 -0135 to assess programs for production val- VISA credit card number and ues, audience accessibility, and overall the expiration date in your program schedule. Must also have excel- FAX or letter (please, no FOR SALE STATIONS lent oral and written communication and phone orders at this time). management skills. PBS offers a salary Top rated F.M. Manitowoc commensurate with experience and an covering and Sheboygan WI. Potential. excellent benefits package. Please send Great MasterCard letter of interest, resume, and salary re- A.M. in small town with coverage of and quirements to: ratings in Madison WI. Cash Flow. A.M. FI West Coast just outside Sarasota. Tremendous Carla A. Gibson FAX (202) 293 -FAST growth area. 1320 Braddock Place rr Upgradable F.M. FI South West Coast area excellent ratings. OR MAIL TO: Classified Dept., Pes la an equal opportunny employer PBS 1705 DeSales Street, NW, CALL DON ROBERTS Washington, DC 20036. 813 -966 -3411

58 Classified Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting FOR ABLE STAMENS CONNED BROADCASTING'S TV STATION AUCTION - RADIO STATION CLASSIFIED RATES (Full Power) UHF WLRV - AM 1380 (Lake Dallas) Virginia All orders to place classified ads & all corre- Lebanon, spondence pertaining to this section should DALLAS/FORT WORTH Saturday, December 28, 1991 be sent to: BROADCASTING, Classified De- No Program Obligation at 2:00 P.M. partment, 1705 DeSales St., N.W., Washing- Price and Terms Negotiable ton, DC 20036. 202-659 -2340 (Information Auction Location: WLRV Studios, 303 West (817)267.9725 only). Main Street, Lebanon, VA. Includes: All broadcasting and office equip- Payable In advance. Check, money order or ment and furnishings and leasehold interest in credit card (Visa or Mastercard). Full and cor- studio building. rect payment must accompany all orders. All Terms: 10% cash day of sale, balance within orders must be in writing by either letter or Fax 30 days. 202- 293 -3278. If payment is made by credit Inspection: December 27, 1991, from 11:00 card, indicate card number, expiration date TURN -KEY OPPORTUNITY a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at studio. and daytime phone number. North Dakota Class C with coverage into major Contact: Gregory M. Reed at (615) 245 -8181. Deadline is Monday at noon Eastern Time for state market. Brand new studio and equipment. the following Monday's issue. Earlier dead- Generates $10,000 cash flow on $20,000 in lines apply for issues published during a week sales. Priced to sell at $575,000. If you're seri- containing a legal holiday. A special notice ous about buying a station that makes money announcing the earlier deadline will be published above this ratecard. Orders, changes, this is it. Family illness necessitates sale. Call and/or cancellations must be submitted in owner at 1-800-827-2483. Kepper, writing. NO TELEPHONE ORDERS, CHANGES, AND /OR CANCELLATIONS WILL Tupper BE ACCEPTED. & When placing an ad, indicate the EXACT category desired: Television, Radio, Cable or Al- Fugatt lied Fields; Help Wanted or Situations Wanted; Management, Sales, News, etc. If this information is omitted, we will determine the appropri- For Sale or Partnership PROFITABLE ate category according to the copy. NO make will run if all information is not in- Construction Permit (CP) Growing Gulf Mkt. goods be cluded. No personal ads. 100,000 watt FM - 99.5 megahertz w/CP for C -3 Las Cruces, New Mexico Rates: Classified listings (non- display). Per covering S.W. New Mexico, El Paso TERMS issue: Help Wanted: $1.50 per word, $30 weekly minimum. Situations Wanted: 750 per 300 Knightsbridge Parkway, Suite 360 word, $15 weekly minimum. All other classifi- Call 505 -525 -3294 Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069 cations: $1.50 per word, $30 weekly minimum. Phone: 708 / 634 -9258 Rates: Classified display (minimum 1 inch, upward in half inch increments). Per issue: Help Wanted: $130 per inch. Situations Want- ed: $65 per inch. All other classifications: $130 per inch. For Sale Stations, Wanted To Buy Stations, Public Notice & Business Op- portunities advertising require display space. SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AUCTION - RADIO STATION Agency commission only on display space. AM with FM CP WJTP - AM 1130 Frequency rates available. AM Daytimer w /Class A Newland, North Carolina Blind Box Service: (In addition to basic ad- FM CP Approved for AM vertising costs) Situations wanted: No charge. Saturday, December 28, 1991 All other classifications: $15 per ad per issue. site. Real estate inc. at 10:00 A.M. The charge for the blind box service applies to $60,000 CASH advertisers running listings and display ads. Auction Location: WJTP Studios, Highway 181, Call Bob 912 -354 -5057 Each advertisement must have a separate box approximately 1/2 mile North of Newland, NC number. BROADCASTING will not forward Includes: All broadcasting and office equip- tapes, transcripts, portfolios, writing samples, ment and furnishings and leasehold interest in or other oversized materials; such materials studio building. are retumed to sender. Do not use folders, Terme: 10% cash day of sale, balance within binders or the like. 30 days. Inspection: December 27, 1991, from 11:00 Replies to ads with Blind Box numbers should be addressed to: Box (letter & num- FOR SALE a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at studio. ber), c/o BROADCASTING, 1705 DeSales FM / 10 Class C KW AM Contact: Gregory M. Reed at (615) 246 -8181. St., NW, Washington, DC 20036. Please do KMCM / KMTA Miles City, Montana. not send tapes. Top audience share, Regional signals Cover South Eastern Montana, Word count: Count each abbreviation, ini- Mint equipment, Sales growth, tial, single figure or group of figures or letters Steady economy. $595,000 as one word each. Symbols such as 35mm, Protect Yourself. COD, PD,etc., count as one word each. A Call Paul 612 -222 -5555 Industry's Lawyer phone number with area code and the zip Call the code count as one word each. The publisher is not responsible for errors in printing due to illegible copy -all copy must BARRY SKIDELSKY be clearly typed or printed. Any and all er- Attorney-at-law rors must be reported to the Classified Ad- vertising Department within 7 days of publi- date. No make will THE RADIO FINANCE SPECIALISTS FI, cation credits or goods 757 Third Avenue, 26th be made on errors which do not materially New Financings Refinances New York, NY 10017 affect the advertisement. Smaller Markets Restructures Publisher reserves the right to alter classi- (212) 832 -4800 fied copy to conform with the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as SIGNAL PROPERTIES Creative solutions to your amended. Publisher reserves the right to ab- 99 Stote Si., Brooklyn His., N.Y. 1 1201 breviate, alter, or reject any copy. (718) 643.5825 most difficult problems

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Classified 59 Broadcasting's By The Numbers

STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE AVERAGES NASDAQ: 535.28 ( +2.49 %) S&P Ind.: 447.83 (+0.44%) FROM DEC 1990 TO DEC 4,1991 1200 - ALL M. CHANGES FROM PRIOR WEEK

1000 838

800 661 -1.05% 600 485 -0.21% 407 400 +0.49% 23 370 -6.43% 0%

200 1 Dec90 Jan91 Feb91 Mar91 Apr91 May91 Jun91 Ju191 Aug91 Sep91 Oct91 Nov91 Dec 91 Broadcasting Bcstg + Other Interests chi Programing Equipment 8 Engineering Services

NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH SUMMARY OF VCR'S, CABLE AND PAY CABLE BROADCASTING & CABLE

3 ZMI=MIMIIM BROADCASTING

Service ON AIR CP's' TOTAL* Commercial AM 4,988 235 5,223 Commercial FM 4,539 1,009 5,548 Educational FM 1,497 311 1,808 Total Radio 11,024 1,555 12,579 Commercial VHF TV 556 16 572 Commercial UHF TV 575 168 743 Educational VHF TV 124 4 128 Educational UHF TV 233 12 245 Total TV 1,488 200 1,688 VHF LPTV 230 149 379 UHF LPTV 738 794 1,532 Total LPTV 968 943 1,911 FM translators 1,878 363 2,241 VHF translators 2,701 79 2,658 UHF translators 2,338 320 2,658

CABLE

Total subscribers 56,072,840 Homes passed 87,433,000 Total systems 11,135 Household penetrations 61% Pay cable penetration/basic 79%

Includes off -air licenses. t Penetration percentages are of TV household universe of 93.1 million. Construction permit. 'Instructional TV fixed service. 'Studio-transmitter link. Some Mal LL Welsen Source: Nielsen, NCTA and Broadcasting's own research.

