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MIXED AD FORECAST Analysts at TVB conference offer a range of predictions for 2003 and '04 spending growth. » 5

STILL NO MUST -CARRY The FCC isn't yet ready to decide on cable carriage of broadcaster's digital TV signals. » 8

CSI ENVY Network programming chiefs covet CSI: Miami as the only new fall show virtually guaranteed to be a hit. » 10

SOPRANOS' GODFATHER Chris Albrecht is responsible for some of HBO's biggest successes. Now he's CEO. » 12

WHAT WILL PAUL DO? Charter Communications investors await billionaire Allen's plans for the ailing MSO. » 13 Although The Sopranos has been on hiatus for 18 months, the buzz hasn't silenced for COMPLEX STATION BUY NBC will HBO's original series or for most HBO acquire WPXB(TV) from Paxson and run projects greenlighted by Chris Albrecht. Telemundo instead of ShopNBC on it. » 15

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Programming brokering station sales to minorities. » 26 WAR COVERAGE Summer surprise American Idol far exceeded At cross -purposes The media wants far more Fox's expectations. Copycats are already Technology access to the battlefield (and information) than waiting in the wings. » 22 Tower siting New Jersey is likely the new the government is willing to give. » 16 home of the transmission tower to replace the one lost at the World Trade Center. » 28 Encoding for streaming Tandberg plans encoder for Windows Media 9 format. » 29 TV engineers The six engineers who died in the collapse of the WTC were dedicated to keeping their stations on the air. » 30 Airtime 42

B &C Eye 4 Classifieds 43 Editorials 46 Fates & Fortunes 38 SPECIAL Fifth Estater 40 Syndication Watch New season is off to a REPORT TOP Station Break 24 good start with Wayne Brady, Caroline Rhea 2001 snapshot The Week That Was 14 and Celebrity Justice. » 23 Although acquisition Focus The Medford -Klamath Falls, Ore., slowed, the top 25 market isn't particularly populous, but it's groups controlled holding its own in ad revenue. » 25 25 nearly one -quarter o RADIO all radio stations in Washington GROUPS the U.S. » 32 Public- interest profit Though opposed to media consolidaton, MMTC has benefited by

Broadcasting & Cable /9 -9 -02 3 ADVERTISING EYE ! Surviving sponsors Behind the scenes, before the fact CBS is lining up fewer sponsors for the upcoming fifth edition of Survivor (this one in 9/11 Thailand), relying more on tra- ditional ad buys in both the Bud Paxson upfront and scatter markets to Too close for comfort? - support the show. It just might be that many viewers don't want to look back at the terrifying piece of history that was Sept. 11, 2001. Several weeks ago on its Web site, WPIX(TV) New York asked visitors, "How No -cut contract much of the extensive Sept. 11 anniversary coverage do you intend The terms of Bud Paxson 's to watch?" Nearly 90% answered, "None of it." Only 7.5% said planned sale of KPXF(TV) Fresno, they'd watch "a lot of the coverage." Calif., have raised complaints in BROADCASTING & CABLE asked a similar question to its TV -savvy Washington. Media Access Project Web readers over the last few days, and they feel similarly. In our is asking the FCC to block the poll, 63% said upcoming coverage was "excessive." Only 18% said $35 million sale to Univision, the time set aside for 9/11 commemoratives was "just right," and claiming terms of the deal would violate the station's right to So far, two and a half 16% said it was "insufficient." Neither poll is scientific, but the sponsors have signed on, the numbers suggest that 9/11 is a recent enough nightmare that many reject network programming. fewest of any show to date. The aren't ready to relive the day just yet. -P.J.B. That's because the contract first two editions had nine requires KPXF to carry Paxson - the next two had sponsors each; founded Worship Network for the five to six each. Those signed Kevin Spacey, narrator of PBS's next 50 years during the on for the Thailand installment, America Rebuilds, midnight -5 a.m. slot. Univision's which debuts Sept. 19, are Gen- views daily rushes eral Motors and Visa (full spon- during production. agreement to carry the net "in sorships) and Radio Shack, It airs Sept. 10. perpetuity" without ability to which describes its participation Will anyone watch? review whether other as a half sponsorship that does programming is more appropriate not include product placement. MAP Presi- CBS doesn't preclude others, but violates the law, said sources there say the show is dent Andrew Schwartzman. -B.M. already pretty well sold. CBS is mum, but the sponsorship pack- ages are said to be valued around $12 million, which is on Bubba backlog a par with other Survivor editions. -5.M. Clear Channel is volunteering to archive tapes of raunchy shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge, a.k.a. Todd CASHING IN ON DBS Clem. Bubbá s 4 frequently over - Yes, its true: You can make a buck from retransmission consent. the -top broad- has agreements with DirecTV for carriage of Emmis Broadcasting struck casts on stations in Portland, Ore., Orlando, Fla., and New Orleans, under which WXTV(FM) DirecTV will pay the broadcaster cash. The companies have been nego- Tampa, Fla., have garnered tiating for years, unable to agree on a rate until now. Emmis TV fines for Clear Channel, and another indecency complaint is President Randy Bongarten confirmed the agreements but declined to pending. Recognizing the FCC's discuss money, citing confidentiality clauses. Others say Emmis may be "apparent concern" about getting as much as 15 cents per local -TV subscriber per month (in the Bubbá s syndicated show, the three markets). Meanwhile, Bongarten reports, EchoStar has taken a company will keep tapes 30 days. But company critic Art hard line against paying cash for new retrans deals. As a result, Emmis Belendiuk says few indecency Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan is denying the sat TV operator carriage of its Honolulu Fox affiliate. investigations launch within 30 finally taps into second One Wall Street source says other station groups have struck similar days. "It's a completely mean- revenue source: payment for carriage from DirecTV. deals in several of their markets. -S.M. ingless gesture. "-B.M.

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Ad sales: Up, up, but not away

Consensus at NB forecasting forum sees modest spot gains in 2003

By Steve McClellan next year is negative 2 %, and I think that is alternating -year infusion of political and Ayear ago, the writing was already on very aggressive," said one analyst. "When Olympic ad dollars into the marketplace. the on the wall that the next 12 you think that 12% of spot dollars this year TVB President Chris Rohrs notes that, months were going to be ugly for TV are political, you have to believe there is over the past decade, in odd years national advertising sales. Then, there was September going to be a really huge spurt in the spot has had low- single -digit growth even in 11. As Sanford Bernstein analyst Tom Wolzien underlying business to get to the same level the best of times and in even years has seen put it, "we had no idea what a charmed life in '03. We're just not there yet." a high -single or double -digit spurt. we'd been living" until that tragic day. That's a statement that really goes to the Over 2003 and 2004, if national spot Indeed, with 9/1 1, the bottom fell out of point that the TVB has been making for a meets projections, the sector would "exceed the ad market. The industry is still recover- while now: The national spot business ought the 1999-2000 plateau," said Rohrs. ing, and there's a wide range of opinion -as to be looked at in two -year cycles, given the Campaign -finance reform kicks in after evidenced by the differing views expressed at last week's Television Bureau of Advertis- ing Forecast Conference -about how long FORECAST 2003 it will take to get there. The TVB released its ad- growth projec- tions for 2003 and 2004, as well as 2003 projections the organization collected from a dozen or so Wall Street firms, investment bankers, analysts and consultants. What they have in common is that, for the most part, the projections are up over last year across all sectors of the TV busi- ness -local and national spot, network, syndication and cable (see table). NB President Chris Rohrs The sector likely to show the least vol- notes that, in odd years, national spot has had low ume of growth next year is national spot, single -digit growth even in due to the tough comparison it will have to the best of times. this year when perhaps $1 billion dollars This table compares percentage /loss will be spent in political advertising. growth projections next year by the Television Bureau of Advertising and a cross -section of media and financial analysts. With the Wall Street and TV firms foresee maybe exception of some of the projections for national spot sales, it's all positive. a half-percentage -point growth for the sec- tor next year, while the TVB says the sector Source Local Spot Nets Syndie Cable could be anywhere from flat to up 2 %. In TVB +1 to +3 0 to +2 +4 to +6 +2 to +4 +3 to +5 2004, TVB predicts, national spot will re- CS First Boston +3 +2 +3 +3 +5 bound with 10% growth, thanks to ex- Bear Stearns +3 to +4 -5 to +2 +10 +5 to +7 +4 to +6 pected heavy political spending. Prudential Securities o +1 to +2 +2 to +3 o +5 Some analysts don't believe even the low Vogel Capital +2 +2 +1 +2 +3 UBS Warburg +3 +4 end of the 2003 projection is achievable -2 +7 +11 Sanford Bernstein +3 -3 +6 +4 +2 given all the political and Olympic money Universal McCann +1 -1 +2.5 +2 +5 that would have to be replaced. Veronis Suhler Stevenson +1.8 +1.5 +2 +3.2 +15.2 "My official projection for national spot

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the election this year, but it remains to be opinions expressed at the conference as to sumer spending in both of those areas is seen how big a dent it will make in broad- just how real the economic recovery is. extremely strong right now. casters' political-money trough. David Wyss, chief economist at Stan- But that has some who follow the busi- The bill limits so -called soft money that dard & Poor's, told conference attendees ness more than a little concerned. "The can be spent on campaigns by the national that the recession is over and the question economy is still in trouble, and interest rates parties. One expert on the subject, Jan now is how fast the recovery will happen, are propping it up," said Tony Hoffman, Baran, a senior partner in the law firm with the possibility that a second downturn partner at Hoffman Shutz Media Capital. Wiley, Rein & Fielding, thinks the impact might occur (with the right mix of war and "If the consumer stops spending, the whole will be minimal. He told TVB attendees that there is wiggle room in the reform bill 'If the consumer stops spending, the whole that allows the national parties to "spin off" their soft -money operations to affili- house of cards will come tumbling down: ated groups at the state level, where in -Tony Hoffman, Hoffman Shutz Media Capital many cases there are no limits on spending. Wolzien, who moderated the media ana- lysts panel at the conference, summed up inflation) before a full recovery. As reces- house of cards will come tumbling down." the issue for ad sellers in a nutshell. "The sions go, he said, this one ended "very Wolzien also made the point that cable business is truly reliant on the economy," quickly. is finally beginning to get its act together he said, noting that, over a 40 -year period, "The Federal Reserve Board helped," he on local sales after 30 years of "being annual advertising growth was just a frac- added, "by cutting interest rates four times, incompetent." Top -rated stations probably tion of a percentage behind the growth of to a level not seen since the Eisenhower don't have much to fear, he said. But weaker the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). administration." As a result, it's cheaper stations should be concerned about losing There were some strong and differing than ever to buy a house or a car, and con- market share to cable.

