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OUT WITH A BANG 2001 ends with another round of mergers: Vivendi - USA, Comcast -AT & -, =choStar- DirecTV. More to =ome in 2002?

o NBC GETS ITS WAY By buyi-ig KNTV fcr $230 million, network ends two years of intrigue ii San Francisco, makes life -ough fx KRON -TV

-o CABLE OPS CALL FOUL MSOs fear they'll end up paying for pacts IBA is about to sign wits Disney and AOL Time Warner

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CONSOLIDATION NATION As 2001 neared its end Vivendi realigned with Barry Diller's USA Networks, and Comcast won its five month battle for AT &T Broadband. » 6

WHEELERS -DEALERS The gang of big media powers is getting smaller, but more powerful. » 7

ALL TOGETHER NOW The compli- cated Vivendi -USA deal literally remakes it into Universal. » 8

ROBERTS' VOW: Comcast's Brian Roberts promised he wouldn't compete Michael Armstrong's fight to keep AT &T against himself for AT &T Broadband. » 9 Broadband is over.

HOOP NIGHTMARE AOL Time Warner and Disney's deal with the NBA could be a bad deal for cable operators who say they may have to pass the cost of carriage on to COVER STORY subscribers. » 10

DISH DISS EchoStar and Disney are at REWRITING THE odds over whether the DBS provider can dump ABC Family channel because of the CALENDAR change in the channel's ownership. » 11 The attendance and mood at industry events Syndication Watch: Sally Jessy Raphael's continues to mirror the nation's economy: got legs. » 21 shrinking and a bit downbeat (although the reports are that smaller crowds are quality Business Washington crowds). Consolidation, slashed travel and expense accounts, and flying fears have all Bay Area upheaval NBC's pur- Radio static XM Satellite Radio's repeater required trade show organizers to rethink and chase of KNTV raises a lot of ques- plan has some traditional terrestrial tions. » 18 broadcasters fuming. » 22 retool for 2002. » 14 Money, money, money Public in Pittsburgh Local coalition fights What will Katie Couric's (l) WQED(TV)'s plan to de- reserve WQEX(TV) as new NBC contract mean for a noncommercial station. » 23 B &C Eye 4 other high -profile news Changing Hands 24 types? » 19 Technology Classifieds 31 Robotic control LiveWave system enables Editorials 34

Programming one operator to run cameras at four Fates & Fortunes 29 Clark barred Dick Clark files USA Today Live bureaus. » 26 Fifth Estater 30 lawsuit against Recording Translator Integrating new chipset into Station Break 20 Academy who claiming artists VOD servers reduces headend space and Syndication Ratings 21 sign on to perform at the power requirements. » 27 Grammys are banned from The Week That Was 12 Feds' money New York television stations appearing on the American are due to get federal aid, but no one seems Music Awards. » 21 to know the details. » 28

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PRIME TIME RESEARCH Career choice NBC digs Roots Is it better to be in broadcasting or cable these days? A survey of The groundbreaking miniseries Roots, originally aired by ABC over our subscribers from all segments eight nights in 1977, drew over 130 million viewers, won nine of the TV business suggests cable. Emmy Awards and became a sociological closed While 86% of the respondents said phenomenon that they were "very optimistic" or discos(!) and gave ABC an aura of greatness. But 25 years later, "somewhat optimistic" about NBC, not ABC, is planning the anniversary special. Roots- Snowy pictures cable, only 68% felt the same Celebrating 25 Years: The Saga of an American Classic is slated to air about broadcasting. What's more, Jan. 18, with Ben Vereen, Ed Asner and other cast members. When ABC's World News Tonight 30% said they were "very pes- Sources say ABC was pitched the special first, but execs didn't see reported last week on Buffalo's simistic" about broadcasting. eye -to -eye with Judith Leonard, who is co- producing with Kelly sensational snowstorms, viewers CABLE Newton and the original executive producer David Wolper. ABC did not see a weather reporter This is your life executives and Leonard weren't talking. The Hallmark Channel from Granite -owned Buffalo affil- shows Roots in its entirety starting Jan. 20.-J.S. iate WKBW -TV, but the Weather British director Michael Apted is Channel's Mike resurrecting his 7-Up documentary Seidel (above). style for an A&E series following No disrespect intended, says nine American couples through the network. ABC's NewsOne ser- the course of their marriages. In vice has a longtime reciprocal the original 7-Up, Apted tracked relationship with the Weather 14 British youths from age 7 to Channel, which had moved Seidel adulthood. For his latest project, Married in and a truck to Buffalo in advance America, Apted picked couples of the storm. NewsOne Chief Don who reflect different demograph- Dunphy said the service has ics. Among the subjects will be a moved footage from the station, biracial couple, a homosexual cou- but it tries not to burden stations ple and a bi- religious couple. The spring premiere will document during crises. their weddings; he'll update once "In a way it helps us because or twice a year. -A.R. it takes off a little of the pres- sure," acknowledges WKBW -TV News Director Bob Yuna, "But we Clearance sales subjecting 52 -59 buyouts to public interest were a little dismayed to see reviews not applied to deals for the upper someone from the Weather The FCC said it would permit TV broadcasters version rules channels, the final of the - Channel on World News instead of operating on channels 52 -59 to relinquish expected in the next two weeks -does not one of our own reporters and their frequencies well ahead of the 2006 dead- extend some sweeteners aimed at encouraging anchors." But before CNN got its line by selling out to wireless companies that 60 -69 deals. Second, the stations in the 52 -59 want the spectrum. The plan is "not that dif- band are so profitable that few are expected own correspondent, Holly Firfer, ferent" from provisions approved a year ago to accept buyouts. The combination of factors in the area, WKBW -TV was getting

for stations on channels 60 -69, said an was enough to silence most critics of the buy- broad exposure on the CNN net- agency staffer. So why were opponents of out policy, including Senate Commerce works and on its news service, early buyouts crowing that the FCC had "com- Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, who CNN Newsource. "Wolf Blitzer is a pletely abandoned" its band -clearing policy? warned that band -clearing incentives would Two reasons, perhaps. First, in addition to yield windfall profits to broadcasters. -B.M. Buffalo native," says Yuna, "and he's been plugging the hell out of the station. " -D.T.

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No holiday for consolidation

After Vivendi -USA deal and Comcast takeover of AT&T Broadband, who's next, what's left?

get the merger bug. The speculation among dealmakers immediately turned to who would be next. What station group will surrender to what is expected to be an unprecedented (since the invention of radio) two -year decline in ad sales? (Yes, ad sales didn't decline during World War II or the worst recessions.) Young Broadcasting's struggle against its debt load makes the company many play- ers' favorite candidate. How will the losing AT &T Broadband bidders (though they didn't bid very aggressively) respond? Cox Communications is widely expected to stalk Adelphia Communica- tions, and AOL Time Warner is seen as the Comcast's Bria oberts ( ultimate Cablevision Systems. chased AT &T's M thael buyer of Armstrong for five month. But while AT &T was embarrassed before he finally won the bidding for AT &T Broad enough with its operating performance to sell cable in a down market, Adelphia and Cablevision are seen as likely to hold out By John M. Higgins favored foothold with a critical distributor until the market rises dramatically. Sunken stock prices, a sullen advertis- of its content. NBC filled a hole in the San The concentration of power is becom- ing market and a bleak economy are Francisco market by snapping up Granite ing dramatic. NBC has its suits in four TV proving little deterrent to moguls Broadcasting's San Jose station. networks: NBC, Telemundo, ShopNBC who exhibit no hesitancy in committing to The swirl continues the seemingly and Pax TV (although the Paxson venture massive takeovers to increase their size and unstoppable consolidation of media as big may crumble). dominance of their corners of the media players look to balloon their portfolios. If the Comcast/AT &T (22 million cable business. They are ostensibly in search of financial subs) and EchoStar/DirecTV (15 million As the media industry ended its bleakest leverage, creating content more efficiently, DBS subs) deals go through, two compa- year in half a century, the only thing that bulking up on distribution or marrying the nies will control television going into seemed recession -proof was dealmakers' two sides. almost half of the nation's multichannel optimism. Comcast won its five -month But usually the target of the hunt is video homes. contest to snag AT &T Broadband, bidding power rather than strict operating effi- Forrester Research's Josh Bernoff called $72 billion. Vivendi Universal cut an $11 ciently. Occasionally new players enter the the AT &T- Comcast deal "the beginning of billion deal to reacquire cable- and TV- game -Vivendi was a French utility com- a dramatic shift in the television industry- production assets that Universal had earlier pany two years ago. But even when they the beginning of the end of the network sold to Barry Diller. Vivendi also dumped create entire new sectors-as DirecTV and era in TV. $1.5 billion into EchoStar to secure a EchoStar did with the DBS business -they With one MSO in 22 million households,

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they are in the driver's seat. Negotiations are going to tilt towards AT&T Comcast." Of course, consolidation frequently cre- The big tents ates as many problems as efficiencies. For If you partied this holiday season and swigged a Miller's Lite, smoked a Marlboro, ate all its boasts about its recession -resistant Kraft cheese and then tried to disguise your breath with an Altoids mint, everything subscription revenue, AOL Time Warner's you consumed came from the Philip Morris Co. revenues will probably only grow 5 % -7% Consolidation is not media's own invention. Ford owns Jaguar, Coca -Cola owns and Campbell Soup owns Godiva Chocolate. But, as in so many other next year. Not much for what outgoing Minute Maid industries where once there were many players, now there are few and they control a Chairman Gerald Levin has declared to be huge chunk of what constitutes the entertainment and information business. Here are be a to "large cap growth company." Sure, the giants that will likely get even bigger cash flow should grow 15 %, but much of that is from one -time cost cutting. AOL Time Warner America Online, HBO, Turner networks, 12.7 million cable subscribers, The WB, The bottom line is that getting larger With Warner Bros., etc. AOL is an obvious buyer for just about any media property big or and cutting across more media segments small but it likely has no interest in TV stations under current FCC rules. doesn't necessarily generate better returns on investment, which is supposed to be the Viacom guiding force of financial shepherds. Another programmer/producer that has shunned cable/DBS distribution. The 2002 "I'm not a big fan of the whole consoli- agenda: Who will succeed aging Chairman Sumner Redstone? He and President Mel dation thing," said UBS Warburg media Karmazin clash, but board members want a transition plan. analyst Tom Eagan. In cable, he likes deals The Walt Disney Co. that build strong regional clusters, such as The most battered media company because of the combined ad/travel crunch. With - Charter Communications' recent acquisi- ABC television and radio, ESPN, 10 owned TV stations, Disney studios, some nifty tion of AT &T's system in St. Louis, where property in Florida and California, Disney is showing lots of appetite for content. the company is headquartered and already runs all the nearby suburbs. News Corp. After cleaning up its balance sheet to bid for DirecTV, Rupert Murdoch's loss leaves "I think management is more important him relatively flush with liquidity. Fox Broadcasting, 31 television stations, Fox News, than size," Eagan said. FX, 206 Century Fox film and television studios. Clearly a buyer, but perhaps abroad. One veteran media CEO was more blunt. From a purely financial perspective, GE/NBC "it never works," he said. "It's all ego. But NBC, CNBC, a third of PAX, half of MSNBC, a part of APSE, and soon, all of Tele- Also 13 NBC a 14th on the way). Last summer's approach to our responsibility isn't to increase the mundo. stations (and Discovery Communications shows it's still a buyer. returns on capital; it's to increase the stock price." Takeovers are sexy, and sex drives EchoStar/DirecTV stock prices. Forget the length at which Charlie Ergen has long complained about facing "the cable monopoly"; now he's about institutional investors and analysts will talk to buy DirecTV and establish a DBS monopoly. With 16.7 million homes combined, about returns on capital being the funda- the EchoStar chairman has too much work ahead to be much of a buyer. mental creator of value. "A textbook will AT &T/Comcast tell you try that, but running one of these With 22 million subs, Comcast will dominate big cities like Boston, Chicago, San Fran- things sometime," the CEO said. cisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland. After what will be a year-long federal review, One surprising thing about the latest Comast is far more likely to prune systems than buy more. However, with 25% of all deals is the relatively small number of fire multichannel homes, expect Comast to start buying networks. sales. Vivendi is paying top dollar to Charter Communications recombine USA Networks TV operation After AT&T /Comcast and AOL Time Warner, formerly "big" players like Charter with Universal. seem relatively insignificant. With 6.35 million subscribers, Charter may be an MSO While Comcast is buying AT &T Broad- that won't last for much longer. band for perhaps $20 billion less than Mike Armstrong has put into the cable Cox Communications Family-controlled, and hence, risk-averse, Cox, with 6.2 million subs, has traditionally operation, AT &T wasn't desperate to sell. believed it will be disadvantaged if its portfolio isn't big enough to keep the attention Granite Broadcasting is certainly in finan- of programmers and equipment manufacturers. It's widely seen as a buyer after losing cial distress, but the station owner is fetch- in the AT&T Broadband derby, at least picking up systems Comcast might unload. ing a nice price in the sale of its San Jose

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The AT &T Comcast deal. is "the beginning of a dramatic shift in the television industry-the beginning of the end of the network era in TV. With one MSO in 22 million households, they are in the driver's seat." - Josh Bernoff, Forrester Research station KNTV -TV to NBC. business, it's simply shutting down and will by the time it dealt with Ergen. The big financial disaster is be chopped up for the value of its servers. As the players increase power in their Excite@Home, which is less of a fire sale And General Motors probably could ends of the business, the clashes will than a giant black hole sucking value into have gotten vastly better terms if it had become more dramatic. Distributors need the abyss. The Excite portal half of the moved quickly to sell Hughes Electronics shows and networks to resell, but they still company sold last Friday to Iwon.com for and its DirecTV unit when News Corp.'s have choices. Distribution is oxygen to $10 million -shockingly less than the S6.7 Rupert Murdoch came calling two years cable networks that have only two paths billion paid for the unit just three years ago. ago. Instead, the company frittered away into TV homes, the coax cable and the As for the high -speed Internet side of the perhaps 40% of the value of the company satellite dish.

