SHORT TAKES : Top 20 Heads for Soviet Radio
From Times Wire Services
CULVER CITY —
A Top 20 radio show will soon carry Milli Vanilli and Madonna to Moscow, Tone Loc and Tiffany to Tashkent and Phil Collins and Fine Young Cannibals to Kiev.
Soviet rock fans will be able to hear those and other pop stars on “USA Top 20,” which will make its debut on Soviet government-owned Gosteleradio Feb. 9 and air twice a month, according to Westwood One, the Culver City-based company producing the show.
Host of the 90-minute show will be Stuart Detmer, 26, a Chicago native who speaks fluent Russian, Westwood One Chairman Norman J. Pattiz said Tuesday. The show will be produced in Los Angeles. Foreign companies will be able to buy advertising time.