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Up to (high) speed in Anaheim Cable modems took center stage this year at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim, Calif. MSOs have shifted their focus from interactive TV to the Internet and plan to work toward a standard for PC -cable modems. / 4 CBS's turnaround team Affiliates are encouraged that Peter Lund will remain president of the new CBS Inc. after its merger with Westinghouse. Meanwhile, Dan Mason, president of the newly merged Group W and CBS radio groups, will concentrate on improving ratings, revenue and profit. / 10..50 Under the lights ll -r): Ted Turner, Robert Redford, Bony Dill r/56 FCC gets ATV recommendation After eight Turner on Murdoch: `Squish years of work, an FCC advisory committee has him like a bug' Ted Turner recommended the Grand Alliance system as the next says he agreed to a merger with television broadcasting standard. An FCC rulemaking Time Warner partly to be able to will be launched in January to adopt the standard. / 26 compete with other media giants, including News Corp. and Viacom. BROADCASTING "I'm looking forward to squishing Rupert [Murdoch] `Camie' first to fall The like a bug," Turner said during the opening session of plug will be pulled on Carnie the Western Show `95 in Anaheim, Calif. / 56 despite its position as the top - Dealing with the telcos The Disney -led telco rated new talk show of the programing arm has cut distribution deals with E! and season. Its average 2.0 nation- TBS. More such deals are expected as telcos obtain al Nielsen household rating cable franchises and build wireless systems. 62 is partly to blame for the / show's fall. / USA builds Saturday block USA Network plans a Saturday evening block of original programing Diller snags HSN, Savoy next year to sharpen the channel's image. 68 Barry Diller's Silver King / Communications has gobbled Carnie' (above) will be can- celed, but Rosie O'Donnell up control of Home Shopping Is waiting in the wings. /44 TECHNOLOGY Network and Savoy Pictures. CBS narrows nonlinear field CBS News has The bold moves give Diller a programing platform for picked Avid and D- Vision as finalists for its nonlinear another national network. the /47 editing systems. The companies' two versions will be COVER STORY subject to intensive hard -news testing, with a decision expected next month. / 76 Dick Wiley: Delivering on digital TeIemtel As chairman of the FCC's Advi- sory Committee on Advanced Racing toward high-speed modems Cable oper- Television Service, Washington ators and equipment vendors agree that cable subscribers lawyer Richard E. Wiley is should be able to go online up to 1,000 times faster than responsible for the television sys- they do today via telephone lines. They expect to set a tem of the future: digital and preliminary cable -modem standard by April. 82 high- definition. Wiley talks / about the eight years of work it took to agree on a standard, and what it will mean. Changing Hands p. I tot sa 102 Cover and inside photos by John Trouha/Black Star / 32 Classified 84 Fates & Fortunes 98 Datebook Mt et sttgon Watch 30 Broadcasting & Cable December 41995 3 McINTYRE LIBRARY J Up to (high) speed in Anaheim At Western Show, cable sets its sights on the Internet with high -speed PC -cable modems

By Rich Brown Motorola and not how wonderful the other companies online interface will be, qnother year, another would -be xhibiting at the but how to pay for it all. technological breakthrough being Western Show "Will the dog eat the trumpeted at the Western Cable want to supply dog food based on this modems that the Show in Anaheim, Calif. This year, will have con- first version of dog cable modems took center stage. sumers surfing food ?" asked Malone. Multiple system cable operators say the Internet Shawn Doherty, vice they are now shifting their focus from via cable. president of @Home interactive TV to the Internet and an- Network, says setting up nounced plans on Thursday to work a broadband online net- toward a standard for PC -cable work will cost at least modems (see story, page 82). $30 million ($10 million Three top MSOs- Tele -Com- the industry's history to build a network opera- munications Inc., Time Warner and of technological tions center; $12 million Comcast-have made delays. Digital com- for back -office billing three separate orders pression, for example, and subscriber manage- totaling 350,000 units has yet to become the ment, and $8 million for from Motorola (Com- widespread reality for customer support). Such cast also ordered cable systems that a stiff entry cost, he says, 150,000 units from Malone predicted at makes building an in- Hewlett- Packard). The the 1991 Western stalled base of users crit- largest MSO, ICI, Show. ical. The projected 2 %- plans to begin deployment at its Sunny- Malone said last 5% initial market pene- vale, Calif., system in February 1996. week that TCI's tration won't cut it as a "It's a real ace in the cable industry's approach to introduc- viable business model, deck of cards," says TCI President/ ing the cable -modem Doherty says. CEO John Malone. technology would be "Skimming early adap- But it is not clear how fast the mo- on an "incremental" tors will be easy; building dems will roll out at cable systems basis. He said the real a I5 % -20% market share around the country, particularly given issue for operators is will take five years,' Five more Record by Jones International Net- Space star Bill Mumy and Peter David; The works, the programing arm of Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, a play -along transponders for TVN attendance for MSO Jones Intercable. Exist- mystery show with Irene Ng ( "The Joy Near- video -on- demand service Western Cable ing network Country Music Luck Club ") and Pat Morita (Happy Days), TVN Entertainment will lease an Show '95 Television serves 31.4 million and Angry Beavers, a Nicktoon about two additional five transponders on subscribers. Another Jones beaver brothers. Hughes's Galaxy 9 satellite (set company, Jones Satellite Net- to launch in the spring) to carry 1995 works, operates the largest USA picks up film package out its plans for a new digital 23,200 country music radio network USA Network has acquired a 23 -title film delivery system for cable sys- in the U.S. package from Paramount that includes tem operators. TUN next year "Clear and Present Danger," "Indiana 1994 CC will deliver MPEG -2, digitally gets 'Dream On' Jones and the Last Crusade," "The Firm," compressed video streams to 21,700 Comedy Central has picked "Sliver," "Indecent Proposal" and "Addams cable headends, which will up the off -network rights to Family Values." The exclusive multiyear remodulate the signal for delivery via exist- HBO series Dream On. The series will package kicks off with three titles -"Cool ing coax lines. TVN President/CEO Stuart debut in January 1996 on the cable net- World," "The Ambulance" and "The Taking Levin says the system, which will deliver 40 work, which has a five -year window cover- of Beverly Hills " -available in 1996. In channels at the start, has just signed a deal ing 123 episodes. another development, USA co -owned net- with Cablevision Systems Corp.'s cable sys- work Sci -Fi Channel in 1996 will begin air- tems in Connecticut. New from Nick ing an original movie each month. Jones goes country Nickelodeon has created three series for 1996 debut: Space Cases, a comedy More Western Show coverage A new country music video network, Great adventure series about five kids in outer begins on page 56 American Country, will be launched Dec. 31 space, appropriately produced by Lost in

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PARTNER STATIONS NEIWRRA CxSTQ|BUT0 k,-) ? %Li i3 L/L "5'9Lti. Doherty says. Cable operators will need The cable industry also could miss tive vice president, creative technolo- to funnel profits from current video ser- the online boat if it maintains a cautious, gy, Walt Disney Imagineering. He says vice subscribers to bridge the gap, he incremental approach to rolling out new cable might not be able to reach critical says. high -speed -modem technology. mass in the online world if it does too Cable operators say developing a "I would caution people not to be little, too late. "It is, in fact, possible to standard for cable modems would make any more conservative than absolutely aim low and miss," Ferren says. it possible for the units to be sold to con- necessary," says Brian Ferren, execu- -Additional reporting by Jim McConville sumers at the retail level, thereby remov- ing the financial burden from cable oper- ators. Until then, cable operators plan to buy the modems for about $500 each Peace breaks out at FCC and then lease the units to subscribers. Aside from the cost issue, Hewlett - By Chris McConnell regulatory problems. All agreed to Packard's Jeffrey Hornung says, ob- work toward maintaining a respectful, stacles in getting such a high -speed FCC commissioners privately were professional demeanor in resolving network up and running likely will passing the peace pipe after last complex commission issues." include consumers' fears of losing pri- week's public meeting. Quello this year has had harsh words vacy, cable operators' less -than- stellar Seeking to cap this fall's stream of for Hundt's push for minimum chil- service reputation, and fear of sub- angry commissioner statements -most dren's educational TV requirements and scriber prices creeping up. of them concerning diverging views on last month questioned whether the effort Nevertheless. industry analyst Tom children's TV rules -FCC Chairman amounted to "governmental extortion" Adams says that cable operators have Reed Hundt invited the other commis- in the case of the FCC's review of the an opportunity to tap into the consumer sioners to his office last Tuesday to talk Westinghouse /CBS merger. market before competition can build its about taming the rhetoric. Commissioner Andrew Barrett also own infrastructure. Cable's deploy- "All agreed that things had gone a lit- was critical of Hundt during last ment does not require a total rebuild of tle far," one FCC source said of the month's dispute over how to treat its infrastructure, and even small sys- meeting, which lasted about 30 minutes. Westinghouse's children's TV pro- tems in rural areas can play in the new "They agreed they should not be making graming pledge in evaluating the com- arena. He says that 2010 of cable oper- personal attacks," added another official. pany's request for a series of FCC ator revenue could come from online Hundt did not comment on the meet- ownership waivers. services by 2005 and that the MSOs ing, which also was attended by FCC But last week, Quello predicted that could lock up two -thirds of the high- General Counsel William Kennard to the effort to curb angry statements will speed market 10 years from now. insure that the commissioners did not yield results. "The feeling was, everyone Success will depend on how well discuss pending proceedings. is going to work hard at not making MSOs can develop market share and Commissioner James Quello had things personal," one source said. distinguish their networks from existing high marks for the bury- the -hatchet As to whether the commissioners online and World Wide Web services, session: "Several commissioners rec- will stick to such warm words, howev- says Steve Craddock, Comcast Corp.'s ognize the need for a less personal, er, FCC officials were offering no guar- vice president, new media development. contentious approach to differences in antees. "We'll see," said one source.

Washington Watch, Western style Cable has "a lot of problems" with the TV industry recom- great uncertainty about money," says Jerry Yanowitz, VP, mendation to permit broadcasters to air multiple channels federal affairs, for the California Cable Television Associa- of standard -definition digital TV, National Cable Television tion. Yanowitz says the staffers decided it was best to stay á i Association chief technologist Wendell Bai- in Washington, when may l especially there be only enough ley told a Western Cable Show audience. "lt money at the agency to cover salaries. Most of the FCC a. seems to be a waste of good bits." The officials who didn't make it were from individual commis- FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced sioners' offices. Nevertheless, there was a small delega- Television Service recommended that the tion in attendance, including Cable Bureau Chief Meredith agency adopt as a national standard the Jones; Bill Johnson, deputy chief of the Cable Bureau; Grand Alliance digital broadcasting system, FCC Chief Economist Michael Katz; Ron Parver, chief of which permits multiple standard -definition the FCC's technical services team, and Jim Schlicting of television or high -definition television. Bailey also said the Common Carrier Bureau. cable is more likely than broadcasting to introduce HDTV. If HDTV is a success in the U.S., he said, "it's only In his "farewell address," outgoing FCC Chief Economist because of the cable industry." Michael Katz shared his views on the future of conver- gence. "It's a mistake to think [the TV and computer] will be FE ewer FCC staffers were walking the convention floor last one device," Katz said. There's been "so much hype" w aek. At least seven commission officials canceled plans about the technology that "people forget about consumers" to attend the show because of budgetary constraints fol- and what the technology will do for them, he added. Katz, lo ging the government shutdown last month. "There's is leaving the FCC after a two -year stint.

8 December 4 1995 Broadcasting & Cable Slow going on telcom bill House and Senate talks bog down, but get going by week's end

By Christopher Stern provision making set -top boxes avail- able in retail stores was particularly It was a rough week for congression- troublesome last week. The provision, al negotiators trying to reconcile the which Bliley strongly supports, also House and Senate versions of the allows cable operators to offer the telecommunications bill. equipment to subscribers, but bars the Talks reached their first major industry from subsidizing the price of impasse last Wednesday on issues rang- the boxes. Cable opposes retail sale of ing from set -top boxes to rules for Baby the boxes, saying it would freeze the Pressler says he is determined to wrap Bell entry into the long- distance busi- current technology in place. up bill in time for Christmas. ness. After almost six weeks of meet- Also last week. senators Byron Dor- ings, including weekends, frustrated gan (D -N.D.) and Bob Kerrey (D- tition," said Dorgan. President Clinton staffers ended talks early Wednesday Neb.) expressed concern that the con- has threatened to veto the bill over sever- and failed to meet Thursday. ference would eliminate subsidies for al issues, including media concentration. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader telephone service in rural areas. If the Democrats and Republicans Robert Dole (R -Kan.) and House conferees "bring to the floor of the acknowledge that the Clinton adminis- Speaker Newt Gingrich (R -Ga.) have Senate a conference report that backs tration has had a strong voice in the stepped up pressure on negotiators to away on the protections in this bill for conference. "What they are working on wrap up talks by this Friday with the rural states, they are going to have a lot is not something that will be vetoed. goal of holding a final vote by Dec. 15. of trouble," Dorgan said. They are working on something that Senate Commerce Committee Media concentration on broadcast will be signed," one Hill source said. Chairman Larry Pressler (R -S.D.) has reform also was targeted by Dorgan, Representative John Dingell (D- scheduled a meeting of the House and who opposes provisions that would lift Mich.) last week said talks were mov- Senate conferees for tomorrw (Dec. 5). the ownership caps for television and ing slowly, but that the legislation has Pressler acknowledged that talks had radio. "That kind of concentration momentum. "I'm fully determined to run into trouble midweek, but insisted moves in exactly the wrong direction. get a bill, and I think most others are Thursday night that the conference was Concentration is the opponent of compe- also." back on track. Staffers would meet through the weekend, Pressler said. Although Hill staffers have been hammering out details of the bill, there Broadcast spectrum still in play have been no meetings of elected rep- resentatives to discuss the substance of Broadcast spectrum continues to be a pawn in the budget game being the legislation. Pressler has scheduled played by Congress and the White House. Sources say the Clinton administration wants to count revenue from a such meetings in recent weeks, only to cancel them later. sale of broadcast spectrum against federal deficit projections. In order for included in Republican plan Sources both on and off Capitol Hill the money to be the to balance the budget said that after weeks of nonstop negoti- within seven years, the spectrum auction must take place by 2002. The targeted by the White House, say sources, are the addi- ations, it is time for the members to airwaves mhz broadcasters are expecting to receive to launch a digital give additional guidance to the staff. tional 6 that TV service. The Clinton administration would still allow broadcasters to "Clearly, the time is ripe for the confer- ees to sit down and start to make the receive a second channel, but would force them to hand their original 2005. (Broadcasters would keep sec- calls on the tough issues," said James channel back by be allowed to the Wholey, vice president, government ond channel for up to three years after it was auctioned to someone else.) affairs, Jones Intercable. Without input Under the current plan, broadcasters would not pay for the second from the members, he said, negotia- channel, but must give up their original analog channel once the transition is completed. There is no predetermined date for the return of the original tions at the staff level could stall. analog channel. It appeared last Wednesday that Hill would a for industry, staff had gone as far as they could An accelerated spectrum auction be disaster the without additional input from their say broadcasters, forcing stations to turn off their analog signal before mil- bosses. Among the issues to be lions of consumers had invested in digitally compatible equipment, say lobbyists. resolved are rules for Baby Bell entry broadcast Republican into long distance, cable rate regulation budget writers intended to oppose any effort to auction and broadcast ownership reform. the digital spectrum early, say industry lobbyists. However, they also sources say. noted that if budget writers have to choose between selling the spec- Observers say House Commerce trum and cutting Medicare benefits, the spectrum will be put on the auc- Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley's tion block. -CSS (R -Va.) refusal to compromise on a

Broadcasting & Cable December 41995 9 By Steve McClellan Group. Those appoint- ments reflect the The new manage- strength of the West- ment team at inghouse stations gen- CBS waxed elo- erally and also high- quent last week about light troubles within its eagerness to get the CBS -owned sta- going with the job of tions, especially the turning around the television stations in network. Analysts say the top three markets. not much really Peter Lund de- changed with last scribed both John - week's naming of the athan Rogers, former executive team that head of the CBS - will run CBS follow- owned TV stations, ing its merger with New executive suite: Bill Korn, Peter Lund, Michael Jordan, Leslie Moonves and Nancy Wid- Westinghouse -the mann, former presi- network is clearly in a dent of the CBS rebuilding mode for Radio group, as "dis- the short term, and CBS's turnaround team placed" but talented who knows what will in executives for whom occur beyond that. Lund, Korn, Moonves, Klein and Mason place; the company would But affiliates were network division heads to be re- evaluated try to find new pos- reasonably encour- tions. aged by the announce- In response to ment that Peter Lund would remain to Leslie Moonves will continue in his questions about mounting speculation run the new CBS Inc. as president and role as president of CBS Entertainment, concerning the future of CBS News chief executive officer. They also were and also was named an executive vice President Eric Ober, Lund said he encouraged by the naming of Bill Korn president of CBS Inc. Mooves also would be talking to -and evaluat- as president of the CBS Station Group reports to Lund, who reports directly to ing -all of his division heads at the (and executive vice president of CBS Westinghouse Electric Corp. Chairman network in the next month to deter- Inc., reporting to Lund), which encom- Michael Jordan. mine if the right people are in the right passes all the owned television and Reporting to Korn on the station side jobs. "I want to hear their plans for the radio stations as well as the syndication will be Jonathan Klein, president, CBS future and share my plans for the unit, Group W Productions, headed by Television Station Group, and Dan future," he said. "There may be a Derk Zimmerman. Mason, president, CBS Radio Station change in any job, and there may not The Jordan game plan Call him Michael Jordan, beyond it? That will be one of my principal roles." broadcaster. And cablecaster. As for the future, Jordan said it's the producers who By next year, after the comple- are being affected the most by growth of the new distri- tion of various Westinghouse bution technologies and the so- called convergence of Electric Corp. asset sales, 50% the computer, television and telephone businesses. of the company's cash flow will "We still [think] the major over -the -air networks will have be derived from its broadcast- the dominant leadership position in the advertising rev- ing and cable properties. enue stream," he said. But convergence, coupled with Jordan recalled at a press reforms such as fin -syn, will "begin to homogenize the briefing last week that when production industry." he first joined Westinghouse Traditional programing alliances will get more corn - two years ago, "the strongest plex, Jordan said. For CBS, "we will have to figure out

suggestion I had [from] both where we fit into the content equation. That's a major

inside and outside the company was to get rid of task we've set ourselves. I view that as something that's broadcasting. Not only could you sell it for money, it an overlay to fixing the current CBS." Cable is clearly a was a wasting asset." But Jordan didn't buy it. "lt priority: "I think we will make some moves [into cable] in didn't make sense," he said. "The world isn't going to '96," he said. go to cable, and the great networks aren't going to go Jordan reaffirmed his commitment to news and to away, because advertisers need them. Where else the First Amendment. He particularly wants to see the will they get 65% reach ?" news division strengthen its programing. "Relative to Jordan said that he will spend perhaps 40% of his our two major competitors, we don't have many major time on broadcasting issues. "I've indicated that my role entries, especially in prime time. We ought to be trying will be to spearhead the growth strategies: What do we to find opportunities to do stuff that's creative in that do to enhance the over -the -air broadcast group and go arena." -SM

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GRACE U DER FIRE FIREPOWER FOR 1997 Top ega-K@PF®®Og New number one The merger of CBS into Westinghouse creates the lets. TV -radio crosspromotion also will be implemented. largest broadcast station group in both television (15 Korn also says that a top priority will be to improve the stations) and radio (39 stations). The television stations operating -cashflow margins at the CBS TV group that cover 33% of the country, and clearly, most of the tend to lag 10 -15 percentage points behind those stations on the CBS side are underperforming. of its competitors. 'That won't be just a function Newly appointed station group president Bill of reducing costs," he says. "It's also getting Korn wants to strengthen the group's perfor- ratings and revenue growth up and getting mance through the expansion of in -house pro- your sales organization to execute more effec- gram development for prime time access and tively in the marketplace." Korn says revenue other dayparts and possibly the integration of growth would account for at least half of the some radio and TV operations in some mar- margin improvment he's looking for, while cost kets-a strategy that has worked for Westing- reduction would account for "less than half. We house in Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In believe in very lean and efficient organziations. We New York, for example, the new CBS owns four stations, take the money we save... and plow it back into news and including two all -news outlets and WCBS -TV. Korn says into programing." Korn also says that the syndication pro- he'll explore integrating the news operations of the sta- graming company will expand its output. The merged tions. Similar opportunities exist in Chicago and Los group's 33% coverage base has attracted a lot of poten- Angeles, where the group has TV and all -news radio out- tial program venture partners, he says. -SM

be a change in any job." there won't be "wholesale changes" ford, Conn., the Westinghouse station "It's a step in the right direction," until next fall, he said. (A new drama and programing units will give up their says Ralph Gabbard, president of the with Montel Williams will debut in Jan- Group W identity in favor of the CBS Gray Communications broadcasting uary and a new Don Johnson drama will name and logo, the well -known eye. division and chairman of the CBS air in March, he said.) (GWSC President Don Mitzner will Affiliate Board. "I think it's the right Jordan confirmed that he has had report directly to Jordan.) It's a point of structure to get the job done. The affil- numerous conversations with other com- sensitivity among some Group W iates have confidence in Peter Lund's panies about joint ventures in broadcast- staffers, given the company's 75 -year abilities, and he clearly has the position ing, and talks with some concerning a history in broadcasting. But the fact is, and authority to do his job." minority stake in CBS. But he stressed sources say, it's much sounder strategy Just about everyone, from Westing- that "nothing serious" is on the table. If to market all the broadcast assets under house Chairman Jordan on down, Westinghouse does take on a partner the better known CBS brand, which has agrees that the tasks ahead are fairly with CBS, that partner will have to offer been around, on a national basis, for straightforward and challenging: Fix "strategic" assets beyond cash, he said. almost as long. prime time and news and shore up the He also indicated that a series of asset Layoffs are inevitable as the CBS distribution system, which suffered sales would be announced shortly. and Westinghouse entities fully inte- dramatic setbacks in the affiliation With the exception of the Group W grate and redundancies are "dealt switches last year. Satellite Communications unit in Stam- with," as Jordan put it. Gabbard says the network needs to address the evening and morning news ratings and identify the "long -term players in news. Who will be the next CBS signs Cosby Dan Rather ?" For the time being, Lund responds simply that "Dan Rather has By Steve McClellan turn around CBS. "My job started job security." becoming fun as of yesterday" when Fixing prime time is job one. Lund CBS confirmed reports on Friday the Cosby deal was finalized, CBS stressed that he thinks the current poor (Dec. 1) that it has given a new Entertainment chief Leslie Mooves programing lineup lies at the heart of prime time sitcom starring Bill said last Friday. "This is a giant step in CBS's problems and that distribution Cosby (and produced by Carsey-Wern- the rebuilding of CBS." problems have been overplayed: "We er Entertainment) a two -year commit- The program will be shot in New can be number one with the station ment, starting in fall 1996. Financial York. The initial commitment is for lineup we have today. That is not the details weren't disclosed, but all four 44 episodes over two years, and CBS source of our problems. Programing is networks bid aggressively on the pro- will pay substantial penalties if it can- the source of our ratings problems." ject, based loosely on British sitcom cels the show before then, sources As for prime time, Moonves told One Foot in the Grave (the Cosby ver- confirm. Cosby will play a curmud- reporters the network has a "major sion is yet to be titled). geonly character he describes as uphill battle" that is "going to take time Speculation is that the deal is one of "Archie Bunker without the racism and patience" to repair. Regarding this the priciest in recent memory. CBS and sexism." The network also has season, where CBS has fallen farther executives strove to position it as an given Cosby at least one additional behind ABC and NBC (and Fox, among example of the kind of "resources and prime time program commitment. viewers 18 -49), Mooves said the net- commitment" that new network owner Cosby and C -W agent William Mor- work tried to do too much too soon. But Westinghouse is prepared to make to ris brokered the deal.

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Additional 12- merger. cited a pending FCC proposal to raise month waivers were granted to allow Seven days after approving West- the national ownership limits in Gannett to own a TV- newspaper com- inghouse's $5.4 billion acquisition of requesting the waiver, but also told bination in Cincinnati and a TV -cable CBS, the commission approved Gan- the commission it plans to divest combination in Oklahoma City. nett's $1.7 billion purchase of Multi- media Inc. Gannett, which also is assuming about $539 million in long- term debt as part of the deal, said it Merger or not, Citicasters buys expected the merger to close today (Dec. 4). After the deal's close, Gan- nett will own 15 television stations three OmniAmerica stations covering 14% of the country. The FCC also granted a series of By Donna Pettrozzello the Columbus market "was the one multiple- ownership waivers to allow market where each group's holdings for the merger. "Facilitating such a Two weeks after calling off its overlapped." Citicasters already owns multiple -station transaction by tempo- merger with OmniAmerica Com- WTVN(AM) and WLVQ(FM) Columbus, rary waiver of our multiple- ownership munications, Citicasters Inc. last taking it one station over the current rules will `promote commerce [and] Friday said it will buy OmniAmerica's FCC ownership cap of two FMs per encourage investment in the broadcast- WLOH(AM)- WHOK(FM)Lancaster/ owner per market. The acquisitions ing industry, "' the commission said, Columbus, Ohio, and wLLD(FM) Upper give Citicasters a total 11 FMs, three citing language from its grant of the Arlington/Columbus for $24 million. AMs and two network -affiliated TV Westinghouse waivers. Citicasters CFO Greg Thomas says stations in eight major markets. The sale of its three Columbus prop- erties removes OmniAmerica from that NBC sweeps up November market. OmniAmerica, based in Los NBC won the November sweeps in nearly every category. But it shared Angeles, continues to own nine radio some losing numbers with ABC and CBS: the three -network rating and stations in Jacksonville, Orlando and share dipped to an all -time low for a November sweep period. West Palm Beach, Fla., and Cleveland. NBC finished first among adults 18 -49 and 25 -54 In a separate transaction last Friday, `Frasier' and among women 18 -49 and 25 -54. as well as San Diegobased Triathlon Broadcast- gave NBC among total viewers and households. It was the only ing Co. exercised its option to buy 10 strength radio stations from Pourtales Radio on network to show growth among adults 18 -49. and Tuesday. households, versus November 1994. NBC averaged Partnership for $18.5 million. a 12.0 rating and 19 share in Nielsen national num- Triathlon will acquire KvoR(AM)- bers among households followed by ABC's 11.4/19, KSPZ(FM)-KTWK(AM)-KVUU(FM) Col- CBS's 9.9/16 and Fox's 7.6/12. Among adults 18 -49, orado Springs; and KTCR(AM) Ken - NBC averaged a 7.6 rating, followed by ABC's 7.0, newick- KEGx(FM) Richland and KEYF- Fox's 5.4 and CBS's 4.7. In households, compared to AM-FM- KUDY(AM) -KKZX(FM) Spokane, November 1994, NBC was up 3 %, Fox was down all Washington. 6 %, ABC was down 7% and CBS dipped a whopping Triathlon also said it has terminated 23 %. In the category of adults 18 -49, NBC was up its option to buy three of Pourtales' four 7 %, Fox was down 5 %, ABC was down 7% and CBS was down 23 %. remaining stations: WMYC -FM and wxsJ- CBS's nose dive clearly paced the way for the record low for an in -sea- AM-FM Mobile, Ala. Pourtales also is son sweeps month. The big three networks averaged a 33.3/54 beating the selling two FMs in Lincoln, Neb., to previous low of 33.4/57, which was set last May. Triathlon; that deal is expected to close NBC capped off the sweeps with a rare Wednesday win on the last night within 45 days. Triathlon maintains a of the sweeps. Thanks to the National Geographic special Cyclone, which joint sales agreement with an option to won its 8 -9 p.m. time period in homes and adults 18 -49, the network finished buy Pourtales's KEYN -FM Wichita, Kan. first on the night in both categories. It was the first Wednesday night win Triathlon already owns four stations among adults 18 -49 by NBC since 1993. -SC in Wichita and has filed its intent to buy two more FMs in Lincoln.

