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Here is a list of the stations that used the North Tower of the World Trade
Center as their primary transmitter site:
WCBS (2) CBS
WNBC (4) NBC
WNYW (5) Fox
WABC (7) ABC
WWOR (9) UPN
WPIX (11) WB
WNET (13) PBS
WPXN (31) Pax
WNJU (47) Telemundo
WKCR (89.9) Columbia University
WPAT-FM (93.1) Spanish Broadcasting
WNYC-FM (93.9) NPR
WKTU (103.5 Lake Success) Clear Channel
Of those, only two have backup sites: WCBS-TV, which maintains a transmitter at
the Empire State Building, and WKTU.
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Fall TV Season
Season Delayed
In the wake of Tuesday's tragedy, ripples of change continue to spread throughout
the television industry. While production remains halted on new and returning
series, network and studio officials are facing scheduling headaches, postponing
or canceling televised events and rethinking some of the season's biggest-buzz
shows.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is scrambling to organize a new date
for the 53rd Prime-Time Emmy Awards, which were slated for Sunday in Los Angeles.
Despite speculation that the accolades could take place September 23, a few
major conflicts, including a comic-book convention planned at the Shrine
Auditorium for that day and prior obligations for show producer Lou Horvitz,
make the move unlikely. Even if the network does reschedule the show for
September 23, it will create further scheduling snafus, as CBS' new Richard
Dreyfus drama The Education of Max Bickford, set to debut on the 23rd, would
then have the be shuffled elsewhere.
Most of the major nets have confirmed they will preempt primetime programming
Wednesday and possibly Thursday for news programs, however UPN will go forward
with regularly scheduled shows. Spokespersons for ABC, CBS and NBC indicate it
is unlikely that they will resume airing daytime soap operas earlier than Friday.
NBC released a statement saying, "In light of the recent tragic events in our
country, NBC has decided to postpone the premieres of the network's fall
prime-time programs--previously scheduled to begin Monday, September 17 to
Monday, September 24. Further developments could alter this plan."
CBS postponed the premiere of its new drama Wolf Lake, set to debut Wednesday
night, for at least one week; the net also postponed the second episode of its
latest reality project, The Amazing Race, until next week. Fox, meanwhile,
postponed for a week the debut of its new Love Boat-esque reality series Love
Cruise, which was set to premiere Tuesday night.
Elsewhere on the Eye net, the three remaining houseguests of in-progress reality
show Big Brother 2--Will, Monica and Nicole--were informed that a terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center occurred, but it's unclear how much information
the contestants were given. Monica, who lives in Brooklyn, was apparently told
that her family members and friends were okay, but snippets from the show's
subscription-based Internet feeds suggest that the housemates were not told the
extent of the tragedies. The houseguests, as part of the competition, have no
contact with the outside world, including phones, TVs, radios and the Internet.
Meanwhile, tonight's episode has been postponed, and a source at CBS tells E!
Online there's a good chance the show will not air an episode on Thursday, which
was to feature another houseguest being removed from the competition. But
matters get sticky for the network from there, since it would have to be decided
whether or not to keep the contestants in seclusion a week longer than
anticipated.
The networks also thought better of theatrical movies scheduled to air later in
the week. Fox will swap in Mrs. Doubtfire for the Sunday night screening of
Independence Day (which includes a scene of the White House and the Empire State
Building being blown up), while ABC is substituting the romantic dramedy Hope
Floats for the George Clooney terrorist flick The Peacemaker on Saturday.
The immediate future of one of the most highly anticipated new shows of the
season, Fox's Keifer Sutherland drama 24, remains up in the air. The show,
involving an assassination plot that includes terrorists blowing up a passenger
airplane, is scheduled to debut on October 30. The network immediately pulled
promos for the show on Tuesday, and, though the premiere is still more than a
month away, speculation is that the show, at the very least, will be retooled
out of sensitivity to the tragic events of Tuesday. Such a move would not be a
simple task, as the series already has several episodes in the can.
In addition to Fox's 24, two other new fall 2001 series have plots that deal
with terrorism and the CIA, including ABC's Alias, set to
premiere on September 30, and CBS' The Agency. The latter, which was scheduled
to debut in a lavish premiere event next week in Washington, D.C., is
tentatively still set to hit airwaves on September 20, but the premiere event
has been canceled.
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter both cite sources who suggest that Terror,
the five-hour NBC miniseries that was set to star cast members from all three of
the network's Law & Order shows, has been scrapped altogether. The mini was
scheduled for next spring.
Tapings of NBC late-night series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night
with Conan O'Brien have been suspended for the remainder of the week, as has
CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, while CBS' The Late Show with David
Letterman) was already in repeats this week.
All Major League Baseball games have been postponed at least through Thursday
night. If officials decide to postpone games throughout the rest of the week,
as they have indicated they are likely to do, the World Series would then be
delayed by a week, which would also delay Fox's entire fall 2001 premiere
schedule. The network already has later premiere dates than the other networks
because of its World Series coverage. Meanwhile, several college football
contests have been scrapped and the National Football League is also considering
nixing the weekend games.
The Latin Grammy Awards, which were to be televised Tuesday night in Los
Angeles, were canceled and will not be rescheduled. National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences chairman Michael Greene told Variety he made the
decision to cancel the event altogether because of the "unimaginable events" of
Tuesday. The show, which was scheduled to air on CBS, cost nearly $4 million, as
production had been moved from Miami to L.A. last month because of security
concerns.
Never before have the Grammys or Emmys been shut down by a news event. However,
in 1978, the Emmycast was delayed 30 minutes when President Jimmy Carter
announced the Camp David peace accord with Egyptian Anwar Sadat and Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The Oscars) have been delayed twice by
headlines--Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968 and the assassination
attempt on President Reagan in 1981.
