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Turner circles CBS Turner Broadcasting System is exploring a counterbid to Westinghouse's offer for CBS, but still has a long way to go to make such an offer. needs major investors before he can buy the network. / 4 Disney's dynamic duo: Eisner and Ovitz Michael Ovitz's unparalleled relationships and knowledge of the entertainment business will pay dividends for Disney's television production activities as well as ABC, observers say. "What he does bring is a wealth of information and incredible leverage," one insider says of Ovitz's surprising move from to Disney. / 6 Second-channel tug-of-war Congressional budget- cutters say broadcasters may face a choice: an accelerated transition to digital TV, or upfront auctions for the second channel that broadcasters now expect to be given for free. / 10 DIRECTV, Primestar and Hundt wants to shrink FCC The FCC plans to send out pink slips for the first Liberty Satellite Sports last week all signed time in its history. Citing a shortage of congressional funding, FCC Chairman Reed deals with Major League Hundt last week announced plans to cut the commission's staff by 10% during the Baseball to carry games next year. / 11 to displaced fans. / 12

SPECIAL REPORT: ACTION HOURS work to be available to 70% of homes within the next Television writes Rx for action hours two years. /32 RADIO The networks' willingness to experiment with innovative To market, to market new shows is breathing new Arbitron's "RetailDirect" research service will trans- life into action hours. And late consumers' buying and media-usage habits for there's no shortage of action - local retailers. Telephone interviews, rather than mail - hour strips for first -run syn- in diaries, will be used in most markets. /35 dication, with 12 poised to enter the market. Here's the TELEMEDIA WEEK state of action hours on the Ovitz's departure networks, on cable and in doesn't put telco syndication. On the cover, on éritech Jaason Simmons and Yasmine plans hold The pace of 'ER' makes it Michael Ovitz's telco nothing if not a medical Bleeth of Baywatch.' Photo by action hour. Spike Nannarello / allegiances have shifted 's aggressive from Tele to Tele -Ven- strategy is aimed at making -TV it an immediate competitor UPN moves against competition tures with his jump to the to cable. The telco plans to UPN's Trek: Voyager action hour has put the net- Co. But Tele -TV secure a series of cable franchises in Ohio and work on the map. This fall, another action hour will is still looking optimistically Illinois this fall, then will take the following time slot. /28 to the future. / 36 look at other states. / 37 PROGRAMING WASHINGTON New York to `Donahue': See ya! Pressler: Senate's top fund-raiser WNBC -TV New York has dropped I8 -year veteran Don- Time Warner and TCI each have given Senate Com- ahue from its schedule, but the talk show will go ahead merce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler $10,000 as planned for the upcoming season. / 29 in the past six months, during the time Pressler was CABLE shepherding telecommunications reform through the Senate. 39 TCI envisions far -flung America / TCI's America One reaches 18% of U.S. households, Changing Hands 41 Editorials 62 but the cable giant's plans call for the broadcast net - Classified 44 Fates & Fortunes 58 Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 3 Ted Turner circles CBS TBS board to reconsider bid for King World, may be first step toward an offer for network

By Steve McClellan ership ban will remain CBS. King World has a From the start, Westinghouse's bid intact after the passage cash reserve of some for CBS prompted speculation of telecommunica- $525 million, which about possible counterbids. Last tions- reform legisla- is expected to in- week, Wall Street signaled that there tion. crease by another may be some truth in the talk: CBS TCI's interest in $100 million in the stock traded as high as $82.25 before TBS could change next year. closing at $81 last Friday, up 2 7/8 for if Turner issues According to the week and equal to Westinghouse's more stock in its Merrill Lynch en- $81- per -share offer. pursuit of CBS, King tertainment analyst Turner Broadcasting System is the World or another Jessica Reif, TBS only company that has confirmed to company. probably could lever- Wall Street analysts that it is exploring Analysts estimate that a age KWP's estimated a counterbid, but it still has a long way Turner counterbid will have 1995 cash flow of $170 mil- to go to make such an offer. So far, Ted to be $86 or better, which would lion for another $850 million in Turner's one key ally, Tele- Communi- include enough to cover the $150 mil- borrowed capital. Thus, a TBS -KWP cations Inc., is as much a hindrance as lion breakup fee CBS will have to pay deal could net Turner up to $1.4 billion a help. Westinghouse if it accepts a higher in cash. TCI's John Malone says he will do offer. Turner's board considered a King what he can to support Turner in his Meanwhile, the TBS board is set to World bid several months ago, but decade -long quest for a network. But meet today (Aug. 21) to reconsider the never acted. Sources said board mem- TCI's 21% stake in could acquisition (probably through a tax - bers were concerned about two key throw a wrench into Turner's effort to deferring stock swap) of cash -rich issues: the fate of the FCC's prime time acquire CBS, because there is a good King World Productions, perceived as access rule (PTAR), which had not chance the cable- broadcast crossown- a first step toward making a bid for then been decided, and Oprah Win - frey's ability to bow out of her talk show with a year's notice. Next month, Westinghouse banks billions for CBS she must formally commit to whether she will do the show for the 1996 -97 It took Westinghouse bankers a mere four working season. days to raise more than $10 billion to finance its pro- Now that PTAR has been killed, posed $5.4 billion acquisition of CBS, plus $2.1 bil- effective in September 1996, analysts lion to refinance existing debt. Sources at the two say Turner will be able to leverage lead banks, Chemical Bank and J.P. Morgan, say down the price of King World. It they will continue to line up additional banks for is not clear by how much, but before another two weeks. "We're only about halfway the PTAR ruling came down, there there," a source says. (Banking syndicates usually were estimates that the company get commitments exceeding the amount being bor- might sell for $50 per share, or about rowed and then reduce the size of each lender's stake.) $1.8 billion. The financing came together quickly because of Westinghouse Chair- The fact that the Turner board is pre- man Michael Jordan's track record of reducing debt at the company and pared to reconsider the King World his commitment to reducing the new debt, the source says: "Obviously, deal prompted speculation that Win- those putting up the money also believe Jordan has enough of a sense of frey had agreed to continue her show what he plans to do with CBS to back him." beyond the next two seasons. Sources While Westinghouse was lining up its financing last week, it won with knowledge of Winfrey's agree- approval from the FCC to proceed with its earlier venture with CBS to ment, however, insist it has not jointly own TV stations in Philadelphia, Miami, Denver and Salt Lake City. changed. The deal gives Group W a majority interest in the stations, but also gives "Anybody who buys King World CBS the option to install new management at the stations if affiliation has to have an agreement with Oprah," agreements between CBS and Group W are breached. Industry sources says Reif. "Otherwise, it would make have said the arrangement will become important to CBS if another bid- no sense." Apparently. Turner is trying der challenges Westinghouse's acquisition of the network. -SM to package a deal that would include a long -term commitment from Winfrey

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TOP OF THE WEEK on Disney is limitless, with potential benefits beyond the traditional televi- What Ovitz brings to Disney sion and theatrical businesses. "He has the potential to bring new By Steve Coe Disney would be just anoth- businesses into Disney," says Addis. er example. Here's a guy "Interactivity and new technologies are a As Michael Ovitz heads [Grey] that built a company principal interest of Mike's. He's on the to Disney, observers from the ground up and now cutting edge of those businesses, and he say his unparalleled is responsible for about has fantastic relationships with many of relationships and knowledge seven shows." those people, including Bill Gates." of the business will pay divi- Will Ovitz's reputation One CAA television client who may dends to both Disney's tele- and CAA relationships be affected by Ovitz's move is David vision production activities translate to new production Letterman. Letterman has been critical and to ABC. talent for Disney? "You of CBS and its woeful prime time per- "Michael brings an aura Michael Ovitz brings would think so," says Keith formance, which provides a weak lead - and mystique that implies TV talents to Michael Addis of Addis -Wechsler & in to his show. There is speculation that, Eisner's Disney team. power, which indeed he Associates, a management/ with Ovitz going to Disney, which will has," says Larry Lyttle, president. Big production company. "He obviously own ABC, the late -night host will con- Ticket Television. "Whatever expertise brings phenomenal relationships with sider jumping to that network when his he lacks in running a network will be the television department at CAA as deal with CBS expires in 1997. made up by his knowledge of the busi- well as a vast knowledge of the biggest ness." companies in television. Although he In fact, Ovitz's influence might hasn't been intimately involved in the CAA's TV portfolio already be working for Disney. The buzz TV side of business at the agency, what Talent agencies typically either around town last Thursday was that he does bring is a wealth of information have partial representation in a Ovitz was looking to lure Brad Grey of and incredible leverage." show (representing a writer, pro- Brillstein -Grey Entertainment into a key Sures also suggested that Ovitz's ducer or actor) or package the position at the studio. Grey also report- presence at the studio could beef up the entire series by bringing together edly is considering an offer from Ron company's stable of producing talent. the production and acting talent. In Meyer, Ovitz's CAA co- founder and "CAA was historically built on televi- package deals, most agencies, now competitor, to join MCA. sion clients. He may try to woo some- including CAA, receive 3% of the Jay Sures, television and literary one like Witt -Thomas, which is CAA's license fee; another 3 %, deferred agent, , points out biggest packager, to Disney from until net profits are figured, and the Ovitz's "unbelievable relationships" in Warner Bros." biggest 10% the industry. "Bringing Brad Grey to Most observers say Ovitz's impact potentially payout, of adjusted gross syndication rev- enue. (William Morris works on 5 %- 5%-10% for packages rather than the standard 3 %- 3 % -10% equa- A restructured CAA finds Gabler at top tion.) The 10% often translates into millions of dollars. CAA has partial With the departure of Michael Ovitz and the rumored exit of Bill Haber representation on 37 series (Fox - from Creative Artists Agency, senior agent Lee Gabler is expected to 11, NBC -10, CBS -9 and ABC -7). assume one of the top positions at the restructured agency with respon- Below are CAA -packaged series. sibility for all its television activities. Gabier is one of 12 senior agents who compose the agency's transi- ABC -Somewhere in America, tion team that will buy out the ownership stakes of Ovitz, Ron Meyer Buddies (midseason). The New (who has left for MCA) and perhaps Haber. Gabler, a 12 -year agency Muppet Show (midseason). veteran, has been handling the day -to -day TV operations at the agency CBS -Dave's World, The Bon- since the mid- to late 1980s. He joined CAA in 1984 after beginning his nie Hunt Show, Almost Perfect, career in 1964 in the mail room at Ashley Steiner Famous Artists (later and My Guys (midseason). International Creative Management). Fox - Melrose Place, Beverly Sources last week said if Haber-who has been more involved in TV Hills 90210, Martin, Divas (mid - than Ovitz or Meyer, although not on a hands -on basis-does leave the season), Glory Days (midsea- agency, it does not mean CAA will see a mass exodus of its TV clients. son), The Kindred (midseason), "The people in the television world were by and large, not affected by The Last Frontier (midseason), The Ovitz and Meyer leaving. Even if Bill [Haber] leaves, I can't imagine Pastor's Wife (midseason). Spelling and Witt- Thomas leaving, because Gabler has relationships with NBC -Brotherly Love, Minor both," said one source. Adjustments, Hope & Gloria, With Ovitz at the Walt Disney Co. and Meyer at MCA, opinions are mixed Newsradio, The Single Guy, The about whether CAA agents will have a competitive advantage at those stu- John Larroquette Show, ER,

dios. "If I'm a CAA agent and my only edge out of all of this is that I can get Homicide and 3rd Rock from the Ovitz or Meyer on the phone during the weekend to discuss a deal or pitch Sun ( midseason). a client, then that's a significant advantage," one source said. -SC WB -The Parent 'Hood. -SC

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Stay current. The new A Current Affair starts September II. TOP OF THE WEEK Budget -cutters eye Hundt pushes public interest FCC Chairman Reed Hundt digital -channel auction hopes the digital airwaves will at Free spectrum may not survive budget process least net some public interest commitments. By Christopher Stern "Broadcasters cannot be mere- ly commercial exploiters of the air- Senate Commerce waves," Hundt said last Friday in a Committee staff speech to the Museum of Broad- members have cast Communications in Chicago. told broadcasters that "They must be guardians of the they may face a choice: public trust, using the public prop- an accelerated transi- erty of both digital and analog tion to digital TV, or spectrum to improve the country." upfront auctions for the Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler During the speech, he restated second channel that and members Bob Packwood and Ted Stevens. earlier calls that broadcasters every television station in the nation develop public interest contracts in TOTAL SPECTRUM USAGE now expects to be given for free, sour- each local community they serve. ALLOCATION GHZ ces say. -0 -300 Hundt also maintained that free Interest in auctioning the digital Shared:93.1% over- the -air TV will continue to exist channel is by the commit- Non- Government whether or not broadcasters com- stimulated Exclusive: 5.5% tee's need to raise $14 billion in auction pete for their second channels in Government know for revenue over the next seven years. The Exclusive: 1.4% auctions. "We sure that Commerce Committee must come up people are willing to pay for broad- cast spectrum to get a chance to with its spectrum revenue proposal by Ewer NiIA Sept. 22. deliver free TV," Hundt said. "That's Adding fuel to the debate are several also must limit the sale of spectrum to one of the lessons of Disney's $19 public interest groups that are critical of subscription services for which there billion price for ABC." -CM any plan which gives huge chunks of are two or more applicants. valuable spectrum to broadcasters at no The Senate telecommunications bill sion plan, every television broadcaster cost (see page 11). "People are sick of already authorizes the FCC to sell off in the nation will get a free second the free lunch for broadcasters and want spectrum until 2002. It also allows the channel to make the transition to digital them to compete like everyone else," FCC to sell licenses for everything television. At the end of the transition says Adam Thierer, economic fellow at from digital audio radio to electronic period, broadcasters must return their the conservative Heritage Foundation. newsgathering. Essentially, the Senate analog channel to the government so it The FCC has estimated that the digi- bill would allow the FCC to sell all can be sold at auction. tal spectrum alone is worth at least $11 spectrum but that reserved for broad- Broadcasters insist that they have billion. cast and public safety. every intention of returning the analog Both the House and the Senate ver- Even with the additional spectrum channel once digital services have been sions of telecommunications reform heading to the auction block, Senate established, but doubt that the transition would give broadcasters the digital spectrum revenue is still projected to can be accomplished in the 10 years channel for free, with no specific target fall $3.7 billion short of the $14 billion allotted by congressional budget-cutters. date for returning their analog channel. target, according to one source familiar "I don't think anyone knows how long However, these provisions may change with spectrum values. The revenue tar- [the transition will take]; it will become a during the budget process or in a get was set by congressional budget market phenomenon," says Margita House Senate conference that will committees. White, president of the Association for hammer out a final telecommunica- Since a sale of public safety spectrum Maximum Service Television. tions- reform bill. is highly unlikely, Congress must either White and others say it will be diffi- Although broadcast spectrum auc- find other government spectrum to sell cult for broadcasters to make the transi- tions are under consideration in the or turn to the broadcast TV spectrum for tion to advanced television if they are Senate, the House is more reluctant to revenue. forced to pay for the digital spectrum. subject broadcasters to auctions or set a Congress is considering two possi- "I really don't think a majority of them deadline for return of the analog chan- bilities: an upfront sale of digital spec- can afford it," White says. nel. Those familiar with spectrum val- trum or an auction of the analog spec- In addition to budget pressures, ues say the first $10.3 billion in addi- trum by 2002. If the original broadcast some broadcast industry sources sug- tional auction revenue will be relative- spectrum were auctioned in 2002, gest that rival businesses also are ly easy to collect by broadening and broadcasters would have to abandon behind the call for up -front auctions of extending the FCC's auction authority. their analog channel by 2005, accord- the digital spectrum. Currently, the FCC must complete ing to one plan. These rivals and potential rivals all its spectrum auctions by 1998. It Under the current advanced televi- include the cable, cellular and comput-

10 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable TOP OF THE WEEK er industries. "They are going to do in government hands. everything in their power to keep Last week, the NTIA called a news broadcasters from becoming digital," conference that included representatives FCC staff one broadcast industry source says. from the Department of Defense, the The National Association of Broad- Federal Aviation Administration and the casters says the federal government has Agriculture Department who said their to be cut large swathes of spectrum that could be spectrum needs will only increase. The auctioned before broadcasters give up NTIA also plans to release a report in their transitional channel. "I've got to coming weeks to refute the NAB's believe that out of 6.5 ghz of federal claims that the federal government is by 10% spectrum, there has to be some that can warehousing valuable radio frequencies. be used in the private sector." says the Despite the disagreement over gov- Hundt says cutting of 180 NAB's Jim May. emment use of the spectrum, NTIA chief jobs necessitated by lower- In recent weeks, a heated debate has Larry Irving last week insisted that the than-hoped-for funding erupted between the NAB and the Clinton administration fully supports a Commerce Department's National digital transition for broadcasters. "We By Chris McConnell Telecommunications and Information believe it is imperative. We believe it is Agency over the amount of spectrum the wave of the future." Irving said. The FCC plans to send out pink slips for the first time in its history. Cit- ing a shortage of congressional Groups want to give second thought funding, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week announced plans to cut the corn - to second channel mission's staff by 10% during the next Several public interest groups -conservative and liberal -are forming a year. The planned restructuring calls for coalition to prevent the "giveaway" of a second channel to broadcasters. eliminating roughly 180 jobs. About 50 The Campaign for Broadcast Competition expects to debut on Sept. 6 field office employes will be fired, with and hopes to ignite a public debate over whether each TV station should another 130 field office and Washington be given a second channel to introduce HDTV and other digital services. officials accepting early retirement. "You don't give it away," says Faye Anderson, executive director, Council of "It is not good news," Hundt told 100, a group of prominent black Republicans and one of the coalition's leaders. FCC employes while announcing the "It's an outrageous giveaway," says Gigi Sohn of the Media Access plan. "I know you recognize that we're Project, another coalition leader. "Who says it's in the public interest to all in this together." convert to digital? Who says it's [the broadcasters'] God -given right ?" Hundt said he is making the cuts in The coalition covers the political spectrum. On the left with the Media response to House plans to provide Access Project is the Consumer Federation of America and, possibly, the $186 million for the agency for fiscal Center for Media Education. On the right with the Council of 100 are the 1996 -$40 million less than the com- Small Business Survival Committee and Americans for Tax Reform. mission requested. Hundt said he hopes "The public has to be given something for the exploitation of public re- to get more from the Senate, but is sources," Anderson says. "The public is getting nothing but a raw deal out preparing for the House plans. "It's of this." time for us to face the reality," he said. Revenue from auctioning the spectrum could be used to reduce the fed- The cuts follow increases in the eral deficit or support education, Anderson says. At the very least, the grant- commission's size during the past two ing of a second channel to a station should come with significant public ser- years. Shortly after Hundt's arrival in vice obligations, she says. For instance, requiring stations to provide free 1993 the commission added 240 posi- political advertising would mitigate the pernicious effects of campaign fund- tions previously requested to imple- raising, she says. ment the Cable Act. During fiscal 1994 Sohn agrees with Anderson, but with one exception: Auction revenue the Office of Management and Budget should not be sent to the "black hole" of the federal treasury, she says. It signed off on another 307 positions, should be set aside for public broadcasting, public access programing or which were distributed throughout the children's programing. commission bureaus. The House and Senate have passed telecommunications -reform legis- Now Hundt hopes to cut the payroll lation that virtually would guarantee stations the extra channel until digital from about 2,200 employes to 2,050. TV sets become ubiquitous. At that point, stations would have to give His plan calls for closing nine of 25 back their current analog TV channel. field offices, three of six regional But changes could be made this fall as the bills are considered by a offices and all nine of the commission's House Senate conference committee. What's more, congressional bud- frequency monitoring stations. Hundt geteers may want to put the extra broadcast spectrum on the auction said the commission will replace the block to help pay down the national debt. Estimates on the results of a stations -which monitor transmissions spectrum auction run as high as $35 billion. for interference problems -with an "Broadcasters are walking away with this huge giveaway," says Brad automated system next summer. Stillman, telecommunications policy director, CFA. "We have to make He also said the commission will sure the public knows about it." -HAD retain all of the field enforcement offi- cials. Although nine field offices will

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 11 TOP OF THE WEEK be closed under the plan, two staff Technology and the Office of Managing Quello said. Hundt countered that com- members will remain in each location. Director also will be cut. Some of the missioners had met several months ago Field positions targeted for elimination officials might move to the Common to discuss the budget shortfall. include monitoring and public relations Carrier Bureau, which will add 50 jobs. Also voicing concerns with the re- jobs, Hundt said. The staff reductions will not require structuring was Commissioner Andrew His plan also carries cuts at the Wash- consent of the other commissioners, Barrett, who raised a series of questions ington headquarters, although none of although the closing of field offices will. about the plan in a memo to Hundt. those reductions will require termina- Commissioner James Quello last week Commissioner Susan Ness said she tions. The Washington plan calls for a said he does not support the plan, voic- has not fully reviewed Hundt's propos- 15% staff reduction in the Cable Ser- ing concerns that it will not assure the al, but said the commission needs to vices Bureau and a 6% reduction in the integrity of core commission functions. prepare for the next fiscal year. "The Mass Media Bureau's staff ceiling. Staff "I believe any reductions should chairman is taking bold and responsi- size limits at the Office of Public have been discussed with commission- ble steps to restructure the commis- Affairs, Office of Engineering and ers in advance of a one -day notice," sion," Ness said. More baseball for satellite viewers DBS services DIRECTV, Primestar and Liberty will offer out -of- market telecasts By Chris McConnell Liberty Satellite Sports President charge. Out -of- market baseball is headed Glenn Gurgiolo stressed the impor- "We think it's going to be a real to satellite TV viewers. tance of adding summer sports pro- good marketing tactic," says Denny DIRECTV, Primestar and Liber- graming: "In June, July and August Wilkinson, Primestar's senior vice ty Satellite Sports last week all signed there is nothing but baseball." president of marketing and program- deals with to Liberty, DIRECTV and Primestar will ing. "It's a great preview for 1996 and carry games to displaced fans. The deliver games produced by the region- beyond." deals, negotiated with baseball and al sports programers that each compa- DIRECTV'S Thomas Bracken last rightsholder ESPN, allow the satellite ny carries. Previously, each was barred week said his company had not decided TV providers to transmit games to from transmitting baseball games pro- what next year's package will cost or viewers outside the markets of the duced by the regional programers to whether the DBS provider will charge home and visiting teams. Liberty, out -of -market viewers. for the remainder of this year's games. which delivers programing to C -band DIRECTV and Primestar will transmit Gurgiolo says that Liberty will add the home dishes, was planning to turn on them as separate packages. Primestar games to its service at no additional the service last Friday (Aug. 18), while plans to provide a $149 full- season charge. DIRECTV and Primestar were eying package next year but will deliver the He also said that the deal with base- September startups. remainder of this season's games at no ball and ESPN will provide Liberty with access to more than 1,000 games next season. DIRECTV'S Bracken pre- Liberty to televise new baseball league dicted that his company will deliver 150 -200 games this year. Cable programer Liberty Sports Bracken and Wilkinson add that the has signed an agreement to televise baseball packages will not interfere the first season of the United Base- with local broadcast and cable deals or ball League, a professional baseball with games for which ESPN has pro- league scheduled to start next spring. cured the out -of- market rights. Both The agreement gives Liberty rights to say that their packages will not include broadcast 30 -40 regular season UBL games carried nationally by ESPN, games on the company's regional 4 although viewers still will be able to sports networks, including Prime see those games by turning to ESPN, Sports. Another 25 -30 games are ALL LEA which has struck carriage deals with reserved for broadcast and cable syndica- both DIRECTV and Primestar. tion, and an additional 26 games are slated for "This deal dramatically increases the international broadcast. number of baseball games, but it does Liberty also will create baseball -related shows for UBL and distribute not increase the number of local selected games through its national radio network, Prime Sports Radio. games," says Gurgiolo. The UBL's first season begins March 28, 1996, with the league's eight The deals, which cover the 1996 and teams playing a 154 -game schedule (the regular season runs through the '97 seasons, will not allow the satellite third week of September). The UBL's eight teams will be located in Florida, companies access to post- season Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Washington, Puerto Rico, Vancouver, games. Bracken says DIRECTV is still and Portland, Me. The league plans to expand to 16 teams by 1999. 1M interested in striking a deal that would allow it to deliver post -season play.

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Ar?a/Tr?úid ,moi 1995 The Arbon Company TOP OF THE WEEK to continue the show. Sources confirm that Turner has talked to her about a movie deal. "There are lots of ways Latest megamerger talk: GE-TW they can entice her," says Reif. CNBC's Dan Dorfman says his network's parent company, General Elec- KWP's three key programs, from a tric, is interested in buying Time Warner. Dorfman quoted a "senior GE revenue standpoint, continue to be official" as saying that GE Chairman Jack Welch has talked of his interest Oprah, Wheel of Fortune and Jeop- in acquiring TW. GE officials declined comment on the report. ardy! TV station programers note that NBC sources say they are unaware of any reopening of the talks that Wheel of Fortune, while still a top per- stalled last year concerning a possible NBC Time Warner combination. former, has eroded significantly in As with the stalled NBC -Turner talks, the main hurdle then was the issue recent years, particularly among of control (both sides want it), sources say. Analysts didn't think there was women 25 -54, the key demographic for anything to the rumor, noting that both and the advertisers. According to a Petry Tele- New York Times didn't publish a word about it last week. "At this point, vision analysis, the show's rating in don't think this is anything more than Jack Welch sort of wistfully contem- that demo has dropped 6 share points plating the expansion of GE's media holdings beyond NBC," said one since 1987 and 9 share points among analyst last week. "Clearly, he has to do something to stay in the game. women 18 -34 during that time. Time Warner? After Disney-ABC, anything can happen." -SM KWP aside, analysts say Turner still has a long way to go to muster the $6 billion to buy CBS, as well as another possible $2 billion to buy out Time- Tribune buys into Warner's 17% stake in TBS. "A lot of things have to happen before they could buy CBS," says Reif. "[The KWP deal] is one of them. They Warner Bros. Network have to get capital and get rid of Time Warner. But it's very possible." By Steve Coe Turner clearly needs major investors "This is the latest step in our evolv- to help him buy the network. And the Tribune Broadcasting Co., exercis- ing partnership," says Dennis FitzSi- publicized talks between Microsoft and ing the first of several options, mons, executive vice president, Tri- TBS have been overplayed, according has invested $12 million in the bune. "We are quite pleased with the to Microsoft sources. Both sides say WB Network for a 12.5% equity inter- WB [Network]'s growth and direc- the only talks between the companies est. Tribune has additional options to tions." WB, competing with the United concerned Turner's possible participa- acquire up to 25% of the network. Tri- Paramount Network to become the tion as a content provider for Micro- bune's involvement with WB until fifth established network, this fall will soft's soon- to -be- introduced online now mainly has been as an affiliate, expand its programing from two hours network. providing coverage with its WGN -TV to 13. To be added: Sunday prime time "It really doesn't make sense for Chicago superstation and five other and a Saturday and weekday morning Microsoft to be a part of the Turner - stations. children's schedule. CBS thing," says one source. Another says TBS itself may have put out word of a major alliance in the works in an attempt to get Westinghouse to make a Kids' online partnership offer. The WB Network's new Kids' WB! Westinghouse has not ruled out part- Online debuted on America Online

ners, but also has not had formal talks Free sI -u!'t last Wednesday (Aug. 16). The with potential allies since making its online service is geared to kids ;

bid for CBS three weeks ago, sources . - pest- and teens and features the net- say. Those familiar with the company's 9. cPPice work's children's programing. Its F presentation to bankers two weeks ago premiere on the Internet's World ' Wide Web is slated for mid -Sep- also say that Jordan said nothing about ^46. pursuing partners to make the deal fly. tember, at the same time the pro- "If it were part of the strategy, you graming debuts on the network. have to assume he would have said Online options on Kids' WB! Users are able to download ex- something then." clusive footage of the first Sylvester But if Turner or some other compa- & Tweetyepisodes produced in more than 30 years. Users can enter the ser- ny mounts a competing bid, it will vice by typing keyword: kidswb. New episodes of The Sylvester & Tweety almost force Westinghouse to seek Mysteries will debut when Kids' WB! premieres on Saturday, Sept. 9. other partners. Indeed, Westinghouse The online service is a partnership between the network and the newly - talked to at least one company -Har- created Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE). In addition to a court General, publisher and cinema package of entertainment programing, the new service will provide users owner -before making its solo bid for with a newsletter about upcoming Kids' WB! programing, chat rooms and CBS. Those talks fell through, and information about contests. -SC Westinghouse made its own deal.

