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...Reasons they want you to listen: "Club Kiss" (Saturday nights at local clubs with DJ Skip Kelly), "Fax Trax" (weekday lunch hour request via fax/e-mail), Artie the One Man Party (Friday nights at Avalon), Matty in the Morning (weekday morning show...
...Hole (Astralwerks) features a few songs that energetically blend rock and hip-hop, but Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys did it better in the '80s. The Future Sound of London's Dead Cities (Astralwerks) is as exciting as a dead Tamagotchi, and Underworld's Pearl's Girl (Wax Trax! Records) is only a trifle more fun than having a fax machine call you on your voice line...
...those who want their information delivered in a trickle, rather than in a stream, consider Motorola's Sports Trax, a pager that feels like a cross between a radio and the sports page of a daily newspaper. Pick your favorite baseball team, and the clever pager "trax" it like a die-hard fan, transmitting pitch-by-pitch updates of every game and displaying the action on a calculator-like screen in real time all season long -- if there ever is another season...
...attackers: Paramount TV this month unveiled not only Deep Space Nine but also The Untouchables, a new version of the Prohibition gangster saga. Warner Bros. TV has lined up 142 stations to carry Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, with David Carradine back as a mystic martial artist, and Time Trax, about a 22nd century cop who goes time-traveling in search of criminals who have escaped to the 20th century. They join such other hours as Highlander (the adventures of a centuries-old Scottish "immortal"), Renegade (Lorenzo Lamas as a motorcycle-riding ex-cop) and Street Justice (a sort...
...selling foreign rights up front (and in some cases forming co-production deals with international broadcasters), syndicators can help defray the hefty production costs. Deep Space Nine and The Untouchables each cost upwards of $1.5 million per episode, more than comparable network shows. Time Trax and Kung Fu, on the other hand, are made for only about $750,000; the savings come from shooting outside the U.S. and the efficiencies of doing 22 episodes at a swoop. Says Dick Robertson, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution: "You can do all your car crashes at once, all your boat scenes...