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Fast Pack December 9. 1996 TOP OF THE WEEK / 8 Malone looks to boost cash flow Cable giant Tele- Communications Inc. cut 2,500 jobs, slashed top executives' pay 5 % -20% and froze other executives' salaries last week in a dramatic move to rein in costs and improve cash flow. / 8 TCI dropping VH1, others from most systems VH1, Viacom's music video network, is among a handful of cable networks that Tele- Communications Inc. will drop from a majority of its systems Jan. 1 to make room for networks such as Turner's Cartoon Network. / 13 TW and Fox move fight to Tampa The Time Warner Fox brawl that started in New York is spilling over to Florida. as Time Warner files a lawsuit in Tampa charging Fox with threat- Gerry laybourne announced that ABC will ening to pull New World TV stations off cable systems there and elsewhere on Jan. 1. / 16 go with at least three hours of children's Viacom will buy half of UPA' UPN got a major vote of confidence last week with Viacom's educational programs decision to exercise an option to buy 50% of the almost two -year -old network by Jan. 15. / 17 on Saturday mornings next season. / 17 MPAA -style ratings will be recommended for TV The TV ratings industry implementation group plans to give television a ratings system similar to the one used for motion pictures, industry sources say. But critics prefer HBO's system of identifying specific content. / 19 BROADCASTING / 34 CABLE / 63 `Bradshaw' exits, but new syndication Turner qualifies for '98 Olympics TNT will pay shows are com.Jng The end of the November sweep' CBS some $7 million to telecast more than 50 hours of coincided with this season's first programing from the winter games in Nagano, Japan- cancellation of a freshman strip, The considerably less than it paid for about the same amount of Bradshaw Difference. / 34 programing during the 1992 and 1994 winter games. / 90 Rogers named NBC's chief USA creates original Sunday night block strategist Tom Rogers, presi- USA Networks will add tour new original series to its sched- dent. NBC Cable and business ule next month, boosting its original prime time programing development, and executive VP, slate to nine and a half hours per week, according to Rod NBC, adds chief strategist to his var- Perth, president of USA Entertainment Networks. / 90 ious job titles. / 34 Telen-0 Justice checks out Orlando 'Beakman's World' wil' be part of CBS's three - Cable modems moving radio consolidation Orlando's hour Saturday morn- three top radio station owners- ing educational block Cable modems are moving Chancellor, Cox and Paxson -are next season. / 38 beyond the hype, and the begin- providing information to the Department of Justice, which is Using Motorola's Cyber- nings of a very real business are Surfr cable modem, Corn - looking into their planned acquisitions in the market. / 60 cast has launched a local- quickly taking root. Major ized version of the @Home MSOs, including TCI, Continen- cable online service in the tal Cablevision, Time Warner t, COVER Cable TV in 1997 Cable Baltimore area. / 108 STORY has failed to meet projections Cable, Rogers Cablesystems and and promises and suffered a Comcast Cable, are launching commercially. / 106 downturn in fortunes in 1996. TECHNOLOGY /111 Industry leaders see 1997 as a year in which cable can upgrade Fox affiliate launches new chopper Philadel- networks and roll out new prod- phia's wrxF(TV) launches a state -of- the -art ENG helicopter, ucts and services. Cover art by adding another player to a competitive aerial news arena. Michael McGurl/SIS / 64 The Astar 350B chopper features a nose -mounted gyrostabilized camera unit from FUR Systems Inc 111 Q&A: Amos Hostetter Amos "Bud" Hostetter / Jr. discusses the challenges his industry faced in 1996 Changing Hands 54 Datebook 131 In Brief 136 j and the challenges it faces in the future. / 86 Classified 116 Editorials 138 Network Ratings 52 Closed Circuit 18 Fates & Fortunes...133 Washington Watch..31 4 December 91996 Broadcasting & Cable

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sold four of its corporate aircraft and delayed completion of two of four national customer call centers. The job reductions, salary cuts and freezes are the latest in a series of moves ICI has made to cap spiraling costs and improve financial results since chairman John Malone resumed a hands -on leadership role several months ago. Since October, when Malone told investors that TCI will generate $750 million -$1 billion in free cash flow in 1997, TCI has: Reorganized core cable operations into three groups designed to improve efficiency. Will require Internet and telephony businesses to be self- supporting. Taken a hard line in negotiations with programers in an effort to reduce escalating programing costs. Spun off TCI Satellite Entertain- TCI chairman hopes to boost cash flow by cutting 2,500 ment and started the ball rolling to spin off TCI's 82 %% of ICI International and jobs, trimming executive pay and squeezing programers subsidiary Liberty Media Corp. in an effort to simplify TCI's corporate struc- By Price Colman according to analysts' estimates. ture and enhance shareholder value. DENVER TCI spokesman Bob Thomson con- Speculation has also surfaced that firmed that the company will take a TCI might sell some of its cable sys- Cable giant Tek- Communications fourth -quarter charge to pay for the tems. While Malone reportedly men- Inc. cut 2,500 jobs, slashed top reductions but declined to specify how tioned the possibility in discussions executives' pay 5 % -20% and much. Analysts estimated it could be as with investors last week, he played froze other executives' salaries last high as $30 million. down the likelihood. Thomson said, week in a dramatic move to rein in Fired employes will receive a sever- "There are no plans for individual sales costs and improve cash flow. ance package based on tenure with the announceable at this point." The job cuts alone are expected to company, as well as outplacement assis- Even with those moves and job cuts, save the nation's largest cable operator tance and other services, Thomson said. Malone faces a substantial task in get- as much as $100 million annually, In addition to the job cuts, TCI has ting to the $750 million -$1 billion in

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"J.C. has always been an expert on "Even in a company that investors capital management. His advice in that area has recognize as lean, Malone is able to Sparkman is involved been very valuable." reach his bag and cut head into of tricks 'n 'capital management' count significantly," Mark Riely of Sparkman's increasingly active role, first reported in the Nov. 11 edition of BROADCASTING & CABLE, has been evident Media Research Group says. "It could for some time, sources say. "I saw the [job reductions] handwriting sever- have a fairly positive impact on a group ago when I heard was back to be involved in of stocks that have been beaten up." al weeks that J.C. coming Malone's concern about TCI's day -to -day operations," says a well -placed source. say TCI's ailing finances, he agreed to financial straits was great enough that Sources that once Malone saw $1 incentive to lure him out of retirement. he brought back TCI veteran J.C. pay Sparkman a millionplus -PC Sparkman to assist him (see box). "There have been specific business Thomson flatly denies that rumor, should bear fruit in 1997, analysts say. issues [Sparkman] has been focused saying there has been no change in "I project that TCI will have a mini- on," confirms TCI spokesman Thom- Clouston's duties. Thomson also mum of 750,000 [digital] boxes in the son. "J.C. has always been an expert on stresses that "no corporate officer has field next year," says Chuck Kersch, of capital management. His advice in that left" as a result of the job cuts. NeidigerlTuckerBruner. area has been very valuable." Over the past three years, Clouston Malone has told analysts that ICI will Sparkman's presence has generated has been the point man in preparing roll out TCI's ALL TV digital cable ser- speculation in the financial community TCI for the launch of new products and vice in 40 or more markets next year. that TCI Communications President services. In the past year alone, ICI Brendan Clouston might be leaving TCI, employment grew by about 18 %. possibly to take over TCI International. Malone's aggressive plan to cut FCC OKs MCI Fred Vierra, ICI International's CEO, is costs and capital expenditures while 65 and thus close to retirement age. improving revenue and cash flow DBS plan Cable industry efforts to stymie MCI's DBS ambitions suffered a setback last Friday. The FCC approved MCI's DBS application, Tele-TV scaling back determining that the foreign ownership caps don't apply in the By Michael Katz of May. CAI President John Prisco cases of subscription DBS ser- WASHINGTON didn't return phone calls. vices. But the commission said it "We envision Tele -TV as part of the later will "independently and inten- Atlantic, Nynex and Pacific future in some form," says Bell sively" review MCI's request to Telesis have denied widespread Atlantic spokesman Eric Rabe. He says transfer the license to British Tele- BeI'reports that they are pulling the Bell Atlantic will continue to build the communications (BT). plug on Tele -TV, their joint video ser- wireless cable system in Norfolk, but BT and MCI filed their merger vice venture. However, the service is concedes that the coverage is "not what application at the FCC last week, expected to be cut back and its staff by we had hoped for." The fate of the and the Clinton administration has 10 % -20 %. wireless platform in the other 11 mar- asked the FCC not to preclude the The downsizing of Tele -TV is a kets seems to be in jeopardy -Rabe administration from offering rec- blow to CAI Wireless, which made a wouldn't comment on it other than to ommendations on the application. $100 million deal with Bell Atlantic say that "its under study." The scaling Both MCI and EchoStar will and Nynex to provide and maintain the back of Tele -TV is expected to lead to receive their licenses once they facilities for the Tele -TV service the departure of CEO Howard Stringer. pay the balance on their bids for planned in 13 East Coast markets. The Stringer didn't return phone calls. the licenses. MCI in January bid service is scheduled to launch in the Lee Camp, president of Pacific Tele- $682.5 million for its license, while first two markets-Boston and Norfolk, sis Enhanced Services says: "Tele- EchoStar bid $52.3 million for Va. -next year. In reaction to the TV's focus has continued to evolve. another DBS license not covering reports, CAI's stock plummeted to 1 However, Pacific Telesis has no inten- the full continental U.S. -CM 3/16, after peaking at 17 1/2 at the end tion of dissolving Tele -TV."

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By Jim McConville Viacom -owned Showtime and NEW YORK Encore's Starz! For the past two years Encore has aggressively Encore Media's premium movie brokered deals to acquire block- channel Starz! may have scored buster theatrical titles for Starz! some points in its ongoing battle As a result, HBO and Starz! will against pay network Showtime: MSO own 80% of the first -run movie. Continental Cablevision has chosen it to for 1997 and 1998. be part of a new premium movie pack- Wade says Encore's spending age that bundles Starz! with HBO and spree actually hurt the premium Encore, but does not include Showtime. channels: "Because of Starz! and Among Starz!'s original programing is 'Assas- File,' which premiered in Last September select Continental Encore, everybody has paid more sination October. systems in Southern California started than they would have paid." lion, Encore officials say. Showtime offering their subscribers a premium Competition between Showtime and has 14.8 million subs, according to package of seven channels -HBO, Starz! nearly boiled over last month, Nielsen Media Research. HBO2, HBO3, Cinemax, Cinemax2, when Starz! Chairman John Sie publicly Continental offers Starz! in some Encore and Starz! -for $18.95 per criticized Showtime, saying it had for- fashion to about 2 million -or 50 %- month. Showtime is available a la carte feited its status as a first -rank pay service of its estimated 4 million subs. for $10 -$11 a month. by emphasizing original movies and Encore also continues to add Starz! The package, first rolled out as downplaying first -run theatricals. Sie to other cable systems. Last week En- "Choice One," now is offered in all also questioned Showtime's core pack- core signed a deal with Time Warner five of Continental's operating regions age cable status, saying its original pro- Cable to launch Starz! to 4 million TW under other names, such as "Best graming and many of its "B" movies basic subs during 199T Value" in the Midwest. contain violence. Stan! is not without problems, how- Rob Stengel, Continental's senior Showtime dismissed the comments ever. While the network has lined up an vice president of programing, down- as "outrageous," saying Sie distorted impressive array of blockbuster theatri- plays the inclusion of Starz! and the the truth about Showtime's commit- cals, it has lost $150 million and is exclusion of Showtime: "This is not ment to first -run movies. expected to lose $300 million before it unusual. Not every package that we This year Starz! has grown from 3.5 reaches break -even cash flow, says offer has Showtime in it; not every million subscribers to just under 5 mil- Schroder Wertheim's Niraj Gupta. package has HBO in it." Stengel says Continental plans to add the package to other cable systems TCI move is sour note for VH1 as they upgrade. Showtime isn't the only Viacom network under fire. Customer demand for more first -run VH1, Viacom's music video network, is among a handful of cable net- movies -and other factors, including works that Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) will drop from a majority of its financial terms-led to Continental's systems Jan. 1 to make room for networks such as Discovery Communi- decision to include Starz!, which is part cations' Animal Planet and Turner's Cartoon Network. The MSO will also of Encore's thematic multiplex group. drop two superstations from many systems on Jan. 1 (see page 12). "You've got another foundation While TCI says VH1, E! Entertainment Television, Comedy Central and movie service out there now that has other networks are being dropped to provide subscribers with better pro- more first -run movies than Showtime," gram value, most industry experts say the move is TCI's way to replace says Stengel. "Showtime now has a unprofitable, low -rated networks with ones willing to pay hefty $5 -$8 strategy more toward original pro- upfront launch fees. TCI would not say how many systems will drop VH1. graming and serials." VH1 has never been able to duplicate the success of other MTV Net- But Jeff Wade, Showtime executive works MTV and Nickelodeon. According to recent Nielsen Media vice president of sales and marketing, Research numbers, VH1's prime time rating for third quarter '96 was a flat says that pegging Showtime as an origi- 0.2, representing 96,000 households. Started by MTV Networks in 1985, nal movie network is inaccurate: "We're VH1 reaches 54 million cable households. not an original network. Showtime's One media analyst speculates that TCI also may drop VH1 to make way programing mix historically has been 65 for its own music network. "I've heard that one of the channels ICI wants percent theatrical and 35 percent origi- to launch is going to be competing in the music area," says Derek Baine, nal. We have, on average, 60 to 65 first - analyst for Paul Kagan & Associates. run theatricals [a year], which is about TCI last September hired former MTV president John Reardon to head the same as the other networks." its new division, TCI Music. The MSO is also trying to buy Digital Music Continental's new package is the lat- Express (DMX), a digital audio music company. -JM est salvo in the continuing war between

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By Rich Brown Sept. 19 -In a surprise move, Time NEW YORK Warner opts to carry MSNBC on its cable systems instead of News Corp.'s Fox The Time News Channel, severely hamstringing Warner Fox FNC's debut. Fox News accuses TW of brawl that reneging on its promise to carry FNC. TW started in New denies having made such a promise. is York spilling Sept. 26-Ted Turner calls Rupert Mur- over into other doch "slimy" and likens the News Corp. parts of the coun- chief to Adolf Hitler. Turner denies lobby- ing against FNC's being carried by TW Still stinging cable systems. over the failure to launch its fledg- Oct. 10- Turner issues a halfhearted ling news channel apology for comparing Murdoch to the on Time Warn- late führer," saying his choice of words er's New York was "unfortunate" in juxtaposing the way City cable sys- The three -month -long battle between Time Warner and Fox the two managed news. tems, Fox ap- has included some colorful exchanges between Ted Turner, Oct. 11 -TW wins a temporary restrain- of Time Warner, and Rupert Murdoch, chairman vice chairman ing order preventing New York City from pears to be play- of News Corp. The fight shows no signs of resolution. ing hardball in forcing TW to carry FNC. some markets where its TV stations and elsewhere (New World TV sta- Oct. 17 -Fox News files an antitrust suit are carried by the operator. It marks tions and Time Warner cable systems against TW and Turner Broadcasting, the latest tension in an increasingly coexist in several other markets, in- accusing the two of breach of contract tense relationship between the compa- cluding Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, and fraud for not carrying FNC on TW's nies (see box). Cleveland, St. Louis, Milwaukee, systems. The latest battles involve retrans- Kansas City, Mo., and Austin). Oct. 18- Turner calls Murdoch a "scum mission- consent rights for New World The lawsuit says that Chase Carey, bag" during a three -hour deposition television stations that soon will be News Corp. vice chairman, made it before lawyers. by the clear in a Nov. 6 meeting with New owned Fox. Under FCC's Oct. 22- Turner's wife, Jane Fonda, rules, TV sta- World and Time Warner executives retransmission- consent accuses Fox Sports of intentionally not seek from that Fox was trying to use the retrans- tions may compensation showing her and Turner in the stands system in exchange for mission- consent issue to press for car- cable operators during the World Series, and claims the signals. Fox News Channel on carriage of their riage of the only reason New York Mayor Rudolph Time Warner says the soon- to -be- Time Warner's cable systems. Giuliani is supporting Fox is because it "The retransmission- consent agree- acquired New World stations fall employs his wife. under earlier retransmission-consent ment for the New World stations is its first Euro- deals between the cable operator and being held hostage to a Fox News Oct. 31 -TW's debut of pean TV channel on News Corp. owned Fox TV stations; Fox counters that the Channel agreement that is not accept- newly acquired properties are not cov- able to us," says Time Warner spokes- satellite network BSkyB is delayed for ered by the earlier agreements and are man Michael Luftman. undisclosed reasons. open for renegotiation. Squadron says Time Warner itself Nov. 7 -U.S. District Court Judge "We're prepared to talk with them opened the door for a new round of Denise Cotes issues a preliminary injunc- about getting value for the stations," retransmission -consent negotiations tion against New York City prohibiting it says William Squadron, senior vice in Tampa by sending Fox a letter on from carrying FNC on its Crosswalks pub- president, News Corp. (Fox's parent July 2 terminating their existing lic access channels. company). "Our basic position is that retransmission -consent agreements. Nov. 15 -TW asks the FCC to block these are valuable properties." But Time Warner "neral counsel News Corp. and MCI's ASkyB satellite Time Warner filed a lawsuit in Marc Apfelbaum sa) correspon- venture because both companies are for- Tampa, Fla., last Tuesday charging dence was sent by local management eign owned. that Fox has threatened to pull New to mark the end of the New World - Ongoing -Fox, which along with ESPN World TV stations off cable systems Time Warner retransmission -consent owns Major League Baseball rights until there and elsewhere on Jan. I, 1997, agreements and the adoption of exist- 1998, stands in the way of Turner's in connection with the retransmis- ing Fox -Time Warner retransmission - wresjrv) Atlanta acquiring rights to Turn- sion- consent disputes. Time Warner consent agreements. er's Atlanta Braves. Carrying the Braves is says the move could knock Fox TV "Any implication by Fox that we seen as a necessity for vow to convert to a stations off cable systems serving don't want to carry the channel is a red "free- market superstation." -MK nearly 2 million subscribers in Tampa herring," says Luftman.

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But he shared nothing of sub- day mornings next season tions will be able to down- stance about getting GMA back on track to help affiliates satisfy load an array of materials, or putting distance between NBC" in the the FCC children's pro- including ready -to-air pro- evening news race, said one attendee. graming requirements that motion and advertising Affiliates are also miffed at the "re- take effect in January. Gerry Laybourne spots, photos and up -to- ports" ESPN is contributing to World ABC affiliates were announced ABC's new the- minute scheduling News Tonight. call it Saturday kids schedule. "They content briefed on those plans by information. enrichment, but for us it's promotion of Gerry Laybourne, president, Disney/ But overall, ABC's problems in a competitor," said one irate affiliate. ABC cable networks, at the ABC affili- prime time and news set what several David Westin, president, ABC Tele- ate meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., last affiliates in attendance said was a sub- vision Network Group, reiterated the week. Her presentation came one day dued atmosphere at the meeting. One network's commitment to fix prime after CBS announced similar plans (see source called it a "low -rent affair," time programs. Westin, Harbert and story, page 38). compared with the glitzy. pull- out -all- Tarsis got high marks for energy and In other news from the ABC meet- the -stops show the network put on at passion, but affiliate patience is clearly ing, affiliates were told that the net- last June's annual spring gathering. being strained. "We've been hearing work would be prepared to transmit News division President Roone Ar- the same message for almost a year high- definition programing by fourth ledge made a presentation that left many now," said one group operator. "We're quarter 1997 and that probably three affiliates unimpressed with its lack of glad they're committed to fixing it. But owned -and -operated stations would specifics about how to make Good now it's time to show me." convert to digital technology in 1998, with perhaps two more converting by 1999. On the sports front, division president Viacom to buy half of UPN Steve Bornstein said he expected Is investing million in "aggressive" competition for the Mon- $160 fledgling network day Night Football package in the next By Steve McClellan and the network through Jan. 15. Sources rights go- round, talks for which should Lynette Rice confirmed that BHC's total investment get under way next fall as the final sea- NEW YORK, HOLLYWOOD by then will be some $320 million, son under the current NFL pacts begins. which would put the price of Viacom's But Bornstein pledged to retain the PN received a major vote of con - half at about $160 million. package, whatever the cost, sources fidence last week with Viacom's In 1995, BHC lost about $128 mil- said. "It will be expensive," he told affil- U decision to exercise an option to lion on the network and for the first iates. Fox reportedly has its eye on the buy 50% of the almost two -year -old nine months of 1996 lost another $116 Monday night NFL package. network by Jan. 15, 1997. million, according to Securities and In prime time, Ted Harbert and Wall Street reacted favorably to the Exchange Commission filings. UBS Jamie Tarsis, chairman and president, news, pushing UPN owner BHC's Securities, in a report issued last respectively, of ABC Entertainment, stock price up almost $2, to $102.875, month, estimated that UPN would lose reported that Townies will go on hiatus on word of Viacom's decision. Viacom $140 million in 1996. immediately, replaced on Wednesday was down 25 cents the day of the news Commenting on Viacom's decision, nights by Coach. David Kelley's new (Dec. 4) but recovered half that loss the company chairman Sumner Redstone lawyer drama, The Practice, they said, following day, closing at $36.75. said the network has "exceeded our will be ready for midseason use. An- Viacom has had the option, in expectations" and created "real value other new hour, an action /adventure exchange for some seed money and for its affiliated stations." show called The Spy Game, may also certain operational services, to buy half Indeed, while analysts focused on be ready by next March. of UPN since its inception. Viacom UPN as a secure distribution outlet for Alan Cohen. executive vice presi- notified BHC last Tuesday that it will Viacom, company executives stressed dent, made a well- received presentation exercise the option on Jan. 15, the day that their primary reason for joining the that included plans to expand the num- it is set to expire. The 50% stake will stan -up venture in the first place was to ber of music video -type program pro- cost Viacom one -half of the aggregate give the Paramount station group a net- mos, like the one rock star Phil Collins cash contribution that BHC puts into work brand identity, which over time and

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www.americanradiohistory.com Top of the Week with continued success should significantly increase the value of the group. Together, the Paramount- and BHC- owned stations cover 35% of the country. UPN has 152 broadcast affiliates DENVER FCC to pitch new additions to the covering 92 %. Citizens for an Independent KCCN- Malone on move Reacting to the Viacom move, UBS TV Website. The Website includes entertainment analyst Ed Hatch pre- ook for John Malone to create comments on the station's deal with dicted in a note to investors that Via- in coming weeks L even more stir Ackerley and a side -by -side com- corn's share of annual UPN losses for as he seeks to accelerate the TCI parison of KCCN -TV and Ackerley's the next several years will be $50 mil - turnaround. Among upcoming ac- KcsA(TV) Salinas. "FCC commis - lion$60 million. But that will have tions Malone is likely to take: con- sioners...may anonymously view only a slight impact on the company's wire- solidating TCI's wireline and moderated public comments sec- overall earnings, Hatch said, restating less operations into a telephone onds after they are submitted to the his "buy" recommendation for Viacom tracking stock (a stock that permits site," the electronic message said. stock, with a 12 -month price target of busi- investors to invest in a specific FCC officials are still considering a $46. Hatch said the move was "long- ness rather than the parent company), May petition to throw out Acker- term strategically positive due to guar- large buybacks of TCI and Liberty ley's LMA with KccN -TV. anteed content distribution in an stock and a rollout of digital cable - increasingly competitive marketplace." to some degree -in all TCI systems HOLLYWOOD The move was "as predicted," said end of 1997. "There's going to by the Ghosts and warriors UPN President Lucie Salhany, who be a whole whirlwind of activity," expects to eventually answer to a board said a source who attended Malone's As of last week,w relatively few new strip projects were headed of directors similar to the one that over- investor briefing last week. "He's sees USA Network. Despite rampant looking for a radical turnaround.... for next month's NATPE convention, but there's no shortage of new industry speculation that she'll be out You could look in his eyes and see of a job once Viacom steps in, Salhany he is back with a vengeance." weekly hours. Among the offerings expected to be unveiled this week said she'll remain on board as indicated WASHINGTON are Ghost Stories, a spooky antholo- by her contract. gy series from All American Televi- "I don't think [Viacom will affect us Musical chairs sion, and Conan, an action hour during] the day -to -day activities. I don't With the new Congress will from Keller Entertainment and think there will be much effect at all - come a new set of staff faces in Western International Syndication not in the negative sense. It will be more the House. Christy Strawman, leg- based on the comic books that in- positive." Salhany said. "When you're over- islative director for Representative spired the campy Arnold Schwarze- footing the bill, you tend not to Jack Fields (R-Tex.), is going home negger films of the early 1980s. spend. Now that Paramount's in, maybe to Texas to work for AT &T. Hill we'll get a little more aggressive." and industry sources say Cathy Reid NEW YORK That could mean a sooner- rather- will soon leave her position as than-later announcement of a fifth night majority counsel on the Telecom- MSG at the bat of programing for UPN (the network is munications Subcommittee. Com- The Madison Square Garden Net- expected to add a fourth night next sea- merce Committee Chairman work apparently is vying for the son). There may be more movement in Thomas Bliley (R -Va.) is also said radio rights to the New York Yan- dayparts as well, beyond the hour block to have hired a new female counsel kees. The Yankees concluded their of teen programing that's set to debut for the Telecommunications Sub- second consecutive five -year rights next fall (see story, page 42). committee-the name could not be contract-worth about $5 million This is the first season that Salhany confirmed at print time. Meanwhile, annually -with wABC(AM) New has been able to carry out her original Billy Tauzin (R -La.) is still consid- York earlier this fall. But WABC has goal of counterprograming to young ering candidates for the legislative not been altogether pleased with the urbanites. And while the prime time director slot on his personal staff. arrangement after losing several lineup has yet to average double -digit The soon -to -be chairman of the million dollars on the deal in the ratings, improvement has been seen in Telecommunications Subcommittee past few years. Last October, WABC all key demographics. During the has also asked Bliley for a staffing general manager Phil Boyce said November sweeps, UPN improved its slot on the subcommittee. contract negotiations with the team adults 18 -49 share by 20% over the were ongoing, but conceded that same time last year and posted signifi- Internet Ackerley "whether or not we'll have the Yan- cant gains in females 12 -24 and female Qhpunents of Ackerley Commu- kees next year, I don't know. It and male teens, its target audience. nications' local marketing hasn't always been a great relation- Overall, UPN finished the sweeps agreement (LMA) with KCCN -TV ship." Since MSG has no radio sta- with a 3.5 Nielsen rating/5 share -up Monterey, Calif., are turning to the tion in New York, the network 9% from last year's 3.2/5. The WB, in Internet to make their case at the would have to find a local station to comparison, finished with a 2.8/4, up FCC. A former employe of the sta- carry the games and pay a carriage from last year's 2.4/4. This also is the tion late last month e- mailed the fee to the network. first season that UPN has retained all of its shows for the rest of the year.