Vivendi deal makes it truly Universal

It's a rerun. Vivendi and USA Networks Inc. of USAI, Vivendi had the right to veto any

are recombining the film, TV and theme - transactions that exceeded 10% of USAI's park assets of Universal Studios into an market value.) Vivendi is also paying $1.62 $11 billion -plus joint venture dubbed Uni- billion in cash and $750 million in versal Vivendi Entertainment. preferred stock to USAI. The venture will be 93°/o owned by USA Interactive, which Diller will also

Vivendi, 5.4% by USA and 1.5% (valued at oversee as chairman and CEO. will own and $275 million) by Barry Diller, who, in the operate online transactional businesses

complicated arrangement, becomes such as Ticketmaster, Citysearch and the

chairman and CEO of the joint venture. But Hotel Reservations Network. It will also despite the titles, Diller, who ran the show continue to own the Home Shopping at USA Networks, now works for Vivendi, Network. which is headed by ex- investment banker USAI will retire some 377 million shares Barry Diller becomes chairman and CEO of Jean Marie Messier. the new Universal Vivendi Entertainment. of outstanding stock, and its enterprise With the deal, Vivendi gets most of the value will drop from roughly $21 billion to

television assets that Diller snatched from Bronfman Jr. was entranced primarily by $9 billion. Seagram after the liquor -maker bought Universal's movie and record operations. As part of the transaction, Liberty Media Universal. USA Networks Inc. is contribut- Diller convinced Bronfman he'd be better reduces its stake in USAI from 21% to

ing the USA, Sci Fi Channel and Trio cable off giving the TV assets to what was then 18.6 %. But it gets a 3.7% stake in Vivendi networks along with TV production and Diller's Home Shopping Network. (worth about $1.9 billion), in exchange for syndication units under the Studios USA But Messier wants control -- and credit 2.4% of its USAI holding as well as its

banner. in the eyes of Wall Street. So Vivendi is 27% stake in a European -based provider of Stripped of most of its TV assets, USA paying at least $11.2 billion in stock and niche cable networks called Networks will become USA Interactive and cash to USAI's shareholders to gain control MultiThematiques. continue to trade as USAI. of 93% of the venture. Most of that comes Vivendi and USA say that the new VUE Vivendi is contributing the film and TV from the 41% of the USAI it previously joint venture has an enterprise value of production units and theme parks housed owned. It is valued at between $7 billion about $22 billion -roughly $12 billion for within Universal Studios that were split up and $7.6 billion. assets contributed by USA and $10 billion

three years ago after Seagram moved in on As a result, Vivendi will cease to have for the assets contributed by Vivendi.

Universal. Ex- Seagram Chaiman Edgar any veto power at USAI. (As a 41% owner -Steve McClellan

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Sparks are flying. EchoStar says that Disney -which probably has the worst How Comcast won AT &T's hand relations with distributors of any program - mer-is threatening to hamstring Wash Comcast Communications President ington approval of the DirecTV takeover i( Brian Roberts swore he wouldn't bid EchoStar doesn't distribute the ABC Fam- against himself to win the AT &T ily, formerly Fox Family Channel. Broadband sweepstakes, unless he Other networks are bracing for an was sure there was a competitor. emboldened Comcast, which will seek even Then for five months, he hung on. lower prices than AT &T was already getting. So when he finally scored his deal "It has a direct impact on our revenues, for AT &T's broadband unit, it made his day one, once they close," said a senior triumph even sweeter. executive with a cable network. Unless a Roberts' quest to acquire the country's network has favorable controls in its exist- largest MSO ended just before Christmas ing license agreements, "you're up for with $72 billion merger of Comcast and grabs. If they decide to beat up people AT &Ts cable unit Comcast raised its bid AT &T's Michael Armstrong will become they will. To pay off this merger they are chairman of the new AT &T Comcast. just 16% to beat out other suitors AOL going to look for savings in programming." Time Warner and Cox Communications. And in a slumping advertising market a Comcast raised its valuation of AT &T Broadband's cable systems to S62 billion, up slide in both halves of cable programmers' from $53 billion under its initial offer. (An extra $10 billion goes for AT &Ts 26% inter- much -vaunted "dual revenue stream" will est in Time Warner Entertainment, which wasn't included in Comcast's initial offer.) add extra pressure. Philadelphia -based Comcast sweetened its offer by taking on more debt and Vivendi Universal chief Jean Marie reducing the Roberts family's interest. Comcast initially sought to take on $13.5 Messier insisted two weeks ago that that billion in debt and in the end agreed to $20 billion. The debt load softened after the company doesn't have to buy distribu- Microsoft Corp., which infused a S5 billion investment into AT &T Broadband, agreed to tion in the U.S. to fully unlock the value of convert its investment into S5 billion in equity in the new company. the Universal entertainment assets. Comcast also agreed to reduce the Roberts family's voting stake from the 86% in

But analysts and investors believe other - had in Comcast to 33% in the new venture. wise.The opening salvo came from media AT &T Comcast retains the Time Warner Entertainment stake, which includes a piece investor Mario Gabelli: "I'm looking for- of Time Warner Cable, HBO and studio Warner Bros. Plans to sell the asset were tabled ward to when you merge with the next tar- when AOL Time Warner joined the bidding war, but, at a press conference in New York get when Jean Marie gets his distribution to announce the deal, AT &T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong said the asset will be put in the United States." back up for sale, either to AOL or to the public. Messier tried to suggest that Vivendi's The new AT &T Comcast Corp. is a cable monolith with 22 million subs in 41 states. recent agreement to take a small stake in It easily dwarfs its next largest competitor, AOL Time Warner, which has 12.7 million EchoStar in return for a handful of digital- cable customers. The new company will have 5 million digital -cable customers and 2.2 channel slots on the satellite service was million high -speed broadband subscribers. meaningful distribution. "[Roberts] will look at portfolio, prune it and balance it. He'll end up with a very But analysts weren't buying it. "How are good cities- oriented strategy," said one former MSO exec. you actually going to leverage that ?" one Comcast and AT &T Broadband execs said this merger plays off the companies' differ- analyst asked. "The stake you have in ent strengths. "AT &T is very networking- centric, which will pay off huge in telephony EchoStar isn't that big, so what can you do and data, and Comcast is more programming- centric. You need both," said AT &T to influence things there?" Broadband CEO Bill Schleyer. Messier's response: "In order to distrib- Armstrong will be chairman of the new company. Brian Roberts will be CEO. Four key ute you need to have the right products. AT &T and Comcast executives -Comcast President Steve Burke, Comcast Executive Vice The strength is first in your content. By President Lawrence Smith, AT &T Broadband President and CEO Bill Schleyer, and AT &T putting together these assets, we are reach- Chief Financial Officer Charles Noski -will constitute a transitional team. ing the right size, the right simple organiza- The deal signals a change in Comcast's hesitancy to pursue cable telephony, with

tion to maximize the content that we can Comcast now pledging a new commitment to the product. AT &T Broadband currently

build around our TV and movie assets." counts 1 million cable- telephony customers.- Allison Romano In other words, back to square one.

Broadcasting & Cable/12-31-01 9 TOP OF THE WEEK

Bin Laden's latest edition

Once again, Rudy Giuliani, Time mag- address. Networks played only azine's Person of the Year, upstaged snippets or stills accompanied by Time's also -ran Osama bin Laden. N translation or expert commentary, While the New York City mayor's with no plans for a full airing of the farewell address got widespread atten- 33- minute tape. tion-including live coverage on CNN, "ICs not as if they are interviews. Fox News and MSNBC -the release ICs a video news release," said Fox last week of a bin Laden videotape News' assignment editor David Rhodes. I i .,. Ill:, 00W £52.71 had significantly less impact. ABC News Vice President Jeffrey AL JAZEERA AIRS NEW TAPE OF. --(-, \ \\ A worn- looking bin Laden made his OSAMA SIN LADEN - . Schneider said his network was ,:LUDES NO FEDERAL VIOLATIONS OCCURRED IN PASSEI appearance through Arab network Al prepared to interrupt programming but Osama bin Laden's presence sparks speculation that Jazeera, apparently addressing i that its content simply lacked the nec- counterterrorism measures have hit home. prospective Muslim followers as he essary news value for such a decision. praised the "blessed" Sept. 11 attacks. But prompted commentary for days afterward. Correspondents did give attention to bin the event paled in comparison to the Little stopped for the tape released last Laden's frail appearance. CNN's terrorism buildup and the coverage of the video week, broadcast first in part Wednesday expert noted that bin Laden, who is left- released earlier this month. That one caused and then in full Thursday over Al Jazeera. handed, gestured only with his right hand, broadcasting and cable nets to interrupt Afternoon broadcast schedules in this suggesting he might be injured. -Dan regular programming for its airing and country were not upset by his taped Trigoboff and Allison Romano

USA (38 cents). (Kagan's estimates are aver- NBA pushes limits ages for all MSOs, which brings down their figure for ESPN to 72 cents per cable sub.) Published reports have said if operators Basketball's new contract would not comment on the deal. bristle at that price, games may air instead on with AOL TW and Disney "They've pushed the NBA onto cable, the NBA's digital net NBA.wmTV, currently would top previous by two and now everyone pays for it. It's a disaster in about 10 million, mostly satellite, homes. more years and $1 billion for the industry," said a cable company exec. The NBA comes up pretty rosy in the "You had declining viewership on the net- deal, particularly since it arrives in lean By Allison Romano works, and they can't sell ads. Now two economic times. The league's overall take, With the National Basketball Asso- cable companies bid up the rights and pass about $3.4 billion, would surpass its current iation poised to ink a new TV the cost onto subscribers." $2.65 billion pact with NBC and Turner, deal with AOL Time Warner's Operators love to argue costs hurt their though the annual payout would be 1u iii cr ~ports and Disney's ESPN/ABC, subs, but rising rates cut into their bottom smaller. The new six -year deal would pay testy cable operators sound a lot like fans line. ESPN already levies cable's heaviest sub out about $570 million per year, compared in the stands: The ticket costs too much. fee, as high as $2. Operators worry that to with the current $660 million per year. Last weekend, the NBA's new six -year leverage the NBA cost the net might try rais- Disney offered fringe benefits that TV deals were all but officially signed, with ing rates even higher. Insiders say ESPN isn't piqued NBA Commissioner David Stern's ESPN /ABC ponying up $2.4 billion and planning to introduce an NBA surcharge. interest. NBC was willing to pay $1.3 billion AOL Time Warner's Turner Sports offer- A new AOL Time Warner -NBA sports for a new four-year deal, but Disney's deal ing about $1 billion for the cable portion. net, tentatively coined AOL Sports, might includes broadcasts on ABC, ESPN and As part of the Turner deal, sources say, look for a fee of 50 cents per subscriber. ESPN2, along with ESPN radio broadcast- CNNSI would relaunch as a jointly owned According to estimates from Kagan World ing and the league's Web site. NBA -AOL Time Warner sports channel to Media, only a few other channels command Turner would put about 50 games - carry 100 NBA games per season. Officials a fee in that league, including Discovery including some conference -finals playoffs from ESPN /ABC, Turner and the NBA Channel (73 cents), TNT (57 cents) and and the NBA All-Star Game -on TNT.

