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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERTuesday, Feb. 12, 1980 B-ll Mi 0 Channel 64 Going Strong With Reruns ABC Tops Week In Ratins recent check was through the middle-few big winners and few big losers. NEW YORK (AP)-ABC finished No. 1 In the networks' prime-time ratings competition for the first time in seven weeks, and pulled even with CBS in the race for first place for the season to date. ABC's victory In the week ending Feb.

3 came despite the fact CBS listed six of the 10 highest rated shows, and NBC had two. CBS' "60 Minutes," the top show for the season so far, was No. 1 for the week. Figures from the A.C. Nielsen Co.

showed "60 Minutes" with a rating of 29.2, to 28.8 for the runner-up, ABC's "Three's Company." ABC'S STRENGTH in the most Holly vood Squares THE WEEK'S Top 10 programs: "60 Minutes," with a rating of 29.2 representing 22.3 million homes, CBS; "Three's Company," 28.8 or 22 million, ABC; "Dallas," 28.6 or 21.8 million, CBS; People" 27.9 or 21,3 million, NBC; "Dukes of Haz-zard," 27.7 or 21.1 million, "MASH," 27.3 or 20.8 million, and "House Calls," 26.9 or 20.5 million, all CBS; "Eight Is Enough," 26.4 or 20.1 million, ABC, and "Alice," CBS, and House on the Prairie," both 26 or 19.8 million. 7 PM Weekdays Peter Morsholl hosts this celebrity tic-toc-toe gome with crazy questions and even crazier answers! WLWT ladles professional golf weekend tournaments In March, May and July, all to be imported via satellite. Channel 64 occupies 8,134 square feet and ON TV has a separate building of 15,680 square feet. WBTI produces ON TV's promotional videotapes and all technical work except remote telecasts. WBTI's building includes a multi-purpose studio which, when completed, will produce commercials, Its own on-alr promotion, ON TV's elements and whatever live programs the future holds.

Both WBTI and ON TV operate with one million watts of power, giving it a primary signal for 40-45 miles from the tower-transmitter site at 2223 Chickasaw St. "A Lexington caller said she gets us fine," Kappelusch said. After working on Texas and South Dakota stations, Kappelusch Is Impressed with the local market. "I really love the competitive attitude of the media here," he said. "It really helps the public from what the stations try to do for the community." He moved here last July 1.

"A NEW station in a market causes excitement not only here but with the film distributors and program sources as well," Kappelusch said. "Yesterday, my phone didn't stop ringing." He sees TV 64 as a viable station in Cincinnati. "I think we can compete with Channel 19 for commercial dollars once we're fully equipped and staffed. I see us as a place for advertisers who before couldn't find a place on television. "I think the area Is large enough to support all of us here." like to start a dally half-hour public service series.

It may begin weekly tills fall. He predicted morning news at sign-on and as inserts soon. He talked of eventually getting a news and public affairs director and "a very limited news staff." Right now, Kappelusch has a library of 200 movie titles which will double by the end of 1980. "Eventually, we will have between 800 and 1,000 titles at any one time." FRED BAUM, 64's film director and the Emery Theater's voluntary manager, Is WBTI's lone on-air personality now. He hosts "Hollywood Gold" movies 2 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. He has had his hands filled ever since a film projector broke down. With other equipment late In arriving, Baum and his staff have had to stop-watch movies In order to program commercial breaks and station program announcements. For three weeks before TV 64 went on the air, Kappelusch's staff was working 17-hour days, starting at 7 a.m. WBTI's staff of 20 is the smallest in the city.

It will probably expand to 25-28 by the end of the year. Kappelusch doubles as program manager, Kent Dexter Is production manager, John McNally chief engineer and Jim Gauselman promotion manager. Kappelusch hopes to expand the station's operating hours in hour increments with weekend expansion before weekdays. First expansion won't take place until fall. "We have to learn to walk before we can fly," he said.

BUFORD'S $4-5 million Bond Hill complex, along 1-75, Includes a giant earth station to receive satellite programs. The only current satellite use for WBTI now Is the religious-oriented "700 Club" a.m.). Awaiting confirmation are live BY STEVE HOFFMAN Enquirer. TV-Radio Editor Cincinnati's newest TV station, WBTI-TV (Channel 64), doesn't mind Its "rerun" Image. On the air since Jan.

28, Channel 64 is programmed between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. After 7 p.m., It becomes ON TV (Channel 3) for pay customers of the subscription channel's movies, sports and specials. Errol R. Kapellusch, 39, is executive vice president and general manager of Channel 64, owned by Buford Television, Inc.

of Tyler, Texas. "I am astounded by the number of phone calls from people who have welcomed our type of programming," he said recently. "We have received very favorable comments, that we have provided a clean, wholesome, family atmosphere with our programs. I didn't know so many people grooved on old movies." Kappelusch said the response to date has made him revise his thoughts about WBTI. "If you are looking for sex and violence, you aren't going to find It between 10 a.m.

and 7 p.m.. There's a need for what we are doing out there, the viewers have told us, but I don't want to give the image that we're goody two-shoes." KAPPELUSCH DOESN'T see WBTI straying from Its old movies and reruns "as long as we feel a need out there, as long as the viewers respond." He said he Is getting mail asking about adding other old series from the '50s and '60s. The current TV 64 schedule won't change until September, he said. And, Kappelusch won't buy old series in the meantime to put on its shelves so other local stations can't get them. "We're a new station which can't buy product and put it I In the basement." He plans local news and programming In the future.