Must -carry not yet a must at FCC

Digital decision doesn't make it onto this week's agenda digital signal. Some broadcasters worry cable systems will degrade signals offered By Bill McConnell their signals, still up in the air is how in the highest -quality, 1080i format or other eliev-e it or not, digital must -carry still strongly worded that conclusion will be. In high - resolution formats. isn't ready for prime time. Despite an effort to win consensus, Powell had At this week's meeting, the FCC is also B FCC Chairman Michael Powell's moderated a proposal that would have left expected to kick off a comprehensive re- determined effort, he and his three fellow little doubt the commission considered write of the broadcast -ownership limits. commissioners have yet to agree on how to mandatory carriage of all free program- Broadcasters were left frustrated by the settle the longstanding debate over cable car- ming the way to go but would have sought commission's failure to resolve the carriage riage of broadcasters' digital TV signals. As a comment on the constitutionality of that debate. They say full carriage of their digi- result, they won't take up the issue at the decision. Even a less definitive version tal offerings, including multicast channels commission's public meeting this week. failed to win the necessary three votes. and electronic program guides, is necessary Nevertheless, Powell is expected to push With full carriage unresolved, the debate to push the government- mandated transi- negotiations in hopes of issuing a proposal over which cable tier digital programming tion from analog signals. before November's meeting. When must be carried on was shelved. The burden on cable systems posed by approved, the mandate would determine One decision that looks solid: The FCC full digital carriage is much less today, they the primary business relationship between will reject broadcasters' demand for car- say, than when Congress ordered carriage broadcasters and cable systems for the riage of both digital and analog signals dur- of all local stations in their markets in 1993. foreseeable future. ing the transition. "It's almost an insignificant burden. Yet Although the FCC is widely expected to In a positive for broadcasters, however, there's holy war," said Jack Goodman, an conclude that broadcasters are entitled to the FCC appears set to forbid cable com- attorney for the National Association of cable carriage of the entire free portion of panies to diminish the quality of a station's Broadcasters.

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By Paige Albiniak Bonnie Hunt comedy Life With Bonnie at Levin's boss, Turner Broadcasting Chair- It took NBC Entertainment President 9 p.m. on Tuesday, opposite longtime NBC man and CEO Jamie Kellner, argued ear- Jeff Zucker about one -half second to hit Frasier. CBS's Tellem is nervous about lier this year that, if consumers want to zap name the non -NBC show he most reconfiguring her entire Friday-night line- commercials on PVR, they should be re- covets: CBS's CSI: Miami, the only new up. Fox's Berman worries about putting quired to pay an extra $250 per year for show on network prime time virtually guar- two comedy half -hours on Sunday at 9 the privilege. anteed to become a hit. p.m., opposite other networks' legal dra- "We expanded Law & Order, which gave mas. NBC's Zucker frets about launching a other people some ideas," he ribbed CBS hit on Tuesday at 8 p.m. "We haven't been Entertainment President Nancy Tellern. able to open Tuesdays at 8 p.m. since God Albiniak Zucker wasn't the only programming created it," he joked. chief confessing his CSI: Miami envy at the Ostroff noted UPN's launch of a new version of the old Rod Serling hit, The Twi- named L.A. light Zone. And Levin is concerned about flipping the WB's Thursday and Sunday bureau chief prime time schedules. All the network chieftains agreed that aige Albiniak, an assistant editor at reality programming -or unscripted pro- BROADCASTING & CABLE in Wash- gramming, as Zucker prefers to call it -is ington, has become the magazine's here to stay, although he and Levin disagreed new Los Angeles bureau chief, responsible about whether that is a good thing. for programming news and analysis about "The bread and butter of network tele- broadcast networks and syndicators. vision still needs to be scripted program- Albiniak, who re- ming," Levin said. "The emotional rela- ceived her bachelor's tionships people form with television degree at Occidental characters are long -lasting." College in Los Ange- But Zucker believes that a "far bigger les, joined B &C in CBS's CS!: Miami is widely considered the is that we January 1997 as the only guaranteed hit on the broadcast nets' threat to the networks continue fall prime time schedule. to put on scripted programming that our managing editor of audiences don't want." the magazine's Cable - Hollywood Radio and Television Society Moreover, the group collectively agrees, day fax. A few months later, she was luncheon in Beverly Hills last week; both reality programming always has been around assigned to cover Capitol Hill, concentrat- UPN's Dawn Ostroff and ABC's Susan in some fashion-think Candid Camera -but ing on media -related legislation. Lyne said the same. Ostroff also has her eye gained a new catchphrase when CBS's Sur- Prior to joining B &C, from 1995 to '97, on Fox's new action show Fastlane. vivor became such a successful franchise. she was a senior editor for Phillips Business The WB's Jordan Levin is partial to Five of the six said they are not particu- Information, reporting for two communica- ABC's new late -night talker with host larly worried about personal video recorders tions -related newsletters. She began her jour- Jimmy Kimmel (also co -host of Comedy -such as Replay TV and TiVo, which allow nalism career as an intern for the Christian Central's The Man Show, with Loveline's viewers to skip right over advertisements - Science Monitor. Adam Corolla). Fox's Gail Berman would eliminating advertising-supported TV. Albiniak also has a master's degree in like The WB's Everwood. "I don't think the government would journalism and public policy from Ameri- CNN's Jeff Greenfield, the moderator, allow it," Zucker said. can University in Washington. also got the panelists to reveal what they But Levin said The WB often worries She can be reached by calling (323) 549- consider the biggest risk they are taking about development of PVRs and the grad- 4111, by e-mail at palbiniak @reedbusi- this fall. For ABC's Lyne, it is placing the ual erosion of ad- supported television. ness.com, or by fax at (323) 965 -5327.

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vision. But he also gives a strategic explana- house production division is crafting new Television Distribution vet Scott Carlin to tion for HBO's tolerance. "Unlike broadcast shows for struggling ABC. be president of program distribution. and broad -based cable networks that are "When you have a business as successful Even his prized hits don't relieve defined by their audiences," he explains, and interesting as HBO," Albrecht said, Albrecht's biggest angst. "It's disappointing "HBO is defined by the things that it puts "you need to keep looking for ways to that we're not in 70 million homes. Whether on its ait" It's not just about viewers tuning maximize it? that's a realistic goal is the big question." in. It's about their paying up. Expect HBO to explore more outlets for Surely, Tony Soprano will persuade Albrecht knows HBO subscribers now its hits. Albrecht recently made his first out- some new subscribers to bring HBO a lit- expect-make that demand- unconven- side hire, recruiting Warner Bros. Domestic tle bit doser. tional fare from the pay channel. "I need to make sure I don't temper my willingness, and my programmers' willingness, to be bold." Do tell: What will Paul do? The Sopranos might be HBO's most rec- ognizable hit, but other projects have Charter's investors await and debt markets have failed to consider the pushed Albrecht further. Band of Brothers, billionaire Paul Allen's plans sponsorship this company has." HBO's epic World War II series with for the ailing MSO That's ridiculous; Savoy knows it. Of Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, was his course investors know Allen -who owns biggest risk. It was a $120 million project, By John M. Higgins 60% of the company-still has billions of Charter Communications investors are dollars left despite the burst dotcom bubble. certainly gratified to hear that the The reason Charter securities trade like those Risk -taking Chris MSO's cable operations are on of a company headed for Chapter 11 is that Albrecht gets a track. And, yes, it's wonderful to hear investors aren't sure Allen's willing new hat as to step up. chairman of HBO, Charter executives express confidence in The first report (B&C, 6/17, page 4) that the continuing plans to sell $1.8 billion worth success of which of systems. Allen was considering taking the company probably will And who, in this depressed stock market, private appeared in June. In July, he and require his entertainment, wouldn't be thrilled to hear about cash other Charter insiders bought about $25 creative and flow flowing and capital spending easing? million worth of Charter stock and bonds, business skills. What investors are not hearing is an a vote of confidence that the market answer to: What will Paul do? ignored. In August, Allen's Vulcan Ventures Paul, of course, is Paul Allen, the co- acknowledged in a securities filing that he filmed over nine months in Europe, with founder of Miausoft Corp. who spent seven might take it private or buy in some debt. more than 500 actors with speaking parts. of his many billions of dollars to assemble Not a blip in the market. "Imagine where "That was when I drew my biggest Charter's portfolio of 6 million cable sub- this would be trading if we didn't see Allen breath," Albrecht recalls. scribers. With Charter's stock down 90% in standing there," said one of the 150 money HBO's baseball movie 61* was another a year, Allen is hinting that he might put a managers and analysts at the meeting. nerve - racking project. "Baseball movies are couple more billions of dollars to work bail- "Does he really believe, or is he worried so hard to do," he said. Movie studios ing Charter out of its financial funk, inject- about throwing good money after bad ?" passed on the daunting project because it ing more equity or, far better for almost Savoy certainly wants to keep investors "needed to seem realistic and authentic." everyone, buying Charter's debt on the thinking Allen will do something. Savoy With his programming on track, cheap and then converting it into equity. carefully noted that Allen started dumping Albrecht is eyeing business opportunities. Investors flocked to a St. Louis hotel last technology stocks the day new -media AOL The network has done well selling DVD week to hear what Allen's next move might announced its takeover of old-media Time sets of its hit series. The movie business is be. Charter offered encouraging financial Warner, because that was a sign that tech proving fruitful, too. HBO co- produced guidance; Allen offered nothing but a tease. market values were no longer supportable. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the summer With Charter's stock trading at less than Vulcan raised $4.5 billion in stock sales. sleeper that is projected to break $100 mil- $3 per share and bonds at 50 cents on the Allen also hedged about two- thirds of his lion. A new original movie Real Women dollar, said Allen's top investment adviser, Bill stake in Microsoft against a stock drop while Have Curves was such a hit at the Sun - Savoy, "we have made no decision or plan it was still in the $80-$100 range. "We have dance Film Festival that HBO is debuting that we feel we need to inform the investment more than ample resources," Savoy said. it in theaters first. And the company's in- community about." But, he added, "equity Resources for what remains unclear.