14 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable September 27 All -Star Day at the Broadcasting & Cable Interface

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For Information and registration contact Joan Miller at 212 -337 -6940 (in New York) or Doris Kelly at 202 -463 -3700 (in Washington). Registration $350 ($300 for FCBA members), including lunch. By David Tobenkin sive, and even then, they have difficulty he going remains competing with the tough for action special effects in an T hours, but the increasing number of networks' greater movies," says Leslie patience -and will- Moonves, new presi- ingness to experiment dent of CBS Entertain- with innovative new ment and former head shows -has paid off of Warner Bros. Tele- in large dividends for vision. some producers and "The days of vol- distributors. ume are over," says Positive signs for Universal Television the format include: President Tom Thayer, The use of the whose leading dramat- action hour to build a ic production machine new network, UPN. is fielding one sched- The network's hit Star uled new network Trek: Voyager has drama, American garnered remarkable Gothic. "To be in the ratings, and UPN has drama business, you now dumped its sit- have to be very smart, coms and scheduled cost efficient and pick all action hours for its the right shows. We've two nights of pro- walked away from graming this fall (see several we might have page 28). Paranormal pursued in the past." saga X -Files has But many others developed into one of express more opti- Fox's biggest hits, mism than in the past and several shows because of the success once on the fence - of NBC's ER, which such as Lois and demonstrates the Clark and Law & potential of a straight NBC hit 'ER' demonstrates the potential of a straight drama edged with the Order-have reward- action and fast pacing of an action hour. drama edged with the ed the patience of net- action and fast pacing work programers with strong perfor- prove that stations have confidence in of an action hour. mances. And ER became this past sea- the genre's appeal. "The pace and intensity of ER have a son's dramatic hit with the kind of Increasingly active cable networks lot of the effect of an action hour," says action and pacing that make it nothing are producing their own programing, UPN President of Entertainment if not a medical action hour. such as Showtime and MGM TV's The Michael Sullivan. "I don't think it has MCA TV's willingness to experi- Outer Limits and several new USA affected other shows yet, but it could. ment with a syndicated project Network shows, or are snapping up If you look at the most recent break- ridiculed in many quarters -an updat- off-network hours, such as fX's pre- throughs, X -Files and ER, the intensity ed, campy Hercules with humor, fist emptive bids for Picket Fences and and pace of the shows are more the fights and cutting -edge effects -has NYPD Blue and the host of off-network hallmarks of success than the action paid off: The show has joined the pan- shows slated by USA. per se." theon of top- ranked syndicated action Challenging ER head -to -head is per- hours (see page 18). And although Networks haps the most unusual new drama of there has been a predictable winnow- the season, Steven Bochco's Murder ing of projects as time periods dimin- Many network and studio execu- One on ABC, the first serialized law ish, remarkable clearances for shows tives still seem exasperated drama to follow a single Los Angeles with two action hour veterans, David when discussing the state of court case for an entire season-and Hasselhoff in All American Televi- action hours on the broadcast net- seemingly a ready -made replacement sion's Baywatch spin -off Baywatch works. for the O.J. Simpson trial. Nights and Hunter star Fred Dryer in "There is a lack of action shows on "We think there is room for both Television's Land's End, the air because these shows are expen- Murder One and ER," says Alan Stem-

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feld, senior vice president of program photojournalist (D.B. Sweeney) who, counterprograms sitcoms and faces no planning and scheduling, whose net- as a child, was the sole survivor of an Lois and Clark or The Simpsons, this work backed up those words with a airplane crash; he continues to be at the show may be able to attract more men highly unusual 23- episode order for the wrong place at the right time and is and kids," says NBC Senior Vice Pres- show. "ER had a fabulous year last able to intervene to save those threat- ident of Program Planning and Sched- year, but it had a tremendous lead -in ened. uling Preston Beckman. "It's a classic and no competition, since it was up The shift of focus-from household case of counterprograming." against two news magazines." numbers to demographic ratings -also He also says that the show, which Meanwhile, the other sophomore seems to be aiding younger- skewing shifted from science to science fiction medical drama, CBS's Chicago Hope, action hours such as ABC's Lois and last season, will return to a more realis- after losing a head -to -head battle with Clark. Although the superhero -lite tic base. "We became a little too weird ER, has found a ratings foothold and series' household performance has and sci- fi -ish last season and strayed critical success in its new home on been only middling, its appeal to from what people liked about the show, Monday at 10 p.m., where it faces foot- younger viewers has made it a success- which is the 'Oceans will be the next ball and movie competition. ful show in the eyes of many. frontier' idea," he says. "Next year "This is an exciting time for prime Lois and Clark is entering its third there will be more science fact with the time dramatic television because the reality shows have peaked, and we're going to see more episodic television and less news," says Paramount Net- work Television President Garry Hart, whose division is producing ABC action hour The Marshal, NBC's new JAG military courtroom/investigation show and UPN's : Voyager for the coming season. There are a number of success sto- ries among returning action hours. Most dramatic has been the success of paranormal investigation show The X- Files, which has risen from a 6.7 Nielsen household rating and a 12 share in September through May 1993- 94 to a 9.1/16 for the corresponding period in 1994 -95 and now ranks as Fox's third- highest -rated show among adults 18-49. So it is all the more disappointing that two lead -in series aiming to appeal ABC's 'Murder One,' a law drama by Steven Bochco that follows a single case for an entire season, will go head -to -head with 'ER' this fall. to the same audience have failed. African -American superhero series season after dislodging time -period ability to stretch the imagination." Mantis and midseason virtual -reality competitors Murder, She Wrote on CBS Not as fortunate was Earth 2, lead -in suspense show VR 5 opened strong last from its longtime perch to a new slot on to seaQuest, which was canceled season, but soon petered out. Thursday at 8 p.m. and seaQuest DSV because the network could save only "We have been incredibly successful on NBC to Wednesday at 8 p.m. one of the two and because an exten- launching new shows before X- Files, "This show has to some degree been sive back -story to Earth 2 made it dif- and we've been incredibly bad at keep- a matter of patience and promotion," ficult for new viewers to follow, says ing them on," said FBC Entertainment says ABC's Sternfeld. "After two sea- Beckman. President John Matoian at the net- sons, we've found a reasonable balance That move has left Sunday accessi- work's presentation to advertisers last between the adult relationships and the ble for a new action hour, says month. "We have gone after high -con- fun stories, and in an era when the tele- Matoian, and led Fox to slot new sci- cept sci -fi and launched with big num- vision audience is increasingly frag- ence fiction show Space: Above and bers, and then all of a sudden-week mented, it is one of the few shows the Beyond. Its executive producers, Glen in, week out -those concepts have not whole family can watch together." Morgan and James Wong, co- execu- held." Some industry executives express tive producers of X- Files, are capable However, Matoian touted this fall's surprise that the expensive seaQuest, of fulfilling the promise of the pilot, new X -Files lead -in, Strange Luck, which garnered a somewhat lower rat- says Matoian, who points to their abili- Brandon Tartikoff's first prime time ing than Lois and Clark and has veered ty to sustain X -Files for two seasons. show since joining New World, as a creatively during the past two seasons, Morgan says the show, a story of project more accessible to a main- was renewed by NBC. space marines fighting an alien inva- stream audience. The story is about a "We think that on a night where it sion, differs from Voyager because of

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its darker, grittier feel and younger Battling Murder, She Wrote in its naut on Thursday with Dick Wolf's cast. "This is not a pretty place," he new Thursday 8 p.m. slot will be New York Undercover and will face says. ABC's Charlie Grace, featuring Mark new competition from CBS's entry, To avoid the audience drop -off Harmon as a divorced ex -cop turned New York News. John Grishanr's The when action -packed pilots are followed private investigator. Client, based on the hit book and movie by lower- budget episodes, the second Despite The Marshal's lackluster and unusual for its female protagonist, episode will have almost as much ratings against Walker, Texas Ranger has been redeployed by CBS to Tues- action as the first, Morgan says. on Saturday at 10 p.m., ABC has day at 8 -9 p.m. This fall will see a battle on Wednes- renewed the show, starring Jeff Fahey day night at 10-11 between two court- as a U.S. marshal, and placed it at 8 Syndication room dramas, NBC's Law & Order, p.m. in head -to -head competition with which proved spry in its fifth season by Star Trek: Voyager. Declining ratings for many return- improving its ratings to tie those of Executive producer Daniel Pyne ing shows, a host of cancella- ABC's PrimeTime Lire, and CBS's own (Miami Vice) says the show represents tions and absorption of time peri- new courtroom drama, Courthouse. a new evolution of action hours, given ods by new networks add up to cloudy skies for the first -run action hour market. Most shows' ratings are down against programing in the time period last season, and with more network projects and one new network targeting action hours exclusively, that means tough competition for first -run shows. "Except for the top shows, the average first -run action hour just doesn't look like a network show in terms of quality," says Petry Director of Programing Dick k I Kurlander. "And with more corn- petition, that's a problem." Also cutting down available time periods for new shows is the practice by many stations of tak- 'Star Trek: Voyager' (above) has largely put the ing second runs of successful UPN network on the map. ABC will pit action hour 'The Marshall' against 'Voyager' this fall. action hours on weekends, notes Fox action hour 'X- Files' (right) now ranks as Blair Television Director of Pro- the network's third-highest -rated show among graming Lou Dennig. adults 18 -49. Still, there is no shortage of new action hour strips, with 12 On Friday night at 10, CBS's Amer- its limited number of chase scenes and poised to enter the market despite the ican Gothic suspense thriller (see page greater story and character develop- fact that, of the 12 that premiered last 26) will take on NBC's critically ment. "Audiences are more tolerant of season, eight have perished or are per- acclaimed but still marginally watched better storytelling now than when we forming poorly. Homicide: Life on the Street. made [Miami Vice]," he says. "We're And most of the latter 12 have strong Meanwhile, shows such as Dr. not locked into mindless hours of cars clearance numbers. The success of Quinn, Medicine Woman and Walker, driving by. I think what I bring back MCA TV's Hercules has allowed the Texas Ranger continue to show legs, from my work on feature films is a company to clear the show on 193 sta- beginning and ending CBS's Saturday sense of pace. Instead of 30 scenes in a tions covering 98% of the country for a night and winning their time periods as show, we'll have 100, like a movie second season this fall and an even they enter their third seasons. would." more remarkable 187 stations covering Quinn's new challenger from NBC The show also demonstrates the net- 97% of the country for the fall debut of this fall will be JAG, which marks the works' greater willingness to schedule spin -off show Xena: Warrior Princess return of executive producer Donald heavier action shows and straight dra- (see page 25). Bellisario (Quantum Leap, Magnum mas at 8 p.m., as does the 8 p.m. sched- "What we're hearing from stations is P.1.) to the action hour format. While uling of JAG. that these shows are getting higher dealing with the military justice sys- On Tuesday, NY PD Blue continues CPMs than are shows from the new tem, the show will focus more on its success, ranking as the eighth -high- networks, so we don't think the expan- investigative than courtroom aspects est -rated show last season. sion of those new networks will affect and will feature a large amount of Fox, meanwhile, will continue to us that much," says MCA TV President action, Paramount's Hart says. counterprogram the Seinfeld jugger- Shelly Schwab. "After all, if you were

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a station affiliated with action hours that are too Hercules, would you give soft, as Rysher execu- it up ?" tives now call the eager- Likewise, Buena Vista ly anticipated and rapid- Television and MGM TV ly canceled RoboCop, or racked up impressive that attempts to aggres- clearance totals for their sively court female audi- first first -run action hour ences, such as Worldvi- projects, Land's End. a sion's Spelling Premiere Fred Dryer detective vehi- Network, Sirens and cle, and The Outer Limits. Hawkeye, may face tall a science fiction antholo- orders in breaking gy series, respectively. through to wide audi- And the scheduled ences. repeal in August 1996 of For Worldvision, the the prime time access rule, blow was particularly which has prevented affil- acute, given the syndica- iates of the Big Three net- tor's decision to add a works from airing off -net- third show, University work series in prime time, Hospital, in midseason could free up early fringe to replace Heaven Help Syndicators are anxious to see how well the new strip of old periods by shifting top sit- episodes of 'Baywatch' performs. Us -a decision one corns that now run there to source said added $5 access, says former Can - million to the cost of the nell Distribution Co. pres- Fall's new syndicated action hours project. Aaron Spelling, ident Pat Kenney. Ken - vice chairman of World - ney's new production and # of stations/ vision parent Spelling distribution company, The Show Distributor % coverage Debut week Entertainment, recently Money Machine, already told BROADCASTING & Baywatch (All American) Sept. 25 has several action hours in strip 165/94% CABLE that he has no development. Baywatch Nights (All American) 180/95% Sept. 25 further plans to produce Beyond Still, Schwab concedes Reality (ACI) 100/82% Sept. 18 dramas for first run. that the environment has Flipper (Goldwyn) 128/85% Oct. 2 The need for more The Hitchhiker (Rysher) 25 prompted tough assess- 130/85% Sept. action also was taken to ments by syndicators Land's End (Buena Vista) 170/98% Sept. 18 heart by another show, Lazarus Man (Turner) 1996 about what shows will be DNA Jan. Rysher's Lonesome West Waikiki able to go the distance and One (Rysher) 150/90% Sept. 25 Dove. With viewership Outer Limits (MGM) 11 accumulate the 100 or so 174/96% Sept. skewing much older than episodes necessary for Tales from the Crypt (Genesis) 1 70/95% Sept. 11 expected and nominally The Wanderer (DLT) NA Sept. 25 stripping and a healthy high ratings trailing back -end. That was the Xena: Warrior Princess (MCA) 187/97% Sept. 4 year- earlier time period thinking that led MCA TV Source: syndicators predecessors in many to cancel the sixth -high- Notes: NA =not available: DNA =does not apps markets, Rysher execu- est -rated syndicated action tives for the coming sea- hour show this season and son have killed off pro- a show originally paired with Askin. "This project is an excellent tagonist Newt Call's wife, made him Hercules- producer Rob Cohen's Van- transition vehicle that will work well in an outlaw and upped the action quo- ishing Son- because Xena was thought Saturday and Sunday time periods." tient. to be a better show for Hercules. As for most first -run programing Other successful action hour syndi- Although the new networks have not this past season, new action hour disap- cators are scaling back. Warner Bros. entirely gobbled up time periods for syn- pointments far outstripped successes. Domestic Television Distribution's dicated action hours (themselves a fairly Among those falling by the wayside Prime Time Entertainment Network recent phenomenon, having displaced were RoboCop: The Series, Thunder in will drop Pointman and allow stations movies to weekends), they have made it Paradise, The Spelling Premiere Net - to air remaining successful shows more important to have flexible projects, work. Sirens. Hawkeye, Vanishing Son and Kung Fu on weekends says Samuel Goldwyn Television Presi- and the soon -to- depart Pointman. A out of prime time. The shows are now dent Dick Askin, who is producing spokeswoman at financially ailing limited to prime time on weeknights. action hour Flipper, an updated series GTV said Space Precinct will also Continuing to lead the way among loosely based on the television show. probably not return. individual shows is Paramount Domes- "We don't have to be at 8 p.m. If there is one conclusion by many of tic Television's Star Trek: Deep Space across the country to work well," says the action hour syndicators, it is that Nine, whose ratings have, however,

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declined substantially during the past saving the lives of syndicated shows. season. The show will up the action in Columbia TriStar Television Distrib- its fourth season beginning this fall as ution's vampire crime -fighter saga For- the Federation again goes to war with ever Knight appeared bound for a per- the Klingons, and Star Trek: The Next manent grave after averaging a so -so 2.4 Generation's Star Fleet Officer Worf Nielsen gross average audience house- (Michael Dorn) joins the show as a hold rating. But now Forever Knight Federation diplomatic liaison to the will see a second season in syndication Klingons. "While we're very pleased as the result of a deal with USA under with the way the show has gone in the which the series will air weekends in third season, we're not blind to the fact national syndication followed by a that there's been some slippage," says Monday prime time airing on USA Net- Rick Berman, Star Trek: Deep Space work. Despite no change in the barter Nine executive producer. split on the show, more than 175 sta- Asked if Voyager and stripped ver- tions representing 91% of the country sions of the original Star Trek and TNG have signed on for another season. may be wearing out the franchise's "Forever Knight is ideally suited for welcome, Berman says: "Adding a shared distribution plan," says CTTD another show wasn't my decision." President Barry Thurston. "The series Ratings of the other top- ranked already has a fanatically loyal fan base, show, All American Television's Bay - despite limited exposure from its pri- watch, are down slightly from last sea- 'Flipper' is an action hour series marily late -night broadcast history. We loosely based on the TV show. son as well. believe this scheduling pattern will A major question raise the show's profile, expand its for all syndicators as it enters its fourth audience base and, most important, had been how well season in syndica- drive viewers to both the cable and All American's new tion. Rysher's lower - syndication markets." strip of old episodes rated Highlander Likewise, despite the traditional of Baywatch, the first also will return. wisdom that anthology series face an strip of an off -first Both shows will especially difficult time succeeding, action hour to be sold begin airing stripped MGM TV has been able to clear The in the marketplace to episodes on USA Outer Limits, its first action hour since stations that may not Network this fall. reviving its first -run operations last have aired the origi- That move in Rene- year, in more than 96% of the country. nals, would perform. gade's case caused It is MGM's partnership with premium The show in 17 concern at some sta- cable network Showtime (which metered markets has tions about overplay includes previous airings of the shows pulled a 3.7/8, virtu- of the 66 stripped on the pay network) that has helped ally matching its episodes and view- clear The Outer Limits, says MGM TV year -earlier time ers' possible result- President of Domestic Television Dis- period predecessor ing disenchantment. tribution Sid Cohen. and trailing its lead - New World Enter- "The way television is going, we in slightly during the tainment executives, have to be creative in the way we struc- four weeks following who assumed distrib- ture our deals," says Cohen. "This deal its June 26 debut, ution responsibilities made sense for us because we hadn't according to Petry - for the series after done anything in first run since 1988, generated Nielsen Cannell sold his pro- and debuting the shows first on cable data. duction company to showed everyone we could produce "It's probably too New World, at first quality episodes." 'Land's End,' a detective show, has early to draw any racked up impressive clearances. tried to back out of a The commitment of Showtime also conclusions because deal to air the gave MGM the confidence to green - of summer viewing patterns, but cer- episodes on USA. light a second season of 22 more tainly it hasn't been a pleasant surprise As Stephen Cannell himself noted episodes of the show. so far," says Katz Television Director recently, "I think there's a good case And Showtime, production partner of Programing Bill Carroll. Baywatch, that can be made that people don't Trilogy and MGM will return to the in 35 markets covering 40% of the know Renegade and that exposure on same formula with new cable /first -run country, will be rolled out to 130 addi- USA will increase the ratings. The dis- show Poltergeist: The Legacy, which tional stations this fall. agreement was a misunderstanding." will begin production on 44 episodes Other successful returning shows Those deals and others are blurring even before MGM starts clearing the include Cannell's stalwart Renegade, the distinctions between cable and first - project for fall 1996. A third project which continues to show solid ratings run syndication, but in some cases are with an additional 44 episodes is in

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the works from the production part- weekdays per week in the ners for 1997. fall. The flow of shows between broad- This fall, USA will run its cast and cable is now going two ways, acquired Highlander and with ACI successfully selling Beyond Renegade strips at 5 -6 p.m. Reality, an off -USA paranormal drama and 6 -7 p.m. weekdays, starring Shari Belafonte, to stations in respectively. They replace a more than 80% of the country. current double-run of Knight Despite weak ratings for ACI's High Rider, which will be moved Tide this past season, the show, buoyed to a single 4 -5 p.m. run. by strong international sales, will USA Networks Entertain- return for a second season, says Execu- ment President Rod Perth tive Vice President Michael Weiser. says action hours in the slot The show is moving production from have effectively counterpro- New Zealand to San Diego to improve gramed King World game production values and entice more shows and off- network sit- high -profile guest stars. It also has coms on broadcast stations. added veteran producer Stu Segall Other newly acquired off - (Renegade) to the show. syndication product includes Other new shows for fall include 22 episodes of Acapulco DLT's The Wanderer, starring feature Heat, which airs Sunday film actor Bryan Brown in the dual role Showtime isn't big on action hours, but the high nights at 9, and 22 episodes of a billionaire financier and his evil production values and anthology nature of 'Outer of Sirens, whose program- Limits' is a good fit for the cable channel. twin, both of whom live as medieval ing slot has not been set. knights and have been reincarnated in Cable Perth says the acquisition of a USA the past; Tales from the Crypt, an off - window for CTTD's first-run Forever HBO and Fox horror anthology series Cable networks increasingly are Knight (Monday nights at 10 -11 begin- distributed by Genesis as an hour Sat- buying off -network hours and ning this fall), a show he developed urday night vehicle, and The Hitchhik- producing more original hours in while at CBS, will give the show a sec- er, an off -HBO anthology stripped an attempt to approach broadcast in ond chance to attract a large audience. series of psychological thrillers distrib- terms of production values. "It's a well -produced, smart, literate uted by Rysher. "These networks have established a hour that has had its performance For midseason 1995 -96, there is certain look and quality, and they have impacted by its clearances," he says. Turner Program Services' first venture to feed that," says Katz's Carroll. "If "For affiliated stations, their last prior- into action hours, , you turn on USA and see Murder. She ity is to promote a late -night, once -per- starring Robert Urich (Vega$) as a man Wrote or other network product on the week hour." who is buried alive during the Civil air, it presents the same visual look and USA also landed the strip of Bay - War, escapes, and must reconstruct his quality as CBS. Just as independent sta- watch for airing beginning in fall 1997, identity. tions have acquired a parity of look by after two seasons of repeats in syndica- MCA TV will continue to roll out buying off -network product, so now is tion to stations. one action hour pilot per quarter for cable." Several of the cable channels are airing by affiliates of Hercules and "The cable networks for years have aggressively expanding their use of Xena. The first project is The Adven- not been serious customers, and sud- off-network shows, including USA and tures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, denly they have new owners and new Showtime, both of which are dramati- a movie being co- produced by premi- commitments and are becoming bid- cally expanding their production of um cable service Starz! It will air ders for acquired product," says MCA first -run action hours. there first, Aug. 26, and then in syndi- TV's Schwab. "For Northern Exposure Stephen J. Cannel! Productions' Silk cation. [which ultimately was sold to stations Stalkings, which began life on CBS's Rysher Entertainment will produce last year], we had three cable networks Crimetime After Primetime block and its next action hour, FIX, for fall 1996 seriously bidding on the show." is entering its fifth season on USA Net- and has added Models Inc. veteran USA and other networks also are work, is the highest -rated original Cameron Daddo as the Hollywood spe- quick to use off -network shows to drama on basic cable, with a 2.8 for cial effects wizard lead character. exploit perceived weaknesses of the January through July 23 on Sunday Twenty hour -episodes and a two -hour broadcast networks. With CBS moving night and Monday night airings, up pilot are planned at an average per - Murder, She Wrote from its longtime 22% from 1994 ratings. episode cost of $1.2 million. Sunday 8 p.m. perch to Thursday, USA In January, USA will premiere origi- SeaGull Entertainment is mulling a on Sept. 24 will move its Thursday off- nal action hour Bike Patrol from pro- Tarzan hour that would be based on the net episodes to Sunday at 8 p.m. The ducers Gary Nardino and Bill Ness Sat- classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novels show's existing strip at 8 p.m. has aver- urday at either 7 -8 or 8 -9 p.m. The and that might receive a boost from a aged a 2.7 Nielsen rating so far this cal- ensemble police drama centers around new motion picture in the works. endar year and will continue four Santa Monica bicycle cops and the

