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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Gay-lesbian network Logo is moving into the network news business, planning to televise a half-hour weekly newscast produced by CBS News.

"CBS News on Logo" will premiere next Monday at 7 p.m. EST. The newscast stems from a two-year partnership between the MTV Networks channel and CBS News. A dedicated CBS News crew working out of its West 57th Street broadcast center had been producing three-minute interstitials that aired daily on Logo.

Those interstitials will be replaced by the half-hour newscast.

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The new show will focus on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues including the 2008 election, HIV/AIDs and entertainment, sports and science news. The newscast will be available on Logo as well as streamed at 365gay.com, a Logo-owned Website.

With the new trend toward openness, gay-oriented places have become more dispersed around the metropolitan area and spread to the suburbs, leading some to wonder if this may make the enclave in Ni-chome irrelevant.

But so far at least, predictions of the area's demise have proved premature. One of the factors spurring its revival has been a growing influx of lesbians. Until recently, few businesses catered to this trade, but the district now boasts about 20 such establishments.

Politics was as much a passion as a job for Jim Rivaldo, a veteran San Francisco political consultant who worked campaigns for candidates ranging from Harvey Milk and Ella Hill Hutch to Supervisor Bevin Dufty and District Attorney Kamala Harris.

Mr. Rivaldo, 60, who died of liver cancer Tuesday afternoon in his Bush Street apartment, stayed on the local political scene even as the disease sapped his strength.

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Dan Nicoletta, who was a clerk in Milk's Castro Street camera shop, first met Mr. Rivaldo during Milk's unsuccessful run for the Board of Supervisors in 1975.

"He was a strategist for Harvey and we all became pretty good friends," he said. "The top of the list of things to do was always to keep laughing."

From the time he walked into Milk's camera shop in the early '70s, Mr. Rivaldo was in the center of the city's gay political awakening. With Milk and other young, politically active gays, he helped found the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club, now known as the Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club. A talented graphic artist, he designed the posters and brochures for the successful 1978 effort to defeat the Briggs initiative, a ballot measure that would have barred gays and lesbians from teaching in California public schools. Mr. Rivaldo and Pabich were instrumental in getting Milk elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him one of the nation's first openly gay elected officials.

Mr. Rivaldo was also in City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978, when Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.

He became the state's first openly gay commissioner when Milk appointed him to the regional coastal commission.

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