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By Chris McConnell Broadcasters at the meeting called The FCC's Advisory Committee on for quick commis- Advanced Television Service has sion action on the recommended the Grand Alliance planned transition system as the next TV broadcasting to digital broadcast- standard. ing and restated The recommendation, reached after their plans for deliv- eight years of work, places the digital Susan Ness (I) was among the FCC commissioners on hand ering high- defini- transmission system in the hands of the to receive the ATV endorsement. Also present were (Pr) tion television, or FCC. The commission plans to launch advisory committee chairman Dick Wiley, FCC Chairman HDTV. "We are a rulemaking in January 1996 to adopt Reed Hundt and committee member Joseph Flaherty. prepared to make the system as the U.S. broadcasting Last month, however, Hundt ques- the investment," said CapCities /ABC standard. tioned the FCC's plan for shifting Chairman and CEO Thomas Murphy. "Today we can only begin to imagine broadcasters from analog to digital "We certainly hope [the standard] gets the many possibilities for delivery of technology. During that address to the to be implemented as soon as possi- entertainment and information that this International Radio and Television ble," said Michael Sherlock, executive flexible, dynamic digital standard can Society, Hundt cited the growing use of vice president, technology, NBC. provide," said FCC Chairman Reed cable, satellite and other technologies to The broadcasters voiced no worries Hundt, who attended the committee's deliver television. He asked if convert- about the technical aspects of the Grand final meeting last Tuesday. Also present ing over -the -air broadcasting "is a far Alliance standard, although computer were commissioners James Quello, less significant issue than whether industry representatives did. Microsoft's Susan Ness and Rachelle Chong. today's TV licensees can get must- Craig Mundie cited the rapid growth of the computer industry and asked that the standard remain flexible to accommo- Center keeps stage date further advances. The end of the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service won't Hundt added Mundie and Digital mean the end of the Advanced Television test center. Equipment Corp.'s Samuel Fuller to Supporting members of the Alexandria, Va. -based center will keep the advisory committee five weeks ago. open the doors at the $5 million facility, where testing was conducted on Both Mundie and Digital Equipment the Grand Alliance transmission system and an earlier series of proponent Corp.'s Grace Hinchman voiced contin- systems. ued concerns with the standard's inclu- "We're recognizing that to go from a paper standard to a practical, every- sion of an interlace scanning format. day commercial operation requires a lot of work and specification," says Neither voted against recommending the Joseph Flaherty, senior vice president, technology, CBS. Westinghouse standard to the FCC, although Mundie and the Public Broadcasting Service have offered initial payments to keep did not vote for it either. the lab open, Flaherty says. He hopes other members will follow suit. The computer industry concerns Flaherty predicts that work at the test lab initially will focus on radio fre- drew a response from Advanced Tele- quency transmission issues. Equipment manufacturers have voiced inter- vision Systems Committee Chairman est in tapping the lab for some broadcaster equipment testing, test center James McKinney, who cited a series of president Peter Fannon says. He cites earlier interference work performed endorsements that the Grand Alliance at the lab: "Those things position the test center to bring a great deal of standard has received from the com- new and confirmed knowledge to manufacturers." puter industry. In addition to Westinghouse /CBS and PBS, test center members Committee Chairman Richard E. include CapCities /ABC, the Association of Independent Television Sta- Wiley opened the meeting by acknowl- tions, National Association of Broadcasters and Association for Maximum edging the different technical concerns Service Television. Fox Broadcasting is a nonvoting member. The Elec- of various industries and a review com- tronic Industries Association, originally a member with its own testing facil- mittee's efforts to address them all. "I ity, dropped out. -CM think we've made an earnest effort," Wiley said (see interview, page 32).

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By Chris McConnell ments on how regions will be defined Miami attorney Matthew Leibowitz, under the new rate -setting scheme. Pos- for instance, worries that uniform rates The FCC wants cable operators to sibilities include groups of systems will not guarantee that all subscribers set uniform programing -package located in the same county, state or enjoy uniform levels of service across rates across different systems. ADI, an FCC official says. Comments franchise areas. The commission's proposal, issued on the proposal are due by Jan. 12. Seiver speculates that the cities last week at its open meeting, would Some industry officials expect those might address such concerns by dis- allow operators to set uniform pricing comments to include objections from cussing their rate policies as a group for packages offered to subscribers local franchising authorities. City of rather than individually. who live in different franchise areas but in the same region. Operators now are required to base their rates for pro- graming offered on the basic and Antenna rules simplified "cable program" service tiers on fran- chise- specific data. By Chris McConnell and lighting rules. FCC Chairman With the new rate -setting structure, Reed Hundt predicts that the new rules operators could promote uniform rates Broadcasters could get a break will cut paperwork by a factor of 12. on a regional basis. Some would wel- from some new antenna - structure The commission's plan calls for reg- come that ability in the face of compe- registration and upkeep rules. istering all existing antenna structures tition from national services such as The FCC has adopted rules placing requiring FAA approval between July direct broadcast satellite, or DBS. tower upkeep responsibilities primarily 1, 1996, and June 30, 1998. Beginning "It makes much more sense, espe- on tower owners rather than on broad- July 1, the commission also will cially when you're competing with casters and others operating from the require owners of new structures trig- national services," says cable lawyer tower. Under the new rules, broadcast gering the FAA standards to register John Seiver of Cole, Raywid & Braver- licenseholders are still responsible for with the FCC before building them. man. "It's a good marketing concept." tower lighting and painting but only as Broadcasters say they like the idea Frank Lloyd agrees, praising the a backup to the structure owners, who of streamlining the registration proce- FCC proposal as "getting it right.... will bear primary responsibility for dures, although they worry that new They understood this doesn't work," meeting the requirements. requirements could be lurking in the Lloyd says of the current regulatory The FCC issued the rules last week details of the registration procedures. barriers to uniform pricing. Lloyd is in an effort to streamline the "The concept is good," says with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, process for registering an- N1CA%10 Don Everist of engineering Glovsky and Popeo PC. tenna structures. The new ti consulting firm Cohen, "This is something of a positive for procedures unify a Dippell and Everist, Q CI operators," says a spokesman for the series of rules for regis- ü O adding that registering National Cable Television Association. tering different types C existing towers could He also welcomes the ability to adver- of antennas and also Q m present an administra- tise regional rates. incorporate the Federal lc rive burden if the coin- The commission's proposal offers Aviation Administra- Coa mission looks for new two alternatives for setting the uniform tion (FAA) painting and % & information about the rates. Under one option, cable opera- lighting rules. The FAA sY antenna structure. tors would select the lowest rates in a requires certain towers to LISA ' "It never made any sense region for basic -tier service and estab- meet painting and lighting spec- to hold the licensees responsi- lish that as the region's uniform basic - ifications in the interest of aviation ble," says Chris Imlay, general counsel tier rate. The operator then could safety. for the Society of Broadcast Engineers. recover any revenue lost on the cable The new rules apply to antenna struc- But Imlay says he would prefer that the service programing tier. tures of more than 200 feet that require FCC focus more on reducing local reg- The second option would allow clearance by the FAA. The FCC esti- ulation of the antenna structures. operators to use an average of rates mates that its new procedures will "On balance, it's a plus," says anoth- across the different systems to estab- affect some 75,000 towers in the U.S. er industry source, who also voices hope lish the uniform rates for each tier. Under the new procedures, antenna that the new rules will not carry any new Seiver prefers the averaging ap- structures will be registered by owner antenna -structure requirements. proach, speculating that it may be more rather than by each licensee using the The FCC's Robert Greenberg says "revenue neutral" and easier to adminis- structure. The commission hopes that the new rules carry no new painting or ter. An FCC official says the agency has having one contact point, rather than lighting requirements but only codify considered adopting more than one several, will speed the process of what the FAA already has mandated. method for setting the uniform rates. approving the structures and address- "Nothing has changed with respect to The commission also is inviting com- ing noncompliance with the painting the FAA," Greenberg says.

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"Those who continue to deny The Association of National Advertisers has peti- that cultural messages can and do bore tioned the Federal Reserve to allow advertisers to sub- deep into the hearts and minds of our Bob Dole wouldn't stitute an 800 telephone number for all the small print in car young people are deceiving them - 'Mon on leasing TV commercials. (Leasing- related information falls selves and ignoring reality," Dole `Money Train.' g g Y +" under the Federal Reserve Board's jurisdiction.) The ANA says. Although critical of Hollywood, claims that all the information required about interest rates Dole is opposed to legislation or censorship aimed at and down payments crowds an advertiser's message and that addressing violence or sex in the media. "We just need to offering viewers information through a toll -free phone call alert the American people and to ask some of those this -in provides a viable alternative. Congress already has approved case, Columbia Pictures accept some of the responsibil- -to a similar proposal for radio. ity, to be good corporate citizens," Dole says. Columbia Pic- tures says it is appalled and dismayed by the crime but Cable Services Bureau Chief Meredith assumes no responsibility. Columbia officials note that the Jones has joined Mass Media Bureau Chief firebombing depicted in the iiT; Roy Stewart as an FCC "Golden Broom" movie was based on a crime award winner. Commissioners committed in New York in the R7"r lI last week bestowed the award 1970s. ' ¡ion. on Jones for her bureau's work Suzanne Toller will join T a shiS , in addressing almost all of some 6,000 rate complaints. Commissioner Rachelle Chong's office as Aitch"It's all a great story of accomplishing legal adviser on Dec. 15. Toller, who will cover the many different goals of the Cable wireless issues comes from Part- r for Chong, CMT Act," FCC Chairman Reed Hundt ners, a joint venture of AT &T and AirTouch Com- said. munications. Before joining CMT, Toller was an associate with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. Edited By Chris Stern The FCC has pushed its Dec. 7 She also will handle cable issues for Chong. meeting to Dec. 15 to give corn - missioners and staff more preparation time. FCC sources It was FCC Chairman Reed Mundt vs. Hogan & Hart- expect as many as eight items to appear on the next open - son's Bob Corn -Revere on National Public Radio's Talk meeting agenda, including two that address cable home of the Nation last Wednesday for a debate over children's wiring and another addressing rules for calculating cost of television requirements. Hundt maintained his claim that the cable service for the purpose of setting rates. Nov. 22 decision granting Westinghouse 19 waivers is linked to the company's promise to air three hours of children's edu- The FCC Is looking to put its new cable -rate adjust- cational TV each week. "Everyone knows that Westinghouse ment forms to work by mid -December. The commi ion has made that commitment to the commission and has no has asked for an "emergency review of the new rate- adjust- intention of going back on it," Hundt said. Commissioners ment forms from the Office of Management and Budget, James Quello, Andrew Barrett and Rachelle Chong say the which must approve the form before it can be used. The new waiver is not conditional on the commitment to air education- form 1240, adopted by the commission in September, allows al television. Corn-Revere told the nationwide radio audience cable companies to adjust rates once a year to reflect infla- that any requirement on children's TV is a direct threat to tion and changes in external costs and number of channels. broadcasters' First Amendment right to free speech. The FCC's International Bureau is still keeping an Low -power WVEA -LPTV Tampa, Fla., last week was eye on DBS channel assignments. "The time has slapped with notice of a $4,000 fine for airing an come for [DBS] permittees to deliver to the public the ser- Empress Cruise Lines commercial that included the word vices they have promised," the bureau said last month in "casino" and showed people playing casino games. The addressing a request by Continental Satellite Corp. to extend FCC says the commercial violates its lottery rules. a DBS construction permit. "We cannot and will not tolerate Chancellor Broadcasting last week won FCC warehousing of DBS orbital /channel assignments." The approval to close its $396 million deal to acquire 19 bureau earlier this year made that point with a decision to stations from Shamrock Broadcasting. The approval reclaim channel assignments previously issued to Advanced includes a one -year waiver that allows Chancellor, which Communications Corp. But in Continental's case, the FCC already owned nine FM and five AM radio stations, to granted an extension, maintaining the commission was to exceed both the national and the local ownership caps. blame for Continental's inability to launch a service on time. Chancellor now owns 21 FM and 12 AM stations, exceeding "The time taken to process due diligence showings in the the national ownership cap for FMs by one station. The com- DBS service effectively deprived CSC of all but eight days pany also needed a local- ownership waiver in Minneapo- of its six -year construction permit," the bureau said.

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0 1995 CBS Inc. All Rights Reserved Dick Wiley: DELI VERI NG ON DIGITAL

Only DBS has a wider footprint on American telecommunications than Richard E. Wiley's, and even that's arguable. From the moment he came to Washington as general counsel to the FCC, through his glory days as chairman of that agency, and on to his domination of the practice of communications law, he has been a comer. Given his present eminence, that description may seem strange, hut it is still apt. Dick Wiley -"the ubiquitous Dick Wiley," most people say- always has been more about what he'll do next than what he did yesterday. What he's done lately-as chairman of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service-is to ramrod the television system of the future: digital and high definition. That eight -year accomplishment and its significance are detailed in this interview with BROAD- CASTING & CABLE's Chris McConnell and Don West.

What have you wrought? that will permit high -definition television of the best possi- We have wrought digital television -the dawning of a new ble quality, plus multiple programs of so- called standard age, a new video age, in our country. definition, or SDTV -basically, the digital equivalent of current television -and data, and improved sound quality: That leads us to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's speech to CD -like sound. It's what I characterize as the theater in the the International Radio & Television Society two weeks ago. Is that what he thinks you've wrought? home. Larger, wider screens. Almost photographic images. I've heard the arguments that there's no public demand It's hard to assess what his thinking is. I don't think he was for it. My answer is, the public hasn't seen it yet. When we questioning that digital television is here. He may be ques- build it, they will come. tioning the role of over- the -air broadcasting in that era. Do you think it's effective primarily on large screens? How did you go about developing this? How long have you been at it? Who's been with you? What have been the key Definitely. 'l'hirty -Iixe inches and up. elements? Do you worry that SDTV poses a threat to HDTV, either It's been eight years. When then FCC chairman Dennis politically or commercially? Patrick offered me the job, he said: "This will be about a No, because I think the marketplace ought to decide here. If two -year project." I'm wrong and the public doesn't want high definition, so be Over the years, the dominant player has been Joe Flaherty it. It's not an either/or choice with the Grand Alliance sys- of CBS, but there have been other main players. I would cite tem. This technology gives us the best of both worlds. We Jim McKinney and Bob Hopkins of the Advanced Television can have HD and we can have multiple SD-and that's great Systems Committee, who did such great work on the docu- for broadcasters, by the way. For the first time, they can mentation, and the futuristic laboratories -particularly the enter the multiple programing world, and I think it would be Advanced Television Test Center, headed by Peter Fannon- churlish to deny them that possibility. So I'm very much for and the great work that Mark Richer of the Public Broadcast- the flexibility of it and have encouraged it right along. ing Service did as my representative, working with those lab- I'm thinking of a scenario that's been out there the past oratories. People like Jules Cohen, who has been so valuable. few weeks -as evidenced by Hundt's comparison of a cou- He earns a living on his time, but has devoted it to this project. ple of weeks ago -that if SDTV is pretty good, and policy - But there have been many people who've played a role. makers approve of its quality, that somehow they'll decide When it comes to what's wrought here, nobody- includ- that that is HDTV, and broadcasters won't be able to pro- ing Chairman Hundt -is going to deny the preeminence of vide the full HDTV benefit. the Grand Alliance system. It is the greatest advance ever in Well, the numerous technical experts who looked at SD and television technology. It has a tremendously flexible format HD in our system did not see standard definition as being as

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BLAIR CG»CIC;C? 'OUT good as high definition. I can't tell you what some govern- permits squeezing lines into it. And I think that will come ment official may decide someday. sooner rather than later. [Editor's note: Interlace scanning -used in current tele- Some people say that if we're going to have only standard visions a in which definition, let's give the broadcasters two megahertz -employs compression technique the instead of six. odd- and even- numbered horizontal lines of a picture are alternately displayed on the TV screen. In progressive scan- That's a misunderstanding of the technology. The Grand ning -which is used in computer monitors-the horizontal Alliance system is a six -megahertz system. You can't break scanning lines are displayed sequentially. Engineers say it up, like the New York Times suggested, and give broad- progressive scanning excels in displaying computer graph- casters a sliver. It doesn't work that way. Maybe a new sys- ics, while interlace is better for other material, such as live - tem could be designed, but that's going to take some years, action sports.] and in the meantime the public would be denied the advan- tages of this technology. That would be unfortunate. Is it your vision that eventually all television will be seen on high- definition sets? Those same people say that, in theory, you could load up several broadcasters on one six-megahertz channel. On digital sets, yes. As the government has planned, there will be a phasing out of the current analog system, returning You could do that. That's a whole different way of having even more valuable spectrum because it won't be strewn broadcasters share a channel. It might be possible; it's not around the spectrum as is the vacant spectrum to be used for anything I've conceived of. HDTV. They'll repack it into a big block that can be auc- Until recently. this was a technological problem. When did tioned. In any case, I do not contemplate broadcasters' being it become a political problem? able to retain two channels. You're right. The technology has been solved. The system High definition is a subset of digital. It's a part of the fam- demonstrably works. That's a wonderful thing, and we some- ily, using the full channel, the highest quality of digital. times take that too much for granted. Now there are legitimate Then you've got multiple subsets of that- standard defini- political issues because spectrum is scarce -and valuable. tion, if you will. You're drinking from a 19- megabits -per- second data stream, and you can use it all for one picture, or Yes, it is scarce and valuable, but the spectrum we're talk- you can break it up and have four pictures, or use some of ing about is fallow. It's not being used and hasn't been them for data. used. Whether all pictures ultimately are of the highest quality, I That's right. And it hasn't been used because of concerns don't know. There may still be a demand for multiplex, with about interference that you have in an analog environment. lower quality in return for more channels. A broadcaster might Here again, the technology solves it. My mandate has always opt for that during certain parts of the day. In other words, you been to operate under a plan that would transition the country see the football game or the movie in high-definition televi- to the unused TV spectrum. We assumed that we had virgin sion, but maybe the daytime soaps don't have to be in HD. spectrum and could design the best system possible. As you know, when we brought color in we didn't pick Well, which set do you watch the daytime soaps on? Are the best system because we had to accommodate it to the you likely to watch them on your high -definition set? existing black -and -white system. So one of the early goals of Sure. It would be a digital set capable of high definition. the advisory committee was to get the best possible technol- And at the end of the day, the broadcasters won't have any ogy. The government may have changed its mind on that, or more spectrum than they do now. may change its mind in the future; that's a parameter over which I have no power. That's right. But they'll have a greatly enhanced service they can deliver to the public. It seems that the broadcasters changed their minds before Do broadcasters have to participate in digital? No. I think the government ever got into it. Chairman Hundt raised that question. There may be broad- I agree that there has been an occasional lack of vision in the casters out there in the hinterlands that want to remain in ana- broadcast industry, and it's been unfortunate. You have to log. They don't have to apply for the digital channels. At that look ahead here...and not just think in an analog context [or] point, they put a finite time limit on their existence because at in a 20- inch -television -screen context. It's difficult for some some point the analog business is going to be over. people to do that. There's something else that we haven't talked about, and that's interoperability. One of the primary tenets of the advi- What role does compression play In high- definition televi- sory committee is to have interoperability of the new video sion? standard with other imaging media and devices, including We've compressed the signal way down to fit within six mega- computers, which makes the advantages of the national hertz. As a matter of fact, we expect to see further advances in information infrastructure [NIT] possible. Interoperability is compression technology will that accommodate -and rela- going to be a big development . tively soon -an all- progressive scan system. Current technol- ogy does not permit us to have more than 1,000 horizontal How do we get to a single -set universe that incorporates scanning lines progressively scanned at 60 hertz within six high definition? megahertz. We could get only 720 progressive in the Grand The first step is for the FCC to set the standard. My guess is Alliance system. That's why we've encompassed both inter- they will put our recommendation out for public comment laced and progressive scanning in the Grand Alliance system. along with other proceedings they've got going. The plan And at a relatively minimal economic penalty. has been that sometime in 1996 they would make that deci- Our final report will call for migrating to an all- progres- sion. If they do, I think digital sets will be available to the sive scanning system as soon as compression technology American public sometime in 1997.

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Building Partnerships. Winning Performance. A Vision for the Future. PETRY firnl ul IrIeN iün. LIp ,5'0001117 What programing do you expect there to be on those sets Is mandating that broadcasters be able to transmit an in 1997? HDTV signal, and the other that they transmit a minimum number of hours. Our jury is out on the second of those, We have the universe of existing film product, which will be but we are sort of for the first. It seems that if you're set- the initial high -definition television programing. The initial ting up a national standard, you ought to require that peo- implementation will be by the networks and by the large sta- ple be able to broadcast in that standard. through the network signal tions. The cost to stations to pass If you give the broadcasters the full second channel, it's will be something under $2 million. Now, the local origina- going to happen. If they get the spectrum, then I don't have tion of high -definition programing is a more expensive propo- any concerns that it won't happen. It would be a very short- may fashion. sition, and that come in a more evolutionary sighted judgment because the technology permits you to Would a mandated HDTV requirement help this transition? have both and dynamically so -being able to shift to differ- ent dayparts between using the full Philosophically, I have some prob- lems with mandated programing channel for a single high -quality pro- requirements. The marketplace should gram, and over to multiple programs. determine these things. However, I've So you're saying we don't have to long felt that broadcasters would be mandate? wise to make a commitment to high - I think that's correct. But you can't definition television, to digital televi- relax if the government doesn't give sion, which they're apparently begin- broadcasters the channel. If it auctions ning to do in increasing numbers. the channel, I don't think this new Pragmatically, it's a good idea to technology will happen for over -the- insure they get the channel. air broadcast. Philosophically and Do you feel that the industry, at least from a government policy standpoint, to a certain extent, has shot itself in I have long favored auctions for some the foot by emphasizing flexibility? services because they place an eco- There were some miscalculations in nomic valuation on a scarce resource: suddenly putting a complete emphasis the spectrum. But I don't think that on standard definition. I've always felt should preclude consideration of other that the technology would be flexible public interest values. There's a enough to permit that and that the greater public interest value in allow- emphasis should be on getting the ing over -the -air- broadcast viewers to channels. I also thought it was the right have the possibility of digital televi- thing in terms of public service, sion. And if you go to an auction of the because the American public will get a second channel, you're going to see fuller range of services. They'll get the high definition and the other NII possibility of high quality along with advantages developing primarily as multiple uses, interoperability and all those other things we premium subscription services. talked about. Why won't an auction work? When you began to put an emphasis, as did the [National Because no way you could transition away from ana- Association of Broadcasterj's John Abel and others, on stan- there's log. say certain broadcasters were the successful bid- dard definition and only standard definition, it did suggest to Let's ders. You'd have analog communications existing side by some people: "Well, let's give them just a third of a channel, side with digital communications, and presumably you or a fourth of the channel." wouldn't ever phase out the analog. That would continue What do you think the industry should do now, going for- forever, because some broadcasters would have to stay ana- ward, to lock down that channel? log; they wouldn't be the successful bidder. Presumably Bill It's doing exactly what it should be doing. It's coming for- Gates would successfully bid for some of those channels, ward and saying, "We are interested in providing an and you couldn't have a transition where the public would improved service to the American public." There's been get the football game in all cities on digital television. Right? more support for this technology in the last few months than I'm not saying that you're going to deny the wonders of the there ever has been throughout this period. Grand Alliance system altogether if we go to an auction. I'm just saying that you won't have 100% of American broad- Is there a risk that some of the people following this partic- casting being transitioned. ular rulemaking at the FCC will be confused by the network comments promoting HDTV and asking for a requirement, Do you feel your HDTV system is going to be hostage to and separate filings from others opposing a minimum the digital study the FCC will be conducting -at Con- requirement? Are they likely to say, "Well, the industry's gress's insistence -during the next year? really not united behind this high-definition idea "? I don't feel threatened by anything. I've fulfilled my respon- Conceivably. But, again, you can have a principled dis- sibility. These are government decisions. I don't object to agreement on whether there should be a government man- the government making its decision. I'm just giving my per- date and still support the idea of the technology. The NAB is sonal views on what I think it should be. not opposing high definition per se; it's opposing the idea of The Grand Alliance technology is really more wonderful a government mandate, which has other implications. than we had any reason to believe when we started out. The Well, as we see the mandate, there are two elements. One genius of it was that we had the competition, initially, so people

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All the decisions have been made in open and peer - aged all of them. And when it got down to four systems, you review meetings, where one person would come up with an found that they were beginning to look more and more alike idea and the others would shoot it down. But the result is that because they were learning from each other. One would have you've got the best engineered system in the world-light- packetized transport and another would start to employ it. years ahead of anything else. And the heroes in this -whom They began to worry about whether I would look at the I hope the FCC doesn't forget-are all the people who have system as it was tested or at the system as it was improved. contributed so much time. And I said, "I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll have a second To a person, those people will tell you that we got it right. round of testing, based just on the improvements that each of This is the best system ever designed. I hope the American you have put forth by a certain date, and that's going to be people get a chance to get the benefits of this and that it isn't very expensive." They all groaned. And then I said. "But I'll just discarded because of political decisions. give you an alternative, and that's to form a single, so- called We have resisted little steps, as they're taking now in Grand Alliance system." And at first it didn't seem that it Europe -going to enhanced television. All that's going to was going to be possible. mean is that the public over there is going to buy one uni- Finally they met -at the Grand Hotel, by chance-in May verse of sets for enhanced -definition television, and then 1993. I was over here, sitting in my office waiting for the someday- because it's going to come -you're going to baby to be born, and I got a call from one member, saying, have high definition, and they're going to have to buy anoth- "We're about ready to go home. We're going to fail -it er one. We threw out that idea early on. FCC Chairman Al didn't work. Do you want to come over and have one last Sikes made that decision, of going for the gold. chance to put us together ?" You know, we set the last standard in 1941. This time When I got over there they were sitting around a round when we set a standard, we'd better set one that's got some table-Jerry Pearlman of Zenith and all the different play- headroom, that's going to last for some years into the future. ers. I said, "Instead of looking at where we disagree, why Because we're going to ask the American people to buy sets don't we find out what we agree on." And they all agreed and spend a lot of money, and I think we want a system that that more than 1,000 scanning lines was the way to go. The is technically as good as it can be. difference was about interlaced and progressive scanning. Ultimately, the history of electronic products in this coun- And I said, "We all agree that we can't have 1,000 -line pro- try is that the American people generally opt for the best gressive right now, right? We can have 1,000 -line inter- that's available. Yes, sometimes it's a smaller part of the laced. So can we say that we'll agree on 1,000 -line inter- population that does it first, but ultimately it expands out. laced until we can migrate to 1,000 -line progressive ?" We've reached a point where we have got so much con- Well, yes, we could do that. And pretty soon we started tent, so much variety, with 500 channels on the way, that canvassing the areas in which we agreed, and within two if you really want to make a difference in the system you hours we sort of ended up agreeing. That was a Thursday need to give us a better picture. night. It took another day and a half to get it on board and You've hit on a very important point. People aren't going to go finally, by Monday, it happened. out and buy these sets just to get more of the same. Cable gives If we hadn't had that, if we were trying to select one of you more of the same, you know. You've got to look for a quan- those four systems -the General Instrument system against tum leap forward -a dazzlingly clear picture on a large screen. the Zenith system, or something like that -you'd have 1,000 Some people will say they can't accommodate a large people nitpicking as to why you made that decision. So that screen. Again, you've got to have some vision. The flat panel was the most important thing that came out: the formation of is coming. I was in Japan last week and saw a 40 -inch flat - the Grand Alliance. panel screen. Now, it's probably not ideal and it had some We said, for example, it had to be fully consistent with the display artifacts; it utilized a plasma technology, whereas liq- international MPEG-2 standard. They didn't want that at uid crystal will ultimately be the winning technology. Texas first, but it was important to have international compatibility Instruments also has a mirror technology, so I don't know because it makes set costs lower in the future and selling to which one will win. But the 40 -inch flat screen was spectac- the various countries and programing interchange cheaper. ular. And they were saying: "Wait until you see it next year." We got them up to 1,080 lines, which happens to work And some day, homes are going to be built with home better with square pixels, which you want to have for inter - entertainment and information rooms, just like we have a operability. And a variety of things like that -minor family room today. At least that's my vision, and all I say is improvements, but very important in the long run. that you have to have a vision on this thing. After they agreed to that, they took a year to build the sys- You've had an outstanding career in Washington, begin- tem. This thing has been prolonged, but it's been serendipitous. ning as the FCC's general counsel and proceeding to become a commissioner and chairman. "He's still the How much is this going to cost the country? chairman," Is what insiders say. You've established the Zero, because we haven't had any government funding. This leading communications law firm, and now you've done advisory committee has operated through eight years on two this. Where does it rank among your accomplishments? contributions. We asked the original 19 members for $5,000 First. Without a doubt. It crowns all.

