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FRIDAY, APRIL 1,1988 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 9F TELEVISION FRIDAY TELEVISION HIGHLIGHTS Zany Italian TV Faces Taming Regulations 6 AM 6:30 I 7 AM 7:30 8 AM 8:30 I 9 AM 9:30 10 AM 10:30 11 AM 11:30 News This Morning jGoodMoming America Wii Shriner Who stheBoss Home Ryan'sHope I Loving This Morning I Blackout High Rotiers Newtyweds Hollywood Sq! The Price Is Right The Young and ttre Restless NewsfSunnse St. Louis iToday Donahue Hair Magazine Win, Lose WheelFortune Understanding Human Behavior LiHas.Yoga ICapt. Kangaroo Sesame Street Mister Rogers' Square One TV 3-2-1 Contact Letter Peopte Today's Special Sesame Street G) Saber Rider Gilligan's Island Dennis TheJetsons Scooby-Doo I My Little Pony Little House on the Prairie One DayTime Bev. HiHtMlMes CHiPs AgDay CNN News New Zoo Revue Shape Up Heritage Larry Rice Richard Roberts Success-N-Life Here's Help Mid-America News Comic Strip Thundercats Bravestarr Ghosfasters J.Swaggart The 700 Club PTLClub Andy Griffith GomerPyte kit Signature Golden Age TV CEga "HoundBaskenrtles" Fame Is the Spur 1914-1920 EBZ8 "Men Are Not Gods" Love and Money: The Husband BET StudyWord Richard Roberts Feed My People Love Your Skin I LookMe Now LoveTour Skin 1 Be Thinner? Love Your Skin On the Line Gospel Mag.

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Channel 9 MOVIES Clark Gable goes beaver trapping in "Across the Wide Missouri." 7 p.m Channel 11 For Good Friday, it's "The Day Christ Died," a TV movie with Chris Sar-andon as Jesus. 7 p.m Channel 30 operas such as "General Hospital," and "Dallas," cop shows such as "The A-Team" and "Starsky and Hutch," Hollywood movies and reruns of pro football and basketball games. Canale 5 also runs countless game and talk shows, including a quiz show run by a man called Mike Buongiorno, and the comedy hit "Drive In," Italy's version of the old "Laugh-In" program, replete with a cast of busty women jiggling in skimpy outfits. The ratings war is waged on one main front: the variety show and its megastar host. Last year, Berlusconi hired away RAI's long-reigning king, Pippo Baudo, and made him host of the Friday night program, "Festival." Baudo was replaced on RAI's Saturday "Fantastico" program by singer Adriano Celentano, who has embarrassed the network with a series of gaffes and has become a cult hero.

Celentano has attracted between 11 million and 12 million viewers a show, down about 2 million from Baudo's RAI audience last year. At Canale 13, Baudo's show averages about 8 million viewers. The two shows, which run for more than three hours, consist mainly of Broadway-style musical sketches and performances by pop stand-up comedians and off-beat entertainers. 1 The Italian variety show often features Americans. The lead dancer on "Fantastico" is California Heather Parlsi, discovered by Baudo in a disco in Rome, and this fall's guest stars included a trio of sexy American female pop singers: Apollonia, Vanity and Jill Jones.

"Festival" had Brigitte Nielsen, the former wife of Sylvester. Stallone. Whereas Baudo is the archetype of the dapper, professional emcee, Celentano has shaken up "Fantastico" with his unpredictable, irrevef-ent style. The unshaven host embarrassed RAI on his opening night by pausing interminably between sentences, denouncing his sponsor an American laundry detergent manufacturer and chiding a guest, a Soviet film director, for lack of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union. On a recent program, he told viewers to turn off their sets for five minutes to show support for the nuclear arms accord signed a few days earlier in Washington.

Eight million people, or two-thirds of his audience, dutifully followed the command, according to the nation's Auditel ratings. But the wackiest scenes are found on the small private stations. "Colpo Grosso," or "Hit It Big," is a roulette game in which a male and female contestant use their winnings to get studio models to strip women down to their panties and men to their boxer shorts. li the contestant runs out of money, he or she takes it off. Switch the channel and you're likely to encounter a phone-in auction with a ring, a Persian carpet or kitchen utensils for sale.

Or you might find furniture salesman Ugo Rosetti, who calls himself mayor of his own TV city and holds televised bikini contests to crown "the world's most beautiful woman." On other channels you can find a fortune teller, a 1960s Italian B-movie, a Brazilian telenovella, music videos and pornography. By Stephen R. Wilson Of The Associated Press ROME THE LOSING contestant on a game show strips. A gaudy emerald ring fills the screen for hours on end as the price flashes underneath. The host of Italy's most popular TV program tells his 12 million viewers to turn off their sets for five minutes in a peace gesture.