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www.americanradiohistory.com -Top of the Week TV producing movie -style ratings But some critics prefer HBO's content -based method RATINGS IN THE WORKS By Heather Fleming The TV ratings implementation group is WASHINGTON considering these six ratings cate- The TV ratings industry implemen- gories. Still being worked out are the tation group plans to give televi- specific definitions of each rating. sion a ratings system similar to K -For children of all ages the one used for motion pictures, K -7 -For children 7 aid older industry sources say. TV -G -For all audiences But with less than two weeks before TV- PG- Parental guicance suggested the final plan is to be unveiled, some TV- 14- Inappropriate for children fine -tuning is still required. Ratings under 14 group leader Jack Valenti, who is presi- Markey (I) says an age -based ratings ystem isnot good enough, but Valenti TV -M- For mature audiences of America (MPAA) -which estab- says there's still no industry consensus. lished the movie ratings system -said has been decided gives the industry an door open to oversight hearings. there is no tentative agreement yet, and obvious opportunity to include con- "Billy believes the less government that "there are crucial segments of the tent- specific information so parents intrusion the better," Tauzin industry, including broadcast networks, can make informed choices about what spokesman Ken Johnson said. "At this movie executives, cable networks, syn- their children watch." time he doesn't feel it's necessary to go dicators, writers and directors, which But broadcast and cable sources into as much depth as some critics are have not signed off on a plan." were not surprised that the industry is calling for. If it's good enough to guide Early reports of the age -based sys- settling on an MPAA system. Imple- parents for movies, it's good enough to tem prompted outcries from some law- mentation group participants last Feb- guide parents for TV." makers, media watchdog groups and ruary said they had agreed "to provide The FCC has the authority under the National Parent Teacher Associa- parents with more information about the Telecommunications Act to set up tion (PTA). TV programs, similar to parental infor- a ratings panel of its own if it finds the "The 'V' for violence has been mation provided by the MPAA movie voluntary industry system unaccept- reported missing," Representative ratings for the past 27 years." able. But the commission is waiting Edward Markey (D- Mass.), the archi- Regardless of the final plan, Senator for the final plan before weighing in. tect of the V -chip legislation, said. John McCain (R- Ariz.), who will chair FCC Commissioner Rachelle Chong "The industry is supposed to be devel- the Senate Commerce Committee, and noted that the voluntary ratings were oping a ratings system that allows par- Representative Billy Tauzin (R -La.). "much more First Amendment ents to block shows because they con- who will chair the House Telecommu- friendly" than would be the govern- tain violence that could be harmful to nications Subcommittee, leave the ment's stepping in. children. Yet recent reports indicate that parents will be given no information whatsoever about violence." Markey wants to combine the WCBS -TV gets HDTV license MPAA ratings system with the HBO The FCC has awarded an experimental HDTV license to CBS O &O wcss -Tv system, which identifies specific con- New York. The station will use it to provide an HDTV simulcast o` its current tent- including language, sex and vio- NTSC programing to a coverage radius of 55 miles. The experimental sta- lence. tion, WCBS -HD, will broadcast from a dedicated HDTV antenna atop the Senator Kent Conrad (D- N.D.), Empire State Building, where wcss --v's auxiliary antenna is Iccated. another V -chip proponent, said in a According to Bob Seidel, CBS engineering vice presidert, WCBS -TV will statement that if TV executives agree convert its NTSC programing to HDTV using a Snell & Wilcox upconvert- on an age -based MPAA system, "they er at its 57th Street Broadcast Center, and then send a multiplexed will be telling parents that they, not the microwave feed, consisting of an HDTV signal and a compressed digital parents, know what is appropriate for NTSC signal, to the antenna. the six -year -old, 10 -year -old or 17- "Simulcasting is a major concern for broadcasters in metropolitan year-old in that home." areas, where there's a lot of microwave congestion," says Seidel. "We Only two weeks ago a national sur- think we can fit both signa s on onE studio -to- transmitter lin <." vey by the PTA, Institute for Mental CBS also may experiment with dabbing some of its prime time material, Health Initiatives and researchers at the which is shot on 35mm film, to HD V tape for playback. University of Wisconsin reported that Seidel gives no on -air date for W 3BS -HD, as winter weathEr may impede 80% of parents prefer an HBO -style the HDTV installation, but says the station aims to begin measuring the rating to the MPAA system. HDTV signals as soon as possible. "This signal needs to be fie d- tested in National PTA President Joan Dyk- the canyons of a large city," he says. -GD stra said Valenti's saying that nothing

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Stroh summer to advertise on TV. its investigation into whether the liquor supplied the FTC with a copy of the ad Seagram would not comment on the companies' TV ads target underage and supporting scheduling documenta- subpoena, but said in a statement that drinkers, sources at both companies tion this summer and thought the issue its advertising "is and always has been confirm. resolved in September, the source says. conducted with responsibility, directed The FTC is looking at the ads' con- "We believe that the change in the at consumers of legal drinking age and tent, scheduled time slots, and demo- [Distilled Spirits Council of the United above." graphic information. The companies States (DISCUS)] code which resulted Meanwhile at the FCC, commission- had expected to be subpoenaed since in political concern about alcohol ers continue to disagree over the com- reports late last month of the agency's advertising on TV was the primary mission's role in regulating broadcast investigation. cause for escalating the issue with liquor ads, and have set no plan of A Stroh's Schlitz Malt Liquor TV ad Stroh," says Lacey Logan, Stroh senior action. Distant signals on copyright royalties Satellite companies, broadcasters are far apart on rates By Heather Fleming superstations should range from 9.1 to Broadcasting Service and major sports 10.45 cents per subscriber per month leagues agree. satellite industry and broad - per superstation and from 2.6 to 2.76 ASkyB, the DBS joint venture of MCI cast programing copyright hold- cents for a network affiliate. and News Corp., hopes it will be shielded TIi,ers remain far apart on the new On the other side, network affiliates, from paying royalty fees because it satellite copyright royalty rates, com- superstations and syndex superstations intends to retransmit local broadcast sig- ments filed last week with the copy- say satellite carriers should pay 35 nals back to the market where they origi- right royalty arbitration panel show. cents in 1997, 36 cents in 1998 and 38 nate and therefore is not expanding the The 1984 Satellite Home Viewer Act cents in 1999 per subscriber per month, reach of station signals. granted satellite operators a compulsory for all commercial and noncommercial "My analysis suggests that existing license to retransmit network and super - broadcast stations. The Motion Picture royalty fees do not undervalue network station signals and set up copyright roy- Association of America. the Public and superstation signals." John Haring alty rates. The rates today are 6 cents per subscriber per month per signal for network signals, 14 cents for syndex -proof Campaign probes won't stop finance reform superstations and 17.5 cents for super - Probes into charges of illegal foreign contributions to the Democratic party stations. So -called syndex-proof (syndi- won't delay Senate hearings on campaign finance reform, Senate Majori- cated exclusivity) superstations, such as ty Leader Trent Lott said last week. wres(rv) Atlanta, are stations that have Lott (R- Miss.) said the foreign donor investigation and campaign reform national rights to all of their syndicated will likely proceed on "dual tracks." programing, so local stations carrying The Governmental Affairs Committee will begin its investigation into the the programs can't force blackouts on alleged illegal contributions with the start of the new Congress, but signif- the superstations. icant background work is required before hearings, Lott said. Meanwhile, The current royalty fee schedule is the Rules Committee will begin hearings on the broader issue of cam- set to expire July I, 1997. Satellite paign finance reform. companies, broadcast network affili- The flap over foreign contributions simply provides momentum to reform ates, superstations, and other program- efforts, according to Senator John McCain (R- Ariz.), who has co-sponsored ing copyright holders have been unable with Senator Russell Feingold (D -Wis.) a campaign finance -reform bill. The to reach agreement over what the "fair McCain -Feingold bill, which will be reintroduced in January, would provide market value" of the fees should be. A Senate candidates with incentives to limit campaign spending: a total 30 copyright royalty arbitration panel minutes of free TV and radio airtime per market; 50% discounts below the (CARP) set up by the U.S. copyright "lowest unit rate" for TV and radio advertisements; and discounted mailings. office is stepping in to decide. 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FCC will be focal point for cable in '97 NCTA satisfied rrith '96 Telecommunications Act into the availability of closed captioning, and it By Chris McConnell plans to follow the research with a rulemaking the 1996 proposal aimed at boost- Telecommunications ing the service's availabil- LaudingAct last week, NCTA ity. FCC officials say the President Decker Anstrom The cable proposal could emerge at said his group won't be industry has Cable companies that January's open meeting. seeking any new laws on backed a plan under claim effective The commission's in- Capitol Hill next year. quiry found closed cap- which the leased - competition cite Bell- But Anstrom's group tioning to be widely avail- and other cable lobbyists access channels would affiliated wireless able. But the report also should have plenty of FCC carry a cable system's cable systems as found some program cate- chores to keep them busy. average channel rate. the competitors. gories -such as live Regulators are working sports, music and non - on a series of cable -related rules, some Rachelle Chong and James Quello English- language programing- lacking of which could see the light of day this have opposed such a competition in the caption department. month or early next year. Among the benchmark. Officials hope to wrap up Sources expect the rulemaking pro- pending proceedings: the issue early next year. possibly at the posal to pose a series of questions, commission's January meeting. including whether some program cate- Effective competition rules and petitions gories should be exempt from any cap- More than 20 cable systems have told Leased -access cable rates tioning rule; how any rule should treat the FCC that they face "effective com- Citing low use of cable "leased access" archival programing; and whether the petition" and have asked the commis- channels, the FCC in March proposed commission should waive any caption sion to deregulate their rates. setting a new rate -setting formula for rule in cases of financial hardship. The 1996 Telecommunications Act the channels. states that cable companies face effec- The FCC proposed a system in which Scrambling requirements tive competition if a local telephone programers leasing the channels would Cable operators are awaiting a Delaware company or its affiliate offers pro- pay cable operators any revenue the court's decision on whether to keep new graming to subscribers in the same operators would lose by assigning the cable scrambling rules on hold until the franchise area by any means other than channel to a leased-access programer Supreme Court reviews them. satellite broadcasting. rather than a traditional cable programer. The rules, mandated by the 1996 Most of the cable companies that Cable programers have said that would Telecommunications Act, require cable claim effective competition cite Bell -af- force channels like C -SPAN off their operators to scramble the audio and filiated wireless cable systems as the systems. The cable industry has backed a video of "sexually explicit" programing competitors. So far the FCC's Cable Ser- plan under which the leased -access channels so that non -subscribers cannot vices Bureau has not acted on any of channels would instead carry a cable receive them. Operators unable to meet those requests, although the bureau de- system's average channel rate. the scrambling requirements are barred regulated one cable system facing com- Their arguments have made headway from delivering the adult channels petition from Bell Atlantic's wired video at the FCC, where officials have contin- between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. network in Dover Township, N.J. One ued to tinker with the plan. Several The U.S. District Court in Delaware FCC official says the bureau expects to cable industry sources are confident the last month rejected requests by Playboy issue another decision this month that commission will not adopt its original Entertainment Group and Graff Pay - will serve as a model for rulings on the proposal, and commission officials Per -View to keep the rules from taking other cable requests for deregulation. acknowledge efforts to prevent the effect. But the rules have remained on Bureau officials also are working on channel bumping feared by programers. hold while the court decides whether to a pending rulemaking to determine But commissioners have not settled on grant requests by Playboy and Graff to whether competing video systems a new plan, and last week did not ap- keep them on hold during a Supreme should pass a certain percentage of the pear close to resolving the issue. Court review. 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ask Justice David Souter to keep them local governments to "managing" whether the FCC should set a common from taking effect. rights -of-way and that the city's re- "demarcation point" for cable and tel - quirement exceeds the law's limits. cos. The point defines what portion of a Spectrum auctions The FCC plans to conduct an open wire a service provider owns or con- FCC officials are developing rules for forum on the dispute Dec. 16. trols once a subscriber discontinues auctioning spectrum that is slated for service. The issue is pending in the "local multipoint distribution service." Cable rate flexibility Cable Services Bureau. a version of wireless cable that uses The FCC has issued a couple of pro- spectrum in the 28 ghz band. The com- posals aimed at giving operators more Telephone interconnection pricing mission has asked whether cable and flexibility in setting rates. The FCC last August established rules telephone companies should be al- One proposal, issued in July, would for setting national standards on the lowed to bid for LMDS licenses within allow operators to lower rates on the prices telephone companies could their own service areas. basic service tier and offset the reduc- charge cable firms and others seeking to While cable and telephone compa- tions by increasing rates on the cable hook up with the local phone network. nies have pushed for admittance to the programing service tier, which in- Cable companies lauded the pricing auction, the Justice and Commerce cludes channels like MTV and ESPN. standards, but the U.S. Court of Appeals departments have urged the FCC to bar Cable Services Bureau officials last in St. Louis this fall barred the standards the incumbents from bidding on LMDS week were still working on a final rule from taking effect while it reviews tele- licenses within their service areas. The but hope to send it to commissioners phone company challenges to the rule. FCC's Wireless Telecommunications this month. The pricing portions of the "interconnec- Cable Bureau last week was still work- Another pending proposal would tion" rules will remain on hold at least ing on the rules, but commission allow operators to set uniform program- until the court completes its review. sources hope the FCC will wrap up the ing package rates across different sys- auction rules before year's end. tems. The proposal, issued in November Universal service 1995, would permit them to set uniform A Federal -State Joint Board last month Public rights -of -way pricing for packages offered to sub- adopted a series of recommendations Tcle- Communications Inc. has asked scribers who live in the same region but aimed at promoting the universal the FCC to declare that local franchis- in different franchise areas. Staffers at availability of telecommunications ing authorities cannot restrict cable the Cable Services Bureau are still service. operators from upgrading facilities that working on the final rules. The action -praised by cable com- use public rights -of -way. panies- included recommendations The request arises out of a dispute Home wiring that all eligible schools and libraries between TCI and the City of Troy, The FCC in December 1995 invited receive discounts of 20 % -90% on all Mich. The city has said TCI must first comments on whether it should change telecommunications services, includ- obtain a telecommunications franchise its home wiring rules to reflect the con- ing Internet access. The commission is to upgrade its cable system to fiber vergence of telephone and cable ser- accepting comments on the recommen- optics. TCI has maintained that the vices. dations until Dec. 16. Reply comments 1996 Telecommunications Act restricts Some of the questions included are due Jan. 10.

Casino ads Oversight sought The FCC isn't backing off its ban on casino gambling Consumer and media watchdog groups still have advertising. Three groups had asked the commission to worries about the Time Warner/Turner merger, ease up on the rules, but üli;i which shareholders approved in October. In the FCC last week said no comments filed last week dice. One group, the New with the Federal Trade Com- Jersey Broadcasters Associ- l mission, groups including ation, had asked the commis- S 1- -_ the Media Access Project sion to allow casino ads in group and the Consumer New Jersey. Another, the Greater New Orleans Federation of America said the gov- Broadcasters Association, asked that the FCC tr t ailment should tighten its oversight allow ads for privately operated, legal gaming in of the deal. While stating that the Louisiana; the association, meanwhile, also is FTC's proposed Consent Order "does pursuing a challenge :o the casino gambling ban in much to prevent the reduction of Edited By Chris McConnell a New Orleans court. Last week the National competition in cable programing and Association of Broadcasters and other groups filed a brief distribution,- the groups said the FTC should adopt a contin- supporting the challenge. "The government has introduced gency plan to insure that unaffiliated programers have access no evidence to prove that its suppression of commercial to cable systems if the Supreme Court throws out the must - speech is no more extensive than necessary to achieve its carry law. The groups asked the government to require that stated goals," the groups said. "The government could any broadcaster dropped from a cable system be replaced by sponsor its own speech to educate the public on the social a program service unaffiliated with Time Warner. The ills the government believes arise from excessive gam- groups also asked the FTC to require more leased- access bling." channels on the Timer Warner cable systems.

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Could It Be a lection from Summit based on illustra- clearances on KCAL -TV Los Angeles Miracle, hosted by Robert Culp. will tor Roger Hargreaves' classic books. and WAGA -TV Atlanta last week, have a trial run next week as a half-hour Saban is bringing out its Fox Chil- putting the Nashville -based talker in daytime strip in Dallas, Atlanta, Min- dren's Network hit X -Men and other five of the top 10 markets. neapolis and Charlotte, N.C. Marvel Comics cartoons as an off-net- A start -up distribution company Paramount Domestic Television has work strip, in addition to a new weekly was unveiled last week along with turned to its in -house station group to version of Captain Kangaroo. plans to launch a half -hour reality test the off -cable market for its offbeat "This season has been a disappoint- strip focusing on women in law USA Network sitcom, Duckman. The ment to all of us so far," says Peter enforcement. Lad,law will be distrib- animated series, now in its third season Schmid, Saban's executive vice presi- uted by Skyline Television, headed on USA, will air as a late -night strip dent. "That's why we decided to stick by Scott Towle, a former senior sales over the next two weeks on Paramount - with proven product this year. Hope- executive with King World Produc- owned stations in six major markets. fully, our Marvel superheroes will be the magnet that keeps kids tuned to our stations." Saban's low -rated new strips Samu- and Rider will CBS programs rai Pi_ :a Cats Masked not return for a second year. Saban hopes that The New Adventures of Cap- tain Kangaroo will perform well educational Saturday enough to expand to an FCC -friendly strip in 1998. Commits to three hours of educational ¡programing and The leading contender to succeed the beloved Bob Keeshan as host is a two -hour news block on Saturday mornings Raffi -style children's recording artist from the Midwest, according to Joel By Steve McClellan Andryc, Saban's senior vice president, development. CBS affiliates applauded the net- "We want to keep the old elements work's announcement last week that will make parents familiar with the that it will program three hours show, but we'll make more use of of children's educational programing music and animation to get the educa- (the weekly minimum required by the tional message across," says Andryc. FCC) and a two -hour news block on Fox's Twentieth Television is wad- Saturday mornings effective at the start ing into the live- action teen sitcom of the 1997 -98 season. field with Student Bodies. Twentieth Exact scheduling of the educational said last week that the 12 Fox -owned and news programs will come after fur- stations have committed weekend ther talks with affiliates, executives said. afternoon time slots to the show about During a conference call with affiliate a group of high school kids who pro- board members last week, the network duce a comic -book parody of life on proposed splitting up the kids block, air- returns. campus. ing it at 7 a.m. for two hours, switching 'Beakmans World' At press time, MCA was said to be to the news program from 9 a.m. to I I close to a deal with Chris Craft/United a.m. (in head -to -head competition with blocks on other channels. Some affili- stations in New York, Los Angeles, the Saturday edition of Today), then ates have also indicated that they San Francisco, Portland and Phoenix going back to kids from 11 a.m. to noon. would prefer to air some of the kids for its upcoming Team Knight Rider Several of the affiliates on the con- programing on Sunday morning action hour. Chris Craft outlets have ference call urged the network to allow because of sports commitments. also picked up Buena Vista Televi- flexibility in the scheduling of the At deadline last week, the only kids sion's new weekly comedy Honey. I blocks. Some would prefer to start the program definitely picked up for next Shrunk the Kids: The Series. Buena network schedule with the news show. season's educational block was Vista announced it has cleared the late - at 8 a.m., leading out of local Saturday Beakman's World, from Columbia night variety weekly hosted by former morning news programs. some of TriStar Television. 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www.americanradiohistory.com ^roadcastin The deal that wasn't SFX, EZ agree to disagree; Evergreen unaffected in Philly By Elizabeth A. Rathbun two AMs to its WSOC -FM, with SFX adding three FMs to its wLYT(FM). Call it a case of consolidation run As it stands now in Charlotte, EZ has amuck. five FMs rather than four. SFX sticks It sounded ambitious when it with two FMs rather than four. was announced: A $350 million transac- Evergreen's plans for Philadelphia Bob Sillerman (I) and Alan Box put the tion involving radio group owners SFX are not affected. The latest deal, howev- brakes on a very complex deal. Broadcasting Inc., EZ Communications er, also needs Justice and FCC approval. cash -flow multiple the deal amounts to, Inc. and Evergreen Media Corp., and 10 Neither Evergreen Chairman Scott but says he expects it to be about 11 of their radio stations in Philadelphia Ginsburg nor SFX Executive Chairman times 1997 cash flow. The station is and Charlotte, N.C. (B &C, Sept. 9). Robert F.X. Sillerman returned tele- "undermanaged," he says. "There's a lot On Nov. 27, SFX complained that EZ phone calls seeking comment. of upside." Comwell hopes to turn that and Evergreen were taking too long to But SFX is not suffering its loss in around with "more aggressive sales tac- come to terms on the swap that would Charlotte. "Since entering into the tics" that appeal to WB's younger -skew- have provided the platform for the original letter of intent...wTDR, which ing audience. three -way deal. SFX pulled out, but left we were to have given up, has outper- He is "cautiously optimistic" about the door open for "a swap or acquisition formed those stations we were to have the network, he says. "[It] has made of some sort" later, a company news acquired," Sillerman said in a state- some real progress." release says. ment. The station's market share rose Although WB is backing buyers of A scant five days later, on Dec. 2, EZ 19% among adults 25 -54, according to top 100 TV stations, that was not the said it had come to terms with Ever- Arbitron's latest numbers, SFX said. case in this deal, Comwell says. "They green, but it too declined to go to the EZ also put a positive spin on the deal have not approached us on that." next level with SFX. that fell apart. The "consideration...will "It's an adventuresome move," in- "We all kept trying to take every- be comparable to the previous deal," vestment banker Steve Pruett says of body's issues into account and that's president Alan Box said in a statement. the deal. WXON does not exactly fit in why it took so long," an EZ official says, "Our new alignment of stations gives us with Granitie's other stations. calling the process "the world's hardest the opportunity to have five FMs in Each of Granite's 10 other TVs is negotiation." Among the issues causing Charlotte rather than four," Box added. affiliated with one of the Big Three net- trouble were antitrust questions raised "This is also a much simpler structure, works. "We're not totally wedded to the by the Justice Department, FCC owner- involving two parties instead of the far three, though we clearly still have that ship limits and the planned merger of EZ more complicated three -way deal." bias," Comwell says. He points out that into American Radio Systems Corp. KEYE -TV Austin, Tex., was a Fox affili- The official notes, "There is no short- Granite grabs WB in Detroit ate when Granite bought it; it switched age of deal experience in this crowd. I With one deal, W. Don Cornwell and his to CBS as part of the Fox/New World think we just hit our limit....This one Granite Broadcasting Corp. have ac- affiliation swaps. may have gotten overly complicated." quired their first TV station in a top 10 Nor does WXON do news, program- Under the terms of the EZ/Evergreen market -and their first WB network ing that Granite promotes at most of its deal, which still stands, EZ will give its affiliate. other stations. Philadelphia radio stations-wusL(FM) Last Tuesday Granite said it will buy Key to the WXON deal was that "in a and wtoQ(FM) -to Evergreen, along wxoN(TV) Detroit (ch. 20) for $175 world of consolidation, size is going to with $10 million (Evergreen already million cash from Aben E. Johnson Jr. matter" when it comes to negotiating owns or is buying three FMs in Philadel- (see "Changing Hands," right). The with syndicators for product, Cornwell phia). In return, Evergreen will swap its deal is subject to FCC approval. says. "Being one of WB's biggest four Charlotte FMs (and two AMs) to Detroit is the nation's ninth -largest TV affiliates will at least mean they're EZ, giving EZ six FMs there. market, according to Nielsen. A station nice to us." To reach the FCC's local ownership there boosts Granite's reach from nearly cap of no more than five FMs in a 6% of U.S. TV households to about 8 %, major market, EZ will put one of Ever- the company says. Granite also will Changing Hands green's Charlotte stations, WRFX(FM), cover 78% of Michigan's TV households The week's tabulation in trust and eventually sell or swap it. with its ownership of wxoN and wwMT The earlier, more complicated plan (iv) Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo and its of station sales had EZ bundling its wsss(FM) Charlotte LMA with WLnl(TV) Lansing. TV with Evergreen's wRFx -FM Kannapolis/ When Granite was approached about WXON(IV) Detroit Charlotte and WNKS -FM Charlotte, and wxoN, "we really jumped on it," Corn- Price: $175 million cash swapping all three to SFX. SFX then well says. "There are increasingly Buyer: Granite Broadcasting Corp., was to toss $64.8 million cash and its fewer opportunities to buy stations in New York (W. Don Cornwell, chair- WrDR(FM) Statesville/Charlotte to EZ. the top 20 markets...and the top 10 is man); owns KsEE(TV) Visalia/Fresno The final tally in Charlotte was to even scarcer." and KNTv(Tv) San Jose /Monterey /Sa- have been: EZ adding three FMs and Cornwell declines to reveal what linas, Calif.; WEEK -TV Peoria/Bloom-

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www.americanradiohistory.com oroaucasung ington, III.; WPTA(TV) Fort Wayne, man; David E. Kennedy, president); Ind.; WWMT(TV) Grand Rapids /Kala- Proposed station trades owns KNBR(AM)-KFOG(FM) San Fran - dollar volume number of sales: mazoo, Mich.; WKBW -TV Buffalo and does not include mergers or acquisitions Cisco; WNNX(FM) Atlanta; WFMS(FM) WTVH(TV) Syracuse, N.Y.; KEYE -TV involving substantial non -station assets and WGRL(FM) Indianapolis; WRRM(FM) Austin, Tex., and KBJR -TV Duluth, THIS WEEK: Cincinnati; WSBA(AM)- WARM -FM York, Minn. /Superior, Wis.; is buying WEEK- TVs $335,020,000 3 Pa.; KTCK(AM) and KLIF(AM) -KPLX(FM) FM (formerly wivR) Eureka/Blooming - Combos $68,898,699 8 Dallas /Fort Worth and KRBE -FM Hous- ton, Ill.; has TBA with wLAJ(Tv) Lans- FMs $24,924,643 9 ton, and WGH -AM -FM Norfolk, Va.; is ing, -FM Mich. AMs $450,000 1 buying KHOT Los Altos, Calif., and Seller. Aben E. Johnson Jr., Detroit; Total $429,293,342 21 51% of KNBR -FM Haltom City /Dallas/ KNws(TV) Houston owns so FAR IN 1996: Fort Worth, Tex. (see item below); is Facilities: Ch. 20, 1,200 kw visual, WARM(AM) /Wilkes- TVs $10,430,892,145 95 selling Scranton 120 kw aural, ant. 961 ft. and WMGS(FM) Wilkes- Barre/ Combos $11,999,023,436 336 Barre Affiliation: WB Network Scranton, Pa. (plus LMAs for WBHT FMs $2,562,802,463802 , 4 63 391 Broker. H.B. La Rue Media Brokers [FM] Mountain Top /Wilkes -Barre and 242 AMs $200,,802,4$200,040,306 WKOV[FM] Olyphant/Wilkes -Barre and Construction permit for WLCB -N Total $25,192,758,350 1,064 for WKOV[AM] /Wilkes- Leesburg/Orlando, Fla. JSA Scranton SAME PERIOD IN 1995: Barre, all Pa.). Price: $20,000 Susquehanna Cable TVs $3,313,875,545 131 in York Buyer. Good Life Broadcasting Inc., Co. owns cable systems and Combos $2,459,891,971 216 Ind. Orlando, Fla. (Kenneth R. Mikesell, Shelbyville, FMs 350 Inc., owner); no other $755,916,981 Seiler. Sapphire Broadcasting broadcast interests AMs $97,213,846 188 Teaneck, N.J. (Hoyt J. Goodrich, Seller. Central Florida Educational Total $6,652,356,249 882 partner); owns KTHx(FM) Carson City, Nev. has interests in WGSM Television Inc. c/o Trinity United Source: BROADCASTING 8 CABLE Goodrich Methodist Church, Lighthouse Point, (AM) Huntington, WMJC(FM) Smith - Fla. (Brian Brightly, principal); no million plus $20 million for CP for town, WRHD(AM) Riverhead and other broadcast interests Class C -1 FM facility, $13 million for wRCN -FM West Hampton Beach, all Facilities: Ch. 45 CP for Class C -2 FM facility or $10 N.Y.; WZNT -FM San Juan, WOVE -FM million for CP for Class C -3 facility or Mayaguez and wcoM(FM) (formerly COMBOS below) WLDI) Bayamon, all P.R. WHMA -AM -FM Anniston, Ala. Buyer. Susquehanna Radio Corp., Facilities: AM: 1390 khz, 5 kw day, 1 Price: At least $25.05 million ($15.05 York, Pa. (Louis J. Appel Jr., chair- kw night; FM: 100.5 mhz, 100 kw,

