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Westwood One -NBC Radio deal completed... page 34. State of the art of journalism... page 41. New order for top 20 TV group owners... page 32. Cable operators, news directors head South... page 81, 59.

BOTTOM LINE BROADCASTING calculations find of radio's local emphasis in reporting. PAGE 98. that value of cable TV industry surpasses that of broadcast television by almost $30 billion. PAGE NEWS DIRECTORS HEAD TO ORLANDO D Tough 31. issues are on agenda of 42d annual RTNDA conference in Orlando, Fla., Sept 1 -4. Preview, agenda and list of exhibitors begin on PAGE 59. DOTTED LINE o Westwood One $50- million Networks will result in acquisition of NBC Radio CABLE OPERATORS GO TO ATLANTA D Overbuilds, some layoffs and several consolidations of NBC improving profits and better marketing techniques network departments. PAGE 34. highlight Eastern Cable Show Aug. 30 -Sept. 1. Advance and list of exhibitors begin on PAGE 81. JOURNALISM 1987 High stakes and vigilance over D has competitive techniques to lure viewers makes TAXING TIMES IN FLORIDA Florida governor to put local television news an exciting and increasingly told legislative leaders he would attempt tax, which sophisticated business. PAGE 41. NBC News has Florida's controversial 5% service added evening news race to its list of laurels, but affects advertising, on ballot. PAGE 84. people meter rating system will affect outcome of future races. PAGE 50. The uneasy relationship of NEXT AX TO FALL? D Petioners ask FCC to abolish news and profit. PAGE 54. Never-ending news fairness doctrine corollaries. PAGE 89. coverage finds its place on cable. PAGE 56. Broadcasters debate whether nature of radio news ABLE ADVISER D When attorney Bruce Sanford is dramatically changing in 1987, including loss talks about libel law, broadcasters listen. PAGE 119.

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78 Advertising & Marketing .... 84 Editorials 122 In Sync 94 Riding Gain Business Briefly 85 Fates & Fortunes 115 Law & Regulation 89 Stock Index 90 Cablecastings 95 Fifth Estater 119 Monday Memo 28 Syndication Marketplace ... 88 Changing Hands 92 For the Record 101 Open Mike 27 Technology 93 Closed Circuit 7 In Brief 120 Programing 86 Where Things Stand 10 Datebook 22

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Foundation; Broadcast Education among networks. ABC is providing News update Association; American Newspaper network pool during present three -week Publishers Association; Association of period. CNN research study on where viewers American Publishers, and First get their national news reveals continuing Amendment Center. shift away from broadcast networks. Futurists Study is based on entire 87- million Nielsen television home universe and adds total Rescue mission Association of Maximum Service audience of national news aired by ABC. Telecasters is sponsoring conference at CBS, NBC, CNN and Headline News in New supervising producer has been Washington's Four Seasons hotel Sept. 23 given day. Included are all news and brought in by Carson Productions, for its membership and anyone else information programs as defined by producer of Fox Broadcasting's Mr. interested in high -definition television Nielsen. President, to boost faltering fortunes of and other advanced television systems. In aggregate numbers for January series starring George C. Scott. Bill AMST expects about 100, including through end of July, CNN services have Seigler was hired last week and will work representatives of FCC, NTIA, Advanced risen from 15.2% of viewing in 1985 to under executive producer Ed Weinberger. Television Systems Committee, Center 18.1% in 1986 to 19.9% in 1987. ABC He helps fill vacancy left by Gene for Advanced Television Systems, trade has dropped most over that period, from Reynolds, show's departed co- creator and associations and communications law 30.8 to 28.3 to 27.9. CBS has dropped executive producer. Reynolds cited firms. from 33.9 to 32.9 to 32.5. NBC's "creative differences" when he left By time conference takes place, AMST numbers -20.I to 20.7 to I9.7 -are lower abruptly in June. hopes FCC will have announced structure than ABC's or CBS's because it runs and membership of ATV industry fewer national news programs on its advisory committee to guide FCC's broad schedule. Two 24 -hour cable networks Then and now inquiry into ATV that was launched last program roughly two- and -a-half times as July. As envisioned by staff, "blue ribbon" CBS News's Charles Kuralt and Shad much national news as three networks committee of around 20 top executives Northshield, producer of Kuralt's Sunday - combined in given month. but services are from broadcasting, cable and electronics morning program, have started available in slightly less than half as industry will guide efforts of two or three production of two pilots for new news many U.S. homes. working subcommittees of engineers. Staff program titled Try to tentatively reportedly submitted recommendations to similar in concept to Remember, Chairman Dennis Patrick three weeks ago, Blossoming budget canceled Our World. Try to Remember but he left on vacation before acting on will focus on particular week in recent National Association of Broadcasters has them. According to Patrick aide, approving history (Our World usually focused on gone from $9.3 million budget in 1983 to committee structure and membership is longer period such as summer of 1952) $13.4 million in 1987. That increase has high on list of Patrick's priorities when he and explain how events that took place caught eye of NAB executive committee, returns to office this week. then still affect lives today. One pilot will which has asked association staff for look at week in spring of 1954, when, historical perspective on budget. There among other things, historic Brown vs. have been no dues increases for radio and Possible revival Board of Education of Topeka, Kan., was TV members over those years, but handed down by U.S. Supreme Court. Before sale of NBC Radio Networks to convention and associate membership Westwood One (BROADCASTING, July 27), income has risen. Committee wants to see NBC had developed pilot for new where money is spent. Seagoing uplink Monitor program service, weekend magazine -style programing that left U.S. Navy convoy activity in Persian Roundup NBC's airwaves after 20 years in February Gulf could lead to breakthrough in 1975. Proposal was to begin with four technology used by broadcast journalists As part of its fight against codification of hours of information/entertainment to transmit pictures by satellite. Network fairness doctrine (see story. page 36), programing on Saturday and Sunday. Broadcasters is crews covering convoy from Navy ships National Association of Westwood One Chairman Norm Pattiz last have been shipping videotape back to putting letter together to send to Capitol week said Monitor idea "is under helicopter. Uplinking material Hill. Letter, which will plead case against shore by consideration." doctrine, is being circulated among key from ship to satellite would be more media organizations for signatures. efficient. but pitch and roll of ship at sea Working list includes: Radio- Television make that impossible. So Navy and No surrender News Directors Association; Magazine networks are interested in developing Publishers Association; National gyroscopically synchronized Ku -band At quarterly meeting last week of Newspaper Association; Reporters transmitter. George Watson, ABC News National League of Cities' steering Committee for Freedom of the Press; Washington bureau chief, says no network committee on transportation and Sigma Delta Chi; National Broadcast has such equipment, nor is any available communications, group restated league's Editorial Association; Women in off shelf. However, he says one research commitment to continue fighting, before Communications; National Association of and development company estimated FCC and courts, what it sees as erosion of Public Television Stations; American price of developing one at $50,000; municipal authority in Cable Act. NLC Women in Radio and Television; another. at $300,000. So feasibility has will also state its concerns at proposed Association of Independent Television yet to be demonstrated. Since GS Ku -band cable oversight hearings by House Stations; American Society of Newspaper unit would be used in pool operations, Telecommunications Subcommittee later Editors; Freedom of Expression like that in Gulf, cost would be shared this year.

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Copyright 1987 Broadcasting Publications Inc May be quoted with credit. port stated that while there is no inherent degra- dation of sound quality in multisystem corn- AM -FM allocations. National Association of pared to single- system radios, implementation Cable regulation. FCC's implementation of Ca- Broadcasters filed comments last month sup- of multisystem technology is not feasible be- ble Communications Policy Act of 1984, and porting FCC's proposal to allow most daytimers cause of lack of support among radio manufac- particularly its deregulation of basic cable rates (1,600 of between 1,800 and 1,900) to provide turers and dominance of single- system, C- effective Dec. 19, 1986, received report card nighttime service at full power. However, NAB Quam standard in international marketplace. from panel of U.S. Court of Appeals in Washing- said FCC should authorize new nighttime ser- NTIA recommended to FCC that it protect C- ton. Panel upheld FCC standard for "effective vice on interim basis until it completes compre- Quam's pilot tone from possible interference. competition" -where three off-air broadcast sig- hensive review of AM interference standards in Motorola has wide support among broadcast- nals were available in cable community-call - separate proceeding launched last month. Oth- ers and receiver manufacturers. About 500 AM ing it "for the most part neither arbitrary, capri- ers said FCC should defer any action until re- stations broadcast in stereo with Motorola's sys- cious nor otherwise contrary to law" Court also view is completed and new interference stan- tem as compared to fewer than 100 with Kahn's. agreed to FCC's determination of when it would dards are adopted. FCC hopes to have final But Kahn Communications, backed by several intervene in disputes under Cable Act's fran- order by fall. major group broadcasters, has proved tena- chise fee provision, which was when those dis- Commission extended comment and reply cious. putes "directly impinge" on national policy in- comment deadlines to today (Aug. 31) and volving cable and implicate agency's expertise. Sept. 15, respectively, on its notice of inquiry on Among commission rules overturned: FCC's re- proposed rules change to authorize FM direc- definition of basic cable service; automatic tional antenna systems, which would allow for Antitrafficking. Congressional interest in rein- pass- through of certain identifiable costs of pro- reducing distance separations between FM's. In stating FCC's antitrafficking rule is building. Leg- viding basic service, and FCC's signal availabil- commission's announcement of that extension, islation is pending in House and Senate that ity standard. however, it tried to narrow focus of proceeding, would restore rules requiring broadcast stations On Capitol Hill, House Telecommunications saying that it would be "premature to consider to be owned three years before sale. Hill action Subcommittee plans to convene oversight hear- extension of the use of directional antennas to on any broadcast legislation was put on hold ings this fall on status of cable industry three the channel allotment process," and defining until fate of fairness doctrine is resolved (see years atter deregulation. There have been some "immediate" scope of inquiry as providing exist- fairness doctrine box, page 19), but since FCC reports, however, that hearings may be pushed ing licensees with "greater flexibility in the selec- declared doctrine "unconstituional" and will no back even further. tion of transmitter sites, some of which may be longer enforce it, likelihood that antitrafficking short- spaced." could move on its own (BROADCASTING, June 29) FCC has processed 30 of 80 windows for new is said to be even greater. There has been some FM allocations created by docket 80 -90 pro- speculation that such provision could be at- Children's television.Action for Children's Tele- ceeding. Commission's goal is to have pro- tached to FCC authorization that Congress is vision asked FCC last week to reimpose guide- cessed 40 windows by year's end. Commission expected to move before end of year. House lines limiting advertising to nine -and -a -half min- has also received about 800 petitions for new measure (H.R. 1187), offered by Representative utes per hour during "children's prime time"- allotments and facility upgrades. Al Swift (D- Wash.), was focus of Telecommuni- Saturday and Sunday mornings -and to 12 min- cations Subcommittee hearing last month. In utes per hour during weekdays. ACT said that O Senate, broadcast renewal bill (S. 1277) con- marketplace has failed to limit advertising time tains provision that would reimpose rule (see as FCC had predicted when it eliminated guide- AM stereo. Motorola's C -Quam AM stereo sys- "License renewal," below). Issue was raised lines in 1984. ACT believes guidelines would tem moved closer to establishing itself as de during Senate hearings on bill July 17 and 20, effectively ban what it considers "program - facto standard with Aug. 12 release by National where there was strong indication broadcasters length commericials" for toys. Telecommunications and Information Adminis- are divided. NAB said it opposed reimposition ACT believes U.S. Court of Appeals in Wash- tration of followup report to one released last of rule as stand -alone legislation, but takes no ington set stage for its petition by remanding February on AM stereo marketplace. position on matter when it is part of "otherwise FCC action eliminating guidelines for children's Multisystem radios receive signals generated acceptable license renewal reform bill." Other programing on ground FCC had failed to justify by two incompatible systems battling to be de witnesses from broadcast industry also re- the deregulatory action with either facts or anal- facto standard -Motorola's C -Quam and Kahn frained from taking stand on trafficking, another ysis. Communications' single -sideband. Second re- sign industry can't reach consensus. In petition, ACT cited University of California, Santa Barbara, study released in July, that as- serted that commission's argument that marketplace would take care of commercialism in children's programing was faulty (BROADCASTING, BARGAIN! Aug. 3). DIGITAL AUDIO SATELLITE On Capitol Hill, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D- N.J.) introduced children's programing bill that would require each commercial television net- MORE Features work to air seven hours per week of educational programing designed for children, and would For LE$$ require FCC to hold inquiries into "program - length commercials" and programs featuring in- Fairchild Dart 384 teractive toys. Also, House Telecommunications Subcommittee plans hearing this fall on children's TV Compatible With All Association of Independent Television Sta- Digital Radio Networks 4LLIED tions, concerned about what it says is decline in 317- 962 -8596 Satellite Equipment TV viewing by children, has authorized life- styles study by M/E Marketing and Research, Boston, to find out where younger viewers have

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There are some good things to be said about those who play it down the middle. Who take the safe, cautious path in life.

There is much more to be said about those who brush off the risks, stand up to the hardships, and reach the summits of mountains. Those who keep tenaciously pursuing bigger challenges.

In the broadcasting industry, as in every line of work, there are those few bold enough, confident enough, to climb to the top. They evaluate the potential rewards, the downside risks, and believing in themselves, they move purposefully ahead.

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Ti Viacom® gone and how to get them back. Results will be gramers to join it in stepping up from C -band to announced at INN convention in Los Angeles medium -power Ku -band satellites that can in January. Crossownership. FCC has opened inquiry into beam signals to much smaller dishes. telco -cable crossownership that could lead to O recommendation that Congress drop Cable Act's prohibition (BROADCASTING, July 20) against Compulsory license. FCC received comments telco's owning cable systems within their tele- Equal employment opportunity. FCC has month ago in inquiry into whether compulsory phone services areas. amended its broadcast equal employment op- license should be preserved. National Associ- As part of first triennial reassessment of modi- portunity rules and reporting requirements. Ev- ation of Broadcasters, for sake of interindustry fied final judgment that resulted in breakup of ery station's EEO program will be subject to re- peace, softened its longstanding opposition to AT&T, District Court Judge Harold Greene is view at renewal time regardless of employment license, arguing that license should be left alone considering whether to lift prohibitions against profile, but FCC said review will focus more on for time being. Most broadcasters, however, Bell operating companies' providing "informa- EEO efforts than numbers (BROADCASTING, April urged elimination or modification of rules to limit tion services," which include everything from 27). Stations with five or more employes are re- importation of distant signals. They were joined electronic mail to videotex to cable television. quired to file detailed reports. by motion picture industry. Cable industry, on Even if Greene decides to lift MFJ prohibitions, For cable, FCC has adopted rules implement- other hand, argued to keep license intact. Inqui- BOC's still wouldn't be free to provide cable ser- ing EEO aspects of Cable Communications Poli- ry is expected to form basis for legislative rec- vice wherever they wanted because of prohibi- cy Act of 1984 (BROADCASTING. Sept. 23, 1985). ommendation to Congress. Replies are due tions in the Cable Act. Sept. 21. Meanwhile, cable and motion picture indus- O tries have discussed reaching some kind of ac- Federal Trade Commission. FTC is undertak- commodation on compulsory copyright license. Direct broadcast satellites. High -power DBS, ing antitrust Investigation of National Football But new wrinkle has developed due to efforts of which would use Ku -band spectrum set aside League television rights contracts, having is- INN to use those discussions as forum to re- for it, has foundered because of high start-up sued subpoenas to ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Broad- open debate on must carry (BROADCASTING, June costs and programing dearth, but low -power C- casting and NFL. Under investigation is possi- 29, July 20). NCTA is said to be staunchly resis- band variety resulting from scrambling of cable ble network collusion in pressuring NFL to retain tant to effort and views INN's initiative as viola- programing on C -band satellites has emerged basic TV rights structure in recently negotiated tion of must -carry agreement that broadcast from home satellite market. three -year, $1.4- billion package or otherwise (I NN is signatory) and cable industries reached Latter got started in January 1986, when blocking FBC, HBO and other cable entities last year. INN's compulsory license comments Home Box Office scrambled feeds of HBO and from gaining television rights. FBC President Ja- (which called for limiting application of license Cinemax and began selling subscriptions to mie Kellner said at N Critics press tour in early to carriage of local signals only and abolishing owners of backyard earth stations (TVROS), August that FTC had asked him whether Fox license for distant signals altogether) exacerbat- which now number more than 1.7 million. Num- would be interested in carrying games. Fox out- ed situation further and resulted in additional ber of NRO homes subscribing to cable pro- bid other parties in initial bidding, Kellner charges by NCTA that independents have graming has grown as more cable programers claimed. As part of NFL deal, some games will "gone back on their word." INN nevertheless, have scrambled feeds and begun selling sub- be shown for first time on cable by ESPN, cable denied its comments were violation of agree- scriptions directly or as packages through other channel 80% owned by ABC. ment and defended its actions (BROADCASTING, programers or cable operators. FY 1988 -90 authorization of FTC cleared Sen- Aug. 10). HBO now wants other major cable pro- ate in March (BROADCASTING, March 16). House Commerce Committee adopted its own version of FTC authorization on July 14. Both bills authorize FTC at $69.85 million for FY '88, $71.9 million in 1989 and $72.9 million in 1990. Senate version calls for permanent prohibition against FTC regulating ad industry based on "unfair- ACCU - ness" standard, controversial provision that is WEATHER not included in House bill.

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387 Dow Jones Inc More than the averages buyer may soon emerge in syndicated programing marketplace. Community Broadcasters As- Fairness update sociation, which represents budding LPTV industry, is considering forming cooperative to Several broadcasting and journalism associations asked me I CC last week to repeal two buy and distribute syndicated programing for "corollaries" of the fairness doctrine -the personal attack and political editorializing rules, 160 or so LPTV stations that are now originating which the FCC made a point of saying were not included in its repeal of the general programing. CBA is awaiting go -ahead from an- doctrine on Aug. 4 (see story, page 89). titrust lawyers before proceeding further with The petitioners, which include the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio - plans. Television News Directors Association. said the FCC should get rid of the rules by either clarifying its fairness doctrine action or by issuing an order in a four-year -old rulemaking that proposed elimination of the rules. In light of the FCC's repeal of the general doctrine. Mergers. C.O.M.B. shareholders will vote at an- they said. the conclusion is inescapable that the.... rules- adjuncts of the fairness doc- nual meeting today (August 31) on combination trine and recognized to be even more intrusive and chilling than the general doctrine-are with half -owned teleshopping venture, Cable similarly unconstitutional and inimical to the public interest.." Value Network. Company name would subse- Efforts to resurrect the general doctrine are under way Just three days after the vote quently be changed to CVN Companies. Ca- repealing the doctrine, the Media Access Project. on behalf of the Syracuse Peace blevision Systems has proposed purchase of Council, the antinuclear citizen group whose 1983 fairness doctrine claim against Mer- Adams -Russell for roughly $310 million cash edith Corp.'s wrvn(Tv) Syracuse, N.Y., led to the FCC action. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals and assumption of $174 million in liabilities. By for the Second Circuit (New York) to overturn the action. MAC will argue that Congress time purchase is expected to close. sometime have codified the doctrine in 1959 and that. as a result. the FCC lacked the jurisdiction to repeal it. before January 15. Adams -Russell will Holdings The Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ and the Communications roughly 230.000 subscribers. SCI investment banking firms to Commission of the National Council of Church joined MAC in appealing the FCC action two has retained three sale of Storer cable systems. serving weeks ago, also in the second circuit. explore 1.4 million basic subscribers. No offering docu- In separate motions, Meredith and the FCC two weeks ago asked the second circuit to ments are yet available. Taft Broadcasting send the case back to the Court of Appeals in Washington. arguing that it's the proper place Co.'s $157- per -share buyout by joint venture for the appeals since it was the court that set the stage for the FCC decision by remanding the composed of leading shareholders was ap- Meredith -SPC case to the FCC. proved by Taft board June 5 and will be voted on its legal maneuverings, SPC's immediate hope, as well as that of other proponents Despite at special meeting of shareholders scheduled will fall the into law Congress seems of the doctrine, is that Congress act this to put doctrine for September 29 in Cincinnati. Buyout filing willing to oblige. The FCC's abolition of the doctrine, which required broadcasters to air with FCC is subject of two protests seeking to opposing views on controversial public issues. created an uproar in Congress. Senate block transfer. FCC administrative law judge Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings (D -S.C.) and House Energy and Commerce has urged revocation of RKO Broadcasting sta- Committee Chairman John Dingell (D- Mich.) have vowed to codify it and are expected to tion licenses. Full commission now is expected attach the fairness bill to the first "veto proof' measure Congress considers when it returns in to decide whether public interest would best be September. President Reagan vetoed a bill codifying the fairness doctrine last June. and served by allowing completion of proposed doctrine proponents lacked the votes to override. $320 million settlement of KFUiTVi Los Angeles The National Association of Broadcasters hosted a meeting two weeks ago with other license challenge. in which Walt Disney Co. industry groups opposed to the doctrine to begin formulating their strategy to block congres- would end up owning station. Still under re- sional efforts to pass fairness legislation. A letter- writing campaign has been proposed view is initial decision by FCC transfer branch million sale of wIw rvi Miami (BROADCASTING. Aug. 17) and broadcasters are hoping to form a major lobbying coalition with on proposed $270 to joint venture of the print media that will work the Hill. NAB has also asked former FCC commissioner Glenn O by Wometco Broadcasting Electric Property Manage- Robinson to poll former commissioners who side with the FCC and oppose the doctrine for a NBC and General ment. to close is restructuring of Storer joint letter to Dingell expressing those views. Still Television and purchase of half interest in six - station group by Gillett Holdings. Two entities. SCI Television Inc. and Gillett Communications lines and 60 hz field. After approval by full orga- out differences with Representative Tom Tauke Inc. -General Partership. have preliminary pro- nization, SMPTE will submit standard to Ameri- (R- Iowa), author of H.R. 1140, broadcast bill that spectus before Securities & Exchange Commis- can National Standards Institute. NAB is backing. sion for $550 million in debt securities. Two enti- Hill leadership has indicated that no broad- ties will also undertake $600 million in bank cast legislation (at least any measure industry credit and each contribute roughly $100 million wants) will move until outcome of fairness doc- to finance group's $1.3 billion price tag and pay trine is determined (see fairness above). License renewal reform. Bills to reform com- $48 million in financing fees. Sale of group will At FCC, broadcasters may get some relief parative renewal process are pending in House be staggered. depending on license renewal from groups that file petitions to deny broadcast and Senate, but fate of proposed measures is date for each station. with last being wlm.ry Mil- stations' renewal or sale applications and de- unclear. Hearings were held July 17 and July 20. waukee. in December. mand payoffs from affected stations to withdraw by Senate Communications Subcommittee on them. Under proposed rules. now subject of S.1277 (BROADCASTING, July 20). where FCC O FCC rulemaking, groups filing such petitions Chairman Dennis Patrick and Commissioner would be limited to recovering only costs in- James Quello stated reservations about bill's re- Minority preference. FCC deadline for return- volved in preparing and prosecuting their fil- newal standard and National Association of ing minority ownership questionnaires was July ings. Broadcasters stated its strong opposition to 31. At last count -some three weeks ago-- - is also 70% of broadcasters had returned ques- measure. Department of Justice object- O about ing to S. 1277 and Assistant Attorney General tionnaires. Since then several hundred more John Bolton said agency would recommend have come in, with FCC spokeswoman saying presidential veto should measure pass. Low -power television. FCC's freeze on low - they will continue to be processed. although Most of broadcast industry's attention has power applications and major changes -in ef- those coming in after deadline may be subject been focused on draft of bill in House, where fect since 1983- thawed. with new window to penalty for tardiness. Representative Al Swift (D- Wash.) has been opened June 22 -July 2. Estimated 1.200 appli- OMB had ruled that broadcast licensees working with NAB and public interest groups to cations were received. far fewer than FCC offi- need not return special FCC questionnaire tar- devise compromise package that would elimi- cials had expected. giving hope applications geted to generate data for its pending reexamin- nate comparative renewal in exchange for pub- will be processed well before year's end. Keith ation of constitutionality and advisability of pref- lic service obligations. Draft of bill, however, was Larson. chief of FCC's LPTV branch. said that all erences for minorities and women rejected by NAB board last month and associ- engineering information had been put on com- (BROADCASTING. April 13). but FCC overruled ation says it wants to renegotiate (BROADCASTING. puter database. and that administrative data- veto -with OMB approving final wording of June 29). Swift has since said he will introduce base is nearly completed. Larson said process- questionnaire holding that participation is bill with or without broadcaster support (BROAD- ing of applications should begin this week with mandatory. (FCC rules require that broadcast- CASTING, July 13). Swift has been trying to iron first permits granted in October. Important new ers respond to written requests for statement of

B,oadcas'ng Aag 37 1987 19 fact from commission.) FCC received corn - tory and financial problems. But. according to exclusively for its people meter service. CBS ments on proceeding in June (BROADCASTING, some MCTV proponents, chief problem is secur- and NBC claim service's sample base is unrelia- June 8). Reply comment deadline has been ex- ing distribution rights to popular cable services ble and have requested conventional (NTI) rat- tended to Aug. 20. like Home Box Office and Showtime. Metropoli- ings service for another season. Nielsen vice In Congress. interest in legislative action on tan had to go to court to get rights to Showtime. president. John Dimling, has confirmed that minority issues has gained ground. Legislation Nielsen has not ruled out retaining current NTI is pending in Senate that would codify FCC's audimeter household panel next season (at women and minority preferences and tax certifi- least through fourth quarter) to cross check peo- cate and distress sale policies. In House, draft Music licensing. For radio, All- Industry Radio ple meter ratings. of broadcast bill includes same provisions. Tele- Station Music License Committee reached ABC wants Nielsen to proceed with people communications Subcommittee Chairman Ed agreement with ASCAP last summer and with meter. but has asked for sampling performance Markey (D- Mass.) plans to hold hearings on BMI this past March for new music licensing guarantees. Nielsen has agreed and is negotiat- subject and is committed to action on matter pacts. Latest industry contracts for both ASCAP ing money it will pay networks if it falls short of either as part of omnibus broadcast bill or as and BMI (both blanket and per-program) elimi- guarantees. separate legislation (BROADCASTING. July 27). nate trade and barter income reporting. ASCAP As of July 1. 1987. according to Nielsen, peo- blanket licenses run for five years, retroactive to ple meters had been installed in 2.000 house- Jan. 1. 1986. with per -program agreements in holds. with 4.000 anticipated by September effect for four years. retroactive to Jan. 1. 1987. 1988. ScanAmerica has signed one station in Multiple ownership. FCC received comments New agreement raises annual blanket fees by Denver market so far: KDVR -TV All advertising on proposals to relax its duopoly rules for radio 7.5 %. agencies that buy in Denver on Arbitron are be- and to loosen strictures of its one -to -a- market BMI contract has been "simplified" for blanket ing supplied ScanAmerica numbers. Percy rule for broadcast ownership (BROADCASTING. licenses. raising annual rates for some stations now has about 400 homes installed in New York June 22). Agency has also received comments by 2% to 3 %. New blanket licenses are retroac- (out of 1.200) and has signed three stations on its proceeding re- examining cross- interest tive to Jan. 1. 1987. while new per-program li- there WCBS -T\ WNBC -TV and WNYW -(TV). policy (Docket 87 -154). It deals with elimination censes took effect on July 1. of prohibitions on "key" employes holding "non- Committee is continuing to solicit funds from O attributable" ownership interests in competing industry to pay off remaining legal and adminis- stations (BROADCASTING. Aug. 10). trative debt from contract negotiations. It has Public broadcasting. Full House passed La- asked National Association of Broadcasters for bor-HHS bill Aug. 5. funding Corporation for O loan. Last week, NAB executive committee said Public Broadcasting at $238 million for FY 1990, it would need more "financial data" before it $10 million more than FY 1989 level and highest Must carry. Group of cable operators. including could make decision on matter. figure ever approved for CPB. which had asked United Cable and Daniels & Associates. have For television. May 5 trial date set by federal for $254 million. American Public Radio Presi- asked U.S. court of appeals in Washington to rate court in New York to establish "reasonable" dent Al Hulsen will leave his post in September find FCC's new must -carry rules unconstitution- ASCAP fees for blanket and program licenses to return to Hawaii. where he said he will "pursue al- violation of cable operators' First Amend- for TV stations has been pushed back to Octo- a variety of personal. family and professional ment rights -just as it did old rules in summer of ber. Interim decision was handed down last win- activities" (BROADCASTING July 20). Donald Led - 1985. New rules. which are less onerous for op- ter by magistrate in Southern District for New wig was unanimously elected permanent presi- erators than were old rules. are product of com- York establishing retroactive ASCAP fees for pe- dent of CPB after serving as acting president for promise between cable and broadcasting in- riod from April 1985 through March 31. 1988. of seven months (BROADCASTING. July 6). Size of dustries. Not appealing rules was Turner $60 million (BROADCASTING. March 9). In same CPB board increased to eight with addition of Broadcasting System, whose First Amendment ruling, magistrate said music fees should not be three new members -Archie Purvis. Marshall suit was one of two that led to court outlawing based on station percentage -of- revenue be- Turner and Sheila Tate -and return of former old must -carry rules two years ago. In light of cause formula is not adequate measure of value chairman. William Lee Hanley (BROADCASTING. limited scope and duration of new rules - of music rights. Ruling is subject to change. June 29). At his request. nomination of former they're set to expire after five years -TBS said it pending outcome of rate trial. but sources indi- board member Harry O'Connor for second term was "unnecessary" to pursue further judicial cate that BMI and All- Industry Television Station was withdrawn. Confirmation of Charles Lichen - challenge. Music License Committee are close to agree- stein for one of two remaining openings has In House. Representative Edward Markey (D- ment on similar interim operating procedures. been controversial: Lichenstein has been fault- Mass.) has introduced bill to repeal five -year On Capitol Hill. legislation is pending in ed by noncommercial system for reputedly be- sunset provision of rules that set guidelines for House and Senate (H.R.1195 and S.698) that lieving that funding to CPB should be cut. but cable carriage of broadcast stations. Action on would replace blanket license with source li- Senate source expects nomination to go measure had been put on hold until Congress censing scheme. Committee says it has commit- through ( "Closed Circuit." June 29). resolves fairness issue. Senate broadcast li- ment from Senate Copyright Subcommittee cense renewal bill also would eliminate sunset. Chairman Dennis DeConcini (D- Ariz.) to hold O But that provision was attacked by Justice De- hearing in fall on bill. In House. Copyright Sub- o partment in letter to Senate Communications committee is not expected to get to issue before Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D -Ha- next year. Senate measure has nine co -spon- Syndex. In comments to FCC last month. cable wan). Justice argued that five -year sunset is sors and House bill has more than 70. operators expressed opposition. while broad- needed to justify constitutionality of rules casters and program producers expressed sup- (BROADCASTING, Aug. 17). However. Justice sent port for FCC's proposal to reimpose rules requir- out conflicting signal when it filed one -sentence ing cable systems to black out syndicated Today brief with U.S. Appeals Court on must -carry in People meters. (Aug. 31), both Nielsen programing on distant signals if it appears on which it indicated department was neither sup- and AGB begin officially to measure television local stations. porting nor opposing rules (BROADCASTING. Aug. audiences with their new people meter systems. The cable industry argued that FCC lacks ju- NBC first 17). became network to announce it would risdiction to reimpose syndex. that absence of sign three -year contract with A.C. Nielsen for rules has not harmed broadcasting and motion people meter service. Both ABC and CBS have picture industries and that rules would violate formally indicated to Nielsen their intention not cable operators' First Amendment rights. Multichannel Multichannel television. televi- to renew three -year contracts with ratings ser- Most broadcasters and program producers sion (MCTV). otherwise known as MMDS or vice. First on -line people meter -launched in contended that rules are needed to protect "wireless cable," has made in appearance sev- late April in Denver -was Arbitron and SAMI- sanctity of their "exclusive" programing con- eral markets, including Cleveland. Washington Burke's ScanAmerica. Arbitron announced sev- tracts. And, contrary to what cable industry and San Francisco. Using mix of microwave (2 eral weeks ago it was postponing national says, they have been harmed economically by ghz) channels allotted to three services- multi- launch of service. previously scheduled for Sep- cable importation of distant signals with pro- point distribution instructional service. television tember of 1988. and is buying out SAMI- Burke. grams that duplicate those of local stations. Re- fixed service and operational fixed service - Time Inc. subsidiary. Another local service is be- ply comments are due Sept. 8. pioneer MCTV operators are offering multiple ing launched in New York in September by Seat- channels of cable programing- sometimes in tle -based R.D. Percy & Co., which will monitor direct competition with cable systems. both program and commercial ratings. Growth of MCTV has been retarded by regula- Nielsen has not signed any broadcast clients TV stereo. Maintaining lead in transmission of

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If you thought snake oil salesmen everyone else paying the freight -in offer rate reductions in recent years, were a thing of the past, listen again to terms of declining service; higher rates; including two years of consecutive rate a group called Consumers United for and, ultimately, through the loss of rail cuts for C.U.R.E.'s principal supporters Rail Equity (C.U.R.E.). service altogether. Still, C.U.R.E. is pressing for fur- C.U.R.E. claims it has just the Its no surprise that C.U.R.E.'s ther rate cuts and new regulations that remedy for those who ship by rail pitch also ignores the fact that the could be the prescription for the de- What they don't tell you is that the stuff majority of shippers -87 percent of mise of rail service in this country once they're hawking does more harm than those recently surveyed -feel pretty and for all. good. good about the effects of partial de- If you're a journalist covering this C.U.R.E. -a curious name for an regulation and don't want to see the story, youll find that the facts support organization funded primarily by the Staggers Act changed. the argument that a good dose of free coal and utility industries- proposes When you think about it, markets is far healthier for the railroads extensive new regulation of railroads C.U.R.E.'s pitchmen have turned it all and their customers than C.U.R.E.'s through legislative "reform' of the Stag- around. Reregulation isn't the remedy: snake oil. gers Rail Act of 1980. That's the same it's the disease. In fact, not To get facts, write Rail Rem- Act that rescued freight railroads from a only did the Staggers Act edy, Association of American century of over- regulation in the first help remove the railroad in- Railroads, 50 F St., NW, Wash- place. And while C.U.R.E.'s proposals dustry from the critical list, ington, DC 20001, Dept. 710. would lower rail coal rates for its prin- it also helped the industry Or if you 're up against a dead- cipal supporters, they'd clearly leave become strong enough to line, call (202) 639 -2555. ASSOCIATION OF 01987 Association of American Railroads AMERICAN RAILROADS stereo programing is NBC -TV which will broad- stations will be broadcasting TV stereo by year's Aug. 14, with both sides reporting little progress cast majority of its new prime time schedule in end. after two days of discussions. No new talks are stereo. Five of network's fall additions to prime scheduled. DGAS national board will meet Sept. time lineup will be in stereo. bringing totals to 22 19 to decide its next step. Guild spokesman programs representing 161/2 hours. With hours said plan is under discussion to submit two net- from late -night shows. NBC will broadcast 291/2 works' final offers to membership for vote at hours in stereo weekly. Nearest competitor is Unions. NBC and striking technical union re- same time separate agreement with NBC is PBS, which carries 35 to 45 hours in stereo per sumed negotiations last Tuesday in walkout now mailed out for ratification. National board has month. By end of 1987, NBC projects that 152 entering tenth week. Talks between network and recommended approval of NBC pact. Biggest affiliates will have stereo capability, representing National Association of Broadcast Employes issue standing in way of agreement with ABC 92% coverage of U.S. and Technicians (NABET), representing some and CBS continues to be networks' personnel Stereo sound television receivers sold to deal- 2,800 NBC engineers, producers, newswriters rollback demands, guild spokesman said. ers for year to date. as of Aug. 14, total and others. stalled in late July but resumed after Screen Actors Guild national board of direc- 1,990,496 up 27% from 1,567,433 sold in same intervention of John Cardinal O'Connor of New tors has unanimously approved new three -year period in 1986. Seven percent of U.S. TV house- York Archdiocese in meeting with NBC's Robert pact retroactive to July 1 with four major Holly- holds have multichannel sound TV's, although Wright and AFL -CIO Treasurer Thomas Dona- wood animation studios: Disney, DIC, Marvel vast majority of homes are within reach of broad- hue. First day of negotiations centered on sale and Filmation. Tentative agreement came July cast stereo station. Receiver penetration is ex- of NBC radio networks to Westwood One and 24, ending five -week strike by voice -over ac- pected to increase. with 37% of all TV sets and anticipated effect on approximately 75-100 ra- tors. Board voted 48 -0 for new contract, which 22% of all VCR's sold to dealers and distributors dio union employees. Contract dispute centers includes 10% pay raise, reduction in recording this year featuring stereo, according to Electron- on network proposal to expand temporary hir- sessions from eight to four hours in most cases ic Industries Association. In 1988, stereo TV's ing. and 10% bonus when actors must provide will represent 43% of color sets sold, and 24% of Negotiations for new Directors Guild of Amer- voices for three characters in one session. Ac- VCR's will have stereo. EIA projects. 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Sync" item for Howard Fine, coordina- of the tor for short-term auxiliary broadcasts in Sept. 17-18 -37th annual fall broadcast symposium, sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Fairness Los Angeles during Pope John Paul HS Engineers. Washington hotel, Washington. Informa- visit there in September, was incorrect. tion: (202) 659 -3055. Doctrine It should have read: (213) 460 -3411. Sept. 17- 19- American Women in Radio and Televi- e sion South Central area conference. Houston. A Work in Progress James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va. Informa- Sept. 17-20 -American Women in Radio and Televi- tion: (703) 568 -6221. sion Western area conference. San Jose, Calif. IT w manes a smo,veo Sept. 9-12 -Radio 117 Management. Programing, Sept. 18 -Cable television technology conference, Sales and Engineering Convention, sponsored by Na- sponsored by Massachusetts Cable Television Com- tional Association ofBroadeasterx. Anaheim Conven- mission. Massachusetts Transportation Building, 10 tion Center, Anaheim, Calif. Park Plaza, Boston. Information: Bill August, (617) 727- 6925. Sept. 10 -7V Guide- American Women in Radio and Television fall preview gala. Filmland Corporate Cen- Sept. 18- Reception for FCC bureau chiefs, spon- The editors of BROADCASTING have ter, Culver City. Calif. Information: Nancy Logan, (213) sored by Broadcast Pioneers, Washington chapter. been chronicling the fortunes -and 276.0676. National Association of Broadcasters, Washington. misfortunes -of the fairness doc- Sept. 10- Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau local Sept. 18- Association of Federal Communication trine since 1949, when it first ar- Kan- advertising sales workshop. Westin Crown Center, Conaniting Engineers annual fall social. Potomac res- rived sas City, Mo. taurant. Washington. on the telecommunications scene. In no single issue has that Sept. 10-11 -Third annual Rocky Mountain Fiai & Sept. 18-19 -North Dakota Association of Broadcast- Video Expo. Regency hotel, Denver. Information: (303) ers annual convention. Minot, N.D. coverage been more concentrated, 691 -46(X). or more significant, than that of Sept. 18-20- "Hard Choices: Economics and Social Sept. 11-13--Maine Association of Broadcasters an- Policy," conference for journalists sponsored by Foun- Aug. 10, when they devoted almost nual convention and election of officers. Sugarloaf dation for American Communications. Stouffer West- 26 pages to the FCC's historic USA. Kingfield. Maine. chester hotel, White Plains, N.Y Information: (213) 851- elimination 7372. of that doctrine. Sept. 11 -13- -Radio Advertising Bureau's Radio Sales University Portland, Ore. Information: 1-800-232-3131. Sept. 20-22-National Religious Broadcasters West- Included in that edition was the full ern chapter meeting. Los Angeles Airport Marriott, Los Sept. 12 -39th annual prime time Emmy Awards (non- text of the Meredith decision, the Angeles. Information: (201) 428-5400 or Ray Wilson. televised). primarily for creative arts categories, spon- case on (818) 246 -2200. which this issue turned - Arts and Sciences. sored by Academy of Television absent 247 of the 249 footnotes Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, Calif. Sept. 20- 22- National Association of Broadcasters "Hundred Plus Exchange," meeting for small market with which the FCC supported its Sept. 13.15 -- Nebraska Association of Broadcasters discuss increasing televi- annual convention. Kearney. Neb. television broadcasters to case. For purposes of that issue's sion revenues and recruiting employes. Capitol Hill Hy- coverage, and operating within the Sept. 14- Second deadline for entries for 30th Inter- att Regency hotel. Washington. Information: (202) 429- national Film & 7V Festival of New York. competi- 5362. constraints of space and time, the for TV programing. commercials, promotions and tion Communica- editors felt they could spare their music video. Information: Michael Gallagher, (914) Sept. 20-24-Southern Educational Hyatt Regency, Balti- readership at large those extra 238 -4481. tions Association conference. more. Information: Jeanette Cauthen, (803) 799-5517. pages. They nevertheless prom- Sept. 14 --Ohio Association of Broadcasters small market radio exchange. Holiday Inn, Wapakoneta, Sept. 20- 24- National Association of Telecommuni- ised to publish the full Meredith annual confer- Ohio. cations Officers and Advisers seventh text, with footnotes, for those and Opportunities." Speakers include: ence, "Options BROADCASTING in Sept. 15-.('abletelevision Advertising Bureau local Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America; readers -primarily advertising sales workshop. Columbus Marriott East, James Mooney, National Cable Television Association; the law or academe -to whom the Columbus. Ohio. Preston Padden, Association of Independent Televi- complete record is imperative. Milwaukee. Information: Sept. 15- -National Religious Broadcasters South- sion Stations. Pfister hotel, eastern chapter meeting. Atlanta. Information: (201) (202) 626-3250. The pamphlet above is the result - 428 -5400 or J. Richard Florence, (305) 737 -9762. Sept. 21- Deadline for reply comments in FCC pro- 36 pages in total, incorporating all ceeding (Gen. Docket 87 -25) aimed at building case Sept. Deadline for entries in Writers Guild of the 15-- against cable's compulsory copyright license. Aug. 10 stories, including the America'.. annual Television -Radio Awards for televi- complete transcript of the FCC sion and radio script and screenplays. Information: Sept. 21 -"The XYZ's of Advertising Compliance and Marge White. Writers Guild of America. (213) 550 -1000. 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Leonard Zeidenberg, chief correspondent toward codification has BROADCASTING trip- On 1 130, WMGA has to reduce power from Kira Greene, senior news editor w during the day to 250 w, three - Matt Stump, Kim McAvoy, John S. Eggerton, ping over its own irony and failing to recog- 10,000 associate editors nize it has done so. tower directional at night. Not to mention Susan Dillon the expense of maintaining a complicated assistant editor That an important and respected combine Scott Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Omohundro, such as Westinghouse's Pittsburgh power- array, our signal in the nulls is just two to Randall M. Sukow (technology), staff writers. view so antagonistic three miles. Furthermore. we are protecting Anthony Sanders, systems manager houses aired a point of Peter D. Lambert, Kasey Vannett, editorial assistants. to yours, mine and most of the broadcasting the skywave of KWKHIAM) Shreveport, La., Todd F. Bowie, Ed Kaitz, production. industry's, perfectly illustrates why the na- that falls into the swamps of northwest Flor- Senior Editorial Consultant not need a so- called fairness doc- ida and the skywave of WNEW(AM) New York Edwin H. James (Washington) tion did Editorial Consultant trine. that lands somewhere in the mountains of Rocco Famighetti (New York) Broadcasters will and should disagree; au- Virginia. In 1987, even the swamps of north- Broadcasting Cablecasting diences will absorb many points of view and west Florida have radio stations, and so does Yearbook draw their own conclusions. That's the ker- the hill country of Virginia. Let us have 250 David Seyler, manager Then WMGA can serve Joseph A. Esser, associate editor nel of the argument we opponents of the w nondirectional. Lucia E. Cobo, assistant manager fairness doctrine have been pressing all these nearly all of our county, which is one of the Thomas D. Monroe, Bruce E. Jones, Marie G. Unger years: KDKA is not the only station in its largest in land size in Georgia. If 300,000 w Book Division Cuba affecting a clear. what can David Dietz, manager market any longer, and audiences in and from isn't York and Shreveport from Advertising around Pittsburgh undoubtedly digested 250 w do to New Few are now lis- it,lshrngton many contravening points of view on this Moultrie? Let's be logical. Robert (Skip) Tash, Southern sales manager issue. tening to clear channel. Folks like us need Doris Kelly, sales service manager the help now. Meg Robertie, classified advertising. An industry publication ought not to be is this. Why not protect the New York ridiculing one broadcaster's exercise of First My proposal David Berlyn, senior sales manager Amendment rights to support the rest of the clears to their daytime secondary service Charles Mohr, David Frankel, sales managers. business's First Amendment rights. The area? This would protect their service areas. - Hollywood WMGA Tim Thometz, sales manager safeguarding of minority or unpopular opin- and Class H's like could expand their Circulation ion is the central issue behind this protec- signals to cover their markets. And. by the Kwentin K. Keenan, circulation manager tion. way, WMGA would be happy to experiment. Patricia Waldron, data entry manager To Westinghouse: I absolutely disagree If anyone from KWKH and WNEW is reading Sandra Jenkins, Debra De tarn, Joseph Kotthoff with the logic behind your editorial stance this, let's get together and see if we can get Production and am absolutely delighted that you have the FCC to let us give it a try. I'll go nondir- Harry Stevens, production manager contributed to the marketplace of ideas and ectional with 250 w and if you get any com- Rick Higgs, production assistant expression the Bill of Rights created.-Jer- plaints of interference, I'll donate to your Administration ome Nachman, vice president and general cause to protect your most precious com- David N. Whitcombe, vice president operations WRC -TV Washington. modity -Class I clear channel. Douglas Philippe E. Boucher, controller manager, M. Sutton Jr., co-owner and general man- Tracy Henry, assistant controller Editor's note: In our editorial. we disagreed with what Albert Anderson, office manager to say it. As our track ager, tt w; t(Am) Moultrie, Ga. Irving C. Miller, financial consultant 51)5.4 said. not iritk its right record on that page attests, we also delight in broad- Corporate Relations casters' exercise of First Amendment rights, but ire Patricia A. Vance, duector Other side the to exercise that same freedo»i when it's Jessie Newburn reserve rigid disagree still, them. In light of so much negative materi- Bureaus EDITOR: about the RKO stations to- New York: 630 Third Avenue, 10017 al being written ruling by an FCC Phone: 212-599 -2830 Loud and clear day regarding the latest Stephen McClellan, associate editor administrative law judge declaring the com- Vincent M. Ditingo, senior editor radio. Geoff Foisie, Adam Glenn, assistant editors EDITOR: Recently I have read about the pany unfit to be a licensee. I thought this Scott Barrett, staff writer conduct a study of inter- positive recollection, small as it night be, June Butler, advertising assistant FCC's decision to interesting. Hollywood: 1680 North Vine Street, 90028 ference standards for AM and the efforts of would prove Phone: 213-463-3148 opposing sides on this issue. You story in the August 17th BROADCAST- Jim Benson, t1k!st Coas! editor casual interest ING, General Tire & Rubber to Gen - Tim Thometz..lestern sales manager In the past I have had only "From I Sandra Klausner. . ...tonal- advertising assistant. in these proposals. I grew up listening to corp in 72 years," brought back an incident International Advertising Representatives Class I clear channel stations, and now I own recall while working for the Mutual affiliate Europe und (9r iled Kiogdoru: Lucassen International. Del., in the early 1950's. John J Lucassen. Kamerlingh Onneslann 67. 1171 AC a Class II station that operates on clear chan- in Wilmington, was the Badhoevedorp Amsterdam. Netherlands. Phone nel 1 130. I guess you could say I had mixed One of the advertisers on the station 31(2968)6226 Telex: 18406 harke nl Japan: Tire store in Wilmington. After Masayuki Harihari. Mikan Media Inc.. 17 -2 Chitosedai opinions until recently. General Ichome. setagaya ku. Tokyo-157 Japan. Phone- (03) What brought me to a decision was a re- General Tire & Rubber Co. assumed control 464 -2847 Telex' 02423928. port on the new 300 kw operations in Cuba of Mutual, the tire dealers were instructed by pouring into the U.S. on the parent company not to advertise on the Broadcasting Publications Inc. which are now 1 one in their market in order to A limes Mirror Business Publication clears 1040 and 160. An engineer from Mutual affiliate on the in- any semblance of conflict of interest. Lawrence B. Taishoff, president. of these stations was commenting avoid Donald V. West, vice president. terference his station was receiving in his The account switched to the NBC affiliate in David N. Whitcombe, vice president. own market. His comment was that the in- Wilmington. As your story stated, Thomas Founded 1931 Bnsutrnsling- Trlrrrstiag introduced Tire and Mutu- in 1946 Trlreision acquired in 1961. (-iMenu.tiog terference was no big deal because their O'Neil headed both General introduced in 1972 n Reg. U S. Patent Office. That, in Barclay, public affairs director, Copyright 1987 by Broadcasting Publications Inc market was clear of interference. al. -Alan my opinion, answers this debate. The Class WFLN-FM Philadelphia.

