The NAB Convention: Caught up in the currents of change BroadcastingThe newsweekly of broadcasting and allied arts mMar26Our 48th Year 1979 The Peifect Match. KSTP -TV Minneapolis /St. Paul pñ 0.) Oc Op p X -4/3 ó On Monday, March 5, KSTP -TV became an ABC mz rH Television Network affiliate. More than 45 of the most popular m m° ca network shows have now joined the nation's leading p N news station. m vl co A division of Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. For more information, call KSTP -TVs Jim Blake, General Sales Manager, at 612/645 -2724. or your nearest Petry office. 1-1 C Source: Prbitron Nov. 78 bp 50 ADIs. Audience ratings are estimates only and subject to the D A limitations of said report. ASCAP, FROM LEGENDS TO SUPERSTARS Since ASCAP was founded in 1914, over those changes are all reflected in the di- 22,000 songwriters and composers have versity and depth of ASCAP's repertory. joined. From Standards, to Rock, to Country, to The list reads like a Who's Who of the Jazz, to MOR, to Disco, to R &B, to Soul, songwriting business. (It's only a lack of to Gospel, to Symphonic, ASCAP has pro- space that limits us to mentioning but a vided the outstanding songwriting talent tiny portion of ASCAP's membership.) of each era not only to the broadcasters In the past 65 years music has gone of America but to the people who tune in. through some very radical changes, but At ASCAP, we've always had the greats. ABBA (STIM) Harold Arlen Amazing Rhythm Aces America Louis Armstrong Ashford & Simpson Jj 4 Average White Band Roy Ayers 1rt Bacharach Joan Baez Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Irving Berlin OP' Eubie Blake Boston Brick Brothers Johnson Jackson Browne hj Carpenters Shaun Cassidy Marlin Charnin Cheech & Chong Chicago George M. Cohan Cy Coleman Judy Collins Commodores Chick Corea Elvis Costello (PRS) Count Basie Andrae Crouch John Denver Deodalo Earth, Wind & Fire Yvonne Elliman Duke Ellington Paul Evans Emerson. Lana Paller Roberta Flack Dan Fogelberg Foster & Rice Peter Frampton Marvin Hamlisch Oscar Hammerre W C. Handy Loren Hart PrmmyYan Heusen Janis Ian Isley Brother. J teils Band Rick James e Billy Joél Elton John (PRS) Jerome Kern Carole King Gordon Lightfoot° Milsap Frank Loesser Kenny Loggins LTD Henry Mancini Rod McKuen Johnny Mercer Ronnie - Graham Nash Olivia Newton -John Ted Nugent Andre Previn Tito Purdy - -- - Sigmund Romberg Chris Rea (PRS) Johnny Rivers mokey Robinson Richard Rodgers Kenny Rogers Rolling Stones (PRS) Salsoul Orchestra S Skynyrd Patti Smith ai Scolt-Heron Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Artie Sha Carly Simon Noble ssle Lynyrd J4 ßl ï I Barbra Streisand Stephen Sondheim Bruce Springsteen Cat Stevens Stephen Stills Steve Miller Band Charles Strouse Thomas "Fats" Waller > t! Van Halen Styx Mel Torme loto Jethro Tull Harry Warren - Zeppelin Grover Washington, Jr. Paul Francis Webster Kurt Weill Paul Williams Stevie Wonder Led here are among the ASCAP- licensed writers who have been nominated for or have won Oscars. Tons, Grammys, Those pictured years. Emmies. or Rockies. or have appeared on any of the Billboard. Casheox, or Record World year -end charts dyring the past tour "CAPAC Between a rock and a hard place... Ruthless profiteers on one side of the fence with sincere, charitable organizations on the other. Slap in the middle: BINGO. Covering controversial issues such as BINGO objectively places any station in a difficult position. But WAPI Television put itself there when it began an indepth look at the popular game of bingo within Birmingham's metropolitan area. What it found prompted the Sheriffs Department to begin questioning the legality of the game. The District Attorney, and Police Department formed a task force and the issue is now with the courts. As a by- product, the issue of cameras in the court room to cover this continuing story resulted in the media being allowed within the halls of justice. Between a rock and a hard place. Our ability to take the pressure and measure up is just one facet of WAPI's community service. WAPI -TV Channel 13 Birmingham, Alabama Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation, Inc. WAPI AM/FM/TV- Birmingham. WSYR AM/FM/TV- Syracuse. KTVI -St. Louis WTPA FM/TV- Harrisburg, WSYE TV- Elmira. Represented by MMT Sales, Inc. Broadcasting -Mar26 The Week in Brief LOSING GROUND Mountains of applications are piling Top of the line. KPRC's Jack up at the FCC and it appears that things will get worse. Harris will be honored this week More people are needed, say FCC staffers. PAGE 28. at the National Association of Broadcasters convention with the THOUGHTS ON D -DAY Nearly 6,000 delegates are NAB's highest honor, the Dis- gathered in Dallas today for the NAB convention. Here are tinguished Service Award. For some state -of- the -industry observations from Vincent this broadcaster, it's an ap- propriately titled honor: He's ,.lasilewski and Donald Thurston. PAGE 29. A final widely regarded as having served rundown the PAGE 50. of agenda. the industry at large and his Houston operation in particular WON OVER Representative Collins, who had planned with distinction. A "Fifth Estate" to sponsor his own amendments to the Communications report chronicles his career and Act, decides to support Van Deerlin's version of Rewrite accomplishments, which began -and have remained Il, calling it better for broadcasting than the chairman's rooted in -news. Page 35. first version. NAB analyzes the two revision bills to come out of the Senate. PAGE 30. the FTC, ACLU expresses concern about government IT'S OFFICIAL HEW Secretary Califano announces censorship. NAB's testimony concentrates on the efficacy plans for TV closed captioning to aid the hearing - of self -regulation. PAGE 84. impaired. ABC, NBC and public broadcasting will work together to implement the system and Sears will market THE HAND THAT RULES THE HOUSE O Cries of censorship the home decoders. PAGE 32. are heard just a few days after the House of Representatives starts live TV originations from the SUPERSTATION JITTERS Metromedia and the NAB chamber. PAGE 102. implore the FCC to expedite rulemaking on measures that would curb signal imports. PAGE 62. our IN THE COLD Among the recommendations of a 20th Century Fund task force is one for the retention of SPLIT The CPB board moves to divide the public the presidential debates, but not under the "sponsorship" broadcasting organization along administrative and of the networks. PAGE 102. program -fund lines. PAGE 70. AT THE RIGHT HAND OF VAN DEERLIN The new ranking ON TARGET The Rand Corp. model for UHF is reviewed Republican on the House Communications by an FCC office that labels it as the best study on the Subcommittee makes no bones about the fact that he is subject. PAGE 81. conservative and pro- business. That alone will make Texan James M. Collins a man after most broadcasters' ROUND FOUR At last week's hearing on children's TV at hearts. PAGE 145. 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