80 By the Numbers Dec 91991 Broadcasting For the Record/

As compiled by BROADCASTING from ation. Seller is headed by Thomas M. Duddy, re- Nov. 25 through Nov. 29 and based on Abbreviations: AFC- Antenna For Communica- ceiver, and was recently granted the sale of WAVG- tions; ALI- Administrative Law Judge; alt.- alter- (AM) Louisville, KY. Buyer is headed by Gregory C. filings, authorizations and other FCC ac- nate; ann.-announced; ant.- antenna; aur.-aural; Smalis, who is also purchasing KYIS(FM) Oklaho- tions. aux.-auxiliary; ch.- channel; CH -- critical hours.; ma City (see below). Filed Nov. 6. chg. -change; CP -construction permit; D -day; KXLA(AM) Rayville, LA (BAL911115ED; 990 DA- directional antenna; Doc.- Docket; ERP-ef- khz; 1 kw -D, 250 w -N) -Seeks assignment of li- fective radiated power; Freq-frequency; HAAT- cense from GTB Radio Broadcasting Inc. to Rich- OWNERSHIP CHANGES height above average terrain; H &V- horizontal and land Broadcasting Co. Inc. for $160,000. Seller is vertical; khz-kilohertz; kw-Itilowatts; tic. -li- headed by Thomas L. Bigby. Ana J. Plaza and Glen cense; m- meters; mhz-megahertz; mi.- miles; Ape Tryon, who have 50% interests in licensee, have Radials MP- modification permit; mod. -modification; interests in WNJX -TV Mayaguez, PR. Buyer is WKNI(AM) Lexington, AL (BAL911113EF; 620 N-night; pet. for recon.-petition for reconsider- headed by James T. Strong, and has no other khz; 5 kw-D, 99 w -N)-Seeks assignment of license ation; PSA- presunse service authority; pwr.- broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 15. from Doris Harrison to Country Boy Communica- power; RC -remote control; S-A- Scientific -Atlan- tions Inc. for $85,009. Seller has no other broad- ta; SH- specified hours; SL- studio location; TL- WBOS(FM) Brookline (Boston), MA cast interests. Buyer is headed by Eugene G. Hut- transmitter location; trans.- transmitter; TPC- (BALH911118GW; 92.9 mhz; ant. 1,100 ft.) -Seeks chens, and is permittee of WFIX(FM) Rogersville, transmitter power output; U or unl.- unlimited assignment of license from Ackerley Communica- AL. Filed Nov. 13. hours; vis.- visual; w-watts; '- noncommercial. tions of Massachusetts Inc. to GC! Boston Inc. for Six groups of numbers at end of facilities changes million ( "Changing Hands," Nov. 25). WKXM -AM-FM Winfield, AL (AM: estimated $9 items refer to map coordinates. One meter equals Seller is headed by Barry Ackerley, and owns BTC911115GR; 1300 khz; 5 kw -D, 30 w -N; FM: 3.28 feet. KGET(TV) Bakersfield and KCBA(TV) Salinas, both BTCH911115GS; 105.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 328 ft.)- California; KKTV(TV) Colorado Springs; WAXY - Seeks transfer of control of Ad Media Management (FM) Fort Lauderdale, FL; WIXT(TV) NY; Corp. to Harper -Mainord Broadcasting for Syracuse, Thomas A. Palen (100%) and Beverley Palen, wife KFXX(AM) Oregon City and KGON(FM) Portland, $365,000. WKXM -FM is CP; application for license of Daniel Palen (deceased). Beverley Palen is cur- both Oregon, and KVOS -TV Bellingham and is pending. Seller is headed by James B. Pate, and rently vice president of Kleeco Radio. Filed Nov. 12. KJR(AM) -KLTX(FM) Seattle, both Washington. has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is owned Filed Nov. 18. by general partners Maxine Harper (67 %) and Jack WLRS(FM) Louisville, KY (BALH911106GH; Mainord (33%), and has no other broadcast inter- 102.3 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 300 ft.) -Seeks assignment WTW(TV) Muskegon (Grand Rapids- Kalama- ests. Filed Nov. 15. of license from Radio One of Louisville Inc. to De- zoo -Battle Creek), MI (BALCT911121KF; ch. 54; KTCN(FM) Eureka Springs, AR sert Communications II Inc. for cancellation of debts 4,395 kw -V; 440 kw -A; ant. 1,000 ft.) -Seeks as- owed to Greyhound Financial Corp. as consider- signment of license from Video Mall Communica- (BALH911113HZ; 100.9 mhz; 1.1 kw; ant. 531 ft.)- Seeks assignment of license from Butler Broad casting Co. Inc. to Bank of Eureka Springs for $10,000. Seller is headed by Beverley Butler, and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Lewis E. Epley and W. King Gladden, and has "I Never Have Enough Time to Think!" no other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 13. WOBR(AM) Atlantic Beach, FL (BAL911115EA; 1600 khz; 5 kw -D, 90 w -N)--Seeks assignment of license from Conceptron Investments Inc. to New Covenant Educational Ministries Inc. for $27,500. We Will Pay You to Think. Seller is headed by Roger G. Robertson II, and has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Wiley Tomlinson, and is also licensee of noncom- The Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism mercial educational WNCM(FM) Jacksonville, FL. William Filed Nov. 15. at the University of Chicago offer mid -career TV and radio WHO -AM-TV and KLYF(FM) both Des Moines, reporters, news executives, producers, writers, editors, video- Iowa (WHO[AMj: BAL911114KH; 1040 khz; 50 kw- U; WHO -TV: BALCT911114KG; 316 kw-V; 47.9 graphers, and even news graphic artists a 9 -month academic kw -A; ant. 1,970 ft.; KLYF: BALH911114GX; 100 program (with stipends generally equivalent to full salary). The kw; ant. 1,700 ft.) -Seeks assignment of license from Palmer Broadcasting Ltd. to Hughes Broad- program is supported by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. casting Partners II Ltd. for estimated $70 million ( "Changing Hands," Nov. 18); asset purchase agreement will be filed as amendment. Sale in- Come and recharge your brain. You pick the courses. We cludes KFOR -TV Oklahoma City (see below). Sell- give you seminars with Nobel Prize winners, headliners, and er is headed by William J. Ryan, and also owns WNOG(AM) -WCVU(FM) Naples, FL. Buyer is top professionals in journalism. headed by Jeffrey T. Stevenson, Kenneth McQueen and Paul Hughes, and is backed by VS&A Communications Partners Ltd. and Smith The application deadline for the 1992 -93 program is Barney Investors Ltd. Hughes Broadcasting also February 3, 1992. owns WOKR(TV) Rochester, N.Y., and holds approximately 5% limited partnership interest in Nar- ragansett Radio Ltd., licensee of WYNK -AM -FM For more information, write: Director, Baton Rouge, KEZO -AM -FM Omaha and KAYI(FM) Musgokee, OK. Filed Nov. 14. William Benton Fellowships, The University of Chicago, KLEE(AM)-KOTM -FM Ottumwa, IA (BA- 5737 University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 L911112EC; 1480 khz; 500 w -D, 333 w -N; FM: BALH911112ED; 97.7 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 200 ft.)- Seeks assignment of license from Kleeco Radio Inc. to FMC Broadcasting Inc. for $400,000. Seller WILLIAM BENTON FELLOWSHIPS IN BROADCAST JOURNALISM is headed by Gary Johnson, trust officer for Daniel C. Palen estate. Estate also owns 50% of WGLB- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AM-FM Port Washington, WI. Buyer is headed by