10 Broadcasting & Cable /12 -31 -01 TOP OF THE WEEK Dish Net dissing ABC Family singer, except perhaps as an exam- Ergen's EchoStar wants to ple of the hellish handbasket pop dump the channel Disney culture has become. just bought from Fox ABC Family has other carriage concerns. Time Warner Cable has By Allison iomano already pulled the channel off its Disney Co.'s ABC Family is Florida systems, taking away fighting to hold onto a large about 800,000 subs, and ABC

Waltchunk of satellite subscribers, Family's carriage deals with Char- dueling with Charles Ergen's EchoStar ter Communications and Cablevi- Communications Inc. to halt the satellite sion are reportedly up. provider's plans to dump the net from its "We believe EchoStar is Dish Network tomorrow (Jan. 1). That's attempting to use the threat as the same day the new ABC channel unveils A sexy Jennifer Lopez concert that originally aired on leverage to renegotiate lower NBC will be repurposed on ABC's new Family channel. its new January lineup. license fees," said an ABC Family The two are now trading legal blows in insider. Los Angeles federal court. EchoStar filed "When we did the deal in 1996 it was for EchoStar has grumbled that ABC Fam- papers late last Thursday reaffirming plans the Family Channel with Pat Robertson," ily's subscriber fees are too high and its rat- announced in late October to terminate said an EchoStar representative. "We ings are too low to warrant carriage. ABC Family's carriage deal, which runs bought an apple and now we're holding an EchoStar also claims it needs to dear more through August 2005, because of change in banana." EchoStar unsuccessfully tried to channel space an assertion that has taken the channel's ownership. pull the plug on the Family Channel after on new meaning since Vivendi Universal EchoStar says Disney execs tried to nego- Fox bought it for $1.9 billion in 1997. injected $1.5 billion into EchoStar in tiate a new deal for ABC Family and ESPN Though Robertson still has a program on exchange for an 11% stake and a commit-

Classic (that net's carriage is up Jan. 1 with the channel, under Fox and now Disney, it ment to start five new channels. no plans for renewal, either). no longer has constant religious program- DirecTV has also reportedly told Dis- When EchoStar refused, a statement from ming. ABC, in part, will use its new channel ney it too is pulling the channel after New EchoStar's head of progamming Michael to repurpose ABC broadcast -network Year's, stripping millions more subs. If Schwimmer contends, Disney execs threat- shows, such as Alias; it's also picked up an merged, the DBS systems would reach a ened to oppose EchoStar's proposed merger NBC Jennifer Lopez special to show in Jan- combined 16.7 million. That's "something with DirecTV. Schwimmer's statement uary. It's unlikely the Robertson version of about a monopoly that really concerns pro- recalls Disney Senior VP and Chief Strategic the channel would ever feature the sexy grammers," said a Disney source. Officer Peter Murphy saying "Disney had its weapons' and was prepared to 'march on TELEVISION SPORTS TODAY: Washington D.C.'" The papers say Murphy's boss, Disney PRODUCTION AND PROGRAMMING prez and COO Robert Iger, then sent an e- mail Dec. 16 to Ergen reaffirming Disney's 12 -WEEK COURSE desire to close a deal. No deal, Ergen said, February 6 - May 1, 2002 and the next day Disney sued to block (Wednesdays, 6:20 - 8:20 pm) EchoStar's plans to drop the channel. ABC Family is currently on Dish's basic PROFESSOR: Jim Spence "America's Top 50" tier, where the net picks former Sr. Vice President, ABC Sports and Executive Producer, Television International up about 6.4 million subs. Disney purchased President Sports former Fox Family from News Corp. the For information: and Saban Entertainment last October for call NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies $52 billion. But EchoStar says ABC Family [212] 998 -7140 is not the channel it agreed to carry.

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T H E W E E K T H A T W A S

CABLEVISION ing Dad will move to 8:30. The Johnathan Firth WHACKS 4% and Victoria WB will repeat Angel on Cablevision is restructuring Hamilton star in Thursday nights at 8 p.m. A &E's miniseries parts of its operation and plans Victoria & Albert leading into Channel reairing to lay off 600 employees, about on Jan. 3. NBC Enterprises' new syn- 4% of its workforce. The move dicated talk show The Other prompted the company to take Half lost one quarter of its on- a $55 million charge against air presence. Dr. Jan Adams, a earnings for the fourth quarter, plastic surgeon left the show. which ends today (Dec. 31). ...NBC premieres its late - The company said the night Last Call with Carson cutbacks would affect "corpo- Daly with the MTV VJ on Jan. rate, administrative and 7, at 1:35 a.m. infrastructure functions across various business units." TRANSITIONS Robert Pendarvis is the first DBS ADDS CHANNELS with the statement, "The fed- signed a new deal with Grupo recipient of the Young Engi- Satellite TV providers eral government should not Televisa in which Televisa will neer of the Year Award, given DirecTV and EchoStar last allow the only two satellite - pay $375 million to up its by The Society of Cable week announced plans to television companies to merge stake in Univision from 6% to Telecommunications Engi- roughly double the number of into just one." $15 %. As part of the deal, neers, Pace Micro Technology local channels they carry in Univision secures all rights to plc and the Cahners Television major markets. The expanded TUBE JOBS Televisa TV programming for Group (which includes BROAD- service is being rolled out to A&E is organizing some of its its three networks, Univision, CASTING & CABLE). Pendarvis comply with federal rules prized originals into a new Telefutura (debuting Jan. 14) is manager of network engi- requiring DBS beginning Jan. Thursday -night drama block and cable network Galavision neering and technology deploy- 1 either to offer all the local beginning Jan. 3. The A&E through 2017. ment for Comcast. stations in a market or to carry Network Studios block will ABCs comedy The Job is Noted sportscaster and none at all. DirecTV began feature original movies and returning to the network's writer Dick Schaap died Dec broadcasting more than 200 series from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. schedule on Wednesday, Jan. 21 following complications additional local channels in 41 ET, beginning with four-part 16 at 9:30 p.m. The same from hip -replacement surgery markets. EchoStar said it will miniseries Victoria &Albert. night ABC News moves at the age of 67.... Lance wait until the deadline to add Tribune Broadcasting says Downtown to 10 p.m. With Loud, whose family was an the extra channels in its 36 that WPIX(TV) New York's that, 20/20 moves back to Fri- early entry in reality TV in the local markets. Yule Log, which returned to day at 10.0noe & Again, 1973 PBS documentary, An Meanwhile, about 90 mem- TV on Christmas Day, was which was airing at 10 p.m. on American Family died in Los bers of Congress asked the local TV's top -rated program Fridays, will move to 9 p.m. Angeles at the age of 50. Loud Department of Justice and the from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The starting Jan. 4. declared his homosexuality on FCC to look closely at station reports Nielsen The WB is switching the 12 -part series... EchoStar's proposed numbers of 3.1/10 for the around its two Friday -night Mother Mary Angelica, acquisition of DirecTV and video of a log burning comedies and adding a second founder of the Catholic cable attach rigid concessions. And brightly in a fireplace, accom- weekly mn of Angel to its net EWTN, remained in the National Association of panied by Christmas carols. lineup. On Jan. 4, Maybe It's intensive care after surgery Broadcasters, which opposes The log was a regular feature Me will trade places with Rais- Christmas Eve to clear a blood the deal, released a poll from 1966 to 1989. ing Dad. Maybe It's Me will air clot following a stroke, her purporting that 71% agreed Univision Communications at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT and Rais- second in three months.

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Issue Date: February 8, 2002 Ad Close: Thurs. 1/31 Materials Due: Fri., 2/1 COVERSTORY o. Re ruing the Cal radar What if you gave a convention and nobody came? Trade show organizers are reacting to diverse that to some degree they lost industry consolidation focus, at least for companies like ours." -and quickly Rohrs. "The [cable] industry had been consoli- If the new TVB con- dating for five or seven years," says Char ference proves a winner, it will be an Beales, president of the Cable & Telecom- exception. Just about every other national munications Association of Marketing. convention and conference marking the "But it hadn't affected trade shows until BY STEVE McCLELLAN TV calendar-from NATPE in January to this year when it all hit at once." Hundreds of TV broadcast- The Western Show in November -is TROUBLES EVERYWHERE ers, mostly station GMs declining in size or importance. and sales managers, will The downsizing of the traditional indus- During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, go to New York three try meeting places reflects fundamental the stature of the National Association of months from now to rub shoulders with changes in the business wrought by consol- Television Programming Executives con- advertisers and to catch up on what's going idation, centralized management and, for vention grew because broadcast program on in their companies and the industry. the foreseeable future, more modest syndicators needed a place to meet broad- The impetus is the Television Bureau of growth projections. casters from the hundreds of TV stations Advertising, the trade group whose mission More than ever, managers are demand- across the country and sell them first -run is to drive national advertising into local ing that their subordinates justify business shows and off -network sitcoms and dramas. TV stations. For the first time ever, TVB is travel. They want to make sure the conven- But due to recent station-ownership holding a one -day ad sales conference in tions they attend are worth every T&E dol- consolidation, syndicators found they conjunction with the New York Auto lar. Indeed, a new trade -show culture has could "clear" shows for much of the Show. The March 26 gathering is intended emerged. In the past, it was business and country through one -on -one meetings to bring together broadcasters, automobile pleasure. Now it's just business. with several key station -group executives. manufacturers and other major advertisers. If managers are going to send their peo- In some cases, syndicators found them- But the broadcasters will have other rea- ple on the road, it will be to sell, not to buy. selves in the same media corporations sons to go to New York. Many will attend That's why TVB-a selling conference-is with large station groups. company management meetings or the NBC attracting bodies, while traditional shows Consolidation also reshaped the syndica- affiliate meeting scheduled around the TVB are losing them. tion world. Over the past several years, the conference. Many will entertain advertisers, "All the trade organizations are or need number of important syndicators has dwin- agencies and media buyers. to be reviewing their goals," says Jack dled to fewer than a dozen. If they wanted, "The conference is building some real Sander, president of the Belo TV station station buyers could sample all the new momentum," says TVB President Chris group. "In some cases they got so large and shows in one quick trip to Los Angeles.

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It didn't happen overnight, but the Chicago last spring fell 20% to 24,000. This fic is key to making the show look and feel relentless consolidation on both the sell year's convention, set for New Orleans, like a success. To up traffic, the opening and buy sides has made NATPE a bit of an May 5 -8, may experience further erosion, general session and some smaller panel ses- anachronism, an artifact of a time when but nothing like the Western Show's. Most sions will take place on show floor. "I can't hundreds of TV stations independently programmers plan to exhibit and most assume people will come just because they chose programming from dozens of com- cable operators recognize the need for the have for many years and even though it's peting program producers. Last January, convention as an industry showcase. the national show. I need to give them a attendance dropped precipitously, espe- "At the very least, we need to have a reason," says NCTA's Vice President of cially among broadcasters. And at this huge, all- stops -pulled trade show," says Industry Affairs Barbara York. year's show, slated to begin a four -day run NCTA Chairman Michael Winner, "so we The National Association of Broadcast- in Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. can showcase the industry to the financial ers annual convention, the huge show at the 21, attendance and exhibiting- company and general press, regulators, and show them heart of the broadcast year, is still the most lists are expected to decline again. Exacer- what we're doing and how we're doing it." important marketplace of professional bating the situation: The major syndicators, It's too early to tell if fewer programmers video and audio gear in the world, attract- led by Warner Bros., have decided to will be on the floor at the National Show, ing not only broadcasters, but also produc- exhibit not on the floor, but across town at although Starz and Encore have already ers from production and post -production the Venetian Hotel suites. said they won't be back. Showtime, HBO houses, corporations, government and the Registration for NATPE is pacing 40% and ESPN have agreed to take suites. health -care industry. "In terms of where do below last year. Early this month, the num- NCTA officials believe heavy floor traf- you go to see technology, NAB is still the ber of exhibitors registered was approxi- mately 500 -some 360 fewer than last year. Two hundred of the missing are no An insider's show guide for 2002 longer in business, having been bought or gone belly up. NATPE (Jan. 21 -24, Las Vegas)- Smallest show in years this January with U.S. broad- Consolidation's repercussions have casters as rare as hit first -run shows. Upside: International buyers and sellers like it. shaken the two principal cable conven- tions -the National Cable & Telecommu- TVB (March 26, New York City)- NB will stage its confab at the New York Auto Show nications Association convention in the to put its mark on where the local television loot is-in the car business. Broadcast spring, and The Western Show in late fall. groups are planning piggyback meeting around the event, too. Good thinking. Traditionally, these have been places where cable operators have shopped for program- NAB (April 6 -11, Las Vegas) -More than 100,000 will show up for the world's premiere ming and hardware. professional video /audio show. Only problem, it's no fun for non -engineers, particularly Incessant deal- making has put 80% of TV station GMs who really don't want to know pixels that well in the first place. cable subscribers in the hands of just six companies. The just- announced merger of NCTA (May 5 -8, New Orleans)- Attendance dropped 20% this year, but cable's big op- AT &T and Comcast is only the latest in erators and programmers feel they must support convention, if only for its PR value. this trend. And a handful of executives at Plus, they don't have to worry about going to the Western Show anymore. these companies are making most of the buying decisions. PROMAX /BDA (June 26 -29, Los Angeles)- Interest is waning fast in the promo The Western Show, the number -two confab. (What? They need better PR ?) It might merge with NATPE. show on the cable calendar, has been hit hardest by the consolidation. With most of RAM Summit (July 14 -17, Boston) -In good shape. But recognizing T &E squeeze, it the major programmers abandoning the looks like it will fold its digital /PPV conference (March 6 -8, Los Angeles) into NCTA's. exhibit floor, attendance fell 48% to just 17,000. So steep was the decline that many RTNDA (Sept. 18 -21, Long Beach, Calif.) -The TV and radio news convention was cable operators and programmers question canceled last September (it was to start the day after the terrorist attacks). But it was its future as a national event. It may revert, already having a tough time. Possible solution: tying in with techy NAB show. they say, to what it was-a modest regional show for California and a few other West- The Western Show (Dec. 3 -6, Anaheim, Calif.) -Half as big this year as it was the ern states. year before. No one expects the missing half to return anytime soon. Attendance at the NCTA convention in

