The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 26

C-8 Wednesday November 6 1991 San Luis Obispo County (Calif) TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE Business Airwaves brawl: KADE-TV goes dark: Business people By Gardiner Harris Telegram-Tribune Once they got the station Whitten and her partners soon signed a deal with Riklis Broadcasting to sell it at a prearranged price after a few years had passed said John Huddy president of Riklis According to FCC regulations a station be sold for a profit until at least a year after it begins broadcasting Riklis also agreed to pay all of operating Mils until the sale was complete Huddy said He claims Riklis has given Community Media more than $1 million over the last year and a halt But Huddy contends Whitten's demands for operating cash grew too high so Riklis decided to exercise its right buy the station "To our utter astonishment they refused to Huddy said Unable to buy the station Riklis stopped making monthly operating payments Community Media then turned the station off shutting down a station is without precedent in Huddy said Whitten now living in San Diego said she blacked out KADE because of a business dispute with Riklis hope to have it settled and be back on the air as soon as Whitten said She refused further comment and referred questions to her Bay Area-based lawyer Teresa Chuh Chuh said Community agreements with Riklis have several clauses prohibiting any public discussion of the deals in trouble if he talked about them" Chuh said KADE-TVs offices in San Luis Obispo have been locked A security guard is stationed inside and is only allowing authorized employees in the building Steve Burrell general manager of Sonic Cable Television said he first found out about KADE-TVs blackout when he flipped his television on Saturday morning were quite surprised that they were off the Burrell said KADE-TVs abrupt closure has cost KADY-TV advertising revenue and reduced its ratings Huddy said "1 want to rattle any sabers at this Huddy said want to give the lawyers a chance to resolve this dispute and give Community Media a chance to explain where the hell all our money has Huddy is pessimistic however that the dispute can be easily resolved By blacking out the station Community Media has reduced the value ofKADJS-TV Huddy said and the prearranged price for the station could now be too high Burrell is also consulting attorneys to see whether KADE-TV by shutting down has violated its agreement with Sonic The owners of KADE-TV and KADY-TV are locked in a dispute that led KADE to shut down Friday blacking out the channel on televisions throughout the county KADE-TV broadcasts over UHF Channel 33 It is also carried by Sonic Cable Television (Channel 10) and by Comcast Cable Television in Santa Maria The station went on the air Jan 21 1990 after its owner Community Media Corp strode a deal to lease its programming time to Oxnard-based Riklis Broadcasting Corp the owners of KADY-TV Community Media gained its broadcast license after a nearly six-year battle that pitted it against 13 rivals in front of the Federal Communications Commission Alene Whitten the majority stockholder of Community Media said she her sister and several other partners had to go through several comparative hearings and appeals before gaining the license for the station Minorities and women are often given preferential treatment in these hearings according to Kenneth Cox a former FCC commissioner and a Washingtoniased media consultant Two of partners are female and one is a Mack male gives London squatters Loophole Business owners are helpless when professional gangs hijack their stores LONDON (AP) When Martin Barnett tried to open his Sofa Sleepers shop one weekend morning he said he get in He said squatters had moved in during the night renamed the store the Madhouse Superstore and began selling cheap T-shirts underwear and videos aggravation sickening and said Barnett who had two weeks left on his lease and was running a clearance sale when his shop was hijacked a couple of months ago plight is hardly unique Professional squatters have taken over empty or closing shops in places like Oxford Street main shopping street the fashionable King's Road in Chelsea and Edgeware Road where shop was located And because of a legal loophole such a practice is not considered criminal Allan Sayers chief executive of the British Shops and Stores Association says there have been as many as 30 professional squats at a time in London On a broader scale the Home Office believes there could be 60000 residential and professional squats in England and Wales according to a spokeswoman who identified in accordance with government practice She said she break out the number of professional squats Under a law enacted in 1977 squatting is criminal only if violence is used to take over a premises or if legitimate residents are prevented from living in their own home Otherwise squatting is a civil matter and professional squatters can stay in business for weeks while victims obtain a court injunction Associated Press' A London shopper walks by Madhouse Superstore set up by squatters who took over a sofa shop Future lawyer aided The Women Lawyers Association of San Luis Obispo awarded Michele Ann Stanwyck the $500 annual scholarship Stanwyck a former San Luis Obispo resident and graduate of University of California at Irvine is currently in her first year at UC Davis School of Law Her career goal is to be contemporary lawyer with a She plans to return to the area after graduation The WLA was founded in 1981 working locally and statewide to improve the status of women in law A it New hotel director The Cliffs at Shell Beach Hotel has selected John Reinacher as its new director of sales and marketing Reinacher will head marketing and promotions for the 166-room hoteL A Florida native Reinacher worked most recently at the Sheraton in Santa Barbara He and his wife Nina have two children it it Loan officer promoted: Commerce Bank announces