ABC, CBS keep winning in fringe

Cable Briefs

PBS affil KMTP to suspend b'cast

WMA to rep 4 rescued skiers in pic deal

'Picture' crew pays tribute to Filmex

Yorkin vs. ITC in suit of a 'Lifetime'

NEA awards $ 14.5 mil to arts orgs

Jose F. Duval

Tim Storrs

Richard William Conners

Earl Wrightson

Varujan Kojian

Eleanor Sanger Keys

H'w'd disinclined to kick megabudget habit

Music milestones

CNN N.Y. to vote on NABET April 22

Par gives its 'Firm' commitment

FCC'S Retrans ruling cashes H'w'd out

Banner lands hospital story

Cuomo, Dinkins lure CBS with tax breaks

A dodgy outlook

Uppendahl forms own marketing/pub co.

Levin: Time to rethink TV

Simon says Carlin pilot on for Fox

Alley turns to ICM reps

Reardon touts '92 numbers in Vegas

Gabriel signs with Morris

Oscar watch

WGA to honor writer Foote with Laurel

Exec Shuffle

Deep focus

Brooks Foundation sets grant

Correction

Davis and board still seated at Par

Financial Briefs

Malrite merging with Shamrock

Baton expecting a 'Better year'

Wegner named Tricor general counsel

'Sirens' grabs wail of a rating

Ivy Kagan signs on with Kaye, Scholer

IAsettles 'Joshua' field

Must-carry/retrans consent schedule

VSDA board backs bid

Promoter Rissmiller creates new firm

Zoo Entertainment signs three exex

Sorkin goes from White House to the front line

Byron (Buzz) Brandt

ZDF buys rights to Pilcher novels

Barron hoists sail on 'Ship' in Oz

CBC, Astral team in vid market

Euro TV eyes Int'l market

Short Takes

'Barbarians' excels on bare-bones budget

U.S. box office report

3 Arts renews HBO pact

B.o. snowed under

MTA splits into 2 separate agencies

HBO partners with Anglia TV

'Hell' freeze is over with Tristar sale

Ohlmeyer sits ABC driver's seat

Wolfe at door of NYSF

Bregman/Baer buys 'Nothing'

Egg cooks up 'Wild' pic with 'Game' duo

Working Title names 2 vps

Doering exec director of IATSE Camera Local 659

Malle tops Cannes jury

Oscar watch

GCC picks up new name

Sony Music buys slice of Trema

Lifetime fractions in flux

Grant Lee Buffalo rises above the herd

Col Tristar sets 3 April releases

Music News

Lehning tops Asylum label in N'ville

Fire & Ice inks homevid pact

Rappers nabbed for alleged assault

Births

Video sales still strong in overall market dip

L.A. opera, fest get grants from NEA

CEL names Howort international prexy

King back on throne at WZON-AM

Singleton Palmer

M.E. Hall

Michael Havas

Beatrice Behan

Manuel da Fonseca

Claude Kirchner

John Outlaw

Jim Boyd

Polygram buys Cine-A stake

Trimark bumps up its slate

Cable Briefs

Banquet brings ShoWest to an animated end

Whitcomb to receive Selvin nod

Liz Taylor takes 21st AFI lifetime honor

Pope John Paul II hits Italo airwaves

International Briefs

German pols call for ban on reality TV

Birt can't skirt issue

'X' spotty in o'seas box office

Backtalk

Trueba's 'Belle' garners 9 Goyas

Short Takes

Exec Shuffle

H'w'd's political point man scores big

Lew Wasserman at 80

MCA's No. 1 'tough guy' is hardly the retiring kind

Dunaway makes way to CBS

Weekend big chill freezes b.o.

Lifetime turns to crime

New Select deal rumored

NBC preps 'Nurses' for 3rd season

Smith signed for B'ball HOF trustee team

Goldwyn goes on 'Road' trip

Oscar watch

Par pacts Picker to prod'n deal

Hwang play falls on 'Face'

KFWB sports anchors joining cast of Shadow

FCC fines GA station

Correction

Nets bullish on upfront markets

Harcourt boosts board

J2 posts less net loss in qtr.

Births

Hot 'Chocolate' in snowy N.Y., sunny L.A.

Michael Kanin

June Valli

Alex Taylor

Renee Mason

Parke Levy

Mumy to host 'Space'

Wolper Appoints McCabe, Pool dv't co-vps

CBS to rest 'Hearts,' try 'Bob' on Mons

Clancy upped at 'Today's' weekend slot

Ex-member sues Chili Peppers

Col names Wigan exec prod'n veep

Actor boards OK pact

Johnson to direct 'Day' for Hughes

Bluth's toons drawn to WB

H'w'd tussles with the value of starpower

NBC: 'Hart' like a wheel?