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©1995 All American Television, Inc. and Endemol Entertainment International L37eacigaoOmg Kelley's 20th deal includes ABC, Fox By Steve Coe run of production talent The first show should be that has spawned multi- ready for the 1996 -97 sea- Emmy Award winning producer million- dollar deals, such son. David Kelley has signed a five - as 20th's deal -said to be If one network passes year contract with 20th Century in the $20 million range - on a project, the other Fox Television that will have him with Mad About You's network has first right of producing for ABC as well as Fox. Jacobson. refusal before it is Twentieth has ponied up as much Under Kelley's new shopped elsewhere. as $60 million for writing and produc- deal, ABC and Fox Broad- The new contract also tion talent during the past few casting have given 20th gives Kelley creative months. In October the studio two series commitments control over the projects announced deals with comedy talents each. ABC is expected to in what is being de- as the Danny Jacobson, Chuck Lorre, Eric get the first and third David Kelley gets full scribed same deal Gilliland and the Frasier team of Vic series; Fox is expected to control over his projects that Steven Bochco has Rauseo and Linda Morris (BROAD- get the second and fourth. for ABC and Fox. with the studio. CASTING & CABLE, Oct. 23). Kelley had more than a year remaining on his current deal with 20th Century Fox, for which he pro- PBS's `Ghostwriter' to duced Picket Fences and Chicago Hope for CBS. Kelley already had bowed out as executive producer of appear in syndication both to focus on his David E. Kelley Productions (BROADCASTING & Revenue will be used in following year's first -run budget CABLE, May 1). However, his agents reportedly were By Steve McClellan interested in capitalizing on the current Popular PBS children's series Ghostwriter is coming to corn - mercial television next fall. Tradewinds Television and Action A Call For Media Group have signed an unusual agreement with Ghostwriter producer Children's Television Workshop to Entries put the show back into production in The American Legion 1996 1997 after a 26- episode off -network Fourth Estate Award Competition package airs in domestic syndication next season. Individuals, publications and broadcast Tradewinds President Mark organizations may submit work completed Rafalowski says he will ask stations between January 1 and December 31, 1995. for two -year commitments to Ghost- The work must cover an issue of national writer, with the second year including interest and have contributed to the 13 new first -run episodes mixed with furtherance of the American way of life. 'Ghostwriter's' friends talk to a ghost via off -network episodes. The budget on computer. Past winners of this prestigious award the program is more than $250,000 include Hearst Newspapers Washington per half-hour. "It's not a cheap show rating. In three seasons on the air, the Bureau, KSNW-TV, Fortune Magazine, to do," he says. "It's a quality show, program almost doubled its rating and individual journalists from all and to do it first -run this year would with children 6 -11. across America. not pencil out." The show follows a diverse group of The solution: Reinvest a sizable kids who solve mysteries in their Entry deadline is January 31, 1996. Award chunk of revenue from Ghostwriter's neighborhood with the help of a friend- will be presented at the 1996 National off -network run in the first year into ly ghost that communicates via written Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. the first -run budget for year two. messages. CTW designed the show to Entries should be submitted to: CTW produced some 70 episodes of make the printed word exciting, fun The American Legion the series for PBS over three seasons. and relevant to children. Public Relations Division According to Nielsen Media The Ghostwriter deal is timely for 700 North Pennsylvania Street Research, the show was the fifth most commercial broadcasters, who are fac- Indianapolis, IN 46204 popular program among children 6 -11 ing increasing pressure from the gov- For more information call: last February (out of 84 shows target- (317) 630-1253 ing that demo), with an average 7.7 Continues on page 44

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Calling all dumb crooks with the sales, production and market- The live pre- Oscars show, airing at 8 ing company he co- founded with his p.m. EST on March 25, will cover Active Entertainment is out to prove wife, Dee Birke, who retired in 1994. celebrity arrivals, fashion and backstage that breaking the law is a dumb thing Ray will continue on the board preparations for Hollywood's to do with its new first-run weekly to serve big night. America's Dumbest Criminals, based of directors of Ellis Communications, Tribune is offering its Academy Awards the Atlanta -based broadcasting group package includes on the book and home video of the -which 90- second that bought Raycom in 1994. Raycom new reports on Feb. 13, the day the nom- same name. The half -hour show, sold pioneered satellite -delivered TV spe- inations are announced, and at a nomi- on a barter basis of 4 minutes local/3 cials docusing on major sporting and nees' gathering March a barter minutes national, is described as a 14-on entertainment events. Raycom's syndi- basis 6 minutes national/6 local. cross between America's Funniest of cated offerings this year include New Home Videos and Cops. The series, for Year's Eve Coast to Coast from Uni- Coleman shops `Lookin' Up' fall 1996, will use footage from sur- versal Studios, to be broadcast live Gary Coleman, star of NBC's former veillance cameras, local news broad- from Universal Studios' theme parks. hit sitcom Diff rent Strokes, is shop- casts and re- enactments to portray the ping a pilot for a first -run strip titled misdeeds of America's least -wanted. What does Homer have in Lookin' Up at the Nightly News. The Active will produce 26 episodes in common with Hercules? proposed half -hour show is described association with Nashville -based Cas- as a look at the "bright side" of the com Screen International, Scene Three Homer and Hercules have hit new rat- news, with an emphasis on the "ironies Productions and the Entheos Group. ings highs. MCA Television's campy action hour Hercules: The Legendary and twists of fate" behind the daily `Gwenevere' battles low ratings Journeys muscled its way to a 7.0 headlines. Coleman will anchor and co- the show with Bohbot Entertainment has renewed its national Nielsen household rating for produce Neil Gor- week Nov. don, former producer of America's new animated weekly Princess Gwene- the of 6. The series has aver- Funniest Home Videos and Solid Gold. vere and the Jewel Riders in more than aged a 6.1 national household rating this season. Twentieth Television's The 100 markets for next season. The half- Genesis reborn as hour show is struggling with a 0.6 Simpsons also soared to a 7.0 household national Nielsen rating among girls 2- rating that week, up from the record - New World/Genesis 11, but Bohbot's licensing efforts are tying 6.7 rating the off- network strip Genesis Entertainment, which last year booming. In addition to a worldwide posted for the week of Oct. 30. became a unit of New World Commu- agreement with the Hasbro Toy Group, nications Group, has changed its name deals are in place for merchandise Pre -Oscars show sells to New World/Genesis Distribution. ranging from greeting cards to a line of The Academy Awards may be four Genesis officials say the change reflects Princess Gwenevere dresses. Bohbot months away, but Tribune Entertainment New World's growing presence in the hopes heavy promotion of the products already has cleared its Live from the TV industry. Genesis, which distributes will raise awareness of the show. Academy Awards with Sam Rubin spe- first-run shows including Real Stories cial in more than 50% of the country. of the Highway Patrol and Mark Wal- Ray leaves Raycom The one -hour special, hosted by the berg, next fall will launch three shows: Rick Ray, president/chief executive entertainment reporter for Tribune - entertainment magazine Access: Holly- officer of syndicator Raycom Inc., owned KTLA -Tv Los Angeles, is being wood, weekly drama Two and late - stepped down last week after 16 years syndicated nationally for the first time. night strip Loveline. -CL ovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv. v. vvvvvvv. v.v.. v.v.. vv. IT'S TIME TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT RO!

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2.5110 5.2122 +1081+120 K/NGWORLD 4 ...m... -,... MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. `Ghostwriter' Continued from page 42 `Garnie' first to fall emment to do more children's educa- tional programing. "For a lot of shows, among frosh talkers it's a judgment call about their educa- tional value," says one station execu- Tweaking at Walberg' includes staff changes, newsier topics tive. "Ghostwriter is first and foremost educational, with the added benefit that By Cynthia Littleton nell. O'Donnell's show, billed as a it's also entertaining and gets a big lighthearted Mike Douglas Show for number." Carnie, the top -rated new talk the 1990s, could be up and running as Tradewinds soon will begin knock- show of the season, last week early as June, sources say. ing on station doors with the program. was the first to stumble in the Carnie's troubles were twofold, sta- Feedback from the few stations that race among the new first -run talkers. tion sources say. After a promising are aware of it has been `overwhelm- The fate of the hour strip hosted by start, some think the show deteriorated ingly positive," Rafalowski says. "In a pop singer Carnie Wilson was up in the into the kind of risqué sensationalism business that is getting tougher by the air last Wednesday, a spokeswoman that has come under fire from advertis- year, I think Ghostwriter, given its for Warner Bros. Domestic Television ers and political activists. And because unique qualities, should be an easy Distribution said. But several industry of its strong station lineup, Carnie's clearance." sources say the distributor will pull the average 2.0 national Nielsen household Rafalowski predicts that Ghost- plug after the show's current 13 -week rating amounted to double -digit drop- writer will be cleared in 60 % -70% of cycle concludes at the end of the Feb- offs from her lead -in and year -ago time the country by late January, when the ruary sweeps. period averages in most key markets. NATPE International convention takes Waiting in the wings to take over Another member of the freshman place in Las Vegas. Carnie's time periods, primarily on talk pack slated last week for change Action Media Group will sell Big Three affiliate stations, is was Genesis Entertainment's Mark national barter time in the show. It WBDTD's recently unveiled talk/vari- Walberg, which has averaged a 1.4 holds the domestic syndication rights ety show with comedian Rosie O'Don- national Nielsen household rating and has subleased syndication rights to Tradewinds Television. AMG and Tradewinds have been Where's `The Beef'? working on the Ghostwriter deal for MTM Television is hoping that fans of reality strips more than a year. "It's an enormous will develop an appetite for The Beef next fall. show," says AMG President Rick The half -hour show will investigate conflicts in Pack. Three years ago, Pack brought the lives of everyday people and will attempt to pro- another off-PBS show to syndication: vide solutions. The small, often absurd beefs Nature, produced by wNET(TV) New examined on the show range from neighbors irked York. The show will enter its fourth by a homeowner with an unkempt yard to a boss season in syndication next year. who suspects that an employe who has called in sick is not really ailing. Tradewinds keeps on expanding No story is too small, ridiculous or bizarre for The Beef," says Sharon Hall, MTM's vice president Meanwhile, Tradewinds, formed ear- 'The Beef' is hosted lier this year, continues to expand. by Vance DeGeneres, of syndication and specials. "We're going to be John Mansfield, who worked for LBS older brother of making mountains out of molehills." and Lorimar before forming his own comedian Ellen This show is unique and the first of its kind," DeGeneres of the says Chuck Larsen, MTM's president of worldwide company, has joined Tradewinds as ABC sitcom 'Ellen.' executive vice president. He will be distribution. "We're gathering input from stations based in Denver. The company re- and groups to determine the best marketing plan for the best positioning cently set up a New York office and of this series. Based on that response, we are also putting the finishing named Bette Alofsin vice president, touches on an all -cash marketing plan." Eastern sales. She formerly was head MTM will co- produce 195 episodes of The Beef with Gold Coast Televi- of North American sales for Pandora sion Entertainment, which also produces the syndicated series A.J's Time International Entertainment. Travelers. Tradewinds is renewing cult favorite Also last week, MGM Domestic Television Distribution cleared its week- Mystery Science Theater 3000 for a ly drama Poltergeist: The Legacy on 11 Fox owned- and -operated stations second year. The show is cleared in that cover more than 20% of the country. MGM officials say the Fox audi- 80% of the country. ence is tailor -made for the weekly sci -fi hour, which will premiere next The company also is bringing out spring on Showtime before heading to syndication in the fall. new reality strip Bounty Hunters for fall The series, sold for a straight 7/7 barter split, picks up where the "Pol- 1996. Rafalowski expects to clear the tergeist" movies of the 1980s left off, focusing on scientists searching for show in 30 % -40% of the country by the answers to the poltergeist phenomenon. MGM already has ordered two start of NATPE. AMG also is selling seasons, or 44 hours, of production on the big- budget series. -CL national time in Bounty Hunters.

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Z 9:00 1. NFL Monday Night 20. Murphy Brown 12.4/18 79. Partners 4.8/7 8. NBC Monday Night 82. Nowhere Man 2.8/4 O 9:30 Football -San 40. High Society 9.8/15 79, Ned and Stacey 4.8/7 Movie -Dead by 2 10:00 Francisco 49ers vs. 17. Chicago Hope 13.0/21 Sunset, Part 2 14.9/23 10:30 Miami Dolphins 18.5/30 14.2/23 8.2/13 12.4/20 6.4/10 1.5/2 } 8:00 18. Roseanne 12.9/21 53. John Grisham's The 28. Wings 11.0/18 68. Fox Tuesday Night 90. Deadly Games 1.6/3 Q 8:30 26. Hudson Street 11.5/18 Client 7.6/12 34. NewsRadio 10.5/17 G Movie -Blue River 9:00 3. Home Imprvmt 16.3/25 11. Frasier 14.0/22 yl 6.4/10 91. Live Shot 1.4/2 uw1 9:30 14. Coach 13.4/21 50. CBS Tuesday Movie - 5. Friends 15.5/24 10:00 It Was Him or Us 8.5/14 5. NYPD Blue 15.5/26 25. Dateline NBC 15.5/26 10:30 r } 12.6/21 6.6/11 12.5/21 7.4/12 2.5/4 Q 8:00 32. Grace Under Fire10.7 /19 60. Dave's World 7.0/12 46. Beverly Hills, 90210 82. Sister, Sister 2.8/5 N8:30 29. Ellen 10.9/18 71. Bless This House 5,9/10 20. World's Greatest Magic 9.0/15 84. The Parent 'Hood 2.6/4 W 9:00 12.4/21 85. The Wayans Bros. 2.4/4 z 72. Party of Five 5.8/10 9:30 13. Beatles Anthology, 65. Soul Train's 25th 85 Unhap Ever After 2.2/4 10:00 Part 2 13.5/23 Anniversary 6.7/12 19. Law & Order 12.7/22 ' 10:30 ..., 9.0/17 6.5/12 15.4/29 6.9/13 Q8:00 69. TV's Greatest 60. Murder, She Wrote p 8:30 Performances 6.3/13 7.0/14 10. Movie of the Week- 63. White Men Can't Dance 0 9:00 Home Alone 14.5/27 6.9/13 D 9:30 36. Beatles Anthology, 69. CBS Special Movie - 10:00 Part 3 10.4/19 West Side Waltz 6.3/11 2. ER 17.3/31 10:30 12.9/23 7.2/13 8.5/15 8.6/15 8:00 45. Family Matters 9.4/17 46. Movie of the Week- 42. The X -Files 7.4/13 } 8:30 44. Step by Step 9.5/17 60. CBS Special Movie- Q The Mighty Ducks 9:00 16. Turning Point Special: Free Willy 7,0/12 D 9.0/16 42. The X -Files 9.8/17 9:30 Princess Diana 13.3/23 10:00 53. Reba: Starting Over 56. TV's Funniest Friends 4.20/20 16.0/29 10:30 7.6/14 7.5/14 6.8/12 10.8/19 9.8/18 5.5/10 8 00 65. Jeff Foxworthy 6.7/12 43. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Q 9,6/18 29. Movie of the Week- 75. Alien Autopsy 5.5/10' CI 8:30 72. Maybe This Time 5.8/10 Woman Dennis the Menace 9:00 33. Touched by an Angel 74. Cops 5.6/10 59. Saturday Night at the 10.9/19 930 10.6/19 76. Amer Most Wntd 5.4/9 Movies-What About 10:00 22. Walker, Texas Ranger Bob? 7.1/13 52.Sisters 7.7/14 0 10:30 12.3/22 Y 10.9/17 12.9/20 13.5/21 6.7/10 2.0/3 7:00 38. Am Fun Home Vid 10.0/16 (nr) NFL Football 13.1/22 78. Space: Above & Beyond 85. Pinky & Brain 2.2/4 9.60 Minutes 14.6/23 ). 7:30 14. Am Fun Home Vid 13.4/20 64. Unsolved Myst 6.8/10 5.0/8 88. Kirk 2.1/3 Q 8:00 38. Cybill 10.0/15 22. Mad About You 12.3/18 49. The Simpsons 8.7/13 81. Sister, Sister 3.0/4 27. Lois & Clark 11.3/17 Z 8:30 42. Almost Perfect 9.7/14 58. Martin 7.2/11 88. Cleghorne! 2.1/3 9:00 7. NBC Sunday Night 51. Married w /Chld 7.9/12 92. First Time Out 1.3/2 37. ABC Sunday Night 12. CBS Sunday Movie- p 9:30 Movie-Jurassic Park 67. Al Bundy Sports 6.6/10 93. Simon 1.0/1 Movie -Groundhog A Family of Cops 10:00 15.3/23 Day 10.2/16 13.6/21 10:30 WEEK AVG 11.7/20 9.3/16 .9 11 UPN: 2.8 4; WB: 2.2 3 STDAVG I 9.5/16 .1 20 7.4 12 UPN: 3.3 5; WB: 2.3/4 RANKING /SHOW (PROGRAM RATING/SHARE( TOP TEN SHOWS OF THE WEEK ARE NUMBERED IN RED YELLOW TINT IS WINNER OF TIME SLOT (nr) =NOT RANKED 'PREMIERE TELEVISION UNIVERSE ESTIMATED AT 95.9 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS; ONE RATINGS POINT= 959,000 TV HOMES SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH COMPILED BY KENNETH RAY

46 December 4 1995 Broadcasting & Cable BroadcastiGu sion's staff, or 100 employes, is being let go by the end of the year. HSN, Savoy deals may These moves have some Silver King employes calling Diller a liar and a hyp- ocrite. They note that when he took put Diller back on dial over Silver King, he said he would abandon home shopping With programing platform in place, programing and turn the to in stations into traditional new network said be works independents with strong By Steve McClellan the theatrical film busi- local news presence. The ness, has said it was put- cutbacks show just the The long Thanksgiving holiday ting more emphasis and opposite, they say. was a working weekend for Barry resources on the television Diller's plan is indeed Diller. While most people were side of its business to convert the stations to eating turkey, Diller and his new (BROADCASTING & CABLE, mainstream indepen- broadcasting company, Silver King Sept. 18). dents, but not for another Communications Inc., gobbled up con- What Diller has in year, when the HSN trol of two companies -Home Shop- mind for Savoy and HSN affiliation agreements ping Network Inc. and Savoy Pictures remains to be seen. But if are up, says a source Entertainment Inc. Silver King is any exam- Do Barry Diller's shake -ups close to Diller. Staff cuts Diller on Nov. 27 was named chair- ple, Diller probably will at Silver King portend the make sense in the mean- man of HSN, archrival of QVC, the shake things up quickly. future for HSN and Savoy? time. Once the stations home shopping network that Diller had In his first two months at the helm of are converted to strong local entities, controlled and hoped to merge with Silver King, which Liberty had an Diller will launch a network, the source CBS. That merger was blocked by option to buy but Diller filed to acquire says. It won't be the first for Diller, Comcast Corp., which subsequently on Sept. 13, Diller fired most of the sta- founder of the Fox network. took control of QVC. tion managers at the 12 owned TV sta- Savoy and HSN will give Diller a Silver King will acquire the 41% tions as well as the president of the TV platform to generate programing. "He controlling stake (including 80% of the stations division, James Lawless. In now has the assets to build the core of a voting stock) now held in HSN by addition, about 50% of the station divi- mini -network," says Harold Vogel, Tele- Communications Inc.'s Liberty Media for about $300 million. Diller and several members of his manage- ment team were granted options by HSN that, if exercised, would give them an additional 15% stake for CLOSED another $127.5 million. Savoy, the struggling New York Canton, Inc. based film and television production company, will cost Diller roughly $200 has sold the assets of million. Diller will swap Silver King stock for both the Savoy acquisition and the purchase of Liberty's controlling in- WOAC -TV terest in HSN. Silver King will issue 11 Canton/Cleveland, Ohio million new shares of stock to complete the HSN deal and 6 million new shares To to complete the Savoy transaction. Waivers to be sought Whitehead Media, Inc. Savoy stockholders will receive 0.2 Eddie Whitehead, President shares of Silver King common stock We initiated this transaction and assisted for each share of Savoy common stock. the parties in the negotiations The deal is subject to FCC approval because of Savoy's controlling 75% interest in four stations owned in a joint Kepper, Tupper & Company venture with Fox -WLUK -TV Green 183 Haviland Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 (203) 431 -3366 Bay, Wis.; KHON -TV Honolulu; wvuE- Tv New Orleans, and WALA -TV Mobile, and Ala. Silver King already is at the FCC's 12- television- station limit. The SERAFIN BROS., INC. company will seek a temporary waiver P.O. Box 262888, Tampa, FL 33685 (813) 885 -6060 to control the four Savoy outlets. Savoy, which has stumbled badly in

Broadcasting & Cable December 41995 47 senior media analyst, Cowen & Co., (owns 50 %), National Subscription New York. "We're not exactly talking Changing Hands Television of Chicago Inc. (owns Disney /Capital Cities here, but who 24.5 %) and Essaness Theatres knows where it will go ?" The week's tabulation Corp. (owns 25.5 %). Only Essaness Analysts say Diller's purchase of of station sales will maintain its interest in station. Savoy and HSN solves problems for all Facilities: Ch. 44, 4,260 kw visual, 500 kw aural, ant. 1,420 ft. the key players. Sales at HSN, once the Proposed station trades dominant home shopping ser- Affiliation: Telemundo nation's By dollar volume and number of sales; vice, have been flat for the past three does not include mergers or acquisitions KESQ -TV Palm Springs, Calif. The has lost money for Involving substantial non -station assets years. company Price: $19.4 million This week: those fiscal years, including $3.8 mil- Buyer. News -Press & Gazette Co., lion in 1994. TVs ri $96,200,000 r 6 St. Joseph, Mo. (David R. Bradley Diller's deal to acquire HSN was Combos o $0 r i O Jr., president/49.54% owner); also struck with TCI's John Malone. "First KviA(TV) El Paso FMs r 1 $30,000,000: 4 owns and foremost, Malone wants HSN AMs;, $0 r, 0 Seller: E. Grant Fitts, Dallas; no other fixed," Vogel says. Despite setbacks at broadcast interests Total n $126,200,000 9 QVC, including the failure of second Facilities: Ch. 42, 10 kw visual, 1.6 channel Q2, Diller is credited with So far in 1995: kw aural, ant. 1,650 ft. turning around the business. TVs r $3,247,525,545 124 Affiliation: ABC As for Savoy, key shareholders in that Combos :152,447,724,930 ; ; 203 company (including Allen & Co., and RADIO: FM FMs $748,873,930 - 338 Capital Research) have been disappoint- AMs $85,018,357 -178 ed with its continuing losses. For the first KMAX(FM) Arcadia/Pasadena, KAXX nine months of the year, Savoy has lost Total o $6,554,600,668 n 840 (FM) Ventura, KBAX(FM) Fallbrook and KWIZ Santa Ana, all Calif. $40 million, compared with a $29 mil- -FM Price: $30 million lion loss in the same period a year ago. TV Buyer Odyssey Communications The one encouraging area has been Inc., Hawthorne, N.Y. (Michael broadcasting, where the four stations KVAL -TV Eugene- KCBY -TV Coos Bay/ Kakoyiannis, president/CEO); also have generated almost $9 million in rev- Eugene, Ore.; KBCI -TV Boise, Idaho, owns wnGx(FM) Briarcliff Manor and enue and $2 million in operating income and 50% of KPICITV) Roseburg/ WRKL(AM) New City, N.Y., and WSTC- for the first nine months of the year. Eugene (BROADCASTING & CABLE, Nov. 6) AM-WKHL-FM Stamford, Conn. Price: $51.5 million Seller: Douglas Broadcasting Inc., Buyer: Retlaw Enterprises Inc., Fres- Palo Alto, Calif. (N. John Douglas, no, Calif. (Lillian B. Disney as trustee owner); also owns KEsT(AM) San for Mrs. Walter E. Disney [chair - Francisco and KoBO(AM) Yuba City, Winston Radio, Inc. man/30% owner]; Christopher Miller, Calif.; wvvx(FM) Highland Park, Ill.; president/8.2% owner; Benjamin W. WNOZ(AM) Portage, Ind., and has acquired the assets of Tucker, VP); also owns KJEO(Tv) WNJR(AM) Newark, N.J. Douglas also Fresno; KIDK(TV) Idaho Falls and owns 51% of wePS(AM) Dedham, KLEW(TV) Lewiston, Idaho, and Mass., and KGOL(AM) Humble, Tex., KEPR(TV) Pasco and KiMA(Tv) Yakima, and is buying KsJx(AM) San Jose, WWPA -AM Wash. Calif. and Seller: Northwest Television Inc., Facilities: KMAx: 107.1 mhz, 3 kw, ant. Eugene (Donald E. Tykeson, presi- 240 ft.; KAxx: 107.1 mhz, 280 w, ant. no broadcast interests WWWD -FM dent); other 872 ft.; KBAX: 107.1 mhz, 3 kw, ant. Facilities: KVAL -TV: ch. 13, 316 kw 300 ft.; Kwiz -FM: 96.7 mhz, 3 kw, ant. Williamsport, PA visual, 63.1 kw aural, ant. 1,480 ft.; 200 ft. KCBY -Tv: ch. 11, 11.5 kw visual, 1.1 from Format: KMAx: black, Spanish; KAXX: kw aural, ant. 680 ft.; KBCI -Tv: ch. 2, soft adult contemporary; KBAX: Asian; 65 kw visual, 7 kw aural, ant. 2,550 Kwlz -FM: international, Asian ft.; KPIC: ch. 4, 5.37 kw visual, 550 w Broker: Gary Stevens & Co. S &P Broadcasting aural, ant. 1,000 ft. Affiliation: All CBS WSNS -TV Chicago Errata Jack Satterfield Price: $44.7 million The holdings of the buyer and seller (610) 520-4488 Buyer. Telemundo Group Inc., initiated the transaction Hialeah, Fla. (Roland Hernandez, of WBTO(FM) Buckhannon, W.Va., president); also owns KvEA(TV) Coro- were incorrect in the Nov. 27 na and KsTS(TV) San Jose, Calif.; "Changing Hands." Buyer Elkins wscv(Tv) Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Radio Corp. owns wELK(FM) Elkins, W.Va., and WEIR(AM)- WCDK(FM) aehlie.4 9% WNJU(TV) Linden, N.J.; WKAQ -TV San Juan, P.R., and KvDA(Tv) Weirton, W.Va. /Steubenville, Ohio. Media Brokers Appraisers Consultants San Anto- nio and KTMD(Tv) Galveston, Tex. Seller Harlynn Inc. has no other Philadelphia Denver Kansas City Seller: Video 44, Chicago, joint ven- broadcast interests. Tampa Bay St. Louis ture of Harriscope of Chicago Inc.