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Rowland); no and wwvc -FM Winchester, Ky.; is Rochester, N.Y., by Hicks, Muse, other broadcast interests. Note: buying WSFR(FM) Corydon, Ind. /Lou- Tate & Furst Inc. from Smith Rowland bought WMOG and WHFX in May for $350,000. isville, WVEZ(FM), WDJX -FM, WFIA -AM Broadcasting Partners LP (Nov. Facilities: wMoo: 1490 khz, 1 kw; and WHKW -AM Louisville, and intellec- 11, "Top of the Week ") WHFX: 92.7 mhz, 6 kw, ant. 340 ft.; tual rights to WHKW -FM Louisville WFGA -FM: 103.3 mhz. 100 kw, ant. Jacor also owns KHTS -FM San Di- and KRxo(FM) Roseville /Sacramento, 1,200 ft.; WBGA: 102.5 mhz, 100 kw, ego and XTRA -AM -FM Tijuana, Mexico/ Calif. Jacor also is buying Regent ant. 980 ft. San Diego, Calif.; KBPI(FM), KOA (AM)- Communications Inc., which owns Formats: wMoo: MOR; WHFX: adult KRFX(FM) and KHOW(AM)- KHIH(FM), all KUDL -FM and KMxv(FM) Kansas City, contemporary; WFGA-FM: soft adult Denver, and KBCO -AM -FM Boulder/ Mo.; KSNE -FM and KFMS-FM LaS contemporary; WBGA: country Denver and KTLK(AM) Thornton /Den- Vegas; WEZL(FM) and WXLY(FM) Char- Broker. Jorgenson Broadcast Broker- ver; WGST(AM)- wPCH(FM) leston, S.C., and KKAT(FM) Ogden/ and WKLS -FM age (seller) Atlanta; WDAF(AM)-Kvvs(FM) Kansas Salt Lake City and KALL(AM)- KODJ(FM) City, Mo., and KATZ(AM)- KMJM(FM) St. Salt Lake City; is buying KwNR(FM) WNDBIAMI Daytona Beach-WTSM Louis and KNJZ -FM Alton, 111./St. Lou- Henderson, Nev., and Kuro -FM (FM) (formerly WNDB) Ormond -by- is; WKRC -TV, WCKY(AM), WOFX(FM), WLW Bountiful and KzHr(FM) Provo, Utah; the -Sea, Fla. (AM)- WEBN(FM), WKRO(FM) and WWNK has time brokerage agreements with Price: $3.6 million (FM), all Cincinnati, WTVN(AM) -WLVQ KBGO -FM Las Vegas and WSJW(FM) Buyer Black Crow Broadcasting Inc., (FM) Columbus and WSPD -AM and Louisville; is selling KKDD(AM) North Daytona Beach (J. Michael Linn, wvks(FM) Toledo and WRVF-FM Bea - Las Vegas, and wLor(FM) Kettering/ president/joint owner with Nicole vercreek'Toledo, all Ohio; KEX(AM)- Dayton and wDOL(FM) Englewood/ Linn); owns wKRO(FM) Edgewater, KKRZ (FM) Portland and KKcw(FM) Dayton, Ohio Fla. Linns also jointly own 20% of Beaverton /Portland, Ore.; WWST -FM Seller. Village Communications Inc., wJBx(FM) Fort Myers Beach and and WMYU -FM Knoxville, Tenn., and Chapel Hill, N.C. (James A. Heav- WROC(FM) Fort Myers Villas, Fla. the following Florida stations: WJGR ner, president); owns wcHL(AM) Seller Root Communications Ltd., (AM)- WOIK -FM and wzAZ(AM) Jackson- Chapel Hill Daytona Beach (James L. Devis, ville, wJeT(FM) Green Cove Springs/ Facilities: WTKT: 1580 khz, 10 kw day, president); is buying WMOG (AM) Jacksonville and WSOL -FM Brunswick, 45 w night; wxzz: 103.3 mhz, 1.8 kw, Brunswick, wHFx(FM) St. Simons Ga. /Jacksonville, WBRD(AM) Palmet- ant. 706 ft.; wKOO: 98.1 mhz, 100 kw, Island/Waycross /Brunswick and to-wouv(FM) Bradenton/ Tampa, ant. 561 ft. WFGA -FM and wBGA(FM) Waycross/ wxrB(FM) Clearwater/Tampa, WTBT Formats: WTKT: urban contemporary; Brunswick, all Savannah, Ga. (see (FM) New Port Richey/Tampa and wxzz: alternative rock; moo: AOR item, above) WTSP -TV St. Petersburg/Tampa, Broker. Media Venture Partners Facilities: AM: 1150 khz, 1 kw; FM: WFLA(AM)- WFLZ(FM) Tampa and WAMR 95.7 mhz WLIP(AM)- WIILIFM) Kenosha, Wis. (AM)- WCTQ(FM) Venice. is Formats: AM: news /talk; FM: '70s Jacor Price: $8.5 million buying KOGO(AM) -KKLQ -FM, KCBQ(AM) Buyer. Pride Communications LLC, KNRO(AM) Redding- KARZ(FM) (plans to sell) and Kioz(FM), all San Crystal Lake, Ill. (James H. Hooker, Burney/Redding, Calif. Diego; wSPB(AM)- wSRZ -FM Sarasota, managing member /47.3% owner); Price: $1.2 million CP for wYNF(FM) Coral Cove/Saraso- owns WAIT(AM)- WZSR -FM Crystal Buyer. Power Curve Inc., Carefree, ta and CP for wEDD(FM) Englewood/ Lake /Woodstock, III. Hooker owns Ariz. (John C. Power, president/own- Venice, all Fla.; KIDO(AM)- KLTB(FM) 38.8% of wzxA(FM) Sturtevant, Wis. er). Power is president of Northern Boise and KARO(FM) /Boise, Caldwell Seller. Independence Broadcasting California Broadcasting Inc.; North- Idaho; WMT -AM -FM Cedar Rapids and Corp., Naples, Fla. (Peter Sulick, ern Lights Broadcasting LLC (also wHo(AM)- KLYF(FM) Des Moines, Iowa; president); no other broadcast inter- 60% owner); Power Surge Inc.; Red- WIOT -AM -FM Toledo, KTWO Ohio, and ests wood Broadcasting Inc., and Red- (AM)- KMGW -FM Cheyenne, Wyo., and Facilities: AM: 1050 khz, 250 w: FM: wood MicroCap Fund Inc. These Wyoming Radio Network; is ex- 95.1 mhz. 50 kw, ant. 384 ft. companies own KNNN -FM Central Val- changing KOPA(AM)-KSLX(FM) Scotts- Formats: AM: full service; FM: classic ley/Redding and KRDG(FM) (formerly dale /Phoenix for KPOP (AM) and KGB - rock KHZL) Shingletown /Redding; are buy- FM San Diego, and WTSP -Tv St. ing KLxR(AM) Redding; are selling Petersburg/Tampa, Fla., for KIIS(AM)- WMOGIAM) Brunswick, WHFX(FM) St. KNsN(AM) Chico and KHSL -FM Para- KFMc(FM) Los Angeles, KSDO(AM)- Simons Island/Waycross /Brunswick dise, Calif.; have applied to build KCLX-FM San Diego and WDAE(AM)- and WFGA -FM and WBGAIFMI Way- TVs in Pocatello, Idaho; Butte, Great WUSA -FM Tampa; has LMA with cross/Brunswick, all Savannah, Ga. Falls and Missoula, all Mont., and WGST -FM Atlanta; is selling KSEG-FM Price: $5.4 million Marquette, Mich.; have applied to

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build FMs in Payson. Ariz.; Los Moli- broadcast interests Seller. Robert J. Cole, Yarmouth, nos and Shasta Lake City, Calif., Facilities: 105.7 mhz, 3 kw, ant. 328 ft. Me.; owns wcME(FM) Booth Bay Har- and Mesquite, Nev. Format: New adult contemporary bor, Me., and wAAw(FM) Williston, Seller. Merit Broadcasting Corp., S.C.; is selling wsNV(FM) WGCO-FM Midway, S.CJSavannah, Ga. Redding (Jeff Martin, president); Howland /Bangor, Me. Price: $2.5 million OWnS KATA(AM) Arcata and KFMI(FM) Facilities: 95.5 mhz, 3 kw, ant. 456 ft. Buyer. New Adventure Communica- Eureka. Calif. Format: Oldies tions Inc., Bluefield (Michael R. Facilities: AM: 600 khz, 1kw; FM: Broker. New England Media Inc. Shott, president; Adventure Commu- 106.1 mhz, 100 kw, ant. 2,000 ft. nications Inc., 50% owner); owns CP for FM at Salinas, Calif. Formats: AM: news /talk: FM: adult WFXH -AM -FM and WIJY(FM) Hilton Head Price: $295.000 contemporary Island, S.C. /Savannah, Ga. (for Buyer. KCTY AM & KRAY FM Inc., 40% of WHTGIAM)-WAYZ -FM Waynes- other holdings, see "Changing Red Bluff, Calif. (Robert L. and De- boro, Pa. Hands," Nov. 4) anna J. Williams Trust); owns KCTY Price: $1,068,699 Seller. Clark Broadcasting Co.. Be- (AM)- KRAY(FM) Salinas Buyer. John Ver Standig, Eileen Gail thesda, Md. (Michael Douglass, Seller: Villamil FM Radio, Watson- Lehrer and Brian Madden as president); owns wLro(FM) Nicholas - ville, Calif. (Julio A Villamil, partner); trustees of Ver Standig 1996 Chil- ville and wLRo(FM) Richmond, Ky., no other broadcast interests dren's Trusts, Bethesda, Md. John and WCYK(AM) -WVAO -FM Crozet/Char- Facilities: 97.9 mhz Ver owns 53% of wcBG(AM) -FM WKDW(AM)- Standig lottesville, WCYK and CP for WCCZ(FM) Pinckneyville, Ill. wsRT(FM) Mer- Chambersburg and WSVO-FM Staunton /Charlottesville Price: $12,643 Pa.; WAMM -FM Bridgewater cersburg, and wINF(AM) Waynesboro, all Va. Buyer. Gregory G. and Gordon A. WSVA, WHBG and WOPO(FM) Har- and Facilities: 98.3 mhz, 100 kw, ant. Showalter, DuQuoin, Ill.; no other risonburg. Va.; has TBA with 981 ft. broadcast interests Va. WPKz(FM) Elkton, Format: Oldies Seller. Kenneth W. and Jane A. Seller. Helen Ver Washing- Standig, Broker- Serafin Bros. (seller) Anderson, Marion, III. (Note: Deal ton: no other broadcast interests WUMX(FM) Charlottesville, Va. undoes earlier sale of CP to Dennis Facilities: AM: 1380 khz, 1 kw day; Price: $1.1 million Doelitzsch for $10,000) FM: 101.5 mhz, 50 kw. ant. 230 ft. Air Virginia Inc., Charlottesville Facilities: 104.3 mhz, 3.5 kw, ant. Formats: Both contemporary country Buyer. (David G. Mitchell, president/70% 276 ft. WTOXIAMI-WHMX(FM) Lincoln, Me. owner). Mitchell owns 20% of WKMC RADIO: AM Price: $80,000 (AM) Roaring Springs and WHPA(FM) Buyer. Bangor Baptist Church, Ban- Hollidaysburg, Pa. WFOMIAM) Marietta/Atlanta, Ga. gor. Me. (Rev. Richard Rockwell, Seller: Spectrum Broadcasting Corp., Price: $450,000 president/11.1% owner); owns WHCF- Washington (Deborah M. Royster, Buyer. Midwestern Broadcasting Co. FM Bangor president); no other broadcast inter- Inc., Atlanta (Lewis W. Dickey, presi- Seller. Key Bank of Maine, Portland, ests dent/99.7% owner); owns 79% of Maine (Michael V. Lugli. VP) Facilities: 107.5 mhz, 6 kw WALR(FM) Athens and WCNN(AM) North Atlanta, Ga.; is buying wALR(AM) At- Facilities: AM: 1450 khz, 1 kw; FM: Format: Adult contemporary 105.7 mhz, 50 kw, ant. 413 ft. lanta; also owns wwwM(AM) Toledo - Formats: Both dark KTLE -FM Tooele, Utah WWWM-FM Sylvania/Toledo, Ohio. Price: $650,000 Dickey has interest in WNPL -FM Mt. RADIO: FM Buyer Roy W. and Elizabeth E. Sim- Juliet, Tenn. 51% of CP for KNBR -FM Haltom mons Charitable Unitrust, Salt Lake Seller. WFOM Inc., Toccoa Falls, Ga. City/Dallas/Fort Worth, Tex. City (H.H. Simmons, trustee); owns (Paul Alford, principal); owns WRAF Price: At least $13.705 million KNOS(AM)- KRZN(FM) Albuquerque, KIVA (FM) Toccoa Falls and wcoP(AM) ($13.705 million loan plus share pur- (AM) Corrales, KIoT(FM) Los Lunas, Warner/Robins, Ga.; wous(FM) Bel- chase and construction costs) KZKL(FM) Rio Rancho and KZRO(FM) vedere, S.C. Buyer. Susquehanna Radio Corp.; Santa Fe, all N.M.; KDLY(AM)- KSFI(FM) Facilities: 1230 khz, 1 kw owns 49% of KNBR -FM; is buying and KRSP -FM Salt Lake City and KDXU Format: Adult contemporary WHMA -AM -FM Anniston. Ala. (see item, (AM)- KSNN-FM St. George, Utah; has CP for KRKN(AMI Eldon, Iowa TBA with KoM6(FM) Midvale, Utah; above) Price: $165,000 has applied to build FM at Brigham Seller. Marcos A. Rodriguez Jr., Dallas Buyer. 0-Town Communications Inc., City, Utah Facilities: Not available Mankato, Minn. (Donald Linder, pres- Seller. Local Broadcasters Inc., KCFE(FM) Eden Prairie, Minn. ident/60% owner); owns KKSI(FM) Ed- Tooele (Mary F. and John L. Kirigin, Price: $6 million ($3.4 million + $2.6 dyville, Iowa. Linder has interests in principals); no other broadcast inter- million liabilities) KARP(FM) Glencoe, KTOE(AM) Mankato, assumption of ests Buyer. Trusts of James R. Cargill II KDOG(FM) North Mankato, KXAX(FM) Facilities: 92.1 mhz, 1.4 kw, ant. M. Cargill, St. Paul KXAC(FM) St. James, KwoM(AM) and Susan 35 ft. and (James R. and Susan M. Cargill, Watertown and KIrN(FM) Worthington, Format: Country trustees). Cargills jointly own all Minn. WLOL(AM) Brooklyn Park, WREV -FM WXGL -FM Topsham/Portland, Me. Seller. Sample Broadcasting Co. LP, Cambridge, KREv(FM) Lakeville and Price: $497,000 Ottumwa (Carmela Sample, presi- KLBB(AM) St. Paul, all Minn. Buyer. Great Eastern Media, Stone- dent); no other broadcast interests Seller. Southwest Suburban Broad- ham, Mass. (Colin S. 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Last May, Cox announced its $250 Radio million purchase of New City Commu- nications, including Orlando stations By Donna Petrozzello WDBO(AM), WWKA(FM), WCFB(FM) and wzKD(AM). The deal would give Cox The Department of Justice's ongo- control of 32% of radio revenue when ing investigation into proposed combined with its other Orlando sta- radio group consolidation in tions. Orlando, Fla., moved to the next step Also in May, Chancellor announced last week. its purchase of WXXL(FM), WOMX -FM Orlando's top three station owners- and WJHM(FM), all Orlando, from Chancellor Broadcasting, Cox Broad- OmniAmerica Communications, giv- casting and Paxson Communications - ing it control over 36% of market rev- have complied with the department's enue in combination with second request for information about other holdings. their planned acquisitions in the market. More recently, Paxson Also, Paxson Chairman Lowell announced its acquisition of "Bud" Paxson was scheduled to meet WTKS and WDIz(FM) in the with DOJ officials IDec. 6 regarding market. When combined with The Orlando, Fla.. market is his planned acquisition of WTKS(FM) the company's existing hold- the latest to come under FTC Orlando from Press Broadcasting. ings in the market, the deal scrutiny. Bud Paxson will Chancellor, Cox and Paxson each gives Paxson control of 28% meet with agency officials have a large stake in the outcome of the of market revenue. this week about his purchase DOJ's scrutiny. In separate deals If the purchases go of WTKS(FM). announced earlier this year, the three through, only two FMs and seven AMs ethnic or variety formats. groups stand to control a total 17 radio in Orlando will be operated by a com- By contrast, Orlando claimed no stations and 96% of the market's radio pany or companies other than Chancel- fewer than 14 separate radio station revenue. That is, if the deals pass DOJ lor, Cox or Paxson. Of those nine sta- owners at the beginning of 1996. scrutiny and are later approved by the tions, four have Spanish- language for- According to DOJ guidelines, Jus- FCC. mats, two are religious and three have tice has 20 days to review the information it requested and decide whether consolidation by the three groups vio- IDs aim for the `lunatic fringe' lates antitrust laws. A new twist on old tunes has served a mild- mannered, Toledo, Ohio based Although radio groups have become radio jingle company well. At the request of hard rock WEBN(FM) Cincinnati, accustomed to inspection by the DOJ jingle creator Ken R. Inc. set lyrics glorifying sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll to into several planned deals during the big -band tunes reminiscent of 1950s -era radio jingles. past year, Justice's interest in Orlando WEBN used the jingles as station IDs and began airing them on April has puzzled some. Fool's Day as part of a daylong spoof. More than nine months later, WEBN Some radio industry leaders contend continues to run the spots because "listeners love them," says WEBN after- that the DOJ may consider three major noon jock Jay Gilbert. owners to be too few for a market the Gilbert penned what he calls the "perverted" lyrics. The tamer phrases size of Orlando, and they suspect Jus- include "We hope we die before we get old, we're rockin' WEBN, counter- tice could rule that Orlando requires at culture radio," and "102.7 WEBN, we're your favorite station for lots of sex, least four owners to preserve market drugs and rock 'n' roll." Gilbert says the offbeat combination of swing music competition. Arbitron ranks Orlando as and spicy lyrics "fits right in with wEBN's image of always having another the country's 39th -largest market with off -the -wall, fun surprise." more slightly more than 1 million peo- The concept was somewhat foreign, however, to Ken R. Inc., which built ple 12 -plus. its reputation on producing station identification spots for mainly oldies and Other sources say Justice wants to country stations during its almost 20 years of writing jingles, says compa- scrutinize whether format combina- ny founder Ken Deupsch (aka Ken R.). The company also creates and tions would give any single owner an records jingles for several national retailers, Deupsch says. unfair advantage with a particular Ken R. Inc. calls the WEBN spots the "lunatic fringe" package. Since demographic segment. WEBN'S spots debuted in April, Ken R. says classic rock KRFx(FM) Denver; Regardless of the reason. the investi- album rock Kioz(FM) Oceanside, Calif.; rock wKLS -FM Atlanta; album rock gation continues. One thing radio indus- wPLR(FM) New Haven, Conn., and album rock wtoT(FM) Toledo have craft- try sources agree on is that the DOJ is ed their own versions of "lunatic fringe" spots. -DP not likely to use Orlando as an example for the rest of the country. "Justice's

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By Price Colman point of being depressed about how the The investment community wants [cable] industry will be able to respond long -term planning, but it also wants If 1996 was the cable television to competition." quarterly results, and the two conflict. industry's wake -up call, then 1997 In the smoke, noise and confusion, Sour from the disappointments of could well be time to put up or cable ran aground on Wall Street. It the past 12 months, stock and bond shutup. wasn't the first time financial markets investors remain skeptical of cable. In All the promises and projections have reacted to cable's unfulfilled the coming year, they'll want to see the came back to haunt the industry over promises with a sneer. But this was the industry: the past 12 months. Remember 500 most severe reaction to date, with cable Mount an effective counterstrategy channels, digitally compressed cable, stocks tumbling 10% to 40 %. to DBS. widespread Internet access via cable So what's an industry to do? Keep Demonstrate that digital cable, modems? Didn't happen. on keepin' on, cable executives say. cable modems and, to a lesser degree, What did emerge was the first whiff Stay focused, stick to the script, stay on cable telephony are real revenue proof competition, only it didn't come schedule for upgrading networks, ducers, not blue -sky daydreams. from tough -talking, deep -pocketed rolling out new products and services. Reduce debt. telephone companies. Instead, it was "We're pretty much following the high- flying, fast- charging direct broad- strategy we've been on for a couple of cast satellite operators that fired the years: upgrade our networks to hybrid CABLE BOXED IN warning shot across cable's bow. fiber/coax architepture," says Glenn "I think the industry is clearly at a Britt, president of Time Warner Cable Cable's ingenuity and entrepre- major transition," says Amos Hostet- Ventures. "We still think that's the neurialism historically have ter, chairman of Continental Cablevi- right thing to do in the long run." been its strongest attributes. It sion. "We are in fact on a day -to -day Unfortunately, staying the course was cable, for instance, that succeeded basis confronting the first wave of truly doesn't always play well in financial in getting Wall Street to recognize competitive products. As a result, markets. which tend to suffer from cash flow, not profits, as the yardstick financial markets are concerned to the their own version of bipolar disorder. for its success. The rationale k that

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the only way cable dard & Poor's apparently leaning in Such calm in the face of crisis may companies can reach that direction late in the year. be reassuring to the cable industry, but the critical mass nec- The problems at ICI and other it was of little help on Wall Street, essary for self- suste- MSOs- notably Time Warner and where investors took a long, hard look nance in the face of Cablevision Systems -rippled at the situation and fled cable stocks in competition is to put through bond markets, where the droves. Late in the year, there was some would -be profits back into building a spread on cable -related bonds jumped tempering of that stance as investors network of systems. 75 basis points, indicating a percep- began to trickle back into the sector. Few argue with the concept, but tion of increasing risk, in a three - TCI hardly shoulders all the blame cable upset the balancing act in '96. week period. "The [bond] market for the industry's financial predica- Capital spending for network upgrades right now is focused on reviewing ment, despite its $14.5 billion debt load and developing new products and ser- balance sheets and leverage," says and big -spending ways. Time Warner vices outweighed projected cash flow Barry Schwartz of BA Securities' Cable parent Time Warner Inc. is sup- from subscriber growth. That imbal- high -yield desk. porting a whopping $17.5 billion debt ance led to increasing debt leverage for Bank lenders, meanwhile, are taking burden that chairman Gerald Levin is some companies. Then, in the all -too- a more sanguine approach, riding out under pressure to reduce, or else. familiar downward spiral, the increas- the latest waves. They "tend to take On the flip side, Comcast saw its ing leverage eroded credit ratings and more of await -and -see attitude, let's dig debt -to -cash flow ratio decline to 5.2:1 raised the cost of funds for needed cap- in deep and understand exactly what's from about 5.7:1, largely as a result of ital expenditures. going on here," says Michael Rush- its $5.575 billion, debt -free purchase of Tele- Communications Inc.'s core more, also of BA Securities. "They Scripps Howard Cable, a strong cash - cable business, TCI Communications, won't jeopardize their relationship with flow generator. saw Duff & Phelps and Moody's lower the issuer over what may or may not be None of the big MSOs faces the its senior debt to junk status, with Stan- a fundamental business trend." imminent prospect of default or fore-

a ' le fries to preempt rea Today's direct broadcast satellite oper- panies to offer distant broadcast signals. In other ators- DIRECrv, USSB and EchoStar- words, DIRECTV and home satellite program packagers have hurt cable operators, siphoning off may offer subscribers broadcast signals from outside tens of thousands of their best cus- their markets. The law also specifies what satellite tomers. carriers must pay for retransmitting the signals. The But what really has the cable guys worried is royalities range from 6 cents per subscriber per month what's coming next: American Sky Broadcasting for network signals to 17 cents. (ASkyB), Rupert Murdoch's late 1997 ASkyB believes the law can be stretched to encom- es1DBS entry. ASkyB is promising to pass the local retransmission of broadcast signals so remedy some of the problems with that it may offer New York stations throughout the DBS that cable has been happily New York market. But it feels that clarifying legislation pointing out in its anti -DBS campaign. is needed to facilitate its planned service and to make Equipment and second -set hookups sure it doesn't have to pay any royalties. will be cheaper, it says. And, most The National Cable Television Association and the important, it vows, it will offer subscribers local broad- Cable Telecommunications Association are taking a cast signals, still the most -watched TV in most homes. wait- and -see attitude toward the planned legislation. Recognizing the threat, cable operators, including the But many believe they will be in there next year when National Cable Television Association, are challenging the legislation emerges to at least slow it down. ASkyB's claim to a DBS license at the FCC. And they One problem is ASkyB's plan to only carry some of are considering opposing legislation next year that the stations in some of the markets, says CATA Pres- would insure ASkyB's ability to offer the local signals. ident Steve Effros. If cable operators are required to MCI, Rupert Murdoch's partner in ASkyB, bid near- carry all broadcast signals, their competitors ought to, ly $700 million early this year for a DBS license. But too," he says. "I can't imagine Congress approving a after British Telecommunications announced its $21 scheme that would say DBS carriers can selectively billion purchase of MCI, cable operators ran to the carry what they want to carry." FCC to protest that the deal would put the license in Effros argument of discriminatory treatment would the hands of a foreign company in apparent violation be undermined if, as many expect, the Supreme Court of foreign ownership restrictions. Supporting cable's next year invalidates the must -carry rules requiring complaint were two congressmen: Robert Matsui (D- cable operators to carry all local signals. Calif.) and Vic Fazio (D- Calif.). Effros also is trying to incite broadcast opposition to ASkyB Chairman Preston Padden dismissed cable's the ASkyB plan. "The satellites don't have the capaci- objections: "I do believe these cable guys are beginning ty to carry all signals," he warns. "That will result in a to fret about the competition we are planning." significant benefit for some broadcasters and a signif- Current copyright law authorizes the satellite corn- icant detriment to others." --HN

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"What we've to be self- sustaining. learned in the last year is that digital wireless cat le is terrific, but it has big capital spending days as a "Our lots of limitations and the economics are cifficult.' cable company are over," Malone told Grebow says that in the past year the telcos have lost some interest key investors and analysts at a Bear, in wireless cable, and are looking more at wireline methods of videa- Steams conference in October. He also service delivery. "[Digital wireless cable] has taken longer and has ccst pledged that TCI would generate free mcre than anyone has expected," he says. "It would have been better cash flow of $750 million -$1 billion in if it rolled out a year ago like 1997. we hoped." At Time Warner, has American Telecastin Levin But Grebow still believes acknowledged that the company needs that wireless cable will play a a look at 4, to take hard its high salaries part, although complemen- June 1996 and expensive perks. Even more perti- tary, in the telcos' video Dec. 4, 1996 nent, Levin has said with some discom- delivery. "Wireless has fort that he's considering selling cer- always been a piece of the CAI Wireless tain cable operations. Such a move not strategy," he says. "It has a June 4, 1996 10 7/8 only would have an immediate, mea- robust future, but is not the Dec. 4, 1996 2 7/8 surable impact on debt, it could also right delivery system for help Time Warner resolve its awkward every market." with partnership US West. PacTel's service in Los Heartland Wireless Financial experts emphasize that Argeles is expected to have a June 4, 1996 ;6 1/4 ways there are two to reduce leverage: successful launch, but there Dec. 4, 1996 12 3/4 increase cash and pay down -flow /or is less certainty surrounding debt. Cable clearly is counting on cash the launches in Boston and flow increases as its prime tool. Most, People's Choice Norfolk, Va. A Bell Mantic not all, of the larger operators are June 4, 1996 17 1/2 if spokesman says the launch planning rate increases _n '97. In addi- Dec. 4, 1996 6 1/8 in Norfolk is still on track for tion, MSOs envision '97 as a milestone next spring, but has run into Source: Bloomberg launches emerging services such for of line -of -sight problems. as digital cable, high -speed data con- Bell Atlantic /Nynex struck nections via cable modems and wire - a deal with CAI in 1995 giving the wireless op3rator a $100 million line telephony. investment in senior secured debt. It also gave The telco an option :o buy 45% of CAI. Bell Atlantic. through Tele -TV, is responsiole for programing, billing and marketing, while CAI will protide and maintain the THE DBS EFFECT faclities in the Boston and Norfolk markets. 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He, and the rest of the industry a-e and 1996 subscribers, newcomer keeping a close eye on PacTel's digital wireless launch in southe-n EchoStar says it has topped 250,000. California, which is slated for the first quarter of 1397. "It appears to be It is how many those unclear of the first major indication whether it will be a viable compefrcr to cable." homes came from cable rolls. But the Despite the fall of wireless, a report published b! Cowles'Eimba Infcr- cable industry, with penetration hitting mation, Wireless Cable, 1997, predicts that U.S. digital wireless cabe 67% 96 of America's million TV subscribership, driven by the telcos, will surpass 4 mi lion by 2001. households, struggled to attain 3% There are fewer than 1 million wireless subscribers in the US. -MK subscriber growth. The consensus is that an annual 4%