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place," says Alec Shapiro, a marketing exec- dropped from 115,000 in 2000 to 113,000. have," says PROMAX/BDA President utive for Sony, NAB's largest exhibitor. Exhibition space shrank from 953,000 Glynn Brailsford. As a technology show, it still attracts square feet to 938,000 square feet. Chris To consider its options, NATPE has broadcast engineers and technicians charged Brown, NAB's senior vice president in formed a committee under Tony Vinci - with buying. But as a broadcasting conven- charge of conventions, does not expect any querra, the newly named president of Fox tion, NAB is something of a bust. It no significant fall -off this year. "In the long Television Network. "The conference cer- longer draws the top managers in the indus- run, if people are only going to be able to tainly has a place," he says. "Everyone try or even a critical mass of network or sta- go to one show this year, we are going to wants to say NATPE is a horrible thing tion executives. When this year's convention stack up well against their other choices," and should be dead. But the fact is it's a opens its doors in Las Vegas on April 6, says Brown. huge international convention." most station GMs will be at their desks. A wild card is the Syndicated Network Part of the NAB convention's problem TIME TO RETHINK Television Association, representing the is that three of its largest and most impor- Hard -pressed or not, all the traditional broadcast program syndicators on Madison tant members quit the association over pol- conventions are looking for ways to rein- Avenue. It's searching for a new president, icy differences. CBS, Fox and NBC will vent themselves and attract more people. and, following TVB's lead, it is mulling send engineers to the convention to shop, NATPE has been drawing more interna- over a screening in New York to tout mem- but they feel no obligation to send execu- tional broadcasters, who like the show's bers' shows to advertisers. Like PROMAX, the Radio- Television News Directors Association's annual con- vention has fallen on hard times with declining attendance and a shrinking exhibit. Then it had to cancel the last show scheduled to open the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And like PROMAX, RTNDA thinks the solution to its problems may be a merger. It's now talking about joining with the NAB's conference. Such a combina- tion seems to make sense since news direc- tors are interested in the hardware on the Last spring's NCTA convention was NAB exhibit. too small to fill Chicago's vast McCormick Place. The 2002 show Another merger in the works involved is slated for New Orleans in May. NCTA and the Cable & Telecommunica- tions Association for Marketing. They are rives to attend management sessions or to January timing and find much value in the talking about folding its CTAM Digital and show the flag. It also didn't help that TVB one-stop shopping the show provides. Pay Per View conference in with the has decided to shift its sales conference Organizers believe they may be able to NCTA convention. CTAM Digital is now from NAB to the New York Auto Show. help syndicators sell their time to advertis- scheduled for March 5 -8 in Los Angeles. Major station groups are paring back ers-now their top priority. NATPE Chair- By focusing on selling rather than buy- the number of executives they send. man Jon Mandel, a top media buyer, has ing, TVB seems to have caught a wave. Hearst -Argyle, which once sent managers been pushing the idea of NATPE -spon- ABC, LIN, NBC, Tribune, Nexstar and from each of its stations, now sends a core sored screenings of syndicated shows for Hearst -Argyle Television have set company of eight to 10 managers. Tribune Televi- advertisers, possibly in New York. meetings tied to TVB. Others including sion, the fourth -ranked station operator in NATPE has also begun merger discus- Gannett and Scripps are considering it. the country, says it will send just six man- sions with the PROMAX/BDA, a strug- TVB was smart to move its conference agers and engineers to NAB. Still, says Tri- gling convention of TV promotion execu- from NAB in Las Vegas to the auto show in bune Television President Pat Mullen, "I tives. With prospects bleak for this year's New York, says Paul Karpowicz, vice presi- suspect NAB will still be a very healthy convention in June in Los Angeles, PRO - dent, LIN Television. Once his sales man- convention." MAX hopes that it can bolster itself and agers were done with the TVB sessions at The NAB in Las Vegas last April was NATPE by cooperating. "There are obvi- NAB, he says, "there was nothing else for down, but only slightly. Attendance ous synergies in the audiences that we them to do other than maybe play golf."

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considerable market status with added news, local shows and syndicated program- ming? It hopes that likely losses in ad rates due to viewership declines will be made up in added local inventory. But the market has lots of available inventory. "We're going to be working a lot hard-

er," KRON-TV told viewers as the NBC - Granite deal was announced. "The peacock is taking a hike." Some analysts and broadcast executives said NBC had to act or risk losing its strength in a major market. The network Station upheavals have had could have either beefed up KNTV in a the San Francisco Bay Area way few station groups-particularly finan- TV industry in turmoil. cially troubled ones-could or, better still, some analysts said, could have gone with By Dan Trigoboff but clearly raises a lot of questions. the proven market powerhouse by buying As 2001 wound down, NBC paid out Although NBC paid considerably less than KRON -TV. NBC, advised on the deal by big bucks to continue a relationship Young Broadcasting's asking price for Merrill Lynch, chose to pursue both op- with a proven commodity capable KRON -TV, will the affiliation transfer just tions and, when it couldn't get the price it of strong contributions to near -nine-figure before midnight New Year's Eve from San wanted for KRON -TV, bought KNTV. returns. But enough about Katie Couric. Francisco powerhouse KRON -TV to NBC, which will also own Telemundo In the bid for a station to anchor its pres- improved but still unproven KNTV cost it in station KSTS(TV) in the market, did not ence in the San Francisco Bay Area market, the long run in terms of viewers and revenue? purchase Granite's WB station KBWB(TV). the network passed on longtime NBC vet- Or will Tom Brokaw, ER, Friends and Granite chief Don Cornwell had no com- eran KRON -TV San Francisco and pur- NBC's rapidly approaching Olympic ment on Tribune's reported interest in buy- chased San Jose's KNTV(TV) instead. schedule help viewers locate the South Bay ing KBWB and WDWB(TV) Detroit. Faced With the purchase of KNTV, in the San station and buy its advertisers' products - with mounting debt and cash -flow problems, Francisco -Oaldand -San Jose DMA, NBC is even north of San Francisco, where Granite put WDWB on the block in the fall. no longer the only Big Three network with- KNTV's signal strength has had problems? Cornwell says that, "at some point down out an owned station in each of the top five Some local broadcasters- including in- the road, we will make some determina- markets. NBC immediately named WCAU- coming local NBC -give Granite high tions about what would be the best TV Philadelphia News Director Steve marks for improving its signal and cable home-whether it's in Granite or some- Schwaid to lead the transition to O&O status. coverage, noting that the Bay Area's where else -for our two WBs." Following years of negotiation, includ- uneven terrain gives some signal trouble to Although many analysts believe that ing recent weeks of intense talks involving other stations. Young, which outbid NBC for KRON -TV NBC and both stations, the $230 million Will KRON -TV- which, since NBC an- in 1999, paid too much even for an NBC deal (more if you include the cancellation nounced it was pulling its affiliation, has affiliate when times were good, sources say of a sizable reverse- compensation agree- been preparing for "Independence Day" the company continued to seek a price near ment) between NBC and station owner but still entertained NBC entreaties almost what it paid, as much as $750 million. Granite Broadcasting settles some issues to the last minute-be able to maintain its Estimated revenues for 2002 of $85 mil-

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lion -off the 2000 pace but still substan- and could further lose with KNTV's pre- had some pretty nervous managers here," tial -would have given NBC the station at sumably weaker distribution in the market. said KNTV General Manager Bob Franklin. well under 10 times cash flow, which Granite says the NBC deal enables it to And ownership changes seldom settle Young apparently thought more than fair. pay down debt. It was advised by Goldman station executives' nerves. NBC's deep On the same day as the NBC deal with Sachs, which was involved in securing pockets and access to talent could mean Granite was announced, Young said it had Granite a large line of credit earlier this year. significant changes in station management. hired Credit Suisse First Boston as a financial Near -daily reports of changes in negotia- All contracts will be honored, says a station adviser, a move usually signaling to would -be tions excited an already volatile market. "We exec, so "it's either stay or a lot of golf." buyers that one or more of its stations -in this case, 12 -are for sale. Young said the move was intended to "assist us in evaluating inquines that have come to our company as This just in: well as other possible transactions." Young unquestionably has two extreme- Couric's record salary ly valuable properties in KRON -TV and Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw-are said to KCAL(TV) Los Angeles, but broadcasters may raise the bar for be paid about $10 million a year each. question its estimates of their value, partic- some of news' top tier Several others aren't quite there but are ularly in light of its failure to make a deal still making a good living: ABC News with NBC. Few negotiations better illus- By Steve McClellan Nightline anchor Ted Koppel makes about trate brokers' current lament that a lot of Today host Katie Couric's record- setting $8 million; CBS Early Show's Bryant deals could be made but for the huge payday to remain at NBC has prompt- Gumbel, about $6 million. Matt Lauer, the divide between bid and asked. Young says ed speculation about which other host of Today, is a bit of a laggard at an it does not have to sell. top TV news personalities would estimated $4 million a year. "It will be inter- Broadcasters on all sides note that, while follow her into the $13 million -a- esting to see whether Matt Lauer demands the price for KNTV doesn't approach the year club. Diane Sawyer's name a bigger paycheck in light of Katie's deal," $750 million Young is said to have sought was high on the list. the executive said, "and whether NBC for KRON -TV, it's considerably higher Some suggested it wasn't pays to maintain the current on -air than the $230 million reported, because the necessarily a precedent -set- chemistry there." But sources network also surrenders Granite's obliga- ting move. Executives Katie Couric also say Lauer renewed his con- tion to pay the sizable $362 million over 10 speaking on background re -upped for tract within the past year and is five years, at years in reverse compensation agreed to in said that Couric and about S13M pe in place for at least four years. the deal that made KNTV an NBC affiliate. Today are a "somewhat If NBC is willing to pay for But analysts believe that, particularly with unique situation," as one stability, others wondered advertising declines, NBC worried that it news vice president put it whether ABC would be forced might not get those affiliation payments last week. The program gener- to pay Sawyer more to keep her at ates about $300 million a year in Good Morning America, the sec- profit for NBC, so paying Couric ond- ranked morning show, re- a few million more a year to main- cently starting to gain ground on tain the show's stability seems a Today. Season to date through good investment for the network, a Dec. 9, GMA is up 17% in competing network executive said. total viewers; Today is down Couric re-upped for another five 8% in the same category. "If years at the top -rated network anyone has a shot at matching morning show. Her new deal keeps Katie," says one TV news agent her at the network through 2006 at (not Sawyer's), "I think it would an annual salary of around $13 mil- be Diane." lion, or $65 million for the next five No syndicated show or produc- years, sources said. That makes her the tion company is tied to Couric's deal; Granite has more stations on the block. Says CEO Don Cornwell, "At some point, we will highest-paid TV journalist. A bevy of the contract does let her do a syndica- make some determinations about what would news personalities -notably Barbara tion show through NBC, though none be the best home for our two WBs," KBWB(N) San Francisco and WDWB(TV) Detroit. Walters, Diane Sawyer, Peter Jennings, is currently planned.

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LOTTERY LOSER groups have written the Charlotte, N.C., presents such a Tribune -owned station to big market for South Carolina's complain that the series new lottery, one local pundit misrepresents the Korean suggested its slogan should be community. The station has "Welcome, North Carolina defended the story factually gambling addicts!" and asserts that it is not But North Carolina intended to, and does not, broadcasters are prohibited by address the entire Korean- FCC regulations from sharing American community. in the wealth of their southern The station has said the neighbor's six-figure ad story may prompt legislation campaign. Queried in recent outlawing dog meat in New Weather edge weeks by its members, the York State.

WABC -TV New York launched a documentary-style campaign North Carolina Broadcasters promoting Eyewitness News' hard -news approach to weather. Association has informed them NEWS DIRECTOR Campaign creator Crossroads Television says the spots will be that regulations forbid any sta- SENTENCED

unusually edgy for a weather promotion. Seated are chief weather tion licensed in a state that does Former WCSC -TV anchor Sam Champion (1) and morning and noon meteorologist Bill not conduct its own lottery Charleston, S.C., News Direc- Evans. Standing is weekend meteorologist Lee Goldberg. from carrying advertising from tor Donald Feldman has been another state's lottery. Local sentenced to three years in cable advertising is not affected. prison and three on probation SENDING IT BACK the lawsuit for its potential Attempts to implement a and ordered to pay restitution The one -time owner of an value as a precedent. lottery in North Carolina for for the more than $2 million Oklahoma City TV station Attorney Robert D. Nelon, funding education have been he is believed to have embez- will likely appeal a $700,000 representing Palmer's insurer, mired in politics despite some zled from the station. defamation award to the said the station had initially powerful backing. Feldman pleaded guilty ear- owner of a restaurant that won on summary judgment, lier to the theft this year fol- went out of business following but the case was reinstated on PET FOOD lowing a federal investigation. an unfavorable news report. appeal so that a jury could A months -long investigation The investigation focused Robert Tayar, who owned determine whether the station's by WPIX(TV) New York on money laundering and tax Molly Murphy's restaurant, journalistic approach-indud- investigative reporter Polly offenses and concluded that blamed the business's failure ing the alleged "ambush" and Kreisman and the Humane Feldman had submitted false on a KFOR -TV report in use of expressions like Society discovered a farm in invoices and used the money which he tried to throw out "double-coupon double -cross" an outlying area of New York for his own and friends' travel reporter Anthony Foster and and "waitress turned the that appeared to be raising and recreation. cameraman Brad Riggens as tables " - violated professional dogs to be sold for food and According to local reports, they tried to confront him standards. The jury sided with found canine meat in a stew Feldman expressed remorse at about problems alleged by Tayar to the tune of $700,000. served at a Korean restaurant his sentencing and admitted to viewers regarding the Nelon expects Palmer to in Queens. In Korea, dogs are betraying his friends and restaurant's coupons. Tayar, appeal. Media defendants tend considered a delicacy. stockholders of station parent who was arrested -on tape - to do better on issues of law Dozens of stories criticizing Jefferson Pilot. and fined over the incident, than of fact, in which standards Kreisman and her series sued station owner Palmer of the law can get lost in the "When Man Bites Dog" have Communications. The station jury's sympathy for a plaintiff. appeared in Korean- language All news is local. Contact Dan has since been purchased by Tayar's attorney Keith Ward newspapers in New York and Trigoboff at (301) 260 -0923, The New York Times Co., but agrees, sort of: "The media reportedly on Korean TV. e -mail dtrig @erols.com or fax insurers continue to contest fears nothing but juries." Local Korean community (413) 254 -4133.

