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Eastern Iowa stations plan plenty of Peach Bowl coverage will air Friday at 1:30 p.m., right before the Peach Bowl game on CBS. At KWWL, it will be a busy week for sports director Bob Hogue. He will leave Monday to broadcast the Iowa basketball team's two games (Tuesday and Wednesday) for the moved to WQAD, where he will start Jan. 5. According to a source at WHBF, Van Zee asked to talk to news director Ken Keller following the daily production meeting on Dec.

16. He tendered his resignation and was removed from the air immediately. Van Zee is the second major newsman to leave WHBF in the past few months. Paul Lewis, considered by many to be the best investigative reporter working for a TV station in the Quad Cities, also joined WQAD several months ago. John Campbell placed on channel 3 starting Jan.

17. Heritage also is adding the Cable Health Network starting Thursday on channel Q-30. Cable Health is a 24-hour service offering features Many TV stations around Iowa will be doing specials and daily reports about the University of Iowa football team's trip to the Peach Bowl (the game is Friday at 2 p.m. on CBS), but no stations are covering the event like KGAN and KCRG in Cedar Rapids and KWWL in Waterloo. Those three stations, located in the heart of Hawkeye Country, spare no expense in giving their viewers what they want heaps and heaps of information about the Hawks.

It's a very competitive situation, which is great if you live in eastern Iowa and love ihe Hawkeyes. Although last year's two-week blitz when Iowa went to the Rose Bowl won't be repeated, all three stations are planning pre-game specials and daily reports for the evening news. KCRG is sending sports director John Campbell and a photographer to Atlanta today to tape daily reports and prepare a special called "We Accept With Honor," to be broadcast Thursday at 6:30 p.m. On the KCRG 6 p.m. news preceding the special, Campbell plans to give a live report from Atlanta to be beamed via satellite an expensive way to woo viewers.

KGAN is sending sports director Howard James, news reporter Mark Toney and two photographers to Atlanta to begin filing daily reports starting today. The station also is putting together a 30 -minute special called "Georgia on My Mind" that Bob Hope chooses comedy after FII1E Tuiinia By DAVE RHEIN Iowa Television Network in the Rochester Classic at Rochester, N.Y. On Thursday, Hogue will hurry to Atlanta to cover the Peach Bowl. Oh my, what a schedule. KWWL, along with at least three other Iowa Television Network stations (WHO, WOC and KTIV), will present a Peach Bowl special called "Miracle on Melrose" on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

(At press time, KIMT, the other ITN station, had not made a decision on carrying the special.) Jim Zabel of WHO and Iowa coach Hayden Fry will host the show. Another ripple has surfaced on the Quad Cities-area newsbeat. Al Van Zee, news anchor at WHBF for the past year, has resigned and and Bea Benadaret. Classic stuff. Also "Dragnet," with Jack Webb.

No matter how stilted it was, it was a classic. And I wouldn't mind seeing the "Today" show with Dave Garroway. "There's very little we can do that we didn't spawn way back then. I'm surprised people didn't find the formula long before this I sound as though I'm blowing my own horn, but what the heck." A close inspection of certain history books will disclose that Bob Hope was entertaining troops during the Crusades. He has always been here, making us laugh, and, long after all of us are gone, he'll probably be making jokes to our peace-keeping force on Mars.

Says Bob "Here's What I'd Like to See on New Year's Day" Hope: "I want to see some of the great moments of TV comedy Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Red Skelton pantomiming a drunk Alan Alda and his great 'M'A'S'H' crew Hal Linden and some of those unforgettable moments dealing with humanity on 'Barney Miller' Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, with their brilliant satirizations of life Groucho putting down the world on 'You Bet Your Life' (Jimmy Durante singing 'Inka Dinka Doo' Ed Wynn, the fire chief himself, Bob Hogue (KCBR, the new Des Moines UHF 3tation scheduled to open Jan. 17) is on the air and see how much duplication there is in programming. We know there is quite a bit of duplication already. If channel 17 heavily duplicates the quality of KSHB, we will have to re-examine" the issue. Stuart said he "didn't know" if Heritage would have carried KSHB past Jan.