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The The events of September 11 unfolded in real time and were wit- nessed via television by hundreds of millions well beyond the view of the Fight familiar skyline of New York City or to get the vast grounds of the Pentagon. With the action spread over two of the nation's in the great cities, media access on the home front that day was not an issue. Reporters and their cameras went wherever they were brave enough to go. But only a few weeks later, as the U.S. launched its counterattack in Afghanistan, the Fuah cameras -and their images -were nowhere to be seen in major battle areas. For the sake of operational secrecy, reporters say the U.S. mili- The media wants far more By Dan Trigoboff tary tightly controlled where the news media access to the battlefield could go, denying them the opportunity to (and information) than the accompany elite military forces in early going as they attempted to destroy the Taliban regime is government willing to give and root out Al Qaeda terrorists. The key cam-

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Press, which last week released a 60 -page Old rules apparently no longer apply for report on press restrictions, says the post- front -line reporting. In Vietnam, individual attack mode represents "an unprecedented correspondents routinely accompanied sol- closure of information we had always diers in the field-a practice that has been assumed would be public. hotly debated and that many military ex- "This is an administration that, more perts believe contributed to the U.S.'s ulti- than any since Nixon, values secrecy," she mate failure to sustain the South Viet- continues. "It's trying to reclaim every priv- namese government. ilege that had been taken from the presi- Following what Time magazine military- dency since 1973. Does a national emer- affairs writer Mark Thompson calls "the gency trump the Freedom of Information military's ham - fisted handling of reporters Act? Yes, it does. But even without 9/11, during its 1983 invasion of Grenada," the this was a policy they were going to pursue." Pentagon and media came up with a new The government, says Radio- Television system for covering battles that relied on News Directors Association President Bar- pools in highly sensitive actions. But during bara Cochran, is determined to manage its the Persian Gulf War of 1991, the media message, and a public more concerned cur- found the pools and briefings inadequate rently with safety than with information is and complained continually about their not likely to support efforts to expand lack of access to the fighting. information access. In 1992, the Pentagon and media But, she says, "this is too important a worked out new guidelines that seemed story to wait for the handout. We can't to promise media open coverage when- have this story told without an indepen- ever possible. But when the troops went The Pentagon boasts that Secretary dent perspective." forward in Afghanistan last year, the of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has Battlefield access seems to be the chief media were left behind. No open cover- held more than 100 press briefings since 9/11. But reporters still concern of the media, especially with the age. No pools. complain. The briefings are prospect of another war with Iraq domi- The pool is at best a second choice, says "wonderful bits of theater," says nating the national debate days. New York Daily News' Tom these Thompson, "but if it's between second deFrank, "but they don't give you "I sympathize with their concern for choice and zero, second choice wins. We much information." operational security," says Fox News thought the pool would be used exten- Washington Bureau Chief Kim Hume, sively in this conflict." who has attended numerous meetings The powers that be thought otherwise. "If between Pentagon officials and Washing- we had a war that was traditional," Secretary paigns at Mazar -e Sharif and Tora Bora ton bureau chiefs. But she says the Penta- of Defense Donald Rumsfeld explained, "if were "unobserved and off -stage," in the gon uses the security issue as an excuse to we were engaging a country directly across a words of Washington Post Pentagon corre- "overstep, whether they mean to or not. front of some kind, we would do what you spondent Tom Ricks. "They were very good about putting said, and we would just take out the old rub- Journalists and their advocates say their people on ships. But we felt stymied in our ber stamp and say okay, cool, all the rules efforts to continue the story of 9/11 over ability to tell the American people what apply, everything's the same, go." the past 12 months have been frustrated by was going on with Special Forces on the Adds Deputy Assistant Secretary of a federal government that was devoted to ground. The meetings with the Pentagon Defense Bryan Whitman, a spokesman for secrecy even before the attacks. were designed as a give -and -take. But in the Pentagon, "It is very much a clandestine For months, concern over terrorism kept the end, we never got into Uzbekistan." war. It's not a typical battlefield, as many news choppers grounded by the Federal After Sept. 11, says Freedom Forum reporters are accustomed to. It takes a lot of Aviation Administration, hampering even First Amendment Ombudsman Paul innovative approaches. We took some mundane traffic reporting. Access to immi- McMasters, the administration and the unprecedented steps in embedding news gration and deportation hearings and to public sent "stern messages that not just media on actual operations," although, he prisoners of war was closed, materials from America but reporting had entered a new acknowledges, not as early or as often as several federal agencies were taken from era. That new era meant new rules on how many in the media would have liked. public view, and the government wants to far the press should go and how aggressive In special operations, Whitman says, keep the trials of suspected terrorists secret. it should be in covering the war on terror- "the element of surprise is probably more Proposed Homeland Security legislation ism." McMasters includes in his analysis critical than in previous times." would expand exemptions from disclosure the October phone call from National Frank Sesno, a professor of public policy under the Freedom of Information Act. Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to net- and communications at George Mason Uni- Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the work heads advising them on their use of versity in Virginia and CNN's Washington Reporters Committee for Freedom of the videotapes from Osama bin Laden. bureau chief in the early days of the conflict,

9 -9-02 I Broadcasting & Cable 117 COVER'S TORY concedes that the Pentagon has a point. and an ongoing problem," he says. Tele- Gulf War. There are, she says, exceptions, "This is not the kind of war where there are vision now has the technology (and the like Special Forces operations, which re- divisions moving slowly and methodically channels) to cover wars instantaneously. quire extreme secrecy for security. across a battlefield, [and reporters are] filing "That's the conflict." War coverage will not be the same as it dispatches from the front. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Pub- was 10 or 20 years ago, just as "the cover- "Technology enables us to embed or lic Affairs Victoria Clarke contends that the age of a football game is not going to be incorporate reporting on the ground or as Pentagon follows a presumption of inclu- the same as the coverage of a baseball close to the action as possible," he ex- sion when it comes to combat and still sup- game," she says. "It's a different game." plains. "This will be an ongoing dispute ports the guidelines agreed to during the Clarke, who gets good grades from

FROM THE TRENCHES

'Where war is most visible'

Editor's note: In the course of reporting sides of the equation. Because Joe Galloway of poor planning, paranoia and covered the on media- military relations in the post - over -control, the details of a Vietnam War 1996 9/11 world, we came across a great victory of American arms for UPI. speech delivered by Joe Galloway to offi- were virtually lost to history.... r+- ?--. cers at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. In it, The only thing the Pentagon he argues that the military commanders had to hide in the Gulf was the ought to allow reporters to accompany finest military force this country has ever put into the troops in the field. His appeal is born field, and it did that very from hard experience as a front-line war efficiently. correspondent for more than 30 years. In November 1965, in Vietnam, while A generation of officers emerged from that searing, bit- UPI, working for Galloway went into ter, orphaned [Vietnam) war combat with an infantry battalion that looking for someone to blame soon found itself surrounded and in a for the failures manifest in our desperate fight. Galloway survived to tell nation's defeat in Vietnam. Many chose to blame the media: the story of la Drang Valley in a book, Walter Cronkite lost the war; We Were Soldiers Once, and Young and Dan Rather lost the war; Peter a 2002 movie We Were Soldiers. Both Arnett lost the war. By choosing were co- authored by Harold Moore, who the easy way out, they obviated had commanded the battalion and who the painful need to carefully examine the root causes of our is now a retired lieutenant general. failure to win.... How much eas- After retiring from U.S. News & World ier it was to simply shoot the Report last year, Galloway spent 10 messengers. months as an adviser to Secretary of Someday, some of you in this State Colin Powell. He now does some room will wear stars and carry freelance work and speaks to military the heavy responsibility of high groups about media relations. command. Inevitably, the day Galloway tells us the 1996 speech still will come when you must lead reflects his thinking. Some excerpts: your young lieutenants and cap- tains into the horror that is war. When that day comes, or in the comes, I will confess, right up front, put a spin on the truth. Those in the outside world cares about days before it the phone likely ring and some public that I am partial to the infantry; for whom death waits around him and how he lives and dies; will always have been. Some might the next bend or across the needed for the simple reason affairs puke will be on the line find that puzzling if not next rice paddy have no time that an infantry company or pla- asking you how many media perverse; that a civilian reporter, and little taste for the games toon in combat always needs pukes you want to take with given a choice, would choose that are played with such relish another set of hands to carry you. the hardest and least glamorous in the rear. No one ever lied to ammo or haul water to the When that day comes, the part of any war as the part he me within the sound of the wounded or to pick up a rifle right answer is: "yes sir, yes sir, wishes to cover. guns. when the chips are really down. I'll take three bags full, but send me the brightest and best ones

There, in the mud, is where There, at the cutting edge of When I look back at the you have." Then farm them out war is most visible and easiest war, you find yourself welcomed military/media experience in with your lieutenants and understood. There, no one will and needed -welcomed by the the Gulf War, it is with sadness captains and let them go to war lie to you; no one will try to soldier as a token that someone for lost opportunities on both together.

18 I Broadcasting & Cable I 9 -9 -02 Carole Black has a knack for understanding viewers. Whether she's pitching Disney cartoons, managing a big -city TV station

or overseeing a national cable network, Black's marketing iï know how has people tuning in.

Since taking over in 1999 as president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services, Black's leadership has resulted in Lifetime Television's emergence as the number-one cable channel in prime time.

It's all about listening, says Black. For a network to succeed, CAROLE BLACK you have to listen to what the viewer wants, know what they are thinking about and what they are interested in. Then you have to deliver on that."