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A commentary on advanced television from Benjamin McKeel, chairman, NAB TV board of directors Advanced TV: the January to announcement of its recent finan- industry's top priority cial commitment -the broadcasting industry has come a long way in convincing reluctant There is no doubt that television is on the regulators to focus attention on this revolu- brink of a new era. The transition will be far tionary new technology and the critical ques- more dramatic than the change from black tions it poses. The next step is to expedi- and white to color. The FCC's announce- tiously find appropriate answers. Through ment of an extensive inquiry into advanced development and phase -in, broadcasters television (ATV)-at the urging of the Na- must be prepared to make substantial invest- tional Association of Broadcasters -is a ments to deliver the new television system to clear indication that the transition is under- their local audiences. If significant invest- way. ments of money and effort are not made at Based on the economic, technical, legal this point, it will cost a lot more to play and regulatory information that will be com- catch -up in the future. Broadcasters must piled during the FCC's inquiry, decisions take the initiative now and insure develop- will be made that crucially affect the future ment and adoption of a standard that meets of the broadcasting industry. At stake is the Benjamin McKeel is vice president, their needs. television, Nationwide ability of local television stations to accom- Communications, The time constraints are a major concern modate this period of transition, compete Columbus, Ohio, and is also chairman of the to broadcasters. Having ignored HDTV until National with other video programing services and Association of Broadcasters just recently, regulators now appear intent on television provide viewers with top quality television board of directors. He was general making quick decisions on major issues. In manager through the free, over-the -air broadcasting for Nationwide's wxEx(N) Petersburg, its notice of inquiry on ATV the FCC has system in the 1990's. Va. (Richmond), from 1981 to 1983. For 10 provided only 90 days for comments and 60 For broadcasters, ATV poses substantive years prior to that, he was in station days for reply comments-an inadequate and serious concerns about adapting to new management with wLwctrv) Columbus, Ohio, time for coming to grips with the complex- (now technologies that improve TV picture qual- wcMH -rv). He started his career in ities of setting a new television standard. ity. Some ATV systems currently under de- broadcasting in sales with WBAL -AM -FM The commission should not make up for lost velopment are more compatible with our Baltimore. time by rushing through the exploration of current television system (NTSC) than oth- financial, legal and technical consider- ers. Broadcasters face a trade -off between straints, all other video media are moving ations. compatibility and the degree of picture im- rapidly on the HDTV front. If broadcasters Woven into these arcane technical issues provement. High -definition television are forced to rely on an advanced NTSC are significant social concerns for this coun- (HDTV) cannot be displayed on a conven- system under these circumstances, broad- try. Local television broadcasters and their tional TV set, but it provides the best picture cast television will be at a competitive disad- audiences are at the crossroads. The industry quality, clarity, color and brightness. It is vantage. It will be the only medium unable and its regulators have worked diligently for also the system Japan has decided to use for to deliver state -of- the -art television. years to build and maintain a broadcasting DBS broadcasts beginning in 1990, and Jap- The first terrestrial broadcast of HDTV system that serves the local community. A anese manufacturers are planning consumer conducted last January by the NAB and the regulatory decision that puts broadcasters at marketing in the U.S. of similar HDTV Association of Maximum Service Telecast- a competitive disadvantage compared with home equipment in three to five years. ers demonstrated the feasibility of the medi- other media will seriously jeopardize this Engineering experts, researchers and um. Most important, it proved to the indus- unique system. No other television medium equipment manufacturers have argued con- try and regulators that HDTV is a or combination of media can offer the same vincingly that HDTV -not an evolutionary technological reality. The question is: Will service to so many different people on a form of NTSC-is the future of television. broadcasters be granted the spectrum to pro- community -by- community basis and not Improvements to NTSC are being developed vide it to the general public? charge a fee. and used, but there is a limit. To be a vital To make HDTV a broadcast reality, the Without awareness, action and invest- part of the future, broadcasters must over- industry and its regulators must address the ment on the part of individual broadcasters, come technological and regulatory barriers crucial issues of spectrum allocation and free, over-the -air broadcasting runs the risk and find a way to deliver HDTV to viewers. bandwidth. The three HDTV broadcast sys- of reaching a dead end. It is up to us to insure Economically and competitively, broad- tems farthest along in development-Glenn, that our audiences are not shut off from the casters cannot afford to inch along through Phillips and MUSE -require more than one benefits of HDTV technology and that tele- minimally advanced NTSC compatible sys- existing television channel for transmission. vision stations are not precluded by regula- tems while cable operators and satellite ser- HDTV systems that require no more than the tory decision from competing in the market- vices, not subject to federal regulation, are current conventional TV channel do not ex- place of the future. "Broadcast quality" preparing to provide their subscribers with ist at this time. To insure that broadcasters do television has always been the standard by HDTV programing. HDTV VCR's and vi- not fall victim to these technical and regula- which other video delivery systems have deodisk players will be marketed in this tory limitations, NAB has allocated been judged and for "broadcast quality" to country in the early 1990's. Monitors /receiv- $700,000 to the development of a workable have meaning in the 2I st century immediate ers capable of displaying both HDTV and HDTV system. Over a two -year period, a steps must be taken. NTSC signals will be available at the same series of tests and studies will be conducted Broadcasters must find a way to achieve time. This equipment will permit a direct by NAB to bring potential systems out of the equal footing with competitors, both as an comparison of HDTV with broadcast laboratory stage and into demonstration so industry and as local businesses that depend NTSC. Also, some tape rental stores will that the industry and the FCC can make re- upon advertising revenue to support their ex- soon be offering Super VHS, sporting qual- sponsible choices about broadcast delivery. istence. Without an HDTV broadcast trans- ity superior to broadcast TV. Through NAB's leadership-from the mission system, that will be virtually impos- Facing no government -imposed con- first HDTV broadcast demonstration last sible in the 1990's and beyond. A

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BROADCASTING calculations find sion stations. With no FCC -mandated re- 1.79 -I, meaning that less than half the total value of CATV industry tops that strictions on size and permissible foreign cash flow was available to service debt. But of broadcast TV by almost S30 billion ownership, there are potentially more buyers that ratio, which was less than I -I only three in the cable market. Furthermore, with more years ago, is expected to further decline. If money talks, it is speaking cable's Ian - tangible assets and more predictable cash On the cable programing side, the 17 ma- guage. According to an analysis by BRonn- flow, cable systems can be leveraged higher jor basic cable television programers should CASTING of total value of the television (bought with a higher portion of debt), thus have combined revenue of $1,005,900,000 broadcasting and cable industry. the market- increasing the multiples people are willing to in 1987, according to Kagan. The problem place valuation of a cable television house- pay. A 13 multiple of $5 billion would give a of double counting revenue, and therefore hold is just over $1,500. or three times that total system value of $65 billion, a 15 multi- value, is immediately encountered since of a broadcast television household. The to- ple would produce $75 billion. Splitting the $320.5 million of that $1 billion is expected tal value of the cable industry. net of debt, is difference between the per -sub method and to come from fees collected by the MSO's. roughly $67 billion. while that of the broad- the cash -flow method, it could be said total Margins for the cable networks are pegged at casting industry is about $38 billion. cable systems are worth roughly $80 billion. 22 %, which using a l2 -times multiple gives Since marketplace value reflects common a value of $2.8 billion. That multiple, how- perceptions. the disparity is not surprising. ever, is too low. On an individual basis. John Deregulation has boosted cable's prospects value Tinker of Morgan Stanley estimated ESPN's in the past year, and a growing cash flow The total worth at $800 million, CNN's at $1.5 bil- promises to bring more programing and lion. WTBS(TV) Atlanta's at $700 million. He viewers to the industry. Meanwhile. much of of the cable said that Viacom paid $540 million for MTV. the news for the broadcasting industry has. For the two largest pay services, Tinker million for over the past 12 months. been of cutbacks. industry is said that Viacom paid $326 bankruptcies declining audience shares. Showtime /The Movie Channel a year ago, While continued building of franchises alone roughly $67 and Home Box Office /Cinemax could be would promise the cable industry a higher valued at between $1 billion and $1.3 bil- total growth rate. the following analysis That of lion. A reasonable value for the programing does no fortune telling for either industry. billion. side of the cable industry would be at least system Tea leaves will be left to reading by the fi- $8 billion. Combined with the total nancial soothsayers in New York. Washing- the TV value, that gives cable a net price tag of ton, Hollywood. Denver and elsewhere. $67.1 billion. Cable television broadcasting Television broadcasting

Shorthand asset valuation for the cable in- industry is The 1,000 commercial television stations in dustry is often done on a per- subscriber ba- the United States probably have a rough val- sis, with the current rule -of-thumb being about $38 ue of $46.1 billion. That number does not $2,000 per sub. Multiplied by a rough total include television networks, barter syndica- of 43 million subscribers- 42,752.300 ac- billion. tors or other program suppliers, but is sim- cording to Arbitron and 43.279.980 by Niel - ply based on the sum of what individual af- sen's count -the total system value becomes filiates and independents would $86 billion. In fact, cable system brokers. With higher asset value. the cable industry hypothetically fetch in the marketplace. Ex- investment bankers and securities analysts also has higher debt, which Kagan estimated cluding radio's share (pro rated according to all use different per-sub numbers that range at $20.9 billion for the end of 1986, giving a revenue at roughly 30 %) of what Paul Kagan from $1,750 to $2,200 or more. giving a net value, assuming the higher price tag, of Associates said was $19.7 billion in broad- range of total values from $75 billion to 595 $59.1 billion. casting industry debt at the end of last year, billion. The higher multiples for cable, said Jeff the net value of TV stations is $32.3 billion. The cable system business is expected to Epstein, vice president at First Boston, are Just looking at TV stations without the take in total revenues this year of $11.4 bil- also based on growth: "In a typical cable sources of programing simplifies calculation lion, up from $10.2 billion in 1986. accord- situation. buyers are projecting maybe I% but is deceptive. After all, the value of two ing to estimates of Paul Kagan Associates. population growth and I% penetration equivalent facilities in a market -one an af- With industrywide cash flow margin esti- growth annually and 10% -plus annual rev- filiate and the other an independent -can mates ranging from mid -40% to 55%. indus- enue- per -sub growth. They are also general- easily vary by 100 %, a difference due solely try cash flow could total anywhere between ly projecting some pretty attractive margin to their sources of programing. $4 billion and $6 billion. The low end of that increases ...maybe I% or 2% per year. All Most analysts and acquisitors would only range is also arrived at through Kagan's esti- of those factors multiply each other, produc- consider the networks along with their mated $8.23 cash flow, per sub. per month. ing cash flow growth at I7°Æ per year. and owned station groups, and vice versa. Rich Multiplied by his estimate of 40.2 million that is the wonderful mathematics of cable." MacDonald, securities analyst for First Bos- basic cable households. cash flow would be In addition to higher debt, cable also has ton, appraised the broadcast television oper- $4 billion. higher capital expenditures (for plant re- ations of Capital Cities/ABC and NBC at Cable multiples are currently markedly builds). Kagan estimated that in 1986 the between $5 billion and $6 billion each; that higher, on average. than multiples for televi- cash -flow -to- capital-expenditure ratio was of CBS at $3.5 billion, and that of Fox at

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would be high for the industry as a whole, Gathering of global minds however, because Kornreich's study is weighted toward affiliate owners and larger- market stations, both of which have higher U.S. media companies may be left out of a rapidly changing world information scene margins than others. A more likely average if political and economic barriers to their participation are not quickly fought. This for the industry as a whole would be about according to organizers of a day -long Washington conference Sept. 16 to examine 33%. keep how to global markets open. That margin, multiplied by Coen's esti- The by the gathering, sponsored American Bar Association in association with the mate of $11.6 billion in spot and local TV, National Association of Broadcasters, the American Advertising Association, The would produce cash flow of $3.8 billion, Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies and the International Law which, multiplied by 12, produces the $46.1 Institute, will bring together an invitation -only group of media business executives, billion total. In reality, multiples cover a communications lawyers, U.S. government officials and international consultants to wide range and in some cases are meaning- discuss ways in which "freedom of communication services can be made a serious, less, but 12 times 1987 cash flow would be a high -level trade debate," according to conference coordinator John Eger of World- reasonable number, according to station wide Media Group. broker Howard Stark. Among conference participants are Acting Secretary of Commerce Bud Brown, How much of the programing /production former FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, National Telecommunications and Information industry to include in the broadcasting in- Agency head Charles Z. Wick, State Department's Diana Lady Dougan, MCA/Univer- dustry is a difficult question. If networks are sal's Charles Morgan, Britain's Superchannel managing director Charles Levison included, barter syndication should be too and former U.S. Ambassador to GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) since both are of the same genus but at dif- William N. Walker. The conference will be held at NAB headquarters in Washington. ferent stages on the evolutionary scale. Bar- ter revenue for 1987 is projected to be $645 million, but margins range from at least between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion. The What multiple of cash flow should one 50 %, reported by Multimedia, to losses tak- network portion of those estimates adds use to value a television network? The sales en on some first -run programing. roughly $4 billion to the total, now at $50.1 of NBC and ABC have done nothing to alter Using a 25% average margin and a 12- billion, and net of debt, $35.3 billion. or reinforce the traditional multiple of eight. times multiple, one would come up with a The quality of these numbers is dependent That gives a three -network value of $3.6 barter value of $1.8 billion, which is un- on the quality of the estimates for industry- billion, which, combined with the negative doubtedly too low, since King World Pro- wide revenue and operating margins. Robert cash flow, but still presumably valuable, Fox ductions alone has a current market capital- Coen, senior vice president and director of network could bring the total to the $4 bil- ization of more than $900 million. A more forecasting for McCann -Erickson, projects lion mentioned above. likely number, just for barter, would be, say, 1987 network revenue of $8,970,000,000 As for valuing the stations, a study of $3 billion. (BROADCASTING, June 22). Net of agency operating margins for 41 group owners was The real difficulty with the programing commission and commercial production recently conducted by John Kornreich of side is not with multiples, or even with eval- costs, that total would be closer to $7.5 bil- Neuberger & Berman. The groups included uating film libraries, but where to stop. Why lion. Operating margins vary significantly make up the preponderance of TV station include the value of barter shows, but not by network, with only NBC expected to operators in the top 50 markets and thèir those bought for cash, or for that matter, show any significant operating cash flow in combined revenue was $6.3 billion, or over money obtained for sports rights fees? And 1987. BROADCASTING'S three -network profit half of the $10.7 billion in net spot and local if networks and other programing companies estimate (May 4) was $410 million, which revenue that Coen said went to all TV last are included, there is at least some double might be raised now to $450 million because year. The mean average cash flow margin for counting of revenue and therefore asset val- of the strong upfront advertising market. the group owners was 39.3%. That number ue.

List of top 20 TV group owners takes new shape Same players, but new order of TV's in 1987. Silver King Broadcasting, as close on its sale of a half -interest in its six top TV station owners: Spanish - HSN calls its various broadcasting subsid- TV's to Gillett. language stations reach new heights iaries, bought KLTJ(TV) Irving, Tex., for Gannett, with no new purchases, stayed at $16.25 million and KWVT(TV) Salem, Ore., 10th place this year. TVX, as expected, Although no new players have been added to for $5 million last June (both "Changing moved from its I I th spot to 15th because of the list of top 20 group owners this year, Hands," June 15). the mandatory sales of two of its stations. there have been many shake -ups in the order, Chris Craft moved up also, because of (The purchase of Taft's TV stations had giv- and depending on the status of RKO's KHJ- Group W's fall to eighth place. Spanish -lan- en TVX -with a temporary waiver from the TV Los Angeles, the lineup could change guage broadcaster Reliance Group Inc., FCC-I4 stations). Cox moved up from once again. jumped from 17th to ninth place with the 12th last year to take TVX's place. Kw-Tv was already responsible for skew- purchase of KsTSfrv) San Jose, Calif., and a With the rapid ascension of Hallmark and ing the chart when the imminent sale of the new TV in Galveston, Tex. (Houston) for Reliance into larger group owners, Scripps station to Group W fell through, moving the $25 million. The joint venture of Hallmark Howard moved to 16th place. Gaylord latter from the sixth to the eighth spot. Cards and First Chicago Corp., also Span- moved to last place when it sold WVUE -TV The positions of the top five groups re- ish- language broadcasters, changed from New Orleans for about $60 million and main intact, though NBC's proposed pur- 14th to 12th place with the purchase of w.vT Tampa, Fla., to Gillett for $365 mil- chase of wTVJ(TV) Miami from SCI Inc. will KDTV(TV) San Francisco at the 'end of last lion. Taft moved down to 18th and Belo move NBC (at 1.37% coverage) closer to year for $25 million. moved to 19th. Capcities /ABC's dominant coverage of the With SCI Holdings Inc. (formerly KKR) In the chart on page 33, market penetra- U.S. selling its wTVJ(TV) Miami to NBC for $365 tion is based on Arbitron figures released in Although not existing two years ago, million, and combined with the sale of October. FCC regulations allow for owner- Home Shopping Network, the Clearwater, wLOS(TV) Asheville, N.C., last year, SCI ship of up to 12 TV stations when coverage Fla. -based purveyor of teleshopping pro- moved from ninth to 13th. It is still awaiting of the U.S. remains below 25% (or 14 sta- grams, became the sixth largest television the decision of a review of the initial approv- tions if the owner is a minority). UHF sta- group owner with the purchase of two new al of the sale of wTvi(Tv). SCI still has to tions recieve a 50% discount on coverage.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 A9 TOP OF THE WEEK Television's top 20 These will be the 20 companies at the top in TV group ownership (ranked by their penetration of the total U.S., including 50% UHF discounts) should all proposed sales take place. The number in parentheses after each city is the Arbitron ADI market rank. The percentages reflect Arbitron's 1986 -87 market ADI household and percentage figures released in October. UHF stations are figured at a 50% discount in coverage, according to FCC rules,

1... Capital Cities /ABC Ch. 12 KPN(TV) Portland, Ore. (26) .90 15. _ TVX Broadcast Group Ch. 4 KTVX(TV) Salt Lake City (41) .66% (7.825 %) (24.43 %) Ch. 4 KMOL -TV San Antonio. Tex. (44) .61% Ch. 7 WABC -TV New York (1) 7.78% Ch. 29 WTAF -TV Philadeiphia (4) 1.505% Ch. 7 KABC -TV Los Angeles (2) 5.17% 8. Group W Ch. 21 KTXA(TV) Fort Worth (8) .915% Ch. 7 WLS -TV Chicago (3) 3.50% Ch. 20 WDCA-TV Washington (9) .89% Ch. 6 WPVI -TV Philadelphia (4) 3.01% (10.11%) Ch. 20 KTXH(TV) Houston (10) .83% Ch. 7 KGO -TV San Francisco (5) 2.37% Ch. 3 KYW-TV Philadelphia (4) 3.01% Ch. 6 WCIX(TV) Miami (14) 1.37% Ch. 13 KTRK -TV Houston (10) 1.66% Ch. 5 KPIX(TV) San Francisco (5) 2.37% Ch. 30 WCAY-TV Nashville, Tenn. (31) .39% Ch. 11 WTVD(N) Durham, N.C. (35) .71% Ch. 4 WBZ -TV Boston (6) 2.33% Ch. 38 WNOL -N New Orleans (33) .37% Ch. 30 KFSN -TV Fresno, Calif. (63) .23 %. Ch. 2 KDKA-TV Pittsburgh (13) 1.38% Ch. 22 WLFL -TV Raleigh, N.C. (35) .355% Ch. 13 WJZ-N Baltimore (21) 1.02% Ch. 30 WMKW -TV Memphis, Tenn. (39) .335% 2. NBC/GE Ch. 35 KRRT(TV) Kerrville, Tex. (44) .305% 9. Reliance Group Ch. 33 WTVZ(TV) Norfolk, Va. (46) .30% (22.38 %) Ch. 38 KJTM -TV Pine Bluff, Ark. (53) .26% Ch. 4 WNBC -TV New 'brk (1) 7.78% ("9.175 %) Ch. 4 KNBC(TV) Los Angeles (2) 5.17% Ch. 47 WNJU -N Linden, N.J. (1) 3.89% 16. Scripps Howard Ch. 5 WMAQ -TV Chicago (3) 3.50% Ch. 52 KVEA(TV) Corona, Calif. (2) 2.585% (7.585 %) Ch. 4 WRC-TV Washington (9) 1.78% Ch. 48 KSTS(TV) San Jose (5) 1.185% Ch. 7 WXYZ -TV Detroit (7) 1.92% Ch. 3 WKYC -N Cleveland (11) 1.61% *Ch. 48 New TV Galveston, Tex. (10) .83% Ch. 5 WEWS(TV) Cleveland (11) 1.61% Ch. 4 WTVJ(TV) Miami (14) 1.37% Ch. 51 WSCV Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (14) .685% Ch. 28 Tampa (17) .62% Ch. 4 KCNC -TV Denver (19) 1.17% Ch. 2 WKAQ -N San Juan, P.R. NR" WFTS(N) Ch. 15 KNXV -1V Phoenix (22) .51% 9 WCPO -TV Cincinnati (28) .81% 3. CBS 10. Gannett Ch. (19.46%) Ch. 41 KSHB -TV Kansas City, Mo. (29) .405% (8.795%) Ch. 5 WMC -N Memphis (39) .67% Ch. 2 WCBS -TV New York (1) 7.78% Ch. 2 KJRH(TV) Tulsa (52) .53% Ch. 56 WLVI -N Boston (6) 1.165% Ch. 2 KCBS -TV Los Angeles (2) 5.17% Ch. 5 WPN(TV) West Palm Beach, Fla. (54) .51% Ch. 9 WUSA(TV) Washington (9) 1.78% Ch. 2 WBBM -TV Chicago (3) 3.50% Ch. 11 WXIA-TVAtlanta (12) 1.40% Ch. 10 WCAU -TV Philadelphia (4) 3.01% 17. Hearst Ch. 11 KARE(TV) Minneapolis (15) 1.37% 4. Fox Ch. 9 KUSA -TV Denver (19) 1.17% (6.92 %) Ch. 12 KPNX -TV Phoenix (22) 1.02% Ch. 5 WCVB -TV Boston (6) 2.33% (19.39 %) Ch. 5 KOCO -TV Oklahoma City (37) .70% Ch. 4 WTAE -TV Pittsburgh (13) 1.38% Tex. (72) .19 Ch. 5 WNYW(TV) New York (1) 7.78% Ch. 24 KVUE -TVAustin, Ch. 11 WBAL -N Baltimore (21) 1.02% Ch. 11 KTTV(TV) Los Angeles (2) 5.17% Ch. 9 KMBC -TV Kansas City, Mo. (29) .81% Ch. 32 WFLD(TV) Chicago (3) 1.75% IL o Cox Ch. 12 WISN -TV Milwaukee (30) .80% Ch. 25 WXNE -TV Boston (6) 1.165% Ch. 2 WDTN(N) Dayton, Ohio (48) .58% Ch. 33 KDAF(TV) Dallas (8) .915% (8.91%) Ch. 5 WTTG(TV) Washington (9) 1.78% Ch. 2 KTVU(TV) Oakland, Catit. (5) 2.37% 18.Taft Ch. 26 KRIV(TV) Houston (10) .83% Ch. 50 WKBD -N Detroit (7) .96% (5.83 %) Ch. 2 WSB-TVAtlanta (12) 1.40% Fla. 1.24% 5. Tribune Broadcasting Ch. 11 WPXI(TV) Pittsburgh (13) 1.38% Ch. 10 WTSP -N St. Petersburg, (17) Ch. 10 KTSP -N Phoenix (22) 1.02% (18.69 %) Ch. 30 KDNL -TV St. Louis (18) .60% Ch. 9 WFTV(TV) Orlando (27) .86% Ch. 12 WKRC -TV Cincinnati (28) .81% Ch. 11 WPIX(N) New York (1) 7.78% Ch. 9 WSOC -TV Charlotte, N.C. (32) .76% Ch. 4 WDAF -TV Kansas City, Mo. (29) .81% Ch. 5 KTLA(TV) Los Angeles (2) 5.17% Ch. 7 WHIO -TV Dayton, Ohio (48) .58% Ch. 6 WTVN -TV Columbus, Ohio (34) .74% Ch. 9 WGN -TV Chicago (3) 3.50% Ch. 6 WBRC -TV Birmingham, Ala. (43) .63% Ch. 46 WGNX(TV) Atlanta (12) .70% 12. Hallmark Cards Ch. 8 WGHP -TV High Point, N.C. (50) .58% Ch. 2 KWGN -TV Denver (19) 1.17% Ch. 26 WGNO -TV New Orleans (33) .37% (8.88%) 19. Belo Broadcasting Ch. 41 WXTV(TV) Paterson, N.J. (1) 3.89% (5.68 %) 6. Home Shopping Network Ch. 34 KMEX -TV Los Angeles (2) 2.585% Ch. 8 WFAA-TV Dallas (8) 1.83% %) Ch. 14 KDTV(TV) San Francisco (5) 1.185% (15.61 Ch. 11 KHOU -TV Houston (10) 1.66% Ch. 23 WLTV(TV) Miami (14) .685% Ch. 68 WHSE(TV) Newark, N.J. (1) 3.89% Ch. 10 KXTV(TV) Sacramento, Calif. (20) 1.06% Ch. 41 KWEX -TV San Antonio. Tex. (44) .305% Ch. 46 KHSC(TV) Ontario. Calif. (2) 2.585% Ch. 13 WVEC -N Hampton, Va. (46) .60% Ch. 21 KFTV(TV) Hanford, Calif (63) .23% Ch. 60 WPWR- TVAurora, Ill. (3) 1.75% Ch. 6 KOTV(TV) Tulsa, Okla. (52) .53% Ch. 65 WHSP(TV) Vineland, N.J. (4) 1.525% Ch. 66 KPST-TV Vallejo, Calif. (5) 1.185% 13. SCI Holdings 20. o Gaylord Broadcasting Ch. 66 WHSH Marlborough, Mass. (6) 1.165% (7.795 %) (5.225 %) Ch. 49 KLTJ(TV) Irving. Tex. (8) .915% Ch. 38 WSBK -TV Boston (6) 1.165 Ch. 67 KHSH(TV) Alvin, Tex. (10) .83% Ch. 11 KTVT(TV) Fort Worth (8) 1.83% Ch. 2 WJBK -TV Detroit (7) 1.92% Ch. 61 WCLQ -TV Cleveland (11) .805% Ch. 39 KHTV(TV) Houston (10) .83% 8 WJW -TV (11) 1.61% Ch. 24 WHSW(TV) Baltimore (21) .51% Ch. Cleveland Ch. 43 WUAB(TV) Cleveland (11) .805% Ch. TV Atlanta (12) 1.40% Ch. 22 KWVT(TV) Salem, Ore. (26) .45% 5 W4GA- Ch. 11 KSTW(TV) Tacoma, Wash. (16) 1.36% Ch. 39 KCST-1V San Diego (25) .45% Ch. 18 WVN(TV) Milwaukee (30) .40% 7. Chris Craft Industries Ch. 6 WITI -TV Milwaukee (30) .80% Ch. 13 WTTG(TV) Toledo. Ohio (65) .45% (10.405 %) when station is completed. Ch. 13 KCOP(TV) Los Angeles (2) 5.17% 14.cMCA Coverage 44 KBHK -TV San Francisco (5) 1.185% " TV Groups with stations in markets not rated Ch. %) Ch. 9 KMSP-TV Minneapolis (15) 1.37% (7.78 by Arbitron must supply audience reach Ligures Ch. 45 KUTP(TV) Phoenix (22) .51% Ch. 9 WWOR -TV New York (1) 7.78% to the FCC, but only at the time of a sale.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 33 TOP OF THE WEEK NBC Radio: It's Westwood One's now S50- million deal closes: Mutual news for NBC Radio, who remains with ver City. and NBC will remain separate Westwood. In the networks' sales department, 14 networks; consolidation results Said Farley: "We [NBC and Mutual] are staffers (sales directors, account executives in some layoffs of NBC personnel combining some resources, but our separate and support staff) were laid off, including identities will be preserved. They are two Warren Schultz, director of Eastern sales in Westwood One, the Culver City, Calif. - distinct news operations with Ron Nessen New York. Remaining NBC sales personnel based network radio company, completed its heading Mutual News and Jim Farley head- will work with the Westwood One sales $50- million acquisition of the NBC Radio ing NBC Radio News." forces. "NBC, like Mutual, is now being Networks from General Electric's NBC The consolidation led to the termination sold by Westwood One Sales," said (BROADCASTING. July 27) last week, saying of four Washington -based NBC correspon- Westwood One Chairman Norm Pattiz. That it would have a 20 -year news supply and dents: Russ Ward, a 34 -year veteran with department is run by Greg Batusic, execu- license agreement with NBC News for the NBC News, David Rush, Peter Laufer and tive vice president and director of sales for NBC networks as well as the U.S. radio Cliff Webb. Typically, most NBC Radio Westwood. Pattiz added that Westwood broadcast rights to the 1988 summer Olym- news correspondents file reports for both the One's New York operation will move to pics in Seoul, South Korea. And, as expect- NBC Radio Network and The Source. Seven NBC Radio's facilities at 1700 Broadway ed, the closing brought several consolida- NBC Radio news editors and writers head- soon. tions of NBC network departments. The sale quartered in Washington will be transferred The highest NBC Radio executive to be included the traditional NBC Radio Net- to the NBC television news side. (The seven let go in the ownership change was Willard work: The Source, NBC's young adult net- editors and writers are not included in the Lochridge, vice president and general man- work; Talknet, a nighttime program service, NBC staff reduction figure). ager of The Source and NBC Radio Enter- and NBC Radio Entertainment, the program Rusty Lutz will continue under tainment. Assuming that post is Steve Soule, distribution arm of the networks. Those ele- Westwood's ownership as NBC Radio Net- who was vice president of sales for the net- ments will be combined with both Mutual works' Washington bureau chief as will four works. Pattiz said that NBC Radio Entertain- Broadcasting, a Westwood One subsidiary, correspondents: Tom Foty, who is deputy bu- ment will be a "functioning unit" but that the and the Westwood One Radio Networks. reau chief; Steve Porter, White House corre- "bulk" of its long -form programing will be Those moves, coupled with Aug. 21 staff spondent; Bill Groody, and C.D. Jaco. Laid combined with the program lineup of the layoffs of 23 employes, are estimated to ini- off were Dan Blackburn, chief of NBC's Westwood One Radio Networks. Andy Den - tially save Westwood $4 million -$5 million. West Coast bureau, which will shift to emark continues as director of programing The most conspicuous change is the clos- Westwood's headquarters in Culver City, and for The Source and NBC Radio Entertain- ing of the NBC Radio News bureau in Wash- Mike Maus, an NBC Radio New York con-e - ment; Craig Simon remains as vice president ington as it relocates to Mutual Broadcast- spondent. "We are keeping all other New and general manager of the NBC Radio Net- ing's Arlington, Va., headquarters. The York on -air correspondents," Farley said. work and Talknet; Warren Vandeveer contin- NBC networks will be "sharing facilities and Freelance reporters who had worked for ues as director of engineering and oper- some [field] reporters in Washington with NBC out of the Burbank, Calif., office will ations, and Jack O'Rourke remains as Mutual," said Jim Farley, vice president of now work from Westwood's studios in Cul- executive producer of sports for NBC Radio.

Done dealers. I -r: Bill Baltison. Westwood president: Randy Bongarten. NBC Radio president. and Norm Pattiz. Westwood chairman.

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Two employes were let go in NBC's long - eventually managed to climb into the black, will not be determined until the strike is reform program clearance department. facilitated by several consolidation moves solved," an NBC spokesman said. Said Pattiz: "There are certain consolida- similar to those being implemented with the The transaction between Westwood One tions that just make sense... It's no secret NBC networks. Some analysts estimate that and NBC also involves the issuance of five- we have costs to control." However, Pattiz Mutual could finish the year with an after - year warrants to NBC to purchase a million told BROADCASTING that Westwood will not tax profit of approximately $5 million. shares of Westwood One common stock for consolidate the station relations departments Regarding the 86 National Association of $36.40 per share, which would give NBC of the NBC networks with Mutual's. "Affili- Broadcast Employes and Technicians radio roughly 6% ownership in the company. ates [of NBC and Mutual] will continue to be network members involved in the strike With the addition of the NBC networks. serviced by separate departments." against NBC, Pattiz said that Westwood did Westwood One will strengthen its position as The NBC Radio Networks are said to have not take on a NABETagreement. "That was the second largest billing network radio lost $9 million in 1986. Although they are not part of the deal," he said. Pattiz noted company (ABC is first) in the $400- million- expected to lose money this year, Pattiz said that a NABET /NBC contract was not in ef- a -year radio network business. "We feel this he is looking for them to at least break even fect at the time of the NBC Radio purchase in new alliance [with NBC] will help position in about two to three quarters. July. NBC's most recent agreement with network radio as an increasingly important In 1985, when publicly held Westwood NABETexpired on March 31. "We are cur- advertising medium in radio's second half One purchased the Mutual Broadcasting rently hiring engineers for the NBC net- century," said Pattiz. System from the Amway Corp. (BROAD- works. If they decide on a collective bar- Through its various divisions, which in- CASTING. Sept. 23. 1985) for $37 million gaining agent, we will honor that," Pattiz clude its three network units, the trade news- ($30 million in cash and notes and $7 million said. paper, Radio & Records, and KM Records. a in stock), Mutual had reportedly been losing "What will happen to the striking radio newly acquired record duplicating plant, about $7 million annually. The network network workers represented by NABET Westwood One employs about 600 people.

ACT seeks reimposition of ad guidelines for children's programing

It says without restraints, ads appearing at 'far greater levels'; only FCC action will remedy situation

Asserting that commercial time in children's television programing is on the rise, Action for Children's Television last week asked the FCC to reimpose guidelines limiting advertising in children's programing on Saturday and Sunday mornings -"children's prime time" -to nine- and -a -half minutes per hour and at other times to 12 minutes per hour, the standards in effect before deregulation. "New evidence indicates that without these guidelines, broadcasters are presenting commercial matter at far greater levels, thereby thwarting the FCC's policies in the children's field," ACT's petition said. Those policies, established in 1974, it said, recog- nize that "children are particularly suscept- ible to commercial pitches and that young children especially cannot distinguish he- tween advertising and programing matter. "Because children will watch television regardless of the level of commercial adver- tisements (hence the marketplace offers no incentive to broadcasters to limit commercials and, in fact, gives the opposite incen- situation cannot be expected to tive), this ACT President Peggy Charren improve without FCC action." the petition said. ther proceeding. but no final decision has the fact if it feels it has to. the petition said. In response to a court order, the FCC is been made," he said. If it does, it said, ACT will argue "vigorous - currently reevaluating its 1984 decision to The ACT petition argued that the FCC ly" that all children's programing, including drop the guidelines. which were drawn from should reimpose the guidelines without that appearing during weekdays, should be the National Association of Broadcasters' waiting for the results of another proceed- subject to the nine -and -a -half- minute cap. former programing and commercial stan- ing. "It is inconceivable for the FCC to In 1984. the FCC dropped its commercial dards and included in the FCC's 1974 report maintain that the public interest can be guidelines for all kinds of programing as part on children's programing. A violation of the served by ignoring the needs of children and of a general deregulation of television, argu- guidelines made a station's license renewal relying on the marketplace," it said. "The ing that the marketplace would limit com- subject to special FCC review. market has again demonstrated that the child mercials. The inclusion of children's pro- Bill Johnson, acting chief of the FCC's audience is unique. These violations of the graming in the deregulatory sweep was seen Mass Media Bureau, said he doubted that public interest are occurring now and the by some as an oversight at the time, but, two the FCC could reverse its decision to do FCC must...act immediately...to prevent years later, the FCC affirmed that children's away with the guidelines without another further damage to the public interest." programing was included. It contended that proceeding. "We are likely to have some fur- The FCC can conduct a proceeding after deregulation of commercials in children's

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programing was consistent with the general grams would be unaffected. deemphasis of qualitative guidelines and Commercial time in children's programing Broadcasters that commercials help support children's has gone up since the FCC caps came off, the programing. petition said, citing a study by Dale Kunkel at arming ACT appealed the elimination of the the University of California, Santa Barbara, guidelines for children's television to the that found that nonprogram time (product ads, themselves U.S. Court of Appeals, and last June the public service announcements, program pro- court sent the case back to the FCC with mos and station indentifications) rose "mar- for uphill instruction for it to justify more fully its ac- kedly" at seven stations in the year after the tion. "The commission has offered neither guidelines were lifted (BROADCASTING, Aug. facts nor analysis to the effect that its earlier 3). (The study assumed that stations adhered fairness fight concerns over market failure were overem- to the guidelines in 1984.) NAB and state associations find phasized, misguided, outdated or just down- The Kunkel study focused on children's their work cut out for them in right incorrect," the court said, adding: "In- programing on weekday mornings and after- convincing congressmen to oppose stead, without explanation, the commission noons on eight stations. Of the eight, it codification of fairness rules has suddenly embraced what had theretofore found, only one stayed within the old FCC been an unthinkable bureaucratic conclusion limit of 12 minutes per hour. The other seven Broadcasters continue to gear up for a major that the market did in fact operate to restrain all exceeded the limit, with three averaging fight on fairness. The National Association the commercial content of children's televi- more than 14 minutes per hour. of Broadcasters is forging ahead with its sion." The Kunkel study went beyond mere massive lobbying campaign to prevent Con- ACT President Peggy Charren believes numbers. It said that the FCC's contention gress from reviving the fairness doctrine de- that reimposition of the guidelines will in- that "an inherent marketplace mechanism spite reports last week from broadcasters hibit the proliferation of what ACT calls exists to restrict the overcommercialization across the country that it may be a "mission "program- length commercials " -programs of children's programing without the need impossible." featuring toys that are sold to children. "It for regulation is flawed." NAB President Eddie Fritts admits "it's seems like every day a new program -length The FCC's reliance on the marketplace going to be difficult" to arrest the momen- commercial comes on stream," she said. assumes that viewers will turn off a program tum behind a fairness bill. But he said NAB "This would stem the tide." if the commercial load becomes too heavy, has no plans to retreat. But the FCC disagrees. Acting on a com- the Kunkel study said. But such an assump- As Congress returns next Wednesday plaint from ACT and the National Associ- tion cannot be made about the child audi- (Sept. 9) from its August recess, its first ation for Better Broadcasting in 1985, the ence, it said. "There is no consensus of evi- order of telecommunications business will FCC said that programs that feature toys are dence to indicate that young children dislike be to turn the fairness doctrine (which the not "program- length commercials" and do watching commercial interruptions," it said. FCC declared unconstitutional on Aug. 4) not have to be logged as such. So whether "Indeed, it is not unusual for children to into law (BROADCASTING, Aug. 3, 10 and he guidelines are reimposed or not, accord - report that they greatly enjoy watching tele- 17). It won't be the first time Capitol Hill ng to the FCC's current thinking, such provision commercials." lJ takes up the doctrine. The House and Senate passed legislation codifying fairness earlier this year. And later, when President Reagan vetoed the measure, the Senate, after the Grass -roots Democratic leadership was unable to muster recruitment the votes for an override, voted to send the The National Association of Broadcasters' government relations department may under- veto message back to the Commerce Com- go a reorganization sooner than anticipated. The pending departure of NAB's chief mittee where the bill originated. lobbyist, John Summers, at the end of the year (BROADCASTING, Aug. 17), creates one Once they're back in action, Senate Com- vacancy, but the association is also losing Dennis merce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings McIntosh, director of broadcaster congressional re- (D -S.C.) and House Energy and Commerce lations, who is joining the Corporation for Public Committee Chairman John Dingell (D- Broadcasting on Sept. 8 as director of the office of Mich.) are expected to seek an appropriate government affairs (see page 118). legislative vehicle (one the President won't NAB's president, Eddie Fritts, will continue his veto) to which they could attach a fairness search to fill the association's top lobbying job, but measure. Among the possibilities: a debt because of the legislative challenges facing the in- ceiling bill, a budget reconciliation package dustry, chiefly a battle over the fairness doctrine (see and a continuing budget resolution. Some page, 36), he wants to fill the "gap" as soon as possi- observers are predicting that contra -aid leg- ble. There are "too many issues, and we don't want to islation might become a vehicle. miss a beat," said Fritts. "The difficulty of this thing is that we He's asked Bill Turner, vice president and special don't know where the battle's going to be assistant to the president of Citadel Communications fought," said Fritts. But NAB's hunch is the Corp., to handle NAB's grass -roots operation on an first move will be made in the Senate Appro- interim basis (until Congress adjourns this year). priations Committee. The NAB considers it Turner Turner is a former TV board vice chairman and is also important to block any fairness amendment chairman of NABS Television and Radio Political Action Committee; he'll meet with Fritts before it becomes part of a larger legislative today (Aug. 31) to discuss the offer. Turner told BROADCASTING if they can "work around his package. other commitments," he'll go on board. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, a senior News that Turner might join NAB's staff generated some speculation that he might wind Republican on the committee, is expected to up running the government relations department. Especially, commented one source, if lead the fight against a fairness amendment. NAB "runs into problems finding someone." However, Fritts said Turner is "not under Judging by earlier votes cast on fairness, consideration for the top job. The person who winds up with that job will come off the Hill." NAB is counting on the committee's Repub- Reportedly, Fritts also made that clear to NAB's executive committee. When asked wheth- licans (except Warren Rudman of New er Turner might become a permanent employe, both Fritts and Turner emphasized that it is Hampshire) to oppose an amendment. a temporary move. (Turner would take a leave of absence from Citadel.) Nevertheless, a It's the committee's Democratic members source familiar with Turner remarked that "nobody thought the 100 Years War would last that broadcasters have to win over. Some of longer than five years." the Democrats NAB hopes to convince are the committe's chairman, John Stennis of Mississippi, who originally voted against

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 36 I TOP OF THE WEEK 1 the codification bill but did not back the rule," the congressman told the broadcast- the bill. In Ohio, too, broadcasters were re- President's veto of the measure, and Patrick ers. ceiving favorable responses. Dale Bring of Leahy of Vermont, who did not vote in the Cooper also underscored the intensity of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters thinks first round but, like Stennis, opposed the the issue. "In Washington today, by far the most of the state's 2I -House members will veto. hottest broadcaster issue is repeal of the fair- come out against codification. The majority of Democrats, however, are ness doctrine," said Cooper. "I have never Also working with NAB is the Radio - on record supporting fairness, including seen such an emotional outbreak from my Television News Directors Association, the Hollings who sits on the Appropriations colleagues as I saw when the President ve- American Newspaper Publishers Associ- Committee, although William Proxmire, a toed the legislation and subsequently when ation and the American Society of Newspa- Wisconsin Democrat and staunch opponent the FCC by unanimous vote went ahead and per Editors to help deliver the message to of the doctrine, will side with his Republican repealed the fairness doctrine on its own." Capitol Hill. RTNDA is making the fairness colleagues. Despite the odds -I3 votes (the Still, broadcasters have been able to mus- fight a key theme of its annual convention 12 Republicans and Proxmire) against fair- ter some congressional support. In Ken- this week (Sept. 1 -4) and NAB is initiating a ness and 15 in favor -NAB says it will con- tucky, at least a majority of the state's seven - letter-writing drive at its radio programing tinue to work on the Democrats. member House delegation can be counted on conference (Sept. 9-12) in Anaheim, Calif. During the recess, broadcasters were to oppose fairness, reported J.T. Whitlock of Additionally, NAB has enlisted the help of asked to call on their congressional delega- the Kentucky Broadcasters Association. As former FCC Commissioner Glen O. Robin- tions to urge opposition to a bill. Lawmakers for the Senate, Whitlock doesn't expect son, now a law professor at the University of appeared to be ducking their local broadcast- Democrat Wendell Ford to alter his position Virginia, in gathering the signatures of for- ers. "We're getting a lot of feedback that favoring the doctrine. Republican Mitch mer commissioners for a letter to the Hill some congressmen don't want to talk," said McConnell backed the President's veto of supporting the FCC's action . John Summers, NAB's senior executive vice president for government relations. In Arkansas, for example, broadcasters "tried to get appointments and encountered Renewal request backed by NAB resistance," according to Ted unprecedented supports law firm's communications law firm to reform aspects Snider of KARN(AMI- KKYKIFM) Little Rock. Association effort to revise renewal procedures of the FCC's comparative renewal process Ark. Snider is immediate past chairman of that create 'instability' that the firm believes puts licensees at a dis- the NAB and a member of the Arkansas advantage and tends to "encourage instabil- Broadcasters Association. "Normally, we The National Association of Broadcasters ity in the broadcast industry" get in without a problem," said Snider, who has lent its support to an effort by a Miami Leibowitz & Spencer petitioned the FCC wasn't sure the congressmen were deliber- ately avoiding broadcasters. One veteran communications lobbyist speculated that the members' reluctance to discuss fairness NBC chief financial officer to leave stemmed from a "Dear Colleague" letter circulated by Chairman Dingell before the re- Robert C. Butler, a group executive vice president and chief financial officer at NBC, cess. The letter warned that the FCC's repeal is leaving the company at the end of September. He is being replaced by Albert R. would lead to "the demise of candidate ac- Barber, president, GE Railcar Services Corp. Barber is the first top -level executive cess to the airwaves and equal time require- from the ranks of the NBC parent company to join the network since Robert Wright, ments, as well." former head of GE Financial Services, signed on as the network's president last year. have ex- In California some legislators Butler, 56, is exercising an option to take early retirement with a lump sum distribution concern the FCC's action result- pressed that benefit. He said last week he had planned to exercise that option at the deadline for ed in abolition of the FCC's political editori- doing so. which is December 1988. However, network President Wright asked him alizing and personal attack rules, reported Victor Biondi of the California Broadcasters Association. But CBA has been working to dispel that confusion. (Last week broadcast organizations petitioned the FCC to do away with those rules. See page 89.) Some lawmakers weren't ducking discussions of fairness. Senator Donald Riegle (D- Mic'1.), a Commerce Committee member, whi appeared at a Michigan Association of Boadcasters meeting earlier this month, as- st :rted his support of codification. According Gt MAB's Karole White, Riegle said this v as one issue on which we would have to agree to disagree." Barber Butler And Representative Jim Cooper (D- two weeks ago to "accelerate" his departure schedule for a smoother transition from Tenn.), a member of the House Telecom- the existing top management team to the new team Wright eventually decides upon. munications Subcommittee, conveyed his He anticipating that more than a few" executives will opt for early retirement, said Asso- thoughts on the matter at a Tennessee Butler of Wright. The network president hopes to space those departures as evenly Broadcasters convention Aug. 14. ciation of as possible over the next 15 months, when the early retirement option under the RCA with my congressional colleagues "I side benefit package expires. Butler said it makes sense for him to leave now because (Dingell and others' overall in this debate," there are a number of long -term projects-such as the companywide switch to an Cooper said. "To me, given the choice be- IBM computer network from a Sperry Rand system and possible relocation of head- tween unfettered speech and fair speech for from Rockefeller Center-that his replacement will ultimately be responsi- broadcasters, although it's questioned with quarters implement. Butler said his plans are unclear but he expects to remain in the good arguments on both sides, I come down ble to Barber, 41, is a native of Rye, N.Y., and worked under Wright on the fair speech side. Given a choice be- entertainment business. held at GE corporate headquarters tween absolute free competition between at GE Financial Services. He has also positions in and construction. outlets and a policy that's more like the gold- and subsidiaries dealing real estate en rule, I am going to vote for the golden

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 37 t TOP OF THE WEEK C- _ last July to make specific changes in the comparative renewal process: I) to prohibit Baruch: back to school competing applicants for a station's license from receiving "anything of value" in ex- Former Viacom International Chairman Ralph M. Baruch has been named to a senior change for withdrawing their application; 2) fellowship at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University. Baruch, a to prohibit competing applicants from speci- broadcaster since the 1940s who served CBS as group president and Viacom as fying the technical facilities of the renewal chief executive officer, will join Oxford University's Lord Asa Briggs, Harvard Universi- applicant without making sure the facilities ty's Gerald Lesser and former CBS News executive Ernest Leiser as one of four are available, and 3) to require competing senior fellows during the 1987 -88 academic year. As a fellow, Baruch will be in applicants to make full financial and owner- charge of several projects, including a study of "the links between government ship disclosures. regulation and the commercial development of new communication technologies." In its filing in support of the law firm, the Baruch will begin his term as fellow on Jan. 1, 1988. NAB said "the commission should take steps Gannett Center fellows receive salary support and research assistance while to eliminate the abuses inherent in the pre- studying problems that face the media and society. The Center is funded by the sent procedures." The law firm's petition, it Gannett Foundation, Rochester, N.Y., and was established in 1984 as an institute for said. "is a step in the right direction in mak- "the advanced study of mass communication and technological change." ing sure that applicants do not file construction permit applications solely to extort money from a renewal applicant." The NAB said, however, that any FCC proceeding should go beyond the scope suggested by Leibowitz & Spencer. "The commission might [also] explore ways to prevent parties from using threats of filing competing applications in order to be paid off. In addition, the commission might examine whether limiting the amount of money renewal challengers can receive to their 'legiti- mate and prudent' expenses is in the public interest." At its Aug. 4 open meeting, the FCC proposed new rules that would stem abuses in the FCC's petition -to-deny and frequency- allocation processes by limiting the amount of money that those filing petitions to deny (license renewals or transfers) or competing applications may receive for withdrawing their filings. But, as NAB pointed out in its filing, the proposed rules do not encompass Above (I -r): Frank Stanton, president emeritus, CBS; Everette Dennis, executive comparative renewal cases. director, Gannett Center for Media Studies, and Baruch. Stanton described himself "Given the very limited public benefit as having served as "matchmaker, but in today's world maybe it's more the role of a from renewal settlements and the significant broker," in the bringing together of Baruch and Gannett. He described Baruch as public detriment that results from policies possessing "a happy combination of understanding of the global problem in commu- encouraging parties to 'jump' renewals for nications and a grasp of the technology." Baruch said he was "absolutely delighted" settlement dollars," Leibowitz & Spencer over the chance to work at the Gannett Center and had been "quite intrigued [when said in its petition, "the commission should first offered] the opportunity to be able to contribute something more to the communi- adopt a rule prohibiting renewal challengers cations industry" from seeking or obtaining anything of value in exchange for dismissing their applica- may pay competing applicants to withdraw unintended effect of encouraging some peo tions." their applications has "hastened settlements" ple to challenge broadcast renewals in antici A 1983 decision by the FCC eliminating of comparative renewal proceedings, the pation of participating in large settlements.' limits on the amounts renewal applicants law firm said, but it has also "likely had the The current procedures allow competing applicants to "jump" renewal applications Survey synopsis. The National Association of Broadcasters 1987 annual convention in without having to demonstrate that they have Dallas last March received a favorable review, according to a survey conducted by the the financial wherewithal) to operate a sta- association. In interviewing 500 convention attendees, NAB's research department found tion and to reveal completely who they are, that 54% thought the meeting was "as good as" previous conventions, although only the law firm said. The FCC should make the 16.4% felt it was "better" than those held before. (Earlier surveys showed that 25.5% rated challengers make full financial and owner- the 1985 convention better than others and 24.8% said the 1984 show was better.) Some ship disclosures and put them in "equivalent 10.4% found the 1987 convention to be "worse" than past shows. That's fewer than the positions" with the renewal applicants, it 17.4% who rated the 1986 session as worse than the one before. said. Among other results of the survey: 21.4% were dissatisfied with the event's Dallas Under current procedures, Leibowitz & location; 45% said they attended engineering sessions compared to the 37.6% of those Spencer said in its petition, challengers can surveyed in 1984; 27.8% want more technology sessions; 58.4% thought the exhibit floor also establish their technical qualifications was one of the convention's best features (45.9% of the radio and 43.7% of the TV by saying they intend to acquire the facilities respondents purchased or ordered equipment). of the renewal applicant. "No other type of According to NAB, finance/acquisition and sales/promotion were among "the most broadcast applicant receives this type of pre- popular" radio management sessions and the top television sessions were the 'sales/ sumption of site availability and technical promotion and technical sessions. The "lowest -rated service" was lunches. Asked which qualification from the commission," the law day the exhibit floor should open, 51.8% of the radio and 51.3% of the television respon- firm said. "This unwarranted presumption, dents said Saturday. The survey also found that 94.9% of the television participants are coupled with the other advantages given re- planning to attend the 1988 convention, while only 88.2% of radio broadcasters said they newal challengers, only serves to foster the planned to go. filing of applications mutually exclusive with renewals."

