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Election Coverage Outlined Local and network television coverage of 'Tuesday's elections will continue for as long as it takes to count the votes, according to news directors at one Eau Claire and two Wausau stations. Hut each station will differ in the time it picks up network broadcasts, with national coverage initiated as early as 6:30 by one and as late as 8 p.m. by another WSAU's Channel 7 in Wausau doesn't wnt any early election predictions by network computers to discourage viewers from voting, so CBS coverage will be blacked out here until Wisconsin's voting places close at 8 "By that time Walter Cronkite could 'elect' the President," said Mark Zelieh of Channel 7. He was referring to network habits of calling winners based on early voting returns before polls close. WSAU also will carry seven- minute reports on local elections in 17 counties at 23 and 53 minutes alter each hour, beginning with its first local report at 8:23 p.m.

The station will break from the network for a full 15-minute report of area results at 9:45 p.m., then hold its regular half-hour newscast at 10 m. before returning to anchorman Walter Cronkite to continue its election night schedule Wausau's WAOW, Channel 9, will pick up ABC network election coverage at 7 m. and provide local reports at 23 and 53 minutes after each hour "until everything is settled." according to news director Scott Klug. Angella Berger, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County will provide analysis of local results for Channel 9's viewers. The station also will have ham radio operators at polling sites to relay results to its news headquarters Klug says WAOW plans an election wrapup "sometime toward the end of the evening Channel 9's regular 10 rn news broadcast will be aired The earliest pickup of network election coverage will be provided by Eau Claire's WEAU, Channel 13.

The station will begin its NBC hook-up at 6:30 p.m. following the local newscast, and break away from the network for local reports at 25 and 55 minutes after each hour, beginning at 8:25 p.m. "Nothing much comes in before that." says Channel 13 Aldie Swanson The Channel 13 news team also will provide analysis of local results and trends, Swanson said CBS has announced it will provide pre- and post-election special reports The presidential race along with key Senate and gubernatorial elections throughout the country will be previewed at 6 p.m. Sunday, pre-empting "60 Minutes." Wednesday at 9 p.m., a postelection special report will provide an analysis of what happened on election night. Walter Cronkite will anchor both of those broadcasts.

CBS also will provide a Saturday afternoon special for young people. "The Presidential Election What's It All at 12:30 Saturday v. 1 i int-iitirrnr'ii I i rni .111 11 11 rnnni ufSt 1 run 7 1 nil Bob Hope Takes Look Backward Electric Map David Brinkley (left) and John Chancellor, who will co-anchor NBC News' election night coverage on Nov. 2, pose in front of the 14- by 24-foot electrically operated map of the United States. The map will reveal, by using different colors, which states have voted Democratic, Republican, or are still undecided.

Marshfield News-Herald Fonz Is Ratings King and fast driving. Ford brings in football and skiing. Carter brings in Peanuts and the Playboy interview." Another major weekend show will be the three-hour "Life Goes to the Movies" on NBC at 7 p.m. The special covers the stars, films and legends from 1936 to 1972 the years of Life magazine that show how the movies reflected American life and times. Hosts are Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli.

Man Transformed Hermione Gingold is the star and Burgess Meredith is the narrator of "Winter of the Witch," an American film about the transformation of a 'lonely, ill-tempered old crone into a happy eccentric who spreads joy, to Be presented at 12 noon Saturday on "The CBS Children's Film Festival." Singing Cops Timothy Thomerson (left) and Terry Riser star as amateur singer-musicians who moonlight on the Las Vegas Strip when they aren't working as undercover detectives in "Benny and Barney, The Aristocrats," to be shown at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on NBC. LOS ANGELES (AP) Bob Hope starts his 27th year on television Friday night with a backward look. It's also nostalgia time Sunday night when "Life Goes to the Movies." "We're going to look at the highlights of my shows from the past 26 years," said Hope. "Actually, it goes back much further than that because producer Jack Haley Jr.

found a monologue I did for a Los Angeles station in 1947. "That was in the days when we didn't think there was much future for television. Now I think there's a little bit of a The two-hour "Bob Hope World of Comedy" will be seen on NBC at 8 p.m. EDT Friday. With the presidential election only a few days off, Hope will review his political needling over the years.