Black has delivered by increasing original programming and boosting the network's marketing campaigns. Furthermore, Lifetime's outreach activities concerning breast cancer awareness and those aimed at stopping violence against women, among others, are an essential element of the brand- ing initiative Black has established. 127,4 ANNUAL

Her career is filled with examples of her ability to build a brand and successfully market it. As senior vice president of market- HALL ing for Disney's television production unit from 1988 to 1994, Black was instrumental in the launch of the Disney Afternoon OF first -run programming block. She left Disney to successfully run KNBC(TV) Los Angeles. FAME With Black at the helm, Lifetime will continue to "entertain and inform women." The channel's commitment to public advocacy Peter Barton will also remain strong. Women will stick with Lifetime, she Carole Black says, as long as you have interest their best at heart." Katharine Graham Kelsey Grammer Eddy Hartenstein BROADCASTINOIçABLE Don Imus HALL OF FAME November 11, 2002 Broadway Ballroom, New York Marriott Marquis Robert M iron To purchase single tickets or tables contact: Lowell Paxson

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Washington bureau chiefs for promoting a answers to our questions. Because re- ries release until forces are out of danger. dialogue on access, adds that the press has porters were out on ships doesn't mean "After Vietnam, they decided there been given "unprecedented access to senior reporters had access to what was a historic would be no more unfettered access," Mar- leadership in this Department of Defense." or precedent- setting ground campaign tin says. "That's the bad news. "The good The Pentagon has numbers at the ready. using American Special Forces." news is that they decided they were not Between Sept. 11 and early August, it says, Rumsfeld's briefings, New York Daily going to lie anymore. it responded to 42,000 media inquiries, News Washington Bureau Chief Tom "And I don't think they deliberately lie," allowed more than 5,000 visits to military deFrank agrees, "are wonderful bits of the- he adds. "They may spin it, but they won't facilities, gave 1,500 interviews and held ater, but they don't give you much infor- lie." more than 225 press briefings -including mation." RCFP's Dalglish would like to see net- more than 100 with Rumsfeld. Part of the problem is trust or lack of it, works protesting more loudy about their lack of access and the government's stingi- ness with information. LEADING THE CHARGE But CNN's Kathryn Cross, who replaced Sesno as Washington bureau chief, says the media has to pick its fights, "given the amount of territory we cover every day and the number of things com- peting for our attention. Did we get used to a lower level of access in the Gulf War? I don't think you'd get much disagreement that that war represented a very changed playing field." Given the apprehension that has taken hold of the nation since 9/11, journalists and their advocates seem painfully aware that the public will side with the govern- ment's security forces should they clash over access or other issues. Two of the champions in the media's on -going fight for access are Lucy Dalglish (I), A survey by the Freedom Forum re-

for Freedom Press , and executive director of the Reporters Committee of the leased only last week showed that nearly Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio -Television News Directors Association. In the post -9/11 world, the government's efforts to control news extends far beyond the half of respondents felt that the media had battlefield. Cochran concurs. "This is too important a story to wait for the handout." been too aggressive in seeking information from the government. "The public is willing to put up with al- "We've had teleconferences with leaders in says one Pentagon source. The military most anything in order to feel safer," says the field, with soldiers on military operations may be willing to grant more access to a Fox News' Carl Cameron. from Afghanistan," says Whitman. "During reporter who's known and trusted. But, the Time correspondent Thompson says the first night strikes, we had 39 journalists source says, "a situation like 9/11 brings that the post- Vietnam shift in public opin- from 26 news organizations on ships. There out a proliferation of reporters who are not ion became clear to him back in 1991 dur- were 100 reporters on the flight lines when as knowledgeable on military affairs." ing the Gulf War, when Saturday Night the first C -17s returned from dropping Journalists say they have a good track Live chose the media over the military to humanitarian rations in Afghanistan. And record when it comes to protecting the satirize, lampooning a perceived insatiable we've had journalists accompany troops in the safety of operations, and they point out desire for information, whether classified field. We've done a lot." that allowing them to go out with the or dangerous to that war effort. John McWethy, national security corre- troops raises the ante. "One of the best Nonetheless, it's vital, says Janet Leiss- spondent for ABC News, has heard it all ways to keep operations secure," suggests ner, CBS News Washington bureau chief, before. "They will tell you they provide CNN's Washington Bureau Chief Kathryn "to give the public accurate information, broad and important access. They will trot Kross, "is to invite the reporters along." especially when it has come to depend on out statistics -that this Secretary spent And, CBS's military correspondent us more than ever before." more time in front of the press corps than David Martin points out, experienced And should issues of access arise again - any secretary in history, that American reporters know how to handle themselves say, in Iraq -Leissnet adds: "I would hope reporters were on the ships that were even on tricky operations and are responsi- there's been some trust developed over this launching strikes. But because the Secre- ble for their own safety. Reporters can year. I would hope that, as opposed to start- tary of Defense frequently comes before agree to keep their satellite phones at home ing all over again, we would build on what reporters doesn't mean he's providing while they travel with troops and delay sto- we've already done together."

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Ideal, not idle summer for Fox

American Idol turned into covering Texan Kelly Clarkson's win. Run- American Idol also demonstrated how a surprising smash hit; now ner-up Justin Guarini appeared on NBC successful product placement can be. Coca - here come the copycats Today show last Thursday, and Clarkson Cola and Ford are both "extremely happy gave a live concert to Today viewers and with how they were integrated into the By Paige Albiniak Rockefeller Center visitors on Friday. show," Frot -Coutaz said. Wit more than one -fifth of Ameri- The format, imported from Great Brit- The voting -by -phone aspect proved can households tuning in to the ain (where the show was called Pop Idol), popular, with more than 100 million votes Ì finale American Idol last Wednes- caught Americans' attention, perhaps be- by the time the show wrapped. That's day, Fox's summer blockbuster garnered cause it was summer and there wasn't more votes than were cast in the last U.S. the biggest audience share the network has much else to look at. "Based on the expe- presidential election, Cohen pointed out. ever had in the 18-49 demographic. rience in the U.K., we hoped it would be a Idol's success guarantees copycats. CBS Although the show was intended for the strong summer series for us," said Fox plans a new version of Star Search, Ed young audiences Fox prefers, the last epi- spokesman Scott Grogin, "but there was McMahon's talent show that ran from sode dominated the 8 -10 p.m. ET time slot no way anyone could expect the type of 1983 to 1995. It's the show most likely to with a whopping 12.5 rating/21 share in response that we got." have inspired Idol's U.K. producers, so it's

Voting on American Ida( surpassed that of the last U.S. presidential election. households. It was first in all the key Niel- The show's producers don't intend to let hard to say which show is copying which, sen Media Research categories as well- the American public forget and plan Amer- but Idol's success suggests Star Search even adults 50 -plus, though tied with CBS ican Idol 11 for first quarter 2003. Auditions could find a big, new audience. in that demo. Not only was that good news will start soon in cities nationwide, said USA Network plans Nashville Star, with for Fox, but the show gave a summer -long executive producer Cecile Frot -Coutaz. budding singer /songwriters competing for platform for promoting Fox's fall season, The show may see some changes, she said, a recording deal with Universal Records, a which could use the buzz. including more emphasis on the competi- corporate cousin of the cable network.

Wednesday's finale was Fox's second - tors' personal lives and possibly the addi- Details on contestants' personal lives and highest -rated entertainment program in tion of a fourth judge to the current roster aspirations will be woven into the show. total viewers and in adults 18-49 but was of Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Amer- Unlike American Idol's, the winner will unable to topple its champ, the finale of ica's favorite villain, Simon Cowell. be selected by judges with some fan partic- Beverly Hills 90210 on May 25, 1994. FremantleMedia CEO Tony Cohen ipation. Nashville Star, slated to air the first Sporting events, such as the Super Bowl, noted that the show already has been done half of 2003, is a collaboration of three also have outstripped Idol's performance. to great acclaim in the South Africa and Universal properties: USA Network, Uni-

Still, the show was a summer phenom, Poland and Fremantle plans to introduce it versal Music Group and Reveille, a USA - with all the network morning news shows soon in Germany and Belgium. backed production company.

22 Broadcasting & Cable /9 -9 -02 Programming SyndicationWatch AUG. 19 -25 Syndicated programming ratings according to Nielsen Media Research

TOP 20 SHOWS 18-49 Rank/Program AA GAA Off to a strong start 1 Friends 4.8 5.6 2 Seinfeld 4.0 4.3 This season's first three syndicated 3 Everybody Loves Raymond 3.3 3.6 shows turned in strong numbers, 4 Seinfeld (wknd) 2.8 3.1 The 5 King of the Hill 2.3 2.6 but whether Wayne Brady Show, 5 Entertainment Tonight 2.3 2.3 The Caroline Rhea Show and 7 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.2 2.2 Celebrity Justice can maintain the 8 Wheel of Fortune 2.0 NA momentum is the next chapter. 8 Home Improvement 2.0 2.3 Competition is coming. The next 10 Frasier 1.9 2.0 10 Friends (wknd) 1.9 1.9 two weeks will see the debut of 12 Jeopardy 1.8 NA eight more syndie shows, and the 13 Judge Judy 1.8 2.4 money is on Oprah protégé and 14 Everybody Loves Raymond (wknd) 1.7 NA best -selling author Dr. Phil McGraw 14 Just Shoot Me (wknd) 1.7 2.1 16 Jerry Springer 1.6 1.7 to be the next star of daytime TV. 16 Stargate SG -1 1.6 1.7 For the week, Brady averaged a 18 Cops 1.5 2.0 2.7 rating /8 share, Rhea earned a 18 Just Shoot Me 1.5 1.7 1.4/4 and Celebrity Justice a 1.1/3. 18 Maury 1.5 1.6 The Wayne Brady Show broke out of the starting Brady has the best time periods 18 The X -Files 1.5 1.6 - gate with guests like Richard Simmons and a 2.7 22 Mutant X 1.4 1.4 following either Live With Regis & rating/8 share. 23 Judge Joe Brown 1.3 1.7 Kelly or General Hospital in many big 23 Extra 1.3 1.4 markets -but is cleared in the fewest markets, a strategic choice Buena Vista 23 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.3 1.4 Television executives say they made to get Brady into better time slots based on his 23 Drew Carey 1.3 1.4 23 Entertainment Tonight (wknd) 1.3 1.3 strength elsewhere. Brady is cleared in 55% of the country and in 21 metered markets. 23 Maximum Exposure 1.3 1.3 Buena Vista is "optimistic" about Bradys success, said Lloyd Kosamer, BVT's senior 23 3rd Rock From the Sun 1.3 1.3 vice president of research. "We are really pleased with our ability to hold the lead -in and our ability to stack up against last October's time periods." (Syndicators are TOP ACTION HOURS comparing their show's ratings this September with last October because of 9/11.) 18 -49 Rank /Program AA GM BVT wants Brady to replace The Rosie O'Donnell Show. Warner Bros. Domestic