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 For The Record 61 lions to Tn -State Christian TV Inc. for $1.5 million. chides WHO -AM -TV and KLYF(FM) both Des Roger R. Blaemire, and has no other broadcast Seller is headed by Marvin D. Sparks, and is also Moines, Iowa (see above). Filed Nov. 14. interests. Action Nov. 18. licensee of WTJC(TV) Springfield, OH. Buyer is KYIS(FM) Oklahoma City (BALH911112GQ; WDVE(FM) Pittsburgh and WNDE(AM)- headed by Garth W. Coonce, and has application 98.9 mhz; 100 kw; ant. 1,108 ft.) -Seeks assign- WFBQ(FM) Indianapolis (WDVE: BALH911011GE; pending for purchase of WGGH(AM) Marion, IL. It is ment of license from Zumma Broadcasting Co. to 102.5 mhz; 55 kw; ant. 820 ft.; WNDE: licensee of WTCT(TV) Marion, IL; WAQP(TV) Sagi- Desert Communications III Inc. for cancellation of BAL911011GF; 94.7 mhz; 52 kw; ant. 850 ft.; WFBQ: naw, MI; WNYB -TV Buffalo and WINM(TV) Angola, debts owed to Greyhound Financial Corp. as con- BALH911011GG; 94.7 mhz; 52 kw; ant. 850 ft.)- IN, and is licensee or permittee of several LPTV's. sideration. Seller is headed by Thomas W. Parrish, Granted assignment of license from Great American Coonce also heads Radiant Life Ministries, licensee receiver. Buyer is headed by Gregory C. Smalis Television & Radio Co. Inc. to Broadcast Alchemy of WLXI -TV Greensboro, N.C. Filed Nov. 21. and Greyhound Financial Corp. (100%). Smalis is Ltd. for $54 million ( "Changing Hands," Oct. 14). KTMA -TV Minneapolis (BALCT911115KG; ch. also purchasing WLRS(FM) Louisville, KY (see Seller is headed by George E. Castrucci, and owns 23; 1740 kw -V; 174 kw -A; ant. 1,150 ft.)- -Seeks above). Filed Nov. 12. WBRC -TV Birmingham, AL; KTSP -N Phoenix; assignment of license from estate of KTMA Acquisi- Sacramento, CA; KBPI -FM Denver; KOLL-AM -FM Tulsa- Owasso, OK (AM: BA- KSEG(FM) tion Corp., debtor, to Sonlight Television Inc. for WXTB(FM) Clearwater and WTSP -N St. Peters- L911119EA; 1430 khz; 5 kw -U; FM: BAL- $3.3 million. Seller is headed by Don Johnston, burg, both Florida; WKLS -FM Atlanta; WRIF(FM) De- H911119EB; 106.1 mhz; 100 kw; ant. 1,315 ft.)-- trustee, and has no other broadcast interests. Buy- troit; WDAF -AM -TV and KYYS(FM) Kansas City, MO; Seeks assignment of license from Pathfinder Com- er is headed by Robert Beale (55% voting stock) WKRC -AM -TV and WKRO(FM) Cincinnati and munications Corp. to Truth Publishing Co. Inc.; as- and Linda R Brook, and has no other broadcast WTVN(AM)- WLVQ(FM) Columbus, both Ohio; set purchase agreement is incomplete and will be interests. Filed Nov. 15. KEX(AM) -KKRZ(FM) Portland, OR, and WLZR -AM- submitted as amendment. Seller is headed by John FM Milwaukee. Buyer is headed by Frank E. Wood WQPM -AM -FM Princton, MN (AM: F. Dille Jr. and John F. Dille Ill, father and son, who (6.25 %), Lane Broadcasting Inc. (15.63%) and Lane BAL911118GT; 1300 khz; 1 kw-D, 83 w -N; FM: will also be principals in assignee. It is licensee of Media Ltd. (78.12%). Wood has interests in Rich 106.3 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 300 ft.) -Seeks assignment WTRC(AM)- WYEZ(FM) Elkhart and WOHK(AM)- Communications Corp., licensee of WGR(AM)- of license from P.M. Broadcasting Co. to Segue WMEE(FM) Fort Wayne, both Indiana; WCKY(AM)- WGRF-FM Buffalo, NY. Action Nov. 26. Communications Corp. for $1.2 million. Seller is WWFZ(FM) Cincinnati, and WOWQ -AM -FM Mus- headed by Terrence P. Montgomery, and has no kegon Heights and WCUZ -AM -FM Grand Rapids, KSCE(TV) El Paso, TX (BAPED910221 KE; ch. other broadcast interests. Buyer is headed by Paul both Michigan. It also publishes a daily newspaper 38; 730 kw -V; 73 kw -A; ant. 1,828 ft.)- Granted B. Steigerwald (30% voting stock) and has no other in Greencastle, IN. Buyer publishes daily newspa- assignment of license from St. Clement's Episcopal broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 18. per in Elkhart, IN. Filed Nov. 19. Parish to Channel 38 Christian Television for no financial consideration to change business classifi- WARW(AM) Cornwall, NY (BAL911119ED; 1170 WPGR(AM) Philadelphia (BAL911120EA; 1540 cation to corporation. Seller has no other broadcast khz; 1 kw -D)-Seeks assignment of license from khz; 50 kw -D) -Seeks assignment of license from interests. Buyer is headed by William S. Francis, 530 Route 94 Corp. to William H. Walker Ill for Kiss Ltd. to All Star Radio Inc. for $800,000. Seller and has no other broadcast interests. Action Nov. $25,000. Seller is headed by Robert Castelo, and is headed by Kenneth O'Keefe, and is licensee of 19. has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is licensee WYXR(FM) Philadelphia; WPIT -AM -FM Pittsburgh; of WBUG(AM) Amsterdam, NY, and owns Walker WXKS -AM -FM Everett- Medford, MA; WRFX(FM) KPAC(FM) San Antonio, TX (BA- Broadcasting Co. Inc., permittee of WRWD(FM) Kanapolis, NC; WHIT-AM -FM Buffalo and LED910802GH; 90.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 299 ft.)- Grant- Highland, NY. Filed Nov. 19. WKOG(AM)- WPXY -FM Rochester, both New York. ed assignment of license from Texas Public Radio to KFOR -TV Oklahoma City (BALCT911114KF; General partners in KISS Ltd. are also general part- Bible Broadcasting Network Inc. for $75,000. Seller Villasana and 27 other board 97.7 kw -V; ant. 1,540 ft.) -Seeks assignment of ners in WNUA(AM) Chicago. Buyer is headed by is headed by Richard Jr. interests. license from Palmer Broadcasting Ltd. to Hughes Marina Kats, and has no other broadcast interests. members, and has no other broadcast Buy- er is headed by Lowell L. Davey, and is nonprofit, Broadcasting Partners II Ltd. for estimated $70 mil- Filed Nov. 20. non -stock corporation which is licensee of lion ( "Changing Hands," Nov. 18); asset purchase WTVE(TV) Reading (Philadelphia), PA WYFW(FM) Wichita, KS; WAVO(AM) Decatur, agreement will be filed as amendment. Sale in- (BTCCT911113KF; ch. 51; 1445 kw-V; 290 kw-A; WYFK(FM) Columbus, WYFA(FM) Waynesboro, ant. 774 ft.)- -Seeks transfer of control from Read- WYFS(FM) Savannah and WYFW(FM) Evans, all ing Broadcasting Inc. as debtor -in- possession to Georgia; WYFE -FM Tarpon Springs, WYFB(FM) Reading Broadcasting Inc., in order to allow Read- Gainesville and WYFO(FM) Lakeland, all Florida; ing to remain in control and in possession of its WHPE(FM) High Point and WYFL(FM) Henderson, business throughout reorganization. Reading both North Carolina; WYFN(AM) Nashville, Broadcasting is headed by Michael Parker, who WHGG(FM) Knoxville and WYFC(FM) Clinton, all recently purchased WHRC(TV) Norwell, MA Tennessee; WYFG(FM) Gaffney, WYFH(FM) North ( "Changing Hands," Aug. 12). Filed Nov. 13. Charleston and WYFW(FM) Cayce, all South Caroli- KWBC(AM)- KNAV(FM) Navasota, TX (AM: BA- na; WYFY -FM Fisher, WV; WYFD -FM Decatur, AL, THE L911115EF; 1550 khz; 250 w -D; FM: and WYFIFM) Norfolk, WYFJ(FM) Ashland and FOURTH BALH911115GV; 92.5 mhz; 3.6 kw; ant. 263 ft.)- WYFT(FM) Luray, all Virginia. Action Nov. 20. ESTATE Seeks assignment of license from Whitten Broad- KASL(AM) Newcastle, WY (BAL910926EB; AWARD casting Co. Inc. to McMullen Broadcasting Co. for 1240 khz; 1 kw-U)- Granted assignment of license $175,000. Seller is headed by Robert H. Whitten, from Radio Broadcasters Inc. to Castle Radio for OF who is 80% owner of weekly newspaper serving $50,000. Seller is headed by Delores Kath and Grimes Co., TX. Buyer is headed by Ulman D. Donald S. Jones; they have interests in KVSH(AM) THE AMERICAN LEGION McMullen, and has no other broadcast interests. Valentine, NE, and KWIV(AM) Douglas, WY. Kath Filed Nov. 15. also has interests in KATH -FM Douglas and KGOS- Awarded annually for "excellence KLSY(AM) Bellevue, WA (BAL911115EE; 1540 (AM)-KERM(FM) Torrington, both Wyoming. Jones khz; 5 kw -U) -Seeks assignment of license from also has interests in KCSR(AM)- KQSK(FM) Cha- in journalism," between Jan. 1 and Bellevue Radio Inc. to Classic Country Radio Inc. is headed by group partners Ste- Dec. 31, 1991 to an individual, dron, NE. Buyer for $75,000. Seller is headed by Dudley A. White, phen E. Holloway (30 %), Ann A. Fossoy Holloway publication or broadcaster. and is also licensee of KLSY -FM Bellevue, WA, and (30%) and Timothy P. Tessman (40%), and has no is subsidiary of Sandusky Newspapers, licensee of other broadcast interests. Action Nov. 19. KDKB(FM) Mesa, AZ; KEGL(FM) Fort Worth, TX; Win the recognition you deserve - and KRMX -FM San Diego, which was recently sold Submit your work to. ( "Changing Hands," Aug. 5). It recently purchased KIXI(AM) Seattle ( "Changing Hands," Oct. 7). Buy- er is headed by Barbara J. Geesman (100 %), who THE is also 100% voting stockholder of Joy Broadcast- NEW STATIONS FOURTH ESTATE AWARD ing Inc., licensee of KJUN(AM) Puyallup, WA, and Bar B Broadcasting Inc., licensee of KTOL(AM) Lacey, WA. She is also proposed assignee of Applications The American Legion KENU(AM) Enumclaw, WA. Filed Nov. 15. P. 0. Box 1055 Joshua Tree, CA (BPH911107MG)- Morongo Adis= Radio Ltd. seeks 92.1 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 91 m. Ad- Indianapolis, IN 46206 dress: 7565 Sherman Hoyt, Twenty-Nine Palms, KUHL(AM)- KXFM(FM) Santa Marla, CA (KUHL: (317) 635-8411 CA 92277. Applicant is headed by general partner BAL910911 EC; 1440 khz; 5 kw -D, 1 kw-N; KXFM: Kevin D. Roberts, has no other broadcast interests. BALH910911 ED; 99.1 mhz; 2.3 kw; ant. 1,906 ft.)- Filed Nov. 7. DEADLINE: Granted assignment of license from Great Electric Communications Inc. to Blackhawk Communica- Calistoga, CA (BPH911115MG)- Moonbeam Jan. 31, 1992 tions Inc. for $1,145,653 ( "Changing Hands," Sept. Inc. seeks 100.9 mhz; .075 kw; ant. 829 m. Ad- 2). Seller is headed by C. Andrew Whatley and dress: P.O. Box 526, Nicasio, CA 94946. Applicant Mike Reichert, and also owns KSBL(FM) Carpin- is headed by Mary F. Constant, and has no other Conducted in voluntary compliance with teria (Santa Barbara), CA. Buyer is headed by broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 15. Resolution 9 of the 1984 SPJ, SOX

