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...paying Spelling and Goldberg $30,000 for "exclusivity." Why, she asked, should ABC pay for exclusivity when under the terms of an earlier agreement it already had exclusive rights to their services? According to Martin's memo of the meeting, which the D.A. quoted, ABC V.P. Ronald Sunderland, replied: "You want to know what it's really for? They're [cheating] the Robert Wagners out of their money. We've been putting it into Starsky and Hutch up until now, but since Starsky is off the ah", the money's got to go somewhere else...
Shocked by Sunderland's comment, which he complains was misinterpreted...
...when S&H was canceled. And that, apparently, is what has been happening. All transactions were duly recorded, Van De Kamp notes, and there was none of the secrecy-"the badges of fraud"-that usually indicates criminality. Yet a few questions remained. Nowhere does the report explain, for example, Sunderland's statement that the exclusivity gimmick was a device to cheat the Wagners...
...months ago, a taunting, spine-chilling two-minute-long tape recording that promises further killings to come. But despite poster reproductions of portions of the letters and a special phone number that allows a caller to hear the tape, no one has admitted recognizing his handwriting or distinctive Sunderland accent. Now the latest killing and the lack of any breakthrough by the West Yorkshire police is prompting renewed public pressure for Scotland Yard's supposedly more expert murder squad to be called in. Yorkshire officers still resist that idea, pointing out that the Yard never caught its ripper...
There are close links between ABC and Spelling-Goldberg, which produces shows only for that network and created several of the successes (such as Fantasy Island and Hart to Hart) that helped boost ABC out of the basement in the ratings race. Sunderland, for example, once worked with J. William Hayes, Spelling-Goldberg's lawyer and business adviser, who, according to the Times, wrote the letter about exclusivity fees that caught Martin's attention. When the network conducted its inquiry, the Times added, Hayes was asked simply to submit a letter indicating that there was no truth...