48 December 4 1995 Broadcasting & Cable Two of the most competitive entertainment reporters on television. 0 0 o 41 t.21% CISL `Ratings issues' top list of CBS/Group W Profit, revenue also priorities for 39- station CBS Radio Station Group

CBS -owned properties. Radio "Even in the case of MERGED RADIO PORTFOLIO OF CBS /GROUP W Group W, we have sta- New York Washington By Donna Petrozzello tions that aren't maximiz- WINS(AM) WARW(FM) Bethesda, Md. ing their ratings yet, and WCBS-AM-FM Dallas WNEW FM) KTXQ(FM) As president of the newly merged that is the same issue for Group W and CBS radio groups, the CBS Both Los Angeles KRRW FM) stations. Houston former Group W Radio president sides of the new company KFWB(AM) KKRW(FM) Dan Mason says have ratings issues." KTWV(FM) improving ratings, KILT-AM -FM revenue levels and profit margins at Mason also pointed to KNX(AM) KCBS-FM KIKK -AM -FM each of the merged group's 39 stations performance differences Boston Chicago will be a top prior- between Group W- and WBZ(AM) WBBM-AM-FM ity. CBS -owned stations, cit- WODS(FM Each station in ing broadcast cash -flow WMAQ(AM) Detroit WSCR(AM) the renamed CBS margins on net sales of WLLZ(FM) WXRT(FM) Radio Station 42% for Group W stations WWJ(AM) Philadelphia Group should and "in the mid to upper WYST(FM) "rank in the top 20 %" for CBS stations. KYW(AM) Minneapolis /St. Paul five in ratings with "There is a significant WMMR(FM) WCCO(AM) their target demo- difference in the margins WGMP(AM) WLTE FM) WOGL-FM in St. Louis graphic group, of these two companies, San Francisco the top five in rev- and we're going to have to enue [in their mar- perform better," Mason KCBS(AM) KRQR(FM) ket] and have a sig- said. KDKA(AM) nificant profit mar- As leader of the CBS KPIX-AM-FM gin that would rank Radio Station Group, Source: CBS Inc. Dan Mason will among the leaders Mason will "try to shift preside over the newly merged in the industry," this company on the station level from ence, such as New York, Los Angeles Group W /CBS radio Mason said last a network -type mentality to a local - or Chicago. Or it may include abolish- group. Tuesday after a radio- station mentality." That's how ing a "middle management layer," news conference the stations will improve their perfor- which Mason said was done at Group announcing his appointment. mance, he said. W when he joined it as group president. "If stations can meet those three That shift may involve restructuring Mason will continue to manage CBS goals, they will be more autonomous management over five years to include stations in separate AM and FM divi- than maybe they have been in the past," staff members overseeing markets sions, possibly for up to three more Mason said, speaking especially of the where CBS Radio has a strong pres- years. But, he said, "if this were just a Sentry becomes Katz's sixth rep firm Katz Radio Group last week formed its sixth replace McCurdy at Katz Radio. full- service sales rep firm, Sentry Radio Of the 16 stations signing with Sentry, 10 Sales, and signed 16 radio stations owned had been represented by the Interep Radio by Bonneville International Corp. as clients. Store and six were represented by CBS The deal with Bonneville lends Sentry Radio Representatives. Two Bonneville sta- representation of national ad sales for a tions, KOIT -AM -FM San Francisco, will contin- slate of stations that includes wMxv(FM) New ue to be repped by Katz Radio. York and KBiG(FM) Los Angeles. The corn - "The new arrangement with Sentry gives bined 16- station group is anticipated to reap us the opportunity to have almost all of our $30 million in billings for Sentry. Sentry is stations covered by a single company with expected to begin representing Bonneville representation concentrated in the top 50 stations, and other stations yet to be signed, markets, which is something we've never in early January, according to Katz Radio Bob McCurdy will lead done before," says Bonneville Executive Sentry Radio Sales. Group officials. Vice President/COO Bruce Reese. Bob McCurdy, former president of the Katz Radio rep Sentry joins Katz Radio Group's stable of rep firms: firm, was named president of Sentry. Mike Agovino, for- Banner Radio, Katz Radio, Christal Radio, Eastman mer general sales manager of Katz Radio reps, will Radio and Katz Hispanic Media. -DP

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Front row: Bill Blackwell, Jefferson -Pilot Communications; Virginia Hubbard -Morris, KSTP -AM -FM Minneapolis /St. Paul; Mel Karmazin, Infinity Broadcasting Corp./Westwood One; David Kennedy, Susquehanna Radio Corp.; Frank Osborn, Osborn Communications; Ward Quaal, Ward L. Quaal Co.; Robert Sillerman, Sillerman Cos.; Pierre Sutton, Inner City Broadcasting Corp.; Cecil Walker, Gannett Broadcasting; Tom Burchill, Petry Media Corp.; Raif D'Amico, CBS Radio Representatives N.Y.; Marc Guild, Interep Radio Store Marketing Division; Tim McAuliff, Blair Television; Tom Olson, Katz Media Group; Don Robinson, Seltel, and Peter Ryan, Harrington Righter & Parsons. Second Row: Nancy Widmann, CBS Radio; Chase Carey, Fox Television; Robert Wright, NBC; Thomas Murphy, Capital Cities/ABC; FCC Chairman Reed Hundt; Steve Weiswasser, Americast; Ralph Baruch, Viacom; Edward Bleier, Warner Bros. Domestic Pay -TV, Cable and Network Features; Ave Butensky, Television Bureau of Advertising; Jerry Feniger, Station Representatives Association; Jim Greenwald, Katz Media Corp.; Betty Hudson, NBC; Jim Rosenfield, Veronis, Suhler & Associates, and Maurie Webster, Center for Radio Information. Third Row: Robert Batscha, Museum of Television and Radio; Judy Carlough, Radio Advertising Bureau; Lynne Grasz, BDA International; Sandy Josephson, N.Y. Market Radio; Lucille Luongo, American Women in Radio and Tele- vision; Ruth Wooden, Advertising Council; Steven Brill, Court TV; Kay Koplovitz, USA Networks; Doug McCormick, Life- time Television; Don Mitzner, Group W Satellite Communications; Tom Rogers, NBC /NBC Cable and Business Devel- opment; Gerry Byrne, Variety, Peggy Conlon, BROADCASTING & CABLE; Lawrence Oliver, Multichannel News/Cablevision, and Albert Warren, Warren Publishing.

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© 1995 Game Show Channel, L.P. All Rights Resero d Latest pay cable fight: Showtime vs. Starz! War o f words heats up between competing movie services By Harry A. Jesse!! solid," Wade says. Showtime has histor- ically run 60 or 70 new films each year. Among the promotional give- "That has not changed and will not aways cable executives found change in the foreseeable future." in their hotel rooms at the By 2000, HBO, Showtime and Western Cable Show were an aero- Starz! will each control about a third sol can containing a fragrance to of Hollywood's output, Wade says, clear the air of Starz! "dubious" although the relative shares will claims and a four -page slick scold- shift slightly over the next five years 0941,tTSt::r97 ing Starz! for making as movie licensing agreements up "fake stuff about begin and end. Showtime." Wade acknowledges that Starz! Showtime is "just runs more theatricals in prime time, trying to have a little but only because it repeats titles more. bit of fun" with the "They have 50% more repeats than in -room items," says we do," he says. "If they think repeti- Jeff Wade, executive vice president, tion works for them, great. We don't." sales and marketing, Showtime. Showtime is putting more time Maybe so. But the can and the and money into original programing slick also constitute tangible evi- in response to subscribers' chronic dence of an increasingly nasty mar- Showtime's spray promises to "clear the air complaints about excessive repeats. of dubious claims" made by its rival ketplace battle in which the upstart Starz! Since July, Showtime has been air- Starz! is trying to usurp Showtime's What's more, Sie says, much of ing one original movie each week, the position as the number -two pay ser- Showtime's original programing and fruit of a $150 million commitment to vice. Starz! is a product of Tele -Com- many of its "B- movies" are filled with original programing. munications Inc.'s Encore Media Corp. sex and violence and aimed at a "hard - Original programing is a panacea, In trade ads and interviews, Encore edged urban" market. Wade says. It reduces repetition, wins Chairman and CEO John Sie has been Sie and his affiliate sales teams are critical acclaim, builds the brand and blasting away at Showtime, charging urging cable operators to replace differentiates the service. that it has forfeited its status as a first - Showtime in their discounted pay Instead of trying to replace Show- rank pay service by emphasizing origi- packages with Starz! and its compan- time, Starz! should be promoting the nal programing and deemphasizing ion vintage movie service Encore. idea of consumers purchasing an first -run theatricals. In 1997 and 1998, "Showtime doesn't belong in the core affordably priced package of differen- Starz! and HBO will air 80% of Holly- package," Sie says. "It's no longer a tiated pay services. wood's best work. broad -based first -run movie service, The attacks on Showtime are an "act which is what the consumer wants." of desperation," says Wade. Starz! has Showtime is returning fire, alleging committed more than $3 billion to Liberty selling that Sie is distorting the truth about its licensing films, he says and to cover commitment to first -run movies. that liability, it must build its distribu- America One "We think our theatrical base is tion system as quickly as possible. Tele- Communications Inc. pro- graming arm Liberty Sports is close to a deal to sell its America One broadcast network to an Original ideas from Lifetime undisclosed buyer, BROADCAST- ING & CABLE has learned. Liberty Channel is developing four drama and reality series for '96 executives say the service reach- es more than 18% of U.S. house- By Rich Brown studios to sell their product directly to holds through America One, the co -owned cable networks. The Fox - predominantly low -power TV net- In an effort to make the network less owned DC network, for example, earli- work that previously operated as dependent on off-network product, er this year bought off -net rights to Main Street Television. Lifetime is developing four new Fox -produced NYPD Blue. "We don't Liberty acquired the bankrupt one -hour series for 1996 debut. want to be in a position where we're Main Street late last year in a liqui- "Lifetime is going to have to take waiting to see what off -network prod- dation sale and has boosted distri- control of its own destiny in the uct we can get." bution by more than 6 million future," said Lifetime President /CEO Lifetime shows in development are: homes since relaunching as Amer- Doug McCormick. He says he is con- Telling Secrets, a new reality ica One in February. cerned that the concentration in media series co- produced by Lifetime Televi- ownership will lead more and more sion Productions and Fair Dinkum (the

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Outer Limits, Tek - New original shows are part of a $100 mil- Another weekly hour to be War) and Keatley lion programing commitment from Lifetime. added to the Lifetime schedule is Film Ltd. Intimate Portrait, a series of one- Byline: Sarah Stark, about a top The Glass House, about a 36 -year- hour profiles on accomplished women crime reporter in New York City. The old assistant U.S. attorney with the that currently is presented on a month- weekly series is an Alliance Communi- Department of Justice's Department of ly basis. The weekly version debuts in cations Production. Legal Review. The show is created by March. Turner, E! make deals with telcos Ameritech, GTE, BellSouth and SBC arm for a programing battle with cable operators By Harry A. Jessell station wres(Tv) Atlanta, CNN, Head- Campbell expects additional deals to line News, CNN International /finan- be concluded announced at an acceler- The telcos have begun lining up the cial network, Turner Network Televi- ating place. "We're real close on a cou- cable programing they will need sion, Cartoon Network and Turner ple of big ones." to compete with cable operators. Classic Movies. "We are looking for- Ameritech is particularly eager to Americast -the Disney -led pro- ward to a long and successful partner- secure cable programing. It has graming arm of Ameritech, GTE, Bell- ship, said Carter Maguire, executive obtained cable franchises for several South and SBC Communications -cut vice president, Turner Network Sales, suburban Detroit and Chicago commu- distribution deals with Turner Broad- in a prepared statement. nities and hopes to begin offering ser- casting System and E! Entertainment "The deals are starting to fall into vices next spring. Television, it was announced last week place," said Patrick Campbell, execu- Tele -TV -the joint venture of Bell at the Western Cable Show. Terms tive vice president, strategy and devel- Atlantic, Nynex and PacTel -has were not disclosed. opment, Ameritech. "We're happy "agreements in principle" with several Encore Media Corp. (STARZ! and with what Americast has been able to programers, said John Clark, executive Encore) and Nostalgia Television had pull together." vice president, programing and distrib- earlier announced agreements with The negotiations have been tough, ution, Tele -TV Media, He said he Americast, and Encore added another Campbell said. "Nobody is rolling would not identify the programers until deal with Southwestern Bell (see box, over. We have to negotiate. But we are the deals are finalized. below). generally pleased with the terms and He and four other executives, in- The Turner agreement covers super- conditions." cluding Tele -TV Media COO David Grant, scheduled meetings with more than two dozen cable programers at the Southwestern Bell sees Starz! Western Cable Show in hopes to cut- Encore's 10 channels -for -1 maxi -pay strategy received a cross -media ting deals or at least pushing negotia- endorsement last week with the announcement that Southwestern Bell tions forward. Tele -TV will probably would launch the Starz!/ Encore movie package as part of its Richardson, start announcing its agreements in Jan- Tex., digital system test (1.800 homes) beginning January 1996. One uary, he said. observer noted that the telco deal is in TCI's backyard (TCI, of course, is Tele -TV is seeking rights to distrib- the largest cable MSO and partner in Encore). ute the programing by cable and by The week before, it was announced that the telco consortium Americ- wireless cable (MMDS), Clark said. ast would launch Starz! and Encore in all its systems, with a minimum of PacTel, Nynex and Bell Atlantic have eight screens on any digital platforms. invested in wireless cable companies. Also in Anaheim: Encore confirmed its plans to spin off its "Captain "The difficult negotiations are with Zoom" made-for -cable movie into a syndicated series. Encore Chairman the usual suspects," he said, declining John Sie said the company now had 16 million subscribers to its various to name names. "There are a few services: 7.5 million for Encore, 3 million for Starz! and 5.5 million for the glitches that will require some extra six thematic multiplex services. brain power. But then again nobody said this was going to be easy."

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When Sprint Telecommunica- fy and lease sites for the cells. tions Venture rolls out its wire- STV will not be ready to announce less telephone service next its rollout schedule for a few more year, it will offer consumers plenty of months, he said. inducements to sign on, but lower Instead of low prices, STV will use prices may not be among them, says quality, customer service and conve- STV CEO Ron LeMay. nience and increased functionality to "It's not our intent to sell its service, LeMay said. start a price war," The digital PCS service STV plans is LeMay said last week at superior to conventional cellular and a Cable Television Ad- incorporates paging, LeMay said. And ministration & Market- it eventually will be packaged with ing Society seminar prior Sprint long- distance service, cable TV to the Western Show. service, high -speed Internet access and When the STV introduces its per- paging. The packaging should facilitate sonal communications service in com- billing and what he calls "customer petition with entrenched cellular tele- care," he said. phone providers in a market, it may LeMay conceded to reporters after have to keep prices low to establish a the speech that cable's complementary toehold, he said. But the strategy is to wireline service will be slow in corn- use price "to the least extent we can." ing. By the end of 1997, he said, he STV is a joint venture of Sprint and expects the cable partners to be ready Sprint Telecommunications Venture three large cable operators-Tele-Com - to deliver wireline telephone service in CEO Ron LeMay says he hopes to munications Inc., Cox and Comcast. have service in 20-to -25 markets by no more than 10 million homes. Having won $2.1 billion worth of spec- the end of 1996 Consumers are getting their first trum in the FCC auction earlier this taste of the service in Baltimore and year, STV is licensed to deliver wireless To meet the goal, LeMay said, the Washington. Under the Sprint Spec- telephone service to 185 million people. venture is working in all the markets, trum brand, American Personal Com- If all goes well, the venture hopes to clearing its spectrum of microwave munications, which is 49% owned by have service up and running in 20 -to- users and building more than 5,000 STV, introduced PCS service in the 25 markets covering 60% of its poten- cells, the mini -relay stations through market two weeks ago. tial customers -around 110 million which all the wireless calls will pass. LeMay declined to say how many people -by the end of 1996, LeMay Before it can even begin construction, consumers have subscribed. "We are said. The percentage should rise to he said, STV must clear its spectrum of doing very well against the expecta- 70% in 1997 and 80% in 1998. incumbent microwave users and identi- tions we had.... It's early and encourag- ing and that's better than early and dis- couraging." A third from Showtime STV looks forward to the passage of Showtime Networks Inc. is launching Showtime 3, a third multiplexed pro- pending federal telecommunications graming feed next spring. Showtime 3 will offer different programing from reform legislation that will knock Showtime and Showtime 2. Showtime already offers Showtime 2 West, a down barriers to local telephone com- three -hour delayed feed of Showtime 2. Showtime 3 will be part of Multi- panies. But even if the legislation fails, channel Showtime, one of the network's three brands along with The he said, states are opening the door to Movie Channel and The Sundance Channel, a new independent movie competitors. By next June, he said, network scheduled to launch early next year. only 10 will still restrict competition. LeMay said he expects the federal measure to become law early next year. CNNfn gets TW boost STV's goal is nothing less than CNNfn. Turner's new financial news network, got a big boost last week becoming "the nation's preeminent with the news that its soon -to -be merger partner Time Warner will carry full- service local telecommunications the new service on its New York City cable systems in Manhattan, Brook- company," LeMay said. lyn, Queens and Staten Island, adding more than 1 million subs to the net- And LeMay was confident of work's existing base. The signing brings the new service's total subscriber obtaining the goal. "We have the right base to 5.5 million. CNNfn is scheduled to launch Dec. 29 with 12 hours of vision, we have the right strategy, we original programing to air from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. According to Lou Dobbs, have more assets to work with...we executive vice president, projections have the service turning a profit by have the right partners, we have the 1999, however "we're going to try to beat that date." financial muscle, the right brand, the right marketing position."

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FIRST IN BUSINESS...WORLDWIDE. based channel and a hybrid - based channel. He noted that the advertiser -based channel has several advantages, including channel availabili- ty to all viewers and cable systems being paid for the channel rather than having to pay for the programing. Angela Hundley, director, programer relations, South - em New England Telephone Multimedia Services, said the service (which is being tested in West Hartford, Conn.) was founded with consumer satisfaction and Brian Dougherty, Wink Communications; Steve Necessary, S -A; Halsey Minor, C /NET; needs in mind. She says the Angela Hundley, SNET; Dr. Walt Ciciora, consultant; Larry Wangberg, Starsight test, which began in April 1994, passes 1,250 homes with 400 paying customers. New money from old tech Among the services offered are time -shifted programing By Steve Coe manager of subscriber systems, cited including six programs from CBS (60 interactive viewing guides as an exam- Minutes is one). However, she pointed Most of the participants of the ple of an ancillary business "that is gen- out, "the revenue will really come from "Panning for Gold: Cable's erating revenues today." He noted that digital advertising" citing the increased New Revenue Streams" panel some viewing guides are bringing in a activity in infomercials. "We are mov- focused on ideas or existing businesses range of per-person revenues with the ing to marketing to the one, rather than that utilize current tech- low end being "about $1.60 per person marketing to the masses." nology to generate more per year." However, he also said that Halsey Minor, chief executive offi- money. Moderated by the New England Guide, "with about cer, C /Net: The Computer Network, Larry Wangberg, presi- 80% penetration is generating about said cable is especially positioned to dent /CEO of Starsight $17 per person per year. So this is a take advantage of these opportunities Telecast, the discussion good nugget sitting right in front of us." in the new media world. He pointed out focused on electronic As for virtual channels, Necessary the strong brand identity of such chan- program guides, classified advertising said the options available for such ser- nels as MTV and CNN, as well as and virtual channels that are available vices are limited only by imagination. cable's access to programing "that has to cable operators. He said that there are three models of already been amortized," as advantages Steve Necessary, Scientific - virtual channels operating: an advertis- the industry has in exploiting these new Atlanta's vice president and general er- funded channel, a subscription- revenue streams. Stanford Telecom unveils interactive headend receiver Stanford Telecom is introducing a burst receiver for headend receiver that provides the necessary digital interactive CATV digital -headend equipment. The unit, signal processing to demodulate signals that have the STEL -9244, is designed to handle the upstream been optimized for upstream transmission over hybrid modulation functions that enable information transmit- fiber/coax systems. Prototype testing has shown a sig- ted by subscribers to be received by the headend nal degradation of less than 0.5 db, Corrigan says. equipment. The product should be available early next year, Cor- The upstream channel in an interactive system must rigan says, adding, "Most of the recent interest has been deal with hundreds of subscribers sending information from data and telephony. An exciting application is Inter- through a single line, as well as signal noise and other net access -type service, with various data modem interference. Upstream modulation is one of the major speeds over coax cable. In conjunction with telephone technical challenges as interactive broadband services services, that seems to make economic sense." are implemented, says Rob Corrigan, vice president, The burst receiver will be marketed as a common marketing, Stanford Telecom. piece of various interactive systems. "There's a physical requirement to pump data back "From a system integrator's standpoint, if they want to upstream," Corrigan says. "At this point, [the burst develop a new product of interactive service, we've receiver] is a general -purpose tool for interactivity on taken a large chunk of their development work out up the upstream." front," Corrigan says. "That reduces the development The STEL -9244 is a standard board -level QPSK risk in a way that's consistent with the market risk." -GD

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From left to right: Dave Rydell, Bill Rafferty, Dick Hutchinson, Charolette Gray with daughter Nijer, Melissa Pestar, Debbie Silbert and Lew Bonadies.

At America's Talking, our viewers are part of the And we are always looking for new ways to help our conversation. Through faxes, phones, and affiliates. From our groundbreaking retail McDonald's on -line computer services, they let us know what they co- branding effort to our most recent "Have a Heart think. Right now. Ambassador Program," the response from our affili- ates has been tremendous. But it's just as critical to involve our affiliates as it is to air our viewers' opinions. For more information on how you can get involved That's why we combine with our local marketing programs, call your CNBC/ compelling program- America's Talking representative. ming with solid mar- FINE,, keting expertise. Our affiliates benefit A MERICA*S from fresh market- HEART ing ideas that focus TALKING on their community. NETWORK Cez Saturday night's all right for USA Network will debut three hours of original programing in January By Jim McConville between a Fox and an HBO as far as audience is concerned." Taking a page from the broad- The three -hour block will con- cast networks' brand -building sist of four half-hour sitcoms run- book, USA Network plans to ning between 9 and 11 p.m. Shows launch a Saturday evening block of are to include newcomers Campus original programing next year. Cops and Weekly World News, Starting Jan. 6, USA will launch a which will be matched with its three -hour program- current Weird Science and Duck - ing block packaged man. under the banner USA will add Pacific Blue, an "Saturday Night Is hour long action /drama series in Something Else." the mold of Baywatch to run at 8 -9 USA executives p.m. starting March 2. Pacific say the blocking Blue, which Perth describes as concept is to sharpen the cable net- "Baywatch on bikes," will be pro- work's viewing demographics and duced by Gary Nardino Produc- develop a fresh network identity. tions. "The move is to brand USA Net- Tying USA's program block work and sharpen its focus, together each week will be 90 sec- although USA will still and always onds of thematically linked inter- be a broad -based entertainment net- stitials placed at the top of each work," says Rod Perth, president of show. The vignettes, shot in black USA Entertainment and executive USA is adding 'Pacific Blue,' described as and white, will center on a comical VP of programing for USA. ` Baywatch on bikes.' family that attempts to solve a dif- Perth says USA will apply the idea we're looking to skew to the younger ferent problem each week. to both its acquired and original pro- end of that. We're certainly not look - If its program block experiment graming going forward. "We're obvi- ing to be Fox or MTV, but we're cer- proves successful, Perth says USA may ously looking to adults 18 -49, but tain that we can fit in very nicely expand the concept to other nights. Pushing the right PPV buttons More money and fresh approaches are keys to movie marketing say panelists By Jim McConville Hilda Chazanovitz, vice president of promotion. This includes starting the marketing for Viewers Choice, predicts PPV campaign at the same time or even pv- per -view movies will require that the scope of PPV movie promo- before a movie gets its theatrical release, more promotional money as well tions will change next year "as more cross- promotion with consumer product as some fresh marketing approach- PPV [cable] channels are added and companies ranging from Microsoft to es to get the most out of each event. Hollywood studios make a strategic Dunkin' Donuts and building advertis- That's according to cable and movie commitment to spend more marketing ing partnerships with cable operators. studio executives on a panel at CTAM's dollars." Studios now come to the table with annual "New Revenue Roundtable" A successful PPV movie, say execu- fatter wallets to market a PPV movie, conference. tives, requires earlier and more extensive says Julie Jenkins, vice president sales and operations, pay television, for Walt Disney. Last September, Disney's Dick Clark goes cable Buena Vista Pay TV spent a record $1 million to market "Pulp Fiction." Veteran TV producer Dick Clark has formed a company to build and buy Eric Frankel, executive vice presi- Latin American Cable Systems. Dick Clark International Cable Ventures dent, marketing, for Warner Brothers will be headed by Clark and cable entrepreneur Dick Lubic. The compa- Pay Television, says Warner next year ny's first foray will be in the Dominican Republic, where it has secured the will spend $300,000 -$500,000 adver- franchise for the capital, Santo Domingo, and wireless and MMDS licens- tising each PPV movie, significantly es for the entire country. Construction is expected to begin by first quarter up over last year. 1996. Clark says he targeted Latin America because the U.S. market is One major distributor, Request Tele- "very mature." vision, also plans to up its stake in PPV movies by expanding its PPV channels

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By Jim McConville Networks need to keep the brand message as simple as possible. "Trying In building cable brand loyalty, per- to get too many messages across will ception can be as important as reali- be unsuccessful," says Judi Allen, ty. In fact perception can often senior vice president of marketing for become reality when it comes to con- Century Communications. sumer attitudes toward their cable com- Allen says changing a company's pany, say cable industry executives name can also alter the way its sub- who participated on a panel entitled: scribers view it. Century last year "Building a Reputation: Creating Brand CLlAI SZ/L C changed its name to Century Commu- Loyalty" at the Western Cable Show. nications to open consumers to the idea Sometimes cable networks are 4SPOR r.s- that will eventually offer a variety of forced to launch a brand -building cam- N E F W O R K customer services besides cable. paign as damage control to alter Allen says changing a company's already- established negative consumer Building brand loyalty name can also alter the way its sub- perceptions. requires a network to scribers look at it. Century last year Eric Kessler, senior vice president, changed its name to Century Commu- marketing, for HBO, says the premium find its own distinctive nications to accustom consumers to the cable network two years ago had to brand personality, idea that it will eventually offer a vari- develop an image- branding campaign ety of customer services besides cable. to change viewer attitudes that the net- develop a system for Brian Bedol, CEO of Classic Sports work offered a limited selection of new reinforcing the brand, Network, says building brand loyalty movie titles. requires a network to find its own dis- In response, HBO rolled out its "and take advantage of tinctive brand personality, develop a "HBO Saturday Nights" campaign pro- every [brand] impression system for reinforcing the brand, "and moting the network's new theatrical take advantage of every [brand] releases programed each Saturday you make." impression you make." evening. Kessler says HBO's Nielsen -CEO Brian Bedol Bedol says picking the right logo can ratings rose from a 10.9 to an 11.7 fol- be critical to building a solid brand lowing the campaign. image in consumers' minds.

