1. New President Clinton names FCC commissioner James Quello as temporary chairman following the resignation of Alfred Sikes, who decided to resign on George H.W. Bush's last full day in office on January 19
2. Don Ohlmeyer - a former executive at ABC Sports and NBC Sports before starting his own company - returns to NBC as head of the West Coast division (elsewhere; it's mentioned that one of the recommendations came from Paramount chief - and former NBC Entertainment leader - Brandon Tartikoff)
3. Purchases this week include the acquisition of Houston radio stations KTRH-AM 740 and KLOL-FM 101.1 by Evergreen Media and FOX buying Atlanta's then-FOX affiliate WATL-TV 36 (this lasted just under 2 years before FOX moved to WAGA-TV 5; previously with CBS. WATL would later join the WB and is currently Atlanta's MyNetwork station and is co-owned by Tegna with the city's NBC affiliate, WXIA-TV 11)
4. Major reshuffling by ABC sees changes of five nights (adding new sitcoms "Getting By" {starring Telma Hopkins - newly transferred from "Family Matters" - and "Laverne & Shirley" alumna Cindy Williams; former "Cosby Show" cast member Deon Richmond and future "Steve Harvey Show" cast member Merlin Santana} and "Where I Live" {created by future "Boy Meets World" creator Michael Jacobs} along with drama "Sirens"; bringing "Homefront" and "Young Indiana Jones" from hiatus and shelving "Camp Wilder" {this series, featuring Jay Mohr and a young Jerry O'Connell and Hilary Swank, was ultimately canceled}; "Civil Wars" {which starred Mariel Hemingway; also canceled, though creator Steven Bochco transplanted two of the characters - Debi Mazar's Denise Iannello and Alan Rosenberg's Eli Levinson - to NBC's "L.A. Law" for that show's final season}; "Life Goes On" {also canceled} and "America's Funniest People" {thus breaking up the "Full House Cast Members' Side Hustle" hour, as the Dave Coulier and by now Tawny Kitaen-hosted series went on hiatus to make room for "Dinosaurs" after that series was bumped from the 9:30 p.m. slot on the TGIF block to make room for "Getting By"})
5. Bonneville International (the media division of the Mormons) announces plans to combine the forces of Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO-TV 7; KIRO-AM 710 and KIRO-FM 100.7 (now KKWF) into what was known as the "KIRO News Network" (this ambitious effort and the subsequent "News Outside the Box" gimmick proved to be a complete disaster and was scrapped by September 1993; with Bill Lord - upon taking the helm as the station's news director - remarking to applause that his first act would be nailing the anchor's shoes to the floor)
6. Release of the first re-regulations in the aftermath of the 1992 Cable Act announced by the FCC
7. Time Warner Cable and a Warner Music-Sony Software joint venture invest $20 million into digital cable radio
8. Radio networks being prepared with a primarily kid-audience, but will advertisers buy in?
9. Special Report on station trades in radio following new radio duopoly rules; while TV sales and average prices decline


Other stories of interest include: CBS offering different incentives to clear upcoming "Late Show with David Letterman"; ABC winning the rights to air the Emmys over the next 4 years (at one point; a rotating setup similar to how the networks rotate coverage of the Super Bowl, for instance, was rejected by the Board of Governors); President Clinton decides to hold a localized "town hall" airing on Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV 7 (Clinton's strongest debate performance arguably having been in the debate that marked the first use of the town hall setting); a spectrum auction bill passes the House Telecommunications Subcommittee (with Alaska Republican Ted Stevens and Hawaii Democrat Daniel Inouye introducing a Senate version of the bill); defense of the must-carry provisions of 1992 Cable Act being assigned to the Justice Department...as soon as they could find an Attorney General (this coming after Clinton's original choice, Zoe Baird, withdrew after it was revealed she had an illegal alien as a nanny and failed to pay Social Security taxes; after Clinton's second choice, Kimba Wood, withdrew due to a similar controversy involving a nanny in the country illegally, the top job in the Justice Department eventually went to Janet Reno); an ad from Westinghouse congratulating George Norford - one of the first black broadcast executives - on his retirement from Group W's board; premium network Showtime announces plans for a kid-themed sitcom starring Shelley Duvall (already working on "Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories"); Cox Television announces that if no one steps up with an acceptable offer for FOX affiliates KTVU-TV 2 in San Francisco and WKBD-TV 50 in Detroit in the next 2-3 weeks, they would be off the market; independent KCOP-TV 13 in Los Angeles doing its own experiments with a new format with their newscasts under the brand "Real News"; excerpts from Rupert Murdoch's speech to FOX affiliates at the recent NATPE convention in San Francisco; "Family Feud" well on its way to being cleared for a 6th season in syndication despite the network version being dropped by CBS; Boston CBS affiliate WHDH-TV 7 announces inserts for Los Angeles independent KCAL-TV 9 airings of "Inside Edition" under the brand "Inside Edition Extra" and hosted by WHDH anchor Tom Ellis (incidentally, then-"Inside Edition" host Bill O'Reilly was a WHDH alumnus, having worked there from 1982-84 [when the station was known as WNEV]}); the Sci-Fi Channel announces creation of new home video division; Bud Paxson's Paxson Communications entering radio by buying up all of the Florida radio stations owned by Pat Robertson; FOX seeking a (slightly) older audience - something unthinkable for the home of "Married...with Children" and "The Simpsons" just a year or so earlier; reports that the audience for Super Bowl XXVII increased in the second half despite the game turning into a blowout (much of that owing to Michael Jackson performing at halftime); Broadcasting senior editor Harry Jessell promoted to executive editor; an obituary for longtime WGR traffic reporter Mike Roszman, who was killed along with pilot Herman Kuhn on January 11 when the news helicopter struck power lines and fell into the Niagara River; a strong showing for FOX Children's Network - headlined by newcomer "Batman: The Animated Series"; "Married...with Children" getting off to the best start for a series entering syndication since the show that it went out of its way to contrast itself with in its early years - "The Cosby Show"; ABC News scheduling a 90-minute call-in show hosted by World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings on Saturday, February 20 from 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. where kids could call in with questions for President Clinton and an interview with FOX senior vice-president of sales Jon Clifford Nesvig

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