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less ihjn 0 5 mg. "iir" and 0.05 mg. nicotine. Carlton BILL COSBY spent about an hour and a half on Bob Shreve's "Past Prime Playhouse" early Sunday morning. He was on three or four movie breaks on Channel 12 with Shreve and talked to phone callers.

The two developed a relationship In 1972 when Cosby called Shreve during the latter's late-night movie on Channel 5. Cosby had been in town for a Miami University concert gig. Friday night, Shreve and his wife stopped by Cosby's Palace dressing room to set up the late Saturday night TV date. "He winged It with me," Shreve said. "It was a ball." PHIL SAMP started a new sports show, "Bengal Talk," on WLW Sunday night.

The p.m. phone-in show had Forrest Gregg, new Bengals head coach, as premiere guest. ft a LANI PAZ, WUBE news metro editor, is host of another new "Operation Probe" feature, "Caveat Emptor," on the twin country stations. In co-operation with the Cincinnati Office of Consumer Affairs, It deals with home consumer problems. "Operation Probe" is now eight years old on WUBE-AM and FM.

It airs a.m. on WUBE-AM-FM and p.m. on WUBE-AM only. 'OKV Dumps Disco, Goes Contemporary "Disco is dead at WOKV as of 6 o'clock this morning," It was announced Monday by Rick Hayes, new general manager of the Hamilton radio station. WOKV-FM is changing to a full-service, adult contemporary music station through a programming investment of $250,000, Hayes said.

"Our owner, Broadcast Enterprises Network, Inc. (BENI), is making a major commitment in this area." BENI bought WOKV about 18 months ago and switched it to disco music six months later. "We've been phasing out disco for the past six months due to the backlash," Hayes said. He said disco records have comprised about 40 of 'OKV's music for about three months. "We'll play about as many disco records as WKRC and WLW," Hayes said.

WOKV's playlist will consist of about 30 adult contemporary hits "which may be expanded" with oldies from the '50s, '60s and "70s. Hayes said the station is after the 25-49-year-old audience with special emphasis on 25-34 men and women. "We think we have something to offer on FM that WLW and WKRC cannot offer. Nobody is doing it on FM. We hope to be drawing from the audiences of WLW, WKRC, WCKY and some of the older people from WKRQ." TO BACK up his claim of "good solid personality radio," Hayes is negotiating for a major East Coast personality for the morning drive-time slot and a seasoned professional for mid-day music host.

"We will have a major rearrangement of all daytime parts," he said of his air staff. WOKV will engage a four-man local news staff plus add a full-time weather reporter. In addition, the station will take on Mutual network news on the hour and features, including Larry King's six-night-a-week midnight national talk show. Airborne traffic reports are expected to begin March 1. "We're after all those services plus stereo which the giants don't have," Hayes said.

He said the problem with disco music on radio is that it is "a life style format, a life style that is sexually charged and totally escapist." He added, "When you remove it from the disco bars and put it on radio, the elements that make it escapist are missing. Disco is a burned out fad." Hayes pointed out, "If disco af fi-cionados feel they have been shortchanged, they can turn to our sister station, WCIN." -STEVE HOFFMAN Other UHF Television Channel 14-Oxford. Ohio 3 30 Footsteps 7:30 MacNeilLehrer 00 Sesame St. 5:00 Mr. Rogers Contact v) nvtr Fnlv Dick Cavett rO0DkCvett 11:30 Optioned News Channel 22 Dayton, Ohio 7O0 Today 00 Emergency One 5:00 Sanford Son KhOO Mike Douglas 5:30 22 Alive 11:00 High Rollers 6:30 NBC New 11:30 Wheel of Fortune 7:00 Joker-, wild 12:00 Chain Reaction Feud 12:30 Password Pk 1:00 Days of Our Lives I MO Doctors 2:30 Another World '5 4:00 Giioan's Island 4:30 Carol Burnett 2:30 Tour Daughters" Channel 54 Covington, Ky.

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sports COLLEGE HOCKEY: Bowling Green at Miami, WMUB-FM, WOXY-FM, 7:30 p.m. PREP BASKETBALL: Highlands at Newport, WHKK-FM; Carlisle at Mason, WPFB-AM; both at 8 p.m. COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Xavier at Marquette, WVXU-FM, 9 p.m. XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES: Final session of men's downhill ski training and opening hockey game between U.S. and Sweden, SB 0, 9:30 p.m.

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Part 1. 10 p.m., 03 DICK CAVETT: Joseph Heller, guest. Part 2. 1 a.m., TOMORROW: Luciano Pavarottl and Joseph Heller, guests. fflQVIGS 1:00 PM Till Swam TV Pnaiiri Winr.nl kilters iaviii I.S All Star Catll (6) advertisement 8 p.m., "THE SWARM," (1978): Michael Calne.

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