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growth rate for cable may be a thing of the past. Analysts also Cable's growing urge to merge agree that, in the face of increasing compe- Is cable still TV's most favored tition, cable's his- medium? To answer that ques- toric cash flow margins of 40% or bet- tion, cable operators are likely to ter are fast becoming a memory. cite US West's $11.3 billion DBS is hardly invincible. After acquisition this year of Conti- glowing projections early in the year, nental Cablevision, the third - DIRECry has twice cut projections for largest cable operator. They see year -end subscriber numbers. The ini- the deal as a $11.3 billion vote tial target of 3 million subscribers will of confidence by an outsider in likely be closer to 2.3 million, DIRECry cable's terrestrial broadband officials acknowledge. technology. At the same time, cable is respond- The continuing quick pace of ing, albeit slowly, by emphasizing its merger and acquisition within lower cost and strong local content the industry shows that cable (while playing down its significantly operators have faith in them- lower channel capacity). And a number selves, too. Comcast acquired Time Howard Cable for of cable's top players -TCI, Scripps Lillis of US West (I) and Continental's Warner, Comcast, Continental and $5.575 billion and Tele -Com- Hostetter announce their merger. Cox -have closed ranks behind munications Inc. picked up Via - Primestar, seeking a good defense com's cable operations for $2.3 billion. through an effective offense. And those were just the bigger deals. Merger and acquisition action Even though Primestar's medium - among smaller cable players was equally frantic, if lower in dollar and power service doesn't yet offer the subscriber size. At mid -year, Daniels & Associates had closed 30 deals channel capacity or the 18 -inch dishes worth $1.9 billion and encompassing 1.1 million subscribers. As the of DBS leaders DIRECry and EchoStar, leading cable brokerage- investment banker, activity at Daniels is con- it removed the upfront cost barrier by sidered an unofficial barometer for the industry and officials there were renting, instead of selling, equipment. predicting that '96 could mark the third record -breaking year in a row. Cable (and others) also have turned That activity is primarily a demonstration of the strength -in -size to regulators in an effort to derail the premise and the strategic need for clustering systems. The marketwide next DBS player, Rupert Murdoch's clusters better support advertising and planned telephony service. ASkyB (see box, page 66). Set for "Regardless of your size, the real key is whether you can make your- launch in late '97, it intends to strip self look bigger than you are," says Barry Babcock, chairman of St. cable of its greatest competitive Louis -based Charter Communications, the number -12 MSO. "If you advantage by offering local broadcast can get into consortiums or co -ops, it's not so important how big you

signals. are.... The only one I worry about is that very small operator. I think those operators are going to need to get real creative in terms of how to keep that business going." Chuck Kersch of Neidiger/Tucker /Bruner thinks cable consolidation has CABLE'S DIGITAL a way to go before it peaks: "We've seen just the tip of the iceberg. " -PC STRATEGY The consensus among analysts and markets in 1997. ution of set -top terminals. But the stum- cable experts is that digital cable Others have ambitious, if somewhat bling block for digital was as much eco- holds the greatest short -term less aggressive, rollout plans. nomics as technology. promise for the industry and the best "With digital boxes coming into the Time Warner proved that digital way to blunt DBS's charge. market, the realization that DBS is not could work in its Full Service Network "It's crucial to be able to provide a going to do us extreme damage will be trial in Orlando, Fla., as early as 1994. digital platform," says one analyst. there," says Glenn Jones, founder and But it was an expensive proposition "When you move to digital, you have chairman of Jones Intercable. "The with boxes alone costing an estimated the ability to compress and add capaci- video business is a hell of a business $ I.000. Much of that cost stems from ty. Capacity will be necessary for all and very strong....When we get digital the price for integrated circuits and the ancillary services that will be avail- boxes out there, we're just going to eat computer memory chips-key compo- able to the consumer." their lunch." nents of digital boxes. All of the top MSOs plan to roll out But if digital represents the indus- Memory prices have declined, and digital or expand what are now small try's most promising new service, it circuit designers have devised ways commercial ventures or beta tests into also has been one of cable's biggest to fit more operating instructions onto wider deployment. ICI, which is in headaches. a single integrated circuit. Still, the the final stages of testing its digital Digital cable has encountered repeat- boxes remain expensive-about $400 ALL TV product in Hartford, Conn., ed launch delays, largely a result of a crack -and in short supply. Gener- plans to expand digital into at least 40 problems with development and distrib- al Instrument is the only supplier

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making boxes commercially, and were reportedly dismal. lems in 1996. much of its 50,000 -boxes- per -month Malone's appearance at the confer- Malone and Clouston production capacity has been ence, accompanied by interviews with declined to be interviewed promised to TCI. targeted media outlets, had an immedi- for this story. Other cable General Instrument says it will ate and obvious impact: the stock industry veterans suggest increase production capacity to meet bounced up about $1. that TCI's problems in '96 industry needs, and Scientific -Atlanta Still, there are rumblings inside and were simply the result of reality catch- has committed to ramping up commer- outside the cable industry that TCI ing up with expectations. cial production in the second half of the bears responsibility for much of the "ICI has done a very good job of year . Also lining up to supply boxes industry's straits. "I have heard about looking as if its resources were limit- are Pioneer, Toshiba and others. TCI causing problems," says a high - less over the past two years," says the One symptom of the hang -ups: level executive with one of the top five top executive at a leading MSO. "But Cable Television Laboratories, the cable companies. "There's a large even ICI has some limits to its cable industry R &D consortium, estab- degree of truth in it. They made promis- resources, and the Street finally woke lished standards for digital boxes only es...and failed to deliver. Their cutting up to that. There is nothing the Street is a few months ago. back has caused a lot of confusion." less tolerant of than uncertainty." With technology problems, primari- TCI's decision to put the brakes on ly involving software, quickly being system upgrades caused the most con- resolved, the situation should improve sternation. But after three years and THE GOOD NEWS in '97, although significant deploy- billions of dollars -for upgrades, a ment of the technology isn't likely until customer billing and tracking operation With competition just beginning the second half. and preparing new products and ser- to rev up, and the future Digital may also force the cable vices -TCI had little choice. Its crucial unclear, few are likely to char- industry to decide what it wants to be debt -to -cash flow ratio edged up to acterize cable as sitting in the catbird when it grows up. nearly 6:1 in the third quarter. seat. Nonetheless, the industry's com- "Our major customer base is the cable Add to that the loss of 70,000 sub- petitive assets outweigh its deficits. operator. We've tried tc take a look at scribers in the quarter, cash flow that First, overall cable revenue for 1995 their situation and say, 'Hey, digital was half, or even less, projected by ana- jumped 22.6 %, to more than $19 billion, satellite was here first....How do you lysts and what was billed as the com- while operating income (cash flow) rose compete in that environment ?' " says mercial launch of digital cable in Hart- 5.4 %, to nearly $3 billion, according to Bob Van Orden, vice president of digital ford, Conn., downshifting into a late - Veronis, Suhler & Associates Commu- broadband at Scientific -Atlanta. "Part of stage test. Hardly surprising that TCI, nications' annual report on the industry. the answer is that you don't come in and and Malone, suffered credibility prob- Revenue for cable networks (including provide exactly the same thing....Digital opens up a whole new world of service, including Internet access " Modems: cable's hope for high -speed dollars Cable systems appear poised, finally, to begin the long and costly -but THE TCI FACTOR potentially golden -path toward the information explosion. Link Resources projects that about 120,000 cable modems are in operation -including trials -in North America. Analysts at Communi- The past year marked John Mal - cations Industry Researchers believe cable modems are, so far, one's re- emergence into the lime- "experimental," but even analysts who believe slower, but less expen- light. A busy international sched- sive, telephone -based methods -standard computer modems and ule early in the year for TCI's CEO ISDN -will dominate near -term, concede cable's potential for the long produced a bad bout with the flu, and data haul. TOI, Continental Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, Rogers Malone didn't show up at the National Cable and Comcast are all launching commercially. Cable Television Association conven- But reaching cable's potential may be a long haul in itself. Cable tion in May. That, coupled with TV's high- bandwidth delivery systems are capable of 10 mbps -much increasing internal focus on TCI Com- faster than telcos. But cable was designed for receiving data, not trans- munications President Brendan Clous- mitting it. Upstreaming is slower. ton, led to rumors that Malone was ter- Pricing for both cable modems and service will have to come down. minally ill (allegedly from prostate Unit costs for two -way modems are upwards of $400. One -way cancer), or terminally bored. modems -coming on the market now -are about half that. Monthly A hale and hearty Malone, taking service runs as low as $40 per month for cable subscribers; about $60 center stage at the Bear, Steams confer- for non -cable subscribers. Installation costs vary. But price drops will ence in October, quashed those rumors. be difficult in light of billion -dollar infrastructure upgrades needed for His timing could hardly have been bet- reliable two -way transmission. ter. TCI stock (Nasdaq -TCOMA) had But the rewards could be staggering. As noted by analysts at Jupiter just hit a five -year low of $11.31, an Communications recently, if even a small fraction of homes wired for internal memo saying TCI was sus- cable utilizes cable's in -house high -speed advantage in data speed, it pending vendor shipments of upgrade could mean billions a year in revenue. -DT materials had just leaked to the media and TCI's third -quarter financial results

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The flipside is ly for failing to follow through on promises of com- that cable's programing choices have petitive local telephone service. never been more robust and diverse. True, the day when cable operators might offer Finally, there's cable's vaunted net- customers plain old telephone service over is work advantage -from traditional coaxial lines is probably several years off. coaxial cable through advanced, high - But three big operators are rolling out wireless capacity hybrid fiber/coaxial networks. personal communications service (PCS) that at US West's purchase of Continental least will offer consumers an alternative to cellular Cablevision. and Baby Bell phone service. Although the planned market -by- Ameritech's overbuilds in Michigan, market introduction of the service is behind sched- Ohio and Illinois, more than any other ule, it should eventually reach almost every per- developments, validated the power of son in the country. the cable network. Tele- Communications Inc., Comcast and Cox Speaking of the Baby Bells, their Communications, in partnership with Sprint, have competitive threat seemed to wane in purchased enough spectrum from the government '96. With the exception of Ameritech, to deliver digital mobile telephone service to near- GTE and, to a lesser extent. PacTel, the ly 75% of the U.S. population. regional Bell companies are focusing And if successful in ongoing FCC auctions, on the telephone business rather than Sprint Spectrum, as the partnership is called, will attempting to steal cable's thunder in have sufficient spectrum to cover the entire popula- the video services market. tion of 260 million. When I say a 'nationwide net- "The prospect of telephone over- work.' I mean everywhere," says spokesman Tom builds is beginning to fade," says Jef- Murphy. frey Marcus, chairman of Dallas -based Sprint Spectrum has plenty of money -more than $10 billion-70 Marcus Cable, the ninth -largest MSO. realize its ambitions. The four partners are contributing $4.2 billioi, "Telephone companies have a lot of Murphy says. They raised another $750 million n a public debt afferir g money, and the way to make a small last summer and secured $5.1 billion in credit from banks and the r fortune in overbuilding cable compa- principal hardware and software suppliers, Northern Telecom ar d nies is to start with a large one." Lucent Technologies. Conversely, there's been a good deal But technology problems have caused Sprint Spectrum to scae bac4 of talk about cable companies- partic- its estimates for 1996 startups. Instead of 20 or 25 markets, it now says ularly Time Warner- backing off service will be available in only five or 10 markets by the end of the year. wireline telephony launches. The argu- It declines to identify the markets. ments against it are primarily cost and Bruce Crair, general manager of Sprint Spectrum's southern Dalifcr- complexity. But personal communica- nia PCS system. promises that his system will be among those raking tion service (PCS) could emerge as a its debut before the new year. Its license covers 20 million peopl3, says key battleground and advantage for Crair. And by the end of next year, he says, the service -to be marketed cable (see box, this page). as Sprint PCS -should be available to about 80% of the market. H3 Indeed, Kersch sees cable's travails won't say what percentage the service will reach when it goes to market in '96 beginning to pay off in '97. "The this month. investment community has long seen Prices for Sprint Spectrum will be "very competitive" with southern the cable industry deploy capital for California's two cellular telephone operators. But the key to sumess is rebuilds, and the rebuilds, they have not price, Crair says. With its CDMA technology, Sprint Spectrum w II been working on have not justified the deliver greater overall value -unequaled audio clarity, less frequent cell revenue streams to justify the rebuilds." drops and more privacy, Crair says. "It's just outstanding." -Ilgl he says. "I am convinced that 1997 is the year you're going to see these revenue streams become realit."

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1. Tele- Communications Inc. 6. Cablevision Systems Corp. 2. Time Warner Cable 7. Adelphia Cable Communications 3. US West Media Group 8. Jones Intercable Inc. 4. Comcast Corp. 9. Marcus Cable 5. Cox Communications Inc. 10. Falcon Cable TV 1TCI TIME WARNER 1. Tele- Communications Inc. 2. Time Warner Cable Top executive: John Malone Top executive: Joseph Collins Headquarters: Englewood, Colo. Headquarters: Stamford, Conn. Homes passed /subs: 23.1/13.9 million Homes passed /subs:18/12.1 million Employes: 39,000 Employes: 25.000

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CABrEvi,sION C Corp. 6. Cablevision Systems ENTERPRISES, INC. Top executive: Charles Dolan 5. Cox Communications Inc. Headquarters: Woodbury. N.Y. Top executive: James Robbins Homes passed /subs: 3.7.'2.4 million Headquarters: Atlanta Employes: 6.600 Homes passed /subs: 4.9/3.2 million Weaknesses: Cash flow and margins came Employes: 7.500 under pressure in third quarter. depressing stock price: debt -to -cash flow ratio of about Has felt ripple -effect from cable's challengers in '96 Weaknesses: 6.9:1 and non -investment grade rating for faces in some markets. and growing competition senior debt. Powerful financial backing; among least debt leveraged Strengths: Strengths: Good demographics in urban systems. solid take -rates MSOs: good systems. With Continental. leads in customer service on consumers switching from standard cable to upgraded cable in ranking. areas where there is dual plant. Continue network upgrades. rolling out new prod- 1997 strategy: 1997 strategy: Continue network upgrades: push to improve cash ucts and services. flow and margins: work on improving debt -to -cash flow ratio. "Digital compression will give us a huge leap in shelf space, "We are entering a new creating a near -video -on- demand technological age and we plan to environment that will give forge ahead by providing all the consumers the convenience and new services." control they want." -James Dolan. CEO. Cablevision Systems - Jim Robbins. pres. Cox Communications

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8. Jones Inc. 7. Adelphia Cable Communications Intercable Top executive: Glenn Jones Top executive: John J. Rigas Headquarters: Englewood, Colo. Headquarters: Coudersport, Pa. Homes passed /subs: 2.3/1.4 million Homes passed /subs: 2.4/1.7 million Employes: 3,450 Employes: 2,775 Weaknesses: Size limits ability to enhance economies of scale. Strengths: Highly clustered in population dense areas with upscale Weaknesses: Size limits ability to enhance economies of scale; demographics. some markets in more rural areas where upgrades are costly. 1997 strategy: Accelerate rollout of wireline telephony, cable Strengths: Supportive alliances with top MSOs; affiliated with modems; continue network upgrades, sales of managed limited promising Sprint Telecommunications Venture. partnerships; strengthen strategic clusters. 1997 strategy: Upgrade network; roll out new products and services as financial conditions permit and where biggest return on "Cable will maybe settle in and investment beckons. keep more of an eye on the video business, realizing that it's the core "We're in the cable business business. ... We've perhaps been for the long haul, diverted the last couple of years, no doubt about it." running around after shadows rather -John Rigas, CEO. Adelphia Cable Communications than pursuing core business." -Glenn Jones, chairman /CEO °Marcus Cable i7 Falcon 9. Marcus Cable 10. Falcon Cable TV Top executive: Jeffrey Marcus Top executive: Marc Nathanson Headquarters: Dallas Headquarters: Los Angeles Homes passed /subs: 2/1.2 million Homes passed /subs: 1.3/1.0 million Employes: 2,000 Employes: 1.060

Weaknesses: Size is limiting factor but off- Weaknesses: Size a limitation on achieving economies of scale. set to a degree through alliances with larger Strengths: Upscale market demographics; markets small enough MSOs. that competition is less of threat than to larger MSOs. Strengths: Good leadership, good management, good markets 1997 strategy: Continue buying out partnerships; focus on using (Wisconsin and Texas). revenue from core business to upgrade network; continue network 1997 strategy: Continue ambitious network upgrade, focusing on upgrades. modem deployment. "At some point, one of these big "What we're going to see is very RBOCs, or maybe a long- distance large companies, and the company, is going to wake up and survivors will be the companies say US West has the right idea - that are the best financed and we need to do what they do." have the deepest pockets." -Jeffrey Marcus, chairman /CEO -Marc Nathanson. chairman /CEO

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How would you characterize the state of the cable bar -entry. And they're doing a great job of it. Industry in light of the developments over the past year? Is that affecting competition in high -speed data? The industry is clearly in a major transition. We are, Well, the predicate for the successful launch of high -speed in fact, on a day -to -day basis confronting the first wave of data is an upgraded plant and modems in volume, which are really competitive products. As a result, the financial mar- just becoming a reality in the last quarter of '96, and hope- kets are concerned about how the industry will be able to fully in an accelerated way in '97. respond to this competition. But there really is no competitive product to that service. Or, I should say. there's no one who can offer the same What is the state of that competition? speed. So ISDN is rolling out slowly, as is high -speed -data, Let, take it by segments. Certainly in the area of multi- and the clash is not as widespread or as direct and immedi- channel video it's clear and present. Multichannel video is a ate. But the video market is intensely competitive at this product you can now get from four or five different purvey- moment; in the high -speed -data area, it is around the edges, ors, and they all are making aggressive value propositions. and in telephony, so far, we have been delayed from engag- Any cable operator who's out there answering his phones ing in real brass -knuckles competition. today knows that this is not next year's problem, or a casual The area of telephony where you are seeing direct compe- intrusion. It is a big -time, heavily promoted and advertised tition is in alternative access services. They have multiple direct frontal assault on the multichannel video market. providers of business interconnect to long-distance carriers, Clearly there is some creaking and groaning as we try to whether it be Teleport, which is the cable -related version of enter the telephone business. Incumbent local exchange car- that, or MFS [Metropolitan Fiber Systems]. Or some of the riers are using all of the resources they have, which are basi- smaller cap players, like Hyperion or Brooks Cable. cally legal and regulatory leverage, to delay -and, indeed, Whereas today, as a business telephony user, you've got a

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As long as we're talking about the Strength in size. out -of- region strategy, can you give Look at the Sprint /French Telecom/ some sense of what targets you us axis. You now have in 1997 for UMG /Continental in Deutsche Telekom terms of digital cable, modem, and look at MCI -BT [the MCI /British wireline telephony rollouts? Telecommunications merger] as an axis. You look at Nynex/Bell Atlantic. I would rather not discuss the specifics These are tight. And we are offering because I think there are competitors services that will be in direct competi- who would be advantaged by knowing tion with each of them. our plan. I would rather not tip my hand on whether our number -one tar- Is still a business in being sim- get is going to be Ameritech or Nynex there ply a core cable business? or Bell South. It's hard enough competing with these guys without letting Let nie answer a somewhat different them into my head. question. I think a smaller, regionally I can give you a generic answer, focused, well- capitalized cable opera- however, which is that I expect by the tor can prosper in the 2I st century. But end of the decade to have upgraded all of our facilities and two things are key there-geographically focused and well be offering high -speed data, telephony and multichannel capitalized -and those seem to me to be two conditions that video in all of our markets. We will pick and choose which will be necessary for a smaller company to continue longer ones we're doing first, but the plan is to do it by the end of term. the decade. which is in three and a quarter years. If you look at the telephone industry for models, there are a number of small regional telephone companies that are still We remember in discussions involving the merger with doing very well, thank you, that have good access to capital, UMG that you had been spending somewhere in the area of that have lots of stocks trading on major exchanges, that are $500 million a year on plant upgrade, and that you had perfectly healthy and, in fact, very attractive targets for some upped that figure this year. of the larger companies. We put it in bulk numbers. In '95, we had capital spending of approximately half -a- billion dollars. In this quarter, the And there will continue to be. with the proper insight and last quarter of '96, it will be close to a billion, and next year strategy, niches that such companies can effectively we'll exceed a billion. exploit. Believe me, there's nothing more important to the success of And obviously, your union with US West Media Group is any business than entrepreneurial instincts and ability. And I part of what permits this. think of the second- and third -tier cable companies, a num- It's what's going to be required to be a player in this new, ber of them are going to do very nicely, thank you. And competitive world. Glenn Jones and Jeff Marcus and Chuck Dolan and Leo Hindery and Barry Babcock and some others are not people stepped on. Can you help us understand what your strategy will be in who are, I think, candidates for getting the UMG /Continental contexts regarding local wireline telephone service and long- distance service? You've talked What's going to be the main challenge facing the cable about rolling out local wire -and we assume you meant industry next year? wired telephone service -in all your markets by the end of the century. So, obviously. that is one you're pursuing Well, I expect a continuation of the main challenge now, actively. What about long- distance service? which is, can we withstand the competitive offering of the various DBS distributors? And can we re- establish the finan- it's a work in progress. Whether we try to develop and brand cial markets -and do both in order to have the capital to our own version of a long- distance service or whether we complete the build -out that we all want to do. strike some sort of alliance with an existing long- distance carrier is still open. Would you characterize the challenge for UMG /Continental as being essentially the same? Looking at the telecommunications universe. there's been a lot of merger and acquisition activity this year. What Yes. I think we're in a somewhat better position to with- does that say about the industry? stand that, to respond to that challenge, than perhaps others are, as a result of both financial resources and customer loy- I think that in the new millennium, there is going to be a handful of global telecommunications companies that have alty in the market. the scope and the resources to provide the full range of ser- The elephant syndrome... vices virtually anywhere on the face of the globe. And I think you either need to be part of one of those, or run a sig- Well, the growing -elephant syndrome. Adolescent e e- nificant risk of being stepped on by one of those. phants.

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By Rich Brown "We don't weekend cover- want two sepa- age and up to TNT will pay CBS an estimated $7 rate people in the five hours per million in rights fees to telecast marketplace sell- day of weekday more than 50 hours of programing two separate afternoon cov- ing from the 1998 Olympic winter packages," says erage. The games in Nagano, Japan. McManus. cable network Turner will telecast essentially the CBS personali- aired 45 hours same amount of programing it aired ties, including of winter during the 1992 and 1994 winter games play -by -play Olympics cov- but will pay considerably lower rights announcers, will erage in both fees this time around. The cable com- be exclusive to 1992 and 1994. pany reportedly paid CBS $20 million the broadcast net- CBS, which for cable rights in 1992 and $30 million work, but there is paid $375 mil- in 1994. the possibility lion for rights to Turner will pay a lower rights fee for that certain Turn- the games, the 1998 games but will provide CBS er personalities lights the torch with a long list of production, market- could appear on on its 120 hours ing and promotional support. TNT will CBS as part of its of coverage promote CBS's coverage on -air, but coverage, says Feb. 6, 1998. CBS will not return the favor out of McManus. Most of the respect for its broadcast affiliates, says TNT begin- CBS coverage Sean McManus, president, CBS ning Feb. 7, 1998, will telecast more will be on tape in prime time, and there Sports. CBS will handle all advertising than 50 hours of Olympics programing, is currently no overlap of the CBS and sales for both networks. including up to one hour per day of TNT coverage. USA adds quartet of originals Creates original Sunday night prime time block

By Jim McConville choking competition of the broadcast action /adventure series based on the networks from 8 to 11 p.m.," says 1993 Luc Besson film. Produced by tiSA Networks will add four new Perth. Fireworks Entertainment Productions, original series to its weekly The two new weekend prime time the show will air Mondays at 10 p.m. schedule next month. shows: starting Jan. 13. The additions, part of USA's two - Lost on Earth, produced by Quin- USA will also add family entertain- year plan to remake its programing cy Jones -David Salzman Entertain- ment hour Johnnytime to its Sunday lineup, will boost the network's origi- ment and developed by comedian morning kids schedule at 10:30 a.m. nal prime time programing slate to nine David Steinberg, revolves around a TV starting Jan. 5. and a half hours per week, according to puppet show populated by dysfunc- The network's original program Rod Perth, president of USA Entertain- tional aliens. It will air Saturdays at 7 strategy represents the third time it has ment Networks. p.m. starting Jan. 4. reinvented itself in its 16 -year history. Last year, USA spent an estimated Claude's Crib is a half -hour sit- Previous makeovers, says Perth, $175 million on original series, a figure com featuring comedian /producer included moving from a predominantly Perth says the network will "far Claude Brooks as the landlord of a sports channel to a general entertain- exceed" this year. multiracial boarding house. It will air ment network in the early '80s, then to Two of the series are being added to Sundays at 7 p.m. starting Jan. 5. The an emphasis on original movies in USA's Saturday and Sunday prime show serves as lead -in to USA's cur- 1989. time blocks, creating a 7 -11 p.m. origi- rent Sunday night schedule of half - Next month, USA also will begin to nal program block on Sunday and an hour Weird Science and three hour- roll out its first slate of 1997 original hour of original programing leading long series: Pacific Blue, Silk Stalkings Wednesday night movies. Productions into its back -to -back theatricals on Sat- and The Big Easy. will include Contagious, an urday. "By programing from 7 p.m., Also new to USA prime time will action /adventure movie about a cholera we hope we can break away from the be La Femme Nikita, an hour outbreak among airline passengers on a

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www.americanradiohistory.com Cabl- flight from Peru to the U.S. It airs Jan. tive initiative that basic cable networks 21 at 9 p.m. take, the more we will be able to con- Other original USA movies sched- vince advertisers to pay higher CPMs uled for the first half of 1997 include (cost per thousand] for this original The Member of the Wedding. Jan. 22. programing." 9 p.m.; Anyplace but Home, Jan. 22, The current legal battle between 9 p.m., and Breaking the Surface, a USA Networks' owner -partners Via- docudrama about Olympic champion com and MCA Corp. hasn't squelched diver Greg Louganis, March 19, 9 p.m. its new program development or bud- USA has opted to introduce shows in get, says Perth. "[Viacom and MCA] January and June rather than during Sep- absolutely believe and sanction USA's tember, the traditional launch time of continued investment in original pro- broadcast networks. "It's increasingly graming." difficult for us to premiere head -to head Regarding recent published reports with the six broadcast networks in terms that NBC is interested in acquiring of the blitz of advertising and promo- USA, Perth tional messages," says Perth, "so we've says he knows carved out an off -the -clock strategy.... of no talks We hope to be able to launch Walker. going on Texas Ranger as well as acquisitions between the Saved by the Bell: The New Class and two. Perth USA High before September." speculates Perth acknowledges that USA's that the NBC 'Lost on Earth' original program strategy will (above) features a TV takeover story inevitably produce some duds. "When show within a TV was the prod- you're in the business of original pro- show and puppets uct of the cur- graming and weaning yourselves away who are actually rent recess in from the aliens. 'Claude's the Via- acquisition pipeline, you're Crib' stars Canadian going to have failure. It's network R producer Claude com /MCA and D." Brooks Chancery USA has already fired a couple of Court trial. blanks with Saturday prime time shows "There's been Campus Cops and Weekly World News. Perth encourages other cable net- such a lull in activity in terms of what's The two shows, introduced last Janu- works to increase original program coming out of the trial in Delaware that ary, were dropped in October after spending. "I want to kill them compet- someone had to write something," he posting disappointing ratings. itively. hut the more original. innova- says.