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High- stakes competition in many does produce something else -complaints valleys, and all of them fighting to hold or markets is intense, spawning of ratings manipulation. For news directors gain advantage in a business where there are sophisticated news coverage; at stations solidly ensconced in first place, no guarantees. some stations blow whistle on the publication of the quarterly Nielsen and Minneapolis competition saying techniques Arbitron reports is a time of satisfaction and used to lure viewers are unfair self -congratulation. ( "This is a wonderful For years, Minneapolis -St. Paul had been market. I love it when were number one," largely a two -station market as far as local Local television news is risky business. says one of the fortunate ones.) For those television news was concerned. Midwest Viewers seem to devour it, a fact that attracts playing catch -up, those reports are remind- Communications Inc.'s wCCO -Tv, with its advertiser dollars. That, in turn, generates ers of how much farther the journey to the solid, even conservative, approach to the competition among stations that is often top. news usually topped the ratings, but not by fierce. The competition can and often does A survey of half a dozen markets regarded much. Hubbard Broadcasting Inc.'s KSTP -TV result in a higher level of journalism (blow - by some observers as among the most com- and its Frank Magid -influenced news oper- dried anchors with little between the ears no petitive follows. It shows some news operation was always a close second, if not on longer need apply). It can and sometimes ations sitting on peaks, others occupying top. Then, in 1983, Gannett Co. bought

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 41 WTCN(TV), an indepenaent, changed its call often as possible" during the sweeps period, affairs. And the reporters involved are used sign a couple of times -it is now KARE- also named as a defendant the research com- as anchors at noon, in early evening and on picked up an NBC affiliation, brought in pany involved, Atkinson Research of Min- weekends. new people, spent millions on new equip- neapolis. Franzgrote said the suit reflected The ratings figures indicate, however, that ment and invested even more in terms of Midwest's concern that KARE's ratings in WXYZ-TV remains a tough competitor. So did spirit, and began closing the gap, at least at May had continued "on an upward growth its peformance in covering the Northwest 10 p.m. In time, it displaced KSTP-TV as trend." For its part, Atkinson countersued, plane crash that claimed more than 150 lives number two at that time. And in the July charging defamation of character. at Detroit's airport on Aug. 16. WJBK -TV had Nielsen book, it topped the field, with a 15 the Detroit first pictures, at 9:10 p.m. -a crew was rating and 29 share. The intensity of the at the airport awaiting the arrival of the De- competition was indicated by wcco -rv's Detroit provides a not dissimilar story, with troit Tigers from a road trip -but WxYZ was winding up third, with a 13/24, behind KSTP- Post- Newsweek Stations in the Horatio Al- on the air with a series of reports beginning TV, which recorded a 14/24. ger role. In 1978, Post-Newsweek swapped at 11 p.m. And both Detroit newspapers, Tom Kirby, vice president, news, KARE, its wrOP -Tv Washington for the Evening The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, gives much of the credit for the turnaround News Association's Detroit station, WW1-TV, were generous in their praise of WXYZ -TV's to president and general manager Joe Franz - plus some cash. At the time, ABC's wxvz- job, particularly that of anchor Bill Bonds, grote, who had run Gannett's station in Den- long a major force in Detroit journalism. ver, KUSA-TV, before being given the assign- The Free Press said WXYZ-TV "admirably ment in Minneapolis. Kirby was one of the polished its job as a top-notch news and in- executives Franzgrote took with him from formation station." Denver. Franzgrote doubled the size of the "Bonds," the News said, "orchestrated his news staff, improved camera equipment, polished on -site team ... like a maestro." and renovated the newsroom and facilities. For its part, WJBK -TV is said by those who As a result, 30- second spots in the 10 follow such things to be on its way back to a o'clock news, which sold for $500 when the position of competitiveness in the market rating was a nine, now bring more than (although its ratings seem to have fallen off $5,000. (Wcco -Tv and KSTP -TV, in that or- in the July book). Several months ago, it der, still dominate the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. introduced a new anchor, Bruce Kirk, as a time periods, however.) Kirby of KARE Bonds of WXYZ -TV replacement for George Sells, who is now As for style, KARE is said to have bor- the automotive reporter appearing in a new rowed a little from its competitors, the hard TV was a strong first -place station and business segment in the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news of WCCO-TV and the features and acci- Storer's WJBK -TV a strong second, while newscasts. WJBK-TV had already featured a dents and fires and emphasis on weather of Post- Newsweek, accustomed to running highly regarded business reporter, Murray KSTP-TV, and to have focused on the young classy news operations, found itself in Feldman, who had started at the station 11 audience that KSTP -TV once owned. ( "Both charge of a station that, as the saying went, years ago as a general assignment reporter. competitors do what they do very well," was "fourth" in news in a three- affiliate mar- Sloat sees an "unparalleled interest" in busi- Kirby said. "We had to have what the others ket. WWJ -TV's news broadcasts were being ness news, in Detroit and throughout the have. ") It has also hired some of KSTP -TV's topped by M*A *S *H reruns on a local UHF. country, and seems determined to fill it. personalities. Now, according to Arbitron's July book, Neither of its principal competitors seems the Post- Newsweek station, operating under unnerved by KARE's surge. Reid Johnson, a new call sign, WDIV -TV, is number one in Los Angeles WCCO -TV news director, is comfortable with the market from sign -on to sign -off, topping what he describes as the station's "traditional the other two network-affiliated VHF's in As in so many other areas of life, Los Ange- les a newscast," strong on news and public af- news at 11 p.m. and tying ABC's wxvz -Tvat seems to be in world of its own where fairs, issue reporting and multiweek projects 6 p.m. WXYZ-TV is a clear winner at 5 p.m. competition among local television news op- (a recent one dealt with sexual abuse of chil- In the Nielsen book for July, WXYZ-TV tops erations is concerned. In addition to the three dren). And Larry Price -the third news di- wow-Tvat 5 and 6 p.m. and ties it at 11 p.m. network -owned stations, there are four rector at KSTP -TV in the last few years -said Still, by any measure, WDIV -TV has become a VHF independents offering news at different that station's approach was hard news, laced major force in news in the market, while times throughout prime time. Television with "some features." But all three stations, WJBK -TV is struggling to keep up. news operations, beginning in late afternoon he said, "do a good job." "We developed new alternatives for the and continuing into late night, are stretched The fierceness of the competition among viewer," says Bob Warfield, WDIV-TV's vice to find fresh angles on stories that break on the news organizations is indicated not only president for news, in discussing the effort to the East Coast early in the day, Pacific time. by the ratings. In June, Midwest filed suit enliven the station's news operation. "We There is the weather; its lure is not easy for a against Gannett, charging its KARE had used developed a strong team concept built television news operation to challenge. a "phony" telephone research survey to ma- around Mort Crim, the anchor, a strong re- Then, too, there is the wealth of a market nipulate audience ratings during the May porting staff, strong sports and strong weath- that is home to 15 million people -and the sweeps (BROADCASTING, June 22). The suit, er." Beats, which Warfield refers to as "fran- fact that local news can be (must be ?) a ma- which said the survey had asked thousands chises," were developed to assure strong jor profit center. Such pressures can produce of area viewers to watch KARE at 10 p.m. "as coverage of business, politics and consumer some strange happenings. Take KCBS -TV, for instance. Once one of the dominant news operations in the market, Points of contention it saw its ratings begin slipping; the slippage bred desperation, and the desperation, last One reason for the fierceness of the competition among news organizations is September, bred something that was dubbed the indicated in a commentary that Midwest Communications Inc. President James "news wheel," or the "infamous news wheel," as some at called Rupp submitted to BROADCASTING. The commentary renews Midwest's attack on the station it. Be- ginning at 4 p.m., the station ran two one- Atkinson Research for allegedly rigging the May ratings in favor of KARE(TV) (BROAD- hour news programs divided into 20- minute CASTING, June 22, 29). But it also indicates the importance to a station in a market like segments each devoted to a different cate- Minneapolis -St. Paul of a single rating point. "On the revenue side, in Minneapolis -St. gory-hard news, features, life style, family Paul," Rupp in said, "the value of one rating point the 10 p.m. news is: 16 10 second issues, whatever. Three weeks after its inau- spots @ $150 per point = $2,400 per day x 7 days =$16,800 per week and x 52 guration, station officials decided they had weeks = $873,600 gross revenue annually." Rupp estimated the cost of the 100,000 not hit upon a hot idea, and canceled it. Top questionnaires that were mailed by the survey firm during the May sweep, with return executives associated with the idea left, too, postage, at $93,376. as did Erik Sorenson, the news director. But Sorenson returned after several

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South for Super Tuesday, in March, as well. p.m., following CBS Evening News with And not only among the network owned- WBZ -TV news director Stan Hopkins cer- Dan Rather. Yet another, and possibly more and- operated stations. The independents tainly does not restrict his correspondents to significant change, has been in the introduc- have been a force, too, particularly the Tri- the outer limits of the ADI. Crews have gone tion of new news and sports anchors. Pre- bune Co.'s KTLA(TV). It was the first station as far as Afghanistan for a story with a local sumably, the changes will be the last for a in the market to air a news program, in 1947, angle. A five -part series, Afghanistan -the while. For stability, Sorenson says, is what and for years has been number one at 10 Untold Story, which ran in February, pro- the station's news operation needs. He be- o'clock -where its only news competition vided some coverage of rebel fighters in the lieves it was the lack of stability that contrib- now is Chris -Craft/United TV's KCOP(TV). In mountains of Afghanistan. But the series fo- uted mightily to the downward spiral of the fact, KTLAS rating and share on any given cused on the efforts of doctors and relief news operation's ratings-eight news direc- night will equal or better the performance of organizations from New England to aid tors and general managers in the past 10 the network stations at 11 p.m. (Its 7.5 rating some of the four million Afghanistan refu- years. Sorenson said he left last year because on the Nielsen card earlier this month gees in camps along the Afghanistan border. he would have been responsible for breaking equaled KNBC -TV's performance and bet- "We had a local story to tell," says Hopkins. in his third general manager in two years. tered KCBs -TV's.) Part of its secret for suc- "But we also had a story no one else had Such change, he believes, upsets viewers cess, apparently, is the kind of "stability" told." and drives them away. He came back to the KCBs -TV's Sorenson seeks. Some of the on- WBZ -TV has what is generally regarded in station, in May, he said, because he is "con- air personnel have been with the station for New England as a strong anchor team in vinced CBS is aware of the need for stabil- not only years but decades. Jack Williams and Liz Walker. But in recent ity." But things could tighten up among the weeks, Walker has gained national attention With KCBS -TV out of the running, at least independents. Ed Coughlin, KCOP's news di- not for her journalistic skills but for the fact temporarily, the competition for audience is rector, says he was hired three years ago to that she is pregnant, although unmarried. largely between the other two network - make the station competitive, and sees pro- Her due date is Dec. 8. "The viewers have owned and operated stations, KABC -TV and gress being made. The station recorded a written in about the situation, and they are KNBC -TV. Both are strong operations, provid- four rating in July, only one point behind overwhelmingly supportive," Hopkins said. ing plenty of hard news, much of it with a KTLA. Fox Television Stations' KTTV(TV), "They respect the fact a woman has made a which gave up head -to -head competition at 10 p.m. to provide a half -hour news show at 8 p.m., will return to head -to -head competition at that hour in September to accommo- date Fox network programing plans. And that suits the fourth independent, RKO Gen- eral's KHJ -TV, which airs a one -hour news show at 9 p.m. "We're doing great," said KW -TV news director Stephanie Brady, reporting a four rating and seven share in the July book. And when KTrv's news program moves from 8 to 10 p.m., she said, "we'll do Severino of KABC -TV Hopkins of WBZTV even better." Walker and Williams of WBZ -TV local slant. KNBC-TV'S Hispanic reporters, Boston decision on the issue and is responsible.' for instance, did a bilingual (in English with Indeed, Hopkins added, "rather than turning subtitles) series on the government's pro- Maybe it is because of the presence of Har- viewers off, Walker's condition raises the gram of amnesty for illegal aliens. But vard and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- interest level in her." KABC -TV, whose news programs dominate nology and the lingering influence of Boston And WNEV-TV? Interestingly, the station's the ratings in most of the time periods, is Brahminism, but whatever, the news output vice president of news, Jeff Rosser, blames characterized by some of its competitors as a of the television network affiliates is viewed the station's news ratings problems on its "T and A" station, if only during sweeps by those in the area, including the press, former owner, RKO General Inc. RKO lost months. ( "It's almost like two different sta- with some respect. "Everyone," says Jack the license in 1982 to the two groups that had tions," one observer said.) During the No- Bowen of the media consulting firm of filed competing applications for the channel vember rating period, critics note, KABC -TV McHugh & Hoffman, "pays a lot of attention seven facility and later merged into New ran a five -part series featuring Vanna White to the network stations' news operations." England Television Co. "We're suffering modeling lingerie. KABC-TV'S president and Probably not coincidentally, the competition from an image problem that was earned dur- general manager, John Severino, defended among them is serious. ing 35 years of ownership by RKO," Rosser the station's news judgment on the issue: Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s WBZ -TV says. (The image problems RKO accumulat- "That was at the height of Vanna White's generally leads the pack in ratings, with the ed in its years as a broadcaster-all of them popularity." He also noted that KNBC -TV has Hearst Corp.'s WCVB -TV a close second and indicating less than sterling character-con - indulged in similar programing in sweeps New England TV Corp.'s WNEV-TV trailing. tinue to resonate; an administrative law periods: "They did Confessions of a Porno WCVB -TV is like the local Avis, trying hard- judge three weeks ago concluded that the Queen last year." er, pioneering the use of a satellite newsgath- company lacks the character to operate any But it was not Vanna White in lingerie or ering truck and seeing its mandate, as vice of the 14 stations it still owns [BROADCAST- "lesbian nuns," the subject of another president for news Philip S. Balboni puts it, ING, Aug. 17].) sweeps period series, that caused Nielsen, as "not limited to the ADI." WCVB -TV pays "The other two stations are fine competi- under pressure from KABC -TV competitors, attention to local events, he says. "But tors," Rosser says. "And it will take time to to strike the 11-11:30 p. m. time period for all there's no reason a quality station should not live down the reputation earned during the Los Angeles stations for an eight -day period be covering stories around the country and years of neglect. But," he adds, "we're do- during a ratings month. That was the heavily the world." A story tying local and national ing interesting things, and winning as many promoted series KABC -TV ran on Nielsen if not international themes together, for all awards for the quality of our newscasts as families in May (BROADCASTING, June 8, stations in the Boston area, of course, is anyone." He cited a string of Emmys, UPI 15). Adding to KABC -TV's discomfiture was Governor Michael Dukakis's campaign for and Associated Press awards over the past the $5- million suit its former ombudsman the Democratic presidential nomination. several years for "outstanding newscasts."

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 46 A CIÓN NEWS SERVICE AS RESPECTED AS1HE ASSOCIATED PRESS, In any case, as Bowen says, "Boston is a Chicago o'clock news with Curtis -had broadcast at- good market for news." Increasingly, stations around the country cap tacking the company for "lurid" advertising early evening news blocks with a game he said was aimed at inducing young people Dallas show. Capital Cities /ABC's WLS -TV does to smoke. A district court in 1985 had those stations one better. It not only runs awarded Brown & Williamson more than $2 "We slug it out every day. Everybody goes Wheel ofFortune at 6:30 p.m., after two and million -and the U.S. Court of Appeals in after the big story with equal vigor. Where, a half hours of local and national news, it Chicago earlier this month affirmed that in many markets, there is a poor number introduces that news block with Jeopardy. judgment (BROADCASTING, Aug. 17). three trying to keep up, in Dallas -Fort NBC's WMAQ -TV rounds off its early evening "But you can't pin [the station's troubles] Worth, all three [network -affiliated televi- news programing at 6:30 p.m. with The New to Curtis or Porterfield or Jacobson," he sion] stations are competitive on a day -in, Newlywed Game, and CBS's WBBM -TV will adds. "It's a cumulative thing." And observ- day -out basis. On big stories, we all pull out follow suit next month when it replaces a ers say it includes the competitive pressures all the stops." half-hour of local news at 6:30 p.m. with applied by the other stations in the market. That assessment, by Marty Haag, vice Truth or Consequences. WLS -Tv, for instance, was enticing Floyd president, news, for Belo Corp. Stations' This is not to suggest local news is fun and Kalber, one -time star at WMAQ -TV who later WFAA -TV, is shared by his colleagues, Doug served at NBC News, out of retirement and Adams, at KXAS -TV, and Wendell Harris, at installing him as its 6 o'clock anchor, mixing KDFW -TV. It is also reflected in the ratings. In new talent, like anchor John Drury, with es- the July Arbitron book, WFAA-TV led at 10 tablished personalities, and picking up Por- p.m., with a 14 rating and a 26 share, while terfield as a correspondent and back -up an- KXAS -TV and KDFW -TV tied with a 12 rating chor. And WMAQ -TV was achieving stability and 21 share. (But KXAS -TV owns the 6 with its news team of co-anchors Ron Majers o'clock period and is neck and neck with and Carol Marin, John Coleman on weather WFAA -TV at 5 o'clock.) and Mark Giangreco on sports. "We're now For the stations, "local" does not mean into our third year with those four people as a Dallas -Fort Worth; it can mean the whole team," Reingold says. state of Texas, nearby states and Mexico, Chicago, incidentally, is one of those mar- with some of the rest of Latin America Haag Haltenforf kets where independents are a factor. The thrown in. All three, for instance, sent crews games in Chicago. It Tribune Co.'s WGN -TV in the Arbitron July to Saragosa, Tex., after a tornado devastated is serious busi- book, achieved stronger numbers at 9 p.m. the town, killing six people. And WFAA-TV ness-even if some than did WBBM -TV at 10 p.m. -a 10 rating and KDFW -TV were on the scene when a of the journalists see and 16 share compared to a nine rating and sealed boxcar containing the bodies of 18 themselves as carry- 16 share. In the Nielsen book, WBBM -TV was illegal aliens was discovered in Sierra ing on in "The Front stronger. But WGN -TV's one -hour news -at- Blanca. Both communities are about 500 Page" tradition - noon program also compares favorably with miles west of Dallas. All three sent crews to with much in the WBBM -TV's early afternoon news program, Wyoming to cover the crash of a small plane way of money and particularly in demographics. The point is in which four Dallas businessmen died. And reputation at stake. clear: WGN -Tv is competitive. The first half - all three made a major effort in covering the At present, WLS -TV, hour of WGN -TV's 60- minute program at 9 earthquake in Mexico City, in September which had slipped p.m. is devoted mainly to local news, usual- 1985. Harris, who described Mexico as from its position as Kalber ly longer pieces, including investigative sto- "practically a beat" for KDFW -TV, said it was number one in the market in local news, is ries; the second half-hour, to INN and its the first local station with a crew in Mexico again the dominant station-tops in all time national and international news. Fox Televi- City-it sent up to 30 people there, he periods in both rating books. The station's sion Stations' WFLD -TV has begun two even- said -and was the first and only station to "game plan"-devised by former general ing news programs, at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., file a report by satellite before the only avail- manager Dennis Sorenson, put into effect by but has thus far achieved only two rating able uplink failed. At that point, broadcast- the present GM, Joseph Ahern, and now points and shares of four or five. ers covering the story chartered planes to overseen by news director James Hatten- Despite its problems, Kershaw expresses move their taped reports; KDFW-TV at one dorf-is, Hattendorf says, to "concentrate confidence that WBBM -TV will recover. point chartered three. The stations are plan- on the big story of every day." Hattendorf "We'll do it brick by brick," he says. "We're ning extensive coverage of the Pope's visit to also talks of the "three P's: Get the best per- reformatting programs, doing better journal- San Antonio, Tex., next month, and they sonalities, the best product, then promote." ism, adding people to the mix who will will cover presidential politics, once the At NBC's WMAQ -TV, news director Rich- help." The station is also planning to shift Iowa caucuses and the primaries draw near. ard Reingold says he is "encouraged"; the CBS Evening News from 5:30 p.m., when WFAA -TV, with a news staff of 92 full -time station is generally second to WLS -TV across the other affiliates air their network news employes and a budget Haag says is "in ex- the board, and its investigative unit wins programs, to 6 p.m., as the final segment in cess of $7 million," supporting a ku -band awards. Only at CBS's WBBM-TV, which has their early -fringe news block. All three af- truck and a helicopter, appears to have a lost its position of dominance, is there a filiates now run local news at 6 p.m.; Ker- larger news operation than KXAS -TV and sense of dismay. And why not? Like CBS's shaw says that new schedule will afford KDFW -TV, although not by much. The others, KCBS -TV, it seems afflicted with a dose of WBBM -TV a "better flow, going from one lo- for instance, have helicopters and lease Murphy's law. cal news show to another. With the network trucks. And Harris says KDFW -TV assigns When Bill Curtis gave up New York and a where it is, we lose a lot of energy." But wLs- "more reporters to the night side than any of less than successful tour as co -anchor of TV is not worried. " Kalber," says Hatten- the other stations in the market," to cover CBS's ill -fated Morning News, in 1985, and dorf, "will kill Rather." He may. Kalber's news and update stories developed earlier in returned to what had been a highly success- ratings match his two competitors combined. the day. Indeed, the station seems a busy ful role as WBBM -TV anchor, the station's So a shuffle of the schedule represents one place once the sun goes down. Harris talks slippage had already begun. His return led to of the risks of the business. But, who of four reporters, three photographers, pro- the departure of Harry Porterfield, a black, knows? Maybe WLS -TV will get complacent, ducers, writers and five tape editors, as well who had been serving as anchor-and to a let things slip, not make changes when nec- as reporters working on special reports and host of unpleasant publicity and a boycott of essary. Maybe audience's tastes in various an executive producer supervising the activ- WBBM -TV advertisers by blacks.Then, too, markets will, unaccountably, change. May- ity -all, says Hams, "to back up two an- there was the libel suit Brown & Williamson be Murphy's law will take its toll of such chors," Clarice Tinsley and Steve Bosh. Tobacco Co. had filed against CBS because powerhouses as WLS -TV and KABC -TV. As Why such an effort? "The public expects a of a series of commentaries Walter Jacob- some stations, like WLS -TV and WBBM -TV, lot," says Adams. "The competition gener- son -who now co- anchors the 4:30 p.m. have reason to know, what goes around has a ates the expectation." news with Linda MacLennan, and the 10 way of coming around.

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Call ington or use TV Direct technology to put Rosie Oakley at your own reporters on the air. 1- 800 -821 -4747. The race for network news laurels NBC is on top for now, but new why some shows fare better than others un- those lines is imminent. But he noted that people meter rating system will der the ratings system, although most point Sawyer is "clearly interested in" a co- anchor affect network news standings to complaints by network research execu- job. And he also said that, contrary to some tives about Nielsen's people. meter sample reports, Rather has not dismissed the co -an- After a six -year struggle, NBC News has (BROADCASTING, Jan. 5 et seq). chor idea out of hand. Rather is open to that managed this year to back climb on top in the CBS would appear to be the biggest win- idea, but only if it is determined that is what evening news race. It hasn't been there, conner as the result of the conversion to people is needed to "improve the broadcast." sistently, since the days of the Huntley - meters. Its flagship broadcast, the CBS While it remains unclear what the long- Brinkley Report of the 1960's. Year to date, Evening News with Dan Rather, fell into term effect of the people meters will be on Nightly News has about half -a- rating -point third place this summer in the old Nielsen the network news programs, ABC News lead over the CBS Evening News and close numbers and for the first time ever placed Vice President Richard Wald said last week to a point- and -a -half lead over ABC's World third in a sweeps period. For the evening the indications are that the difference be- News Tonight. Nightly has won the last three news daypart, the people meter may be the tween first and third in the evening news In consecutive quarters. the early morning great equalizer, putting CBS back in a neck- race is narrowing. "It is probably going to be daypart, NBC's Today made its move last and- neck race with NBC, with ABC not far a three -network race from now on," he said. year, and after a six -year struggle, recap- behind. As for changes that are likely at World tured first place from Good Morning Amer- Rather's broadcast dominated the evening News Tonight, Wald declined to discuss any ica on ABC. news race for five years, before the NBC that might be coming up for competitive rea- But, starting this week, the people meter news started gaining ground in late 1985, sons. He said that ABC news executives are could change all that. Both Nielsen and just as the network's entertainment division "pretty happy" with the way the evening start, AGB officially, measuring television was making its final push to the top of the newscast is set up. "Essentially, all of us are audiences with their new systems effective prime time heap. In the fourth quarter of last quite conservative," he said. "We make today (Aug. 31). The change in measure- year, NBC's Nightly News took first place changes that are hardly perceptible." World ment systems will, the if year-to -date num- consistently enough to win the quarter, its News is a "trifle faster" than it was a year or bers are an indication, reduce NBC's lead in first quarterly win in 20 years. two ago, and some of the specialty reporting the evening news race to one -tenth of a rat- The Evening News really began to falter has been beefed up, said Wald. ing point over CBS, and pull ABC within this summer, placing third in the July At NBC there is no question that the net- striking distance of first place. In short, the sweeps. But Tom Bettag, executive producer work's leadership in prime time has helped people meter will convert NBC's fairly com- of the CBS Evening News, dismisses the strengthen the news division. But Nightly fortable lead into a three -way race for first broadcast's ratings slippage as so much News executive producer William Wheatley place. Through Aug. 16 of this year, Niel - "summer craziness." Since the program be- also contends the broadcast has improved sen's people meter shows Nightly News with gan to slip last year, the fine tuning has not over the past year, particularly in providing an average 10.7/21, half a rating point off its stopped on the program. Everything has viewers with "a feeling of the why and the mark as indicated by the outgoing measure- been tried from touching up the gray in Dan how of a thing in addition to the facts." ment service. The Evening News follows Rather's hair, to discarding his celebrated In what used to be called the morning with a 10.6/21, two- tenths off its mark under sweater vest and even having him try to news race, two of the four competing net- the current system. World News Tonight has "tone down" his delivery, described by some work programs are now produced by enter- remained flat with a 9.9/19. as "too intense." The program has also been tainment divisions-CBS's The Morning worse The news is even for Today. Its "reblocked" to make fewer commercial Program and ABC's GMA. The latter has lead in the morning race could evaporate breaks in the program, although containing undergone some dramatic on- and -off-the -air overnight and the program could find itself as many commercial minutes as before. Bet - changes in 1987, while maintaining its rela- in second place to GMA, albeit in a pretty tag has also commissioned the composition tive competitive position against first -place tight race for the top spot. According to of new music for the broadcast and is explor- Today. The most significant on -air change Nielsen's people meter, Today has dropped ing possible changes in the set and graphics. was the departure of host David Hartman, to an average 4.2/21 from a 5.0/24 under the Bettag says the fine tuning will continue who had been with the program since its old system. GMA, the new system indicates, but that no drastic changes will be made until debut a decade ago. ABC News correspon- has averaged a 4.5/22, compared to a 4.1/19 he has a better read on how the switch to the dent Charles Gibson replaced him in what under the old system. CBS's The Morning people meter will affect the news race this was seen by most as a relatively smooth tran- Program is losing about two -tenths of a rat- fall. A number of stories have surfaced in the sition. ing point with the conversion with an aver- press recently about the possibility that 60 The people meter numbers will show age 2.2/11, keeping the show a distant third Minutes correspondent Diane Sawyer might GMA jumping to the lead this week. ABC in the competition for morning viewers. join Rather as co- anchor of the evening news has noted that the show tends to do better News executives are at a loss to explain program. Bettag denies that anything along among the larger, urban markets in the top-

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Kur- been a banner year for the program. It was alt. "Ours has been a more contemplative But like many executives in the business, the first to interview Jim and Tammy Bakker program, in television terms," said Kuralt. Today's executive producer, Marty Ryan, after the PTL scandal broke last winter. Al "It feels comfortable, and those who do see says it's too early to make changes in news Campanis made headlines around the nation it seem to like it, I think." programs based on the change in measure- after declaring on the program that blacks in The word on the three network interview ment systems. Ryan claims that the broad- baseball lacked certain innate managerial programs on Sunday morning -This Week cast is now at "the top of its game," and that skills. The program also scooped up several with David Brinkley on ABC, Face the Na- it does not make sense to impose significant interviews with key figures during the Iran - tion on CBS and Meet the Press on NBC, is changes now. "Initially it is not going to be contra hearings. status quo. One note, however, is that Meet much different," he said. One exception may No changes are planned in the format of the Press will celebrate its 40th anniversary be letting some segments run longer than the program, which has been plagued by on the air Nov. 6. The network claims it as scheduled if an interview is going well. clearance problems since it debuted in 1979. the world's longest running television pro- Meanwhile, The Morning Program on But the network announced two weeks ago gram. A special broadcast is planned, but CBS is still struggling to find an audience, the details are being kept wraps. still a distant third behind Today and GMA. under In the magazine genre, The show's executive producer, Robert CBS has the oldest and newest programs on the Shanks, denied reports last week that the air. 60 Minutes program, is entering its 20th season and West 57th its introduced in January, was about second. to undergo a major format change, perhaps Don Hewitt, executive even reshuffled to the news division. "There producer of 60 Minutes, has been with is no question about the future the show," CBS for almost 40 of years and has he said. "It's here." a contract to remain in his position until the eve of his Shanks also reported that the program, 50th anniversary with the network. Mike Wallace, who with a budget estimated at about $20 mil- has been with 60 Minutes since its start, is lion, will make a "small profit" in 1987. Last now 69, but Hewitt Wallace year, when the two -hour News says shows no signs CBS Morning of slowing ran at down. Harry Reasoner, the other 7 a.m. -9 a.m., the program accrued original substantial losses. correspondent with the program (although he spent nine years The early morning news programs at all away from it at ABC) has just come back from major three networks have undergone a lot of lung surgery. Hewitt says he change in the past year. ABC's World News thought about introducing another This Morning lost both of its anchors last correspondent to take up the slack if Wallace and winter, with Steve Bell opting for an anchor Reasoner wanted to cut back. But he says it does not look spot with KYW-TV Philadelphia, while Kath- as though that will be the case. leen Sullivan is anchoring The Health Show, But if the program new from ABC News on Saturday morn- should need to reinforce its on -air talent, ings. Replacing are Jed the first place Hewitt them Duvall and would Edie Magness. go is West 57th, that is if Andrew Year Lack, that program's executive producer, to date, there has been a slight drop concurred. in the program's ratings, compared to the "Merideth Viera, Jane Wallace and Steve Kroft are all same period a year ago. But, says executive candidates," should the need arise, said Hewitt. producer Bob Roy, "I don't know how much Meanwhile, Lack says his stock you can put in any of these numbers team is simply busy cranking out stories. given all the upheaval." Except for some There have been reports that Jane Wallace wants fine tuning with the graphics, Roy said he to cut back on her workload, does not anticipate changes in the show's particularly the amount of format. traveling she does. Her situation should be settled in a few weeks, Lack said. The CBS Morning News underwent a At ABC's complete format change at the start the 20/20, Victor Neufeld, the new of executive year, when the new Morning Program was producer, is in place. He succeed- NBC §'Sunday Today ed Av Westin, who was introduced. Morning News was cut back to taken off the show after he released a lengthy 90 minutes and pushed up to a 6 a.m. start memo on ineffi- that several affiliates in larger markets would ciencies at ABC time. The first half -hour is live, and then News with which news clear the show live, including Louisville, president repeated at 6:30 a.m., sometimes with live Roone Arledge took issue. Westin Ky., and Jacksonville, Fla., bringing the live is producing a special on the updates. The third half -hour segment from 7 Constitution, clearance rate up to 66.1% of the country by and after that will try to to 7:30 a.m. is also live. Forrest Sawyer and develop some new the end of September. news pilots for Faith Daniels stayed with the broadcast after the network. On Sunday mornings, NBC will try to Neufeld faces the change and are still there. The Morning the challenge next season of shake things up a bit with Sunday Today, producing 20/20 in a new News has a much harder edge to it than a time slot on Friday which bows Sept. 20, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. nights, where some observers suggest the year ago, says executive producer David Maria Shriver and Boyd Matson co- Corvo. anchor show may lose audience. He dismisses such the program, with Garrick Utley doing the observations as "disconnected NBC News at Sunrise also switched an- talk" and says newscast and Al Roker of WNBC -TV New he isn't planning any chors this past year. Connie Chung left the changes in the broad- York doing the weather. Executive producer cast to counteract the switch in broadcast to join 1986, which was canceled time periods. Marty Ryan describes the mission of Sunday CBS is still committed last December. Chung now anchors week- to its overnight Today as similar to the daily version, but program, Nightwatch, which will end editions of Nightly News and documen- celebrate "more relaxed. We're thinking of it as a vid- its fifth anniversary in October. Deborah taries. In her place at Sunrise is Deborah eo version of a Sunday newspaper." Johnson, who is nearing her first Norville. "We give people first crack at the anniversary The program will compete with CBS's as executive producer of the news in the day," said the execu- show, says no program's long -running Sunday Morning with Charles major changes are being tive producer, Gerry Solomon. we do planned for the "What Kuralt, although not head to head, as Sun- coming season.

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As the networks become more In the late 1970's there was a brief period reau has at least one correspondent, a pro- cost -conscious. harder questions when perhaps all three network news divi- ducer, another production person, a two-per- are being asked about the separation sions could be said to have shown a profit. son camera crew, an editor and office staff. of journalism and business At least two of the three had developed mag- In addition, there is the cost of keeping the azine shows and the hyper-inflation of more loyalty of "stringers"-who fill in during The term "news business" was probably not recent years had not quite begun. But soon emergencies -by occasionally farming out intended to be an oxymoron, but its two new technology spawned satellite transmis- work, whether needed or not. Roughly halves exist together uneasily. The ideals of sion, smaller cameras and portable editing three -quarters of the cost of a foreign bureau journalism and the open -ended definition of equipment. And true to their professional is for salaries and travel. what is news do not lend themselves to the proclivity, news executives were more likely Is it inherent to journalism that each min- budgeting process and certitude asked for by to put such technology toward getting more ute of an evening newscast cost tens -of- the businessmen. Network executives spe- news, rather than getting the same news at thousands-of- dollars to produce? Answers cifically avoid describing the newsgathering lower cost. Shortly thereafter there devel- Jeff White, former vice president of finance with a process analogies to factory or busi- oped what Robert Butler, group executive for CBS News: "There is no etching in the ness, and instead compare newsgathering vice president of NBC, and others have mountain that says you have to produce with fire fighting and the necessity to be called the news "arms race." Combined, news for the cost that we presently do. How- prepared for anything, anywhere. perhaps, with some bureaucratic empire ever, people must understand they may lose Tensions between "news" and "business" building, news division budgets that were something .... For instance, instead of get- have been the building over past two years roughly $85 million in 1980 grew to $300 ting the perspective of Tom Fenton, who has and all three networks are still in the process million by last year. spent most of his life in Europe, you may of evaluating and cutting back on costs. Al- That $900 million three- network total end up hearing from a consultant. I don't though the recent focus on costs has been outweighed the roughly $830 million in rev- want to sound insulting about consultants to new attributed ownership at all three net- enue that the three divisions are likely to but I happen to think that correspondents works, in fact, the attempt to limit the ex- have brought in. To detail further the rev- provide a great value." pense of newsgathering goes back to 1933, enue and costs and to come up with a profit But how many correspondents is enough? when General Mills said it would fund half picture for different types of shows is more The consultants took their own look at the of William Paley's Columbia News Service difficult. There is no doubt that shows such news business when NBC hired McKinnsey only if the costs could be held to within $ I.3 as 60 Minutes and 20/20 are profitable -the & Co. earlier this year. Their report report- million a year. Inflation since 1933 would former is said to earn at least $30 million edly shows that one -fifth of the NBC news have lifted that network's $1.3 million to annually. On the other hand, most if not all correspondents appeared on less than 3% of $11.5 million regardless, but the imperatives one -hour documentaries, which generally the NBC Nightly News air time. That works of journalism have carried the total an addi- cost between $250,000 and $1 million, are out to about two seconds a night at an aver- tional $290 million as of last year. unprofitable. age cost of say, $150,000 a year. It may be the dissimiliarity between the In its essence, the evening newscast with Such calculations are no reflection of a news and business professions which alan anchor and two cameras in a studio, need reporter's abilities, but raise questions about lowed the costs to soar. News executives not be very expensive. But competition has management's need for, and allocation of, did, and many still do, come from journalis- led ABC, CBS and NBC to feed their 22- newsgathering resources, especially for tic rather than business or other back- minute broadcasts from a larger and larger breaking news. Producers and correspon- grounds. When a major news story was "hard news" infrastructure of correspondents presumably will, if they have no breaking 10 years ago, the typical executive dents, bureaus, producers, etc., which now breaking news destined for the newscast, de- at CBS, for instance, would have been more represent roughly two- thirds of the news di- velop background or feature stories. Not likely to have headed to the news room, visions' costs. Although the infrastructure only do such stories take more time, they sleeves rolled up and ready to phone news may produce for other shows as well, such also have even less chance of getting on the sources, than to have stayed in his office to as radio and the morning news, most of the air and instead are "left on the cutting room calculate how best to cover the story so as to costs come from the evening newscast. floor." have a minimal impact on the divisional bot- As of last year that infrastructure might With National Association of Broadcast tom line. The unspoken motto was "get the typically have included eight domestic and Employes and Technicians currently striking news first," and for decades. broadcast lead- 15 foreign bureaus, staffed by 100 corre- NBC and the International Brotherhood of ers such as CBS's Frank Stanton, were un- spondents each earning, on average, more Electrical Worker's contract with CBS expir- likely to press too hard for accountability. than $150,000. Each bureau has a minimum ing this fall, much of the current focus on The news divisions were, it was said, not cost of $500,000 and most are in the $2 runaway news costs is on union work rules expected to show a profit. million -S3 million range. A full -fledged bu- and salaries. Accounts of the contracts report such clauses as that which requires NBC news to hire freelance crews for a minimum of two weeks, thereby encouraging, instead, the use of in -house crews at overtime pay scales. While there are many pieces that brought the news division pie up to $300 million, the union situation was only one, and probably not the largest. IBEW, for instance, probably has 500 members who work at the news division. Assuming an average wage of $70,000, that $35 million is less than one- eighth the overall budget, and probably just one -fifth of CBS's overall salary, wage and benefit costs. Perhaps the networks' biggest problem is that there are not enough time slots to effectively use all the material which a news division generates. This lack of air time is almost like money going down the drain,

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HS -110P features: toad capacity of 250 lbs. Max. velocity of 90° /Sec Preset return accuracy of 18 arc seconds (0.03141" from 30 ft.) Highly responsive servo design. ey," said -firmer, "and it proved it could do carrying early morning or midday news have what we thought it could do." CNN has a little fresh video available. The round -the- second on its way to Frankfurt, West Ger- clock feeds are designed to meet this need many, for its European operations, and plans for stations in all time zones. To start, only to put units in Tokyo and its nine domestic stations with agreements with CNN already bureaus within the next two years. The first can get the service. (CNN's broadcast client unit will be put to the test in September as list is approaching 200 stations). There will CNN plans live coverage of the confirmation be an additional charge for Newsource, hearing of Judge Robert Bork, the Pope's which Amos said would be decided on a vist to the U.S., the launch of the French market -by-market basis. Amos declined to Arianespace rocket and activities surround- discuss budget costs, but said a staff of 20 is ing the anniversary of the Constitution, planned. "We get our best on the air as soon Turner among others. Turner believes the expanded Meister as we can," said Amos, and this service is ability to go live is one of the keys to CNN's hind -the -scenes events in the 1988 election designed "to make it easier on our affili- future. "Even though it costs a lot of money campaign. The Inside Politics program will ates." in lost commercials and in coverage, we feature reports on the candidates, their staffs CNN also continues to sign affiliates for have to do it to establish ourselves," said and other political players. "It will begin its Newsbeam satellite newsgathering ser- Turner. The piece missing from the puzzle, where the normal political coverage ends," vice- KWTVCTV) Oklahoma City was its said Turner, is the mature reporter who Turner said. One of the things IP will do, I6th. "knows the story," has done the homework said Turner, is watch what the media are and can go live at any moment and "be inter- doing and provide, for instance, national ex- O esting, lucid and cogent... In the old days of posure of political commercials that will be radio news, you had reporters that could do running in early state battlegrounds. The Financial News Network represents an that." CNN is also expanding the raw video example of what has been happening in the CNN plans to introduce in October CNN footage it is providing to its broadcast affili- cable industry in the last five years. The World Report, up to six hours of largely une- ates. In October, CNN plans to launch CNN narrow, but well -defined programing service dited programing from countries around the Newsource, which is, according to Paul that provides viewers with business and fi- world. The report is aimed at muting criti- Amos, CNN Headline News vice president, nancial information has seen steady sub- -cism that the views of the Third World and "an all- encompassing daily news feed ser- scriber and programing growth. It has 26 what goes on in those countries are largely vice designed to provide TV stations with all million subscribers and turned profitable 18 ignored by Western media. CNN plans to the news material they need to produce, if months ago. FNN announced earlier this contact each country in the world about pro- they wanted to, their own network news- month that it plans to provide news and in- viding material, and has received positive cast." There will be eight feeds each week- formation to radio stations and is presently talking with responses from 45 of the 100 already con- day, at approximately 5 a.m., 10 a.m. (a the major radio networks about distribution. The FNN tacted. The program will air at midnight features feed), 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 service itself has ex- each Sunday night and run to 6 a.m. p.m., 10 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. panded its evening programing, adding to its Starting in November, CNN plans a daily, Amos said that although plenty of footage schedule America's Business, a version of which half -hour political program, covering the be- is available for evening newscasts, stations had a short run in syndication earlier this year. And the overnight Telshop service will soon be a full -scale 24 -hour network. FNN's sports service, Score, is expanding into the overnight hours as FNN expands its business day and evening programing. As FNN Director David Meister explains. FNN is not so much a show for Wall Street as it is for the layman who requires a greater sophistication in handling his or her money. "How do you survive in 1987? That's what we're trying to appeal to," said Meister. FNN begins its program day at 6 a.m. with world business news. At 9:30 a.m., with the opening bells of the stock exchanges, FNN focuses on the activity in the market. It runs the tickers of the New York, American and NASDAQ exchanges on a I5- minute delayed basis. There are business focus and market watch reports throughout the Knight Science day and wrap -up and call -in shows after the Journalism Fellowships market closes. The one FNN Massachusetts Institute of Technology -hour Evening 1988 -89 Academic Year News runs at 6 p.m. FNN premiered the half -hour America's Business on July 13 at 7 p.m. The program provides a final wrap -up For full -time staff or freelance science The principal sponsor is the Knight Foun- of business news, features stories and studio and technology journalists working for dation of Akron, Ohio. In recognition of the guests. To date, economists Arthur Laffer newspapers, magazines, press services, Foundation's sponsorship, the Fellowships radio, and television (but not in public rela- were renamed in 1987. During 1982 -87 the and Paul Erdman have appeared. That pro- tions), with a minimum three years' cover- Fellowships were known as the Vannevar gram is followed by American Investor, age of science and technology. Bush Fellowships in the Public Understand- with FNN's Score picking up at 8 p.m. With ing The intensive program of professional of Technology and Science. Telshop's move to a separate channel, Score development at MIT includes twice -weekly Stipend: $20,000. programing will fill the overnight and week- seminars with scientists and engineers, Relocation allowance up to $2,000. end blocks. Overall, FNN plans to increase visits to laboratories, attendance at Application Deadline: 1 March 1988 courses, and workshops on challenges for its weekly programing from 671/2 hours per science journalism. The goal is to increase Contact: Victor K. McElheny, Director week to 85 this fall. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships acquaintance with front-rank researchers The move into radio, said Meister, repre- and to attain a deeper knowledge of current Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room E40 sents "a growing appetite for [business issues in science and technology, and of -373 their wider social impact. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 news] information," and will give FNN an- Telephone 617- 253 -3442 other revenue stream. Presently it is expected that the radio business news reports

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 58 will air from morning through evening there's no need to compete directly against candidates and are also getting some techni- drive times, with feeds running approxi- CNN or the three broadcast networks for live cal and production support from larger cable mately five minutes in length. coverage. By airing the hearings at 8 p.m., systems that produce material for the pro- O C -SPAN gives viewers complete testimony gram. It is with that background that the C -SPAN, the cable public affairs network, is that they may have only seen a part of and at service makes the promotional statement: already in full swing covering the candidates a time when it's convenient for them. C- "C -SPAN viewers already know the next running for President in 1988 and plans ex- SPAN has gotten its viewers accustomed to President of the U.S." because of the exten- and unan- tensive coverage of the hearing process in- "the event of the day" being aired at 8 p.m., sive coverage the announced the volving Supreme Court nominee Robert Lamb said, so the hearing scheduling fits. nounced candidates have received on Bork. The network will follow a similar pat- For Bork, C -SPAN will cover the actual network. on tern to that of its Iran- contra coverage, pre- hearings and C -SPAN H will cover the floor C -SPAN officials also have their eyes argu- senting gavel -to-gavel coverage on a de- debate. the next horizon -coverage of oral the C -SPAN layed basis starting at 8 p.m. each evening. C -SPAN continues to run its Road to the ments before Supreme Court. The reaction from viewers and cable opera- White House series, a 90- minute compila- has already done some court reports from tors was "very positive" to that scheduling, tion of material from the campaign trail that inside the building, where no television said C -SPAN President Brian Lamb. "We're airs Friday afternoon. C -SPAN crews have 96. an alternative service," said Lamb, and been crisscrossing the country following the Special report continues on page

News directors to tackle tough issues at RTNDA Money matters. journalistic nization from Canada, there will be two tional University, and Mal Goode. ethics and discrimination award presentations. J. Laurent Scharff of A Friday morning session led by Jeff among topics to be discussed the Washington law firm of Pierson, Ball & Greenfield, correspondent for ABC flews, Dowd will receive a Distinguished Service New York, will be an open forum for critics Maintaining quality in an era of budget cut- Award. Scharff has been RTNDA's legal of broadcast news media. Concurrently backs at many broadcast news operations counsel for 20 years. The Rob Downey there will be an ethics and libel workshop. will be a main topic of discussion at the 42nd Award, recognizing special contributions to The first part, entitled "See You in Court," annual International Conference and Exhibi- RTNDA, will be presented to Stephen M. will be conducted by Bruce Sanford of the tion of the Radio- Television News Directors Murphy, news director, wowTtTV) Omaha. Washington communications law firm of Association. But "there's no single line of J. Spenser Kinard, vice president and Baker & Hostetler. Part II, "It's Your Deci- attack," said RTNDA director of member- news director of KSL -TV Salt Lake City, and sion," will be conducted by J. Laurent ship and conferences, Robert Vaughn, in de- RTNDA chairman, will preside over the pro- Scharff. scribing the scope of the convention Sept. I- gram at the closing banquet on Friday night. On Friday afternoon, a technology session 4 at the Orange County Convention Center, Kinard will hand over duties as 1987 -88 will examine the conflict of loyalties that Orlando, Fla. chairman to Bob Brunner of WSAZ -TV Hun- arise among broadcasters who belong to sat- Another popular topic at the event, which tington, W. Va. The banquet will also feature ellite newsfeed networks. Skip Haley, assis- is expected to draw 25,000- 26,000, will be presentation of the Paul White Award- tant news director, WBRZ(TV) Baton Rouge, the recently repealed fairness doctrine. All RTNDA's most prestigious honor -to Don will moderate. members will be asked to write their repre- Hewitt, executive producer of CBS News's Of interest to radio broadcasters will be a sentatives and senators to fight the expected 60 Minutes since the show's premiere in Wednesday afternoon session on the use of congressional push to codify it. (The 1968. portable cassette recorders in the field. Par- RINDA has also petitioned the FCC to re- Activities at the Orange County Coven - ticipating on the panel will be Chuck Wolf, peal two corollaries of the fairness doc- tion Center will begin Wednesday morning news director, KIKK -AM -FM Houston, and trine- political editorials and personal at- with the opening of the exhibition and open- Frank Gentry, correspondent for the Mutual tack rules [see story, page 891.) ing remarks by Kinard and RINDA Presi- Broadcasting System, Washington, and au- The conference will open Tuesday night dent Ernie Schultz. Also starting Wednesday thor of "Tape: A Radio News Handbook." session, radio equip- (Sept. I ) with a speech by Ted Koppel, host morning will be the first of 17 convention During the RTNDA's of ABC News's Nightline. Koppel will sessions, "FOI: On the 200th Anniversary of ment committee will release the results of a speak at Epcot Center near Disney World the Consitution," moderated by Tim nationwide survey of what features RTNDA following the RINDA National Awards pro- O'Brien, law correspondent for ABC News, members want in portable cassette record- gram. Washington. Topics for other sessions in- ers. On the following afternoon, Jack Ander- clude money concerns facing broadcast The results of another radio study will be son, syndicated columnist and daily com- newsrooms, journalistic ethics, libel, tech- released on Friday afternoon. The survey of mentator on the UPI Radio Network, will nology and sexual and racial discrimination. 1,000 radio listeners on their preferences in speak during a luncheon at the Peabody In- Concurrent sessions on Wednesday after- news coverage was conducted by Reymer & ternational hotel's Plaza International Ball- noon will be on budgeting and cost control Gershin Associates Inc. for The Associated room, near the convention center. Also at for both radio and television news oper- Press. According to AP spokeswoman that program, Mal Goode, consultant for the ations. The radio session will be led by Lee Wendell Wood, among the survey's findings National Black Network, New York, will Hall, news director of wDBOtAM) Orlando, will be that listeners of music -formatted sta- receive RTNDA's Distinguished Service Fla., and Stephen L. Ruppe, news director, tions prefer having some news broadcast on Award. KATC(TV) Lafayette, La., will moderate the those stations to having no news. Harvey Goode became the first black member of TV session. Gershin and Ruth Hamill of Reymer & Ger- the RINDA in the 1950's and in the early At the same time Jo Moring -Verne, vice shin will present the results and Brad Kalb - 1960's was the first black television corre- president, affiliate news services for NBC feld, deputy director and managing editor, spondent hired by ABC News, New York, News, New York, will moderate a session AP Broadcast Services, Washington, will where he covered the United Nations. examining sexual discrimination in news- moderate. Rounding out the Wednesday afternoon pro- rooms. On the panel for that session will be Also on Friday afternoon will be a discus- gram will be a report from the Radio-Televi- George Watson, ABC News vice president sion of how the networks will cover the 1988 sion News Directors Foundation and presen- and Washington bureau chief, and Kathy campaign. Moderating will be Edward tation of four fellowships and seven Bonk, director, Women's Media Project, Fouhy, executive producer, NBC News, scholarships by RTNDAE Washington. On Thursday morning Felicia Washington. Another luncheon program at the Peabody Jeeter of KHOU -TV Houston will lead a dis- The special difficulties involved in cover- hotel will be held Friday with NBC News cussion on how to improve news coverage of ing stories on AIDS will be produced by the anchor Connie Chung as keynote speaker. minorities. Joining her on the panel will be Scientists' Institute for Public Information, After a report from RTNDA's affiliated orga- Lionel Castillo, president of Houston Na- New York. The Thursday afternoon session

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 59 will be moderated by John Ziegler, professor two incumbents who are not running for re- before or during the Pope's visit in mid -Sep- of medicine at the University of California's election, Mary C. McCarthy of WDSU -TV tember. school of medicine in San Francisco, and New Orleans, and Steve Vogel of WJBC(AM)- A new SNV exhibitor will be Roscor director of the university's AIDS Clinical WNBQ(FM) Bloomington, Ill. Corp. of Mount Prospect, Ill. It will display Research Center. In addition to the sessions, about 150 its "Star Fleet 21" van. Computerized tele- At the same time, Lou Prato, assistant companies will exhibit at this year's conven- prompters operated with IBM PC's will be professor, Medill School of Journalism, tion, making this the 13th consecutive year displayed by Computer Prompting Corp., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., that the amount of exhibit space sold has Washington. MCL Inc., a 26- year-old mi- will lead a session on how to create closer increased substantially, said exhibition orga- crowave equipment manufacturer out of Bo- relationships between broadcast newspeople nizer, Eddie Barker, of Eddie Barker Associ- lingbrook, Ill., will be another new booth on and academia. Prato is also chairman of the ates, a Dallas public relations firm, and for- the floor. RTNDA education liaison committee. mer RTNDA president. This year's The largest exhibit will be operated by Active RTNDA members will meet on exhibition will be 17% larger than last year's Centro Corp., Salt Lake City, manufacturer Thursday for the annual business meeting 55,000 square feet at the Salt Palace in Salt of fixed and mobile television production and election of officers. This year Bob Lake City. According to Barker, 49 new ex- equipment. Also holding prominent pre- Priddy of the Missouri Network, Jefferson, hibitors will have displays this year. sences at the exhibition will be Hubbard Mo., is running unopposed for the position News programing services have been re- Communications, CNN /Turner Program of chairman elect. His term as chairman sponsible for much of the growth on the ex- Services and Walt Disney Attractions. elect will be longer than the normal one year hibit floor, Barker said. Newslink Inc., pro- In conjunction with the convention, a due to the RTNDA policy of scheduling its viding ENG, studio production and satellite number of associated meetings will be held convention after election day during presi- feed services from New York and Washing- in Orlando during the week. The three major dential election years. The 1988 RTNDA ton bureaus, is among the new exhibitors commercial broadcast networks will hold convention will be held in Phoenix in De- this year as is Potomac Television & Com- meetings with news personnel from their af- cember. Also to be elected at the business munications Inc. of Washington. The latter filiated stations. Other companies planning meeting will be two members for two -year has two satellite production services, Poto- meetings are UPI, Gannett Co., Panasonic terms as directors -at- large. The four candi- mac News and American News Bureau. An Broadcast Systems, Sony Corp., Conus dates are: Debbie Bolton, WSAV -TV Savan- Italian-based firm exhibiting for the first Communications and Frank N. Magid Asso- nah, Ga.; Jim Forsyth, WOAI(AM) San Anto- time this year, Crystal Communications/ ciates. The Society of Professonal Journal- nio, Tex.; Tom Luljak, WTMJ -TV Milwaukee, Larry Pintak Productions, will display its ists SPJ /SDX has organized a breakfast and Bill Silcock. noncommercial KBYU -FM- five -part series of three -to- four-minute meeting for Friday at the Peabody hotel. TV Provo. Utah. The winners will succeed spots. John Paul's Vatican. designed to air RTNDA daily agenda and list of exhibitors Exhibit hours for the RTNUA convention will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tv News Budgeting and Cost Control. Convention Center. Orange Blos- Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday som II. Moderator: Stephen Ruppe, KATC(TV) Lafayette. La. Panelists: Al Buch KsNw(Tv) Wichita, Kan.; Bob Selwyn, Gillett Broadcast Service Group, Nashville, and Jack Francis, Florida Power and Light Tuesday, Sept. 1 Co. Sex in the Newsroom. Convention Center. Orange Blossom I. Moderator: Jo Moring-Verne, NBC News. Panelists: George Watson, ABC News, and Kathy Reception at the Land Pavilion. 6:30 p.m. Epcot Center, Land Pavilion. Bonk, Women's Media Project, National Organization for Women Legal Sponsored by Capital Cities /ABC and RINDA. Defense and Education Fund. 1987 RTNDA National Awards program. 9:30 p.m. Epcot Center, Ameri- Session. 4 p.m. Orchid room. Portable Cassette Recorders for Radio can Garden Stage. News. Panelists: Chuck Wolf, K1KK -AM -FM Houston, and Frank Gentry, Mutu- al Broadcasting System and author of Tape: A Radio News Handbook. Remarks. 10 p.m. Speaker: Ted Koppel. ABC News's Nightline. Epcot Results of RTNDAs radio equipment committee survey of portable cas- Center. sette recorders and manufacturers' response. Evening at Sea World. 6 p.m. Sponsored by NBC News and RTNDA. Wednesday, Sept. 2

RTNDA business meeting breakfast. 7:30 a.m. Peabody hotel, Florida room. Thursday, Sept. 3

Opening general session. 9 a.m. Orange Blossom room. Remarks: RTNDA Chairman J. Spencer Kinard and RINDA President Ernie Shultz. RTNDA International registrants breakfast. 7:30 a.m. Peabody hotel, FOI -On the 200th Anniversary of the 9:15 a.m. Panelists: Constitution. Bayhill I -11. Michael Gartner, editor of Louisville Courier-Journal and past president AEJMC of American Society of Newspaper Editors; Richard Salant, former CBS breakfast. 7:30 a.m. Bayhill IV-V News president and vice chairman of NBC board of directors; Richard Data transmission guidelines committee meeting. 8:30 a.m. Conven- Schmidt Jr., general counsel, ASNE; Thomas O'Connor, Boston College, tion Center, Magnolia room. member of Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. Exhibition opens. 9 a.m. North /South halls. Reception. 11:15 a.m. Convention Center. Three concurrent sessions. 9 a.m. Convention Center, Orange Blossom Luncheon. 12:15 p.m. Peabody hotel, Plaza International Ballroom. Il. Talking Back-Minorities Tell Us What We're Doing Wrong. Modera- RINDA Distinguished Service Award presentation to Mal Goode, National tor: Felicia Jeeter, KHOU -Tv Houston. Panelists: C. Vernon Mason, New York - Black Network consultant. Foundation report. RiNDF scholarship and based attorney; Lionel Castillo, Houston International University, and Mal fellowship presentations. President's Club announcement. Speaker: Syn- Goode, National Black Network consultant. dicated columnist Jack Anderson. Newsavriting. Orange Blossom I. Ed Bliss, author and former CBS News Three concurrent sessions. 2:30 p.m. Convention Center, Orchid room. news writer. Radio News Budgeting and Cost Control. Moderator: Lee Hall, woBO(AM) Stress Management and Prevention. Orchid room. Lee Milteer, Lee Mil - Orlando, Fla. Panelists: Tony deHaro, WROD(AM) Daytona Beach, Fla.; Ger- teer Associates, CareerTrack. ardo Tabio, KRMG(AM) -KWEN(FM) Tulsa; Bob Benson, ABC News, and Fred Berns, The Berns Bureau. Luncheon with exhibitors. 11:30 a.m. North /South halls.

