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FCC considering
cuts in cable rates
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
57 million Ameriiin households
that receive cable television
could get a cut in subsc ription
rates under new rules Ixnng < on
sidored by the Federal Commu
nications Commission. an FCC
offii iuI said Tuesday
The official, who requested
anonymity, said it is premature
to speculate on the size of possi
hie cuts Hut he said the aim of
the FCC at its Feb. Id meeting
will he to adopt a new formula
that could lower prices for near
ly all customers
New FCC Chairman Feed
liundt hinted at the i hange in a
Jan 11 speech in l.os Angeles
"Our goal is to set competitive
prii es where competitive mar
kets do not exist without stifling
ini nilises lor further investment
and innovation." liundt said
The commission souri e said
setting competitive prices for
cable companies, which almost
always operate os monopolies,
inevitably means reducing rates
Word that the FCC might cut
rates scxjii was welcomed by con
sumer groups, hut cable opera
tors warned any price slashing
would endanger development of
the "information superhighway."
‘They're talking about doing
the right thing It's a real good
sign." said Bradley Stillman, leg
islative counsel of the Consumer
Federation of America
fie said the FCC’s current
"benchmark" formulas that
determined price changes for
(able operators “were set far too
high." Stillman estimated that if
cable companies were forced to
compete, rather than being
awarded local monopoly fran
chises, rates would plummet 27
percent
But the National Cable Televi
sion Asms lation said it has stud
ies showing operators already
have lost $2 billion since new
congressionally mandated reg
ulations took effect last year,
jeopardizing future expansion
A $2 billion revenue loss
means the start-up of 40 new pro
gram networks has been delayed,
the iisso< lation said
Then* is no Iwsis in the record
to roll Iuick the rates." said asso
ciation spokeswoman Tone
Clark 'll could have 0 chilling
effect If they want tins informa
tion highway built, you've got to
give this major player the ability
to raise the funds '
The FCC has imposed a freeze
on (able TV revenues until Feb.
)5 to give loud governments time
to become federally certified to
regulate rotes. The companies
were allowed to raise rates for
some < ustorners but only if over
all revenues of each operator did
not increase.
U*al authorities regulate liasic
cable rates, packages that usu
ally include local broadcast chan
nels and public access channels.
NIELSEN RATINGS
Prime-time ratings as com
piled by the A.C. Nielsen Co.
tor Jan. 17-23.
1 60 Minutes. CBS
2 NFC Championship Post
Game, CBS
3. Home Improvement ABC
4 Murder. She Wrote. CBS
5 Seinfeld, NBC
6 Grace Under Fire, ABC
7 Incident in a Small Town —
CBS Sunday Movie
7 Roseanne. ABC
9 Coach, ABC
10 Frasier, NBC
11. PnmeTime Live, ABC
12 In the Best ol Families Pi
2 — CBS Tuesday Movie
13 Murphy Brown. CBS
14. Rescue 911. CBS
15. Dr. Qwnn Medicine
Woman. CBS
16. Full House. ABC
17 Love A War. CBS
18 Northern Exposure, CBS
18 20-20. ABC
20 NYPD Blue. ABC
.. COORTESV PHOTO
Dick Dale the King of Surf Guitar will bring hla pioneering
sound to WOW Hall Monday night Tickets are still available
The King of Surf
Guitar plays WOW
By John FMachll
fat the Oregon Defy EmoteK)
If you like surf music, then
you must see the man known
as "The King of the Surf Gui
tar," Dick Dale, Monday at the
WOW Hail.
Dale is the author of the sin
gle. “Let's Go Trippin”(19fil),
one of the first original, doc
umented instances of the
style. If you like the song
“Pipeline." you'll like many
of the songs Dale does. Also,
the dudes that back him up
complement his unique style.
Popular back in thelOfiO's.
the surf music pioneered by
Dale was later popularized by
The Beach Boys and other
popular bands. The Encyclo
pedia of Rock n Roll says his
"twangy. heavily reverbed
tone, influenced Beach Boy
_
Carl Wilson and many other
California guitarists."
A new album. Tribal Thun
der, is Dale's latest release. It
features some fast-paced fin
ger-pickin' by this master of
the guitar.
Dale plays his psychedelic,
jammin' sounds on a Fender
Stratocaster. The instrument
he uses was built personally
for him by Leo Fender.
Recently. Dale’s music has
been making a comeback. He
has been on the Conan
O'Brien show and was recent
ly in Eugene. This time,
through he'll be playing an all
ages show.
Tickets are $8 for students
and $10 for general admission
and are still available. The
show will be sponsored by the
Cultural Forum.
ENTERTAINMENT UPDATE
p NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal
judge hns kicked a bund of wannabe Beatles
off their magical mystery tour.
The judge ruled Monday that an Akron,
Ohio, group one*! known as "1064 as The Bea
tles" cannot use the Fab Four's name or like
nesses.
The copycats can perform in Beatles' cos
tume. talk with British accents and play Bea
tles' songs, said U S District |udgu Robert
Echols But they cannot use props or back
drops with any likeness to Paul McCartney.
Ringo Starr. George Harrison or the late John
Lennon.
Apple Corps, a British organization rep
resenting the interests of the Beatles, filed a
lawsuit against the group after a 1991 concert
in Kingsport.
Apple charged that the group carefully
copied the original Beattes in portraying a
typical concert between 1963 and 1966, even
referring to each other as John. Paul, George
and Ringo on stage.
> LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maximilian Schell
said he wasn't harrassing a former enter
tainment executive when he commented on
her breasts. He was complimenting her
The actor is being sued by Diana Botsford,
who claims he made graphic comments about
her breasts and asked her to bathe with him.
"After 10,000 years of intense studies of
the female bosom — from cavemen to the
Renaissance to the decoltes of the 19th cen
tury — our society has come to the conclu
sion that it is an offense to find the female
bosom beautiful." Schell said Monday in a
statement.
"For all lovers of art. this is a very sad day,"
he said.
Botsford, former vice president of post-pro
duction at Kushner-Locke International, said
she rebuffed Schell but the experience last
August caused her to quit her job.
The two wore working on Candles in the
Dark, a Family Channel movie Schell starred
in and directed.
The lawsuit. Hied two weeks ago. seeks
unspecified damages.
^ SYDNEY. Australia IAP) — There was
almost a tattoo beneath the stuffed shirt of
Britain's Prince Charles.
Thu prince paid a visit Tuesday on a home
less youth refuge in Surry Hills, a seedy Syd
ney suburb. He admired the tattoos of a former
drug addict and said he nearly got one him
self while serving in the Royal Navy 20 years
ago.
"I had a friend who had an eagle on his
chest. I really liked it and was thinking of
having one. but I never got round to it,"
Charles said.
The prince was on the first of 12 days in
Australia. His visit is regarded as an attempt
to improve his popularity here and in Britain.
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