Meanwhile, organizers of the Miss America Pageant, say the show will go on as
scheduled September 22. Pageant CEO Robert Renneisen said he consulted with ABC
to make the decision and all agreed that pulling the plug on the show (which has
never been canceled in its 80-year history) would send the wrong message.
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Fall Movies
Buh-Bye Arnold & Tim
For a couple of high-profile Hollywood pictures, plotlines may now be too
horribly close to the reality of Tuesday's tragic events in New York and
Washington.
Warner Bros.' ``Collateral Damage'' may in fact become just that in the wake of
the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. Studio execs planned to meet
Wednesday to discuss the now-problematic release of the terrorist-themed thriller.
Set for an Oct. 5 launch, the picture stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a man whose
family is killed in front of him when a downtown skyscraper is hit by a massive
bomb blast. The picture's title refers to innocent people who lose their lives
as the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And director Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy ``Big Trouble,'' starring Tim Allen and
Rene Russo, has been summarily pushed back from its Sept. 21 release. The Disney
picture centers around a mysterious suitcase, which turns out to be a bomb that
ends up on a plane. The studio has also canceled this weekend's press junket
for ``Big Trouble.''
Meanwhile, production on other, less-problematic pictures was also temporarily
halted.
The Sonnenfeld-helmed ``Men in Black 2,'' which is set and was partially shot in
New York, was scheduled to continue shooting on Sony's soundstages in Culver
City Tuesday. That production too has been suspended.
Fox's animated picture ``The Ice Age'' was held up at Blue Sky Studios,
headquartered in White Plains, N.Y. It is unclear when production will resume.
The tragedies did not halt production for DreamWorks, which had only one picture
shooting. ``The Tuxedo,'' an action movie starring Jackie Chan, continued
lensing in Toronto where DreamWorks production chief Walter Parkes and executive
Michael Grillo were on location.
All of DreamWorks' other unfinished films -- ``Time Machine,'' ``The Last
Castle'' ``Minority Report'' and ``The Road to Perdition'' -- were in
post-production and as such would not likely see their release dates affected.
Meanwhile, virtually all Hollywood's major studios and talent agencies closed
their doors Tuesday morning as word of the tragic events in New York and
Washington swept through West Coast offices.
Universal, Fox, Sony, Paramount, MGM, DreamWorks and Warner Bros. all shut down
Tuesday, though many studio switchboards were open to give both employees and
external callers the news.
Universal and Disney both closed their theme parks, though the latter did not
shutter any of its operations outside the U.S.
Disney's Burbank-based lot remained open to employees wishing to come into work
on an optional basis Tuesday.
Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema encouraged its employees to go home
Tuesday, although Warners kept its day care and cafeteria services open to serve
a skeleton staff.
Universal set up a toll-free hotline for employees to check, though senior
representatives indicated the studio was expected to reopen for business as
usual Wednesday.
As for their offices in Gotham, Warners confirmed that a handful of employees
who worked in the Warner Bros. retail store on the first floor of the World
Trade Center all escaped unharmed. Disney, Paramount and Universal's N.Y.
facilities are farther uptown and were not affected by the blast.
William Morris, International Creative Management, Creative Artists Agency,
United Talent Agency and Endeavor all closed their doors as well. It was unclear
when the firms planned to reopen.
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In The News
Paula Poundstone Cops A Plea
Striking a deal with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, the comic
pleaded no contest Wednesday to one count of felony child endangerment and one
misdemeanor count of inflicting injury on a child, after prosecutors agreed to
drop sex charges against her.
Poundstone, 41, agreed to the prosecutor's recommended sentence: five years'
supervised probation, in addition to 180 days in a lock-down alcohol rehab
center as part of the her plea agreement--instead of a six-month stint in the
slammer.
Poundstone, who has been in alcohol rehab ever since her arrest in June for
allegedly committing a lewd act on a child under 14, expressed relief with the
plea bargain.
"At the beginning of this nightmare I said I trusted the truth," Poundstone
said in a statement, after entering her plea in a Santa Monica courtroom.
"Today, the truth prevailed.
"The lewd-conduct charges against me were dropped because they weren't true,"
she added. "I pled no contest to the child-endangerment/injury charges because
they were [true]. My drinking helped to create a dangerous situation for the
children [and] for this I am very sorry."
Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office, told wire
services the child-endangerment count stemmed from Poundstone's alleged drinking
and driving while her four children were in the car with her.
Robison refused to elaborate on the child-injury charge, nor explain why
prosecutors decided to drop the lewd-conduct charges against Poundstone.
Paula P.
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In The News
Andy Dick & MTV Sued
A 4-foot-2, 86-year-old actress has filed a lawsuit against Dick and MTV over a
skit that, she claims, went way out of bounds.
The diminutive woman, R. Sparkle Stillman, says she was sexually battered and
suffered emotional distress during the taping of Dick's eponymous MTV show, the
Los Angeles Times reports.
Stillman, who reportedly weighs 76 pounds and has a congenital spinal deformity
that affects her breathing, showed up for taping in a Santa Monica park on
June 18. She claims she was supposed to perform in a purse-snatching sketch,
but upon her arrival, she says she was told the bit had been canceled.
Instead, she was allegedly told to lie down on her back. When she asked what
was going to happen, an assistant director "told her to 'shut up,' " the suit
says.
While lying down, an unnamed naked man jumped on her and rubbed his body
against hers in what her suit describes as a simulated sexual assault.
She is asking for unspecified damages and a court order blocking MTV from airing
the episode.
MTV refused to comment on pending litigation.
Andy Dick
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