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The Arizona Republic Friday, April 15, 1983 Al ThiTinMc Group files complaint against cereal firm Video best sellers Electronic Repair Company, YOUR ONE STOP REPAIR SHOPPE Micro Computers Video Equipment Stereos Video Games Portable TV's Phone Arts. Machines Call any Bill's Audio or 233-0212 United Press International NEWTON, Mass. A national child-advocacy group filed a complaint Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission charging General Mills Inc. with "promoting an unfair and deceptive game of chance" for children. Action for Children's Television said the company is advertising six cereals in TV commercials that urge children to participate in "Watch Play," a game of chance in which cards are placed in specially marked boxes of cereal.

If the game cards shown during the commercial are matched, the child wins a miniature television. The cereals are Trix, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, Count Chocula, FrankenBerry and BooBerry. ACT President Peggy Charren said the campaign is deceptive because it convinces children if they play the game of chance they can win the prize. The commercials also leave youngsters with the impression they have to buy General Mills cereals in order to participate in the game, she said. Charren said the complaint was filed in Washington.

An FTC spokesman said the agency never comments on complaints until action has been taken. The complaint said the commercial fails to convey information about a participant's chance of winning a prize other than a statement "millions will enter, a thousand to win." Those are not clear mathematical concepts to children, the complaint said. ORGAN LESSONS FOR ADULTS FIVE WEEKS ONLY ON TV Continued from El Protest o.9an uctor. Janet Johnson. be con -J a request by ON TV to begin operating two hours earlier each day.

"We hoped that it would be over and settled in December," Fettig said. KNXV-TV stood firm because as much as 60 percent of the station's revenue is generated between 5 and 7 p.m. weekdays, when viewership is highest. "The life of Channel 15 was hanging in what they demanded," Cooperstein said. sons as Washburn Musiclands Khan Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video 1180 5.

Creepshow Laurel Show Inc-Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video 11306 6. Road Warrior Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video 11181 7. Poltergeist MGM-UA Home Video 800165 8.

Rocky III CBS-Fox Video 4708 9. Das Boot RCA-Columbia Pictures Home Video 10149 10. Playboy CBS-Fox Video 6201 Videocassette rentals Includes Beta and VHS formats. 1. An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video 1467 2.

Blade Runner Embassy Home Entertainment 1380 3. Road Warrior Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video 11181 4. Das Boot RCA-Columbia Pictures Home Video 10149 5. Poltergeist MGM-UA Home Video 800165 S.Monsignor CBS-Fox Video 1108 7.

Creepshow Laurel Show Inc-Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video 11306 8. Rocky III CBS-Fox Video 4708 9. Night Shift The Ladd Warner Home Video 20006 10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High Universal City Studios MCA Dist.Corp.

77015 These are the best-selling home video games and videocassettes for this week as compiled from retail outlets by the Billboard Publications Inc. research department. Reprinted with permission. Hdme video games I. Centipede -Atari CX-2676 Ms.

Pacman Atari CX-2646 3. River Raid Activision AXi020 A. Phoenix -Atari CX-2673 'p. Pitfall Activision AX-108 6. Frogger Parker Bros.

5300 7. Vangard Atari CX-2669 B. Donkey Kong Jr. Ccleco 2G01 S. Dragon Fire Imagic IA-3611 10.

Donkey Kong Coleco 2451 II. Pac-man Atari CX-2646 12. Spider Fighter Activision 13. Seaquest Activision AX -022. 14.

Swords and Serpents Imagic 15. Zaxxon Coleco 2435 Videocassette sales Includes releases in both Beta and VHS formats. I. An Officer and a Gentleman Paramount Pictures, Paramount Hopie Video 1467 .2. Blade Runner Embassy home Entertainment 1380 IS.

Jane Fonda's Workout KVC-RCA, Karl Video Corp. 042 U. Star Trek II: The Wrath of jancl Jonnson mo Lessons are one hour pe, the store at no cost pwsons we also have speoa pnces on starting as low as Oontpuolhtsoppor.y.oln.MnC weeks, you'll be aWe to 1-Read notes Understand fhythm feet cmniP tunes with both hands ana JENSEN Factory Video Expert1 Will Be At Jerry's Home Entertainment Center Apr. 16th -12-5 P.M. II Another reason for the subscriber drop-off has been the scheduling of "pay-per-view" events, for which subscribers are required to pay extra.

If the added fee is not paid, those subscribers receive a scrambled signal. Pay-per-view, featuring such events as a showing of the movie Star Wars, a Rolling Stones concert or the national premiere of the motion picture The Pirates of Penzance, is a double-edged sword. They offer fresh entertainment that is unavailable elsewhere on television, but they also irritate those not willing to pay extra. One ON TV observer noted the service experienced "a definite dropping of subscribers following pay-per-view events" and said that the falling subscriber level has resulted in "hundreds of thousands of dollars (being) lost each month." Fettig attributed ON TV's fast pullout from the Phoenix market to an "antagonistic" attitude on the part of the Channel 15. "The main reason is because Channel 15 has breached its contract with us and won't allow us to expand our hours (of operation).

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