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Sapan upped at Rainbow Scripps Howard NPT in Sacramento. Travel Log Rainbow President and CEO Joshua Roackabrand joins TVN Inn Country USA, a new series pro- has been named CEO of Rain- duced by Shorn Stories TV, is joining Sapan Stephen Roackabrand, VP, pay televi- bow Programming Holdings. In his the Travel Channel lineup in January. sion and ancillary markets, Paramount new post, Sapan will oversee the com- The series profiles inns and bed and Pictures, has been named senior VP, advertising arm as well as pro- breakfast stops across the U.S. In other pany's programing and new business devel- graming services American Movie news, the Travel Channel has created opment, for TVN Entertainment's new Classics, Bravo, The Independent an in -house research department for digital TV service. The service is Film Channel, MuchMu- audience and market measurement. aimed at helping cable operators better sic USA, Prime Net- compete against DBS competitors by work, NewSport, Sports - Pilson programs PLN offering digitally delivered program- Channel and News 12. Neal Pilson's Pilson Communications ing at lower cost. has been tapped as the principal Million more National Media gets Dragnet provider of original sports programing Prime Deportiva, Liber- for Prime Life Network, the 50 -plus- National Media Corp. has become a ty's Spanish -language targeted service scheduled to debut 50 -50 partner in Graff Pay Per View's sports network, has added nearly 1 next March. Pilson is the former presi- infomercial network Dragnet. The million new subscribers in the U.S. dent of CBS Sports. partnership calls for National Media to and Latin America. The latest addi- provide exclusive infomercial pro- tions bring the subscriber Fore! -most service's graming for Dragnet. base to nearly 3 million. Of the new The Golf Channel will provide over subscribers, 890,000 are in Latin In the Know half of all televised golf coverage in America with the remaining 100,000 Discovery Network's The Learning 1996, says the channel, which plans in the domestic market. Currently the Channel next year will offer Know TV, 822 hours of live tour coverage. Cov- 24 -hour, 7 day -a -week service counts a nationwide scholarship grant program erage will include PGA, LPGA, Nike, 1.3 million subscribers in the U.S. and designed to increase media literacy seniors and and European tournaments. 1.4 million in Latin America. among school children. Designed to Cox sells systems help children become media literate, the Book by its coverage program will allow participating cable Cox has a definitive agreement to sell Booknet is putting the finishing touches affiliates to partner with TLC to offer an some of its Ohio and Kentucky sys- on an affiliation agreement with Inter - expense -paid trip to the Institute on tems to FrontierVision Partners. The Media Partners that will give the planned Media Education at Harvard University. deal includes systems representing cable channel an additional 1.3 million TLC and local operators will select an 77,900 subs and includes systems that subscribers in Tennessee, Georgia and educator within the affiliate's school had to be divested following its Febru- North and South Carolina. BookNet is district to attend a course on teaching ary 1995 merger with Times Mirror. scheduled for an October 1996 launch. and learning media literacy. PacTel wireless makes buy Inspirational office Outdoor rollout Pacific Telesys is paying $160 mil- Outdoor Lifc, the 24-hour ad supported lion -$170 million to acquire Wireless The Inspiration Network opened a Hollywood, Calif., office in line with channel co -owned by Cox, Comcast, Holdings Inc. and Videotron Bay Area Continental and Times Mirror, had its Inc., which wireless the network's plans to develop origi- together hold official launch celebration at the West - licenses and rights to video service in nal entertainment programing and launch its Home Tv, a block of origi- em Show with 1.4 million subs (up San Francisco, San Diego and Vic - nal that will 400,000 subs in past two months, torville, a programing air prime Calif. The deal calls for according to Outdoor Life). It is project- swap of $120 million of Pacific Tele- time on the network starting January. Ossie VP ing it will hit 2 million by year's end. sis stock for that of the acquired com- Mills, ISPN of programing, network will panies, plus assumption of $55 million says the pursue a "full range original in debt. When PacTel's systems are all of programing." Cable /telco connection up-expected by 1997 -it will be able Cincinnati Bell is buying Information to offer 100 channels of digital TV to Jones on the Net Systems Development Partnership 7 million California homes. Jones International rolled out a new (ISD), which provides billing and cus- Internet service as well as a new cable tomer management systems to the Independent additions network at the Western Show. The cable industry. ISD clients include The Independent Film Channel has Internet Channel will act as a national Comcast, Cox and Time Warner and made two new MSO deals with Inter - Internet gateway service, providing regional operators in the U.S. and media and Multimedia. Both will add customized service and information Europe. "Combining CBIS's expertise the channel to their new product tiers, via cable. In addition, Jones will roll in telephony with ISD's expertise in the former in in suburban Maryland out a new cable video network that cable positions CBIS to serve the and the latter in Chicago. The channel will tap into Jones Satellite Networks, needs of the converged marketplace," also recently was picked up for a the company's satellite- delivered said David H. Richardson of Comcast Comcast NPT in Sarasota, Ha., and a music network. Cable.

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By Christopher Stern wide Programing. McHale has been acting COO With an eye toward doubling his since June; last Tuesday's an- company's $2.5 billion value nouncement makes that appoint- during the next five years, Dis- ment permanent. She has been covery Communications Chairman/ with the company since 1987, CEO John Hendricks has named three serving as executive vice presi- company veterans to a senior manage- dent, corporate services and gener- ment team. al counsel. Gregory Moyer, president/chief edi- Although Durig will retain his torial and creative officer; Judith current title, his position among the McHale, chief operating officer, and company's top executives has been Discovery Communications chariman CEO Gregory Durig, chief financial officer, confirmed. Durig is credited by John Hendricks (seated) and his manage- will report directly to Hendricks under Hendricks for the company's suc- ment team (left to right): Greg Moyer, Judith McHale, Greg Durig. the management plan. cess in raising money in the private In his new position, Moyer will markets. "[Durig] keeps us from having cable networks in 1996 (sec box, oversee every aspect of Discovery - to go public because he has always below) and opening a chain of retail related content, including products for managed to raise the kind of capital we stores carrying merchandise stamped its foray into the online and multime- have needed on a private basis," Hen- with Discovery's trademark. The com- dia markets. Moyer will continue dricks said. In the past two weeks, the pany also plans to move into the educa- overseeing Discovery's entry into the- company has raised more than $300 tional services markets with a line of atrical movies and expansion of its million from a group of banks led by academic material. domestic and international cable busi- Toronto Dominion and Crestar. Discovery continues to be a private ness. Moyer's former title was presi- Hendricks' ambitious goals for the company, held jointly by Tele- Commu- dent, Discovery Networks and World- next decade include launching five nications Inc.'s Liberty Media, Cox Communications, Advanced/Newhouse Communications and John Hendricks. PEOPLE'S CHOICE: TOP CABLE SHOWS Following are the top 15 basic cable programs for the week of Nov. 13 -19, ranked by households tuning n. The cable- network ratings are percentages of the total households each network reaches. The U.S. rat- New channels await ings are percentages of the 95.9 million households with TV sets. Source: Nielsen Media Research. HHs. Rating set -top action Program Network Time (ET) (000) Cable U.S. Discovery Communications has 1. NFL Regular Season ESPN Sun 8:OOp 6,299 9.4 6.6 firmed its plans to launch five 2. CFA College Football ESPN Sat 5:30p 2,797 4.2 2.9 new channels in 1996, including networks for 3. NFL SportsCenter ESPN Sun 11:17p 2,718 4.0 2.8 two designed the first generation of digital set -top 4. Secret World of Alex Mack NICK Sat 8:OOp 2,493 3.9 2.6 boxes. 5. Silk Stalkings USA Sun 10:OOp 2,391 3.6 2.5 The first three channels will be Aaahh!!! 7:OOp 6. Real Monsters NICK Sat 2,368 3.7 2.5 devoted to children's programing, 7. Doug NICK Mon 7:OOp 2,353 3.6 2.5 natural history and how -to. The 8. Murder, She Wrote USA Sun 8:OOp 2,345 3.5 2.4 channels have not been named 9. Rugrats NICK Mon 6:30p 2,319 3.6 2.4 but will be made available to 10. Rugrats NICK Thu 6:30p 2,294 3.5 2.4 cable operators as soon as Jan. 11. Rugrats NICK Sun 10:OOa 2,282 3.5 2.4 15, 1996, according to Discovery 12. Rugrats NICK Sat 7:30p 2,279 3.5 2.4 Chairman /CEO John Hendricks. 13. CFA College Football ESPN Sat 9:03p 2,266 3.4 2.4 Two other channels, History 14. Rugrats NICK Tue 6:30p 2,261 3.5 2.4 Select and Science Select, will 15. Doug NICK Thu 7:OOp 2,259 3.5 2.4 be launched approximately one Following are the top five pay cable programs for the week of Nov. 13 -19. ranked by households tuning month before the first digital in. Source: Nielsen Media Research. boxes are made available, Hen- 1. Movie: 'Drop Zone' HBO Sat 8:OOp 3,792 15.8 4.0 dricks says. 2. Boxing: Whitaker -Rodriguez HBO Sat 10:55p 2,799 11.7 2.9 The digital channels will be 3. Boxing: Whitaker -Rodriguez HBO Sat 10:33p 2,606 10.8 2.7 offered to consumers "more along the model of near-video on 4. Real Sex 13 HBO Sat 12:07a 2,565 10.7 2.7 demand," Hendricks says. -cSS 5. Boxing: Whitaker -Rodriguez HBO Tue 10:18p 2,554 10.6 2.7

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By Glen Dickson Although CBS's editors liked the ImMix TurboCube's inter- There can be only one. face, they thought the multifea- That's the mandate CBS tured Mac -based system was bet- News has for its nonlinear ter suited to a post -production editing tests (BROADCASTING & environment. CABLE, Oct. 16). Last week, the "It may be just too much network came a step closer to machine for what we do," DeCe- picking a winner by eliminating sare says. "Our editors universal- two of the four initial contenders, ly felt it was more than they need- Lightworks and ImMix, from ed or would ever use. They also consideration. Only Avid and D- Don DeCesare has been overseeing nonlinear editing were not completely satisfied Vision remain. tests for CBS News. with the storage capabilities." "We're still not completely ImMix claims six hours of comfortable with either of the two the sense that the product could be "broadcast- quality" storage for its sys- finalists that we would buy them aired, and that's a very promising tem. today," says Don DeCesare, vice presi- development for the industry," DeCe- The Newsworks system from dent, operations, CBS News. CBS is sare says. "I don't think we could have Lightworks drew more direct criti- leasing a few systems from each ven- said that even a few months ago. Nev- cism, most of it stemming from the dor for intensive hard -news testing and ertheless, we didn't conclude that all developmental software that Light- hopes to make a final decision in Janu- four were equal." works sent with the DOS -based ary 1996. Price was not an issue, DeCesare machine. "We were evaluating an During initial testing of all four sys- says. "I didn't try to negotiate a price, alpha code, so there were some sig- tems in November, six CBS editors and I didn't ask the editors to worry nificant performance problems," edited all of their assignments on the about price." Instead, the editors were DeCesare says. "The editors liked the nonlinear systems and CBS aired cut urged to consider ease of use, system interface, but the system's not really spots from each. reliability, and which features make ready yet. There were a lot of crashes, "All four systems passed the test in sense for a direct -to -air application. and it was very slow." The DOS operating system also was a problem, DeCesare says. "It's not proposed to port to Windows NT until Prevue shifts plant to MPEG -2 sometime next year, and there was con- The Prevue Channel has converted its in -plant video distribution to the siderable concern over that, both from MPEG -2 compression scheme with a new digital network control system. the editors and myself." The system allows Prevue to develop a functional MPEG -2 video library Instead of testing alpha -code soft- before it moves to mass deployment of MPEG -2 feeds over a file -server ware, CBS could have evaluated Light- network by early 1997. works' current nonlinear system, which Prevue has built several encoding suites with encoders from Vela is DOS -based, DeCesare says. But he Research to digitize incoming video. A 40 -node ATM network with a con- thought it was fairest to let Lightworks trol system developed by Fore Technology distributes video throughout put "their best foot forward." Prevue's plant. Connor Storage Systems has provided the RAID disk Interestingly, the two survivors also drives for in -play use, while CD -ROMs form an offline library that is cata- feature disparate platforms: Avid's logued into a database for quick retrieval. NewsCutter on the Mac and D- "We're relying heavily upon a client/server model, with Microsoft's Vision's OnLINE on the Pentium. CBS Sequel program running the servers," says Bert McCoy, vice president, is an IBM -platform plant, and DeCe- research and development, Prevue Networks. "Once it's on the database, sare has reservations about following there are a number of decision- making computers -mostly Compaq and the Apple path. Hewlett-Packard--that distribute the feeds for satellite uplink." "On the Avid side, I think they're Prevue still plays video off Pioneer laser -disc jukeboxes, but will move to still in the race because they do have a server playback during the next 12 -18 months. Servers also will handle stor- product that's on the market and that age and retrieval at the 3,500 cable headends that receive the Prevue Chan- people use," DeCesare says. nel and Sneak Prevue. SeaChange has signed a multimillion -dollar agree- DeCesare says that although his ment with SeaChange Technology to provide several hundred Video Server editors liked working with the News - 100 systems as part of that upgrade (BROADCASTING & CABLE, Nov. 13). Cutter, they thought the D- Vision McCoy hopes to have five sites operational for digital retrieval of the system had more potential. "They Sneak Prevue channel for the National Cable Television Association show were excited about the platform, Win- in April. -GD dows NT, with a dual Pentium processor system. And in their judg-

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Copyright 0 1995 by Soltronics, Inc. Copyright ®1995 by KKTV ment and observation, D- Vision had editors for day -to -day use in 1996. SATELLITE the best picture of all four." DeCesare says that probably will hap- D- Vision, like Lightworks, showed pen first in a medium -size bureau like FOOTPRINTS up with developmental software. But Dallas or Miami. He would like to DeCesare says that may have worked install nonlinear work stations, a file CBS builds SNG service in its favor, as the company was server and a digital linear tape -based CBS News has formed the world's responsive to the editors' suggestions. robotic archive system all in one setting. largest satellite newsgathering ser- One thing that is fairly certain is that "Then we'll see how we can make them vice, comprising CBS News and 13 CBS News will implement nonlinear work as an integrated system." other broadcasters in Europe and Japan. Participating broadcasters include SkyNews. England; VTM, Belgium; RTL, Germany; M6, France, and Tokyo Broadcasting System, WavePhore survives lab Japan. The service will be based in Luxembourg, with the live -news por- Data Broadcasting Committee sends datacasting system tion operated by CBS News from its to field with Digideck's London bureau. "[The arrangement] insures us of instantaneous feeds By Glen Dickson Testing group chairman Victor from any breaking news event," says Tawil of Maximum Service Televi- John Frazee, vice president, CBS WivePhore's data -broadcasting sion says the goal now is to find a news services. system finally is heading to the VHF and a UHF station to conduct The majority of European feeds will field. tests, and to decide whether simulta- be uplinked to transponder 45 on the Last Monday at a meeting of the neous or separate testing of Eutelsat F -4 satellite. National Data Broadcasting Commit- WavePhore and Digideck should be tee in Washington, WavePhore got conducted. NEE-TV launching with GE -1 the nod to proceed to field trials in Most interested parties agree that NET -TV, The Political NewsTalk Net- 1996 along with Digideck of Menlo the two systems can work together in work, has signed with GE Americom Park, Calif. theory, thus pumping up the overall for transponder service on GE -1, The committee hopes to conduct data output that a broadcast station Americom's hybrid spacecraft to be field trials early next spring, in time could offer. Digideck has a data rate launched in April. The contract calls for the results to be considered at the of 535 kilobits per second, while for one C -band transponder on the next full committee meeting at the WavePhore has a rate of 300 kilobits GE -1 bird to be stationed at 103 National Association of Broadcasters per second. degrees west longitude. convention in April. The final step in "We would love to see the systems the process will be to recommend a field- tested together," Williamson standard-or standards -to the FCC. says. "Broadcasters want as big a pipe PanAmSat gets Space "We decided that more technical as possible." Cable; ships PAS -3 information on the performance of the But Digideck President Brit Conner WavePhore system would be con- isn't sure whether that's technically Taiwan Asia Space Cable will use structive to the process," says com- feasible. PanAmSat's PAS -2 Pacific Ocean mittee co -chair Lynn Claudy, senior "We certainly need to be tested as Region satellite to distribute pro- vice president, science and technolo- close to simultaneously as we can," graming to Taiwan and China. gy, NAB. "Their improvement was Conner says. "But I don't think we're In other PanAmSat news. the com- significant enough." in a position to be tested with both sys- pany shipped its new PAS -3 satellite Although Claudy calls the debate tems on at the same time." to Arianespace's launch facility in over whether the committee should Although Conner explains that a

South America for a January lift-off . select a single standard an "item of simultaneous test would require oper- "Based on the current launch continuing interest," that issue will ating the baseband video through schedule, PAS -3 will be in service and not be decided until after the field WavePhore's system, then going capable of transmitting hundreds of TV tests take place. through Digideck's encoder and send- channels and a range of telecommuni- WavePhore COO Glenn William- ing it out from a modified transmitter. cations services by mid -February son is happy with the committee's "If there were an adverse effect, the 1996," says Rob Bednarek of PanAm- vote, which quieted the controversy question would be, `Where did it come Sat. PAS -3, an HS 601 satellite with over the Advanced Television Testing from ?' " Conner says. 16 C -band and 16 Ku -band transpon- Center's latest tests of WavePhore's Conner is glad that his system final- ders, will be used for program distrib- system (BROADCASTING & CABLE, ly will be field- tested, he would have ution by customers including ESPN, Nov. 20). WavePhore's objections to preferred that it had happened this fall, CMT and Liberty. It also will serve as several of the center's testing proce- as scheduled. the platform for the 1996 introduction dures were noted for the record, but "The industry is paying the price for of the direct -to -home service Galavi- not discussed. the committee's inability to make a sion, a partnership of PanAmSat and "The [committee] accepted the fact decision based on the laboratory Mexico's Grupo Televisa. -GD that you can't just do it with lab test- results," he says. "We've lost at least ing," Williamson says. six months of business."

78 December 41995 Broadcasting & Cable If You Have Bottom uc vuvwA% responsible for Line Responsibility creating promo- tions for Fox for a TV News Broadcasting and Fox Children's Net- Cutting Edge work, now has six Operation... Scenarias. Fox Data Broadcasting The newly indepen- Sports uses two of the Corp. has signed a let- dent company, now dedicated systems for Slash your cellular ter of intent with Inter- called Quantegy Inc., its NFL pregame net Financial Network will continue to market show. phone charges by that includes an option its professional media to acquire controlling products under the EGAD! (Electronic 200% to 400 %! interest in the network. Ampex brand name. Graphics and Design) IFN's commercial com- Trinity Broadcasting of Dallas has created a puter network delivers news Network, the world's graphics pack- up -to- the Secu- Most news related cellular -minute largest religious net- age for KHNL -TV Hon- rities and Exchange The Providence costs are for cueing (IFB). The work, has opened an olulu. Commission docu- Broadcasting FCC authorized a one -way HDTV theater at its Journal ments over the Inter- is for Trinity Music City USA Co. -owned station channel every TV station's net to PCs. The pro- television complex, launching the package private use. No usage charges - posed five -year agree- as it switches from a you already own the channel! ment also includes Fox affiliate to NBC. This technology has been slow to exclusive distribu- KHNL -TV now uses the develop because no one could tion of SEC docu- Avid Newscutter non- ments over the linear editing system make it work right. Where others Microsoft Network and Media Server for failed, Modulation Sciences and other wireless all- digital news opera- succeeded. and online distribu- tion. tion channels. The industry leader in TV Tape House Digital of stereo technology has just intro- The Electronic Joseph and Mary, as portrayed New York handled Industries Associ- in HDTV video, 'The duced a second generation PRO Revolutionary' special effects and ation has filed compositing for Digital channel system, PROceiver II comments with the Equipment Corp.'s and PRO Channel Generator II. FCC in support of complete with 64 chan- new commercial, With features like extended high- definition televi- nels of audio and four "Manifesto." The 60- fringe area coverage, selective sion. The association's Sony HDL2000 laser - second spot, directed calling and a unique three year Advanced Television disc players. The Hen- by Marcus Nispel warranty. Committee urged the dersonville, Tenn., the- (director of Janet Jack- commission to ater will showcase a son's "Runaway" Stations have reported "encourage an expedi- $2.1 million, 48- ent transition to digital minute HDTV video, savings so great that they have broadcasting with the The Revolutionary, amortized the cost of the PRO objective of promptly which was shot in equipment in less than three recovering the analog Israel. Production of months! television spectrum for the video was coordi- future redistribution." nated by the Sony EIA also advised the High Definition Cen- You don't need to be stereo FCC to let "consumer ter in Culver City, or have a new transmitter to choices and market- Calif.; Sony shipped Big Brother lurks in scene use the PRO channel and place forces" guide the HDTV equipment, from Digital Equipment Corp. today. commercial. start saving money transition to digital including its HDC 500 broadcasting after ini- camera, to Israel ear- video) for DDB Need- tial regulation. lier this year. ham Worldwide, Call us toll -free at Ampex Corp. has explores the future of (800) 826 -2603 completed the sale of Fox Tape Engineer- corporate computing in for full details! its magnetic -tape sub- ing recently pur- a series of vignettes, sidiary, Ampex Media chased two Solid including high -tech Corp., to a new group State Logic Scenaria blueprints composited modulation sciences of shareholders that digital audio /video across the face of "Big 12A World's Fair Drive includes affiliates of post -production sys- Brother." Editing took Somerset, NJ 08873 the Equitable Life tems to replace two place at Vito DeSario Voice (908) 302 -3090 Assurance Society of analog consoles. Fox Editing, also in Man- Fax (908) 302 -0206 the United States. Tape, which is hattan.

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g H A. J 111111111:- call them standards because broadband connectivity, we are CableLabs is not a standards- Top cable operators and "With setting body under the equipment vendors last about to create a new medium. This is antitrust laws." week said they would the most important thing our industry The process is open to all, work toward a standard for he said. But to participate, PC cable modems that will could be doing right now." vendors must be willing to enable cable subscribers to Intel's Avram Miller cross -license any proprietary navigate the Internet and technology they contribute to other online services up to Systems. "With broadband $30 for Internet access. the fmal system. 1,000 times faster than they connectivity, we are about to All at the press conference Malone said the cable do today over telephone lines. create a new medium," said stressed the need for stan- modems will be able to deliver Under the aegis of Cable- Avram Miller of Intel. "This dards. "The go- in -yas and go- "full- motion video" along with Labs, the operators and ven- is the most important thing out-yas should all be the other online sights and sounds. dors expect to settle on a pre- our industry could be doing same," said Malone. "We "It can do video, but not very liminary standard by next right now." need to avoid proprietary well," Green said. "People are April, according to Cable - In addition to TCI, cable solutions and end up with a not going to be getting the Labs' Dick Green. was represented by top execu- standard that can be deployed video they want for entertain- Operating at 10 megabits tives of Comcast, Cox, Time on a worldwide basis. What ment." However, he added, the per second, the cable modems Warner, Rogers Cablesystems that really means is...a person video should be sufficient for would call up multimedia and Continental. would be able to purchase a news clips and other informa- images and sounds hundreds TCI, Time Warner and modem anywhere in the tional applications. of times faster than the 14.4 - Comcast demonstrated their world and use it anyplace else Malone warned that the kilobits-per- second and 28.8 - commitment to the "datacom" in the world." high -speed modem is not a kilobits -per- second modems business by announcing large Cable operators are not panacea for Internet access. In that now dominate personal modem orders. Motorola waiting for standards before fact, he said, the Internet as computers. The cable modem received three orders totaling beginning to test high -speed now configured would "break would also speed past tele- 350,000 units from three data service. Several trials are down" under the strain of a phone high -speed data links. operators. Hewlett- Packard under way. Time Warner's large number of high -speed "There is basically no com- also received an order for Jim Chiddix explained there is modems. parison" between tomorrow's 150,000 from Comcast. no reason to wait, as long as One way to avoid over- cable modem and today's According to Malone, operators lease the modems to whelming the Internet is to telephone modems, said Tele- cable is shifting its focus from subscribers. Until the stan- increase the bandwidth of its Communications Inc. Presi- interactive TV to high -speed dards are set, consumers will "backbone network," said dent John Malone in announc- Internet access because con- not be able to buy modems Malone. Another is to create ing the standards effort at a sumers are buying the Intemet with assurance that they will local or regional high -speed Western Cable Show press terminals -that is, $2,000 be usable from one cable sys- Internet access grids, which conference. multimedia PCs. "We don't tem to another, he said. replicate and store the most At the press conference, have to worry about the CableLabs will not be set- popular Internet content. Tele- executives of nine major cable expensive end terminal." ting standards per se. It will Communications Inc. backed vendors endorsed the effort. For cable, high -speed publish a set of technical re- @Home is developing such a The companies: General access may be its next big quirements and hand them off grid in a Sunnyvale, Calif., Instrument, Hewlett -Packard, business. Cable marketers also to formal national and interna- trial. The grid works on the Intel Corp., LANcity Corp., expect that consumers will tional standards -setting bodies. principle that a relatively small Motorola, Nortel, Broadband buy the cable modem just as CableLabs is developing amount of content attracts Communications, Toshiba they do phone modems today. "consistent protocols," said most of the activity, said America and Zenith Network In addition, they will pay $20- Malone. "We are not going to @Home's John Doerr. is1W

82 December 41995 Broadcasting & Cable Te/emfeeit 04.1.4e 5e44A, AOL's Leonses; Online should follow cable's lead Branding, niche services and pricing are keys to success