62 For The Record Dec 91991 Broadcasting Windsor, CA (BPH911115ME)- Windsor Wire- has 25% interest in Brightness Ministries Inc., St. Louis, MO 63101. Applicants have no other less seeks 104.1 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 100 m. Address: which owns LPTV at Jeffersonville, IN, and CP's for broadcast interests. Action Nov. 13. W26AS Clarksville and WO8CT New Albany, both 6551 Circle Hill Dr., San Jose, CA 95120. Applicant North Creek, NY (BPED900117MA)- Granted partners Nancy Dewey Indiana, and W20AX Glasgow, KY. Smith also is headed by general L. and app. of St. Lawrence University for 89.9 mhz; .2 kw; owns CP's for WLVZ(AM) Athens, OH; WRRD(AM) Barney L. Dewey, has no other broadcast interests. 608 m. Address: Romoda Drive, Canton, NY Filed Nov. 15. Blennerhassett, WV, and WMSP(AM) Elk Hills, WV. 13617. Applicant is headed by Bruce W. Benedict, Her daughter, principal Angelia M. Pait, owns 49% Windsor, CA (BPH911115MJ)- Margery E. and has no other broadcast interests. Action Nov. 4. of CP for WMII(AM) Hendersonville, TN. Smith is Clark seeks 104.1 mhz; .26 kw; ant. 344 m. Ad- also seeking station at New Albany, IN (see above). Amarillo, TX (BPH891011MI)- Granted app. of dress: 8410 Oak Way, Windsor, CA 95492. Appli- Filed Nov. 15. John A. Gay Jr. for 105.7 mhz; 6 kw; 72 m. Ad- cant has no other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. dress: 1603 W. 8th, Amarillo, TX 79101. Applicant 15. Lometa, TX (BPH911107MH) -Debra L. Witcher has no other broadcast interests. Action Nov. 5. seeks 101.9 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 100 m. Address: Route Bowdon, GA (BPH911031 MC)- Spectrum 2, Box 32A, Lampasas, TX 76550. Applicant has no New Braunfels, TX (BPED901003MF) -- Granted Broadcasting Co. seeks 105.5 mhz; 1.25 kw; ant. other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 7. app. of Southwest Bcg. of New Braunfels Inc. for m. Address: P.O. Box 314, McRae, 207 GA 31055. 89.9 mhz; 7 kw; 91 m. Address: P.O. Box 310277, Dlllwyn, VA (BPH911115MH)- Dillwyn Radio Applicant is headed by Tana D. Stalnaker, who has New Braunfels, TX 78131. Applicant is headed by Co. seeks 93.7 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 100 m. Address: interests in Sol Broadcasting Inc., licensee of Tim Walker, and has no other broadcast interests. 1200 Nineteenth St. NW, Ste. 700, Washington, DC WKTM(FM) Soperton, GA. Filed Oct. 31. Action Nov. 5. 20036 Applicant is headed by Randall A. Hanson, Bowdon, GA (BPH911031MD)- Steven L. Gra- and has no other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 15. Martinsville, VA (BPED860130MG)-Granted dick seeks 105.5 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 100 ft. Address: app. of Martinsville Community Workshop Inc. for P.O. Box 32, Fruithurst, AL 36262. Applicant is Adieus 90.5 mhz; 3.5 kw; 99 m. Address: P.O. Box 889, 100% shareholder of WKNG Inc., licensee of Lenwood, CA (BPH891214M0)- Granted app. Blacksburg VA 24060. Applicant is headed by Vir- WKNG(AM) Tallapoosa, GA, and permittee of of Wendell A. Tyler for 107.3 mhz; .44 kw; ant. 235 ginia L. Baker, and has no other broadcast inter- WCKS(FM) Fruithurst, AL. Filed Oct. 31. m. Address: 2647 Ryans Place, Lancaster, CA ests. Action Nov. 14. Bowdon, GA (BPH911031 ME)- Reliance 93536. Applicant has no other broadcast interests. Broadcasting Inc. seeks 105.5 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 100 Action Nov. 4. m. Address: 101 Commercial Ave., Carrollton, GA Lenwood, CA (BPH891214NB)- Dismissed app. 30117. Applicant is headed by Jeffrey P. Davis. of Jane E. Cote for 107.3 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 76 m. Reliance Broadcasting is licensee of WBTR(FM) FACILITIES CHANGES Address: 1111 Coronet Dr., Riverside, CA 92506. Carrollton, GA. Principal Kenneth L. Bazzle has Applicant has no other broadcast interests. Action interests in KTVH(TV) Helena, MT; WTKT- AM -FM, Nov. 4 Georgetown, KY, and KYEL -TV Yuma, AZ. Filed Oct. 31. Lenwood, CA (BPH891214NE) -Dismissed app. Applications of Ribera Broadcasting Ltd. for 107.3 mhz; 3 kw; Bartonville, IL (BPH911115M1)-Willis Jordan AM ant. 76 m. Address: 25163 Johnson St., P.O. Box seeks 99.9 mhz; 3 kw; ant. 100 m. Address: 2321 28, Lenwood CA 92311. Applicant is headed by Peoria, IL WMBD(AM) 1470 khz-Nov. 15 appli- West Sherman, West Peoria, IL 61602. Applicant general partner Eddie J. Ribera, and has no other cation of Midwest Television Inc. for CP to correct has no other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 15. broadcast interests. Action Nov. 4. coordinates to: 40 34 22 - 89 32 00. New Albany, IN (BPH911115MA) -Adams Rib Springfield, IL (BPED901205MA)- Granted FM's Inc. seeks 94.7 mhz; 1.25 kw; ant. 146 m. Address: app. of Illinois Bible Institute Inc. for 90.5 mhz; .85 P.O. Box 1226, Jeffersonville, IN 47131. Applicant Tuskegee, AL WACO -FM 99.9 mhz-Nov. 5 ap- kw; 118 m. Address: P.O. Box 140, RR 3, Lake is headed by Mary L. Smith, who has 25% interest plication of Double H Broadcasting Inc. for mod. of Williamson, Carlinville IL 62626. Applicant is head- in Brightness Ministries Inc., which owns LPTV at CP (BPH-880210MN) to change ERP: 2.95 kw ed by Ernest J. Moen, and is licensee of WIBI(FM) Jeffersonville, IN, and CP's for W26AS Clarksville H &V, 142 m. and TL: 35 km south of I -85 County Carlinville, WBGL(FM) Champaign and WCIC(FM) and WO8CT New Albany, both Indiana, and W20AX Road 3, Macon County, Tuskegee, AL. Pekin, all Illinois. Action Nov. 13. Glasgow, KY. Smith also owns CP's for WLVZ(AM) Bella Vista, AR KBVA(FM) 106.5 mhz -Nov. 6 Ashley, MI (BPH901226MD)- Granted app. of Athens, OH; WRRD(AM) Blennerhassett, WV, and application of Gayle Joy Hendren for mod. of CP WMSP(AM) Her principal William V. Constine for 92.5 mhz; 3 kw; 100 m. Elk Hills, WV. daughter, (BPH- 880701MT) to change ERP: 37 kw (H &V); Address: 204 Stratford Dr., Owosso, MI 48867. Ap- Angelia M. Pait, owns 49% of CP for WMII(AM) ant. 173 m. Hendersonville, TN. Smith is also seeking station at plicant has no other broadcast interests. Action Whitehall, OH (see below). Filed Nov. 15. Nov. 4. Pine Bluff, AR KOLL -FM 94.9 mhz-Oct. 30 application of Southern Starr of Arkansas Inc. for CP IN Mid Ely, MN (BPH891204MJ)- Granted app. of BJL New Albany, (BPH911115MK)- -America to change Community of license from Pinebluff to Electronics Services Inc. seeks 94.7 mhz; 3 kw; ant. Broadcasting Corp. for 92.1 mhz; 6 kw; 100 m. Maumelle, AR (per MM docket #90 -493). 100 m. Address: 410 Mt. Tabor Rd., New Albany, Address: P.O. Box 630 (Central and Allaire St.), IN 47150. Applicant is headed by Peter C.L. Boyce, Ely, MN 55731. Applicant is headed by Jeanne A. Los Angeles KKLA(FM) 99.5 mhz-Nov. 7 appli- who is 50% owner of WKRP(AM) -WINN(FM) North Larson, and is licensee of WELY(AM) Ely, MN. cation of Inspiration Media Southern CA Inc. for CP Vernon, IN. Filed Nov. 15. Action Nov. 6. to change ERP: 10.7 kw H &V, 878 m., and TL: Mt. Wilson antenna farm, Los Angeles. New Albany, IN (BPH911115MD) -- Barbara Winona, MN (BPH900514MG)- Granted app. of Ruth Zarns seeks 94.7 mhz; 1.86 kw; ant. 128 m. Home Broadcast Co. for 101.1 mhz; 2.3 kw; 163 m. HInesville, GA WHVL(FM) 104.7 mhz-Oct. 30 Address: 105 E. South St., Crown Point, IN 46307. Address: 1400 Homer Rd., Winona, MN 55987. Bullie Broadcasting Corp. for mod. of CP (BPH - Applicant owns WBPT(FM) Naples, FL. Filed Nov. Applicant is headed by Lester F. Baechler, and has 890504MN) to change ERP: 6 kw (H &V). 15. no other broadcast interests. Action Nov. 1. Keokuk, IA KOKX -FM 96.3 mhz-Oct. 30 appli- New Albany, IN (BPH911115MC)-Rita Reyna Columbia Falls, MT (BPH900411 MB) -Dis- cation of W. Russell Withers Jr. for mod. of CP Brent seeks 94.7 mhz; 1.608 kw; ant. 135 m. Ad- missed app. of Jerome J. Dobson, et al., for 95.9 (BPH-880505NA) to change ERP: 90.4 kw (H &V); dress: 2106 St. Andrews Rd., Jeffersonville, IN mhz; 6 kw; -99 m. Address: 906 Olive Suite 9800, ant. 299 m.; TL: .3 kilometer S. of Johnson St. Rd.. 47130. Applicant has no other broadcast interests. Filed Nov. 15. Louisville, KY (BPH911031 BF) -Terry C. Jenks seeks 105.5 mhz; 6 kw; ant. 100 m. Address: 12017 Running Creek Rd., Louisville, KY 40243. Applicant has no other broadcast interests. Filed Oct. 31. Studio Systems *Lansing, MI (BPED911104MC)-Lansing Com- for AM FM TV audio munity College seeks 89.7 mhz; .1 kw; ant. 38 m. Delivered on Address: 521 N. Washington Square, Lansing, MI time 48901. Applicant is headed by Abel B. Sykes Jr. Within budget and Shirley M. Rodgers, and has no other broad- Outstanding workmanship cast interests. Filed Nov. 4. Stunning performance Ortonville, MN (BPH911119MD) -Tri-State Pre -wires, turn-key Broadcasting Co. Inc. seeks 106.3 mhz; 6 kw; ant.

100 m. Address: R.R. 1 Box 115, Ortonville, MN 56278. Applicant is headed by Donald P. Egad, and AUDIO owns KDIO(AM) Ortonville, MN. Filed Nov. 19. BROADCAST *Whitehall, OH (BPED911112MA) -Lou Smith GROUP Inc. Let's get our heads together! Ministries seeks 91.5 kw; .2 kw; ant. 322 m. 2342 S. Division Address: 2711 Highway 62, Jeffersonville, IN Grand Rapids, Ml 49507 47130. Applicant is headed by Mary L. Smith, who 1- 800 -999 -9281 FAX 616-452-1652

Broadcasting Dec 91991 For The Record 63 .5 km W. of U.S. Rte. 61; Keokuk City; Lee County, kw; ant. 94 m.; change to class C3 (per MM docket Berkeley, CA KPFB(FM) 89.3 mhz-Nov. 14 ap- IA, change to class Cl (per MM docket #89 -451). #89 -550). plication of Pacifica Foundation Inc. granted for mod. of CP (BPED- 9101151B) to change antenna Medicine Lodge, KS KREJ(FM) 95.9 mhz -Oct. Springfield, MO KTXR(FM) 101.3 mhz-Oct. 9 28 application of Florida Public Radio Inc. for CP to application of Stereo Broadcasting Inc. for mod. of pattern. change ERP: 50 kw (H&V); ant. 150 m.; TL: TBO; license (BLH- 890314KB) to change to channel Santa Ana, CA KYMS(FM) 108.3 mhz -Nov. 19 change few from 95.9 TO 101.7; change to class 267C (per docket #86-103). application of Interstate Broadcasting Systems Inc. granted for CP to ant. 91 m.: TL: Lincoln C2. Hampton, NH WZEA(FM) 102.1 mhz-Oct. 28 change and Washington Sts. adjacent to freeway, Santa Bar Harbor, ME WPRG(FM) 99.1 mhz -Nov. 6 application of Jane E. Newman for mod. of CP application of Bar Harbor Communications for CP (BPH- 8805050Y) to change TBD. Ana. Amended 4-17-91 to change ant.: 62 m. 16.67 kw (H &V); ant. 123 m.; TL: to change ERP: St. Marys, PA WKYN(FM) 97.5 mhz-Nov. 4 Lafayette, FL WHKX(FM) 99.9 mhz-Nov. 15 Gouldsboro Twn; Hancock County, Mount Cromer; application of WKYN Inc. for CP to change ERP: 20 application of Rowland Capital Broadcasting Co. ME. employ 6 bay circularly polarized, directional granted for CP to change ERP: 50 kw H &V, 150 m., kw H &V, ant. 230 m. and TL: approx. one -quarter FM antenna. TL: hwy 59, 1.2 km southwest of Wacissa, Jeffer- mile north of Lamont, PA, west side of Highland - son County, FL; C2. Old Town, ME WUMC(FM) 107.3 mhz-Nov. 8 Lamont Rd. class application of Penobscot Indian Nation for mod. of Lahaina, HI KPOA(FM) mhz 15 appli- Isabela, PR WKSA -FM 101.5 mhz -Nov. 4 appli- 93.5 -Nov. (BPH- as mod.) to change ERP: 50 cation KPOA Radio Ltd. for to CP 871026M0 cation of Isabela Broadcasting Inc. for CP to of granted CP TL: m. W. of Rte. 116, kw (H&V); ant. 94 m.; 925 change antenna supporting -structure height. change class to C3 (per MM docket #89160); ERP: 2.1 km S. of Argyle, ME. 346 kw; ant. 738 m.; TL: atop Waiakeakua; 6 km SE Racine, WI WHKO(FM) 92.1 mhz-Oct. 11 appli- Dowaglac, MI WDOW -FM 92.1 mhz -Nov. 12 of Lanai City; Maui County, HI. Application file no. cation of Vision Broadcasting Inc. for mod. of li- renumbered is application of Dowaglac Broadcasting Co., Inc. for BPH-910513IJ, as BPH- 9108091E, cense to increase ERP: 6 kw (H&V) (per docket hereby for tender for filing mod. of license to increase to 3.3 kw (H &V) (per accepted and accepted #88 -375). 9- 19 -91. MM docket #88 -375). MI WCSG(FM) 91.3 mhz Munising, MI WOXO -FM 98.3 mhz -Nov. 8 ap- Athens Grand Rapids, -Nov. 14 Rapids plication of Wallace D. Steinhoff for CP to change application of Grand Baptist College AM's granted for mod. ERP: 32 kw (H&V); ant. 108.9 m.; change to class of CP (BPED -8811301E as mod.) Monument, to kw (H C2 (per MM docket #86 -447). CO KCBR(AM) 1040 khz-Nov. 18 change ERP: 37 &V). application of Chip Lusko and Kent Bagdasar grant- 106.9 mhz 30 Rushford, MN KWNO -FM 99.3 mhz -Nov. 14 Cleveland, MS WMJW(FM) -Oct. ed for CP to reduce pwr to 1.9 kw; change TL to for CP to change application of B.O.G. Broadcasting Co. granted for application of Carol B. Ingram South Circle Dr. at Valli Hi Country Club, Colorado kw (H &V): ant. 100 m. TL: 18.8 km NNW mod. of CP (BPH- 900802ME) to change ERP: 2.56 ERP: 25 Springs: 38 49 08 - 104 46 32. Cleveland, MS, MS Hwy 32; change freq. from kw (H&V), 152 m. MM docket Oak Harbor, WA KJTT(AM) 1110 khz -Nov. 18 106.9 to 107.5; change to class C3 (per Waite Park, MN KXSS -FM 103.1 mhz -Nov. 13 application of Whidbey Broadcasting Service Inc. #89 -415); change community of license from application of Genesis Broadcast Professionals Inc. granted for CP to increase pwr to 1 kv day-1 kv Cleveland to Rosedale, MS. granted for to ERP: 25 kw H &V, TL: 1.5 night and change freq. to 1520 khz. CP change McComb, MS WXLT(FM) 94.1 mhz -Nov. 12 ap- km from Saint Augusta, MN, at bearing of 246.4 plication of Dowdy Broadcasting Co. Inc. for CP to FM's degrees, and change class: C3 (per docket #89- change TL: 8.5 km east of Clinton and 1 km N. of Kingman, AZ KRCY(FM) 105.9 mhz -Nov. 14 377). St. Johns Church in Feliciana Parish, LA. application of Hualapai Broadcasters Inc. granted California, MO WBEY(FM) 102.9 mhz -Nov. 15 Moberly, MO KZZT(FM) 105.5 mhz -Oct. 30 ap- for CP to change ERP: 17 kw (H&V); application application of Tidewater Broadcasting Co. Inc. plication of FM -105 Inc. for CP to change ERP: 25 prefix corrected from BMPH- to BPH -. granted for mod. of CP (BPH- 880915NM) to

