Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
George Bush throws in the towel and ends his two-year run for
the presidency and instead, throws his support to Ronald
Reagan, the man who defeated him. “My overwhelming instinct
was to stay and fight, but you’ve got to be realistic. There is a
widespread perception that the campaign is over. As a result, it
has become increasingly difficult to raise the funds needed.”
Mt St. Helens stages its second largest eruption since last
week’s explosion. No deaths were reported, but several were injured in traffic
accidents. An ash cloud boiled up 8 miles in the latest eruption.
In Fort Wayne - Vernon Jordan Jr. - president of the National Urban League is
shot in the back as he stepped from a car on returning to a motel where he had
made a speech earlier. After 4 1/2 hours of surgery, his condition is described as
satisfactory.
The Supreme Court decides that federal narcotics agents do not violate the rights
of airline travelers when they stop those who appear suspicious and ask them to
submit to questioning.
The city of Boston kicks-off its 350th birthday. Over a million pack streets and
parks to watch a six-hour parade of tall ships - including “Old Ironsides.”
Beginning this week - the public can enter a building on Pennsylvania Ave in
Washington, DC and be able to listen to key Watergate tapes containing 21
conversations between Nixon and former aides. It’s the first time any Watergate
tapes are made available to the public. More will be added over time, topping
out to around 1000 tapes. Nixon is fighting the plan in court as a violation of his
rights “as well as the rights of the presidency.” A plan, authorized by Congress is
to make the tapes available at archives buildings in 11 other areas around the
country, including Chicago, Los Angles, Atlanta and the New York City area.
In an interview in Women’s Wear Daily -
Joan Kennedy
(43)
explains why she would be a better first lady than Rosalyn
Carter ... “I’m a very sophisticated lady. I just have so much
more going for me. And I can make so many more
contributions. It’s terrific if Rosalyn Carter wants to sit in on
policy meetings but I have talents and areas of expertise that
don’t lie in advising my husband on Afghanistan. Mrs Kennedy
recently received a master’s degree in education. Senator
Edward Kennedy trails Jimmy Carter for the presidential nomination.
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
The government reports that its economic forecasting index plunged a record
4.8% during April, providing dramatic evidence of the nation’s rapid decent into a
recession.
Two West Bank mayors who champion
the Palestinian cause are maimed when
their booby-trapped cars blow-up. PLO
chief
Yasser Arafat
says that Israel and
the U.S. are “fully responsible” for the
bombing attacks.
About 1000 Cubans, angry over delays in
their resettlement, battle state and
military police at the relocation center in
Ft Chaffee, Arkansas for several hours.
Up to 45 persons were injured and
several buildings were gutted by fire.
Former U.S. Atty Gen
Ramsey Clark
tells delegates
to the “Crimes of American” conference in Tehran
that he would be willing to exchange places with any
of the 53 American hostages if it would help resolve
the 200+ day standoff.
Senator Edward Kennedy and Republican Ronald
Reagan capture the California primary.
War Games? - The Pentagon reveals that military
officials increased the alert of strategic nuclear bombers and missiles briefly
when a computer problem caused a false alarm indicating a multiple-Soviet
Missile attack. No bombers were launched, although engines were started.
There was increased communication with missile crews but no weapons were
prepared for launch.
Caroline Kennedy graduates from Harvard this week.
Just released by Capitol Records - The
Beatles “Rarities” Includes such out-of-
print B-sides such as “Misery” and
“There’s A Place.”
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
The FCC issues its final order refusing to let RKO-
General Inc renew its license for three major market
television stations - KHJ-TV (channel 9) in Los Angeles,
WNAC (channel 7) in Boston and WOR-TV (channel 9) in
New York. Under the terms of the order, RKO was ordered
to cease its operation of the three stations at 12:01am July
4, unless RKO appeals the commission’s decision, which it
is certain to do.
MGM and CBS announce a joint venture for the worldwide marketing of
videodiscs and videocassettes, which would include MGM’s library of more than
1,600 films. The first videodiscs however, will be manufactured for the needle-in-
the-groove technology developed by RCA and scheduled for store sales next
year. MGM already has made available to RCA some 300 titles from its library
under a 4 1/2-year-old agreement. MGM is free to make deals with rival
videodisc technologies.