1 Stargate SG -1 1.6 1.7 Television, which distributed Rosie, considers Rhea the heir apparent, although, in the 2 X -Files The 1.5 1.6 top 10 markets, Rhea is airing after midnight, to a much smaller audience. It is cleared 3 Mutant X 1.4 1.4 in 52 metered markets and in much of the country. 4 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1.3 1.4 4 Maximum Exposure 1.3 1.3 Celebrity Justice "has the most difficult time periods of all," says one analyst, mostly late fringe and late night. Warner Bros. hopes for a loyal following for its celebs-on -trial show. According to Nielsen Media Research Syndication Service Ranking Report Aug. 19 -25. 2002 Coming syndicated bows include this week's We the Jury and The John Walsh Show 18 -49 Adult 18 -49 - and next week's Beyond With James Van Praagh, Dr. Phil, The Rob Nelson Show, Pyramid AA - Average Audience Rating GAA = Gross Aggregate Average and the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. One Nielsen rating - 1,008,000 households, which rep- Dr. Phil already has a strong following from his Tuesday appearances on Oprah, points out resents 1% of the 100.8 million IV Households in the one analyst, who says Oprah's ratings are highest when Dr. Phil appears. -Paige Albiniak United States NA - not available

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WPIX'S CRAWL SCOOP at a local hospital and Sunrt.ay a:414 The story of Andrus released, suffering from cuts ,, «,: Cuomo's withdrawal from the 1, :,_ TC)tÿt.t and bruises-including a gash race for his dad's old job as on her head -and badly governor of New York was shaken. High 82" broken via crawl at the A $5,000 reward Low 68" - bottom of WPIX(TV) New believed to be funded by the York's airing of Maury KYW5S1O60 i station, although KDKA -TV Tuesday morning. would not confirm that-was Veteran reporter Marvin NEWS: A trash truck spill closes NB 1 -76 offered for the capture of her Scott says he got a call at attacker. According to riCME7 Wed Aug 28 7:04 AM 73° home from a high -level Demo- KDKA -TV, the man had crat operative that, after asked Berecky for change and marathon negotiations Media convergence attacked her from behind between party officials and the after she showed him a former Clinton cabinet mem- KYW(AM) Philadelphia Newsradió s Beth Trapani will anchor local change machine. She said her ber, Cuomo had agreed to morning headline newscast UPN57 Headline Service, which debuted attacker continued to beat last week on Viacom -owned WPSG(TV). bow out and throw his her after she pleaded and support behind state offered her purse. No arrests Comptroller H. Carl McCall. ing show targeting a younger hired Mark F. Lund, who was had been made late last week. Scott said he called the story audience and produced out of sales manager at Viacom - in to his newsroom as well as WBDT(TV) Dayton, Ohio. owned WBZ -TV and WSBK- KNTV EXPANDS NEWS to his station's Webmaster The Daily Buzz will be TV, both Boston, as vice presi- Joining other NBC stations, since WPIX had already overseen by executive dent of sales for flagship KNTV(TV) San Francisco - finished its local morning producer Robin Radin, WNBC(TV) New York. He Oakland -San Jose will expand show and wouldn't have news formerly with Fox 11 Morning replaces Lew Leone, who its morning news block next until 10 that evening. News at KTTV(TV) Los went over to the Viacom week, adding an hour Other stations reported the Angeles. The show will group with former WNBC newscast at 10 a.m. after the story throughout the day, include national and interna- General Manager Dennis Today show and dropping its including WNBC(TV), which tional news from CNN Swanson to become general noon newscast. continued to run ads for the Newsource and will be manager for flagship station Vice President for News Cuomo campaign in both its 6 anchored by Los Angeles WCBS -TV. Lund will also Jim Sanders notes that the sta- and 11 p.m. news because transplants Ron Corning and oversee sales at newly tion is giving up a newscast in notice of cancellation came Andrea Jackson, with Peggy acquired Telemundo station a competitive slot for one that too late to pull them. Bunker reporting and Mitch WNJU(TV) New York and has no competition and has a Tribune-owned WPIX English doing weather. report to WNBC GM Frank news lead -in. "We have the plans to add an hour to its Acme says The Daily Buzz Comerford, who replaced chance to give a fresh, local WB11 Morning News will roll out in the Acme mar- Swanson. update to a news- viewing beginning Monday, Sept. 23, kets exclusively but other sta- audience coming out of a net- using the same on -air news tions and groups have REPORTER ATTACKED work news program." KNTV team. Executive producer for indicated interest and the KDKA -TV Pittsburgh also plans to add a half -hour the new hour will be Lauren show could be syndicated. reporter Mary Berecky was 5 p.m. newscast on Saturdays Petterson. attacked last week while vacu- and Sundays. TURNABOUT'S FAIR PLAY uming her car at a self -service THE BUZZ ON THE BUZZ You give some, you get some. car wash and beaten with All news is local. Contact Dan The Acme group's 10 TV sta- NBC's station group, which what was believed to be a Trigoboffat (301) 260 -0923, tions have set Sept. 16 for the has lost considerable talent to pipe or a club. The station e -mail dtrig @reedbusiness.com debut of the three -hour morn- the Viacom group, recently reported that she was treated or fax (413) 254 -4133.

24 Broadcasting & Cable /9-9 -02 Programming FocusMedford -Klamath Falls

THE MARKET Satellite stations and translators help DMA rank 141 stations cover the geographically huge Medford- Klamath Falls, Ore., Population 407,000 TV homes 158,000 Income per capita $14,404 TV revenue rank 156 TV revenue $14,600,000 COMMERCIAL TV STATIONS Rank* Ch. Affil. Owner

1 KDRV(TV) 12 ABC Chambers Comm.

2 KOBIÇTV) 5 NBC Calif. Oregon Bcst.

3 KTVL(TV) 10 CBS Freedom Comm. 4 KMVU(TV) 26 Fox Northwest Bcst. Viewers are few, far between Mon. -Sun. 7 a.m. -I a.m. May 2002 Nielsen Station Index With a little over 400,000 people, Medford -Klamath Falls, Ore., isn't the most popu- CABLE /DBS lous market in the country. Geographically speaking, though, it's huge, covering some 50,000 square miles. Two of the four stations in the market have satellite sta- Cable subscribers (HH) 98,592 tions, and all four have numerous translators to assist in covering the market. Cable penetration 62.4% And you'd be surprised at the size of their engineering staffs. NBC affiliate KOBI, ADS subscribers (HH) ** 39,000 for example, has a dozen engineers to maintain the main station in Medford, a ADS penetration 24.7% satellite in Klamath Falls, and 44 translators. The market doesn't yet have local carriage by DBS operators, which is an issue for DBS carriage of local TV? No the broadcasters. KDRV General Manager Renard Maiuri says the market lost a county Alternative Delivery Systems, includes DBS and other non -cable services, according to Nielsen Media Research and dropped one place in the Nielsen market rankings, largely because of out -of- market viewing. He won't take advertising from DBS operators, which have tried to buy ads. WHAT'S NO. 1 Station executives say the ad market is holding its own and didn't suffer as terri- bly as many did during last year's recession. "We went through some bad times ear- Syndicated show Rating /Share * ** lier when the timber industry phased out" roughly a decade ago, says Maiuri. Jeopardy (KDRV) 12/24 The market's big industry, and one of its two biggest ad categories, is health care. Network show The other is autos. There's also a fair amount of tourism. And, for a 100 -plus mar- Survivor (KTVL) 21/35 ket, Medford -Klamath Falls has a sizable chunk of national spot business. About 45 °4 Evening newscast of KOBI's business is national, 55 °/D local, according to General Manager John Larkin. KDRV 12/31 As of now, there's no UPN affiliate in the market, but MSO Charter airs The WB on Late newscast one of its channels, and KDRV sells the ad time. Charter and KDRV are in retransmis- KDRV 5/24 sion- consent talks, and one point of negotiation is moving the WB signal from an May 2002 NSI report (total DMA) expanded basic tier to the more universal basic tier, says Maiuri. Sources: Nielsen Media Research, BIA Research Celebrating its 50th anniversary next year, KOBI is owned by the Smullen family, the second -oldest family broadcaster in the U.S., says Larkin. -Steve McClellan

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The greening of the MMTC

Minority Media sion of its TV holdings with the $775 mil- five sales resulting from the Viacom /CBS Telecommunications broker lion purchase of Ackerley. MMTC pro- merger and 40 sales to nine minority owners turns public- interest profit vided persuasive evidence cited by the resulting from the Clear ChanneVAMFM FCC when it granted Clear Channel a year merger spinoffs in 2000 and 2001. The By Bill McConnell to divest stations in five markets. Although largest was the $400 million transfer of When Rep. John Conyers (D -N.Y.) other advocacy groups complained that KKBT(FM) Los Angeles to RadioOne. takes the stage Tuesday before the Clear Channel was stalling in hopes that The Clear Channel/AMFM spinoffs

annual Washington meeting of the ownership rules would be lifted, MMTC alone boosted the number of minority - Black Broadcasters Alliance, he is expected Executive Director David Honig told the owned stations 26 %, Honig said. His com- to inveigh against media consolidation and pensation also rose, from $41,125 in 1998 to the resulting loss of stations owned by $105,000 in 2000, according to IRS filings. Though opposing African- Americans. Many black owners of his brokerage He opposes clients' efforts to relax owner- broadcast properties, though, are much clients' efforts to ship limits further but says there's no reason relax ownership more ambivalent about consolidation. limits further, not to make the best of a regulatory climate. Although the number of stations owned MMTC's David "We've shown you can disagree on a matter Honig says, by African- Americans has dropped 26% "We've shown of policy and still work with each other." since the deregulatory 1996 Telecommuni- you can disagree He has left some of the fight against con- on a matter of cations Act spurred a conglomerate buying policy and still solidation to others. When Sen. Russ Fein - work with each legislation spree, scores of black owners benefited, other." gold (D -Wis.) in June unveiled cashing out of their businesses after years aimed at curtailing abusive business prac- of hard work and investment. tices allegedly practiced by Clear Channel Nothing typifies the conflicted sentiments FCC extra time would give minority buy- and rolling back ownership deregulation, more than the brokering business launched ers a better shot at securing capital. standing beside him was James Winston, by the Minority Media Telecommunications Honig laments the consolidation wave executive director of the National Associa- Council, a Washington advocacy group that and the impact on minority station owner- tion of Black Owned Broadcasters (which lobbies the FCC to increase opportunities for ship. But until the law changes, he says, the also holds its Washington conference this minority owners and employees. MMTC has traditionally fought for 'The brokerage business is a legitimate way to fulfill stronger EEO rules, lobbied Congress to reinstate tax breaks for firms that sell to MMTC's mission of getting broadcast stations into the minority buyers, challenged mergers and hands of minorities.' -Andrew Schwartzman, Media Access Project offered legal representation for Jesse Jack- son's Rainbow/PUSH coalition on media issues. But, in the past four years, it has best source of minority ownership is big week), and Andrew Schwartzman, presi- entered a new line: brokering station spin- conglomerates willing to give minority buy- dent of Media Access Project. offs by large broadcast conglomerates to win ers a chance at buying their stations. "Lowry Privately, some public advocates question government approval for megamergers. Mays of Clear Channel and Mel Karmazin whether the brokerage business has made Entering the brokerage business has put at Infinity have bent over backwards to Honig less likely to fight mergers, but both MMTC in the odd position of sometimes make sure minorities are taken seriously." Winston and Schwartzman say he needs siding with giants accused of crowding Since setting up a for -profit brokering offer no apologies for making the best of a minorities out. The country's two largest business in 1998, MMTC has earned more bad situation. "The brokerage business is a radio groups, Clear Channel and Viacom's than $2 million brokering deals from the legitimate way," Schwartzman said, "to ful- Infinity Radio, have been its biggest clients. two companies. Charging commissions far fill MMTC's mission of getting broadcast MMTC backed Clear Channel's expan- lower than traditional brokers', it handled stations into the hands of minorities."