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(MM docket 91 -245 by R&O [DA 91- Liberty, NY WVOS -FM 95.9 mhz -Nov, 15 appli- 1.46 km northeast of intersection of highway 677 1410] adopted November 8 by Assistant Chief, Allo- cation of Mountain Broadcasting Corp. granted for with highway 622, Amherst County, VA; change to cations Branch). class C2 (per MM docket #90 -366). mod. of license to increase ERP: 3.3 kw H8V (per Churubusco, IN Effective January 13, 1992, sub- docket #88 -375). Lynchburg, VA WGOL(FM) 97.9 mhz -Nov. 1 stituted channel 242B1 for Channel 242A at Churu- Honeoye Falls, NY WFUD(FM) 107.3 mhz - application of Douglas Broadcasting Inc. granted busco, and conditionally modified CP of Nov. 13 application of Honeoye Falls Radio Inc. for CP to change ERP: .57 kw (H &V), ant.: 587 m., WKOM(FM) accordingly. (MM Docket 91 -244 by granted for mod. of CP (BPH- 870819NG) to change TL: Tobacco Row Mt., 3.1 miles N of Elon, Amherst R &O [DA 91 -1434] adopted November 13 by Assis- ant. 100 m.; TL: Bailey Rd., East Bloomfield. Ontar- County, VA, change to channel 250C3 (per docket tant Chief, Mass Media Bureau). io County, New York. #90-553). Clayton, LA Effective January 13, 1992, allotted 105.5 channel Lebanon, OR KIOY(FM) 103.7 mhz -Nov. 18 Tappahannock, VA WRARFM mhz-Oct. 300A to Clayton as its first FM service. Filing window: application of Spotlight Media Corp. application 31 application of Rappahannock Communications January 14- February 13, 1992. (MM granted for CP to change ant. 343.5 m.: TL: Peter- Inc. granted for mod. of CP (BPH- 9009111C) to Docket 91 -247 by R &O [DA 91 -1436] adopted No- 1 vember 13 son Butte, 5.6 km from Lebanon, OR, city hall on change ERP: 6 kw ant. 100 m.; TL: approximately by Assistant Chief, Allocations Branch). .25 bearing of N230E degrees; change to class C (per km north of Richardson Creek; approximately Sulphur, OK Proposed substituting channel MM docket #88 -542). km south of state road 615; Richmond County, VA. 265C2 for Channel 265C3 at Sulphur, and modify- Columbus, WI WVKY(FM) 100.5 mhz -Nov. 15 Radnor Township, PA WYBF(FM) 89.1 mhz - ing license of KFXT(FM). Comments are due Janu- application of Beaver Dam Broadcasting Co. Inc. Nov. 15 application of Cabrini College granted for ary 21, replies February 5, 1992. (MM Docket 91- granted for CP to changes ERP: 6 kw (H &V). mod, of CP (BPED- 860725MH) to modify direction- 343 by NPRM [DA 91 -1435] adopted November 13 al antenna pattern. 1V by the Assistant Chief, Allocations Branch). Villanova, PA WXVU(FM) 89.1 mhz -Nov. 15 Islamorada, FL WKEB(TV) ch. 9 -Nov. 19 appli- Ardmore, OK, and Sherman, TX Proposed real - application of Villanova University granted for mod. cation of Keys Educators Broadcasting Inc. granted lotting channel 12 from Ardmore, OK, to Sherman, of CP (BPED- 870402KA) to modify an- directional for mod. of CP (BPET- 851018KM) to extend com- TX, and modifying license of KXII(TV) accordingly. tenna pattern. pletion date. Original grant date: 4- 28 -86; expired Comments are due January 21, replies February 5. Alvin, TX KACC(FM) 91.3 mhz -Nov. 19 applica- on 10- 30 -91. (MM Docket 91 -342 by NPRM [DA 91.1432] adopt- tion of Alvin Community College granted for CP to ed November 14 by the Chief, Mass Media Bu- change freq.: 89.7; ERP: 8 kw H &V; ant. 103 m.; reau). TL: .75 mi. south of Texas Highway 6 on county road 155; class: C3. ALLOCATIONS Crane, TX Effective January 10, substituted channel 267C1 for Channel 265A at Crane, and Payson, KTCE(FM) mhz 1 UT 92.3 -Nov. appli- conditionally modified license of KAIR -FM accord- cation of Moenkopi Communications Inc. returned Bay Minette, AL Effective January 10, 1992, sub- ingly. Docket 91 -222 by R &O [DA 91 -1409] adopted for mod. of CP (BPH -880421 MM) to change ERP: stituted Channel 293C3 for Channel 293A at Bay November 8 by Assistant Chief, Allocations .110 kw (H&V); ant. 675.4 m.; TL: 9 km NW of Minette, and conditionally modified CP of Branch). Payson. WFMI(FM) accordingly. 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66 For The Record Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting Fifth Estater

BARBARA ANN KREISMAN

It is often said that Washington is a broadcast satellites. The broadcasting place full of people from some- industry, as we know it, is going to where else wanting and waiting to have to change. I think we're seeing go home again. But Barbara Kreis- the [beginning] of that change. In my man, FCC video services branch generation, we were used to watching chief, can't go home again because, the networks. But now there's no dis- well, she never really left. crimination. All the channels are the Although born in New York City, same. It's kind of exciting." Kreisman grew up in the Washington But Kreisman concedes she is a far suburb of Silver Spring and attended different person than she was even college at nearby University of Mary- five years ago. In that time she has land. While at Maryland in the late married Washington attorney Raymond '60s, Kreisman caught the radio Ilug. Banoun and become a mother, at 41, "I was a disk jockey and writer for with the birth of her daughter Annick WUMC. I had a rock show. Great mu- three years ago. Motherhood, she sic. It was a lot of fun," she says. But says, "dramatically changes your pri- despite the "fun" radio promised, her orities. I'm balancing work and being pragmatic upbringing, along with a a mother and wife. It's hard. I think it generous financial aid package, led would be harder in [private practice] her to American University, where she tive issues. Scott liked to personally because of the time demands. earned a law degree in 1972. The aid attack those people whom he viewed "I think it has made me a better saved her from incurring too much as working for the government. In my manager. It's made me much more debt and, to some extent, left public case he named a mon- approachable. People service open as an option. key after me. [Scott who never felt com- Fresh out of AU, it was on to an once went on the air Chief, Video Services Division, fortable talking to me uncertain future at the FCC. "I wasn't displaying mechanical Mass Media Bureau, FCC, before come and ask, sure what I was going to do. I knew I monkeys he had giv- Washington; b. Feb. 4, 1948, 'How's your baby ?' liked communications, but that was en the names of those New York Crty; BS, history, I'm much more toler- University of Maryland, College about it." Although the lure of private he considered his ad- ant, although it's Park,1 %9; JD, American practice has often tempted her, she has versaries.] There was University, Washington, 1972; more difficult than I resisted. "I've stayed because I've an all- monkey band attorney -adviser, Complaints and thought it would be. had all sorts of different and interest- named for the FCC, Compliance Division, Broadcast Now I understand ing jobs. My counterparts in private and another for the Bureau, FCC, 1972 -75; trial how someone could practice probably make more money, U.S. attorney's of- attorney, Hearing Division, get up for work three Broadcast Bureau, 1975 -80; chief, but I think my jobs have been more fice. It" was sort of hours early and still interesting." funny Renewal Branch, Renewal and make it in late." Transfer Division, Broadcast In 1972 she started out at com- Kreisman is the Kreisman claims Bureau; chief, Low Power plaints and compliance in the old highest- ranking wom- Television Brandi, Video Service her strong points are Broadcast Bureau. "It's an attorney's an in Mass Media, Division, Mass Media Bureau, finishing the task at get -your -feet -wet type of job. You and next to commis- 1982 -85; chief, Legal Branch, hand while doing it as learn the commission's rules and regu- sioner Sherrie Mar- Policy and Rules Division, effectively as possi- lations and how to write FCC deci- shall, many say she is 1985 -87; assistant chief, Audio ble. Case in point: sions. Then I went to the hearing divi- the FCC's most influ- Services Division, 1987-89; "This year it was our sion. I really liked that job a lot ential woman. "I'm present position since December bureau's turn to do 1989; m. Raymond Banoun, because it was like being a prosecutor. thrilled to be at the di- the combined federal June 19, 1987; child: Annick, 3. It was very creative." vision level. I guess campaign (part of the Her most famous case was probably you could say it was a United Way cam- the license revocation of Faith Center goal of sorts, although I think it's prob- paign). As vice chairman, I got to do a Inc.'s 1CHOF -TV San Bernardino, ably the end of the line for me as well." lot of the work. Our goal was 1CHOF -FM Los Angeles and KVOF-TV If indeed it is, Kreisman thinks she $122,000...so far we've raised San Francisco, all California. "In may be in the bureau's best post. $158,000. My goal was 10% more Faith Center, Gene Scott lost his li- "We're the office that implements [than last year's $122,000] because cense for failure to comply with dis- new services. A lot of exciting things you get a Winner's Circle Award. I covery. We never got to the substan- are coming our way. HDTV. Direct feel sorry for the people next year."