TCI move not so super for superstations Drops WGN -TV and WWOR -TV; observers divided over long -term implications

By Jim McConville or generate cash. was a very innovative concept for its "It depends on how MSOs perceive time, but with the arrival of home satel- Tele- Communications Inc.'s deci- what subscribers in their market want lite and the Internet, that advantage has sion to drop WGN -Tv and WWOR- and what their own economics are," diminished." TV from many of its cable sys- says Tom Wolzien, financial analyst Superstation executives, not surpris- tems may not signal the end of the for Sanford C. Bernstein. "You have to ingly, discount TCI's move as the start superstation concept, but it does point look at it on a case -by -case basis. What of a trend. "I've seen no indication that up its vulnerability in an era in which TCI does doesn't necessarily mean a it is the start of anything bigger," says cable operators are willing to swap net- trend." Peter Walker, general manager of wGN- works as a way to drum up cash. Dennis McAlpine, analyst for TV. "All we've heard from are some As part of its cable network overhaul Josephthal Lyon & Ross, says future TCI systems." announced late last month, TCI is MSO actions may be shaped to some ICI is replacing wGN -TV, WWOR -TV dropping the superstations from many degree by the reaction to TCI's move. and other networks -including E! of its systems as of Jan. 1. The net- "If TCI can do it without a lot of heat Entertainment Television and Comedy works will be replaced by new net- from local government, subscribers or Central -with Discovery Communica- works that will pay TCI upfront launch the networks themselves, then you may tions' Animal Planet (part owned by fees of $5 -$8 per subscriber. see other cases." TCI's Liberty Media) Turner's Car- Industry observers are divided on "The heyday of the superstation toon Network and Home & Garden whether other MSOs will follow TCI's seems to be past," says Harold Vogel, Television (HGTV). lead and drop superstations to cut costs financial analyst for Cowen & Co. "It In addition to launch fees, TCI

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www.americanradiohistory.com stands to net considerable savings on "You can pretty much bet that what copyright fees it will no longer have to "We've gone they're putting on is going to cost less pay for carrying the two superstations. than what they have on, or they think it Federal copyright fees are paid semian- [over programing] with will give them the opportunity to raise nually based on a percentage of a cable each some rates," says Wolzien. "They've operator's gross revenue. system specifically got their own cash -flow issues; they're Derk Tenzythoff, marketing director to bring more and better trying to save money every way they for United Video Satellite Group, the can." national distributor of WGN -TV, esti- programing to TCI's cuts don't affect Turner's mates that wGN -TV will lose approxi- customers, especially superstation TBS, which reportedly mately 2 million, or roughly 5 %, of its has contracts tied to its TNT and CNN 40 million subscribers. Some 7 million families." cable services. "It doesn't affect TBS, of its subscribers come from ICI. That -TCI's LaRae Marsek nor do we expect it to," says a Turner is not TCI's only connection with the spokesperson. "We have hard -and -fast company. It obtained 40% of UVSG deals in place with ICI for the super - earlier this year in a $250 million stock says the MSG's intention in switching station." deal. networks was to strengthen its program TBS is set to be converted from UVSG markets affected so far lineup. "We've gone [over program- superstation to "free market" basic include ICI systems in Pittsburgh ing] with each system specifically to cable channel next year as part of Turn- (380,000); Tulsa, Okla. (170,000); Los bring more and better programing to er's merger with Time Warner. Angeles (88,000), and St. Louis customers, especially families." WGN -TV could rebound somewhat (60,000). But industry analysts say TCI's with the expected launch of the net- Industry experts say WGN -TV became moves were motivated as much by a work on DBS operators DIRECTV (2 especially vulnerable when it lost car- desire for cash as by a programing million subs) and Primestar Partners riage of Chicago Bulls telecasts for the strategy. (1.5 million subs) in the first half of 1996 -97 NBA season. The station is in "At the end of the day there's a cap- next year, say industry sources. The the midst of a six- year-old lawsuit with ital crunch here; that's what its about." superstation is already on DBS opera- the NBA over telecast rights. says analyst Vogel. "It's not about a tor EchoStar, which has an estimated TCI spokeswoman LaRae Marsek lack of programing." 300,000 subscribers. SET pegs PPV piracy at $100 million Report also warns of DBS threat to cable operators

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Nonstop Nicktoons NICK Sun 12:OOp 2,631 3.8 2.7 6.9 Continental and Comcast -also are 4. Rugrats NICK Sun 10:OOa 2,573 3.7 2.7 10.6 considering using the dual cable /satel- 4. Rugrats NICK Tue 7:30p 2.590 3.7 2.7 6.2 lite service for their own underserved 6. Movie: "Big" USR Sun 5:36p 2.551 3.6 2.6 5.8 rural cable systems. 6. Hey Arnold NICK Mon 8:OOp 2.493 3.6 2.6 5.3 TSAT starts with 735,000 of 6. Doug NICK Mon 7:OOp 2,475 3.6 2.6 5.7 Primestar's estimated 1.45 million 9. Rugrats NICK Fri 9:OOa 2,406 3.6 2.5 11.3 medium -power DBS subscribers. 9. NFL Primetime ESPN Sun 7:OOp 2.509 3.5 2.6 5.6 Primestar now offers 94 channels of 9. World Champ. Wrestling TNT Mon 9:OOp 2.449 3.5 2.5 5.0 video to subscribers who lease its 36- 12. Rocko's Modern Life NICK Sun 11:30a 2.300 3.3 2.4 8.6 inch satellite dish for roughly $1 a day. 12. Raahhlll Real Monsters NICK Sun 10:30a 2.300 3.3 2.4 9.3 TSAT also plans to go after city and 12. Movie: "Dirty Harry" TBS Fri 10:OOp 2.362 3.3 2.4 6.3 suburban markets with the launch of its I5. Busy World of R. Scarry NICK Fri 9:30a 2,185 3.2 2.3 9.9 first high -power Tempo satellite in Feb- 15. Nonstop Nicktoons NICK Wed 6:OOp 2.208 3.2 2.3 6.0 ruary. Using technology from IMedia, 15. Doug NICK Tue 7:OOp 2.223 3.2 2.3 5.6 TSAT will be able to offer 150 video 15. Movie: The Enforcer" TBS Fri 8:OOp 2,249 3.2 2.3 5.6 11:OOa 2.117 3.1 8.2 channels using a 15:1 compression 19. The Ren fi Stimpy Show NICK Sun 2.2 ratio, Howard says. 19. Kenan fi Kel NICK Sat 8:OOp 2,143 3.1 2.2 5.4 The company's upgraded program 19. Movie: "Hang 'em High" TBS Fri 5:35p 2,186 3.1 2.3 6.3 3.0 2.2 6.2 service will use a 13.5 -inch dish. 22. Movie: "Crocodile Dundee II" USR Thu 7:OOp 2.116 Primestar's current model is 36 inches. 22. Tiny Toons Rdventures NICK Sat 9:30a 2.104 3.0 2.2 9.6 TSAT will also upgrade Primestar's 22. Rugrats NICK Thu 9:OOa 2,088 3.0 2.2 8.0 medium -power service from 94 to 22. Hey Rmold NICK Wed 8:OOp 2,047 3.0 2.1 5.1 roughly 140 channels with the launch of 22. Secret World of Alex Mack NICK Tue 8:OOp 2.088 3.0 2.2 4.7 its G -2 satellite at the end of January. 27. Tiny Toons Rdventures NICK Sat 9:OOa 1,984 2.9 2.0 9.6 Howard says TSAT may decide to 27. Rupert NICK Fri 10:OOa 1,988 2.9 2.0 8.8 sell its other high -power Tempo satellite 29. Movie: "Cocktail" USA Fri 9:OOp 1.960 2.8 2.0 4.8 to another company by mid -1997. 29. Moive: "Field of Dreams" USR Thu 9:02p 1.983 2.8 2.0 5.2 When asked about the chances of 29. Rocko Thanksgiving NICK Wed 5:30p 1.906 2.8 2.0 6.0 TSAT's partnering with another DBS 29. Rocko's Modern Life NICK Tue 5:30p 1.920 2.8 2.0 6.0 company, Howard said he would con- 29. Rocko's Modern Life NICK Mon 5:30p 1.919 2.8 2.0 5.6 sider proposals. He voiced concerns, 29. Las Vegas REN Sun 8:OOp 1,903 2.8 2.0 4.0 however, about Primestar's most fre- 29. Movie: "High Plains Drifter" TBS Fri 12:OOp 1.978 2.8 2.0 8.4 quently mentioned partner candidates: 36. RII That NICK Sat 8:30p 1,894 2.7 2.0 4.7 News Corp. -owned ASkyB and 36. J. Henson's Muppet Babies NICK Sat 10:30a 1,894 2.7 2.0 8.0 EchoStar Communications. 36. J. Henson's Muppet Babies NICK Sat 10:00a 1.853 2.7 1.9 8.1 Howard says he is wary of the 36. Rugrats NICK Sat 8:30a 1.855 2.7 1.9 10.5 approximately $1 billion debt he esti- 36. Clarissa Explains It PII NICK Tue 6:OOp 1,875 2.7 1.9 5.3 mates ASkyB will have accumulated by 36. Rre You Afraid of the Dark NICK Tue 5:00p 1.896 2.7 1.9 6.6 the time it launches next fall. EchoStar 36. The Statier Brothers Show TNN Sat 9:OOp 1.815 2.7 1.9 4.5 would make a more attractive partner, 36. World Champ. Wrestling TNT Mon 7:55p 1.905 2.7 2.0 4.2 he says, if it were to make another equi- 36. WCW Wrestling TBS Sat 6:05p 1.904 2.7 2.0 5.3 1,823 2.6 1.9 5.9 ty offering. " [ EchoStar Chairman] 45. Nonstop Nicktoons '96 NICK Sat 12:OOp Charlie's Ergen's debt structure makes 45. Beetlelulce NICK Sat 11:OOa 1.803 2.6 1.9 7.4 me very nervous." 4S. J. Henson's Muppet Babies NICK Fri 10:30a 1,826 2.6 1.9 7.7 TSAT, which has been listed on the 4S. NICK Thanksgiving Fest NICK Wed 5:OOp 1,817 2.6 1.9 6.3 Nasdaq stock exchange since Dec. 4, 4S. Rugrats NICK Wed 9:OOa 1,778 2.6 1.8 9.7 has a $500 million line of credit with 4S. Tiny Toons Adventures NICK Tue 6:30p 1.825 2.6 1.9 4.9 TCI, although Howard says the new Sources. Nielsen Media Research. Turner Research company doesn't plan to draw on it.

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By Rich Brown MONTHLY COVERAGE FOR CABLE NETWORKS Nearly a dozen of the nation's DEC DEC cable networks experienced dou- 1996 1995 % CH ble- digit percentage gains in dis- Wired cable 67,522 65,066 4% HGTV' 16,Ö18 tribution this year through a combina- Pay cable 37,573 32,888 14 History* 28,199 8% tion of cable and satellite carriage, A &E 67,798 63,208 7% HLN 63,913 59,326 5% according to A.C. Nielsen data supplied BET 46,729 43,706 7% Lifetime 86,711 63,684 by various networks. Bravo* 23,873 MTV 66,708 62,780 6% a 52 %r 7% ESPN2 topped the list with Comedy 43,604 37,028 18% Nickelodeon 62,279 64,969 26.7 million house- -7% gain, climbing from CMT 37,250 31,741 17% Nostalgia 6,899 7,523 holds in December 1995 to 40.5 million 26,141 24,170 6% CNBC 60,806 56,335 6% ODYSSEY this month. 43,457 38,338 10% CNN 71,010 67,244 6% Prevue Among others topping the list: Sci -Fi 40% Court TV 27,614 23,601 17% Sci -Fi 37,358 26,748 Channel grew to 37.4 million house- Discovery 70,556 66,534 6% Showtime 13,307 12,315 8% holds, a 40% increase; Cartoon Network 6% Disney* 20,898 TBS 70,851 67,149 grew to 31 million households, a 39% 70,917 5% TLC 53,992 43,248 25% boost, Television Food Network ESPN 67,448 ESPN2 40,485 26,689 52% TOON 31,091 22,422 39% climbed to 18.2 million, a 30% rise; fX ENT 42,301 35,626 19% TNN 68,308 64,360 6% grew to 30.3 million, a 26% boost, and 7% TNT 70,235 66,049 6% The Learning Channel grew to 54 mil- Family 68,102 83,902 Food 18,191 13,980 30% The Travel Ch 19,856 18,223 9% lion, a 25% increase. fX 30,266 24,058 26% USA 70,690 66,505 6% The only network that saw a HBO 25,589 24,157 6% VH1 56,307 53,216 6% decline in distribution in a year -to- 16,018 The Weather Ch 65,977 60,905 8% year comparison was Nostalgia Tele- HGTV* WGNC 40,455 39,649 2% vision. The troubled service dropped from 7.5 million to 6.9 million households, a 7c/r decline.

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By Rich Brown eight of the top 10, and reaches more than 36 million cable households Tp national cable rep firm nationally. NCC is owned by Katz rational Cable Communications and multiple system cable operators is restructuring its management. Continental Cablevision. Cox Com- John Sawhill, executive vice presi- munications. Comcast and Time dent and general manager, has been Warner. named chief operating officer of NCC, which represents an estimated 60% of the cable systems in the country. Sawhill will report to Tom Olson, pres- "The increase in cable ident of Katz Media Group, which viewing has nowhere near owns 50% of NCC. Sawhill will take on responsibili- matched the increase in ties previously held by Robert Williams, who next month plans to cable advertising," says leave his post as president and Sawhill. "We need to CEO of the company. It has not yet M been determined whether the presi- translate the value of spot cable to the national dent /CEO position will be filled. NCC was formed last year through advertising community." the merger of Katz Media Group's -John Sawhill. National Cable Communications Cable Media Corp. and National Cable Advertising. In recent weeks, the company has sought to separate its existing and new business efforts 4 by promoting Andrew Ward to senior VP, director of sales, and Susan October 1996 Nolan to senior VP, sales planning and strategic development. Nolan's current staff of four and the eventual SOLD addition of more executives to her team will better enable NCC to focus PROVISION, INC. on developing new business, Sawhill says. cable television systems in "The increase in cable viewing has North & South Dakota nowhere near matched the increase in cable advertising," says Sawhill. "We to need to translate the value of spot cable to the national advertising com- CARLE PLUS munity." Bellevue, Washington Sawhill joined NCC in January with 25 experience in sales years' and The undersigned represented the buyer in this transaction management positions. Just before joining NCC, he served as president and general manager at ABC affiliate WJLA -TV Washington. He now over- sees 65 salespeople in 14 NCA COMMUNICATIONS M offices. EQUITY Williams has not specified his own ASSOCIATES plans following his departure from NCC. He entered the rep business in 4582 S. Ulster Street, Suite402, Denver, CO 80237 (303)694 -3090 1981 as a founder of New England CableRep and eventually became TAMPA NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA DENVER general partner of NCA. LONDON MUNICH PRAGUE HONG KONG KUALA. LUMPUR

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Cate Me4444 industry network competency center, an end -to -end soft- modems move ware /hardware solution to Cable integrating modem service, in cooperation with vendors including LANcity, General from concept to reality Instrument and Terayon. It's offering modem service But analysts still question speed to market TEN -YEAR FORECAST OF CLIENT CARRIER testing along $TRu44.(Te.A4e0. much as $60 CONNECTIONS BY TYPE/SPEED OF CONNECTIONS with consulta- able modems are finally for some non - 1996 1998 2001 2006 tion and tech- moving beyond the cable subscrib- POTS connections (000) 8,010 25,949 73,492 168,103 nical training hype, and the beginnings ers. "That's ISDN connections (000) 890 6,920 40,086 93,391 based on its of a very real business are really the strat- ADSUcable modems (000) 0 1,730 20,043 112,069 involvement in quickly taking root in select egy of all these ATM /frame relay subscribers (000) 11 64 413 1,616 tests with TCI systems around the country. operators now, Leased -line subscribers (000) 94 321 1,073 2,632 and Time War- Major MSOs, including mainly because PRI and other subscribers (000) 6 43 165 369 ner. Tele- Communications Inc., they can't af- Source: Communications Industry Researchers Among tra- Continental Cablevision, ford massive ditional cable Time Warner Cable, Rogers upgrades," says Rona Shuchat, based on the speed of the suppliers, Scientific -Atlanta Cablesystems and Comcast senior analyst for Link Re- boxes as it approaches 1.5 introduced its dataXellerator Cable, are launching commer- sources. "They're pinning million households with two - last month for $259 per unit, cially. Estimates on the num- down affluent areas where way plant by the end of '97. with a $199 price for deals of ber of high -speed modems demand will be strong." Motorola is already in seri- 50,000 units. It operates at 1.2 now deployed in North Amer- In Canada, Rogers has ous discussions with retailers mbps downstream and an ana- ica range as high as 500,000 made its Wave service avail- about similar tiered distribu- log speed of 28.8 kbps to units. A more realistic indus- able to 200,000 subscribers in tion for its CyberSurfr, ac- insure compatibility with try source pegs the number of London, Vancouver, Hamil- cording to Phillips. "If cable some customers' PCs. Motorola CyberSurfrs, one of ton, and other areas around operators want the units sold Modems with telephone the leading cable modems, at Toronto. That's where the through stores, they'll be sold return paths are likely to be an 50,000 units, including unan- Wave started, in the 16,000 - through stores," Phillips says. increasingly popular option to nounced trial deployments. subscriber Newmarket system He estimates the total number enable operators to gain a CIR concludes that cable that now has 800 customers of U.S. households passed foothold in the business with- modems are "purely experi- using two -way Zenith mo- with two -way plant at 15 mil- out upgrading plant to do it. mental" at present, but prom- dems that operate with down- lion and growing. Atlanta -based Hayes Micro- ising for the future (see chart. stream speed of 500 kbps. The Another sign of the market's computer is debuting a mo- right). Jim Phillips, Motorola 5% penetration achieved there strength is the number of ven- dem at the Western Show corporate vice president, de- in the past year exceeded dors now entering the market. with a downstream capacity clines to comment on the Rogers's expectations. "That IBM is introducing a two-way of 5 mbps for less than $200 number, but he estimates that proves to us unequivocally integrated Cable Online system in quantities of 10,000. Motorola units will be in the the business case," says Dave that features a modem operat- Established vendors such hands of operators with 10 Samuel, president of Rogers ing at 30 mbps downstream as Bay City Network's LAN - million homes passed for two - Wave. with a return path of 2.5 mbps. city apparently feel the heat way modem service by the Rogers charges a monthly The estimated cost of the sys- from one -way box suppliers. end of 1997. "We're rolling fee of $55 (Canadian) for the tem is a pricey $800 per sub, LANcity recently reduced out with a lot of operators. It's service. Samuel expects cable probably much more than the prices on its popular modem a big difference from trials," modems to really take off average operator wants to pay, from $595 to $495, or $395 Phillips says. when the boxes become avail- although IBM expects to be in each for 5,000 units. For the foreseeable future, able in retail outlets. Rogers trials with the system soon. General Instrument plans to the market rests with those plans to expand its market by At the Western Cable get plenty of mileage out of a early adoptors willing to foot offering -with multiple ven- Show, Digital Equipment hybrid version of its Surf- the high monthly costs -as dors-tiered levels of service Corp. is trumpeting its cable board 1000 modem, the Surf-

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But that's still the prime holds, for a $1.3 billion busi- The service is initially available to subscribers on the Towson, selling point among operators ness. But she also thinks cable Md., hub of the 170,000 -subscriber system. The two systems rep- offering the service. And is vulnerable to the introduc- resent an aggregate of 500,000 subscribers. Comcast plans to some observers suggest that tion of ADSL service by tel- introduce the service to the rest of the system in phases through subscribers may not get the cos, particularly because of the end of next year, ac- speeds they expect. "If you're cable's notoriously bad ser- COMCAST cording to Roger Keating, the only user, maybe you will vice reputation. "They need to Comcast vice president for achieve that speed," says be sure the service issue is online services. Comcast is Rona Shuchat. "But how addressed in this initial peri- amine still completing a $100 million many servers will be able to od," she says. fiber-optic upgrade of the sys- deliver at those speeds ?" The resolution of that issue tem for two-way capability. Most analysts remain bull- is just one factor that will Towson was selected for ish on the business, but some determine the extent of ca- technical reasons rather than feel that operators are not ble's success in these unchart- demographics, Keating says, moving as fast as they should ed waters. ram but the Baltimore suburb not incidentally fits the upscale profile that cable operators Service, programing slows at AOL Comcast subs in Towson, Md., can get a CyberSurfr modem. need to succeed in launching America Online acknowledged last week that its members have been high -speed services these experiencing slowdowns in the transition to its new subscription deal. days. Comcast's monthly fee for @Home is $59.95 to non -sub- On the programing front, things also have been slower than expect- scribers, with current cable subs able to to sign up for $39.95. The rollout in ed, after AOL canceled a new- season October. price includes use of the Motorola CyberSurfr modems, and Corn - AOL members were warned by postcard that slowdowns in service cast charges an installation fee of $175. would occur in prime time as it switched to an unlimited access plan for Comcast's limited launch also is a function of service concerns. $19.95 monthly. AOL expects that to continue for two months as it "The reason we're gradually expanding the footprint is a matter of builds out its network modems to handle additional volume. says, but he adds, "Our plan is Meanwhile, as many as 12 new channels of content will be intro- keeping up with demand," Keating a duced gradually in the next several months, according to Ted Leonsis, to be as aggressive as we can in supporting fast rollout." president of AOL Studios. Leonsis says AOL is "trickling" out new con- The company plans to launch @Home within the next two tent that will include a chat channel, enhanced versions of its localized weeks in its 150,000- subscriber Sarasota system. It will then Digital Cities and a game channel. introduce the service in northern New Jersey, suburban "The key strategy last year was to differentiate AOL. Now the strate- Philadelphia, suburban Detroit and Orange County, Calif., dur- gy is to become a buyer," he says. AOL will work on new concepts with ing the first half of 1997. The Sarasota system has been upgrad- existing programing partners, including Time Inc., ABC and New Line ed, and Keating characterizes it as an "extremely important" Television. Most recently, it announced a development deal with Bran- system for the company. don Tartikoff. In all locations Comcast is creating localized content. In Balti- In other news, AOL has struck a deal with Byron Preiss Multimedia more, for instance, @Home includes virtual tours of The Walters to develop comics online. Art Gallery and material from Baltimore magazine. Comcast also The venture with AOL Studios through AOL's Greenhouse develop- has developed some content in- house. ment studi, will attempt to extend the franchise that Byron Preiss Multi- The other feature that MSOs believe will help drive @Home media Online Virtual Comics has already established. 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Ace Brown, tackle a beginning in a virtual magic Other content be- writing assignment by shop, with kids interacting ing added to the Kids solving mysteries. with content at every turn in World area of main- For adult users, the experience. Each child Street includes fun - mainStreet plans to who logs on with the main- Time, a proprietary adapt 29 episodes of Street remote at the beginning set of games devel- Health Quiz, a series of the show is addressed indi- oped for preschoolers featuring meteorolo- vidually and is prompted to and early -grade stu- gist Dr. Frank Fields, negotiate mazes, solve puz- dents. FunTime infor interactive use, zles, answer quizzes and learn cludes Animal Mix with intros by an ani- magic tricks. Up, an area where kids are five "tours" to examine the mated robot and ratings for Along with the magic shop, able to morph new creatures lives of insects, sea creatures each person taking the Virtuality presents an envi- out of various animal body and dinosaurs. The tours are quizzes. ronment that includes a 3 -D parts, and Lost & Found, an being created from images GTE mainStreet debuted in castle, library, arcade and interactive hide -and -seek and sounds in exhibits main- Clearwater, Fla., in a limited museum. The edutainment game adapted from a GTE tained by the Los Angeles rollout that will segue into a content is to be refreshed Interactive title for PC. Museum of Natural History. full -scale launch of the inter- daily, according to a main- For older users, there will Kids World recently added an active TV service in first Street spokesperson, through be Word Blazers Jungle interactive mystery dubbed quarter 1997. GTE's virtual studio in Santa Adventure and Explore Inn, a Ace Wraps the Case, in which The service is presently Monica, Calif. The MediaLab virtual environment offering users try to help a 12- year-old being offered to GTEameri- cast customers on its Clear- Meet Jack screen saver, claims to have sold water system in tandem with 500,000 copies of Jack in CD -ROM HBO or Showtime for a limit- Playing off its CD -ROM success, form in the past year. The Berkeley, ed period at no additional Berkeley Systems debuted an off- Califbased company has been charge. GTE expects to make beat netshow last week called You around for nearly a decade and the service available to 20,000 Don't Know Jack. enjoys the backing of several ven- households by the end of next You Don't Know Jack ture- capital firms led by Hummer year. (www.bezerk.com) offers an eclec- Winblad in Emeryville, Calif. GTE mainStreet consists of tic mix of tongue -in -cheek trivia The company figured the game nine areas of interactive con- questions in an immersing experi- was a natural for the 'Net. "Jack is tent, including stock quotes, ence about 20 minutes long. The ideally suited to combine a tradi- local and national news and announcement of the netshow's Berkeley Systems' Website tional gaming format with what play -along offers an eclectic mix of online," says Chris information, live debut contained a characteris- can be done games and interactive chil- tic query: If the famous statue trivia questions in its You Deyo, Berkeley's vice president of Don't Know Jack game. called the Aphrodite of Melos marketing. dren's content. Local content applied for a job at Hooters, what might prevent her By mid -January, Berkeley plans to juice up Jack in the Clearwater service will from getting the job? with topical questions. 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By Glen Dickson camera unit, which houses a Sony Beta camera and a Fuji - WrxF(Tv), the Fox O &O non 36x zoom lens with a 2x in Philadelphia, hits extender. The camera has an the skies next week effective zoom ratio of 72:1 with a new, state -of- the -art and a full 360 degree field of ENG helicopter, adding anoth- vision, which will be used to er player to a competitive aeri- provide up -close traffic al news arena. reports for Good Da y The Astar 350B chopper is Philadelphia, WTXF's morn- the station's first news bird ing show, and live shots of and features a nose -mounted WTXF's new Astar 350B helicopter with nose -mounted breaking news throughout the gyrostabilized camera unit gyrostabilized camera. The station starts a two -week 'Name day. Starting Jan. 2, the sta- from FLIR Systems Inc. wrxF the Chopper' viewer contest today (Dec. 9). tion will have a traffic is leasing the chopper for an reporter on -board for Good estimated $500,000 a year through a which includes a custom video switcher, Day Philadelphia coverage. multiyear arrangement with West audio mixer and three additional point - The station is promoting the Coast Helicopter of Van Nuys, Calif., of-view cameras; a tail- mounted Elmo newschopper through a new ad cam- which also will provide pilots. "lipstick" camera and two in -cabin Sony paign, which mimics spots for the movie Wysong Enterprises Inc. of DXC -950s to capture on -board talent. "Independence Day," and is launching a Blountville, Tenn., performed the elec- The centerpiece of the wrxF chopper viewer contest to name the chopper. tronics integration for the chopper, is the nose -mounted FLIR UltraMedia According to Roger LaMay, WTXF Multiplexing heats up at Western Show Imeda, DMV to show their wares Statistical multiplexing should be a buzzword at the System 3000 MPEG -2 /DVB encoders. Western Cable Show this week, as the rapidly develop- DMV Managing Director Dr. Mike Windram is confi- ing compression technology allows cable and DBS dent that Reflex, which uses a data rate from 700 kilo- providers to get the most out of their existing bandwidth. bits per second up to 15 megabits per second, depend- (media, the San Francisco start-up that is providing sta- ing on picture requirements, can achieve the same tistical multiplexing for TCI's Headend in the Sky (HITS), compression ratios as (media. "I believe that DMV for will demonstrate its first live satellite transmission using its any given compression ratio, whether it be 10 to 1, 15 to 24:1 StatMux compression technology directly from TCI's 1, or 24 to 1, can give better results with this kit than any National Digital Television Center in Denver. other real -time encoding systems," he says. Imedia also will debut its CherryPicker, a demultiplex- DMV's approach is different from (media's, says er/remultiplexer that allows local cable operators to pick Windram, in that Reflex's multiplexing process is out 24 digital feeds across multiple transponders and linked directly to the encoding process: the Reflex unit deliver them in a single 6 mhz analog channel (B&C, directs the encoders to trade bit rates between each Nov. 18). The CherryPicker will also allow operators to other. Imedia's StatMux system separates the com- do local ad insertion on the digital streams. pression step from the statistical multiplexing step by Digi -Media Vision ;DMV), the UK -based News Corp. shifting packets of extra data from one multiplexed subsidiary that is handling compression duties for stream to another. ASkyB, will introduce its Reflex product to the U.S. mar- The two companies know each other well, says Win - ket at the Western Show. Reflex is a new statistical mul- dram, and exhibited together in the Silicon Graphics tiplexing system designed to work with DMV's proven booth at NAB '96 using SGI's supercomputers. -GD

