Week of November 15, 1984

Historic salvage - Space shuttle Discovery returns tow wayward satellites to

earth, to the delight of a consortium of insurance companies. Later, the crew met

with President Reagan, who told the astronauts that the nation “is proud of what

you have done.” “You demonstrated that by putting man in space onboard

America’s space shuttle, we can work in space in ways that we never imagined

were possible.”

Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi tells 200,000 mourners at a

memorial rally that his mother, Indira Gandhi, was

assassinated in a conspiracy to weaken India.

A liquefied gas storage site explodes in Mexico City, killing

at lest 269.

McDonald’s celebrates a milestone, flipping a Quarter

Pounder onto a grill at a swank New York hotel and

designating it the 50-billionth burger sold by the fast-food

empire.

Josef Stalin’s daughter says she felt like a prisoner during 17 years as a defector

in “the so-called free world” and had decided on her own to return from the west

to rejoin he family.

Medical - Baby Fae , the month-old girl who was the

first infant to receive an animal heart transplant has

died. Loma Linda (CA) hospital spokesman Ed Wines

said the baboon heart that had been substituted for

the infant’s own damaged organ gradually failed,

despite efforts at closed cardiac massage. Dr.

Leonard Bailey, the surgeon who performed the

historic transplant pronounced the technique at least

a partial success and says he may attempt another

similar procedure.

Entertainment news -

Public Television’s Mister Rogers, declaring it “a beautiful day in your

neighborhood,” gives the Smithsonian Institution the red cardigan sweater he has

worn in 30 years of hosting one of America’s most enduring children’s programs.

The sweater was hand-knot by his late mother.

Week of November 15, 1984

Technology -

Eastman Kodak says it will enter the telecommunications market and will offer

voice and data communications services to business customers through a

network that the company had built over several years. Kodak has the network in

place, handling about 7 million long-distance calls annually.

Music news -

Olivia Newton John announces her engagement to actor

Matt Lattanzi . They will wed before the end of the year. She’s

36 and he’s 25. They met when both appeared in the movie

“Xanadu.” It will be the first marriage for both.

Music news -

For the record - Ted Turner’s Cable Music Channel began

operations Oct 26 with Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.,” First hour’s songs

included “I Just Called To Say I Love You,” Stevie Wonder, “Olympia,” Sergio

Mendes, “A Hard day’s Night,” The Beatles, “Let’s Go Crazy,” Prince and “Pride

In The Name Of Love,” - U2. Jeff Gonzer has resigned from KMET-FM to

become a part of Ted Turner’s Cable Music Channel. His new position has him

heard but not seen as a VJ on the new service.

Did you catch Elvira - Mistress of the Dark on MTV

Halloween night? Her “Movie macabre is now syndicated in

30 markets and is slated to enter the New York market in

early 1985. She carved a pumpkin with a chainsaw among

other things.

Universal Pictures and CBS Records are feuding over how

much the studio should pay for the use of three Bruce Springsteen songs in to

the movie “Mask” starring Cher as a lady biker and Eric Stoltz as her congenitally

disfigured son. The script calls for her son to listen to a lot of Springsteen

records. The movie uses “Badlands” during the opening credits and parts of “The

Promised Land” and “Thunder Road” later in the film. The studio offered

$200,000, a considerable sum, but CBS Records President Walter Yetnioff wants

more - a share of the movie’s home-video sales.

The Discovery Music Network should have a potential audience of almost 12

million by the time it goes on the air in January. Discovery will be getting its

audience by drastically altering its original plans, switching from trying to reach

viewers via cable TV and instead, getting to them via a national network of UHF

stations.

Week of November 15, 1984

Meantime, charter advertisers on Ted

Turner’s Cable Music Channel are said to

be “concerned and watchful,” but not

planning any major action against the new

24-hour music channel for overstating its

subscription roles by almost 90%. Cable

Music Channel original signed on 25 charter

advertisers before it began cablecasting on

Oct. 26. Half were “bonus” advertisers -

companies that received free sots on the

channel as bonuses for prior advertising

commitments to other TBS divisions.

Billy Squier maintains that his video for “Rock me Tonight,”

the first single off Squier’s current Capitol album, “signs of

Life,” is hurting his career. Squier contends that the video

undermined his credibility with the young male fans that

comprise his core constituency. He notes that they may have

been put off by the clip’s pop star pretensions or confused by

its apparent sexual ambiguity.

WKTU (New York) Program Director Neil Mcentyre notes

that certain rap records - “White Lines,” The Disco 3’s “Fat

Boys,” Run-D.M.C.’s “30 days,” and the melodic examples

Newcleus’ “Jam On It” and divine Sounds’ “What People Do For Money” are

being played.

MTV Networks Inc says its third quarter revenues were up about 10% over the

second quarter of this year, and, with total third quarter revenues standing at

$28.777 million - an increase of more than 116% over the same period in 1983.

Cost of the average music video these days - Between $30,000 and $40,000.

Television news -

HBO and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment form to acquire and distribute home-

video programming. To start - Thorn EMI/HBO will distribute videocassettes of 33

movies from Orion pictures.