&j Elm, A. Je. uU by permitting interaction online services, they reach among them. Fifty -five per- only 7 million -8 million f you want to be a big suc- cent of AOL user log on to homes. Given its modest pen- cess in tomorrow's online converse in one of the chat etration, he joked, AOL's market, follow the exam- rooms, each geared to differ- advertising tag line should be: ple of cable TV, America ent demographics or interests. "Just a little less pathetic than Online Services President Ted "No one goes to a bar for a the other guys." nrw Leonses said at CTAM's beer," Leonses said. "They go pre- Western Cable Show for the bartender and the peo- I,.Xenucve seminar in Anaheim, Calif. ple at the bar you talk to." Create niche services with Content providers should strong brands and offer them avoid "pay -per -view a la carte News, pizza in low -cost packages, he said. pricing," he said, adding that sports, With more than 4 million Disney lost the cable kids fran- subscribers and growing at the chise to Nickelodeon by decid- rate of 250,000 subscribers per ing to enter the market as a pay from Time Warner month, AOL is successfully service rather than a basic one. Interactive services added to Orlando trial applying the cable formula, "My kid is a Nickelodeon kid: Leonses said. In a couple of he doesn't want Disney." M e424,4 ie scores and print out game sta- years, he predicted, AOL will Leonses was critical of the tistics. be the online equivalent of Internet, calling it an "anti - ime Warner Cable took FSN also has signed agree- Tele- Communications Inc. or market" where money goes in the wraps off a handful ments with Barnett Bank for Time Warner Cable. and none comes out. Software of additional interactive interactive TV banking ser- Developers of online for navigating the Internet and services that will immediately vice and with Pizza Hut for an "channels" should create new for Internet servers is available be added to its experimental interactive delivery service. content and brands instead of free, he said. Most services are Full Service Network interac- FSN will add three new stores "repurposing" those of other free and many advertisers are tive TV system trial in Orlan- to its DreamShop interactive media, he suggested. "It opting to create their own sites. do, Fla. digital shopping mall: The wasn't Rolling Stone that cre- Leonses also said only The new services will give Bombay Co., Book of the ated MTV. It wasn't Sports 750,000 people _pay for Inter- Time Warner's Orlando test Month Club's Editor's Choice Illustrated that created ESPN. net access. Most access the market subscribers options and the Horchow Collection. It wasn't CBS that created service through company ranging from selecting the By year's end, DreamShop CNN. It was young wild-eyed accounts. news to ordering a cus- will add consumer electronics entrepreneurs that created America Online is "about tomized pizza. They include retailer Best Buy. new brands and megafran- creating a new mass medi- NFL on Demand from Sports FSN's PlayWay network of chises." um," Leonses said. "The Illustrated and the NFL; The interactive games will add TV And online programers Internet is about enabling News Exchange (TNX) from BOTS, a maze -based video should seek to create "com- individuals to communicate." Time Inc., and GOt ', an inter- game. munity" among subscribers For all the hype abou active entertainment planning FSN President Tom Feige guide from US West. says Time Warner is still on Feb. 21 -24- "Interactive News- TNX provides a digest of schedule to reach 4,000 subs papers '96: What's Hot, What's the day's news at any time by year end, installing ap- Jan. 14-16-Interactive services Not," conference sponsored by and lets subs select local, state proximately 300 -350 homes Association 2nd annual state -of- The Kelsey Group, Editor & Pub- or national news from sources per week. the- industry strategic business lisher, INMA, National Newspaper including ABC News, CNN, Subscriber prices for inter- meeting. Dora! Golf Resort and Association and Suburban News- NBC News, The Weather active services initially will Spa, Miami. Contact: (301) 495- papers of America. Hyatt Regency Channel and Time Inc. maga- vary by neighborhood during 4955. Embarcadero, San Francisco. zines Time, Fortune, Money FSN's trial test, says Feige. Jan. 29 -Feb. 1- ComNet '96, Contact: 609 -921 -7200. and Entertainment Weekly. "Next year we will be testing networking conference and exhi- March 17- 20- Interactive Enter- NFL on Demand, a joint access fees for individual ser- bition, presented by International tainment Congress '96, presented project of Sports Illustrated vices." He adds that FSN's Data Group. Washington Conven- by the Institute for International Television and the National News Exchange will be free to tion Center, Washington. Contact: Research. Wyndam Palm Springs Football League, will allow subscribers for the first six (800) 545 -3976. Hotel, Palm Springs, Calif. Contact subscribers to access NFL months. nYlu Broadcasting & Cable December 41995 83 n S,`I le- OS

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Local Sales Manager. WHSV -TV, Harrisonburg, VA seeking individual to direct and motivate local sales team. Candidate must have track record VICE PRESIDENT showing success in new business development National Television Sales and special event sales. Strong organizational Capital Cities/ABC. Inc. seeks a seasoned professional to manage the business develop- and people skills a must. Send resume and salary history to Frank Brady, GSM, WHSV -TV, ment activities for our National Television Sales division, encompassing Marketing, P.O. Box TV -3, Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Equal Research, Marketing Sales and New Media Sales. Opportunity Employer. You will expand existing business and develop new business, presenting to manage- ment -level clients and agencies, and ensure the continued growth of unwired network and special opportunity sales on behalf of Capital Cities/ABC Owned Television Stations. Local Sales Manager: WPBF/WTVX, the West Your managerial responsibilities will include: Research and Marketing, which provides Palm Beach ABC and UPN affiliates are looking sales and station management with quantitative and qualitative analysis used for sales for a Local Sales Manager. Candidate should and programming decisions; and New Media Sales, which represents all on -line prod- possess exceptional leadership, organizational ucts developed by the Multimedia Group as well as select non -Capital /ABC and "people" skills with the ability to teach and Cities /alternative media vehicles. motivate a local staff comprised of both senior new and junior sales people. Send resume, qualifica- We require 8+ years of television marketing/sales experience including significant man- tions and salary history to Shawn Bartell, Gener- agerial expertise. Strong presentation skills and a thorough knowledge of qualitative al Sales Manager, WPBF -TV, 3970 RCA Boule- and quantitative research are essential. For consideration, send resume and cover letter vard, Suite 7007, Palm Beach Gardens, FL to Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., Human Resources, Dept. SS. 77 West 66th Street, New York, 33410. No phone calls. NY 10023. We are an equal opportunity employer m/f/d/v.

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Continental Television Network has an open- ing for Local Sales Manager in Missoula, MT. Re- quires success in recruiting, training, and motivat- HELP WANTED MARKETING ing sales staff. ABC /FOX station with major growth potential. Send resume to General Man- Marketing and Promotion Director. Creative, General Marketing Manager: Cleveland, Ohio ager, 2200 Stephens Avenue, Missoula, MT hands -on leader for #1 station in top 40. You'll LMA (CBS affiliate and market leading indepen- 59801. manage all aspects of marketing, image, on -air dent) seeks a creative leader to oversee staff of look, public relations, events planning, media buy- marketing/promotion specialists in the areas of ing, contests, and promotions. Create and ex- advertising, publicity, on-air promotion, sales pro- HELP WANTED SALES ecute the overall marketing plan. We're already motion, special events and graphic design. Not good; we want to be the best! We have all the for the weak of heart...need someone with vision Account Executive: WXII -TV has an immediate toys and will pay top dollar. We want experience, who can not only develop but take concept an a re- opening for individual with proven track a take -no- prisoners attitude, and a hot reel to through creation. Experience in all aspects of sta- cord in television sales. Candidate should have a back up the claims. Reply to Box 00630 EOE. tion promotion and aggressive execution a must. strong work ethic, tenacity and creativity. High Send resume and tape to Tom Greisdorn, GM, energy individual with a minimum of three years WOIO/WUAB, 1717 East 12th Street, Cleveland, TV sales experience. Send resume to: Personnel OH 44114. EOE. Director, WXII -TV, P.O. Box 11847, Winston - Salem, NC 27106. EOE.

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Regional Sales Manager. The dominant NBC af- filiate in southern West Virginia's two- station Assistant Chief Engineer: Charlotte, NC. Post Chief Engineer: Growing, aggressive FOX tele- market seeks an outstanding local AE with signifi- Production /Broadcast Facility has immediate vision group has immediate opening for "hands cant agency experience ready to move into sales opening for an Assistant Chief Engineer. Candi- on" Chief for its Scranton, PA affiliate. Qualified management, or a television sales manager date should have a degree in electronics and individual will possess proven leadership ability, ready to make the change. Successful candidate minimum of five years experience as a broadcast demonstrated technical ability in both studio and will report directly to General Management and or post facility maintenance engineer. Contact transmitter design and maintenance, and be a be responsible for station's significant regional David Whaley, Chief Engineer, Creative Post and team player. Send resume and salary history to business. This is a growth opportunity with one of Transfer, 377 Carowinds Boulevard, Suite 101, Lee Carpenter, Corporate Chief Engineer, the nation's most respected broadcast groups. Fort Mill, SC 29715. Fax (803) 548 -3153. Pegasus Broadcast Television, P.O. Box 10888, Send resume immediately to: Wanda Davidson, Jackson, Mississippi 39289. EOE. WVVA -TV, Box 1930, Bluefield, WV 24701. EOE/ M -F.

Sales Representative: Worldwide Television News Productions. WTN (80% owned by Capi- tal Cities /ABC, Inc.) is looking for someone with 3 -5 years sales experience in production/ corporate video related field. Sell WTN Produc- Attention: Gable Aòvertifer$ tions' television services to non -broadcast users: corporations, production companies and public relations firms. Services include worldwide EFP @ 212.337.7073 crewing, satellite media tours, video news re- Please contact Antoinette Fasulo leases and satellite video conferencing. Create sales proposals and presentations, develop new or Fax 212.206.8327 for BROADCASTING & CABLE'S business leads and maintain existing client rela- tions. Fax cover letter and resume to (212) 496- peiac l CABLE CLASSIFIED DISPLAY AD RATES! 1269, Attn: JS - Productions. No phone calls news please. l

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Mobile Unit Engineer. EIC wanted immediately Maintenance Engineer wanted for KTUL -TV, an HELP WANTED NEWS for 48 foot mobile facility of Philadelphia based ABC affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a great place to multi -unit mobile television company. Knowledge work and live. Primary responsibilities include in- of following equipment is a plus: Ikegami HK366 stallation and maintenance of video, audio and Weekend Editor. WOOD TV8 in Grand Rapids cameras, GVG300, Chyron iNFiNiT!, A53, A42, computer equipment. Two years technical school- has an opening for an energetic, self motivated

Beta SP, 1 ". Mobile unit experience preferred. Re- ing in electronics, computer science. Minimum of videotape editor in its news department. This quires excellent client skills and ability to work two years maintenance experience in television position is part time...weekends and vacation fill - well with network personnel. Moderate travel, broadcasting. Betacam experience preferred. in. Applications should have knowledge of basic primarily in Mid -Atlantic region. Very competitive Send resume to Personnel Office, KTUL Televi- cuts editing and the ability to work under high salary and benefits. Relocation allowance avail- sion, Inc., P.O. Box 8, Tulsa, OK 74101. EOE. stress conditions. This position includes editing able. Respond to Stan Leshner, Starliner Mobile videotaped stories, taking and sending SNG/ Video, 525 Mildred Avenue, Primos, PA 19018. ENG feeds and coordinating tapes for on air Fax: 610/626 -2638. Phone: 610/626 -6500. playback. If you know the basics and are looking to get in the business send your cover letter and resume with references to: Mark McIntosh, WOOD TV8, 120 College SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. WOOD TV8 is an Equal Opportunity ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS OPPORTUNITIES Employer and actively solicits qualified minority WITH SINCIAIR BROADCAST GROUP and female applications for consideration.

Sports Reporter/Photographer. We're looking Sinclair is seeking qualified applicants for our company in many areas. We are a growing for a third player for our sports team. Candidates station group moving quickly to secure our technological future. If you are a technically should have two years sports reporting and shoot- competent hands -on engineer with leadership skills, or you are a creative hands-on pro- ing experience and be ready to move into fill -in duction editor, then you must join our team. Sinclair operates a group of television sta- anchoring. This is an active sports market which tions located in Baltimore, MD; Birmingham, AL; Columbus, OH; Flint, MI; Milwaukee, demands educated sports reporting. Send non- WI; Norfolk, VA; Pittsburgh, PA; Raleigh /Durham, NC; and Tuscaloosa, AL. Sinclair of- returnable tape and resume to: Jack Doles, fers a competitive benefits and compensation package. WOOD TV8, 120 College SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. WOOD TV8 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively solicits qualified minority CHIEF ENGINEER and female applications for consideration.

A technically competent leader who is a hands -on problem solver, a people person, a Sports Reporter. We just signed on in Sep- good communicator and an organized competent administrator. The position demands tember, and we're already growing. Top 50 ABC an extensive background in RF transmission systems, studio systems, news, and be affiliate seeks a Sports Reporter who turns local capable of planning, organizing and directing station projects. The applicant must also legends into real people. Will join established 3- possess specific knowledge of computers, digital electronics, and a forward thinking atti- man sports staff on daily sportscasts and long - tude on ATV and future digital technology. You must be capable of working in con- form sports specials. We value intelligence and sonance with the other department heads to achieve station goals. An FCC license, SBE humor, not schtick. Occasional fill -in anchoring Certification, and can accept an "On Call" status are prerequisites for this position. possible, but this is not an anchor position. Whiners and chair-throwers need not apply. Start date is January 3, 1996. Tape and resume to TELEVISION ENGINEER Chris Huston, News Director, WXLV, 3500 Myer Lee Drive, Winston -Salem, NC 27101. A person who is capable of thinking on their own and can apply their "trouble shooting" ex- pertise to all areas of the broadcast plant. You must be a capable electronics technician Reporter/Anchor /Photographer. Recently ac- who can repair any type of electronic equipment, including but not limited to, computers, quired network affiliate station committed to the video cassette recorders, cameras, switchers, and monitors. Possessing an FCC license news is expanding its product and needs addi- or SBE Certification and a comprehensive background in digital and analog electronics is tional staff at their Idaho Falls/Pocatello facilities. imperative. Our engineers must be able to see the big picture, but focus and act on the pix- Applicants must be able to write and enterprise el. The ability to effectively communicate and interface with other department's personnel stories. Previous experience as a reporter and whom you service is a must. You must be a team player who can accept an "On Call" photographer with television news anchoring status. background required. Ability to edit news copy and college graduate preferred. Capability to lift and carry camera/recording gear to any and all OPERATIONS /PRODUCTION PERSONNEL locations and a valid drivers license with no DUI conviction necessary. Group owned company of- Artistic creative people who can write copy, shoot video and edit spots on traditional com- fers excellent benefit package with promotional puter editors, as well as any of the non -linear editors, currently on the market. You must opportunities to sister stations. Please submit a non -returnable tape and resume Tonia Ellis, be experienced and able to handle the pressure of client production, the immediacy of to News Director, KPVI -TV, 425 East Center Street, news promotion, and the We so- creative challenges of station promotions. are looking for Pocatello, Idaho, 83201 -0667. EOE. meone who is hot on the new technology and is able to use computers to expand your creativity. If this describes you, or what you think you need to become, then please re- spond. Reporter. WXIN -TV FOX 59 has an opening for a Reporter in the News Department. Selected I encourage Minorities and Women to apply. Sinclair Broadcast Group is an Equal Op- candidate will be a highly motivated self- starter portunity Employer. who develops own stories with strong live shot capabilities. Previous TV on -air reporting experi- Send resume and salary history to: ence required. Responsibilities include: report and write stories, generate ideas, work sources Del Parks with heavy emphasis on police and courts. For con- Director of Engineering and Operations sideration, send cover letter noting position de- sired and where learned of job, resume and non- Sinclair Broadcast Group returnable tape by December 20 to: Personnel 2000 West 41st Street Manager, WXIN, 1440 North Meridian Street, In- Baltimore, MD 21211 dianapolis, IN 46202. Phone calls will result in dis- qualification. EOE. Job offer contingent upon re- No phone calls please! sults of substance abuse testing.

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for domi- Reporter. Booming tropical paradise needs Re- News Director in Rocky Mountains nant station in #180+ market and satellites. KGO -TV is seeking an Investigative porter. We're looking for enterprising pros to cov- S1 Focus is investigative reporting. Producer who will research, write er hard news and politics on Saipan. Very ag- on aggressive, gressive news department has won five ACE Leader with management experience needed for and supervise the editing of awards, George Polk award, Silver Gavel award. talented staff with a mix of experienced and de- investigative series and segments veloping employees. People skills and a tough - This job promises an adventure you'll never produced by the Channel 7 I -TEAM. minded knowledge of serious journalism needed. forget. Minimum two years experience required. Must have 3 -5 years of experience Resumes to Box 00622 EOE. Express mail resume and demo tape to Kirk as a television segment producer in Chaisson, News Director, 530 West O'Brien Political Reporter. The largest regional cable an investigative unit. Strong writing Drive, Agana, GU 96910 -4996. EOE. television news network in the United States, skills and production skills are New England Cable News, is seeking an experi- required. Experience in computer enced Reporter with extensive knowledge of New Producer: NBC affiliate in Springfield, Illinois is England and national politics. Must be an assisted reporting preferred. looking for a Producer for our hour -long morning energetic and enterprising television storyteller. Application deadline is December newscast. Must have one year producing experi- Must produce richly- detailed, contextual reports 15, 1995. Pleasesend resume, cover ence and know how to edit. Send resume and non- that bring politics to life. Will also do some gen- letter and videotape to: -returnable tape to Sue Stephens, News Director, eral assignment reporting. NECN is a Boston - WICS-TV, 2680 East Cook Street, Springfield, Il- based, 24- hour -a -day news station that covers KGO -TV /Personnel linois 62703. We are a division of Guy Gannett the six New England states. It also produces a 10 900 Front Street Communications and an Equal Opportunity PM newscast for WSBK -TV, UPN regional San Francisco, CA 94111 Employer. superstalion in Boston. No phone calls. Please EOE send tape and resume ASAP to Tom Melville Producer: KEN, Omaha, Nebraska has an im- Executive Producer, New England Cable News, mediate opening for a creative producer to do 160 Wells Avenue, Newton, MA 02159. Equal Op- Director/Technical Director. Aggressive FOX af- weekend shows and produce medical reports portunity Employer. filiate in sunny south Florida is seeking a during the week. Qualified applicants should Director /Technical Director for fast paced have a degree in journalism and experience pro- Photographer -Editor. WTTV - Indiana's Sports newscast, that has been named Best Newscast ducing newscasts. This is a company that be- Station, the home of Indiana, Purdue and Big in the state of Florida by the Associated Press, lieves in promoting from within. Send resumes Ten basketball and football, NFL, Colts and for the 2nd consecutive year. Must have experi- and non -returnable tapes to: Rose Ann Shannon, Pacers basketball seeks an experienced Field ence directing and switching live newscasts. News Director, KEN, 2665 Douglas Street, ProducerNideographer to join our Production Knowledge of GVG switchers, Abekas DVE and Omaha, NE 68131. EOE/ADA. Team. Ideal candidate will have superior produc- computer editing is preferred Please send re- tion skills, ability to field produce, light and shoot sume and non-returnable tape to: Brian Culbreth/ location video that will enhance our "On Air" pro- Producer /Director: WZZM -TV is seeking Production Manager, WFTX -TV, 621 Pine Island duction product. In addition, this person must be energetic take charge director for newscasts, com- Road, Cape Coral, FL 33991. Minorities are en- a self- starter, work on multiple projects, meet mercial production and special projects. Two couraged to apply. We are an Equal Opportunity deadlines with quality work, motivate co- workers years experience directing and switching Employer. and is career oriented. Women and minorities are newscasts required. Applicant should have good encouraged to apply (EOE). Pre -employment communication skills and experience with non- drug testing. WTTV is a River City Broadcasting linear editing. Reply to: WZZM -TV Personnel station. Send resume and non -returnable demo Dept., P.O. Box Z, Grand Rapids, MI 49501. No Consumer/Business News Reporter: Opportuni- tape to: WTTV -4, Human Resources -1, 3490 phone calls, please. EOE. ty awaits a seasoned General Assignment Re- Road, Indianapolis, IN 46217. Bluff porter experienced in business and consumer news. You'll be responsible for the business/ Producer/Director - Midwest, top forty, number Night Assignment Manager. Here's your consumer beat and provide a long form report one. Strong group owner support. Bells and whis- chance to lead a top -rated news operation on the once a week in addition to general assignment re- tles and more on the way. Interested? Fast - night shift. We're looking for an experienced news porting. Join a successful Top 20 market Indy/ paced newscasts, sports, special events. Experi- hound who can direct crews, cover scanners, WB station. Send resume and tape to KPLR -TV, enced? Lead by example, hands on, push the handle telephone chaos, keep organized story Attn: Dept. 114G, 4935 Lindell Boulevard, St. envelope. Ready? We're adding another piece to files and know how to change gears at a mo- ments notice. The ideal candidate will have a Louis, MO 63108. EEO Employer. No calls the puzzle and we want the best. Send tapes and please resumes to Box 00629 EOE. minimum of two years experience on the assign- ment desk. If you're ready to be a night shift leader at the best station in the 38th market, then Producer. Our #1 11 PM show has lost its leader. send your resume and news philosophy to: Jim Now we need a new one. If you've got the skill, Loy, News Director, WOOD TV8, 120 College Assistant News Director/Managing Editor: Lead our news operation. We need an ex- we've got the slot. 2 years experience, lots of en- SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. WOOD TV8 is an daily with ergy, goal oriented. We staff to win. Send letter of Equal Opportunity Employer and actively solicits perienced broadcast news professional with the philosophy and resume to: Larry Henrichs, News qualified minority and female applications for con- strong writing and editing skills to work Director, WGME TV, Portland, ME 04103. sideration. assignment desk, producers and writers. The WGME is an Equal Opportunity Employer. right candidate can move into a top 20 market and join a growing newsroom committed to ex- News Photographer. WXIN TV FOX 59 has an cellence. Send your tape and resume to KPLR- opening for a News Photographer in the News TV, Attn: Dept. 114G, 4935 Lindell Boulevard, St. WANT TO RESPOND TO A Department. Selected candidate will possess a Louis, MO 63108. EEO Employer. No calls minimum of 2 years TV photography experience, please. knowledge of live -truck operations and produc- BROADCASTING & CABLE tion techniques, including A/B roll editing. Must have valid driver's license and good driving re- cord. Responsibilities will include the ability to BLIND BOX ? shoot news stories with a creative edge and flair, HELP WANTED PROMOTION edit packages, VO's, VO/SOT's, and entire news shows. Set up and shoot live remotes and main- tain vehicle, gear, and paperwork. NPPA mem- Nashville Move? (The Oilers are doing it!) Pro- Send resume /tape to: News Topicals bership and/or workshop attendee a plus. For con- motion Writer /Producer handling sideration, send cover letter noting position de- and Special Projects needed immediately at ABC have at least two years Box sired and where learned of job, resume and non- affiliate. Must experience tape returnable tape by December 20 to: Personnel in TV Marketing/News. Send resume and producing and 245 West 17th St, Manager, WXIN, 1440 North Meridian Street, In- with samples of creative writing, dianapolis, IN 46202. Phone calls will result in dis- editing to: Scott Brady, Marketing Director, New York, New York 10011 qualification. EOE. Job offer contingent upon re- WKRN -TV, 441 Murfreesboro Road, Nashville, sults of substance abuse testing. TN 37210. EOE.

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HELP WANTED RESEARCH HELP WANTED PRODUCTION Graphic Artist/Designer: We're looking for a top notch, experienced Graphic Artist to work in a Writer/Producer, Television and Satellite Ser- place that an artist will love! You'll have freedom The College of Continuing Education is to work on graphics and 3D animation for news, Leading Barter Syndication Company: Ad vices. looking for a person to be responsible for produc- promotion, and commercial production. If you're sales division of King World Production seeks ex- tion of instructional and informa- a small person in a big department or a big ceptional research analyst to join our team. Ideal educational, person in a small and want to be #1, candidate possesses minimum one year's expe- tional programming using video, audio and department satellite production technologies. Performs field, we have the job waiting for you. You'll work on rience, with knowledge of NTI, NSS and Sim- studio and remote production utilizing broadcast - the HALO mons. Excellent computer, writing and analytical Grass Valley Graphics Factory quality equipment. Edits video program material. System. (We have a lot of computers, so com- skills required. Reply to Research Manager, requirements include 1 year experience is helpful too.) If you want a Camelot Entertainment Sales, 1700 Broadway, Minimum puter experience in video and audio production, 2 years preferred, chance to work for a great company with great 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10019. Fax: (212) 315- a Bachelors degree in radio/TV /film or related benefits, send a resume and demo tape to: Hu- 2662. field. Night and weekend work required. Salary man Resources Director, KFVS12, P.O. Box 100, range is $20,100 -$20,722. The University of Ok- Cape Girardeau, MO 63702. Equal Opportunity lahoma is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Ac- Employer. A pre -employment drug screen is re- tion Employer. Please send resume and cover let- quired. HELP WANTED LEGAL ter by December 15 to Personnel Services, Uni- versity of Oklahoma, 905 Asp Avenue, Norman, Commercial Production Photographer. NBC OK 73019 -0420. (Reference requisition no. 08- Channel 2, Buffalo, New York. WGRZ -TV is seek- 032N). If you need more information please call ing a Commercial Production Photographer. (405) 325-1826. Candidate should have 5 to 7 years experience Fox TELEVISION GROUP in shooting and directing high -end television com- Special Projects Producer: Are you bored mercials and/or programs. Requirements also in- doing one thing -- because you're great doing clude: extensive lighting and rigging skills; a ATTORNEY everything? You could be the next Special Pro- strong knowledge of audio recording; and experi- a DC Networks, Inc., a division of Fox jects Producer at WESH -TV, Pulitzer Broadcast- ence in editing and post -production. Send re- ing in Florida. need Television, seeks a Director of Business Station, sunny Orlando, We sume to: Robert Connell, Operations/Production someone who is smart, creative, and knows how Manager, WGRZ-TV, 259 Delaware Avenue, Buf- & Legal Affairs to represent two cable to communicate! Must have extensive field pro- falo, NY 14202. WGRZ -TV is an Equal Opportuni- services fX and fXM: Movies from Fox. ducing experience and at least three years line pro- ty Employer. The selected candidate will negotiate/ ducing. Assignment desk experience is preferred. draft production, talent and affiliation College degree required. Send non -returnable Director -Editor. WTTV - Indiana's Sports Sta- home Purdue agreements and handle other legal tape, resume and references to: Ken Ericson, tion, the of Indiana, and Big Ten matters relating to all aspects of the Executive Producer, WESH -TV, P.O. Box basketball and football, NFL Colts and Pacers business. 547697, Orlando, FL 32854. An Equal Opportuni- basketball seeks an experienced Director /Editor ty Employer. to join our Production Team. Ideal candidate will Qualified candidates must have a law have superior production skills, ability to direct degree, bar membership, and a Operations Manager, Television and Satellite studio productions, write, shoot and edit features minimum of 5 years of experience with Services. The College of Continuing Education and local commercials. In addition, this person at least 2 years in the cable television is looking for a hands -on person to be responsi- must be a self- starter, work on multiple projects, industry, preferably with a cable opera- ble for management of technical operations, plan- meet deadlines with quality work, motivate co- tor or programmer. Skill in drafting legal ning, hiring and development of technical staff. workers and is career oriented. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply (EOE). Pre- documents is a must. Minimum requirements include 3 years experi- ence in broadcast quality television production employment drug testing. WTTV is a River City Please send your resume and salary Broadcasting station. Send resume and non- environment, 1 year supervisory experience, 3 history to: Fox Television Group, years preferred, and a Bachelors degree in re- returnable demo tape to: WTTV -4, Human Re- Personnel Dept. BRM- lated field. Salary range is $23,300 -$32,900. The sources-2, 3490 Bluff Road, Indianapolis, IN 673, P.O. Box 900, University of Oklahoma is an Equal Opportunity/ 46217. Beverly Hills, CA Affirmative Action Employer. Please send resume A - 90213. EOE and cover letter by December 15 to Personnel "5th best place to live in America and warm, sun- Services, University of Oklahoma, 905 Asp Ave- ny Florida too! The Firm is searching for a fast nue, Norman, OK 73019 -0420. (Reference requi- shooter/editor with tons of Video Toaster experi- HELP WANTED HOST sition no. 08- 037N). If you need more information ence. Reel(VHS preferred) and resume to: The please call (405) 325-1826. Firm, P.O. Box 309, Citra, FL 32113. EOE. M /F." Come live in the sunny south. Looking for pro- FOX Kids Club Host. WHNS -TV FOX 21, First Graphic Designer. Columbus NBC O &O televi- ducers with great writing skills who can handle Media Television, a FOX affiliate in the 35th sion station needs talented, creative Graphic De- live shots and deadline pressure. Send tape market, is accepting applications for the position signer with 1 -2 years experience preferred. (VHS preferred), resume and salary requirements of FOX Kids Club Host. On -air personality to pro- Photoshop 3.0 and Freehand 4.0 experience re- to Box 00628 EOE. duce, write and host children's show. Experience quired. Responsibilities will include design of on- on camera required with prior television experi- air electronic graphics and print design utilizing HELP WANTED PROGRAMMING ence helpful. College or university degree pre- state of the art equipment. Animation and/or 3-D ferred. Send VHS tape and resume to: WHNS- experience a plus. Degree in art/graphic design Director of Broadcast Operations and Pro- TV, Attn: Personnel -HOST, 21 Interstate Court, required. Send resume, samples, salary history gramming: WTVD, the CC /ABC -owned station in Greenville, S.C. 29615. EOE. M /F/H. to Michael Mingroni, Art Director, NBC4, 3165 Raleigh/Durham, NC is looking for a dynamic, Olentangy River Road, Columbus, Ohio 43202. energetic team player to run its program opera- No phone calls. EOE. tions and overall station marketing efforts. Can- didates must have a thorough understanding of HELP WANTED CNN Post Production in Atlanta is currently program acquisitions, scheduling, production and FINANCIAL & ACCOUNTING seeking experienced on -line editors. Candidates overall station operations. A solid background in must be proficient with all aspects of multi- format programming, marketing, research and /or promo- editing and should be skilled using the following tion is preferred. Interested parties must be Business Manager - Qwest Broadcasting is equipment: CMX 3100B, Grass Valley VPE -251, highly organized with strong management/ seeking a CPA with a minimum of 3 years expe- GVG -200, Abekas A83, A57, A53 -D, ADO 3000, leadership skills. If you have at least 5 - 10 years rience in financial management for "hands on" and Chyron Infinit. Excellent client skills are experience in television, want to live in one of the administration of the business office of WATL- essential If you're interested in working with a best areas in the country and work for a fantastic TV, Atlanta. Working knowledge of BIAS soft- dynamic network watched by people around the company, please send your resume and re- ware preferred, television accounting required. world, please send a tape, resume and salary re- ferences to: Emily L. Barr, President and GM, Send resume with salary history to Personnel quirements to Mike Kraft, Production Manager, WTVD, 411 Liberty Street, Durham, NC 27701. Director, WATL -TV 36, One Monroe Place, One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA No phone calls please! Women and minorities Atlanta, GA 30324. EOE. 30348 -5366. are strongly encouraged to apply. EOE.