20 Broadcasting & Cable /12 -31 -01 prngramm;-__- SyndicationWatch NOV. 26 -DEC. 2 Syndicated programming ratings according to Nielsen Media Research

TOP 20 SHOWS

HH HH Rank Program AA GAA Headed for its 20th season 1 Wheel of Fortune 10.1 10.1 2 Jeopardy 8.6 8.6 Sally Jessy Raphael is currently in its 19th season in syndication, and 3 Friends 7.4 8.7 4 Seinfeld 6.9 7.5 Studios USA executives say the veteran talk show will definitely be 5 Entertainment Tonight 6.4 6.5 back next fall for its 20th. 6 Oprah Winfrey Show 6.2 6.3 7 Judge Judy 6.1 8.9 There has been rumbling among station executives and rival syndica- 7 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.1 6.9 tion studios that the show wouldn't return. But Studios USA Domestic 9 Seinfeld (wknd) 5.2 6.1 10 Live With Regis & Kelly 3.9 3.9 Television President Steve Rosenberg says, "Competitors are 11 Frasier 3.7 3.8 going to say things that are sometimes true and sometimes 12 Everybody Loves Raymond (wknd) 3.4 3.4 not true. In the case of Sally, it's not true at all. The show 12 Inside Edition 3.4 3.4 14 Judge Joe Brown 3.3 4.2 has been on the air for 19 years; 60 talk shows have come 15 Maury 3.2 3.4 and gone since it debuted in 1983. It continues to 15 Extra 3.2 3.3

15 . Friends (wknd) 3.2 3.3 perform better than most syndicated product." 15 Access Hollywood 3.2 3.2 Sally Jessy Raphael is the longest-running talk show 15 Hollywood Squares 3.2 3.2 20 The X -Files 3.1 3.4 currently in syndication, the third -longest- running in history, behind only Donahue and Mike Douglas. Rosenberg says

TOP ACTION HOURS a number of top markets are already signed on for the 2002 -03 HH HH season, notably KTLA -TV Los Angeles, WGN -TV Chicago and KYW- Sally Jessy Raphael Rank Program AA GAA is the third- longest- TV Philadelphia. The show's deal with WNBC -TV New York is up at running talk show in 1 Andromeda 2.9 3.1 history. 1 Mutant X 2.9 3.1 the end of the season, but Rosenberg isn't worried that he'll find 3 Stargate SG -1 2.9 3.1 a new home in the top market. 4 Earth: Final Conflict 2.0 2.1 4 VIP 2.0 21 This season, the show got a new set, some additional cameras and new producers but

According to Nielsen Media Research Syndication Ser- didn't have a strong start, averaging a 1.4 national household rating in its first week. vice Ranking Report Nov. 26 -Dec. 2, 2001 Its average rating has risen 29°/o, to 1.8 in the week ended Dec. 2, according to Nielsen HH /AA - Average Audience Rating (households) Media Research. But the show is off considerably since its peak years, 1991 -92 and HH /GAA - Gross Aggregate Average 1992 -93, when it averaged a 5.5. "We have to admit, there has been a decline in One Nielsen Rating - 1,055,000 households, which represents 1% of the 105.5 million TV Households in ratings over the last few years," says Rosenberg, adding, "The fact is that Sally beat the United States Montel Williams, Ricki Lake and Jenny Jones in the November sweeps." -Joe Schlosser

the upcoming American Music Awards telecast. The suit alleges the pull -out will Clark hears sour note pull down ratings and affect potential sales of the show overseas. By John Eggerton cnce something delusive. We do nothing Clark also said Greene was responsible ick Clark has filed a $10 million outside normal industry business practices." for preventing pop diva Britney Spears Iswsuit against Recording Academy In addition to compensatory and punitive from appearing on the AMAs. The suit, D President Michael Greene, alleging damages, the suit asks for a preliminary in- filed in California Superior Court, alleges that he bars artists who first appear on junction against the practice so that artists Clark contacted Greene about the policy, Dick Clark Productions' American Music would be able to appear on both shows which Clark called a blacklist, after the Awards (AMA) from performing on The while the case is being adjudicated. The "Spears incident" and that Greene said the Grammys and that such a prohibition con- AMAs are scheduled to air Jan. 9 on ABC. policy would be terminated. stitutes an "illegal restraint of trade and an The Grammys are on CBS Feb. 27. ABC had no comment, but CBS was unfair business practice." Among other charges, Clark alleges that siding with Greene, pointing out that The Recording Academy responded in a Greene persuaded Michael Jackson to exclusivity is what helps it draw more than statement: "It clearly is the nature of the break a date, and what Clark says was 2 billion viewers worldwide to the annual entertainment business to offer your audi- effectively an oral contract, to appear on telecast.

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the satellite, the same information must be transmitted by the repeater." By March 18, Target: Radio birds the FCC must renew the license, make it permanent or revoke it. XM repeater strategy painted as Trojan horse for local service XM hasn't had problems getting re- peaters mounted in other communities, By Paige Albiniak cause there is never a straight story with Levin said. "This is an incredibly isolated XM Satellite Radio's efforts to boost these repeaters," says NAB general counsel incident. I have talked to the NAB about it, its satellite signals with terrestrial Jack Goodman. "We want the same pro- and they say they are not doing anything. It repeaters has some traditional terres- gramming going over the satellite and is just this one person [ O'Shaughnessy] trial broadcasters seeing red, concerned through the repeaters at the same time." who has decided to do this." that their new competitor is trying to lay the But the satellite radio companies dismiss Meanwhile, after launching in late groundwork, literally, for a local program- the concern, saying they chose the phrase September, XM has received fairly warm ming service should its national model fail. to most accurately describe the way the consumer reception. Julia Topping, an.ana- In New York State, two local planning transmissions take place. "The signals don't lyst at consulting firm The Carmel Group in boards have rejected XM Satellite Radio's arrive at the same time from the repeaters Carmel, Calif., predicts that satellite radio requests to mount repeaters for boosting its and the satellites," says Pat Donnelly, gen- will have 30,000 subs by the end of the year, satellite signal to hard -to -reach areas. The eral counsel of Sirius. all of which are XM's because Sirius has Mt. Vernon planning board does not want Moreover, says XM Senior Vice Presi- delayed any launch until February. Fortune to grant XM authority to build a repeater dent Lon Levin, although the FCC thus far magazine's Dec. 24 issue, named XM its when the company has only a temporary has issued only temporary permission for "Product of the Year," calling it "way, way, FCC license. The Harrison board said it the repeaters, rules are in place that the way above the rest" of technologies rolled didn't know enough about XM's plans to satellite radio companies are treating as out in 2001. make a decision. permanent. Topping expects satellite radio to have "I think this is almost like our Star Wars," "The FCC addressed that issue in 1997," gained 300,000 customers by the end of says Bill O'Shaughnessy, owner of Whitney Levin said. "The requirement that was put 2002, helped by the rollout of satellite radio Radio, New Rochelle, N.Y. "Broadcasters on us is that whatever is transmitted from equipment in new cars. The companies are going to need something like a should more than break even by Ronald Reagan missile shield. I hope 2004, with nearly 5 million subscribers we're not on a tank with these things U.S. digital satellite radio between them, she says. shooting at us from the sky." XM's year has been smoother than The National Association of Broad- subscriber forecast Sirius's. The New York -based firm casters, of which O'Shaughnessy is a 25M - 1400°° delayed its December national launch, member, is concerned that neither replacing it with a February launch in - 1200% XM nor its competitor Sirius Satellite 20M three markets-Phoenix, Houston Radio is clear enough about how it 1000% and Denverand a gradual rollout will use the repeaters, even though throughout the rest of next year. 15M both companies and analysts say satel- 800% In October, Sirius announced that lite radio companies have no interest its CEO, David Margolese, would be 600°° in offering local programming. 10M stepping aside. In December, it re- Specifically, broadcasters worry 400°° placed him with Joseph Clayton, and about a phrase in a recent Sirius FCC 5M Margolese stayed on as chairman of 200°0 filing suggesting its repeaters would the board. provide "nearly simultaneous" trans- o 0% The announcement initially rattled 2004 mission of the programming from the 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 the markets, but Wall Street seems to satellite. The filing was not clear what Al Total satellite radio subs Growth rate think Clayton is a good choice and that meant, say NAB lawyers. Sirius's stock has been rising ever 02001 Property of the Camel Group. All Rotas Reserved "We continue to be concerned be- since.

22 Broadcasting & Cable /12 -31 -01 WQEX in play in Pittsburgh catering to local car dealers and other local WQED fights flak as labors it advertisers that otherwise couldn't afford to spin off its affiliate to buy anything but very late night time. "Anything in top -25 national markets is By Bill McConnell going to be a profitable business," Weather- ittsburgh is home to a bitter, long - by says. running battle to decide the fate of By that same logic, WQED's critics con- one of its two public -TV stations. tend, there's no reason a second public sta- WQED(TV) Pittsburgh has been fighting tion can't make it in Pittsburgh. for half a decade to spin off WQEX(TV) WQED argues that Pittsburgh's indus- ch. 16, the weaker of its two stations, to trial decline -including the loss of head- buyers offering enough cash to shore up quartered corporations such as Gulf Oil, the finances of the flagship. Westinghouse and Rockwell-has drained Shooting Star Incas Diane Sutter sees WQEX as Thwarting nearly every deal has been a the pool of corporate donors that once "a great opportunity" if she can win FCC coalition of local citizens and independent approval to convert it to a commercial station. funded National Geographic specials and advocates for public broadcasting, who other programming that WQED pro- want federal regulators to solicit applica- by, a station broker in the Atlanta office of duced and sold to other public -TV outlets. tions for WQEX's license from other pub - Media Services Group. But Citizens for Public Broadcasting and lic-TV operators. That's the thinking of Diane Sutter, chief the Alliance for Progressive Action counter Last week, comments from all sides ar- executive of Shooting Star Inc., who calls that Pittsburgh still ranks ninth in the rived to help the FCC struggle through the her $20 million contract to buy WQEX "a number of U.S. headquarters, with USX, legal issues surrounding WQED's request great opportunity" if she can win FCC ap- Alcoa Heinz and PPG offering a ripe po- that WQEX be de- reserved as a noncom- proval to convert it to a commercial station. tential donor base. mercial station and freed up for commer- Until recently, the only affiliation available Instead, they charge that WQED has cial use by a potential buyer. in the market was Pax TV, which has just inflated the size of its $9 million listed debt But what's so hot about Pittsburgh? signed a deal to be carried by AT &T and and exaggerated the precariousness of its Actually, the ferocity of the fight is Adelphia cable systems there. Nevertheless, financial situation. They say the station is understandable: Only nine full -power sta- Sutter believes the market is tions serve the Pittsburgh metro area, and ripe for a strong independent Local citizens and independent commercial broadcasters have been eager to provide a lineup of popular to get into the market. At the same time, syndicated programs largely advocates for public broadcasting public-broadcasting advocates complain missing from the Pittsburgh want federal regulators to solicit that WQED has underutilized its second market, along with local news channel by choosing to simulcast program- and public- affairs programs. applications for WOEX's license ming on both channels at a time when out- Weatherby agrees. Because from other public -TV operators. lets for engaging noncommercial program- of the lack of outlets for non- ming are in short supply. network programming there, The No. 20 DMA in the country, Pitts- he predicts a commercial WQEX could air seeking FCC sympathy for a "windfall" burgh trails similarly sized markets in the first -run and older syndicated programs for profit from the WQEX sale rather than number of commercial-TV outlets. Where- little money or simply for bartered ad time. pumping resources into the operation or as 18th -ranked Denver has 12 and No. 21 The new owner should avoid the unneces- opening the market to competition from a Orlando has 11, Pittsburgh has only seven sary expense of new off -network programs competing public broadcaster. commercial allotments, with one occupied and should fill remaining gaps with paid WQED's critics want the FCC to retain by a religious programmer. The rest are programming. WQEX ch. 16's noncommercial reserva- O &Os or affiliates of the Big Four nets, That strategy, he predicts, could gamer tion and either force WQED to stop simul- The WB and UPN. the station a 6 % -7% share of the TV ad casting or make the WQEX license avail- "There's room for a good, solid inde- market and generate annual revenues of able to other noncommercial applicants. pendent in that market," says Jesse Weather- more than a million dollars annually by They note that, even though WQED

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says it has received no bona fide offers for station operators in 70 other markets where ed by the FCC. A 1999 attempt to turn the WQEX, organization President George more than one commercial station operates station over to a religious broadcaster in a Miles has vowed to pull the weaker station to seek reward for "wasteful mismanage- complicated three -way swap with Paxson off the market if the FCC opens the license ment" and avoiding competition. Communications fell apart in the wake of transfer to competing applicants. Two earlier deals to spin off WQEX have congressional furor over FCC guidelines They also warn that granting WQED's fallen through. WQED's request to sell to a governing the operation of noncommercial request would give the go -ahead to public- commercial owner five years ago was reject- stations by religious broadcasters.