"Political humor really hasn't changed much," said Hope. "Just the people. I started back with Truman and his piano playing. Ike and golf, Kennedy and his rocking chair, Johnson and his barbecues Networks Dropping 2 ore Shows LOS ANGELES (AP) Low ratings have done in two more television series. ABC says Bill Cosby's Sunday variety show will have its last broadcast this Sunday, and CBS says "Spencer's Pilots" will have its last regular Friday broadcast on Nov.

5. No regular weekly replacement shows have been chosen yet for the two programs, ABC and CBS said Monday in making public the cancellations. It brought to four the number of series axed by the networks thus far during the 1976-77 season, now in its sixth week. The other dropped shows, both on CBS, are the new "Ball Four" series and "Doc," which was in its second season when canceled. NBC hasn't yet announced any cancellations.

Friday, October 1976 debate was the least-watched of the three scheduled debates. It was seen on the three networks in 33.960,000 homes. More than 38 million homes tuned in the first Ford-Carter debate, with about 700,000 fewer homes watching the second debate. The Nielsens show ups and downs for ABC's new Harry Reasoner-Barbara Walters week night newscasts. Their much-publicized first week was seen in a nightly average of 8 million homes, about 2.2 million more than watched the Walters-less show the previous month.

Solves Rape Cases Three women have been raped and strangled within 26 days and the police are without a lead until the maniac strikes again and the victim rtmains alive, on "Delvecchio," to be shown at 9 p.m. Sunday on CBS, The victim is at first too battered, emotionally vand physically for questioning by Det. Sgt. Dominick Delvecchio (Judd Hirsch). But her quietness later turns out to be not because of her inability to talk, but to a deliberate withholding of No.

3. It can safely be called the season's new hit series, as it never has dropped below 10th place in the Nielsen standings in four outings. The week's two World Series games on NBC also did well in the ratings, Tuesday's Cincinnati-New York joust being fifth-rated and Thursday's finale getting the highest ratings of all four games. It was seen in an estimated 21.7 million homes which is good, but about 1.3 million fewer homes than watched last season's exciting Series finale between Boston and Cincinnati on NBC. For those who count such things, last week's 20 top-rated shows were "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Charlie's Angels" (ABC); NBC's Thursday and Tuesday World Series shows; "Bionic Woman" (ABC) "All in the Family" (CBS) "Sunday Movie" and "Baretta" (ABC); "Alice" and "M-A-S-H" (CBS); "Little House on the Prairie" (NBC); "One Day at a Time" (CBS); "Six Million Dollar Man" (ABC); "Maude," "60 Minutes," "All's Fair," "Good Times," "Kojak" and "Charlie Brown" (CBS).

Other ratings: Last Friday's nationally televised presidential LOS ANGELES (AP) Last week's ratings are in, and they show The Fonz still is king, the last World Series game didn't do as well as the one a year ago and "Charlie's Angels" can now be called a hit. ABC, in winning the No. 1 slot in weekly ratings averages for evening shows for the fifth straight week, did it with the help of "Happy Days," the top-rated show in the week ending Oct. 24. It was seen in nearly 23.5 million homes Tuesday night.

The A.C. Nielsen Co. audience estimates, however, provide a -dramatic illustration of how a little rain particularly on a prime-time World Series game also can flood NBC's ratings hopes. The network last Wednesday had to substitute "Day of the Jackal" when what was to have been the fourth World Series game was rained out. The movie wound up in the Nielsen celler.

Which enabled competing network shows that night like CBS' "Alice" and "Good Times" 'and ABC's "Bionic Woman," "Ba-retta" and "Charlie's Angels" to get their best ratings yet this season. All five wound up among the week's 20 highest-rated shows. "Angels" did best, coming in.