24 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable ACTION HOURS

area's active, on -the -edge lifestyle, with deals. Picket Fences work for us is that 13 episodes ordered. "It's a new way of will begin running this they have a lot of doing a police show," says Perth. fall and NYPD Blue in activities that are The network also is developing 1997. done in a way that is three weekly action hours. They are a The Family Chan- cinematically accept- project about pilots, Blue Angels; a nel, under new MTM able and because they show based on the feature film "La Entertainment Chief also feature strong Femme Nikita," and one from Cannell Executive Tony Tho- characters and posi- about two brothers and a sister who mopoulos, who pro- tive social values." become police officers. Perth says he grams the network TNT, for its part, would like to see one of the projects (Family and MTM continues with an on the air by next spring. are co -owned by IFE older block of One show that will not return is Entertainment), is stripped action shows, William Shatner's Tekwar science fic- continuing its com- dubbed "lunch -box tion show, a victim of low ratings. mitment to western - shows," that air from Although it is highly unusual for themed action hours, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. premium service Showtime to program with a Saturday early - "If the show was action hours, The Outer Limits fits the evening western - popular enough in its bill because of its high production val- themed block that i time to have a lunch ues and anthology nature, says Steven includes Bonanza, USA Networks uses 'Highlander' box, it fits into our to counterprogram King World Hewitt, executive vice president of the originally produced game shows and off-net sitcoms block," says Lisa Showtime Entertainment Group. Australian outback on broadcast television. Mateas, senior vice "This is a presold idea that everyone show Snowy River: president of pro- knows about, and we liked the fact that The McGregor Saga, and episodes of graming for TNT, explaining the it was an anthology, since each episode Paradise. block. The shows include such strips is like a mini- movie," he says. "We like to call these shows adven- as The Wild, Wild West, CHiPs and Hewitt says the network has tried to ture shows because we think 'action' Starsky and Hutch. The network also set the show apart from syndicated has a pejorative ring to it," says Tho- strips off -network drama In the Heat action hours by using a feature film mopoulos. "What makes these shows of the Night at 7 -8 p.m. production company, Trilogy Enter- tainment ( "Backdraft," "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "), to produce the project using film rather than video- tape. He says the content is more MCA muscles in graphic and the language more explicit in the cable version than in the syndi- cated version of the show, which is shot separately. on action hours A measure of the project's success, says Hewitt, is that it has increased its On strength of `Hercules,' producers add `Xena' movie lead -in by 20% on Friday at 10 p.m. from a year earlier. By David Tobenkin Hewitt is exploring other action hour And so it has. Since January, when projects to be shared with MGM TV, in When MCA TV in 1994 MCA launched Hercules as a weekly addition to the previously mentioned launched its Action Pack syn- syndicated show, it has risen to rate Poltergeist, including a possible show dicated package of telemovies consistently among the top three syndi- from Warner Bros. based on its "Mad (featuring five different recurring cated action hours. Max" feature film series. movies by feature film producers and "It surprises a lot of people, but it For A &E, stripped episodes of Law directors), Sam Raimi and Rob doesn't surprise me and a lot of people & Order at 11 p.m. ET have proved to Tapert's Hercules: The Legendary at MCA," says Schwab. "We felt good be one of its highest -rated series, gar- Journeys was deemed by many the runt about it because we knew the people nering a 2.1 gross average audience of the litter. who would do it, Sam and Robert, have season -to -date. "Few people paid much attention to such a strong track record and had such Another A &E hour show, British it or gave it much chance for success passion behind it that it had a shot." mystery Lovejoy, is entering its fifth compared [with] the other projects," Now Tapert and Raimi, whose fea- season on the network. says MCA TV President Shelly ture film credits include "Darkman" Fox cable channel fX, meanwhile, has Schwab. A 6.0 Nielsen gross average and Jean -Claude van Damme thrillers picked up rights to Twentieth Television audience household rating after the five "Time Cop" and "Hard Target," are shows NYPD Blue and Picket Fences Hercules movies aired made it clear, expanding their small- screen ambi- through preemptive bids that some rival however, that the superhero might pack tions. sellers of product called sweetheart a punch after all. For fall they are producing syndicat-

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ed Hercules spin -off Xena: and action, shows like Her- Warrior Princess and CBS cules, concludes Tapert, are suspense thriller American no less in need of good Gothic, which deals with writing. an evil sheriff who terror- "After looking at all the izes a small town. All three episodes and which ones projects are being distrib- have rerun best, we realized uted by MCA Television the shows that did the best Group, with which Raimi weren't those with the best and Tapert's Renaissance special effects," says Pictures has a production Tapert. "The episodes that deal. rerun the best are the ones With the syndication with good stories, good vil- and network markets lit- lains and some sort of tered with the cancella- moral and redemption to tions of action hour pro- them. We're trying to create it is stories that flow out per- jects, Tapert says the Some doubted the strength of 'Hercules,' which launched in of pair's theatrical approach January. but the MCA strongman is a top action hour. sonality and goals." to the action and suspense Tapert and Raimi find elements in their shows that sets them themselves concentrating almost apart. exclusively on television less by design "I think we bring a greater and than by fortuity, says Tapert. wilder action than normal," he says. "We did something that spun out of "Hercules is a big barroom brawl on a something else which spun into some- massive scale, while Xena's action will thing else," he says. "It's not as lucra- be more a Hong Kong style of acrobat- tive as feature films that work, but what ics, martial arts and weaponry." I enjoy most about producing televi- They also give credit to "Hercules" sion is that in feature films you spend himself, Kevin Sorbo, who they say 18 months producing two hours, strikes an appealing balance between whereas television is a whole different camp and a strong image that makes an ballgame." impression on adults, teens and kids. Commitments to 57 hours of pro- Tapert says Raimi, who directed graming for the coming year, 22 "Darkman" and "Army of Darkness," episodes each for the syndicated shows has met extensively with the directors and 13 for American Gothic, will keep of Hercules and Xena to infuse them them busy for the time being, Tapert with his trademark kinetic camerawork says. But the pair already is developing and suspenseful editing. another action hour for fall 1996, a American Gothic's signature will be pirate saga that would feature their for- suspense rather than action, he says. mer Renaissance partner, actor Bruce "There's not too much violence, Campbell. because violence is a turnoff," says MCA will debut 'Xena' this fall, which Ironically, Tapert and Raimi nearly Tapert. "It's the threat of violence that rides in on the power of 'Hercules.' swore off action hours just before Her- drives the audience crazy." cules and after their experience pro- However, the opening scene in the heartthrob and Hardy Boys star Shaun ducing the pilot for Mantis last season American Gothic pilot was an early- Cassidy, is scheduled for Friday at IO for Fox. They left the project after seri- and glaring- exception to that game p.m., a low HUT slot but one that will ous creative differences with Fox. plan. In the scene, a man hits his 16- allow the show to face relatively light "It was a horrible battle, and eventu- year -old daughter with a shovel. The competition from 20/20 on ABC and ally we were paid off and left," says evil sheriff (Gary Cole of Midnight Homicide: Life on the Street on NBC. Tapert of the groundbreaking project, Caller) walks up and snaps her neck. Tapert hopes that AG will garner a which featured Carl Lumbly as an An uproar followed release of the tapes crossover lead -out audience from African -American superhero. The to television critics; the scenes eventu- Fox's own quirky show at 9 -IO p.m., show repeatedly was tinkered with by ally were shortened to imply rather The X- Files. "We think this will be an Fox, including a reduction of its than dramatize the blow, and the thud accessible version of Twin Peaks," African -American elements to broaden of impact was removed. says Universal Television President its audience, but it never gained a rat- Raimi later told the critics that Tom Thayer. "It has a very fine tonal ings foothold and was canceled. although he understood their concerns, line and a good premise and a writing "[Fox] violated a basic rule of a he felt the scene was essential to estab- staff that can take it in a lot of direc- superhero story," says Tapert in retro- lishing the amorality of Cole's character. tions." spect. "They failed to protect their hero The series, created by former teen Despite their use of visual effects and made him not a hero."

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Touchstone Television's Nowhere Man, the story of a photographer on the UPN takes action run, was obvious after testing indicated that Star Trek: Voyager fans would watch the show. against competition "The comedies were dropping 50 %- 70% of the audience of Voyager, and Counterprograms for new season with all dramas Nowhere Man tested phenomenally well with Star Trek: Voyager watch- By David Tobenkin ers," says Sullivan. "In the first focus group, we had to press people for neg- In theory, a new network's prime atives. It was all so positive. After the time schedule should be built with a show there were people discussing the mix of comedies and dramas: the show in the lobby. You have to respond former to hook women and children, to that." the latter to attract men and older view- Ironically, Nowhere Man edged out ers and provide a solid news lead -in the intended lead -out, Deadly Games, a audience. futuristic fantasy from in That's the way Fox did it, with hit which a man's computer game cre- comedies including Married...With ations enter the real world. It was exec- Children and The Simpsons and dra- utive- produced by Paul Bembaum and mas such as 21 Jump Street and Bever - Star Trek veteran Leonard Nimoy. ly Hills, 90210. "Leonard Nimoy sees every science So much for theory. After truncated fiction idea for television, and he came first seasons that began last January, up with the idea for a light the new WB and UPN television net- action /adventure piece of humor and works have decided to concentrate for fantasy," says Sullivan. "At 8 p.m. now on what they think they do best. Tuesdays, with Full House out of that UPN, whose Star Trek: Voyager time period, you have nothing appeal- action hour has largely put the network ing to a younger audience besides on the map, this fall replaces two Roseanne." comedies that followed the Monday UPN testing indicates that 'Star Trek' As for , the fast -paced tele- night show failed to retain its fans will stay tuned for 'Nowhere Man,' vision news drama from Rysher Enter- -and (above) about a photographer on the run. audience -with a new action hour, tainment and Dan Guntzelman and Nowhere Man, at 9- I O. nurtured in a slot after another comedy." Steve Marshall (both of Growing Pains Despite three action hour burnouts - As for WB, Head of Programing and WKRP in Cincinnati) "was the Marker, The Watcher and Legend-on Garth Ancier says all- comedy "was a kind of drama we thought we could Tuesdays this past season, that night in profile we thought would be attractive nurture over time," says Sullivan, who 1995 -96 will remain all action hours and a good profile," adding that come- gave 13- episode orders to it and the with the additions of Deadly Games at dies offer a more balanced male /female two other new shows. "Usually this 8 -9 and Live Shot at 9 -I0. ratio than do action hours, which skew sort of show would air at 10 p.m., so (Meanwhile, WB will maintain an to men. it's in a way counterprograming." all- comedy first night and complement "Another important factor was the And more action hours may be on it with five sitcoms and an animated repeat consideration," Ancier says. the way. Although the schedule for show on its second night- Sundays- "Comedies repeat better than dramas, UPN's March expansion into Wednes- which debuts this fall.) and in your first year you're going to day night (which could be shifted to For UPN, the decision to go all - have a lot of repeats." another night) has not yet been deter- drama was an easy one, says UPN Ancier says, however, that in addition mined, Sullivan confirms he is consid- President of Entertainment Michael to Spelling ensemble drama midseason ering scheduling dramas that night. Sullivan. "You have to go with the best order Savannah, he has made a pilot In development for UPN are Cannell counterprograming opportunities you commitment to Cannell Entertainment alien invasion show Them, Dick have," he says, noting that dramas may to produce an as -yet- undetermined Wolf /Universal avenging ex -cop stand a better chance against network action hour pilot for WB for fall 1996. drama , Paramount -dis- veterans like CBS's Murphy Brown In addition, the network is redevel- tributed "Mission Impossible for the and The Nanny on Mondays and Tues- oping a pilot produced by Warner '90s" show Shadow Ops and Para- day's powerhouse trio of Home Bros. last year, 77 Sunset Strip, "a mount- distributed The Sentinel, the Improvement and Roseanne on ABC highly stylized Miami Vice -type pro- story of a policeman with extrasensory and Frasier on NBC. ject with hand -held shooting," says powers. The network also is consider- A new network trying to launch suc- Ancier. ing scheduling an unusual action half - cessful comedies faces a catch -22, he Sullivan says his Monday night hour: a basketball drama, Hoops, from says: "Most new comedies need to be decision to follow Voyager with MTV and Paramount.

28 August 211995 Broadcasting & Cable `Donahue' loses New York Cancellation by WNBC -TV raises questions over future of veteran talker By Steve Coe out either city, "we'll still be cleared in Phil The 1995 -96 television season more than 80% of the country and the Donahue's future is looks as if it might be the last for only question is whether we'll be back uncertain Multimedia's Phil Donahue in the for the '96 -'97 season," Coveny adds. following his wake of WNBC -TV New York's decision Bill Bolster, WNBC -TV president/ show's loss to pull the talk show from its lineup in GM, says the decision to drop Donahue of a New York affiliate the country's number -one market. "was a tough call. Over the last 28 WNBC -TV last week announced its years, Phil Donahue has become an fall schedule, which did not include American institution. He literally exception of Montel Williams, all of its Donahue. The show will be replaced at changed the face of syndicated televi- competitors in the 4 p.m. time slot beat 4 -5 p.m. with Sally Jessy Raphael, sion programing. He has brought joy, the venerable talker. Oprah, easily in another Multimedia property. Donahue insight and at times inspiration into the first place in the market, averaged a had been a staple on the station's day- homes of millions of American view- 7.4/20, followed by Ricki Lake with a time schedule for the past 18 years. ers. However, the program has contin- 5.0/12 and Geraldo with a 4.6/13. With the decision by WNBC -TV, Mul- ued to trend downward in the ratings. In Among the key female demos of 18- timedia is left without clearances in order to make room for the noon news, 34, 18 -49 and 25 -54, the show was off New York and San Francisco for the we had to eliminate an hour of pro- 20 %, 23% and 23 %, respectively. longest- running syndicated talk show. graming and we dropped the lowest - Donahue had served as the anchor for Richard Coveny, Multimedia's execu- rated show in our afternoon lineup." the station's three -hour afternoon talk tive vice president, says that chances Beset in the past few years by block with Paramount's Marry Povich are not good that Donahue will find a younger competitors who increasingly at 2 p.m. and Sally at 3 leading into Don- clearance in New York, but it nonethe- focus on more salacious topics, the ahue. Both shows were generating high- less will go forward as planned for the issue -oriented Donahue has steadily er ratings than Donahue: In July Sally upcoming season. declined in households and among key averaged a 5.2/16 and Povich a 3.9/12, "People's schedules are for the most female demographics. In a July 1994 to with both shows flat versus July 1994. part already set," Coveny says when July 1995 comparison, the show was Although WNBC -TV will not air the asked about a possible last -minute off nearly 25% in New York house- show, the station still will be paying clearance in New York or San Francis- holds, finishing last month with a 3.8 Multimedia for it- reportedly $35,000 co, the number -five market. Even with- Nielsen rating /10 share. With the a week for the remainder of its contract DreamWorks signs Bloodworth- Thomason Linda Bloodworth and Harry Thomason and their Mozark the creativity and production expertise that has been their Productions have signed an exclusive deal with Dream- trademark and brought them such success," said McDer- Works Television to develop and produce programing for mott. In responding to the deal, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who the new studio. The deal was announced Aug. 16 by Dan co- founded the studio with and Steven McDermott, head of DreamWorks Television. Spielberg, said: "For more than a decade, they have The deal provides advantages to both the producers been associated with television, and we look forward to and the new studio. For its part, future success with them." DreamWorks gains an entree The deal also provides for the into CBS by way of Mozark's DRFANANToRKsSIC producers to become involved in five -series commitment deal feature films. "I am excited signed with the network in 1990. The deal provides for about collaborating with them for both film and televi- three more series projects from the husband and wife sion," said Spielberg. "They know how to deliver enter- team. Conversely, Mozark now has an entree into ABC tainment with intelligence and originality." by way of DreamWorks's deal with that network. Bloodworth and Thomason have served as executive Also as part of the deal, DreamWorks will hold an own- producer on all their shows, with Bloodworth handling ership stake in any new programing produced under the most of the writing and Thomason directing many of the deal and will distribute shows from the duo. As part of the episodes. The pair has been responsible for Designing existing deal CBS has with Mozark, the network is respon- Women, which ran for seven seasons, and Evening sible for covering all production deficits incurred for the Shade, which had a four -year run, both on CBS. Most five shows. The deficits will be repaid by Mozark only if the recently, the pair created and produced Hearts Afire for shows reach an agreed -upon number of episodes. the network which failed to catch on during its spotty "We look to Linda and Harry to bring to DreamWorks three years in prime time. -SC

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 29 PROGRAMING unless the syndicator is able to tied another station to clear it in New York. WNBC -TV's contract for Donahue Canal Fox adds the NFL expires in September 1996, according Latin American service beefs up programing, sales efforts to a station spokesperson. Sources in the market say that WNBC- By Steve Coe Tv alerted Multimedia nearly two In addition to the new sports block, months ago that it was considering News Corp.'s Canal Fox is adding Fox is adding a weekday morning chil- dropping the show from its fall sched- new programing and opening two dren's block to its existing children's ule to give the syndicator the opportu- new offices in an overall expan- schedule, and Planet Fox, a weekday and nity to find another clearance in the sion of its Latin American cable service. Saturday science -fiction block. market. Sources say Multimedia was In making the announcements, Kim The new morning block will consist of unable to find any takers. Hatamiya, Canal Fox general manager The Mighty Moiphin Power Rangers and Aside from Donahue's sinking rat- and senior vice president, also said the V.R. Troopers to form an hour of live- ings, another reason the station was channel's subscriber base is at 4.2 mil- action programing. The block adds to reluctant to keep it is the uncertain lion, the highest level in is history. Canal Fox's existing children's program- future of Donahue himself. Multimedia Beginning this fall, the service will ing which airs weekday afternoons and has been renewing the show on a year- carry Fox's NFL coverage of the under on the weekend. ly basis, and according to published the Fox Sports banner, with Sunday The programs that compose the reports, the host initially was reluctant coverage that will include the Fox pre- Planet Fox block include The Twilight to sign for the 1995 -96 season. The game show, the games and other Zone, Beyond Reality, Time Tunnel, past few years have seen speculation sports -themed shows such as Grunt & Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost that the longtime host may run for Punt and This is the NFL. The Fox in Space and Land of the Giants. political office. Finally, one rep source Sports programing on Canal Fox will As part of Canal Fox's prime time suggested that WNBC -TV was interested begin on Aug. 26 with a preseason programing, Fox Spot light, the channel in slotting a show that would be more matchup between the San Francisco is adding themed nights for its movie competitive for the lucrative daypart. 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. The presentations including comedies on full slate of sports programing will Thursdays, sci- fi/horror on Fridays and Hallmark to distribute begin on Sept. 3, the opening day of the action on Saturdays. The service also NFL season. In addition to the regular will debut the Fox series VR. 5 in New SpyGaze announcers of John Madden and Pat November. Television writer /producer Donald Summerall, Canal Fox also will pro- In addition to the new series, the chan- Wrye has formed SpyGaze Pic- vide live Spanish and Portuguese com- nel is adding music specials and a music tures, which will produce made - mentary. concert series that will feature Stevie for- television movies and minis- eries for the networks and cable. Wrye, whose credits include SYNDICATION MARKETPLACE Amerika, Divorce Wars and Lucky `Power Rangers' strip kids show debuts on Sept. 11, Day, left his in -house production and DIC has produced 65 half -hour deal with Hearst Entertainment to withstands test episodes for the first season. The form SpyGaze, which he will serve Federal Judge Manuel Real dis- new market clearances include KDFI as president. missed a lawsuit against Saban Dallas, KTXH-TV Houston, WBNX In addition, Jim D'Antoni, most Entertainment over the ownership Cleveland and mist. St. Louis. -SC recently head of D'Antoni Produc- and copyright of The Mighty Mor- tions Group, has joined SpyGaze phin Power Rangers property. Call- NSS POCKETPIECE as executive vice president, and ing the lawsuit "meritless," Real dis- (Nlelsen's top ranked syndicated shows for former Paramount Network Televi- missed claims by former FBI agent the week ending Aug. 6. Numbers represent sion executive Winship Cook also Herbert Simmons that Saban created average audience stations /% coverage.) has joined the company, as direc- Power Rangers based on his "Star 1. Wheel of Fortune 10.5/226/98 2. Jeopardy! 9.1/218/98 tor of development. Patrol" idea. In addition to dismiss- 3. Nat'l Geo On Assignment 7.0/194/97 The Santa Monica, Calif. -based ing Simmons's case, the judge 4. Oprah Winfrey Show 6.8/238/99 company has a worldwide output signed an order that allows Saban to 5. Entertainment Tonight 6.2/180/92 6. Baywatch 6.0/227/95 deal for its movies and miniseries to recover its legal fees in defending 7. Wheel of Fortune -wknd 5.8/175/81 be distributed by Hallmark Enter- the lawsuit. The ruling also cleared 8. Family Matters 5.6/195/93 tainment. "Through his new compa- related claims against 20th Century 9. Jenny Jones 5.5/207/96 ny, 10. Inside Edition 5.4/178/93 Donald Wrye will continue to Fox Television, Fox Broadcasting 10. Ricki Lake 5.4/226/98 bring quality productions to the Company and Graz Entertainment. 10. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 5.4/238/99 small screen. Hallmark Entertain- 13. Fresh Prince of Bel -Air 5.1/138/84 ment is proud to be associated with `Moon' rising in 87 markets 13. Hard Copy 5.1/189/93 15. Married...With Children 4.9/180/94 a producer of Donald's caliber and DIC Entertainment and SeaGull 15. Roseanne 4.9/181/92 pleased to play a part in this new Entertainment's Sailor Moon has 15. Simpsons 4.9/138/86 venture," said Peter von Gal, Hall- been cleared in 87 markets, repre- mark executive vice president. -SC senting 84% of the country. The

30 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable PROGRAMING Wonder and Terence Trent D'Arby, The two new affiliate sales offices for all of the channel's affiliate sales. among others. The specials include Peo- will be located in Mexico City and Sao Heading the Mexico City office will be ple: A Musical Celebration of Diversity, Paulo, Brazil. Coinciding with estab- Alex Marin, regional director, affiliate an animated special honoring the 50th lishment of the offices, Hatamiya sales and relations, and overseeing the anniversary of the United Nations, and announced that Andrew Thau has been Sao Paulo office will be Axel de Torsi - Latin Rock Nights, recorded live at the promoted to assistant general manag- ac holding the same title. Both will 28th Montreux Jazz Festival. er /senior counsel with responsibility report to Thau. PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Ratings according to Nielsen, Aug. 7-13

8:00 17. The Nanny 9.8/19 42. Fresh Prince 7.9/15 82. Star Trek: Voyager } 73. Encounters 4.6/9 Q 8:30 29. NFL Pre -Season 14. Dave's World 10.7/20 45. In the House 7.8/14 3.2/6 i9:00 Football-Minnesota Murphy Brown 11 3/20 23. 80. New York Undercover NBC Monday Night at 89. Legend 1.7/3 9:30 Vikings vs. San Diego 12. Cybill 11.1/19 the Movies -Trial: The 4.1/7 10:00 Chargers 8.8/16 Price of Passion, Part 2 27. Chicago Hope 9.1/16 10:30 9.3/16

} 8:00 46. Full House 7.7/15 31 Wings 8.6/17 54. Rescue: 911 6.7/13 70. Fox Tuesday Night 90. Legend 1.6/3 8:30 17. Roseanne 9.8/19 49. Newsradio 7.2/14 Movie -Downtown y 9:00 Home Imprvmt 13.1/23 20. Frasier 9.7/17 4.9/9 90. Marker 1.6/3 t1! 9:30 Coach 12.2/21 50. CBS Tuesday Movie - 23. J Larroquette 9.3/16 10.00 Adrift 7.0/12 20. NYPD Blue 9.7/17 12. Dateline NBC 11.1/20 10:30 } Q 8:00 23. Laverne & Shirley 40 Nanny 8.0/16 78 Beverly Hills, 90210 84. Sister, Sister 3.0/6 66. The Omen 5.2/10 8:30 Reunion 9.3/18 42. Dave's World 7.9/15 4.2/8 86. The Parent 'Hood 2.7/5 9:00 8. Grace Undr Fire 11 4/21 76. Northern Exposure 86. The Wayans Bros. 2.7/5 31. Dateline NBC 8.6/15 84. Party of Five 3.0/5 9:30 Ellen 11 9/21 4.5/8 88. Unhap Ever After 2.5/5 pZ x++10:00 Primetime Live 11.5/21 72. Under Suspicion 4.7/9 35. Law and Order 8.4/15 10:30

8:00 29. Mad About You 8.8/18 64. Living Single 5.3/11 Q Q 8:30 60. Murder, She Wrote 17. Hope & Gloria 9.8/19 59. Martin 6.1/12 52. Matlock 6.9/13 (1) 900 6.0/11 Seinfeld 14.1/25 66. New York Undercover 9:30 Friends 16.1/28 5.2/9 10:00 42. Day One 7.9/14 56.48 Hours 6.4/12 ER 13.8/25 10:30

8:00 40. Family Matters 8.0/19 69. Magician's Favorite 57, Unsolved Mysteries 83. TV Nation 3.1/7 } 8:30 34. Boy Meets World 8.5/19 Magicians 5.1/12 6.3/14 9:00 28. Step by Step 9.0/19 C 64. CBS Special Movie - 38. Dateline NBC 8.2/17 70. The X-Files in in tr 9:30 37. Hangin' w /Mr. C 8.3/17 Black Fox: Good Men 10:00 58. Homicide: Life on the 20/20 11.4/23 & Bad 5.3/11 10:30 Street 6.2/12

8:00 66. Dr. Quinn, Medicine 77. Sweet Justice 4.4/10 in 8:30 Woman 5.2/12 53. Fox Pre -Season rg 9:00 73. Major League Baseball 62. Touched by an Angel Football -Buffalo Bills 35. Movie of the Week 9:30 4.6/10 5.7/12 - vs. Dallas Cowboys p Danielle Steel's 'Daddy' 6.8/1 Ñ 10:00 47. Walker, Texas Ranger 8.4/17 10:30 7.6/15 9.1/17 9.9/19 6.5/12 5.3/10 7:00 38. Am Fun Videos 8.2/18 16.60 Minutes 10.1/21 78. Lost Civilizations 4.2/9 81. Sliders 3.4 ). 7:30 15. Am Fun Videos 10.2/21 Q 8:00 11. Murder, She Wrote 54. The Simpsons 6.7/1 47. Lois & Clark 7.6/15 73. seaQuest DSV 4.6/9 Z 8:30 11.2/21 61. Living Single 5.8/11 9:00 50. Married w /Chld 7.0/13 20. ABC Sunday Night 23. CBS Sunday Movie- 31. NBC Sunday Movie- 9:30 63. George Carlin 5.6/10 Movie -Joe Versus the Treacherous Beauties One Woman's Courage .. 10:00 Volcano 9.7/17 9.3/17 8.6/15 10:30 WED( AVG 8.6/16 7.3/14 8 .3/16 5.0/10 UPN: 2.0/4; WB: 2.7/5 SID AVG 11.1/19 10.i/17 10.8/18 6.8/12 UPN: 3.4/6; WB: 1.8/3 RANKING /SHOW [PROGRAM RATING /SHARE] TOP TEN SHOWS OF THE WEEK ARE NUMBERED IN RED YELLOW TINT IS WINNER OF TIME SLOT (nr)=NOT RANKED 'PREMIERE TELEVISION UNIVERSE ESTIMATED AT 95.4 MI WON HOUSEHOLDS; ONE RATINGS POINT = 954,000 TV HOMES SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH COMPILED BY KENNETH RAY

