Syndication Briefs

'Temp' totes R, 'Bear' snares PG-13

Births

Dove Audio sues Stern in arbitration-award flap

L.A. org sets Grammy week plans

Gerson shifts to New Line TV

Stafford/Enright bows TV/pix unit

CBS wins daytime; ABC takes demos

Warner in Deep TV with Brooks

Reel has 'Secret'

Lewis gets year for manslaughter

Publisher won't back off book despite Azoff threat

KLSX concedes Arb win to KLAX

Fox to air 'Key West,' 'Class' again

William Kenney

Joe Keane

Richard Branda

Norman West

Sumner Arthur Long

Nostalgia chair sues burger exex

Omni to build Thai Master

Clark to get NAB honor

DEFA has fuzzy future

Spanish producers upset with exhibs, government

TW puts Levin at helm

Firm to buy back 45 million Series D shares for $ 2.5 bil

Blockbuster gets 35% stake in Republic Pix

Diamond reups with Col, Sony

Atlantis, U TV share 'Tekwar'

Colorizing law pitched in D.C.

CORRECTION

WHV ups Cardwell, Byrnes

Wattles exits legal post at Par

WB engages a 'Cold War'

'Spring' suit targets 'Fantasia' HV coin

Oscar watch

NATO salutes patriotic producers

$50 mil in Live credit due soon

IFE close to cementing deal to take over TVS

Par stocks up amid CBS buyout rumors

LIN investment rating downgraded

Exec Shuffle

Insider charges in '89 Cineplex deal

Aussie 'Bodyguard' bow rocks 'Croc' B.O. record

VH-1, Star TV pick up City-TV shows

Short Takes

WB 'Time' makes tracks in Nielsen, Arb numbers

Brantley VP, Northern Arts

Crix nix few pix and create a wave of fave raves

Lincoln Bedroom: New showbiz hotel?

TV peers into hourglass--and blinks

Larry David Q&A

David Jacobs

Barry Kemp

Piller & Berman

Paul Reiser

Williams, McFadzean and Finestra

Dick Wolf

Snowden buys New Orleans station

No Cineplex probe, firm says

News maps out $2 bil trip to bond markets

Exec Shuffle

IFE gains 75% of TVS gains

Dick Clark celebrates 20th anni of ratings star 'AMA'

Group hopes to cash in chips

Red AIDS ribbons take on beaded look

Despite marathon sesh, DGA, AMPTP still negotiating

Merger with SAG hot topic at AFTRA sesh

Dean complains to FCC that Liddy defamed him

Evian volleyball sponsor

Priority Records beefing up rock label

'Crime' lays down the 'Law'

CL sues Kodiak, owner over loan

Italo film prod'n stymied by gov't bureaucracy

Relations at crossroads in Australia-U.S. TV talks

'Dracula' stakes out fast start; 'Men' good

International Briefs

Smith joins FGB as head of film arm

Oscar watch

'Aladdin' still king of B.O. mountain

'Deep Space' goes where no other syndie has gone

Gibson tapped NATO top male

FCC warns b'casters against 'gratuitous' content

Hedlund: Clinton good for indie TV

KCBS takes to 'Beach'

DIC, Turner team up for Albert spex

Music publishers pact for Euro licensing venture

Hearst, TMI join to develop direct-marketing projects

FCC to ask appeals court to rehear fin-syn rules case

Viacom takes 'Guts' for firstrun syndie rollout

'Star Kids' set to shine

Sandhurst claims play for Cannon

Short Takes

Telepix should resist allure of lurid news stories

Golden Reel bids unveiled

ABC Ent. expected to boost Sternfeld in exec shuffle

TW may buy Ticketmaster

Good track record for HFPA

Congress plans investigation of kidvid gripes

'Woman' stakes claim on gold

Rivers out, Anna Perez in at CAA

Redford keeping Sundance small

Fox, Obst contract virus pic

Jackson to perform in exchange for PSA

'Banner touch' keeps grip on TV

Molding Hollywood's new filmmakers

Burnett, career highpoint

Banner flag remains on indie path

Banner on Banner, through the years

Keeping the game plan all in the family

DGA distinguished by diversity

Sony unveils computer unit

Sci/tech Oscar nods announced

Fox to affils: Toe the line

Euro troubles rain on Disney's profit parade

TW taps Holmes tech senior veep

Cassettes in Acad picture

Col seeks to deal in 'Multiplicity'

Orion trumpets return; skeptics note caution

'Aladdin' conjures adults

Cinema Line tracks down 'Ghosthunter'

CBS leads nominees for Cinematographers prizes

ABC confirms Sternfeld, exex shuffles

W'wood One sells WYNY

Financial Briefs

Joffrey 'Billboards' due

Miramax maximizes exclu sked with 'Crying,' 'Fish'