Welcome to the zany world of' Italian TV, perhaps the oddest some say most watchable show on Earth. There are so many TV stations in Italy today that it's almost impossible to keep up with all the talk shows, strip shows, auctions, astrology sessions, documentaries and song-and-dance extravaganzas. With 1,100 private channels and new stations sprouting up every day, and a high-stakes war "raging between state-run and private TV, the government says it is finally close to passing a law to regulate the industry and restore some san-, ity to the airwaves. "We've been living in Wild West conditions," says Oscar Mammi, Italy's Post and Telecommunications Minister. "Now it's time for the sheriff to step in." Italy has undergone a television revolution in the last decade.

Color TV was introduced only 12 years ago, and for years TV-starved Italians limited to only two state-run channels set up special antennas to pick up programs from neighboring Switzerland, France and Austria. All that changed in 1976 when the nation's Constitutional Court ruled that the state-run RAI network did not have a monopoly of the airwaves, thus opening the door for commercial TV. Since then, under the guidance of building magnate Silvio Berlusconi, the private Canale 5 network is challenging RAI for ratings supremacy. Despite a ban on live nationwide broadcasts on private TV, the combined viewing figures for Berlusconi's three channels Retequat-tro, Canale 5 and Italia Uno often top those of RAI's three stations during prime time. The private networks tape their shows and deliver the tapes to relay stations around Italy for simultaneous broadcast.

But overall the race is heavily stacked in RAI's favor. The power of live television is strong: an average of 14 million viewers tune in to RAI Uno's nightly newscast, and many stick with the station the rest of the evening. RAI runs most of its commercials in a package between programs. "Together we're running a 100-meter race. But they (RAI) get a running start while we're still in the starting blocks," Berlusconi said.

"We have to stop for a commercial every 12 minutes, and we lose 8-10 percent of the viewers at each break." Under Mammi's proposed antitrust law, Berlusconi would have to drop one of his stations but could broadcast live on the others. One of RAI's stations would drop commercials altogether. But considering that the government has been promising for 10 years to push through an industry law, there's no predicting when or if Mammi's proposal will be approved. Berlusconi's channels rely heavily on recycled American fare: soap 6 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11PM 11:30 News Ent Tonight Perl. Strangers Full House Mr.

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KXEN 1010 Inspirational KXOK 630 Talk WBCZ 1570 Country alk WE SL 1490 InspirationalGospel WEW770 Bands WGNU 920 Pop, Talk WIBV 1260 Contemporary WIL 1430 Country WRTH 590 Bands WHVT 1080 News Nostalgia FM Stations KATZ 100.3 Adult UrbanContemp KBOV 89.9 Jazz KCFV89.5 New Music KCLC89.1 Jazz.Rock Rock-News Himplon, juit nofth of Chtppcwi 3S3-5551 Well FtonujW ChimWrt In Mtaood S2MIIS 1T17 Bitnlwood Blvd 2 Mocki South ol Hoy. 40 In Buntwood 96I-S704 tfr jffi Warner home vpeo I SnSplelberms I pClCi i AJofDanu-Kllm 'tfifc'a '--I it tfSALJ CD AftE BET CBN DSN ESPN HBO LIFE MAX NASH NICK SHQ TDC TMC TMPO U5A WCN WTBS There will be an open call Equity and non-Equity for FUTURE REPLACEMENTS for dancers in "CATS" We are looking for excellent jazz dancers with strong ballet background who sing WELL. There are several male roles and one female role which require acrobatics. The cast is entirely inter-racial. Please be warmed up arid in dance clothes at the hour the audition begins.

Bring an up-to-date picture and resume. Be prepared to sing an up-tempo song and ballad, if asked. Have sheet music ready; we will provide the accompanist. You must sing with the piano. Women who have a soprano range should be prepared to sing one of their songs in that range.

Equity members will be seen first. Female Dancers who sing Tuesday, April 5, (warmed up in dance clothes, flat jazz shoes, ready to dance) Male Dancers who sing Tuesday, April 5, (warmed up in dance clothes, ready to dance) All auditions will be held at Center of Contemporary Arts 524 Trinity St. Louis, MO 63130 slam dance 589-95 10u'n nundwcovM i vMili awi" cop, you'd beHer b. iur you h9ll I know who your Wendi 5 'ftti ta, 1 No Man's Land I $89.95 If 111 11 fep RICHARD MltlO DRfVUSS LSIlVtZ and BETA 1 1 oTAaeGuT isSS TntK.nsniNt HtiMlVltlln 111 -MII II $89.95 Q2m J579.95 N0T about dancing- I i Thousands of EViovics, VHS.