Tribune Tribute to Davy Jones

By ( Broadcasting & Cable ) published

Tribune's multicast broadcast network, Antenna TV, is
planning a weekend tribute to late Monkees band member Davy Jones, who died of
cardiac arrest Wednesday.

The tribute will begin with a Saturday noon airing of the Monkees
theatrical film, Head, followed by a
marathon airing of the 58 episodes of The
Monkees 1960s TV series, bookended by a repeat airing of Head at 9 p.m.

Antenna TV airs on Tribune's WGN Chicago multicast channel
(9.2), WPIX New York (11.4) and KTLA TV Los Angeles (5.2) and on 50-plus broadcast
affiliates, reaching a total 58% of the country.

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.