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www.americanradiohistory.com Technology C -Cube unveils new set -top chips C -Cube Microsystems launches its AVia MPEG -2 "There's a lot of interest for a converged DVD set -top chipset at the Western Show this and set -top box solution, and that should come week. AVia includes two different out in 1997 or 1998," he says. "Our product decoder and transport chipsets aimed at will support that." serving both high -end, "feature- rich" set - Daly adds that the August 1996 acqui- tops for the telco and cable markets and sition of DiviCom should strengthen C- more basic integrated receiver /decoders Cube's position in the cable /telco set -top (IRDs) for DBS applications. market as DiviCom sells commercial "We're looking to help suppliers pro- IRDs to headends. "It's a unique vantage vide an interoperable set -top for differ- point," he says. "We can sell the head - ent markets," says Alex Daly, C- Cube's ends [with DiviCom IRDs] and also do the vice president of marketing. A company specification of the set -top box." "can build a single set -top box and drop in The combination of the more basic different chips for more functionality." AVia -500 MPEG -2 Audio/ Video Set -top For high -end applications such as americast, Decoder and the AVia -DMX Transport Demultiplex- the telco venture for which C -Cube subsidiary DiviCom er will be aimed at DBS applications, where price is is helping to design chips, the company is marketing often the biggest factor in winning consumers, says the AVia -502 Advanced Audio/ Video Set -top Decoder Daly. C -Cube chips already are used by DBS pro- with Dolby AC -3 audio and the AVia -GTX Advanced grams such as PERFECTV in Japan and AlphaStar in Graphics Transport I /O. Daly says this combination the U.S. will provide a more graphical user interface and pave Daly says that consumer electronics companies JVC the way for DVD (digital versatile disc) functionality and Zenith (which is supplying set -tops to americast) and Web browsing in the set -top. are interested in the new AVia chips. -GD

vice president/GM, the station is invest- era with a Canon stabilizing lens in its ings over airplane crash sites are one ing in the high -tech helicopter to keep Bell Jet Ranger chopper. But according reason that stations are investing in the pace with market rivals wPVI -TV and to Jim Chase, director of broadcast expensive systems, which start at WCAU. The ABC and NBC O &Os both operations and engineering, KY W-TV $250,000- $300,000. Both WFOR -TV, the have Astar choppers with GyroCam also is considering going to a gyrosta- CBS O &O in Miami, and WNC(TV), gyrostabilized units from Aerial Films. bilized unit. "Three of the stations in the NBC O &O in New York, used "Our defining moment came back in our market have one now, so we're gyrostabilized systems to their advan- April," LaMay says. "There was a thinking about it," says Chase. tage in their respective coverage of the flood, and two kids were stuck in a tree Wysong Enterprises President Steve ValuJet and TWA disasters. in a creek. Channel 6 [wPvl -Tv] was the Wysong says that six of the 12 news But Wysong hints that basic ratings only one with a gyrostabilized camera, helicopters he's integrated over the competition may be the biggest driver. and they ab olutely destroyed every- past year have had gyrostabilized cam- "Once one station has it, it seems everybody with Meir coverage. They had eras. He says that high FAA flight ceil- body else rushes to get one," he says. closer, better and steadier pictures than anyone else -there was no comparison. That was the day we said, 'We have to get this.' " GE Americom forms wPVt -TV started using its gyrostabilized camera in late March, according to news director Dave Davis, while Ka -band plan competitor WCAU launched its new GyroCam -equipped Astar in late Sep- Aims to provide fast Internet access tember, says Jim Barger, WCAU manager of news operations and engineering. By Glen Dickson 28 ghz frequency to provide both a Barger says that WCAU's new chop- wideband pipe to cable headends offer- per not only provides good pictures but atellite operator GE Americom ing Internet access via cable modems its Broadcast Microwave transmission plans to use new high- frequency and direct Internet connectivity to system has proved handy in relaying S Ka -band satellites to provide home users with small Ka -band dishes. microwave feeds from land -based wideband access to the Internet by 2000. "Ka-band transmission is very well ENG crews at distant locations. WCAU GE Americom has been granted suited to project the Internet into areas used that capability to cover the recent three international Ka -band orbital where wideband terrestrial is not feasible story of two teenagers accused of leav- slots -which cover Europe, the Middle or economical," says John Esposito, GE ing a newborn baby in a Wilmington, East and Asia-and has filed for two Americom project leader for Ka -band. Del., dumpster. The baby died. domestic Ka -band positions with the Esposito and Rick Langhans, GE Fellow flyer KYW -TV, the CBS FCC. The Princeton, N.J. based com- Americom vice president of technolo- O &O, currently uses a hand -held cam- pany wants to use Ka -band birds on the gy, say the small spot beams of Ka-

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band transmission are amenable to on- offer a switched point -to -point service Individual requests from cable board switching and processing, and with a very wide bandwidth." modem subscribers, such as download- the planned satellites will have Esposito says that the Ka -band ing a Web page, would also go through advanced data processing to take architecture will allow GE Americom the Ka -band satellite network, which advantage of that capability. That will to break each spot beam into nine indi- would give a much faster response to the make Ka -band transmission different vidual channels, providing cost- effec- headend than standard phone lines, says from today's "bent pipe" Ku -band and tive wideband connectivity for nine Langhans. Or a home user could use a C -band applications, where "what major ISPs (Internet service providers). receive -only dish (which might cost comes up, goes down," says Langhans. "They'll be able to command a 40 $500) to receive direct data downlinks, "Most will be able to utilize on- mbps data stream entirely for Internet and use the existing cable or telephony board processing," he says. "They'll return," he says. "There's the potential network to make an upstream request. have a demodulator aboard to convert to bypass the terrestrial bottleneck." For non -cable modem subscribers. the incoming signal to ones and zeros Since cable headends are satellite - more expensive transceiver dishes and then switch it to a downlink beam." ready, they will be the focus of Ameri- (closer to $1,000) would allow Internet Langhans says one Ka -band orbital corn's Ka -band push, Langhans says. users to uplink data requests and down- directly from GE slot, with a bandwidth of 1 ghz assigned "After a cable operator does an HFC link data downloads to it, will allow GE Americom to cover [hybrid fiber/coax] upgrade, how does Americom's Ka -band birds. That sort the U.S. with 44 separate beams. "With that headend keep its data server of Ka -band link also would allow for the small spot beams, we can reuse fre- stocked ?" he asks. "That's the way that high -quality home videoconferencing, quencies by a factor of up to 22 times we see Ka -band satellites having a big Langhans says. Other future Ka -band per orbital slot [compared with two impact. This way, the cable headend applications could be electronic com- times for Ku- band]," he says. "You get doesn't have to go through the phone merce and video on demand. a cheaper bandwidth on a switched company for a dedicated dataline. We'll "A lot of things that died in the pay - basis, where you're not always broad- group those unaffiliated headends and TV effort might come into play with a casting the same signals. We can set up give them sports, news, weather and common phone call and Ka -band satel- circuits between different points, and stock updates on a fixed update basis." lites," he says.

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Television experience preferred. Maintenance Engineer: Christian TV station Please send resumes to Howard Zeiden, Director Applicants must have a Bachelor's seeks Full -Time Maintenance Engineer. This posi- of Sales and Marketing, WCPX -TV, 4466 John degree in Computer Science or tion requires maintenance and repair of broad- Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32804. Fax extensive computer training. PC/ cast equipment to the component level. UHF (407)521 -1208. No phone calls, please. EOE. M /F. transmitter experience helpful. FCC or SBE certi- network expertise in Novell and fication a plus. Send resume and salary require- Windows NT server environments is ments to WDLI TV -17, Trinity Broadcasting Network, 6600 Atlantic Blvd. N.E., Louisville, National Sales Manager: WBDC -TV 50, Wash- essential and a good working Ohio 44641. 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Select. ing for Noon and 5PM Co- Anchor to join an out- will be a leader and FOXIFIED. Send non- write, edit and organize news stories for air. standing team. Will co- anchor noon and 5PM returnable tape and resume to Mark Pierce. Sta- Assist producers. anchors, reporters, photo- newscasts and occasionally report. Must have an tion Manager. 621 SW Pine Island Road. Cape graphers and editors in gathering and presenting exceptional personality and the ability to handle Coral, FL 33991. We are an Equal Opportunity material for newscast. Field produce and report hard news. Bachelor's degree in broadcast jour- Employer. stories and segments. College degree. Must be a nalism or related field required. Send resumes to: self- motivated individual, willing to work hard and Christina Medina. Human Resources take charge. Must be willing to work nights, Coordinator, 5233 Bridge Street, Fort Worth, TX KRIV FOX 050 in Houston. Weekend Weather overnights and weekends. Previous computer 76103. No phone calls please. We are an Equal Anchor Environmental Reporter. The News De- experience helpful. Send cover letter and resume Opportunity Employer. partment is seeking an experienced weather to: WBNS TV Inc., Business Office - #177, 770 anchor for the weekend newscasts and environ- Twin Rivers Drive, Columbus, OH 43215. Newswrlter in Seattle: Want to work in Amer- mental reporter three days a week. Qualified minorities and women are encouraged ica's #1 city? KING 5 TV is searching for a Weathercaster will analyze weather. prepare to apply. WBNS TV is an Equal Opportunity talented overnight writer with producing experi- forecasts, and produce his /her own weathercasts Employer. We are a smoke free and drug free ence. We are number one in the Pacific North- for the 9 PM Weekend News. Systems include workplace. west and like to promote internally. If you have WSI Weather Spectrum 9000. WSI Weather strong writing skills and can fill -in produce, send Watch First Alert System. WSI Weather Chart 2 copies of your resume to: KING 5 TV. Attn: HR 200 Difax System, and WSI 1010N Doppler Dept.. #96R58, 333 Dexter Avenue North. Seat- Radar Interface. Strong writing and organiza- T o P I A C E tle, WA 98109. EOE- M /F /DN. tional skills. be able to write clearly and quickly, must be able to handle deadline pressure and News Reporter. Opening in near future for an work with others in high pressure situations. Re- A N A d experienced television news reporter. Strong writ- quires on air camera skills, and the ability to re- ing skills and attention to details a must. Must search, write and produce daily packages. primari- have I N live experience and work well under ly on environmental issues but also may cover deadlines. Send videotape. resume. and re- breaking news, cut -ins and field reporting. Re- ferences to Rick Moll. News Director, WANE -TV. quires two years major or medium market B R O A d C A S T I Nq 2915 West State Boulevarc, Ft. Wayne. IN weather anchoring experience and a four year col- 46808. EOE -M /F. No calls please. lege degree or work equivalent. Send resume & C A b I E and non -returnable tape to: KRIV FOX Televi- News Photojournalist. The WNDU Stations is sion. Charmaine R. Williams. P.O. Box 22810. looking for a creative, energetic photojournalist Houston, Texas 77227. EOE /M /FDN. CIASSIfIEd SECTION, who loves his /her work. We need a photojournalist who likes doing packages with a reporter and alone, comes up with story ideas, CAII ANTOINETTE FASUIO and Former Network T.V. News Producer in NYC, wants to be part of a winning team. One year ex- SanFran, LA or DC sought for lucrative ($75K +) perience shooting news required. Send resume position as a consultant to an expanding. high - PhONE 212-337-7073 and non -returnable tape to: The WNDU Stations, powered publicity firm with nationa' clients and con- Position #00160, Attention: Human Resources, tacts. We do publicity to high journalistic stan- P.O. Box 1616, South Bend, IN 46634. EOE. No dards. We require the same commitment plus a OR SANdRA FREy phone calls please. good working relationship with influential contacts at the network TV news level. Must be computer/ News Director - ABC affiliate in Florida's Capi- PhONE 212-337-6941 Internet savvy. Work from your home year- round, tal City. needs a hands -on innovative and hard- on easy schedule. Send resume plus general out- working news manager. Join a station on -the- line of areas of media influence to: New Century move, with news as a #1 priority. Please send re- FAX 212-206-8327 Communications, Inc. 240 Mountain View Lane. sume to: General Manager. WTXL -TV, 8927 Mill Valley. CA 94941. Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312.

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HELP WANTED PRODUCTION Television Production Manager. GW Televi- sion, the television production facility of The George Washington University, is currently recruiting a Television Production Manager. Re- sponsibilities include supervision and training of full -time and freelance production crews: man- Be our latest smashing success! agement of studio and remote equipment. studio, lighting and videotape supplies; selection and Innovative. Creative. Thriving. This best describes the environment at Rainbow purchase of studio and graphics equipment: and Programming, one of the nation's leading cable TV programmers. We're the name participation in program evaluation meetings. The qualified candidate must have five or more years behind many of America's most popular sports, news and entertainment networks. experience in multi- camera, live broadcasting, Our unique approach to educating and entertaining viewers has created exception- single and multi-camera field production, editing al opportunities for a variety of television professionals at one of our newly expand- and lighting. A minimum of four years supervisory ed networks located on Long Island. experience is required. Experience with non- linear editing, word processing and scheduling software, and graphics platforms is highly desira- DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING/ ble. Salary in high 30's. We offer a competitive com- SUPERVISING PRODUCER pensation package to include health insurance, ex- In this exceptionally high- visibility position, you will help grow the business by cellent tuition benefits (for eligible spouse and dependent children too) and an onsite wellness developing all live and taped instructional programming, overseeing the production facility. To ensure consideration include requisi- of shows, ensuring the service is presenting itself in a tasteful, imaginative manner, tion #3062 and mail /fax a resume to: Enok and showcasing each program to its fullest capacity. Additionally, you will oversee Dancil, The George Washington University, content and quality of shows, develop and implement overall plans and strategies, Campus Recruitment, 2033 K Street, NW, Suite 220, Washington. DC 20052. (202)994 -9609 fax. and review contracts. A minimum of 6 years of production experience is required. GW is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

PRODUCERS Instructional /Broadcast Facilities Manager. Are you a great/conceptual /active thinker? If so, you'll have the opportunity to Pepperdine University in Malibu. California has an immediate opening for a full -time Manager. produce live interactive programming, develop show formats, write/produce, secure Must work well with students, be a strong man- talent, develop graphics, book guests and research story ideas. Qualified candidates ager and have experience in the maintenance of will be incredibly creative and passionate about TV...and have 3 -5 years of experi- audio, video and computer equipment. BA de- ence producing live news/entertainment programs and the proven ability to work gree required. Master's preferred, 3 years of professional/educational broadcast experience. Con- under the pressure of on -air operations; BS preferred. tact Personnel Services for application (310)456- 4397. ON -AIR EXPERTS We are seeking creative, energetic and personable experts to host live interactive instructional programs. The ability to ad -lib, think on your feet and really grab an EGAD! Ready to work for one of the best broadcast graphic design firms on the planet? EGAD! audience is a must. has an immediate opening for a Design Director to help lead our creative teams. We've got totally Please send tape and resume, indicating earning requirement/position of interest, excellent people, great tools (with more on the to: PO Box 999, Dept NV, Woodbury, NY 11797. Equal opportunity employer. way), tons -o- business and spanky new digs under construction. If you're an experienced designer who's gotten too big for the pond and up to our national rep. Send your way cool stuff to EGAD!. 3010 LBJ Freeway, Suite 910, Dallas, Reo1a TX 75234. Really! 300 Days! The above- mentioned station in beautiful, desirable Portland, Oregon needs a Washington Producer. Tribune Broadcasting Video Photographer /Editor: This position is re- talented Graphic Designer, too. Bring your 2 to 3 for Washington Bureau seeking Producer to cover sponsible for all phases of video production years experience in a television art department; news pro- Capitol Hill, the White House, produce live shots, commercial spots and contracted video projects. your intense desire to create cool and knowledge Liberty paint write story packages, and travel on major break- This includes meeting clients, writing scripts. co- motion graphics; your of can -do atti- ing news stories. A minimum of two years field pro- orinating story boards, talent and locations, post system and Quantel Harriet; and your humor to a station ducing or comparable experience required. Must production editing, computer graphics and anima- tude and warped sense of - (503)464- have strong writing skills, computer skills and tion. Candidates should have three years hands that's well on its way to the top. Call it with your re- phone skills. Must be able to set up news stories on experience in all phases of video production, 0600 for an application, then send from start to finish. Immediate opening. Contact: a good knowledge of photographic composition, sume and tape to: KOIN -TV, Graphic Designer Cissy Baker, Tribune Broadcasting, 1325 G practical knowledge of computer graphic and Search, 222 SW Columbia, Portland, OR 97201. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. paint systems, digital fax, and both linear aril Deadline 1/7/97. KOIN -TV /Lee Enterprises are non linear editing systems and excellent commu- Equal Opportunity Employers. nication and customer relations skills. This por- Video Design Engineer. Design engineer expe- tion provides a full benefit package including Editor Wanted. Fast paced production company rienced in video /audio /control equipment and medical and employee savings plan. Position with clients nation wide seeks only the best. Min- systems. Minimum of 3 years design experience available January 1, 1997. Qualified candidates imum 5 years editing experience. Send sample in related products such as cameras, control should send production reel, resume and re- VHS, resume, editing background and salary to: systems and robotics devices, BSEE degree references to: Time Warner Cable, Human Re- Steve, 976 Houston Northcutt Boulevard, Suite 3, quired. Reply to Box 01012 EOE. sources, 3600 N. Sillect Avenue, Bakersfield, CA Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464. No calls. 93308. EEO M/FN /D. To PIACE AN Ad IN BROAdCASTINCj & CAblE C ASSiFiEd SECTiONr CAFF ANTOINETTE FASUFO PI-IONE: 212-337-7073 OR SANdRA FREy PI-IONE: 212437-6941 FAX: 212-206-8327

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Producer for planned national cable art/ HELP WANTED PROMOTION Promotion Producer - KBMT the ABC affiliate in adventure series. You will create segment Beaumont. Texas is looking for someone who topics, produce, shoot, and edit to make this week- can create award winning and viewer attracting ly halt -hour happenings, CA resident preferred. promos. You'll focus on news, weather and Think Not Resume and reel to: loVision, 4565 Ruffner you're creative? good enough...lf sports promotions. Great opportunity in a market people think you me Street. S -103, San Diego, CA 92111. other are creative, send a that looks and acts bigger than it is. Send resume tape. ABC affiliate seeks highly creative, to: EEOC Officer, KBMT -TV, P.O. Box 1550, motivated promo -sapien to produce killer enter- Beaumont. Texas 77704. An Equal Opportunity tainment and news promotion. Candidate should 300 days of sunshine!! In an unrelated story, Employer. have 2 or more years TV experience your skills as a Design Director are needed in and great writing skills. AVID editing and beautiful, desirable Portland, Oregon. Come join shooting experience a plus but not mandatory. Rush your hottest a station that loves to have fun in a city that does Can you play in Peoria? WMBD TV, Illinois sta- tape and resume to: Gary Ledbetter. Creative the same. If you have 3 to 5 years experience in tion of the year, seeks an aggressive Senior Pro- Services Director, KTVX, 1760 Fremont Drive, a mid to large market TV art department; have ex- motions Writer /Producer to join our award win- Salt Lake City, UT 84104. EOE. No phone calls tensive experience in creating graphics for news ning team. We're a medium size market with please. a and promotion using SG! based Liberty paint big market mentality. AVID editing, broadcasting system and Ouanlel Harriet; have supervisory degree and one year experience preferred. Re- experience and excel under tight deadlines, then sume and reel to: Clay Hagedorn, Promotion we really need to talk. Print design savvy pre- Manager, WMBD TV -31, 3131 North Your dream comes true in Oregon. We're University, ferred. Call (503)464 -0600 for an application, Peoria, IL 61604. No calls please. EOE. ready to take traditional promotion and creative then send it with your resume and tape to: KOIN- services into the 21st Century. We've assembled TV, Design Director Search, 222 SW Columbia, the tools and we're recruiting a few more good Portland, OR 97201. Deadline 1/7/97. KOIN -TV, people to do just that. You're an experienced and Promotion Producer. Start the year with a new Lee Enterprises are Equal Opportunity accomplished manager of promotion and creative job! UPN 20/WDCA, Washington, DC is looking Employers. services. You want a larger arena in which to de- for the best writer /producer in the business. You'll work velop and lead a fully integrated marketing on custom promos and work for one of the strategy for a television station that puts the biggest TV groups in the country. Ready to make Producer - Consumer Reports Television is customer first. As Director of Marketing, you will a change and excited about the challenge? Rush latest resume looking for experienced, freelance producers to join a great team at a strong station in a growing tape and to Director of Marketing create 90- second reports for its syndicated news market. Portland is the rapidly expanding #24 and Promotion, UPN 20, P.O. Box 39113, Wash- service, Consumer Reports TV News. Applicants market and one of the most livable cities in the ington, DC 20016. Paramount is an Equal Op- should have 5 -10 years producing /writing experi- USA. We offer a successful, competitive team portunity Employer. ence with a background in TV news. Some con- environment where you can make a difference sumer reporting experience preferred. The ability with your experience and your ideas. The suc- to translate complex technical material into com- cessful candidate will have three to five years Program Director. Great opportunity for a mon language is essential. Flexible hours. Send experience in a leadership capacity, and the pro- motivated, hands -on team player at a group - resume and sample scripts to Consumer Reports ven ability to deliver effective support for position- owned NBC affiliate located in the Southwest. Television, 101 Truman Avenue, Yonkers, NY ing an overall station image. Call 503 -464 -0600 Experience with TV programming and extensive 10703, Attn: Sheila Coughlan to request an application. Send application. re- public relations background required: computer sume, tape and salary history immediately to: knowledge (Microsoft Word/Excel); supervisory 2 EASY WAYS Marketing Director Search, KOIN -TV, 222 SW Col- skills; and able to represent the station in a pro- umbia, Portland, OR 97201. A Lee Enterprises, fessional and positive manner. Send resume to to place your Inc. station. Equal Opportunity Employer. Bob Kalthoff, General Manager, Yuma Broadcast- ing Company, 1385 South Pacific Avenue, Yuma, Classified Ad in AZ 85365. EOE. & Broadcasting Cable Wisconsin Public Television seeks two promotions professionals: TV Video Promotion Man- HELP WANTED ADMINISTRATION ager. Producer /manager to think big, be imaginative and get results in campaigns, spots, opens and more for dynamic public TV service Program /Executive Assistant. KDSM -TV FOX with local, regional and national projects. 17, a Sinclair Communications Inc. station is look- WRITE Supervise full and part-time staff. Required: BA: ing for a Program /Executive Assistant. Duties in- minimum 3 years production experience; PC clude preparing program schedules, processing software skills. Salary $32,000 +. TV Promotion program contracts, program usage reports, film Writer/Producer with imagination, editing experi- library maintenance, interaction with program ex- ence and people Skills to create campaigns, ecutives and syndicators. Assistant to General spots, opens and more for dynamic public TV Manager, including word processing, general Mail your ad to: service. Required: BA: minimum 2 years produc- clerical duties. telephone support. Columbine tion /editing experience. Salary $26.000 +. To app- Traffic system, Microsoft Word, and Excel expe- ly contact Betsy Bendrick, Wisconsin Public Tel- rience a plus. Send cover letter and resume to: evision, 821 University Avenue, Madison, WI General Manager, KDSM -TV, 4023 Fleur Drive, Antoinette Fasulo 53706. PH: 608 -262 -5221. Deadline 1/8/97. Des Moines, IA 50321. We are an Equal Op- EOE. portunity Employer. We encourage members of or minority groups and women to apply for this posi- Sandra Frey tion. Broadcasting & Cable Promotions Manager. Left brain /right brain! Need individual with strong leadership and orga- HELP WANTED RESEARCH 245 West 17th St. nizational skills to coordinate station promotions. Must be highly motivated, energetic individual New York, NY 10011 experienced in developing a station image Research Analyst - Top Television Group has im- through branding and marketing. Experience with mediate openings for Research Analyst in Los on -air, outside media and community promotions Angeles -Dallas- Albuquerque. Two years of re- and partnerships. Hands-on success at writing, search experience at a local station, syndicator, producing, directing and editing eye-catching on- or network required. Working knowledge of air station and news promotions. Computer Nielsen, Scarborough, Simmons and computer CALL graphics skills a big plus! Send tape, pres- literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) a must. Hard entations and resumes to Kathleen McLain, work with opportunity for advancement; bilingual G.M., WMDT -TV, 202 Downtown Plaza, a plus. Fax resume immediately to 310 -348 -3698 (212) 337 -7073 Salisbury, MD 21801. Equal Opportunity or send to P.O. Box 45073. Los Angeles, CA (212) 337 -6941 Employer. M /F. 90045. EOE.

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TV Controller: WETM-TV/Elmira is looking for con- LEARN TO SELL TV TIME troller to direct business department and ac- Call for FREE Info Packet RARE OPPORTUNITY counting functions for WETM/Elmira and WKTV/ ANTONELLI MEDIA CABLE TELEVISION hands -on knowledge of account- Utica. Working, TRAINING CENTER ing principles and procedures. must be proficient LICENSES AVAILABLE in spreadsheets. Four year college degree in busi- (212) 206-8063 ness or accounting required. Supervisory experi- Over 25 years in the TV industry Become a Cable System Affiliate and air Television radio a ence preferred. or experience -violent plus. Send resume to Bob Grissom /VP and Gen- children's award -winning, non eral Manager, WETM -TV, Box 1207, Elmira, NY educational programming. Children's 14902. Smith TV of NY is an Equal Opportunity PROGRAMMING SERVICES Cable Network (CCN) is seeking Employer. experienced sales oriented individuals who want to earn a six figure income. Home based with fantastic growth Assistant Business Manager. Dynamic multi - potential. Exclusive territories and division broadcast group. Excellent growth poten- Smolos tial. Fast paced environment. Assist in all phases National Weather Network training provided. Investment of $35k of television and other broadcast related financial Your own on-air meteorologist via satellite Custom and - $125k required. Partial financing localised TV weatheroast inserts for FOX. UPN. We. hay management. Solid accounting, financial educa- stations and came stations. Three satellite feeds daily. Your available! CallNow!!! 1 -888- 868 -4226 tion and experience. Excellent Communication own on -air meteorologist and great graphics. Sell these inserts and make money. Low cash and barter and very and leadership skills. Cover letter and resume to: simple to receive and use. Call Edward SI. Pe' at N W N 601 WBNS TV Inc.. Business Office #178, 770 Twin 352 -6673 and start today. Rivers Drive, Columbus, OH 43215. Qualified HELP WATNED PROMOTION minorities and women are encouraged to apply EEO. Smoke free and drug free workplace. RESUME TAPE

HELP WANTED PROGRAMMING Career Videos prepares your personalized WRITER /PRODUCER demo. Unique format, excellent rates, coaching, job search assistance, free stock. Great track re- Program Manager. WYFF -TV, A Pulitzer Broad- cord. 847 -272 -2917. ODYSSEY Channel is looking for casting Station in Greenville, SC is seeking a free -lance on -air promotion person to administer program functions with added emphasis on developing and producing producer. This position has the high impact community out reach projects. Appli- VIDEO SERVICES potential to become an on -staff cants should have 3 -5 years experience along with excellent communication skills. Join a team job. If you've got a strong promo of professionals committed to winning. Send re- Los Angeles: Experienced ENG and EFP crews. background, with an eye for sume to Human Resources Director, WYFF -TV, New SP Betacam packages. Spooner Produc- P.O. Box 788. Greenville, SC 29602. EOE. tions, Inc. 800 -776 -6637. graphics, excellent writing skills and can produce award winning spots, please send your resume and reel to: ODYSSEY 74 Trinity Place, 9th Floor New York, NY 10006 Attn: Norma Scheck To place your CABLE classified ad HELP WANTED PRODUCTION Video Designer. National Cable Network seek- in Broadcasting ing talented and motivated individual for Video Designer. Must have a strong background in all & Cable, aspects of video production and on -air graphic design. Responsible for design and production of graphics and special effects for on -air promotion, call interstitial production and special projects and participation in 3 -D animation and modeling pro- Sandra Frey jects. Ability to meet deadlines in a fast -paced, multi- tasking environment. Minimum 2 -3 years experience as a designer in a local or network (212) 337 -6941 television design department, advertising agency, in -house graphics department or production company environment. Must be able to work flexible work schedule. Prefer experience on Quantel Henry, Hal or Harriet and Macintosh computer skills such as Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop. Please send resume with VHS tape or three (3) other graphic samples and salary history to: Video Designer DC -54, P.O. Box 4917, Englewood, CO 80155. Drug test and interview required for successful candidate. EEO /MF.

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Entrepreneurial Opportunity. Proven telecom entrepreneur needs "junior partner" to help launch start-up venture in cable pro- M E D I A C O R P O R A T I O N television gramming field. Initial phases of market research (BET MOVIES/STARR 3) and product development are currently in progress. Ideal candidate has 7 to 12 years of strong experience in broadcasting finar. e, marketing, N1ANAGING PROD CER spreadsheets, deal- making, corps ate law and management. This is an Entreprent:Jrial situation National Cable Network seeking qualified individual for \ Lw.,,;in I'i,.ducer primarily working on a chan- -- low pay, long hours, high stress, and big equity. nel which targets Black subscribers and urban market. Position responsible for efficient planning, production Must be quick study and can write exceptionally well. Compensation package is commensurate and scheduling of all on -air promotional and interstitial materials, and management of entire production with qualifications. All replies confidential. Please process for national cable networks. Requires extensive and varied production and post -production experi- send resume, qualifications and references to ence. Excellent writing and concept organization, managerial and communication skills. Ability to manage P.O. Box 20, Wycombe, PA 18980. and work under deadline pressure. VHS tape of production and/or promotion work must be submitted with resume. indude salary history. Encore Media Corporation, Managing Producer DC -55. ALLIED FIELDS

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National Cable Network seeking two qualified individuals for Producer who will be working on a channel which primarily targets Black subscribers and urban market. Responsible for origination of on air The Television -Radio Department material for entertainment oriented premium movie channel. Requires superior writing and creative in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College has two openings for skills. Must be able to produce and supervise all edit sessions and have experience producing entertain- assistant/associate professor to teach a combination ment and 1 promotion interstitial segments. -5 years experience in promotions at a broadcast station, net- of courses in the areas of beginning through work or program supplier. VHS tape of production and /or promotion samples must be submitted with advanced video production, including digital non- resume, include salary history to: Encore Media Corporation, Producer DC -57. linear post production, directing, audio for media. lighting, set design and production management. Secondary areas include video journalism, multi- VIDEO DESIGN R media and emerging media technologies, scriptwriting and directing performers for the National Cable Network seeking qualified individual for Video Designer who will be responsible for the camera. The successful candidate will also advise design and production of graphics and special effects for on -air promotion, interstitial production and students and may serve on department, school and college committees. special projects and participation in 3 -D animation and modeling projects. Requires strong background in all aspects of video production and on -air graphic design. Minimum 2 -3 years experience as a design- Ph.D., M.F.A. or Master's in video/film or related er in a local or network television design department, advertising agency, in -house graphics department discipline is required. High level of professional experience will be considered in lieu of terminal or production company environment. Prefer experience on Quantel Henry, or Harriet. Flexible work degree. Significant video production work and schedule. VHS tape or three (3) other graphic samples must accompany resume with salary history. Full successful teaching experience is required. portfolio will be reviewed at interview. Encore Media Corporation, Video Designer DC -59. Applicants must send a current vita, statement of interest, including professional specialization, with areas of teaching, and the names, addresses and NON -LINEAR EDITOR phone/fax numbers of at least three references to Dr. Barbara Morgenstern, chair, Search Committee, National Cable Network seeking - qualified individual for Non Linear Editor. Responsible for digitizing and Department of Television-Radio, 328 Roy H. Park editing of various projects including on -air promotion, marketing pieces, as well as, long and short form Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 14850-7253. programming segments. Also responsible for media log input and download into Media Composer 8000 Phone: 607-274-3260. Fax: 607-274-1664. and Audiovision. Requires one year experience in a post production facility, television station or network Screening begins February 3, 1997, however, and six months experience with non -linear editing systems. Ability to manage digitized media and to estab- applications will be accepted until the positions are lish signal paths including video, audio, timecode and RS -422. Familiarity with Sony and CMX edit deci- filled. Ithaca College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. sion list formats and syntax required. Ability to work shifts within a 24 hour/7 days a week facility. Proven

communication and organizational skills a must. High School diploma or equivalent required. Please send resume with salary history to: Encore Media Corporation, Non -Linear Editor DC-62.