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The new FM service, however, will have more of a "consumer slant" and will offer Classic entrance stations 15 daily, one -minute newscasts between 5:55 a.m. and 8:55 p.m. NYT. Both networks are headed by Bob Rush, director of broadcast services for Dow Jones. Universal Broadcasting is slated to sign on wwcs(AM) Also getting ready to enter the network radio fold with a business news service is classical- formatted in Canons- burg, Pa., a suburb the Financial News Network cable channel. Called FNN's Business Headline News, of Pittsburgh, tomorrow (Sept. 1), making it the market's only com- the proposed satellite -delivered service will provide two- minute business and finan- mercial classical outlet. Wwcs will be broad- cial news updates every hour from morning drive time on the East Coast through casting 24 hours a day in stereo, said Uni- afternoon drive time on the West Coast (approximately 16 hours). The service, which versal Broadcasting Vice President Jeffrey is expected in to be launched early 1988, is being targeted for AM stations. Warshaw. The station had been airing a religious format under the call of wARO(AM). Universal presently operates portant to any business, but absolutely vital 15 stations, Deja vu many of which are stand -alone to a mature business like radio." AM properties. It has owned wwcs for Harris called radio "the most resilient, more than 20 cre- Premiere Radio Network, a Los Angeles - years. ative and resourceful ]advertising] medium based radio program supplier, will soon in- there ever was." Said Harris: "To survive the troduce a two -hour music /interview pro- Signing on next five years, I think you (and we in the gram featuring rock groups and artists of the States) are all going to need a lot of shrewd- 1960's and early 1970's. Classic Call will in- MJI Broadcasting, New York, is planning a ness. 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80 Cable operators head to Atlanta

SCTA Eastern Cable Show tracks: current issues, business and market- rect Broadcast Sales. addresses improving profits ing, public affairs and technology. Topping The marketing seminars include a Cable and marketing, among other topics the list of current issues will be two Monday Television Administration and Marketing morning sessions on overbuilds, featuring Society subscriber retention panel, a market- Overbuilds, improving the bottom line and Paul Glist and Wesley Heppler, attorneys ing cooperative session, a customer service better marketing techniques highlight the with Washington -based Cole. Raywid, Bra- session and a panel on channel alignment agenda for the Eastern Cable Show under verman; Samuel Book, president, Malarkey and local market interests featuring Bob way in Atlanta Aug. 30 -Sept. 1. Registration Research; Tom Alexander, president. Alex- Thomson, vice president of government af- is on track to match last year's 3.500 and the ander & Associates. and Glenn Schein. re- fairs. Tele- Communications Inc., and Dean number of exhibitors is approaching 160, a gional manager, Dynamic Cablevision of Deyo, president, American Television and 33% increase over last year. Florida. The same track on Tuesday will fea- Communications, Memphis. Kicking off the show on Sunday will be a ture Milton Lewis, president of Wometco, The convention will also feature a techni- Community Antenna Television Association and Harry Cushing, executive vice presi- cal track put together by the Society of Cable convention featuring CATA President Steve dent, Telesat, in "The Corporate View of a Television Engineers and a "Public Relations Effros and Motion Picture Association of Changing Landscape." Training Seminar" created by the National America President Jack Valenti. Turner The Tuesday business sessions will fea- Cable Television Association and the Cable Broadcasting is hosting a reception that ture examinations of the financial rewards of Television Public Affairs Association. evening at its new CNN Center that will pay per view, home shopping, pay services The show's sponsors, the Southern Cable feature mockups of the sets of MGM classic and the TVRO market. Panelists include Television Association, has scheduled the films "Gone With the Wind," "Casablanca," Kemp Delo, director of marketing, Masada afternoons free of sessions to allow atten- "Singing in the Rain" and "Mutiny on the Corp.; David Archer, Viacom Networks: Pe- dees to visit the exhibit floor. Monday even- Bounty." ter Barton, president, Cable Value Network, ing's annual banquet will feature country The convention has been divided into five and Wes Hanemayer. director of Turner Di- singer Louise Mandrell.

Eastern Cable Show exhibitors

Bailey Acts Satellite Network 803 Staff: Robert Price. Reilly. Stan Leonowich, Bill Kaatz, Lynn 523 6350 West Freeway. Fl. Minh. 1i.r. 76/50 Bravo Cable TV Supply Co. St.. Los Angeles 900/6 -4386 Family Christian network. Statt: Mark Snowue 150 Cmssra y.v Hark West. Woodbury. N.Y. 5922 Bmre'rafr Richard Mark Jeffcoat. Glenn Starling, Paul Lee. B Bravo service. Staff: Bruce Ferguson, Jim Riley, Staff: william Krempasky Mark Engler. Boatwright. Jim Hughes. Ray Johnson, Ty Waco Karen Jarmon. Hunt. Donald Bos, Steve Brazil, Bill Cody, Greg Renbroe. Dwayne Hamilton, Keith McMichael, Jarvis Hearn. & Sims 117 Bumup Bill Martin. Adams-Russell, Aryls division 621 ROW E. Pnvuiee Ave.. #C -5, Englewood. Coln. Velue Network 407 300 Second Ave., Waltham. Moss. 02154 e0111 Cable 5655 S. Yosemite. #105. Englewood. Colo. 80111 Automation systems including random access Capstan Coaxial cable, Lectro Power supplies. Video merchandising channel. Staff: Peter Bar- advertising insertion systems and automatic construction services. Staff: Mike Filkins, Steve ton. Steve Cunningham, Joe Pfifer. Kim Korb, playback systems for local originates ' movies JJagner. Kevin Lynch. Arlene Adams. Dennis Mike Mirer. Anne Christman Arvis Compact and Grid systems' Staff: nd.i Geltmacher. Mike Kearns. Marty deAlminana. Enter- Arnold. Roger Strawbridge. Robert Long, Larry Wallace. Steve Breen. Cableview Publications, Cable Video tainment 419 Air National Guard Support Center 1217 Business Systems 519-521 Ill 10h Ave.. A'ew }ark 10011 Mail stop #18, Andrews A1B. Md. 20331 One Manus Dr., Greenville, S.C. 29609 Curtain Going Up, tune -in spots. Staff: Richard In- house. real -time. computerized billing and American Movie Classics 1312 Sullivan. Mark Rubin. Sandy Messinger. Russell management system with addressable interface 150 Crossways Park West. Woodbury. N.Y. 11797 Cohen. capability, automatic PPV ordering, billing and Staff. Dennis Patton, Michele Roberts. Steph- Calan 502 authorization systems. Staff: Glynda Caddell. anie Mele. Cynthia Burnell. R.R. #1 Bar 86T. Dingmans Fem, Ph. 18328 Sherri Arrowood. Bill Kilgore. Gib Amstutz. Bill Value Network 718 Integrated sweep system /spectrum analyzer. America's Cox. 4777 Menai! Dr. Eau ('/aire, /Vis. 54703 Staff: Phyllis Thompson. A. William Le Doux. Cable Unk 622 Anixter Communications 615 -617 CATV Subscriber Services 1105 -1020 280 Co ::ins St., Columbus, Ohio 432/5 4711 Golf Rd.. Skokie. /ll. 61X176 108 State St.. #102. Greensboro, N.C. 27408 new and refurbished converters, distri- Sales of Mapping, design, engineering. construction. in- Artline Industries 1308 bution electronics, passive devices and hard- stallation. marketing, sales. audits and support 696/ /earlire lnd. Blvd. Nnr'mss, Go. 3007 ware. Descrambling and addressable convert- services. Staff: Raymond Galtelli, Fred Robert- ers, positive and negative traps, repair facility. APITMS Information Services son. Gerald Haisman. Jerry Curran, Tommy Staff: Stan Smith. Jon Schatz, Fritz Juskalian, 1825 K St.. N.W. #6/5, Washington 20006 Butts News Plus. Business Plus. Channel Guide' Jack Davis. Brenda Rowe_ CBN Cable Network 203 Staff: Gregory Graze. Annabella Riccio 914 -916 Cable Security Systems CBN Center, Virginia Beach, Wt. 23463 Box 2066. Auburn. Ala. Associated Press 910 459 N. Deem Rd.. P.O. Family programing of news and musical spe- 36830 one C'.NA' C'enter, #5(X1, Atlanta 30303 cials. westerns, comedies, movies and inspira- locks, power AT &T Network Systems 1011 -1013 Security apartment box. supplies', tion programs. Staff: Russell Breault. Tammie Mike Springer. Mike /11/ Woods Mill Rd.. Ballwin. Mo. 6301i batteries. Staff: Curt Cope Ashe. Clay Boudreaux. ..ruby, Sheila LaMacchia. Bigham Cable Construction 1007 -1009 C-COR Electronics 201 11ar 903. Gulf Breese. Fla. 3256/ Cable Services Co. 904 60 Decibel Rd.. State College. Pa. 16801 Staff: Harold Bigham, Margo Bigham. Herb Bid- 2 //3 ,1/anoldle Are.. Williamsport. Pe. 17701 Designs and manufacturers electronic equip- dle. Don Kent, Lacy Hamilton. Full line stocking distributor of cable products. ment and offers variety of professional services. Black Entertainment Television 611-613 turnkey contruction. Staff: Bob Brantlinger, Staff : John Hastings, Michael Crotts. Can Lauck. 1232 31st St. N.W. Washington 20017 George Ferguson. Certified Investments 620 205 Family entertainment, black college sports, mu- Cabletek -207 223 S 6th St.. Grien, Ga. 30223 Kr 40578 sic videos and public affairs programing. Staff: PO. Boa 11908. Lexington. Investment programs. antique coins, antique Rosalyn Shaw Doaks, Robin Beaman, Darn' CableTEK Center Products 501 and modern jewelry, investment stones. Staff: Grayson 850 Teyler St.. Elyria, Ohio 44035 Marvin Goldstein. Virginia Goldstein, Kathy Brad Cable Electronics 103 Hinged cove molding', full interior and exterior Powell, Mike Statham, Mark Goldstein. 1023 State St.. Schenectady, N.Y. 1230/ molding conduct and fittings, coring tools and Channel) Commercial Corp. 714 Converter sales and service, equipment repair. enclosures. installation accessories. Staff: Tim 620 m: Fexnhill Bled, Glendora, Calif. 9/740

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 81 Channelmatic 716 First Data Resources 1504 vid Chavez, Tony Garcia, Kay Miller, Steve Miller, 549 Park Ave.. Prairie Du Soc. Wis. 53578 7301 Pacific. Sr.. C-46. Omaha 68114 -5497 Shannon Patinkin, Butch Roberson, Ellen Wéi- Commercial Electronics 514 Management information and subscriber billing mann. 4065 White Oak Lane. Lilhurn. Ga. 30247 system. Staff: Barry Johnston. Midwest Corp., CATV Division 918 Communications Equity Assocs. 1106-1108 General Cable Co., apparatus division 101 2697 International Pkwy. Virginia Beach, tkt. 23452 5401 W Kennedy Blvd.. #85/. Tinnpa. Fla 33609 NAO W 88th Ave.. Westminster. Colo. 80030 Cable management software program, pedes- Brokerage. investment banking. corporate finan- Telsta aerial lifts for splicing, maintenance and tals, pole line hardware, connectors. converters, cial and management services. Staff: J. Patrick construction of CAN aerial plant. Staff: Leo addressable systems. Staff: Elijah Midkiff, Jerry Michaels Jr. Thomas Alexander. W Jay Dugan. Nowak. Thompson, Chris Sophinos, Wayne Daniels, Mar- Edward Frazier Jr., Donal Bosson General Instrument, Cable Home Comm.427 sha Pleasants, Jim Kelly, Bill Brookhiser, Bill CompuLink 922 ('rnnmiScope Division. 1375 Lenoir Rhyne Blvd.. Dancy, Scott Mils. 5600 S. Quebec. R -156. Elrglernyrd. Colo. 80111 Hickory. N.C. 28603 Movietime Channel 1306 6611 Santa Monica Bbd.. Los Computer Utilities of the Ozarks 1407 General instrument, Jerrold Division 421-423 Angeles 90038 Basic cable network, highlights 103 Industrial Park Rd., Suite C. Harrison. Ari :. 22(X) Bybetr Rd., Hatboro. Pa. 19040 of upcoming films and cable productions, 72601 Cable TV electronics, headend distribution and entertainment news and features. Staff: Larry Name[ David Saltman, ComSonics 1010 subscriber equipment. Staff: Larry Fry, Ed Brian Owens. P.O. Bor 1106. Harrisonburg. Va. 2280/ Breen, Geoff Ronan, George Fletcher, Ted Wat- Video Window field strength meter with system man- kins. Barry Pressman. Jeff Grant. Jim Bailey Jer- MPCS Industries 1404 514 W. 57th St., New York 10019 agement package feature', Sniffer II and Sniffer ry Scheliga, Jim Faerber, Steve Rosekrans, Kurtis Jr RF leakage detection units. coaxial relays Whitt, Jim Daves. Matt Aden. Jon Ridley MTV Networks 114 Wayne 1775 Broadway, New York 10019 Staff: Bruffy. Dana Smith. Gilbert Engineering 807 MN: Music Television, VH -1Mdeo Hits One, Conversations On Cable 1015 PO. Bos 23/89. Phoenix 85063 Nickelodeon Nick at Nite. Kris 3110 Roswell Rd.. #218. Atlanta 30305 Staff: Bagwell, Group W Satellite 1200 -202 Steve Houck, John Shaker. Cosmo Graphics 209 PO. Bor /0210.Stamford. Conn. 06%4 Netlink, USA 3201 NE Loop 820. #150. Fon Worth, Ter. 761.1: 619 5808 Lake Washington Blyd., N.E. Cable programing guides. Staff: Chris Stark. HollyAnne Corp. 712 #101, Kirkland, Wash. 98033 Scott Phillips. Larry Rosenberg, David Amer ¡09 11ís7 O'Connor. Greeley. N.E. 68842 Private carrier of satellite delivered programing. Country Music Television Home Box Office 507 1204/1307 Staff: Susan Aigner. Many Robbins Bldg.. Music Village Blvd.. Hrnder- 1100 Avenue of the Americas. New York 10036 Northeast Filter Co. 417 somille. Tenn 37075 Pay TV service of comedies, drama. sports, spe- 14 Corporate Circle. East Syracuse, N.Y. 13057 Country music videos. interviews. Staff: Michae cial events. documentaries, series and family Northern CATV Aisney Rene Ray Melissa Stephens. programing. Festival'. Staff: Gail Sermersheim, Sales, ARCOM 210 Dorothy McDermond. P.O. Box 6729, Syracuse N Y. 13217 Creative Management Systems 1004 Andrea Miller, Ina Silex Pat Connor, Bonnie Hathaway Jill Slavin, Joe Reid. Pay security traps. Staff: Jean Weller. Douglas 213 Washington St.. P.O. Box 10, Toms Riven , V.J. Adolf. 08754 Dan Fobas, Beth Flint, Sid Buchman, Linda Bur- nett. Ray Monasterski. Michael Dorr. Dianne Stav- NuCable Resources -The Cable Ad Channel Discovery Channel 206 ropoulos, Ken Schick, Debbie Ellis, Virginia Ben - System 516 8201 Corporate Dr.. Landow. Md. 20785 zier. Janel Boston, Barbara Cohen, Bert Smith. 3050 K St.. N.W. #370. Washington 20007 Disney Channel 317 Joyce McNulty, Stan Thomas. Rob Roth, Bart Generator of incremental ad revenues through 3800 W. Alameda. Burbank. Calif. 9/505 Swift. Lee Winters- Rosenberg, Jan Slaughter, photo advertising, Cable Ad Channel System Jr. Disney pay service. Staff: Michael Mason, Mar- Bonnie Gannon. Art Bell. Dawn Hill, Bob Zitter. for smaller cable systems (2,000 -15,000)'. Staff: garet Grover, Maureen Lane, Joe Cantwel Brad Parobek, Ed Burakowski, Barbara Ruger. Home Shopping Network 110 Cheryl Fiumara. Steve Hearn. Joe Orrende' Phoenix Cable /529 U.S. 19 South. Clearwater. Fla. 303 Kathleen Smith, Tyrone Thompson. Mary Dodo 33546 HSN4'Staff: 100 Colony Sq.. Atlanta 3036/ Taylor, Jan Hall, Amy Innmon. Cindi Lipper, Eliza- Charles Bohan, W Alex Job, Ginger Smith. Equipment and private cable system financing, beth Ireland, Sharon Nichols. senior and subordinate loans for upgrade. refi- Hughes Aircraft Co. 502 Drop Shop Ltd. 103 nancing and acquisition of systems. PO. Bos 2940. Torrance. Staff: Don- P.O. Box 284, Roselle, N.J. 07203 Calif. 90509 ald Demer Multichannel microwave distribution equipment. Distributor and manufacturer of CAN installation Pioneer Communications of America broadband transmitters and on-frequency active 602 equipment and specialty products, consumer in- 607 E. Crescent Are., Upper River. repeaters. support services. Staff: Art Heiny Saddle N.J. terconnect products. subscriber passive de- 07458 Gene Stanley. Cyd Bergen. vices. Staff: David Wank. Dennis Sarantapoulas One -way addressable converter. SmartRemote. ISS Engineering Linda Passzun. 520-522 standard converters. Staff: Fae Kopacka, Lance Dyatron Automated Services 1005 104 Constitution Dr.. Menlo Park. Calif 94025 Belcher. 210 Automation /lin. lürnrirthmn. Ala. 35210 JC Penney/Telactlon Corp. 1407 Playboy Programing Distribution Co. 400 -402 Laser statement printing and mailing services 1750 E. Golf Rd.. Schaumburg. Ill. 60173 -5002 8560 Sunset Bbd.. Los Angeles 90069 Staff: Wayne Fisher. Gary Bryant. Kennedy Cable Construction 720-722 Staff: Richard Sowa, Que Spaulding, Michael Eagle ComSonics 115 Hey. 280 West. P.O. Bor 760. Reidsville, Ga. 30453 Fleming, Mike Hale. Michael Feinner, Jack Mat- 4562 Waterhouse Rd.. Clay, N.Y. 1304/ Aerial and underground CAN and telecommuni- thews, Brian Quirk, Theda Giles, Laurie Giddins, Super traps, decoding filters, encoders, direc- cations construction. Staff: Roger Kennedy Jr., Manila Cilio. De Terry. tional taps, addressable descramblers. ET micro Robert Skelton. Frank Walker, Martin Homberger Power & Technology 1207 -1209 series traps and decoding filters'. Staff: Alan KMP Computer Systems 1504 PO. Bor 43223, Atlanta 30336 Devendorf. Tom Quirk, Chet Syp. 2075 Trinity. #100. Los Alamos. N.M. 87544 Preview Network 708 -710 Eastern Microwave 111-113 Cablestar personal computer -based manage- 1130 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore 21239 1/2 Northern Concourse. Syracuse. N.Y. 1322/ ment information and subscriber billing system. Staff: Kathy Manger, Susan Robinson, Bill Baker Superstation WOR -TV New York. Staff: Gil Kona. Staff: Eldon Pequette. Production Products Co. 307 Ann Marie Russell. Anne Stone. Lifetime Cabletelevision 305 One Mery Lane, Manlius, N.Y. 13104 Electronic Communications 912 1211 Avenue of the Americas. New York 10036 PTL Inspirational Network 700-702 /0303 -112 Dirle Hm:. 40272 Louisville. Kr. Entertainment and information programing WOC Bldg.. Charloue. N.C. 28279 Converter, line equipment, and field me- strength geared toward women. Staff: Sydney McQuoid. PTS Corp. 805 ter repair. Staff: J. Dwayne Rice. Vicki Rice. Dae Karen Burleson. 5233 S. Hwy 37, Bloomington, Ind. 4740/ Walter. Pam Walter. M/A -Corn Mac 706 Converter/line amp sales and repair Electronic service Publishers 1017 5 Omni Way, Chelmsford. Mass. 01824 Staff: Gary Wilson. 7431 Bush Lake Rd.. Edina. Minn. 55435 Full line of microwave radio. Staff: Don Sicard. OVC Network 627 ESPN 214-216 George Hardy Goshen Corporate Park. West Chester, Pa. 19380 ESPN Plaza. Bristol, Corm. 06010 Macom Mac 706 Request Television 607-609 Basic cable 24 -hour sports network. Nationa 5 Omni /lia. Chelmsford, Mass. 01824 140 E. 45th St., 40th floor. New York 10017 League Football' Staff: Bill Zaccheo. Brad Fox. Magnavox CATV Systems 600 Pay- per -view software. Staff: Carter Maguire, Carmen Ilacqua. Roger Williams. /0l) Fairgnnnds Dr.. Manilas. N.Y. 131(14 Tom Fennell, Craig Wilson, Lori Sherman, Jay Ru- E -Z 'Wench Mfg. Co. 518 Cable equipment. distributors. headend equip- bin, Andy Ferraro. Rt. 3. Box 78-B. Loris. S.C. 29569 ment, software package. Staff: Bob Finnerty, Jim RMS Electronics 301 Staff: Roger Porter Kazda. Zenon Dragosz. Ron Townsend. Ric Row- 50 Antin Pl.. Brain. N.Y 10462 Fiberhart 900 land. Power supplies, 600 mhz power passing split - P.O. Box 28/. Valley Head, Ala. 35989 MlcroSat S/E 401 -403 ters, couplers and power inserters, nonpower Financial News Network 1019 1519 Johnson Fein Rd.. #250. Marietta, Ga. 30062 passing splitters and couplers, transformers and 645 Madison Are.. Nov Yak 10022 Rower supplies, connectors. Acunet'. Staff: Da- filters, distributors of molding duct, pedestals

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 82 704 and apartment boxes. wire and cable. traps and Texscan Corp. 426 TV Host Pa. /7109 drop hardware. Staff: Ray Perez. Bill lelel 10841 Pellicano Dr, El Paso. Tex. 79935 3935 Jonestown Rd.. Harrisburg. TV Host and satellite guide. Staff: Frank Scientific Atlanta 527 Transmission equipment. character generators. cable Ray Pastie, Jim Bonfiglio. Dillahey, Dewey Fritz. P.O. Bor 1256(10. Atlanta 30348 test equipment. Staff: Pappas. Maria Montilla. Mason Hamilton. 413/512 Sencore 1303 Jan TVC Supply Co. Barry Kenyon, Dave Allen. Steve Miller. Bill Daw- /746 E. Chocolate Ave.. Hershey. Pa. /7033 3200 Sencore Dr., Sima Falls. S.D. 57107 son. John Shaw, Bob Jackson. TVSM 309 Shop Television Network 300 The Travel Channel 1001 -1003 309 Lakeside Dr. Horsham, Pa. 19044 2323 Corinth Ave., Los Angeles 90064 605 Third Ave.. New York 1W158 The Cable Guide. Staff: Iry Kalick, Joe Gold- Showcase Video 1024 Advertiser cable program, travel news and enter- shear. /939 Lake lucerne 114rí Lilhurn. Ga. 30247 tainment, travel packages, products. Staff: Jim Showtime/rhe Movie Channel 313 United Video 1301 Trecek, Rancie Header. Mark Dempsey 3801 S. Sheridan. Tulsa. Okla. 74145 1633 Broadway. New York 100 /9 Times Fiber Communications 612/513 Staff: Judy Hoffman. Sandy Neuzil. Nancy Ba- Pay television programing. Showtime. The Movie 358 Hall Ave.. P.O. Box 384. Wallingford. Conn. bich, Donna Davis. Reuben Gant. Terri Sontag. Channel. Viewer's Choice. fall campaign update (16392 Boume. Leisha Cox. Jack Heim. Jour Marla Kinsaul, Virgle Smith. Chris Staff: Winston (Tony) Semiflex cable TX low loss trunk and feeder ca- Ginsberg. Haworth, Anne Wilkerson. Burns. Barry Goldberg, Stu ble. lifetime drop cable. Staff: Rex Porter, Craig U.S. Air Force 415 Sky Merchant 500 Scalzo. Ralph Hillbum, Frank Hamilton, Steve e -o E.H. Pechan & Assoc.. 5537 Hempstead Was 9697 E. Mineral Ave., Englewood. Colo. 80112 Byrd. Carroll Oxford. Dolores Mellor, Jill Maple. Springfield. Va. 22151 Southern Bell 15001502 Toner Cable Equipment 601-603 Weather Channel 614-616 212/ 811r Ave.. N. 17th floor, Birmingham. Ala. 352(13 969 Horsham Rd., Horsham. Pa. 19044 2840 Mt Wilkinson Pkwy, #200, Atlanta 30339 311 Mycrotek and Channelmatic Telecorp Systems CAN equipment. Weather reports, features and forecasts. Staff: -A East. Nommas. Ga. 30092 insertion equipment', IPPV pro- 5825 Peachtree Corners commercial Becky Ruthven. Tamra Davis, Kathleen Cozad. calling computer, sys- grams on Smart Computer Billing System'. System 606 computerized Jill DeMare, Carolyn Schultz, Greg Harris. Be- response system'. automated Statt: Phil Young, Brian Gieseler, Fred Godwin. tem 6000 voice linda Sym- Smith, Lisa Krechting. Lisa Wielbruda, and voice messaging sys- telephone attendant Transworld Systems 1023 Karen Fanning. Mimi Jones. Kathy Lane. tem' Staff: Dana Webster. George Selfridge J' /810) Century Bid.. #830. Atlanta 30345 Potter. Giee John Weeks Enterprises 100 Richard Toal. Rodger Mack, Randy Trilogy Communications 211 641 Grayson Hwt, P.O. Bar 645. Lawrenceville. Ga. Hoffer Lucky Hiers ?91(1 Hnry 80 E. Pearl. Miss. 39208 30245 Telecrafter Products Corp. 623 Tronaec 920 You TV (Health Television Corp.) 1311/1206 P.O. Box 21475. Billings. Minn. 59104 614 Industrial O.. Woodstock. Ga. 30/88 Fifth Are. /The Park Bldg., Pittsburgh 15222 Cable markers, enclosures and locking and se- 'Rimer Broadcasting 312 355 Health and fitness programing service. Staff: curity devices, drop fastening tool. Staff: Dorit One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta 30348 Lehman. Kathryn Gaver!. Louise Good- Herman. Carol Gordon. CNN. CNN Headline News, superstation Jerome win. Melissa Davies. Carl Gustin, Patti Vecchio. Telstar Channels 300 WTBS(TV) Atlanta. Staff: Cathy Burrell. Paul Be- 19(X) Avenue oldiethe Stars. #2500. Los Angeles 90057 rnet, Catherine Paderick, Donna Clayburn Zenith Electronics 906-906 16100 Ill. Tempo Television 515-517 TV Decisions 618 Milwaukee Ave.. Glenview: 69925 RF /de- P.O. Bor 7(1216(1. Trdsa, Okla. 74170 200 flak Ave.. New York 10166 and baseband addressable converter Tempo Television. Tempo Sound, Tempo Data. TV Guide 306 coders and associated headend control equip- 4 Radnor Corporate Center. Radnor. Po. 19088 ment. impulse pay per view options. multi -brand superstation WTBS(TV) Atlanta. Staff: Kip Farr - remote control'. Staff: Robert Cunningham, er, Kim Bates, Sue McPartland. Sarina Kiaver TV Guide magazine. Staff: Debra Disch Roberts. Charles Eissler, Barry Hardek. Dick Smith. Ray Klinge. Ruth Minetto. Bruce Kerschner.

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Governor promises attempt to put issue will campaign actively in support of the tax business and promotes products on which on ballot in form of constitutional legislation. taxes are paid when they are sold -is not amendment; action seen as 'good sign' William Brooks, vice president and gen- appropriate, he said. eral manager of wvrv(Tv) West Palm Beach, The governor's proposal was widely re- For the first time since Florida's 5% service Fla., and president of the Florida Associ- garded in Florida as indicating he was bow- tax -which applies to advertising-went ation of Broadcasters, said on Wednesday ing to pressure from legislators who fear into effect on July I, broadcast and print that it appeared the governor was "backing their support of the measure could cause media opponents of the measure had reason off' his position in support of the tax. them serious political harm. Print and broad- last week to believe their opposition was Brooks noted that polls of listeners and cast media have been waging an intensive having an effect. Governor Robert Martinez, viewers taken by radio and television sta- campaign against the measure -and not who had led the fight for passage of the tions in the state indicated that the governor only on the air or on paper. Some 60 media $760- million tax measure, told legislative was in the minority on the issue. But he also groups have canceled meetings scheduled leaders he would attempt to put the contro- suggested the voters might be persuaded to for the state, including a meeting of NBC versial issue on the ballot, in the form of a support the tax. affiliates that was was rescheduled from Or- constitutional amendment, on March 8, "Su- He said the only alternative was to impose lando, Fla., to Hawaii next June. The AAF per Tuesday." To put the matter before the on themselves the tax needed to raise the in May issued a report based on a Wharton voters, he would need the approval of three - necessary funds. The tax on services was econometric study that estimated that the 5% fourths of each house of the legislature. thought to have been the least controversial tax on advertising would cost Florida 34,000 Martinez said he will call a special session of of three means of raising the necessary jobs and $1.5 billion in income by 1989. for mid -September to vote on the issue. funds: The other two involved a business Meanwhile, financial help was promised The declaration by the Republican gover- receipts tax and a personal income tax. the FAB in the legal fight it is waging against nor was described by American Advertising Brooks said the FAB -which has yet to fash- the tax. The National Association of Broad- Federation President Howard Bell as "very ion a position on the governor's new propos- casters' executive committee last week positive, a good sign." The AAF and its 21 al -agrees that the state needs new funds agreed to provide the FAB with $50,000 for Florida affiliates will participate in a drive to and is prepared to work with the governor in that purpose (BROADCASTING, Aug. 24), present their point of view on the legislation devising a means of collecting them. But half the amount the state association origin- to Florida voters. while Martinez said he taxing advertising -which he said generates ally sought. The NAB said it would provide

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Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 84 the additional $50,000 once FAB has Jefferson -Pilot Communications Co., Char- reached its proposed $1- million goal. lotte, N.C., "the Florida situation is so sig- "While we do not normally get involved in nificant, it's almost a bellwether situation, these local issues," said Wallace Jorgenson. and we felt we needed to take a different NAB joint board chairman and president of posture." Buahl)eaom aToegy

I in 1 J TELEVISION markets. Commercials will appear First Interstate Bank Campaign daytime positions on weekdays and spanning four to six weeks will air in weekends. Target: adults, 18-49. Agency: about 20 markets starting in early Baker, Abbs, Cunningham & Klepinger, September. Commercials will be Birmingham, Mich. positioned in prime and fringe periods.

25 -54. Agency: Campbell ; I Target: adults, _= RADIO & TV & Wagman, Westwood, Calif. California State Lottery o Fourth - Jockey International Company's quarter campaign will run for nine weeks underwear line will be highlighted in in 14 markets, starting in late October. four -week flight beginning in late August Commercials will be carried in all in 10 markets on East Coast. dayparts. Target: adults, 25 and older. Commercials will appear in fringe and Agency: Dailey & Associates, Los prime segments. Target: adults, 18 -25, Angeles. 25 and older. Agency: Admerex International, New York. Illinois State Lottery o Three -month campaign kicked off last week in Vision Express Eyewear retail chain markets blanketing state of Illinois for has tapped former football star Paul Lotto -7. Commercials will be placed in Hornung to serve as spokesman in third all dayparts. Target: adults, 21 -59. and fourth quarter campaign in markets Agency: Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota Eckhardt, Chicago. and Nebraska. Commercials will be slotted in all dayparts. Target: adults, 25- 54. Agency: Schneider, DeMuth ßepiWQipII lS Advertising & Public Relations, Louisville. Ky. KRMG(AM) Tulsa: To Katz Radio from Chris - Tyson Foods Company has begun tal Radio. flight in Eastern, Midwestern and O markets to promote its Country Southern WYLD -AM -FM New Orleans and WJYL(FM) in Fresh chicken products commercials Jeffersonstown, Ky: To Banner Radio Tom T. featuring country singer- composer from Hillier, Newmark, Wechsler & How- Hall. Commercials will be scheduled in ard. all dayparts. Target: adults, 18 and older. Agency: Noble & Asociates, Springfield, WWNH(AM)- WCYT(FM) Rochester, N.H.: To Mo. Christal Radio from New England Spot W.B. Rodenberry Co Peanut butter Sales. and pickles will be accentuated in flights O in three markets, starting in mid - WGL(AM) Fort Wayne, Ind.: To Roslin Radio September, for one or two weeks. (no previous rep). Commercials will run in all dayparts. O Target: adults, 25 -49. Agency: KALV-FM Las Vegas: To Eastman Radio (no Evans /Atlanta. previous rep) Mitsubishi Campaign unveiling new O luxury car, Galant Sigma, will include WIBB -AM -FM Macon, Ga.: To Republic Ra- spot television in 33 markets plus dio from Southern Spot Radio. network sports programing. in all Commercials will be carried WGAN(AM) Portland, Me.: To Katz Radio dayparts. In addition to Sigma, there will from Banner Radio. be advertising for other vehicles, O including Mitsubishi Mirage family car -FM Salina,Kans.:To McGavren Guild and Mighty Max trucks. Target: adults, KIcT from Katz Radio. 21 -49, 21 -54. Agency: Grey Advertising, Orange County?, Calif. and O Grey Advertising, New York. St. Louis move. Hillier, Newmark, Wechsler & Howard is relocating its St. Louis office on Sept. 3 to 10 South Broad- I I RADIO I I Suite 205, 63102. Phone number re- Hardee's Food Systems o Fast food way, mains: (314) 241 -7799. chain will conduct two -to- four -week drives in early September in four

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 85 Filmation to send animation work overseas Competition, falling ad revenue have 650 workers and temporarily send a large lion computerized coloring system on line helped send 'ink and paint' work, for chunk of its ink and paint business to South by then that will allow it to move all the ink time being, to cheaper Korean shops Korea on a nonequity sharing basis. In re- and paint work back to this country. The turn, Scheimer said, the company hopes to computer system, which is operating on a Since he founded Filmation in September reduce by about $20,000 the price of a typi- trial basis until November, will allow the 1962, company president Lou Scheimer has cal $350,000 half-hour cartoon episode. studio to electronically capture and paint seen the animation business become increas- "We've been able to hold out for the last hand -drawn paper sketches, edit and do final ingly dependent on less expensive Far East - 10 to 15 years without going overseas," he shooting on tape, Scheimer said. em labor. His four largest competitors, said. "It was never our intention to go over- The new system is needed to keep the Hanna -Barbera, DIC Enterprises, Disney seas. This is an interim remedy, and its not studio competitive and "would have auto- and Marvel, now farm out their drawing and even a remedy. It's just a Band -Aid until the matically displaced a great number of people coloring work to animation houses overseas, time we can electronically cut some of these in our ink and paint department," he said. leaving only the writing and recording seg- costs here." The jobs, however, would have been phased ments of the industry here. But Scheimer, That moment should arrive in the second out more gradually had the computer system who sold the company to Teleprompter in quarter of next year, when production for the not been a year behind schedule. He hopes to 1969 and saw it resold to Westinghouse in 1987 -88 television season is completed and hire back a portion of the employes and re- 1981, managed to resist the temptation - preparation for the following season begins. train them to work the computer terminals. until now. Filmation hopes to have a $6 million -$7 mil- Filmation's decision to take some of its The Los Angeles -based studio, known primarily for its first -run bartered syndication fare, is confronting its second annual loss ever during its silver anniversary year. Faced with greater competition, falling ad MaysTunQd revenue and Westinghouse's demands to bring costs under control, Filmation, the ABC will host the 84th World Series beginning on Saturday, Oct. 17. Coverage will largest employer of the five major animation originate in the home park of the American League champion and will feature the first producers, plans to lay off about 125 of its daytime game in three years. Game two will be broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 18 followed by games four three, and five on Oct. 20, 21 and 22, respectively. If necessary, a sixth game will be played on Saturday, Oct. 24 and a seventh on Sunday, Oct. 25. A special edition of Good Morning America called Good Evening America, will be 9 0 presented on Friday Sept. 11. The prime time special will feature the same cast and crew as the morning program and will originate live from New York. Executive producer, Jack Reilly says the hour will remain flexible to accomodate the news of the day ABC Early Morning Entertainment hopes the show will be watched by new viewers who might otherwise not be aware of what's available each morning. Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale will return as Perry Mason and Della Street in Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam, scheduled to air on NBC's Sunday Night at the Movies on Oct. 4. The telecast, also featuring Ann Jillian (Ellis Island) and Tony Geary v (General Hospital), will be the first of four new Perry Mason movies that NBC plans to air during the 1987 -88 season. The teleplay was written by Patricia Green based on characters created Better by Erle Stanley Gardner. It will be directed by Ron Satlof. Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman are executive producers of the Viacom production. Convicted killer Joe Hunt will be the subject of an NBC four -hour drama starring Judd Nelson Barter. (St. Elmo's Fire) in his first television mini -series. Set to air during the 1987 -88 season, Billionaire Boys Club will focus on the financial wheelings and dealings of a You don't have to run weak group of wealthy young Los Angeles men and the revenge they take when they are programming just because you swindled at their own game. Marvin Chomsky directs from a screenplay by Gy Waldron, can t pay cash. based on the forthcoming ITN's unique book by Sue Horton, "The Deadly Pied Piper of Beverly Hills ". programming is the very best The series is a Donald March /Gross -Weston Production. Carol Burnett will star with from around the world, and it her daughter Carrie Hamilton (Fame) in Hostage, a CBS motion picture costs nothing. for television which begins production in Toronto on Sept 10 Mother and daughter portray an escaped convict and hostage with the story focusing on the relation- Ifll pays. Your station will ship that develops between earn money with the two. Peter Levin directs from a script by Stephen Fore- ITN by selling man. Diana Kerew is the producer and Grahm Place is the associate producer. CBS will up to 4 mins/hr of local avails, premiere a new drama called Leg Work beginning Sept. 26. Magaret Collin will or by getting a check from ITN star as a former assistant district attorney who now runs her own private investigating service. for running all 12 minutes of Also starring will be Frances McDormand and Patrick James Clark (Eight is Enough). network spots. According to Frank Abatemarco, executive producer, the series will be filmed entirely in For call Mike and around New York City and was produced in association with Treasure information, Island Production and Twentieth Century Fox Television. Hemingway, Vice President, at In September, HBO will present The Second Annual Prince's Trust All -Star Rock 801321.7779 or 712 336-5708. Concert, a fund -raiser taped at London's Wembley Arena June 5 and 6 featuring George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Phil Collins and Ben E. ITNThe International King. Prince Charles founded the charity in 1976 to help socially, economically or phys- ically Television Network'" disadvantaged youths. Keith McMillan is the director. Anthony Eaton is producer.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 86 business overseas and automate its 60,000 - jobs. square-foot facilities represents another ma- The next union contract comes up for re- jor defeat for the Motion Picture Screen Car- newal in mid -1988, but Hester said the toonists union, which because of the shift by chances of a strike to protest Filmation's American animators to Japan, Korea, and moves are slim. By walking out, he said, the Taiwan has seen its membership ranks de- union would risk "having it all sent out of the cline from a high of 2,000 members in the country... Basically. people are just hanging early 1980's to about 1,400 today. on for an industry that they have been in for The first wave of animation went to Japan 30, 40, 50 years." and Australia in 1961, and since then the The point is echoed by Scheimer. "The union has gone on strike twice to prevent dilemma was do you possibly sacrifice 650 further losses to overseas studios. according jobs or brutally sacrifice 125 jobs," he said, to Bud Hester, business representative for noting that Filmation is experiencing "terri- Local 839 in Los Angeles. Following a 1969 ble budget problems." The company, ac- labor action, the union won a concession cording to analysts, takes in more than $20 from producers who pledged they would not million in revenue annually. Scheimer said take any work out of the country unless all he could not reveal the extent of the com- union members were employed. An II- pany's losses this year. "The only thing ... week strike in 1982 came to an end when we could do legitimately without impacting animators agreed to a guarantee that a per- at all on the quality of the product would be centage of cartoon work would remain here. to send a large portion of our ink and paint But by 1985, Hester said, the union's hands (to Korea)," he said. were tied since the government would not The company, known for Fat Albert and step in and stem the exportation of animation the Cosby Kids. Shazant, He -Man and the

Your next stop...syndication. After an initial network run from 1959 to 1964. and a revival during the past two broadcast seasons, CBS said last week that it will again take advantage of its The Twilight Zone copyright -only this time not for itself but for syndication. The original Twilight Zone (syndicated by Viacom), and the recent reprieve, were both productions of CBS Entertainment. The latest effort will be produced by CBS International, marking the first time it has produced anything for syndication. During the 1985 -86 season Twilight Zone averaged a 13.6/22 in its 8 -9 p.m. spot on Friday During the 1986 -87 season it averaged a 9.7/17 in a variety of spots on the CBS schedule. Partnered with CBI in the new deal is MGM/UA Telecommunications. The deal calls for production of 30 new half hours to be seen on a weekly basis beginning in the 1988 -89 season. Thereafter, the new episodes will be combined with the 19 half -hour episodes that ran on the network this season, and half hours edited out of the 24, hour-long shows from the 1986 -87 season, to form a minimum of 90 episodes for stripping. MGM /UA will clear the show domestically, in Canada, and in Italy CBI will continue to sell to the rest of the world, which it has already cleared extensively. For CBS, the sale to MGM /UA of the domestic syndication rights will capitalize on its initial investment in the 24 hours and 19 half hours already in the can, at a minimal price. For domestic syndication of the series, episodes for a strip are required. For international

Horowitz and his latest product sales a strip is not of vital importance. Cost of production of the 30 new half hours will total between $9 million -10 million. Production of the 30 new half hours will be in Toronto. CBS Entertainment produced the last two seasons of the show in Los Angeles. Don Wear, senior vice president and general manager at CBI, said that production by the international, and not the entertainment division, flows from the two divisions' distinct duties within CBS. "The mandate for them [CBS Entertainment] is to produce for network. International is not network and this falls into our jurisdiction," he said. Norman Horowitz, president of MGM /UA Telecommunications, who was in charge of CBS International from 1968 -70, said that marketing of the show domestically will begin next October. The 30 new half -hour shows will probably be sold for cash plus barter, according to Horowitz. Additionally, Horowitz said that MGM /UA has cleared two other first -run shows, Sea Hunt, and We've Got it Made, for fall debuts, on a cash plus barter basis with stations getting five minutes and MGM /UA keeping one -and -a -half minutes. The 90 -plus episodes of the show available beginning in 1989 will be sold for cash.

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Paramount Television Group subscribed to AGB National Televi- tion on a barter basis. Interview segments in the show will be shot on sion Ratings last week. Paramount is the first studio to subscribe to location throughout the world. Kelly produced a special of the same AGB, which goes on line Sept. 1, 1987. Also, Paramounts Solid Gold name, without Purcell as the host in 1986, that ran on 157 stations has been retitled Solid Gold in Concert beginning with the premiere covering 87% of country, that received a 4.1 rating. The special was of its eighth season. The show will now include performances by syndicated by Multimedia Entertainment. In other news Orbis said artists in a new concert -like setting. that it has now cleared The Next President, a series of interviews J & J Clearances has cleared two one -hour preseason football with all of the major Presidential candidates, in over 65% of the specials. History of College Football, a one -hour special hosted by country. Curt Gowdy and featuring interviews with O.J. Simpson, Roger Stau- Blair Entertainment reports adding 24 new clearances to Fan bach, and Ara Parseghian, has been cleared in 70% of the country Club to bring the station total for that series to more than 100 sta- for an Aug. 29 -Sept. 26 window. The Pac -10 Preseason Football tions representing 80% of the country. Recent additions include Special, a preseason preview of the the teams competing for a WWOR -N New York, wcAU -N Philadelphia, wt.vi -N Boston, WKBD -TV chance at the Rose Bowl, has been cleared in 20 western markets Detroit and KDFI -TV Dallas. Barter distribution of the series gives for an Aug. 22 -Sept. 5 window. Both specials are produced by San stations three -and -a -half minutes and Blair three minutes. Francisco -based 44 Blue Productions and are cleared on a barter The Oprah wnfrey Show will become the first live show, and the basis with five minutes for J & J and seven minutes for stations. only talk show in syndication, to become closed -captioned for the Kelly Entertainment and Orbis Communications have joined hearing impaired, according to King World, when the show makes forces on Public People, Private Lives, a one hour weekly look at its second -season debut Sept. 8. Oprah will air on close to 200 the private side of public personalities hosted by Sarah Purcell, for a stations. fall 1988 debut in syndication ( "Closed Circuit," Aug 10). The pro- World Wrestling Federation has announced a pay -per-view gram is a production of Kelly and Orbis in association with Four Point event for Thanksgiving night, either as a stand alone match or in Entertainment and SJP Productions. Orbis will handle the syndica- tandem with Wrestlmania IV.

Masters of the Universe, and 65 upcoming any of the other major animators, he has no not like nighttime television where you are half -hour episodes of BraveStarr, does not ill feelings toward Group W Productions going to make it out of syndication by deficit intend to pursue any equity share arrange- over its insistence on shipping the work else- financing upfront." ments with Korean animation houses. "I'd where. "They are taking a bum rap for it be interested in them investing in having because the fact of the matter is they're a stuff done here, Scheimer said. "We'd talk company that stuck up for this business for a about it that way but not the other way long time, and what they're asking me to do Public prospects. The for around." Corporation is something that has to be done," he said. Public Broadcasting's Program Fund Although Scheimer held out longer than "You cannot lose money on this stuff. This is has chosen 17 public television projects for funding through its second $6- million open solicitation process for 1987. The winners, in five categories: Public affairs -The Golden Years? Abuse of the Elderly in America (60- Who's known minute documentary); The Philippines: America's Colonial Legacy (three 60- minute programs); Eyes on the Prize - Series 2 (eight 60- minute documentar- as the valuation expert ies); A Time of Turmoil: The Church in Brazil (60- minute documentary). Children's- Degrassi Junior High in the broadcast industry? (13 30- minute live- action dramas). Drama -Trying Times (six 30 -minute comedies); The Wash (90- minute drama). Performance -Over the Rainbow: The Music of Harold Arlen (two -hour variety special); Made in USA (60 -minute dance special); A Capitol Fourth AiM/ (90- minute concert special). mMa General cultural- Columbus and the Age of Discovery (seven 60- minute programs); Pyramid (60- minute documentary); Summer Night Music (five Broadcast Investment Inc. 90- minute musical portraits); American Analysts, Masters, Season II (10 60- minute docu- Post Office Box 17307 mentary portraits). Washington, D.C. 20041 CPB also awarded funds for research (7031 661-8515 and development: Public affairs -Finding God and Other Things in Space (60- minute doc- Asset Appraisals Publications Fair Market Valuations umentary); The Space Age-The Inter- national Space Year Project (12 60- Hospitality Suite 6104 minute programs. Drama-In My Father's House Anaheim Hilton Exhibit Booth 834 (drama based on a novel).