26 Broadcasting & Cable /9 -9 -02 ChangingHands

Combos unas, KOSZ -FM Rio Rancho, and KKSS- AMs KTRR -FM Loveland, NEW FM(CP) Wel- M and KRQS FM S.ant.i Fe KFIG(AM) Fresno, Calif. lington and KUAD -FM Windsor (Ft Col- ;uquerque), all N.M. Price: $2 million lins- Greeley), all Colo.; WKDQ -FM Hen- rice: $22.5 million Buyer. Radio Central LLC (Elihu Harris, derson (Evansville), WOMI(AM) and uyer. Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. member); no other broadcast interests WBKR -FM Owensboro, all Ky.; McHenry Tichenor Jr., president/CEO); Sellen Big Dawg Broadcasting (Mike WEBC(AM), KKCB -FM and KLDJ -FM wns 55 other stations, none in this mar - Munoz, LLC member) Duluth, and KBMX -FM Proctor (Duluth), et; sale of HBC to Univision is pending Facilities: 1430 kHz, 5 kW all Minn.; WIOV -FM Ephrata (Lancaster) eller. Simmons Media Group Inc. Format: Sports and WIOV(AM) Reading, Pa. Craig Hanson, president) WCCS(AM) Homer City, Pa. Price: $62 million adlities: KKRG-FM: 101.3 MHz, 4 Price: $650,000 Buyer: Regent Communications Inc. W, ant. 420 ft.; KIOT-FM: 102.5 MHz, Buyer. Renda Broadcasting Corp. (Terry Jacobs, chairman/CEO); owns 61 7 kW, ant. 4,160 ft.; KOSZ -FM: 101.7 (Anthony E. Renda, president); owns 18 other stations, none in this market Hz, 6 kW, ant. 112 ft.; KKSS -FM: 97.3 other stations, none in this market Seller. Brill Media Co. (Alan R. Brill, z, 100 kW, ant. 1,877 ft.; KRQS -FM: Sellen Raymark Broadcasting Co. (Mark president) 05.1 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 1,936 ft. E. Harley, president) Fadlitles: KTRR -FM: 102.5 MHz, 50 kW, rmat KKRG -FM: Country; KIOT -FM: Facilities: 1160 kHz, 10 kW day /1 kW ant. 410 ft.; NEW 94.3 MHz, 9 kW, ant. lassic Hits; KOSZ -FM: AC; KKSS -FM: night 551 ft.; 'WAD-FM: 99.1 MHz, 100 kW, HR/Top 40; KRQS -FM: Smooth Jazz Format: Full Service ant. 837 ft.; WKDQ -FM: 99.5 MHz, 100 raker. Peter Handy, Star Media Group WGHB(AM) Farmville (Greenville -New kW, ant. 984 ft.; WOMI(AM): 1490 kHz, TR -FM Otis, Colo. Bern -Jacksonville), N.C. 830 W; WBKR -FM: 92.5 MHz, % kW, ant. rice: $700,000 Price: $505,000 1,001 ft.; WEBC(AM): 560 kHz, 5 kW; Buyer. Ronald W. Benfield; owns six KKCB-FM: 105.1 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 791 son, general manager); no other broad- other stations, including WJNC(AM), ft.; KLDJ -FM: 101.7 MHz, 19 kW, ant. 824 cast interests WSTK(AM), WFPF -FM and WRUP- ft.; KBMX-FM: 107.7 MHz, 8 kW, ant. 912 Seller: New Directions Media (Robert FM Greenville -New Bem-Jacksonville ft.; WIOV-FM: 105.1 MHz, 11 kW day, D. Zellmer Sr., president) Sellen Rivercity Radio Inc. (Frank 1,017 ft.; WIOV(AM): 1240 kHz, 1 kW Facilities: 98.3 MHz, 100 kW, ant. 554 ft. Canale, president) Format KTRR -FM: AC; NEW: cp NOA; Format: Country Facilities: 1250 kHz, 5 kW day/3 kW KUAD -FM: Country; WKDQ -FM: WSFU -FM Union Springs, Ala. night Country; WOMI(AM): Full Service; Price: $450,000 Format: Sports WBKR-FM: Country; WEBC(AM): Talk; Buyer. H &H Communications LLC Broker: Tom Snowden and Zoph Potts KKCB -FM: Country; KLDJ -FM: Oldies; (Fred R. Hughey, member); no other of Snowden Associates KBMX -FM: Modem AC; WIOV-FM: broadcast interests Country; WIOV(AM): Sports Sellen Willis Broadcasting Corp. (Levi -Information provided by E. Willis, president) BIA Financial Networks' FMs Facilities: 94.1 MHz, 3 kW, ant. 266 ft. Media Access Pro, KKRG -FM Albuquerque, KIOT -FM Los Format: Gospel Chantilly, Va. www.bia.com

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Jersey likely site of NYC tower

Garden State has open arms site, privately owned while Mayor Bloomberg land with a warehouse. The third option seems is less than enthusiastic the most likely; the first is said to be all By Ken Kerschbaumer but off the table; the When the Metropolitan Television second is tricky be- Alliance (MTVA) began the cause of wetlands, process of finding a new home which could spur ob- for a television tower in the New York City jections from the state area last September, the hope was for a site government and envi- to be selected by this Sept. 11. That won't ronmentalists. Negoti- be happening. But broadcasters may have The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., is one possible ations on a lease on a new transmission home within two location for a new transmission tower for New York City broadcasters. the third site are pro- months. And it may be in New Jersey. ceeding. "We've received terrific cooperation adding, "New York has made it obvious Why has Jersey City been more aggressive from New Jersey, and we've received less that they're caught up in other stuff and than New York City in lobbying for the cooperation from New York City," says they don't want to deal with a tower." tower? A spokesperson for the Jersey City MTVA President Ed Grebow. "We're nar- The two main contenders are Governors Economic Development Corp. says simply, rowing down potential sites and hope to Island or one of three sites in Jersey City, NJ. "We want it "- especially if the tower in- start construction for a tower soon." From the start, Governors Island seemed the cludes a restaurant or observation deck. MTVA continues to move forward with logical choice, given its location off southern Jersey City and Governors Island are the selection process, he says. "If we can Manhattan and the impending return of the most practical options. Waiting for the World Trade Center rebuilding would take until 2007 or '08. 'Big projects in New York are always difficult, and, "Big projects in New York are always because of the emotions sur- because of the emotions surrounding anything to do difficult, and, rounding anything to do with the World with the World Trade Center, rebuilding is a very Trade Center, rebuilding is a very difficult difficult process: -Ed Grebow, Metropolitan Television Alliance process," says Grebow. "We do believe, if we could wait, broadcasters could return to whatever gets built on the World Trade find an appropriate site in New Jersey, that rights from the federal government to New Center site. But, unfortunately, that's many, may be the easiest thing to do." York City. Early efforts to gain support within many years from now." An "appropriate site" at this point New York City government, particularly from It will take about two years to get the seems to be somewhere in the vicinity of Mayor Bloomberg, proved difficult. Even tower up once the site is selected. Govern- Jersey City and the Liberty Science Center. Grebow, who headed the Ed Sullivan Theater ment approvals, a design and then the con- "We're enthusiastic about it, but we're conversion into David Letterman's studio, has struction phase are still to be completed. waiting to hear the final word," says Eliza- had difficulty getting traction. "Viewers are being driven to cable," beth Romanaux, Liberty Science Center vice The Jersey City options include a site says Grebow. "We're doing interim im- president of advertising and communica- owned by Aramenis Utilities Authority, provements at the Empire State Building tions. "I haven't heard anything in a while." where the Jersey City car pound is located; so that the coverage is getting better all the She echoes Grebow's comments about a piece of property just north of the Lib- time, but it will never duplicate what we the difficulties of dealing with New York, erty Science Center; and, just north of that had at the World Trade Center."

28 Broadcasting & Cable /9 -9 -02 Technology

Windows Media filtering also helps with At next year's NAB show, Tandberg expects to introduce an encoder that will do for the quality. "For example, when the encod- Windows Media 9 what the company's other ing runs out of steam, it looks okay be- products do for MPEG video formats. cause the block size is smaller," he ex- plains. "So if there's a problem, it doesn't look nearly as bad as losing an MPEG block, which is bigger." The most obvious market segment that would find the product attractive would be DSL providers looking to offer VOD and IP -based video services. But terrestrial and even cable operators could find the tech-

nology useful in adding additional "side - band" content via IP. "With DSL, performance is a critical point because the reach from an exchange to customers is dependent on the bit rate," Microsoft broadens says Sheppard. "Lower bit rate means greater reach." The low -end threshold with content its streaming vision encoded with MPEG -4 has tended to be around about 3.5 Mb /s. Above that, con- Tandberg developing encoder for Microsoft Windows Media 9 tent providers are happy with the quality. With Windows Media, that threshold can By Ken Kerschbaumer things have moved along, the actual per- be reduced, according to Sheppard.