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Ns Brokers: Star Media Group and Media Price: $115,000 KNTV -TV San Jose, Calif. Venture Partners Buyer: Family Worship Ministries (Harold Price: $230 million (see story in Business) WGUC -FM Cincinnati Pope, president); no other broadcast interests Buyer. NBC (Jay Ireland, president, NBC Price: None (Station has been operated by Sellen John McIntyre Stations) buyer under a local management agree- Facilities: 1390 kHz, 1kW Seller: Granite Broadcasting (Stuart J. ment for more than a year. Although sta- Format: Country/blue grass/talk Beck, president) tion has been valued at $5 million, WRMG(AM) Red Bay, Ala. Facilities: Ch.11; 182 kW, ant. 2,769 ft. University of Cincinnati gave it away, look- Price: $42,300 Affiliation: WB (NBC effective Jan. 1, 2002) ing to trim operating costs.) Buyer: Jack W. Ivy; no other broadcast Financial advisers: Merrill Lynch (for Buyer: Cincinnati Classical Public Radio interests NBC) and Goldman Sachs (for Granite) (Richard Eiswerth, president/CEO); no Seller. Jimmy Pyle

other stations Facilities: 1430 kHz, 1 kW day Combos Seller: University of Cincinnati (Joseph A. Format: ( ;ountry WANB -AM -FM Waynesburg, Pa. Steger, president) WYMR(AM) Bridgeport, Ala. Price: $850,000 Facilities: 90.9 MHz, 15 kW, ant. 880 ft. Price: $36,000 Buyer: Broadcast Communications Inc. Format Classical Buyer: Dade County Broadcasting (Evan E. (Robert M. Stevens, president); also owns Stone, president); also owns WKWN(AM) WKHB(AM) and WKTW(AM) both AMs Chattanooga, Tenn. Pittsburgh WKDA-AM Madison (Nashville), Tenn. Seller. KEA Radio Inc. (Ronald Setier. WANB Radio (Joseph E. Hennessey, Price: $3 million I.1%engood, president) president) Buyer: Nashville Public Radio (Robert J. Facilities: 1480 kHz, 1 kW day, 39 W

Facilities: WANB -AM: 1580 kHz, 1 kW Gordon, president); owns four other sta- night day; WANB -FM: 103.1 MHz, 550 W, ant. tions, including WNSG(AM) -WPLN -FM Format Adult standard 620 ft. Nashville KGLF(AM) Robstown (Corpus Christi), Format WANB -AM: country; WANB -FM: Seller: Great Southern Broadcasting Texas country (William Barry, president) Price: $10,000

Facilities: 1430 kHz, 5kW day, I k \\' night Buyer: B Communications Joint Venture FMs Format News/talk (( Jerald Benavides, et. al.); no other broad- KARA -FM Santa Clara (San Jose), Calif. WDLW(AM) Lorain (Cleveland), Ohio cast interests Price: $58 million Price: $250,000 Seller. The Worship Center (Rufino Buyer Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. Buyer: Douglas Wilbur; also owns Scndcjo, owner) (McHenry Tichenor Jr., president/CEO); \X'( )BL(AM) Cleveland Facilities: 1510 kHz, 500 W day owns 54 other stations, incl. WADO(AM) Seller. Baldwin Broadcasting, (Vernon Format: Religion New York; none in this market Baldwin. owner) Seller: Empire Broadcasting Corp. (Robert Facilities: 1380 kHz, 500 W day, 57 W -Information provided by Kieve, president/CEO) night BIA Financial Networks' Facilities: 105.7 MHz, 50 kW, ant. 499 ft. Format Spanish/variety Media Access Pm, Format: Adult hits WJRM(AM) Troy, N.C. Chantilly, Va. www.bia.com

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TV news service, is installing Live - cated with Wave remote -control camera sys- the camera about tems in its McLean, Va., headquarters and and functions as both 10 ven- four bureaus so that USA Today print server and encoder. The typical dors, includ- reporters can appear on the station group's cost of LiveWave's systems range from ing Panasonic, 22 television stations. $5,000 to $10,000, the cost of the camera Sony, Hitachi and Tele- "We live, breath and eat USA Today," determining the final cost of the system. A metrics. says Victor Murphy, director of operations professional- quality camera with lens will "Our software enables them to get and production, USA Today Live. "We tack on $12,000 to $15,000. Total cost for higher functionality out of the camera, like have one system up and running now in the system that is implemented at the four white balance and gain," he says. "Pretty our downtown Washington, D.C., bureau. USA Today Live bureaus clocked in at much everything is on the computer's And we're in the process of having fiber $100,000. graphical user interface. Users also have lines installed in New York, San Francisco "I'm getting it done pretty cheaply," variable speed control, so they can do says Murphy. "We don't moves on -air or track moving objects, and need anything incredibly there is a cueing system so multiple opera- 'We need don't anything incredibly sensitive for tracking; we tors can have simultaneous access." sensitive for tracking; we just need just need to be able to With 22 stations using the system, to frame up a talking -head shot. frame up a talking -head Murphy points out, it can reduce the wear shot. But it also allows and tear of getting newspaper reporters But it also allows me to control all me to control all the cam- from the downtown bureau to McLean. "A the camera functions: era functions. I can set up Gannett station can call up and say they bars, control white bal- want to interview someone," he explains. -Victor Murphy, USA Today Live ance, and it's like having "We bring the reporter back to McLean a camera -control unit and either fiber out or satellite out the sig- and Los Angeles, where the other three sys- thrown in as well." nal to the station." tems will go." The year -old LiveWave exhibited at its The privately held LiveWave is a Boston - San Francisco will be online next first NAB show this past April and began based manufacturer of systems that pro- month, New York in March and Los shipping products in June. vide live broadcast -TV or broadband dis- Angeles in April. Mottur believes that his company's ap- tribution of audio and video, as well as According to LiveWave President Peter proach offers two primary advantages over remote camera control and network man- Mottur, USA Today Live will use cable its competitors in the remote- camera mar- agement over an IP connection. Earlier this modems to control the cameras, which are ket: The LiveWave system allows control month, the company announced plans to Panasonic AW- E600 /AW- PH300A robotic over any type of network connection- integrate its software and encoder /servers cameras. The LiveWave CC- 100 -SE Broad- whether dial -up modem, IP or dedicated with Panasonic's convertible cameras and cast Pro systems include software and a line-and can work with cameras from pan/tilts.

P6 Broadcasting & Cable /12 -31 -01 Technology zBand: Content in, IP out INBRIEF Latest version is designed GRAY COMMUNICATIONS REUPS WITH ENCODA to enable distribution Atlanta -based TV group Gray to incompatible systems Communications has signed a five -year renewal contract with traffic system manufacturer By Ken Kerschbaumer Encoda Systems for eight of the SkyStream's recently introduced version group's 13 stations, including of zBand content-distribution/manage- use of Encodá s Columbine and ment system is intended to help content JDS traffic systems. The stations creators and distributors involved in new areas in the renewal are WKYT like video-on- demand, broadband delivery or Lexington, Ky., WYMT Hazard, Ky., WVLT Knoxville, Tenn., WRDW datacasting meet one of the challenges: figur- North Augusta, S.C., WEAU Eau ing out how to send and receive content in a SkyStream's Clint Chao: "Broadcasters and content developers have started to look at Claire, Wis., KWTX Waco, Texas, digital landscape peppered with proprietary distribution of digital content and content in KXII Sherman, Texas, and KBTX technology and incompatible systems. the IP format. There has been a challenge in Bryan, Texas. finding how to empower the different A movie studio, for example, may be inter- components in the food chain to ested in developing its own VOD service for implement a service." delivery to cable and satellite operators and WEB -BASED REMOTE maybe even to broadband. Launching the ser- create their own channels of content (movies or CONTROL AT TEKTRONIX Tektronix has added Web- based, vice involves sending it out in multiple formats other media, such as interactive or streaming remote -control functionality to to reach the various set -top boxes and applica- programming, which NBC recently tested with its AD991 MPEG Signal manage them without having tion-programming interfaces in the field. SkyStream) and to Source/Source Scheduler. The "Broadcasters and con- set up complicated sys- new functionality will be includ-

have terns on the reception si de . ed version tent developers start- Providers can create in the 2.3 of the ed to look at the business "The content provider product's software as part of the models that allow for the media assets like just feeds the channels product's base price of $15,000. available for distribution of digital con- interactive programming, into the server before Upgrades are $3,000. The new remote capabil- tent and content in the IP transmission, and zBand and manage them ities allow the user to control format," says Clint Chao, allows clients with the any MPEG or ATSC transport SkyStream vice president, without having to set software to accept that streams being sent with the unit marketing and business up complicated systems content seamlessly," adds via Web browser or http client. development. "There has Chao. "We're replicating Another option includes a been a challenge in find- on the reception side. a similar environment remote -control scheduling appli- ing how to empower the that was created for video cation to control the unit within automated environments. The different components in the food chain to imple- programs for IP programming." AD991 is most often used in ment a service." The server at the heart of the system includes broadcast applications as a serv- SkyStream believes its system could help modules allowing the creation of channels and er for transporting stream -based spur the growth of programming services like the establishment of access policies, security, transmissions (repeated playout VOD or datacasting. Ranging in price from billing and other rules. "That's really the work- of a clip or playout data, for $50,000 to $1 million depending on implemen- horse piece. The client sits at the receive end. If example). With additional stor- tation, the system consists of a zBand server it's a mid hop (like a cable headend), it could sit age it can also handle long -form material like movies. Video - that takes in content (video, audio or data) and in a server. If it's the last hop, it could sit in a set- equipment manufacturers can prepares it to be sent out via Internet Protocol top box or residential gateway." also make use of the new capa- to zBand clients. Transmission can be done via The only requirement client -side is the soft- bilities to integrate the AD991 satellite, terrestrial or cable transmission. ware, to reside on a PC with Intel Pentium III 1- into automated testing. Version 4.0 of zBand is designed to allow con- GHz processor or Sparc's uSparc -IIi 440-MHz tent creators and distributors to create systems processor (recommended: 512 MB of RAM and around their own needs. Content providers can a 30- plus -GB U160 SCSI hard drive).

Broadcasting & Cable/12-31-01 27 Technology INBRIEF 1- Signal from the feds TEN LABS INTROS NEW CONVERTER Report says NYC stations will get aid, but that's news to them TenLabs, based in Agoura Hills, Calif., has introduced the TR- By Ken Kerschbaumer William E Baker, president and CEO of 1000Pro multisystem digital video A1>orted $8.2 million federal aid pack - WNET -TV confirms that he has not heard converter. The unit costs $1,599 igc is destined to be used help get and includes a built -in time base to anything about impending federal funds. corrector, genlock input and out- New York City broadcasters back on (Radio, neither public nor private, is not put, and a multi- system bar gen- the air, but attempts to verify specifics last part of the package, says a spokeswoman erator. It can handle any TV sys- week proved as confusing as playing for New York's public radio station, tem signal in the world, including Chinese checkers in the dark. WNYC -FM.) NTSC, PAL, PAL -M, PAL -N and According to a published account, the With Washington basically shut down SECAM. It has a dual set of com- Metropolitan Television Association had lob- last week for the holidays and many indus- posite video, S -video and stereo bied Congress for the money, arguing that try employees on vacation, details were audio inputs as well as a video processor to adjust color, hue, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, New York sketchy. Even Land was having difficulty brightness and contrast. broadcast stations had difficulty reaching the getting specifics. entire viewing area in non -cabled homes; The Times said New York Sen. Charles MINERVA'S LATEST that is about 20% of the market. E. Schumer pushed to get aid for the TWICE AS NICE New York stations had their transmitters broadcasters that lost their facilities. Minerva Network's latest version and antennas on top of the World Trade Federal aid aside, Land says that the of its Video Network Platform Center's north tower. Since the disaster, progress towards getting a tower up and allows for the delivery of MPEG -2 stations have been using makeshift facili- encoded video over ADSL to two running by Sept. 11, 2003 continues to television sets per home. The new ties atop the Empire State Building and move forward. version 1.6 software will be avail- at a site in Alpine, NJ. Studies are expected to be complet- able on Jan. 10. Reed Majors, vice But Doug Land, executive direc- ed shortly on possible transmission president of marketing and busi- tor of the umbrella group that sites, and Land says that the sta- ness development for Minerva, represents New York stations, tion consortium is now looking says the product's goal is to pro- says there were no lobbying for two sites instead of one. vide telephone companies a more efforts and that the first time Land would like to con- competitive video solution against start cable and satellite. he heard of the funding was struction by next September. By using VNP in an IP Television when he read about it in The "The one thing we headend service, providers can New York Times. learned after Sept. 11 is that deliver IP Television and VOD to Then, from what he we can never be in a position the home. And the two -television learned from his sources in where a terrorist act deprives functionality allows subscribers to Washington, the money was "In all candor, we the public of free over -the- connect and watch different pro- specifically aimed at "public air television," he says. grams on two televisions simulta- don't know any- broadcasting" facilities, not "So our objective is to neously from one phone line, about while also having access to the for the construction of the thing it," build two fully redundant Internet and talking on the phone. new tower or transmission says the leader of sites with equal capacity. Other improvements include facilities for commercial tele- That means two tall towers. an allowing horizontal video resolu- vision stations. association of We're exploring every single tion to be adjusted from 720 "I checked with WNET New York outlets option in terms of available pixels per line to 544 pixels per New York, and they said they land and buildings within line. Dynamic parameters are also don't know anything about it either," Land said, 3.2 miles of the World Trade Center. available to provide the ability referring to New York's PBS in all to adjust brightness, contrast, outlet. "So, "We're also continuing to talk with the saturation, hue and sharpness, as candor, we don't know anything about it. The Empire State Building," he adds. "We're well as luminance and chromi- only message we have gotten is that it is for pub- doing the studies to determine what needs to nance temporal filters on the fly. lic broadcasting, and the best we can ascertain it be done to accommodate all broadcasters in has nothing to do with the tower." terms of the structure of the building."

