The Daily Journal from Vineland, New Jersey • 5

Aug. 3, 1979 Vineland Timet Journal- Channel 65 Now Slated for January Debut Here ment, but only for a moment. Most of these things (delays and disappointments) have provided me with more understanding, a different insight. It is a growth process that we can use as we begin to develop television programs. We never lose; we always gain and people in New Jersey will be ultimately better off for it.

I'm going to proceed. We will have a television station in Vineland in But legal action would take time, perhaps as long as 10 years because he knows the case would be fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He does not have the money to fight and with Wometco on board, the alternative is too economically advantageous for him to pursue the network further, at least for now. The other networks are off the hook because CBSs signal out of Philadelphia is classified Grade A.

NBC has an affiliate, though weak, in Wildwood. In the meantime, Vineland residents continue to doubt. "I'll believe it when I see it," many say with skeptical pessimism. "I told you so" other said when McMeans' bid for network affiliation failed. McMeans cares little about the doubts, however.

Undaunted by so many disappointments already, he says, "I am a dreamer. I have no particular qualms about that. I may get discouraged for a mo McMeans' association with Wometco involves a lease agreement, one which the Renaissance Broadcasting president, insjsts is lucrative enough to permit him to provide the local programming he has worked hard to initiate. Only subscribers with a special receiver will be able to view the Womet-co programming, but nonsubscribers will receive the local programming during pre-prime television time, the same as they would if the network were affiliating. Wometco Who exactly is Wometco and can it compete with PRISM and Showtime subscription services already available here through a cable television network? Both McMeans and John Auld, executive vice president of Wometco Home Theater, are convinced Wometco will have little problem establishing a foothold throughout South Jersey.

In Vineland alone, only 35 percent of the households are served by cable television through which PRISM and Showtime are connected. Wometco is offered independently of any cable hookup and Auld also says that Wometco's film features are as many as four months ahead of releases to PRISM and Showtime. Auld goes on to say that Wometco is different in that it concentrates on offering more sports coverage including area games which are blacked out on regular television. Wometco Home Theater is a subsidiary of Wometco Enterprises, a wealthy Miami-based conglomerate which Auld describes as "a leisure-time company" managing several Florida entertainment centers and vending enterprises. Wometco Home Theater itself has achieved extraordinary success in North Jersey, growing at the rate of 1,000 new subscribers a week, Auld reports, adding that the company's expansion into South Jersey is expected to achieve a whole new outlet for growth, not only in southern New Jersey but also into Pennsylvania.

Renaissance Broadcasting and Channel 65 are exactly what Wometco has been looking for, Auld indicates, and the firm is willing to pay for it because no other outlet is available. Exactly how much, no one will say, but McMeans says the financial support is more than Renaissance would have received from network affiliation. McMeans says he is pleased with the way things have worked out. That is not to say, however, that he is not angry about the ABC turndown. ABC Insults N.J.

"It is a superb deal for us," McMeans told the Times Journal. "But I resisted it at first because people in New Jersey are already paying too much. Actually we pay twice, first for advertising that finances television programs and then with cable hookups because network signals are not strong enough. Everytime you buy a product that is advertised on television, you are paying for advertising. "I personally resent the network's position, not as president of Renaissance but as a citizen of New Jersey," McMeans continued.

"It is an insult." Comparing the networks to the domineering oil companies, McMeans says, "The issue is who has the power. The networks have become intrenched in their position. They don't care about the arguments." McMeans knows that with the support he has gotten from the FCC and the established facts of network affiliation elsewhere that he has a legal case against ABC. VINELANOSHOPCTR 69i iikt 3wce the Fri. EVERY SUMMER THE CREAM OF AMERICAN YOUTH GOES TO SUMMER CAMP-AND THE REST GO TO CAMP NORTHSTAR.

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ithe Concorde evade attacl, 1 (Continued from Page 1) steady income to provide the local programming he anticipated for South Jersey programming of the caliber that would give South Jersey an identity for the first time, something never achieved through the "stepchild" relationship it has had with Philadelphia and New York stations. ABC affiliation seemed a foregone conclusion. McMeans had the support and the legal arguments from the Federal Communications Commission. He had done his homework and had his fwn persuasive defense against any move to block affiliation. Nevertheless, McMeans lost and after three more long months of waiting, ABC said "No." McMeans is not a a man to give up, however.

And he is unwilling to wait any longer to get Channel 65 on the air. Already his hopes for an October air date have been dashed, but his second choice of Jan. 1, 1980 appears more realistic. Following today's contract signing with Wometco at offices in East Orange, McMeans expects all of his planning to fall into place. His option on property in East Vineland will be exercised and construction will begin.

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