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 88 Petitioners ask FCC The to ax fairness doctrine corollaries Most Important Disclosure Broadcast journalists, others want "The commission has a complete and ripe which to eliminate FCC to do away with personal attack rulemaking record upon lb Come Out Of and political editorializing rules these rules. It is time to act. "The commission's failure to resolve it When the FCC repealed its fairness doctrine ...[its 1983] proceeding at the same time Washington (BROADCASTING, Aug. 10), it was careful to [repealed the fairness doctrine] has created in- point out that its action did not necessarily significant confusion in the broadcasting In Years. intends to abolish what are widely perceived to be dustry as to how the commission "corollaries" of the doctrine-the personal treat cases arising under the personal attack Introducing Capital Coverage® the petition attack and political editorializing rules. FCC and political editorial rules," from Washington International suggested at said. General Counsel Diane Killory lèleport. With our exclusive time that the FCC would have to address According to the petition, the FCC, in the switched network, it costs less "in the near future" whether the corollaries proposing elimination of the rules in 1983, to have more live feeds from key "suffer from the same constitutional invalid- found them more intrusive on the First than the ity" as the doctrine and should also be abol- Amendment rights of broadcasters locations in the Nation's Capital. that ished. general doctrine. The FCC "observed You pay only for the time you make while under the fairness doctrine broadcast- The FCC now has an opportunity to use - in increments as small as broadcast and ers retained some 'discretion to determine that determination. A group of 15 minutes. associations asked the FCC last the manner in which opposing views are pre- journalism Plug in at the White House, the week to do away with the personal attack sented over their facilities,' the personal at- a Capitol-wherever you choose and political editorializing rules by either tack and political editorial rules 'afford - clarifying its fairness doctrine action or by right of access for specific individuals to a and you're muted directly to satellite issuing an order in a four-year -old rulemak- broadcaster's facilities, thereby removing or studio (with IFB). Capital ing that proposed elimination of the rules from licensees almost all editorial discre- Coverage gives you fast, affordable ( "Closed Circuit," Aug. 24). tion'." live coverage, any time, from any- National Association of Broadcasters Even the Supreme Court's Red Lion deci- recog- where in Washington, to anywhere Joint Board Chairman Wallace Jorgenson, sion upholding the general doctrine in the world. president, Jefferson -Pilot Communications nized the greater intrusiveness of the corol- Co., Charlotte, N.C., said, With the Com- laries, the petition said. In the ruling, the ihm to Washington International mission's recent repeal of the fairness doc- petition said, the Supreme Court found that Teleport for services to save you does not trine, which it considered unconstitutional, under the rules "the broadcaster time and money. and have an option of presenting the attacked it should now take the next logical step Direct international access its companion rules [which] party's side himself or choosing a third party do away with C- and Ku -Band also fly in the face of the First Amendment." to represent that side." Tansportables The personal attack rule requires broad- The record in the 1983 rulemaking "dem- et- casters to offer any individual whose charac- onstrated the insidious speech -inhibiting 24 -hour operation In the ter is attacked during a broadcast of public fects of both rules," the petition said. Networking affairs "reasonable opportunity" to respond record, RTNDA had cited ways the rules broad- on the air. The political editorial rule re- assertedly "retard rather than foster quires broadcasters to offer qualified politi- cast coverage of controversial issues and po- cal candidates "reasonable opportunity" to litical campaigns." Individual broadcasters respond to editorials opposing them or en- also showed the ways, it said. "McGraw - dorsing their opponents. Hill Broadcasting Co.," it said, "stated that The petitioners: the Radio- Television its...KGTV(TV) San Diego abstained from po- News Directors Association, the National litical endorsements 'largely because the po- Media In- litical editorial rule would have imposed an Association of Broadcasters, the Washington International Teleport the Reporters Committee for the intolerable burden,' and specifically noted stitute, A Carley Teleport Communications Company Freedom of the Press, the Society of Profes- that had KGTV endorsed just one Democrat 1982 pri- sional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) and Tri- and one Republican in California's 111E POWER OF GLOBAL ACCESS bune Broadcasting Co. mary races for governor, U.S. Senate and a seat, it would have had "In light of the commission's action in [its local congressional 6861 Elm Street 57 other candidates. fairness doctrine action] concerning the to...offer air time to McLean, VA 22101 -3830 testimony on ...doctrine's constitutional invalidity and "Perhaps the most damning (703) 734-2724 harmful effects on the public interest in the the real -world effects of the political editori- 24 -hour Operations Center: (703) 642 -8585 widest dissemination of diverse viewpoints, alizing rules was provided by the October the conclusion is inescapable that the corn - 1982 NAB -RTNDA-NBEA survey of the mission's personal attack and political edito- editorializing practices of broadcast sta- rial rules- adjuncts of the fairness doctrine tions," the petition said. 'The survey re- and recognized to be even more intrusive vealed that the vast majority of responding and chilling than the general doctrine-are ...stations do not endorse political candi- similarly unconstitutional and inimical to the dates because of the political editorial rule public interest, and accordingly must be and that many more would make such en- eliminated forthwith," the petition said. dorsements but for the rule." D

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 89 MockendoK Marker Market Closing Closing Capitali- Closing Closing Capitali- Wed Wed Net Percha PIE =ion Wed Wed Net Percent PIE zation Aug 26 Aug 19 Change Change Ratio (000.000) Aug 26 Aug 19 Change Change Rata (000.000) BROADCASTING PROGRAMING N (CCB) Capital Cities ABC 420 419 1,2 1/2 00.11 29 8790 N (PLA) Playboy Ent. 15 1/2 15 5/8 - 1/8 -00.80 .10 145 N (CBS) CBS 205 1/2 189 7/8 15 5/8 08.22 12 4.849 O (OVCN) OVC Network 9 3/8 10 - 5/8 - 06.25 61 O (CLCH) Clear Channel 17 18 1 - - 05.55 32 54 O (RVCC) Reeves Commun 13 3/4 13 1/4 1/2 03.77 1375 172 O (INFTA)Infinity Broadcasting 23 3.4 24 - 1/4 -01.04 -182 199 O (RPICA) Republic Pic. 'A' . 8 114 8 3/8 - 1/8 -01.49 91 35 O (JCOR) Jacor Commun 7 7/8 8 - 1/8 44 -01.56 O (RPICB) Republic Pic. 'B' 9 114 9 1/4 00,00 66 7 0 (LINB) LIN 47 5/8 47 3/8 1/4 0052 25 2.553 A (RHI) Robert Halml 3 1/2 3 1/2 00.00 14 78 O (MALR) Malrite 11 1/4 10 1/2 3/4 07.14 -16 153 O (SMNI) Sat. Music Net 4 5/8 4 5/8 15.62 -115 41 O (MALRA) Malrite'A' 11 11 00.00 -15 150 O (TRSP) Tri -Star Pictures . . 10 3/4 10 3/8 3/8 03.61 19 331 O (OBCCC) Olympic Broadcast 8 8 00.00 20 N (WCI) Warner 36 3/8 38 - 1 5/8 - 04.27 22 4.549 O (OCOMA) Outlet Commun. 19 1/4 19 1/2 1/4 - - 0128 126 O (WWTV) Western World TV 1 1 3/8 114 1/8 10.00 8 1 A (PR) Price Commun 12 3/4 12 1/4 1/2 04.08 -6 109 O (WONE) Westwood . . One 29 3/4 28 3/4 1 03.47 40 .,,6 O (SCRP) Scripps Howard 79 78 12 1/2 00.63 26 815 O (SUNN) SunGroup Inc 1 3/4 1 3/4 00.00 -2 4 SERVICE N (TFB) Taft 153 1/8 153 1/8 00.08 -26 1,403 O (TVXG) TVX Broadcast 9 5/8 9 1/2 1/B 0111 -6 57 O (BSIM) Burnup & Sims . . 6 7/8 6 1/2 3/8 05.76 13 109 O (UTVI) United Television 32 1/4 32 1/4 00.78 53 353 O (CVSI) Compact Video . . . 4 4 1/8 - 1/8 -03.03 -3 26 BROADCASTING WITH OTHER MAJOR INTERESTS N (CO) Comsat 31 7/8 32 - 1/8 -00.39 -13 584 N (BLC) A.H. Belo 73 72 1'4 4 N 3 01.03 23 785 (FCB) Foote Cone & B. . . 67 1/4 67 1/4 00.00 20 280 A (AAR) Adams Russell 41 1/8 40 3/4 38 00.92 685 274 O (GREY) Grey Advertising . 125 131 - 6 - 4.6 0 A (AFP) Affiliated Pubs 72 74 1/4 - 2 1/4 - 03.03 22 2.548 O (IDBX)IDB Communications 14 1/4 14 1/4 00.00 57 57 O (ASTV) Amer. Comm. & TV 3/32 - 1/16 - 40.00 7 N (IPG) Interpublic Group . . 43 1/4 40 1/2 2 3/4 06.79 21 960 N (AFL) American 15 Family 18 1/8 3/4 2 3/8 15.07 17 1.460 N (JWT) JWT Group 55 1/4 55 1/4 00.00 394 533 O (ACCMA) Assoc. Commun. 39 37 1/2 1 1/2 04.00 371 A (MOV) Movielab 6 3/4 6 3/4 00.00 11 O (BMAC) Bus. Men's Assur. 42 1/2 40 3/4 1 3/4 04.29 -17 445 O (OGIL) Ogilvy Group 39 1/2 43 5/8 - 4 1/8 -09.45 21 545 N (CCN) Chris -Craft 26 1,2 27 - 1/2 -01.85 30 534 O (OMCM) Omnicom Group . 28 1/8 27 5/8 12 01.80 -127 689 N (DNB) Dun 6 Bradstreet 68 1/4 66 2 1/4 O 03.40 28 10.378 (SACHY) Saatchi & Saatchi 32 7/8 31 3/8 1 1/2 04.78 17 4,790 O (DUCO) Durham Corp 30 1/8 1/4 1 31 - 1/8 -03.60 17 257 0 (TLMT) Telemation 3 1/4 3 1/4 00.00 13 14 N (GCI) Gannett Co 1 54 1/8 52 3/4 3/8 02.60 29 8.746 A (TPO) TEMPO Enterprises 7 1/8 7 5/8 - 1/2 -06.55 23 40 N (GY) GenCorp 112 109 1/2 3 1/2 0321 19 2,513 A (UNV) Unitel Video 10 3/4 10 1/2 1/4 02.38 16 23 N (GCN) General Cinema 59 5/8 60 1/2 - 7/8 -01.44 18 2,179 O CABLE (GCOM) Gray Commun 199 198 1 0050 34 98 A (ATN) Acton Corp. 19 18 1 05.55 22 N (JP) Jefferson -Pilot . . 38 7/8 40 1/2 - 1 5/8 -04.01 13 1.562 A (ACN) American Cable 27 3/8 26 7/8 1/2 01.86 -53 257 O (JSON) Josephson Intl 15 14 1/8 7/8 06.19 4 66 A (ATCMA) Amer. TV& Comm. 29 27 2 07.40 111 N (KRI) Knight -Ridder 60 114 57 3/4 2 1/2 0432 24 3,457 3,173 N A (CVC) Cablevision Sys. 'A' 30 1/4 31 1/8 - 7/8 - 0281 -52 635 (LEE) Lee Enterprises 28 3/8 27 1 3/8 0509 17 706 N (CNT) Centel Corp. 74 70 3/4 3 1/4 04.59 19 N (LC) Liberty 50 49 3/4 1/4 00.50 17 478 2,136 O (CCCOA) Century Commun. 20 1/4 20 1/4 01.25 2025 N (MHP) McGraw -Hill 78 318 73 5/8 4 3/4 06.45 26 3.960 585 O (CMCSA) Comcast 25 3/4 24 1/4 1 12 06.18 -117 1.068 A (MEGA) Media General 46 5/8 45 3/8 1 1/4 02.75 68 1.314 O (ESSXA) Essex Commun 21 1/2 22 1/2 02.27 -48 79 N (MDP) Meredith Corp 43 1/4 40 7/8 2 3/8 05.81 23 830 - - A (FAL)Falcon Cable Systems 18 7/8 19 3/8 1/2 -58 120 O (MMEDC) Multimedia 70 1/2 68 2 1/2 03.67 7050 775 - -02.58 7/8 00.00 A (NVTA) New York limes 45 5/8 46 5/8 - 1 - 02.14 25 3,737 O (JOIN) Jones Intercable . . 15 14 1/8 7/8 06.19 46 191 O (NWS) News Corp. Ltd 32 3/8 30 3/8 2 06.58 20 4,103 T (MHP.0) Maclean Hunter 25 3/4 24 1/4 1 1/2 06.18 35 O (PARC) Park Commun. 33 1/2 33 1/2 00.00 29 462 'r 948 0 (RCCAA) Rogers Cable A 20 18 3/4 1 1/4 0866 102 O (PLTZ) Pulitzer Publishing. 41 3/4 41 1/2 1/4 0080 33 437 O (TCAT) TCA Cable TV 28 28 3/4 - 3/4 - 0260 57 303 N (REL) Reliance Group Hold. 11 10 3/4 1/4 0232 12 825 O (TCOMA) Tele -Common 29 5/8 26 3/4 2 7/8 10.74 48 4.298 O (RTRSY) Reuters Ltd 85 1/4 85 1/4 00.00 40 35,391 N (TL) Time Inc. 114 5/8 108 7/8 5 3/4 05.28 18 6.804 T (SKHO) Selkirk 23 112 23 1/2 00.00 51 190 O (UACI) United Art. Commun. 29 3/4 27 1/4 2 1/2 09.17 247 1.221 O (STAUF) Stauffer Commun. 170 165 5 03.03 28 170 N (UCT) United Cable TV . . 38 1/4 37 1/4 1 02.68 -166 963 A (TO) Tech. Ops Inc. 34 1/2 34 5/8 - 1/8 - 0036 13 74 N (VIA) Viacom 23 7/8 21 3/4 2 1/8 09.77 1.272 N (TMC) Times Mirror 103 101 2 01.98 21 6,643 N (WU) Western Union 4 1/8 4 1/8 03.12 100 O (TMCI) TM Communications 2 3/8 2 5/8 - 1/4 - 09.52 11 18 O (TPCC) TPC Commun 5/8 5/8 00.00 6 ELECTRONICS /MANUFACTURING N (TRB) Tribune 42 45 1/2 3/4 2 3/4 06.43 17 3.585 N (MMM) 3M 82 1/2 79 3/8 3 1.8 03.93 22 18,892 A (TBS) Turner Bcstg 23 7/8 24 - 1/8 -00.52 -1 519 N (ALD) Allied -Signal 46 3/8 46 3/8 00.00 14 8.088 A (WPOB) Washington Post. 255 12 231 24 1/2 10.60 27 3,281 O (AMCI) AM Communications 1 1/16 1 1/8 - 1/16 -05.55 -1 3 PROGRAMING N (ARV) Arvin Industries 36 3/4 36 3/8 318 01.03 14 687 O (CCBL) C -Cor Electronics. 9 3/4 10 3/4 - 1 - 09.30 27 19 O (SP) Aaron Spelling Prod 10 1/4 9 3/8 7/8 0333 8 189 O (CATV) Cable TV Indus 2 3/4 3 1/4 08 33 -18 0 (ALLT) All American TV 3 3 00.00 3 - - 8 A (CEC) Cetec 5 7/8 5 3/4 1/8 02.17 195 10 O (BRRS) Barris Indus 13 3/8 13 1/4 1/8 00.94 7 118 N (CHY) Chyron 7 5/8 7 3/4 - 1/8 -01.61 29 78 O (CMCO) C.O.M.B. 19 18 1/8 7/8 04.82 -57 347 A (CXC) CMX 1 1 N Corp. 5/8 5/8 00.00 23 11 (KO) Coca -Cola 52 50 1/4 1 3/4 03.48 19 19.655 A A (COH) Cohu 8 1/8 8 1/8 01.56 19 14 (CLR) Color Systems 8 7/8 9 7/8 - 1 - 10.12 -5 45 N (EK) Eastman Kodak 102 100 1/8 1 7/8 0187 26 23,045 A (DEG) De Laurentits Ent 5 4 7/8 1/8 02.56 -3 56 O (ECIN) Elec Mis 8 Comm 2 1/8 2 1/8 00.00 8 O (dcpi) dick clark prod 4 1/2 4 3/8 1/8 02.85 11 37 N (GRL) Gen. 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Philips 54 1/2 53 5/8 7/8 01.63 18 1,580 A (HHH) Heritage Entertain 5 114 5 3/4 - 1/2 -08.69 5 24 N (OAK) Oak Industries . 1 5/8 1 5/8 00.00 1 A (HSN) Home Shopping Net. 14 13 3/4 1/4 01.81 38 1.202 117 A (PPI) Pico Products 7 12 7 5/8 - 1/8 -150 N (KWP) King World 31 7/8 31 1/8 3/4 02.40 32 954 -01.63 26 N (SFA) Sci- Atlanta 18 12 19 1/4 - 3/4 -03.89 -205 433 O (LAUR) Laurel Entertainment 3 5/8 3 1/2 1/8 03.57 8 9 N (SNE) Sony Corp .. 35 34 5/8 3/8 01 08 57 8,093 A (LT) Lorimar- Telepictures . 16 3/8 16 1/4 1/8 00.76 -12 748 N (TEK) Tektronix 39 1/2 39 7/8 3/8 00.94 29 1.283 N (MCA) MCA 61 1/2 59 1/2 2 03.36 29 4,673 - - O (TLCR) Telecrafter 4 12 4 1/4 1/4 05.88 20 7 N (MGM) MGM /UA Commun. 10 7/8 10 3/4 1/8 01.16 -13 544 N (VAR) Varian Assoc.. 37 5/8 36 3/4 7/8 02.38 188 816 A (NHI) Nelson Holdings. 1 7/8 2 - 1/8 -06.25 -18 50 N (WX) Westinghouse 72 1/4 69 7/8 2 3/8 03.39 15 10,326 A (NWE) New World Enter 9 5/8 10 - 3/8 -03.75 7 104 N (ZE) Zenith N 31 31 3/4 - 3/4 - 0236 124 787 (OPC) Orion Pictures 14 15 - 1 - 06.66 22 241 O (MOVE) Peregrine Entertain. 6 6 1/2 - 1/2 -07.69 -200 14 Standard & 400 . Poor's 390.91 384.75 - 6.16 - 01.60

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Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 90 This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities. The offer is made only by the Prospectus.

$32,000,000

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Interest payable March 1 and September 1

Price 100%

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August 25, 1987 WJYW(FM) Southport, N.C. o Sold by Atlan- tic Broadcasting Co. of Southport Inc. to ChangdnigoKlanda Eric Jorgensen for $1.3 million. Seller is Florence, S.C. -based group of one AM and PROPOSED 1 J is owned by Bruce and Linda Johnson, Pasa- two FM's owned by Fred C. Avent and fam- KBCO -AM -FM Boulder, Colo. o Sold by Cen- dena, Calif. -based investors who have no ily. It recently sold WMxQ(FM) Moncks Cor- tennial Wireless Inc. to Noble Broadcast other broadcast interests. KGEM is on 1140 ner, S.C. ( "Changing Hands," June 29). Group for $27,250,000. Seller is owned by khz full time with 10 kw. KJOT is on 105.1 Buyer is former owner of WISE(AM)- Robert D. Greenlee and his wife, Diane, mhz with 43 kw and antenna 2,570 feet WKSF(FM) Asheville, N.C., and KZSS(AM)- who also own KKPW(AM) Tucson and above average terrain. KZZR(FM) Albuquerque, N.M. He has no KKFX(FM) Green Valley, both Arizona. Buyer WJYL -FM Jeffersontown, Ky. o Sold by Inter other broadcast interests. WJYW is on 107.1 is San Diego -based group of five AM's and Urban Broadcasting of Louisville Inc. to mhz with 3 kw and antenna 300 feet above six FM's headed average by John Lynch. It recently Media Capital Inc. for $1.7 million. Seller is terrain. Broker: R.A. Marshall & purchased KBEQ -FM Kansas City, Mo. for New Orleans -based group of three AM's and Co. $9,250,000 and WMRE(AM) for $3.7 Boston three FM's owned by Thomas R. Lewis and KGBX(AM) Springfield, Mo. and KTTS(AM) million ( "Changing Hands," July 20). Ksco James J. Hutchinson. Buyer, newly orga- Springfield, Mo. o Exchanged by, respective- is daytimer 1 on 190 khz with 5 kw. KBCO-FM nized, is owned by Thomas J. Buono, presi- ly, KGBX Communications Inc. and Spring- is on 97.3 mhz with 100 kw and antenna dent of Broadcast Investment Analysts, field Great Empire Broadcasting Inc. and for 1,541 feet above average terrain. Washington -based communications consul- no other consideration. KGBX Communica- WKPA(AM)- WYDD(FM) New Kensington, Pa. tant; Richard Zitelman, owner of Zitelman tions is owned by Allan Thompson and five o Sold by Gateway Broadcasting Enterprises Group, Chevy Chase, Md. -based financial others. It has no other broadcast interests. Inc. to Salem Media of Pennsylvania for $4 consultant, and Michael Hesser, owner of Springfield Great Empire Broadcasting is a million. Seller is owned by Nelson Gold- SB Management, Redwood City, Calif. - Wichita, Kan. -based group of three AM's berg, who has no other broadcast interests. based communications management firm. and three FM's, including KTTS -FM Spring- Buyer is subsidiary of Salem Communica- WJYLis on 101.7 mhz with 1.6 kw and an- field, Mo., principally owned by F.F. Mike tions, Camarillo, Calif. -based group of eight tenna 420 feet above average terrain. Lynch and Michael C. Oatman. KTTS is on AM's and five FM's owned by Edward G. Broker: Blackburn & Co. 1400 khz full time with 1 kw. KGBX is on Atsinger III and Stuart W. Epperson. WKPA 1260 khz full time with 5 WOXI(AM) Atlanta o Sold by Jefferson -Pilot kw. is daytimer on 1150 khz with I kw. WYDD is Communications to Vinrah Inc. for $1.65 WEUP(AM) Huntsville, Ala. o Sold by WEUP- on 104.7 mhz with 50 kw and antenna 500 million. Seller is Charlotte, N.C. -based Garrett Broadcasting Service to Hundley feet above average terrain. group of five AM's and five FM's and two Batts Sr., and his wife, Virginia Caples, for KGEM(AM )-KJOT(FM) Boise, Idaho o Sold by TV's, subsidiary of publicly owned, Jeffer- $855,000. Seller is owned by Viola Garrett, Gem State Broadcasting Corp. to Boise Vi- son -Pilot Corp. Buyer is owned by Vincent who has no other broadcast interests. Buyer, king Associates L.P. for $2. t million. Seller Henry, who also has interest in WXTR(FM) Batts is local businessman. Caples is school is Salt Lake City -based group of three AM's, Washington, D.C. and WWIN(AM)- WGHT(FM) administrator. They have no other broadcast three FM's and three TV's owned by George Baltimore. WQXI is on 790 khz with 5 kw interests. WEUP is daytimer on 1600 khz

C. and Wilda Gene Hatch and family. Buyer day and 1 kw night. with 5 kw. WOHP(AM) -WTOO -FM Belle(ontaine, Ohio o Sold by Triplett Broadcasting Co. to Louis Vito for $550,000. Seller is owned by Wen- dell A. Triplett, who also owns WCOR(AM) ADAMS COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION Lebanon, Tenn., and WOSE(FM) Port Clinton and WWAT(TV) Chillicothe, both Ohio. Buyer (Steve Adams, President) is Columbus, Ohio -based salesman with no other has acquired broadcast interests. WOHP is daytimer on 1390 khz with 500 w. WiDO -FM is on 98.3 mhz with 3 kw and antenna 430 feet KISS -FM above average terrain. San Antonio, Texas for 1 - CABLE I -i $11, 000,000 System serving Decatur, Ill. o Sold by First from Rural Cable to Cable Systems USA for $4.7- $5.8 million. Seller has no other cable interests. Buyer is Charleston, W.Va.-based CAPITOL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC. MSO with almost 50,000 subscribers in six (James F. Goodmon, President and Chief Executive Officer) states, headed by Jack Fuelhart. System passes 6,100 homes with 3,900 subscribers We are pleased to have served as exclusive and 306 miles of plant. Broker: Cable III vest- broker in this transaction. ments Inc. System serving New Boston, De Kalb, Hooks and Maud, all Texas Sold by T. V. Cable Inc. to Communications Services Inc. for estimated $3.6 -$4.3 million. Seller is owned by Fred Domkas who has no other cable interests. Buyer is Junction, Kan. -based MSO BcKiuRNEÖMPANY with almost 200,000 subscribers in six states I N C U R fO R AT ED headed by Bruce R. Plankinton, president. System passes 5,100 homes with 3,000 sub- Media Brokers Cs Appraisers Since 1947 scribers and 92 miles of plant. Broker: Cable WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 ATLANTA, GA 30361 CHICAGO, IL 60601 BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90212 Investments Inc. 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW 400 Colony Square 333 N. Michigan Ave. 9465 Wilshire Blvd. 12021 331 -9270 14041 892.4655 13121 346 -6460 12131 2744151 For other proposed and approved sales, see "For the Record," page 101.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 92 Getting down to earth: from satellites to fiber optic landlines

Testing on the drawing board for because the risk is very large for the manu- tion among suppliers." a of intent TV networks to transmit programing facturers," Blackburn said. They can't be Each company returning letter the by digital fiber optics; implementation sure what's going to happen with satellites. will be invited to send representatives to will take may take years, could replace satellites They can't be sure if the broadcasters will Los Angeles conference, which accept the quality of digital relative to what place Sept. 16 -17 at the Airport Hilton hotel. Television network programing of the future they have now. They can't be sure of how big The tentative plan for the trial is to link par- could be transmitted with digital video to the market share will be if there is competi- ticipating networks for 60 days. Following affiliated stations by fiber optic landlines. That is the goal being explored by engineers at Bell Communications Research (Bell- core), Morristown, N.J. Planning for a possible eight -city trial of a fiber optic transmission is to begin next month in Los Angeles Knowing what it is with representatives from ABC -TV and Fox Broadcasting participating ( "Closed Cir- cuit," Aug. 10). with tell you Bellcore is a research firm charged doesn't developing new technologies for the benefit of its co- owners, the seven regional telephone companies created following the how to use it. breakup of AT &T. Its main concern in fiber optic technology is to find a standard for the coder -decoder devices (codecs) that would be used to translate analog fiber optic signals for video transmission to digital and back again. According to Robert J. Blackburn, Bell - core's district manager, digital radio, video and audio, the company's goal is to "rival the flexibility" of satellite transmission, the present form of network video distribution. A report written by Bellcore engineers last March admitted: "Terrestrial networks will never be quite as flexible as satellite networks for multipoint distribution chiefly because, at inception, any receiver can aim at and tune to any transponder autonomously. However, with proper planning, a terrestrial network can achieve any desired degree of flexibility. Ultimately, it is expected that the two technologies, terrestrial and digital A baseball in the hands of a child is a toy. But transmission and either analog or digital sat- in the hands of a major league pitcher, it is a preci- ellite transmission, will be mutually sup- sion instrument. The difference is more than size portive." Blackburn suggested that broad- it's expertise and experience. casters might one day use both -fiber optic and strength, -how in transmissions for network signals and satel- Heller Financial's experience and know lites for mobile news gathering. "I think the lending money to the communications industry is two things will go hand in hand," he said. why we feel "Professionalism is Priceless" We bring In its long -range planning, the company is to each meeting the willingness to find a way to working toward a trial of an eight -city fiber make things happen, to make things work. optic network. Start-up of the trial is tenta- programs to tively set for late 1988 or early 1989. It will For comprehensive financing take time, said Blackburn, to orgainize the facilitate the acquisition, development and refinan- many different cooperating companies that cing of broadcast properties and cable television will be needed to perform the tests, includ- systems, call Matt Breyne at 312/621 -7665 or ing TV networks, regional telephone com- Doug Zylstra at 312/621 -7638. panies and electronics companies that could be codec suppliers. Bellcore has met with about two dozen electronics companies and sent letters to Heller Financial more be gi than 100 others that might interested in participating in the tests. Many com- Egai) real F'ivaece (ruup Chicago, IL panies are not interested in developing codecs because of the research and development expense. "It's a tough business

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 93 the test, the network will report the results gree of participaton in the trials as well," rent cost trends in both the satellite and fiber and another network will begin its test. said CBC's Mike Gourgon. "We probably optic industries. Satellite transmission, ABC -TV and Fox Broadcasting have re- will participate wholeheartedly in this effort, Blackburn predicted, could become more turned letters of intent. and we're just waiting for Sept. 3 for confir- expensive in the future due to the present The participating cities will be nominated mation from everybody of what level of par- slow down in launches since the explosion by the seven regional telephone companies ticipation we can offer." Also attending the of the space shuttle Challenger. He noted during the Los Angeles meeting. The eight Canadian meeting will be officials from Bell that the Reagan administration ordered that tentative nominees (two nominated by Canada and Telecom (company from which all space shuttle missions will be for military NYNEX and one each by the rest of the CBC leases terrestrial lines). use only when the program resumes. There- regional companies) are: Boston, New York, Bellcore has already met with the Public fore, future communications satellite Atlanta, Washington. Chicago, Minneapo- Broadcasting Service to discuss its possible launches will have to be done by private lis, St. Louis and Los Angeles. participation. PBS now uses transponders interests alone, which will translate into The model Bellcore is using is ABC -TV's from Western Union's Weststar IV satellite, higher prices for those leasing transponder digital fiber optic link that has been in oper- which is estimated to lose station communi- time. Blackburn also speculated that while ation since last winter (BROADCASTING, Jan. cations capability due to orbit decay in early there is now more satellite spectrum than 19). Linking ABC News in Washington to 1991. But Al Norcott, director of intercom- demand for it, that trend could reverse in the network's distribution plant in New munications facilities at PBS, doesn't expect several years. the York, line transmits digital color video that digital fiber optics will be in a position On the other hand, Blackburn sees prices and stereo sound. The link has been used to replace satellite transmission by that time. for fiber optic transmission going down be- heavily in the production of ABC World Bellcore's proposed network system has cause of the advances in the amount of infor- News Tonight, Nightline, news segments on been submitted to the TIYI subcommittee mation that can be sent. Typically, 12 signals Good Morning. America and during the re- of the American National Standards Insti- of 45 megabits per second (Mb /s) are trans- cently concluded Iran/contra hearings. Co- tute. TIY1, which deals with video and mitted over each glass fiber. That is the decs for the ABC system were supplied by audio services, meets four times a year as a equivalent of 12 video signals. Blackburn NEC America Inc., Melville, N.Y. Black- forum for parties interested in audio and vid- said that there are plans on the Bellcore burn called the quality of the ABC pictures eo line transmission. Its members include drawing board for a system with 24-45 45 "exceptional." Brent Stranathan, ABC's di- long distance phone companies like AT &T, Mb /s signals, creating a huge amount of in- rector of telecommunications who has over- MCI and Sprint as well as broadcasters. formation that could be sent over one land - seen ABC's fiber optic experiment, said that The future of fiber optic transmission will line. Blackburn said such advances could go the results of the Bellcore trials may answer depend upon the health of the satellite indus- even further. "I don't know the limit. It's still the question of how long it will take to make try, Blackburn said. He pointed to the cur- being pushed," he said. regular fiber optic networks a reality. "Cer tainly for the foreseeable future, our satel lites are where we are at. We're happy with it and we're comfortable with it," he said "However, I think we would all be crazy if -/Th we didn't keep on the forefront of the tech- I Sy C nology of fiber optics." Richard Anderson, vice president of engineering for Fox Broadcasting, signed the let- Stereo lineup cided whether to add Dolly, a new variety ter of intent from that network. Depending show starring Dolly Parton, to the list. No upon success of the trial, he sees digital fiber NBC -TV is adding five new stereo- transmit- decisions have been announced by CBS - optics first as a way to transmit news feeds ted shows to its prime time schedule in the TV, but it is certain to have fewer stereo among Fox -owned stations and possibly as a fall, increasing to 22 the number of pro- hours than NBC. way to deliver its entertainment programs. grams it airs in stereo. The weekly hours of With 126 NBC affiliates and all of its five prime time stereo transmission "We're not looking at it as a replacement for on NBC will owned stations now transmitting in stereo, increase from 121/2 to 161/2 and the satellite feed until we see what kind of the total nearly 86% of U.S. homes are within an NBC hours in all dayparts to 291/2. results we get." Anderson said. stereo signal, an increase over the 81.4% NBC holds a wide lead in this field. Its covered before the start the prime Also on the drawing board is a possible of time nearest competitor is PBS, which will con- season last fall Canadian trial connecting Montreal. Toronto (BROADCASTING, June 9, tinue to broadcast 35 -45 hours of stereo a 1986). The number of stations is to and Ottawa. The Canadian Broadcasting expected month. The volume of PBS stereo program- grow to 152 (92 %) by the end of 1987. Corp.. Montreal. has set up a meeting for ing flucuates, depending mostly upon the The five new NBC stereo programs are: this Thursday (Sept. 3) with Blackburn and number of music programs it presents in a My Two Dads, J.J. Starbuck, A Year in the other Bellcore officials to "ascertain whether given month. ABC -TV will broadcast five Life, A Different World and Private Eye. it would be advantageous enough for us to shows representing four hours of weekly attend in California... and indicate our de- stereo programing. The network hasn't de China sales

The Television Technology Corp., Broom- field, Colo., TV transmitter equipment man- PROGRAMMED FOR EXCELLENCE ufacturer, has sold $1.45 million in equip- At Robert Rounsaville & Associates, we've ment to the Anshan Broadcasting Electronics Plant in the Peoples Republic of enjoyed 40 + years of buying and selling excel- China. The deal calls for the delivery of component kits for high and low -power televi- lence. Let us put our program to work for you. sion transmitters and an audio amplifier to China by the end of the year. A second contract for $167,000 to send a 30 kw, single klystron, UHF transmitter to Anshan in April Robert W Rounsaville Associates 1988 was also signed. If TTC's equipment meets Chinese government standards, An- shan is expected to order another 17 -30 kits MEDIA BROKERS AND CONSULTANTS in 1988 and over 100 more in 1989 and 1990. Along with a sale of $405,000 worth of low- power television kits to the Baoji Electronics CALL TOLL FKEE: ATLANTA, (GA 1 -800 -531 -1500 Plant for scheduled delivery in September, ORLANNUO, 1 FL -800- 328 -35(X) the Anshan deal brings ITC's total sales to the People's Republic of China to $1.85 million for the last half of 1987.

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Second and seven Tempo TVRO Viewer shift

ESPN said initial ratings from its second Tempo Development Corp. has released de- The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau NFL game, the Los Angeles Rams versus tails on cable operator participation in says that since cable deregulation went into the San Diego Chargers on Aug. 23, scored a TVRO sales of WTBS(TV) Atlanta. TDC is effect in January, cable networks have made 7 rating and 11 share in the ESPN universe charging operators $1 per subscriber per audience gains across all dayparts at the and a 12.2/24 on KTTV(TV) Los Angeles, the month as long as the operator signs at least expense of the broadcast networks. (CAB only broadcast station to run the game. 10 subscriptions. Operators may also prepay based its analysis on the Nielsen Cable Sta- (Since the game was not sold out, the NFL's at the reduced rate of $11. The suggested tus Report, which is based on NTI meter blackout rule took effect in the home city.) retail price for WTBS is $19.95 a year, payable samples, and compared the first half of 1987 The combined broadcast -cable rating was to participating cable operators. Terms of with the first half of 1986.) 7.5, compared to the first week's 8.9. An the affiliation agreement also call for sales CAB found that on a 24 -hour, total TV ESPN spokesman said the advertiser guar- authorization for a system's franchise area household basis, ratings of basic services antee for the preseason games was a 5 rat- and contiguous counties that do not overlap rose 24 %. Ratings jumped the most in early ing; for the regular season it will be 9.5. franchises where wTas is carried on cable. fringe (34 %), followed by late fringe (32 %), then weekends, prime time and daytime (all New offerings Lifetime addition 23 %). Pay services grew 14% on a 24 -hour basis Black Entertainment Television unveiled Lifetime announced last week that it has while superstation ratings declined 6 %. two new programs last week that will ap- obtained the rights to run Sneak Previews on CAB said viewing of network affiliates fell pear on the basic cable service in the fall. the basic cable programing service. The 5% for the comparable period while viewing Going Places, which travels the world pro- movie review program is in its 10th year and of independents remained flat. viding stories from a black perspective, and has been running the past few years on non- In actual household numbers, CAB found Gospel Magazine will premiere on Sept. 14. commercial television. The show's review- broadcast affiliates lost 545,000 households Both will be produced by BET. ers, Jeffrey Lyons and Michael Medved, per average quarter -hour on a 24 -hour basis, In announcing GM, BET President Robert along with feature reporter Nancy Glass, re- while advertising supported cable networks Johnson said: "Gospel music is one of the main on the program. Wrrw(Tv) Chicago will increased by 562,000 households per aver- fastest growing segments of the record in- continue to produce the program and carry age quarter -hour. In prime time, CAB said dustry," and GM will provide an outlet for it on its schedule. Lifetime will run the pro- the basic cable networks picked up 862,000 more gospel music programing and videos gram at 1:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday, homes per average quarter -hour while net- to get on the air. BET, Johnson says, "wants beginning Oct. 10. work affiliates lost 782,000. to be a leader in gospel music." The half - hour Going Places will run Monday through Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The half -hour GM will run at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Kelly Callan, Fred Kalil, BET also announced its first major promotion drive, a $1- million campaign to increase Dick Beesemyer and Frank Kalil viewership and encourage cable operators to carry BET. The service reaches 14 million subscribers, but Johnson says cable opera- will be at the tors have been slow, in some cases, to pick up the service. The promotional campaign includes 30- second radio spots in 20 BET ANAHEIM HILTON affiliate markets. The spots will run on the number -one urban contemporary station in CONVENTION those 20 markets, including New York, Los for the "RADIO '87" Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Washing- ton, San Francisco, Baltimore, Dallas, Mi- Please phone now or during the ami, Atlanta, Memphis and St. Louis. BET convention for a confidential appointment will use politicians, entertainers and sports figures as spokespersons in the campaign. The flights are scheduled to run in Septem- Radio, TV and CATV Brokers ber, October, February, April and June. Spots will also run on a smaller number of Appraisals, Media Investments, Consulting key cable interconnects, BET said. Johnson cited statistics to make the point that since BET receives respectable ratings, and its per- subscriber fee is one of the lowest in the industry at three cents, more operators should be carrying the service. John- son said Arts & Entertainment. CNN Headline News, Lifetime and the Weather Channel have lower ratings than BET and higher per -sub fees but can be seen in more homes than BET. "Cable operators have been a little bit remiss in not adding BET in more markets," Johnson said. BET wants to add two million subscribers a year, a figure Kalil & Co, Inc. it believes is attainable as the wiring of ma- 3438 North Country Club Tucson, Arizona 85716 (602) 795 -1050 jor urban centers is completed and its promotion and marketing efforts are intensi- fied.

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State of the Art Journalism continues from page 59 cameras had operated before, and Lamb said last night a one -hour documentary on hurri- perception," said Weather Channel Presi- the court "has been very cooperative." But canes, an indication the of new directions dent Michael Eckert. Among the things the as C -SPAN continues to hope for full -scale the five- year-old, 28- million subscriber ba- service is planning is a "greater commitment access, it knows once there "it will be more sic cable service is taking. The 24 -hour to marketing the network," Ecken said. different than anything we've done," Lamb weather service provides viewers across the The network is also examining business said. The complexities of the law and indi- country with information for their area as projects, including how the Weather Chan- vidual cases of the court provide a challenge well as specialty forecasts for boating, fish- nel could be marketed to the TVRO market, for C -SPAN as it tries to explain to viewers ing and business travelers. But the Weather a potentially lucrative market because of the what's going on. The service is already run- Channel is looking beyond its base to future large numbers of rural viewers who depend ning a series to familiarize its viewers with business and growth opportunities as a way on the weather as part of their livelihood. judicial issues, America in the Court, and it to utilize the wealth of weather information The network is also exploring other market- is putting together a viewer's guide with the it gathers its from staff of 65 meteorologists. places, including the industrial, business, help of the Benton Foundation. The hurricane documentary, The Eye of consumer and governmental sectors, to Both services have enjoyed robust the Storm, was designed to look at the causes which the channel could supply weather in- growth, with C -SPAN seen in 31.5 million and capabilities of hurricanes. It included a formation. Eckert said cable operators and cable homes and C -SPAN 11 in 12 million, a live panel a discussion and toll -free tele- the service's advertisers-the Weather figure the network projected it would not phone call -in segment. The program is also Channel has been profitable since year three reach until March 31, 1988. Part of the rea- made being available to operators of Weath- of operation-continue to be the service's son for the lower projection has been the er Channel cable affiliates for their local priority. It continues to grow, adding about bird -hopping that C -SPAN II has undergone origination channels. It is the most ambi- 300,000 to 400,000 subscribers a month. in the past year. By Nov. 2, however, C- tious original programing the channel has The growth is occurring across the board, SPAN officials hope to have both services on undertaken and will provide Weather Chan- with new systems going on line, expansion their permanent home on Galaxy Ill, which nel executives with feedback to see if others within existing systems and as a result of rate will make marketing the service to cable op- on such topics as severe cold weather, torna- deregulation in which operators have col- erators easier. does and forest fire would be successful. lapsed tiers and added services. Eckert said The Weather Channel is examining the read sales are up 41% this year and the ser- sults of a viewer survey -it received 6,500 vice's advertising renewal factor The Weather Channel was scheduled "is very to air responses -"to learn much about viewer high" at 60% to 70 %. The changing sound of radio news Some see less emphasis on local news resources (both money and staffers) at Mike Freedman, director of the news, United Press more dependence on networks many AM and FM stations continues to International Radio Network. "And with as newsgathering resources wane. decline In some cases, especially at FM out- more AM stations going stereo, there's a lets, that has led to a lessening of local news- need for better quality actualities from the There appears to be some dispute within the gathering and, consequently, a greater de- networks." radio industry as to whether the nature of pendence on the networks. "The Iran -contra hearings were a revela- radio news is dramatically changing in 1987 However, an Associated Press study on tion to me in terms of station coverage," said and if, indeed, the oldest broadcast medium news listenership that will be released at this Joe Dembo, vice president, CBS News, ra- is beginning to lose its local emphasis in week's Radio-Television News Directors As- dio. He noted that reporting. many AM stations aired sociation (RTNDA) convention in Orlando, network -supplied "wall -to- wall" coverage Although radio news executives herald Fla., shows 70% of radio listeners paying of the event. (Most networks offered con- live coverage by some AM stations of break- "as much or more attention to news and in- tinuous coverage of the Iran- contra hearings ing news events (such as this year's Iran - formation" as they do to music. on their special events satellite channel.) contra hearings) as a programing plus for "I think the American people want good, The trend toward AM radio becoming radio. most generally agree the amount of live coverage of all current events," said synonymous with information and FM with music has become more apparent in 1987. Earlier this year, Emmis Broadcasting KOZACKOHORTON COMPANY launched a 24 -hour, all -sports information Brokers & consultants to the communications Industry format in New York under the call letters WFAN(AM). C7 "A lot of markets have one or two (AM] stations that are the news and information Kozacko -Horton Company president, leaders while others drift away from provid- Richard L. Kozacko, will be attending the N.A.B.'s "Radio ing long -term information," said Jeff Smu- '87" from September 9th thru the 12th and will be available lyan, president of Emmis Broadcasting, an for confidential discussions with broadcast station Indianapolis -based radio group operator of owners six FM stations in addition to and buyer music clients. Meetings are by appointment only. Please WFAN(AM) New York. "WFAN is a further contact either the Elmira office or the Anaheim Hilton slice of that pie by trying to be the sports Towers at 714- 750 -4321. information position on the dial." Smulyan said that most listeners to FM music stations only want up to two minutes 350 West Church Street of news in a newscast: "You win in your P.O. Box 948 Elmira, NY 14902 (607) 733-7138 market by responding to what listeners want." Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 96 Brad Kalbfeld, stantial cutbacks in news resources, namely "I'm certain we are over the hump in cut- deputy director and personnel. The RTNDA survey pointed to backs," said Kalbfeld, who noted that the managing editor, the FCC's deregulation order in early 1981 AP study, which also included interviews Associated Press as leading to a reduction in news staffs at with 63 program directors and 39 general Broadcast Services, about one out of every six major- market managers at commercial stations in the top said there has been (population of one million -plus) radio sta- 100 markets, showed that 96% of them "ex- some decline in tions and at approximately one out of every pect to have the same amount or more news news resources by eight medium -market (population of and information on their station next year as radio stations, but 250,000 to one million) stations. The study they have this year." not necessarily in air showed, however, that most smaller market One station that has begun to buck the time devoted to stations were not affected in their news oper- trend toward less news and/or resources for news and informa- ation by deregulation. The RTNDA report newsgathering is wt-w(AM) Cincinnati. In the tion. The high tur- Kalbfeld also said radio stations had trimmed about past two months, the full- service station - nover in station ownership, whereby some 2,000 full -time news staffers and added 700 which finished first in 12 -plus metro share in owners view radio properties as revenue - part- timers in 1986. the spring 1987 Arbitron report with a 13.9 generating investments, has made it more "There has been a general decline in local by programing a mixture of news, talk, difficult for news departments to persuade radio news because of short -sighted eco- sports, adult contemporary music and coun- owners to spend more money on news, nomic reasons," said Jim Farley, vice presi- try-has solidified its information stance in Kalbfeld said. dent of news for NBC Radio. "But you will the market by increasing its news and infor- He shared some results of the AP study on find successful AM and FM stations are not mation, particularly in the advertiser sought - news, dubbed "Radio Power," that showed cutting back," he said. after morning drive time period. news and information programing just as important as music /entertainment programing in attracting listeners. The study was based on a telephone survey, conducted for AP by Reymer & Gersin Associates, Detroit, of 1,000 listeners 18 years of age and older across all formats who listen to radio for at least 30 minutes during an "average" weekday. It revealed that 67% of music format lis- TO teners are "more likely to listen to a station HOW with news and information programing than one without." Additionally, 62% of the respondents said they would like "bits of information" between music throughout the day while 56% agree the main reason they listen to news and information on radio is because FULFILL "it gives them topics to talk about with friends and family." Kalbfeld also said some radio stations are "ignoring a substantial midday [ 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.] audience" for radio news. While 87% of the respondents listen to radio in morning YOUR drive, 60% listen in midday. Other results show newscasters are perceived as "a little too entertaining" for the tastes of contemporary hit, easy listening and adult contemporary stations. (At many contemporary music stations in morning drive, newscasters have emerged as personalities in their own right.) DESIRE TO Newscasters are perceived as "a little too opinionated" for contemporary hit, adult contemporary and album -rock listeners. And the majority of radio listeners for all formats (61% of the respondents) are more likely to stay tuned to a station for news if it ACQUIRE. includes coverage by a reporter "live on the scene." At Firstmark Financial, we understand the particular prob- Among the study's conclusions: "Radio lems facing most young broadcast companies. We grew listeners desire a wide range of topics. The up in the communications industry ourselves. We specialize emphasis is on traditional [hard news] con- in helping such companies through their first and most tent but with plenty of nontraditional and critical acquisitions, expansions, refinancing and capital life -style topics included" with the "pre- improvements. Call us today for the kind of insightful and ferred time" for airing "softer news" at 6 responsive financial service you need. a.m. to 10 a.m. In defense of any criticism about the study's methodology, Kalbfeld said: "We Erstmark financial purposely worded some of our questions [to Firslmark Financial Corp. Communications Finance Div invite] listeners to express negative views of I10 E. Washington Street. Indianapolis. IN 46204 news." (317) 262-5858 industry. Findings from a previous RTNDA study, Financier to the telecommunications conducted for the association by Vernon Stone, journalism professor at the Universi- ty of Missouri and released last spring, support the contention that there have been sub-

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 97 "Our listeners wanted more information. station's midday news anchor. KKDA sub- with local television outlets. For example, That's what AM radio is all about," said scribes to AP Network News, but uses only talk -formatted KJIM(AM) Thorton, Colo., in a Kathy Lehr, the station's news director. The its actuality cuts, said Turner. suburb of Denver, is simulcasting NBC -TV station is now billing itself as "Newsradio "We basically try to keep in touch with our affiliate KCNC -TV Denver's entire 5 -6 p.m. 700 WLW." community and it reflects in our ratings. Our news broadcast. And in mid -August, con- The apparent appetite among AM stations core audience [primarily 18 -34- year-olds] temporary country WGKX(FM) Memphis and their listeners for more information is are not as interested in ships going through signed a pact with WHBQ -TV there calling for being translated by some networks into more the Persian Gulf as news that hits close to WGKX(FM) to have 24 -hour access to all national talk programing. ABC Radio, for home and to their pocketbooks," Turner WHBQ -TV news feeds. example, will launch The Toni Synder Show said. "For our listeners, we can be their only Bruce Chong, general in mid -September, a daily (Monday through news source [on radio]." The station pres- manager of CNN Friday) call -in talk program that will air ently airs four morning -drive Radio, Atlanta, likened today's news net- news reports works from IO p.m. to I a.m. (NYT). and two afternoon newscasts. to supermarkets in that they offer a "There have been some FM music stations On a separate note, there are some execu- variety of products for differently formatted in large markets, such as contemporary hit tives in the industry that have expressed con- stations. wputAM) New York. that have added more cern over the consolidation of news re- "The future of radio news is wide open," news people this year," said Bob Benson, sources between NBC Radio and Mutual said Chong. "Stations are turning more and vice president of news for the ABC Radio Broadcasting. (Westwood One, which more to networks for news. But I hope that Networks. In medium markets, however, closed its acquisition of the NBC Radio Net- trend turns around. We get a lot of our mate- Benson concurs with the RTNDA finding works last week [see separate story), is clos- rial from local stations." CNN Radio is mar- that there has been an attrition of news peo- ing NBC Radio's Washington news bureau keted by the Transtar Radio Networks, Colo- ple, particularly at FM stations. and relocating it at Westwood/Mutual's Ar- rado Springs. lington, An exception to a "heavy reliance" on net- Va. facility.) If radio networks con- On the public broadcasting front, Joe work news by FM stations can be found in solidate further, it might lead to "homogene- Gwathmey, director of programing for ity" Na- the Dallas -Fort Worth market where top-rat- in news reporting, observed Warren tional Public Radio, anticipates no major ed Maurer, urban contemporary KKDA(FM), which vice president/AM station division changes in the structure of the network's two showed an 12 for Group W and 8.7 -plus metro share, Monday general manager of WIN - major news programs: Morning Edition and to Sunday, 6 a.m. to midnight, spring 1987 s(AM) New York, one of two all -news sta- All Things Considered. American Public Arbitron report, KKDA has made no cuts in tions in the market. Radio, on the other hand, has been consider- its three full -time, on -air news staff for at Another trend slowly emerging in local ing a plan to launch a "newscast" service for least the past five years, said Paul Turner, the radio news is a closer working relationship its affiliates.

