Week of June 1, 1986

In a statement, the Soviet government says it will build up its own forces to

preserve strategic parity of the U.s. scraps SALT II, the never-ratified arms

limitation treaty of 1979.

The Senate, bowing to intense pressure from President Reagan, clears the way

for the sale of $265 million I missiles to Saudi Arabia.

Secretary of State George Shultz says that Americans should

stay and build and not cut and run - as the best way to prod

South Africa into ending apartheid.

The Pentagon says it will buy two Boeing 747 jumbo jets to

replace the Boeing 707’s used as Air Force One the presidential

aircraft. . McDonnell-Douglas had hoped its DC-10 would become the new White

House jetliner.

House Democrats say they will introduce legislation that would reverse President

Regan’s decision to abandon the 1979 strategic arms limitation treaty. Both sides

apparently are angry that Reagan failed to report by Feb. 1 on the treaty’s impact

on the Soviet nuclear arsenal as required by law.

President Reagan warns that “irreparable damage” to the country’s ability to hunt

down terrorists will be finished if “a handful of United States senators” succeed in

blocking a revised treaty that would simplify extradition of accused Irish terrorists

to Britain.

The Supreme Court raises the possibility that communities may be barred from

granting exclusive cable television franchises. The court ordered further hearings

in a dispute between Los Angeles and Preferred Communications Inc, a

company that was denied a franchise.

Sports - Dave Kingman tags Ron Guidry for a home run

with one out of the 9 th at Oakland, giving the A’s a 4-3 win

over the Yankees.

Job losses in oil and auto companies help push the

unemployment rate .2% to 7.2%.

Retail - Longtime Gimbals Department Stores are going out of business. The

once proud mark on 34 th and Broadway will be redeveloped.

Week of June 1, 1986

Trends - Aerobics in health clubs and individual health instructors. More and

more are getting into it.

Sports - Basketball - The Celtics are 3 wins and the Rockets with one win as the

NBA Championship goes into game 5. (But wait, the Rockets win game 5) with

game 6 being played back in Boston.

Radio news -

Killed - Bruce Wayne - KFI-in-the-sky traffic reporter is killed after his small

plane was taking off in Orange County. Wayne was about to file his first traffic

report of the day when the crash occurred. He was believed to be the senior

airborne radio reporter in the country; in two weeks, he would have celebrated

his 25 th anniversary on the job. Wayne was nominated to be honored with a star

in the Hollywood Walk of fame.

Wally Clark will resigns his post as president/general manager of Gannett

powerhouse KIIS-AM/FM on September to form his own consultancy. All outlets

in the growing Gannett chain will be his first clients. Clark joined KIIS in 1982

when the station had a 2.2 share and charged $37.5 per spot. KIIS now

commands $2.500 per spot and is a top billing radio station.

More LA - as Roger Barkley, long of KFI’s “Lohman and Barkley” joins KJOI-FM

for mornings.

Technology -

Sony Corp. publicly demonstrates home and auto digital audiotape (DAT)

record/player models at the Summer Consumer electronics Show in Chicago.

Sony says it plans to introduce DAT units in Japan this fall and in the U.S. by

1987.

Finial Technology of Sunnyvale has

developed a turntable that uses laser

beams to play vinyl LP records.

Suggested retail price is $2,500. The

technology promises no record wear

and some restoration of the vinyl,

since the needle only wears a small

portion of the groove. The laser can

get into other areas.

Record producer is credited with the

first commercial-studio application of

Dolby’s spectral-recording (SR) process, which made its U.S. debut last month.

Week of June 1, 1986

Music news - Touring - the Amnesty

International tour with Brian Adams and

others.

Three fourths of the original Monkees -

Davy, Micky and Peter have regrouped

for a 120-date North American tour.

Wham! Will play its farewell concert June

28 at London’s Wembley Stadium. It’s

billed as “Wham! The Final.”

Don Barnes, lead singer of 38 Special

says, “We want to be taken seriously and

not be seen as a Southern rock band.

We worked hard to get out of that

categorization. Southern rock is getting

dated.”

VH-1 which admits it has been having

difficulty in establishing its image and

attracting a strong audience since its

inception 16 months ago, is taking steps

to gain a greater audience and moving

away from its middle of the road formula.

So says new program director Lee

Masters

Criminal charges are filed against Eric

Boucher, leader of the Dead Kennedys

punk rock band and four others in

connection with an allegedly

pornographic poster packaged with the

san Francisco group’s most recent album

- “Frankenehrist.” The poster depicts in

clinical close-up 10 sets of male and

female genitals engaged in sexual acts.