Streaming media is ready for its formance in 1 to 3 Mb /s is significantly Tandberg will demonstrate the technol- broadcast close -up. Microsoft's re- better than what you typically get." ogy at the International Broadcasting Con- cently released Windows Media 9 Sheppard adds that encoding improve- vention in Amsterdam beginning Sept. 13, format attains DVD and CD quality, and ments to MPEG -2 have slowed down. But although that will be only a simulation the company is working on a joint project streaming formats, like Windows Media 9, based on a PC. The end product, which with TV- broadcast -equipment manufac- continue to make gains. More important, Sheppard hopes will be ready for a public turer Tandberg. Consider it the first attack unveiling by next April's NAB convention, in a marketplace dominated by formats is expected to be shipping in third quarter like MPEG -2 and MPEG -4. 'As long as you can put an 2003 and will cost around $18,000 and up, Tim Sheppard, director of strategic IP stream into an existing depending on capabilities. development, Tandberg Television, says the One aspect that is attractive to potential two companies began discussions six broadcast, then you can users of Windows Media is that, as con- months ago on a product that would bring include content encoded sumer devices begin to incorporate Win- the streaming format into a form factor dows Media playback, reliance on set -top in Windows Media. that is identical to that of traditional broad- boxes for delivering services is reduced. A cast video encoders. The dedicated box is -Tim Sheppard, Tandberg Television DSL provider offering video can do so designed to offer performance advantages without having to buy set -top boxes and over PC -based encoding systems, making it wait several years for payback. more suitable for transmission efforts he adds, the streaming format outshines It also has applications for over- the -air requiring greater redundancy. traditional MPEG formats even more at broadcast or cable. "On both the audio and video side, the lower bit rates. "As long as you can put an IP stream Microsoft encoding is very impressive," "The bandwidth savings can be 20% to into an existing broadcast, then you can says Sheppard. "We began looking at the 50 %, depending on the material and the include content encoded in Windows source code five or six months ago, and the bit rate," he says. "You can find material Media," says Sheppard. "Terrestrial appli- engineers who had many years of MPEG that will be more than 50%, but that's rare. cations are interesting because the limits on experience were quite skeptical. But, as It's more often in the 30% range." bandwidth have been the problem."

Broadcasting & Cable /9 -9 -02 29 Technology They loved broadcasting

Engineers who died on 9/11 took to calling the building "Rod's lower. was extremely committed," says his wife of were dedicated to keeping In fact, Tower One held up the giant 30 years, Deborah. "For years, he never their stations on the air broadcast antenna that fed transmitter took sick days." facilities for WNET and eight other sta- Like Coppola, Jacobson's love of broad- By P. Llanor Alleyne tions between its 103rd and 110th floors. casting came in his youth as a ham -radio When he was 12 years old, Gerard Coppola and five fellow engineers - operator. After graduating from high school, "Rod" Coppola set up a 2 -watt WCBS- TV's Isaias Rivera and Bob Pattison, he took engineer training for one year and transmitter in his East Orange, WNBC(TV)'s William Steelman, WABC- was hired by WNYC -TV. He joined WPIX N.J., basement and was broadcasting his spe- TV's Donald DiFranco, and WPIX(TV)'s in 1979. cial blend of music and talk to his In the past year, the Coppola buddies within a six-block radius. family -which includes Rod's "Mother was so worried the widow, Alice; three daughters; FCC would knock on our door two stepdaughters; his father, and arrest the entire family," George; and his brother, George remembers Rod's older sister, Jr. -have gained a measure of clo-

Cynthia Coppola - Kaiser. "He sure. Coppola's remains were was truly an amazing kid." recovered last Christmas at a time WNET engineer Rod Coppola That resourceful 12- year -old (left) enjoyed his job because when his siblings traditionally met eventually parlayed his love of "he got the opportunity to at a relative's home. brainstorm with other creative music and media into a broad- people," according to his sister. "That was a huge symbol that cast- engineering degree from Steve Jacobson (above) had he was okay and at peace," says worked for WPIX since 1979. Brookdale Community College in Coppola- Kaiser. 1976. In his spare time, Coppola, Jacobson's body was recov- who knew the Marine Corp. hymn at age Steve Jacobson -were among the thou- ered early in December. Deborah Jacobson 4, became a self- taught multi- instrumental- sands who died on Sept. 11. and her two teenage daughters are taking ist and songwriter. In 1985, he joined PBS's All six men took their jobs seriously, life without him one day at time. "The last WNET(TV) New York as a broadcast often forsaking sleep over the year to install several years, he was in a very good place engineer, a job Coppola- Kaiser says he a digital- television antenna on Tower One. in his life," Deborah says. "He had resolve enjoyed because "he got the opportunity to Three of them were at the World Trade in his life, and I'm glad for that." brainstorm with other creative people." Center during the 1993 bombing and stayed In tribute to Jacobson, his youngest Because he was in charge of maintaining at their posts to ensure that their respective daughter's camp installed a ham radio with WNET's transmitter atop Tower One of stations stayed on the air. his call letters, N2SJ. Thus far, two the World Trade Center, Coppola's family Jacobson was one of the three. "Steve campers have received their licenses.

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Ownership: Public (NYSE: CXR) Total markets: 18 Stations: 79 Revenues: 5431,400,000

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Ownership: Public: (NYSE: ETM) Total markets: 19 Stations: 103 Enterco Revenues: 5407, 850, 000

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Broadcast TV William S. Hoffman, head, N.Y., promoted to Jim Windsor, senior At WNBC(TV) New York: director, sales, WFTV(TV) president. promotion producer, Mark Lund, sales manager, Orlando, Fla., named David G. Clough, director, WITI(TV) Milwaukee, named WBZ- TV/WBSK -TV Boston, president/GM, WFTV(TV), major gifts and planned creative services director, joins as VR sales; Kathyrn WRDQ(TV) Orlando, giving, Lincoln Center for the WISN -TV Milwaukee. Scheets, marketing manager, WFTV.com and Performing Arts, New York, Jeff Klayman, local sales promoted to VP, business Insidecentralflorida.com. appointed director, manager, KSBW(TV) Salinas, development, marketing and David Feinblatt, senior endowment and planned gifts, Calif., joins WPBF(TV) West sports and Olympic sales. VP /GM, WLNY(TV) River- WNET(TV) New York. Palm Beach, Fla., in the same capacity. At WEWB -TV Albany, N.Y.: Adam Jones, marketing Obituaries and promotions producer/ director, WXXA- TV/WEDG- T. E. "Dick" Paisley Jr., retired radio and He is survived by his wife, Tamara; three TV Albany, joins as account television general manager, died Aug. 16 in daughters; six grandchildren; and a brother. executive; Dessislava O'Keefe, Pennsylvania following a stroke. He was 83. Robert Van Scoyk, Murder She Wrote writer sales assistant, Albany Paisley got his first broadcasting job in the and producer, died of complications from Broadcasting Co., joins as sales department of WFIL -FM Philadelphia in diabetes on Aug. 23 in Los Angeles. He was national sales coordinator. 1946. In 1952, he became GM of WHUM -TV 74. Reading, Pa. and spent five years there Scoyk wrote and produced episodes of the Cable TV before heading to New York to join NBC Angel Lansbury Murder vehicle from its incep- At Time Warner Cable: Bob National Sales. He returned home a few years tion in 1984 until its cancellation in 1996. McCann, GM, Detroit later, heading up NBC's WRCV(AM) and -TV. The Ohio native sharpened his pencils on When Westinghouse reclaimed the station, '50s programs The Ann Sothern Show and The operations, adds VP to his Paisley joined WPBS -FM Philadelphia. In Imogene Coca Show. He also wrote for Western duties; Randy O. Fraser, 1968, he became part owner and GM of series, The Virginian, and penned the pilot president, Raleigh- Durham, WTOW -FM Towson, Md., where he stayed until episode for Young Maverick in 1979. N.C., division, named VP, 1973. He went on to manage WHCN -FM Hart- He is survived by his wife, Loena; three government affairs, North ford, Conn., and WFSH -FM Valparaiso, Fla., sons; his father; and a sister. Carolina division. before joining T. Gray Advertising in 1980 as Scott Tenney, chief Tubby the Tuba creator, Paul Tripp, died in director of electronic media. He retired in marketing officer, Kite 1990. New York on Aug. 29. He was 91. Networks, Ridgeland, Miss., He is survived by his second wife, Cay, and Integrating orchestral music with the clas- named VP, marketing, core four children. sic children's themes of sharing and growing, Tripp created a niche for himself both on video products, Comcast Stanley Greenberg, television television and in music. A record featuring Cable, Philadelphia. screenwriter, died from a brain tumor on tunes from the show was released in 1945 Aug. 25 at his home in Kensington, Calif. He and sold more than 8 million copies. Follow- Programming was 74. ing his Tubby success, Tripp went on to host Scott Carlin, president, The father of the docudrama, Greenberg and write such shows as Mr. I. Magination, On DigitalConvergence Corp., was responsible for the diligently researched the Carousel and Birthday House. Dallas, joins HBO, as television drama Pueblo, which aired on ABC He is survived by a son, a daughter and president, program in 1973. Referring to his style as "theater of two grandchildren. distribution. fact," he used the same meticulous method David Overbeeke, senior for The Missiles of October (1974), The Silence Dirty Harry scribe, Dean Reisner, died Aug. VP, Internet business (1974), eight -hour miniseries Blind Ambition 18 at his Los Angeles home. He was 83. strategies, NBC Television (1979) and F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980). Reisner, who at age 3 was seen in Charlie Greenberg got his start on the television Chaplin's The Pilgrim in 1923, is credited with Stations, New York, named series The Defenders and The Nurses. He also contributing famous lines to Clint Eastwood executive VP /chief wrote the screenplays for popular '70s seven- megahits Dirty Harry and The Enforcer. information officer, NBC. ties movies Skyjacked and Soylent Green. His television writing credits include West- At Starz Encore Group, Englewood, Colo: Jillaina

