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Wednesday • January 25,19!
High charting songs giving Channel 69 a boost to success
By Amy Collier
The Battalion
C hannel 69, playing tonight at Xtreme,
has shown its increasing success by
playing with bands such as C & C Music
Factory. Book of L.ove and Cause & Effect
Started in 1990 by vocalist and lyricist
Christian Allen, the band’s original in
tent was to play dance music with no
vocals, but now the band plays a type of
danceable alternative-pop music.
The band features singer and songwriter
Britain Ashley and recently added guitarist
Steve Paul in August.
Allen said that when the band was
formed, they wanted to have a name with
meaning.
They eventually chose Channel 69 mean
ing “infinite communication,” Allen said.
“We were hoping that our music would be
everlasting,” Allen said.
The band members said that their big
break came last year when their single “Ex
posure” was released. “Exposure” hit No. 1
at the Dallas/Ft. Worth radio station 94.5
“The Edge.”
Exposure to the music industry is exactly
what the release of this single accom-
ne
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plished, Allen said.
Allen said since the release of the single,
the band has become more well-known.
In late December, Channel 69’s song
“Promise Is Breaking” was charted at No. 3
at Houston radio station 104 KRBE right
behind Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots.
“We never thought five years ago that
we’d someday be ranked with our influ
ences,” Ashley said.
Although Channel 69 has been nominal
ed for two Dallas Music Awards, the bi
has not yet won an award.
“It’s flattering, but I don’t have to hai
an award to feel accomplished,” Ashley si
“Being played on radio is an award in itself
Last week, the band signed to Visit]
Records, a San Francisco based label
Under this label. Channels
plans to re-release their self-titles
album.
The CD will have some musical
tions, new artwork on the cover and willl); TA
titled “At Full Length.”
A turning point in Channel 69’s
performances was at The Globe last year
they said.
Ashley said that the enthusiastic cmj
changed their attitude and caused thenu
become more lively in their performances.
“That was the first time Britain took!
mike off the stand,” Allen said.
Is it live? Bleeps, blurs and tape delays used in Simpson trial
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NEW YORK (AP) — The reality of “live
coverage” in the O.J. Simpson murder trial
is a 10-second delay, a judge with a blackout
switch, and network graphics using virtual
reality, “forensic animation” and 3-D models.
As the Simpson case teaches us again
and again, there’s reality and then there’s
television:
On cable’s Court
TV, which provides
continuous, gavel-to-
gavel coverage, the
word “live” appears
in the screen’s upper
left corner, but view
ers actually see cov
erage that runs 20
seconds behind real
time events.
That’s because of
not one, but TWO
tape delays.
The first delay is
a court-ordered 10-
second lag imposed by Superior Court Judge
Lance Ito. An unidentified Court TV
“lawyer-journalist” ensures that nothing
privileged gets on the air and threatens a
mistrial.
The second delay is at Court TV’s stu
dio, “to protect privacy and keep things rel-
O.J. Simpson
atively clean,” Steven Brill, the network’s
chief executive officer, noted in an internal
memorandum.
In addition, Ito has used his own cutout
switches to silence the court microphones.
He also can black out pictorial evidence on
courtroom video monitors and forbid court
cameras to show the monitors and jurors.
CBS and NBC will use the 10-second de
lay to edit audio and video feeds, imposing
the familiar electronic “mosaic blur” when
the evidence gets gory, and hitting the
“bleep” button when the language gets blue.
ABC, CNN and E! Entertainment Televi
sion don’t use any filters beyond the initial
10-second delay.
Whether coverage is “near-live” or
blacked out, ABC, CBS and NBC have devel
oped ingenious electronic graphics systems
to enhance the viewer’s reality.
“NBC NewsView” comes closest to provid
ing “virtual reality” to viewers, using digi
tized photographic images of the crime scene
and Simpson estate.
“It’s a whole new computer display tech
nology for orienting information and loca
tions,” said David Bohrman, NBC’s execu
tive producer of news specials. “It’s not a
model. It’s not a computer graphic. It’s the
actual location.”
A computer video display allows the view
er to perceive the spatial relationships oftiif
locations, and to move around within them.
“We have a full, 360-degree perspective
Bohrman said. “We can go up, down, ant
around. For the first time ever in televisk
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news graphics, it lets us, in a reasonabl;
way, enter a graphic and explore.”
The “point and click” system can becalle 1
up virtually instantly, so that its images
accompany testimony and elaborate on “k
dimensional” courtroom exhibits.
The software and computer system, Oj
erated by trial anchor Jack Ford, was
veloped by Apple Computers Inc. and
based on its QuickTime VR software
Bohrman said it worked well in its
tryout Monday.
“I want to downplay the hype potential
because it’s a really useful tool,” he
“We’ve seen similar technology in ... §
and artificial environments, in graphic env
ronments. But here, it’s using 100 perce:
real images. There’s nothing made-up orit
constructed about it.”
ABC News uses precisely scaled, threi
dimensional models of the Simpsonl
cales, filmed by a “snorkel” camera
move viewers through the environmer.
Citing rehearsal and production cot
straints, the network declined to previ
the system, however.
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