Independent news agencies making a name for themselves

Small, enterprising firms scramble Bred a speech by Senator Albert Gore (D- grown rapidly, its revenues doubling every to provide sight and sound on demand Tenn.) to the Louisiana state legislature in year since its founding, said Tur. in New York, Los Angeles, Washington Baton Rouge on June 30, one day after Gore Its client list has included CNN, ABC, announced his candidacy for the Presidency. CBS, NBC, PBS, the Canadian Broadcast- Ayear ago today (Aug. 31). an Aeromexico Using a satellite feed, WIN sent footage of ing Corp. and the BBC. Under a one -year jetliner collided with a small private plane the speech to the five Tennessee stations that contract with Group W, LANS provides fa- just southeast of the Los Angeles Interna- contracted the agency for coverage. cilities for the production of The Entertain - tional Airport killing 70 people. Los Ange- Founded in 1984 by Susan Stolov, Gary ment Report, an entertainment news service les News Service, using its Bell Jetranger Parker and Emilie Gibbs, WIN has a staff of now subscribed to by more than 80 stations. helicopter, was at the crash site within 18 three reporters, two assignment editors and LANS owns a Bell Jetranger helicopter minutes. LANS's live coverage was picked four photographers. WIN will begin using and with a range of 400 miles and a cruising up by CNN and all three broadcast television half -inch tape technology within eight speed of 125 miles an hour. networks. months to a year, supplementing the three - In 1981, Bob Grevemberg, a former LANS is one of the independent agencies quarter-inch gear now used. According to BBC editor and photographer, saw a need that have cropped up in Los Angeles, New Gibbs, "the trend is toward half-inch tech- for a company to provide news gathering York and Washington over the past several nology and we want to be able to accommo- and transmission and editing facilities for years to cover events in those cities for date any of our clients' needs." foreign broadcasters. To fill the need, he broadcasters unable to do it themselves due Potomac Communications Inc., founded Professional Video Services in to cost or logistics. founded in 1975 by Bruce Finland, operates Washington. The news agencies serve local broadcast- two Washington news agencies: Potomac Six years later, the foreigners still make ers, but most of their work is done for broad- News and the American News Bureau (for- up the bulk of PVS's clientele. In March, the casters in other cities or other countries. Be- merly Docuvid), which it acquired in 1984. European Broadcasting Union which in- cause of the crush of news in those three Together, they serve hundreds of stations, cludes British, French, Italian, Swiss, Aus- markets, the out -of-town broadcasters can't including all the ABC affiliates under a con- trian and German television networks, rely on local stations or the networks to cov- tract that went into effect earlier this month. moved from New York to facilities provided er stories for them as they can in most other Under the ABC deal, which was negotiated by Professional Video Services. markets. by the network, the services are on call to But PVS's 17 -person staff does domestic As LANS did at the crash site a year ago, supply ABC affiliates with voice overs, raw work too. Through its PV Systems subsid- the agencies can give broadcasters access to footage and crews. iary, it provides all the crews for CNN's breaking news as it happens or taped "cover Potomac's staff of 55 editorial and techni- Washington bureau. video" or "sound bites" that may be incorpo- cal employes also handles assignments for The news division of Newslink, which rated into their newscasts. Some of the agen- corporate clients as well as soft -news clients began operations in 1982, covers breaking cies can also prepare made -to -order stories such as Entertainment Tonight and MTV. news stories for client stations, personaliz- with on- camera reporters with the station's Founded in 1979, the Los Angeles ing the spots by using station sign -offs and logo on the mike flag and the station's name News Service covers the southern Califor- mike flags. The New York-based Newslink mentioned in the sign off. nia market with a staff of 23 and the ability to traveled to Memphis earlier this month to Some of the more popular news agencies: hit the streets for its clients 24 hours a day, cover the 10th anniversary of Elvis Presley's Washington Independent News spe- 365 days a year. death, providing coverage to 20 stations. cializes in covering events in Washington, LANS is principally owned by President Newslink's news division produces its but the three -year -old service also covers Robert Tur, a former radio traffic reporter own investigative reports. Pulitzer and Pea- news outside the nation's capital. WIN cov- and news photographer. The company has body award winner Carlton Sherwood heads

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August 19, 1987 Stalking the satellite scoops

The independent news agencies in New York, Los Angeles and Conus only for the satellite transmission. "But it the station Washington play an important role for some television stations, doesn't have a relationship in that market, we can intercede on providing them with news that for whatever reason they can't get its behalf," he said. themselves or get anywhere else. But for most of their stories CNN Newsbeam doesn't like the "cooperative" label, be- from those cities and other distant markets, most stations rely on cause it believes it connotes obligations to work with other sta- the network news bureaus or other stations related by network tions that Newbeam does not require. Newbeam is simply a affiliation, common ownership, membership in news gathering "service ", said its managing director, Charles Hoff. Newsbeam cooperatives or a simple willingness to help one another out. provides the 175 CNN "affiliates" with access to news material Increasing greatly the flow of news among stations in recent from CNN bureaus and most of what the affiliate puts on the years have been the national satellite newsgathering coopera- Newsbeam satellites on its way from SNV to studio or to another tives like Conus Communications, Group Ws Newfeed, CNN's station, he said. Newsbeam requires its affiliates to contribute to Newsbeam and those managed by the three major broadcast the news pool, he said, but anything they put on Newsbeam's networks. With the exception of Newsbeam, each of the oper- satellite transponders becomes available to all affiliates, al- ations surveys its stations daily to assess what they will be though, on request, Newsbeam will prohibit certain stations covering, identifies stories of general interest and puts them on from picking up certain feeds Several times a week, he said, a satellite for the other cooperating stations to use. In addition, Newsbeam will hook up two stations so one can do a custom each helps stations that need a "custom" packaged news report shoot for the other. "I am giving them the benefits of my con- or "sound bites" from another market to find a station to do the tacts," he said. job and then transmit the material via satellite. "Newsfeed is a group of broadcasters covering their markets George Mills, general manager of Skycom, NBC's satellite and sharing their coverage with other stations," said Terry O' news services for its affiliates, said Skycom offers 33 weekly Reilly, Newsfeed news director. Its principal service is its daily feeds for its affiliates gathered from NBC News bureaus, affili- feeds of news collected from the stations, he said. Most of the ates and various overseas news sources. And, each month, he Newsfeed stations are willing to handle an assignment for an- said, it beams between 1,200 and 1,400 feeds. Most of the other Newsfeed station at no charge as long as it has a crew feeds go between a stations satellite newsgathering vehicle available and doesn't incur any extra expense, he said. Its a (SNV) and its studios, he said, but a "good deal" of them go reciprocal arrangement, he added. The news director knows between stations. To shoot a story for another affiliate, he said, that if he takes care of another station, "it will take care of him." 80% of the NBC affiliates charge only for out -of- pocket ex- Newsfeed's Washington bureau acts as an independent news penses like overtime. agency for its affiliates. On a first -come, first -served basis, Conus Communications, which has 65 stations in its cooperat- O'Reilly said, it will send out a crew to capture sound bytes or ive, functions in much the same way as the network operations, cover video for stations at no charge to the station. In addition, providing daily feeds and satellite services. Charles Dutcher, he said, it will send out a reporter and crew to prepare a pack- Conus vice president -general manager, said if a news director aged story for a station. DC Custom, as the latter service is knows a news director in another market who can help him out, called, is not free, he said, but its less expensive than hiring an they can make their deal to cover a story by themselves and use independent news agency.

he investigative unit at Newslink's Wash- ington and Los Angeles. With a staff of 70 ton in 1980 when it won the contract to han- ington bureau. Newslink is also producing a divided among the three offices, BNS pro- dle all of the newsgathering for CNN's 90- second news spot that will be offered to vides newsgathering services for broadcast- Washington bureau. Although CNN chose stations three times a week. "On Target," ers and production crews for corporate cli- not to renew the contract in 1985, shifting hosted by Jack Anderson, will be introduced ents. the business to Professional Video Services, this week at the Radio- Television News Di- In July, using a Ku -band truck, BNS pro- MVS continues to provide newsgathering rectors Association convention in Orlando, vided exclusive network coverage of the the services with a staff of 10 in Washington for Fla. start of the first -ever trans -Atlantic hot -air other clients, both foreign and domestic. In New York, Newlink provides ENG balloon crossing from Sugarloaf, Me. BNS According to MVS owner Larry Vander - crews for CNN's New York bureau and pro- supplied footage to CNN, ESPN and Conus, Veen, foreign clients now account for ap- duces segments for the United States Infor- among others. proximately 25% of MVS's business. They mation Agency. BNS also provides technical staff for cor- include networks in France, the Nether- Broadcast News Service, founded in porate clients. lands, Israel and Turkey. 1978 by Peter Sherry. is headquartered in Mobile Video Services got its start in Sun World Satellite News is head- New York, but maintains bureaus in Wash- New York in 1978, but migrated to Washing- quartered in El Paso, but most of its work is done out of its Washington bureau. Although Sun World offers coverage of national and foreign events, its focus is on issues sensitive to the Southwest U.S. According to co- EDWIN TORNBERG founder Cynthia Neu, Sun World was started to give better coverage to issues such as im- & COMPANY, INC. migration, drug trafficking and oil. But not all of its work is restricted to the Southwest. For three Canadian stations in July, Sun World tracked a group of Canadian Negotiators businessmen who went to Washington to lobby Congress on trade legislation. For The Purchase And Sale Of Sun World's current staff Radio And TV consists of 14 Stations CATV Appraisers people, including five reporters and three cameramen armed with three -quarter-inch videocassette P.O. Box 55298 Washington, D.C. 20011 recorders. Sun World is owned by Neu, (202)291 -8700 a former TV anchor and reporter, and Fred Herby, former mayor of El Paso and owner of Sun World Corp., an El Paso publisher.

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WTOO -FM Bcllefontaine. Ohio (AM: FM's owned by Edward G. Atsinger Ill and Stuart W. Epper- 20- WOHP(AM)- As compiled by BROADCASTING, Aug. 1390 khz: 500 w-D: FM: 98.3 mhz; 3 kw; HAAT: 430 ft. )- son. Filed Aug. 14. Co. 26, and based on filings, authorizations and Seeks assignment of license from Triplett Broadcasting WTRQI AM) Warsaw. N.C. (1560 khz; 10 kw -D)- is owned by Wendell A. FCC actions. to Louis Vito for $550.000. Seller Seeks transfer of control from James L. Mostly and his wife. other Tenn.. and Triplett. who also owns WCORIAM) Lebanon. Winnafred. to James B. Blanchard and his wife. Peggy, for Antenna For Communications. both Abbreviations: AFC- WOSE(FM) Pon Clinton. and W WATTTV I Chillicothe. assumption of liabilities. Seller owns 54% of stock and has Law Judge. alt. -alternate. ann.- salesman with no other AU- Administrative Ohio. Buyer is Columbus -based no other broadcast interests. Buyer owns remainder and has antenna. auc- aural. aux.- auxiliary. announced. ant.- broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 11. no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 20. CH -critical hours. CP -construction permit. D-day. WWWEIAM)- WDOK(FM) Cleveland (102.1 mhz: 12 DA- directional antenna. Doc -Docket. ERP effective ft.) -Seeks assignment of license from radiated power. HAAT -height above average terrain. kw: HAAT: 1.000 Actions Radio Co. to Independent Group Inc. for S13 khz -kilohertz. kw- kilowatts. m-meters. MEOC- Lake Erie KNXN(FM) Quincy. Calif. (101.9 mhz: 1.4 kw: HAAT: by Arthur Modell and Alfred maximum expected operation value. mhz-megahertz. million. Seller is owned 2.360 ft.) -- Granted assignment of license from Plumas no other broadcast interests. Modell is mod.- modification. N- night. PSA- presunrise service Lerner. who have Wireless Inc. to Olympic Broadcasters Inc. for $250.000. Browns professional football team. It authority. RCL- remote control location. S-A- Scientific- owner of Cleveland Seller is owned by David E. Caldwell and Kenneth Barnard, ("Changing Hands." March Atlanta. SH- specified hours. SL-studio location. IL- bought station for 59.5 million who have no other broadcast interests. Buyer is owned by is owned by Thomas Embrescia. Larry transmitter location. trans.- transmitter. TPO- transmitter 4. 1985). Buyer Douglas D. Kahle and William E. Boeing. Kahle also has Wilson. It also owns WUPW(TV) Toledo. power output. U- unlimited hours. vis.- visual. w- watts. Pollock and Tom interest in WBRI(AM) Indianapolis and WXIR(FM) Plain- on 1100 khz full time with 50 kw. Filed *- noncommercial. Ohio. WWWE is field. both Indiana; WFIA(AM)- WXLNIFM) Louisville. Aug. 14. Ky.: KFIA(AM) Carmichael. Calif.. and WABS(AM) Ar- WSEE(TV) Eric. Pa. (ch. 35; 2.000 kw vis.. 200 kw lington. Va. Action Aug. 14. assignment of license from Eric aur.: HAAT: 960 ft. I -Seeks WLISIAM) Old Saybrook. Conn. (1420 khz: 5 kw -D: Ownership Changes Broadcast Partners to Price Communications Corp. for 500 w- N)- -- -Granted assignment of license from Vanguard Seller is owned by principals in MMT Sales. $8.75 million. Communications Inc. to Del Raycee for 5900,000. Seller is York -based station representative headed by Gary Scol- New Geneva, N.Y. -based group of three AM's and two FM's MMT Sales was recently sold to Meredith Corp.. for Applications lard. owned by Leonard I. Ackerman and Leonard A. Marcus. $40 million (BROADCASTING. July 13). Scollard also has Buyer is co- founder of Unity Broadcasting Network. which WE:UP(AM) Huntsville. Ala. (1600 khz: 5 kw -D)- Little Rock. Ark. Buyer is publicly interest in KLRT(TV) owns WDAS-AM -FM Philadelphia. Action Aug. 20. Seeks assignment of license from WEUP -Garrett Broadcast- owned, New York -based group of eight AM's. eight FM's Virginia for khz: 5 kw-D; ing Service to Hundley Batts Sr. and Caples and four TV's headed by Robert Price. president. It recently WYXY(AM) Cypress Gardens. Fla. (1360 who has no license from Altair $855.000. Seller is owned by Viola Garrett. sold three AM's and four FM's to Fairfield Communications 2.5 kw- N)-- Granted assignment of wife. Corp. for other broadcast interests. Buyers are husband and ("Changing Hands : May 4). Filed Aug. 17. Communications Inc. to Seehafer Broadcasting Batts is local businessman and Caples is school administra- 5395.000. Sellers are principally owned by Roger S. Bald. It WKPA(AM)- WYDD(FM) New Kensington. Pa. (AM: tor. They have no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 19. has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is Manitowoc. Wis.- 500 1150 khz: I kw -D: FM: 104.7 mhz; 50 kw: HAAT: ft.)- FM's owned by Donald 500 based group of four AM's and three WXLLIAM) Decatur. Ga. (1310 khz: w-13)-Seeks Seeks assignment of license from Gateway Broadcasting Inc. from Jo- W. Seehafer. Action Aug. 14. transfer of control of Price Communications Enterprises Inc. to Salem Media of Pennsylvania for $4 to Margery J. Watson khz: 5 kw- Grant- seph L. Price (517r before :49% after) million. Seller is owned by Nelson Goldberg. who has no WORL(AM t Orlando. Fla. (1270 U)- broadcast interests. for no consideration. Seller has no other other broadcast interests. Buyer is subsidiary of Salem Com- ed assignment of license from Metroplex Communications 14. Seller is buying Buyer has no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. munications. Camarillo. Calif. -based group of 8 AM's and 5 Inc. to WORL Radio Inc. for 51.65 million. WKTM(FM) Soperton. Ga. (101.7 mhz; 3 kw; HAAT: 300 B. ) -Seeks assignment of license from Treutlen Broad- casting Corp. to Sol Broadcasting Inc. for $29.500. Seller is owned by Andrew J. McGowan. who also owns WGML(AM) Hinesville, Ga. Buyer is owned by Terry D. Brokers Meeks. who also owns WMPZ(AM) Soperton, Ga. Filed Aug. 18. KGEM(AMI- KJOTIFM) Boise. Idaho (AM: 1140 khz: 10 kw -U: 105.1 mhz; 43 kw: HAAT: 2.570 ft.) -Seeks assignment of license from Gem State Broadcasting Corp. to cI::I-ìii5'Media11`c111 Boise Viking Associates L.P. for $2.1 million. Seller is Salt Lake City-based group of three AM's. three FM's and three TV's owned by George C. and Wilda Gene Hatch and family. Buyer is owned by Bruce and Linda Johnson. Pasadena. Associates Calif. -based couple with no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 18. KRAR(AM) Waite Park -St. Cloud. Minn. (1390 khz: from Kle- 2.5 kw -D: 1 kw -N) -Seeks assignment of license ven Broadcasting Co. to West Side Communications Inc. for WOFM(FM) SI87.500. Seller is Sturgis. S.D. -based group of three AM's and one FM. owned by Leslie J. Klcven. Buyer is headed by Virginia John 'Cooley. general manager of KUXL(AM) Golden Val- Chesapeake, ley. Minn. Filed Aug. 12. KTTS(AM) Springfield. Mo. and KGBX(FM) Spring- to field. Mo. (KTTS: 1400 khz: I kw -U: KGBX: 1260 khz: 5 kw -U) -Seeks assignment of license of KITS(AM) from Springfield Great Empire Broadcasting Inc. to KGBX Com- munications Inc. and assignment of license of KGBX(AM) American Eagle Communications, Inc. to Springfield Great Empire Broadcasting Inc. from KGBX Communications Inc. for no other consideration. KGBX Communications is owned by Allan Thompson and five others. it has no other broadcast interests. Springfield Great from Empire Broadcasting is a Wichita. Kan. -based group of three AM's and three FM's (including co- located KTTS- FM). principally owned by E. E Mike Lynch and Michael C. Oatman. Filed Aug. 20. Southland Communications, Inc. WQISIAM)- WNSL(FM) Laurel. Miss. (AM: 890 khz: 10 kw -D: FM: 100.3 mhz: 100 kw; HAAT: 1.050 ft.)- Seeks transfer of control of New South Communications from Clay Holladay (26% before; none after): Wayne $1,538,461 Vowel). Richard Schoenik and Manuel Lima (8`R- each before: name after) to Robert Holladay (76ró I and Mark Jones (2456) for S22 61.798. Seller. Holladay owns WYZB(FM) Subject to FCC approval. Mary Esther. Fla. Buyer. Roben Holladay. is brother of Clay. Their father. Frank Holladay. owns four AM's and four FM's. Robert Holladay also owns KWZD(FM) Hamlin- Tex. Filed Aug. 13.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 101 WAJL(AM) Winter Park. Fla. (see below). Buyer is owned WISE(AM) Asheville, N.C. (1310 khz: 5 kw -D: 1 kw- by Robert Thompson. Shreveport. La. -based attomey with NI-Granted assignment of license from Pine Trails Broad- no other broadcast interests. Filed May 18. casting Co. to United Broadcasting Enterprises Inc. for Summary of broadcasting $425.000. Seller WWLDIAM) Pine Castle -Sky Lake. Fla. (1190 khz: 5 is subsidiary of Heritage Broadcast Group Inc.. as of June 30, 1987 kw- D)- Granted assignment of license from Comco Inc. to Tucker. Ga. -based group of four AM's and four FM's Alleluia Ministries Inc. for S300.000. Seller is owned by owned by James T. Cullen and Adam G. Polacek. It recently bought WWNC(AM) Walter M. Windsor. It has no other broadcast interests. Buy- Asheville for S7.250.000. Buyer is Service On Air CP's owned by Total' er is owned by Albert Chubb and his wife. Elayne. It is also Glenn Wilcox and W.T. Denman. Wilcox owns selling WAJL(AM) Winter Park. Fla. (see below). Action Wilcox World Travel, Asheville -based travel agency. Den- Commercial AM 4,887 170 5.057 man is Aug. 18. local attorney. Action Aug. 19. Commercial FM 3,969 418 4,387 WEBGIAM) Educational FM WAJLIAM) Winter Park. Fla. (1440 khz: 5 kw-D; I kw- Ebensburg. Pa. 11580 khz; I kw -D)- 1.272 173 1,445 N1-- Granted assignment of license from Alleluia Ministries Granted assignment of license from Ebensburg Broadcast Total Radio 10.128 761 10,889 Group Inc. to Cambria Broadcasting Inc. to Metroplex Communications Inc. for $1.1 million. Inc. for S52.000. Seller FM translators 1,115 766 is 1,881 Seller is buying WWLDIAM) Pine Castle -Sky Lake. Fla. owned by Phillip P. Lenz. who has no other broadcast (see above). Buyer is Cleveland -based group of six AM's interests. Buyer is owned by Jaan E. Vaino. New Testament Commercial VHF N 542 23 and seven FM's owned by Norman Wain and Robert C. Missionary Fellowship and three others. It has no other 565 Wicss. Action Aug. 18. broadcast interests. Action Aug. 14. Commercial UHF TV 461 222 683 WIXR(AM) Mount Pleasant. Educational VHF N 114 3 117 WDEN -AM -FM Macon. Ga. 11500 khz: I kw -D: FM: S.C. (1480 khz: 1 kw- I-Granted assignment Educational TV 105.3 mhz: 105 kw: HAAT: 770 ft. l -- Granted assignment of of license from Patricia R. Vestal to UHF 198 25 223 Mount Pleasant license from WDEN Communications Ltd. to Magic Broad- Communications Inc. for SI15.000. Seller Total N 1,315 273 1,588 has no casting for S6 million. Seller is owned by Thom E. Smith. other broadcast interests. Buyer is owned by William G. Frank Burge and Austin Paddock. It has no other broadcast Dudley. who has no other broadcast interests. Action VHF LPTV 247 74 321 interests. Buyer is owned by Doug Grimm and Don McCoy. Aug. 13. UHF LPTV 162 136 who also own WJYR(FM) Myrtle Beach. S.C. It is also 298 buying WLSQ(AM) -WREZ(FM) Montgomery. Ala. Action Total LPTV 409 210 619 Aug. 6. WALI(AM)- WROGIFM) Cumberland. Md. (AM: 1230 VHF translators 2,981 145 3.126 khz: I kw -U: FM: 102.9 mhz: 3.5 kw: HAAT: 1.400 ft.)- UHF translators 1.998 293 2.291 Granted assignment of license from Community Service New Stations Broadcasters Inc. to Tschudy Communications Corp. for ITFS 250 114 364 S865.000. Seller is owned by C. Alfred Dick and William A. Low -power auxiliary 824 Hubbard. It has no other broadcast interests. Buyer is owned 0 824 by Earl Judy. who also owns WSIG(AM) Mt. Jackson. Vu. Applications TV auxiliaries 7.430 205 7.635 Action 13. UHF Aug. AM's translator/boosters 6 0 6 Experimental TV 3 5 8 Dungeness. Wash. WATN(AM) Watertown and WTOJ(FM) Carthage. both -KMO Inc. seeks 1600 khz; 5 kw- Remote pickup 12.338 53 12.391 New York (AM: 1240 khz: 1 kw -D: 250 w -N: FM: 103.1 U. Address: P.O. Box 1277; Tacoma. Wash. 98401. Princi- Aural STL & intercity relay 2,836 166 3.002 mhz: 3 kw: HAAT: 363 ft.)- Dismissed assignment of li- pal is owned by James L. Bainc. who also owns cense from A.P.A. Communications Inc. to Hastings Broad- KKMO(FM) Tacoma. Wash. Filed Aug. 3. Includes casting Corp. for $1.7 million. Seller is owned by Dean FM's off-air licenses. Aubol and Frank Penny. Penny owns WEBO(AM)- WQWT(FM) Oswego. N.Y. Aubol was former owner of DeKalb. 111. -Tana S. Knetch seeks 94.9 mhz: 3 kw: WTHU(FM) Thurmont. Md. Buyer is owned by Gordon H. HAAT: 328 ft. Address: 1018 DeKalb Ave.. Sycamore. Ill. 50 kw: HAAT: 492 ft. Address: 7022 Bunkerhill Rd.. New Hastings and his wife. Linda. Hastings is former president of 60178. Principal has no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. Orleans 70127. Principal has no other broadcast interests. Katz Television and also owns WDOSIAM)- WSRK(FM) 17. Filed Aug. 14. Oneonta. N.Y. Action .Aug. 14. Shreveport. La.- Willie A. Jackson seeks 102.9 mhz Topsail Beach. N.C. -Roy L. Jones seeks 280; 3 kw: HAAT: 328 ft. Address: 812 Robert E. Lee Dr.. Wilmington. N.C. 28430. Principal has no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Topsail Beach, N.C. -Topsail Broadcasting seeks 103.9 mhz; 3 kw: HAAT: 325 ft. Address: #1 South Topsail Dr.. P.O. Box 2190. Surf City, N.C. 28540. Principal is owned Fairwest by Hiram Creagh Bell and David Clarence Lanier. who have no other (George Johns, Reg Johns, & Bill Yde) broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Topsail Beach. N.C. -Jackson Lee Broadcasting seeks has acquired 103.9 mhz: 3 kw: HAAT: 325 ft. Address: 131 South Ander- son Blvd.. Topsail Beach. N.C. 28445. Principal is owned WBGK (FM) by Jackson Lee. who has no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Topsail Beach, N.C. -Topsail Beach FM Partnership WMVP (AM) seeks 280: 3kw: HAAT: 328 ft. Address: P.O. Box 3031: 28445. Principal is owned by Milton Rae Oppegaard and 25 Milwaukee, Wisconsin others. it has no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Topsail Beach. N.C.-GGroup Three W Inc. seeks 280: from 3kw: HAAT: 328 ft. Address: P.O. Box 3303; 28445. Princi- pal is owned by brothers Sidney and Hiram Williams who AMOS COMMUNICATIONS, INC. have no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Ravena. N.Y. -Ravena Broadcast Partners seek 94.5 The undersigned, assisted by mhz: 3 kw: HAAT: 85 m. 4433 Wells Parkway. University Park. Md. 29782. Principal is owned by Arthur Donald R. Bussell, Vice President /Radio Division, Belendiuk: Jeffrey Busch and Darrell Bauguess. It has no other broad- exclusively represented Fairwest in the transaction. cast interests. Filed Aug. 12. Lytle. Tex. -The Stronghold Foundation Inc. seeks 91.3 mhz: 3 kw; HAAT: 90 m. Address: 13719 Stony Forest. San Antonio. Tex. 78231. Principal is nonprofit corporation m headed by James C. Baer. Filed Aug. 20. TV'S

Gammon 0 Ninowski Yauco. P.R. -Telemundo Group Inc. seeks ch. 42: ERP vis. Media Ilrvc.lnict11s, Inc. 4.200 kw. HAAT: 2.146.5 ft. Address: 1290 Ave. of the Americas. New York 10104. Principal is group of four Suite 306, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 Spanish -language TV's purchased last year from John Blair & Co. It is owned by Reliance Group Holdings. publicly traded New York -based investment firm principally owned Visit our hospitality suite at NAB Radio '87 by financier Saul Steinberg. Telemundo is headed by Henry R. Silverman, president. Filed Aug. 12. Anaheim Hilton, Suite 5440 Yauco. P.R. -Maranatha Christian Network seeks ch. 42: ERP vis. 1.000 kw. HAAT: 1.949.3 ft. Address: Calle 7, FF -7: Victoria Heoghts. Bayamon. P.R. 00619. Principal is equally owned by Iris Torres, Santiago Gonzales and Jesus Rodriguez. who have no other broadcast interests. Filed Aug. 12.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 1110 Utah -Seeks mod. of change TL: change ERP to 2.5 kw and change HAAT to 351 Aug. 12. KREC (98.1 mhz) Brian Head. CP to change TL: change HAAT to 2.525.6 ft. and change ft. Filed Aug. 19. St. George. Utah -KUTV Inc. socks ch. 12: ERP vis. ERP to 56.2 kw. Filed Aug. 19. New (106.3 mhz) Las Vegas-Seeks mod. of CP to 148 kw. HAAT: 1.370.6 ft. Address: 2185 S. 3600 West. Salt change TL and change HAAT to 1.154.6 ft. Filed Aug. 21. Lake City 84119. Principal is Salt Lake City -based group of Accepted three AM's. three FM's and three TV's owned by George KKBB (103.1 mhz) Aurora. Neb. -Seeks CP to change New (98.1 mhz) Anchorage-Seeks mod. of CP to Hatch and his wife. Wilda. Filed Aug. 12. freq. to 97.3 mhz: change ERP to 50 kw: change HAAT to change TL: change ERP to 25 kw and change HAAT to 337.1 ft. and make changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. 19. Actions minus 85.3 ft. Filed Aug. 19. WSOC -FM (103.7 mhz) Charlotte. N.C. -Seeks CP to KJJZ (101.1 mhz) Kodiak. Alaska -Seeks mod. of CP FM's change HAAT to 1.017.6 ft. Filed Aug. 19. to change ERP tu 3. I kw and change HAAT to 13.1 ft. Filed Selbyville. Del.- Returned app. of Selbyville Broad- Aug. 19. WWMY (94.5 mhz) Eden. N.C. -Seeks CP to change casting for 97.9 mhz; 3 kw: HAAT: 328 ft. Action Aug. 20. HAAT to 970.9 ft. and make changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. KMBY-FM (107.1 mhz) Seaside. Calif. -Seeks CP to 21. Gainesville. Fla.- Granted app. of Central Florida Edu- change ERP to 895 w and change HAAT to 586.4 ft. Filed 354.2 cational Network for 91.7 mhz: 520 w: HAAT: ft. Aug. 19. W'QDR (94.7 mhz) Raleigh. N.C. -Seeks CP to change Action Aug. 19. TL: change HAAT to 1,211.7 ft. and change ERP 99 kw. WFSY (98.5 mhz) Panama City; Fla. -Seeks mod. of Filed Aug. 19. Naples. Fla. -Granted app. of Central Florida Educa- CP to change HAAT to 1.055.7 ft. Filed Aug. 19. tional Network for 89.5 mhz: 550 w; HAAT: 249.3 ft. Action WZZO (95.1 mhz) Bethlehem. Pa. -Seeks CP to WOKA -FM (106.7 mhz) Douglas. Ga. -Seeks CP to Aug. 19. change ERP to 30 kw. Filed Aug. 19. change ERP to 100 kw. Filed Aug. 19. Rantoul. III.- Granted app. of Eleanor L. Martin for WCTX (92.I mhz) Palmyra. Pa. -Seeks CP to change KHHH (98.5 mhz) Honolulu -Seeks Mod. of CP to 96.1 mhz: 3 kw: HAAT: 328 ft. Action Aug. 19. HAAT to 300 ft. and make changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. change TL and change HAAT to 295.2 ft. Filed Aug. 19. Flemington. N.1.- Granted app. of Huntcrdon Mercury' 25. KETB (102.3 mhz) Couer D'Alene. Idaho -Seeks mod. Communications Inc. for 1040 khz: 1 kw -U. Action July 7. WITQ 199.3 mhz) Block Island. R.I. -Seeks mod. of of CP to change TL. Filed Aug. 21. Aug. 19. Maljamar. N.M. -Returned app. of Taber Broadcasting CP to make changes in ant. sys. Filed WCBK -FM (102.3 mhz) Martinsville. Ind. -Seeks CP of New Mexico Inc. for 105.1 mhz: 100 kw: HAAT: 1.137 WPDZ (103.1 mhz) Cheraw. S.C. -Seeks CP to change to change HAAT to 170 m.: change ERP to 1.05 kw and ft. Action Aug. 26. 1986. frcq. to 103.3 mhz: change TL: change HAAT to 728.2 ft.: TL. Filed Aug. 19. change sys. Filed Maljamar, N.M. -Granted app. for 105.1 mhz: 100 kw: change ERP to 100 kw and make changes in ant. KGCI (97.7 mhz) -Seeks CP to change TI. and change HAAT: 1.100 ft. Action Aug. 13. Aug. 25. Aug. 19. HAAT to 328 ft. Filed HAAT Sulphur. Okla. -Granted app. of Sulphur Educational KMGC 1102.7 mhz) Dallas -Seeks CP to change -FM (101.7 mhz) Richmond. Ky. -Seeks CP to Broadcasting Foundation for 91.1 mhz: 3 kw; HAAT: 216.5 WMCQ to 1.348.1 ft. Filed Aug. 19. change TL and change HAAT to 303.2 ft. Filed Aug. 19. ft. Action Aug. 19. KFQX -FM (102.3 mhz) Merkel, Tex. -Seeks CP to (106.5 mhz) Brewer. Maine -Seeks CP to Lewisburg. Pa.-Granted app. of Salt and Light Minis- WKIT-FM change freq. to 102.3 mhz: change TL: change HAAT to change freq. to 100.3 mhz: change TL: change HAAT to in ant. tries Inc. 91.3 5 88.6 ft. Action Aug. 610.1 ft.: change ERP to 0 kw and make changes for mhz: kw; HAAT: 21. I ft. and change ERP to 16.5 kw. Filed Aug. 17. 869.2 sys. Filed Aug. 25. (103.1 mhz) Grasonvillc. Md.-Seeks CP to Sioux Falls. S.D. -Dismissed app. of Great Plains Edu- WBEY KREC (98.I mhz) Brian Head. Utah-Seeks mod. of HAAT to 328 ft. Filed Aug. 21. and change cational Trust for 90.1 mhz: 653 w: HAAT: 87 ft. Action change CP to change TL: change HAAT to 2.525.6 ft. 21. Aug. 14. WMJC (95.3 mhz) Battle Creek. Mich. -Seeks CP to ERP to 56.2 kw. Filed Aug. TL and change HAAT to 308.5 ft. Action Aug. 19. Waynesboro. Va.- Granted app. of 90.1 mhz; 4 kw: change TV's HAAT: 730 ft. Action Aug. 19. WNWN (98.5 mhz) Coldwater. Mich. -Saks CP to Accepted change ERP to 39 kw and change HAAT to 550.14 ft. Filed TV's Aug. 19. KWBB (ch. 38) San Francisco -Seeks MP to change -Dismissed app. of Calvin Ross for ch. 5: ERP vis. to 2.570 kw and change HAAT to 1.292.3 ft. Filed Liberal. Kan. WSNX -FM (104.5 mhz) Muskegon. Mich. -Seeks CP ERP vis. 100 kw; aur. 10 kw: HAAT: 469.5 ft. Action Aug. Aug. 21. to change HAAT to 617.6 ft. Filed Aug. 25. 10. WTGL -TV Ich. 521 Cocoa. Fla. -Seeks CP to change WBKN (92.1 mhz) Brookhaven. Miss. -Seeks CP to

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Applications IF YOUR GOAL AM's Tendered IS TO CAPTURE WRBK (1090 khz) Flomaton. Ala. -Seeks CP to change city of license to Cantonment. Fla.: and make GREATER AUDIENCE SHARE changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. 20. FM's Why not invest 10 minutes of your time Tendered how to accomplish that goal WFIT (89.5 mhz) Melbourne. Fla. -Seeks CP to to determine change ERP to 2.72 kw and change HAAT to 111.5 ft. Filed Aug. 21. KETB (102.3 mhz) Couer D'Alene. Idaho -Seeks mod. of CP to change TL. Filed Aug. 19. m WKIT-FM (106.5 mhz) Brewer. Maine -Seeks CP to change frcq. to 100.3 mhz; change IL: change HAAT to Gammon NÌfIOWSki kw. Filed Aug. 19. 869.2 ft. and change ERP to 16.5 Mccü;t Inrc ltncnh, Illì. WBEY (103.1 mhz) Grasonvillc. Md. -Seeks CP to change HAAT to 328 ft. Filed Aug. 19. in association with KVLR (95.3 mhz) Detroit Lakes. Mich -Seeks CP to change frcq. to 95.1 mhz: change HAAT to 970.9 ft. and Media Business Associates change ERP to 100 kw. Filed Aug. 24. WSNX -FM Muskegon. Mich. -Seeks CP to change HAAT to 618.3 ft. Filed Aug. 19. invite you to a presentation of various formats WWMY (94.5 mhz) Eden. N.C. -Seeks CP to change and how they can work in your market HAAT to 970.9 ft. and make changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. 21. WWWM (105.5 mhz) Sylvania. Ohio -Seeks CP to In -Suite Shows at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 each evening change TL. Filed Aug. 25.

WPDZ (103. I mhz) Cheraw. S.C. -Seeks CP to change Hospitality Suite 5440 Anaheim Hilton freq. to 103.3 mhz; change TL: change HAAT to 728.2 ft.: change ERP to 100 kw and make changes in ant. sys. Filed NAB Radio '87 Aug. 24. KFQX -FM (102.3 mhz) Merkel. Tex. -Seeks CP to change freq. to 102.3 mhz: change TL: change HAAT to ant. 610. I ft.: change ERP to 100 kw and make changes in sys. Filed Aug. 24.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 103 ERP vis. to 5.000 kw: change HAAT to 1.482.6 ft. and make app. to change freq. to 105.7 mhz: change TL: change ERP New FM's changes in ant. sys. Filed Aug. 19. to 50 kw: change HAAT to 493 ft. Action Aug. 19. KKGL D &M Communications Inc.. Pmetop. Ariz. New (ch. 62) Venice. Fla. -Seeks MP to change ERP to WMYQ-FM (106.3 mhz) Newton. Miss. -Granted WAEM -FM Thomas H. Moffat. Marseilles, III. 3.890 kw: change HAAT to 1.010.2 ft. and make changes in app. to change HAAT to 158 ft. ant. sys. Filed Aug. 21. KMSO (102.5 mhz) Missoula. Mont.-Granted app. to New TVs KFVE Ich. 51 Honolulu-Seeks CP to change HAAT to change HAAT to 873.8 ft. Action Aug. 20. WSNR -TV Christian Discerner Inc.. Syracuse. N.Y 2.063.1 ft. Filed .Aug. 21. KEXL (106.7 mhz) Norfolk. Granted to Neb.- app. Existing AM's WUJA (ch. 58) Caguas. P.R. -Seeks CP to change ERP change HAAT to 1.027.8 ft. Action Aug. 19. vis. to 98.8 kw and aur. 9.88 kw. Filed Aug. 25. KCEP (88.I mhz) Las *gas-GGranted app. to change KORI KACY Owyhee Broadcasters Inc.. Payette. KING -TV (ch. 5) Seattle. Wash. -Seeks CP to change ERP to 10 kw. Idaho HAAT to 1.167.7 ft. Filed Aug. 19. WRXR WJFX Guardian Corp . Aiken. S.C. WKNE -FM 1 103.7 mhzl Keene. N.H.-Granted app. to change TL: change ERP to 33 kw and change HAAT to WXTC WCSC Guild Radio Co.. Charleston. S C. Actions 610.1 ft. Action Aug. 19. WZJY WIXR Mount Pleasant Communications Inc.. AM's WBXL (90.9 mhz) Baldwinsville. N.Y-- Granted app. Mount Pleasant. S C to change ERP to 195 w and change HAAT to 195 ft. Action Existing FM's WNIZ (750 khz) Portage. Ind. -Granted app. to oper- Aug. 14. ate trans. by remote control. Action Aug. 12. WRQN (93.5 mhz) Bowling Green. Ohio -- Granted WMKJ WWER South Metro Broadcasting Inc.. New- KCLO (1410 khz) Leavenworth. Kans. -Granted app. app. to change TL: change ERP to-2 kw and change HAAT to nan. Ga. to operate trans. by remote control. Action Aug. 12. 4011.2 ft. Action Aug. 18. KORI-FM KOPD Owyhee Broadcasters Inc.. Payette. KKMT (710 khz) Ennis. Mont.-Granted app to KRBM )90.9 mhz) Pendleton. Ore.-Granted app. to Idaho change TL. Action Aug. 12. change HAAT to 587. I ft. Action Aug. 14. WWKW WLKN-FM Con Brio Broadcasting Inc.. Lin- FM's KXRX (96.5 mhz) Seattle. Wash. -Granted app. to coln, Neb. change ERP to 100 kw. Action Aug. 18. KRJB KMCA R&J KEDY 195.3 mhz) Mount Shasta. Calif.- Granted app. Broadcasting. Ada. Minn. to change TL and change HAAT to 157.4 ft. Action March WRXR-FM WJFX -FM Guardian Corp.. Aiken. S.C. 16. WXTC-FM WXTC Guild Radio Co.. Charleston. S.C. WRXK (96.1 mhz Bonita Springs. Fla.- Granted app. to change TL and change HAAT to 1.122 ft. Action Aug. 18. Call Letters Grants WIVE 188.1 mhz) Pensacola. Fla.-Granted app. to Cati Sought by change HAAT to 617 ft. and change TL. Action Aug. 19. KPKY (94.9 mhz) Pocatello. Idaho -Granted app. to Applications New AM's change ERP to 100 kw. Calf Sought by WJHR Hunterdon Mercury Communications. Flem- K /IC (98.9 mhz) Leavenworth. Kan. -Granted app. to ington. N J. change TL and change HAAT to 1.057 ft. Filed Aug. 19. New AM's New FM's \VF\1 \I (105.5 mhz Harbor Beach. Mich. -Granted WMXA CID Broadcasting Inc.. Chicago WAGH Minority Radio Associates. Fort Mitchell, Ala. KZIX Franklin Broadcasting. HumnOke. Ark KLZC Laura Hopper. Freedom, Calif. in WDFL -FM Ytbmen Florida Broadcasting Inc . Cross City Fla WDIH Salisbury Educational Broadcasting Founda- Services tion. Salisbury. Md. KRLV A&A Broadcasting Corp . Las Vegas. Existing AM* 301 -731 -5677 Co ^e1 .e. cul Fcenr KTME KLLB Crystal Broadcasting Inc.. Lompoc, datawopld" o...en ...w,.,.o Calif. arre son KDES KKATounelotM Broadcasting Corp.. Palm Springs. Calif systems Ltd. WANL WODE Lifeline Radio Corp.. Albany, Ga. n .N Sr,,: 411 .a .... e u. . 70 7114 WREM WOZW Dr. Benito B. Rish. Monticello. Me. WALM WELL Triad -Comm Co Marshall. Mich. KRSR KMJJ Nationwide Communications Inc.. Las BROADCAST DATA SERVICES MMMMONIN, INC. Vegas Paul. Computerized Broadcast Service Connector Supplier WLIO WKGN Broadcasting Co . Knoxville. Including to the Broadcast Industry Tenn. Data Base Allocation Studies WTNR WNBG Pioneer Radio lno_ Waynesboro. Terrain Profiles Kings ITT Cannon .4 Die. of Mullin. Larson & Johnson. Inc. 67 Jefryn Blvd. E. Tenn Deer 703 824 -5666 Park, N.Y. 11729 Existing FM's (516) 242-4700 KDES -FM KDES Tourtelot Broadcasting Corp.. Palm Springs. Calif. UNUSED KWVF KTIM -FM Marin Broadcasting Co_ San Ra- Stephen Raleigh fael. CALL LETTERS Broadcast Services Calif KWYD-FM KWYD Patrick Communications Corp.. Secu- CALL Full Service Technical Consulting rity. Calif. Specialists in Audio & RF Systems Facility Design & Installation WKLR WEAG Horizon Broadcasting Inc.. Indiana- dataworIt1 P-O. Box 3403, Princeton, N.J. 08540 polis 1- 800 -368 -5754 (609) 799-4357 WMID-FM WLOE Amcom Inc.. Pleasantville. N J. WRGR WTPL -FM RGR Broadcasting of Tupper Lake Inc.. Tupper Lake. N.Y

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DIPPELL, P.C. A.D. RING 8 ASSOCIATES, P.C. LOHNES & CULVER COHEN and Corporation Consulting Engineers CONSULTING ENGINEERS CONSULTING RADIO ENGINEERS SANER, J Sra.e vöt.wou.m 1156 15th St_ N W. Suite 606 1015 1511, S1.. M W., Suite 703 Suits CONSULTING ENGINEERS 500 Washington, O C 20005 1140 Nineteenth St.. N.W COURT (202) 783 -0111 7901 VARNW000 1202) 296.2722 SPRINGFIELD VA. 22153 Washington. D.C. 20036 Wes 1, I ng l on. D.C. 20005 12021223 -6700 1703)569.7704 Member AFCCE AFCCE Member AFCCE Member AFCCE MEMBER

ASSOCIATES, INC. SILLIMAN AND SILLIMAN Moffet, Larson & Johnson, Inc. ANDRUS AND HAMMETT & EDISON, INC. 8121 Georgia Ave. #700 Engineers H. ANDRUS, P.E. Consulting Telecommunications ALVIN CONSULTING ENGINEERS Spring, MD 20910 Silver Two Skyline Place, Suite 800 351 SCOTT DRIVE P.E. Box 68, International Airport ROBERT M SILLIMAN. 5203 Leesburg Pike SILVER SPRING. MD 2090* i San Francisco, California, 94128 t301 5898288 Falls Church, VA 22041 P.E. ie 301 3845374 (415) 342 -5200 THOMAS B SILLIMAN. 703 824 -5660 18121 8539754 A M.sS., AFCCE Member AFCCE Wended .41( C1. Member AFCCE

VIR JAMES JULES COHEN CARL E. SMITH JOHN B. HEFFELFINGER CONSULTING ENGINEERS CONSULTING ENGINEERS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Applications and Fel0 E-y ^" "g AM -FM -TV Engir r . Computerized Fre9uenC, S 'e,z Suite 400 . Parkway. Suite 285 Complete Tower a-.: 9233 Ward N.W. W. Ave. -80219 -7010 1730 M St. Nerving the Broodrnxl lruhEnln' 3137 Kentucky 816 -444 for ove 50 Yearn" 1303) 937-1900 Kansas City. Missouri 64114 Washington DC 20036 12021 659.3707 Box 2727 Bath, Ohio 44210 DENVER, COLORADO Mr..b.. AICCL Member AFCCE (216) 659 -4440 .% Ninher AFCCE & NAB

Inc. HATFIELD & DAWSON E. Harold Munn, Jr., ROSNER TELEVISION Mullaney Engineering, Consulting Telecommunications Engineers Consulting Engineers & Associates, Inc. SYSTEMS Grove Court and Broadcast Engineering Consultants CONSULTING 6 ENGINEERING 9049 Shady Broadcast Commumcatlons MD 20877 4226 6th Ave., N.W., Box 220 250 West 57 Street Gaithersburg, 301. 921 -0115 Seattle, Washington, 98107 Coldwater, Michigan 49036 New York, N.Y. 10107 Member AFCCE (206) 783 -9151 Phone: 517- 278 -7339 12121 2462850 Member AFCCE

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS C. P CROSSNO & ASSOCIATES JOHN F.X. BROWNE ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING P.C. TECHNOLOGY. INC. & ASSOCIATES, P.C. MATTHEW J. VLISSIOYS. P.E. Consulting Engineers Consulting Engineers PRESIDENT 525 Woodward Ave. FW HANNEL. PE TOWERS. ANTENNAS. STRL''C VRES P.O. Box 18312 Bloomfield Hills. MI 48013 Towers. Existing Towers PO Box 9001 Peona. IL 61614 New Tall Texas 75218 (313) 642 -6226 Studies. Analyse.. Design Modi(wation>. Dallas, (309) 691 4155 VVashin ton Office Inspeclinns. Engine. Etc. (214) 669-0294 6x67 . McLean. VA 22101170.0 J55.9755 (202) 293 -2020 Member AFCCb Elm SI. Member AF('('I1 Member AFCCE Member AFCCE