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Wachendorf, senior VP, Washington, joins KQED -FM Reding, intern, promoted to Shelman, national manager, affiliate marketing, promoted San Francisco, as managing associate producer. Buffalo, N.Y; Grand Rapids, to senior VP, marketing; Mike editor, news. Mich.; and Wilkes -Barre, Pa., Hale, executive VP /chief Marysol Castro, reporter/ Radio named sales manager; marketing officer, has resigned anchor, News 12 The Bronx, Bob "Bob K." Klopfenstein, Michael Price, GM, Rainbow to devote time to charitable New York, joins WPIX(TV) director, content acquisition, Advertising Sales/Regional and philanthropic work. New York, as reporter. Vialta Inc., Fremont, named News Rep, New York, joins as David Bernath, VP, program Kristin Mitchell, prime GM of syndicated programs national manager, Albany, planning, E! Entertainment news anchor, WOLO -TV Doug Stephan's Good Day and N.Y. Television, Los Angeles, joins Columbia, S.C., joins The Talk Radio Countdown BBC America, Washington, as KMOV(TV) St. Louis, as co- Show. Technology VP, programming. anchor, News 4 This Morning. Susumu Hotta, GM, overseas Rich Erbach, television Randy Hennig, anchor/ Advertising /Marketing/PR operations, FOR -A Corp. of consultant, Frank N. Magid reporter, WTOP(AM) At Goodman Media America, Tokyo, appointed Associates, Marion, Iowa, Washington, appointed International, New York: president/CEO, Cypress, joins CNN Newsource Sales, assignment editor, news Henry Miller, executive VP, Calif. Atlanta, as VP, affiliate division, Voice of America, promoted to COO; Stacey relations. Washington. Sanner, director, publicity, Internet At Sci Fi Channel, New Martha Sugalski, weekend VH1, New York, named Robert W. Ramsdell, York: Joanne Modlin, VP, anchor/reporter, WBZL(TV) senior VP. founder /director, FreshPond, originals program research, Miami, named co- anchor, Rick Ramage, talent Cambridge, Mass., appointed TNT, Los Angeles, joins as News at Ten. representative, Ken Lindner senior director, PBS Teacher- VP, research; Jennifer Noel Tucker, anchor/ & Associates, Los Angeles, Line, Alexandria, Va. Kilberg, freelance reporter, WTTG(TV) promoted to VP. photographer, New York, Washington, joins WBAL -TV At Adlink, Los Angeles: Allied Fields joins as photo editor. Baltimore, as weekend Lynn Bolton, local sales Damien Dovi, analyst, sports Mark Lieber, media anchor/reporter. manager, promoted to finance and advisory group, consultant, Los Angeles, At WCNC -TV Charlotte, VP/director, client and Banc of America Securities, named senior programming N.C.: Mark Boone, news strategic services; Dean Charlotte, joins BM Digital adviser, PrideVision TV, Los director, PrestigeVision 4, Walters, senior account Partner LP, Chantilly, Va., as Angeles. Mooresville, N.C., joins as executive, promoted to associate. reporter; Erin Rollf, national sales manager. Journalism producer, KREM -TV At National Cable P. Llanor Alleyne Beth Fouhy, former executive Spokane, Wash., joins in the Communications' CableLink [email protected] producer, political unit, CNN, same capacity: Elizabeth Interconnects division: Perry Fax: 646-746-7028

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marketing skills: Cable opera- The wanderer returns tors could use someone to paint a rosy picture of them to Krone brings enhanced skills back to his job as cable's No. 2 lobbyist Wall Street while educating Capitol Hill on the opportuni- ties and challenges cable faces. on't tell David Krone you can never go home again. The Times have changed for the 35- year -old wunderkind is back at the National Cable & industry, particularly since Telecommunications Association (NCTA) after leaving Adelphia's Rigas family became D in December 2000, three months into the job. the subject of federal criminal Mentor Leo Hindery had asked Krone to come work at Global - investigations for allegedly Center, the Internet subsidiary of now -defunct Global Crossing in stealing millions of dollars Sunnyvale, Calif. It was an offer Krone couldn't refuse. But Global from the company. Cable com- Crossing was sold when the Internet bubble burst, and Krone again panies are taking a hit as the went with Hindery-his old boss from Tele- Communications economy flounders, even Inc. -this time to head up marketing efforts at the new Yankees though cable earnings and cash Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network in New York City. flow have never looked better. When NCTA President Robert Sachs asked Krone to come fin- What's more, Washington is ish the job at the cable lobby a year and a half later, Krone decided keenly aware that broadband David Brett Krone it was time to return to Washington, the only place he feels he can deployment, in which cable is Executive Vice President, call home after 10 -plus years of moving around the country. National Cable & the market leader, could be the Now Krone is back in the middle of two industries he loves: cable Telecommunications next great economic stimula- Association tor. And the more politicos focus on broadband, the more B. Oct. 30, 1966, Philadelphia; and politics. Although he is ley is all about, and I under- careful cable has to be not to BS, political science, Penn young, his experience runs deep, stand the technology better." become an unwitting target. State Univ., 1989; intern, cam- and he is known as a deft politi- Sachs agrees with as- we have that paign of Dick Gephardt for "Now to aggres- cal strategist. a That skill and sessment, adding that Krone President, Washington, D.C., sively start making people close relationship with Senate has been his first choice for the and Iowa, 1987 -88; staffer, aware of what we have done Majority Leader Tom Daschle No. 2 job ever since he took Bud Stumbaugh Lt. Governor since passage of the 1996 Tele- (D-S.D.) almost won him a seat over at NCTA three years ago. campaign, Atlanta, 1989 -90; communications Act," Krone on the FCC last year, but Krone "If anything, David en- staffer, Democratic Party and says, citing such developments rejected Daschle's offer in Sep- hanced his skill set in the inter- Lawton Chiles gubernatorial as digital telephony, digital tember, choosing baseball over im," Sachs says. "He has enor- campaign, Palm Beach, Fla., cable, high -speed Internet ac- telecommunications regulation. mous talents, whether with 1990; campaign manager, cess and bundled services. "The Krone returns to D.C. and political strategy, public-rela- Patsy Kurth campaign for industry is doing great things, House of Representatives, Mel- NCTA with new experience tions strategy, organizing a and we have to let people know bourne, Fla., 1990; campaign under his belt, including a cou- coalition or working with peo- that." management/consulting, ple of years as the top marketer ple. He worked in the cable Sachs says his team, with Southern Strategies Inc., Ra- at an Internet firm and a cable business before all this, so he himself and Krone at the top, leigh, N.C., 1991 -92; Tele -Com- network. understands the operators' per- is ready to do that: "It's been a munications Inc., Washington, Those two years have made spective. Coming from work- totally seamless transition." 1992 -2000; EVP, NCTA, 2000; a big difference. "I'm in a ing at YES, he also has an ap- EVP, comm. and marketing, Says Krone, "This was a 100% better position now preciation of the programmers' GlobalCenter Inc., Sunnyvale, chance to come finish busi- than I was when I came here in perspective." Calif.; 2001; EVP, marketing, ness." And this time, he does- October 2000," he says. "Now Krone should have ample YES Network, New York, 2001- n't plan to leave anytime soon. I understand what Silicon Val- opportunity to use his new 02; current position since July -Paige Albiniak

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The recent changes in command at ent, obviously in one location but broad- Clear Channel Communications casting around the country, is not of con- could indicate a move away from cern, but when an announcer sitting in Los the company's current business Angeles voice- tracks a shift for Boise, Idaho, plan to replace live radio with "voice - or Salem, Ore., the broadcaster has no rela- tracked" announcements at its radio sta- tionship to the community. tions. Clear Channel has developed an ag- Of most concern, Clear Channel com- gressive plan that relies heavily on the pounds this problem by not being upfront Tom Carpenter is national director for News & remote prerecording of customized radio with its listeners. Its announcers are often Broadcast at the American Federation of air shifts, replacing live and local radio encouraged to manufacture public appear- Television and Radio Artists, a diverse labor organization representing more than 80,000 broadcasts in most U.S. radio markets. Be- ances that did not occur. Clear Channel has members, including broadcasters employed at sides laying off significant numbers of local its disk jockeys fabricate live calls to the sta- local Clear Channel radio stations. disk jockeys and depressing industry sala- tion. The company coaches employees by ries, this tack is ending the local flavor of giving them "cheat" sheets about local peo- company may be expending substantial radio and its traditional contributions to ple, places and events. Is the public served sums of money to answer inquiries from community interests. by that? Congress, the FCC, and the Department of Clear Channel is the largest group owner The motivation for voice -tracking is Justice. of radio stations in the country, comprising plainly economic: By prerecording radio We believe Clear Channel pays its voice - what was once 70 separate companies. With shifts in advance and editing in music and tracking announcers wages that are far over 1,200 radio stations nationwide, it con- commercials later, a radio station is able to below market standards, a strategy that will trols a substantial percentage of advertising dramatically reduce its costs. Such homog- continue to undermine its ability to be suc- revenue in nearly every market in the U.S. enized voice -tracked formats, though, have cessful. In New York City, Clear Channel controls not attracted very many new listeners in the Paying fair wages and providing decent one -third of the radio advertising revenue. largest markets. Earlier this year, Clear working conditions ultimately benefit not Of course, broadcasting, like any busi- Channel abandoned voice -tracking at just employees but business as well. There is ness, needs to be profitable and efficient. WKSC, its "KISS" format FM station in a direct correlation between having a suc- Unlike other businesses, though, broadcast- Chicago, after listeners rejected the canned cessful station and providing fair wages and ers acquired their distribution mecha- announcements in favor of the live broad- working conditions. Fair employment pack- nism -the public airwaves -from the gov- casts on the main competitor. Clear Chan- ages attract top talent and maintain high - ernment without any expenditure of capi- nel's stock price is down, and now its high - quality broadcasts. tal. The quid pro quo for that is that broad- profile radio division CEO, Randy Michaels, Wholesale voice- tracking at substandard cast stations are expected to serve the pub- has stepped down. wages is a lose -lose proposition. By mini- lic interest in local communities. Clear Channel's practices have resulted mizing its duty to serve the public interest, It is one thing for a radio station to voice - in substantial legal expenses and fines. For Clear Channel severs its relationship with track announcements for overnight broad- example, the company was fined by the the community. By eliminating jobs, it loses casts or prerecord programs in limited cir- Florida attorney general for misleading lis- loyal employees. By requiring underpaid cumstances. But when a media company teners into thinking that a nationwide con- announcers to fool listeners to promulgate uses voice -tracking as a strategy to elimi- test promotion was actually a local contest. a bland, watered -down product, it will turn nate live broadcasts and local employees al- With several legislators banging the drum off listeners. We think it's only a matter of together, the connection to the local com- for an investigation, and legislation recently time before listeners turn off Clear munity can be hurt. Popular syndicated tal- introduced by Senator Russ Feingold, the Channel.

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