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Fifth Estater 67 Fates Fortunes

Cincinnati as national sales manager. Coleman, sales manager, News 12 MEDIA Long Island, rejoins Katz Commu- Nicholas J. nications, New York, as cable sales Verbitsky III, re- manager. Lawrence Reed Manville, manag- cent graduate, Marti Martin-Smith, account ex- er of sales planning, KNBC -TV Los An- Colgate Universi- ecutive, WFYV -AM -FM Atlantic Beach, geles, named president and general ty, Hamilton, manager. Fla. (Jacksonville), named sales N.Y., and son of manager. John C. Kueneke, general manag- Nick Verbitsky er, KCRA -TV Sacramento, Calif., joins from Unistar, Arlin Fields, senior copywriter, KSDK(TV) St. Louis as VP and gen- joins Cranford Johnson Robinson advertis- eral manager. WNEW(FM) New ing agency, Little Rock, Ark., named broadcast producer. George Boggs, program manager, Verbitsky York as account executive. wxiN(TV) Indianapolis, named station Cynthia Grimm White, group manager. Ed Ortelli, from LABRE -Tv Wilkes sales manager, Petty National Televi- sion, Dallas, named VP. John K. Wilson, general manager, Barre- Scranton, Pa., joins WTVT(TV) Tampa, Fla. (St. Peterburg), as KYEA(FM) Monroe, La., joins KMJJ -FM Appointments at Harrington group sales manager. Shreveport, La., in same capacity. Righter & Parsons Inc., New York: Manuel Deborah Everts, manager of local Drew M. Rashbaum, general sales Martinez- Llorian, national sales manager, WNJU(TV) Lin- media, Busch Media Group, An- manager, WTKN(AM)- WHVE(FM) Tam - (New heuser -Busch Inc., St. Louis, pa-St. Petersburg, Fla., named gen- den, N.J. York), named gen- named account executive there; Ste- eral manager. eral sales manager. Luis Roldan, account executive, wNBC -Tv New ven Thorlinde, account execu- York, named local national sales man- tive, KSTW(TV) Tacoma, Wash. (Se- ager, WNJU. attle), to same capacity there; David Pecchia, local sales manager, SALES AND MARKETING Appointments at Katz Radio: Gar- WFLA(AM)- WFLZ -FM Tampa, Fla., rett Frakes, senior account executive, named account executive there; Lora Chicago, named manager of Hous- Dan Geary, formerly with KGO-TV Bunis, account executive, Seltel, ton office; Ann Rysenga, account ex- San Francisco, joins KCNS(TV) there as New York, named account execu- ecutive, Detroit, and Nail, ac- account executive. Jack tive, red team, there; Ann Allen, count executive, Los Angeles, named from MMT, Dallas, named account Rick Gibson, account manager, senior account executives, and executive there; Mary Ellen advertising sales, Western region, Bruce Pollock, manager, Los Ange- O'Brien, account executive, NBC MTV Networks, Los Angeles, les, named VP, stations, there. Spot Sales, New York, named named account director, advertising Rick Schwartz, account executive, account executive, red team, sales, Western region. TeleRep, Los Angeles, rejoins Katz there; Tim McCann, account executive, Craig Allison, from KJRH(TV) Tul- Continental Television there as sales Petry, New York, named account ex- sa, Okla., joins co -owned wCPO -Tv manager, gold sales team. Dennis ecutive, green team, there; Mi- chael Faherty, account executive, Telerep, New York, named account executive, green team, there; Laurel David, account executive, KOFY -TV San Francisco, to same ca- NThe person pacity there, and Patricia Curry, from NBC Television Spot Sales, you describe Detroit, named account executive The most experienced there. is executive search firm the person in broadcasting. Peter Diaz, local sales manager, KHOU -TV Houston, joins KOTV(TV) Tul- we deliver N sa, Okla., as general sales manager. Joe Sullivan & Deborah Brown, local sales man- Associates, Inc. ager, KOTV(TV) Stockton, Calif., joins 44210 North Road KOTV(TV) Sacramento, Calif., as Southold, NY 11971 account executive. (516) 765-5050

68 Fates & Fortunes Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting Los Angeles, joins KTRK -TV Houston PROGRAMING Eglon E. Simons, director of sales, as weekend co- anchor. Cable Networks Inc., New York, Jan Allen, managing editor and as- Tully, manager, business af- Clare named general manager. sistant news director, KOMO-TV Seat- fairs, Entertainment, New York, NBC tle, joins KxTV(TV) Sacramento, named director of business affairs. Adam M. Dempsey, cable TV co- ordinator, city of Aurora, Colo., joins Calif., as news director. Ellen Endo -Dizon, senior VP, Re- Mind Extension University, Engle- Drew Soicher, sports anchor and public Pictures Inc., Los Angeles, wood, Colo., as director of affiliate reporter, KJEO(TV) Fresno, Calif., joins named executive VP. relations and special markets. KING-TV Seattle as sports reporter. James McNa- J. David Huggins, from Mony Bob Trimble, sports director, president, mara, brokerage firm, and Apipol Inthar- WZZM -TV Grand Rapids, Mich., joins New World In- aksa, assistant account executive, WKBD(TV) Detroit as weekend sports ternational, The Telemundo Group, join North anchor and weekday sports reporter. named presi- East Satellite Entertainment, Pen- dent and CEO, field, N.Y., as account executives. Paul Beavers, news director, New World WMAQ -TV Chicago, joins KUSI -TV San Entertainment, Chuck Self, former national sales Diego, Calif., in same capacity. Los Angeles. director, WTLV(TV) Jacksonville, Fla., Robert Peters, joins Raycom Management Group, Charlotte, N.C., as VP, director of McNamara executive VP, sales. New World Entertainment, named president and chief operating offi- Dave Lancaster, air personality, cer, New World Television. KSSK -AM -FM Honolulu, named program director. Eileen Opatut, VP, BBC Co-Pro- ductions, New York, named executive Rob Correa, director of sports pro- VP, BBC Co-Productions, North graming and acquisitions, USA Net- America. John Cadwell, business work, New York, named VP, sports programing. manager, Sunbow Productions Inter- Beavers Dolan national, joins BBC/Lionheart, New Bill Vassar, formerly with NBC - York, as cable sales representative. TV and NBC Entertainment, joins Un- Patrick Dolan, special projects di- Jeanne Watson Driscoll, women's itel Video Inc., New York, as sales rector, Focus 12, News 12 Long Is- named health and maternity nursing speaker executive. land, Woodbury, N.Y., news director. and educator, joins Osborn Health- Paul LeSage, VP and general man- care Communications, New York, as ager, WTMJ(AM) Milwaukee, named Bryn Hazell, news director, education adviser, The Newborn VP and general manager, sports WLNE(TV) New Bedford, Mass. (Prov- Channel. marketing. Mike Elliott, program di- idence, R.I.), joins KTVZ(TV) Bend, Andrew Horne, TV associate, rector, WTMJ, named executive di- Ore., in same capacity. Quincy Jones Entertainment, joins Lori- rector, sports operations. Kip Torres, freelance video pro- mar Television, Burbank, Calif., as ducer and camera editor, Wildlife manager, drama development. NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS News Network, joins KABB(TV) San Manolo Romero, head of broad- Antonio, Tex., as film editor. cast operations, 1992 Summer Games, Rob Downey, director, VIS - Karen Curry, London bureau Barcelona, Spain, named to same NEWS -USA, joins KCAU -TV Sioux chief, NBC News, named executive capacity for 1996 summer Olympics, City, Iowa, as news director. Atlanta. producer of morning news programing, New York. Jeff Zucker, supervis- Mark Wierzbic, news director, David L. Simon, managing direc- ing producer, Today, NBC News, WSLC(AM) -WSLQ(FM) Roanoke, Va., tor, Buena Vista Productions Ltd., named executive producer, succeeding joins Metro Traffic, Washington, named VP, programing- interna- Tom Capra, executive producer of as reporter. tional, London. made- for-television movies and mini- Joan Palluth, manager of sales and Cheryl Gotthelf, assistant VP, series, NBC Entertainment. marketing administration, Nostalgia school services, Children's Television Mark Steines, from KSPR(TV) Television, joins TV Listing Inc., Workshop (CTW), New York, Springfield, Mo., joins KCAL(TV) Nor- Fort Worth, as service supervisor. named VP. Jenny Lam, marketing walk, Calif. (Hollywood), as sports manager, school services, CTW, Tom Burnett, executive producer, reporter and anchor. KOMO -TV named director of marketing, school Seattle, joins Conus Com- services. Theresa Marchetta, environmen- munications as regional manager, tal producer, KNSD(TV) San Diego, Northwest regional cooperative locat- Pamela McSweeney, director of Calif., joins KSWT(TV) Yuma, ed at KATU(TV) Portland, Ore. product development and marketing, Ariz., as weather anchor and environ- Hanna-Barbera Licensing, Los An- Tom Burke, executive producer of mental reporter. WCMH -TV geles, named VP, product develop- news, Columbus, Ohio, ment and marketing. Minerva Perez, from KTLA(TV) named news director.

