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Press ApAssociatedBroadcast Services IS d333ß3)3 £O££ 9l? 3311J? lZiVb6Ìl >o Z6/33Q )INf Et10dVligIlbOlt 1 S lI .nil C-£.'í***#***#ß*iS###*** Thanks to our clients and fiends for trusting us to broker over $868,000,000 in radio station sales in 1989. WI( FM ). Las Angeles. CA WSOM(AM)-WQXK(FM), Salem- Youngstown, OH $5,500,000 $101,500,000 KHOW( AM )-KSYY( FM ), Denver, CO i KMPZ(FM), Memphis, TN $6,000,000 WSD $16,000,000 ((AM/FM), Nashville, TN WEEX(AM )-WQQQ(FM), Easton - Allentown, PA $10,100,000 KODA(FM), Houston, TX (to Command Comm.) $22,000.000 KKBB(FM), Bakersfield, CA $3,300,000 KJQY(FM), San Diego, CA (to Command Comm.) S15, 000,000 WDAN(AM)-WDNL(FM), Danville, IL $2,350,000 WFBR(AM)- WLIF(FM), Baltimore, MD $32, 000.000 WKMI(AM)- WKFR(FM), Kalamazoo, MI $11,000,000 WFOG(FM), Norfolk, VA $8,000,000 WYNG(FM), Evansville, IN WFrQ(AM)- WAAF(FM), Worcester, MA S15, 000,000 WFÇC(AM)- WRNS(FM), Kinston, NC S18,600,000 WNEW(FM), New York, NY WYAV(FM), Conway - Myrtle Beach, SC KTWV(FM), Los Angeles, CA KJQY(FM), San Diego, CA (to Westwood One) S19,000,000 WMMR(FM), Philadelphia, PA KTRH(AM)- KLOL(FM), Houston, TX $370,000,000 570,600,000 WCPT(AM)- WCXR(FM), Washington, DC KSMG(FM), San Antonio, TX KILT(AM/FM), Houston, TX WMYU(FM), Knoxville, TN 511.600,000 WLLZ(FM), Detroit, MI WSOK(AM)-WAGU(FM), Savannah, GA WGKT(AM)-WPHD(FM), Buffalo, NY $6 KNAN(FM), Monroe, LA S11.000,000 KVKI(AM/FM), Shreveport, LA S7,000,000 WKXI(AM)- WTYX(FM), Jackson, MS KBFM(FM), McAllen- Brownsville, TX KRLD(AM )-TSN, Dallas, TX S86.500,000 KQLH(FM), San Bernardino, CA S7,700,000 KODA(FM), Houston, TX (to Evergreen Media) I WNOE(AM/FM), New Orleans, LA $7,250.000 Kamm/FM), Oxnard- Ventura, CA $5,200,000 Total 1989 Sales $868,600,000 Call one of us today to confidentially discuss your plans for 1990. 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The Center is the WWOR -TV (New Jersey) nation's first institute for the advanced study of mass communication and WXIA -TV (Atlanta, GA) technological change. WXTV (Secaucus, NJ) Broadcastingii Apr 2 Vol. 118 No. 14 "prevent any new attempt to 35/ WHERE use our radio -electric 43/ If carry/must pay spectrum by force." THINGS STAND BROADCASTING'S monthly bill introduced update of key industry issues. 51/ AS CABLE SEES IT Senator Daniel Inouye introduces bill, which is topic On eve of NAB convention, 143' BROADCASTING of Communications Subcommittee hearing, but stops James Mooney, president of short of endorsing it. Legislation is widely National Cable Television RENAISSANCE MAN Association, explores Vetter Communications' prospects for agreement Chairman Cyril Metter is lawyer, between broadcasting and entrepreneur and former cable industries. triathlete. He is also champion of broadcasters' if 98/ MARKET REPORT carry/must pay policy, one he believes will lead to more Arbitrons market -by- market equitable relationship between prime time TV household broadcast and cable rankings confirm NBC's industries. dominance. 102/ ZODIAC DEPARTMENTS `WIDGET' Zodiac Entertainment will Advertisers Index 142 distribute new children's animation show called At Large 51 Widget which has cleared in 15 Business 110 NCTA's Jim Mooney with CBS's Jay Kriegel at Senate hearing of top 20 markets. By the Numbers 12 supported by broadcasters, called "brutally Cablecastings 112 anticonsumer" by cable. Hearing also focuses on 105/ SUPREME Changing Hands 115 Closed Circuit 8 as senators prepare to move bill. COURT REVIEW cable reregulation Datebook 24 Supreme Court hears Editorials 146 arguments in two cases Fates & Fortunes 139 involving affirmative action 48/ FCC on the record policies of FCC that are now Fifth Estater 143 mandated by Congress. 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