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Your daily guide Younkin, Crimm work on reporting at VVEVVS Several readers have called asking about Jenny Crimm and -again Bill Younkin of WEWS (Channel 5). As was mentioned before, Younkin went on medical leave awhile back. He was due to come back as a reporter instead of an anchor, and so he has. Crimm is focusing on reporting as well. Roy Weissinger and Lee Jordan, Channel 5's 5 p.m.

news anchors, have added the noon newscast to their duties. Jan-Michael Vincent's appearance tonight on 'Nash Bridges' very brief You may have seen reports about actor Jan-Michael Vincent's latest comeback attempt, this time from a serious automobile accident, on an episode of Nash Bridges airing tonight It's less of a comeback than you might think. Vincent basically has one scene. His lines are kept simple, and camera angle reduces the sight of Vincent's ravaged face. I'm usually reluctant to talk about Nash because it competes with one of my favorite series, Homicide: Life on the Street and on the quality meter, Homicide ranks far higher than Nash.

But the plain fact is Nash is a respectable action show with a good supporting Cast R.D. Heldenfels Albert back on NBC, but it's only for a 'Today' interview Marv Albert heads to NBC that would be the network that pink-slipped him next Thursday, when he'll chat with Katie Couric on Today. Albert also will talk with ABC's Barbara Walters tonight on 2020. In addition, Albert has agreed to talk live with CNN's Larry King on Monday. Randy Quaid will star in a Starz! premium TV network movie.

Last Rites, the story of a heartless convicted killer who survives a televised prison execution and is transformed into a passive man with psychic abilities, will air in March. The Beacon Journal Friday, November 7, 1997 Page 8 Vincent Albert i'V BiTig1! HEE2 SLHslE 3E "HM'E'Ti-aam. Entertainment NBC Ni News (CC) Players: Con Artist. ft News (CC) 571 Hard Copy (CC) 5741 Homicide: Life on the Street: Birthday. A (TV14) (CC)4007 6949543 Friday Night: (1:36) Margaret Smith, Aerosmith.

A (TV14) 2261408 Late Night: (12:37) Actor Karl Maiden, music group Phish. A (TV14) (CC) 3028476 News (' Tonight Show: (11:35) Richard Gere and Mariska Hargitay. A (TV14) 21827533 Tonight A Dateline: An ongoing investigation into the automotive industry. A (CC) 4620 (TVPG) (CC) 4484 a 823 (Co) 197 ABC World Politically Jeopardy I News (CC) 5910 News (CC) 4560113 Teen Angel A (TVG) (CC) 21216 Nightline (11:35) (CC) 95966397 Wheel of Fortune (CC) 7649 Sabrina-Witch: (TVG) 16397 You Wish A (TVG) (CC) 41552 2020: Sportscaster Marv Albert and his fiancee, Heather Faulkiner. (CC) 88571 White Men Can! Jump (12:06) (Ft, '92) Two basketball hustlers form an unlikely partnersh).

Woody Harrelson, Wesley Snipes. 8109392 News Tonight Boy Meets World A (TVG) 5804 Incorrect (CC) (CC) 8674 6262 42682595 News 39281 Visitor: Reunion. The Hunter News 71281 All in the Extra A (CC) 6587 Millennium: 19:19. A (TVPG) (PA) (CC) 78194 Hudson Hawk (R, '91 A former cat burglar breaks back into the business. Bruce Willis, Oanny Aiello.

289330 Real TV A (TVPG) (CC) 8484 Keenen Ivory Wayans: Actress Alicia Witt. A (TV14) 69842 tries to undo the Visitor's work. Family (Part 2 A (TVPG) (CC) 61858 of 2) 46007 Praise A Thon Continues 259587 (3 Praise A Thon 19620 praise Praise A Thon (5:00) 421262 Praise A Thon (Joined in Progress) 168458 News 82610 M'A'S'H: News 2080533 Coach A Late Show: (11:35) Robert Nash Bridges: Revelations. CBS Evening News A (CC) 97262 Frasier A (TVPG) (CC) 99674 Family Matters A (TVG) 79656 Candid Camera's Battle of the Sexes A (TVPG) (CC) I47842 Step by Step A (TVG) (CC) 59262 Seinfeld: The Abstinence. (TVPG) 67587 A (TV14) (CC) 37465 (CC) 2564040 Late Late Show: (1:37) Actor Robert Blake.

