Message-ID: <18741600.1075858450265.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:19:50 -0700 (PDT) From: roberts@enron.com To: j.kaminski@enron.com, jose.marquez@enron.com, stephen.bennett@enron.com, william.smith@enron.com, elena.chilkina@enron.com, g..moore@enron.com, christopher.pernoud@enron.com, sarah.woody@enron.com Subject: FW: Frontline IS airing tonight Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: Roberts, Mike A. X-To: Kaminski, Vince J , Marquez, Jose , Bennett, Stephen , Smith, William , Chilkina, Elena , Moore, Kevin G. , Pernoud, Christopher , Woody, Sarah X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vince_Kaminski_Jun2001_10\Deleted Items X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.pst -----Original Message----- From: =09Dupont, Anita =20 Sent:=09Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:13 PM To:=09Alex Huang (E-mail); Amitava Dhar (E-mail); Anguel Grigorov (E-mail);= Chonawee Supatgiat (E-mail); Christopher Pernoud (E-mail); Dayne Zimmerman= (E-mail); Elena Chilkina (E-mail); Frantzeskakis, Kyriakos; Gonzales, Alex= ander R.; Gwyn Koepke (E-mail); Iris Mack (E-mail); Jaesoo Lew (E-mail); Ja= son Sokolov (E-mail); Kim, Jinbaek; Jose Marquez (E-mail); Joseph Hrgovcic = (E-mail); Katherine Lucas (E-mail); Kenneth Parkhill (E-mail); Kevin G. Moo= re (E-mail); Krishna Krishnarao (E-mail); Lance Cunningham (E-mail); Leann = Walton (E-mail); Lin, Martin; Mehendale, Bhalachandra; Mike A. Roberts Jr. = (E-mail); Mitra Mujica (E-mail); Nelson Neale (E-mail); Osman Sezgen (E-mai= l); Pamela Davis (E-mail); Parks, Russell; Paulo Issler (E-mail); Praveen M= ellacheruvu (E-mail); Rabi De (E-mail); Rakesh Bharati (E-mail); Robert Lee= (E-mail); Roman Zadorozhny (E-mail); Sam Smith (E-mail); Sandeep Kohli (E-= mail); Seksan Kiatsupaibul (E-mail); Sevil Yaman (E-mail); Shane Green (E-m= ail); Shirley Crenshaw (E-mail); Sofya Tamarchenko (E-mail); Stephen Bennet= t (E-mail); Steve Bigalow (E-mail); Stinson Gibner (E-mail); Tanya Tamarche= nko (E-mail); Tom Barkley (E-mail); Tom Halliburton (E-mail); Vasant Shanbh= ogue (E-mail); Vince J Kaminski (E-mail); Wichai Narongwanich (E-mail); Xia= , Zhendong; Youyi Feng (E-mail); Zimin Lu (E-mail) Subject:=09FW: Frontline IS airing tonight Ok will do, Mike -----Original Message----- From: =09Kaminski, Vince J =20 Sent:=09Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:56 PM To:=09Dupont, Anita Subject:=09FW: Frontline IS airing tonight Nita, Please, forward this msg to the group ASAP. Change in the PBS schedule for tonight. Very interesting. Vince -----Original Message----- From: =09Mandelker, Jeannie =20 Sent:=09Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:49 PM To:=09Kaminski, Vince J Cc:=09Bradley, Rob Subject:=09Frontline IS airing tonight Vince, I enjoyed our conversation this afternoon. I came back to my desk to read this story in the clips -- it says the Front= line show is airing tonight. I'll dig up TVA for you, Jeannie June 5, 2001, 1:17AM Houston Chronicle PBS pledge drive alters schedule By= MIKE McDANIEL Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle TV Editor Paul Hope, like= many theater fans, tuned to Channel 8 Sunday night in anticipation of the = first hour of the joint PBS/CBS telecast of the 55th Annual Tony Awards. W= hat he got instead was a travelog hosted by Rudy Maxa. Because this is pled= ge drive week, Channel 8 did not air the first hour of the three-hour award= show, as it has in previous years. "Channel 8 has made Houston a theatric= al cowtown by this decision," Hope, a resident actor at the Alley, said Mon= day. Alley artistic director Gregory Boyd called the preempting "absolutel= y indefensible and shocking." Fortunately, Channel 8 is being more flexibl= e about a second program that it had originally decided not to air this wee= k. Frontline, which airs nationally at 9 p.m. tonight, takes a hard look a= t California's energy problems and their direct connection to Houston. The = telecast includes interviews with several Houston players, including Enron'= s Kenneth Lay. KUHT station manager John Hesse said Channel 8 became aware= of the Frontline story, titled Blackout, and its Houston connection last w= eek. Because of its local news value, the show will be tape-delayed and air= ed on KUHT at 10 tonight. It will be repeated at 9 p.m. June 12, when Chann= el 8 originally had planned to air the show. "When we learned of the local= significance, we obviously wanted that program to air (here) in a timely m= anner as in the rest of the country," Hesse said. "We are getting a little= bit of heat for the Tony thing," Hesse said. "The problem is, it's right i= n the beginning of our pledge evening. We had a schedule in place, and a de= cision was made to stick to that schedule because that was our opportunity = for fund raising." Fund drives are vital to keep the station operating and= to purchase quality programming. "When we're scheduling our pledge dates,= we try to coordinate the normal PBS schedule with what we determine will d= o the best for us in terms of fund raising," Hesse said. "We only use about= 2 percent of our air time a year in fund-raising efforts, and when we're u= sing that 2 percent, we have to make the most of them." That's no comfort = to the folks who were hoping to experience what turned out to be theatrical= history being made. Mel Brooks' The Producers -- not only the talk of Broa= dway but also the entertainment world -- won a record 12 Tonys Sunday night= . Most were awarded in the show's first hour -- where Tonys for director, = choreographer and other categories are handed out. To diehards, the PBS por= tion of the Tonys exceeds CBS' in that it airs without commercials and incl= udes behind-the-scenes interviews with directors, composers, designers and = others. Hesse explained that Channel 8's pledge-drive dates were set befor= e the station knew whether PBS would even have the Tonys. The first hour o= f Sunday's show had direct links to theater talents whose work has been see= n and heralded in Houston. David Woolard, nominated for best costume desig= n for The Rocky Horror Show, is costume designer of The Carpetbagger's Chil= dren, which opens Wednesday at the Alley. Doug Besterman, a winner Sunday = for his orchestrations for The Producers, has done the same for the Frank (= Jekyll and Hyde) Wildhorn productions that have played here. Doug Schmidt,= a nominee in the scenic design category for 42nd Street, was a designer fo= r the Alley's Civil War and A Christmas Carol. Hesse said, "We knew by the= end of March" that PBS would co-host Sunday's show, and yet "the decision = was made to stick with the schedule in place." Because the Tonys isn't "ow= ned" by PBS, it could not be used as a pledge show, although Hesse conceded= pledges could have been sought before and after. "There's nothing against= the `rules,' " he said. "It's just been our normal method of operation her= e (to run the pledge drive at 7 p.m.) in terms of our prime-time evening pl= edge start." In a related development, NBC affiliate KPRC will not be show= ing the first episode of a new comedy series bowing tonight. Kristin, starr= ing Kristin Chenoweth, is being pre-empted by Road to Redemption, a movie f= unded by the Billy Graham Crusade. Channel 2 made a decision in March to r= un the movie 7-8:30 tonight, KPRC general manager Steve Wasserman said. NBC= has scheduled the premiere of Kristin for 7:30 p.m. and is not allowing it= to air later in prime time, he said. =09