Week of January 15, 1985

On the eve of his second term, Ronald Reagan builds a snowman with his

grandchildren, attends a private lunch and spends the evening at a gala featuring

Frank Sinatra.

Ronald Reagan takes the presidential oath of

office for a second term, but inside due to bitter

cold. The inaugural parade was canceled due to

the weather.

President Reagan launches his second term by

calling for a new American economic

“emancipation” as an artic freeze hits Washington.

He called on the nation to use the progress of his first term to “build an American

opportunity society in which all of us - white and black, rich and poor, young and

old - will go forward together arm in arm.”

President Reagan names Washington lawyer Max M. Kampeiman, a democrat,

to head a team of arms negotiators.

President Reagan, seeking to boister the government of President Jose

Napoleon Duarte will ask Congress for more than $172 million in additional aid

for El Salvador this year.

Sen. Alfonse D’Amato of New York said the he sympathized with

Bernhard Goetz, the man accused of shooting four teens on a New

York subway and would “be glad to testify that the subway is a

dangerous place inhabited by threatening thugs.

The Israeli Knesset kills a controversial bill aimed at narrowing the

legal definition of “who is a Jew” after Prime Minister Shimon Peres warned the

move would have insulted Jews around the world. . The 62-51 Parliament vote

ended at least temporarily a 15-year battle by the Orthodox religious lobby to

restrict the definition of a Jew to one born of a Jewish mother or converted by

Orthodox rabbis.

American’s disposable personal income rose a strong 6.8% in 1984 after

subtracting taxes and inflation - almost double that of 1983 and the best in more

than a decade.

Airlines are slashing fares in a major air war. Some up to 74%.

Week of January 15, 1985

Karel Soucek , the Canadian daredevil curled up

inside a specially designed barrel, plunges from

the roof of the Astrodome to his death before

35,000 spectators as the barrel missed the water

tank meant to cushion his fall. Soucked who last

July was the first person in 23 years to go over

Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls in a barrel, had

planned the 150-foot drop as part of a Thrill

Show and Destruction derby.

The U.S. Postal Service, seeking to ensure

adequate supplies of stamps when postage rates

rise Feb. 17, says it will issue stamps bearing the letter “D” and carrying no

denomination. The D stamps will be on sale starting Feb. 1, as will embossed

envelopes bearing the D postage designation. They will represent the new 22-

cent rate for first class letters.

Trends - Seen on milk cartons - faces of missing children as more and more

companies are jumping on the concept.

Technology - Some 9 million are using cordless telephones, but many don’t

know their transmissions are plain language and available to listeners if the tune

just above the AM radio dial - above 1600 khz. The phones have been around

several years.

Up 20% - IBM posts hits highest profit ever for any firm in quarter - earning a

record $2.17 billion on the final quarter of 1984.

Entertainment news -

A helicopter being used in filming of the TV series “Airwolf” crashes and burns on

a hillside north of Los Angeles, killing a stuntman and injuring the pilot.

Music news - VH-1 debuts - MTV Networks second

24-hour cable music channel is on the air (January 1).

According to Bob Pittman, MTV Networks executive vice

president, the launch of VH-1 saw the new service

carried by 215 cable systems - a total of 3.3 million

subscribers. The channel is for older music fans and

includes VJ’s who are star radio personalities - Don

Imus, Frankie Crocker and Scott Shannon. The fourth

is Sha Na Na’s Jon Bauman

Prince is on his “Purple Rain” tour.

Week of January 15, 1985

The compact disc is growing - Here’s a scorecard since its Spring/1983

debut -

1983 - about 350,000 players and 5.5 compact discs were sold.

1984 - about 850,000 players and 17 million compact discs were sold.

1985 predictions - 1.5 million+ players with 35 million compact discs sold.

Steve Casey who was fired as WLS-AM/FM operations director recently,

assumes the role of director of music programming for MTV’s new VH-1 channel.

Casey served as in what he called “the start-up crew” for MTV - from Oct. 1980

until the music channel’s debut in 1982.

Eddie Van Halen quote: “People say it’s tough to

make videos Well, we were watching a football game

on television, so I turned off the sound and put on a

Black Sabbath record, And it made perfect sense. My

road manager walked in, I told him it was the new

black Sabbath video, and he walked out believing me.”

