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10 DTII Omnibus
Thursday November 15, 1990
1.(1) Cheers Special, NBC
295 rating, 27.5 million homes
2. (2) 60 Minutes, CBS
21 .1.19.6 million homes
3. (4) A Different World, NBC
202, 18.6 million homes
4. (6) Designing Women, CBS
18.9. 17.6 million homes .
5. (7) Murphy Brown, CBS
18.9, 17.6 million homes
6. (9) Empty Nest, NBC
18.6. 17.3 million homes
Listings include the week's ranking, with lull season-to-date
ranking in parentheses, rating tor the week, and
total homes. An "X" in parentheses denotes one-time-only
presentation. A rating measures the percentage ot
the nation's 90.4 million TV homes.
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Good-bye NCTV:
NC Student Television soon
may take part in a new na
tional network called U-Net
in order to compensate for
the recent financial difficul
ties of National College Television.
However, keeping a national audience
may not help stv's own lack of funds,
and the station may change its format
to include regular advertising.
Since this summer, NCTV has not
been able to broadcast any shows,
including stv's general college. This
means that general college and other
nationally-syndicated shows will not
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pected this semester.
"We will submit some of our work
to U-Net as soon as the producers feel
they are are ready," said Doug Holmes,
stv station manager.
To appear on national television,
a local college network, like stv,
submits its shows to a national com-
pany.lfthe company selects the show
from among the many entries, the
local show gains widespread publicity
and, perhaps, financial backing. U-
Net will not provide financial back-
ing for the local shows, but it has ties
with other markets, such as the
Comedy Channel, that may want to
run them.
U-Netwasestablishedinl989and
is run by professionals and students
out of Brown University in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. Because U-Net
participates in a partnership with the
National Association of College
Broadcasters, it will show student-
produced shows, films, lectures and
performances. Currently, Syracuse
University, Hastings College and
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Added performances Sunday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. and Saturday,
Dec. 22 at 2 p.m. Many performances were sold out last
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Co-produced by Wachovia Personal Trust Group
INCREDIBLE STUDENT PASS AVAILABLE. With the
Incredible Student Pass you can see The Nutcracker: A Play
plus three other great plays: The Miser by Moliere, Scenes from
American Life by A.R. Gurney, Jr., and Pericles by
Shakespeare. All for only $30! Or you can see the last three
productions for only $25. To buy your Student Pass, just show
your student I D. at the Paul Green Theatre Box Office. (Limit
two per I.D.)
All performances are in the Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill.
Visa and Mastercard accepted. Discounts also available for
senior citizens, children under 18 and groups of 10 or more.
Gift certificates available. Box office: 12-6 Mon.-Fri.
Tickets: 962-PLAY.
P rVe rto ry c omp an y
stv is on its own
Emerson College are some universi
ties that broadcast on U-Net.
U-Net has been much more re
sponsive to stv than NCTV, and it
allows more freedom in scheduling,
Holmes said. "We can submit any
kind of programming we want, and
we decide how much or how little,"
he said,
U-Net will not edit any of the
shows, but it has the right not to show
them.
"General college is looking into U
Net, and we may switch if NCTV
does not resnond bv January," said
producer Beth Bache. Bache talked
to NCTV a month ago, and has not
& z ,
been able to reach them since, bhe
said that NCTV "definitely wanted
to keep the show." However, if the
network is not running it by next
semester, Bache said the show would
switch networks,
Although U-Net does not provide
finances for the shows it picks up,
general college will try to appear on the
network in order to keep its national
viewing audience. Several new epi-
sodes have been produced this year,
but can only be seen locally.
Holmes said the financial lack
caused by the loss of NCTV financial
backing has made advertising a valu-
able resource. Newly appointed ad-
THE NUTCRACKER:
A PLAY
adapted by David Hammond
from the tales of
E.T.A Hoffmann
A revival of last season's smash hit. The
familiar story comes to new life in a
magical theater retelling.
vertising manager Chris Mode has
been approaching businesses and ad
vertisers to look for ways to remedy
the situation, he said.
The budget for stv is partially based
on money projected from fundraisers
during the upcoming year. This year
the station must collect $8,300.
Holmes said: "We won't be able to
raise as much as we had hoped. We
are saving a lot, but it won't look good
when we send the next budget pro
posal to Student Congress. It might
have been different if NCTV was still
functioning as planned."
Stv is always in need of money to
repair or buy equipment, pay local
programming managers and finance
publicity and insurance. People at
the station are currently looking into
fundraising ideas for the future. Bache
said NCTV had helped with funding,
but it was never a solution to the
constant financial problems.
Recently, Off the Cuff has made
exchanges for advertising with
Granville Towers and Dominos Pizza.
Producer Russ Corey said, "Adver
tising is the best way to get businesses
on your side."
Corey said he had worked hard
this summer to get the show seen on
a national level. After getting little
response from NCTV, Corey decided
to talk to U-Net, who he said seemed
very willing. A special show will soon
be sent to the network.
"There's nothing we wanted more
than to be on NCTV," he said. "It
brought a lot of good things to general
college, and it's just sad."
Unfortunately, NCTV may be
causing some problems for general
college, said Bache. The network has
several unaired episodes of the show,
and stv does not have copies of them
here. There is no contract for the
newest episodes so they have not been
sent to NCTV, she said. "We are still
trying to keep in touch, but 1 haven't
gotten much feedback lately."
T.V. BRIEF
; Equal Justice, a one-hour legal
drama about the professional and
personal lives of district attorneys,
will replace the canceled crime
musical Cop Rock, ABC said
Tuesday.
Equal Justice, which first aired
last season as a midscason replace
ment, will return to ABC's sched
ule Wednesday, Jan. 9, said Rob
ert A.'Iger, president of ABC En
tertainment. The series' executive
producer is Thomas Carter, who
won an Emmy Award for direct
ing the pilot episode.
ABC made its first series can
cellation of the season Monday
when it axed the low-rated Cop
Rock, created by Steven Bochco,
whose previous successes included
NBC's Hill Street Blues and L.A.
Law.
ABC said its last Cop Rock
showing would be on Dec. 26.
Associated Press