H'w'd Discs taps Hunt

Scott, Riley ink pact

Nussbaumer joins Ventana

'Sister,' 'Vinny,' 'League' top Comedy Awards list

Philips prexy NARM keynoter

'Beauty' now video game

Crutchfield prez, MCA Nashville

CNN aims top gun at Hussein

Don Bassman

James Douglas Atwell

Brightman set for L.A. 'Aspects' lead

TriStar ups Smith in promo arm

ABC News plans 'day in the life' spec with Clinton

Stations get Greek license bids

Babelsberg casts its CIP debut pix

Filandrinos heads Fox affils

Cyrus, Carey, Reba top Music Awards

Public service key to future, FCC's Duggan tells indies

Short Takes

Imagine blasts off in pursuit of 'Moon' book

Davis, Lane upped in EMI shuffle

'Justice' star fights to keep film violent

Talkers remain TV's 'growth' industry

Late-night slugfest looms on TV horizon

Talk-show chemistry put in a class by itself

Sleaze still runs free, but not as fast, wild

More TV talk hopefuls wait in on-deck circle

Ratings numbers add up, logic doesn't

Tartikoff holds forth at NATPE

BVTV lines up 'Crusaders'

Time Warner readying Florida 'superhighway'

Par preps for 'War' by Scott

'Phantom' finale unveiled

Bill's bash boosts CBS to ratings win

'Sun' to rise in summer

'Cheers' begets sitcom

Van Slyke ankles VP post at U

NBC dumps Daniels talker, but plans to keep the Faith

Anthony new exec VP at Sony Music

Lewis tapped NATO Star of Tomorrow

Mayor tabs 'Army Archerd Day'

Palmer exec VP, GM at Relativity

Robertson seals IFE buyout of TVS

Market cool to TW's $ 1 bil bond offering

Euro Disney posts losses

Landmark buys Cleveland's Centrum

Cox strikes deal to buy Rysher

Comp fight not preempted

Propaganda ups Rupert and Miller

Equity, Regional Theaters resume talks

Majors ready to start labeling altered pix

Once on top, NBC looks for Super Bowl jump start

Robson rolls out new prod'n co. with 'Gordy'

AMA's sensaysh ratings are music to ABC's ears

AMA party continued backstage

ABC reworks Sat. a.m. sked

Brooks to fund Education Town

New Line Int'l ups Galano, Nieves to sr. VP

Henry G. Plitt

Joseph Anthony

Thomas A. Dorsey

Dave Herman

FCC to closely monitor children's shows, EEO

Litton to distribute 'Chapman' series

AAT distribution agent for Conus

DIC, Turner partner on Albert sports spex

MGM signs 'Benny' producers for 1st look

GLAAD unveils Media Award winners

AFTRA stands against Colo. Amendment 2

Miramax picks up 'Spirits'

Amy Fisher case scores big ratings on 'Geraldo'

Spelling unveils cable venture

Thames, talent agency pact

Disney distribution makes mark on Japan

Blue Angel latest Euro film award

MTV stretches to Latin America

USA to rep Euronews sales

'Wings' flies directly to USA berth

Wurtzel boosted to sr. veep at ABC News

Kidvid concerns delay renewal of TV licenses

Weinberger deals for Iran-Contra book

Symphony, L'Amour in pic pact

Ice exits WB

New 'Bonanza' for NBC

Strip series face tough market

AMPTP, IA end early talks without deal

Zelnick: Numbers are power in H'w'd

Ratings system draws fire

1992 U.K. B.O. highest in 12 yrs.

TriStar to scrap 'Three'

Joe Cohen upped to Largo prexy

VSDA kicks off vid return drive

Study: Less violence on cable kidvid fare

Oscar watch

Valenti speech helps open AFM activities next month

CBS News shuffles deck

Museum of TV/Radio fest stars MTM, HBO

VSDA seeks members

Exec Shuffle

Astral revs up, debt drops

TW takes stock of series D

Verdi exec news director, NBC

Ditka Super Bowl stint means nothing, sez NBC

King, Wein form N.Y. comedy fest

Portugeis exec VP at Turner Intl.

Jeanne Lengel

Adler memorial

Jane Fowler Morrison

Par's series outgun ratings rivals

Mass. exposed at Sundance

Arista issuing Signature One prod'ns direct to homevid

'Exposure' generates H'w'd heat

Johnstone sues CBS, NBC, UPI

Kasem contracts through 2000

NABET, ABC end 1st round of talks

Economy exacts high price on No. 1

NATPE panel debates fin-syn and PTAR rules

Johansen named NATPE prez

John's AIDS org gets KW check

Nets look out for No. 1 at panel

Puttnam to sue Goldcrest

Aussie sell-through biz undergoes realignment

Affils to give equally to CTV cash infusion

Canada's Hall of Fame taps Murray

Harbert takes NBC to task for Letterman tack

Short Takes

Chung's Colo. visit canceled

Tony's fans play waiting game in Virgin territory

O'Connor to keep taking 'Heat' despite illness