Week of March 15, 1980

You could be paying more interest on your credit cards under

President Carter’s anti-inflation program, outlined this week.

Expensive new fees may also be implemented by banks.

Acceding to the President’s request, the Federal Reserve

Board took steps to make it much more costly for lenders to

conduct their credit card operations. Banks could raise interest rates on cards,

impose a special “transaction” fee, charge a yearly fee for use of credit card, or

reduce lines of credit. Clearly, the new plan will make it harder for someone to

secure credit. To help curb credit, the Federal Reserve is forcing the lenders to

set aside $15 for every $100 in credit they extend to customers. The 15% set

aside must be deposited in a Federal Reserve Bank without interest

In a Gallup Poll survey - 63% support President Carter’s proposed boycott of the

Olympic Games in Moscow this summer.

Summer Olympic teams they “will not go to the 1980

Moscow Games and says he hopes to sponsor

alternative games ... Later, it’s announced that the U.S.

and 11 other nations will go ahead with plans for a world

sports festival for athletes who boycott the Moscow

Olympics. A spokesman said the events are not

intended as “counter-Olympics,” but will be held after the

Moscow Games next July and will not harm the “unitary

Olympic movement.”

It’s announced that the world’s rarest postage stamp -

the British Guiana stamp, will auctioned off next month. It’s octagonal in shape

and measures 1 1/4” wide

Illinois primary - here are the results:

Republican vote -

Reagan - 49%

Anderson - 36%

George Bush - 11%

Re. Philip M. Crane - 2%

Democratic vote -

Carter - 65%

Kennedy - 30%

Gov Jerry Brown (Calif) - 3%

Lyndon LaRouche - 2%

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Egypt will visit Washington for separate talks with President

Carter in April. Both leaders will be in Washington “to

review the progress and pace of autonomy negotiations for

the West Bank and Gaza.”

The Casablanca Record and FilmWorks no longer exists

as of this week. The PolyGram Group has formed a new

movie and television company with Casablanca chairman

Peter Guber. The new company will be called PolyGram Pictures. PolyGram’s

take-over of Casablanca began last month when the record division was

purchased.

14 Members of a U.S. Amateur Athletic Union team are among 87 killed as their

airliner attempted an emergency landing at Warsaw’s international airport in

Poland. The jetliner, on a flight from New York, reported trouble in one of its four

engines and was preparing to attempt an emergency landing on a foam-covered

runway at Warsaw’s domestic airport.

nightclothes in Wichita, KS after a bank next store

catches fire. Secret Service agents called her hotel room

about 4am “but, when my secretary opened the door,

smoked poured in. I knew then I couldn’t get dressed, but

I turned my suitcase upside down to find my slippers.”

Now that she has been charged with the murder of Dr

Herman Tarnower, Socialite Jean Harris is receiving

offers of money to tell her side of the story. The New York Post offered her close

to $25,000 for the exclusive rights to the story of the killing. Harris helped Dr

Tarnower write the “Scarsdale Diet” - the book that made him famous.

In sports - The Oakland Raiders officially announce that quarterback Kenny

Stabler has been traded to the Houston Oilers for quarterback Dan Pastorini

Cable-TV - ESPN expects to have their channel available to 4 million homes by

the end of the month. ESPN says that by 1985, an estimated 23 million homes

will be capable of receiving the channel. That may give it enough clout to

compete with CBS, NBC and ABC for bigger sporting events. ESPN was the

brainchild of its current board chairman, Bill Rasmussen. Employed in 1978, as a

play-by-play for the New England Whalers hockey team, he got the idea of an all-

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sports channel while being stuck in traffic. ESPN currently offers programs 98

hours each week and its goal is 24-hour programming 7 days per week. Getty Oil

purchased the channel last year for $10 million.

Radio news - Warner Brothers says it

won’t charge radio stations the $2 per

catalogue album it proposed earlier.

Previously, radio stations received

virtually unlimited quantities of records

free. Under the new guidelines, stations

would have continued to get free copies

of new product, but would have been

charged $2 for any LP more than 90

days old. A protest, sparked by a trade

publication, erroneously reported that

stations would only receive one copy of

each album. Radio stations constantly

need to replace worn records due to

airplay. Warner Brothers says it will go

back to the old policy effective immediately.

Deposed WABC morning man Harry Harrison is hired by WCBS-FM in New York

to become their new morning man. Harry was fired by WABC in November.

