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The slogan was used internally but not in on-air promos at the San Diego station when both men were there." Cut to Phoenix. Cardenas still liked the slogan when he got here and unveiled it at a staff meeting last fall. "When I got here, I said, 'Here's my Cardenas said. Cardenas also said plans were then put in place to incorporate the motto in the station's on-air look. A spring rollout was scheduled.

for You," Channel 5's standing news slo- gan, still lives unlike Channel 15's dearly departed "No Channel 15 got a nearly identical slogan On the air first, however, albeit in slightly altered form. Both stations have been using their respective slogans for about two weeks. "We've had this in the works for four months, and we're ready to roll it out when Channel 15 all of a sudden has it on the air," Cardenas said. "We're not changing." Klotzman called the slogan showdown a unique situation, noting that "there is always a chance" it could cause viewer confusion, but he added that Channel 15 also has no plans to change its strategy. The slogan is a philosophical statement "I feel comfortable (making)," he said.

And also one that viewers tell us they can identify with." It also is one that has been trade-marke4 in Arizona for Channel 15, Klotzman said, adding that "No chitchat" is officially toast as the station's news slogan. "We're still going to be very hard-news-focused, but we're not going to use that tag line, so to speak," he said. Bill Berra, news director at Chan- nel 10 (KSAZ), said the tag-line tussle reminds him of "two little kids playing in the sandbox, you know, fighting over the firetruck." Berra said that "it's a slogan that has worked for other stations" around the country but pointed out that its message would seem to be a given for any local newscast. "I don't know of any station in the market where you don't see the word 'live' displayed extremely prominently (in newscasts)," he said. "The audience knows it's local, and news, by nature, is late-breaking." "No chitchat" died for this? Before it passes forever into oblivion, let's take a moment here to remember that classic catch phrase, which struck emotional gold with anyone who's ever been annoyed at inane news-anchor chatter.

And although it eventually proved to be less-than-accurate an Arizona Republic survey of local 10 p.m. newscasts last fall showed that Channel 15 anchors and reporters actually indulged in quite a bit of chitchat "No chitchat" gave the station's start-up news operation an instant identity in the community. Still, the consensus in the TV- news business is that news personalities build big audiences and that goofy gab is probably the best way to express personality. Expensive audience research supposedly shows that most viewers actually like chitchat. So, the least appropriate way to honor the memory of "No chitchat" would be a moment of silence.

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Now, as president of VH1, musician as Don Henley and John Mellencamp come to him. Sykes is overseeing the cable channel's transformation from MTV's slightly befuddled sister network into a force in its own right. He calls himself a dictator for insisting that everything the network does 'be about music, whether it's the intimate new Storytellers series on songwriters or exhumed video of Madonna's debut on American Bandstand. Simple as that sounds, it wasn't a formula followed by Sykes' predecessors. "Over the years, it had kind of drifted from its original mission," Sykes says.

Truth be told, however, VH1 was rushed into existence in 1985 without "much of a mission, mainly just to "claim cable space after the success of MTV Sykgs was there at the start of bothjnetworks. Just out of Syracuse University in 1980, he was hired by Bob Pittman to 3ielp develop MTV He was intrigued by the idea of combining his two loves: music and television. But after working at MTV for seven years, he drifted elsewhere becoming a manager for Creative Artists Agency, running Chrysalis Records and working for EMI Music" Sykes took over VH1, which is owned by the same parent company as MTV, in 1994. Aijhe time, VH1 was a bit of a chameleon. It showed some videos, some stand-up comedy and some reruns.

But in a cable-television world where claiming a specific niche is important, it had little to make it unique. VH1 was designed as a station for people who have outgrown MTV but tstill love music, but that can be a difficult concept to rally behind. Who, after all, wants to admit that they've outgrown anything? A Sykes, however, embraced the idea. At age 41, with CDs littering his office with the Times Square view, he typifies his target audience. He's programming for the same people who turned on MTV in its infancy 15 years earlier, he said.

He also arrived at a time when that original audience was searching for something different because MTV's concentration on rap and alternative rock had left many former fans disenfranchised. Unlike MTV, VH1 kept up with the careers of such veterans as Sting and Mellencamp when they were abandoned by MTV, and it championed Melissa Etheridge, Joan Osborne, Counting Crows and Hootie the Blowfish when they had few other outlets. "My goal was to make it mass appeal," Sykes said. "MTV does a fine job on the cutting edge." VHl's growing influence in the music world explains why Sykes was able to persuade Henley and Mellencamp, to fly to Denver last month to protest a decision by financially troubled TCI, the nation's largest cable operator, to knock VH1 off the air in 62 markets early this year. Even more impressive: TCI backed down the morning of the news conference.

Before Sykes signed on, the music industry had a widespread perception that "MTV was cool and VH1 was not," said David Sonen-berg, manager of Osborne and the Fugees. Sykes gave VH1 rock-and-roll credibility, and the network's support was crucial to Osborne's success, Sonenberg said. "There's a sense of style to it that is fun and truthful," said Judy McGrath, MTV's president. "It's not like MTV it has its own thing. It's not 'MTV light' anymore." MpBHe)HajMBjBanMv Mil liiik illJE ME Movie 144129 The Tuskegee Airmen 95) 'PG13' 441939 Deliver Them From Evil 559465 Movie 167465 Reckless Kelly ('93) 'PG'e 113552 HBO Perfect Alibi 94) Teri Garr, Hector Elizondo.

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6 a.m. Good Morning Arizona: Jewels; Snow Bowl Ski Resort; potbellied pigs; unclogging drains. 7 a.m. This Morning: Restoration of Grand Central Station. KTJ Today: Personal finances; fitness.

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