TV & VIDEO - Aug. 16, 1988

Cardinal John J. O’Connor, head of the New York Catholic Archdiocese, has announced plans to start up a weekly TV show next month. Monsignor Peter Finn, O’Connor’s chief spokesman, said Sunday the prelate’s program will seek to expand the frontiers of religious programming, although the format--O’Connor and guests sitting and discussing religious topics--will remain traditional. The show will be aired in New York, but plans for a national broadcast are still up in the air. O’Connor, named archbishop of New York in 1984, has long supported great use of the media by Catholics.