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THE KANHA8 CITY STAR Wednesday March 8 8008 8 BUSINESS wwwktttiNaNcllycom NETWORK: Tointlv owned CW names KCWE At present the entire My Network TV lineup consists of two English' language based on the popular Spanish-language soap operas which will air nightly for 13 weeks What will follow that is guess Nonetheless Fox is aggressively marketing My Network TV to stations besides the ones it owns Fox asking for reverse compensation and is offering affiliates more local commercial time to sell than is typical in a network-affiliate agreement 1 KSMO is expected to compete fbf a My Network TV affiliation with-Kansas other independent commercial station KMCI-TV The owned by EW Scripps Co Aaron Barnhart cun be reached through his Web site TVBamcom should be paying the networks for shows because they increase the value of the stations However that logic faltered after the Sinclair deal 1 recause The ratings never improved It slipped behind UPN into sixth place overall seventh place if ratings for Spanish-language Unl-vision are counted and it continued to lose money The WB and UPN bled an estimated $11 billion combined since both signed on in 1995 Unlike the two networks it is replacing The CW is expected to begin and stay in the black Black believes that Hearst agreed to pay reverse compensation as part of its offer to The CW Godsey and Hearst spokesman Tom Campo would not comment on that citing a confidentiality clause in the affiliation deal Godsey did say it was a long-term agreement Continued from C-l wait to get started" said Wayne Cktdsey KMBC-KCWE general manager The local front-runner to sign with The CW had been Meredith Corp since it owns the (CBS affiliate KCTV) and the (WB affiliate KSMO) stations in town KCTV-KSMO general manager Kirk Black said his company fell out of the running early He said stations in each market were presented with a questionnaire by CW management The questions on the form Black said immediately raised doubts about whether a relationship with the new network was going to be financially workable for Meredith had a different of opinion over what constituted a good deal" Black said The announcement brought to 37 the number of markets where The CW has signed affiliation agreements and more are expected to be added later this week Hie remaining tune in this round of affiliate musical chairs will be played by News Corp the owner of Fax In response to the CW announcement Fox announced a new service called My Network TV that will begin offering prime-time programming to stations this fall My Network TV is seen as a defensive move by Fox which will have 11 blg-dty stations this fall suddenly without network affiliation In those markets Fox already knows Its UPN stations become CW affiliates because Tribune Co also has stations there Tribune was awarded CW franchises in exchange for agreeing to divest its minority stake in The WB of irony to it In 1998 the station was known as KCWB and was Kansas City's WB affiliate Back then The WB was perceived to be the hotter of the two networks SlnHnlr Broadcast Group then owner of KSMO signed a longterm multistation deal with The WB and snatched the affiliation away from KCWB Hearst signed with UPN and made a one-letter change to its call letters The Sinclair deal briefly brought into vogue a term that has been revived by the CW announcement "reverse Under the traditional broadcast model networks pay local stations to air their programs In exchange networks keep most of the commercial time during the valuable prime time hours Reverse compensation is based on the principle that stations While Godsey say that Hearst wanted CW affiliation more he made it clear that it was preferable to going without a network elevision stations are more valuable affiliated than not" he said The CW has the best of both (WB and UPN shows) The national advertising agencies say they are expecting a double-digit increase in The people who will be selling his ads locally seemed to concur have a very HAPPY and EXCITED sales KCWE sales manager Shannon Hart e-mailed Godsey shortly after the announcement "I know why they decided to take us to the altar" Godsey said of The CW because one of the only stations in the country with in the call That happenstance has a kernel FASTOW: Defense will attack witness More Freedom I From Glasses transactions Some legal experts had recently suggested that given the success thus far prosecutors call Fastow as a witness because he was so closely involved in the fraud at Enron and benefited from the off-balance-sheet partnerships He pocketed $60 million from the partnerships and sales of Enron stock A central tenet of and defense is that Fastow masterminded most of the wrongdoing at Enron and misled his bosses about his activities Defense lawyers intend to vigorously attack credibility and the deal he reached with prosecutors in which he has pleaded guilty and agreed to a prison sentence that could total 10 years Other experts said prosecutors had to call Fastow to the stand precisely because the defense was trying to pin much of the blame on him for the fraud at Enron If the government did not call him the defense could still have done so Gri-at vision should last a lifetime even after cataract surgery Medicare now allows access to the latest replacement lenses so you can enjoy more freedom from glasses during the excitincj years ahead Call Hunkeler Eye Institute to schedule a consultation and learn more Continued from C-l Lay was chief executive officer and chairman and Skilling was chief operating officer when the partnerships were formed in 1999 At one board meeting a director wondered out loud about the and great Enron could face if information about the partnerships became public describing it as Wall Street Journal testified Fastow 44 who reached a plea bargain with prosecutors on charges against him At the same meeting another director raised questions about the propriety of personally profiting from LJM1 he was guaranteed $800000 a year from the partnership regardless of how it performed financially But Fastow asserted that Skilling came to his defense saying Fastow has put $1 million into the game He should get profits because he has skin in the The board approved LJM1 which also had $15 million from outside investors in early 1999 Later that year Fastow testified Skilling encouraged him in his efforts to create LJM2 for which he would eventually raise a total of $386 million Fastow earned $8 million in fees from the second partnership and was entitled to 20 percent of the profits me as much juice as you Fastow recalled Skilling saying were using the equity to juice Fastow added report as much earnings as we Fastow follows a parade of former Enron executives who under questioning from the prosecution have presented crucial and damaging testimony against the two former top executives particularly Skilling In its sixth week the trial is the culmination of a four-year federal investigation into the failure of and fraud at Enron and is widely thought to be one of the most significant white-collar criminal prosecutions ever undertaken Through most of his testimony Fastow spoke in a strong clear voice He-did grow emotional when describing how he had misled his wife she served a year in prison for signing a tax return that foiled to declare her illegal kick-backs as income Prosecutors projected previously undisclosed documents on a screen and listed the benefits of the off-balance-sheet partnerships to Enron keeping projects off balance sheet for long periods of time and hastening certain wwwhunkelercom 8007523937 8169314733 HUNKELER EYE INSTITUTE pa Recognized Nationally Recommended Locally ftkl Advertixement kl Advertisement (A Hiaith Tauc is pxoducid xyths AdvbrtisingSpkiai Projects Djpaotmint or Th Kamim Crrv Stajl China exports help US official says BACK PAIN BREAKTHROUGH Low back pain is keeping me from liv-Ve ing my life the way I want What most people consider normal 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