Entertainment news -

Ted Turner, who acquired MGM less

than three months ago, will not be getting

into the MGM movie business, but

Week of June 1, 1986

instead, will end up with its movie library of 2.200 pictures. Thus, the studio itself

will be broken up. The 44-acre MGM studio property will be bought for $190

million by Lorimar-Telepictures, a major television firm that presently occupies

rented quarters on the lot. The MGM name and Leo the Lion log will go with its

motion picture and television production and distribution and home video

businesses for $300 million to United Artists Corp. Turner Broadcasting will keep

the MFM film library as a source of programming for its WTBS superstation.

HBO the nation’s largest pay-television company announces that it has signed a

five-year pact for the pay-TV rights of Warner Brothers movies.

“The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is named best musical and “I’m Not

Rappaport” is named best play at the 40 th annual Tony Awards.

Lily Tomlin won the best-actress award for he one-woman show,

“The search for signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.” Judd

Hirsch gets best actor for “I’m Not Rappaport.”

Television news -

With satellite feeds from the likes of HBO and others being scrambled, Dish

makers are finding sales down. The consumer is waiting to find out how much

descramblers and monthly fees will cost and sales are expected to drop by one-

third. At last year’s summer electronics show in Chicago, home satellite dishes

were a month the product stars with 40 companies. This year, only 30 showed.

Passing - Don MacLaughlin , one of the two original cast

members of “As The World Turns.” He was 79.

Sunday night television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder, She Wrote, the 40 th Annual Tony

Awards

NBC - Silver Spoons, Kissyfur, Amazing stories, Alfred Hitchcock Presents,

Movie

ABC - Special-The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt! Movie

PBS - Nature, Mystery!

MTV - John Lennon, The Young Ones, 120- Minutes

Kissyfur - Gator Floyd poses as a nanny to make

Kissyfur his next meal.

40 th Annual Tony Awards - Form the Minskoff

Theatre in New York. Guests include Debbie Allen,

Rex Smith, Helen Hayes, Lily Tomlin, Ben Vereen

and David Wayne.

Week of June 1, 1986

Top hits in Britain -

Holding Back The Years - Simply Red

Spirit in the Sky - doctor and the Medics

The Chicken Song - Spitting Image

Sledgehammer - peter Gabriel

On My Own - Patti Label & Michael

McDonald

Everybody Wants to Run the World -

tears for Fears

Lessons In Love - Level 42

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

Set Me Free - Jaki Graham

I Can’t wait - No Shooz

Can’t Get By Without You - Real Thing

Top albums this week -

Like a Rock - Bob Seger & The Silver

Bullet band

5150 - Van Halen

Whitney Houston

Control - Janet Jackson

Winner In You- Patti Labelle

Parade - Prince & The Revolution

Raised on radio - Journey

Play Deep - The Outfield

Please - Pet Shop Boys

Heat - Heart

Pretty in Pink - Soundtrack

Riptide - Robert Palmer

Love Zone - Billy Ocean

The Other Side of Life - Moody

Blues

Dirty Work - Rolling Stones

Falco 3 - Falco

Tuff Enuff - Fabulous

Thunderbirds

Brothers in Arms - Dire straits

Turbo - Judas Priest

World Machine - Level 42

Picture Book - Simply Red

Week of June 1, 1986

Strength in Numbers - 38 Special

Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp

Promise - Sade

Headed for the Future - Neil Diamond

Primitive Love - Miami Sound machine

The Jets

Different Light - Bangles

Hot Hits -

Live to Tell - Madonna

On My Own - Patti Labelle and Michael

McDonald

There’ll Be Sad Songs To Make You Cry

- Billy Ocean

I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz

A Different Corner - George Michael

Crush On You - The Jets

All I Need Is A Miracle - Mike & The

Mechanics

Something About You - Level 42

Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston

Holding Back the Tears - Simply Red

Who’s Johnny - El DeBarge

If You Leave - OMD

Nothin’ At All - Heart

Vienna Calling - Falco

I Wanna Be Cowboy - Boys Don’t Cry

Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds

Rain on the Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp

Move Away - Culture Club

Be Good To Yourself - Journey

Is It Love - Mister Mister

Top Rock Cuts -

S ledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

When the Heart Rules the Mind - GTR

Secret Separation - The Fixx

Invisible Touch - Genesis

Dreams - Van Halen

Touch and Go - Emerson, Lake and Powell

One Hit to the Body - Rolling Stones