Week of February 15, 1986
Ferdinand Marcos is proclaimed president of the
Philippines for six more years by the National
Assembly moments after ever opposition legislator
walked out in protest. The government’s final, but
contested count of an election marred by fraud,
violence and manipulation gave Marcos 10,807,197
votes and his opponent, Corazon Aquino, 9,291,716.
President Reagan said that election fraud and violence carried out primarily by
supporters of president Ferdinand Marcos had “called into question the ballot
count declaring hi a winner.
Corazon Aquino calls for boycotts but urges nonviolence
against Ferdinand Marcos’ questionable election victory.
President Ferdinand Marcos’ international isolation
intensifies as ambassadors from Western Europe indicate
that they plan to boycott his inaugural next week and said
they expect the United States will too.
The Philippine peso takes its biggest plunge in 15 years
(10.3%) as top businessmen quit as presidential advisers. Two pro-Marcos
banks report runs and stock prices of the country’s biggest manufactures fall in
the aftermath of President Marcos’ disputed election victory.
Johnson & Johnson announces that it no longer will produce or sell Tylenol
capsules - or any other over-the-counter medicine in capsule form - because it
cannot guarantee the products’ safety.
Plunging oil prices drive inflation at the wholesale level down .7% in January, the
biggest one-month decline in three years.
The oldest man in the world has died of heart failure at the age of 120. His name
was Shigechio Izumi of Japan.
Sports - Dodger pitcher Orel Hershiser becomes the first
baseball player this season to be awarded a $1 million salary by
an arbitrator. The Dodgers had offered him $600,000. Meantime
Fernando Valenzuela signs a three-year $5.5 million contract with
the Dodgers.
Week of February 15, 1986
Mike Tyson drops Jesse Ferguson in the fifth round of a heavyweight fight at
Troy, NY.
Entertainment news -
Seen on television - an anti-smoking commercial made by the
late Yul Brynner . “Now that I’m gone - I tell you, don’t smoke,
whatever you do. Just don’t smoke.” Brynner fought lung cancer
for several years and often told interviewers that he wanted to
leaven an anti-smoking campaign as his legacy.
Singer Dionne Warwick files a $30 million libel suit against the
Globe tabloid for a story claiming a jawbone disease is
destroying her face. She says she “does not suffer from any such disease.”
More than $92 million has been collected from last summer’s global Live Aid
concert telecasts and the British charity single by Band Aid that inspired the
event.
Passing - Dick James (65) (Feb. 1) who
made a fortune off of the songs of
Lennon-McCartney after setting up the
publishing firm Northern Songs to handle
their music. He followed up by signing
the then unknown songwriting duo of
Elton John and Bernie Taupin in 1967
and the start of a second fortune for his
company.
Radio news -
Doubleday Broadcasting is selling its last three radio stations - WHN, WAPP and
WAVA. Last year, Doubleday reached an agreement to sell four if its outlets -
WLLZ-Detroit, KDWB-AM/FM Minneapolis and KPKE Denver to Sillerman
Communications. Gary Stevens, former Doubleday broadcasting president, is
handling the brokering.
Radio programming consultant Bobby Hatrick, who ironically worked with some
of the Doubleday stations, is murdered in his St. Louis apartment. Authorities
believe it’s homosexual related.
Tommy Edwards, who left WLS-AM/FM after 14 years, is back - and is program
director of WKQX-FM (Q-101) in Chicago.
Week of February 15, 1986
Howard Stern moves to mornings from afternoons
at WXRK New York. Stern brings sidekick Robyn
Quivers and Steve Chaconis joins the crew from
Washington DC for sports. Jay Thomas was
dropped from WXRK mornings recently. Meg Griffin
segues from middays to the afternoon shift and DJ
Steve Jones as been let go. Stern’s salary is
reported to be $1 million a year.
Jeff Wyatt, the program director of WUSL (power
99) in Philadelphia, is now doing the same at KPWR Los Angeles. Also in LA -
KHJ-AM is dropping its “Car Radio” and changing calls to KRTH-AM with
“Smoking Oldies.”
Chicago - Bad-boy Steve Dahl , departed from WLS and heading back to WLUP,
ending a stormy 5-year relationship with WLS.
