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TheBuzz

BY ERIKA ENGLE

Monday, April 30, 2001

TV big wig
in big hurry

Department heads at KITV-4 were treated to dinner last week by Anthony Vinciquerra, executive vice president and chief operating officer of parent company Hearst-Argyle Television Inc.

"I bet they didn't go to Zippy's," quipped one KITV staffer.

In fact, they dined at Hilton Hawaiian Village's Golden Dragon restaurant, according to News Director Wally Zimmermann.

Vinciquerra had attended the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, and was to attend another meeting in Los Angeles "with 30 to 48 hours between," Zimmermann said.

He said the whirlwind KITV site visit had been scheduled for weeks, that Vinciquerra arrived in the afternoon, met with the sales department, had dinner with department heads, attended their meeting the next morning "and got on a plane."

Odd ad fact

Honolulu advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Hawaii is owned by London-based WPP Group Plc. WPP stands for wire and plastic products, which is what the company made when it was founded "in the 1800s" according to Chief Media Officer Page Gaylord.

Now a global communications company providing advertising and marketing services, it still manufactures wire and plastic products for commercial and industrial uses through Wire and Plastic Products Ltd.

Behind the ink

In recent weeks the Federal Communications Commission has approved a handful of television station license transfers from Gannett Tennessee LP to Gannett Pacific Corp. The licenses are for WBIR TV in Knoxville and other low-power television stations in Tennessee.

Mike Fisch, president of Gannett Pacific and the Honolulu Advertiser, said Gannett Pacific "is one of a number of corporate structures within Gannett." He said it's not uncommon for assets such as the TV licenses to be moved in and out of the different holding companies within Gannett Co. Inc. The parent company publishes 99 daily newspapers and owns more than 300 non-daily publications in the United States. It also operates 22 television stations.

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Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210,
Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached
at: eengle@starbulletin.com