Friday night television -

CBS - Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Falcon Crest

NBC - V, Hunter, Miami Vice, Tonight

ABC -Benson, Webster, Hawaiian Heat, Matt Houston, ABC Rocks

PBS - Washington Week, Wall Street Week

Week of November 15, 1984

Showtime - Rock of the 80’s

USA - Night Flight (Music videos)

Benson - Benson hires Klaus to be his executive aide.

Dallas - The Ewings and Barnes families face off at the Oil Barons Ball. Oh My!!

Tonight Show - Sammy Davis Jr. joins Johnny Carson.

Top Videocassette sales -

Romancing the Stone

Jane Fonda’s Workout

Making Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

Raiders of the Los Ark

Splash

1984 Summer Olympics

Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan

At the movies -

Razor Back

First Born

Places in the Heart

Garbo Talks

Amadeus

Soldier’s Story

Just the Way You Are

Night of the Comet

The Terminator

Missing In Action

All Of Me

Oh God You Devil

Teachers

Week of November 15, 1984

Radio news - Rick Carroll has decided to give up consulting. A lucrative deal

from KROQ made the decision a little easier.

WMCA New York talk personality Bob Grant , who holds the

4-7pm shift, will move to rival WABC. WMCA and Grant had

been negotiating his expired contract, so says WMCA

program director Jeanne Straus. “We were not displeased

either,” she says, noting that Grant’s program had slipped to

number 23 out of 39 shows in Arbitron’s summer ratings for

that shift.

Denise Oliver takes over the program director post at WYNY

New York.

Why? - KIQQ Los Angeles chooses “Get Nekked” as the pick hit of the week.

The artist is Rick Dees, whose KIIS-FM morning show is clobbering KIQQ.

WLS personalities Steve Dahl and Garry

Meier have been suspended. They made

some disparaging remarks about management.

Guy Zapoleon is moving to KZZP Phoenix to

become program director. He comes from

WBZZ Pittsburgh.

Gannett is changing its MOR AM station to top-

40 and will hire new jocks. Only Rick Dees will be similcast on KIIS-AM from

KIIS-FM. Manager Wally Clark believes an AM Top-40 can do something,

especially with a strong FM as KIIS-FM just went to a 10 share.

Sillerman-Morrow Broadcasting agrees to sell four of its radio stations to Bell

Broadcasting for $10.3 million. They are WALL/WKGL Middletown, WJJB

Poughkeepsie and WRAN, Dover NJ. Morrow is former DJ Cousin Bruce

Morrow.

Top Hits In Britain -

Freedom - Wham!

I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

No More Lonely Nights - Paul McCartney

Together In Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder &

Philip Oakey

The Wanderer - Status Quo

Week of November 15, 1984

Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon

All Cried Out - Alison Moyet

The Wild Boys - Duran Duran

Top Jazz -

Hot House Flowers - Wynton

Marsalis

Inside Moves - Grover Washington

Jr.

First Circle - Pat Metheny Group

Night Songs - Earl Klugh

Decoy - Dave Grusin

Access All Areas - Miles Davis

High Crime - Al Jarreau

Top Rock Album Cuts -

Valotte - Julian Lennon

Run to You - Bryan Adams

I Do Wanna Know - REO Speedwagon

The Boys of Summer - Don Henley

We Belong - Pat Benatar

Had a Dream - Roger Hodgson

Survivor - I Can’t Hold Back

Understanding - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet

Band

Pride (In the Name Of Love) - U2

Do It Again - Kinks

Sea of Love - Honeydrippers

Top Country -

Fool’s Gold - Lee Greenwood

Give Me One More Chance - Exile

Your Heart’s Not In It - Janie Fricke

You Could’ve Heard A Heart Break - Johnny Lee

Nobody Loves Me Like You do - Anne Murray & David Loggins

Prisoner of the Highway - Ronnie Milsap

Pins & Needles - the Whites

I’ve Been around Enough to Know - John Schneider

Too good To Stop Now - Mickey Gilley

Week of November 15, 1984

Top Albums -

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Purple rain- Prince & The revolution

Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

1100 Bel Air Place -Julio Iglesias

The Woman In Red Soundtrack - Stevie Wonder

She’s So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Heartbeat City - the Cars

Volume One - The

Honeydrippers

Sports - Huey Lewis & The

News

Big Bam Boom - Daryl Hall &

John Oates

Suddenly - Billy Ocean

Break Out - Pointer Sisters

Soundtrack - Eddie & The

Cruisers - John Cafferty & The

Beaver Brown Band

Madonna - Madonna

The Unforgettable fire - U2

Break Out - Pointer Sisters

17- Chicago

Tonight - David Bowie

Animalize - Kiss

Emotion - Barbara Streisand

Hot Hits -

Purple Rain - Prince

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!

Strut - Sheena Easton

Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean

I Just Called to say I Love You - Stevie Wonder

All Through The Night - Cyndi Lauper

Better Be Good To Me - Tina Turner

Blue Jean - David Bowie

Penny Lover - Lionel Richie

Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung

What About Me? - Kenny Rogers With Kim Karnes and James Ingram

Cool It Now - New Edition