KLOS-FM morning man Frazier Smith guests on Tom Snyder’s “Tomorrow” show

this week. He’s honored as “one of the craziest DJ’s in America.”

Steve Dahl, who does mornings on WLUP-FM in

Chicago, is going to be syndicated beginning June

1. Dahl has created a legion of dedicated followers

with his anti-disco campaign and has ruffled the

feather of a number of “Establishment” figures with

his acid parodies and non-too-gentle satire.

Talk show host Bob Grant is returning to WMCA,

New York in April. He left the station several years

ago after his opinions disturbed large numbers of

people. He had been commuting to Philadelphia

and WWDB-FM on Saturdays. He’ll be teamed with

Janet Rose, late of WKTU-FM and daughter of former WMCA newsman Oscar

Rose (heard during the station’s goodguy heyday).

Week of March 15, 1980

Los Angeles radio ratings -

KABC - 6.5 (talk)

KMET-FM - 5.8 (album rock)

KJOI-FM 5.2 (beautiful music)

KBIG-FM - 5.0 (beautiful music)

KMPC - 3.1 (AC)

KNX-FM - 3.0 (mellow rock)

KRTH-FM - 3.8 (oldies)

KLAC - 3.8 (country)

KIIS-FM - 3.6 (disco)

KRLA - 3.3 (oldies)

KHJ-AM - 3.2 (top-40)

KFI - 2.6 (top-40)

KOST - 2.3 (beautiful music)

KUTE - 2.3 (disco)

KIQQ-FM - 2.2 (top-40)

KLOS-FM - 2.2 (album rock)

No KFWB, KNX all-news ratings at this time.

Top-40 WKBW-AM Buffalo declines in the ratings from a 14.0 to a 10.9.

In Chicago, top-40 WLS slips to a 5.3 from 6.2

In New York - WABC is steady at a 4.5. Rival WNBC is at a 4.0. WBLS-FM is on

top with a 7.5, followed by WKTU-FM with a 6.0.

in January to become the third largest

seller of cars in the United States -

behind GM and Ford. Their success in

the American car market has turned-out

to be more of a headache as they face

the decision of investing in U.S. production facilities or inviting protectionist curbs.

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co said it is offering a $100 check to any of its 69,500

employees and retirees in the United States who buy a new U.S. car in April. “By

purchasing a new car, you will play a direct role in aiding our nation’s economy

and make it personal contribution toward strengthening domestic automobile

sales, which in turn, strengthens our industry.” Firestone has suffered from the

decline in car sales, which has been blamed on rising gas prices and uncertainty

about fuel supplies. Main competitor Goodyear is also down.

NBC is ticked at ABC for not covering a live press conference from the President.

Said NBC - “We slipped our schedule back to accommodate the news

conference, CBS slipped its schedule back. How come ABC can’t slip its

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schedule - unless it’s a ploy to get ratings? ABC says it was motivated by a

sense of fairness and thought it could offer viewers a service by providing an

alternative time at which they could watch the news conference

70) - one of the most popular voices on radio in the

30’s and 40’s.

Passing - German Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, who

achieved worldwide fame as a follower of Sigmund

Freud. He was 80.

Actor John Travolta is tiring of giving interviews to the

press because most of the questions are negative.

“Why can’t they ever ask about positive things? Things never come out the way I

say them.” Travolta says he may never speak to the press again because “it isn’t

going to help my career anyway.”

Bestsellers -

Princess Daisy - Judith Krantz

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

The Devil’s Alternative - Frederick Forsyth

Who’s On First - William F. Buckley Jr.

Smiley’s People - John LeCarre

Moviola - Garson Kanin

Triple - Ken Follett

Portraits - Cynthia Freeman

The Brethren - Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong

My Many Years - Arthur Rubinstein

Free To Choose - Milton and Rose Friedman

Donahue - Phil Donahue & Co

White House Years - Henry Kissinger

The Pritikin Program For Diet and Exercise -

Nathan Pritikin

My Many Years - Arthur Rubinstein

Syndication - “Sha Na Na” - guest this week is the 5th Dimension

TV show rankings -

60 Minutes

The Dukes of Hazzard

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MASH

Alice

Real People

Dallas

Three’s Company

One Day At A Time

Diff’rent strokes

That’s Incredible

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Tuesday Night Television -

CBS - The White Shadow, Movie

NBC - Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, The Big Show, United States

ABC - Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three’s Company, Taxi, Hart to Hart

PBS - Nova, Mystery!

