Broadcasting :Aug 19 Reaching over 117,000 readers every week 60th Year 1991 TELEVISION / 34 RADIO / 27 BUSINESS / 41 JOURNALISM / 50 P.O.V. yanks film on Consumer electronics ABC -TV affiliates protest TV stations show little Catholic Church; making manufacturers ready to network's plan to cut interest in experimental the most of more news roll out AMAX `super radio' compensation coverage offederal courts The Right Image. Right Now. From AP GraphicsBank. (.'T G2-, î°0!' Television's Most Reliable Resource. Ap 1- 800 -821 -4747 # * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** ALL FOR SDC #010487L43 4P JUN92 8R332 AIIONA STATE U MAXWELL LIBRARY 177 WINONA MN 55987 I Broadcasting :.Aug 1 THIS WEEK 19 / INDUSTRY dramatically improve the REVENUES quality of AM sound. Enhanced features like a Lower station prices are minimum frequency the chief contributors to a response of 6.5 khz for car one -third drop in receivers and 7.5 khz for broadcasting industry home, automatic bandwidth valuations compared with control and AM noise several years ago. Current blanking should, broadcasters figures put industry hope, give the medium a valuation net of debt at $29.5 competitive chance against billion. On the cable side, FM. The unveiling is the cash flow valuation of scheduled for the Radio '91 systems, with debt convention next month, subtracted, is pegged at $44 With less than and 1,100 stations have told a year until the billion; network valuation 1992 Olympics, NBC the NAB they will air is estimated at $8 billion. Is still looking for space promotional spots in a year- Telcos have gained: for its PPV coverage (page 21). long campaign. estimates of net asset value, Channel turned down offers watch list: CPT's Ruckus based on cash flow for their space, leaving comedy game show. 34 / FULL STOP TO multiples, range from $275 NBC with just partial use of 'STOP THE CHURCH' billion to $330 billion. Request TV and Viewer's 25 / FULL FUNDING Choice, plus space it can Stop the Church, a 23- 20 / NO RELIEF FOR plumb from combining its REQUESTED FOR FCC minute documentary on a own CNBC and American gay -rights protest aimed at SCATTER MARKET House Energy and the Catholic Church, has Movie Classics into one Commerce Committee are for fourth - channel. lack been pulled from the PBS Projections The of a Chairman John Dingell market ad national P.0 .V. series because of quarter scatter channel solution, has asked the Appropriations prices to repeat last year's leaving individual systems to what the network called Committee to make full poor performance, when find their own ways, the "inappropriateness of funding for the FCC a were off 20% -40%. would it ridiculing individuals and sales make tough for the priority in the upcoming buyers who passed PPV plan its groups." Coming on the Sales to to reach House-Senate conference. heels Tongues on upfront bargains, household goal of 40 million. The House authorization of the for better deals in the Untied uproar, which ensued hoping bill includes $133 million for fall, could give the market after PBS's airing of that 22 SCHEDULES FOR the commission, who / documentary a boost. Syndicators, compared with $126.2 on black had disappointing upfront TOP 3 MARKETS homosexuals, producers million expected to come sales, will be participating in and program suppliers see a BROADCASTING has out of the Senate. Yet to be the scatter market for the tense, timid time assembled schedules for fall worked out is user-fee first in recent history, descending on the network. time syndicated programing in funding: the House bill would and may face tough PBS, however, maintains New York, Los Angeles and pull $65 million of its total competition from the the decision was made after Chicago, and the show to from fees on licensees; in the an internal review and not networks. watch, say station, agency Senate, Commerce in response to outside forces. and programing Committee Chairman Ernest 21 / HURDLES FOR executives, is Columbia Hollings is on record TRIPLECAST OLYMPICS Pictures Television's opposing the fees. 35 / ALL THE NEWS Married... with Children, THAT SELLS slotted With the Summer at 7 p.m. in New 27/ AM TO THE MAX Olympics less than a year York and Los Angeles and Faced with impending away, NBC is still looking 6:30 p.m. in Chicago. Consumer electronic cuts in their affiliate for channel space for its Married... is marketed as the manufacturers are ready to compensation and three- channel, pay -per- first off -network series roll out the NAB - forgone ad inventory to view coverage. C -SPAN, exempt from the prime time commissioned AMAX radio, syndicators, some major- Discovery and the Family access rule. Also on the which is designed to market stations are looking to 41kb week Broadcasting Aug 19 1991 increase revenue by the risk that affiliates expanding their morning and might become more inclined prime