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Sales manager. Have you got the hot ideas? Can you Chief engineer needed for Florida AM/FM. Require ener- RADIO assernu.e. organize, direct. motivate. and manage a top getic self starting quality oriented person with general li- notch sales department? HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT Then we want you! Top rated con- cense and experience in all phases of radio engineering. temporary FM. good economy great place to work. Rush a Salary range 20K. WNOE AM and FM, New EOE. Resume to Box X -120. Or,eans on.y country alai orì and brief summary of your radio sales management philosophy, an EEO employer. seeks an experienced local sales man- resume. references, and compensation expectations to NYarea directional AM/class A FM chief engineer. Exper- ager Resumes only 529 Rue Bienv''le. New Orleans. LA Box 876, Fort Smith, AR 72902. ienced all phases studio, transmitter. New air production 70130. facilities. automation, network. Must be responsible, man- California. .KFIG AM /FM is seeking a professional, highly agement- oriented individual to maintain and expand so- Deep South Class -C FM CHR, medium market. We will motivated salesperson with experience in direct and agen- phisticated facilities. Major group ownership, excellent sa- triple our gross within 2 -3 years. and we need a take charge cy sales. Number one list available. Draw against commis- lary/benefits. Immediate need but will wait for right sales manager who enjoys making it happen. We'll provide sion plus outstanding benefits. Contact Wayne Scholle, individual. EOE. Reply in confidence to Box X -128. the tools: you provide the expertise and motivation.. and Box 4265. Fresno. CA 93744. EOE M/F well all enjoy the rewards. Minimum five years competitive HELP WANTED NEWS experience. Complete particulars to Box X -98. CR Broadcasting is searching for a local sales manager with major local account responsibility. If you possess a Anchonreporter needed for award- winning news depart- GSM: WRCN/WRHD Long Island. Experienced. disci- desire to move up in a fast growing company, send resume ment. Aggressive reporter with solid anchoring abilities. plined. successful manager who can train. motivate TBR: and to: Blair Brookmeyer. GSM, WEEL -FM/WKWK -AM, P.O. Box Greg McKinney WSPA -AM, Box 1717, Spartanburg, develop a local sales team. Build local /retail Will sales. also 2258. Wheeling. WV 26003, or call 304 -232 -2250. EOE. SC 29304. handle some key accounts on national -regional level. Com- News pensation open Call Dick Adrian, Pres.. 516-727-1570. Central Connecticut: Growing AM station seeks a self director for three person department Southeast NY EOF motivated individual to work directly with our local clients. AM/FM. Sports background helpful. Tape and resume to Excellent opportunity for a creative. energetic individual. G.M., WBNR/WSPK -FM, Box 511. Beacon, NY 12508. Sales oriented general manager for medium market Indi- resume Send to: Sales Manager. WCNX, Box 359, Middle- Assistant program ana AM FM Abn4y to nve. train, and manage sales staff. town, CT director: news & information pro- 06457. graming: -FM Personal sales a must. Top facility in college town. Send KCFR seeks person to direct 3 professional news resume and salary requirements to Box X -119. EOE. Bright, energetic salesperson needed for local radio. Es- people in gathering and production of local news tablished & new accounts. Emphasis on locaUpro segments for NPR's Morning Edition. Some hosting /report- Joyner Broadcasting sports, continues to expand. We're look- community events. Professional atmosphere in small, but ing duties. At least 4 years professional experience in ing for solid management level managers, sales managers growing community Call Sales Manager, Judy Craig, broadcast journalism with 2 years in a supervisory position and program directors. resume Send and tape to Tom WDME AM /FM Dover- Foxcroft, ME, 207 -564-2642 or required, plus strong management/writing/speaking/pro- Joyner, Joyner Communications. Inc.. PO. Box 1125, Cary, 207 -876 -4120. duction skills. Salary competitive plus full benefits. Send NC 27512 -1125. No calls please letter describing interest; resume with 3 references and Can you multiply sales through people development? phone numbers; non -returnable tape (10-15 min.) contain- General sales manager. Fort PercelAtest Palm Beach Can you manage independent. ego -driven salespeople in ing 2 examples of investigative reporting (NO newscast dominating Class C FM ..looking for highly motivated ener- a positive style? Are you aware of the power in close rela- samples). Annette Griswold. KCFR, getic GSM with proven management track record. 2249 S. Josephine. Excel- tionships with your salespeople? Does your personal style Denver, CO 80210. EOE/AA. lent compensaron and benefit resume package. Send to: indicate an excellence in sales ability? If so, NewCity Com- John FX. Davis. Southwind Broadcasting. P 0. Box 3032, munications can offer you a chance to join a company Reporter for community minded small market Georgia AM- Fort Pierce, FL 34948. focused on excellence as local sales manager of WZZK- FM. Experience preferred. Good attitude and serious news AM/FM in commitment required. 804- 744 -2847 EOE. Experienced sales manager: Our upper midwest group of the healthy Birmingham market. WZZK ranks first among Sunbelt country stations in top markets. radio stations is looking for a general sales manager with 50 Income Award -winning newsroom needs experienced morning and growth potential are unlimited. If you feel you have experience and a successful track record. We want a per- the anchor. Good writing skills. conversational delivery, willing- talent --cal me today Jim Hopes, son who can train. motivate and recruit quality salesper- 205- 945 -1192, Monday - ness to work hard a must. Good pay /benefits. Tape. resume If you Friday, 8A -6P CDT. EOE. sons. have experience, but feel your advancement is to ND Jim Beasley, Box 11202, Chattanooga, TN 37401. limited. contact me. If you are making $30.000 to $40.000 Account executive needed. AM /FM combo. Top 50 mar- 100kw market leader seeking news and want to earn $50.000 to $60.000 and more. contact ket. Prior experience anchor /reporter. a plus. Replies confidential. Box X- Strong news delivery me. If you're tired of managing sales and handling a big list 125. and sound skills a must. Send tape and resume too. contact me. If you are the person we are looking for, to Dan Robison. News Director, WCOS FM /AM you will also find excellent career growth opportunities. This Sales professional. We're looking for an experienced; ag- Box 748. Columbia. SC 29202. EOE. position is open in our Sioux Falls. South Dakota. market. gressive sales professional to take substantial account list The metro area population is 150.000 and the economy has at one of Connecticut's most successful and respected HELP WANTED PROGRAMING Shown steady growth. If you are interested in this opportuni- radio stations. Salary, commission, bonus and incentives. PRODUCTION & OTHERS Send resume ty, send a resume with references to: Duane P Cariveau. and references to: Al Tacca, Sales Manager, Top 10 classical market looking for President, Vaughn Broadcasting. PO. Box 940 WINE. PO. Box 95, Danbury. CT 06813. EOE. experienced program 997, Grand director and full-time announcers. Forks, ND 58201. Send letter and resume to Box X -75. General manager. Nk seek experienced GM or GSM seek- HELP WANTED ANNOUNCERS Operations manager: Gulf Coast ACM. ing to advance to build full potential of FM serving Michi- Leadership, stability and promotions a must. Resume and references to gan's thriving Cherry Capitol. First station of future group. Exciting morning personality for urban contemporary in Gen- eral Manager, Box 9781. Corpus Christi, TX 78469. Compensation commensurate with experience. EUE. Re- resort city Send resume and tape to Program Director. 60 Marktield sumes only to PO. 639. Minot. ND 58702 -0639. Drive, Suite 4, Charleston. SC 29407. Los Angeles station seeking experienced accounts re- ceivable director. Resume to Ms. McMillen. KKGO. 10880 Top career opportunity for which very few readers of this Enterprise Network has two openings for announcers in Wilshire Boulevard. Los Angeles, CA 90024. ad will qualify. General manager for AM /FM top 15 market in it's group of 5 Christian formatted stations. One year on air Midwest, also to coordinate two AM/FM stations in top 25 experience a plus but will consider others with basic train markets. The right individual has solid and successful radio ing or college prep. Resumes with references to Enterprise SITUATIONS WANTED MANAGEMENT operating experience in top 25 markets. knows sales Network. 100 N. 24th St. W. Suite B. Billings. MT 59102. and Career broadcaster with an impressive management programing, and is a serious bottom -line manager. The EOE record in major and medium markets, as well as group right individual has strong business and financial skills and and Versatile announcer for news and commerical. at USAs ownership experience, desires a situation that provides a history of stable long -term employment. If you meet these solar power FM. Females and minorities challenge and opportunity Prefer start-up criteria, write us a letter giving full and encouraged to or turnaround complete career and apply KIHX -FM. Prescott. AZ 86312. and the more salary history plus EOE. competitive the better. Call Frank Ward 803- current references. Responses will be 788 -8461. kept strictly confidential. Write to Box X-133. Opportunity for bright personality with news writing and production abilities. Send tape and resume to KTNC Radio, Years of GM/ownership have taught the sales, expense, HELP WANTED SALES PO. Box 589. Falls City NE 68355 bottom line equation. I can recruit, train. and lead. Turnar- Norther California, 100,000 watt, number one rated FM ounds welcome. Call Mike Hassan. 505 -296 -8112. Maryland medium market AM /FM needs heads morn station 40 plus shares now expanding sales department. up ing jock. Good salary, excellent working conditions, excel- Operations manager with business, sales and Seeks two aggressive. self motivated, experienced sales program- lent chance to move into management. Three years ing experience looking for general manager people with management potential. Media knowledge in exper- opportunity. ience minimum. References, first letter. your Unsuccessful in obtaining FM frequency. Aggressive. agency and direct selling a must. Send resume including credit and dedi- previous employers recommendations are most important. cated but cautious. 10 years medium market track record - salary history to: James C. Nelly. KXGO. PO. experience. Box X -108. Box X -101. Box 1131, Arcata. CA 95521. No phone calls please. EOE M /F. Looking for a GM? Hard -working professional with management. sales and programing WRCN/WRHD, Long Island needs aggressive, hard work- background looking for an HELP WANTED TECHNICAL new opportunity. Presently employed. excellent references. ing, experienced sales reps. Send resume to: Dick Adrian, Box X -116. Pres.. Box 666, Riverhead, NY 11901. EOE. Chief engineer wanted for Mid -West. Directional. high power FM and automation experience a must. Box X -69. General sales manager: Ten year professional large Sales manager: KFJZ 870 AM Ft. Nbrth /Dallas. and Salary, medium market, start ups. turnarounds. commission, override, profit sharing. incentives. PO. Top -notch chief engineer wanted to be part of manage- programing and marketing experience. Motivated. aggressive 12469. Dallas. TX 75225. 817 -336 -7175. ment team. Great opportunity with highly successful, grow- team builder and leader looking for a new future. X ing group in New York State. Five years experience desired Box -110. Sales manager: 50KW. full service market leader (#1 Your chance to work with state-of -the -art equipment. Send Manager with 18 yrs. broadcasting experience seeking full Spring 87 ARB) needs energetic. experienced motivator to resume and salary requirements to: Carol Reylly, VP /GM, charge radio management in Northwestern U. S., lead 7 person sales staff. Resume to: Bryan McIntyre. prefer GM. WTRY/WPYX, 1054 Troy - Schenectady Rd., Latham, NY small to medium market FM. WPTF Box 1511. Raleigh. NC or combo. Call Jack 214- 27602. EOEJMF. 12110. 723 -2605.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 106 oppor- services, assistant director and Small market GSM ready to move up to GM position. Seek- General manager: For Texas border town. Excellent University television Must /university radio services chief engineer. Ex- ing a new challenge in small- medium SE market. Integrity, tunity to on a growing. aggressive broadcast group. chief engineer in broad- engineer to over- intelligence, leadership, high energy level and solid man- be aggressive with minimum 4 years experience perienced FM and television broadcast and needs of UTS and URS including agement credentials. Box X -127. cast sales. Compensation package includes salary see all engineering incentive plan. State present salary. Send resume to Box X- hands -on aspects of construction. installation and mainte- 2 stations. 2 years. 2 turnar- Good old radio still works! 114. nance of both. Wilt also assume managerial responsibilities ounds. Is my next full charge challenge yours? 717 - 969- as assistant director of UTS. Education required E.E. de- Interconnect. Cable 6667 General manager. Cable Advertising gree or technical education in electronics. Experience re- market seeking peo- ad turnkey serving major Northeastern quired: At least five years work experience as chief engi- SITUATIONS WA'JTED ANNOUNCERS The successful candidate ple oriented general manager neer in both FM radio and television, with experience in and possess Experienced writer/announcer. Produce daily ski /sum- will have cable and advertising experience installation and maintenance of equipment, design and for interacting with staff and affiliated mer travel reports aired on major Northeastern stations. excellent people sills construction of facility space. and responsibility for techni- sales and profit and Knowledge and love of skiing a plus! No calls. Tape and cable systems. Previous management, cal operation of the facility and long -range engineering compensation plan. resume to Anne Bridges. New England Ski Areas Council, loss experience required. Excellent planning. Managerial and supervisory experience. License High Cablevi- 10 Cox Road. Abodslock. VT 05091. Send resume to: Vice President/Marketing. required: General Class FCC radiotelephone license Suc- Pke PO Bcx '526 Lancaster. sion. 1905 Old PhIadelpb-a cessful applicant must be able to organize, plan and over- Englishman, recent C S B. grad.. seeks produc- Mature PA 17603. EOE. see technical aspects of facilities' growth and develop- tion announcing position where versatile vocal talents can SALES ment. Application deadline: September 11. 1987. Send utilized. Call David Hammond 713-729 -9183. HELP WANTED be resumes to: Employment Office. Box 6163. The University Major market independent sta- Experienced announcer with good production. Copy writ - General sales manager. of Alabama. Tuscaloosa. AL 35487. The University of Ala- sales manager Im- ing and continuity skills Anytime, call Bill 308 -534 -1211. tion group seeks experienced general bama is an EOE AA employer. mediate start. Prefer 3+ years sales management exper- New Orleans. a Talented sportscaster seeks PBP position Available im- ience and strong independent sales background. Must be Director of engineering. WYES -T:12. engineering re- mediately Solid background all phases of radio. Mike results oriented. Top pay EOE. M'F Box X -79. VHF Public TV station seeks a director of -8453. sponsible for all technical areas including TV station and 602 -293 record in selling Vendor support consultant: Proven track transmitter operations. computerized 1" editing system. seven years exper- with Speech trained college graduate, and presenting vendor programs. Corporate position physical facility, and major for -profit 8 camera 45ft mobile permanent connection Can ience seeks quality station, weekly travel. 804 -- 496 -9200. unit. Sr management position which oversees 20+ em- write. 804 - -253 -5889. Applicant selected must have superb technical Vendor /marketing manager. Providence's leading televi- ployees. interpersonal skills, administrative ability and exper- Last of the semi intelligent disc jockeys will give you sion Station is looking for a vendor /marketing manager to and ience making major equipment purchases. Minimum 6 salable morning numbers in highly competitive market. Pre- service and develop existing accounts in retail. Candidate f in engineering management. Excellent fer high power laded glory" AM FM ok (tea is nghteouS. must have two years of relevant experience. preferably in years experience package. Salary open. Send resume to: Michael J. Bob Cannon 717- -563.1137 sales. Strong leadership ability and writing skills are essen- benefit President 8 General Manager, WYES-W 916 Na- tial. Send resume to Charles Newton. Local Sales Manager. LaBonia. SITUATIONS WANTED NEWS varre Avenue. New Orleans. LA 70124. No calls! WYES -TV WJAR. 111 Dorrance Street, Providence. RI 02903. An is equal opportunity employer. Hard -working sports director, with 8 years experience equal opportunity employer an behind the mike is looking to relocate immediately.. Call specializing in RF and video analog Sales manager: For Texas border town. Excellent opportu- Electrical engineer Mike or 618 654 -4449 Experience required in circuit design, equip- nity to join a growing aggressive broadcast group. Must be applications. modification. and applications engineering. Knowl- Veteran sportscaster seeks anchoring and 'or play -by- aggressive with minimum 4 years experience in broadcast ment computers. and CRTs required. Suc- play job. Top 50 markets only Box X -13. Compensation package includes salary and incen- edge of television, sales. will have excellent references and tive plan. State present salary Send resume to Box X -115. cessful candidate Experienced sports director with eleven years of radio educational background. Send resume to PO. Box 93176. looking to relocate Strong background in field reporting Local sales manager. NBC affiliate in Kansas seeks an Attn: C -1, Los Angeles, CA 90093. and PBP Wants college sports in medium market. Call Bob energetic. highly -motivated individual to lead a young but specializing in high speed digital stor- 812- 866 -5515 after 5 :30 EST professional sales team. Send resume to Herb Brown. Electrical engineer and digital processing. Area of appli- KSNT-TV P0. Box 2700. Topeka. KS 66601 EOE age. ND conversion. Stylish 27 -year news veteran available. Great mornings. cation will be in video standards conversion and sync gen- Authoritative human bet ievabe. distinctive James Local sales manager wanted for major market indepen- eration. Successful candidate will have excellent -5 TV sales resume to Banzer 1 405 -840 -2710. dent TV station. Must have between 4 years references and educational background. Send experience. Management experience preferred: sports ori- Attn: C -2. PO. Box 93176, Los Angeles. CA 90093 ND, award- winning anchor: 512 -447-9731 ented and knowledge of independent television a must. If Video engineer. 2 years experience in operation 8 mainte- SITUATIONS WANTED PROGRAMING you're a proven leader who can motivate and direct a solid nance of studio 8 EFP equipment. Ability to trouble shoot PRODUCTION 8 OTHERS sales team in a highly competitive market. and are familiar digital to component level. Entry level. Send re- with all phases of research such as product target AID. analog 8 including majors Expert top 40AC pro- to: Cablevision of Chicago, 820 Madison. Oak Park. P,D. - 15 year pro BMP and other marketing tools. send resume to General sume production. sales. people skills. IL Att: Human Resources. EOE M/F graming. promOtOns Sales Manager, KITN -TV 7325 Aspen Lane N.. Minneapo- 60302. voice. AD Prefer Class C FM Box X -54 lis. MN 55428. No phone calls, please. Maintenance engineer: Major Florida post production fa- for Need a production assistant in your production company cility, with latest digital equipment, has opening talented v radio pro - engineer. Must have strong main- or production dept College grad with 3 years HELP WANTED TECHNICAL self -motivated television duction seeks entry level in 4. MD. or PA 804- 634 -2133, tenance and moderate design skills. Beautiful facility and 106114. Wanted: Field engineer, 2 years electronic experience friendly atmosphere Contact Bruce Graham. Chief Engi- m:nimum 2 -5 years in CCTV with emphasis on time lapse neer, 920 -0800. announcer, DJ, look- 305- Talented audio engineer, producer, recorders. Must be articulate and a communicator Send ing to move back east. Three years professional and non- resume to Linda Krumme, Odetics Inc.. 1515 S. Manches- The National Technical Institute commercial experience. If quality is your watch -word, call TV operations engineer: ter. Anaheim, CA 92802. for Deaf (NTID). the largest technological college for Wiliam at 915- 267 -6234 before September 15 the at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) MTCE ENG. Will repair - LDK6 cams, VPR's 2, 3.880. ACR- deaf students with an AAS /equivalent plus 25. VR2000, Harris 9100 of AM -FM -TV 20Ikegami cameras seeks an operations engineer one -inch VTRs. Chyron RGU. Sony 77 -83's. Over 90 Sony 3/4" VTRs. 3 frequency agile ENG 2 years experience with Valley switcher. and other broadcast qual- trucks. 3 rotatable ENG pick up systems. RS 422 machine BetaCam. Grass equipment, identify and correct control RS 232 routing SWR system. FM stereo with digital ity equipment to operate failures, assist in equipment installation - AM stereo Motorola. Witt be using Spectrum analyz- minor equipment SCA, support. Excellent inter- ers 7L5, 7L13. 7L18 digital storage scope sound technol- and in remote /studio production Wiling learn sign language. Send resume TELEVISION ogy 1500. Experience in all the above desirable. Not an personal skills. to 11 Office. Position #0312B. Roches- HELP WANTED MANAGEMENT entry level position. EOE. Send resume to J.D. Weigand, by Sept. to: Personnel PO Box 9887. Rochester. NY KFMB-TVAM 8 FM, PO. Box 85888. San Diego, CA 92138. ter Institute of Technology Production manager. r'' market Southeast network al- 14623-0887. RIT is an equal opportunity employer. to seeks talented. - .. y creative leader with ability New England, major market independent .n:eraci with sales Must be able to hands chief. Must have strong maintenance and man reate to c. ents ár.0 -on Senior TV engineer: The National Technical Institute for people. This is your chance to agerial skills. Excellent growth potential for a motivated shoot. edit and manage the Deaf (NTID), the largest technological college for deaf crow with a small group owner Send resume and salary end' d,ia' Send 'es.ime and salary requirements. Box X- students at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). has an .. ...rents to Box X -88 EOE. immediate opening for an engineer with a BS plus 2 years, Station manager with proven sales and administrative Maintenance engineer: Position available immediately for or an AAS plus 4 years experience with one -inch VTRs. and ability for station in growing Texas city EOE. Box X -83. FCC licensed engineer. Must be experienced in trouble- Chyron RGU. Sony BetaCams, Grass Valley switcher. shooting digital and analog circuitry to the component lev- other broadcast quality equipment to diagnose and correct manager with ability to re- Aggressive, energetic sales el. VTRNCR maintenance experience desirable Contact. major equipment failures, install and /or supervise equip- for south Texas VHF market. EOE. Box X- cruit and train staff Chief Engineer, KDRV-TV 1090 Knutson Ave.. Medford. OR ment installation, provide engineering support for studio/ 81. 97504. EOE. remote productions. and assist the chef engineer Excel- lent interpersonal skills. Wring to learn sign language. Program /operations manager. Fast growing television di- needed for small market UHF station Must Chief engineer 11 la. Personnel Office, Position vision of a well known New England company is seeking a maintenance Send resume by Sept. have knowledge of RCA TTU55 and studio Technology, PO Box 9887. manager to program and operations responsibil- Need immedi- #0254B. Rochester Institute of oversee Opportunity to grow! Call 901 -- 664 -1600. em- a big plus Great Rochester, NY 14623 -0887 RIT G an equal opportunity ities. Production and mdy background ately! opportunity to grow with an exciting new TV company in a ployer to work in Philadel- great New England market. Send resumes to: Program and Tape maintenance engineer needed house Individuals Operations Manager. WNHT-TV 21. PO Box 2100, Con- phia area television station /production manufacturers training with HELP WANTED NEWS cord, NH 03301. EOE. with 3 -5 years experience and Send RCA TCR100's. and Ampex VPR -2B's apply today network af- traffic manager. Traffic manager wanted to Satellite newsgathering coordinator. Sunbelt TV station resume to Box X -112. EOE. key person for manage four person department. Must have at least 2 filiate with strong news commitment seeks seeking a member station with mobile satel- years experience with computerized traffic system in televi- Mid Atlantic TV station/production house is uplink operations Conus with at least resume with references to VValter Saddler. sion. Salary commensurate with experience. Send re- broadcast equipment maintenance engineer lite truck. Send package. Send WJTV (CBS), P.O. Box 8887, Jackson. MS sumes to: GSM, WJKS -TV 9117 Hogan Rd., Jacksonville. three years experience. Excellent benefit News Director. FL 32216 EOE. resume to Box X -113. 39204. EOE.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 107 News director /anchor. Southeast 101 + market. Must Producer: Creative, industrious, enterprising, well orga- Promotion director. #1 independent in 35th ADI seeks have strong leadership skills plus on -air capabilities. Send nized person to produce and /or contribute to live pro- hands on manager for on -air and station promotion. Must resume and present salary status to Box X -72. EOE. grams. documentaries. magazine format stows, children's be able to create, write, produce and edit. Send a lape of programs. specials ranging from roadraces to Director of newscasts at market leading affiliate (50's mar- musical ex- your work along with resume and salary history to Linda travaganzas. Person must be excellent writer. good ket). Fast paced shows with a wide array of visual elements. com- Cochran. VP/GM. WLFL 1205 Front St_ Raleigh. NC 27609. municator and motivator of people, State -of-the -art equipment. Looking for accomplished and extremely re- EOE. sourceful. Send resume and tape to: Local Productions 'live" director who will have input into show "look- and Manager, WRAL-TV P0. Box 12000. Raleigh. NC Broadcast editor. Ohio State University's public relations production. Send resumes to Box X -90. 27605. office seeks broadcaster or agency TV producer to man- Co-host for local magazine format show airing week- Strong producer needed for late newscast. Need a good age. develop and market TV radio and video protects. in- nights in prime access. Must have on-air writer. with leadership ability to handle show at number experience and cluding news. feature. promotional. PSAS and special pro- one strong skills in writing and affiliate (50's market). State -of -the -art producing creative feature sto- grams. Supervisory experience useful: electronic equipment. Send re- ries. Excellent sume to Box X -91. organizational skills needed along with lead- journalism experience desired: production and technical ership qualities to manage talent and photographers in the skills necessary. Salary range $26.640 to $30.480. Send Medical reporter /producer for field. Please syndicated television news submit resume tape to: Local Productions resume by Sept. 11 to: Steve Sterrett. Director of News "Health Matters ". Minimum 2 Manager. WRAL -TV P.O. 12000. years experience required as Box Raleigh, NC 27605. Services. Office of University Communications. Ohio State medicalrhealth reporter in news with excellent writing, story University. 1125 Road, Needed: Sharp, creative videographer /editor for PM Kinnear Columbus. OH 43212. AA/ telling. and journalistic skills. Must be willing to relocate. Magazine. Two years experience magazine. EOE. Minorities and women encouraged to apply Extensive nationwide travel required. Competitive salary producing and writing skills helpful. Send resume and tape to D. Lim - and excellent benefits. Tape and resume to Barbara Fister, Senior TV director/videographer /editor: The National baugh. WCPX-TV PO. Box 606000. Orlando, FL 32860. Technical Medstar Communications !r c 5920 Ham "ton Blvd.. Allen- Institute for the Deal (NTID), the largest techno- Deadline 15. town, PA 18106. September EOE. logical college for deaf students at Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT) has Florida Public TV is seeking creative program manager an immediate opening for a director, Executive producer assignments manager to keep NBC /editor. with strong administrative abilities: must have bachelors videographer BA plus 5 years or MA plus 2 years affiliate dominant! Cha..enging poston tor news profes- experience with degree in broadcasting: plus five years of experience. two BetaCam. CMX editing, studio /remote sional with minimum 5 years experience, background in lighting. in supervisory capacity. Excellent for and audio. Excellent interpersonal skills. Willing to writing and in opportunity aggres- producing. knowledgeable all facets of TV learn sign language. Send resume by Sept. 11 to: Person- sive, ambitious programer. Salary: $834.05 - $1390.37. We news. Will supervise 25 person staff. Resume to Robert nel are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Inter- Office. Position #0331B. Rochester Institute of Technol- Hite. WJAC -TV Box 38. Johnstown. PA 15907. EOE. ogy. P.O. Box ested applicants please call WFSU -TV at 904 -487 -3170 9887, Rochester. NY 14623 -0887. Only fina- lists will to General assignment reporter: Full time (weekends plus for further information. be asked send sample tape. RIT is an equal opportunity three days a week). Applicants must have at least one year employer. WFSB TV, a Post Newsweek is of television news reporting experience. Anchor potential station, seeking a produc- a er /director /writer for its commercial production New full service production facility in Denver. Colorado. plus. College degree preferred. Send resumes and tapes department. The position's responsibilities include developing seeks highly experienced editor for immediate opening. to Terry Kurtright. N.D.. KOLR -TV Box 1716 SSS, Spring- new accounts and providing production quotes, Must be experienced with Grass Valley edit systems. Send field. MO 65805. Smokers need not apply. EOE. working with clients from initiation to project completion including resume, references. and demo tape. VHS or 3.4 to: PO. Box 4432, Denver. Reporter: Entry level up to two years experience plus de- concept development, copywriting. producing and post CO 80112. gree. Must have ability to shoot, produce and edit quality production work. Also. assisting in scheduling of facilities packages and interface with entire staff where community and personnel and developing contacts with outside ser- SITUATIONS WANTED MANAGEMENT involvement is essential. New group ownership rebuilding vices used for production. A bachelors degree in video Right hand (assistant) to administrator of cable regulatory with state -of- the -art equipment. professional staff of high production or equivalent experience is preferred and ex- agency. Interested in position with cable operator--commu- achievers. Ideal living, 3 hours from Atlanta and nearer Gulf perience in producing for clients is essential. Resumes to: nity.!public relations or management assistant. Dedicated. beaches. Tape and resume to Personnel. WOHN -TV P.O. Personnel Department, WFSB -TV 3 Constitution Plaza, hard working, efficient. organized. detail oriented Box X- Box 6237, Dothan. AL 36302 -6237. No phone calls please. Hartford, CT 06115. EOE. E.O.E. MF 85. Editor wanted for major production. post production facili- SITUATIONS WANTED SALES Producer who has flair for writing. Need someone who ty in Washington. D.C.. area. Must have five years exper has good. solid news judgement and knows how to make a ience and be familiar with Paltex Esprit editor, ADO. and Successful sales pro with six years experience in local newscast look great. If you have a year of TV producing, Grass Valley 300 switcher. Send resume to: lona Sherman, direct and regional /national spot. W. reocate available send me your tape and resume. College degree preferred. 150 S. Gordon St.. Alexandria. A 22304. immediately 614 -598-4334. Smokers need not apply Terry Kurtright. N.D.. KOLR -TV, Art director: WPEC Tä12 in Nest Palm SITUATIONS Box 1716 SSS. Springfield, MO 65805. EOE. Beach, Florida. has WANTED ANNOUNCERS an opening for a design director. Advertising design exper- Broadcast team: Husband /wife with Reporter needed for immediate opening in attractive West- ience required. TVexperience helpful. Experience in print team humor and style seeking spot with emphasis on travel and ern market. Must be experienced. aggressive and energet- and on -air presentations required. Send resume and salary entertainment. Currently producing own projects. ic. Send resume and tape to Matt James. News Director, requirements to: Personnel Manager. WPEC TV-12. PO. Call 201-288 -6687. KTVN-TV PO. Box 7220. Reno. NV 89510. EOE. Box 24612. West Palm Beach. FL 33416 -4612. Equal -opportunity employer, M/F. SITUATIONS News producer. Two years experience as a news produc WANTED NEWS er. College degree. Strong writing skills. Must be creative. Producer-director: At least 3 years experience. Writing. Experienced newscaster in New York City suberb area Able to manage people. Send resume. writing samples, producing, directing station promos: field producing and raa;o seers on -air position in TV news. Tape available. will- tape to Kevin Kelly. WPTF -TV PO. Box #1511, Raleigh. NC directing. Direct live public affairs shows. Knowledge of ing to relocate. Call Adam 212- 874 -6700. 27602. EOE. Ampex ADO and ACE editor. Send resume and sample tape: Jo Russell. Production Manager. KBHK TV 420 Taylor Small market, full or part-time weathercasting position de- Medical reporter: To produce and anchor medical seg- Street. San Francisco. sired by 10 -year print journalist seeking career change. ment for CA 94102. daily newscast. 2 years experience with the ener- Five years management experience. some college and gy and curiosity to go beyond hospital news releases. Send Art director: Dominant network affiliate in Mid -Nest top -25 work background in meteorology, related fields. Joe, resume 405- and tape to: Cynthia Griffin, News Director. KOTL market needs an art director who's both creative and clever 226 -0275. or Box 5185. Ardmore. OK 73403. PO. Box 6, Tulsa, OK 74101. Good concepts aren't good enough. You must be able to produce them. You'll work with a talented promotion team Meteorologist seeks on -air position. 3 years on -air exper- News director needed for top rated NBC affiliate. Five ience where quality is top priority. Minimum 4 years experience. on radio and cable TV Available early September. years reporting plus two years management experience Send resume to Box X -118. Replies to Box X -77. required. Send resume and tapes to Al Bramstedt Jr KTUU TV 630 W 4th, Anchorage. AK 99501. No Meteorologist: Separating from Air Force as 1st lieutenant phone Comedy writers needed for experimental TV variety show. ca s EOE in April 1988. Desire full time weather position. Have pre- Experience in TV/radio sketches preferred. Send resume sented thousands of briefings and genuinely enjoy being Mid 80's and BRIEF writing samples. Box X -122. top rated network affiliate seeking weatherper- before an audience Let me send you a resume and video- son. Coca communication skis ana strong personality a Promotion manager for top ABC affiliate in country and tape. Thomas Haul. APO Box 971. APO New York. New York must. Send resume and photo to Box X -126. EOE. top station in market. One -person department, heavy em- 09127. Reporter. phasis in on -air Salary DOE. No tapes: resumes We are looking for the best. If you are a strong and salary Photographer/editor: Aggressive. dependable team play- writer. aggressive. independently requirements only to An Cabot. WJBF-TV Box 1404. Augus- motivated and er. Six years experience. I do whatever it takes to ta. GA 30903. get the streetwise, you should apply for this reporter position. Only shot and put the story on the air. Currently covering Wash- experienced need to apply Send tape and resume to Billye ington. Seeking top 20 market. Vice Box X -111. Gavin. KWTV PO Box 14159. Oklahoma City OK 73113. presidenVprograming for community -licensed Or EOE. M F lando television and radio station - WMFE /Channel 24 (27th Award winning anchor/reporter: 4 years experience market) and WMFEFM 90.7 (51st market). Executive re- seeking new opportunity in mid -size market. Tape- 915- Medium market affiliate needs weekday anchor for 6610. sponsibility for the selection, production, promotion. and 695 -8665. Prefer 1 -3 years anchor reporting experience. No phone scheduling of stations' programs together with proper man- Degreed meteorologist, 24, single. AMS calls. Send resume and a demo tape to Chris Alexander, agement of related staff. expenses and other resources. member, seeks position in small or medium market. Will relocate News Director. KLBK -TV 13. 7400 S. University Overall expense responsibility for a Box X- Lubbock. combined programing 109. TX 79423 budget of $1.2 million. Directly supervises TV radio, and promotion directors. Requirements include four to six Top rated news anchor with an 11 year proven track re- years' experience in a middle-to- senior management posi- cord seeks move up with TV newsroom on the move. HELP WANTED PROGRAMING Call tion responsible for public broadcasting programing: liter- Steve 606 -439 -2598. PRODUCTION á OTHERS ate in the areas of programing and production. law and News director who has done it all (assignments. assistant Technical director for top -rated Midwest public policy promotion and public relations. Ability to man - affiliate. three N.D.. reporter, photographer. equipment manager. newscasts daily state-of- the-art agerutilize program scheduling and audience measuring news- equipment. We want the paper. etc.) seeks move from station best to switch our market's documents. data processing and system management du- abandoning commit- best shows. Send resume Box ment to news. Prefer Southwest X -94. ties of a multi -faceted division essential. Must have proven or Northwest. any size market, any position. X budget management skills with previous success with su- Box -124. Producer: If you like working behind the camera to put on a pervision. motivation and leadership of programing profes- Attractive major market producer with some reporting great newscast. we have a job waiting for you. No begin- sionals. letter interest Confidential of and a current resume experience looking to do full -time reporting and /or anchor- ners. New York Times station.. Rush tape & resume to Frank to: Stephen M. Steck. President, WMFE -TV/FM. 11510 East ing. Also have master's in journalism. Ideal for small to lerdel. News Director. WHNT PO. Box 19. Huntsville. AL Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32817 -4699. Equal opportunity medium market station looking for a 35804. EOE. solid journalist. Box X- employer. 123.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 108 WANTED TO BUY EQUIPMENT SITUATIONS WANTED PROGRAMING ACR -25 (Buffer S/N 1653)- Good operating condition with 11 -1 -87. Ed Powers. PRODUCTION & OTHERS Wanting 250, 500. 1.000 and 5,000 watt AM -FM transmit- spares and carts. Available Contact Corp.. 1314 Iturbide Street. WOI -TV 515-294 -5376. Commercial writer /senior producer, creative. polished. 5 ters. Guarantee Radio Supply 78040. Manuel Flores 512- 723-3331. years TV experience. now in 50's market. seeks new chal- Laredo. TX Sony type 5 editing system, 3 RCA TCR-100s, Grass Val- capabili- -80. VPR -5, VPR - lenges. Preler mention of your facilitys production Instant cash-highest prices. We buy TV transmitters and ley 1600 -7K with EMEM and DVE. VPR reel upon reply Ali mar- editor. Abekas A -52, Ike - ties in response. Resume. great studio equipment. $1,000 reward for information leading to 28s, TR -600. Convergence 202 will relocate. Box X -97. HL 1600 -3G, Harris Epic. BVH- kets. positions considered, our purchase of a good UHF transmitter. Quality Media. gami 3025. -79s, Grass sports controllers. VPR -2s. 303 -665 -3767. 11005, Ampex VPR slo-mo PROGRAMING BVU-200 editing system Call to gel our monthly flyer 919- for large quantities. 30 minutes or Attention: News directors. MediaSource Overseas News 1" vidoetape. Looking 977 -3600. pay Call 301 -845-8888. Service, now covering Central America, Middle East. News longer will shipping. or ours. Call packages. feeds B -roll, your correspondent FM antenna(s): Will buy used FM broadcast antenna(s) - -8477 or Telex 176259 HO CSAC. 916 -447 any make - any model. Call 806-372-4518. RADIO SERVICES INSTRUCTIONAL If your station (radio/ty) has equipment to donate for a at 441 -1184/8884. Help Wanted Management FCC General Radiotelephone license preparation semi- tax -credit. call Chris 606- De- nars. October schedule includes Boston. Philadelphia. FOR SALE EQUIPMENT trot. 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Telex 910- 240 -3856. with 3 or 4 people who are in early ALLIED FIELDS FM transmitters "Harris FM -10H (1974) wMS -15 RCA stages of training. HELP WANTED INSTRUCTION BTF -10D (1969) "RCA BTF -5B also 3B "Sparta 602A 2.5 -0888, If you can work with a highly- innova- FM "Gates FM-1C 1 KW' Transcom Corp. 215 -884 track) to teach Assistant, associate professor: (Tenure Telex 910 -240 -3856. tive company and are confident you undergraduate courses in broadcast journalism. ENG. and revenue Ph.D. preferred: M.A. (or B.A.) with extensive New TV startups. Quality Media can save you money. Top can lead our stations to new performance. financ- professional broadcasting experience considered. Com- quality equipment at lowest prices. Business Plans. heights, send resume and a one - Media 303 -665 -3767. petitive salary Available August. 1988. Application dead- mg available. Quality your management philos- (or filled). Send resume and sheet on line November 15. 1987 until Silverline UHF transmitters new best price. latest tech- telephone numbers) to. Dr. Ken ophies to: Claire Shaffner, V.P. /G.M.. three references (with nology 60kw. 120kw. 240kw. Bill Kitchen or Dirk Free- Southern Illinois Uni- 30kw Garry. Department of Radio -Television. man. Television Technology 303-465 -4141. WRXL/WRNL, 3245 Basie Road, versity. Carbondale. IL 62901. EOE. Excellent equipment! UHF -VHF transmitters: 110KW Richmond, VA 23228. A Capitol The Penn State journalism program seeks three faculty 55KW 30KW -used: 1 KW AM. 5 yrs old -perfect! Grass Inc. station. EOE. print and broadcast news writingrreport- Broadcasting Co., members to teach Valley 950:955 sync. 1400 -12 switcher Laird 3615A: anten- should also have an ing and /or photojournalism. applicant nas-TX line: much more! Call Ray LaRue 813 -685 -2938. interest in ethics. history and or law. The openings, which are contingent on funding. are expected to be available in Over 100 AM -FM trans. In stock All powers, all complete, August 1988, although one could be available as early as all manufacturers. all spares, all inst. books. AM 1kw thru Club January 1. 1988. Send vita and three names of references 50kw FM 1kw thru 40kw Besco International. 5946 by November. 1. 1987. to Dean. School of Communica- Oaks Dr. Dallas, TX 75248, 214 -630-3600. New # 214- tions. Penn State University. Box J3/87 -88. 208 Carnegie 276 -9725. EARLY Budding, University Park, PA 16802 Equal opportunry affir Used broadcast & video equipment. We buy sell, con - 'native action employer. sign. service. Over 1200 units in stock. BCS-Broadcast DEADLINE Store - 818- 845 -7000. HELP WANTED PROGRAMING PRODUCTION & OTHERS AM transmitters: 50, 10. 5, 2.5, 1, .5 and .25 kw Continen- tal Communications. Box 78219. St. Louis, MO 63178. NOTICE full-bme basis typesetter. Typesetter needed on a reguar. 314 -664 -4497. to typeset weekly magazine in Tyson's Corner. V4. Must holiday, 1 Due to Labor Day have CCI or Magna System experience. Paste -up exper- FM transmitters: 25. 20. 15, 5. and .25 kw. Continental 78219, St. Louis. MO 63178. 314- ience a plus Top salary and benefits. Paid relocation. Send Communications, Box Monday, September 7, 1987, resume with salary requirements to. CommTek. Inc.. 8300 664 -4497 Vienna. 1A 22180. Attn. Pam Waite Boone Blvd.. Sude 200. 10KW FM transmitter: McMartin BF -10M 7KW to 15KW classified advertising for the or call 1 -703 -- 827 -0515. Ask for Pam. EOE MF Complete with exciter, tube set. manual. and some spares. 14 issue is due Fri- Financial analyst: High visibility challenging position with Excellent condition. Call 806 -372 -4518. September financial consulting firm In -depth knowledge broadcasting KU earth stations: Includes 5.5 meter antenna with motor day, September 4, 1987, at finance. computers MBA and broadcast of accounting, drive and deice. environmentally controlled equipment preferred. Send resume and salary history to experience shelter. redundant uplink/downlink system. $75,000. Call noon, EDST, Washington, DC 20041, Attn: Frank Hig- BIA. Box 17307, 505- 275 -3832. ney 204 editing equipment & accessories. Call PROGRAMING Convergence Linda Davis at 213 -850 -1165 for list. promotion in the industry Copy- Radio & TV Bingo. Oldest RCA TTU -110C UHF transmitter. Only 5 years old. Cur- Bingo. P.O. Box 2311, Littleton. CO right 1962. World Wde rently on air. Tuned in mid band. Complete with dual SS 80122. 303- 795 -3288. exciters. Pulser. good klystrons. Avail. approx. November EMPLOYMENT SERVICES '87. Can be inspected. $190,000.00. Maze Broadcast, In 205 -956 -2227. Government jobs $16.040 - 59 230/yr Now hiring. Call -6 watt 7 Ghz solid state. 805- 687 -6000 ext. R -7833 for current federal list. Microwave system. RCATVM one Includes transmitter /receiver ends. plus 3 channels audio. This space could be Single system $6500.00 Dual system $12,000.00. Maze EDUCATIONAL SERVICES Broadcast 205 -956 -2227. working for you for a veterans. On-air training: For TV reporters (beginners. Sony BVU- 8003/4" VTR system. Cean and in good cond appearance. cross -overs from! print). Polish your delivery, tion. Just removed from service. $8750.00 Maze Broad- very low cost ... and it Prepare for better ca- writing. Practice with Teleprompter. cast. 205-956-2227. reer Learn from former ABC Network News correspondent reaches a most and New York local reporter. Call 212 -921 -0774. Eckhert Blank tape, halt price! Perfect for editing, dubbing or stu- Special Productions. Inc. (ESP). dio. recording commercials. resumes, student projects, training. copying, etc. Field mini KCS -20 minute cassettes responsive audience. MISCELLANEOUS $6.49. Elcon evaluated 3/4 videocassettes guaranteed Cars sell for $155 (average)! Also jeeps. trucks. etc. Now broadcast quality. To order call Carpel Video Inc.. 301- available. 805- 687 -6000 Ext. S -7833 for details. 845 -8888. or call toll free, 800-238-4300.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 109 Help Wanted Management Help Wanted Programing, Situations Wanted Announcers Continued Production, Others WE'VE HAD IT! Veteran persorainy newsman mcrnrng duo. over 30 years combined experience. all for- OPERATIONS mats. Sick of traffic jams. plastic yuppies, and high MANAGER cost of living. Seeking A/C morning show at established station in more livable environ- KRMG -AM TULSA ment-- MANAGER OF PROGRAMMING someplace where radio will be fun again. Box X -89. It you're happy where you Tichenor Spanish Radio Group seeks an ex- are, and you're performing at perienced programming specialist to be responsible for high levels, we maintaining and enhancing the need to talk. If company's dominant position in the markets Situations Wanted News your achievements happen we serve. Qualified applicants must be bilingual, because of team concepts, have a minimum of 5 years Spanish program- talent ming work experience and a total knowledge LEGAL BUSINESS recognition, high levels of all varieties of music that appeals to the pec of expectation, research pre of Mexican origin living in the United States CORRESPONDENT skills, and commitment, we're This key position will serve as Program Direc- Broadcast journalist, attorney/Wharton MBA, tor for a major station in San Antonio, and be with extensive radio ready to provide recognition, and television experience. responsible for working with TSR program Currently on -air on #1 radio station in major 4 challenging opportunity, a directors, music testing in specific markets, market. Call Peter collect at 215 -563 -0424. great broadcast team, and coordinating the station's research and ex- ecuting strategies in conjunction with the pro- one of the Country's most gram consultant. Company offers excellent admired Broadcast Groups: benefit package and salary to be commen- NewCity surate with experience and performance Situations Communications. Some travel will be required. Wanted Programing, Production, Others Please Send resume and cover letter to send your successes Personnel Director and resume. Tell us what you Tichenor Media System, Inc. know, how you manage your P.O. BOX 711 RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC Harlingen, Texas 78551 top rated AM drive in job and how this opportunity rive Action. Equal d000rtunits -- 1.000.000+ market. would fit your career. Adults 25- 49/25 -54. Extensive programming background including major market. Need company who Gerardo Tabio understands my A.A. commitment. Honesty essential! Call Bill "W" 513- Vice President, General Manager WESTWOOD ONE, INC. 439.5745. 7136 South Yale 'Nestwood One. Inc. has immediate openings Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136 in our New 'brk Radio Networks location for the following positions: Miscellaneous BROADCAST OPERATIONS ENGINEERS 711 KRMG BROADCAST MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS BROADCAST OPERATIONS MANAGERS Equal Opportunity Employer NEWS EDITOR Individuals with qualifications and experience NEWS HORIZONS in the above positions are invited to come in M. F 9A-5P and till out an application. or to submit a resume to: Radio News Consultants WESTWOOD ONE, INC. Experienced Attn: Personnel Professional news 1700 Broadway - 3rd Floor from news professionals. New York, New York 10019 We can make a difference. Broadcast Lender An EOE, M F. Fred Walters 818-506 -5793 Needed Situations Wanted Management to develop Americom's Investment Banking INCREASE THE VALUE TELEVISION Services. OF YOUR RADIO STATION Which is more import; -, of a station with In- Help Wanted Sales creasing revenue? Or Ib; _ : unr!,on with declining revenue? The point is that I wan: :0 make your property worth Income potential to mid six -Are to you and get equity in the process Give me the figures. opportunity Fm a VP GM of a very successful FM in a mid- size Midwestern market. I am organized. aggressive. and real (extremely selective) possess a winning attitude. And I look forward to hear - "g from you Box X t32 IIIIIIIIIIII

Send Resume to: ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Madison Square Garden Network seeks Americom Radio Brokers an account executive responsible for Suite 500 sale of multi -media sports sponsorship. Duties include intensive interaction with 1130 Connecticut Ave., N.W. CLASSIFIED clients and ad agencies, drafting and Washington, DC 20036 presenting sales proposals, and writing contracts. Individual must Attention: Tom Gammon. Chairman ADVERTISING have at least 2 years of media sales experience and a well rounded knowledge of sports. Excel- AMERICOM IS YOUR lent benefits. Please send cover letter, resume, and salary history in confidence to: Madison Square Garden Network, Radio Station Brokerage & BEST BUY Attn: Human Resources - 18, 2 Penn Pla- za New York, NY 10121 (Phone inquiries Financing will not be accepted). EOE, M /F /HN

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 110 y, Help Wanted Management Help wantea management nere vrdIIL U rrvyra Continued Production, Others Continued

President, COMPTROLLER National Association Of ROME /ITALY Excellent opportunity. Position re- SENIOR PRODUCER Public Television Stations TELEVISION D.C. quires fluent Italian, heavy back- CORPORATE Washington, ground television station administra- Bornstein, Bolger & Associates, a compre- tive systems, procedures, budgets hensive telecommunications consulting group, and accounting. Box X -131. If you're looking for creative free- is coordinating the search for the position of dom, have the ability to produce pro- National Association of Public President of the gramming with a commercial look, Television Stations (NAPTS), the nonprofit membership organization of public television Help Wanted Technical and want to join a team of award - licensees responsible for: 1) system research winning producers, send us your and planning; and 2) facilitating effective reel today! Senior producer will work representation of public television to the in our in -house corporate facility for federal government, the FCC, and other associated organizations and agencies related to BEAM ME UP SCOTTY a multi -state company headquar- public television. The president reports to an tered in St. Louis. The person we'll Up link and down link is what you'll 18 member board of public television manager select will have excellent writing trustees and administers a staff of need to know as a satellite terminal op- and lay skills, demonstrated knowledge of 13 professionals and an annual budget of erator for the CBN Television Network. must production techniques, the ability $1.5 million. Nominees or applicants If you have good overall knowledge of all degree; have: a minimum of a bachelor's Klystron and TWT transmitters, video to manage other creative people, significant senior level executive experience fre- and be deadline oriented. Producer policy development, and audio circuitry and understand in strategic planning, our state -of- the -art pro- and fiscal and personnel management; an quency modulation. then you'll be able will utilize understanding of the structure and missions to help us clearly spread the gospel of duction facility which includes three of public broadcasting; an understanding of Christ and tell others of the true force. on -line editing suites, audio post - relation to, and fund- the federal government's venture interests production suite, paintbox, digital ef- ing public broadcasting; superior interper- If this enterprising of, fects, still store, two studios and Ike - sonal, analytic, oral and written communica- you, send a resume to: The Christian tion skills; and vision, leadership and personal Broadcasting Network, Inc., Employ- 79E cameras. Person must enjoy integrity sufficient to command the respect of ment Department, Box PS, CBN Cen- some travel and be willing to work Compen- the telecommunications community. Virginia Beach, VA 23463. hard and be rewarded. Compensa- to industry standards ter, sation is fully competitive for this management position in- and commensurate with experience and quali- tion fications. Nominations will be accepted through cludes excellent benefits. Send de- September 18. Applications must be received tailed resume and demo reel to: no later than October 2. Applications must be Television Communications, P.O. accompanied by: 1) a detailed professional Help Wanted News St. Louis, MO 63169. resume; 2) a narrative letter that specifically Box 69104, describes how work experience directly relates Equal opportunity employer. to the outlined job responsibilities and qualifications; and 3) the names, addresses and GENERAL ASSIGNMENT telephone numbers of no less than five per- REPORTER sons who can attest to the applicant's professional qualifications. Nominations and appli- One of the nation's highest rated cations should be sent to: Ronald C. Bornstein, news departments (Top 40, North- DIRECTOR Suite 817, Bornstein, Bolger & Associates, is looking for an aggres- Division Plaza, Madison, WI 53703. east Market) Enterprises First Wisconsin with an- AAIEOE. sive, experienced reporter Our client, a leading PBS -member station, chor potential. This could be the is seeking a bright, aggressive individual to opportunity of a lifetime for the right direct its for -profit Enterprises Division. An person who is highly motivated, cre- in-depth knowledge of television production ative and compelling. 3 -5 years TV and a successful track record in sales are a GENERAL news reporting experience required. requirement for this position. Send resume to Box X -130. E.O.E. In osier to successfully market the facilities SALES MANAGER and creative expertise of this award-winning WCBD -TV, Charleston, SC is station, candidate must possess outstanding seeking a GSM with experience interpersonal and communications skills, as in all areas of TV sales; rep ex- Help Wanted Programing, well as proven enterpreneurial /start -up ability. perience highly desirable. Col- Production, Others Prior public television experience a plus. lege degree or equivalent Desirable Northeast location. Resumes only, no phone calls experience. PROGRAM Arnold M. Huberman Company offers excellent THE GOLDMAN GROUP, INC. benefits package and salary to MANAGER 149 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 be commensurate with ex- Aggressive, Top 10 Market Indepen- perience and performance. No dent is seeking a Program Manager. phone calls, please. Guaranteed Qualifications include: minimum of two confidentiality for replies and years experience independent pro- Situations Wanted News references to: gramming, computer skills applicable to programming, knowledge of traffic WCBD -TV, Channel 2 and film operations, budget prepara- EXPERIENCED, FULLY EQUIPPED P.O. 879 Box tion and programming administration NEWS TEAM SC 29401 Charleston, for a major group -owned independent. available for short term assignments in U.S. or Attn: Personnel Dept. Abroad. News, dots, commercial, industrial, Send resume in confidence to: projects welcomed. No job too dif- FOF Mr educational ficult for versatile reporter /producer and pho- BOX X-106 tog /editor. Call 301 - 8814645. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F

Firoaocast.rg A.,g 31 '987 111 ALLIED FIELDS Help Wanted Management For Sale Stations Business Opportunities Great time to be In radio. Irv. Pity those poor T.V. Station owners Pacific Coast whose program fees funded a lifetime supply of green Exclusive Listing eyeshadow for Tammy. RCC, Mobile telephone, MAJOR GROWTH Buy an FM! Paging, Call Barry Sherman Answering service, Marine; CREATES OPENINGS Some terms possible TTc is a leading manufacturer of trans- call for details mitting equipment for High Power TV, Clifton Gardiner Low Power TV, and AM -FM Radio communications. Recent rapid growth has & Associates Inc. created openings for the following: 433 Park Point Dr. Engineering VP: To assume full re- Golden, CO 80401 sponsibility for Engineering Dept. Also supervise new product design and re- 303 -526 -1458 lated manufacturing support for all product areas. Manager: Installations & Customer NEEDS PARTNER Service. Layout and plan logistics of field installations, supervise customer Experienced on -air broadcaster with $50.000 support services after sales. Limited investment plans to purchaseioperate small travel, including some foreign. station. Seeking partner with at least equal Send resume in down payment or a viable purchase situation. confidence to: Box X -104 President Television Technology Corporation Make your appointment P.O. Box 1385 now for NAB - Broomfield, CO 80020 Hilton Suite 1i -212 Help Wanted Technical An Equal Opportunity Employer s. Barry Sherman Engineering Services Manager Miscellaneous & Associates, Inc. i= Company providing engineering and equipment services to the broadcast industry is VENTURE CAPITAL Media brokers & seeking a manager for its Irvine. CA, office. DEBT FINANCING Extensive experience in the broadcast industry For broadcasters financial services and a shong systems engineering background Sanders & Co. 1828 L SI., X. \%'.. Suite 300 preferred. Must have excellent organizational 1900 abilities and hands on project management ex- Emery St., Ste. 206 Washington. D.C. 20036 202-429-0658 perience. Experience working with South Atlanta, GA 30318 American countries helpful. Domestic and in- 404-355 -6800 ternational travel required. BSEE degree or equivalent experience required. Please send CNationwide Melia Brokers resume including salary history [o: Consultants Mr. D. Rice, V.P., Omega International 17011 Beach Blvd. 10th Floor Huntington Beach, CA 92647 LICENSE RENEWAL TIME? ssociates Employment Services Contact CALIFORNIA FM BROADCAST MEDIA LEGAL SERVICES Fast growing Top 100 market. a service of McCabe & Allen JOB HUNTING? Asking $1,250,000; $395,000 FOR IMMEDIATE LEGAL ASSISTANCE CALL If you need a job, you need MediaLine. down. Balance on good terms. We give you job listings in news, weather, 1- 800 -433 -2636 sports, production, programming, pro- (In Virginia, call 703 -361 -6907) ELLIOT EVERS motion, and engineering. For $37.50 QUALITY, FLAT you get a daily report for 6 weeks. FEE LEGAL SERVICES 415/391 -4877 1.800. 2374073 (In Missouri AMEX MC VISA CHOICE 314 -442- 3364). MediaLine, P. 0. Box 10167, Columbia. MO 65205 -4002. Wanted to Buy Stations MEDIA BROKERS E E AM -FM -TV APPRAISALS WANTED P.O. BOX 36 tHE TO LEXINGTON, MO 64067 KANSAS CITY, MO. STATIONS BUY 816-259-2544 816-455-0001 Programing Lester Kamin has qualified buyers! Financial services also available. Lum and Abner When you're ready to sell, call us. Are Back 50% ownership for a new fulltime radio ...piling up profits station CP in small market with good for sponsors and stations. coverage in metropolitan market. Must 15- minute programs from have funds to construct. All replies in the golden age of radio. strictest confidence. Box X -117. PROGRAM DISTRIBUTORS PO Drawer 1737 6100 Corporate Drive Houston, TX 77036 (713) 777 -2552 Jonesboro. Arkansas 72403 501/972 -5884

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 112 For Sale Stations

EXCLUSIVE STAN RAYMOND & ASSOCIATES, INC. OWNER;' OPERATOR Media Brokers OPPORTUNITIES NAB HILTON - SUITE 7 -212 Call for an appointment. SOUTHERN STAN RAYMOND & ASSOCIATES, INC. 1795 Peachtree Rd., N.E. CALIFORNIA: Suite 220 Dominant combo In market, full - Atlanta, Georgia 30309 B 404-897 -1418 time AM and Class FM. Owner/ operator retiring. Offered at $2.0 Stan Raymond Nick Imbornone million with $850,000 down. SAN FRANCISCO ICepper, TOP 100 MARKET SUBURB: (75 - 100) Fulltime AM serving monopoly Tupper & market of 40,000 under San Fran- UAM ¿Mh cisco umbrella. $900,000 with company, $250,000 down, includes trans- Inc. Opportunity mitter site real estate.

Our firm is updating our files. Let us know of your WASHINGTON: acquisition interests in the above... or other current interests. AM /FM serving dynamic central 300 Knightsbridge Pkwy. Lincolnshire Corp. Or., Suite 360 area of state with good economy (312) 634 -9258 Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069 Phone $125,000 down payment and owner will finance the balance.

