TV & VIDEO - Aug. 4, 1987

Susan Saint James and her television-producer husband, Dick Ebersol, are battling their local cable company’s decision to drop two New York City television stations. The couple, who live in Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut and commute to New York, went public with their discontent after their private complaints to Laurel Cablevision brought little satisfaction. Their four-month battle over Laurel’s decision in April to drop WCBS and WNBC has occasionally turned ugly. Ebersol, former executive producer of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” said he wanted to get his news “from a professional”--a remark that drew headlines and a nasty note from congressman-turned-anchorman Toby Moffett, on WVIT in West Hartford.