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National Cable Network seeking qualified individual for Editor. Responsible for on -line videotape for post -production facility. Must be experienced in list management, interformat editing and special effects.

3 years minimum editorial experience at a post production facility, television or network required. Exten- sive experience with large scale computer videotape editing systems, Edit Decision List management, switcher and Digital Video effects. Fluency with DVE's, character generators and audio techniques required. Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised and with all levels of producers. Individual must be fast, efficient and quality- oriented and able to work shifts within a 24 hour /7 days a week facility. Digital Fax your classified ad to experience with pre-read editing and Avid Media Composer strongly preferred. High School diploma or equivalent required. Submit resume with salary history to: Encore Media Corporation, Editor DC-61. Broadcasting & Cable (212) 206-8327 P.O. Box 4917, Englewood, CO 80155

No telephone calls accepted. Drug rest and interview required fo r succesrlwl ,wrdid te. EEO /MF.

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The Department of Communication Studies at Television /Film Production: Assis- HELP WANTED TECHNICAL Baylor University invites applications for a posi- tant Professor (tenure track) or Faculty Associate tion in the Telecommunication Division (radio, (term contracts), depending on credentials and television, film, multimedia) at the assistant pro- qualifications. To teach remote television (EFP/ Consulting Engineering Firm based near San fessor, associate professor, or professor level. ENG) (including post- production), basic studio Francisco and specializing in AM -FM -TV broad- Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate television production, and 16 mm film production casting and RF exposure analysis needs compe- and graduate courses, developing new courses, to undergraduate communication majors. For tent, personable, self -assured associate. BS in and possibly some administrative duties. Appli- Assistant Professor, appropriate MFA or Ph.D. engineering essential, higher degrees desirable. cants should be willing to direct graduate theses and professional and teaching experience re- Systems design. FCC applications, forensic or projects. Area of expertise in new media quired. For Faculty Associate, appropriate MFA engineering, some field work and travel. P.E. re- technologies is desired. Additional areas of ex- or MA and extensive professional experience re- gistration essential but with qualifications and ex- Enjoy the benefits of a small special- pertise from among the following are desired: quired - teaching experience a plus. Applicants perience. na- media management, writing for film /TV/ must be able to mentor student production and ized professional firm with an established re- multimedia, and media production. Salary is com- train students in the use of all necessary equip- tionwide practice. All replies confidential. Send petitive depending on education and experience. ment. Deadline January 30, 1997. Salary com- sume to Hammett & Edison, Inc., Box 280068, Applicants should submit a letter of application, petitive: full benefits. Send letter, resume, re- San Francisco, California 94128. complete vitae, and three letters of recommenda- ferences to: Human Resources/TFP, Seton Hall tion to Dr. Lee R. Polk, Chair, Department of University, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Or- Communications Studies, Baylor University, P.O. ange, New Jersey 07079. Seton Hall University Box 97368, Waco, TX 76798 -7368. Preference offers a smoke -free work environment. For other will be given to applications received by February job opportunities call 201- 275 -2017. Equal Op- COLLECTION AGENCY 15. 1997. Baylor is a Baptist University affiliated portunity/Affirmative Action Employer. with the Baptist General convention of Texas. As an Affirmative Action /Equal Employment Op- portunity Employer, Baylor encourage minorities, The Manship School of Mass Communication women, veterans, and persons with disabilities to at Louisiana State University is seeking appli- MEDIA COLLECTION apply. cants for an anticipated position at the rank of DREAM TEAM assistant professor beginning in August 1997. Media Writing Position. Duties: Teach writing The successful applicant will teach under- for electronic media. Also ability to teach televi- graduate courses in electronic newsgathering CCR sion /video production. Knowledge of Web page and broadcast news production. Significant design desirable. All faculty members advise professional experience in electronic journalism and Attorney (former broadcast /cable ad graduate and undergraduate students, participate a minimum of a master's degree required. Review of sales manager NBC -TV, Katz, Petry. 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"For the Record" compiles applications filed owner, W6 6N5 45 Madison Ave., Cedarburg, Circle, Norcross. GA 30071) for FM at 91.7 with and actions taken by the FCC. Applica- WI 53012) for FM at 98.9 mhz, ERP 100 kw, mhz, ERP 6.1 kw, ant. 100 m., SR 74, 15.3 km tions and actions are listed by state; the date ant. 600 m. Nov. 13 from Peachtree City. Nov. 4 the application was filed or the action was Hayden, Colo. (BPH- 961115MF)- EB Hay- Macomb, III. (BPH- 961017MN) -Nancy L. in taken, when available, appears italic. den LLC (Charles B. Moss Jr, manager /51% Foster (c /o WJEQ Radio, 31 East Side Sq., owner, 225 N. Mill St., Aspen, CO 81611) for Macomb, IL 61455) for FM at 95.9 mhz, ERP Abbreviations: AOL- assignment of license: ant. - FM at 107.3 mhz, ERP 2 kw, ant. 169 m., 6 kw, ant. 100 m., 825 North County Line antenna: ch.- channel: CP- construction permit: D.I.P.- debtor in possession: ERP- effective radiated 42010 Routt CR 78. EB has applied for FM in 1840E. Oct. 17 power: khz- kilohertz: km-kilometers: kw- kilowatts: Needles, Calif.; Great Falls, Mont., and Grand Marion, Iowa (BPED-961030MA)- Ameri- mhz -megahertz: miles: TL-trans- m.- meters: mi- Junction, Colo. Moss owns KRKE(AM) Aspen, mitter location: w -watts. One meter equals 3.28 feet. can Family Association (Donald E. Wildmon, and parts of KSPN -FM Aspen, KNFO(FM) Basalt, president, P.O. Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS KTUN(FM) Eagle and KFMU(FM) Oak Creek, all 38803) for noncommercial educational FM at OWNERSHIP CHANGES Colo.; and KAPF(FM) Taos, N.M., and has inter- 89.9 mhz, ERP 8.5 kw, ant. 121 m., 4100 est in applications for FMs in Billings, Mont., Nelson Creek Rd., Center Point, Iowa. Fami- Omaha (BTC- 961031 EC)- Radiomaha Inc. and Healdsburg. Calif. Nov. 15 ly owns WALN(FM) Carrollton and WAKD(FM) for KcRO(AM) 660 khz: involuntary transfer of Meeker, Colo. (BPH- 961115MJ)- Western Sheffield, Ala.; woFx(FM) Cleveland, WQST- control form Samuel W. Smulyan to Jeffrey Slope Communications LLC (Allen H. Brill, AM-FM Forest and WAFR(FM) Tupelo, all Miss., Smulyan and Ezra Friedlander, co- executors 52% owner, do Brill and Meisel, 488 Madison KCFN(FM) Wichita and KBUZ(FM) Topeka, Kan.; of estate of Samuel W. Smulyan. Nov. 14 Ave., 5th fl., New York, NY 10022) for FM at has CPs for FMs in Selma and Ozark, Ala.; 98.1 mhz, ERP 100 kw, ant. 331 m., on Vincennes. Ind.; St. Martinville, La.; Hatties- NEW STATIONS Kendall Peak, 14 km SW of Meeker. Western burg and Natchez, Miss.; Hubbard, Neb., and N.M., and has applied for noncom- Returned Slope owns KRGS(AM) and Kzks(FM) Rifle and Clovis, 99% of KURA(FM) Ouray, Colo. Nov. 15 mercial FMs in Bentonville, Des Arc, El Dora- Orlando (BPED- 960604MB)- American do, Fayetteville and Forrest City, all Ark.; Arnold Educational Broadcasting Inc. for FM at 89.5 Yuma, Colo. (BPH- 961118MY)- Panama City, Fla.; Americus, Cairo, Dublin, Arnold, mhz. ERP .53 kw, ant. 49 m. Nov. 6 Broadcasting Co. Inc. (William G. Savannah and Waycross, all Ga.; Waverly, P.O. Box 830, 803 W. Main Abilene, Tex. (BPED- 961015MA)- Christian president/owner, Iowa; Jonesboro, La.; Flora, Kankakee, CO 80751) for FM at 100.9 mhz, Broadcasting Co. Inc. for noncommercial edu- St., Sterling, Kewanee and Pana, all III.: Fairfield. Iowa; ERP 6 kw, ant. 102.6 m., 12 km S of Yuma. cational FM at 95.1 mhz, ERP 3 kw. ant. 194 Manhattan, Salina and Independence, Kan.; Ksrc(AM) and KNNG(FM) Sterling, m. Nov. 20 Arnold owns Mount Sterling, Ky.; Many and Westdale, La.; Colo. Nov. 18 Muskegon, Mich.; Corinth, Duck Hill, Laurel, Granted Clewiston, Fla. (BPED- 961112MA) -Black Port Gibson and McComb, all Miss.; Cabool, Vincennes, Ind. (BPED-950627MC)- Ameri- Media Works Inc. (Kimberly Holman -Kassis, High Point, Kennett and St. Joseph, all Mo.; can Family Association for FM at 89.9 mhz, president, 1150 W. King St., Cocoa, FL Ahoskie and Fayetteville, N.C.; Shelby and ERP 1 kw, ant. 77 m., Nov. 6 32922) for FM at 88.5 mhz, ERP 3 kw, ant. 89 Steubenville. Ohio; Ada, Ardmore, Durant, Brownfield, Tex. (BPH-9605081A)- South- m., .8 km S of Hooker Point. Nov. 12 Stillwater and Weatherford, all Okla.; Reed - western Broadcasting Corp. for KLZL(FM) 104.3 sport, Ore.; Dillon, S.C.; Clarkesville, Hohen- Key Largo, Fla. (BPED- 961104MB) -Ocean mhz: upgrade to class C2, change ERP to 50 wald, Lake City and Shelbyville, all Tenn.; Reef Public Radio Inc. (David C. Martinie, kw, ant. to 142 m. Nov. 20 Del Rio, Fannett, Gatesville, Huntsville, Ker- president/33 1/3% owner, 100 Anchor Dr., rville, Mart, Nacogdoches, Victoria and Ingram, Tex. (BPED- 950817MA) -Texas Key Largo. FL 33037) for FM at 89.1 mhz, Odessa, all Tex.; Charles City, Va.; Cuba Public Radio for FM at 90.7 mhz, ERP 50 kw, ERP .100 kw, ant. 19 m., Ocean Reef Club, City, Wis., and Gillette, Wyo., and is selling ant. 97.3 m. Nov. 14 Ocean Reef, .1 mi. N of end of SH 905. Nov. 4 an FM in Mount Morris, III. Oct. 30 Rled/Accepted for filing Peachtree City, Ga. (BPED- 961104MD)- Saint Ansgar, Iowa (BPH- 961113MC) -Lyle Oraibi, Ariz. (BPH -9611 13MB)- Oraibi Community Public Radio Inc. (Penny Jack- Robert Evans (1750 Freedom Rd., Little Media Association (Terry G. Peters, 50% son, presidenV16.66 % owner, 321 Freeman Chute, WI 54140) for FM at 95.5 mhz, ERP 1 kw, ant. 8 m. Evans owns WEZR(FM) Brillion, BY THE NUMBERS 90% of WWRS -TV Mayville and 50% of WMBE(AM) Chilton, all Wis., is building FMs in BROADCAST STATIONS Service Total Stephenson, Mich., and Birnamwood, Wis., has applied for FMs in Kentland, Ind.; Mil - Service Total Commercial VHF TV 559 bridge, Me.: Crystal Falls and Hancock, Mich., New Holstein, Wis., and TV in Eagle Commercial AM 4,906 UHF TV 622 and Commercial River, Wis., and has 75% interest in applica- Commercial FM 5,285 Educational VHF TV 123 tion for TV in Ironwood, Mich., and White Sul- phur Springs, W.Va. Educational FM 1.810 Educational UHF TV 240 Ky. (BPH- 961028MC) -Ham Total Radio 12,001 Hopkinsville, Total TV 1,544 Broadcasting Co. Inc. (D.J. Everett, presi- VHF LPTV 561 dent /owner, 400 Hammond Plaza, Hop- CABLE kinsville, KY 42240) for FM at 97.5 mhz, ERP UHF LPTV 1,211 Total systems 11,660 6 kw, ant. 100 m., 1.75 mi. E of Hwy 41 -A, at Total LPTV 1,772 intersection of SRs 1027 and 756, 8 mi. from Total subscribers 62,231,730 Hopkinsville. Ham owns woks(Am) Hop- FM translators & boosters 2,453 WKDZ -AM -FM Ky. 28 Homes passed 91,750,000 kinsville and Cadiz, Oct. VHF translators 2,263 Hopkinsville, Ky. (BPH -961031 MD) -Ger- Cable penetration' 65.3% Hunt (P.O. Box 550, Savannah, TN UHF translators 2,562 ald W. Based on TV household universe of 95.9 million 38372) for FM at 93.7 mhz, ERP 4 kw, ant. 77 Sources: FCC. Nielsen. Paul Kagan Associates m., .65 km W of US 41A on CR 1613. Hunt Total Translators 7,278 GRAPHIC BY BROADCASTINO A CABLE owns WORM -AM -FM Savannah, woxl(AM)-wMxx-

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FM Jackson and Wxoo -FM Selmer, all Tenn. City. Utah and Neillsville and New Holstein, m., E of Hwy 201, 1.5 km S of Abbeville, Miss. Oct. 31 Wis., and Ns in Holbrook, Flagstaff and Sier- Flinn owns WFBI(TV) and wHeo(AM) Memphis Arcadia, La. (BPH-961031ME)-Charles and ra Vista, all Ariz.; El Dorado and Gosnell, Ark.; and WNWZ(AM) Germantown, Tenn.; KMzN(FM) Pattie Odom (1004 Elm St., Minden. LA Marianna, Fla.; Boise, Idaho; Ames and New- Marion and KDRE(FM) North Little Rock, Ark., 71055) for FM at 92.5 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. ton, Iowa; Hutchinson, Kan.: Albuquerque and and wcCL(Tv) New Orleans; 25% of CP for 100 m., .3 km SE of corner of SH9 and SH Roswell. N.M.; Arcade and Syracuse, N.Y.; KDEN(TV) Longmont, Colo., has applied for 517, SE of Bryceland, La. Oct. 31 Greenville, N.C.; Bismarck and Minot, N.D.; FMs in Tunica and Grenada, Miss.; Forest Milbridge, Me. (BPH- 961105MB) -Lyle Muskogee and Shawnee, Okla.: Pendleton, Acres, S.C.; Virginia Beach, Va., and Sun Val- Robert Evans (1750 Freedom Rd., Little Ore.; Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah; Virginia ley, Nev., and Ns in Kailua. Hawaii, and Nor- man, Okla., has interest in Chute, WI 54140) for FM at 93.7 mhz, ERP 50 Beach, Va.; Spokane and Walla Walla, 50% applications for TVs in Destin, Fla.; kw, ant. 150 m. For other interests, see item Wash.; Crandon, Wis.. and Jackson, Wyo. Spokane. Wash.; Provo, above. Nov. 5 Nov. 19 Utah; Arcade, N.Y.; Gosnell, Ark.; Min- den. La.; Greenville, N.C.; Newton and Des Milbridge, Me. (BPH- 961113MA)- Robert Faribault, Minn. (BPCT- 961118M6) -North Moines, Iowa, and interest in applications for Scott Hogg (1151 Grey Dr., American Broadcasting Co. (John C. Carsey, Bogart. GA TVs in Phoenix and Coolidge, Ariz.; Hot 30136) for FM at 93.7 mhz, ERP kw, president /70% owner, 1100 Guadelupe, 50 ant. Springs, Ark.; Senatobia, Miss.; Tulsa, Okla., 128 m., 1.7 km NE of Tunk Lake, Me., Hwy Austin, TX 78701) for FM at 107.5 mhz, ERP on and Santa Fe. N.M. Nov. 7 183. Nov. 13 50 kw, ant. 150 m., 1 mi. N of Warsaw, Minn. Applicant has applied for TVs on ch. 34, Eure- Senatobia, Miss. (BPET-960923KG)-Com- Goodland Twp., Mich. (SPED- 961114MB)- ka Springs, Ark.; ch. 24, Tallahassee, Fla.: ch. munity Television Educators (Marcus D. Superior Commurications (Edward Czelada. 50. Kailua, Hawaii; ch. 45, Houston, Miss.: ch. Lamb, president /25% owner, P.O. Box president, 601 Savidge St.. Reed City, MI 9, Walla Walla, Wash., and ch. 46, Norman, 612066, Dallas, TX 75261) for noncommercial 49677) for noncommercial educational FM at Okla. Carsey has applied for FMs in Sun Val- educational TV on ch. 34, ERP 5,000 kw visu- 88.1 mhz, ERP .50 kw, ant. 152 m.. 7244 ley, Nev.; Healdsburg, Calif., and Karnes City al, ant. 151 m., Nesbit & Bobbie Lee rds.. Nes- Thom Dr., Brown City, Mich. Nov. 14 and Winona, Tex. Nov. 18 bit, Miss. Directors of CTE own wMPx -Tv Muskegon, Mich. (BPED- 961023MF) -Holy Decatur. Tex. Sep. 23 Faribault, Minn. (BPH- 961115MK) -Bruce Trinity Church of God and Christ (Nathaniel H. Linder (P.O. Box 1045, Mankato. MN High Point, Mo. (BPED-961120MA)-Ameri- W. Wells Jr., president. P.O. Box 4497, 2140 56002 -1045) for FM at 107.5 mhz, ERP 32.5 can Family Association (Donald E. Wildmon. Valley, Muskegon, MI 49444) for noncom- president, P.O. kw, ant. 185 m.. 1 km N of Warsaw, Minn. Lin- Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS mercial educational FM at 88.1 mhz, ERP 1 der owns KARP(FM) KMHL(AM)- 38803) for noncommercial educational FM at kw, ant. 55 m.. 517 W. Giles Rd.. Muskegon. Glencoe. KKCK(FM) Marshall, KARL(FM) Tracy, 89.9 mhz, ERP 7 kw, ant. 115 m., 1 mi. S of Oct. 23 80% of KWOM(AM) Watertown, and parts of KTOE(AM) Winchey Branch Rd. For interests, see item Faribault, Minn. (BPH- 961104MA) -KFIL Mankato, KDOG(FM) North Mankato, KITN(FM) above. Nov. 20 Inc. (Michael S. Borgen, president /50% Worthington and KXAx(FM) and KxAc(FM) St. Osterville, Mo. (BPH- 961015M1) -J.R. owner, P.O. Box 370. Preston. MN for 55965) James. all Minn. Nov. 15 McClure (185 Commerce Ctr., Greenville, SC FM at 107.5 mhz. ERP 43.5 mhz, ERP 132.7 Faribault, Minn. (BPH- 961118MW) C. 29615) for FM at 107.7 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. m., .75 km E of CR 17 on 260th St. KFIL owns -Lynn Ketelsen (601 15th Ave. NE, Waseca, MN 100 m., 9 km NE of Otterville, Mo. McClure KFIL -AM -FM Preston, Minn., has applied for FM 56093) for FM at 107.5 mhz. ERP 50 kw, ant. owns radios in Augusta, Ga.. and Odessa. in St. Joseph and is buying radio in Spring Val- Tex.. and has for FM in 150 m., 5.3 km N of Warsaw. Ketelsen owns applied Forest Acres. ley. Minn. Nov. 4 S.C. Oct. 15 Kowz(FM) Blooming Prairie, Minn. Nov. 18 Faribault, Minn. (BPH -961115) -John R. Sun Valley, Nev. Rochester, Minn. (BPED- 961023ME) -St. (BPH- 960930ML) -Lotus Miller (3527 14th Pl., Kenosha, WI 53144) for Communications Corp. (Howard A. Kalmen- Olaf College (Mark U. Edwards Jr., presi- FM at 107.5 mhz, ERP 50 kw, ant. 64 m., .4 son, dent, 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN president/50% owner. 6290 Sunset mi. SE of intersection of Kanabec Ave. and Blvd., Ste. 1600, Los Angeles, CA 90028) for 55057) for noncommercial educational FM at 230th St. W, 2.2 mi. NW of Morristown, Minn. FM at 94.5 mhz, ERP 2.5 kw, ant. 575 m., 32 88.7 mhz, ERP .25 kw, ant. 162 m., 1.5 mi. N Nov. 15 km NE of Reno on mtn. peak 2 km W of Pond of Olmsted CR 119, 4 mi. NE of Rochester Faribault, Minn. (BPH- 9611 18)- LifeTalk Peak. Lotus owns KwIw(AM) Los Angeles, city limits. The college owns wcAL(FM) North- Broadcasting Association (Paul E. Moore. KGST(AM) Fresno, KLBN(FM) Auberry, Calif.; field, Minn. Oct. 23 president/12.5% owner, 402 W. Yakima KENO(AM), KORK(AM), KOMP(FM) and KXPT(FM) Miss. (BPH- Ave., Ste. 1320, Yakima, WA 98901) for Oxford, 961107MD)- Oxford Las Vegas, KHIT -FM, KOZZ-AM -FM and KDOT(FM) Inc. noncommercial educational FM at 107.5 Radio (David Kellum, president/50% Reno; KTKT(AM) and KLPx(FM) Tucson and mhz, ERP 30 kw, ant. 150 m. LifeTalk owns owner, P.O. Drawer 1077, Oxford, MS KFMA(FM) Green Valley, Ariz.; WTAO(AM) La %) for FM at 105.1 KsoH(FM) Wapato, Wash., has CP for FM in 3865 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. Grange and WTAU Zion. III., and Kzoc(AM) and 100 Tok, Alaska, is buying wJYL(FM) New Wash- m., 1400 ft. E of Hwy 7 on Cummins Rd. KZEP -FM San Antonio. Sep. 30 Nov. 7 ington, Ind.; KSVA(FM) Corrales. N.M., and Sun Valley, Nev. (BPH- 960930MZ) -Scott WJYC(FM) New Delhi, Ohio. and has applied Oxford, Miss. (BPH- 961105MC) -Darby Seidenstricker (c /o Leventhal, Senter & Ler- for FMs in Ellensburg and Nile, Wash., and Radio Enterprises (Tommy Darby, owner, man, 2000 K St.. NW, Ste. 600, Washington, Sebeka. Minn. Nov. 18 P.O. Box 1440, Batesville, MS 38606) for FM DC 20006 -1809) for FM at 94.5 mhz, ERP Faribault, Minn. (BPH-961115MB)-Fari- at 105.1 mhz, ERP 6 kw, ant. 100 m., W of SH 6.82 kw, ant. 259 m., KPLY(AM) site, 11.5 km bault Radio Partnership (Terrance W. Moore, 7. 7 mi. N of city limits of Oxford. Nov. 5 SE of Sun Valley. Sep. 30 25% owner, 6829 Oaklawn Ave., Edina. MN Oxford, Miss. (BPED- 961107MA)- Southern Washoe, Nev. (BPH- 960926MC) -Altus 55435) for FM at 107.5 mhz. ERP 38 kw. ant. Cultural Foundation (Richard W. Dabney. Educational Broadcasting Foundation 170 m., 1 km N of SR 60. Warsaw, Minn. 50% trustee, 101 McDade Circle, Toney, AL (Michael D. Masterson, CEO, P.O. Box 837, Nov. 15 35773) for noncommercial educational FM at Altus, OK 73522) for FM at 94.5 mhz, ERP Faribault, Minn. (961119MU) -KM Commu- 105.1 mhz. ERP 6 kw, ant. 82 m., 8.9 km 1.30 kw, ant. 797.8 m., on Pond Mtn. communications Inc. (Myoung Hwa Bae, president/ NNW of Oxford. The foundation has applied nications facility, 24 km NE of Sun Valley. Nev. owner, 3654 West Jarvis Ave., Skokie, IL for FMs in Burnsville and Pontonoc. Miss., and Altus owns KKVO(FM) Altus, Okla. Sep. 26 60076) for FM at 107.5 mhz, ERP 19.7 mhz, Minor Hill, Tenn. Dabney has interest in appli- Westerly, R.I. (BPED- 961106MA) -Rhode for FM in ant. 241 m., 5 km from intersection of SRs 99 cation Flint City, Ala.. and is buying Island Radio Inc. (Chris Di Paola president. 4 and 21. KM has CPs for TV on ch. 20, Iowa wKNi(AM) Lexington, Ala. Nov. 7 Canal St.. Westerly, RI 02891) for noncom- City, and for FM in Pearson. Ga., has applied Oxford, Miss. (BPH- 961107ME) -George S. mercial educational FM at 88.1 mhz, ERP for FMs in Viola and St. John's, Ariz.: Merced, Flinn Jr. (188 South Bellevue, Ste. 222, Mem- .100 kw, ant. 20 m., 20 Dunn's Corners Rd., Calif.; Atlanta and Breese, Ill.; Parkersburg, phis, TN 38104) for noncommercial educa- .45 km N of intersection with US Rte. 1. 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S1 licon Graphics Inc.'s Isaac Babbs Drawn by the chance to focus on the enter- was a happy man on election night tainment industry, he took a job with Alias. '96, when SGI's Onyx supercomput- "Post- production was the first real market ers provided the processing power for vir- for Alias," says Babbs. "We were definitely tual sets on CBS and ABC and real -time focused on the film industry, but it was a lit- graphics on NBC. tle too soon for them...on the TV and post "We got some great exposure to how the side, the commercial market was always technology works," says Babbs, vice pres- fascinated with the graphics, and how we ident of entertainment marketing for SGI. could create better commercials. The whole "Ideally, that will go downstream and affil- station ID and logo market was also very, iates can decide what works best for them very strong. There was a lot of interest in the to get the look and feel they need to corn - 3 -D graphics side on both the Wavefront pete in their local markets." side and at Alias Research -that's what But while election night gave SGI a lot really drove these two companies." of coverage in the mainstream press, the Alias always used SGI computers to pro- Mountain View, Calif. based company's vide the processing power for its software technology has been driving 3 -D anima- programs, and Babbs says that a big reason tion and high -end graphics for more than a for SGI's success was that it made sure to decade. Babbs, who worked for software partner with the hot applications. As the soft- developer Alias Research before it merged "Suddenly we were ware started to become more user- friendly with competitor Wavefront Animation in and SG1's computers started to grow more 1995 and became a subsidiary of SGI, has trying to figure out powerful and cost less, the company began seen that progression from both the hard- how we could use to enter the entertainment mainstream. ware and the software sides. "That whole parallel development - Babbs grew up in Eugene, Ore., and this technology to between SOI working with [its] software went to the University of Oregon. He grad- partners and SGI evolving [its] technolo- uated in 1983 with a degree in chemistry, solve entertain- gy- really put SGI into the broadcast with a special emphasis on microelectron- industry and post- production area." says ics and computer science. "I got heavily ment problems." Babbs. "It became a viable product to cre- involved from the chemistry side in how to ate IDs, logos and content." put technology or computational power After the Alias/Wavefront /SGI merger into the analytical process," he says. closed in June 1995, Babbs took over the After graduation, Babbs moved to Isaac Henry field operations of the new Alias/Wave- Southern California to look for a job. "The front subsidiary. In June of this year, SGI whole computer industry was going strong Babbs recruited him to handle marketing for its with workstations and the technical com- entertainment division, which accounts for puter market, mainframes were still domi- Vice president of roughly $400 million of SGI's $2.9 billion nating the data processing world, and the entertainment marketing, in revenue. IBM PC was just coming out," he says. "It Silicon Graphics Inc., Los "The goal I was given was to facilitate looked like a field that was flourishing." Angeles; b. July 27, 1961, the accelerated growth of SGI in the enter- Babbs started at Hewlett- Packard in fall Laguna Beach, Calif.; BS, tainment space, which can be defined as 1983 as a sales representative for the com- chemistry, University of film and video production, broadcasting, pany's technical computers, workstations Oregon, Eugene, 1983; field and interactive authoring," says Babbs. and software. He gravitated toward the sales, Hewlett- Packard, 1983- "One of the areas we're focusing on is graphical applications for the HP 88, Los Angeles, 1988-95; broadcast and television production and machines, including some entertainment territory manager, Alias post -production -what kind of solutions accounts that were starting to use the tech- Research, Los Angeles; area can we put together that can help them nology, like Walt Disney Feature Anima- manager, Alias/Wavefront, Los solve their problems ?" Babbs said. tion and Wavefront Technologies. Angeles, 1995 -96; current "We're working closely with our part- "Suddenly, we were trying to figure out position since June 1996; m. ners to find the right solutions to go with Tose; children: Morgan, 3; how we could use this technology to solve Jodi our hardware, and we're also writing the Dylan, 1. entertainment problems," says Babbs, who appropriate middleware to combine our has been based in Los Angeles throughout solution partner providers and our hard- his career. "And at the time, that industr ware so that the end -user has an end -to- had no automation with 3 -D graphics." end solution," says Babbs. "The end -user Babbs took a closer look at animation in the television industry wants solu- software pioneers such as Wavefront, Able tions -they don't want boxes -and we Image Research and Alias Research. understand that." -GD