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 31 TCI plans to grow America One MSO is investing in LPTV and broadcast network; targets 70% coverage in two years By Rich Brown eager to continue expansion beyond able giant Tele- Communications the LPTV stations that originally made Inc. is working on a plan to up the Main Street network. expand distribution of its fledg- America One joins a growing list of ling America One broadcast network to alternative broadcast networks that 70% of U.S. homes within the next two includes Channel America, Network years. One, AIN and various home shopping TCI executives say they already are services. Channel America Vice Chair- reaching 18% of U.S. households man David Post says many of the alter- through America One, the predomi- native broadcast networks are supplying nantly low -power TV network that pre- stations with programing, but they are viously operated as Main Street Televi- TELEVISION not providing the money or the help that sion. TCI's Liberty Sports programing stations need to build an identity (Chan- arm acquired the bankrupt Main Street change once the network builds its dis- nel America itself is being retooled to Television late last year in a liquidation tribution to 70% coverage. include more affiliate compensation and sale and has managed to boost distribu- Despite TCI's strength in cable as more block -oriented programing). tion by 6 million homes since relaunch- the nation's largest multiple system TCI's entry into the business should ing as America One in February. operator, Finegold is not focusing on be intriguing, Post says: "The cable America One is expected to build any cable distribution for America companies have always been the distribution to about 67 million homes One. Instead, the network is seeking enemy of low -power TV stations, so within one and a half to two years, broadcast affiliates of all sizes and is it's an interesting marriage." according to Jay Finegold, AO vice president. The network now is fed to 60 LPTV stations and a dozen full -power stations reaching 17.4 million house- If it's Monday, it must holds. Affiliates include WTWB -Tv Pittsburgh, KFDF -TV Fort Smith, Ark., and WKAG -TV Hopkinsville, Ky. Finegold says the main purpose be wrestling behind launching America One was to TNT goes to mat with USA deliver Liberty Sports programing to "white areas" not served by Liberty's over new pro- wrestling series He regional sports cable networks. says By Rich Brown America One also serves to promote the Liberty sports networks in- market. America One features several non- TNT and USA are getting ready to event sports shows from the Liberty rumble. Beginning in September, cable networks, including sportscasts TNT plans to mirror the success such as Press Box and exercise shows of live professional wrestling on USA like Get Fit with Larry North. Round- by adding WCW Monday Nitro Live on ing out the schedule are public domain TNT to its prime time schedule. The movies and a variety of lifestyle/enter - show will go head -to -head against TNT'jumps into the ring this September tainment shows produced by outside USA's WWF Monday Night Raw, a companies that barter the time or buy it popular weekly series that consistently that will include TV series Thunder in outright. ranks among the most -watched shows Paradise (featuring WCW wrestler America One affiliates pay a nomi- on basic cable. Hulk Hogan) at 8 ET; WCW Monday nal service fee to carry the network and "We believe in giving viewers a Nitro Live at 9; Monday Nitro Movie at may opt for part-time or full -time car- choice, and we want to give them an 10; a repeat of WCW Monday Nitro Live riage, says Finegold. The stations opportunity to sample the WCW at its at midnight, and Monday Nitro Movie at receive the programing on a barter finest against the WWF at its finest in a 1 a.m. The theme night is an extension basis and are given roughly half the competitive time period," says Eric of TNT's Saturday Nitro, a weekly advertising time to sell. Virtually all of Bischoff, senior vice president, World block of action movies that debuted on the network advertising on the channel Championship Wrestling. the network earlier this year. is short- and long -form direct response TNT's wrestling show will be part of The new WCW series marks the latest ads, but Finegold expects that to a new Monday night programing block effort by Turner Broadcasting System to

32 August 211995 Broadcasting & Cable expand its wrestling franchise. Since and syndicated series WCW Worldwide. days at 10 p.m. ET. USA consistently purchasing the WCW in 1988, Turner The new weekly series on TNT will scores high ratings with Monday Night has expanded production to include originate from a different city each week Raw, a weekly live hour that debuted three weekly series for Turner -owned and will be hosted by former Chicago on the network in January 1993. Raw wTs(Tv) Atlanta (WCW Saturday Bears lineman Steve McMichael. this year is averaging a 3.2 rating rep- Night, WCW Main Event Sundays and Meanwhile, USA is doing some resenting more than 2 million house- WCW Pro) and nine annual pay -per- expansion of its own with the compet- holds, according to A.C. Nielsen Co. view events. The WCW also produces ing World Wrestling Federation. data supplied by the network. USA two high -rated WCW Clash of the Beginning on Sept. 21, USA plans to also airs WWF Mania on Saturdays at Champions specials each year for wTgs add WWF Raw, a modified version of 10 a.m. and WWF Action Zone on Sun- as well as Prime Sports' WCW Prime Monday Night Raw that will air Thurs- days at noon.

own brands of political magazines: "I TCI to produce political think the cable programs may wind up being something like electronic opin- ion magazines." programs for cable systems Dennis says cable programs contain- ing "highly interpretative opinion or Free airtime will be offered to presidential candidates analysis" about political issues are not necessarily a bad thing. "The problem By Jim McConville is whether this blurs in the public's speaker while at the same time mind with more traditional TCI says it does not have a political offering some niche pro- news programs and people agenda nor is it creating a news graming that makes the have difficulty distinguish- network with two political pro- democratic process ing one from anoth- grams that the cable operator plans to work better." er." launch this fall. Media critics say Whether the pro- Race for the Presidency and Damn TCI's foray into grams survive the 13- Right!, the first programs produced by political program- week trial, says the new TCI News unit, will undergo a ing may be a sign of Andrews, depends on 13 -week trial run. things to come. "We'll see several factors, including the "It is all in the context of special more of that, and some varia- interest of subscribers and adver- opportunities and niche programing. It's tion of the theme of traditional news is tisers. an experiment; we're testing the waters. probably fine," says Everett Dennis, Race for the Presidency, a weekly It is by no means a full- service news executive director of the Freedom hour-long program that debuts Sept. 5, operation now or at any foreseeable Forum Media Studies Center at will give free airtime to all major U.S. time in the future," says John Andrews Columbia University. presidential candidates. The show will Jr., managing director of TCI News. Dennis likens cable operators pro- air on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET in Denver "It's to explore ways that TCI could ducing their own political programing and will be fed to cable operators at no begin to become a First Amendment to magazine publishers producing their charge via Liberty Media Corp.'s TV! ESPN2 motors along ESPN will add several shows to sister network ESPN2 sage of federal legislation that, he says, should open up next year, including a program devoted to motor sports. cable channel capacity: "It's all dependent upon [MSO] Starting in February, ESPN2 will introduce a daily or cable shelf space. If we can determine that there's weekly motor sports show, tentatively called RPM, says enough demand by cable operators, we will go forward." ESPN President Steven M. Bornstein. The show will Before that happens, Bornstein says, ESPN will con- debut along with separate weekly news shows on NHL centrate on getting its Spanish -language sports net- hockey and NBA basketball, says Bornstein. work, ESPNoI, off the ground. ESPN2, launched in October 1993, reaches 23.6 mil- This fall ESPN will offer out -of- market college football lion subscribers, according to the network. ESPN exec- games as part of its 1995 ABC Sports College football utives say the channel seeks to attract a younger, pay -per-view package. The deal calls for ESPN to distrib- broader audience than does the predominantly male - ute out -of- market games through local cable operators, oriented ESPN. DBS provider DIRECTV and Super Satellite Entertain- ESPN also is considering the eventual launch of a ment (for C -band dish owners). Games will be available third cable sports network -likely to be named to cable operators through Viewer's Choice and Request ESPN3-that might carry an assortment of sports news Television. The programing lineup will include teams and outdoor sports programing. from the Big 10, Big 8, Pac 10, ACC, SEC, WAC and Big Bornstein says programing for a third channel could East conferences not available on local ABC affiliates. include health news or all -sports news services. ESPN The 13 -week package has a suggested retail price of must decide whether to launch now or wait for the pas- $69.95. -1M

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 33 CABLE Network, co -owned with TCI. TOP CABLE The program's weekly 50- minute PEOPLE'S CHOICE: SHOWS1 news hole will be filled with four 8- Following are the top 15 basic cable programs for the week of Aug. 7 -13, ranked by households tuning in. The cable -network ratings are percentages of the total households each network reaches. The U.S. ratings minute videotapes submitted by presi- are percentages of the 95.4 million households with TV sets. Source: Nielsen Media Research. dential candidates; 18 minutes of com- HHs. Rating mentary will be provided by Clifford Program Network Time (ET) (000) Cable U.S. May, syndicated columnist with the Rocky Mountain News. polit- 1. NFL Pre -Season TNT Sun 8:OOp 3,953 6.1 4.1 Colorado ical figure Cara May Denver will serve 2. Movie: 'Crocodile Dundee ll' USA Sun 3:OOp 2,523 3.9 2.6 as show anchor/host, and a rotating list 3. NASCAR Winston Cup ESPN Sun 1:OOp 2,440 2.6 3.7 of Democratic and Republican politi- 4. Movie: USA Wed 2,337 2.4 'Letter to My Killer' 9:OOp 3.6 cians will serve as analysts. 5. Movie: 'The Silence of Adultery' LIFE Wed 9:OOp 2,269 3.6 2.4 Another Race segment is "Between 6. Rugrats NICK Mon 6:30p 2,138 3.4 2.2 the Lines," with Sanford Unger, pro- 7. Movie: 'Crocodile Dundee ll' USA Sat 8:OOp 2,132 3.3 2.2 fessor at American University, and 8. WWF Monday Night Raw USA Mon 9:OOp 2,095 3.2 2.2 Brent Bozell of the Media Research 9. Rugrats NICK Thu 6:30p 2,084 3.3 2.2 Center serving as liberal and conserva- 10. Rugrats NICK Sun 10:OOa 2,053 3.2 2.2 tive media critics who will evaluate 11. Rugrats NICK Wed 6:30p 2,027 3.2 2.1 how well TV covers politics. 12. O.J. Simpson Trial Coverage CNN Tue 5:30p 2,010 3.0 2.1 The other program is Damn Right!, a 13. The Busy World of Richard Scant' NICK Thu 9:30a 2,003 3.1 2.1 daily evening half -hour show covering 14. My Brother and Me NICK Sat 12:30p 1,996 3.1 2.1 political issues, such as the privatization of the Grand Canyon and whether 15. Jim Henson's Muppet Babies NICK Thu 10:OOa 1,918 3.0 2.0 income tax should be eliminated, from Following are the top five pay cable programs for the week of Aug. 7 -13, ranked by households tuning in Source: Nielsen Media Research. the perspective of Main Street (BROAD- CASTING 1. Movie: True Lies' HBO Tue 8:OOp 3,696 15.9 3.9 & CABLE, July 31). The show, which premieres Oct. 2, 2. Movie: 'Clear and Present Danger' HBO Sat 8:OOp 3,463 14.9 3.6 will be syndicated by Multimedia 3. Movie: 'True Lies' HBO Sun 10:30p 3,101 13.3 3.3 Entertainment and carried by Multime- 4.20 Years of Comedy on HBO HBO Sat 10:30p 2,664 11.5 2.8 dia's NewsTalk Television cable net- 5. High on Crack Street HBO Tue 10:30p 2,640 11.4 2.8 work.

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34 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable Arbitron expands qualitative research Joins competition to establish survey standard for midsize markets By Donna Petrozzello ough Research Corp., which Arbitron Jordan contends there is a need for an Arbitron has extended its local jointly owns. Together with the 58 accredited qualitative research method market consumer research ser- major markets surveyed by Scarbor- that can deliver "standardized criteria vice for radio, television stations ough each year, Arbitron will sample a across all markets." The method should and cable operators and stepped up the total 96 markets by June 1996. provide universal definitions of various competition to develop an industry When RetailDirect is in place in all lifestyle and demographic groups, Jor- standard for collecting qualitative the markets sched- dan says, so that research. uled, Arbitron offi- advertisers can "tap Last week Arbitron rolled out cials say, the compa- into any market they "RetailDirect," a research service that ny will seek accredi- want and pull up will be available nationwide in 38 mid- tation for the service exactly the same cri- size markets by June 1996. The service through the Elec- teria." will replace Arbitron's former qualita- tronic Media Rat- Jordan also says tive research service, LocalMotion, ings Council that any research which was introduced last year. (EMRC). Arbitron E C T method that wants to RetailDirect defines the buying and has applied for DIR be accredited or rec- media -usage habits of consumers for EMRC accreditation for Scarborough ognized as an industry standard will stations' sales staffs to present to local Research service, but the EMRC has need to "be in well over 100 markets" retailers. not ruled on either application yet, before it can be effective and not con- "In mid -sized and smaller markets, according to company officials. sidered a "secondary decision factor." the greatest utility derived from Meanwhile, another qualitative By contrast, Scarborough Research LocalMotion was securing business research company, The Media Audit, has 700 clients, 325 of which are radio from the local retailer," says Josh is also seeking EMRC accreditation stations, says Arbitron Vice President Chasin, Arbitron's vice president of for its service. The Media Audit sur- of Communications Thom Mocarsky. marketing for new ventures. "This veys 65 midsize and smaller markets He says that with EMRC accreditation pool of dollars coming from the local and has 669 radio stations subscribing "comes some minimum standard" for a retailer represents the vast majority of to its service. An additional 830 TV, qualitative research methodology. He revenue for broadcasters and cable cable, print media and ad agencies contends that Arbitron wants to "devel- operators in these markets." also subscribe, says company presi- op a methodology to match the situa- Pierre Bouvard, general manager of dent Bob Jordan. tion in the marketplace." Arbitron Radio, says that although radio ad revenue is generated by a combina- tion of national, local and retail advertis- ers, station management wants their Stern's rant on Evergreen sales staffs to focus on selling to local retailers. Infinity Broadcasting megamouth Howard Stern con- Arbitron President Steve Morris tinues to put pressure on Evergreen Media Corp. says the company "sees RetailDirect as Chairman /CEO Scott Ginsburg and Evergreen's a natural extension of our commitment wMVP(AM) President/GM Larry Wert as the lawsuit to help the radio industry grow. It helps Stern filed against Evergreen for breach of contract demonstrate radio's unique ability to remains pending in a New York state court. deliver highly targeted consumer seg- In recent broadcasts, Stern has wished that Wert ments. And we are adding to ratings a "would contract AIDS and die" and has discredited critical dimension, that of product pur- Ginsburg for canceling his show in 1993 after it had chase and consumer behavior." been on WMVP only eight months and allegedly fail- Rather than rely on mail -in diaries as ing to pay him the full salary negotiated in his con- LocalMotion did, RetailDirect will use tract. Stern rantings have also targeted wacx(FM) Howard Stern telephone interviews in most markets Chicago's morning host "Mancow" Muller, who to poll consumers about their purchas- Stern says has parodied his show and personality. es and TV viewing habits, Arbitron "There's a vendetta against me in Chicago," Stern contends. Mean- officials say. The service will continue while, Cox Broadcasting's wcKG(FM) added The Howard Stern Show in to use Arbitron mail -in diaries to mea- late April, bringing Stern back into the Chicago market after his short stint sure radio listenership. at WMVP. Stern said he wants to "prove" he is "number one" among Chica- RetailDirect will sample markets go morning show hosts. -DP that are not surveyed by the Scarbor-

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 35 Telern THE INTERACTIVE WORLD OF VIDEO. VOICE AND DATA

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cast networks and with sever- al major film studios. Ovitz's departure doesn't Tele -TV is well financed by the three telcos to pur- chase, develop and package a national slate of television put telco plans on hold programing. Beginning next year, Tele -TV plans to reach Tele -TV continues programing negotiations: Tele- Ventures gets former CAA talent nearly 34 million telephone customers with a 8y Meo4 By.,4

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Ameritech pushes hard into cable New OS from Sony While other Disney partners are cautious, Ameritech works on securing cable franchises Sony Corp. is developing operating system software telco brings to the partnership 68 million designed for a variety of g, H444 ge44404 interactive television services, access lines in 33 different states). GTE says including video on demand qmeritech is setting itself apart from the it will pass with that 300,000 homes cable tele- and other applications. The video other telephone companies with an vision and near- -on -demand services by new OS, APERTOS, will be aggressive strategy to become an imme- early 1996. used for managing video, diate competitor to cable. Although the four telcos are pursuing differ- graphics, audio and data to Although Ameritech has a potentially far- ent strategies to enter the television market, set -top boxes for interactive ranging deal with Tele- Ventures (the alliance Tele- Venture partners are part of a national TV. Sony's new OS will com- between Disney, BellSouth, SBC Corn - programing alliance with Disney that pete with similar interactive munications and most recently undoubtedly will give them TV operating system software GTE), the midwestern access to ABC's broad- developed by Microsoft Corp. telco is ambitiously pur- cast programing, ESPN and Oracle Systems Corp. suing cable franchises eñtech and a number of other on its own throughout TV properties. Welcome to the its region. Tele- Ventures will Future welcomes Ameritech plans to secure a serve as a national coordinator series of cable franchises in Ohio and Illi- of basic system standards. The partners contract nois by this fall, and then will look at areas in also are expected to pool their resources and Welcome to the Future Inc. Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin. issue a major set -top box RFP within the next has been chosen by Dispatch Dave Onak, spokesman for Ameritech, says few months. Interactive Television Inc. to the telco is close to securing a franchise in Onak says Disney and its Tele- Ventures provide turnkey interactive Columbus, Ohio, and is negotiating with six partners are working on "the navigator," the television hardware, software other communities in Ohio, as well as several interface for accessing interactive services and network services in areas in suburban Chicago, including Glendale from the venture. The first version is expected Columbus, Ohio, and Indi- Heights and Naperville. to be ready early next year. raw anapolis. WTF's wireless real - Ameritech recently was fined $200,000 by time interactive response the FCC for starting to build a cable system system carries information without its approval. Any telephone company into homes and can be accessed through a -top that wants to build a cable system or offer set box and remote control video dialtone services must get Section 214 device. The system utilizes approval from the FCC prior to construction. IVDS (interactive video and However, Onak says Ameritech is trying to data services for the return get a permit in Columbus so that it can begin to path to access services, build its hybrid fiber /coax (HFC) network including personalized infor- before securing a formal franchise agreement mation services, home shop- with local authorities. ping and home banking. Ameritech has the most aggressive basic cable strategy of any of the telephone compa- Providence Journal nies. Ameritech plans to pass about 100,000- 200,000 homes by the end of this year, says goes shopping Onak. It plans to pass 1 million homes by the Providence Journal Co. has end of 1996 and an additional million each New to the Web: Fox become the latest investor in has year after that. Fox Broadcasting launched a site on the Peapod, an interactive gro- which The other telcos involved in the Tele -Ven- Internet's World Wide Web, Fox World, cery shopping and delivery tures partnership are taking a more cautious comprises three areas: Fox Entertainment, Fox service. Providence Journal approach to the competitive cable television Kids Network and Fox Sports. Fox designed the plans to expand the service to in tandem with BoxTop Interactive. The site market. site its newspaper and nine tele- offers detailed show schedule information, BellSouth, SBC Communications and GTE vision markets. Peapod now live Fox access to chat rooms with personalities, is available in Chicago and Corp. are moving much less aggressively. Fox and bulletin boards. Within the Sports area, San Francisco to some 8,000 BellSouth is conducting a small market trial online users can play fantasy football and get the outside Atlanta and recently applied for cable customers; PJC says it will latest sports news. offer Peapod in Boston next service in South Carolina. Fox World is expected to evolve and eventually SBC Communications is working with year. Other investors in Pea - be folded into the new online service that parent pod include the Tribune Co. Microsoft on a range of interactive TV services with MCI. Fox World can News Corp. is developing and Ameritech. -MB as part of its broadband trial with AT &T and be reached at http://www.foxnetwork.com.-MB BroadBand Technologies in Richardson, Tex. GTE Corp. also joined Tele- Venture (the

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 37 TelemPdial,

1`!0 I 4F/bf.Px e Sept. 6- 9-From the Airwaves ABC Radio enters WWW to the Internet: The Changing Face of Electronic Journalism, sponsored by the Radio- Televi- no,+t.k peX411e114 By sion News Directors Association. abc 'rhr CI,rrPnl IiOH` 15 New Orleans Convention Center. 12::30 p.m. EST BC Radio Networks R,4DIoNet Contact: (202) 223 -4007. debuted its ABC LOCAL NEWS SUMMARY Sept. 12- 13-New Products A RadioNet World !!IIIIII SPORTS L and Services for Cable, spon- Wide Web site last week, NEWS J sored by AIC Conferences. The the New York Vista Hotel, New York. offering networks' CHICAGO /'// national newscasts and WORLD Contact: (800) 409 -4242. NEWS NEW YORK at large- market local news- SUMMARY LOS ANGELES Sept. 18-19 -Video on casts free to Internet sub- Demand, sponsored by The Insti- scribers. NATIONAL ätß tute for International Research WEATHER Jointly developed by FORECAST The Marriott Marquis, New York. 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Jennings Journal, This Week and television newscasts. boards and modems capable Contact: (800) 256 -1076. with David Brinkley and Bernard Gershon, ABC of transmitting a RealAudio Nov. 8 -10 -Women Online Hugh Downs Perspective. News Radio general manager feed are not universal, ABC The The titles of the news pro- of news operations, says that executives expect computer Conference, sponsored by Kelsey Group and Apple Com- grams and images of Jen- no advertisers have been manufacturers to include puter Corp. The Renaissance nings, Brinkley and Downs tapped yet to support the site sound boards as standard in Hotel, Washington. Contact: accompany the audio feed. because it is "experimental" new models beginning next (609) 921 -7200. Special news features and is a "separate medium year. tnlw

38 August21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable Pressler top corporate fundraiser Senate Commerce chairman receives $461,000 from PACs; almost $1 million overall By Christopher Stern

Commerce Committee Chairman At a glance Larry Pressler (R -S.D.) led the Senate in corporate fundraising Time Warner executives were during the past six months, bringing in not alone in donating to Sen- $461,334, including more than ate Commerce Committee $120,000 from communications com- Chairman Larry Pressler's panies. 1996 re- election campaign. He raised almost $1 million for his Others who wrote $1,000 reelection campaign, including indi- checks to Pressler in the past vidual donations. six months include: Last June, Pressler shepherded NBC CEO Bob Wright through the Senate a major overhaul of ABC CEO Thomas Murphy the nation's telecommunications bill, 's John Kluge which included rate deregulation for the cable industry and broadcast own- Discovery Communications ership deregulation. Republican senator Larry Pressler of Inc. CEO John Hendricks The nation's two largest cable com- South Dakota was the leading recipient Walt Disney Co. Chairman/ of political action committee funds over CEO panies, Time Warner and Tele -Com- the past six months. munications Inc., thought enough of Jones Intercable Chairman/ Pressler to give him $10,0000 each - Chairman/CEO Gerald Levin ($2,000), CEO Glenn Jones the maximum allowed under campaign Warner Music Chairman Michael Chris Craft Industries finance rules. In addition to the Time Fuchs ($500) and HBO Chairman Jef- Chairman /President Herbert Warner donation, on March 7, 40 Time frey Bewkes ($500). Siegel Warner executives wrote Pressler cam- Pressler may face a tough race for paign checks totaling more than reelection next year against Represen- $30,000. tative Tim Johnson (D- S.D.). Shortly earlier this year, lobbyists felt pres- Among those who made individual after Pressler assumed chairmanship sure from his campaign to make con- contributions were Time Warner of the Senate Commerce Committee tributions. In January several were

Nader criticizes Quello for Disney-ABC comments Ralph Nader did not like what FCC Commissioner be multiple ownership and crossownership issues to be James Quello had to say about Walt Disney Co.'s pur- resolved, and the FCC will be required to make sensi- chase of Capcities /ABC. ble decisions that best serve the overall public interest Nader's group, the Center for Study of Responsive and a robust competitive marketplace," Quello said in Law, last week asked FCC Chairman Reed Hundt to his original statement. recuse Quello from reviewing the merger, maintaining In a memo last week to Hundt, Quello said Nader's that the commissioner is predisposed to approving group deliberately omitted that comment from its letter. the deal. In a letter to Hundt, Nader cited a statement Quello also said he stands by the original statement. Quello issued after the July 31 announcement that Charles Carbone, a research assistant at the center said, "Disney -ABC will have the finances, program who co- signed the letter with Nader, said the complete resources and economies of scale to better serve the text of Quello's statement "was inadvertently left out." public." He also said Quello's comment about multiple owner- "His press release reads more like a congratulatory ship issues does not change "the overall sentiment of postcard than a policy statement," Nader wrote. "A rea- the statement." sonable person can tell from an objective reading of the Carbone added that his group has not decided statement that Commissioner Quello supports the whether to oppose the merger at the FCC. Another merger." group, the National Hispanic Media Coalition, has said Quello's office countered Nader's letter by saying it plans to oppose the merger on equal employment that although Nader claimed to reprint the release in opportunity grounds. The group previously has peti- full, he omitted Quello's comment acknowledging the tioned the FCC to deny renewal of the Disney -owned need to review multiple ownership issues. "There will KcAL(TV) Los Angeles license. -CM

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 39 The FCC and the National Telecommunications committee comprises government users as well and Information Administration have tapped as the two principal makers of public- safety Washington communications lawyer Phil radio equipment: Motorola Inc. and Erics- Verveer to chair the new- son Inc. i +ììi ly formed Public Safety Wireless Advisory Com- National Cable Televi- mittee. The committee will sion Association Presi- advise the FCC and NTIA on ìshi dent Decker Anstrom the operational and spectrum ngton predicts that cable requirements of law- enforcement agencies, rates will rise, but fire departments, ambulances and rescue ser- nowhere near the $5 per month vices at all levels of government. NTIA, a divi- range predicted by some consumer sion of the Commerce Department, parcels out atc_ advocates. An- spectrum for federal agencies; the FCC, for state strom cited and local agencies. Like most other spectrum Edited B y Chris McConnell one study that users, public safety users have been making demands for suggests it will take four to five years more of it. for cable rates to increase $5 per Verveer served in the FCC's Cable, Broadcast and month from current levels. Common Carrier bureaus during the Carter administra- Although the House and the Senate tion. Now with the firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, he have passed deregulatory cable bills, represents a variety of clients, including Tele- Communi- that does not mean the industry can cations Inc., Time Warner, the National Cable Televi- relax, says Anstrom: "Everything is sion Association and the Cellular Telecommunications on the table in both these bills." Industry Association. Verveer confesses that he knows However, he predicted that President NCTA President little about public safety radio. In addition to the spec- Clinton will sign the telecommunica- Decker Anstrom trum issue, he says, the group will tackle interoperabili- tions bill when the House and Senate ty. "The fire department and the police need to talk to finish reconciling the differences in each other in an emergency," he says. He expects to their two versions and send the resulting bill to the White move fast, making recommendations within a year. The House.

asked to pay $2,500 to attend a break- The Law Firm of fast sponsored by the National Cable Television Association at a Washing- KECK, MAHIN & CATE ton hotel. Presents In contrast to Pressler, the ranking Democrat on the committee, Senator Broadcast Financing for the 1990s: Ernest Hollings (D- S.C.), raised less Preparing for Change in Law and Regulation than $100,000 during the same period. 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. In the House, Representative Ed Thursday, September 7, 1995, Room 58, New Orleans Convention Center Markey raised $210,000 for his re- NAB Radio Convention election effort -more than House Telecommunications Chairman Jack An intensive conference for existing and prospective radio owners, lenders, and media brokers on the Fields (R- Tex.), who raised $152,569. availability of financing for radio acquisitions and financial management of radio stations. Although Markey does not accept Opening Remarks: Larry D. Ends, Chief, FCC Audio Services Division PAC donations, he collected $40,000 Panelists include: in individual contributions from people Samuel D. Bush Frank C. Kalil Katherine C. Marien in the communications industry. AT&T Capital Corp. Kalil & Co., Inc. Allied Capital Lending Corp. Markey opposes cable rate deregula- Brian E. Cobb James R. Kuster George R. Reed tion, but several cable industry execu- Media Venture Partners Chase Manhattan Bank Media Services Group, Inc. tives wrote personal checks to his cam- Ian S. Crowe James H. Levy Timothy R. Sullivan paign, according to Federal Election Toronto Dominion Bank Park Lane Group Anaheim Broadcasting Corp. Commission records. Gregg E. Johnson Alfred Liggins R. Christopher Weber Among those who donated to BIA Capital Corp. Radio One, Inc. Jacor Inc. Communications, Markey's r- election campaign were Yes, I want to attend the conference at no charge, since I am registered for the NAB Radio Continental Cablevision Chairman/ Convention (send proof of NAB registration). Non -registrants should send $95 payable to CEO Amos Hostetter Jr. ($1,000) and NAB. Send in your name, company, address, and telephone number to one of the following: Comcast Chairman Ralph Roberts Laura P. Radjenovich Lewis J. Paper, Esq. Roger J. Metzler, Esq. ($500). Keck, Mahin & Cate Keck, Mahin & Cate Keck, Mahin & Cate Cable was not alone in funding his 77 W. Wacker Drive 1201 New York Ave., N.W. One Maritime Plaza re- election effort. National Association Chicago, IL 60601 Washington, D.C. 20005 San Francisco, CA 94111 of Broadcasters President Eddie Fritts (312) 634-5613 wrote Markey a check for $500.