New Hearst unit gets Sikes on line

SAG strengthens ties with Canada's ACTRA

Short Takes

NAB expects huge confab

Dish

Cable Briefs

Chiesa-Miller vp pub at Fox

Six to vie for three VSDA board seats

Exec Shuffle

It's Showtime overseas

Oz court nixes blank tape tax

Cronenberg pix breeds Japanese fanaticism

HBO deal with Anglia TV confirmed

MPEAA merges piracy ops

Hit gets TVNZ library

McDonald breakdown cancels Oz skein

DAILY VARIETY FILM BOX OFFICE REPORT

Acad fit to be tied over Oscar tix promo

ABC closing in on CBS' ratings crown

Harassment suit filed vs. 'Years' pair

Oscar watch

MPTF builds foundation

Bond-style thriller set by Lawrence

TNT snags top names for projects

Joffe, Fayed to redo 'Scarlet'

Academy pays tribute to nominees at luncheon

FCC talks compromise on fin-syn reg revs

ABC makes Iger, Westin corp. sr. vps

Music royalties hearing set

Glover set as Spirit chair

MCA settles Walk/Wok suit

De Niro's record label interests Sony

Correction

Clarification

Capcities/ABC oks reacquiring stox

NTN reports $ 2.4 mil '92 loss

Financial Briefs

TCA Cable revenues up 9%

Exchange denies Hoyts bid

Turner ups May, 3 others

Iwerks lands Itochu as backer

WGA members, CBS ok 3-year pact

ESPN takes on Ohlmeyer sports biz

Hill upped to VP of Par division

ABC's Arledge talking to NBC about news post

'Today's' Zucker drops NBC news job

WB deal 'Ship' shape with Davis script

Film, TV classes a hit in Malibu

Satellite sex station kicks off in Germany

Oz's Gordon Frost opens TV wing

U.K. gov't ignores pic biz

S. Africa b'casters fight royalty regs

Partners support ZDF's bid

2 musicians sue rapper

Herschel Daugherty

Kevin Oldham

Helen M. Heer

'Exposure' sequel in works

Short Takes

Court to rehear fairness case

Complete 'Honeymooners' on vid

Births

Changing channels

Cable Briefs

Exec Shuffle

Robin Mackie

Rick Watson Kabrich

Nicholson gets big offer for little job

DGA deal highlights

DGA, AMPTP reach agreement

Fox, Chao ink 2-year movie deal

'Spirit' moves for WB, Seagal

Live alive as ch. 11 plan gets ok'd

Curtain falls on Hayes

Kidvid law in CBS' 'World'

ABC again loves mini splendors

Col's Landers headed to EMI as VP

ICM exec didn't nix 'Helena'

Oscar watch

D.C. mulls spectrum auction

When AFMA Balks, Mifed listens

McElwaine named WB ad-pub VP

Savage denies harrassment

Oz's Seven, Nine webs post profits

Hungary piracy law lauded

Tring sues MIDEM for expulsion

TV3's Mitchener to Saatchi

Music exex head south for Austin fest

Short Takes

Axelman in prod'n

USC getting animated

Frewer to host Eddies

Cable industry a boon for L.A. area

Capcities/ABC's investing

IDB net hits $ 2.7 mil

Republic's '92 net loss $ 3.5 mil

Exec Shuffle

G rating revealed for 'Secret'

Disney ups Howard

Talkers down, tab shows up in ratings

'Wavelength' greenlighted

Ex-Pentagoner Williams joins NBC

Muse docu to debut

Trimark's interactive wing taps Flock topper

Betty Ann Christy

Mandel m.c. of Writers Guild noms

Scwarzenegger salutes special 'Heroes'

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues

Abc Sunday Night Movie Lies and Lullabies

Men Don't Tell

Fire in the Sky

Aspects of Love

Nbc Monday Night at the Movies Woman on the Ledge

Evening Shade Another Baby Show

The Visitors

The Judas Project

Salt on Our Skin

Street Knight

Cbs Tuesday Movie Dying to Love You

Tent City

Bon Jovi

Raft of the Medusa

Meet the Wilsons

Foreign Affairs

In Living Color

Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet

Great Wonders of the World Wonders of Nature; Wonders of Man's Creation; Wonders Sacred and Mysterious

The Grey Knight

Lea Delaria

This Boy's Life

Hbo Pictures Barbarians at the Gate

Abc Novel for Television Family Pictures -- Parts I & II

Cops