All-news CNN (Cable News Network) begins operations
this week. 2 million households will be able to see the new
channel at present. The brainchild of Ted Turner, owner of
superstation WTBS, CNN boasts an editorial staff of
around 200, with bureaus in six U.S. cities. On-air anchors
include
Daniel Schorr
- former CBS reporter, Dave Walker
and Lois Hart. CNN’s first-year budget is $30 million -
about a quarter what each network spends on their news.
The network says it needs about 8 million subs to break
even. Sears Roebuck, General Mills, Sharp Electronics Corp and Bristol-Myers
Co have already signed-on as sponsors.
It’s announced that
Garry Trudeau and Jane
Pauley
will be married June 14.
In sports - Kareem Abdul Kabbar gets his sixth
MVP award - the most of any pro basketball
player. Only Bill Russell comes close with 5.
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
At the French Open - Jimmy Connors is fined $1000 for the use of obscene
language.
The New York Mets select
Darryl Strawberry
as their No 1
choice in the regular draft phase. Strawberry - now 18 - is
from Southern California.
Bestsellers -
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
Random Winds - Belva Plain
The Spike - Arnaud de Borchgrave/Robert Moss
No Love Lost - Helen Van Slyke
The Ninja - Eric Van Lustbader
Princess Daisy - Judith Krantz
The Devil’s Alternative - Frederick Forsyth
Kane & Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Thy Neighbor’s Wife - Gay Talese
Will - G. Gordon Liddy
Anatomy Of An Illness - Norman Cousins
Men In Love - Nancy Friday
Free to Choose - Milton and Rose Friedman
Donahue - Phil Donahue & Co
The Real War - Richard Nixon
Daytime Emmy Awards this week:
Drama Series - “Guiding Light
Game or Audience Participation Show - “Hollywood Squares” and “The 20,000
Pyramid”
Talk, Service or Variety Show - “The
Phil
Donahue
Show”
Actor, Daytime Drama - Douglass Watson (as
Mackenzie Cary) - “Another World”
Actress, Daytime Drama - Judith Light (as Karen
Wolek) - “One Life to Live”
Supporting Actor - daytime Drama - Warren Burton
(as Eddie Dorrance) - “All My Children”
Supporting Actress - Daytime Drama - Francesca
James (as Kelly Cole) - “All My Children”
Host, Game or Audience Participation Show -
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Peter Marshall - the “Hollywood Squares”
Host - Talk, Service or Variety Series - Phil
Donahue - “The Phil Donahue Show”
Three men waving guns awaken actor Darrin McGavin and his wife, actress
Kathie Browne at 5:30 in the morning, and demand to be shown “where the
money is.” After being given about $200, the three fled with a television and
silverware. The trio entered the McGavins Coldwater Canyon home by forcing
open a sliding glass door and ransacked the lower level before awakening the
couple in their second floor bedroom.
MGM signs tenor Pavarotti to a picture deal. He’ll be making his film debut in a
romantic comedy called “Yes, Giorgio.”
Television rankings
The Jeffersons
Dallas
Alice
60 Minutes
The Dukes of Hazzard
Trapper John, MD
Three’s Company
Bob Hope’s All Star Comedy
Birthday Party
Taxi
Hart to Hart
The Great Smokey Roadblock
CHiPs
MASH
That’s Incredible
One Day At A Time
Movie - The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
More television news (news) - INN -
The Independent News
will
begin broadcasting June 9. Carried on 30 independent commercial
stations so far, it will become the first national newscast in prime
time. Originating from WPIX-TV (Channel 11) in New York City, the
half-hour broadcast will utilize that station’s local newscasters -
Steve Bosh
, Pat Harper and Bill Jorgenson. Many of the stations
are already linked from “Operation Prime Time” - which over the last several
years has produced movies and mini-series.
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Actor Lee Majors sues his estranged wife - actress Farrah Fawcett-Majors for
divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. They were separated last month.
Tommy Rettig (38) - the one-time child-star of “Lassie,” is one of four persons
arrested in a cocaine raid in Lake Arrowhead, CA. Rettig was booked for
investigation of operating a clandestine drug lab. His attorneys say they believe
there was insufficient evidence to file any charges.