40 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable ARS makes hit despite baseball strike By Elizabeth Rathbun future," he said in an interview. "We'd Red Sox Network, which has New Cailing itself one of the fastest - like to own a station or two with a 'K' England radio rights to the team's growing radio groups, American in front of it instead of a 'W,' " he games, Winn says. Radio Systems (ARS) just bought added, meaning a station west of the Despite the baseball losses, for the three more stations and released Mississippi River. first six months of the year, net revenue impressive second -quarter results. In the release, Dodge called his Bos- jumped 55.7 %, from $28.58 million in Anticipating passage of federal tele- ton-based company "one of the fastest - 1994 to $44.5 million. In that same peri- communications reform -"our confi- growing companies in radio." Net rev- od, operating income ballooned 207.7 %, dence level is reasonably high that will enue grew 42.7% in the second quarter from $1.42 million to $4.37 million. happen," says ARS Chairman /CEO of the year, totaling $24.67 million, As part of the Hartford purchase, Steven B. Dodge -ARS's most recent compared with $17.29 million in second ARS paid $1 million for an option to buys take it over the FCC's ownership quarter 1994. Meanwhile, operating purchase the New England Weather cap of two FMs per market. With its $42 income rose 85.9 %, from $1.99 million Service, a syndicated service provided million purchase of WTIC -AM -FM Hart- to $3.7 million. Operating income is the to radio stations in Connecticut. ARS ford, Conn., on Aug. 11, the company difference between revenue and related intends to buy the service, Winn says. will have three FMs there, as well as costs and expenses. ARS was formed in November 1993 three FMs in Buffalo, N.Y., with last All ARS stations are growing, says with the merger of group owners of 16 Tuesday's $8 million purchase of WBLK- CFO Joe Winn. A strong advertising stations. The groups were Atlantic Ra- FM Depew /Buffalo (see "Changing market, combined with radio taking dio, Stoner Broadcasting System and Hands," below). ARS already has FM advertising dollars from other media, Multi Market Communications. Their duopolies in Boston; Rochester, N.Y.; also helped make the company's num- intention was to create duopolies wher- Dayton, Ohio, and West Palm Beach, bers so strong. Station acquisition was ever possible. The company now has Fla., and an AM duopoly in Boston. another factor, including the comple- 15 FMs and nine AMs, including the With telcom reform, "we look for- tion of the sale of WKGR -FM West Palm new Buffalo and Hartford stations. ward with enthusiasm to expanding our Beach. company's presence in some of its There was a "significant negative existing markets and to entering select- impact" on the bottom line from the ed new markets over time," Dodge said Major League Baseball strike, the in a release. In fact, ARS will buy a sta- release says. The company lost more Rocky Mountain tion in a new market in the "very near than $1 million on its 60- station Boston Radio Co., LLC This week's tabulation of station sales has acquired the assets of TV . Proposed station trades WSW- I Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. By dollar volume and number of sales Virgin Islands This week: KVFC -AM Price: $2.35 million AMs o $40,000 01 Buyer. Atlas News and Information FMs o $11,534,000 0 7 Services Inc., New York City (David Combos o $43,092,260 o 3 Lampel, chairman; Figgie Family Equity Fund Ltd. LLC, 80% owner); TVs o $5,500,000 o 4 KRTZ -FM also has 3.2% share in Inner City Total o $60,166,260 015 Broadcasting Corp., which owns So far in 1995: Cortez, Colorado WLIB(AM)- WBLS-FM New York; KBLX -AM- AMs o $70,469,654 0125 from FM San Francisco, and KSAO -FM San Antonio, Tex. FMs o $434,314,073 o 237 Seller. Antilles Broadcasting Corp., Combos o $1,250,749,810 o 140 Delane Broadcasting, PO Box 8ABC, Christiansted TVs 0 $2,483,437,000 ri 85 Inc. (Barakat Saleh, president); no other Total o $4,238,970,537 587 broadcast interests Facilities: ch. 8, 200 kw visual, 20 kw Buyer. Roberts Broadcasting Co., St. Al Perry represented the buyer aural, ant. 1,144 ft. Roberts, presi- Affiliation: ABC Louis (Steven C. owner); also owns WHSL -Tv Broker: Gordon Rice Associates, dent/50% East St. Louis and KTVJ -Tv Boulder, Charleston, S.C. Colo., and is buying Ch. 14, Albu- WRMY -TV Rocky Mount, N.C. querque, N.M. Media Brokers Appraisers Consultants Price: $1.5 million Seller. Family Broadcasting Enter- Philadelphia Denver Tampa Kansas City Vail SI. Louis

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 41 CHANGING HANDS prises, Rocky Mount, N.C. (Robert Seller: Johanna Broadcasting Inc., Broker: Blackburn & Co., Alexandria, M. Chandler Jr., Robert J. Pelletier, Eugene, Ore. (John E. Field Revoca- Va. co- owners); no other broadcast inter- ble Trust, owner); no other broadcast WKED -AM -FM Frankfort, Ky. ests interests Price: $550,000 Facilities: ch. 47, 12.3 kw visual, ant. Facilities: ch. 36, 3,577 kw visual, Buyer: Franklin County Broadcasting 318 ft. 358 kw aural, ant. 1,786 ft. Inc., Paducah, Ky. (R. Lee Hagan, Affiliation: Independent Affiliation: WB Network president/40% owner). Lee also is Broker: W. John Grandy, San Luis Broker: Exline Co. 60% WPAD(AM) -WDDJ-FM Obispo, Calif. owner of COMBOS Paducah and 41.4% owner of WCND KMVUITV) Medford, Ore. WTIC -AM -FM Hartford, Conn. (AM)- WTHQ -FM Shelbyville, Ky. Price: $1 million and assumption of Price: $42 million Seller. Allan Communications Inc., liabilities Buyer. American Radio Systems Inc., Frankfort (Leigh Allan, president); no Buyer: Northwest Broadcasting Inc., Boston (Steven B. Dodge, chairman/ other broadcast interests Okemos, Mich. (Brian W. Brady, CEO); also owns WRCH -FM, WZMX -FM Facilities: AM: 1,130 khz, 500 kw; president/owner); no other broadcast and WNEZ(AM) Hartford; WRKO(AM), FM: 103.7 mhz, 2.5 kw, ant. 350 ft. interests WEEI(AM), WBMX -FM and WEGQ -FM Format: AM: C &W; FM: adult contem- Seller: 914 Broadcasting Co., Boston; WCMF -FM and WRMM -AM -FM porary Spokane, Wash. (Robert J. Hamach- Rochester, and WYRK -FM, WJYE -FM Broker. Henson Media Inc. er, president/owner); also selling and WECK(AM) Buffalo, all N.Y.; WOAPIAMI- WMZXIFM) Owosso, Mich. KAYU -TV Spokane to Northwest WMMX -FM, WTUE -FM and woNE(AM) Price: $542,260 ( "Changing Hands," Aug. 14) Dayton, Ohio; WIRK -FM, WKGR -FM and Facilities: 26, 28.5 kw visual, Buyer: Majac of Michigan Inc., Flint ch. ant. wBZr(AM) West Palm Beach, Fla., 1.348 ft. (Jack T. Steenbarger, president /70% and wosR -FM and wBMD(AM) Balti- Affiliation: Fox owner); also owns WWCK -AM -FM Flint more, and is buying WBLK -FM Depew/ Broker: Pacific Seller: Michigan Radio Group Inc., Amsterdam Corp. Buffalo, N.Y. (see "FM" item, below) (buyer); Alexander Hutton & Co. Owosso (Russel C. Balch, presi- Seller: Chase Broadcasting Inc., dent): no other broadcast interests (seller) Hartford (Arnold Chase, president); Facilities: AM: 1,080 khz, 1 kw day; KROZITVI Roseburg, Ore. no other broadcast interests FM: 103.9 mhz, 6 kw, ant. 255 ft. Price: $650,000 Facilities: AM: 1,080 khz, 50 kw; FM: Format: AM: news /talk; FM: soft adult Buyer. Ronald and Brendyl L. Lee, 96.5 mhz, 20 kw, ant. 810 ft. contemporary Springfield, Ore. (husband and wife); Format: AM: full- service news, talk; Broker. Thoben -Van Huss Associates no other broadcast interests FM: CHR Inc., Indianapolis RADIO: FM

WBLK -Frv: Depew/Buffalo, N.Y. WHITEHEAD MEDIA, INC. Price: $8 million Buyer: American Radio Systems Inc., has acquired Boston (Steven B. Dodge, chairman/ CEO); also owns WYRK -FM, WJYE -FM WTVX -TV and WECK(AM) Buffalo; WRCH -FM, WZMX-FM and WNEZ(AM) Hartford; Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida WRKO(AM), WEEI(AM), WBMX -FM and from WEGQ -FM Boston; WCMF -FM and WRMM -AM -FM Rochester, N.Y.; WMMX- FM, WTUE -FM and WONE(AM) Dayton, KRYPTON BROADCASTING Ohio; WIRK -FM, WKGR -FM and WBZT for (AM) West Palm Beach, Fla., and WQSR -FM and WBMD(AM) Baltimore; and is buying WTIC -AM -FM Hartford, $17,175,000 Conn. (see "Combos" item, above) The undersigned acted as exclusive broker Seller: WBLK Broadcasting Inc. (Frank Lorenz, president); no other in the transaction and assisted in the negotiations. broadcast interests Facilities: 93.7 mhz, 50 kw, ant. 400 ft. Format: Urban contemporary Broker: Blackburn & Co., Alexandria, Va. WJLWIFM) Green Bay, Wis. Price: $2.265 million Buyer. Woodward Communications Inc., Dubuque, Iowa (Susan F. Knaack, VP, broadcasting); also Kalil & Co., Inc. owns KDTH(AM) -KATF -FM Dubuque and 3444 North Country Club Tucson, Arizona 85716 (520) 795 -1050 WAPL -FM-WHBY(AM) Appleton /Oshkosh and WMMM- FM/WYZM -FM Madison,

42 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable CHANGING HANDS both Wis.; Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, and 12 other newspapers in 3 states TCI posts loss in second quarter Seller American Communications Tele- Communications Inc.'s cash flow continues to rise, with the cable Co. Inc., Green Bay (Jon A. LeDuc, giant reporting last week that its second -quarter cash flow increased 12 %, president); no other broadcast inter- from $452 million to $504 million. But the company also reported a second - ests quarter net loss of $92 million, or 14 cents per share. TCI's net loss for the Facilities: 95.9 mhz, 25 kw, ant. 308 ft. first six months of 1995 was $145 million compared with net earnings of Format: Contemporary country $38 million for the same period in 1994. The company posted consolidat- Broker: Blackburn & Co., Alexandria, ed revenue of $1.66 billion for the quarter, a 54% increase over its revenue Va. of $1.08 billion for the same period last year. For the first six months of 1995, TCI had total revenue of $3.18 billion compared with $2.14 billion for CP for KWICIFM) Topeka, Kan. in 1994. Price: $444,000 in indebtedness the same period Buyer. William E. Cordell, Houston; The TCI Group, which represents TCI's domestic cable and telephony owns KMAT(FM) Seadrift, Tex. distribution, saw its operating cash flow increase 10 %, from $454 million to Seller: Marcor Radio Inc., Topeka $501 million. For the first six months of 1995, the TCI Group posted oper- (Margaret Escriva, owner); no other ating cash flow of $976 million compared with $909 million for the same broadcast interests period in 1994. The group posted total revenue of $1.28 billion for the sec- Facilities: 99.3 mhz, 6 kw, ant. 292 ft. ond quarter compared with $1.06 billion for the same quarter last year. Format: Oldies, news /talk, sports Another subsidiary, TCI Communications Inc. (TCIC), had revenue and operating cash flow of $1.26 billion and $518 million, respectively. Operating KFSH(FM) Hilo, Hawaii cash flow for TCIC was up $66 million from the same period in 1994. -1M Price: $270,000 Buyer: New West Broadcasting Corp., Hilo (Francis T. Higa Revoca- ble Trust, owner/John Leonard, pres- Facilities: Not available Price: $40,000 ident/20% owner); also owns KPUA Format: Not available Buyer: Eleftherios Drettakis, Clearwa- (AM)- KWXX -FM Hilo Broker: Burt Sherwood, Sarasota, ter; no other broadcast interests Seller: University of the Nations Inc., Fla. Seller: George Bouris, Tarpon Kailua -Kona, Hawaii; no other broad- Springs, Fla.; no other broadcast cast interests RADIO: AM interests Facilities: 97.1 mhz, 40 kw, ant. 124 ft. Facilities: 1,340 khz, 1 kw Format: Easy listening WTANIAM) Clearwater, Fla. Format: Greek, religion, Spanish WJKX(FM) Ellisville, Miss. Price: $260,000 Buyer: JLW Broadcasting Inc., Lau- July 14, 1995 rel, Miss. (Jimmy Walker, president/ owner); no other broadcast interests Seller South Jones Broadcasters Cottonwood Communications, L.L.C. Inc., Ellisville (Glynn Holland, presi- dent); no other broadcast interests has completed the acquisition of the assets of Facilities: 102.5 mhz, 50 kw, ant. 492 ft. Format: Religion KSPR -TV Springfield, MO KVYF(FM) Wilson Creek, Wash. Price: $220,000 and Buyer: Wilson Creek Communica- KMID-TV Midland -Odessa, TX tions LLC, Wyckoff, N.J. (James Lut- and ton, senior member/50% owner); no other broadcast interests KCPM -TV Chico -Redding, CA Seller: Wilson Creek Broadcasting Co., Santa Ynez, Calif.; no other broadcast interests from Facilities: 103.3 mhz, 6 kw, ant. 328 ft. Format: Not on air Davis -Goldfarb Company Broken Miller & Associates WGCQIFMI Immokolee, Fla. (Naples) The undersigned initiated this transaction on behalf of the buyer Price: $75,000 Buyer Toronto Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich. (Leonard Titelbaum, president/ owner); is buying wws(AM) Gaines- ville and woJv(FM) Trenton, Fla. Seller: Naples Radio Partners LP, Rocky River, Ohio (Barry Gerber, Ted Hepburn, President Todd Hepburn, Vice -President managing partner); no other broad- Palm Beach, FL (407) 863 -8995 Cincinnati, OH (513) 271 -5400 cast interests

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Call r commercial radio /audio Production Coordinator. Kevin at 540 -863 -3098. To place an ad in the Broadcasting 8e Cable Copywriting and digital experience preferred. Classified pages. contact Antoinette Fasulo Send your resume and tape to: Operations Man- TEL: 212.337.7073 FAX: 212.206.8327 ager, WOOL, 2101 S.R. 434, Suite 305, God Given Talent! Charming, humorous, up and INTERNET:AFAS UI.(k.BC. CAHNERS. CO M Longwood, FL 32779. No phone calls please. coming talk radio personality wants to improve L J EOE. your ratings. 214/373 -4374. Mark.

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Conservative Ph.D. w /on- air- experience seeks News Director: NBC affiliate in Reno, Nevada is WRAL -TV, the CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North full -time talk show format. Successful teaching seeking a high energy, people motivator to direct Carolina --An experienced Account Executive to and business backgrounds combined with uni- its extremely aggressive news operation. Please handle both regional and local business. Candi- versity honed and validated research aptitude send or fax your news philosophy, salary require- date must have strong negotiating and pres- augment communication skills. All markets con- ments, resume and references to Ralph Toddre, entation skills, as well as the ability to sell promo- sidered. Reply to Box 00482. General Manager, KRNV -TV, P.O. Box 7160, tional opportunities, and develop new business. Reno, NV 89510, Fax No. (702) 785 -1200. No A great station, and a great company in the #1 phone calls please. EOE. place in the country to live. If you can make a SITUATIONS WANTED TALENT real difference in representing a market leader, send your resume to Laura Stillman, Local Sales Manager, WRAL -TV, P.O. Box 12000, Raleigh, Business Manager. One of the premier stations Astrologer seeks radio, cable, media show. North Carolina 27605. An Equal Opportunity in the Southwest is looking for a Business Man- am also available for guest appearances via Employer. phone at nite. Mark 718 -258 -5240 7-11 pm EDT ager. However, what we're really seeking is so- or write: Box 257, Brooklyn, New York 11234. meone who wants to be a part of the station's overall decision making process and is not mere- ly content to tote up the results. KOLD -TV is a Continental Television Network has an open- part of Ellis Communications, one of the nation's ing for Local Sales Manager in beautiful BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES fastest growing broadcasting companies. And the Missoula, MT. Requires success in recruiting, environment in Arizona --both working and training, and motivating sales staff. ABC /FOX sta- otherwise --is great, particularly if you have an af- tion with major growth potential. Send resume to hit "Abolishing Income the jackpot. My show finity for heat. CPA preferred, but not essential. General Manager, 2200 Stephens Avenue, Tax /Dismantling IRS" expending rapidly. 200 Columbine experience helpful and understanding Missoula, MT 59801. million taxpayers will listen. Urgently seeking a Pentium is not a military installation would be partner. POB 430, Marina, CA 93933. nice. Sense of humor a must. Send resume to General Manager, 7831 North Business Park Local Account Executive. WDZL, the WB af- Drive, Tucson, AZ 85743 -9622. Or fax (520) 744- filiate in Miami is looking for a top level Marketing 5233. If you feel compelled to call, you'll have to A Russian multilingual Communications and Consultant. Minimum 5 years major market tele- look up the voice number yourself. It's one of our Legal Affairs professional (former PsyOps vision experience. Knowledge of all computer - little tests. Please ask for Barbara who knows specialist, 32 y.o.) seeks capital to launch and based research tools a must as well as proven everything and lately has been complaining that manage a western -style radio station in Russia. track record of success. If you're an over- a ten hour day isn't enough. Please fax to Moscow: (7- 095)2926511, c/o Box achiever as well as a team player, please send a 2385, Dmitri Sherkovin. letter and qualifications to: Local Sales Manager, WDZL, 2055 Lee Street, Hollywood, FL 33020. KSTU FOX 13, a FOX O &O station in Salt Lake Fax: (305) 921 -6186. EOE. City, UT, is looking for a National Sales Manager. Essential functions of the position include nation- TELEVISION al sales development; establishing and meeting national sales objectives; maintaining proper in- Research Manager. Sinclair Broadcast Group in Baltimore, MD) has opening for HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT ventory control; direct contact with national (based an a advertisers; coordinating communication with all Research Manager. We seek a hands -on sales Telerep sales offices; developing national sales and marketing professional with 2 -4 years of TV WSAZ Television 3, a division of Lee En- presentations. Applicants must have a bachelors experience, one who is expert in computer skills, terprises, has an opening for a Local Sales Man- degree or equivalent work experience, plus three qualitative research, software and graphics. This ager. Must be goal oriented and have excellent to five years experience in television sales. Rep position is a multi -market job. We require persons motivational skills. Must have a minimum of five experience a plus. Must have a working knowl- with "analytical thinking" skills; one who has both years of local sales skills or the equivalent and edge of NSI ratings and research, be highly written and verbal presentation skills. Send re- have a proven record of success. Must be motivated, computer literate, and team -oriented sume, detailed cover letter and references to: customer driven, creative, have good marketing with polished presentation skills to professionally Robert A. Epstein, Director of Sales and Market- skills, excellent oral and written presentation represent KSTU. Please fax resume or contact ing, Sinclair Broadcast Group, 2000 West 41st skills. Must be able to understand the incorpora- Karen Hart, Personnel Director, KSTU FOX 13 Street, Baltimore, MD 21211. No phone calls tion of tools in the selling process and have the Television. PH: (801) 532 -1300; Fax: (801) 537- please. EOE. desire and ability to coach and train an experi- 7869. Equal Opportunity Employer. enced team to new levels of success. A minimum undergraduate Business/Marketing degree is de- sired. We are a top 5 NBC affiliate in a top 50 Traffic Coordinator: WWOR -TV, the United Promotion /Creative Services Director: KDLH- market. Our team has access to the most up to Paramount Network affiliate located in Secaucus, TV in Duluth, MN is looking for someone who date tools in the industry in support of excep- New Jersey (New York metro area), is actively wants to move up! Job requires news promotion tional performance. Qualified candidates please seeking a versatile Traffic generalist. Your back- experience and hands -on attitude. Five person send a resume/application to: Jill DeKeyser, Hu- ground should include a minimum of two years staff with new Avid equipment. Ability to contrib- man Resources Manager, WSAZ Television 3, experience in the areas of log editing and corn - ute to total station direction a must. Send resume 645 5th Avenue, Huntington, WV 25701. EOE. mercial copy, coupled with hands on knowledge with tape and letter to Terry Hurley, General of a Traffic system - preferably BIAS. Your re- Manager, KDLH -TV, 425 West Superior Street, sponsibilities will include editing and timing logs. Duluth, MN 55802, EOE. Women and minorities maintaining formats and program schedules, and Assistant Market Development Director. encouraged to apply. assigning commercial copy. If your ready to make KMSP- TV/UPN station, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN that move, forward your resume with salary re- is seeking experienced and creative professional quirement to: Human Resources - EM11, who has concepted, implemented and developed WWOR -TV, 9 Broadcast Plaza, Secaucus, NJ new revenue streams. Minimum five years promo- HELP WANTED SALES 07096. EEO /MFHV. tion and media experience required. Must have excellent written and verbal presentation skills as Account Executive: FOX O &O. Move up and well as resume to Market computer skills. Send earn top income potential. WGHP News Channel Development Director, KMSP -TV, 11358 Viking 8 seeks growth oriented; experienced achiever to WNRW -TV is looking for a real sales pro who Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 -7258. No phone join our sales team in the 48th DMA. Reap re- wants the ultimate challenge in a unique market. calls please. EOE. wards selling top rated local news; Carolina We need a Manager with experience in all Panthers: FOX Prime and premier syndication aspects of television sales, with the ability to like Seinfeld, A Current Affair, Ricki, Baywatch motivate, teach and develop relationships. Com- General Sales Manager at small market CBS in and more. Excel with market leading sales sup- puter skills a must. If interested, send resume Deep South. Proven track record; National ac- port, production, research and marketing ser- and salary requirements to Personnel, WNRW- count growth and Local Direct creative sales pro- vices. Expand your career with the industry TV, 3500 Myer Lee Drive, W -S, NC 27101. jects, inventory and pricing management, re- leader. Send or fax resume and performance his- Women and minorities encouraged to apply. No venue projection, budget planning and sales train- tory to: LSM fax (910) 841 -8051 or WGHP -TV, phone calls please. Please refer to source of ing. Reply to Box 00527 EOE. HP -8 High Point, NC 27261. EOE. advertisement in your correspondence. EOE. M /F.

