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Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 737-9000 Vol 109 No. 23 Broadcasting i Dec 2 Cable wraps up a dynamite year KKR /Storer gets green light from FCC `At Large' with ABC's Roone Arledge ON A ROLL o Cable television industry is wrapping combing their production vaults in search of up a bullish year, with financial and industry television programing suitable for home video fare, observers high on its potential. PAGE 35. with "cult" material and special programing BROADCASTING ranks the top 50 MSO'S On PAGE 37 already showing up on retail shelves. PAGE 84. and the basic and pay programing services on PAGE 38. UP AND RUNNING D Showtime launches pay -per- view service, third such service to go into HEAVENLY TROUBLES D Eastern Microwave filing at operation this year. PAGE 86. FCC detailing interference it suffered in October may be sign of greater interference problems NUMBER Two o CBS takes ninth week of prime time caused by earth -based in technology space. season, its second weekly victory, on the strength PAGE 39. of its Sunday -night fare and the mini -series Kane & Abel. PAGE 87. ANOTHER MERGER D FCC approves KKR buy of Storer but does not grant all the waivers the REP SHAKEOUT D Unprecedented activity with companies asked for. Storer will have to sell its mergers and leveraged buyouts leaves rep Toledo, Ohio, station. Other television stations or business in a state of change. PAGE 93. a number of cable systems will also have to be sold. PAGE 40. PUBLIC OFFERING D A number of Fifth Estate companies, taking advantage SHOT DOWN o Federal judge rules against of recent bullish market, are making public filmmaker George Lucas in Star Wars suit, saying offering statements. PAGE he has no property right in the English language." 95. PAGE 42. BEHIND THE SCENES D Everett Erlick has helped VIEW FROM THE TOP D Roone Arledge, president, build ABC from a fledging broadcast network into ABC News and Sports, surveys his team's one of the Fifth Estate's major companies. players and some industry plays in a PAGE 96. BROADCASTING interview "At Large." PAGE 46. ELECTORAL CHANGES D Commission on National TO THE COAST D Western Cable Show this week in Elections, independent study panel, says electoral Anaheim, Calif., will allow cable operators to process is not in need of wholesale reform. There catch up on what has been a busy news year, with are, however, words of warning for the media. panel sessions reflecting those issues. PAGE 68. A PAGE 100. rundown of the agenda and a listing of exhibitors runs from PAGE 68 to 82. ROCKIN' D Around -the -clock music programing has become a success, in part through the efforts of IN THE VIDEO STORE Program distributors are the Satellite Music Network's John Tyler. PAGE 127. 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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS: Accu -V ather, Inc. 22o American Uplinks, Inc. 80 D Americom Media Brokers, Inc. 6. 104 o Antonelli Media Training Center 16 0 Associated Press Broadcast Services 14, 34 D Barclays American Third Cover D Blackburn & Co., Inc. 102 0 Blair Entertainment Second Cover /3, 4 -5, 15, 17 D Blair Radio /Blair RAR 91 0 Broadcast Electronics, Inc. 74 D Chicago, The University of 20 D Classified Ads 114 -122 D Columbia Pictures Television 12 -13 0 Communications Equity Associates 105 0 COMSAT General Corp. 71 D Comtel Broadcasting Corp. 81 0 Continental Electronics 900 Daniels & Associates 109 o Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. 79 D The Entertainment Network 66 -67, 69 D Firstmark Financial 76 0 HI -NET Communications 11 D King Features Entertainment 28 -29 0 King World 73 0 H.B. La Rue, Media Broker 107 0 Local Program Network 65 o Lorimar -Telepictures Perennial 44.45, 47 0 MCA TV 8, 19, 21, 23, 24 -25, 43 o McGavren Guild Radio 83 D MEI Electronics, Inc. 82 o National W Idlife Federation 92 D Orban Associates, Inc. 27 0 Orbis Communications 59, 61, 63 D Orion 51, 52 -53, 54 -55 0 Paramount Domestic Television & Video Programming Front Cover0 Professional Cards 113 0 Republic Pictures Corp. 31 D Cecil L. Richards, Inc. 103 0 Robert W Rounsaville & Associates 106 D Services Directory 112 0 Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc. 101 o Society Bank 75 0 SRDS, Inc. 32 -33 0 Syndicated Communications, Inc. 100 D D.L. Taffner/Ltd. 26 0 Edwin Tornberg & Co, Inc. 108 0 TV Extra 85 0 TV Guide 77 0 ward -Beck Systems Ltd. Front Cover o Warner Bros. Television Distribution 49, 57 0 NA1rld Wide Bingo, Inc. 78 BLINK THREE TIMES IF YOU WANT YOUR RATINGS TO GLOW! Here comes the Blinkins. Already predicted to be 1986's big animated hit. The kids will love 'em. 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