Week of July 15, 1980

Republican Convention in Detroit -

Ronald Reagan selects former U.N. Ambassador

George Bush to be his running mate after a

daylong effort failed to persuade former President

Gerald Ford to join him on the Republican ticket.

Gerald Ford says that negotiations on the

Republican vice presidential nomination broke

down because Ronald Reagan could not assure

him he would have “a meaningful job” if elected. “I

didn’t want a traditional job. I wanted a meaningful

job. I think the vice president with my background

and my experience, could have more than

traditional responsibilities as vice president.”

Ronald Reagan, accepting the Republican

presidential nomination says his No. 1

priority as President would be to assure

that the safety of Americans “cannot

successfully be threatened by a hostile

foreign power.” Regan accused President

Carter of weak, indecisive and incompetent

leadership and criticized his conduct of

foreign policy and held Carter directly

responsible for the American hostages in

Iran.

Free Enterprise - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government

announces that it will end the Post Office monopoly on carrying the mail, first

established by King Charles II in 1660.

An all-white criminal court jury acquits two Ku Klux Klansmen and convicts a third

on a reduced charge in the shotgun woundings of four black women outside a

downtown Chattanooga tavern.

A three-judge federal panel rules the U.S. military draft registration law

unconstitutional because it excludes women. The action halts registration of 4

million men scheduled to begin Monday

Week of July 15, 1980

Mid-west heat wave and Kansas City (MO) seems to be taking the brunt with 111

heat-related deaths so far.

Firing squads execute seven people in Iran, bringing to 12 the total shot in the

last two days. Included were five military officers convicted of planning to bomb

the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s home and overthrow his regime.

Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. decides to let the federal government

to forward with its plans to register more than 4 million men for the draft.

The Carter Administration, rejecting any tax cut plan, officially concedes that

there will be no balanced budget in fiscal 1981, but instead, a $30 billion deficit.

First ever held in a Communist country - The Moscow Olympic Games open in

Lenin Stadium. Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev opened the games with a

brief statement - “I declare open the Olympic games of 1980 celebrating the 22 nd

Olympiad of the modern era.”

Commerce Department reports that the nation’s GNP - the measure of output of

goods and services plunged at an annual rate of 9.1% from April through June,

matching the deepest quarterly decline during the 1974-1975 recession.

Iranian hostage Richard Queen arrives at Andrews Air Force

Base, saying - “I really can’t express with words, what it’s like

to be back in America.”

President Carter’s brother, Billy says the President personally

called him this month and advised him to make “a full

disclosure” of his controversial ties with the Libyan

government. He said the $220,000 he has received from the

radical government of Col. Moammar Kadafi is a “loan.”

More Billy Carter - Billy Carter says he now must find a

job to repay the $220,000 he borrowed from the Libyan

government. He said it was the first installment of a

$500,000 loan which was used to pay living expenses,

legal fees and the cost of his treatment for alcoholism. “I

spent all my time the past year in the drunk tank or the

grand jury” said Carter. He recently registered “under

protest” as a foreign agent in disclosing some details of his

Libyan activities in a settlement of a civil suit by the U.S. Justice Department.

Week of July 15, 1980

At Coraopolis (PA) Vic Belmonte, the son of a city councilman, firing a high-

powered rifle from his father’s hillside home, kills four neighbors and wounds a

fifth, then drove the 10 miles to state police headquarters and surrendered.

Lord Killanin, president of the International Olympic Committee, criticizes

President Carter and the White House on the eve of the opening of the

American-boycotted Moscow games, for lacking knowledge about international

sport.

RCA Corp. reports a 9.9% drip in second quarter net income in part, because of

NBC-TV’s layout for the Moscow Olympic coverage - at $16 million.

The price of gold falls to just above $600 an ounce.