time news to pre-empt less- popular operations. WSVN(TV) Miami, programs. for example, which in 1989 dropped its NBC 46 / APPEALS OF affiliation in favor of TELCO DECISION quasi -independent affiliation with Fox, has had Appeals are piling in on substantial ratings success Judge Harold Green's (22 share) with a 7 -9 a.m. decision, stayed pending newscast. But expansion appeals court review, to let means money: Disney the regional Bell operating spent $40 million to start companies ( RBOC's) enter KCAL(TV) Los Angeles's the information services 8 -11 p.m. operation, and business. The RBOC's, after annual operating costs are failing to convince Judge Calling the content 'inappropriate,' PBS and the'P.O.V.' program $8 million -$10 million. Greene to lift the stay, are pull the 'Stop the Church' segment (page 34). likely to go directly to the that a perceived media appeals court; opponents of 50 / FEW ORDERS IN 38 / OPEN ALL NIGHT apathy could hurt chances for the decision, headed by THE COURT the test becoming permanent. Two proposed 24 -hour the American National Since the federal courts infomercial services have Newspaper Association, opened civil trials to TV on cable operators wondering will ask this week that the 54 / COMPRESSION an experimental basis July whether the potential revenue appeals court reverse. The I, few television and radio TESTS will be worth the conflicting appeals are stations have jumped at channels. The first, Home expected to keep the case Cablevision Systems last the opportunity for coverage. Shopping Network's tied up for months. week tested General The reason, broadcasters Infonet, is scheduled for Instruments' DigiCable say, is that the trials have not launch Sept. 1, and will 47 / FINDER'S and DigiSat compression produced particularly be available for broadcasters hardware, and plans more WEEPERS newsworthy events. RTNDA and cable operators to tests next month. Cable President David Bartlett access it anytime 24 hours a The NAB joined a number Laboratories was expected blames the lukewarm day or as a full -time of broadcasters in petitioning to issue requests for response not on lack of dedicated channel. The the FCC for a "finder's proposals to 65 companies interest but on the demands second, FYI -The preference," that is, for developing compression of normal daily news Consumer Channel, is still on favorable consideration to systems. flow. He worries, however, the drawing board: its the license applicant who principals are looking at finds a nonallocated Founded in 1931 as Broadcasting. the frequency. Sentiment for the News Magazine of the Fifth Estate. celebrity- hosted magazine Broadrasting- at Telecasting' introduced shows, wrapping together 5- idea is growing the INDEX in 1946. Television+ acquired in 1961. James Cablecastinge introduced in 1972. or 10- minute infomercials FCC; Commissioner Business 41 Quello said, think it's Broadcasting/Cable introduced in 1989. on compatible products. "I Cable 38 'Reg U.S. Patent Office. Copyright someone Participating cable unfair for to...pay Changing Hands 43 1991 by Cahners Publishing Co. a and incorporating systems would get a cut of to find frequency, Classified Advertising 59 then get filed on by 10 or 15 the revenues. Closed Circuit 6 applicants." However, The Fifth Estate Datebook 15 41 / ABC CUTS staff members questioned the TE1.1\ISI(\ Editorials 74 commission's legal COMPENSATION 10% Fates 8 Fortunes 66 Broadcasting authority to alter the policy. Fifth Estater 71 ABC announced a LI Cable Focus on Finance 44 package of affiliate 47 / PAC -ING THEIR Broadcasting (ISSN 0007 -2028) is pub- compensation cuts, For the Record 53 lished 52 Mondays a year by Cahners Publishing Co.. 1705 POLITICAL WAR CHESTS In Brief 72 DeSales Street, totaling $11 million, that are N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Sec- designed to boost network Cablecasters beat Journalism 50 ond- class postage paid at Washington, and Masthead 17 D.C.. additional offices. Single is- profits in what has been broadcasters $175,000 to sue $2.50 except special issues $3.50 called a particularly bad $116,000 in PAC Monday Memo 17 (50th Anniversary issue $10). Subscrip- tions, year. Included in the deal: contributions Open Mike 16 U.S. and possessions: one year to House and $85, two years $160. three years $225. cutting the hourly rate for Senate campaigns for the Programing 34 Canadian and other international sub- World News Tonight, tying first six months of 1991. Radio 27 scribers add $40 per year. U.S. and possessions $400 yearly for special de- Ratings Roundup each station's hourly rate Senate Communications 37 livery. $100 for first- class. Subscriber's to its delivery of prime time Subcommittee Chairman Riding Gain 30 occupation required. Annually: Broad- casting o Yearbook 5115. Across the Satellite 51 households and Daniel Inouye (D- Dial $9.95.