Actress
Mariette Hartley
is named to co-host the
“Today” show when Jane Pauley goes on vacation for
three weeks next month. The show is #2 in the morning,
behind ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Wednesday Night Television
-
CBS - Movie (The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel)
NBC - Real People, Diff’rent Strokes, Bob Hope Special
ABC - Eight Is Enough, Charlie’s Angles, Vegas
PBS - Live From Lincoln Center
Real People - A school for wrestlers; a beauty contest for pigs; a man who
hypnotizes lobsters; a female barbershop quartet; a man who builds dinosaurs
using auto parts. Sarah Purcell, John Barbour, Skip Stephenson, Bryon Allen
host.
Eight Is Enough - Tom experiences a midlife crisis as his 50
th
birthday
approaches.
Bob Hope All-Star Comedy Birthday Party -
Loni Anderson,
Andy Gibb
, Diana Ross,
Randy Gardner & Tai Babilonia, Barbara
Mandrell.
Charlie’s Angels
- Jill turns up as the girl
friend of a socialite jewel thief who has so far
managed to elude the Angels
Thursday Night Television
-
CBS - News with Walter Cronkite, The
Waltons, Barnaby Jones, Bob Newhart Special
NBC News - John Chancellor/David Brinkley,
Buck Rogers In the 25
th
Century, Chevy Chase Special, NBC News Special
ABC News - Frank Reynolds, Mork & Mindy, Benson, Barney Miller, Semi-
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Touch, 20/20
Buck Rogers - A squadron of retired space marines joins the Directorate’s
campaign against pirates planning to attack the earth with nerve gas. Stars Gil
Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O’Connor.
Mork & Mindy - Mork finds he’s suddenly allergic to Mindy.
Barney Miller - A master thief is turned into a virtual zombie by neurosurgery
intended to alter criminal behavior.
Chevy Chase Special; “The National Humor Test” -
first shown last year. With
Pam Dawber,
Martin Mull
and Dr. Joyce Brothers.
Semi-Tough - Based on the 1977 Film - this is a four
part series following the misadventures of two
womanizing football players (Bruce McGill and David
Hasselhoff) and their roommate (Markie Post)
Pop music this week in 1980 -
FUNKYTOWN - Lipps, Inc.
CALL ME - Blondie
BIGGEST PART OF ME - Ambrosia
DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH A DREAMER - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
LOST IN LOVE - Air Supply
CARS - Gary Numan
SEXY EYES - Dr. Hook
COMING UP - Paul McCartney
HURT SO BAD - Linda Ronstadt
THE ROSE - Bette Midler
RIDE LIKE THE WIND -
Christopher Cross
STOMP! - Brothers Johnson
BRASS IN POCKET (I’m Special) -
Pretenders
STEAL AWAY - Robbie Dupree
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
(pt. 2) - Pink Floyd
AGAINST THE WIND - Bob Seger
LITTLE JEANNIE - Elton John
I CAN’T HELP IT - Andy Gibb &
Olivia Newton-John
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
BREAKDOWN DEAD AHEAD - Boz Scaggs
LET’S GET SERIOUS - Jermaine Jackson
WITH YOU I’M BORN AGAIN - Billy Preston &
Syreeta
YOU MAY BE RIGHT - Billy Joel
SHE’S OUT OF MY LIFE - Michael Jackson
TRAIN IN VAIN (Stand By Me) - Clash
PILOT OF THE AIRWAVES - Charlie Dore
THE SEDUCTION (Love Theme) - James Last
Band
WONDERING WHERE THE LIONS ARE - Bruce
Cockburn
IT’S STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME - Billy Joe
SHOULD’VE NEVER LET YOU GO - Neil Sedaka & Dara Sedaka
LET ME LOVE YOU TONIGHT - Pure Prairie League
CUPID/I’VE LOVED YOU FOR A LONG
TIME - Spinners
HEART HOTELS - Dan Fogelberg
GEE WHIZ - Bernadette Peters
WE LIVE FOR LOVE - Pat Benatar
IT’S HARD TO BE HUMBLE - Mac
Davis
HEADED FOR A FALL - Firefall
TIRED OF TOEIN’ THE LINE - Rocky
Burnette
NEW ROMANCE (It’s A Mystery) -
Spider
LOVE STINKS - J. Geils Band
SHINING STAR - Manhattans
Top Country Single - My Heart -
Ronnie
Milsap
Top Albums -
Glass Houses - Billy Joel
Against The Wind - Bob Segar &
The Silver Bullet Band
Just One Night - Eric Clapton
Women and Children First - Van
Halen
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Go All The Way - The Isley Brothers
Mad Love - Linda Ronstadt
Pretenders - Pretenders
Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross
Mouth to Mouth - Lipps Inc
Light Up The Night - The Brothers Johnson.