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RESUMES SITUATION WANTED INTERVIEW HELP WANTED PROMOTIONS

Career Videos prepares your personalized Promo Virtuosos Wanted Creative? Experi- demo. format, rates, If you are tired of seeing politicians slip and Unique excellent coaching, enced? Visual Genius? Top 10 basic cable slide; and want to see them totally nailed to the job search assistance, free dubs. Great track re- network wants you for growing On -Air Promotion cord. 708- wall while they are dumb founded or scream, in- 272 -2917. Dept. Create exciting TV ads for world premiere sult, cuss and then try to steal the video tape and movies, classic films, 1st -run game shows and release to prevent anybody from seeing their more. Have 5 years' experience? Know your way naked soul, send for explosive demo of high pro- around state -of-the -art production facilities? Send file guests. 202 -833 -3634. All offers considered. PROGRAMMING SERVICES VHS demo, resume and salary history to: The Family Channel, Human Resources Dept. Ref. PS -220, P.O. Box 2050, Virginia Beach, VA ON- CAMERA 23450 -2050. WEATHERCASTING SEMINAR CABLE NWN. America's Virtual Weathercenter also offers daily on- camera weathereaster sessions. Work HELP WANTED CONSULTANTS training HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT the Chroma -Kev and make your on -air demo lape. Sin- gle and multi -day sessions available. Consultancy. Invitation to Propose. Sealed pro- Director. ESPN, the undisputed leader in sports awa posals will be received by the Cleveland Minority Call 601 -352- 6673. programming, seeks a highly motivated self - Cable Channel (CMCC) at the office of the starter to fill a Director position at our East Coast Cleveland Foundation, 1422 Euclid Avenue, 14th network. Minimum 10 years experience in a Floor, Cleveland, OH 44115, on the 8th day of Have you ever seen a U.S. Congressman stea significant TV market and a confidence that you January, 1996 until 2:00 P.M. current local time a signed release and tear it up on camera? Or can handle fast -paced news and integrate for a consultancy regarding launching this newly cuss and threaten to throw the interviewer out the formats as well as pre -production elements. Ex- formed cable entity. The RFP seeks proposals window? Or, a Press Secretary steal the cellent eaming potential, outstanding benefits, from qualified consultants for services that in- videotape and try to steal the release? Why do and the opportunity to be a team player with clude assisting the channel's Board of Directors they panic and go bananas? Because they have America's sports television leader are just a few in establishing a quality deliverer of cable televi- been nailed by the logic of questions that raise of the many advantages of a career with ESPN. sion programming, training and services to meet T.V. interviewing to new intellectual and emo- For immediate consideration, please forward your the needs of Cleveland's minority community in tional levels. See for yourself. Send for explosive resume to: ESPN, Inc., Human Resources De- accordance with the terms of the cable franchise demo of high profile guests. The Bottom Line partment, ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010. No agreement between the City of Cleveland and Ca- 202-833 -3634. phone calls please. EOE. M/F /DN. blevision of Northeast Ohio. Consultants are asked to present a plan to assist the CMCC Board to refine its mission and create an operat- SALES TRAINING Counsel/Legal Department. ESPN, the world's ing structure. The consultant will also advise on a premiere sports telecaster, is seeking a Counsel community relations program, develop executive to fill a vacancy in its Legal Department. Candi- staff job descriptions and provide other technical INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY dates must be law school graduates with ex- assistance as needed to make CMCC's vision for cellent academic credentials, be admitted to a high quality minority telecommunications orga- OF YOUR SALES STAFF practice in one or more jurisdictions and have a nization a reality. Women and minorities are en- In today's ultra -competitive and changing envi- minimum of five years experience in entertain- couraged to apply. Copies of the proposal are on ronment being smart and aggressive is not ment, communications, intellectual property or file and may be obtained at the Cleveland Foun- enough. Performance levels must be raised. other relevant areas of law. The duties of the dation Office, 1422 Euclid Avenue, 14th Floor, Make the most of your most important Counsel, who will report to a Vice President and Cleveland, OH 44115. resource, your salespeople, with a customized Associate General Counsel, will be to negotiate and assist in the preparation and review of con- SALES IMPROVEMENT SEMINAR tracts and other documents; oversee conduct of by MARTIN ANTONELLI litigation in which the corporation is involved; in- 25 in TV ALLIED FIELDS (over years the industry) vestigate questions of unauthorized use of cor- Call for free information packet poration's intellectual property; assist in analyz- ANTONELLI MEDIA ing federal, state and local laws and regulations; HELP WANTED INSTRUCTION and ensure that compliance with contractual and TRAINING CENTER other legal obligations are met. We offer an at- Syracuse University's Newhouse School of (212) 206-8063 tractive salary and benefits package in addition to Public Communication; Television, Radio and a stimulating work environment. Qualified candi- Film Department; seeks two candidates to teach dates should send resume, in confidence to: in the areas of television and film production and ESPN, Inc., ESPN Plaza, Bristol, CT 06010- management. Additional course may be taught 7454. Attn: Human Resources, Dept. C /LD. No commensurate with candidate's other areas of ex- VIDEO SERVICES phone calls please. EOE. M /F /DN. pertise. Professional experience and a Master's degree required. Candidates should be fluent in the use of computers. Teaching assignments will Need video shot in the New include all aspects of the rapidly evolving indus- York metropolitan area? Expe- try. Rank and salary negotiable. Send resume to: rienced crews, top equipment. Professor Peter Moller, Newhouse School, HELP WANTED PROGRAMMING Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 -2100. Call Camera Crew Network AA/EOE. (CCN). 800-914 -4CCN. Director of Current Programming. Responsible for directing Current Programming staff in shap- The American University School of Commu- ing high quality documentary and magazine nication in Washington, DC seeks graduate shows. Creative oversight of in/out -of -house pro- fellows to assist in teaching and professional duction units including supervising rundowns, duties while earning a Master's degree in Jour- SITUATION WANTED scripts, and fine cuts. Extensive long -form produc- nalism and Public Affairs. This 10 -month program ing/writing and personnel management experi- begins in September. Program includes Wash- Small Market Pro seeks new challenge. Current- ence mandatory. 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Phillips, the application was filed or the action was mercial educational FM at 106.7 mhz, ERP president/45% owner, PO Box 128, Mar- taken, when available, appears in italic. 100 kw, ant. 299 m., atop Cooley Mtn., .9 km shall, MO 65340) for FM at 97.1 mhz, ERP E of Rte. 73, Indian Pine. Apache Radio owns 19.6 kw, ant. 113.6 m., 8.5 km SSE of La KNNB(FM) Whiteriver. Nov. 8 Abbreviations: AOL- assignment of license: ant. - Monte. Missouri Valley Broadcasting owns antenna: ch.-channel: CP- construction permit: KMMO -AM -FM ERP- effective radiated power: khz- kilohertz: km- Sioux City, Iowa (BPCT- 951106KD)- Marshall, Mo. Phillips also owns kilometers: kw-kilowatts: m.- meters; mhz -mega- Steven Soldinger d /b /a SiouxLand Broad- WORB(FM) Bloomer and WMEO -AM -FM hertz: mi- miles: TL-transmitter location: w- watts. cast Associates (9424 Hunting Court, Menomonie and CP for wvxD(FM) Chetek, all One meter equals 3.28 feet. Matthews, NC 28105) for TV at ch. 44, ERP Wis. Nov. 6 1,470 kw visual, 264 m. Nov. 6 ant. La Monte, Mo. (BPH- 951106MF) -Bick Sioux City, Iowa (BPCT-951107KH)-Hin- Broadcasting Co. (James P. Bick, direc- OWNERSHIP CHANGES ton Telecasting (Todd P. Robinson, owner, tor/46% owner, 119 N. 3rd St., Hannibal, MO Granted 2321 Devonshire Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) 63401) for FM at 97.1 mhz, ERP 25 kw, ant. for TV at ch. 44, ERP 2,000 kw visual, ant. 100 m., on U.S. 65, 1.6 km N of Sedalia, Mo. Cameron, Tex. (BALH- 951013GG)- 387 m., on CR K42 8 km E of James, Iowa. Bick owns KRRY(FM) Canton, KHMO(AM) Hanni- R. KHLR(FM) 103.9 mhz: William Vance Jr. for Robinson also is applying to build TVs at bal, KXKX(FM) Knob Noster, KICK -FM Palmyra involuntary assignment of license to Lowell Hutchinson, Kan., and Muskogee, Okla., and Ksls(AM)- KsDL(FM) Sedalia, all Mo. Nov. 6 T. Cage (trustee). Nov. 9 and FMs at Indian River Shores, Fla.; Evans- La Monte, Mo. (BPH- 951106MH)- Valkyrie ville, Ind.; Harrisburg, Ark.; Ocean Isle Beach, Broadcasting Inc. (Jon McCollum, presi- N.C.; Tunica, Miss., and Nashville, N.C. NEW STATIONS dent/20% owner, 712 Chaucer Ln., War- Kan. (BPCT-951102KH)- rensburg, MO 64093) for FM at 97.1 mhz, Dismissed Hutchinson, Way of the Cross of Hutchinson Inc. (PO ERP 6.1 kw, ant. 46 m., .3 km W of La Brighton, N.Y. (BPH- 930527MB) -Jon E. Box 12100, Fort Pierce, FL 34979) for TV at Monte. Valkyrie owns KAYO(FM) Warsaw and Gugler for FM at 94.1 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. ch. 36, ERP 2,590.6 kw, ant. 377.72 m., KBuG(FM) Osceola, Mo. McCollum also is 5% 100 m. Nov. 13 extended 4th St. Rd., .47 mi. NE of KWCH -TV owner of KoKo(AM) Warrensburg, Mo., and tower. Nov. 2 KLMX(AM) Clayton, N.M. Nov. 6 Brighton, N.Y. (BPH- 930527M0) -Peter X. Hahn for FM at 94.1 mhz, ERP 3.7 kw, ant. Hutchinson, Kan. (BPCT -951 107KE)- Macon, Mo. (BPH- 951107MB)- Chirillo 100 m. Nov. 13 Hutchita Communications (Todd P. Robin- Electronics Inc. (Phillip A. Chirillo, presi- Newport, Ore. (BALH- 950919GG) -Char- son, owner, 2321 Devonshire Rd., Ann dent/owner, 1203 Business Hwy 54 S., Ful- MI TV ERP MO for FM 99.9 mhz, ERP 6 lotte McNaughton for KCLM(FM) 92.7 mhz: Arbor, 48104) for at ch. 36, ton, 65251) at voluntary assignment of license and CP to 1,590 kw, ant. 375 m., NE corner of CR W kw, ant. 100 m., .73 km W of Rte. C, 11 km 125th N N 247th near Patter- Mo. Coastal Commcepts Corp. Nov. 13 St. and St. W S of Bevier, Chirillo Electronics owns son, Kan. Robinson also is applying to build KMCR(FM) Montgomery City, Mo., and has Granted TVs at Sioux City, Iowa, and Muskogee, applied to build an FM at Jefferson City, Mo. Brighton, N.Y. (BPH- 930527MJ)- Brighton Okla., and FMs at Indian River Shores, Fla.; Nov. 7 Evansville, Ind.; Harrisburg, Ark.; Ocean Isle Broadcasting LP for FM at 94.1 mhz, ERP 6 Missoula, Mont. (BPED -951 103MA)- Beach, N.C.; Tunica, Miss., and Nashville, kw, ant. 97 m. Nov. 13 Associated Students University of Montana N.C. Nov. 7 Mill Hall, Pa. (BPH- 910926MG) -Jane E. (George M. Dennison, president, University Kennedy for FM at 98.7 mhz, ERP 1.864 kw, La Monte, Mo. (BPH- 951106MA)-Sedalia of Montana, University Hall, Missoula, MT ant. 177 m. Nov. 13 Investment Group LLC (Joyce K. Fischer, 59812) for FM at 89.9 mhz, ERP 1 kw, ant. - owner, c/o Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, 1300 80 m., Waterworks Hill, .5 mi. NE of Mis- Filed/accepted for filing N. 17th St., 11th floor, Rosslyn, VA 22209) soula. Nov. 3 for FM B m., Pinetop, Ariz. (BPED -951 108MB) -Ndee at 97.1 mhz, ERP kw, ant. 176 Lincoln, Neb. (BPCT- 951106KF) -North- west Television Inc. (William L. Yde III, pres- ident/25% owner, 505 Turtle Creek Dr., BY THE NUMBERS Brentwood, TN 37027) for TV at ch. 45, ERP

5,000 kw, ant. 456 m., 3.86 km N of I -80, BROADCAST STATIONS Service Total Tamora, Neb. Yde is 25% owner of KBGE(TV) Service Total Bellevue, Wash., which is being sold. North- Commercial VHF TV 559 west also is applying to build TV at Musko- AM 4,906 Commercial Commercial UHF TV 622 gee, Okla. Nov. 6 FM Neb. (BPCT- 951106KP) -Larry A. Commercial 5,285 Educational VHF TV 123 Lincoln, Miller (212 S. 74th St., No. 202, Omaha, NE Educational FM 1,810 Educational UHF TV 240 68114) for TV at ch. 45, ERP 5,000 kw, ant. 598 m., 2.8 km S of intersection of I -80 and Total Radio 12,001 TV 1,544 Total Chicago and Northwestern RR, 16 km SW of VHF LPTV 561 Seward City, Nev. Nov. 6 CABLE UHF LPTV 1,211 Pahrump, Nev. (BPH- 951102MB)- Milton Total systems 11,660 Total LPTV 1,772 Bozanic (1111 Las Vegas Blvd. S., No. 211, Total subscribers 62,231,730 Las Vegas, NV 89104) for FM at 95.1 mhz, FM translators & boosters 2,453 ERP 6 kw, ant. 31 m., near intersection of Homes passed 91,750,000 sts., Pahrump. Nov. 2 VHF translators 2,263 Irene and Barney Cable penetration* 65.3% Pahrump, Nev. (BPH- 951102MC)- UHF translators 2,562 Pahrump Valley Broadcasters Inc. (Michael Based on TV household universe of 95.4 million. Ginsburg, president /16.67% owner, 2159 Total Translators 7,278 Sources: FCC, Nielsen, Paul Kagan Associates Running River Rd., Henderson, NV 89014)

Broadcasting & Cable December 4 1995 93 _OP Record for FM at 95.1 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. 100 m., Co. LP for WNRO(FM) 104.7 mhz: change Munfordville, Ky. (BPH- 9510191E)-John N side of Basin Rd., 6.2 km WNW of inter- ERP to 20 kw, ant. to 238 m., transmitter P. Niland (special master) for WLOC -FM 102.3 section of Basin Rd. and Leslie Blvd. Nov. 2 site. Nov. 13 mhz: change ERP to 2.8 kw, ant. to 125 m., TL. Nov. 22 Pahrump, Nev. (BPH- 951102MD)- Ramona New Boston, Tex. (BPH- 9506011D) -B &H Lee Hayes -Bell (HC 65 Box 71885, Pahrump, Broadcasting Systems Inc. for KzRL(FM) Winter Harbor, Maine (BMPH-951012IB)- NV 89041 -9622) for FM at 95.1 mhz, ERP 6 103.5 mhz: change ERP to 35 kw, ant. to Theodore Enfield for wAKN(FM) 97.7 mhz: kw, ant. -69 m., Adams and Dutch Ford Rd., 181 m., TL, class from A to C2. Nov. 13 change class from A to B. Nov. 22 4.5 km from Pahrump. Nov. 2 Accepted for filing Bear Lake, Mich. (BPH- 9510201D)-Roger Saranac Lake, N.Y. (BPCT- 951106KE)- Lewis Hoppe II Muscle Shoals, Ala. (BPH- 9510251B) -D. for wzru(FM) 92.1 mhz: WWBI-TV Inc. (Susan Clarke, presi- change Mitchell Self Broadcasting Inc. for WLAY -FM channel from 100.1 mhz to 100.7 dent/90% owner, 87 Lake St., Rouses Point, 105.5 mhz: change ERP to 1.06 kw, ant. to mhz. Nov. 22 NY 12979) for TV at ch. 61, ERP 545 kw, 231 m. Nov. 22 Mexico, Mo. (951013MG)- Mexico Educa- ant. 441 m., Mt. Morris, 7 km SW of Tupper tional Broadcasting Lake. Nov. 6 Warrior, Ala. (BPH- 9510161F)-N. Jeffer- Foundation for KJAB -FM son Broadcasting Co. Inc. for WLei(FM) 98.7 90.1 mhz: change ERP to 6 kw, ant. to 70 Saranac Lake, N.Y. (BPCT-951106KH)- mhz: change class from C3 to C2. Nov. 22 m., frequency to 88.3 mhz. Nov. 22 Donald J. McHone (503 Turtle Creek Dr., Washington, Mo. (BPH- 9510051B) Brentwood) for TV at ch. 61, ERP 1,000 kw Anchorage (BPH- 9510181E)-A.A. Radio -Prime Time Radio for KSLO -FM 104.5 mhz: visual, ant. 441 m. Nov. 6 Partnership LP for KwoJ(FM) 92.9 mhz: change change channel to 92.9. Nov. 22 ERP to 1.3 kw, ant. to 175 m. Nov. 22 Fair Bluff, N.C. -S.O.S. Broadcasting Indian Springs, Nev. (BMPH-9510061A)- (Lynn Martin, owner) for FM at 105.3 mhz, Phoenix (BPH- 9510201B) -MAC America Claire B. Benezra for KPxc(FM) 99.3 mhz: ERP 6 kw, ant. 100 m., Rte. 1356, .8 km W Communications Inc. for KEsz(FM) 99.9 mhz: change class from A to C3. Nov. 22 of Rte. 1355, Fair Bluff Township, N.C. Mar- change ant. to 519 m., TL, electric beam tilt. tin owns wLxG(AM) Lexington- wGKs(FM) Nov. 22 Vestal, N.Y. (BPH- 951019IC)- Enterprise Paris, Ky., and wvee(FM) Folly Beach and Brinkley, Ark. (BPH- 9510131D)-Tri -Coun- Media Inc. for wMxw(FM) 103.3 mhz: change wJVO(FM) Moncks Corner, S.C., and is 40% ty Broadcasting Co. for KOMC -FM 102.3 mhz: ERP to .592 kw, ant. to 309 m. Nov. 22 owner of wcoz(AM)- wKLC(FM) St. Albans, change class from A to C2. Nov. 14 Allentown, Pa. (BPH- 9510161H) -KFI Inc. W.Va. Nov. 7 Monticello, Ark. (BMPH- 9510201C) -P.Q. for WAEB -FM 104.1 mhz: change ERP to 19.4 Muskogee, Okla. (BPCT-951107KF)- Gardner for KGPQ(FM) 99.9 mhz: change TL. kw, ant. to 50 m., TL. Nov. 14 Natura Communications (Todd P. Robinson, Nov. 22 Galeton, Pa. (BMPH- 9510101D) -WKYN owner, 2321 Devonshire Rd., Ann Arbor, MI Gonzales, Calif. (BPH- Inc. for wAiu(FM) 100.7 mhz: change ERP to 48104) for TV at ch. 19, ERP 2,000 kw visu- 9509261C)- Central Coast Communications Inc. KKLF(FM) 7.7 kw, ant. to 150 m., TL. Nov. 22 al, ant. 400 m., SE corner of SRs N4030 and for 92.9 mhz: change channel to 92.9 mhz. Nov. 22 E0860 near Natura, Okla. Robinson also is Dickson, Tenn. (BPH-9510181D)- Edmis- applying to build TVs at Hutchinson, Kan., Indio, Calif. (BPH- 9510061C)- Caridge son /Eubank Communications Inc. for and Sioux City, Iowa, and FMs at Indian Broadcasting Corp. for KCMJ -FM 92.7 mhz: WVYB(FM) 93.7 mhz: change class from A to River Shores, Fla.; Evansville, Ind.; Harris- change ERP to 6 kw, ant. to 100 m. Nov. 22 C3. Nov. 22 burg, Ark., Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.; Tunica, Jensen Beach, Fla. (BMPH-9510101C)- Murfreesboro, Tenn. (BPH- 950901ID)- Miss., and Nashville, N.C. Nov. 7 HLG Inc. for WHLG(FM) 102.3 mhz: change South Central Communications Corp. for WRMx(FM) 96.3 mhz: ERP Electra, Tex. (BPED- 951108MC) -High I -Q class from A to C3. Nov. 22 change to 52 kw, Radio Inc. (Larry D. Hickerson, president, ant. to 392 m., TL to 517 Brick Church Ln., Key Colony Beach, Fla. (BMPH - Rte. 6, Box 150, Hwy 303, Brunswick, GA Whites Creek, Tenn. Nov. 22 9510231A) -WKKB Inc. for WKKB(FM) 105.5 31520) for noncommercial educational FM mhz: change ant. to 50 m. Nov. 14 Selmer, Tenn. (BPH- 9510251C) -Perry S. at 94.9 mhz, ERP 50 kw, ant. 150 m., 3 km Smith for wxoo(FM) 105.5 mhz: change ERP Kissimmee, Fla. (951011 MK)- Hispanic NE of Hwy 287 on SR 240, near Harold, Tex. to 6 kw, ant. to 91 m. Nov. 22 Broadcast High I -Q has applied to build noncommercial System Inc. for WREI(FM) 89.1 educational FM at Brunswick, Ga. Hickerson mhz: change ERP to 9 kw, class from A to Idalou, Tex. (BMPH- 9510201E)- Triumph also is president of company that owns C3. Nov. 22 Communications Inc. for KRBL(FM) 105.7 mhz: change ERP to 5.5 kw, ant. to 104 m., wpio(AM) Brunswick. Nov. 8 Perry, Ga. (BPH- 9510131C) Perry -Radio TL. Nov. 14 Gregory, Tex. (BPH- 951107MA) -Carl Inc. for WPGA -FM 100.9 mhz: change ERP to Como Tutera (357 Ocean Shore Blvd., 2.15 kw, ant. to 168 m. Nov. 22 Danville, Vt. (BMPH- 9510131B) -Barry W. Sims (receiver) for wsHx(FM) 95.7 mhz: Ormond Beach, FL 32176) for FM at 104.5 Herrin, Ill. (BPH-9509291F) -3 -D Communi- change ERP to 3 kw, ant. to 52 m., TL. Nov. 14 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. 100 m., N of Hwy 35, 1 cations Corp. for wvzA(FM) 92.7 mhz: change km SSE of Gregory. Tutera owns KivA(AM) channel to 92.7 mhz. Nov. 22 Hartford, Vt. (BPH- 9510161D)- Family Corrales-KzRo(FM) Santa Fe, N.M.; is 50% Broadcasting Inc. for woLv(FM) 104.3 mhz: Urbana, III. (BPH- 9510171C)-Tak Commu- owner of wJoR(FM) St. Augustine Beach, change class from A to C3. Nov. 22 nications Inc. DIP for Fla.; is applying to build an FM at Greenville, wKio(FM) 92.5 mhz: install new auxiliary Chester, Va. (BMPH -95102510)- Hoffman Miss.; is 50% owner of wNFi(FM) Palatka, ant. system. Nov. 22 Communications Inc. for won(Fm) 105.7 Fla., and is 20% owner of company applying Anderson, Ind. (BPH- 9510241C) -Pour- mhz: change ant. to 98 m., delete directional to build FM at Indian River Shores, Fla. Nov. 7 tales Radio Partnership for woME(FM) 98.7 ant. Nov. 22 Ogden, Utah (BPCT -950321 KH)- mhz: change ERP to 4.5 kw, ant. to 116.7 m., TL. Nov. 22 Rocky Mount, Va. (BPH- 9510131B)- Lawrence H. Rogow d/b /a Front Range for WNLB Radio Inc. for wzBB(FM) 99.9 mhz: TV at ch. 24, ERP 1,170 kw visual, ant. Nashville, Ind. (BPED-9510161C)- Trevec- change class from A to C3. Nov. 22 1,197 m., TL Farnsworth Peak, 5.1 km SE of ca Nazarene College for WNAZ -FM 89.1 mhz: Lake Point, Utah. Nov. 22 change ant. to 60.5 m., TL to 333 Murfrees- Nekoosa, Wis. (BMPH- 9509051E) -Berry boro Rd. on campus of Trevecca Nazarene Radio Co. for wxEC(FM) 93.7 mhz: change College. Nov. 22 class from A to C. Nov. 22

