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10A Monday, Septemlair 15. 19H6 THE MOMITQft UM.U. Valley TV station could face tliird ownership change Arts ILennfliLe effort to nullify that portion of the agreement," he said "We have every intention to abide by the representation made in the application process Waydorf, however, warned that the FCC license application process is time consuming and it could be years before a final decision Mi reached. "Balcone still remains a very speculative venture." he Mid "We could be dealing with many yeur down the road before any divestiture come into play." Channel 23 minority owner are local attorney Sheldon Weiitfcld, who ia also Goldberg' nephew, and Houston media broker Kamin, according to FCC documents. Both declined to comment on the possibility of losing Goldlierg a an investor in the station or on a search for potential investors to replace him.

"1 don't think that I the now," Weisfeld uid. "It is riot a problem yet If Goldberg is forced to divest hi interest in Chan Balcone Broadcasting Ltd It has three stockholder-. Oliveira. who will be the station' general manager: Ediha Paz Goldlierg. Goldberg's daughter-in-law: and Edna Ramon, currently on the staff of Texa Attorney General Jim Mattox, FCC documents in Washington show, according to FCC researcher Callie Holder.

Goldberg has 34 percent ownership in Balcone Broadcasting Holder said. Channel 54, which ha the remaining 46 percent ownership in Balcone Broadcasting ia composed of three general partners and s.x limited partners. FCC record show The Channel 54 general partner are Burl Hand-cox, Ruby 1. Har.dcux and Noemi Correa. The firm hnuted partners are Tobin Armstrong.

Partnership, Samuel E. 8arhup. C. Carter, Thomas A Forbes and C. Patrick Oles.

Jr according to the FCC. but the decision ha been appealed by two of five unsuccessful applicants. It now is before the FCC Review Board, which already ha granted four extension on the time limit to file initial appeal bnefs, attorney Ways-dorf said. Balcone Broadcasting Ltd. is in the process of negotiating with the unsuccessful candidate to try to avoid a lengthy appeals process, Waysdorf said.

"We continue to try to work out settlement in that case," he said. "I certainly am (optimistic) that most of the parties do want to settle." Balcone Broadcasting Ltd. ia made up of one general partner, the Balcone Broadcasting and two limited partners Goldberg and a group called Channel 54, according to KX documents. A general partner usually take an active role in administration, while a limited partner often puta up the investment capital Balcone Broadcasting Co. has 20 percent ownership of nel 23.

the embattled station will face third change in ownership KVKOTV first went on the air in JH a an NBC affiliate, owned by Tierra del Sol Broadcasting Corp, a group of local investor. Bankruptcy proceedings were filed against the firm in 19H2 and Peter W. Dean, a top-ranking Tierra del Sol executive, committed suicide. Valley Broadcasting with Goldberg a the majority owner and Weisfeld and Kamin as minority owner, purchased Channel 23 for $7 6 million in 194, after two years in federal bankruptcy court Valley Broadcasting chunged ita name to Southwest Multimedia Brownsville Corp on Oee 30, 198.1, but retained the same three owners, according to records filed with the Texa Secretary of State's office and in an FCC ownership report. In term of the Autin station, Oliveira and Goldlierg' Broadcasting td has obtained preliminary FCC license approval.

corporate decision to eliminate the new department. The station' hint newscast wa Friday. Oliveira and Goldberg are part of a coimortium of invev tor in Balcone Broaflc anting Ltd firm that ha obtained the first lage toward an eventual FCC license to operate Channel 54, an independent television latum, in A nut in To obtain that initial authorization, Goldberg agreed to divert himself of "all interest in and connection, with" KVKO TV "prior to commencement of Channel 54 in Austin, FCC record state. The concession wa made in a hearing before FCC Administrative Law Judge Chachkin on July 8. Goldberg refuHed to comment on the diveKtiture, but hi attorney, Richard Ways-dorf, eonfirmed that Guldlwrg will divest hi ownership in Channel 23, if Balcone Broadcasting Ltd.

i granted the final license for Channel 54. "We have not made any By ROBERTA SABO Monitor Business Writer BROWNSVILLE -KVKOTV Channel 23 may face yet another ownership change as a result of station manager Ron Oliveira' and majority owner Billy Goldberg' application to operate an Auntin television station, Federal Communication Commission record reveal. Oliveira cnlli-d part ownership in the Auntin station the "dream of my life," but warned it could take more than a year before that sta-tion receivea final FCC approval. Goldberg, former atate Democratic Party chairman and influential media magnate, ia principal owner of Channel 23. He would not have to divettt hi ownership in KVKOTV until the Aua-tin station receive the definitive FCC permit and ix ready to broadcat, FCC record a how.

Oliveira. formerly Channel 23 evening anchor and new director, recently received a promotion to KVF.O-TV'i station manager aa pnrt of a Film directors seeing red over Ted Turner's movie tinting HOLLYWOOD (AP) Film "director have reacted sharply to a move by Turner Broadcast- ing to colorize 100 movie classic shot in black and white, naying the proceta defaces the films' original artistic expression. "It is orocewi of dissembling the historical and artistic fabric of our landmarks," Directors Guild of America President Gilbert Cate said after receiving a committee letter calling Turner's plans "cultural butchery." Earlier this month. Turner Broadcasting System released a list of nre than 100 movies, including Casablanca, The MutUne t'aknn. Yankee Duutlfo Dandy and The Postman M-way King Twice, that it ha Mlilfciliir 923? (K3JD 0 tzazt tf 7 it path." Directors Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, Joe Dante and John Huston are among those against having color added to their film Dante called the color tampering "the death knell of an entire art form." Elliott Silverstem.

chainnan of the DCA committee, said destruction of the art form far outweighed the commercial value of residual from the movies' syndication and video-Cassette sale. "We're dealing with moral and professional issues here, not a commercial one," Silver-stein said "Determining the color that people wear, or what color the walls are and so on are major creative decisions," Allen said To have a group of people from the outside making those decision is crimmul and ludicrous." Color change the mood of black and white film, the director argue. It also subverts the original concepts and alters subtle lighting and shadowing technique. The color companies counter Coming this Sunday commissioned Color System Technology to computer-colorize Turner Broadcasting owns Cable New Network and WTBS, the Atlanta television station that i transmitted by Satellite system across the nation. The letter drawn up by 18 member of the guild president's committee urged that lb guild use "all resource at its disposal to stop this process in ADJACENT TO THE Mc ALLEN ATHLETIC CLUB 7K(3r.

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