East Texas Class A in growth area..$400K..excellent terms. CALIFORNIA: Extremely solid AM in good South Central me- Retiring owner /operator will offer dium market. Exceptional cash flow $950K with excellent terms on fulltime AM. c1wnan terms available. Mississippi combo in solid market.ratings Priced at $450,000 with leader.. $1.2M with good cash flow $125,000 down. MIDWEST Texas Class A. Unrivaled facility for market this size .$325K. CALIFORNIA Class C FM in small market. MARKET NUMEROUS PROPERTIES IN ALL MOUNTAIN RESORT: Profitable; terms available. SIZES MOST ON TERMS Make offer - need to sell. John Mitchell or Joe Miot Class A FM in need of fulltime Needs develop- LYTLE MITCHELL & ASSOCIATES owner /operator. BILL Box 1065, Shreveport, La. 71163 ment. $250,000. 816/941 -3733 318 -868 -5409 318 -869 -1301 OREGON: Class C FM and 5kw AM with real estate. Good regional market with FLORIDA growth potential. Priced at twice last 111111 Fulltime AM on Florida East Coast. 8+ IIIIII ',S ÓCÌÁTES year's gross. $1.8 million with ' _n r-]'nu SP .A l'I I I- '-ur.-,.: acres of valuable rl. est. in one of Florida's $450,000 down and combination of fastest growth areas. 4.000 sq. ft. remod- bank and seller financing. eled attractive bldg. Equipment recently FM'S & COMBOS Inventory of new or in excellent condition. $500.000 - $5,000,000 tangible assets almost equals asking CLIFF HUNTER Possible terms to BILL EXLINE ANDY McCLURE price $475,000 cash. NAB RADIO '87 financially qualified buyer RADIO '87 CONVENTION SUITE NAB Suite 6 -521 Anaheim Hilton REGGIE MARTIN INN AT THE PARK HOTEL & ASSOCIATES By Appointment 919- 363 -2891

NEW MEXICO CLASS A FM VIRGINIA Redwood Hwy., Suite F -230 In city of 9,000. 70 miles from Albuquer- 10 KW SW Virginia daytimer. Serves 4340 filed. Must sell San Rafael, California 94903 que. Class C application population of 500,000. Principals immediately. ONLY $135,000 CASH. 415 -479 -3484 only. Box X -107. Box X -129.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 113 For Sale Stations Continued

EARLY DEADLINE M1;FOUR 131()N: NOTICE RADIO STATIONS FCC License, Real Estate, Studio Equipment To Be Sold In Bulk Only WKIQ -AM, Inverness. FI: WFIX -AM. Huntsville. Al; Due to Labor Day holiday. WRAB -AM, Arab, Al; WHCM -AM, Sheffield, Al Auction to take place: Monday, September 7. 1987, Huntsville Marriott Hotel classified advertising for the Salon C, #5 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama September 14 issue is due Fri- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, AT 11:00 A.M. day September 4, 1987. at FCC Broadcast Specs: WKI0- kHz. 5K,1560 daytime; WFIX-1K. 1450 kHz, 24 hours: WRAB -1 K.1380 kHz, daytime; WHCM-1K. 1290 kHz, daytime; All daytimers with PSSA and PSRA. noon, EDST. TERMS: Deposit of 10% of bid price at time and place of sale. In cooperation with Lanny G. Thomas. #142. For Lic. hspection. Complete -errs Information Packet. etc co °ac! Michael Fox Auctioneers, Executive Offices 3835 Naylors Lane inc. BROADCASTING'S CLASSIFIED RATES All orders to place classified ads 8 all correspondence Baltimore, Maryland 21208 301/653 -4000 pertaining to this section should be sent to. BROAD- CASTING. Classified Department. 1705 DeSales St. N.W, Washington. DC 20036 Payable In advance. Check. or money order only Full & correct payment MUST accompany ALL orders When placing an ad, indicate the EXACT category desired' Television. Radio. Cable or Allied Fields: Help CHECK THIS ONE BOB KIMELS Wanted or Situations Wanted. Management. Sales. News. etc If this Rocky Mountain AM -class C FM NEW ENGLAND MEDIA, INC. information is omitted. we will determine the appropriate category according to the copy combination, small market. Well NO make goods will run if all information is not equipped, including real estate. included Price NEW AND IMPROVED The publisher is not responsible for errors in printing and terms negotiable to quali- This AM station was previous ti = - - . ^ad due to illegible copy -all Copy must be clearly typed or little cash flow and people were co^.ce-,e3 aoout fied buyer. Right property for single printed. Any and all errors must be reported to the the regions economy The economy Is strong. with classified advertising department within 7 days pub- operator or as part of group. Phone no Indications of any future worries The station of has had steady increases lication date. No credits or make goods will be made 307 -856 -5558 or write Box X in income Our new -121. listing on this much Improved station Is priced at Oneerrors which do not materially affect the advertise- $550.000 1 2 a sales. 4 9 x cash flow The station is 5ti11 in Northern New York Deadline is Monday at noon Eastern Time for the following Monday's issue. Earlier deadlines apply for issues 8 Driscoll Dr., St. Albans. VT 05478 published during a week containing a legal holiday. & a special notice announcing the earlier deadline will Powerful daytime, in Knoxville. TN. 802-524 -5963 be $350,000. published above this racecard. Terms. Orders. changes. and' or cancellations must be submitted in writing (NO tele- UHF TV CP within 60 miles of Cincinnati. phone orders. changes. and'or cancellations will be S 70.000. accepted.) 100,000 watt FM plus powerful AM in a Colo- Replies to ads with Blind Box numbers should be ad- rado city $1 5 million. NOlionwide Media dressed to. (Box number). cio BROADCASTING. 1705 Business Broker Associates DeSales St.. N.W . Washington. DC 20036 615- 756 -7635, 24 hours Advertisers using Blind Box numbers cannot request audio tapes. video tapes, transcriptions, films. or VTR's Qiapmar to be forwarded to BROADCASTING Blind Box num- ssociates bers. Audio tapes. video tapes. transcriptions. films & VTR's are not forwardable. & are returned to the sender. Publisher reserves the right to alter classified copy to NEW ENGLAND SOUTHWEST conform with the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. as amended Publisher reserves the right Powerku FM combo in high growth market. Oklahoma metro FM. Top 50 to abbreviate. alter. or reject any copy No personal tkry strong local economy as well as popular tour- ads. ist market. area. Fulltime. non -directional AM. strong Class Asking $725,000. Rates: Classified listings (non -display). Per issue: Help "B" FM. Excellent signal. good dial position. exclu- Call for information. Wanted SI.00 per word. $18 weekly minimum. Situa- sive market format. Real estate included. tions Wanted (personal ads) 60c per word. $9.00 $1.500.000. Box 19057. Alexandria. VA 22320 BILL weekly minimum. All other classifications. $1.10 per WHITLEY word. $18 00 weekly minimum Blind Box numbers. 214/788 -2525 $4.00 per issue. Rates: Classified display (minimum 1 inch. upward in half inch increments), per issue. Help Wanted $80 per inch. Situations Wanted: (personal ads)' $50 per inch. All other classifications. $100 per inch. For Sale Sta- PENNSYLVANIA FLORIDA tions. Wanted To Buy Stations. Public Notice & Busi- RADIO/TV ness Opportunities advertising require display space. Strong AM/FM combo; only radio stations in AM /FM COASTAL $2.650.000 Agency commission only on display space this resort area. 2.500 watt daytimer AM: Class AM/FM CENT. FL $1.250000 Word count: Count each abbreviation. initial. single "A" FM: low overhead formats. Asking price of UHF TV INDY $8,850.000 figure or group of figures or letters as one word each. $1.350.000 is 8 times cash flow. 19057, Box DOYLE HADDEN Symbols such as 35mm. COD. PD.etc.. count as one Alexandria, VA 22320. word each Phone number with area code or zip code 305 -365 -7832 counts as one word each

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northern California cable television system, Iowa, joins Warren Anderson Advertising. Media Fairfield and Rohnert Park, Calif. Davenport, Iowa, as associate creative director. Margaret Anne Ragsdale, general manager, Henry S. Schleiff, senior VP, business affairs WPIY -TV Memphis, joins Eagle Communica- Appointments at Banner Radio: Barbara Gro- and administration, HBO, New York, joins tions, Missoula, as VP and general manager. siak and Rosemary Zimmerman, account ex- Viacom International there as chairman of KCFW -TV Kalispell ecutives, to sales managers, New York; Cath- Group, overseeing oper- Eagle's KECI -TV Missoula, Viacom Broadcast erine Boyle, account executive, WNIC -FM six FM's and five TV's, and KTVM(TV) Butte, all Montana. ations of three AM's, Dearborn. Mich., to same capacity, Boston; and of Viacom Entertainment Group pro- and original president Julie Barrack, account executive, Select Ra- graming and distribution. Jack Dash, co-founder and general manager, WBCB(AM) Levittown - dio. Los Angeles, to same capacity there. Pa., retires. Fairless Hills, Doug Gealy, national sales manager, Gregory J. Hunt, assistant general manager WKEFITV) Dayton. Ohio, named local sales and VP, operations and radio, noncommeri- manager. Tom Reardon, account executive, cial WXXI- AM -FM -TV Rochester. N.Y., joins WKEF(TV), named national sales manager. Greater Rochester Cablevision there as VP. marketing and programing. Appointments at CBS Radio Representatives, San Francisco: Steve Weitz, account execu- Tabor, management trainee, Daniels & David tive, WLTT(FM) Bethesda, Md., to same ca- named general manager, Associates, Denver, pacity; Jeff Cena, manager, Los Angeles, Round Rock Cablevision, Round Daniels's Banner Radio. to account executive. Rock, Tex. Appointments at WBFF(TV) Baltimore: Kim Echleiff Borton Laxton, account executive, to national sales Walter W. Borton, assistant to chairman, Park Marketing manager; Frederic Hamilton Jr., account ex- Communications Inc., Ithaca, N.Y., owner of ecutive/co-op sales coordinator, WLIFIFM) 10 AM's, nine FM's and seven TV's, named Baltimore, Donna Cooper, director, market- VP and assistant to chairman. Jeffrey M. Shubert, ing, WABC -TV New York, William Masters, ac- senior VP, Foote, count executive, WDCT(AM) Fairfax, Va., James R. Terrell, executive VP, Gaylord Cone & Belding Inter- Timothy Dotson, media specialist, Faulkner Broadcasting Co.. Dallas, named president national, Chicago, Associates. Baltimore, and operating officer, succeeding Wil- Advertising & and chief and president, FCB/ who has taken leave of liam S. Banowsky, Japan, Tokyo, named serve as president and CEO of absence to chairman and CEO. Superconducting Super Dallas/Fort Worth FCB /Hong Kong. Collider Authority, nonprofit organization SHERLEE competing for $4.4- billion federal project to Appointments at study superconductor technology. BBDO Worldwide: BARISH Mark Gleason, VP and John J. Martin, Midwest sales manager, CBS group account direc- New York, named VP, af- Shubert Radio Networks. tor, Information Re- DISCOVERS filiate relations. sources Inc. research, Chicago, to BBDO Nell Payne, former minority chief counsel, there, as VP, management supervisor; There- THE FUTURE. Senate Budget Committee, Washington, sa Rupp, assistant media planner, New York. joins Turner Broadcasting there as director. named media planner. government affairs. Lynne Wellbrock, VP, personnel, CBS/ Dick Fraim, VP and general manager, Land- Broadcast Group, New York, joins Blair Tele- as direc- mark Broadcasting's KNTV(TV) San Jose, Ca- vision and Blair Entertainment there In today's lif., named VP. TV and radio, broadcasting tor, human resources. and video enterprises division, Landmark cost -conscious Broadcasting, owner of one FM, one AM and Marsha Diamond, di- world, two TV's. rector, research, Sherlee Barish Camelot Entertain- Curtis E. Shaw, gener- ment Sales, King can provide station managers al manager, WJMO(AM) World's barter subsid- and news directors with some Cleveland Heights, iary, Los Angeles, VP of of the best up- and -coming news v w Ohio, named named VP, research. station's licensee, talent in the business. Friendly Broadcast- Appointments at DDB ing, subsidiary of Be- Needham Worldwide, Because she discovers the thesda, Md. -based Chicago: Lois Welch, corners. And represents them to United Broadcasting research supervisor, as a personal manager. five associate research di- Co., owner of Diamond AM's and four FM's. rector; Sheila Couring- Call her for your new stars. ton, research associate, to research supervi- Kenn Brown, general Shaw sor. Sherlee Barish & Associates manager, KLSQIFM) Broadcast Personnel, Inc. Randy Applebaum, senior media buyer, Wil- Henderson. Nev., joins KGW(AM) Portland, 400 Broad Street Ore., in same capacity. liam Esty Co., New York, joins Avrett, Free & Ginsberg there as broadcast supervisor. Milford, PA 18337 Fran Parkey, general manager, ML Media manager, Ex- Partners Cable TV's Fairfield, Calif., system, Greg Wilde, video production 717/296 -5044 Moines, named VP and general manager, company's cellence in Training Corp., Des

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 115 Dawn Walker, assistant manager and associate producer, Cam -Tel production house, Balti- more, named account supervisors. ATAS elections. In upset victory, Doug Duitsman, vice president of publicity, advertising and promotion for Warner Bros. Television, Joe Bell, account executive, WDAE(AM)- has been elected president of Academy of Television Arts & Sci- WUSA-FM Tampa, Fla., joins WQYK -FM St. Pe- ences, defeating incumbent president, Richard Frank, head of tersburg, Fla.. in same capacity. Walt Disney Studios. Duitsman, now in his third term as academy's Sonya Nance, media buyer and planner, first vice president, begins his two -year term as president Oct. 20. Rosenberg & Co. Advertising, Dallas, joins Frank, who had waged active campaign to be re- elected to top KMEZ -AM -FM there as account executive. post of 6,000- member organization, led negotiations that in April resulted in academy severing its 31 -year relationship with three Tom Porterfield, account executive, KXTx -TV television networks and moving both prime time Emmy Awards Dallas, joins KDFW-TV there in same capacity. and Television Academy Hall of Fame shows to Fox Broadcasting Lynn O'Connell, account executive, Co. Some academy members were known Duitsman to be displeased about WMEX(AM)- WMJXFM) Boston, joins WSSH(FM) probable audience declines for Emmys because of Fox's lower there in same capacity. coverage level. New members elected to two -year terms on ATAS board of governers are Arthur Nadel, William F. Hardrick Jr., account executive, animation branch; John Barber and Stu Brower, broadcast executives; Robin Groth, WGER -FM Saginaw, Mich., joins wJRT-Tv broadcast journalism; Cliff Chally, costume designers/costumers; Alexander Flint, Mich., in same capacity. Singer, directors; Fred Berger, editors (film); Dorothy Andre, makeup artists/hairstylists; Jon Felth- Patti Wells, account executive, WING(AM) eimer, members at large; Curt Behlmer, sound; John Gay, writers; Anthony Magliocco, Dayton. Ohio- wGTZ(FM) Eaton, Ohio, and graphic design; Carole Cartwright, Los Angeles area. Douglas Wharton, sales staff, Radio Shack ATAS last week also agreed to become theme tenant in new $350- million, 22 -acre Business Products Center, Dayton, join wi- redevelopment project in North Hollywood, Calif. Ground breaking is scheduled for zE(AM) Springfield, Ohio, as account execu- January with completion planned for 1989. New site will not be large enough to accommo- tives. date prime time Emmy Awards presentation.

business affairs and legal, domestic television producer, joins KCET(TV) Los Angeles as su- division; Mike Masters and Laurie Woken, pervising producer, California Stories, week- Programing managers, financial reporting and analysis, ly series; Joseph Kwong, producer, noncom- named directors, financial reporting and anal- mercial KQED(TV) San Francisco, joins series ysis. as project producer/writer. Rich Battaglia, director. finance, HBO, West Appointments at Cinema Group Pictures, Los Stephen Coast. Los Angeles. named VP Gallagher, program director, and assistant Angeles: James R. Sabo, manager, Southern wwsN(FM) controller there. Barbara Bloom, Dayton, Ohio, joins wssH -Fla coordinator, division, Cinema Group distribution, to VP, summer television writers workshop, Lowell, Mass., in same capacity. Ameri- theatrical distribution; Unda Malcolm, na- can Film Institute, Los Angeles, Bob joins HBO tional sales manager, classics department, Kirby, general manager, KEDD(AM) Pictures, programing operations, as Dodge City, Kan., KtzR(FM) director, Warner Bros. Television, Los Angeles, to joins Lawrence, creative affairs, responsible Kan., as for locating and Western division sales manager. program director. developing properties and writers. Ross DuClair, chief photographer, KSCH -TV Craig Wilson, VP, studio relations. Request Stockton, Calif., named production manager. Ken Kaess, senior VP and management su- Television pay -per-view service, New York, pervisor. DDB Needham, Los Angeles, joins named VP, sales, marketing and programing. Charlie Cassidy, from KYKC(AM) Sioux Falls, Marvel Productions there as VP, program de- Steve Bradbury, VP, SpringGreen Marketing S.D., joins KKCS -AM -FM Colorado Springs as velopment. Associates, New York, joins Peregrine Enter- program director. tainment, Los Angeles, as marketing coor- John Frawley, operations director, wt-YT(FM) dinator. Haverhill, Mass., joins WBZ(AM) Boston as Katherine Klapper, freelance story analyst. program manager. DeLaurentiis Entertainment, Los Angeles, Dale Snyder, program director, KMPH(TV) Vi- joins Fries Entertainment's Avanti Enterprises salia, Calif., joins wizy(Tv) Charlotte, N.C., there as manager, development. as program manager. Gretchen Bunn, manager, programing ser- Jim Randall, program director, wKPE -FM Or- vices, Daniels & Associates, Denver, named leans, Mass., joins WKSS(FM) Hartford -Meri- director, programing. den, Conn., in same capacity. Abby Wolf, story editor, New World Enter- Eileen Collins, producer, National Associ- tainment's Highgate Pictures, Los Angeles, ation of Television Arts and Sciences regional Kaess Suser named director, development, mini -series Emmy Awards, Boston, to host/producer, Re- Andrew E. Suser, sen or general attorney, and movies of the week. vista, program for Hispanic community Bos- WNEV-TV Capital Cities/ABC, Los Angeles, joins Har- Barbara Travers, manager, network produc- ton there. mony Gold there as VP, business and legal tion, USA Network, New York, named man- Appointments at noncommercial WUOM(FM) affairs. ager, network production and on -air coordi- Ann Arbor, Mich.: Ray Klatt, operations Constance Kaplan, executive director, corn - nation. manager, to director, programing and produc- edy development, network television divi- Appointments at ABC -TV's AU My Children, tion; Bob Whitman, producer, to director of sion, Paramount Television Group, Los An- New York: Stephen Schenkel, story consul- information programing; Peggy Watson, pro- geles, named VP. comedy development. tant, CBS -TV's As the World Turns and Guid- duction coordinator, to production manager. ing Light, Kenneth Lemberger, senior VP, general coun- and former executive producer, Suzee Smith, program manager, Times Mir- NBC -TV's sel and secretary, entertainment business sec- Another World, to producer; Kris- ror Cable of Arizona's Dimension Cable Ser- tor, Coca -Cola Co., New York, named execu- ten Martin and Tom deVilliers, associate pro- vices, Phoenix, named director of program- tive VP, entertainment business sector. ducers. to coordinating producers. ing. Appointments at financial division, Para- Mary Hogan, national account director, The Diane Gladu, programing assistant, noncom- mount Television Group, Los Angeles: Phil Disney Channel, Burbank, Calif., joins The mercial KRBD(FM) Ketchikan, Alaska, named Midiri, director, television accounting, to ex- Weather Channel, Atlanta, as Western re- program director. ecutive director; Alan Abrams, gional director. senior coun- Cristopher Caldwell, announcer, WSLT(FM) sel, The Cannon Group there, to director, Nicholas Clapp, independent documentary Ocean City, N.J., joins WOBM-FM Toms Riv-

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 116 named er, N.J., as programing director and after- limore, legislative correspondent, noon announcer. managing editor. Technology feature reporter, Appointments at WTSP -TV St. Petersburg, Susan King, co- anchor and Johan Bisschops, for- -TV Washington, joins WRC -TV there in Fla.'s PM Magazine: Pat Weaver, associate WJLA mer president of ex- capacity. producer, PM Magazine, wts -Tv Columbia, same ecutive committee, S.C., to producer; John O'Conner, host, PM Agfa- Gevaert Inc. Dan Lewis, reporter and anchor, WJLA -Tv Magazine, WCPX -TV Orlando, Fla., and Julie magnetic tape manu- Washington, joins KOMO -TV Seattle, in same Brannon, former co -host, PM Magazine, facturer, named chair- capacity. KOVRITV; Stockton. Calif., to same capaci- man of the board. ties; Miriam SanMartin, production coordina- Ronda Scholing, freelance writer and pro- John R Frank, senior tor and producer, WPEC(TVi West Palm Beach, ducer and former co- anchor and executive VP, sales and market- Fla., to field producer; Richard Birchett, pho- news producer, KHAS -TV Hastings, Neb., ing, Zenith Electron- tographer and editor. WYFF -TV Greenville, joins KAKE-TV Wichita, Kan., as news pro- ics Corp.'s Zenith S.C., and llene Safron, special projects producer. Systems, Mil- ducer and photographer, to photographers Data Barbara Gardner, researcher, investigative Bisschops named presi- and editors. waukee. unit, Bergen Record, to associate producer, dent. investigative unit, Realignments at Varian Associates, Palo and after- Peter Rief, assistant news director Alto, Calif.: Norman H. Pond, executive VP, News and Public Affairs Schenectady, noon news anchor. WGY(AM), Varian, and president, electron device group, director WGYIAM)- N.Y., named news assumes additional reponsibitiies for semi- Jeff Gluck, reporter and anchor, William Lemmer, graphics consultant. TV Di- WGFMIFM). conductor equipment group; Larry L. Hansen, WGY(AM) and WRGB(TV) Schenectady, named semi- rect, TV news service produced jointly by executive VP, Varian, and president, radio news manager, WGYIAM)- WGFMCFM). to corporate UPI and Conus Communications, Washing- conductor equipment group, and corporate ton. named director, graphics, UPI's PYXYS Steve Cangialosi, managing editor. Sports planning, long -range strategy VP, operations, se- electronic transmission system. Connection, WNEW(AM) New York, joins WINS - relations; Tony Jurvetson, miconductor equipment group. to group John McConnell, man- (AM) there as sports anchor. president, reporting to Pond. aging editor, WOR(AM) Lisa Cooley, reporter, WTVR -TV Richmond, New York, joins Unit- Va., named 6 p.m., weekday weather anchor. Lindsay Allen, staff engineer, mix processes, ed Stations Radio Net- Ampex Corp.. magnetic tape division, Red- Tim Van Vooren, sports anchor and producer, works there as VR wood City, Calif., named product manager, WTMJIAMI Milwaukee, joins WMBDIAM) news and sports. industrial audio products. Peoria, Ill., as sports reporter and weekend Co. post - Appointments at Ca- anchor. Paul Wiling, senior editor, Phipps & ble News Network: Mi- production facility. Tulsa, Okla., named di- Ned Colt, reporter. WRAL -TV Raleigh, N.C., chael Chinoy, London rector, production. joins WNEV -TV Boston as general assignment correspondent. to reporter. Gary L. Freed, chief engineer, Z -Axis Corp. Beijing bureau chief; Jim Walton, senior producer, live re motes, CNN Sports, to acting executive producer. sports on CNN Headline News. Atlan- ta. Broadcasting Fifth Estate Appointments at Associated Press: Alan L. The Newsweekly of the Adler, correspondent in charge of San Diego 1705 DeSales St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 -4480 bureau. named news editor, Michigan, De- troit: Ron Sirak, general desk editor, New Please send ... (Check appropriate box) York. to general desk day supervisor; Eva Broadcasting p Magazine correspon- Parziale, night editor. Miami, to o2years$135 D1 year $70 mos. $35 dent in charge of Portland, Me., bureau; Wil- 3 years S190 6 liam H. Stracener Jr., newsman. Columbia, (International subscribers add $20 per year) S.C., to correspondent in charge of Spring- field, Ill., office; Robert Wade, news editor. Broadcasting Li Cablecasting Yearbook 1987 Nashville. to same capacity, Newark, N.J. 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117 computer animation and postproducton ser- director, Burlington bureau, vice, Aurora, WPTZ(TV) North New York, joins The Executive Televisiot Colo., named manager, techni- Pole, N.Y., named promotion manager. cal services. Workshop Inc., New York, as associate ETW helps business executives prepare fo Joseph Szutarski, former colorist, NFL TV appearances. Films, Mount Laurel, N.J., joins Movielab Philip Kopper, editor, Museum and Video. New York, as senior colorist. Allied Fields Arts Wash ington magazine, joins noncommercial we-A John G. McCurdy Jr., supervisor, news satel- TV Washington as editor, DIAL/WETA maga lite uplinking, wn-A -TV Washington, named Maggie Mu!hall, associate media director, zinc. assistant chief engineer and Cole & Weber Advertising, Seattle, joins building con- Appointments at Nielsen Marketing Re. struction coordinator. Leigh Stowell & Co. market research and search, Northbrook, Ill.: Edgar W. Aust, consulting firm there, as director, media ser- di- vices. rector, operations, to senior VP and director. Promotion and PR operations; David L. Wladaver, operations ex- David Webster, former ecutive, Nielsen Station Index/Nielsen Syn- dication Service Operations, to VP; Mary A. Gene Walsh, VP, U.S. director, BBC, media relations, NBC Pro- Arbuthnot, operations manager, Data Com- ductions, and head and resident associate, of West Coast press oper- mand, to VP; Thad G. Eidman, manager. ations, Los Angeles, Carnegie Endowment named VP, media plan- Nielsen's Monitor-Plus, to VP, planning, and ning and publicity. for International Peace, Washington, member, executive committee; Michael J. Edward E. Frumkes, director, advertising and joins Annenberg Spindler, VP, general manager, Western re- publicity, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Washington Program gion, to VP and director, national accounts; Columbia Pictures International, Los Ange- of Northwestern Uni- John R. Walling, VP and group product man- les, named VP, advertising and publicity. versity, Evanston, Ill., ager, SCANTRACK Plus consumer packaged goods promotion and advertising analy- Sue Raymer, media supervisor, creative ser- as senior fellow. sis service, Chicago, replaces Spindler; J. vices, Kx°P(TV) Los Angeles, joins Harmony Dennis J. McIntosh, Anthony (Tony) Taylor, VP and account man- Gold there as VP. marketing services, respon- Nébster director, broadcaster - ager, Nielsen's Atlanta client service, re- sible for marketing and advertising. congressional relations, National Association places Walling in Chicago; Ron P. Meyer, ac- Doug Verb, president and CEO, Chicago of Broadcasters, Washington, joins Corpora- count executive, to coordinating VP; Laurie tion for Sting professional soccer team, Chicago, and Public Broadcasting there as director, A. Martino, media research coordinator, to cli- office of co- founder, Major Indoor Soccer League, government affairs, effective Sept. ent service assistant; Danny R. Miletic, group 8. joins Raycom Inc., as director, department of financial manager. group management, to cli- information and promotion. Lance Webster, member services director and ent services associate; Natalie S. Kahn, regional manager, Los to VP Ed Segal, press secretary to Congressman executive editor, BPME Image, Broadcast Angeles. there; Beth M. Mickey Edwards (R- Okla.), and freelance Promotion and Marketing Executives, Lan- Bachrach, Catherine Flaherty, Chris- tina Zicarelli, C. writer, Oglivy & Mather Public Affairs, caster, Pa., named executive director. Colleen Shannon and Carol L. MacFarlane, client service executives, and Washington, joins Earle Palmer Brown Pub- Jerry Reckerd, marketing consultant, retail Mark Rice, agency /network staff, to account lic Relations, Bethesda, Md., as senior asso- services, Jefferson -Pilot Communications CVCì Lill \ C.. ciate. Co. consultancy firm, Charlotte, N.C.. Claire Lee, director, publicity affairs and ad- named operations manager and general sales ministration, Coca -Cola Telecommunica- manager. Deaths tions, Los Angeles, joins Warner Bros. Tele- Whit Adamson, regional sales manager, vision there as director, advertising, publicity WSMV(TV) Nashville, joins Tennessee Associ- Hayden Rorke, 76, television, film and stage and promotion. ation of Broadcasters there as executive di- actor who played Dr. Alfred Bellows on Bert Gould, manager, marketing programs, rector. 1960's, NBC -TV comedy series, I Dream of Jeannie, died of cancer Aug. 19 at his home in Showtime/The Movie Channel, New York, David H. Weaver, professor, journalism, Indi- Studio City, Calif. Graduate of American joins WCBS(AM) there as director, promotion. ana University, Bloomington, Ind., named Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, and at national president, Association for Education Appointments Caraway Kemp Communi- veteran of more than 200 plays. 16 Broadway cations in Journalism and Mass Communication for Public Relations, Jacksonville, Fla.: productions and over 50 feature films, he be- Tom 1987 -88. Brown, senior art director, to art depart- gan in 1950's string of 300 guest appearances ment manager; Juliet Negrete, information Marie Mueller, managing director, Dance Al- in television series and movies that included I specialist, P.I.E. Nationwide, Jacksonville, loy, Pittsburgh, and former special projects Love Lucy, The Loretta Young Show. Play- to account group assistant; Christopher, di- coordinator, noncommercial woeocrV) San house 90, Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, Perry Mason rector, public relations, Marriot hotel, Ponte Francisco, joins WAMO -AM -FM Pittsburgh as and Barnaby Jones. He played continuing Vedra Beach, Fla.. to public relations account director. marketing and promotion. roles as actors agent Steve in Mr. Adams and executive. Eve (1957 -58), and Colonel Farnsworth in No Rose O. Robertson, freelance writer and edi- Time for Sargeants (1964 -65). From 1965 Dru Gibson, segment producer, The Morning tor, newsletter development and production, through 1970 seasons, he appeared in most of Show, wABC -Tv New York, joins M.K. Thom- San Francisco, joins Mother Lode Communi- 140 episodes of I Dream of Jeannie as NASA as and Co. television syndication company, cations there as partner. Chicago, as director, publicity and promo- psychiatrist Dr. Bellows, chronically baffled tion. Robert M. Berkowitz, senior partner, Touche antagonist of astronaut Tony Nelson. secretly Ross & Co. accounting firm, Newark, N.J., "master" of a magical genie. He is survived John Michael Werner, managing writer and and commissioner and first vice chairman, by two brothers. producer, Trans World Airlines The Travel New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, Robert Phil Crawford, 73, broadcasting and Channel, New York, joins WWOR -TV Secau- Trenton, N.J., named chairman, NJPBA. cus, N.J., as writer and producer, on -air pro- communication educator, died of cancer at his motion. John M. Laabs, former assistant secretary, home in Douglaston, Queens, N.Y., July 28. Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Madi- Salt Lake City radio announcer in late 1940's, Kathleen Burns, promotion manager, KNxv- son, Wis., joins Wisconsin Broadcasters As- he began career in 1957 as director of broad- TV Phoenix, joins WGNO -TV New Orleans, as sociation, Platteville, Wis., as associate ex- casting and associate professor at University creative services -promotion director. ecutive director. of Utah, Salt Lake City, and in same capacity Sandy Molhoek, at Michigan State University, East Lansing, commercial production as- Michelle Ward, researcher, Gammon & Nin - Mich., and Queens College, sistant, Rockford Park Cablevision, Rock- owski Media Investments Inc., Washington, CUNY, N.Y. After retiring in 1977, he served ford, Ill., joins WIFR -TV Freeport, Ill., as pub- joins KIDSNET, children's programing data- as senior Fulbright lecturer at University lic relations director. base service, there as research manager. of Glasgow, Scotland. He is survived by daughter and Bruce Carlin, senior sales creative producer- Steve Hess, former producer, CBS News, son.

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Street Journal. "I liked it very much," he Advice of counsel says. "I had a tough time deciding whether I wanted to go to journalism school or to law On Friday morning, at 9 o'clock, in one of school." He finally decided on law school; the rooms in the Orlando, Fla., Convention he thought it would be "more useful to get a Center set aside for the Radio-Television law degree." News Directors Association Convention, As things turned out, he found the law a Washington lawyer Bruce Sanford will hold congenial enterprise. He joined Baker & forth in another of his videotape presenta- Hostetler out of law school, in 1970, was tions on how television news teams get assigned to its Cleveland office and began themselves and their stations in deep libel a host of media clients, includ- trouble. The word here is that those in atten- representing ing Scripps Howard (he transferred to the dance would do well to, as military drill Washington office in 1979). Sanford recalls instructors like to say, listen up. For Sanford friends in New York turned up their wrote the book on the subject. Literally. Two that his assignment. But of them, in fact. noses at his Cleveland where large firms in New York would have A 35 -page "Synopsis of the Law of Libel" required him to specialize in one area of the was written in 1977 -revised twice since BRUCE WILLIAM SANFORD- partner, Baker & law, in Cleveland he was free to range over a then -and is now in newspaper and broad- Washington; b. Aug. 5, 1945, variety of disciplines communica- cast station newsrooms across the country. Hostetler, -libel, N.Y.; AB, Hamilton College transactions, copyright, The book advises journalists on how to Massena, tions, acquisitions, N.Y.), 1967; JD, New York University them. That experience. says San- avoid libel and invasion of privacy suits, on (Clinton, among 1970: Baker & Hostetler, ford, made him a better lawyer. common types of libel and of defenses Law School, 1971 -1979, and Washington since But it is his feeling for and experience in against them, on mitigating circumstances Cleveland, 1979; member, advisory board, Media Law journalism that seems to give him an edge in and on protecting confidential sources, even and associate editor and member of his field. Although hardly the reckless type, on "red flag" words, those to be treated with Reporter, of Litigation Magazine; m. is not a lawyer to suffocate a media special care. Then, feeling he had something editorial board Sanford May 17, 1980; children, Ashley in counsels of caution. "Television more to say on the subject, Sanford, in 1985, Marilou Green, client Lisa, 17, by wife's first marriage. do more investigative journalism," produced his "Libel and Privacy: The Pre- Anne, 4; ought to not just look into what the vention and Defense of Litigation," an 800 - he says -"and principal is doing." He is page treatise, published by Harcourt Brace Sanford's expertise is not limited to libel local high school Howard station, WCPO- Jovanovich, that is more formal in presenta- and invasion of privacy. He has been active proud of the Scripps Tv that did the investigation that tion, designed for the lawyer and the editor in a variety of First Amendment and com- Cincinnati, the the arrest of the nursing aide who rather than the reporter on the beat. And he is munications law cases. As counsel for led to earlier this month to killing still only 42 years old (and, with his soft, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma pleaded guilty 24 or patients at the hospital where round cheeks and lank, brown hair, looks Delta Chi, particularly, he has sought repeal elderly ill And Sanford talks admiringly of more like 30). of the FCC's fairness doctrine and has been he worked. open the an editor who says he does not feel he is Sanford, a partner in the Washington of- allied with those attempting to to job properly "unless he has a cou- fice of Baker & Hostetler, one of America's courts, including the Supreme Court, doing his ple of libel suits going." mega law firms, with 350 lawyers in five cameras and microphones. as a lobbyist for Journalists, apparently, see in Sanford a cities, is regarded as one of the country's He has also been active, to kindred spirit. Bill Burleigh, Scripps leading authorities on libel and invasion -of- SDX, in opposing administration efforts vice president, news, says, "Edi- privacy law. For he lived as well as wrote whittle away the scope of the Freedom of Howard's general- tors are very tough people in dealing with those books that journalists praise as ex- Information Act and to clamp down gov- [lawyers] seldom speak the plaining the law in "practical," rather than ly on the flow of information from the lawyers. They editors look upon theoretical, terms. He has handled 500 such ernment to the governed by way of the news editorial language, so has made an them skeptically. Bruce is one of the few cases in his 17 years as a lawyer. And some media. ( "This administration in- who won over editors and reporters. He is of his experience is distilled into the video- assiduous and effective effort to control more so as a partner by editors and reporters tape presentation he has used at National formation," Sanford says, "much regarded as in a way I haven't seen with other lawyers." Association of Broadcasters and regional than previous administrations. ") And, involved in And Burleigh likes what he says is Sanford's RTNDA gatherings as well as at libel clin- Scripps Howard counsel, he is the guts" of the news busi- incs for clients, to advise broadcasters on the effort to overturn on constitutional "recognition of a suit is threatened over a how to avoid trouble in those areas. grounds the Florida advertising tax that has ness. When libel journalism, Burleigh Sanford's principal client is Scripps How- outraged media in that state and has fright- piece of investigative a doesn't take me to tell the other side ard and its newspapers and broadcast sta- ened media in every other state as portent says, "it principle. Sanford tells tions. He is also United Press International's of what may be in store for them. Sanford, it's a matter of up libel lawyer. And, as he says, he has done "a then, is a kind of paladin, ready to saddle them." broad- Sanford's principal occupation is not lot of a la carte work," for CBS, Gannett and ride off to do battle in behalf of Still, a frenzy of muckrak- Co., Storer Broadcasting Co., Time Inc. and cast or print journalists in need of help, whipping his clients to out trouble, and to The Hearst Corp. And while none of his whatever or whoever the villain. ing. It is to keep them of out when all else fails. And as his cases has had the prominence of a Westmore- Sanford comes by his specialty naturally. get them undergrad- clients will attest, he does it well. "He's land v. CBS or Sharon v. Time Inc., he has There was a time, when still an New said William J. Brooks, vice had an impact on the law. In a case in which uate at Hamilton College, in upstate bright as hell," a and general manager of Scripps he was representing E.W. Scripps in Califor- York, that he saw himself pursuing career president West Palm Beach, Fla. nia, he succeeded in establishing the right of in journalism. He was editor -in -chief of an Howard's WPTV(TV) The Then he offered an unsolicited promo for a defendant in a libel proceeding to file a award -winning college newspaper, Spec- at the RINDA con- countersuit before the plaintiff's suit was tator, served as an intern with Dow Jones's Sanford's appearance week: libel seminars completed. Lawyers regard that as an impor- The Newspaper Fund, and worked in Chica- vention later this "His tant precedent for libel defendants. go one summer as a reporter for The Wall are the best in the business."

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 Five media groups including Florida Association of Broadcasters, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and National Association of SSC &B Broadcasters and Scripps Howard went into o court on Friday to challenge constitutionality of state's new tax on advertising. Nielsen said last week will Suit, filed in Circuit Court of Leon County, seeks de- it expand its local meter -based service I its 16th claratory judgment and injunction barring state from collecting 5% market, Sacramento, Calif., as of May 1988. Initial samp: tax now imposed on advertising sold or used in Florida. Plaintiffs will be 300 meters, which will expand to 400 in 1989. contend law violates First and 14th Amendments of Constitution. o William Brooks, FAB president and general manager of Scripps QVC Network posted net loss of $1,390,000 in second r Howard's WPTV(TV) West Palm Beach, said new tax "will make the quarter, loss of 14 cents per share. (No comparable figures exist for public poorer" -that it will "inevitably curtail both the amount of yea useful information earlier period.) Net revenue for quarter was $19,673,000 on billinc consumers receive from commercial advertise- of $21,261,000. ments and the amount of critical political information voters need in a democracy." Joining FAB, NAB and Scripps Howard in suit are Independent Florida Agrinet Inc., network that produces news Paul Hughes has resigned as president of Viacom's and information programs on matters of interest to Florida agricul- Entertainmer ture, and Group and Broadcast Group. Replacing him is former HBO prograr Heritage Communications Inc., owner of WEAR -TV Pensa- executive Henry cola, Fla. Schleift see "Fates & Fortunes "). Hughes wa with Viacom for nine o years and had been president of Broadca; Group since 1982, and head of Entertainment Group since OctobE NBC and its striking technical union resumed negotiations last week of 1986. No word yet on Hughes' plans. in longest face -to -face meetings since strike began June 29. Nei- o ther side provided details of talks, which were continuing with Viacom added 12 more stations to its list of clearances f The Cosb federal mediation until late Friday, but National Association of Broadcast Show :st week, including Gaylord Broadcasting's IcHTVTV) Hour Employes and Technicians representing 2,800 NBC ton. employes did say it had withdrawn proposal for four -day work week, earlier condition for accepting NBC's request for extended temporary hiring, still dispute's main sticking point. MCA Inc. -owned wwoR-TV New York will broadcast Miami Vice -a -tho o on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 1 -2. On Sept. 1 station wi broadcast special on Miami Vice (8:30 -9 p.m.) and episode caller MTM Entertainment is going public to raise $100 million -$112 mil- "Prodigal Son," at 9 -10 p.m.; on Sept. 2 episodes of "Smuggler'. lion with initial offering of four million Two shares. million of shares Blues" and "No Exit" (featuring Bruce Willis) will be seen at 8 an are those of principal shareholders MTM President Arthur Price, 9, respectively. Move was Senior perceived among station reps in Nev Executive Vice President Mel D. Blumenthal, Executive York last week as method of giving Vice President show ratings track retort Thomas E. Palmieri Jr., and actress Mary Tyler before reintroduction into syndication. MCA -TV pulled Moore, after whom 17- year -old Miam company was named. Funds Vice from syndication in February (BROADCASTING, Feb. 16). raised will be used to redeem $9.32 million in preferred stock and $3 million debenture held by principal stockholders, as well as to reduce indebtedness incurred for working capital purposes in- Krvur v) Oakland, Calif., has pulled its advertising cluding from televisio production of new TV series. company said. supplement of San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, two compet o ing dailies that publish jointly on Sundays. following of critical reviev CBS.Broadcast station's news. In Aug. 20, column, Chronicle TV Group has appointed Backer Spielvogel Bates, Carman critic Johr New York, as its first full- described tcTVU's 10 p.m. newscast as "a steaming caul service agency for company's entertain- dron of crime ment, news, sports and international and gore." Kevin O'Brien, Cox -owned independent': divisions. Account is report- vice president and general ed to be billing about $50 million. CBS will continue to be manager, responded by ordering sta responsi- Lion to divert its advertising to other ble for station and programing on -air promotion. Other agencies in newspapers, magazines ant radio stations. Kivu had reportedly spent about contention for CBS /Broadcast account were Ogilvy & Mather, $290,000 over pas 20 months with two largest circulation dailies in O'Brien, who Bay Area declined comment on incident, also reportedly saic Industry squeeze. The National Association of Broadcasters, station's publicity department would no longer provide which tion informa- found itself in an uncomfortable position because of the or comments to Chronicle until Carman leaves. Newspaper FCC's proposed retention of its network nonduplication management stands by Carman, who formerly wrote for rules ship property Cox flag- (as well as reimposition of syndicated exclusivity) for cable Atlanta Journal and Constitution. television, is in the clear ( "Closed Circuit, "May 11). NAB traded away network nonduplication protection for TV affiliates as part National Association of of the must -carry compromise Broadcasters and Association of Indepen reached with the cable industry dent Television Stations filed brief and agreed not to last week in Court of Appeals file in the FCC proceeding. However, a group generally supporting FCC's of affiliate members defense of its new must -carry cable (mostly from small markets) put pressure on rules. They say rules- of NAB to do modification those that same court found something to help preserve the rules. Consequently, unconstitutional in July 1985 not invalid last week -are under First Amend- NAB 's executive committee allocated $30,000 to the ment: "They do not forbid speech by cable operators, cable net- group to help defray the legal costs of its July FCC comments works or anyone else; they are content neutral.... " New rules, arguing for the rules. requiring carriage of some local stations, "constitute no more than NAB President Eddie Fritts said the money did not violate an incidental burden on First Amendment interests and satisfy the "either the letter or the spirit" of the must -carry agreement. standards applicable to such incidental burdens," brief adds. But it NAB, he continued, did not file as an institution and "our agree- takes issue with commission's argument that provision sunset - ment was not to do anything at the commission." National ting rules after five years is essential to meet those standards. Cable Television Association President Jim Mooney, who Even assuming agency regulations may become unconstitutional slammed the Association of Independent Television Stations at some date because of agency's failure to reexamine basis and purpose of rules in of for violating the must -carry deal by filing comments calling for light changed circumstances, brief says, "it does not follow that the First limiting the application of the compulsory license (BnoAocAs-r- Amendment requires the agency to employ a crystal ball" when it adopts rules. It wo. Aug. 10), had no comment on the NAB's action. But one notes sunset provides no guarantee regulations will "self- destruct" on industry source indicated NCTA had agreed to "look the other specified way." date; future commission can change that decision. What's more, it says, sunset provision is "superfluous," since commission is obliged to adjust policy to new conditions as they develop.

Broadcasting Aug 31 1987 120 up struggling and shared services which will make frequency coordination diffi- 3S -TV has reduced number of affiliates not picking not only to co- 7:30 -9 a.m.) to one. WAGA-TV cult and increase the potential for interference re Morning Program (weekdays, to secondary users as well." week to air program. Station general manager channel UHF -TV station viewers, but tlanta agreed last additional restrictions beyond those in Raymon could not be reached at deadline to discuss decision. NAB paper concludes that iul be considered before allowing proliferation of me holdout now is New Orleans affiliate WWL -TV. FCC proposal should remote pick -up and ENG transmissions into UHF band. Such restrictions are needed, paper says, to avoid interference with pri- ederal court in Eastern District of New York dropped criminal mary UHF broadcasters. 'arges last week against two operators of Radio New York Interna- o snal (RNI). unlicensed pirate radio station that aired "free- form" broadcasters can expect lively exchange on number of legis- anchored four -and- Radio of .ck music for nearly week in late July while lative issues during session planned at National Association N.Y. (BROADCASTING, Aug. 'e -half miles off coast of Long Island, Broadcasters' "Radio '87" convention in Anaheim, Calif., next down station, FCC had af- Repre- . Government said that by shutting (Sept. 9 -12). Senator Malcolm Wallop (R -Wyo.) and Members of week :med its authority to regulate offshore broadcasts. Bill Thomas (R- Calif.), Jim Bates (D- Calif.) and Hank outside three -mile terri- sentatives ation maintain they were broadcasting Brown (R- Colo.) will appear on panel Saturday at 9 a.m. to discuss, trial limit in international waters. Seven pirate disk jockeys in- things, congressional drive to codify fairness doc- their own weekly rock among other Dlved with ship, however, have been given trine and proposal to limit deductibility of advertising expenses. 'row, entitled The Pirate Party, over adult contemporary WNYG(AM) abylon, N.Y., beginning Saturday, Sept. 5. o o CPB board member and former chairman William Lee Hanley, chair- an- Industry Radio Station Music License Committee will receive as- man of New York oil exploration firm. Hanley Co. Inc., has II- Han- from National Association of Broadcasters for restructur- nounced intention to seek CPB vice chairmanship in October. istance five members of 'g committee for future ASCAP and BMI negotiations, said Wally ley, who said he has support thus far of four to president, Jefferson -Pilot Communications, and joint eight -member board, hopes to push ahead with strategic plan for Drgenson, would allow him IAB board chairman, after executive committee meeting last public broadcasting and feels vice chairmanship from seeking reek. "But (music licensing) committee should remain indepen- to do so. Hanley said "time problem" constrains him ent and autonomous from NAB," he said. Interim All- Industry chairmanship but that he feels he could work well with Acting ( "Closed :ommittee Chairman Don Thurston, who is president of Berkshire Chairman Howard Gutin, who is seeking chairmanship lroadcasting, North Adams, Mass., had asked NAB to take more Circuit," July 13) and who was vice chairman to Hanley's chair- ctive role in choosing committee members and in communicat- man year ago. .g needs of committee to industry ( "Riding Gain," June 8). Thur- ton had also requested up to $300,000 from NAB to help clear Dun & Bradstreet Corp. parent company of A.C. Nielsen, said last debt incurred in last round of to acquire market research :ommittee's legal and administrative week it, 1 r signed definitive agreement tegotiations with ASCAP and BMI- latter ending last spring. company. Information Resources Inc. 13ased on value of publicly JAB executive committee, however, said it will need more finan- traded IRI stock last week, at time deal was announced, sale price :ial information from music licensing group before advancing is approximately $572 million. Dan

National Academy of Cable Programing has announced panelists for IAB's HDTV Task Force, meeting in Washington last week, ap- its second fall forum luncheon, to be held Sept. 29 at Grand Hyatt 'roved projects that will cost $200,000 by end of first quarter of hotel in New York. Luncheon topic will be "Cable TV: How High is 988. Funds will conic from 5700.000 earmarked for task force's and chief projects are designed to Up?" and will feature panelists Frank Biondi Jr., president vork by NAB's board last June. Most of Michael Fuchs, chairman Television Systems Committee sub - executive officer, Viacom International. iupport work of Advanced executive officer, Home Box Office; Fred Silverman, that is trying to set standards for HDTV transmission and and chief lroup president of Fred Silverman Co., and Charles Dolan, chairman and videotaping. chief executive officer, Cablevision Systems. Panel will be moder- o ated by USA Network President Kay Koplovitz. sub- board of Essex Communications, cable MSO serving 125,000 o scribers. reviewed bids Monday for company's 3.9 million ¡hares of Class A and B stock. Company official said neither names NCTA President Jim Mooney and MPAA President Jack Valenti will r: o when Essex would make decision square off for debate at Federal Communication Bar Association would bu rulUdsUU Syatums are primarily in Southeast and split luncheon on Oct. 21 at Washington Marriott hotel. Corp. has 'etween owned and managed systems. Waller Capital n to handle sale. 'een retained role in Today weatherman Willard Scott iias been given recurring Valerie). He will play Ho- and National Cable Television NBC comedy. Valerie's Family (formerly National Association of Broadcasters of existing character, with FCC on proposal to allow gan family neighbor, Peter Poole, husband 4ssociation '. (! filed comments Lorimar, producer of operators to share vacant UHF televi- known only as Mrs. Poole (Edie McClurg). )Dili broadcasters and cable p.m., recently replaced star remote pick -up and ENG transmissions. NCTA. program which airs Mondays at 8:30 sion spectrum for Duncan in contract dispute. Scott in favor of proposal. wrote that it "had long main - Valerie Harper with Sandy 3ommenung Oct. 5. ained that, as broadcasters and cable operators engage more makes his debut on program extensively in on- the -spot coverage of news and sports events ...the commission should continue to allocate additional 81, died should insure that John Huston, veteran movie actor, director and producer, spectrum for such ENG transmissions and emphysema at his rented have access to any such spec- Aug. 28 Di complications resulting from broadcasters and cable operators site of "Mr. North," feature being Paper states that while cable operators Newpui t, R.I., home near filming trum on a co -equal basis." Danny, starring Robert Mitchum and Huston's opening of two and six ghz bands for ENG directed by son, have been aided by of Huston was executive producer. eliminated congestion and that NCTA daughter, Angelica, and which transmissions, it has not than one Hollywood classic recently colorized for the opening of UHF spectrum due to increases in both Director of more supports television and cable broadcasts, he voiced strong opposition to use broadcaster and cable use of ENG frequencies. Edmund A. Wil- message delivered to engineering, authored com- of colorizing process last May, via videotaped hams, director, broadcast systems on Technology and Law saying film indus- NAB. His paper claims "that the UHF -TV bands are Senate Subcommittee ments from is being "bushwacked by coloroids" (BROADCASTING, May 18). becoming the 'dumping grounds' for a proliferation of secondary try

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Next step limit nonprogram material in children's shows to 10 minutes an hour in weekend programing beginning the following January The Radio- Television News Directors Association has reason to and nine -and -a -half minutes as of January 1976. The limits on celebrate at its annual gathering this week, the FCC having re- other days would be 14 minutes effective Jan. 1, 1975, and 12 stored to broadcast journalists a large measure of the editorial minutes as of Jan. 1, 1976. The Association of Independent freedom so long misappropriated by the government through the Television Stations voted to go along, almost. It accepted the so- called fairness doctrine. as But RTNDA has indicated, the job Monday - Friday standard but wanted 12 minutes each weekend is not yet complete- vestiges of the doctrine remain in the form hour for another year and a half. On schedule, the FCC adopted of personal attack and political editorializing rules. the broadcasters' standards as its own. Toward the completion that of job, RINDA, along with a "Is it possible," this page asked at the time, "that grown men number of other broadcast and journalistic organizations, has voted for those standards? If 14 minutes of commercials an hour asked the FCC to do away with those rules, either by issuing an are good for the kiddies next January, why must the limit be order in a four-year -old rulemaking that proposed their elimina- reduced to 12 a year from then? By what reasoning are nine -and- tion or by acknowledging "that the...personal attack and political a -half minutes considered the maximum dose that children may editorial rules- adjuncts of the fairness and doctrine recognized take on Saturdays and Sundays if their tolerance level is up to 12 to be even more intrusive and chilling than the general doctrine- minutes on other days of the week? The ghost of Lewis Carroll are similarly unconstitutional and inimical to the public interest must have been engaged by both associations. There is neither and accordingly must be eliminated." research nor logic to support the wholly arbitrary figures that the Such clarification would be a natural progression on the course NAB and INTV boards pulled out of the air." the FCC has set away from regulation of content and toward an Research and logic are still missing, but never mind. Charren electronic press with an voice editorial as free as it is powerful. In has been back on the Hill with such willing listeners as Chairman the context of the fairness repeal, the commission "repudiated the Ed Markey (D- Mass.) of the House Telecommunications Sub- notion that it was proper for a governmental agency to intervene committee, whose district, surprise, surprise, lies within the ADI actively in the marketplace of ideas," said the broadcasters' latest of Boston, Charren's old hometown. Her petition to the FCC is a filing. Personal attack and political editorializing rules are such prelude to testimony she is preparing for Markey hearings. an intervention. As the FCC said in 1983, when it proposed Once again the FCC will be told to do something or the Hill elimination of the rules, they a "afford right of access for specific will. This time there is no NAB code to be used as a regulatory individuals a to broadcaster's facilities, thereby removing from device. The FCC will have to say no all by its lonesome. licensees almost all editorial discretion." Even while it was upholding the fairness doctrine in its Red Lion decision, the Su- Sheep's clothing? preme Court found that under the personal attack and editorializing rules, "the broadcaster does not have an option of presenting Some advertisers and Florida broadcasters were hailing as a posi- the attacked party's side himself or choosing a third party." tive sign the announcement by that state's governor that he would A responsible press should strive to be fair, but, as the FCC has attempt to put the controversial ad tax, in the form of a constitu- emphasized with its recent ruling, a free press should not be made tional amendment, on the ballot in a March election. There is to adhere to some governmentally concocted recipe for fairness. reason, however, to be less sanguine about that prospect. The public interest, as the FCC has rightly concluded, is better Granted, the legislature and the governor are undoubtedly re- served by a free press than an almost free one. sponding to the heat of an intense print and broadcast campaign against the measure. To put the measure to a public referendum Summer rerun would effectively shift the responsibility-and culpability -for the decision to the voters. Although polls have shown a majority Action for Children's Television, an alias used by Peggy Charren, of Floridians is generally against the tax, if a sales tax on services has petitioned the FCC to reimpose at once the commercial time is presented as the only viable alternative to a personal income limits it formerly enforced in children's television programing. tax-the absence of which rivals the climate in the list of Florida's ACT, nee Charren, says it a is social necessity to restore the attractions-its appeal could increase dramatically. Perhaps ceilings of nine -and -a -half minutes per hour on Saturday and enough for Florida to have an ad tax set in constitutional concrete, Sunday mornings and 12 minutes an hour at other times. The and a governor and legislature absolved of guilt in the deed. Hold question nags: Isn't this where we came in? the champagne. Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear, or 1974 to be precise. Under the incessant prodding of Charren and a small army of other foundation -supported activists, members of the LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - Congress had begun talking darkly of laws to keep all adver- 1 MUST TELL YOU MAT WE aeuevE We've ReAc ev TOE tising out of children's television fare LIMIT and to make commercial ON 11.4e NUMBER OF STATIONS. broadcasters carry noncommercial educational television. (In those days Charren had a larger following than her current retinue of one, Henry Geller, the ever-present public service lawyer.) The word from the Hill to the FCC was: Do something or we will. (Don't things ever change ?) The FCC did something-once removed. At the persuasion of the FCC's chairman, the television code review board of the National Association of Broadcasters went into deep thought and decided that the NAB television code (which later was abandoned in an antitrust prosecution by the same U.S. government) would Drawn for BROADCASTING by Jack Schmidt

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