TV & VIDEO - Feb. 4, 1987

Television newswoman Linda Ellerbee said networks won’t broadcast contraceptive commercials until “men have babies, a woman runs a network, or the president of a network gets AIDS.” Ellerbee, co-anchor of ABC’s “Our World,” told a family planning conference in Albany, N.Y., Monday that network executives are afraid of controversy and worry that contraceptive ads could cost them viewers. She also complained about programming that presents sexuality but dodges birth control. “They only teach you how to make babies, not when or why or how not to,” she said.