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Broadcast TV gramming; Matthew Cramer, Appointments at ABC Inc., director, creative advertising, Obituary New York: Henry S. Columbia Pictures, Los Hoberman, VP, litigation and Angeles, joins as director, cre- Mary Louise Kennedy, graphics, promotion and personnel direc- employment practices, ative print/advertising; Steve tor for KZTV(TV) Corpus Christi, Texas, died on Dec. 8. She was 90. promoted to senior VP; T. Roberts, head of produc- Born Mary Louise Witt liff on June 5, 1911, Kennedy graduated

Scott Fain, VP, broadcasting tion/writer /producer, Studio from Cleveland Business College and left Ohio in 1937 to pursue a -legal and business affairs, City, Los Angeles, joins as career in journalism. She worked as reporter, freelance writer and promoted to senior VP, coun- director, on -air promotions. magazine editor at various publications in New Orleans and Texas. It sel; Jeffrey Ruthizer, VP, Louis F. Gutierrez, senior Nas in San Antonio, while working at the Texas Hotel Review, that labor relations, promoted to executive, human resources/ she met her husband, Vann Kennedy, then a police reporter for the senior VP. legal counsel, Paramount San Antonio Express. The couple wed in 1940. Richard Schrott, station man- Pictures, Hollywood, appoint- While he served in WWII, she managed his Austin, Texas, newspa- ager, WJAC -TV Johnstown, ed senior VP. per, the State Observer. After the war, the couple relocated to Corpus Pa., promoted to GM. Christi, where they established KSIX(AM) in 1947. They moved into Scott Eymer, GM, KNIN- Radio television with introduction of KZTV in 1956, expanding that end of TV Caldwell, Idaho, named Promotions at Clear Channel the business with KVTV(TV) Laredo, Texas, in 1973, and moved back VP /GM, KIVI(TV) Nampa, Radio, Austin, Texas: Jeff into radio with KEXX -FM Llano, Texas, in 1977. Idaho. Littlejohn, Steve Davis and Outside of broadcasting and radio, Kennedy published two books. Allan Land, executive VP, Al Kenyon, all VP, engineer- She authored The Hoblitzelle Collection of English Silver and served as

WHIZ- TV/WHIZ(AM)/FM ing, have been promoted to designer and editor for a collection of sermons by Edmund Heinsohn Zanesville, Ohio, is retiring senior VP. called The New World. after 54 years with the stations. Kennedy is survived by her husband; daughter Kathleen; step- Journalism daughter Laura Frances Waugespack; and nephews Thomas and Cable TV Changes at CNN Newsource Wallace Finfrock. -P. Llanor Alleyne Jeffrey B. Yapp, Bureaus: Jim LeMay, bureau president/COO, Hollywood manager, \\'ashington, named Entertainment Corp., head, business development; Danielle Whelton, execu- officer, Style365.com, Los Wilsonville, Ore., named Jamey Graydon, senior pro- tive producer, White House Angeles, joins Warner Bros. group president, retail division, ducer, Chicago, named bureau beat, CNN, Washington, Online, Glendale, Calif., as Cablevision, Bethpage, N.Y. supervisor, Washington; R.J. named senior executive pro- VP, strategic marketing. Fletcher, photographer, ducer. Programming Atlanta, named operations Associations /Law Firms Appointments at UPN, Los supervisor, Washington; Lindy Technology Erwin Krasnow and Michael Angeles: Pamela Liptak - Hall, senior producer, Los William Burke, VP, network Berg, communications attor- Kosters, executive director, Angeles, named bureau super- sales, ESPN, Chicago, joins neys, Vemer, Liipfert, marketing operations, named visor, Los Angeles; Kristin AT &T Media Services, Bernhard, McPherson & VP, marketing operations and Fraser, producer, Seattle, Chicago, as general sales man- Hand, Washington, join special projects; Michael named bureau supervisor, ager, Chicago Interconnect. Shook, Hardy and Bacon, McDonald, VP, television, Seattle; Casey Bauer, produc- Richard R. Hamilton, VP, Washington, in the same Renaissance Pictures, Los er, Denver, named bureau global sourcing, Partminer Inc., capacity. Angeles, joins as director, supervisor, Denver. Denver, joins nCube Corp., drama development; Adam Brian Vandenberg, assistant Denver, as VP, worldwide sales. Myman, manager, current pro- news director, KSPR(TV) -P. Llanor Alleyne gramming, CBS, Los Angeles, Springfield, Mo., promoted to Internet [email protected] joins director, current pro- news director. Brian Moreno, chief marketing (212) 337 -7141

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as their own. They pass on the He believes in local TV responsibility to the corpora- tion. Then the employees won- After network and station -group stints, Quitoni has come full circle der what the general manager's even doing there." David Price, news director Frank Quitoni started out in local television, doing equip- for the two Peak stations and ment maintenance in Savannah, Ga., and he plans to finish anchor for one, sees it the his career in local television in Johnstown, Pa. This time, same way. "So many people though, he's a station owner. from the outside buy televi- In between, he has served several stints as an executive running sion stations. Frank doesn't operations for two networks and major projects like political con- have to be here. But he bought ventions and the Olympics. And he ran a group of 11 TV stations the station, and he came here. for River City Broadcasting and a similar-size regional group when He lives here, likes it here and River City was bought by Sinclair Broadcast Group. is part of the community. An equity stake in River City gave Quitoni the wherewithal to Consolidation creates a money join River City founder and CFO Larry Marcus in his next project, vacuum. Companies come in Peak Media of Pennsylvania. For that project, Quitoni moved to and suck local dollars out of Johnstown, Pa., where he runs WWCP -TV Johnstown for Peak the economy. Here, the money Frank Anthony Quitoni and WATM -TV Altoona for Palm Media. stays; it helps fuel the local President, Peak Media of "You hear so many people saying you shouldn't go into business Pennsylvania, Johnstown, Pa. economy." with a friend. But Larry and I have become close friends, and his Peak Media of Pennsylvania B. Oct 21, 1944, Bronx, N.Y.; AB, was inextricably drawn into RCA Institute, New York, 1964; the biggest story in years on BBA, University of Miami, 1972; style of management is the al manager really operates it Sept. 11. As the story began equipment maintenance, WSAV -TV, same style I have. And it works. locally. An out -of -state owner unfolding that morning, Savannah, Ga., 1964 -66; engineer, "I knew production and or a publicly traded company Quitoni recalls, "we got WMAL -TV, Washington, 1972 -73; engineering, how to do big has a much harder time mak- program controller, operations together with all the newspeo- shows. Larry was the one who ing quick decisions. I don't producer, engineer-in- charge of ple. We talked about how do gave me the understanding of have to say, 'Hold on, I have to news coverage, GM, electronic we get the story; how do we the financial side of the busi- call corporate.' Larry and I can news, ABC, New York, 1973 -86; bring it home, other than talk- ness," Quitoni adds, noting. make decisions instantan- regional manager, Abekas Video ing about the shock value? "We all work for sales. That eously. Systems, Pittsburgh, 1986-87; What can we do; who can we may be a little easier to get "I still think local owner- director, engineering/operations, call? We decided to personal- across in a smaller company. ship has a valid business plan," NEP Super Shooters, Pittsburgh, ize it for the market, talk to vic- 1987-88; director, Olympic opera- The big guys tend to operate he continues. "Sometimes, tims' relatives who are in our tions, CBS, New York, 1988 -94; their companies by looking at [groups] get too big, unwieldy. area." vice president, operations, engi- the expense side before look- You can't manage that many But it wasn't long before neering, River City Broadcasting, ing at the revenue side. We people and that many assets. the story burst, literally, into St. Louis, 1994-96; regional direc- in a always look at maximizing rev- Look at some of the big play- tor, Sinclair Broadcast Group, St the market, crashing down enue potential before we look ers today. They don't have a Louis, 1996 -98; current job since field just 10 miles from the sta- at expenses." good time going to the bank 1998; m. Shirlee Wolf, 1990; chil- tion. "We staked out that area. After years running TV- every day." dren: Kristin (24), Megan (22) Larger stations relied on us to station groups, Quitoni has a In most stations, he says, a help them out," Quitoni says, new understanding of local visit from the ownership or wide open every day. Most gen- again extolling the value of television. "There are very few corporate management brings eral managers don't take on the localism. "Our people know TV stations left where a gener- with it anxiety. "My door's responsibility of the TV station the area." -Dan Trigoboff

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REPORTER MORNING SHOW PRODUCER DIRECTOR OF SALES Top 5 market, KTVU Channel 2's 'Mornings on 2' Market leading CBS affiliate is looking for a in is WRGB, the CBS affiliate Albany, NY looking has an immediate opening for a veteran morning Director of Sales. You will be responsible for the for a reporter for our 5am -7am TV newscast. You show producer to take the show to the next level. sales staff of our CBS station and also our soon - must have two years of experience and be a Must love pressure and breaking news, have to-be launched UPN affiliate. You must have 3 -5 solid, enterprising journalist. Please send a VHS excellent news judgement and good writing skills. years in television sales management, be very tape and resume to: Only applicants with morning news experience in organized, have excellent computer skills and be a mid to large market need apply. EOE E -mail Beau Duffy, News Director a good trainer and motivator. We are not looking resumes to news @kNu.com WRGB for a desk jockey. You must be very hands -on and Email resumes 1400 Balltown Rd. creative in your sales approach. to vpgm ®wcia.com or mail to: General Manager, Niskayuna, NY 12309 SENIOR WRITER/PRODUCER WCIA -TV, 509 S. Neil Street, Champaign, IL EOE. No phone calls please. 61824. EOE. KLAS -TV (CBS) is looking for an experienced and creative SENIOR WRITER/PRODUCER to TRAFFIC MANAGER join its Creative Services Department. The suc- DIRECTOR OF SALES KCRA & KOCA -TV in Sacramento, CA and proud cessful candidate will have proven writing, pro- WMBD/WYZZ -TV is looking for a Director of Hearst -Argyle Television group member of the ducing and editing (AVID) skills, and can turn Sales to oversee the sales effort in the Peoria, IL are seeking a Traffic Manager. Candidate would around effective news topical promotions under for oversee the traffic department for both stations. market. This position oversees sales both Accuracy, efficiency, strong people skills and tight deadlines. An enthusiasm for creative and CBS and FOX with duties including inventory knowledge of BIAS are a must. Please send unexpected solutions to promctional challenges management, project and promotion manage- resume to: Director of Sales, KCRA -TV 3 is a big plus! If you have at least 3 years of news ment, forecasting, pricing and team building. Television , CA 98514. Circle, Sacramento promotion experience; possess strong communi- Must be able to multi -task and have sales cations skills and are willing to work as part of a management experience. Send letter and NEWS PRODUCER team, send your demo tape and resume to: resume to Neal Davis, WMBD -TV, 3131 N. WANE -TV has an immediate opening for a Marketing Director, KLAS -TV, 3228 Channel 8 University, Peoria, IL 61604. EOE Television News Producer. Must have excellent Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89109. EOE. writing skills, god news judgment and be creative. 6,500 CANDIDATES Ideal candidate will have at least one year's expe- 1 SEEKING NEW OPPORTUNITIES rience at a commercial television station or recent FINANCIALCAREERS college graduate with quality news internships. No in 50 states phone calls please. Send VHS tape, resume and 98% currently employed - references bekre January 4th to: ACCOUNTANT Avg. 4.2 years experience Rick Moll, News Director, WANE -TV ABC7, the number one station in Los Angeles, is Sales Managers - Account Executives 2915 W. State Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46808 seeking an accountant who will assist in general Post your opening at -www.MediaRecruiter.com WANE -TV is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F accounting functions, financial reporting, fixed asset maintenance, and special projects. This NATIONAL SALES MANAGER position will also assist in budget and forecast ANCHOR WWMT-TV, CBS, Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo / preparation. College degree in Accounting or WRGB, the CBS affiliate in Albany, NY is looking Battle Creek (38th DMA) is ready to hire an Finance required. Please sent resume to: ABC7 for a main anchor to team up with our established accomplished broadcast professional with an out- female anchor on the 6pm and 11pm TV news- Los Angeles, Attn: Human Resources, Dept. standing track- record for the position of National casts. You must be a top-notch journalist and a A/BC, 500 Circle Seven Drive, Glendale, CA Sales Manager. You will lead and motivate the sta- great communicator with a desire to be part of the 91201. Equal Opportunity Employer. tion's National Sales representatives while man- community. Send a VHS tape and resume to: aging and directing the station's transactional rev- Beau Duffy, News Director enue stream. Accurate/decisive pricing skills and inventory management a must. You will be a self - WRGB R FF R S directed coach (and a team player) with the requi- 1400 Balltown Rd. MISCELLANEOUSrn site leadership, communication, and presentation Niskayuna, NY 12309 skills necessary to develop and to communicate No phone calls please. EOE. meaningful station & market information, accurate and aggressive station/market budget forecasts, and a game-plan to create a 'Win -Win' while WEATHER/NEWS achieving revenue goals. Savvy competitors who Gulf Coast Fox station needs vibrant, creative SBB are ready to lead Freedom Communications' flag- SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP weather /news anchor to join successful morning ship station and Western Michigan's broadcast to sales success will send accurate team. Will also co-anchor some news, do live powerhouse resume and industry- related references, no later interviews and cut -ins. Prefer meteorologist and than 1/28/01 to: Margie Candela, HRC Must Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. at least three years experience. be upbeat, WWMT-TV3 personable and a team player. Tapes/resumes to owns or programs 62 TV stations 590 W. Maple St. Chuck Bark, News Director, WALA -TV, 210 in 40 markets and has affiliations Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Government Street, Mobile, Alabama, 36602. NO PHONE CALLS Emmis Communications is an Equal Opportunity with all 6 networks. Explore your Employer. opportunities at: MARKETING