Washington -WWDC-FM morning jock Doug Tracht
(aka the Greaseman) gets in trouble for suggesting on
his show that the Martin Luther King Jr.
birthday/holiday was cause for a vacation day, then
killing “four more” would result in getting the rest of
the week off.
Television news -
CBS says “West 57 th ” newsmagazine series will return
to its primetime schedule the week of April 21, after
the regular season of “60 Minutes” ends. Premiering
last August, it had a 6-week tryout and got low-
average ratings.
HBO unveils plans to test its third national pay channel, “ Festival .” HBO hopes
the channel will appeal to viewers who earlier have opted not to subscribe to
cable TV or subscribe to only basic cable and not pay-TV channels. “Festival” will
feature classic older movies, critically acclaimed current releases, popular foreign
films and some original entertainment programs. HBO currently has about 15
million paying subscribers and sister Cinemax has about 4 million.
On Saturday Night Live this week - Model Jerry Hall
and singer Mick Jagger with musical guests Stevie
Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
Week of February 15, 1986
Tuesday night television -
CBS - Trapper John, MD, Movie
NBC - The A-Team, Academy of Country Music’s 20 th Anniversary Reunion,
Remington Steele, Tonight Show
ABC - Who’s The Boss? Growing Pains, Moonlighting, Spenser for Hire,
Nightline
PBS - Nova, Frontline
Disney - This Is Your Life Donald Duck, Movie, Disney’s Legends and Heroes
Tonight Show - Guests are Barry White, Pia
Zadora and Jon Cryer.
Top Rock Albums Cuts -
All The King’s Horses - The Firm
These Dreams - Heart
What You Need - INXS
Sanctify Yourself - Simple Minds
Stages - Z Top
Sterotomy - Alan Parson’s Project
This Could Be The Night - Loverboy
Your Love - The Outfield
Lying - Peter Frampton
Day by day - The Hooters
All I Need Is A Miracle - Mike & The Mechanics
Top Country -
You Can Dream of Me - Steve Wariner
There’s Not Stopping Your Heart - Marie Osmond
I Could Get Used To You - Exile
Think About Love -Dolly Parton
The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song) - George
Jones
Fast Lanes & Country roads - Barbara Mandrell
Come On In (You Did The Best You Could) - Oak Ridge
Boys
Please Be Love - Mark Gray
What’s A Memory Like You (Doing In A Love Like This) - John Schneider
Oklahoma Borderline - Vince Gill
Week of February 15, 1986
Top Hits In Britain -
When the Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean
Only Love - Nana Mouskouri
Borderline - Madonna
The Sun Always Shines On TV - A-Ha
System Addict - Five Star
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
The Phantom of the Opera - Sarah Brightman & Steve
Harley
Suspicious Minds - Fine Young Cannibals
Sanctify Yourself - Simple Minds
Living in America - James Brown
Hot Hits -
How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Burning Heart - Survivor
When The Going Gets Tough - Billy Ocean
I’m Your Man - Wham!
That’s What Friends Are For - Dionne & Friends
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade
Sara - Starship
Conga - Miami Sound Machine
Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
Silent Running - Mike & The Mechanics
Spies Like Us - Paul McCartney
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
Go Home - Stevie Wonder
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Talk To Me - Stevie Nicks
The Sun Always Shines On TV - A-Ha
Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
These Dreams - Heart
Top Albums -
Promise - Sade
Welcome to the Real World - Mr. Mister
The Broadway Album - Barbra Streisand
Heart - Heart
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Knee Deep in the Hoopla - Starship
Week of February 15, 1986
Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp
Afterburner - ZZ Top
Rocky IV - Soundtrack
Rock a Little - Stevie Nicks
Miami Vice - Soundtrack
Friends - Dionne Warwick
Once Upon A Time - Simple Minds
In Square Circle - Stevie Wonder
The Dream of the Blue turtles - sting
Meeting in the Ladies Room - Klymaxx
White Nights - Soundtrack
Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Here’s To Future Days - Thompson
Twins
Greatest Hits - The Cars
The Dream Academy - The Dream
Academy
No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
At the movies -
The Best of Times
Dream Lover
Down and Out In Beverly Hills
Iron Eagle
Nightmare On Elm Street
Quicksilver
Delta Force
Wildcats