More Albums -
One Eighty - Ambrosia
Gideon- Kenny Rogers/Kim Carnes
American Gigolo Soundtrack
Sometimes You Win - Dr Hook
Mad Love - Linda Ronstadt
McCartney 2 - Paul McCartney
After Midnight - Manhattans
21 at 33 - Elton John
Extensions - Manhattan Transfer
After Dark - Andy Gibb/Olivia Newton
John
Soundtrack - The Rose
Lost In Love - Air Supply
The B-52’s - The B-52’s
London Calling - The Clash
Invisible Man’s Band - Invisible Man’s
Band
Ray, Goodman & Brown - Ray,
Goodman & Brown
Naturally - Leon Haywood
The Son Of Rock and Roll - Rocky
Burnette
At the movies -
The Empire Strikes Back
- Mark
Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher,
Billy Dee Willams, Anthony Daniels
Apocalypse Now -
Fame
The Nude Bomb
- Don Adams as
Maxwell Smart, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda
Fleming, Dana Elcar, Bill Dana
The Shining
- Jack Nicholson, Shelley
Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
The Long Riders
- David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, James
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
Keach, Stacy Keach, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid
Coal Miner’s Daughter
- Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D’Angelo,
Levon Helm
The Hollywood Nights
Friday the 13th
Slammer
All that Jazz
- Roy Schieder
Coal Miner’s Daughter -
Sissy Spacek
A Full Day’s Work
- Jacques Dufilho, Andre Galcon, Luce Marquand, Antoine
Marin
The Gong Show Movie
- Chuck Barris
Kramer vs. Kramer
-
Dustin Hoffman
, Meryl
Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
Kill or Be Killed
- James Ryan, Charlotte
Michelle, Norman Combes, Dane du Plessis
The Tin Drum
The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
- Martine
Beswicke, Adam West, Phil Silvers, Richard
Deacon, Edie Adams, Chris Lemmon
Radio news - The FCC votes to limit the coverage
of so-called “clear channel” AM stations to 750
miles. The restriction covers 25 clear channel
stations including KFI, Los Angeles, WCBS, WABC, WNBC in New York City,
WLS, WBBM and WMAQ, Chicago and WSM - the home of the Grand Ol’ Opry
in Nashville. These stations are “protected” so that their nighttime signals can be
heard in outlying areas, providing radio service to rural communities at night
where there was no radio service. The FCC modified the rules in the mid-40’s, to
allow new nighttime stations to operate on some of the channels, but the
distance between stations was far away (WABC- KOB, Albuquerque) and only
two operated (at the most) on one channel at night in the continental USA. Some
channels still remain clear, such as WCCO in Minneapolis and WSM, which can
still be picked-up thousands of miles away from Nashville on a clear channel.
The new rules will allow smaller stations to broadcast at night, thereby
“interfering” with the distant broadcasts. The FCC says it will make room for 125
more nighttime AM stations. Other stations with clear channel status - WSB -
Atlanta, WBAP - Ft Worth, WLW - Cincinnati, WJR - Detroit, KDKA - Pittsburgh,
KMOX - St Louis, WWWE - Cleveland, WHAM, Rochester, WCAU - Philadelphia,
WOAI - San Antonio, WHO - Des Moines, WOR - New York, WWL - New
Orleans, KSL - Salt Lake City, WBZ - Boston
Week of May 26-June 5, 1980