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 Fates & Fortunes 69 Show, with later stints at M.T.M. PROMOTION AND PR NCTA WANTS YOU and Alan Landsburg Productions. She worked as producer for The Slap Julie Rothman, manager, public The National Cable Television Maxwell Story, The Days and Nights relations, VH -1, New York, named Association is seeking nomina- of Molly Dodd and, more recently, director, public relations. tions for the 1992 Vanguard NBC -TV's Wings. Awards. The awards are given to Arthur L. Vrooman, 65, retired Joy Wiseblood, promotions and cable industry leaders in recogni- KEZE -FM chief engineer, WJAC -TV marketing director, Spokane, tion of outstanding achievement Johnstown, KTYD(FM) Pa., died of lung Wash., joins Santa Bar- and leadership. For further catego- cancer Dec. 4 as there. Vrooman had WJAC- bara, Calif., promotion director. ry information, call NCTA at been with TV for 35 years before his retire- Barry Leffler, from National Bas- (202) 775-3669. The deadline is ment in 1988. Survivors include his ketball Association, rejoins WSVN(TV) Jan. 31. Send nominations. NCTA wife, Vivian; son, Lanny, Miami as creative services director. Awards Committee, do NCTA, and two grandchildren. Paul Reader, manager, media rela- 1724 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., tions, USA Network, New York, Washington, D.C. 20036. Allen U. Hollis, radio executive, named director, media relations. died Nov. 13 in Birmingham, Ala. From 1970 to 1979, Hollis was Douglas D. Piney, acting creative ALLIED FIELDS president of Red Carpet City Broad- director, The Family Channel, Virgin- casting and Triple H. Broadcasting ia Beach, Va., named creative di- New officers elected at Florida Ca- Inc. from 1976 to 1979. He is sur- rector. ble Television Association Inc., Talla- vived by his wife, Ann; four daugh- Mark DeSantis, promotion man- hassee: E. Thomas Horne, Jones ters; son, Allen and two grandchil- ager, WUSA(TV) Washington, joins Intercable of Broward County, Davie, dren. KARE(TV) Minneapolis as director Fla., chairman; Patrick Keating, Ralph Bellamy, 87, actor, died in of programing and promotion. Comcast, Tallahassee, Fla., vice Santa Monica, Calif., Nov. 29 of lung Donna Loveland, public relations chairman; Allan Goodson, Tele- ailment. His TV credits included manager, Tektronix computer graph- Communications Inc., South Daytona, Power, Billion Dollar Threat, The ics groups, Beaverton, Ore., named Fla., secretary; Rich Gunter, Cab - Most Deadly Game, The Million- public relations manager, TV division. levision Industries, treasurer, and aire and 1950's series Man Against Troy Harville, CV, Central Flori- Crime. More recently he appeared da division, Melbourne, Fla., chair- in miniseries The Winds of War. He is TECHNOLOGY man, strategic planning committee. survived by his wife, Alice. New officers at North Mike Angi, director of engineer- elected Caro- John O. Whedon, 86, radio and lina Association of Broadcasters: ing, Colony Communications Inc., TV writer, died of pneumonia Nov. 22 George Beasley, Beasley Broad- Providence, R.I., named executive in Medford, Ore. For radio, Whe- casting, Naples, Fla., president; Ren- director of engineering. don wrote for The Great Gildersleeve, nie Corley, wxu('rv) Winston -Sa- Music in the Air and The Rudy Val- John Albertson, freelance news lem, N.C., president-elect; Rees lee Hour. His TV credits include The technician, joins WPRI-TV Providence, Poag, wQMG -AM -FM Greensboro, Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van R.I., as news technician. N.C., VP, radio; Dave Boylan, Dyke Show and Leave It to Beaver. G. Michael Donovan, assistant wGHP -TV High Point, N.C., VP, television, and Don Curtis, Curtis Thomas P. Chisman, 69, founder, chief engineer, KJR(AM)- KLTX(FM) Se- president and general manager, attle, joins KMTF(FM) there as direc- Media Group, Raleigh, N.C., secretary- treasurer. WVEC Television Inc., Hampton, tor of technical operations. Va., died of heart attack Nov. 22 Dan Sutorius, project manager, Michael A. Fast, chief engineer, there. Beginning his broadcasting Cableoptics, Jerrold Communications, wPGC(FM) Baltimore, elected to board career exploring station operation at Hatboro, Pa., named project man- of directors of Society of Broadcast WCHV(AM) Charlottesville, Va., ager, DigiCable. Engineers. Chisman put WVEC(AM) Hampton, Thomas J. Daly, professional tape Daniel P. Garcia, senior VP, real Va., on the air in 1948. He later product manager, Fuji Photo Film estate planning and public affairs, added WVEC-TV, focusing on educa- USA Inc., Elmsford, N.Y., named Warner Bros., Hollywood, elected tional programing. He told broad- marketing manager, professional vid- to board of directors of Hollywood casting in 1960: "TV is capable of eo products. Entertainment Museum. greatness. However, government regulation will not end abuses in the William Marriage, formerly with DEATHS industry. In the end the public must Thomson Broadcast and Rohde & decide what it wants. If you don't like Schwarz, joins Vistek Electronics Roz Doyle, 49, TV producer, died what you see on TV, turn it off. Ltd., Buckinghamshire, England, as Nov. 24 of breast cancer in Hamp- The finest censor you have of TV is sales engineer. stead, England. Doyle began TV the on-off button." Chisman is sur- BW Hague, operations manager, career at Goodson -Todman Produc- vived by his wife, Martha; three WPRI -TV Providence, R.I., named tions. She worked as production as- daughters; son; two sisters, and 14 chief engineer. sistant on The Mary Tyler Moore grandchildren.

70 Fates & Fortunes Dec 91991 Broadcasting Monday Memo

"A major return to advertiser- controlled programing is inevitable [and] overdue."

Studio One, Alcoa Theatre, The Philco Playhouse, ment. They are clients -growing in number and influ- Goodyear TV Playhouse, Armstrong Circle Theater, ence -who care not only about efficiency, but about the The U.S. Steel Hour, Kraft Television Theater Lux show in which their commercials are proudly embedded. Video Theater, The Kaiser Aluminum Hour-these great Hallmark, with its long -standing Hall of Fame broadcasts, drama anthologies made the 1950's television's "Golden is certainly the pacesetter, taking advantage of the main Age." All were supplied or controlled by advertisers. form the networks have left open to them, the occcasional In fact, a lot of every night's schedule in those years two -hour drama in a movie time period. was supplied to the networks by advertisers and agencies. For Hallmark and other such sponsors, they get identifi- And, for those of you who remember cation with a standard of quality they back that far, you may recall that even control. For the networks, there are the non -anthology programing wasn't many benefits: they get a fine drama; all that terrible. Emmy Awards by association; usually Nevertheless, the formula, one that excellent ratings; the extra promotional helped make the medium so successful, weight that a company such as Hall- was abandoned. Recently, the finan- mark brings to bear, and somewhat cially ailing broadcast networks have more generous production budgets. begun to sporadically schedule a few So it seems there is a growing trend. advertiser -sponsored programs. Yet I It has formed by a three -way combina- strongly believe that a major return to tion of crumbling network financial advertiser- controlled programing is not power and diminishing audience only inevitable -it's overdue. Further, shares; with increasing awareness by the results of such programing can only advertisers of the new world television be beneficial to television's future. marketplace and the demonstrated suc- First, we need to understand what cess of advertiser -supported program- initially changed the system after the ing. The question now is whether the successful 'S0s. Why did the networks A aarnunMr hew Alee IMeler, pattern is coming full -circle, with ad- seize -and for decades maintain -ab- president, Boardwalk hlerleireaf vertisers achieving program dominance solute control over all their time peri- in television, as in the '50s. The an- ods? Obviously there's no one simple answer: costs for swer here must be "not completely, and not yet "...but all programing rose; scattering shorter spots around a sched- evidence (and gut instinct) indicate that there will be ule was a safer bet for advertisers than putting all their major movement back in that direction. commercials in one program basket; network programers The next question might be: will increased advertiser and Hollywood studios wanted control of the product and participation raise the level of quality significantly? (Or, its later exploitation...lots of reasons. If one event had to taking the cynic's view, could it possibly lower the level be pinpointed as the historical turning point, however, it of quality ?) Well, there are no guarantees. It's probable was the quiz show scandals of the late '50s. Amid govern- that we'll never see the return of a flourishing range of mental outrage and fear of protecting station licenses, the writer -nourishing, hour -drama anthologies in today's ex- networks were forced to take programing back from ad- pensive world. vertisers. But the inescapable fact is that it is the advertisers, not This, in turn, led to the all- consuming pursuit of rat- the broadcasters or the cable operators, who have the ings. Nothing else really mattered as ad agencies began truest vested interest in providing quality programing as buying "tonnage." Networks now needed ratings, be- an environment for their commercials. cause that alone sold commercial time. The Hollywood If advertisers, networks and producers open their minds studios began to press even harder: they made their profits to client -supplied shows, television will get a needed (and still do) on renewals and reruns in syndication and boost of programing adrenaline. For this to happen, how- overseas. In short, sheer popularity became the only stan- ever, advertisers must have a larger agenda, and broad- dard, modified perhaps by demographic considerations, casters (and cablecasters as well) must stop treating "bar- but never by excellence. And that's still the pattern today. ter" as a dirty word. Only then can the future recapture Except for those advertisers who, once again, are be- the success of the golden days of the past-worldwide- ginning to take charge of their own programing environ- and I for one would be glad to see it.

Broadastllg Dec 9 1991 Monday Memo 71 Broadcastingm

Both CBS and NBC made prime Court filing, LBS's total assets are time changes last week, with NBC NSS POCKETPIECE put at $30.5 million, while the New bringing back Pacific Station and York -based syndicator has posted CBS slotting two new series on its (Nielsen's top ranked syndicated shows for liabilities of slightly under $68.5 mil- the week ending Nov. 10. Numbers represent troubled Friday night. NBC is pull- aggregate rating average'stations/% coverage) lion. An All American spokesper- ing Flesh 'N Blood from the 9 -9:30 slot 1. Star Trek 15.4/246/98 son declined comment on the terms of on Friday and is bringing back Pa- 2. Wheel Of Fortune 14.8/222/98 the merger, but it is reported that 3. Oprah Winfrey Show 11.5/223/99 cific Station effective Dec. 20. The se- 4. Entertainment Tonight 9.1/185/96 the company is making an asset pur- ries, starring Robert Guillaume, will 5. Current Affair 8.9/171/93 chase of LBS's syndicated pro- 5. Imagination I 8.9/184/96 be paired with Dear John at 9:30. 7. Cosby Show 8.8/20897 graming, including Family Feud and NBC said Flesh 'N Blood will return 8. Wheel of Fortune (Wknd) 8.4/186/82 Baywatch. 9. Married...With Children 7.7/168.94 later. CBS is adding two dramas to its 10. Donahue 7.0/229/99 As soon as Turner Broadcasting Friday lineup with Tequila & Bonetti 10. Inside Edition 7.0/124.86 12. Sally Jessy Raphael 5.7/207/97 System completed its $320 million (formerly Tequila & Boner), premier- 13. Hard Copy 5.6/168,91 acquisition of Hanna -Barbera ing Jan. 17 at 9, and Hearts Are 14. Entertainment Ton. (wknd) 5.0 /188195 15. Street Justice 5.0 13711 Productions on Dec. 4, pink slips Wild, premiering Jan. 10. at 10. The were sent out the next day to 92 network still needs to schedule domestic and 23 international em- permanent programing in the 8 -9 hour ployes out of 430 people on the on Friday but in the interim will fill payroll at the Hollywood animation the time with specials and Rescue: (BROADCASTING, July 8 and Nov. house. A TBS spokesperson said, 911. Two episodes of that show air 25), filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy "Like most other mergers, there was a in the 8 -9 slot on Jan. 24 and 31 be- protection in New York late last duplication of positions and re- fore a replacement begins airing in week. According to the court filings, for February. LBS says it has entered into a sponsibilities open elimination." merger agreement with All American Iowa State University has hired LBS Communications, in a move Communications, also been 'ex- media broker The Ted Hepburn Co. previously anticipated by creditors pected by industry observers. In the to find a buyer for its wol -ry Ames, Iowa, ABC affiliate. ISU Presi- ANOTHER SIDE TO THE CHAIRMAN dent Martin Jischke did not disclose the asking price, but said it is "some- You can still get conflicting opinions about Alfred Sikes as chairman of what lower" than the $20 million at the FCC, but there was a consensus following his performance at a which the station was valued in 1986, Federal Communications Bar Association dinner in Washington last according to theAmes Daily Tri- Thursday evening that he is making real progress as a stand -up comic. bune. The paper said that to remain Sikes put all seriousness aide, hoping to amuse the several hundred viable, the station, which trails the af- lawyers, lobbyists and government officials with a routine of mostly inside filiates in ratings, would have to move jokes. Noting the FCC's chronic troubles in getting adequate funding, 28 miles south to Des Moines, the Sikes said the FCC would be instituting a new revenue gimmick. -raising market in which it competes. Starting Jan. 1, there will be only one phone line into the commission: 1- 900- PHONE -AL. That's $100 for the first minute, $50 for each additional John Quinn, president -GM, minute. But the first 25 callers get a bonus: a free savings and loan and a WJDM(AM) Elizabeth, N.J., confirmed daytime AM station. last week that he is also a candi- Sikes presented his Profiles in Courage Award to the Japanese owners date for the hotly contested District of major movie studios, who are remaking "Tora Tora Tora" with a new 2 seat (serving New York and New title: "Hands Across the Pacific." Collegiality is as robust as ever, accord- Jersey) on the NAB radio board ( "Top ing to Sikes. Commissioner Ervin Duggan has suggested a rotating of the Week," Dec. 2). Quinn, an ac-