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HELP WANTED MARKETING Oklahoma State University Educational Tele- vision Services has an opening for a Director of Engineering. The general responsibilities include: developing and maintaining an operational KEYSTONE COMMUNICATIONS, a fast -growing company which has system which effectively coordinates the schedul- ing facilities necessary achieved a market leadership position in providing video transmis- of all technical to support the and sion services to broadcasters and other video users in the United transmission, distribution, production, non -broadcast activities of the Telecommunica- States, has an opening for a new senior management position. VP tions Center, developing long -range planning The Company currently leases over 30 transponders on US domestic material for assigned areas consistent with the and international satellite systems and together with teleports in overall plan of the Telecommunications Center, maintaining knowledge techni- New York and California, fiber optic links, studios and editing facili- state -of- the -art of cal requirements, equipment and systems, includ- ties, provides a one -stop shopping transmission network for the MARKETING ing analog and economic operation; ensuring that delivery of TV program material, for the syndication and distribution the Center meets and maintains compliance with of programs or complete channels, for sports and news events and all appropriate local, state and federal rules and for business communications. regulations; managing budgets for both opera- tion, salaries, and capital, within prescribed This is a dynamic, global market which is currently experiencing AND guidelines; screening, evaluating, supervision, rapid expansion and technological change. To help maintain growth and training of assigned personnel. This position and development, the present management team needs to be also will function as the Project Director for Field enhanced by the addition of experienced marketing professional. an Operations for the U.S. Army TRADOC (TNET) project, providing technical assistance to both BUSINESS The successful applicant will be required to develop the company's campus and contract personnel as required. marketing plan, to carry out customer and competitor analyses, and Travel may be required. Minimum qualifications to contribute to business and strategic planning. Prefer candidate are two year college or technical training, seven with experience in telecommunications, broadcasting or other rele- years experience, and "C" and "Ku" satellite DEVELOPMENT vant areas. It is also important to recruit a highly focused team play- systems maintenance knowledge required. er, with strong ana- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or re- lytical abilities and an interest in the technologies of the communi- lated field and five years progressive and related cations and broadcasting markets. Vision and creative flair will also experience in educational setting preferred. To re- be required to fulfill the Company's expectations. ceive full consideration, submit resume and three references no later than September 29, 1995, to Keystone has offices and senior executives located in New York, Director of Engineering, Educational Television Washington DC, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The position of Vice Services, Telecommunications Center, Oklahoma President Marketing and Business Development could be located in State University, Stillwater, OK 74078. Screening any one of these cities according to the preference of successful of applications will begin immediately. OSU is an applicant. AA/EEO Employer committed to multicultural diversity. Applications in writing to: The President Keystone Communications 400 North Capitol St., NW #880 Lead Operator. NY 1 News has an opening for a Washington, DC 20001 Lead Operator. Candidate should have a mini- Keystone Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer. mum of 3 years of master control experience, preferably in a news environment and de- monstrated ability on: Sony LMS or automated playback systems; Master control operations in- Marketing Director: WESH -TV (NBC), a Pulitzer HELP WANTED TECHNICAL cluding switching, routing and feed recording; Broadcasting Company station, in Orlando, FL. Beta, High 8 and 1" Vtr operation; Satellite is looking for a smart, aggressive and creative WCYB -TV -- Maintenance Engineer. Dominant Downlink / Microwave Operations. As Lead you for thinker who understands that winning is the most NBC. In the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. Ex- Operator, will be responsible training all fun of all. The on -air and off -air promotion game cellent local public education system and quality of the master control staff. Candidate should is played at a very high level in this sophisticated of life with low crime rate and great fishing, hunt- have good leadership, communication and man- metered market...experienced pros are en- ing, boating and other outdoor activities. Experi- agerial skills. Fax or send your resume and couraged to apply. If you are committed to being enced, with maintenance, repair and operation salary history to: Gina Caruso, Manager of among the very best, join us at one of the very with state of the art equipment throughout. Network Operations, NY 1 News, 460 West 42nd best broadcasting facilities located in one of the Should possess basic knowledge of VHF Street, New York, NY 10036. Fax (212) 563- very best places to live. Rush resume and non- transmitters and be skilled in computer opera- 7156. NY 1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. returnable 3/4" tape to Jeffrey H. Lee, Vice Pres- tions including networks using Microsoft NT serv- ident /General Manager, WESH -TV, P.O. Box er. College degree preferred. Resumes before 547697, Orlando, FL 32854. No phone calls! An August 31 to Judy Baker, WCYB, 101 Lee Street, Studio Maintenance Engineer. This position in- Equal Opportunity Employer. Bristol, VA 24201. No phone calls. EOE/M /F /HN. volves equipment maintenance to the component level on all types of studio equipment. MII VTR experience is helpful. Successful candidate will Top 10 market local ABC affiliate, WJLA Chan- be part of a major expansion and rebuild. Ex- nel 7, and regional 24 -hour cable news channel, TV Engineer - WLIG -TV, Long Island, NY has im- cellent pay and benefits. Send your resume to Newschannel 8, serving metro Washington, D.C. mediate opening for experienced Engineer. Min- KPLR -TV, Attn: Dept. 24F, 4935 Lindell Boule- viewing area seeks dynamic Director of Audience imum 3 to 5 years experience in repair, main- vard, St. Louis, MO 63108. EEO Employer. No Development to develop and execute and tenance and installation of broadcast equipment. calls please. oversee overall marketing strategy. Ideal candi- Full benefits package. Resume and salary history date will have five years of progressively responsi- to Mark D'Acampora, Engineering Supervisor, ble broadcast experience in marketing, promo- WLIG -TV, 270 South Service Road, Melville, NY Maintenance Engineer. Must be able to trou- tion, television production, research and/or a pro- 11747. EOE. bleshoot all electronic equipment to component. ven track record of successful promotional and Be experienced in maintaining VHF transmitter, marketing concepts. Knowledge of all forms writ- microwave, cameras, VTRs (Sony- Ampex- ten communication, including print, electronic Assistant Chief Engineer: Looking for well ), SVHS Accucart System, and media, and presentation material. Event market- qualified Assistant CE who can eventually satellite systems. Master Control knowledge and ing knowledge a plus. Please send resume and assume position for CE for UHF station. FCC experience with computers, LAN's and Non salary history to: 78 Inc., HR Dept., 7600 -D Bos- General Class License, SBE Certified. Send de- Linear would be plus. Send resumes to: KIMT- ton Boulevard, Springfield, VA 22153. No phone tailed resume and salary requirements to Box TV, Dale Byre, Chief Engineer, P.O. Box 620, calls please. 00525 EOE. Mason City, IA 50402.

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Assistant Chief Engineer. KSDK -TV St. Louis Attention Videotape Editor. Nationally syn- Director. Responsible for directing and technical #1 NBC affiliate has outstanding opportunity. dicated news magazine show has an immediate directing live news and taped programming. Qualified applicants must have supervisory or opening for a creative, fast, hard -working Editor Character generator skills with good typing and management experience. Complete knowledge who can handle day -of -air breaking news stories, spelling proficiency. Oversees production crew. of satellite systems, transmitters, computers, con- as well as long -form magazine pieces. This job is Must have good organizational skills and the abili- trol room and studio equipment. SBE Certification for the person who likes tough challenges and re- ty to meet deadlines in an efficient manner. Col- and FCC General Class License preferred. Send lishes the opportunity to be creative. You must be lege degree in mass communications preferred resume to: KSDK -TV, Warren Cannull, Director experienced in news magazine formats and know with a minimum of two (2) years experience as a of Human Resources, 1000 Market Street, St. the following equipment: GCG- 251/241 editors, live news director. Please submit resume and Louis, MO 63101. No call please. EOE. GVG 110/200 switchers, Abekas - 53 D/ADO -100 non -returnable tape to WVEC -TV, 613 Woodis DYES, SP Beta Record /Playback, and be familiar Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23510 or at our Hampton with the Avid 4000. This is a great opportunity. Bureau, WVEC -TV, 774 Settlers Landing Road, Assistant Chief Engineer. WYES -TV has an im- Please no phone calls. EOE. Send tape to Hampton. VA 23669. EOE. mediate opening for the position of Assistant Pamela Hadden, Coordinating Producer, Amer- Chief Engineer. The team player selected must ican Journal, 402 East 76th Street, New York, NY have good people skills in order to perform man- 10021. Deadline August 31st. agerial tasks as well as interface effectively sta- Executive News Producer. Top 20 O &O is look- tionwide. Technical requirements include five ing for a hands -on E.P. to massage its top -rated years minimum broadcast TV maintenance expe- Central Texas NBC station has an opening for news product and coach its award -winning staff rience, FCC General Class License or SBE Certi- a Reporter /Anchor to be part of a dynamic 6 and to even higher levels. Send no tapes, but include fication, component level troubleshooting, com- 10 news anchor team. Applicant must have a statement of news and management philoso- puter literacy with networking experience. Send strong journalistic skills and be able to com- phy with resume. Reply to Box 00522 EOE -M /F. resume with salary requirements to: Personnel Of- municate with the viewer. Must have 3 years fice, WYES -TV, P.O. Box 24026, New Orleans, anchor experience. Excellent benefit package LA 70184 -4026. No telephone calls please! available. Send resume and tape to: KCEN -TV News Director: WHIO TV, Dayton, OFt, Cox's WYES -TV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Personnel, Dept. 24 -Q, P.O. Box 6103, Temple, TX 76503. EOE. top -rated CBS affiliate is looking for the best. We want an experienced, enthusiastic, proven news management leader who is focused on the KCRG -TV and AM seeks applicants for an basics of local news; live, local, late breaking cov- Electronic Technician to maintain, repair and in- Group Broadcaster with medium and small erage and powerful presentation of hard news stall equipment in our state of the art communica- market stations in the South looking for combined with an understanding of how to effec- tions facilities. Proven education and 3 -5 years energetic, qualified News Anchors, Reporters tively market this philosophy both inside and out- experience in communications/broadcast facility. and Producers to fill immediate positions with a side of the newscasts, If you think you've got what Require self motivated individual with strong or- growth company providing good benefits and it takes, have exceptional people managing skills ganizational skills and proven practical applica- competitive pay. Rush non-returnable 3/4 or 1/2 and want to commit to exciting opportunities send tion of electronic theory. Excellent opportunity to inch demo tapes and resumes to: Clyde Payne, your resume to David Lippoff, VP and GM, WHIO help build the future. FCC General Class Li- Benedek Broadcasting Corporation, POB 13000, TV, 1414 Wilmington Avenue, Dayton, OH cense. Send resume to Dan Austin, KCRG -TV Bowling Green, KY 42102. EOE. No phone calls 45420. M /F. EOE. and AM, 2nd Avenue at 5th Street, S.E., Cedar please. Rapids, Iowa 52401. Resumes accepted through September 7, 1995. EOE.

Investigative Producer - CBS Affiliate in Phoe- News Producer: Top 50 CBS affiliate seeking a nix looking for aggressive, creative, energetic highly motivated individual with 2 -3 years experi- Producer who knows records and can shoot. Col- ence to produce the weekend morning newscast. Studio Maintenance Engineer. Waterman lege degree and at least three years experience Successful candidate must be creative, accurate, Broadcasting has opening for experienced Main- preferred. Resumes with references to Human a self starter and have excellent writing skills. tenance Engineer. Computer and digital experi- Resources Department, KPHO -TV, 4016 North Qualified candidates please forward non- ence needed. Experience with BTS router, Pinna- Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85017. returnable tape and resume to Rob Allman, News cle Flashfile, Avid Digital Airplay, Odetics Airplay, Equal Opportunity Employer. Director, WFMY -TV, 1615 Phillips Avenue, Grass Valley 300 Switcher and 700 DVE or Greensboro, NC 27405. EOE. equivalent needed. Prefer SBE member with FCC license. Waterman Broadcasting is an Equal Opportunity Employer in sunny south Florida. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. We're one of the fastest grow- News Reporter: Top 50 CBS affiliate seeking in- Send resume to Wayne Phillips, P.O. Box 7578, ing markets in the southwest. Here's proof: we're dividual to cover, write, edit and air stories as Fort Myers, FL 33911 or call 941- 939 -6299. starting up a 5:30 newscast and we're looking for assigned. Maintain general knowledge of local, re- fill positions Reporter/ qualified people to several -- gional and national news. Assist photographers Anchor, Videographer, Desk Assistant and Pro- in shooting and editing stories. Investigate and HELP WANTED NEWS ducer. The winning applicants will have at least a develop stories for consideration. Must have 3 year of experience and a resume tape that sets years reporting experience, a B.A. in Journalism fire. it, with your our hair on Send along salary or related field and be a team player. Qualified EOE. history and references to Box 00521 candidates please forward non -returnable tape and resume to Rob Allman, News Director, TTENTION: WFMY -TV, 1615 Phillips Avenue, Greensboro, REPORTERS NC 27405. EOE. News Anchor. Looking for a great job with a AND PRODUCERS! company that believes in promoting from within? KETV, Omaha, Nebraska, is looking for a 5:00 Do you have investigative reporting or producing p.m. Co- Anchor with excellent reporting skills. Newscast Directors and Technical Directors. Three years anchoring and reporting preferred. skills? Are you an effective negotiator? Do you like KSAT 12 Post- Newsweek, San Antonio's Live skills a must. Qualified applicants should Number One station seeks highly motivated, righting wrongs and restoring hope? If so, this send resume and non -returnable tape with creative individuals to join our team. If you have aggressive, major market television newsroom anchoring, reporting and live work to: Rose Ann the drive, track record and willingness to be the needs you. We're building a new solution- oriented Shannon, News Director, KETV, 2665 Douglas best, we want to hear from you! Minimum 3 - 5 Troubleshooter Unit. Applicants must have significant Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. years directing and /or TD and AMPEX Century television reporting and producing experience and switcher experience a must. Metered market ex- perience considered a plus. We offer competitive be willing to fight for the underdog. Send resume salaries, great benefits, stable working environ- and tapes to Box Replies held in confi- 00516. News Producers. Top 20 O &O is updating its ment and resources tapes and resumes to Hu- dence. Female and minority applicants encouraged. files on news producers. Variety of openings an- man Resources, KSAT -TV, P.O. Box 2478, San Equal Opportunity Employer. ticipated, due to promotions. Send no tapes, but Antonio, TX 78298. No phone calls. Any job offer include a statement of news philosophy with re- contingent upon results of pre -employment physi- sume. Reply to Box 00523 EOE -M/F. cal including drug screen. EOE/M- F /DV/ADA.

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TV Network Bureau. ENG Photographer: Top HELP WANTED PRODUCTION LA Network Bureau opportunity for bright hardworking, reliable shooter w /pro news experi- ence. Resume, cover letter with salary history, re- ferences and tape to Tom Hanson, MVP Com- munications Inc., 1075 Rankin, Troy, MI 48093. Fax: 810- 588 -1899. Women and minorities are SENIOR DESIGN POSITION encouraged to apply.

WHIO -TV Dayton, OH. Director: Only apply for this job if you love TV news. To win this position Award -winning Design department is seeking a creative you must be able to direct an error free, fast designer a Senior position in broadcast. Applicant needs paced, technically complicated news show with a for major market look. This director will also be a to be an enthusiastic team -player with strong typographic & director or director /producer for a variety of special projects both in the studio and on remote design skills . Must have Macintosh and Quantel Paintbox locations. The successful candidate will be able experience. Degree in Art /Design preferred. to write well, work efficiently under professional team at a Cox Broadcasting station. EOE. Send resumes to: Chuck Eastman, WHIO -TV, 1414 Wilmington Avenue, Dayton, OH 45420. If interested, please send demo reel and resume.

Progressive, number one CBS affiliate has im- mediate opening for 6/10 News Producer. Look- ing for creative writer with alot of imagination. Must have excellent news judgement and work Jeffery L. Dunaj well under pressure. Nonreturnable tapes, writing WBBM TV CBS Chicago samples and resume to Shirley Beer, News Director, News Channel 7, P.O. Box 659, Pit- 630 N. McClurg Ct. tsburg, Kansas 66762. News Channel 7 is an Chicago, Ill 6061 I Equal Opportunity Employer, No phone calls please CBS is an equal opportunity employer Newscast Producer. Creative, energetic Pro- ducer in top 20 market sought for new newscast WDKY FOX 56 is seeking a hands -on Production WHIO -TV Dayton, OH. Production Manager: in number one and four markets. Resume and Director with the energy and talent to produce Excellent management opportunity for a skilled tapes to Bill Jobes, Acting General Manager, on -air promotional spots, industrial /corporate Director /Producer. Successful candidate will NJN, CN 777, Trenton, NJ 08625. presentations, kids club interrstitials, public ser- supervise producer/directors, graphics depart- vice programs, and build a commercial client ment, retail production unit and edit staff. Ex- base in our new studio location. Our successful cellent people skills a must as you'll work with WMDT TV Salisbury, small -market ABC affiliate, candidate must have a thorough knowledge of clients and staff, scheduling production facilities needs replacements for personnel moving on to production techniques and equipment as well as and coordinating interchange of information be- larger markets. They are happy, we are sad. excellent people skills. Minimum of three years tween departments. Don't lose your creative and Sports Director, Reporter /Anchor, Photogs experience producing and directing. Send re- technical touch because you'll also have the op- needed now and Meteorologist needed October sume, non -returnable tape, salary history to: portunity to produce specials for news, local pro- 15. Play on Eastern Shore beaches and work in Personnel, 434 Interstate Avenue, Lexington, KY gramming and sales. This is a great job for the the best equipped station of our size anywhere. 40505. No phone calls please. EOE. right individual, a chance to join the professional Remote Bureau, live unit, Kavouras weather management team at a strong Cox Broadcasting system, Basy newsroom, Hi -8 and Sony Betacam station. EOE. Send resumes to: Chuck Eastman, /Producer. WCIU is looking for a Writer/ cameras. Non -returnable tape, resume and re- Writer WHIO -TV, 1414 Wilmington Avenue, Dayton, OH Producer highly creative promotion ferences to: Neil Bayne, ND, 202 Downtown to join their 45420. Plaza, Salisbury, MD 21801. EOE /M -F. No and programming department. Applicants must phone calls, please. have 3 -5 years experience as a TV promotion producer, and should be able to promote non - news programming with style. Experience with daily logs and promotion inventory control also a for Wanted: Full -time Photographer /Editor expan- plus. If you've got a killer reel and want to move Video Writer /Producer: We are a thriving, digital news with Beta ding operation. Familiarity gear into a major market without having to bang out based video production business operating as a helpful not necessary. Must have live truck but news topicals, we want to see your stuff. Please stand alone division of a midwest CBS TV af- to run and gun with experience as well. Ability rush tape and resume to: Programming Depart- filiate. We need an inspired Writer /Producer for Must be hard creativity. Above all, no attitudes. ment., WCIU -TV, 26 North Halsted, Chicago, IL spot, industrial and multi -media projects. Make us worker willing to learn from talented staff. EOE. 60661. No phone calls please. EOE. laugh, make us cry, make us buy. Send some- Respond by September 8, 1995. Send resume thing memorable to: Tim Looney, Director of Op- and non -returnable tape to: Al Marabella, KXAN- erations, Broadcast Park Video, 600 -2 Old TV, P.O. Box 490, Austin, TX 78767. Marion Road, N.E., Cedar Rapids, IA 52402. No Production Assistant - WGEM -TV, an award winning midwest television station, has an op- phone calls please. EOE. for full -time Production Assistant. This Morning Show Anchor/Host for established rat- portunity a individual will write, shoot and edit tape, direct ings leader. No beginners. Send tape and re- and industrial videos, and produce sta- sume to Ms. Arles Hendershott, WIFR -TV, 2523 television tion related programming and promotion. Pre- Assistant. Independent television North Meridian Road, Rockford, IL 61101. EOE. Production vious television or production background is re- station in the 5th market seeks a fulltime Produc- quested. Must be a creative individual and willing tion Assistant. The successful applicant will have to work flexible hours. The job requires the ability prior professional broadcast experience and a r to lift up to 50 lbs. and applicant must possess a four (4) year degree in broadcasting. Duties may To place an ad in the Broadcasting& Cable valid drivers license. Send letter and resume to include any and all studio or production related Classified pages, contact Antoinette Fasulo Jim Lawrence, Promotion /Production Manager, functions. Weeknight shift 3:00PM - 11:OOPM. TEL: 212.337.7073 FAX: 212.206.8327 Quincy Broadcasting Company, 513 Hampshire, Send resume to: Vivian F. Serrano, P.O. Box 36, INTERNET:AFASULOíBC.CAHNERS.COM Quincy, IL 62301. No phone calls will be ac- San Jose, CA 95103. Resumes must be received cepted. EOE. M /F. by closing date of: 8/24/95.

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Graphic Designer. Independent television sta- Promotion Producer. KSDK, NBC St. Louis af- HELP WANTED filiate motivated tion in the 5th market seeks a fulltime, creative, seeks a self- creative services FINANCIAL & ACCOUNTING high energy individual to design and produce on- writer /producer. Spots must sing! Writing must air graphics. The successful applicant will have a sizzle! If you work to win we want you on our minimum of three (3) years broadcast design ex- team. Degree. If that's you send tape and re- Business Manager. WCBD -TV, the ABC affiliate perience/or three (3) years experience in a re- sume to KSDK -TV, Warren Cannull, Director of in Charleston, South Carolina is seeking a de- lated field. A thorough working knowledge of Human Resources, 1000 Market Street, St. greed accounting professional with 3 to 5 years Topas, Photostyler, Pagemaker, Coral Draw, and Louis, MO 63101. No calls please. EOE. managerial experience in a broadcasting environ- the Ampex Alex is required. A four (4) year col- ment. Successful candidate will be responsible lege degree is preferred. Weeknight shift 3:00PM for all accounting systems, financial reporting, - 11:00PM. Send non -returnable tape with re- HELP WANTED RESEARCH budgeting and personnel. Strong interpersonal sume to: Vivian F. Serrano, P.O. Box 36, San and computer skills (i.e., Lotus, MS Word) are a Jose, CA 95103. Resumes must be received by must. Fax resume and salary history 803 -881- closing date of 8/24/95. Top 10 market local ABC affiliate, WJLA Chan- 3410, Attn: General Manager. No phone calls, nel 7, and regional 24-hour cable news channel, please. WCBD -TV is an Equal Opportunity Newschannel 8, serving metro Washington, D.C. Employer. Women and minorities are en- viewing area seeks dynamic Research Manager couraged to apply. Pre -employment drug test re- which under the direction of the Research TV Production Graphics. TV News Graphics/ quired. Director will assist in the researching, writing and Chyron Operator needed immediately by major distribution of sales research. Analysis of broad- market TV station. Experience Infiniti on Chyron cast and cable ratings services, qualitative re- mandatory. Requires news character generator search, and creation and presentation of Client SITUATIONS WANTED NEWS experience, Still Store operation. Send resume proposals. Ideal candidate will have proficiency in and salary requirements Box to 00524 Equal Op- Macintosh, Excel, Word Perfect, data base man- portunity Employer. agement. College degree in communications or Hard working communication professional two years of experience in sales/research or re- seeks on -air or behind the scenes employment. lated field an asset. Please send resume and M.A. Degree, 2 years hands -on radio and televi- Inc., HR sion reporting and programming experience. Production Assistant - Aggressive, energetic, salary history to: 78 Dept., 7600 -D Bos- "Charming" English accent. Call Patricia (301) fast -learner needed for full time /part time televi- ton Boulevard, Springfield, VA 22153. No phone 871 -1408. sion production work. Must have basic television calls please. production knowledge. Duties would include run- ning camera, audio, character generator, tapes and editing for a fast -paced live newscast. Expe- Dedicated, hard -working professional looking rience helpful, but not required. Send resume to for an opportunity in broadcasting, preferably in Research Coordinator: Motivated hands-on in- Syndi Field - M, 467 Hill Street, San Luis Obispo, sports. Experience in all facets of the business, CA 93405. EOE. dividual to create and write generic and market from shooting to anchoring. B.S. degree in Jour- specific presentations, working with syndication nalism from Ohio U. Currently working in the Cin- sales staff, developing market sales pieces. Min- cinnati market. Call Jason (513) 522 -2660. imum 2 years television research experience. Knowledge of SNAP, Micronode and Nielsen re- HELP WANTED PROMOTION ports. PowerPoint and Excel proficient. EOE. Send resume: Diane Oldham, Sr. VP Research, Genesis Entertainment, 625 Madison, New York, SITUATIONS WANTED ANALYST NY 10022. Or fax (212) 527 -6401. ARE YOU COOL Multiple Emmy Award -winning basketball ana- lyst and former Division I coach seeks op- portunities. Six years experience in number one LIKE US? Research Director. WTSP -TV, the CBS affiliate market. Call Kenny at (312) 415 -0155. in Tampa, Florida has an immediate opening for Fox Broadcasting Company a Research Director. This position requires pre- is looking for outstanding On- vious experience in television research and Air Writer /Producers to be a marketing. Individual must possess ability to ana- SITUATIONS WANTED PROMOTION part of the coolest promo lyze and interpret ratings and qualitative informa tion. Experience with BMP and Scarborough pre- department in television. We ferred. Computer expertise with Lotus, Excel, Seek position In Creative Services/ want only the best of the best. Word and Harvard Graphics required. Excellent Promotions. Experienced Editor and Director, So if you're creative, moti- presentation and communication skills required. can take a project from start to finish. Completed vated and driven by a desire Send resume to Noreen O'Mara Parker, shows have aired on cable. Trained on the Avid. for excellence...send your VP /GSM; P.O. Box 10,000, St. Petersburg, FL Salary negotiable. Call Dennis at 618 -397 -0274. demo reel to: 33733. An Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls, please. Fox Broadcasting Company, Personnel Dept. SITUATIONS WANTED PRODUCTION MA -867, P.O. Box TV Research Manager: National Sales Rep Producer ISO Special Projects, Field or EP job: 900, Beverly seeking TV Research Manager. Candidate must 3+ years as line producer in top 20 market, field producer for national PBS program, and ex- Hills, have experience with TV Ratings, writing skills, af- CA tensive experience packaging stories for com- 90213. EOE. ro filiate knowledge and management. A minimum mercial news. Interested? (904) of two years experience required. Call 212 -476- Call 375 -0880 or g8orbait 9465. e -mail @aol.com.

Promotion Manager - WFSB, a Post- Newsweek station is seeking a dynamic person to develop HELP WANTED HOSTS CONSULTING FIRMS and execute promotion strategies, supervise pro- motion producers, give promotional support for station projects and programs and maximize our Wanted: Dynamic, bright, articulate Talk Show International Radio/TV Consultants: Specializ- promotional effectiveness. Minimum 3 -5 years Host to team with female co -host on established ing in German Media. Providing full line of ser- experience as promotion producer/writer and a morning talker, medium market. If you honestly vices including acquisition, finance, cost control, degree in communications /journalism preferred. know it all, from local politics to baking cookies to research programming, sales /marketing, strategic Send tape and resume to Don Graham, Creative dancing the tango...this job's for you. Experi- planning and regulatory issues. Please contact: Services Manager, 3 Constitution Plaza, enced only need apply. Send resume and tape MSM, GmbH; Potsdamer Sir. 131; 10783 Berlin. Hartford, CT 06103 -1892. EOE. no later than September 15th to Box 00526 EOE. Phone /Fax: 011 -49 -30 -782 -3598.

