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OPENS FRIDAY METRO ESCORT SERVICE Dir. el frnit low, Inc.) HAS WELL-SCREENED, INTELLIGENT, PERSONABLE ESCORTS Mailable 541-3080 DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY. MARCH 10, 1983 1 23 ON staff blames fall on Channel 2 analysis ft jui Fri. Mar. 11 mm samm thru Sun.

Mar. 27 Tigers home games. Channel 20 consis How lo get a refund for ON converters When ON-TV ceases broadcast operations March 31, refunds on converter deposits will be available only at the company's offices, 1226 Rankin, Troy. ON-TV officials said subscribers should bring their converter boxes to the ON offices beginning April 1 from 9-5 and thereafter from 9-5 weekdays. The converter box will be exchanged for a $50 check, less any unpaid monthly service charges due ON-TV: Call 583-3000 weekdays 9-5 for more information.

Mike Duffy STATE FAIR COLISEUM Tickets at Box Office, CTC Outlets, Hudsons, Sears, Wards Mich. National Banks CALL NOW! (313) 366-6200 TOM SI-LLECK BESS' ARMSTRONG in High Road Tb China Fun and adventure at every turn. I pmiui nu" tently refused to give up extra air time. The Tiger games begin at 7:30 p.m., but ON-TV does not begin broadcasting on weeknights until 8 p.m. Games had to be joined in progress.

There is a provision in the ON-TV contract with Channel 20 that permits ON to request optional air time. It requires an advance notice of 30 days. "However, upon receiving this advance notice of requested sporting events, the plantiff (Channel 20) would typically respond with a refusal premised upon such things as necessity for showing 'Rhoda' reruns from 7 to 8 o'clock," Guy noted. ON-TV's Tuohey said the ability to show sporting events live from the start was crucial to ON's chances for survival. While Channel 20 has earned an estimated $1 million annually from its contract with the pay-TV service, ON-TV has invested $13 million and never made a profit, legal documents show.

Still, ON-TV may have died before its time, because, as one industry source claimed, "ON-TV (in Detroit) is absolutely unique in being so limited in air time." in town todayDSO 1 1 I CI Id Chi I to "SHfc DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with Jerzy Semkow conducting, 8 tonight, 8:30 Ford Auditorium. 567-1400, 9-5 weekdays. "HALF A LIFETIME," comedy, 8 5:30 and 9 2 and 7 BoarsHead Theatre, Center for the Arts, 425 S. Grand Lansing. 517-484-7805, 9-5 weekdays.

ERIK SMITH, WXYZ-TV broadcaster, discusses television news, 8 tonight, Oakland Community College, 27055 Orchard Lake Farmington Hills. SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN kicks off at 6:30 tonight and continues through Cobo Hall. 855-6000, 9-5 weekdays. "MORNING'S AT SEVEN" plays at 8:30 2 6 and 9:30 Meadow Brook Theatre, Oakland University, Rochester. 377-3300, 9-5 weekdays.

"THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG," musical comedy, 8 2 2 and 7 Birmingham Theatre. 644-3533, 10-8 weekdays. Reprinted from Wednesday's late editions By MIKE DUFFY Fre Press TV Critic Going out of business is never pretty. And in the aftermath of ON-TV's decision Monday to cease operations in Detroit March 31, there is ample ugliness to spread around. Rumors of the demise of the pay-TV service, which has leased air time from Channel 20 (WXON-TV) since 1979, have turned to fact.

ON-TV program director John Tuohey said Tuesday more than 200 company employes will be out of a job at month's end. And about 42,000 subscribers will lose movies, sports and entertainment they were willing to pay $22.50 a month to see. And Wednesday, IT-TV, another pay TV service, had a press conference to let everyone know it was still functioning and would welcome old ON subscribers. Was ON-TV poorly managed? Or was it merely the victim of added competition from other pay-TV services and the growth of cable TV in the metropolitan area? Or, as some sources at ON-TV hint rather bitterly, was ON-TV pressured out of business by its air-time landlord, Channel 20? -t "IT WAS a very unsatisfactory 3 12-year relationship," said Bill Wischman, ON-TV assistant general manager. Said anON staffer who asked anonymity: "They (Channel 20) were really bent on harming the business in its present form." Doug Johnson, vice-president of WXON-TV and son of station owner Aben Johnson, denied that.

"We weren't pressuring them," he said. He maintained the only reason ON-TV is dead is because it offers only interim technology. "Cable is coming on so strong in this area," Johnson said, It's very competitive." But more to the point is the final resolution of a breach of contract suit filed by Channel 20 in U.S. District Court here against ON-TV and its parent company, Chartwell Communications of Los Angeles, in 1980. (ON-TV Detroit is one of several similarly named, scrambled signal, pay-TV services owned by different and successful companies in Chicago, Portland, Miami, Dallas and Cincinnati.) Initially, a jury found ON-TV had indeed breached its 50-year contract signed in 1976 and awarded WXON $16 million in damages.

But Judge Ralph Guy overturned the jury's decision last year. And in his final opinion on the case Feb. 15, Judge Guy further granted ON-TV's motions for a judgment notwithstanding the jury's verdict. So ON won but not really. THAT'S BECAUSE Judge Guy refused to grant ON-TV's countersuit claims for $28 million and for a new AnvrmisfMrNT ADULT THEATRES ACCORDING TO several sources, ON-TV paid the second highest lease rate in the country (behind Los Angeles).

ON paid Channel 20 $845 an hour, one source said, and was willing to triple that rate to $2,000 for the extra air time. But Channel 20 said no and continued to turn down ON-TV offers to purchase the station for as much as $20 million, three times its supposed market value. One source said Aben Johnson was holding out for $40 million. 1 2 VIDEO 21220 lenkell Btwn. Lahser Burl Rd.

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