Perkins masquerades as a ghost

The Big Show - Dean Martin and

Marlette Hartley host with guests Joe

Namath, skater John Curry, Tanya

Tucker and Sister Sledge.

Three’s Company - John dresses in drag

to elude the cops.

Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd

Too Hot - Kool and the Gang

Working My Way Back To You - Spinners

On The Radio - Donna Summer

Ride Like The Wind - Christopher Cross

How Do I Make You - Linda Ronstadt

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

Him - Rupert Holmes

Call Me - Blondie

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Desire - Andy Gibb

Longer - Dan Fogleberg

The Second Time Around - Shalamar

September Morn - Neil Diamond

Yes I’m Ready - Teri DeSario

Fire Lake - Bob Seger

Three Times In Love - Tommy James

An American Dream - The Dirt Band

Lost In Love - Air Supply

What I Like About You - The Romantics

Pilot of the Airwaves - Charlie Dore

I Can’t Tell You Why - Eagles

Daydream Believer - Anne Murray

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Special Lady - Ray, Goodman & Brown

Refugee - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille

I Pledge My Love - Peaches & Herb

Deja Vu - Dionne Warwick

Top albums this week in 1980 -

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Mad Love - Linda Ronstadt

Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty

Fun and Games - Chuck Mangione

Phoenix - Dan Fogelberg

Against The Wind - Bob Segar

Glass Houses - Billy Joel

Bebe Le Strange - Heart

The Whispers - The Whispers

Other Albums -

Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

After Dark - Andy Gibb

Dancin’ and Lovin’ - Spinners

Mad Love - Linda Ronstadt

Phoenix - Dan Fogelburg

September Morn - Neil Diamond

Partners In Crime - Rupert Holmes

Moonlight Madness - Teri De Sario

On the Radio/Greatest Hits - Donna

Summer

Three Times In Love - Tommy

James

An American Dream - Dirt Band

Christopher Cross - Christopher

Cross

The Long Run - The Eagles

Romantics - The Romantics

One Voice - Barry Manilow

American Gigolo Soundtrack

Twice The Fire - Peaches and Herb

I’ll Always Love You - Anne Murray

Where To Know - Charlie Dore

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The Whispers - The Whispers

My Heroes Have Always Been

Cowboys - Willie Nelson

Why Don’t You Spend The Night -

Ronnie Milsap

I’d Love To lay You Down - Conway

Twitty

Daydream Believer - Anne Murray

Sugar Daddy -Bellamy Brothers

Lying Time Again - Mel Tillis

Fun and Games - Chuck Mangione

Top Soul -

And The Beat Goes On- Whispers

Special Lady - Ray Goodman &

Brown

Too Hot - Kool & The Gang

Stomp - Brothers Johnson

Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll - Vaughan Mason & Crew

The Second Time Around - Shalamar

continued without a finding until march 19, 1981

and is hit with $300 court costs near Boston.

Martino, whose record sales have hit 18 million,

was charged with stealing $81 worth of shirts and

socks from a department store December 19.

The Bee Gees are being sued in N.Y. Federal

Court by a composer who claims “How Deep is

Your Love” by Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb was

“copied largely” from “Let It End” - a copyrighted

composition of Ronald Selle.

“Earth and Sky.” It was suppose to be a “Crosby, Stills

and Nash” LP but says Nash - “things got a little crazy

between the three of us. So then Stills was out and it

and it was going to be a Crosby and Nash album. Then

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things to a little crazy between the two of us and I was left with all these songs.

There was nothing left for me to do but a sol album so that’s what I did.”

Leaveil Degree - member of “The Whispers” soul group and his brother Dale are

arrested for allegedly possessing about $300,000 worth of jewelry and gem

stones which disappeared in the theft of a Los Angeles mail delivery truck.

Casablanca Records is slowly going away - already cutting back in personnel;

the record company is closing its New York office.

At the movies -

Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector

Elizondo

McNichol

Harvey Keitel

George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard

Benjamin, Valerie Harper, Dom Deluise

Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton,

Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro

Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack,

Treat Williams

Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Barbara

Barrie

Meryl Streep

Lee Grant, Sara Stimson

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James Whitmore Jr.

Levon Helm

Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart

Flanders, Neville Brand

Winters