FACILITIES CHANGES Lebanon, Ky. (BMPH-9510171D)- Lebanon- Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. (BPH - Granted Springfield Broadcasting Co. Inc. for wLsK(FM) 9510241B)- Wisconsin Rapids Broadcast 100.9 mhz: change ERP to 15 kw, ant. to 90 Co. Inc. for WGLX-FM 103.3 mhz: change Pittsburgh (BPH- 9507121B) -ECI License m., ant. from DA to nondirectional. Nov. 22 ERP to 100 kw. Nov. 22

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96 December 41995 Broadcasting & Cable Ogiens promises to make over MTM

Michael Ogiens likes to trust his upcoming first -mn drama Lazarus Man. instincts. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, The new president of MTM Ogiens launched his career in television Television says it's important for produc- the old- fashioned way: He started at the ers to have faith in their creative impulses bottom, landing a part-time job as a page because in many ways television is a busi- with ABC in 1967. He quickly parlayed a ness of abstracts. couple of chance meetings with Dating "We're in the business of manufacturing Game and Newlywed Game creator Chuck a product that isn't really tangible," Ogiens Barris into a three -year stint with Barris says. "At best, it's a judgment call when Productions. you're trying to come up with a winning During his years at CBS, Ogiens worked show. So it's important for producers to on everything from children's programing have faith in the people responsible for the to comedy development and was involved creative elements." with the launches of such hits as Designing Ogiens joined MTM Television last Women, Kate and Allie and Charles in June with a mandate from its new owners Charge. The experience of having been to revitalize the company that had pro- both a buyer and a seller of programing duced such TV classics as The Mary Tyler helps him forecast the types of shows that Moore Show, Hill Street Blues and The "Sometimes you TV audiences are looking for. Bob Newhart Show. Yet Ogiens is wary of relying on market MTM, founded in 1969 by Mary Tyler wind up leaving research and focus groups to pick winners Moore and then -husband Grant Tinker, and losers. "Market research might tell you was bought by British firm TVS Entertain- teeth marks in the what's wrong with something, but research ment in 1988. International Family Enter- can't tell you what's going to be a success tainment, which owns the Family Channel furniture when you on the air," he says. "We try to identify basic cable network, acquired MTM with get too much help concepts that in our bones we know will be its purchase of TVS in 1993. appealing to an audience and then assem- Although MTM recently produced the from executives." ble the best team we can to execute that CBS network series Christy and Evening concept." Shade, development of new programing With the resources and distribution out- had been slowed considerably by leader- lets provided by IFE and the Family Chan- ship changes and ownership shuffles dur- nel, Ogiens and MTM's new team of exec- ing the past few years. Michael utives have plunged headfirst into develop- Since Ogiens's arrival, however, MTM ing series and long -form projects for the has unveiled two first -run projects for Ogiens networks, cable and syndication. MTM launch next fall: The Cape, a big- budget also has first option on projects in develop- weekly drama, and The Beef, a lighthearted President, MTM Television, Los ment at Ogiens/Kane. reality strip (see box, page 44). Angeles; b. June 19, 1947, Los The Cape, he promises, will fit that After working as an independent pro- Angeles; Los Angeles: page, guest description. Like the best network dramas, relations department, ABC, 1967; ducer for the past decade, Ogiens says, his production assistant/producer, Ogiens says, the show's strength will be its goal at MTM is to make the studio a nur- Chuck Barris Productions, 1967- stories and characters. But MTM also has turing environment for creativity, with the 70; production manager, won unprecedented cooperation from studio infrastructure acting as a "support Carruthers Co., 1970 -71; unit NASA and Florida's Kennedy Space Cen- service" for the industry's top talents. manager, ABC, 1971-72; manager, ter for the series, which focuses on astro- "I very consciously try not to interfere daytime programs, CBS, 1972 -73; nauts and the space program. director, daytime programs, CBS, with the decisions of the producers and 1973 -75; CBS Entertainment: VP, Ogiens feels an extra responsibility to writers on our shows," Ogiens says. "As a daytime programs, 1976 -79; VP, insure that MTM's new programs measure producer, I know that sometimes you wind daytime and children's programs, up to the legacy of such acclaimed MTM up leaving teeth marks in the furniture 1979 -81; VP, programs, New York, series as Remington Steele, WKRP in when you get too much help from execu- 1981-83; VP, comedy Cincinnati and St. Elsewhere. "The initial tives." development, Los Angeles, 1984- programs we roll out will be looked at 86; partner/executive producer, Ogiens spent 14 years as a production Ogiens/Kane Co., Los Angeles, more closely by the industry because of the executive with CBS Entertainment before 1986 -95; current position since heritage of the company," he says. "We're he and fellow CBS executive Josh Kane June; m. Renee Ybarra, Dec. 30, attempting to restore MTM as a leading founded The Ogiens /Kane Co. in 1986. 1989; children: Emma, 5; Kate, 2. supplier of quality TV entertainment. The company, which produced The Young Hopefully, we can also restore the level of Riders series for ABC, is in production expectation the audience used to have for with Castle Rock Entertainment on the MTM -produced shows." -CL

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Brad Harvey, general assignment BROADCAST TV reporter, Sunrise and The Morning Appointments at wAFr(TV) Jackson, Show newscasts, WDAF -TV Kansas City, Miss.: Jay Nix, anchor, WABG -TV Green- Mo., named co- anchor, Daybreak wood, Miss., joins as reporter/weekend weekday newscast. co- anchor; lick Whitlow, sports director, Don Locke, GSM, KSAZ -TV Phoenix, wrrv(Tv) Jackson, joins as weekend joins KABB(TV) San Antonio and sports anchor /reporter; Jennifer Griffin, KRRT(TV) Kerrville, both Texas, in reporter, wLBT(TV) Jackson, joins as same capacity. assignment editor; Antoinette Govan, pro- Patricia Callahan, VP, ducer, and Tom Russo, managing editor, development, KERA -TV Dallas, joins Kvm(TV) Sacra- WDAM -TV Laurel, Miss., join as produc- er and reporter, respectively. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (r) mento, Calif., as senior development last Tuesday was presented with the officer. Fernando Lopez, 1995 Ralph Lowell award by Richard Rebecca Muñoz -Diaz, VP/GM, Kxrj(Fnt) executive produc- Carlson, president/chief executive Beaumont and KQQK(FM) Galveston, er, KNBC -Tv Los officer, Corporation for Public Angeles, joins Broadcasting. The award, which both Texas, joins KUVN(TV) Garland, honors individual special achieve- Tex., in same capacity. KTLA(TV) there as ment. is public TV's highest honor. manager, news W. Riipperton Riordan, VP/GM, wFrC-Tv operations, KTLA Minneapolis, named executive News. producer, New York, named assign- VP /COO, Clear Channel Television ment manager there. Appointments at (owner). wECr(TV) Wilm- Pamela Rappaport, LSM, KovBerv) Den- Vicki Montet, assistant news director, Lopez ington, N.C.: ver, joins Renaissance Communica- KCNC -TV Denver, joins wusA(TV) Christopher Neher, tions Corp., Greenwich, Conn., as Washington as senior executive pro- production manager, wcoT(TV) Merri- national sales marketing manager. ducer, news and special projects, Eye- mack, N.H., joins in same capacity; Charlotte Harwood, NSM, WBBH -TV Fort witness News team. Italy McElroy joins as sales promotion Myers and wEvu(TV) Naples, both Steve Antonlotti, president/GM, WJBK -TV coordinator; Carolyn Ivory, producer, Florida, joins wJxT(TV) Jacksonville, Detroit, joins wTvs(TV) there in same named executive news producer, Wynn Fla., in same capacity. capacity. Tartiglia joins as news producer, Cyndee Eight employes at The Katz Television Mike Jackson, director, creative services, O'Quinn, meteorologist, wFLx(TV) have been promoted from sales KCNC -TV Denver, named manager, pro- Albany, Ga., joins as meteorologist/ Group managers of their individual offices to graming and promotion. reporter, Weekend Edition. VPs. Each employe will retain his/her Gannon Gray, LSM, and Fernando Acosta, current responsibilities: Don Adams, Dal account executive, KVEA(TV) Corona, las; Shelley Corner, Red sales team, Los PROGRAMING Calif., join xsCJ(TV) San Bernardino, Angeles; Steve King, Sabers sales team, Linda Mancuso, Calif., as NSM and GSM, respectively. New York; Sharon Korn, White sales VP, prime time Appointments at KOMO -TV Seattle: team; Cliff McKinney, Washington; Peggy series and Satur- Debra Preitlds, news producer, KOAT -TV O'Neill, West and West Central sales day morning pro- Albuquerque, N.M., joins in same team, New York; Santiago Perez, graming, NBC, capacity; Doug Tolmie, special projects Atlanta: Gina Richardson, St. Louis. Burbank, Calif., producer, named special projects man- Renard Maiuri, news manager, KDRV joins Peter Engel ager; Sherri Scott, graphic artist, named (TV) Medford, Ore., named broadcast Productions there assistant art director. group news manager, now responsible as president. Appointments at Spelling Television for news operations at KDRV(TV), Appointments at KEzt(TV) Eugene and KDxF(TV) Kla- Inc., Hollywood: Gail Patterson, VP, Mancuso PrimeTime 24, production, named senior VP; Kenneth math Falls, all Oregon. New York: Miller, head, post-production, and pro- Mary Alice O'Brien -Mecke, producer, Charles Griege, investment banker, ducer, Beverly Hills 90210, named Company, WXYZ -TV Detroit, named Lehman Brothers, New York, joins as senior VP, post -production; Renate producer, NewsHawk there. president/CEO; Sid Amira, executive Kamer named senior VP, Spelling Tele- Jean Marbrez, anchor, KCNC -TV Denver, VP, Modem Times Group, New York, vision. joins KrTV(TV) Los Angeles, Fox adds chainnan, PrimeTime 24, to his responsibilities; Don Cohen, director, Appointments at Extra Entertain- Morning News and Good Day L.A., as -The marketing, named VP. ment Magazine, Burbank, Calif.: reporter and fill -in anchor. Genevieve Schmidt, senior producer, E! Appointments at KTVx(TV) Salt Lake Appointments at Petracom Broadcast- News Daily, named segment producer; City: Tom Love, LSM, named general ing stations: Kemp Nichol, GSM, KDEB- Marc Cohen, producers assistant, named sales manager; Mark Rodman, NSM, TV Springfield, Mo., named GM; Ray- segment producer; Peter Ward, segment named local sales manager. mond Hunt, GM, KNXV-TV Phoenix,

98 December 4 1995 Broadcasting & Cable joins wrvw(Tv) Evansville, Ind., in ager of the joint sales arrangement for Network, Atlanta, as director, program- same capacity; Jim Presswood, GSM, KING -FM Seattle. ing. KFXK -TV Longview, Tex., joins KDEB- Linda Rosner, reporter, wKNY(AM) Appointments at Popcorn Channel, Tv in same capacity; Terry McHugh, Kingston/wDST(FM) Woodstock, both N.Y.: Stuart Leikowitz, senior VP, opera- LSM, wQaF -TV Rockford, Ill., named New York, named news director. tions and engineering, Lifetime Televi- GSM. Mark Grant, GSM, w[s -TV Chicago, sion Network, New York, joins as Beverly Nix, joins Westwood One Entertainment senior VP, technology; Bruce Littman, lawyer, joins there as VP, director, sales, Midwestern director, affiliate sales and marketing, Columbia Pic- region. fX Networks, New York, joins as VP, tures Television, affiliate sales. Dennis Lamme, sales manager, KFMS- Culver City, FM/KEYV(FM) Las Vegas, joins KGGI(FM) Calif., as senior TELEMEDIA Riverside /KMEN(AM) San Bernardino, VP, business both California, as GSM. Japhet Asher, vice affairs. chairman, Colos- Jacqueline Mas - CABLE sal Pictures, San trolonardo, assis- Francisco, joins Peter Risafi, senior tant manager, Tele -TV Media, Nix producer, on -air Turner Network Los Angeles, as promotions, DC Westinghouse Broad- executive VP, Services, joins Networks, New casting International, Los Angeles, as programing and York, named head, sales. product develop- executive ment. Gary Butterfield, head, first-run and off- producer. network program sales, Worldvision, Dick Bell, editor, Barbara Beldcedahl, Asher Chicago, joins Turner Program Ser- Online City account execu- vices there as VP, sales, Midwest Guide, an internet travel magazine, tive, Comedy region. joins WBRC -TV Birmingham, Ala., as Central, joins The interactive producer. Charlotte Koppe, Family Channel, VP, daytime pro- Virginia Beach, Va., as New York sales Hope Neiman, VP, marketing, Knowl- graming, ABC manager. edge Adventure, joins Disney Interac- Entertainment, tive's Entertainment group, Burbank, Paul Debenedittis, manager, programing Los Angeles, Calif., as VP, business unit. acquisitions, scheduling and planning, joins New World Lifetime Television, New York, named Entertainment DEATHS director. there as senior Dorothy Owens, 61, GM, KUZZ -TV Bak- Mark Walker, marketing manager, Time VP, current syndi- ersfield, Calif., died Nov. 20 of multi- Warner Cable, Charlotte, N.C., named cated programing. ple myeloma cancer. Owens, the manager, advertising and promotion, Appointments at younger sister of Buck Owens, served Koppe Denver. The Providence as secretary/treasurer, CEO and vice Journal Company, broadcasting and Pam Tracy, senior director, Southeast president of Buck Owens Productions telecommunications division, Provi- region affiliate relations, Home & Gar- Inc. She managed the entertainment dence, R.I.: Mike Angi, VP, Colony den Television, Knoxville, Tenn., aspects of the company and operated Communications, joins as VP, technol- named senior director, new business. the radio stations. In 1988 Owens left ogy; Stephen Baker, manager, electronic Brenda Fox, senior partner/head, cable to launch KDGB(TV), later renamed media business development, named television practice, Dow, Lohnes & KUZZ -TV. She is survived by her broth- director, corporate development; Paul Albertson law firm, Washington, joins er and many nieces and nephews. McTear, VP, fmance, broadcasting and Continental Cablevision Inc. there as Arthur Smukher, 65, former CEO, Pro- cable television division, named VP, VP, federal relations. motional Services Inc., died Nov. 7 fmance and corporate development; Jeff Appointments at News 12 New Jersey, of complications from kidney trans- Wayne, VP, marketing and advertising Edison, N.J.: Allison Gibson, assistant plant surgery. In the 1980s Smukler sales, Colony Communications, joins news director, wDBJ(TV) Roanoke, Va., founded Promos Ltd., an ad specialty as VP, programing. joins in same capacity; David Feuerman, and marketing support company. He assistant professor, television/produc - developed merchandising programs RADIO tion/broadcast journalism, Westminster for such shows as Real People and Bonneville International Corp., Salt College, New Wilmington, Pa., joins as Hour Magazine. Later, he founded Lake City, announces a reorganization managing editor, Larry Meyrowitz, senior Promotion Services Inc., a full -ser- of management responsibilities at the manager, technical operations, Rain- vice list management and entertain- company's Seattle radio stations: Kari bow Network Communications, joins ment fulfillment company. Smukler is Johnson Winston, VP/GM, KBIG(FM) Los as director, operations and engineering; survived by a daughter; his mother, Angeles, named VP/GM, KIRO-FM and Jeffrey Marks, consultant, joins as news and a brother. KNwx(AM); Joseph Abel, manager, director /COO. KIRO(AM), named VP /station manager, Linda Simensky, director, animation, -Compiled by Denise Smith James Johnson named VP/station man- Nickelodeon, New York, joins Cartoon e -mail: d.smith @b &c.cahners.com

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Walt Disney Co. officials last week declined comment on a `Frasier' top draw for top dollars Knight-Ridder wire report that the company might sell Capital After 10 weeks on the off- network auction block, Paramount Domestic Tele- Cities /ABC's 21 radio stations vision's Frasier has been sold in 42 markets covering 61% of the country. As of press time last week, the sales tally for the hit sitcom, now in its once it completes its $19 billion pun NBC, 24 of 25 chase of the broadcast group. Disney third season on included the top markets. The show's license reach $2 million per spokesman John Dreyer and CapCi fees are on track to episode, putting the Emmy- in of as ties /ABC spokeswoman Julie Hoover winning series the elite club such powerhouse sitcoms Home Improvement, Seinfeld and The Cosby Show. said they would "not comment on ru we've Home mors.' However, Hoover said, "Once "In some markets, even beaten the Improvement and Cosby prices," says Joel Berman, president of distribution for Paramount the merger becomes effective, it is a Domestic Television. Frasier will bow in syndication in fall 1997. Disney decision in any case." Industry last brokers estimate that CapCities/ Separately, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer week unveiled a slate of in Paramount ABC's radio holdings, which include projects development at his -based production company, revenue leaders waec(nM) New York Grammnet Productions. Fired is a buddy sitcom in development with NBC about two women who are forced to go into business together. Logan and KABC(nM) Los Angeles, could sell Square, a drama centering on a Hispanic couple living in Chicago, is under for $1 billion. Disney CEO Michael with ABC. Eisner has said that Disney is not way interested in selling the radio assets. Revising The FCC last week adopted its Ii talk show prospects social contract with Time Warner The chances of Twentieth Television launching a first -run talk show with Cable. The deal, proposed in August, defense lawyer Leslie Abramson next fall are getting slimmer because of a settles 946 cable rate complaints scarcity of available early fringe time periods. against Time Warner Cable and calls Twentieth had intended to market the half -hour strip Exclusive with Leslie on the company to refund $4.7 million Abramson (previously titled Flashpoint) as an issues -oriented show designed in the form of subscriber bill credits. to serve as a news lead -in. But that territory already has been staked out by established talkers such as Oprah Winfrey and magazines such as Group W X -Files creator Chris Carter has Productions' Day & Date and Twentieth's own A Current Affair. signed a five -year exclusive Additionally, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has the deal to produce feature films same news lead -in marketing plan for its upcoming talker Maureen. But and TV series for 20th Century WBDTD had the early advantage by clearing the show in the top four mar - Fox Television. Carter, also execu- kets through its growing relationship with the NBC station group. tive producer of X- Files, will develop Twentieth officials stressed last week that they remain committed to projects for the studio through his launching Exclusive, possibly with CNN or another cable network. It may Ten Thirteen Productions company. be retooled as a first -run hour better suited for daytime slots, although A -fi new sci series, reportedly titled Twentieth already has a health- oriented talk show, Donna Willis, M.D., in Millennium, could air on Fox next the works for daytime next fall. fall. An X -Files film also is reportedly There was speculation that the decision to re- evaluate the show's first - in works the and may be directed by run prospects was made by incoming Twentieth Television President Rick series co -star David Duchovny. Jacobson, who takes over from Greg Meidel, the newly appointed chair - CBS's midseason drama Matt man of the MCA Television Group, on Dec. 18. Waters joins the network's Wednes- day schedule as does American More to watch from UPN Gothic, which was pulled from Fri UPN will launch its third night of programing on Wednesday, March 6, with day last month. Both shows debut a live, two -hour broadcast of the second annual Blockbuster Entertainment Jan. 3. Matt Waters, which stars talk Awards. show host Montel Williams as a high On March 13, UPN rolls out its regular Wednesday prime time slate, school science teacher, takes over at consisting of two hour dramas. Kicking things off at 8 is The Sentinel, a 9-10, and American Gothic airs at 10- Paramount Television produced show about a police detective, played by 11. The shows replace Central Park Richard Burgi, who develops heightened sensory powers while stranded West, which is on hiatus, and Court for 18 months in a Peruvian jungle. An offbeat anthropologist helps the house, which has been canceled. detective learn to use his new powers to solve crimes. The USTA Friday asked the FCC to Following at 9 is a New York based crime drama from Law& Order and insure that the Time Warner/Turner New York Undercover producer Dick Wolf and Universal Television. Swift merger leaves telcos fair access Justice deals with an ex -cop who works "outside the system on cases too to programing. The filing, joined by hot for the standard avenues of justice." Bell Atlantic and others, cited Time UPN, which premiered on Jan. 16 with four hours of programing on Warner/Turner's programing deal with Monday and Tuesday nights, also plans to expand its Sunday children's TOI and asked that other video corn- block from one to two hours next fall. -Cl petitors get equal treatment.

100 December 41995 Broadcasting & Cable NEW YORK TV's biggest advertisers, urging them Keller, has licensed the live- action to follow the lead of consumer giant rights to the Tarzan novels from the Behind the scenes Procter & Gamble by pulling out of estate of author Edgar Rice Bur- Although word of Westinghouse's shows that Empower America roughs. Disney is at work on a Tarzan negotiations with CBS broke just describes as "trash TV." animated feature, and there are plans weeks before they announced their Empower America officials say the to build a Tarzan attraction, encom- deal, Westinghouse was in pursuit of TV industry has snubbed its request that passing the set of the live- action the network for five months. The first talk show producers voluntarily set new series, at the Florida theme park. A approach by Westinghouse Chairman content standards for their shows. Ben- new line of Tarzan toys hits stores in Michael Jordan came in early March. nett and Lieberman called on the parent March, followed by a series of comic The first offer was a combination of companies of major talk show produc- books and reissues of Burroughs' nov- cash and Westinghouse stock that was ers to exercise "corporate responsibili- els from Ballantine Books. immediately rebuffed by CBS Chair- ty" in letters sent out last month. Two of ANAHEIM man Laurence Tisch. The first all -cash the six companies targeted -King offer came in June: $77 per share, also World Productions and Tribune Co.- Malone on modems summarily rejected. It wasn't until are said to have sent written responses Tele- communications Inc. President/ July that Tisch became interested, defending their shows. CEO John Malone says "his wildest when Westinghouse put an $80 per dreams" would put PC -cable modem share bid on the table. The deal closed Show -and -tell penetration at about 5% (5 million just NBC got a chance last week to make its on Friday, Nov. 24, at a price of customers) within two years. He says over $82 per share, or $5.4 billion. case at the FCC for the educational value of NBA inside Stuff and other the modems, which begin rolling out Format question shows. Network executives brought next year, likely will carry a monthly Evergreen Media Corp. is expected to educational consultants employed in charge of about $35 -$40 per customer. drop the country format on its recently producing its children's programing to a LOS ANGELES acquired wYNY(FM) New York and two -hour meeting with commission replace it with either rock, urban or staff. The executives showed clips of Zaks axed '70s -era oldies. Two -year veteran their educational children's shows and In the latest executive shuffling at Corn - WYNY General Manager Steve Candul- walked the staff through the process of edy Central, VP of West Coast Pro- lo resigned last week, leaving Ever- producing the shows and setting educa- grams Laure Zaks has been fired from green's Jim DeCastro to step in as act- tional goals for each installment. "It was the L.A. office she opened about a year ing GM. DeCastro said "There is an very amiable," one commission official ago. Zaks, a longtime CC staffer, joined urban hole, a rock hole and a seventies said of the meeting, which was prompt- from CC predecessor the HA! Network. hole in the New York market" and that ed by a dispute between NBC and FCC No replacement has been named. Evergreen will continue its market Chairman Reed Hundt over the educa- research in New York for several tional merits of NBA Inside Stuff: weeks before announcing the new for- ORLANDO mat for WYNY. `Tarzan' swings into WASHINGTON production Talking `trash' Look for Tarzan to stage a comeback Phase two of Empower America's next year. Production on Tar_un: The campaign to clean up TV talk shows Epic Adventures, a new first -run begins this week with the launch of action hour for fall 1996, is under way radio and TV ads targeting advertisers at the Disney -MGM Studios in Flori- with shows on the conservative advo- da. Keller /Siegel Entertainment is pro- cacy group's hit list. Empower Ameri- ducing 22 episodes of the big- budget ca co- directors William Bennett and series with financial backing from Senator Joseph Lieberman (D- Conn.) Malaysia's STl Entertainment Group. the spots at a Keller/Siegel, a joint venture of are expected to unveil Drawn for BROADCASTING a CABLE by lack Schmidt press conference on Dec. 7. Sources SeaGull Entertainment and veteran "It looks like those 'video dialtone' lobby- say the ads will name some of talk TV producers Max and Micheline ists are at it again!"

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the Turner news operations: "I'm looking forward to Media momentum squishing Rupert like a bug." Put all that go- getting together with cable's new initia- It's hard to know whether to credit Ted Turner or the cable tive in the field of high -speed data transmission-connect- industry in general, but the vitality exhibited at last week's ing with and drawing a revenue stream from still another opening session of the Western Cable Show was something appliance in the home (the computer)-and you get a sense to behold. In what was otherwise a lackluster panel, the of the power that surges through what may be the most spirit and the confidence of cable shone through in a way powerful pipe in America: the coaxial cable. If, in addition, that should be instructive to all others in the telemedia race. it can hold on to the entrepreneurial spirit exhibited in Ana- "We were and are the competition," Turner declared, heim last week, the future could be awesome. recounting how cable had begun by challenging the hold of the three major networks on the American audience and was continuing to bring the battle to the enemy. "A lot of Chance of a lifetime competition has come along with us," he said, "but you can't worry about defense too much. You've got to keep Talk about an awesome future. That can be broadcasting's, putting those points on the scoreboard.... We'll kick some too, if it will but pick up on the giant step taken by the more ass before we're through." FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Ser- Actor/director Robert Redford amplified Turner's lead, vice headed by Richard E. Wiley and a virtually heroic saying that cable's success shows what can happen "when band of dedicated broadcasters and engineers who have you stay focused and you believe in what you're doing and wrought a miracle of the century: digital and high- defini- you stay with it." tion television. Our cover story interview this week plays Barry Diller added a cautionary note about the megame- out the good news and the bad: the magnificence of the dia consolidation. The only question, he said, is whether accomplishment and the sorry state of industry and govern- you're able to manage across a whole series of disciplines. mental politics that threatens to subvert it. No matter, he said: Anybody with a good idea or a good It has taken two decades to move HDTV out of the egg project is going to get air, somewhere. and (almost) into our living rooms -counting all the years "I think this is the golden age coming," said Brian developing a production standard, long before the even Roberts of Comcast, although "it doesn't mean everybody harder task of developing a transmission standard. Along is going to be a winner." After alluding to all that's going the way two major developments transformed the future: on in cable today, he said, "There's still a role for new digital television and compression. This page's attitude ideas." toward high definition parallels Ted Turner's toward life in "You can't be content with your content," said Turner. general: There's time for naught but bold resolves. "You have to be discontented. I'm worth a couple of billion The next step is up to the FCC, whose chairman has a dollars and I feel poor. If you stand still for just an instant, skeptical -if still open- attitude toward "going for the your competitiors will get ahead of you." His response to gold," as his predecessor put it. Broadcasters should help reports that Rupert Murdoch would mount a challenge to him do the right thing.

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