Broadcasting & Cable Aug 21 1995 49 CLASSIFIEDS VIDEO SERVICES HELP WANTED PRODUCTION PROFESSIONAL JOBS WITH ENTERTAINMENT COMPANIES Director of Operations. Century City Cable TV TELEVISION, Need video shot in the New network has an immediate opening for a Director BROADCAST & CABLE DISTRIBUTORS, MOTION PICTURE, POST PRODUCTION 8 MORE York metropolitan area? Expe- of Operations to oversee daily operations and im- rienced crews, top equipment. plement facility planning. We require excellent Entry to senior level jobs nationwide in ALL fields written and verbal communication skills, minimum (news, sales, production, management, etc.). Call Camera Crew Network 5 years of production /operations management Published (CCN). 800 -914 -4CCN. experience in television broadcasting /cable in- biweekly. For subscription information: dustry, and working knowledge of current (800) 335 -4335 technologies in TV/Cable environment. Send re- In CA, (818) 901 -6330. sume to: P.O. Box 67B66, LA, CA 90067, Attn: CABLE KH or fax to 310- 286 -3875. EOE. Entertainment Em ploy me ntJournal "

HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT RTNDA (900) 40 -RTNDA Continental Cablevision, Inc.: Telecommunica- ALLIED FIELDS RTNDA JOB LINE tions Regulatory Affairs. The nation's third - n largest cable system operator is creating a new HELP WANTED TECHNICAL Updated daily. 85 cents a minute. senior governmental affairs position in each of its To place a free listing call: (202) 659 - 6510; fax: (202) 223 -4007; RTNDA, five operating regions to coordinate state telecom- Mobile Satellite Uplink Operator - Uplink expe- 1000 Connecticut Ave., NW, munications regulatory matters. Responsibilities rience required. Full time position based out of ; ° ",` Suite 615, Washington. DC 20036 will include assisting in the development of the re- Southern California. Domestic and international gion's business plans and regulatory strategies travel. Irregular hours. Team player with pro- ' for entering new telecommunications markets; re- fessional attitude. Clean driving record. Foreign Just For Starters: Entry -level jobs and "hands - presenting the company before state legislatures languages, electronics maintenance and me- on" internships in TV and radio news. National and public utility commissions; interfacing with chanical skills a plus. Benefits package. Fax re- listings. For a sample lead sheet call: 800 -680- senior corporate management on telecommunica- sumes to 805- 981 -8738. 7513. tions matters; and working as an integral part of a regional regulatory affairs team. Qualifications in- clude substantial experience in telecommunica- tions and /or utility regulatory issues, and ex- TV Reporters, Anchors and Producers!!! You EMPLOYMENT SERVICES cellent oral and written communications skills. A deserve the best chance to achieve your career law or economics background is preferred. If in- goals. Call Tony Windsor at NEWSDirections terested, send inquiries, including resume and (800) 639 -7347. salary history to: Corporate and Legal Affairs De- :4 partment, Continental Cablevision, Inc., The Pilot ) House, Lewis Wharf, Boston, MA 02110. No Insídt Job Otdienín,ps. Natíonwíie FINANCIAL SERVICES phone calls please. Continental Cablevision is an PRESS O Radio Jobs, updated daily Equal Opportunity Employer. @ Television Jobs, updated daily Loans By Phone: Lease /finance new or used OUR Q Hear "Talking Resumés" broadcasting equipment. Flexible payment plans. 6- O To record "Talking Resumés "and Flexible credit criteria. Call Jeff Wetter at Flex HELP WANTED PROMOTION YEAR employers to record job openings Lease, Inc. 800/699 -FLEX. Q Entry level positions I--900 -726 -JOBS 1" per min. JOBPNONE, NEWPORT BEACH. CA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE SERVICES On- camera coaching: Sharpen TV reporting and anchoring /teleprompter skills. Produce quali- ty demo tapes. Resumes. Critiquing. Private Prevue Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of the lessons with former ABC News correspondent. United Video Satellite Group, is looking 914- 937 -1719. Julie Eckhert, ESP. for a highly motivated individual to over- see the development of all on -air creative ARTIFACTS services. This would include setting and maintaining creative quality standards The Newseum, the world's first museum de- and ensuring that our on -air look is dicated to the past, present and future of news, is appropriate with all of our services. The looking to acquire a wide assortment of historic successful applicant must have: print and broadcast material - linotypes, cameras and much, much more. Please write/send photos Minimum 7 -10 years in video and to B. Reed, The Freedom Forum Newseum, videographics production for national 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209. network with experience in shooting both film and video. Experience in short and long form pro motion production, including direction, editing and audio supervision. WANT TO RESPOND TO ANCHORS -REPORTERS- PRODUCERS BFA/BA/BS degree preferred. A BROADCASTING & CABLE Prevue Networks is an Equal Opportuni- `TAPE- RESUME CRITIQUES ty Employer. Interested applicants need 'EMPLOYMENT CONSULTING BLIND BOX ? not call, but should forward their 'PHONE CONSULTATIONS, resumes and work references to: INCLUDES CURRENT JOB OPENINGS Send resume /tape to: Prevue Networks, Inc. CALL CJ: 603-8884788

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WANTED TO BUY EQUIPMENT RADIO STATION FOR SALE BROADCASTING 8 CABLE'S CLASSIFIED RATES Used videotape: Cash for 3/4" SP, M2 -90's, KFBQ -FM CHEYENNE, WY All orders to place classified ads & all correspon- Betacam SP's. Call Carpel Video 301 -694 -3500. 100 KW 97.9 MHz dence pertaining to this section should be sent to at BROADCASTING & CABLE, Classified Department, Currently, the station is off-the -air; 245 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011. For infor- and the licensee is in bankruptcy. mation call (212) 337 -7073 and ask for Antoinette EQUIPMENT FOR SALE Fasulo. Assets to be sold, subject to Payable in advance. Check, money order or credit approval of Bankruptcy Court card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express). Full and FCC. and correct payment must be in writing by either let- ter or Fax (212) 206-8327. If payment is made by For all -cash purchase price credit card, indicate card number, expiration date minimum bid: $200,000. and daytime phone number. STOCK Bid deadline: September 15, 1995 New Deadline is Monday at 5:00pm Eastern Time For a copy of the Offering for the following Monday's issue. Earlier deadlines Memorandum, describing apply for issues published during a week containing a ANSWERS. opportunity and bid procedure legal holiday. A special notice announcing the earlier deadline will be published. Orders, changes, and /or For video duplication, demos, cancellations must be submitted in writing. NO TELE- audition reels, please contact: work tapes, our PHONE ORDERS, CHANGES, AND /OR CANCELLA- recycled tapes are technically Barry Skidelsky, Esq. TIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. to up any task and downright When placing an ad, indicate the EXACT category bargains. 655 Madison Ave, 19th Fl. All formats, fully guar- Television, Radio, Allied Fields; New York, NY 10021 desired: Cable or Help anteed. To order call: Wanted or Situations Wanted; Management, Sales, (212) 832 -4800 (800)238 -4300 CARPEL News, etc. If this information is omitted, we will VIDE O determine the appropriate category according to the copy. NO make goods will run if all information is not included. No personal ads. The publisher is not responsible for errors in print- For Sale - AM /FM small southern California retire - AM and FM transmitters, used, excellent condi- ment/recreational market. Reply to Box 00511. ing due to illegible copy -all copy must be clearly tion, tuned and tested your frequency. Guaran- typed or printed. Any and all errors must be reported teed. Financing available. Transcom. 800 -441- to the Classified Advertising Department within 7 8454, 215 -884 -0888, Fax 215 -884 -0738. days of publication date. No credits or make goods will be made on errors which do not materially affect For Sale: KMCM - KMTA, Miles City, Montana. the advertisement. Publisher reserves the right to Regional coverage, well equipped. $325,000 after classified copy to conform with the provisions cash. Call Paul 612- 222 -5555 Broadcast equipment (used): AM /FM transmit- of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amend- ed. Publisher reserves the right to abbreviate, alter or ters, RP U's , STL's antennas, consoles, pro- cessing, turntables, automation, tape equipment, reject any copy. monitors etc. Continental Communications, 3227 Small combo, Georgia mountain vacation Rates: Classified listings (non- display). Per issue: Magnolia, St. Louis, MO 63118. 314 -664 -4497, area; Bargain AM, small North Florida market; Help Wanted: $1.85 per word, $37 weekly minimum. Fax 314 -664 -9427. Suburban AM, major Florida market. Beckerman Situations Wanted: 956 per word, $19 weekly mini- Associates. 813- 971 -2061. mum. Optional formats: Bold Type: $2.15 per word, Screened Background: $2.30, Expanded Type: $2.85 Bold, Screened, Expanded Type: $3.25 per word. 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Broadcasting & Cable Classifieds On Demand Broadcasting & Cable's Classifieds on Demand: 1- 800 -860 -8419 $1.99 per minute - use valid Amex, Visa, Mastercard The Menu of Categories: 01 Radio 04 Allied Fields 02 Television 05 Station Marketplace 03 Cable 06 Interactive Media *Press 9 at any time for fax of the class'fied section. To place classified ads call (212) 337 -7073 or fax (212) 206 -8327. "For the Record" compiles applications Franklinton, La. (BPH- 95019ME) -Gaco ERP .074 kw, ant. 838 m., atop Black Moun- filed with and actions taken by the FCC. Broadcasting Corp. for FM at 98.9 mhz, ERP tain. July 19 Applications and actions are listed by 6 kw, ant. 33 m., TL 4.2 km NE of intersection Sageville, Iowa (BPH- 950727MA)- state; the date the application was filed of rtes 16 and 25, Franklinton. July 28 Sageville Shopper (Janice Fisher, 75% owner, PO Box 1380, Dubuque, IA 52004) or the action was taken, when avail- Canceled/dismissed able, appears in italic. for FM at 106.1 mhz, ERP 4.4 kw, ant. 117 Gosnell, Ariz. (BPF- 900928MH) -B and H m., N side of U.S. Hwy 61, 1.8 km NW of Broadcasting for FM mhz, Abbreviations: AOL- assignment of license; ant. - Co. at 92.9 ERP 6 Dickeyville, Wis. Fisher has an interest in antenna: ch.- channel: CP- construction permit: kw, ant. 60 m. July 28 KIKR -FM Asbury, Iowa. July27 ERP-effective radiated power: khz- kilohertz: km- kilometers: kw- kilowatts: m.- meters: mhz -mega- Pinetop, Ariz. (BPH- 850712ZW) -D &M Hill City, Kan. (950407MA) -Radio Inc. for hertz: mi- miles: TL- transmitter location: w -watts. Communications Inc. for FM at 106.7 mhz, FM at 101.9 mhz, ERP 100 kw, ant. 247 m. One meter equals 3.28 feet. ERP 100 kw, ant. 1,023 ft., TL 6 mi. NW of July 27 Pinetop. Aug. 11 OWNERSHIP CHANGES Bolingbroke, Ga. (BPH- 900531ME)- FACILITIES CHANGES Involuntary assignment of license Joseph I. Kendrick for FM at 102.1 mhz, ERP 3 kw, ant. 100 m. Aug. 10 Granted Honolulu (BTC- 950601 EC) -Coral Com- Berne, Ind. (BP ED- 901203MN) -Faith Mobile, Ala. (BMP- 950607AA)- Capitol munications Corp.'s KHNR(AM) (650 khz) from Christian Academy for educational FM at Broadcasting Co. LLP for wNTM(AM) (710 Thomas H. Gentry Revocable Trust to Nor- 91.3 mhz, ERP 25 kw, ant. 100 m. Aug. 7 khz): modify augment nighttime standard man Hal Gentry, attorney -in -fact for Thomas pattern. Aug. 3 H. Gentry. Aug. 4 Columbus, Ohio (BPED- 930324ME)- American Family Association Inc. for educa- Ozark, Ala. (BP- 941220AB)- Sunrise Fort Washington, Wis. (BAL- 950608GH tional noncommercial FM at 91.5 mhz, ERP Broadcasting of Alabama Inc. for wQLs(AM) and -GI)- Wisconsin Great Lakes Broad- .3 kw, ant. 240 m. July 25 (1200 khz): change frequency to 1210 khz, casting Inc.'s WGLB-AM-FM (1560 khz and increase critical hours to 5 kw, add .0035 kw 100.1 mhz) (Douglas F. Mann, receiver) to South Bend, Wash. (BPH- 910826MN)- night. July 25 Joel J. Kinlow. July25 Blue Denim Music Inc. for FM at 105.7 mhz, ERP 3.5 kw, ant. 271 m. Aug. 1 Prescott Valley, Ariz. (BMPH-9506071E)- Dismissed Mic Rathje for KoTK(FM) (98.3 Madison, Wis. (BPCT- 921030KH)- mhz): slightly Texarkana, Ark. (BAL- 940718EB and change transmitter site on Mingus Mountain. Founder 47 Inc. for TV at ch. 47, ERP 1585 Broadcasters Inc.'s KKYR- Aug. 8 -EC)- Unlimited kw visual, ant. 332 m., TL 615 Forward AM-FM (790 khz 102.5 mhz) to Gulfstar and Drive, Madison. July 26 Paris, Ark. (BPH -95031711) -Max H. Pear- Communications Texarkana Licensee Inc. son for KERx(FM) (95.3 mhz): change ERP to July 27 Returned 34 kw, ant. to 173 m. July 31 Breese, Ill. (BAPED- 931126GE)- Sabbath Flagler Beach, Fla. (BPED -950331 MI)- Carmichael, Calif. (BP- 880826AD) -Vista Inc.'s WJYB(FM) (97.5 mhz) to Lou Smith Min- Ocala Radio Ministries Inc. for noncommer- Broadcasting Inc. for KFIA(AM) (710 khz): istries Inc. July25 cial educational FM at 91.1 mhz, ERP 3 kw, increase power to 25 kw day and .5 kw night, Shreveport, La. (BALCT- 950505KH) -VSC ant. 95.5 m. July27 change TL to 3.5 km ESE of Lincoln, change Communications Inc.'s KSLA -TV (ch. 12) to Hill- ant. system. Aug. 4 side Broadcasting of Louisiana Inc. Aug. 7 Filed/accepted for filing Chowchilla, Calif. (BPH-9501121E)-Edu- Tyler, Tex. (BALH- 940718GJ)- Golden Atkins, Ark. (BPH- 950724MF)- Stephen cational Media Foundation for KLVN(FM) (93.3 Eagle Broadcasters Inc.'s KNUE(FM) (101.5 Womack (134 N. Pleasant Ridge Dr., mhz): operate as noncommercial station, mhz) to Gulfstar Community Tyler Licensee Rogers, AR 72756) for FM at 99.3 mhz, ERP change to main studio location. Aug. 1 Inc. July27 6 kw, ant. 100 m., Pea Ridge, 2 km N of SR Columbia, Calif. (BMPH- 9503201Z) -Clock 247. July 24 Broadcasting Inc. for KTDO(FM) (98.9 mhz): NEW STATIONS Ludlow, Calif. (950329MA) -KHWY (Calif.) change ERP to 2.1 kw, ant. to 170.2 m., TL to West Sonora Peak Antenna Farm, 1.2 mi. Granted LP for FM at 100.1 mhz, ERP 25 kw, ant. -66 m. July 27 W of Sonora. July 25 Gosnell, Ariz. (BPH- Gosnell 900925MA)- Kingsburg, Calif. (BPH-9501121C)-Edu- Broadcasting Co. for FM at 93.9 mhz, ERP 3 Paradise, Calif. (950720MA)- Northern cational Media Foundation for KLvs(FM) kw, ant. 52 m. July 28 California Educational Broadcasters for non- commercial educational FM at 89.7 mhz, (106.3 mhz): operate as noncommercial sta- Fort Smith, Ark. (BPED-931108MD)- ERP 15 kw, ant. 77 m. Aug. 3 tion. Aug. 1 American Family Association for noncom- Fowler, Colo. (950721 MB)- Educational Sacramento, Calif. (BMPED- 930205MC)- FM mhz, ERP 1 mercial educational at 88.9 Family Stations Inc. for noncommercial edu- kw, ant. 147 m. July 31 Communications of Colorado Springs Inc. for noncommercial educational FM at 88.1 cational KEDR(FM) (88.1 mhz): change ERP Glenwood Springs, Colo. (BPH- 940120- mhz, ERP 100 kw, ant. 114 m. Aug. 3 to 43 kw, ant. to 131 m., TL to 2.2 mi. N of MA)- Beachport Communications Inc. for Walnut Grove, Twin Cities Rd., Sacramento Toccoa Falls, Ga. (950712MJ)- Toccoa FM at 92.7 mhz, ERP 1 kw, ant. -198 m. Co. July 25 Aug. 9 Falls College (Paul Alford, president, PO Box 800780, Toccoa Falls, GA 30598) for non- Watsonville, Calif. (BPET- 950214KE)- Torrington, Conn. (BPED- 930405MA)- commercial educational FM at 89.7 mhz, California Community TV Network for Torrington Board of Education for noncom- KcAH(TV) (ch. 25): change EPR to 500 kw ERP .1 kw, ant. -58 m., 100 m. W of Ga. 17 mercial educational FM at 89.9 mhz, ERP .1 on campus of Toccoa Falls College. College visual, ant. to 675 m., TL to Fremont Peak kw, 28 m. Electric 14 km NE Aug. ant. July 27 owns WRAF -FM Toccoa Falls, wcop(AM) Warn- Site, of Salinas. 3 Virginia, Ill. (BPH-950213MF)--Mark J. er Robins, wFoM(AM) Marietta and wLov(AM) Yermo, Calif. (BMPH- 9412231F)- Antelope Langston for FM at 101.3 mhz, ERP 6 kw, Washington, all Ga.; WJYO -FM Fort Myers, Broadcasting Co. Inc. for KYHT(FM) (105.3 ant. 100 m., TL 2.3 km N Bluff Springs. Fla., and WPEC -FM Belton, S.C. Aug. 11 mhz): change ERP to .4 kw, ant. to 692.5 m, Aug. 8 Bonners Ferry, Idaho (BPED- 950719- TL to Calico Peak Communication Site, 5.72 km NNE of Calico. Aug. 8 Kingman, Kan. (BPH- 940513MA) -Bott MD)- Spokane Public Radio Inc. (Kathryn Communications Inc. for FM at 94.3 mhz, Graham, president, 2319 N. Monroe, New Britain, Conn. (BP- 950517AA) -Hart- ERP 50 kw, ant. 150 m. July28 Spokane, WA 99205) for FM at 92.1 mhz, ford Co. Broadcasting Corp. for wRYM(AM)

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 53 FOR THE RECORD (840 khz): add nighttime service with 125 w, change ant. to 103.5 m. July28 Albuquerque, N.M. (BPCT- 950802KE)- change ant. system. July 25 Sanibel, Fla. (BPH- 9507101H)-Ruth Com- New Mexico Broadcasting Co. Inc. for Graceville, Fla. (BMPH- 9505051D) -Lina munications Corp. for wRwx(FM) (98.5 mhz): KROE(rv) ch. 13: change ERP to 88.3 visual, M. Parish for wvoA(FM) (101.7 mhz): change change ERP to 2.2 kw, ant. to 113 m., TL to ant. to 1,287 m. Aug. 11 TL to 1199 8th St. Aug. 9 16341 Old U.S. 41, S. Fort Myers. Aug. 15 Fort Ann, N.Y. (950717MH)- Christian Inverness, Fla. (BMPED- 9503171H)-State West Palm Beach, Fla. (950719AB)- Theater of the Air Inc. for noncommercial of Fla. Board of Regents for WJUF(FM) (90.1 American Radio Systems License Corp. for educational minx(Fm) 91.7 mhz: change mhz): change ERP to 8 kw, ant. to 121 m., wBZr(AM) (1290 khz): increase day power to ERP to .24 kw, ant. to 174 m., TL to 5 km TL to 5775 S. Rovan Point Rd., Citrus City, 10 kw; reduce night power to 4.9 kw; change from Argyle, main studio location to Argyle, ant. supporting- structure height. Aug. 9 TL to S of Canal Road, 1.1 km E of Acerage frequency to 91.9 mhz. Aug. 15 Melbourne, Fla. (BPH -940901 IC) -City Subdivision, Royal Palm Beach; change ant. Penn Yan, N.Y. (BP- 950720AD) -M.B. Broadcasting Co. Inc. for WGGD -FM (95.1 system. Aug. 9 Communications Inc. for wLYF(AM) 850 khz: mhz): change ERP to 6 kw, ant. to 64 m., fre- Valdosta, Ga. (BPCT- 950731 KR)- allow nighttime operation with 45.5 w; quency to 95.1. July 24 Hutchens Communication Inc. for wGvP(TV) change ant. system. July28 Mount Dora, Fla. (BP- 940914AC) -Cross (ch. 44): change ant. to 277 m., ERP to 1700 Columbus -Worthington, Ohio (950803 - Country Communications Inc. for wece(AM) visual. Aug. 15 AB) -Salem Media of Ohio Inc. for wRFD(AM) (1580 khz): change city of license to Bithlo, Kahaluu, Hawaii (BPH- 9506131C)- Brewer 880 khz: change power to 23 kw day, Fla., and TL to 15727 Vienna Dr., Orlando, Broadcasting Corp. for KLEO(FM) (106.1 change TL to 825 Greenfield Dr., Columbus, 1.9 km W of Bithlo; reduce power to 3.5 kw; mhz): change ERP to 7.3 km, ant. to 88.65 change ant. system. Aug. 14 change ant. system. July 27 m. Aug. 7 Troutdale, Ore. (950804AB)- I.C.O. Broad- Palm Bay, Fla. (BMPED-9308021B)- Victo- Walton, Ind. (BPH- 9507261C)- Gladhart casting Inc. for Kzrw(AM) 860 khz: change ry Christian Academy for wwiA(FM) (88.5 Broadcasting Inc. for FM at (93.7 mhz): power to 5 kw night, TL to NE 34th Ave., Van- mhz): reduce ERP to 6 kw, ant. to 64 m., change TL to .8 km W of Cass -Miamia City couver, Wash., ant. system. Aug. 14 change frequency to 95.1. July 24 on 275 South Rd., Cass City; go to 3 -bay Pittsburgh (BPH- 9507121B) -ECI License West Palm Beach, Fla. (BP- 940629AB)- ant. Aug. 14 Co. LP for wxRB(FM) 104.7 mh: change ERP Fairbanks Communications Inc. for wJNo(AM) Mason City, Iowa (BP-950720AC)---James to 20 kw, ant. to 238 m., TL to 2500 E. Lane, (1230 khz): change TL to intersection of 45th Ingstad Broadcasting of Iowa Inc. for ant. supporting -structure height. Aug. 4 St. and Jog Rd., West Palm Beach. July 31 KGLO(AM) (1300 khz): change TL to 200 St., Aguada, P.R. (BMPH- 9507241C) -Aurio Accepted for filing .28 km W of Hwy 65, Bath; change ant. sys- Matos for wNNV(FM) 105.5 mhz: change ant. tem. July 28 Anchorage (BPCT- 950714KF)- Cookerly to 316 m., TL to Cerro Canta Gallo near Communications, receiver, for KIMo(Tv) (ch. Baker, La. (BPH- 9507171E)- Bebe -F Escuela Pinales Arriba, 7.4 km SSE of 13): change ERP to 316 kw visual, ant. to Broadcasting Corp. for weeu(FM) (107.3 Aguada. Aug. 14 238 m., TL to Mile 2.2, Point Mackenzie Rd., mhz): change ERP to 4.6 kw. Aug. 14 Mayaguez, P.R. (BPCT-950607KF)-Tele- Matanuska -Susitna. July27 Portland, Me. (BPH- 9507121C)-Ocean cinco Inc. for WORA -TV ch. 5: change ant. Arizona City, Ariz. (BPH-9506121G)-Ari- Coast Properties for WPOR -FM (101.9 mhz): July 24 zona City Broadcasting Corp. D -I -P for change ERP to 33 kw, ant. to 184 m., ant. Sioux Falls, S.D. (BPH- 9506261K) -Kirk- KoNz(FM) (106.3 mhz): change ERP to 6 kw, supporting- structure height. Aug. 4 wood Broadcasting Inc. for KTwB(FM) 101.9 ant. to 89 m. TL to SW corner of intersection Falmouth, Mass. (BMPED-9507131G)- mhz: install auxilliary ant. system. Aug. 3 of Cornman and Toltec Buttes rds., 9 km University of Massachusetts for noncom- Jackson, Tenn. (BPH- 9505091H)- Currey NNE of Arizona City. Aug. 7 mercial educational wFPB(FM) (91.9 mhz): Broadcasting Corp. for wTNV(FM) 104.1 mhz: Benson, Ariz. (BPH- 9506201H)- Stereo 97 change main studio location. Aug. 15 change ERP to 100 kw, ant. to 207 m., from Inc. for KAvv(FM) (97.7 mhz): change ERP to Owosso, Mich. (BPH- 95071116)- Michi- directional ant. to non directional. Aug. 8 3 kw, ant. to 32 m., TL to 12.5 km from Ben- gan Radio Group Inc. for wMZx(FM) (103.9 son. Aug. 7 Murfreesboro, Tenn. (BP- 950726AC)- mhz): change ERP to 2.86 kw, ant. to 147 Colonial Broadcasting of Tennessee Inc. for Casa Grande, Ariz. (BMPH-9507181C)- m., TL to .42 km S of Hwy 21, .49 km W of wAPB(AM) 810 kzh: add night service with John W. Hemmings (receiver) for KKER(FM) Durand Rd. in Venice Township. Aug. 3 .006 kw. Aug. 9 (105.5 mhz): change ant. supporting- struc- Pickens, Miss. (BMPH-9507271C) -J, Scott ture height. Aug. 14 Spring City, Tenn. (BMPH-9506141F)- Communications Inc. for wLTD(FM) (105.9 Walter E. Hooper III for wAVA(FM) 93.9 mhz: Glendale, Ariz. (950725AC)- Resource mhz): change ERP to 22 kw, ant. to 226.5 m, change TL to 3.5 km SE of Tranquality. Aug. Media Inc. (Fla.) for KGME(AM) (1360 khz): TL to 4.8 km NE of Canton. Aug. 14 7 increase power to 50 kw d. Aug. 9 Joplin, Mo. (BPET- 950717KF) -Ozark Austin, Tex. (BPH- 9506121H)- Amaturo Augusta, Ark. (BPH- Public Telecommunications Inc. 9507111D)- Harvey for educa- Group Ltd. for KKMJ(FM) 95.5 mhz: change Fritts (receiver) KABK -FM tional KozJ(Tv) (ch. for (97.7 mhz): 26): change ERP to ERP to 30 kw, ant. to 154 m. Aug. 7 change ERP to 27.9 kw, ant. to 198 m., TL to 113.2 kw visual, ant. to 292 m. July 28 Bay City, Tex. (950804AC)- Chameleon 2 km from Russell. Aug. 15 Kansas Mo. City, (BPCT- 950807KN)- Radio Corp. for KFCC(AM) 1270 khz: increase Orland, Calif. (BPH- 9506271C)- Phoenix Kansas City TV 62 LP for KSMo-Tv ch. 62: power to 2.5 kw day, reduce power to .85 kw Broadcasters Inc. for KDIG(FM) (106.7 mhz): ERP to 5,000 kw visual. Aug. change 16 night, change TL to .28 km ESE of intersec- change ERP to 50 kw, ant. to 94 m. July24 Bedford, N.H. (BPH- 9507101G)-Donna M. tion of Riceville School and Cravens rds., Paso Robles, Calif. (BMPH-9507141A)- MacNeil for wAEF(FM) 96.5 mhz: change ERP Missouri City. Aug. 14 Andy James Fakas for KNCR -FM (104.7 mhz): to .68 kw, ant. to 296 m., TL to near summit Del Rio, Tex. (BMPCT- 950807KM)- change ERP to 1.1 kw, ant. to 232 m. Aug. of South Mountain. Aug. 4 Republic Broadcasting Co. for wrRo(rv) ch. 14 Miliville, N.J. (BPH9507051D)-Wintersrun 10: change ant. to 92 m., TL to .52 km W of St. Helena, Calif. (BMPH-9507031E)- Communications Inc. for wars -FM 97.3 mhz: Hwy 277, .76 km SE of Del Rio. Aug. 16 Young Radio Inc. for KvYN(FM) (99.3 mhz): eliminate directional ant. Aug. 4 Harker Heights, Tex. (BPH- 9506191B)- change ant. to 79 m. Aug. 14 Trenton, N.J. (9506141G)-Mercer County Sonance Killeen License Subsid. Inc. for St. Augustine, Fla. (BPED-9507101D)- Community College for wwFM(FM) 89.1 mhz: KLTx(FM) 105.5 mhz: change ERP to 7.8 kw, Ocala Radio Ministries Inc. for noncommer- change ant. supporting- structure height. TL to 3 km NE of Nolanville on Hwy 439, cial educational wAYL(FM) (91.9 mhz): Aug. 7 directional ant. July24

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August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable Tony Lynn: Taking Playboy around the world