Radio news -

Veteran top-40 DJ Dan Ingram joins WKTU-FM - New

York’s struggling top-40 station. Ingram left WABC

when it went talk in 1982 and has spent the interim

years working for HBO, doing voice-overs and hosting

CBS Radio’s “Top 40 Satellite Survey” which WKTU airs on Saturdays.

Meantime, Paco who had that shift, returns to Spanish WJIT-AM as music

director and afternoon drive man. Paco had established his U.S. career at the

AM station during his first run - 1970-1978, (When it was WHOM) and then

joined legendary “Disco 92” WKTU.

WMET Chicago (95.5) shifts from rock to adult contemporary.

Television news -

Found dead - Carol Wayne - the full-figured wide-eyed

blonde best-known as Johnny Carson’s matinee lady on

“The Tonight Show” for many years, is found drowned in the

Mexican resort of Manzanillo. Her second husband,

photographer Barry Feinstein said an autopsy disclosed she

had been drowned and she was last seen on the beach. She

could not swim. He body was found Sunday (Jan. 13). She

was married three times. Her most recent ex was TV

producer Burt Sugarman.

Week of January 15, 1985

CBS-TV’s “Alice” starring Linda Lavin ends production after

its 200 th episode. In the final show, Alice finally obtains her

fantasy. Mel sells the diner and she decides to take the

plunge and move to Nashville to join a country and Western

band.

CBS says it will not blacklist actor Stacy Keach, who plead

guilty to a cocaine charge and is serving a nine-month

sentence in a British prison. The network is thinking about

renewing his Mike Hammer series.

Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, in a hurried pre-dawn interview by new CBS

anchorwoman Phyllis George, is cut short while he tried to reassure cancer

victims that his Vitamin C treatment really works. He provided an initial response

to a widely reported Mayo Clinic study issued this week that found his theory

advocating large doses of Vitamin C as a cancer treatment to be ineffective.

Week of January 15, 1985

Monday night television -

CBS - My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn, (late night) Simon

and Simon

NBC - TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Movie, Tonight

ABC - Hardcastle and McCormick, Movie, Nightline

PBS - Wonderworks, American Playhouse

CBS two-minute “An American Portrait” features the story of Joseph Maddy,

music professor who fought for the inclusion of music in the public school

curriculum. Sarah Vaughan narrates. At 8:58pm.

ABC Movie - “Scandal Sheet” (1985) - Burt Lancaster, Lauren Hutton, Robert

Urich.

Week of January 15, 1985

Hot Hits -

Like a Virgin - Madonna

All I Need - Jack Wagner

You’re The Inspiration - Chicago

Easy Lover - Philip Bailey

I Want To Know What Love Is - foreigner

Run to You - Bryan Adams

The Wild Boys - Duran Duran

Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen

Sea of Love - Honeydrippers

Careless Whisper - Wham Feat. George

Michael

Cool It Now - New Edition

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Jamie - Ray Parker Jr.

Valotte - Julian Lennon

Neutron Dance - Pointer Sisters

I Would Die 4 U - Prince & The

Revolution

Solid - Ashford & Simpson

Method of Modern Love - Daryl Hall & John Oates

Understanding - Bog Seger & The Silver Bullet band

Out of Touch - Daryl Hall & John Oates

Top Rock Cuts -

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Call to the Heart - Giuffria

I Want To Know What Love Is -

Foreigner

The Old Man Down the Road - John

Fogerty

Do It Again - Kinks

Naughty Naughty - John Parr

It’s Only Love - Bryan Adams

Knocking At Your Back Door - Deep

Purple

Week of January 15, 1985

Hot video games -

Pitfall II

Centipede

Frogger

Donkey Kong

Kangaroo

Tarzan

Donkey Kong Jr.

Mario Brothers

Star Trek

O-Bert

Jungle Hunt

War Room

Top Black Hits -

Gotta Get You Home Tonight - Eugene

Wilde

Operator - Midnight Star

Treat Her Like a Lady -Temptations

Love Light in flight - Stevie Wonder

Misled - Kook & The Gang