Sports -

(American boycotted) - Summer Olympics in

Moscow - Romania’s Nadia Comaneci , sporting a

new hairdo but the same form that made her the

athletic world’s cover girl our years ago, scores a

perfect 10 on the balance beam and was in a dead

heat with the Soviet Union’s new star, Natalia

Shaposhnikova in the gymnastics competition at the

Moscow Olympics. Comaneci, star of the 1976

Games, has abandoned her pigtails and has taken

on a hairstyle much like Dorothy Hamill.

Reports that Billy Martin’s pone was tapped while he

was manager of the New York Yankees are called

“a lot of bull’ by Yankee manager Pat Kelly. That’s according to a new book by

Martin, accusing Yankee owner George Steinbrenner of monitoring Martin’s

phone calls and keeping a file on his private life.

Radio news -

Jimmy Fink, 10 years at WPLJ New York is fired for low

ratings. Tony Pigg moves into Fink’s midday slot from

evenings. Late nighter Carol Miller will move into Pigg’s 6p-

10p slot. “95.5 WPLJ New York’s Best Rock.”

Ratings - New York - Urban WBLS-FM moves from a 7.4 to 8.1 for first place.

WKTU-FM, which now identifies itself with a “progressive urban” format (no more

disco 92) finishes second place with a 6.7. WOR-AM (talk) declines to a 5.2

share. WABC has leveled off to a 4.5 share. WNBC is up to a 4.1. WPLJ-FM gets

Week of July 15, 1980

a 3.9 and rival WNEW-FM is at a 2.3. WNEW-AM (MOR) gets a 3.1 and WHN-

AM (country) gets a 2.5.

Ratings - Los Angeles - Rock KMET-FM goes down to a 4.9 share from a 5.8.

Rival KLOS-FM moves up from a 2.2 to a 2.4. KABC-AM (talk) is #1 with a 7.0.

Beautiful KBIG-FM gets a 5.7. Country KLAC-AM is up to a 4.2 form a 3.8.

KRLA-AM and KFI-AM, both contemporary music stations tie with a 3.8 share

each. KHJ slips from a 3.0 to a 2.2. KIIS-FM, which broadened its music playlist

from just disco is up down from a 3.6 to a 3.3.

This week - WABC-AM will carry four New York Yankees baseball games as

WINS-AM goes full coverage of the Republican convention. Is this the next

phrase for WABC? The Yankees/WINS contract is up after this season.

Week of July 15, 1980

Bob Coburn, former program director at rock WMET-FM Chicago, joins KLOS for

5p-9p. KLOS also features Frazier Smith mornings, Anita at 9a, followed by B.

Mitchel Reed at 1p and Joe Reilling at 9p.

Friendly Frost has sold New York’s WTFM (103.5) a beautiful music station to

Heftel and many believe the new owners are going rock. Lets see. Price was

$8.7 million.

Entertainment news -

Actor Peter Sellers (54) suffers a cardiac arrest and doctors treating him say he

is ‘gravely ill.”

All TV and movie productions in Hollywood are halted after some 60,000 actors

call a strike.

Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is now an actor. You can see

him in the comedy “Airplane.”

Music news -

Fights break out during Whiskey appearances on the Sunset Strip by the Dead

Kennedy’s - a punk group.

Casablanca Records and Rick’s music Inc, the

Casablanca publishing company sue singer

Donna Summer for $42 million and seek to

enjoin Summer from making a deal with David

Geffen and his new record label. The suit

contends that both Neil Bogart and his wife Joyce

- who also served as Summer’s manager, assert

they were forces in building Summer’s career. In

her January pleading against Bogart and her

husband Neil, Donna Summer charged she was mishandled.

Billy Squier says he doesn’t want to be labeled heavy metal and prefers to call

himself heavy rock.

Did you miss the Fourth of July Beach Boys concert at the Washington

Monument Mall? It was attended by nearly 500,000 and carried by several radio

stations.

Week of July 15, 1980

Entertainment -

Richard Burton , star in the revival of “Camelot” on

Broadway, answered the curtain call but left the Lincoln

Center stage within five minutes, complaining of pain,

dizziness and nausea.

