Morning Report : ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT REPORTS FROM THE TIMES, NEWS SERVICES AND THE NATION’S PRESS.

POP/ROCK

Internet Talent: In yet another example of the growing power of the Internet in the pop music world, Beck, Offspring, No Doubt, Eminem, Cypress Hill and Chris Isaak have agreed to perform at the first Online Music Awards on Oct. 7 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood. Scheduled presenters include members of Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Dave Navarro, Dwight Yoakam and Daryl Hannah. The awards, presented by ARTISTdirect, are designed to recognize “excellence in music on the World Wide Web.” Online users can vote on the awards at https://www.artistdirect.com. The awards show will also be Webcast live on the site at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 7.

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Revisiting the Angels: Country singer George Jones returned to the scene of his near-fatal car wreck Wednesday to film a music video. The bridge on Highway 96 south of Nashville was used for the video for “Band of Angels,” a duet with gospel music singer Vestal Goodman. “The last time I was here at this bridge, when I hit it and had my car wreck, there had to be all kind of angels all around,” Jones said. Jones, 67, pleaded guilty to drunk driving in connection with the March 6 accident, in which he suffered a severely lacerated liver and collapsed lung.

TELEVISION

KTLA Schedule: KTLA-TV Channel 5 will premiere “Richard Simmons’ Dream Maker,” the diet guru’s new syndicated motivational series, on Sept. 20, airing in the Monday-Friday 10-11 a.m. slot. Other shows new to KTLA include “The Lost World,” based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic dinosaur tale (Saturdays at 1 p.m., starting Oct. 2); “Beast Master,” about a tribal survivor who communicates telepathically with animals (Saturdays at 4 p.m., starting Oct. 9); and syndicated runs for “Caroline in the City” (weeknights at 11 p.m, starting Sept. 20), “The Wayans Bros.” (weeknights at 5:30 p.m., starting Sept. 20) and “The Parent ‘Hood” (Saturdays at 6 p.m., starting Sept. 25).

RADIO

KLSX Changes: Capitalizing on what KLSX-FM (97.1) calls the “explosive growth” of afternoon host Tom Leykis in the key 25-to-54-year-old demographic, the station later this month will extend the syndicated show by an hour, to 8 p.m. The last hour, heard only in Los Angeles, will be live some days, taped rebroadcasts on others. The station also plans to add KTLA-TV entertainment reporter Sam Rubin to the lineup beginning whenever Howard Stern ends his morning-drive show, and running until noon. Jonathon Brandmeier, who used to begin his show when Stern ends, will air from noon to 3 p.m. After Leykis, meanwhile, Tim Conway Jr. and Doug Steckler will run from 8 to 11 p.m., with Ed Tyll losing an hour to air from 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Overnight hosts John Boyle and Jeff Carroll remain in place from 1 to 3 a.m. The changes will begin no later than Sept. 20--the Monday before the fall Arbitron ratings period beginning Sept. 23. Leykis’ share of audience jumped from 2.6% to 3.4% in the most recent Arbitron quarter.

STAGE

Millennium ‘Superstar’: The rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar,” which premiered in New York nearly 30 years ago, is headed back to Broadway for the millennium. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice have announced plans for the groundbreaking musical about the last seven days of Christ’s life to return to the Big Apple in April 2000 for “the Easter of the millennium.” The musical was recently revived in London’s West End and is currently on tour around Britain.

QUICK TAKES

Seth Green (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me”) will voice the character of “bad to the bone” talking dog Eddie McDowd in “100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd,” a new animated series premiering Oct. 16 on cable’s Nickelodeon in the Saturday 9 p.m. slot. . . . ABC will air the Jennifer Lopez movie “Selena” with a Spanish-language Secondary Audio Programming track on Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. . . . Afternoon deejay Mike Halloran has stepped in along with Mike Savage as interim co-directors of programming at KLYY-FM (107.1), replacing John Duncan, who was let go last week. No timetable has been set for a permanent appointment, and it’s unknown whether the station, known as Y-107, will undergo any format changes.