chairmanship, Sikes said. "But Ervin didn't say exactly what I should be tive participant in NAB's program to rotating on." Sikes also said he is getting along better with Commissioner promote its AMAX consumer radios, Sherrie Marshall. In fact, they are colloborating on a movie script about a said AM improvement and digital audio "young, dynamic, good -looking" head of a federal regulatory agency who broadcasting will be key issues for overcomes all odds to do what's right for the public. The only dispute is the new radio board next June. Former over casting. Sikes envisions Mel Gibson and Roseanne Arnold in the board member William O'Shaugh- leads; Marshall, Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito. auu nessy of WVOX(AM)- WRTN(FM) New Ro- Chelle, N.Y., and Mark Bench of

72 In Brief Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting WNSR(FM) New York are also candi- Governor Lawton Chiles is lastest dates for the seat, which is being va- complainant, filing against two Miami cated by NAB Radio Board Chairman TV stations -CBS's wcix and Richard Novik of WKIP(AM) -WRNO(FM) NBC's WTV.1. At least four other com- Poughkeepsie, N.Y. plaints are pending. In the case involving WJBF(TV) Augusta, Ga., candi- FCC Commissioner James Quello dates have asked to withdraw justified the FCC's anticipated pre- complaint pursuant to a settlement emption of its lowest unit charge agreement, according to Bobby in a letter to Senator Chuck Robb (D- Kahn, an attorney for the candidates. Va.) last Friday. The letter was Home Shopping Network and sent in reply to Robb's Nov. 27 letter Event Entertainment to the FCC expressing concern Inc. have formed a PPV that candidates need an "unbiased fo- subsidiary. Home Shopping Network rum" for adjudicating lowest -unit- Entertainment charge complaints. Wrote Quello: Comsat Corp. Chairman -CEO Ir- Events Inc. will be a wholly -owned subsidiary HSN headed "[Tjhe commission can and should ving Goldstein will become director of by Rick Kulis, former investigate allegations of non- compli- general of Intelsat, given confir- president, Event En- tertainment. There will ance and, where violations exist, mation by the Intelsat Assembly of be a heavy emphasis on sporting order fines and rebates." Parties, which is to hold an extraor- events. Also, HSN it dinary meeting in Washington in Jan- said is considering spinning Paramount Domestic Television uary. The Intelsat Board of Gover- off its 12 television stations to shareholders, according to the has named Steve Nalevansky senior nors selected Goldstein in company's annual report. VP of creative affairs, reporting to Washington last Thursday (Dec. 5) recently promoted president of cre- from among four candidates. En- The family of the late sailor Clayton ative affairs and first -run program- dorsed by BROADCASTING a week Hartwig on Friday filed a $10 million Nalevansky, who ago, Goldstein joined Comsat, the ing Frank Kelly. suit against NBC News for report- was VP of creative af- U.S. signatory to Intelsat, as gen- previously ing that he may have been a homicid- fairs since 1986, will be responsible eral counsel in 1966 and became al homosexual responsible for the for the development of first -run chairman in 1985. "I am grateful battleship blast that killed him and 36 programing, pay TV, basic cable and not only to the United States for their others. An NBC News spokeswom- international co- productions for confidence in me, but to all the In- an declined to comment. ParamountiRevcom. He will also telsat member states for the honor oversee programing and produc- they have extended me," he said. Westwood One Radio Networks tion of The Arsenio Hall Show. Bob - has named Bruce Kanter executive bee Gablemann has also been ap- FCC complaints against TV sta- VP -CFO, responsible for all corpo- pointed VP of programing, moving up tions for lowest- unit -charge viola- rate business and administrative af- from executive director of cable tions are beginning to pile up. A fairs as well as the formation of sales for the division. group of Florida candidates led by new financial strategies.

S.12 BATTLE RESULTS IN 'QUID PRO QUO' PRESSURE CHARGES The struggle between broadcasters and cable opera- afford the luxury" of extensive public service programing tors over the Senate cable bill (S. 12) and its contro- if the bill were to fail. NCTA labeled the phrases as versial retransmission -consent and must -carry provi- evidence of a quid pro quo: PSA's for S. 12 support. sions got nastier last week as both sides denied A Nov. 7 letter to senators from NAB and the Con- charges that they pressured civic and charitable orga- sumer Federation of America listed approximately 100 nizations to take positions on the bill. All the charges local groups supporting S. 12. Later, some of those remain unsubstantiated. groups either retracted or clarified their endorsements. The National Cable Television Association, in a Dec. 5 Letters of retraction or clarification from three FCC filing, accused the National Association of Broad- groups -the North Texas chapter of the National Multi- casters of pressuring local civic groups into writing letters ple Sclerosis Society, the United Way for the city of of support for S. 12 to their senators by threatening to Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Arizona Chapter of the stop airing their public service announcements. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation -were specifically men- NAB quickly issued a strong denial: "NCTA is at- tioned in NCTA's filing. But all three groups told tacking NAB because broadcasters, through years of BROADCASTING they were never pressured to write let- service to their communities, have developed relation- ters endorsing S. 12. Earlier statements supporting S. ships that cable operators only dream of having." 12 reflected the views of individuals within their groups The NCTA filing cites an August NAB letter urging its and not the organization's endorsement, they said. member TV stations to gather grassroots support for S. The groups also denied rumors that cable operators 12 by advising stations to tell civic groups that broad- threatened to stop sending monetary contributions if casters are "fighting for survival" and could no longer they did not retract the S. 12 endorsements. -Rms

Broadcasting Dec 9 1991 In Brief 73 COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH ESTATE 4.1111k MIN

drug abuse, poverty, disease, ignorance, prejudice and BROADCASTING'S BIG BANG carelessness. The council has accentuated the positive as well, urging people to vote, get vaccinated and get involved in numerous community service projects. This is a big week for BROADCASTING. We celebrate The Ad Council campaigns have been a group effort, our 60th anniversary (as is evident in the special with numerous ad agencies donating countless thousands supplement that accompanies this issue) and we in- of hours of their creative time and talent, national adver- augurate the BROADCASTING HALL OF FAME (to the ac- tisers providing direction and dollars and the media donat- companiment of a gala black -tie dinner in Washington ing airtime and space (including outdoor and transit)-to saluting the first 60 honorees). Heady stuff for a magazine the tune of a staggering $18 billion, with radio and televi- that just made it off the ground in the Depression and sion accounting for 85% of that total (87% over the past didn't own a tux until after World War II. decade). Most of the thanks go to, and most of the bows should In a time when it's hard to find good things to say about be taken by, Sol Taishoff, who founded BROADCASTING almost anything, it's hard to say anything bad about such with Martin Codel in 1931. It was he who propelled the pro bono accomplishment. We'd leave it at: Bravo, en- magazine through its first half-century with talent, energy, core. brains, determination, courage and personality. Much of the Taishoff stamp -and momentum-are evident in BROADCASTING today, although the magazine has gone through several evolutions -both in format and in owner- EXCESS BAGGAGE ship -since his death in 1982. (As part of our anniversary celebration, three of four Agroup of experts from the International Maritime 1945 murals depicting the Fifth Estate that once graced Satellite Organization met in London two weeks our offices in Washington's National Press Building are ago to discuss making life a little easier for broad- now on display in the lobby of the present BROADCASTING cast journalists and others ( "Closed Circuit," Dec. 2). building at 1705 DeSales Street, where they will soon be The subject was mobile satellite telephones, an important joined by a fourth. They are the work of William Byron communications link for reporters in the field, and the McGill, once the advertising manager for Westinghouse conclusion was that "existing regulatory restrictions in Radio Stations Inc. Readers are cordially invited to stop many countries are a serious to transborder use of by.) obstacle land mobile earth stations." The rules, the group said, The editors have enjoyed the looks backward involved need "urgent revision." We agree. The media had in celebrating this anniversary, although we confess to enough trouble covering the Persian Gulf War without the some impatience in getting on with it. Today and tomor- added complication such restrictions provided. The physi- row are obsessions around here, and there's never been cal and political barriers that were a given of the cold-war more to report over the horizon. world are being dismantled; the regulatory and commercial barbed wire is equally anachronistic. 50 -YEAR PIN

LDose Lips Sink Ships, Victory Gardens, Smokey RODUGT OME [the] Bear, Take Stock in America, A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Peace Corps: The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love, Keep America Beautiful, Buckle Up, Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. If any of these have a familiar ring (and if they don't, there's a cultural literacy gap somewhere), it is thanks in large part to the efforts of The Ad Council, which has helped make these phrases and many others a part of the American vernacular. The nonprofit Ad Council, which is celebrating its 50th year of public service, began in January 1942 as the War Smor Advertising Council. After that war was won, the name was changed and the new mission became fighting dozens Drawn for BROADCASTING by Jack Schnudl of public service battles against enemies including crime, "A 'thumbs down' would have been sufficient."

74 Editorial Dec 9 1991 Broadcasting THE BOTTOM LINE

The rules of the game have changed. One thing that hasn't changed is competition. That's why it's so important for you to attend the '92 NATPE Conference.

Because of this competitive environment, Program Distributors will unveil a record number of new first -run programs at NATPE. First -run programming that has never been screened, advertised, or offered before. Don't let your competition run away with the best new first -run product before you've had a chance to check it out.

Remember, programming is the name of the game -- and without the best programming you can afford, the game will be over before you know it ... and that's the Bottom Line.

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