If things had worked out differently, Tony output deal, giving HBO exclusive rights to Lynn's dream of becoming a sports radio every Columbia movie made for four years. announcer might have had him calling Promoted in 1982 to senior vice president, the play -by -play for the New York Knicks Lynn was in charge of Columbia's non -the- today, instead of calling the managerial atrical distribution division, which sells shots as president of Playboy Enterprises' movies to airlines, hotels and businesses. A video and cable TV operations. year later he was moved back to New York While attending Duke University in the as VP, office of the president, overseeing the early 1970s, Lynn was the radio voice of company's international theatrical division. the school's Blue Devils basketball team After stints with Columbia's newly and was a part-time disk jockey at a local formed company Coca -Cola Telecommu- AM station. nications and then as executive VP of But Lynn's vision of himself as profes- international TV and worldwide pay -TV sional sports announcer quickly evaporated distribution at MGM -UA, Lynn was when he realized upon graduating with a AR appointed president of MGM -Pathe Com- master's degree from Syracuse University munications' worldwide television distrib- that "unless you're a famous ex profes- "I think we've done ution. When MGM -Pathe defaulted on its sional sports star, chances of becoming a loans in 1992, Lynn decided it was time to sports announcer are pretty slim." a lot...to sustain leave. He joined Playboy that June as pres- So Lynn signed on as program manager [the cable indus- ident of Playboy Entertainment Group and with Teleprompter Cable TV, a fledgling executive VP of its parent corporation, cable system in Elmira, N.Y. He became a try's] confidence." Playboy Enterprises. jack -of-all- trades, producing, directing, What attracted him to Playboy was "the hosting, announcing and basically running a opportunity to do virtually everything I'd small cable TV station. "There was no real Anthony ever done at all my other jobs, but all at separation between journalism and com- once." Lynn ran Playboy's domestic pay -TV merce," he says. "I would sell advertising in Joseph Lynn network, Playboy TV, and oversaw produc- the morning and do newscasting at night." tion of the pay channel's on -air programing. Lynn joined HBO in New York in 1977 President, Playboy Entertain- Lynn's priority has been to execute ment as director of programing for Telemation Group /executive VP, Play- Playboy President Christine Heffner's boy Enterprises, Beverly Hills, Program Services, a now -defunct division vision of expanding Playboy TV across the Calif.; b. July 2, 1952, Danville, that provided programing for stand -alone "When I first got here, our TV pro- Va.; BA, Duke University, Dur- globe. pay -TV channels. ham, N.C., 1974; MS, Syracuse grams were being seen in three to four At HBO, Lynn learned about cable pro- University, N.Y., 1975; program countries. Our programs are now seen in graming, scheduling, affiliate relations and manager, Teleprompter Cable, over 100 countries," Lynn says. network operations. He helped launch Elmira, N.Y., 1975 -77; director Playboy's latest expansion efforts are in cable's first pay -per-view tier, "Uptown," for of programing, Telemation Pro- Great Britain and Japan. Channels there Teleprompter's upper -Manhattan franchise. gram Services, HBO, 1977 -78; are set to launch in October. Lynn found that negotiating cable pro- director of programing, HBO Besides expanding international distribu- gram rights got his adrenalin pumping. "It Program Services; 1978 -80; tion, Lynn's other long -term goal at Play- certainly was a hell of a lot more fun to buy VP/GM, Pay boy is to build up the company's TV net- up and program movies than to sell local TV, 1980 -82; senior VP /GM, works to be more than "simply a program cable TV advertising," he says. "It was very Columbia Pictures Pay TV, distributor." He envisions full- fledged net- exhilarating. And I got to work with some 1982 -83; VP, office of pres- works that both produce and distribute Play- smart industry people like Gerry Levin," ident, Columbia Pictures Inter- boy cable and pay -per-view video product. now chairman of Time Warner. national, 1983 -84; senior VP, Under Lynn, Playboy has improved the In 1980 Lynn moved to Columbia Pic- marketing, Columbia Pictures access and buy rates of Playboy TV's U.S. tures' pay -TV division, where he sold Intl, 1984 -87; president, cable, Network. "It has the potential of being the Columbia theatrical releases to HBO and pay TV, home video, Coca -Cola single most profitable part of this compa- Communications, 1987; execu- Showtime. He got an overnight education ny," Lynn says. "Our buy rate has improved tive VP, international TV and in motion picture financing and entertain- consistently each month in the last nine." worldwide pay TV, MGM/UA he Playboy kept its solid track ment company strategy, says. Communications, 1987-90; TV has record At Columbia's Burbank, Calif., movie president, worldwide television within the cable industry, Lynn says. "Play- studio, Lynn worked 80 -100 -hour weeks distribution, MGM, 1990-92; boy TV has been around for a dozen years alongside legendary industry workhorse current position since 1992; m. and has generated more than $300 mil - Jonathan Dulgen, now chairman of Viacom Cathleen MacDonald, 1973; lion....for the cable industry. I think we've Entertainment. Under Dulgen, Lynn helped children: Megan, 16; Jeffrey, 10. done a lot in the last couple of years to sus- build the film industry's first major studio tain [the industry's] confidence." -JIM

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promotion, CBS, Los Angeles, named Lion director, WGIL(AM) /WAAG(FM) BROADCAST N director, comedy on -air promotion. Galesburg, Ill., joins The , Washington, as regional radio Appointments at wTAJ -TV Altoona, Pa.: Joey Franks, manager, creative affairs, executive. Don Schwenneker, weather anchor /feature Warner Bros. Television Animation, reporter, WAKA(TV) Selma, Ala., joins Burbank, Calif., named director; Christo- as weathercaster; Beth Ann Egan, account pher Keenan, story editor, animation, CABLE executive, named LSM; Dennis Fisher, Amblin Entertainment, joins Warner Ben Turner, senior news director, WJHL -TV Johnson City, Bros., Burbank, as director, program- market- Tenn., joins in same capacity. ing, television animation. director, ing, Taco Bell Carla Wohl, freelance Appointments at wwoR -Tv Secaucus, correspondent, Corp., joins The N.J.: Bob Alan, weather director /anchor, KCBs -TV Los Angeles, joins Sightings Weather Channel, a investigative wcPO -Tv Cincinnati, joins as weather - there as correspondent, Atlanta, as senior caster, Leslie Glenn, director, program- team. VP, strategic mar- ing, WWOR -TV, named director, pro- Deborah Norton, producer, PBS series keting. graming and creative services. Home Green Home, joins Columbia Bruce Harrington, Appointments at wrrv(Tv) Blooming- TriStar Television Distribution, Culver manager, program City, Calif., as director, production and ton, Ind.: Rick Barber, director, engi- Turner operations, Prime neering, named director, operations; programing. SportsChannel Perry Kuhns, maintenance engineer, Networks, Woodbury, N.Y., named named chief engineer. RADIO senior manager. Appointments at WTRF -TV Wheeling, Marco Camacho, Robin Shallow, account director, Pamela W.Va.: Jim Squibb Jr., president, & NSM, KNX(AM) Giddon Co., New York, joins Sports Squibb Mansuetto Pappa, Wheeling, Los Angeles, Illustrated there as manager, television joins as VP/GM; Mark Davis, news joins El Dorado and business public relations. anchor, named news director; Debbie Communications John Brewster, account executive, Prevue Stewart, LSM, KOSA -TV Odessa, Tex., stations KQQK(FM) Networks, Tulsa, Okla., joins Z Music joins in same capacity; Jim Roberts, Galveston; Kart Television, Nashville, as regional mar- LSM, named national /regional sales (FM) Beaumont, keting manager, Central region. manager. and KEYH(AM) Patrick McClenahan, VP, programing and Diane Lillicrap, manager, promotion Houston, all production, Prime Sports West, Los wHSV -TV Va., named Harrisonburg, Texas, as VP/GM. Angeles, adds assistant GM to his marketing/creative services manager. Camacho Appointments at responsibilities. at KHOU -TV Appointments Houston: WNAP -FM Indianapolis: Johnny George, Elizabeth Posner, director, affiliate ad Mario Hewitt, NSM, named LSM; Jeff production /imaging director, named sales, MTV Networks, Los Angeles, Lovins, research director/LSM, named assistant program director, Dan Osborne, named VP, Central region, affiliate NSM. commercial producer, named produc- sales and marketing, Chicago office. tion/imaging director. Appointments at CNBC, Fort Lee, N.J.: PROGRAMING John Butler, news director, wsYR(AM)/ Debbie Finan, coordinating producer, wYYY(FM) /wBBs(FM) Syracuse, N.Y., Frank Hussey, Talk All-Stars, named supervising pro- director, Western joins KMOx(AM) St. Louis in same ducer; John Vdade, account executive, capacity. division, MGM special markets, named manager. Domestic Televi- Beth Stark, prepress manager, Market- DaM, director, strategic planning and sion Distribution, ing Support Management Inc., joins development, Coca -Cola Co., Atlanta, Santa Monica, The Radio Advertising Bureau, Dal- joins Cox Communications Inc. there as Calif., named VP, las, as media/marketing editor, com- VP, strategic marketing. munications department. Southwest divi- Mike Donovan, chief engineer, New Eng- sion. Craig Cohen, announcer, KBIA(FM) land Sports Network, Boston, joins Andrew Lassner, Columbia, Mo., joins wILL(AM) Home & Garden Television and Cinetel Hussey coordinating pro- Urbana, Ill., as producer/host, Morn- Studios, Knoxville, Tenn., as director, ducer, The Jane ing Edition. engineering. Whitney Show, Burbank, Calif., named Debra Harris O'Hearn, account execu- LaDebra Moore, publicist, The History senior producer, Carnie. tive. WB7(AM) Boston, named LSM. Channel, New York, named manager, Mindy Hahn, director, ad sales research, Stuart Gortick, account executive, public relations. MTM Worldwide Distribution, Studio WDRE -FM Garden City and WMRw(FM) Mark Bierstock, corporate partner, Gold City, Calif., named director, cable Westhampton, both New York, named & Wachtel law firm, New York, joins research. LSM, WDRE -FM. USA Networks International there as Rick Silver, staff writer/producer, on -air Karl Weider, sales executive /promo- VP, legal and business affairs.

SB August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable John Mkhaeli, director, publicity, Buena work, joins as GM, Philadelphia. years later H &C Vista Television, joins International Joe Lentz, senior VP, broadcasting, Communications, Family Entertainment, Virginia Beach, Palmer Communications Inc., Des another of her Va., as director, corporate communica- Moines, Iowa, named president/COO. family's enter- tions, West Coast, Los Angeles office. prises, sold its five television sta- Jon Mutter, CEO /managing director, ALLIED FIELDS Nickelodeon UK, London, named man- tions to Young aging director, Nickelodeon Internation- Scott Crum, director, human resources, Broadcasting, al there. Northrop Grumman, Dallas, joins New York, for an estimated $600 Paul Waters, director, local ad sales, General Instrument Corp., Hatboro, million. Media CNBC/America's Talking, Fort Lee, Pa., as VP, human resources. Hobby in 1968 was only one of N.J., joins TV Food Network, New Mark Barron, director, affiliate market- Hobby's vocations. Others included York, as VP, local advertising sales. ing, , New York, joins secretary of health, education and wel- BMI there as director, sales and mar- Appointments at fare of the Federal Security Adminis- keting, media licensing. American Movie tration during the Eisenhower adminis- Classics, Wood- Jill Green, senior VP, creative advertis- tration; director of the Women's Army bury, N.Y.: David ing, 20th Century Fox, joins Creative Corps during World War II; parliamen- Knauer, VP, pro- Domain, Los Angeles, as senior tarian of the House of Representatives duction, HBO VP /associate creative director. of the Texas legislature, and author of Original Program- the textbook, "Mr. Chairman." Hobby ing and HBO DEATHS is survived by two children, William Independent Pro- John Cameron and Jessica. ductions, joins as Swayze, 89, televi- senior VP, pro- Phil Harris, 91, singer, bandmaster and Knoller sion journalist, graming and pro- comic, died Aug. 11 after a heart attack died Aug. 15 at duction, Los Angeles; Catherine Bension, at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. senior VP/management supervisor, his home in Sara- Harris started as a bandmaster in the sota, Fla. Swayze DDB Needham, Los Angeles, joins as 1930s and for 16 years was a regular on VP, Western Region. began his career NBC Red's Jack Benny radio show. In as a reporter with the early 1930s he appeared on Listen to Mn Doherty, NSM, Sci -Fi Channel, the Kansas City and Melody NBC New York, named director, sales. Harris, Cruise, both Journal Post. He Blue productions. In 1947 he and his moved to televi- ADVERTISING/MARKETING Swayze wife, Alice Faye, teamed to do a radio sion, where he show that lasted until 1954. Harris Linda Habib, execu- became the host of the 15- minute appeared in several films and comedy tive producer, Camel News Caravan on NBC in 1949. shorts as himself-"I Love a Band- Tony Silver The show replaced the straight newsreel leader," "Wabash Blues" and "So This Films, New York, format with live shots, interviews and Is Harris," which won an Academy joins Storm commentary. He also served as a panel Award for best comedy short subject. In Media Studios member on the NBC quiz show Who 1967 he provided the voice of Balm the (formerly Twisted Said That? and as master of ceremonies bear in Disney's cartoon version of Entertainment), of Watch the World, a children's educa- "The Jungle Book" and sang the Oscar- Venice, Calif., in tional show. In 1956 he went to work nominated song "The Bare Necessi- same capacity. for Timex and was featured in the com- ties." He is survived by his wife; two pany's commercials for 20 years deliv- Habib William Fagan, daughters; four grandchildren, and two ering the famous line "It takes a licking great grandchildren. director, sales, and keeps on ticking." Swayze is sur- New CNI, York, joins Group W vived by his wife, Beulah Mae; two Robert William Bray, 66, broadcasting as Sports Marketing there director, children, John and Suzanne; six grand- executive, died Aug. 15 of a heart sales, Midwest region. children. and eight great- grandchildren. attack at his home in Avon, Conn. Bray's career began as a staff announc- MULTIMEDIA Oveta Culp Hobby, 90, broadcasting and er at WKNB(AM) Hartford, Conn. Later newspaper executive, died Aug. 16 at he held VP /GM posts at wHNB(TV) Appointments at Metro Networks: her home in Houston. She had suffered (now wvrr) New Britain, Conn., ESPN Claire Meyerhoff, anchor /reporter, a stroke in April. Hobby's newspaper Entertainment and Sports Programming wToP(AM) Washington, joins as news career began in the 1930s as a book and Wac(TV) New York. He also held bureau chief there; John Sorbi Jr., review editor at the Houston Post-a positions at Hartford CATV and Times owner, Jack Sorbi Productions, paper owned by her husband, William Mirror Cable TV. Bray is survived by Raleigh, N.C., joins as director, opera- Pettus Hobby, former Texas gover- his wife, Joan; two children, Robert tions, Houston; Mike Morrison, director, nor -and she later became president/ and Caryn; four grandchildren; a broth- operations, Metro Traffic Control, editor. She also helped to run KPRC -TV er; three nephews, and a niece. Washington, joins New York office as Houston, the Post's NBC affiliate. She Michael 1983 director, operations: Sambor, sold the paper in for $130 million -Compiled by Denise Smith GM, HBO Visitor Information Net- to the Toronto Sun Publishing Co. Nine e -mail: d.smith @b &c.cahners.com

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 59 The FCC last week approved SF Broadcasting's acquisition of Ameritech wins cable franchise in Illinois KHON -TV Honolulu; WALA -TV Mobile, The Glendale Heights, Ill., board of trustees last week unanimously Ala., and WVUE New Orleans. The approved a cable TV franchise agreement for Ameritech that will create commission said that SF complies competition for the current cable operator, Time Warner. It will take a year with foreign ownership benchmarks, to build the system, which will pass 29,000 homes in the suburban Chica- but also said the approval is contin- go community. on the of a gent outcome pending As part of the franchise agreement, Ameritech will pay 5% of the sys- review of its attribution rules. Fox tem's annual gross revenue to Glendale Heights. Ameritech said it will holds 25% nonvoting stake in SF. a invest more than $5 million to build the two -way video communications Under current rules, the four stations network and plans to begin offering a package of 80 broadcast, cable, Fox -owned facili- will not count as premium and pay -per -view channels early next year. It plans to expand to ties. Commissioner Susan Ness 300 channels and within a few years add other interactive services, such issued a separate statement concur- as grocery ordering and video games. ring with the decision but voicing Ameritech and its partners The Walt Disney Co., BellSouth, GTE and concern over "nonattributable" rela- SBC Communications are lining up programing and developing interac- tionships that grant minority share- tive services for their planned nationally branded service. -MB holders influence over broadcast licenseholders. "For any ownership ITFS spectrum capacity and also to 11 cents. IFE's revenue increased limits to be meaningful, our attribu- asked for clarification of licensehold- 21%, from $51.6 million to $62.3 mil- tion rules must be fair, clear and er rights. lion. For the first half of 1995, IFE saw realistic," Ness said. a 44% increase in cash flow, from Jones Intercable reported a 13% Radio stations are challenging $15 million to $21.6 million. Net rise in operating cash flow, from the FCC's EEO rules. Arlington, Va.- income rose 59 %, from $4.5 million to $14.3 million to $16.2 million, for its based Haley Bader & Potts last week $7.1 million, and revenue climbed fourth fiscal quarter ended May 31. filed a petition on behalf of its radio 19 %, from $104.9 million to $124.9 Jones officials say the increase re- clients asking the commission to million. Earnings per share rose from flects the company's acquisition of either revise or repeal its EEO require- 10 cents to 19 cents. Jones Spacelink's assets, the pur- ments. The firm's petition maintains chase of the North Augusta system Showtime Networks has signed that the Supreme Court's Adarand and an increase in basic subscrib- an agreement giving Hallmark decision casts doubt on the constitu- ers. For the quarter, Jones's net loss Entertainment international dis- tionality of the FCC's EEO rules. declined 31 %, to $4.93 million, from tribution rights to at least 10 A U.S. Appeals Court in Washing- $7.13 million last year. Revenue for Showtime Original Pictures pro- ton last Friday told the FCC to the quarter increased 33%, from ductions outside the U.S. and Cana- reconsider its decision not to $32.7 million to $43.4 million. For fis- da. In addition, the deal calls for Hall- grant new TV licenses to Achernar cal 1995, operating cash flow in- mark Entertainment to handle U.S. Broadcasting and Lindsay Television creased 6%, from $56.1 million to home video distribution of 20 Show - Inc. The commission had denied $59.3 million, and net loss declined time Original Pictures titles. Hallmark applications from the two companies 84%, from $25.3 million to $4.0 mil- also will co- produce and co- finance to protect a radio astronomy observa- lion. Sales revenue for the year in- another six Showtime titles. The first tory from potential interference, but creased 19 %, from $126.5 million to list of titles to be co- financed includes the court rejected the commission's $150.9 million. Losing Chase, directed by actor rationale and asked the FCC to International Family Entertain- Kevin Bacon and starring Kyra Sedg- reconsider - the applications. ment's operating cash flow rose wick, Beau Bridges and Helen Mir ren; Mr. & Mrs. Loving, starring Louis The Wireless Cable Association 89%, from $6.1 million to $11.5 mil- Gossett Jr. and Eric Stoltz; Hidden In has asked the FCC to reconsid- lion, in the second quarter ended America; In the Presence of er portions of its MMDS auction June 30. The company reported that Enemies, and Riot. rules. The group challenged the net income more than doubled, from FCC's decision to grant auction win- $1.9 million to $4.0 million, while Emmis Broadcasting will sell its ners a right of first refusal on new earnings per share grew from 4 cents $3 million investment in TaIkRa-

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60 August 21 1995 Broadcasting & Cable dio UK, Great Britain's talk radio network, in which Emmis lost money last year. Emmis Chairman /CEO DENVER pleased with his by Jeff Smulyan said company man- treatment Infin- ity management, including Presi- agement did not have an opportunity Second -channel foe? dent /CEO Mel Karmazin. Mean- to be as "hands on" in the project as Tele- Communications Inc. denies it, while, they had hoped. Stem routinely rants about but sources maintain that the num- bumping "that fat Rush Limbaugh" The Extremists with Gabrielle ber-one cable operator has been try- off the air with his own hand- Reece has been cleared in all top ing to stir up opposition among com- picked cast of radio jocks. Stern's 10 markets and 29 of the top 30, with puter companies and others to giving agent, Don Buchwald, says only total coverage of more than 80% of broadcasters a second channel for that "there is merit to everything the country. The weekly half -hour digital TV. TCI is "not actively [Stern] talks about. We are leading series, distributed domestically by involved" in digital broadcasting and a very full life, and in my opinion, Maxam Entertainment and interna- has "not talked to anybody else" he's just begun his career." tionally by Trans Atlantic Entertain- about it, says spokesman Bob Thom- ment, focuses on extreme sports. son. "However," he adds, "it's hard BRISTOL for us to imagine how Congress Fox Broadcasting's cable movie would embrace a plan to give $60 Psyched over synergies channel, fXM: Movies from Fox, billion of free spectrum to broadcast - Calling the proposed merger beginning will scramble its signal ers...given the budget crunch." between Disney and Capcities /ABC later this month. The network, which "the best combination of a pro- launched in October 1994, will trans- KANSAS CITY gramer and distributor in media his- mit its signal via fixed key beginning tory," ESPN President Steve Born- Aug. 22 at noon ET and via fully ad- Goin' to Kansas City? stein last week predicted that the dressable beginning Aug. 31 at noon. According to local market sources, megamerger is a "harbinger of DIC and SeaGull Entertainment's QDE, the entertainment company additional sports partnerships to Sailor Moon has been cleared in 87 owned by Quincy Jones and David come." Bornstein says he's excited markets, representing 84% of the Salzman, has purchased the rights to about potential Disney/ESPN country. The strip kids show debuts a construction permit to build a new (which is owned by Capcities /ABC) Sept. 11. New market clearances TV station (ch. 32) in Kansas City . alliances in addition to the include KDFI Dallas, KTxH -TV Houston, The seller, sources say, is local ESPN/Disney sports bar, the first of WBNX Cleveland and WHSL St. Louis. investor Robert Liepold, a former which opens at Disney World in Sixty -five half -hour episodes of the Sprint executive, who will consult Orlando, Fla., next spring. Japanese import have been pro- QDE on the building of the station. It NEW YORK duced for the first season. is widely speculated that QDE will enter a local marketing agreement Bunny shop The National Academy of Televi- with one of the existing TV players sion Arts and Sciences has there. Potential partners include If the concept proves successful, look for Playboy to expand its released the finalists for its Scripps Howard's KSHB -TV, New recently added home shopping seg- annual public service announce- World's KDAF-TV, Hearst's KMBC -TV ment now airing on Playboy TV ment Emmy awards. Television and Meredith's KCTV. Another poten- into a full -scale shopping channel. station finalists are KRMA -TV Denver, tial partner: KSMO -TV, now owned by works KSAZ -Tv Phoenix, WBZ -TV Boston, ABRY, but expected to be acquired "If it out, there's always the potential to roll out a Playboy WISN -Tv Milwaukee and wsvN Miami. by Sinclair, which has an option to branded shopping service," says The awards will be presented on buy the station. Sinclair is a major Playboy Entertainment President Aug. 29 in New York. LMA player. Through a spokes- Tony Lynn. Showtime Event Television will woman last week, Salzman said telecast the World Combat "there is just nothing to say" yet Championship tournament of about QDE's plans for ch. 32. professional martial arts ex- perts. The PPV event will air Oct. 7 NEW YORK at 9 p.m. ET from the Lawrence Joel Blowing smoke? Veterans' Memorial Coliseum in Win- While radio shock jock Howard ston- Salem, N.C. It will be produced Stern talks about assembling a cast by the Marcus /Peters Organization of radio talk talent and launching his and will be distributed by SET Pay own network to distribute his show, Per View. industry insiders won't reveal Errata -In a Fates & Fortunes item whether Stem is serious or just (BROADCASTING & CABLE, Aug. 14) we pumping up rumors. Stem is sched- misspelled Peggy Binzel's name. uled to begin contract renegotiations Binzel has been promoted to the top this fall with his show's longtime Drawn for BROADCASTING & CABLE by Jack Schmidt lobbyist spot at Fox. Her new title is syndicator, Infinity Broadcasting. "They're not real bullet holes-our talk senior VP, government relations. Sources say Stern has been host feels they give him a macho image!"

Broadcasting & Cable August 21 1995 61 O-1 I o S COMMITTED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENTl AND THE FIFTH ESTATE

be made over that second channel in 10 years than over the High cost of hesitancy first channel in 50. Dating from about the moment that Rupert Murdoch In a telecommunications world moving at flank speed started the Great Affiliation Wars, the prospects of the toward the digital 21st century, broadcasters are lagging broadcasting industry have mounted by the day, up to and conspicuously behind-so much so that many in official including the Disney -Capcities and Westinghouse -CBS Washington have the impression that broadcasters would deals. It's not too late, however, to blow broadcasting's rather not be bothered by either the opportunity or the advantage in the Communications Act of 1995, and with progress the millennium presents. It is an attitude that can the FCC. This is the time for broadcasters to declare their cost them dearly, near term and long. ardor and their intentions toward HDTV and the second This reluctance is most notable regarding HDTV. For channel. more than a decade the government and some in the indus- try have been working diligently to provide a high- defini- tion standard and, more recently, a digital standard, to give Two for two broadcasters somewhere to go when NTSC and analog leave them high and dry. For almost the same length of The FCC's Mass Media Bureau has met two deadlines in a time many broadcasters have been reluctant bridegrooms. row: June 30, its promised date for resolving the backlog of wary of the benefits and chary of the cost -apparently station assignment and transfer applications, and July 31, unwilling to reinvest in their own medium. the deadline for appeals of staff decisions on those applica- Several things happened while broadcasters were hang- tions. It gets the praise, the industry gets the benefit. Quid ing back. The convergence of media put everyone in every- pro quo. one else's business. Suddenly you find cable operators with options on broadcast properties, just in case. The computer industry is reported to be feeling out congressional senti- A matter of time ment toward its getting into the broadcast act. The chair- man of the FCC becomes Mr. Auction, eying all spectrum The Ad Council has released its totals for the nation's for its potential value on the block. And Congress sets out largest suppliers of public service advertising time. The to balance the nation's books by 2002, with $ 14 billion winner by a mile is the Fifth Estate. Broadcasters con- specified to come from spectrum. tributed a total $564.8 million in airtime, up more than 61% Far be it for us to be profligate in spending another's from last year. Cable contributed $237.7 million, up 29.1% money, but the transition costs over which broadcasters over last year. That total $802.5 million is nine -plus times have worried pale beside the asset value that spectrum rep- the donated space of all other media combined (outdoor, resents. Did anyone notice that a UHF assignment in New transit, newspaper, magazine, new media and business York City just went for $207 million? And that was just press). FCC Chairman Reed Hundt called it "a good exam- stick value -that is, the cost of the license and the plant. In ple of the important contributions the media can make to the opinion of this page, it's possible that more money will serve the public interest." Agreed.

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