The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 191

TV2 Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, July 9, 1978 New Faces From TV1 I ZLJ if 3 i I I Al Terzi Debby Davison George McKenzie Bob Howick 'Face the only we called our show, 'Face the This allowed me to become more deeply involved with people and issues that affected all of us living in Connecticut." Along with delivering the news, one of Terzi's jobs will be to try and make a dent in Channel 5's ratings dominance. "Part of the battle will be getting out and letting people know we are around. Then if we can persuade them to switch on to our news we will have to deliver." In line with a philosophy that's being bandied about more and more these days Terzi declared he was going to leave his anchor at his desk while getting out where the news is being made. It is a little unusual to find a man of Al Terzi's background forsaking a larger market in Hartford for West Palm Beach. "This station provides me with many opportunities unavailable in Hartford.

For instance, I want to get more into the nitty-gritty of things like working with the more technical aspects of television. There are all kinds of things you can do here that you couldn't do there because of the union. It also provides me with the opportunity of getting into the management side of the business." Debby Davison is more than a pretty face though she certainly has that. "I'm sure one reason I got the job was because of my looks," she said, "and that doesn't bother me, so long as people then look at the kind of job I'm doing. In other words, I don't mind getting a job because of my looks, but I don't want to be judged on those lines." A former resident of Boston, Miss Davison's previous experience ranged from writing and producing to being host of television and radio programs, with fice it to say that since Brown became weekend weatherman less than two years ago, he has seen three fulltime weather anchormen depart the last one, Lane Roberts, being the most recent.

However, Brown hasn't exactly been waiting for the job to open. He has been doing graduate work at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in business administration studies that might, one day, lead him into broadcast management. Meanwhile, he is taking this business of weather seriously even before the dust has settled from Robert's abrupt exit. Brown already is planning to take a two-week weather forecasting course given by the National Weather Service in Kansas City. This will be in addition to several meteorological courses he already has taken.

Brown also holds a commercial pilot's license. Greg Gizinsky isn't a new face on Channel 12 either. In fact, he used to anchor the weekend news before leaving to join WLCY-St. Petersburg as an assistant sports director. Like Terzi, Gizinsky turned his back on a larger market out of choice.

"I wanted to come back," he said. "I always enjoyed work- emphasis on documentary news specials. Although she misses certain aspects of big city life, she expressed amazement at the diversity that she found in the Palm Beaches. She also is very content with her position at the station. "Since this is nonunion, I have the opportunity of learning all phases of the business." The promotional aspects of her job also give her pleasure.

"One reason I enjoy doing promotional things is because it gives me the opportunity to know some of the people behind the camera." With her future goals set on one day becoming an interviewer for a station in a large market, Debby Davison, a woman whose quick mind and lovely voice blends so well with her looks, brings a certain glamorous maturity to the weekday newscast. While one can hardly depict Bob Brown as a new face on local television he was weatherman at Channel 5 in 1974 and followed Barbara Sloan as the weekend weatherman at Channel 12 his new position as WPEC's weather anchorenvironmental editor is new. And to give some indication of the turnover in that position, suf ing here, I prefer living here, and when I had the opportunity of returning as the assistant sports director I didn't hesitate." A tiny, lively young man with one of the warmest smiles you'd ever want to see, there is no doubt about his contentment at working with his heart's desire sports. Another bonus was the fact WPEC offered him the chance to work five days a week for the first time in three years. Jim Gallagher, WPEC's sports director and one of the most respected sports announcers in the state, was, for Gizinsky, another bonus.

To ensure that the merry-go-round at WPEC doesn't continue unabated, Alex Dreyfoos president of Photo Electronics parent company of the broadcast facility, has started issuing contracts to his television talents. Meanwhile, down the road at WPTV, Bill Gordon's replacement is a man of extensive experience. For the past nine years, Robert Howick has been a political reporter for WEWS-Channel 5, Cleveland. A native of Canton, Ohio, Howick entered the broadcasting business while a sophomore in high school, working parttime at a radio station. Among Howick's hobbies are golf and photography, and you guessed it he's also a licensed pilot.

George McKenzie, a handsome young man from Pittsburgh, comes to WPTV from KMSP-Channel 9, Minneapolis, where he was a sportscaster. Declaring that his wife and his job are his life and everything else a curiosity, McKenzie aspires to becoming a network roving reporter someday. "I am interested in a lot of things," he said. "Anchoring news gives you an overview of what's happening all over the world. But I'm also looking forward to going out and doing some in-depth features, particularly in those areas that often get overlooked in the everyday news event." While McKenzie admits to having more fun learning new past-times than hanging on to old interests, this inclination does not extend to his work.

"The adren alin is always pumping, in one half-hour news program you may touch all human emotions." "This for me, hopefully, will be it." The speaker was Jim Sack-ett. Married with two children and other family not far away, Sackett was happy to exchange Maine for Florida. Anchoring news also is "it" for Sackett. "I don't want to do anything else except work in news. To increase my knowledge I try to read everything, newspapers and magazines.

To me this business is great. I really enjoy coming to work every morning." When some people say that kind of thing, you suspect they may be competing for the Nobel Peace Prize. However, there is something about Sackett's demeanor suggesting that for him news equals hog heaven. In addition to his job, the Palm Beaches offer him the opportunity to follow his sporting interests, fishing and golf, and "Hopefully I'm going to learn to scuba dive." On the odd days the weather is nasty, Jim Sackett is an avid reader of science fiction. What more could a man ask for? It cannot be said that Susan Murphy has an abiding interest in weather, although she's beginning to understand how important the forecast is to viewers.

"They even call if we happen to miss one city's temperatures. I think they rely more on the weather forecast than the news." Nevertheless, she is quick and ambitious. A native of Philadelphia, Miss Murphy would like to return there one day in some television capacity. Meanwhile, she is enjoying herself. She has such expressive, dancing eyes that, when talking to her, one quickly becomes eye-bound.

Last year, she graduated cum laude from Temple University and went to work for a radio station. "I soon realized that wasn't the route to a television job in Philadelphia, so here I am." Because she "manages to do better with an audience," Miss Murphy finds herself frequently telling the camera, "I'm doing this for you. Then it's easy for me to smile." Perhaps she is Irish. She should be with a name like Murphy. If so, you can take it as truth: Irish eyes really do smile.

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