ATTITUDE MAKES GREAT TV! www.sbgi.net DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Looking for outspoken, passionate, and fun per- AND PROMOTIONS sonalities for several on -air positions. Female candidates should be Jillian Barberie types. Sinclair is proud to be an Equal Opportunity WSAZ Television #1 in Charleston -Huntington, Males: Chandler - Joey - Ross types. Send non- Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. seeks a Director of Marketing and Promotions to returnable VHS Tapes to: On Air Hosts, Women and Minorities are encouraged to lead team. Responsibilities include station Promotion Department, W010-WUAB TV, 1717 apply. branding, outside media, big picture thinking. E. 12th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44114. Absolutely no phone calls, please. EOE Send resume to don.ray @wsaz.com

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Great growth Email [email protected] or visit us online at: opportunity for experienced General Sales Manager, Regional and Local Sales Manager, TELEVISION ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC www.Haddenonline.com Account Executives, Traffic, and Editors needed. DESIGNER Please forward resume in confidence to P.O. Box Christian and family television station production HADDEN & ASSOC. 1233, Attn: K. Parker, B&C Magazine, 275 company (WSJF -TV PAX 51, Columbus- Market (Office) 407-699 -6069 (FAX) 407 -699 -1444 Washington St., 4th IL, Newton, MA 02458. 34) is seeking an experienced broadcast art direc- tor / graphic artist to join it's in -house production MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS team. Person must have a minimum of 3 years NEWS 4r1cch MANAGER experience in storyboarding, 2D design and layout for print, broadcast graphic design, digital effects, WBOC - TV, Delmarva s New Leader, seeks and CD- ROM/DVD creation. Must have experi- WEEKDAY EVENING HOST individual to manage station's marketing and pro- ence with After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, motions efforts for our award winning news, public WOXR -FM, America's premiere classical radio Macromedia Director, and Softimage DS or Avid services, advertising sales, and new digital tech- station, seeks full -time weekday evening host. Media Composer. If you want to help 'change the nologies. Will be responsible for the development No phone calls, please. Send tape and resume face" of Christian Television, then this is the place and implementation of all promotional. marketing, with cover letter to: Announcer Search, WOXR- for you. Please send non -returnable tape, branding, and advertising strategies and budgets, FM, resume, and cover letter to P.O. Box 770, Box BC, 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, as well as creating and executing all station image Thornville, Attn: NY 10011 campaigns. Ohio 43076, General Manager. Experience designing and directing innovative mar- PROMOTION PHOTOGRAPHER/EDITOR keting and promotional efforts essential. Requires TECHNICALCAREERS KCRA -TV, the Hearst -Argyle Television station in working with diverse advertising mediums, public Sacramento, is searching for a creative photogra- relations and use of both traditional and new media pher /editor to join our staff. Applicants must be outlets. Must RADIO TECHNICIANS possess the ability to successfully Media 100 savvy, know After Effects and manage multiple min- Experienced radio technicians needed on short projects simultaneously with PhotoShop inside and out, and have a creative imal supervision. Leadership, communication (writ- notice as possible replacement strike workers shooting eye. Please send resume to : KCRA -TV ten and verbal), negotiation skills, for graphics and 3 Television Circle, Sacramento , CA 98514. Washington- D.C. -based radio network. desktop publishing experience required. 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Resume and work samples to post availability. Local housing humanresources @wboc.com. WBOC -TV is an 814, 225 East St. Paul, Suite 201, Milwaukee, and expenses provided for selected out-of-state Equal Opportunity Employer. WI 53202. workers. Respond to: NPR, Human Resources Department ASSISTANT PROMOTION - Position Number 1217; 635 Massachusetts Ave MANAGER CALL TODAY TO PLACE KCRA -TV, the Hearst -Argyle Television station in AN AD! NW; Washington DC 20001 -3753; Fax - 202 -513- Sacramento, is searching for an Assistant 617 -558 -4532 or 617 -558 -4481 3047; E -mail - employment @npr.ong. NPR is an Promotion Manager to help lead our team. If you Equal Opportunity Employer. are a rock solid writer who understands the impor- - SM tance of driving viewers with branded and com- pelling topicals, can produce high impact image advertising, and are looking to step into manage- SALESCAREERS r ment, this could be your next job. Ability to multi- P task and work with a sense of urgency is a must. SALES DIRECTOR Please send resume to : KCRA -TV 3 Television Variety, the publication of record for the entertain- Circle, Sacramento , CA 98514. Attn:Gene ment industry, an has Robinson, Creative Services Director. has exciting career opportunity If it anything at all to do for a seasoned and savvy sales manager in our New York office. In this highly visible and key role, with Cable Television or the GENERAL MANAGER you will manage the entire sales function includ- WDRB -TV, a Fox affiliate, and WFTE -TV, a UPN ing: management of sales personnel, territory Telecommunications Industry... affiliate, comprise a duopoly in Louisville, KY, in budgets and projections, sales and product devel- need of General Manager following the retirement opment and management of existing business. B&C is the place to be! of long term General Manager. Reports to You will also manage a sales territory of your own. Corporate President. Solid bottom line business The ideal candidate will have 10+ years sales and Fo ad in acumen combined with exceptional leadership, management experience in a media environment, place an the magazine and the ability to multitask effectively in a fast paced negotiation and organizational skills necessary. industry, have a proven sales track record and the on the web, contact: Minimum 3 years station management experience ability to quickly increase territory sales. required. Send resume and references to William Excellent communication skills a must. Kristin Parker at 617 -558 -4532, or Block, Jr., Block Communications, 541 N. Superior, Send cover letter, resume and salary require- Neil Andrews 617- 558 -4481 Toledo, OH 43660. No calls, please. EOE. ments to: sjautz @cahners.com at

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Since the attack on September 11th, the Ad Council, along with rest of America, has been focusing its efforts on our national crisis.

As a result, the Ad Council has created and distributed many critical crisis related PSAS and will continue to do so as long as necessary. We are proud to provide this service and thank you for your continued support of these messages.

However, we must not lose sight of the fact, that despite the understandable shift in our nation's focus, the many pressing social issues facing our country prior to the attack, still remain.

Approximately 1 in 5 children (under the age of 18) are hungry or at risk of being hungry in America

40% of teenage girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend

When colon cancer is detected at an early, localized stage, the 5 -year survival rate is 90 %; however only 37% of colorectal cancers are discovered at that stage. (Early detection is crucial, which is what our campaign advocates)

As you shape your PSA schedule for the coming year we encourage you to find time for issues such as these.

We hope that you will find our Public Service Events Calendar helpful. In it you will find pertinent placement dates for all of our long- standing campaigns such as Crime Prevention, Seat Belt Education and Drunk Driving Prevention, as well sug- gestions for some new additions to the Ad Council's campaign docket such as Fair Housing and Family Literacy.

As America goes through this challenging time in its history, the important public service messages we bring you will help strengthen and unite your communities and our nation.

On behalf of everyone at the Ad Council, I thank you for your continued support of our messages and your commitment to keeping America strong.

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Americans for the Arts Americans for the Arts 202-371-2830 www.americansforthearts.org M America's Story Library of Congress 202 -707.9190 www.americaslibrary.gov (Library of Congress)

Get Green Environmental Defense 212- 616.1288 212.616.1238 www.getgreen.com

Child Abuse Prevention Prevent Child Abuse America 312- 663 -3520 1.800-CHILDREN www.preventchildabuse.org

Childhood Asthma Environmental Protection Agency 1-866-NO-ATTACKS www.noattacks.org Colon Cancer Detection American Cancer Society 212 -382 -2169 1.800ACS2345 www.cancer.org and Prevention

Community Drug Prevention Office of National Drug Control Policy 202 -395 -6700 1- 877 -KIDS -313 www.youcanhelpkids.org www.helpyourcommunity.org

Community Schools Children's Aid Society 212.949 -4800 1- 877 -LOVE -2 -LEARN www.communityschools.org Connect for Kids Benton Foundation 202-638-5770 www.connectforkids.org

Crime Prevention National Crime Prevention Council 202- 466 -NCPC 1- 800 -WE- PREVENT www.weprevent.org 1- 800 -722 -TEENS www.McGruff.org 1- 800 -727 -UNETE

Domestic Violence Prevention Family Violence Prevention Fund 415. 252.8900 1- 800 -END -ABUSE www.fvpf.org

Drunk Driving Prevention U.S. Department of Transportation 202-366-4000 1- 800 -424.9393 www.nhtsa.dot.gov

Earth Share Earth Share 202.537.7100 1- 800-875 -3863 www.earthshare.org

Employer Support National Committee for ESGR 703 -696 -1400 1- 800. 336.4590 www.esgr.org of the Guard & Reserve

Fair Housing National Fair Housing Alliance 202 - 898.1661 1- 866- 222 -FAIR www.nationalfairhousing.org Leadership Conference Education Fund

Family Literacy National Center for Family Literacy 502.584.1133

Fatherhood Initiative National Fatherhood Initiative 301- 948 -0599 1-800-790-DADS www.fatherhood.org

Feeding Children Better America's Second Harvest /ConAgra 402 -595 -4100 1-800- FEED -KIDS www.feedingchildrenbetter.org (Child Hunger) Feeding Children Better Foundation

Firewise USDA Forest Service 202.205 -1483 www.firewise.org National Association of State Foresters

Get Out the Vote Federal Voting Assistance Program 703.588.1584 1- 800-438 -8683 www.fvap.ncr.gov

Give Kids The World Give Kids The World 407.396.1114 1- 800-995 -KIDS www.gktw.org

Healthy Start U.S. Department of Health & 301.443.0543 1- 800-311 -BABY www.mchb.hrsa.gov (Prenatal Health Care) Human Services

Learning Disabilities Coordinated Campaign 202 -326 -8700 1.888GR8MIND www.aboutld.org for Learning Disabilities

Math is Power NACME. National Action Council 212 -279 -2626 1- 800 -97 -NACME www.mathispower.org for Minorities in Engineering

Operation Graduation U.S. Army 1- 877- FOR -A -KID www.operationgraduation.com (High School Drop -Out 1- 866- ESTUDIA Prevention)

Organ Donation Coalition on Donation 804- 330 -8620 1- 800- 355SHARE www.shareyourlife.org

Parents as First Teachers El Valor Corporation 312.997.2021

Partners for Public Education People For the American 202-467-4999 1.800.281 -1313 www.schoolsuccessinfo.org Way Foundation/ NAACP

Safe Gun Storage/ National Crime Prevention Council 202.466.6272 www.unloadandlock.com Gun Violence Prevention

Seat Belt Education U.S. Department of Transportation 202. 366.4000 1- 800 -424 -9393 www.nhtsa.dot.gov

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