1 if the copyright fee amendment wasn't enacted. He also said Heritage has received "about 200" phone calls from subscribers who didn't want to see KSHB dropped. Several changes will take place Thursday in the basic cable package received by Des Moines subscribers. NickelodeonArts will move from channel 3 to channel P29 to make room for KCBR, which will be Rose Bowl with a feminine personality," she says. "Not a woman's libber type but, as Oscar Hammerstein described it, 'a female female' a young Loretta Young.

I used to be called 'Miss Goody Two but that didn't bother me, because I believed in presenting a decent show once a week "I'm upset by what's on television now, or I still be on it. I doubt that I'll return but if something really good came along, I'd consider it. Thank God I don't have to." Our special guest star, Jackie Gleason, became a TV giant via the characters that Bob Hope and Ralph Edwards would like to see again. The most famous of all was Ralph Kramden of "The Honeymooners," whose reruns are still bringing joy to late-night viewers who can never get enough of "Alice, tonight you're going to the moon." Gleason has not made many recent appearances on the tube, having focused much of his attention on movies. While filming "Smoky and the Bandit III" in the Miami area, he was asked what he would like to see on TV on New Year's Day, 1983.

The Great One was simple but eloquent: "A show consisting mainly of hangover remedies." Heritage Cablevision has given KSHB, the Kansas City independent TV station it carries as part of its basic cable package, a reprieve and will leave it on the air "momentarily." Heritage was considering dropping KSHB because it would have had to pay more than $300,000 in copyright fees in 1983 for carrying a third "distant station." (Heritage also carries independent stations WGN from Chicago and WTBS from Atlanta, also considered distant stations.) But the government-funding bill signed by President Reagan on Tuesday had an amendment delaying the increase in copyright fees charged to cable operators. Ted Stuart, general manager of Heritage Cablevision, said KSHB is staying on the air "for a variety of reasons. We will keep it on at least until the time that channel 17 with his own brand of foolishness Lucy and Harpo doing a pantomime (Dean) Martin and Jerry Lewis' wild ad-lib comedy antics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin with their 'Laugh-In' troupe of Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Joanne Worley (and Judy Carne Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's classic 'Who's on routine Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in their wonderfully perplexed home life Mary Tyler Moore with her video gang in Minneapolis and Jackie Gleason as Reggie Van Gleason, as the bartender and as the poor soul. That, of course, after I watch the Rose Bowl game. Even a Bob Hope show, if there's not another bowl game on." Loretta Young was a great movie star in the '30s and '40s.

Her clean, classic looks were transferred to television in the '50s, when she produced and starred in "The Loretta Young Show," an anthology series that opened each week with gliding-down-the-staircase music. In would sweep Loretta in yet another glorious gown that every woman in America coveted. The show was as wholesome as the star's looks. Young has retained her youthful looks and attitude. "I'd like to see an anthology series and reports on medicine, exercise and other aspects of the health field.

A screening committee at Iowa State University has recommended five candidates and several alternates for the job of general manager of stations WOI AM-FM-TV. The names were given to Carl Hamilton, vice president of information and development at Iowa State, who will conduct interviews probably starting after Jan. 1. Hamilton refused to disclose the names of the five candidates and alternates until they all had been informed of their status. Hamilton said he accepted the committee's recommendations, adding he "may have to look beyond these names" for a successor to long-time WOI general manager Robert Mulhall, who died Oct 1.

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It became such a hit that it went onto television, followed by "This Is Your Life," which Edwards produced and hosted. The show provoked oceans of tears, frequent parody and all-time high ratings and is still running in England after 24 years. For those who think Edwards is retired, his company now has "People's Court," its 18th television production. "I'd love to see a Mr. Peepers show again," says Edwards.

was a virtue in shyness, sw. hing right in innocence. Around that he worked in some marvelous plot, i remember one show where he and his boss went duck hunting and everything went wrong. It's still a classic Sid Caesar, there's another great I'd like to see again. I'd love to see Jackie Gleason and Art Carney and Audrey Meadows.