1. National Association of Broadcasters convention draws 50,000 (including Broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage)

2. NAB convention sees advances in HDTV technology

3. Tele-Communications Inc. head John Malone lays out his vision of the future of broadcasting, particularly as a supplier for cable

4. Bell Atlantic president Raymond Smith mentions interest in entering TV business as a programmer and delivery service

5. ABC pulls two reality specials ("Crimes of Passion II" and "Scandals II") from its schedule, reportedly at the behest of new ABC Entertainment president (and once again after a brief departure chairman of Disney) Robert Iger

6. NBC president Bob Wright expresses opinion that pay TV is the wave of the future

7. Capital Cities/ABC announces new division to supply programming for cable and international markets

8. Dennis Kane of Kane Productions announces company is ahead of schedule for first group of specials set to air on ABC

9. FCC chairman Dennis Patrick calls on broadcasters to stay true to the marketplace and the First Amendment

10. ABC Radio announces $25 million deal to keep GE Americom for their satellite distribution

11. WPP Group's planned $700 million buyout of The Ogilvy Group would make WPP the largest advertising firm in the world (the British-based WPP would eventually acquire Ogilvy, albeit for $864 million)

12. Jim Henson, reeling from the recently-canceled "The Jim Henson Hour" on NBC, announces launch of series (with all-new Muppet characters) set to debut in the fall for HBO (that series, "The Ghost of Faffner Hall", was scheduled to run 13 episodes. Sadly as things ended up, this would be the last Muppet production to be completed and broadcast in Henson's lifetime prior to his death the following May 16 from streptococcal toxic shock syndrome caused by streptococcus pyogenes)

13. American broadcasters considering partnerships with European broadcasters

14. DDB Needham Worldwide executive John Bernbach lays out plans for pan-European advertising

15. Newly-launched TickeTV, according to parent company International Telesystems, can put TV stations in the pay-per-view business with little risk

16. Interview with American Women in Radio and Television president Diane Sutler

Other interesting notes include: Allbritton Communications (owner of Washington ABC affiliate WJLA-TV 7) announcing plans for a cable news outlet for D.C. cable customers (that service launched in 1991 as NewsChannel 8; and since 2018 has been known as WJLA 24/7 News); Viacom announcing plans for a new comedy-themed channel (that channel, known as Ha!, launched on April Fools' Day 1990. After limited distribution; Ha! would eventually merge with Time-Life's The Comedy Channel in 1991 to form today's Comedy Central); debate on attempts to revive the Fairness Doctrine; NAB president Eddie Fritts (in comments at the NAB convention in Las Vegas) declares the future of free TV is at stake; FCC commissioner James Quello accuses broadcasters of stoking antipathy toward radio by Congress; debate over the interest of the telecommunications industry in getting into broadcasting; Capital Cities/ABC president of communications James Duffy receiving NAB's Distinguished Service Award; a special 40th birthday celebration to the stations that signed on before the FCC froze spectrum allocations in 1948 (a freeze that lasted until 1952; with early TV legends Sid Caesar and the late Ernie Kovacs being inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and a birthday serenade of sorts by Gladys Knight); the FCC cracking down on Equal Employment Opportunities violations; members of Congress (such as California Democratic Congressman Jim Bates and Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley) indicate that - in spite of President Bush's campaign pledge not to raise taxes - new taxes were potentially on the horizon; efforts to promote radio by Radio Advertising Bureau chairman Warren Potash; American Public Radio announces new series of performances from Carnegie Hall along with Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" announcing its "Third Annual Farewell Performance"; changes at new CBS O&O WCIX-TV 6 in Miami that included adding 2 translators to increase its reach north of Miami and expanding their 6:00 edition of "Channel 6 News" to an hour (thus bumping Dan Rather to the 7:00 timeslot); longtime ABC News producer Av Westin (who had been feuding with ABC News president Roone Arledge in recent years) decides to strike out on his own; ;CNBC - only three weeks old - showing strong growth; Financial News Network launching the PPV financial series "Investor's Advantage"; Claster Television and DiC announcing 24 new episodes of "G.I. Joe"; Viacom announcing the renewal of "Superboy"; Disney Channel announces the launch of a youth-oriented version of "Win, Lose or Draw" (that version, titled "Teen Win, Lose or Draw", would be hosted by Marc Price {Skippy Handleman on "Family Ties"; whose final episode would air the following Sunday}; while for Season 1 announcing duties rotated between Brandy Brown, Tiffini Hale and Chase Hampton, all cast members of the recently-launched "All-New Mickey Mouse Club" {also known as MMC to differentiate from the original 1950s and short-lived 1970s versions} and the latter two also being members of spinoff music group The Party); 11 hours of documentary programming announced as being produced by PBS' Bill Moyers; a suggestion that a dip in network ratings could in part be attributed to an increase in independent stations; FOX approving a 13-episode commitment for "The Simpsons" while trying to salvage "Duet" by adding cast members such as musician/comedian Danny Gans, "Hill Street Blues" alumnus John Cypher and then-little known comedienne Ellen DeGeneres; Newspaper Guild files petition to deny efforts to renew the license of New York independent WPIX-TV 11 (citing claims of unfair labor practices and age discrimination among other offenses); Italy looking into the launch of its own pay movie channel; the fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie following the publication of "The Satanic Verses" impacting plans for a mini-series on Khomeini's rise to power in Iran produced by Gerald Rafshoon, former White House Communications Director under Jimmy Carter; Terry Rakolta (she of the criticisms of FOX's "Married...with Children") launching group called Americans for Responsible Television, with the watchdog group boasting letters of support from both sides of the political aisle such as staunchly conservative CNN commentator Pat Buchanan and more liberal supporters such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's widow, Coretta Scott King; MPAA president Jack Valenti calls for limits on ownership concentration in cable biz; game show "Relatively Speaking" and a revival of "The Gong Show" bite the dust; more changes in NBC News that include president Michael Gartner assigning "TODAY" producer George Paul to create a single on-air look while promoting Miami bureau chief Donald Browne to executive news director, handling assignments of correspondents; CBS announcing that they will move their affiliation in Rochester, NY to WROC-TV 8 (previously the NBC affiliate, with NBC moving their affiliation to former CBS affiliate WHEC-TV 10); bill allowing for state and local regulation of cable rates introduced in the House by Congressmen Chris Shays of Connecticut; Thomas Downey and Major Owens (father of "Cosby Show" cast member Geoffrey) of New York; Frank Pallone of New Jersey; Richard Neal of Massachusetts and Charlie Wilson of Texas (all Democrats except for Shays) along with a similar bill introduced in the Senate by new Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman; NPR Capitol Hill correspondent Linda Wertheimer joins rotating host lineup of "All Things Considered" alongside Robert Siegel and Noah Adams and CLeaR-TV (Christian Leadership for Responsible Television) leader Rev. Don Wildmon (founder of Tupelo-based American Family Association) blasts the upcoming NBC made-for-TV movie "Roe vs. Wade" as a "pro-abortion" program (a charge disputed by NBC but not helping matters was a remark by the film's star, Holly Hunter {whose character, Ellen Russell, appears to be a thinly-veiled stand-in for the real-life Jane Roe, Norma McCorvey [herself later a critic of the ruling that legalized abortion]} that "the script has a point of view, and so does history")

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