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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 ^■in^ 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 H 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 NOV , r ITTLI BE 10CEE 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. 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