1. Predictions on what the 100th Congress would mean to broadcast interests; particularly with the Democrats regaining control of the Senate following the previous week's midterm elections; including South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings supplanting Missouri Republican John Danforth as Senate Commerce Committee chairman and Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Ed Markey moving to the chair of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee position vacated when Colorado Democrat Tim Wirth moved to the Senate seat being given up by Gary Hart
2. Change in election coverage; as CBS is the only one of the Big 3 to air "wall-to-wall" coverage of the 1986 midterms (ABC and NBC elected {pun completely intended} to go with periodic updates and save their longer coverage for later that night)
3. Profile on FCC Mass Media bureau chief Jim McKinney
4. Marketing recommendations for channel lineups on Los Angeles cable outlets
5. Unveiling of a heat-sensing people meter to determine viewing in a particular household
6. NBC - owing to the top-rated "The Cosby Show" and the World Series going the full 7 games - claims victory in the ratings for week 6 of the 1986-87 season
7. NBC and Procter & Gamble announce cancellation of "Search for Tomorrow", ending a 35-year run; while replacing "Family Ties" reruns on the daytime schedule at 10:00 a.m. Eastern (due to "Family Ties" entering syndication; NBC was barred from airing it on their daytime schedule) with "Sale of the Century" moving up a half-hour effective January 5, 1987; while a short-lived revival of "Blockbusters" took Sale's old spot as a stopgap until the May 4 debut of what was known as "Classic Concentration" (the "Concentration" revival hosted by Alex Trebek)
8. Group W, who normally produced magazine shows, tries its hand at comedy with "Together Again" in partnership with Bristol-Myers
9. Multimedia and Blair Communications team up to produce series looking at impact of stress called "A Great Day"
10. Network radio sales - unlike other media areas - appears strong for 1986
11. $200,000 contributed from media sources to campaigns toward the end of the 1986 campaign
12. Former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter discusses his tenure and (second) departure from that position
13. Examination of Renata Adler's "Reckless Disregard" book on libel suits against Time (filed by former Israeli defense minister and future Prime Minister Ariel Sharon) and CBS (filed by former Vietnam War general William Westmoreland)
14. Satellite Television Industry Association and Direct Broadcast Satellite Association announce merger; being renamed Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America
15. PBS asks for $100 million in funding
16. A look at television news legend and "This Week" original host David Brinkley

Other stories of interest include report that the syndicated rights of "The Cosby Show" for the New York area had been snagged by independent WOR-TV 9; a memorial tribute ad of sorts for WNBC-AM 660 traffic reporter Jane Dornacker (Dornacker, who was also a musician with the group "The Tubes" along with her own group "Leila and the Shakes"; stand-up comic and occasional actress {most notably as Nurse Murch in 1983's "The Right Stuff"}, was killed on October 22 when the helicopter she was filing a traffic report on plunged after the rotor blades seized {Dornacker's last words: "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!" were a reference to an incident six months earlier when the chopper crashed into the water, and she and the pilot managed to swim to safety. This time, though, the tail of the chopper struck the top of a chain-link fence. Making the tragedy even worse was that Dornacker's daughter, 16-year-old Naomi Knickerbocker, was now orphaned; as her father and Jane's husband, Bob Knickerbocker, had died from a heart attack 3 months earlier. Ultimately, it was discovered that the company that leased the helicopter to WNBC-AM had installed a sprag clutch which was a military surplus part not designed for use in civilian aircraft and furthermore that it was not properly lubricated); the FCC being requested for clarification on what constituted obscenity; a study on facial expressions during the 1984 election that seemed to show ABC's Peter Jennings seemed to smile more when talking about how President Reagan was doing that night (and that 80% of ABC viewers voted for Reagan in that electoral blowout compared to just under 62% of those who watched either CBS or NBC voting for Reagan); CBS News London correspondent Steve Kroft being transferred to newsmagazine West 57th; a feud between CNN founder Ted Turner and Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid over charges by the conservative group that Turner promoted propaganda on CNN and WTBS during the inaugural Goodwill Games while also ignoring a Soviet dissident that had been arrested during the Goodwill Games (which were held in Moscow); ABC placing "Life with Lucy" and "The Ellen Burstyn Show" on hiatus (both eventually being officially canceled); CBS conversely giving full-season renewals for "Designing Women" and "Adderly" (having earlier pledged full seasons for "My Sister Sam" and "The Equalizer"); rumors that NBC vice-presidents Raymond Timothy and Robert Walsh were on the outs following feud with NBC president Bob Wright; Dick Clark Productions announces initial public offering; rumors that CBS News commentator Bill Moyers - rumored to be leaving to work with PBS - might stay around at CBS after all (he didn't) and an obituary for voice actor Paul Frees (Frees; whose repertoire ranged from the Pillsbury Doughboy, Toucan Sam, Ludwig von Drake in a series of Disney-produced educational projects, Boris Badenov in "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" among many, many others, died on November 2, 1986 from what was originally reported as heart failure {Frees was suffering from a number of ailments over his last two years} but was later discovered to have overdosed on painkillers in an apparent suicide)

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