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UALT DISXTEY PEQDCTI(s, D-6 Republic KOOL newscaster Kent Dana to replace Hambrick at KPNX I sillmi I Shw ttarte at Bnfc and And Now for Something Completely Different PG Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe PG "SapMWl" tttiSttytDMrnack' "fast IrMfc" I by Honor IS I Show said, but he did not elaborate. Dana, an Arizona native, has been with KOOL-TV approximately eight years and has been the weekend anchor man most of that time. KOOL-TV said Thursday it was not ready to confirm Dana's move. Dana was on vacation Thursday and unavailable for comment Cooney said the deal was finalized Thursday afternoon. Marge Schmidt KPNX promotions director, said Dana was scheduled to join the station on or before Aug.

20, but a date has not been set for his Joining the news show team of Miss Alvarez, Denny and weather announcer Dewey Hopper. Mike Hambrick v. By HARDY PRICE Mike Hambrick, co-anchor on Channel 12's (KPNX-TV) 6 and 10 p.m. news, will sign off for the last time tonight. He has anchored the evening for a little more than a year.

Succeeding Hambrick, who shares anchor duties jwith Linda Alvarez, will be Kent Dana, longtime weekend newscaster at KOOL-TV, Channel 10. Dana is the most recent KOOL personality to Jump from the CBS affiliate to the local NBC outlet (Last autumn Channel 12's raid on Channel 10 netted announcer Bill Denny and pilot-reporter Jerry Foster. KPNX president and general manager C.E. (Pep) Cooney said Hambrick, who came to Phoenix from fa Baltimore TV station, was leaving KPNX as the result of a mutual agreement "The timing was right" said Cooney. "We could lave stuck with Mike, but the opportunity came up 4o get Kent" Cooney said the station recently conducted a local newscasters' personality survey and Dana scored very high.

Dana's strong quality was, according to Cooney, his "homey and folksy" approach. I Cooney said Hambrick, a 30-year-old Texas native, was, kind of in the middle of the pack 'and showed a great improvement over the last 'jSurvey." I Hambrick agreed his KPNX departure was a jmutual agreement He said he planned to remain in television and had received several offers from out of state. "There's a possibility I will stay in Phoenix," he Qii33(iiiTg do A 1 ir FCC backs NBC in fairness case the I 1 HORROR 1 WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Communica tions Commission announced this week it has defied fairness doctrine complaints against the NBC television network by Yellow Freight Systems and 'American Trupkine Associations. i i it i I 'r ir tr 0.10 The complaint centered on three NBC programs jiin October 1977. One said federal regulations per-'initted and trucking companies required drivers to BAMt'tX I.

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