POP/ROCKMTV Awards: Hip-hop/R&B; group TLC, alternative-rock band...

POP/ROCK

MTV Awards: Hip-hop/R&B; group TLC, alternative-rock band Weezer and the Jackson siblings, Michael and Janet, were the big winners at the MTV Video Music Awards show Thursday in New York. TLC’s “Waterfalls” was named best video, best group video and best R&B; video. Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” took the honors for best alternative video, best direction, best editing and breakthrough video. And Michael and Janet Jackson’s “Scream” won choreography and art direction awards and was named best dance video. The Rolling Stones’ “Love Is Strong” earned recognition for best special effects and best cinematography.

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Return of Poorman: Jim Trenton, better known as Poorman, will make his debut Monday night on KPWR-FM (105.9), which has hired the ribald former KROQ-FM (106.7) deejay to work the 7-10 p.m. slot Monday-Friday. “We know a ‘surfer dude’ on a hip-hop station is going to sound unusual,” Michele Mercer, KPWR’s program director, said in a statement, “but we think Poorman is talented and entertaining enough to pull it off.” Poorman, former host of KROQ’s “Loveline” program, spent 12 years at the alternative-rock station before his ouster two years ago, which was prompted by his orchestrating a prank in which listeners converged outside another KROQ personality’s home.

LEGAL FILE

No Live TV: A judge in Corpus Christi, Tex., refused to allow live TV coverage of the trial of the woman charged with murdering tejano star Selena. Court TV and Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-language TV network, wanted to televise Yolanda Saldivar’s trial, which begins in Houston on Oct. 9. But District Judge Mike Westergren said Wednesday cameras were banned. Both the district attorney and Saldivar’s lawyer had opposed live TV coverage. Saldivar is accused of shooting Selena to death outside a motel March 31 after learning she was about to be fired for allegedly embezzling from a boutique she operated for the singing star. The trial was moved to Houston because of heavy publicity in Corpus Christi, the singer’s hometown.

MOVIES

No Screen Reprise: Former actress and First Lady Nancy Reagan has gently turned down an offer from director Albert Brooks to star in the title role of his upcoming movie, “Mother.” Reagan met with Brooks this week, but said in a statement: “I was flattered that he thought of me and would loved to have done it, but this is just the wrong time in my life.” As actress Nancy Davis, she was last seen in “Hellcats of the Navy” in 1957 with Ronald Reagan. Spokeswoman Joanne Drake said the turndown was “just a combination of everything going on in her life. She didn’t feel it was the right time.”

TELEVISION

Everything Clear?: KNBC Channel 4, which heretofore always referred to itself as KNBC, is now branding itself as “NBC 4”--but officially with the Federal Communications Commission, the station is still KNBC. Carole Black, president and general manager, said the name change was prompted by an independent research study commissioned by KNBC, the NBC network and its other owned and operated stations. On a local level, the study concluded that viewers more often referred to KNBC as either “Channel 4” or “the NBC station on 4.” Said Black: “When making a branding decision of this nature, you must always listen to the viewers.”

MUSIC

Philharmonic Preview: The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present “L.A. Philharmonic 1995-96 Season Preview Weekend” on classical music station KKGO-FM (105.1) Saturday from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. The broadcast will highlight the music and artists of the new season. The show will be hosted by deejay Rich Capparella and KKGO’s Nick Tyler with special guest-hosts Gail Eichenthal, now of KNX-AM (1070), and Alan Chapman, chairman of the music department at Occidental College.

ART

Curator Grants: The Peter Norton Family Foundation has awarded its 1995 Curator’s Grants to Lynn Zelevansky of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Andrea Miller-Keller of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. Each curator will receive $50,000 to purchase contemporary art. Zelevansky, who left New York’s Museum of Modern Art earlier this year to join LACMA’s staff, is currently organizing the exhibition “Yayoi Kusama in New York, 1958-68,” which will open at LACMA in June, 1997. Miller-Keller has been curator of the Wadsworth Atheneum’s MATRIX program since its inception in 1975.