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Patrick Paolini Jr., local sales manager, Mark Antonitis, VP /news director. BROADCAST TV WRGB(TV) Schenectady /Albany, N.Y., R'xtAQ -TV Chicago, joins KELO -TV Appointments at KFOR -TV Oklahoma joins WTNH -TV New Haven, Conn., as Sioux Falls and KCLO -TV Rapid City, City: Timothy Morrissey, president/GM, national sales manager. both South Dakota, as VP /GM. KFSnt - Iy Fort Smith. Ark., joins in Appointments at Appointments at WLEX-TV Lexington, same capacity: Thomas Heston, general KRON -TV San Ky.: Marilyn Clark, station manager. sales manager, named VP /general sales Francisco: Daniel named \ P /station manager; Mary manager. Rosenheim, man- Broberg, general sales manager, named Nicole McGregor and Dave Erickson, gen- aging editor, San VP/GSM; Sandra Byron, business man- eral assignment reporters, KNDV(TV) Francisco Chron- ager, named VP, business and finance. Richland, Wash., named co- hosts, AM icle, joins as news Lire. director: Jan Blair, acting managing PROGRAMING Dave Ettl, co- anchor, KNno(TV) Yakima, Wash., named news director. editor, named Appointments at The Producers Enter- managing editor; tainment Group reality programing Mark Culbertson, program director, Rosenheim James Esser, assis- unit. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Cindy Frei, KDNL -Ty St. Louis, joins WYZZ -TV tant news director, named director, producer /director, joins as director; Kitt Bloomington, Ill., as director, opera- community relations and legal affairs; tions. Eftekhar, agent trainee, United Talent Janette Mier, director, local programing Agency, joins as creative executive. Appointments at and community relations, named direc- William Allmendinger, Western The MCA Televi- tor, local programing and program division manager. Tribune Entertainment station sion Group, Uni - development; Lisa White, managing edi- sales, Los Angeles, named versal City, Calif.: tor, named assistant news director. director, Midwestern region. Iris GA, director, Felicia Minei Behr, executive producer, Appointments at external commu- All My Children, joins As the World MGM Domestic nications, MCA Turns, Procter & Gamble, New York, Television Distri- Inc., named exec- in same capacity. utive director; bution: Dea Shan - Cathy Tatom, producer, KTUL(Tv) Tulsa, Melissa Leffler, dera, VP, creative Okla., KJRH(TV) there production con- joins as investiga- services, The Dis- tive reporter. troller, named ney Channel, VP. television production accounting; Kathy Williams, news director, wlw -Tv joins Santa Moni- Patrick Dorsey and Glen Svalstedt, man- Cleveland, joins WKYC -TV there in ca, Calif., office, agers, television participation, named carne capacity. as senior VP, directors: Janice Etzkorn, accounting dis- advertising and tribution director. named manager, tele- Appointments at NBC: promotions; vision Stephen Hodder, manager, Central divi- participations. Linda DeKoven, senior sion, named VP, Chicago. Noreen Harris, administrator, NBC talent VP. miniseries and relations. New York. named manager. motion pictures for Dan Berman, news producer, wsvx(Tv) television, NBC Columbus, Ohio, joins Regional News Victoria Regan, VP/GM, WBNG -TV Bing- Entertainment. Los Network, Piscataway, N.J., as news- hamton, N.Y., joins WDTN(TV) Dayton, Angeles. named exec- room chief. Ohio. as GM. utive VP and adds David Bloomfield, VP, business and legal Julio Marenghi, sales account executive, DeKo ven long -form program- affairs. Spelling Films Inc., Los Ange- WNBC(TV) New York, named national ing, NBC Studios, to les. named senior VP. sales manager. her responsibilities; Rosalyn Weinman, Catherine Bacquelin, director, brand man- David Yeanvood, president/CEO, Van- senior VP, broadcast agement and synergy, The Walt Disney tage Personnel Services, New Orleans, standards and prac- Co.. Paris, named VP, strategic market- joins WDRB -TV Louisville, Ky., and tices, named execu- ing and synergy. wFTE(Tv) Salem, Ind., as station man- tive VP, broadcast Amy Lovett, senior producer, TBS's ager. standards and content Weinman Feed Your Mind!, Atlanta, named Jason Bafl, producer, WREG -TV Mem- policy, NBC, New director, standards and practices, Turn- phis, joins WPLG(TV) Miami in same York: Laity Hancock, er Entertainment Group, there. capacity. director, creative services and marketing. Appointments at Spanish Broadcasting Matt Campbell, producer, WREG -TV MCA/ Universal Pic - System's KI.AX- TV /KXMG(TV) Los Memphis, joins wvry -Tv there in same tures, joins as director Angeles: Carroll Larkin, GM, named capacity. prime time series pro-' director. national sales: Steven Bunny Angus, business manager, New grams, NBC Studios, Humphries assumes additional duties as Vision Television, Atlanta, named VP, Los Angeles. GM: Eduardo Cancela, local sales man- operations. ager. KVEA(TV) Corona, Calif., joins as

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www.americanradiohistory.com GSM; Alejandra Santamaria, research director, KMEX-TV Los Angeles, joins in Appointments at Discovery Communications Inc., Bethesda, Md.: same capacity. Eric Eggleton, VP /line Edutain- Appointments at Fox Broadcasting Co.. executive, Kids entertainment division, Los Angeles ment Product Line, Dis- covery Channel Multime- and New York: Jeff Eckerle promoted to dia, named VP, Discov- VP, current programing, drama series: ery Kids; Mitch Prayer, Mark Ganshirt, packaging agent, [CM. Eggleton Praver Lonergan Kerrigan director, new media dis- joins as VP, current programing. come- tribution, Discovery Net- dy shows; Barbara Wall, consultant, works, named VP; Chns USA Networks. joins as director, cur- Lonergan, director, North- rent programing: Sheryl Wachtel, direc- ern region, affiliate sales tor, current programing, named direc- and marketing, Discov- tor, comedy development: Kelly Edwards, ery Networks, named director, comedy development, named VP; Cathleen Pratt- Kerrig- Nellums Deeemnra Rodriguez Recka executive director. an, advertising director, Discovery Channel Latin America -Iberia, named VP, advertising sales; Mike Vel- lums, director, on -air promotion, The Learning Channel, named director, creative services, Animal Planet; Carrie Passmore, VP, administration, named VP, corporate synergy: Rick Rodriguez, director, programing, Discovery Channel Latin Amer- ica- Iberia, Miami, named VP, and adds Discovery Kids Channel Latin America to his responsibilities; Rex Recka, director, international programing, Discovery Channel networks, named VP, Discovery Networks International.

office as sales manager: Andy Schuon, joins Time Warner Cable of Maine executive VP, programing, MTV: there as GM, Road Runner Division Music Television, joins the company's (high -speed broadband Internet ser- Bemheimer Crum hoard of directors. vice). Appointments at CNN Newsource: Adele Eglin, account executive, D &R Appointments at E! Entertainment Mark Bemheimer, free -lance reporter, Radio, Philadelphia, named VP, sales. Television, Los Angeles: Nicole Uzel, KCAL(TV) Los Angeles, joins as West executive, named regional Len Emig, classical division manager, account correspondent, Los Angeles Coast Allied Radio Partners, joins Group W manager, Midcentral region, affiliate bureau: Paul Corm, live coordinator, Tid as director, Radio Sales, Atlanta, as director, sales. relations; Aylward joins named national coordinating producer, talent. Tom Connolly, GM, wKts(FM) Atlanta, Atlanta. Tan, sales named VP /Atlanta market manager, Mary Jacor Communications' stations there. representative, RADIO Voss Walch & Julie Avery Gikhriest, director, retail Co., financial Matt Bubala, exec- development, American Radio Sys - utive producer, advisers, joins tems' WCMF(AM) /WRMM- FM/WNVE(FM) Kaleidoscope The Peter Tilden Rochester, N.Y., joins Revenue Devel- Television, San Show, KMPC(AM) as vendor/ opment Systems, Boston, Antonio, Tex., as Los Angeles, new business consultant. manager, new joins WKQI(FM) business develop- Detroit as execu- CABLE ment. tive producer, the Tarr Danny Bonaduce Appointments at Century Communica- Appointments at Show and the Q- tions Corp., New Canaan, Conn.: Mary Comedy Central, New York: Vincent Crew Morning Bien Lachowicz, litigation associate, Sainato, design director. named director, Bubale Show. Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander& Fer - creative services; Mark Materowsid, operations and planning, Appointments at Clear Channel Radio don law firm, New York, joins as director, joins as director, program Sales (an Interep company), New York: senior attorney; Joseph Jerome, lawyer, Nickelodeon. assistant VP, Bill Sickles, director, sales, named GSM; Viacom Inc., joins in sanie capacity. planning; Molly Garner, joins as director, human Brad Guagnini, director, sales. Group W Appointments at USA Networks: Rafael Citibank, resources; Larry Ueberman joins as VP, Radio Sales. Atlanta. joins as VP/ Pastor, executive VP /managing direc- new business development and inter- regional manager; Lindsay Berry, tor, USA Networks International. New active. account executive. named AM sales York, named president: Diane Johnston, manager; Michele Massaro, account manager, Detroit Advertising Sales, Appointments at The Golf Channel, executive, named director, sales. Detroit, named VP: Erik Fidel, consul- Orlando, Fla.: Peter Gordon, head, pro- named senior director; Steve Appointments at Premiere Radio Net- tant. Datamonitor, joins as manager. graming, Johnston, designer, named senior cre- works Inc., Los Angeles: Dan Ciccone, international research. senior account executive, Westwood Richard Preti, account manager, Memo- ative director. One Entertainment, joins the Detroit rex "telex Corporations, Portland. Me., Helen Schneider, senior account execu-

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www.americanradiohistory.com tive, National Cable Communications, Internet products and applications; Eric Detroit, named sales manager. The Freedom Forum, headquar- Gold, free -lance editor /associate producer, as Appointments at Showtime Networks tered in Arlington, Va.. announced joins associate producer; Michele Sales and Marketing, New York: Dick five executive promotions and Miller, free -lance producer, joins as production office coordinator. Maul, VP, affiliate marketing, named changes effective June 1, 1997. senior VP /GM, Northeast region; Patri- Charles Overby, president /CEO R.T. Rybak, publisher, Twin Cities Read- cia Jones, manager, field marketing, since 1989, has been named er, joins Internet Broadcasting System, named director, affiliate and sales com- chairman /CEO; Peter Prichard, Minneapolis, as VP /publisher, Channel munication. senior VP and executive director 4000. Richard Guha, co- founder, MSPI Ber - of The Newseum, named presi- Appointments at ABC Interactive, New genroth, joins Continental Cablevision dent. Relinquishing senior titles York: Nancy Lamb, VP, marketing and Inc., Boston, as senior VP, marketing. will be Chairman Allen Neuharth; creative sery ices, GT Interactive Soft- deputy chairman Zack Van Amburg, producer, America John Quinn. ware. joins as director, marketing; and chairman of the First Amend- After Hours wide Mike Jerrick, CNBC, Bernard Yee, author and analyst, joins as ment Center. John joins the Game Show Network, Culver Siegenthaler. director, product development. City, Calif., as director, development. Matt Gresca, director, technology, Edu- Appointments at Heather O'Mara, VP, sales and distribu- tainment & Multimedia group, Disney Fox Sports Net, tion, Jones Digital Century Inc., Engle- Interactive, Burbank, Calif., named VP, Los Angeles: wood, Colo., named executive VP, technology and software. Arthur Smith, Jones Digital Century and Jones Inter- Appointments at Prodigy Inc., White senior VP, first - net Channel. Plains, N.Y.: Paul Tucker, CEO, Mehta run and network Corp.. joins as senior VP/GM, interna- reality program- ADVERTISING /MARKETING tional: Inder Gopal, director, networking ing, MCA TV, PUBLIC RELATIONS and Internet research, T.J. Watson joins as executive Research Center, joins as senior VP/ VP, programing Gary Bells, consul- chief technology officer. and production; tant, Business Smith Pyper Davis, senior Week, joins the DEATHS VP, Office of the Chairman, named Television Bureau senior VP, operations. of Advertising, Arthur Stambler, 73, lawyer, died of cancer Nov. 28 in Providence, R.I. In Ingrid Gold, GM, TCI Cablevision of New York, as VP, the late '40s Stambler worked South Central Connecticut, joins marketing com- at the FCC. For the next 30 years he alter- SNET, New Haven, Conn., as manager. munications. nated between the commission and public affairs. David Woodson, private practice. In senior VP, global the '70s he formed his own communications Bells marketingmedia law MULTIMEDIA from which he measurement, firm, retired in 1987. Stambler is survived by his wife, David Haf, senior A.C. Nielsen Co., joins Turner Broad- Phyllis; seven children; 14 grandchil- VP, cable net- cast Sales Inc., New York, as VP, inter- dren, and a brother. ,;.4 works, Gaylord national global research. k Entertainment Kevin Barry, director, local advertising Maurice B. Mitchell, 81, educator and Co., Nashville, sales. Discovery Networks, Bethesda, communications executive, died named president, Md., joins Cabletelevision Advertising Nov. 30 in Santa Barbara, Calif. In Gaylord Commu- Bureau, New York, as VP, local sales 1945 Mitchell became interested in nications Group. and marketing. radio and joined CBS's wTOP(AM) Hall replaces Washington as sales manager and Patrick Pitcher, president/CEO, Saatchi Tom Griscom, then became general manager. He & Saatchi. Canada, named CEO, Asia Hall who is retiring. later joined the National Association agency. Pitcher also becomes a mem- of Broadcasters, where he estab- Appointments at A. H. Belo Corp., ber of Worldwide Executive Board. Dallas: Michael Grant, president/GM, lished the Broadcast Advertising Appointments at Clemensen Sheehan Belo Productions Inc., named VP, Bureau to improve radio sales skills. Rovitto & Co., San Antonio, Tex.: Mike cable news operations, broadcast divi- After a stint as an NBC vice presi- Stanford, creative services director, sion; Matt Chan, director, development, dent, Mitchell was hired by William KMOL -TV San Antonio, joins as VP, Belo Productions Inc., named presi- Benton of Benton & Bowles ad recruiting; Tony BaNew, news director, dent/GM. agency to manage his Muzak Corp. WKYC -TV Cleveland, joins as VP, news. Mitchell went on to educational film Appointments at Metro Networks: John production while working for Ency- Frawley, regional director, operations, clopedia Britannica. He is survived Mid- Atlantic region, TELEMEDIA Boston office, by his wife, Linda; three children, VP, named broadcast operations; Dave Appointments at Broadway Interactive and three grandchildren. Vanderslice, regional director, opera- Group (BIG). New York: Geoffrey tions, New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo Brookins joins as technical director, -Compiled by Denise Smith and Rochester, named VP, aviation. e -mail: d.smith @b &c.cahners.com

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www.americanradiohistory.com The proposed $3 billion merger of Hughes Com- nets more NBA games munications and SportsZone PanAmSat Corp. has Driving to establish its games on the Internet, the NBA last week began to put virtu- passed the Department ally all of its contests on ESPNet SportsZone (www.espnet.sportZone.com). of Justice's antitrust ESPN carries live audio coverage of as many as eight NBA games per night on its afterward, enabling lis- review. The deal. which Website. The audio of each game also is available on the site or will create an international teners to hear either highlights the entire game. -plus PC users who sub- satellite capacity giant with The vast majority of games will be available to the 50,000 site for $4.95 per month. One NBA contest was 14 existing birds, still awaits scribe to ESPN's premium content nightly last Fans need to have Microsoft's Internet Explorer FCC approval. Hughes is usually available season. with RealAudio access to hear the games. looking to create two com- or Netscape's Navigator browser equipped in with Major League Baseball about carrying more games in panies out of the merger: (ESPN also is talks its next It for some teams last year.) PanAmSat Corp., which will live audio on site season. carried games An league hopes the arrangement will help it become a larg- continue to transmit TV sig- NBA source says the in international market, where its fan base continues to grow. And nals for broadcasters and er presence the ESPN, which wants to incorporate more multimedia on its site, hopes eventually to cable networks, and a sep- NBA video content. -RT arate Hughes division that add will focus on point -to -point multimedia applications channels or, alternatively, AT &T spin -off Lucent Tech- ber and last week's unravel- using new satellite technol- not deliver the channels nologies. has developed ing of a $350 million deal ogy such as Ka -band trans- between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. a new technology to involving SFX, EZ Commu- insert information into nications Inc. and Ever- mission. The Supreme Court will video signals, allowing green Media Corp. (see Cable operators last Fri- review the 1996 and programers page 54). Also troublesome day won continued Telecommunications advertisers to send along promotional is how SFX will pay for relief from new scram- Act's ban on Internet information to viewers. The Secret Communications bling rules when a court last indecency. Tie Bell Labs LP's nine radio stations Delaware court decided to system, called Friday said it will examine (B &C, Oct. 21). The $300 leave the rules on hold until MediaLink, encodes a the law, which bars the million deal was to be the Supreme Court has a small amount of data, "knowing" distribution to viewer, financed with equity and look at them. Playboy imperceptible to the minors of indecent material debt, but now there's "no Entertainment Group and into the active video signal over the Internet. Earlier way" SFX would make a Graff Pay- Per -View have (not the vertical blanking this year, a three -judge stock offering, the source challenged the rules requir- interval). The data is panel in Philadelphia barred says. ing operators to scramble received by an inexpensive from the audio and video of sex- the law taking effect. decoder that connects to FCC Commissioner ually explicit programing Bell Labs, the R &D arm of the TV set, which then Rachelle Chong last sends an RF signal to a week said the FCC screen phone or other dis- should leave oversight Bliss out at United Video play device linked to the of hard liquor advertis- viewer's telephone. Lucent United Video Satellite Group Inc. (UVSG) President ing to the FTC and Con- will be demonstrating Medi- Roy Bliss has resigned, effective immediately. Indus- gress. In a three -page aLink at the Western Cable try sources wonder if Bliss's departure came of his statement, Chong cited the Show this week. own accord, however, or whether his public criticism FTC's investigation and of TCI's move to drop UVSG- distributed superstation The stock price of SFX also speculated that an FCC rule WGN-TV Chicago forced the resignation. TCI owns Broadcasting Inc. con- differentiating 40% of UVSG, the result of a $250 million stock swap tinued its steady between hard liquor ads in September. Upon hearing of TCI's decision to drop decline last week. falling and beer and wine spots WGN -TV from its cable systems, Bliss blasted TCI: Friday to a 52 -week low of "could be seen as arbitrary "This is obviously a decision made by corporate exec- $24.75. That's a particularly and capricious to a review- utives that are out of touch with local markets." When painful drop considering ing court." Chong also asked if such comments might get him in trouble, that SFX hit a 52 -week high voiced support of a propos- Bliss replied: "It might. TCI is a big company with lots of $48.25 on Oct. 15. less al to air counter ads on the of tentacles. And nobody is as cavalier with its cus- than two months earlier. health and safety risks of tomers as TCI." "There's nothing wrong with excessive drinking. Peter Boylan, UVSG chief financial officer, will [the company]," an SFX Senate Republican and become COO, and David Beddow, senior vice presi- source says. Officials blame Democratic leadership dent of TCI Technology, will assume Bliss's title as the stock's nosedive on a made committee assign- president. UVSG Chairman Lawrence Flinn Jr. will post- variety of factors, including ments last week for the pone his scheduled retirement until next year. -1M the general decline in radio 105th Congress. The only stocks that began in Octo- new face on the Commerce

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www.americanradiohistory.com Committee will be Sam Brownback (R- Kan.), a Clear Channel gets Memphis, Providence freshman. On the Judiciary Clear Channel Communications Inc. last Tuesday closed on Radio Equity Partners Committee, Senator Patrick LP's radio stations in Memphis and Providence, R.I. The purchase, announced in May, Leahy (D -Vt.) moves into had been awaiting FCC waivers of the one -to -a- market rule. The waivers came the ranking position, and through on Nov. 27 (for Providence) and last Wednesday (for Memphis). They give Joseph Biden (D -Del.) gets Clear Channel permission to own one TV station and seven radio stations in Memphis the ranking slot on Foreign and to continue an LMA with another TV there. In Providence, Clear Channel got the Relations. Joining the Judi- OK to own a TV, have an LMA with another TV and own two radios. However, the ciary Committee are John waivers are temporary: The FCC made them subject to the outcome of rulemakings on Ashcroft (R -Mo.). freshman its attribution and TV ownership rules. While LMA'd stations are not counted as owned Jeff Sessions (R- Ala.), stations now, the FCC is considering making such interests attributable. Richard Durbin (D- III.), and The FCC says radio revenue share is not an issue in Memphis, where Clear Chan- Robert Torricelli (D- N.J.). nel will control 40.4 %. The Justice Department, however, may see it another way. Jus- Senator John McCain (R- tice is scrutinizing a case in which one company controls less than 40% of a market's Ariz.), who will chair the radio revenue. In Providence, Clear Channel will control 18.2% -EAR Senate Commerce Com- mittee. has hired Lauren reportedly for treatment of any time responding to trimulcast of its two new "Pete" Belvin as the com- alcohol abuse. Bob Wright, the departure of two acquisitions and its flagship mittee's senior telecommu- NBC president, praised affiliates. According to WRGX(FM) Hawthorne, N.Y. nications counsel. Belvin is Ohlmeyer's decision. "Don spokesman Brad Turell. WRGX and wzvu changed currently senior legal advis- is an invaluable leader," he wDRG(rv) Roanoke, Va., format last week, from alter- er to FCC Commissioner said, "and we all hold him in and WBNU(rv) Charleston, native rock and oldies, James Quello. Heading the the highest regard." S.C. were slated to be respectively. WWHB, which staff on the committee will Ohlmeyer is expected to dropped as affiliates, and has for years simulcast the be two aides now serving stay at the center for a plans are in the works to album rock wNEw(FM) New on the senator's personal month. make up for the loss York. will flip to country later staff: Mark Buse and John through affiliate upgrade this week. Each of the sta- Raidt. Buse will be in Fox reportedly has and local cable (WeB) dis- tion's frequency is 107.1, charge of the policy side of tapped Aaron Spelling tribution. and Odyssey is expected to the committee, while Raidt to produce another change the call letters of will be in charge of adminis- prime time soap, tenta- Less than two weeks each to include a "Y" so that tration. tively dubbed Brentwood. after announcing plans go No official word from the to purchase wzvu(Fr1i) the trio can by the col- NBC will debut The lective "Y -107" tag. network, but a source close Long Branch, N.J., and Naked Truth, starring Tea to Fox said the pilot is now wwHB(FM) Hampton Bays. Infinity Broadcasting's syn- Leoni, on Jan. 16 in the being cast for the drama, N.Y.. Odyssey Communi- dicated Don Imes has coveted 9:30 -10 p.m. ham- about an Illinois architect cations has formed a signed a new seven -year mock, replacing the sea- and his wife who make "new country" format contract with Infinity. son's freshman hit, Sud- a new home in Los Angeles. denly Susan. The Brooke Fox Shields comedy will be tem- already has Spelling to porarily off the prime time thank for Beverly Hills, Place. schedule starling Jan. 9, 90210 and Melrose resuming Feb. 27 in The Motorola Inc. is making Single Guy timeslot at 8:30- its cable modem proto- 9 p.m. The network said col available to other Single Guy will return to the vendors on a free cross - schedule at a later date. licensing basis. The royalty- NBC disclosed last week free licensing is intended to that Don Ohlmeyer, presi- enable development of dent, NBC West Coast, vol- hardware and software untarily admitted himself to compatible with Motorola's modems. Drays tir Neumg ss s,... ('h bu h> 1,1,1 Schmidt the Betty Ford Center in ..Here's trouhle -the Justice Department says we're limited to 40eá of Rancho Mirage, Calif., The WB is not wasting the ruai) revente in our markets

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The answers to those questions will have much to do A tide in the affairs with shaping the communications landscape of the 21st of cable century. We're betting cable will still be in the picture. The cable industry faces unprecedented opportunities and Force feeding challenges as it prepares to assemble for the Western Cable Show in Anaheim this week. The FTC's quid pro quo for approving the Turner/Time On the opportunity side is the promise of digital delivery Warner merger includes forcing Time Warner cable sys- and high -speed modems. If 1997 is the year that promise is tems to carry a news channel to compete with Turner's finally realized, cable could be in the catbird seat, offering CNN. C- SPAN's Brian Lamb, in a letter to the FTC two a combination of Internet, video and voice at a packaged weeks ago, calls it a "breathtakingly wrongheaded intrusion price. If not, of course, it could be difficult to convince of government," adding that, "[b]oiled down to its essence, Wall Street to keep putting up the green for another year of you have the government commanding a speaker to engage blue sky, particularly when that blue sky currently is home in a particular form of speech." to a surprisingly strong competitor. Boiled down to its essence, that is exactly what the FCC The major challenge, of course, comes from that competi- is doing with its children's TV ruling and what Congress is tion for the future, represented most immediately by the DBS doing through the V -chip. industry. Or as Amos Hostetter put it to BROADCASTING & The FTC's action poses not only First Amendment prob- CABLE (see page 86): "Any cable operator who's out there lems but competitive ones for C -SPAN. While competing answering his phones today knows that this is not next year's news channels aren't putting up a big stink over a ruling problem, or a casual intrusion. It is a big -time, heavily pro- that forces cable operators to carry them, the FTC decision moted and advertised direct frontal assault on the multichan- poses a threat not only to cable's editorial independence but nel video market." Although Hostetter answered one phone- to the survival of commercial -free services like C -SPAN, the merger call of US West -that should help strengthen his which is already feeling cable channel squeeze. hand in the current high -stakes game. Not to be forgotten in As Lamb points out, a federal judge in New York last the rush to meet the DBS onslaught, however, is the potential month would not allow the City of New York to force a competition to cable from computer companies or telcos- Time Warner cable system to carry the Fox News Channel Tele -TV's troubles notwithstanding -or traditional broad- on its public access channel, saying that the city's action casters or, perhaps, the purveyors of some technology yet would violate the cable operator's First Amendment right undreamed of in our philosophy. to make its own programing decisions. The FTC appears to The immediate questions for cable in the face of that be going down the same road. competitive future are, says Hostetter: "Can we withstand "The law of the First Amendment is complicated enough the competitive offering of the various DBS distributors? without the FTC drawing government-sanctioned lines And can we re-establish the financial markets -and do both around the practice of journalism in order to tell us who is and in order to have the capital to complete the build -out that who is not entitled to the full benefit of constitutionally guar- we all want to do." anteed rights." said Lamb. Copies to Congress and the FCC.

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