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A number of names schedules are unfolding, with more comedies. have surfaced as prospects to head network. fewer action dramas and the return of some PAGE ao. Intensity of press scrutiny may have familiar faces. PAGE 84. A day -by -day chart of the helped precipitate move. PAGE al. programs, times, networks and producers is found on PAGES 86 -87, as is a story on a Hollywood LIGHT IN FOREST FCC gives RKO way out of 20- Radio and Television Society meeting at which year license challenge litigation, asking group the programing heads of the three networks talked owner to work out settlement with competitors for about their respective lineups. station licenses. PAGE 42. BRIGHTON BOUND The biennial International SOUNDS OF NEW ORLEANS Record crowds Broadcasting Convention is preparing to converged on the Crescent City for the National welcome more than 10,000 participants to Association of Broadcaster's Radio '86 convention. 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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS:Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp. 69 ti Allied Broadcast Equipment 34 o Allied Signal 91 0 Ampex Second Cover u Associated Press Broadcast Services hi ICover .Bast's, Inc. 93 Lf Blackburn & Co., Inc. 98 Bonneville Broadcasting System 96 0 Broadcast Investment Analysts 116 o CBS News 47 0 CBS RadioRadio 29 51u Classified Ads 107 -114 o Claster Television Productions 12 -13 u Communications Equity Associates 101 u Comsat General Corp. 76 -77 0 Embassy Communications 7.8 -9 D FowLorber a 55. 56 -57, 58 -59 Fox Television Stations 65 u Frazier Gross & Kadlec. Inc. 79 D Gammon & Ninowski Media Investments, Inc. 102 0 General Motors 83 D Samuel Goldwyn Television 27 D Group W Productions 53 0 Group W Television Newsfeed 150 The Hearst Corp. 66-67u The Ted Hepburn Co. 99 D The Home Shopping Network. Inc. 11 u International Tapetronics Corp. /3M 75 D Kidder. Peabody 8 Co.. Inc. 95 u Lorimar -Telepictures 61, 62 -63 u Lutheran Television Front Cover D Major Market Radio 71 D Orbis Communications 35.37 u Orion Television Syndication 19, 20 -21.23 D Panasonic Broadcast Systems 24 -25 u Paramount Domestic Television and Video Programing 48- 49 u Procter D 8 Gamble Productions, Inc. B1 Professional Cards 105 D Select Radio Representatives 33 u Services Directory 104 u SONY Corp. 31 D SRDS. Inc. 18.28.36 Howard E. Stark 97 0 Torbet Radio 38 u Edwin Tornberg 8 Co., Inc. 103 D TV Extra 14 0 TV Guide 89 0 20th Century Fox Television 16 -17 u Ward -Beck Systems Ltd. Fourth Cover u Warner Bros. Television Distribution 4 -5 D Wertheim & Co.. Inc. 32 D WMSN(TV) 85 0 World Vision 73 WPIX, New York WHIO -TV, Dayton KCOP, Los Angeles WJRT -TV, Flint- Saginaw -Bay City WPWR -TV, Chicago WFLX -TV, West Palm Beach WGBS -TV, Philadelphia WEAR -TV, Mobile- Pensacola KBHK -TV, San Francisco - Oakland WAWS -TV, Jacksonville WLVI -TV, Boston KGSW -TV, Albuquerque KTVT, Dallas -Ft. Worth WOI -TV, Des Moines KHTV, Houston WUHF -TV, Rochester, N.Y. WUAB -TV, Cleveland KVUE -TV, Austin WTAE -TV, Pittsburgh KGUN -TV, Tucson KSTW -TV, Seattle- Tacoma KDEB, Springfield, Mo. WATL, Atlanta WAPT -TV, Jackson, Ms. KMSP -TV, Minneapolis -St. Paul WLTX -TV, Columbia, S.C. WTOG -TV, Tampa -St. Petersburg WNW, Evansville KPLR -TV, St. Louis KLAS -TV, Las Vegas KRBK -TV, Sacramento KTHI -TV, Fargo KUTP, Phoenix WJCL, Savannah WXIN, Indianapolis KNTV, Salinas- Monterey WHCT -TV, Hartford -New Haven KARD, Monroe KPTV, Portland, Or. WLTZ, Columbus, Ga. WOFL, Orlando WCOV -TV, Montgomery WVTV, Milwaukee KJAC -TV, Beaumont -Port Arthur KOCO -TV, Oklahoma City KTVN, Reno KTVX, Salt Lake City WAOW -TV, Wausau WCHS -TV, Charleston- Huntington KLBK -TV, Lubbock WHTM -TV, Harrisburg- Lancaster WWAY, Wilmington, N.C. KMOL -TV, San Antonio WARNER BROS. TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION A WARNER COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY <C1osedCirot ;.lÍ)______ market has been less than vibrant compromise on matters that have The works recently. concerned members of Congress. Asked to explain stock decline, Mara According to Hill version, Mooney would Central question raised by FCC's Balsbaugh, securities analyst with Smith seek to persuade HBO to abandon precedent- shattering proposal that RKO Barney, cited several reasons, including practice of referring part of fee received general settle with 69 challengers to 13 of concern over earnings and worry about from dish owner to cable company its licensees (see page 42) is: How many how soft advertising market would affect involved (so- called BUD, or Brand settlements would it take to free transfer ability to repay debt. Balsbaugh said: "The Utilization Discount). And HBO and of KHi -TV Los Angeles to Westinghouse, likelihood of this [station] deal being Showtime would be asked to organize now on FCC hold? Answer seems to be: canceled is higher than a month ago...If package of programing services for all or most.