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TV & RADIO

Emmys Win TV Deal: Just two weeks before the 50th annual nighttime Emmy Awards, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences--which organizes and presents the Emmys--has agreed to a new four-year contract in which the awards ceremony will continue to rotate among the four major networks. Terms weren’t disclosed, but sources say ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox will pay in the range of $3 million per year to televise the Emmys, an increase over their current deal. The agreement is especially significant because network officials at one point indicated they might balk at renewing the show, prompting cable networks like TNT and HBO to express interest in acquiring the telecast. The last Emmys covered by the existing pact will be televised Sept. 13 on NBC. The networks have yet to determine the order for upcoming Emmy presentations. And in a first for the event, tickets will be available to the public at prices of $100 and $75 (plus service charge) through Ticketmaster.

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Batters Up: The cable channel Nickelodeon will add a kids twist to baseball’s historic home run chase by featuring nightly updates and youngsters’ interviews with sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The 45-second “Home Run Record Race” vignettes, which begin tonight and continue through Sept. 27, will air just prior to the channel’s 7 p.m. programming lineup.

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Establishing Anchors: All-news station KFWB-AM (980) has announced a new weekday anchor schedule, beginning Sept. 14. The morning team will feature Judy Ford, Bob Jimenez and Ron Kilgore (5-10 a.m.); midday consists of John Brooks and Jack Popejoy (10 a.m.-2 p.m.); afternoons go to Dan Avey, Ken Jeffries and Tammy Trujillo (2-7 p.m.); and evenings will be taken by Jim Burson and Bob Howard (7 p.m.-midnight). Vicky Cox serves as overnight anchor.

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Bill Clinton: Late-Night Punch Line: What would late-night talk-show hosts joke about if not for the White House sex scandal? A tally by the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington shows that from Jan. 1 through July 31, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Bill Maher told a total of 1,172 jokes about President Clinton and sex. That figure doesn’t even include the monologues in August after Clinton testified before a grand jury and confessed his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Leno led the joke parade with 545 Clinton sex jokes; Letterman was runner-up with 364. But Bob Mulligan, executive director of the center, doesn’t think it’s funny. “These jokes have not uplifted anyone’s spirits or enhanced anyone’s reputation,” he told the Baltimore Sun. “The nature of the humor has gotten very nasty.”

MOVIES

Latino Film Fest: Back for its second year, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival will take place at the Universal City Cineplex and other Hollywood venues Oct. 2-11. The event, which showcases more than 60 films from the United States, Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean, will open and close with two world premieres, as yet unannounced. The Gabriel Figueroa Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented posthumously to Raul Julia on Oct. 10, preceded by a screening of the actor’s HBO film “The Burning Season.” Rita Moreno also will be honored that night with the Tribute Award. A series of panel discussions and symposiums will be held along with an educational workshop for Los Angeles-area children and adults Oct. 3-9. For information, call the LALIFF office at (323) 469-9066.

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The ‘Show’ Goes On: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen a new print of “Show Boat” (1936) to commemorate the centennial birthday of Paul Robeson. The screening will be presented as part of the ongoing Academy Standards series on Sept. 11 at 8 p.m. in the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Tickets are $5 for the public and $3 for academy members. The screening helps to kick off the “Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen” exhibition, which opens Sept. 12 at the California African-American Museum in Exposition Park.

THE ARTS

Bond Memorabilia: Highlights from the first auction devoted to Ian Fleming’s fictional secret agent James Bond will be on view to the public today through Friday at Christie’s Los Angeles, the only stop in the United States. Comprising approximately 250 lots of costumes, props, posters, autograph material and other items relating to the 007 films--including a lifelike model of a tarantula from “Dr. No” and the first wristwatch worn by Roger Moore in “Live and Let Die”--the auction will be held at Christie’s South Kensington in London on Sept. 17.

QUICK TAKES

Ratings for “The Howard Stern Radio Show” dropped 20% from its Aug. 22 debut in the 32 Nielsen-metered markets in which the program airs. . . . Actress Jasmine Guy married investment broker Terrence Duckette Aug. 22 in Los Angeles. It is the first marriage for both. . . . Rhea Perlman, complete with Southern accent, will appear in Alfred Uhry’s “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” when it opens at the Canon Theatre Oct. 11. . . . “Dr. Dolittle,” the hit comedy with Eddie Murphy, will be released on video Nov. 24.