Autoline Detroit Announces One-Hour Special on Merger

21 May 1998

    DETROIT, May 21 -- Autoline Detroit will host a one-hour
special on the DaimlerChrysler merger on WTVS, Sunday, May 24, 1998 at 10 a.m.
The program will feature insight and analysis from industry experts on
management, finance, labor, marketing, engineering and manufacturing.  Actual
footage from the press conference announcing the merger is part of the
program.  It also includes advice on how to merge cultures from executives at
a German-American supplier company.
    Some of the experts appearing on the program include Dave Cole, director
of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation; Paul Ballew, chief
economist of J.D. Power; Jim Harbour, president, Harbour & Associates; Sandy
Munro, president, Munro & Associates; Csaba Csere, editor, Car and Driver;
Dean Langford, president, Osram Sylvania.
    Autoline Detroit is the only television program devoted to covering the
auto industry.  It is produced by Blue Sky Productions.  It airs every Sunday
morning at 10 a.m. on Detroit Public Television.  The program's host is John
McElroy, Editorial Director, Automotive Industries.