Deborah Kelly as a new assistant vice president loan officer Kelly will specialize in commercial and personal loans at the bank's San Luis Obispo office Kelly joined the bank in 1988 as a loan secretary and served as a loan officer trainee prior to her recent promotion Kelly is an active member of the Club and other community groups it it it Dressing windows: Jean Cartier and Janet Young of The Window Affair recently attended the eighth annual Weston Window Coverings TTade Show in Las Vegas it it it New general manager Brian Talley the third-generation member of the Talley family to farm in the Arroyo Grande Valley has been appointed to the new position of general manager of Talley Vineyards Talley 25 was bom and raised in Arroyo Grande He has worked in the vegetable and vineyard farming operation for 13 years He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with degrees in history and economics He and his wife Alyson live in San Luis Obispo it it it Architect branches out: Garth Komreich recently opened an ar-chitectal firm in San Luis Obispo Komreich specializes in residential and commercial projects He has practiced in the area for 12 years working with Barry Williams Associates for five years He also taught classes at Cal Poly it it VIP broker Ken Taylor broker for Century 21 Filer Realtors Inc earned the Century 21 VIP relocation director professional designation Taylor completed a specific series of training courses offered by the Century 21 CareerTrak Training Program The program covers selling financing providing quality service business planning relocation and personal career management it it it Management conference: Bob Davis of Coast and CountyBetter Homes and Gardens recently attended the fourth annual Better Homes and Gardens Weston states management conference in Palm Springs More than 100 brokers and office managers from the west attended the two-day event it it it Your suggestions for items to be included in the Business Update and Business People columns are always welcome Send notices to Business Editor Telegram-Tribune 1321 Johnson Ave PO Box 112 San Luis Obispo CA 93406 Business Update is published on Fridays Business People on Wednesdays We are interested in items about new businesses new locations changes in officers and new products Notices should be in brief written form with your name and telephone GE chief meddled NEW YORK CAP) corporate parent complained about the coverage of the 1987 stock crash and asked it to stay away from such phrases as "Black says then-NBC News president Lawrence Grossman after the market plunged Electric Co chairman John Welch Jr told Grossman such phrases would people even more frightened about investing and lower the stock values even Grossman said BUYjSELL APPRAISALS 2011HiBrwdaf IfciPrf 12-4 Sat 103 STAMP a free ride Hie squatters brandish phony leases to cause confusion and delay said Police Superintendent Mite Hotson They have the electricity changed to their name and keep the prem ises manned 24 hours a day to prevent being dispossessed themselves added Harry Simmonds head of the Marble Arch Business Association Simmonds said have loudspeakers hiring gy day Of course no presenta: tkm Everything is slung in just shoddy In the case of the Madhouse Superstore a manager who refused to give her name denied the occupants were squatting trying to run a business just like anybody she said said In the third quarter output grevr 3 percent while hours rose 06 perceht That combination resulted in the 24 percent advance in productivity the first such rise in a year performance has mostly mirrored happened to the overall US economy for the past year while the nation has been nrired in recession 305 Apr 8125 mbjrot to chango John Reinacher sales and marketing director 8 Brian Talley managing Arroyo vineyard Michele Ann Stanwyck attorneys' scholarship Deborah Kelly promoted in banking number included All items are subject to editing and run at the discretion of the newspaper Compiled by Brenda Bradbury says newsman Grossman on Monday said that he told Welch "we were covering it the way we saw and he never passed the complaint on to reporters Grossman was NBC News president until 1988 when he was replaced by Michael Gartner Print the colors ol the rainbow Without spending a pot of gold 300dpi COLOR inkit prating -far much Ira thin you'd dunk DaUMMrraDNkM MMryMm 1422 Monterey St HEWLETT I PACKARD drug store chain loans its empty premises to charities that sell second-hand clothing said spokesman Martin Wakeling Squatters normally go after empty stores and recession has given them a wide choice Small independent shops in high traffic areas are the most vulnerable Believed to be operating in gangs squatters break into premises under the cover of darkness If there is stock in the store the squatters move it to the back room and quickly bring in their owns goods said Sally Collinson a spokeswoman for the Oxford Street Association normally cheap and cheerful clothing where you get 25 pairs of socks for a pound (around $175) that sort of she said US productivity climbed 24 in summer months Then they move on to their next squat In the United States police could move quickly to evict and prosecute squatters under criminal trespass laws "The time has come for the law to be Home Secretary Kenneth Baker told the House of Commons recently "The present law is not adequate to deal with The government is currently considering making more types of squatting criminal punishable by six months in prison and an $8600 fine The Property Managers Association however advocates speeding up the civil cases as a quicker solution according to Peter Young the president To keep out squatters the Boots hour of work rose at an annual rate of 24 percent the biggest advance since productivity increased 27 percent in the third quarter of 1988 the Labor Department said Increased productivity or getting each worker to do more for each hour of work is considered vital to improving 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