Television news -

NBC says “The David Letterman Show” now three weeks

old, will be trimmed by one third - to 60 minutes. The

show finished at the bottom of the daytime ratings its first

week. “Wheel of Fortune,” a game show that had been scheduled to go off the

air, instead, will air in that extra half-hour.

Ann Murray guests on the syndicated “Muppet Show” this week.

George Bush need not apply - All three networks called it wrong. They all said

former President Gerald R. Ford would be the running mate of GOP presidential

nominee Ronald Reagan.

After seven years on “Happy Days” - Ronnie Howard is

leaving. He’s signed an agreement with NBC where he’ll

develop series and movies for the network through his

production company, Major H Productions. “Happy Days”

scripts will have to be written, as many for next year include

Howard’s character Richie Cunningham.

Saturday night - in place of SNL is a repeat of “Bob &

Ray, Jane, Laraine and Gilda.” The radio comedy team of

Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding recreate their memorable characters with the help

of Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman.

Debuting this week - “Good Time Harry” staring Ted Bessell.

Monday night television -

CBS - Flo, WKRP in Cincinnati, MASH, House Calls, Lou Grant

NBC - Little House on the Prairie, Movie, Tonight, Tomorrow

ABC - That’s Incredible, Movie

PBS - The Lathe of Heaven

That’s Incredible - A dentist cures pain with a clothespin.

Week of July 15, 1980

WKRP - Dr. Johnny Fever’s grown-up daughter pays a surprise visit.

Lou Grant - A source asks for money. Will Lou cut the check?

Top Hits in Britain -

Jump To The Beat - Stacy Lattisaw

Xanadu - Olivia Newton John

Use It Up Or Wear It Out - Odyssey

Crying - Don McLean

Funkytown - Lipps Inc.

My Way Of Thinking - UB40

Cupid - Spinners

Everybody‘s Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis

Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Simon Templer/Two Pints of Lager - Spiodgenssabounds

Hot Hits -

Little Jeannie - Elton John

It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me - Billy Joel

Shining Star - Manhattans

Coming Up - Paul McCartney

Steal Away - Robbie Dupree

Magic - Olivia Newton John

The Rose - Bette Midler

Cupid - The Spinners

Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League

Let’s Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson

Take Your Time - S.O.S. Band

One Fine Day - Carole King

In America - Charlie Daniels Band

I’m Alive - Electric Light Orchestra

Tired of Toein’ The Line - Rocky Burnette

More Love - Kim Carnes

Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones

Love The World Away - Kenny Rogers

All Night Long - Joe Walsh

Empire Strikes Back - Meco

Funky Town - Lipps Inc.

Misunderstanding - Genesis

Week of July 15, 1980

Let My Love Open The Door - Pete Townshend

Top Country -

Friday Night Blues - John Conlee

Bar Room Buddies - Merle Haggard and Clint Eastwood

It’s True Love - Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn

Dancin’ Cowboys - Bellamy Brothers

True Love Ways - Mickey Gilley

You Win Again - Charley Pride

Clyde - Waylon Jennings

Tennessee River - Alabama

Stand By Me - Mickey Gilley

The Blue Side - Crystal Gayle

Hot Albums This Week -

McCartney - Paul McCartney

Just One Night - Eric Clapton

Let’s Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson

Glass Houses - Billy Joel

Heroes - Commodores

Empty Glass - Pete Townshend

Urban Cowboy soundtrack

Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones

The Rose soundtrack

The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack

21 at 33 - Elton John

Duke - Genesis

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Diana - Diana Ross

Against The Wind - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet

Band

Off the Wall - Michael Jackson

One for the Road - The Kinks

Scream Dream - Ted Nugent

Mouth to Mouth - Lipps Inc.

The Game - Queen

Hold Out - Jackson Browne

Middle Man - Boz Scaggs

S.O.S. - The S.O.S. Band

After Midnight - Manhattans

Blues Brothers soundtrack

The Glow of Love - Change