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Tl IE rnESNO OLE Friday July 6 1984 D9 being canceled by Channel 24 MTV signs pacts for exclusivity newscasts at various times during bis slay at the station the weekday news show that airs on Channel 24 at 5:30 pm will cease production as of Sept 15 The program consists mainly of national news items such as consumer tips health and dental advice from professionals and features on interesting people and places It is anchored by Channel Bob Long who gives the local-national news and introduces the national stories Local weathercasts are also featured By YARDENAARAR Associated Press Please Stand By writing and producing programs for other stars as he once did DAYTIME EMMYS We have had a number of calls from readers wanting to know how the Daytime Emmy Awards came out The awards are not broadcast anymore because the show's ratings were not good We don't have room to print all the winners but here are a few of them: ABCs "General was best daytime soap opera Mere Griffin's talk show was named best variety series and Griffin was also named best host of a variety series Best series for children was a tie between "Captain Kangaroo" and "Smurfs" Larry Bryggman of the World won as best actor in a soaper while Justin Deas of the same' series won for best actor in a supporting role Best actress in a soaper was Erika Slezak in Life to and best actress in a supporting trie was Judi Evans of Guiding Thicke is talking with producers Stephen Cannell ArTeam" and and Aaron Spelling and and several major movie studios about everything from long-term exclusive contracts to one-shot agreements The talk show host hopes to have his plans firmed up by the end of this month and to be on the air again by January The decision to drop the program was made by the producers Telepictures and Gannett Broadcasting and it was based on lack of interest on the part of stations in major markets to renew the program for a second season According to a Channel 24 spokesman "there was no support among the bigger markets Of the top 15 markets only three were willing to renew The other 12 were not willing to offer the producers good time The producers wanted the show to remain or be the lead-in to either local or national news shows In essence 12 of the bigger stations promise that time period For competitive reasons Channel 24 would not say what the replacement for will be But the station spokesman said "we ruled out the possibility of it being a non-news If 24 goes with a non-news show that would leave Channel 30 with the only program in Fresno ALAN THICKE What now? Gary Collins of named best host of a talk show Best host of a game or participation show category went to Bob Barker of Price Is STAFF CHANGES Joel Cheatwood has been named acting news director over at Channel 28 (KMPH) He had been a news reporter-anchorman with the station for about eight months before the promotion Dick Carr is no longer with the station as executive news director Carr reportedly has gone into business in Ftesno Cheatwood attended Fresno State University from 1977-1981 and has lived here off and on for most of his life Before going to Channel 26 he worked for 18 months as an executive producer with KPIX-TV (Channel 5) in San Francisco Prior to that he winked for Channel 30 (KFSN) as news assignment editor and the Fresno Guide for two years as a general assignment reporter Carr has been working in broadcasting in the Fresno market for more than 20 years He started here with radio station KYNO and then moved to KFRE He was host of "Dialing for Dollars" on KFSN (Channel 30) tack in 1965 In January 1968 he went to work for radio station KMAK and then a year later he became host of "Dialing for movie and a staff announcer at KJEO (Channel 47) In April of 1969 he was named sports director In 1972 be became host of a talk show and weatherman on early news Carr left Fresno in 1975 for a job as sports director with a TV station in Portland Ore In 1979 he returned to this market and his job with Channel 26 In addition to his position as executive news director Carr also was an anchorman on The winners came as no surprise to some people It seems that a list of winners was released to the press and news wire 1 services hours before the awards presentation ceremony Anyone who picked up a copy of the afternoon edition of a New York newspaper knew the results in advance Lee Marksbury is a Bee 1 staff writer whose television column appears Sunday Wednesday and Friday WHAT NEXT FOR THICKE? Now that the syndicated talk show "Thicke of die has been canceled what is host Alan Thicke going to do for a job? There are reports that Thicke is considering job possibilities that range from starring in network made-for-TV movies and weekly dramatic series to SALE 34989 A Save $50 5450 BTU air conditioner with 90 EER and power saver control for energy efficiency 3 cool settings and 3 fan speeds Model 5124 Reg 39999 SALE 38999 Save $50 7500 BTU air conditioner with adjustable thermostat 87 EE JL With 2 cool settings 2 fan speeds Fits windows to 40 wide 15 high 5664 Reg 41999 LOS ANGELES want my MTV" chirps the popular rock video cable ad campaign But you necessarily need it to see happening in pop video these days From the mighty networks to tiny low-power stations television broadcasters are inundating viewers with a flood of shows featuring the video clips that have become almost a mandatory companion for every new record The shows vary widely in length and somewhat in format but collectively they have disproved once and for all the old notion that pop music and TV mix would say there are at least 200 shows out says Marc Rodriguez manager of video promotion for Capitol Records "It has been increasing progressively for the last two years swamped trying to help everybody that The biggest and best known commercial network entry is "Friday Night a labour show that NBC says is seen in 3 million to 4 million households every week CBS is not yet a player in the rock video game but ABC in June began a five-week trial run of a half-hour Friday night clip show called "ABC "Night Tracks" aired six hours on Fridays and seven hours Saturday cm Ted WTBS cable network claims viewers in 341000 households every week The show generally covers a broader spectrum of pop music than MTV which concentrates on rock to the exclusion of most rhythm blues mid country music There are also syndicated dip shows such as which takes a Top 30 approach "Solid and Gold which intersperse video with performances and which combines video and comedy In addition "almost every medium-sized city now has its own rock video Rodriguez said The shows are multiplying for two main reasons First MTV has shown decisively their popularity with younger viewers The channel is now thickly populated with ads aimed at the huge 12-to-34 year-old audience that tunes in at some point each week in 113 million households The ads contributed greatly to last financial turnaround for MTV which accumulated an enormous start-up debt following its inception in mid-1981 but in the last year has been showing profits on its day-to-day operations Video shows are also relatively cheap to produce major plus for the smaller programs Record companies which consider the clips a promotional expense supply them free of charge with two notable exceptions "Friday Night has been paying a total of about $1 million a year to use clips since its inception And newly profitable MTV in a move observers say all but precludes any serious head-to-head competition recently announced "exclusivity" agreements that will give it first crack at new videos by four record companies in exchange for cash payments Citing confidentiality clauses in the agreements MTV declined to give details or name the four companies saying only that together they supply 35 percent of the clips shown on MTV But industry sources and trade publications have identified the four companies as giant CBS Records RCA MCA and Geffen Records In the CBS agreement for example MTV reportedly paid 58 million for 30 exclusivity on 30 percent of the videos the company releases in the next two years Sources say MTV would be allowed to choose two-thirds of the videos in question Though MTV sources deny it observers say it is no coincidence the agreements were announced at the same time that parent Warner Amex Cable Communications filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public offering of some 5 million shares of MTV Networks Inc common stock "This insures (MTV) a steady supply of product and it also makes it difficult for cable operators to drop 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