Me-TV Plans Davy Jones Tribute

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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TV station multicast networks appear to be carrying the torch for Monkee Davy Jones, who died suddenly Wednesday, with Friday Monkee central.

Weigel Broadcasting/MGM's Chicago-based diginet Me-TV is running back-to-back episodes of Jones' guest appearances on The Brady Bunch and Love American Style on Sunday, March 4, in a tribute to the late singer.

Tribune's Chicago-based multicast broadcast network, Antenna TV, is also planning a weekend tribute to Jones featuring the movie Head and all 58 episodes of the NBC series that launched the group.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.