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Trailside: Wine 101 Served Alio, 'Alio! (Off Air) CB Barney: (TVY) 9218620 Sesame Street: (TVY) Wash. Week 4381939 Keeping Up 3342571 Served 6168571 Newshour With Jim Lehrer (CC) 4166113 No Job-Lady 2156408 Red Dwarf A 7665427 4466674 Adv. 1483668 1467620 3427216 3249303 Am.Journal Edition Soldier-Fortune 41620 Cops: (TVPG) Cops: (TVPG) Edition Team Knight Rider 61484 Gunsmoke Ninety Nine Club 51007 Sinbad: (TVPG) 27200 LAPP: (TVPG) Bonanza 189311 Paid 3234216 Paid 3152668 Paid 9077026 Paid 3141552 Paid 9159674 Paid 9065281 Paid 8477910 Paid 7064259 (Paid 6711281 Paid 6800129 fcj High School Football: Akron Springfield vs. Lake. (Tape Delay) 6526910 Nightsongs The Pride of the Yankees (42) The story of Ill-fated AMC Family Jewels The Pride of the Yankees (6:45) ('42) The story of ill-fated baseball 9938115 hjreat Lou Gehrig.

Gary Cooper, Teresa Wrtaht. 69171484 Daddy Long Legs ('55) A playboy falls in love with the orphan he sent to college, Fred Astaire. 6695303 The Mad Magician (11:15) ('54) Vincent Price, Eva Gabor. 44686484 uaseuaii great iou monng. jary uooper.

i tat in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (PG. '91) Money train (R. W) A transit coo's foster brother clans a Thinner (R, '96) A lawyer's body begins wasting away Lady Chatter ley's Passions 2: Julie's Secret CINE The Craft 8388779 Inside Out: (TVMA) William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy. A (CC) 200253 Isubway robbery. Wesley Snipes.

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58648779 Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Special Edition (PG, '80) Richard Preytuss, (CC) 49066972 uoan nan, Jason warsoen. w) omi)udo caievcz. sy) isi loot racnara rTyor. (uu) 3168UB23 Modem Problems (6:15) A man is teiekinetic after beina D.C. Cab (R, '83) Adam Baldwin, Charlie Flatilners (9:45) Med-school students make I The Prisoner of Second Avenue (11:45) (PG.

75) ENCORE Reflections In a Golden Eye ('67) 7384750 Bamett. 2167465 doused with nuclear waste. Chevy Chase. 74953571 the threshold of death. Kiefer Sutherland.

2514910 use Lerrtmon, Anne Bancroft 66304910 Cop Hater (6:40) ('58) Robert Awakenings An experimental dnjg revives victims of Meatballs Part II (PG, '84) Richard Muili- The Last Starf ighter FLIX 12 Angry Men (CC) 1844649 i The Usual Suspects Five small-time criminals begin an iHI-fated association. Stephen Baldwin. (CC) 6344620 Gerald OloughKn. A 21682769 sleeping sKKness. Hoom wimams.

(UC) 9511378 nooen Kreston. saioi)i4 gan, jonn wtengattt. 203313 Inside the NFL A (CC) The Phantom (5:15) BSty Space Jam (PG, '96) Michael Jordan, InsideNFL Chris Rock A Mr. Show The Surgeon (R, '95) Isabel Glasser, HBO Crypt: (TVMA) 668026 The Night Flier (Ft, '97) Miguei Ferrer, Julie Entwisle. A (CC) 557571' 114620 zane.

iu) jwayne Knigm. a (CC) 814378 uames Remar. A 9681040 (TVMA) 29555021 With: (TVMA) A Walk in the Clouds (5:45) (PG-13, '95) Bottle Rocket (R, '96) Owen C. Wilson, Fall Time (R, '95) Mickey Rourke, Losln' It (R, '82) Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle HB02 Long Shots: American Basketball Assoc. 2438151 Bikini Drive-in (1:15) (R, '94) Ashlie Rhey, Richard Gabai.

88541359 Keanu Heeves. (grj) 65357649 nine wiison. (tx;) B453216 stepnen Baiowin, a (CC) 416255 Haiey. 858620 Braveheart (R, '95) A Scottish rebel rallies his countrymen aoainst EnoJand. Mel Gib- The Brothers McMuilen (6:15) (a '95) Jack Mulcahy, Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (12:50) Don HB03 Doomsday Gun ('94) Weapons designer Gerald Bull plans to build a supergun.

Frank Langella. 8163484 son, Sophie Marceau. A (CC) 9351755 IvHKe MCbtOne. (UU) 89663878 The Dragon" Wilson. (CC) 27188601 Things Change (5:30) Money for Nothing (7:15) (R, "93) John Cusack, Debi Muihoiland Falls (R, '96) A cop in postwar LA.

searches iThe Last Road (10:50) (NR, '97) Julie Strain, MOV The Surgeon (12:20) (R, '95) Isabel Glassier, James Remar. A 94418576 Sorceress 9850088 Don i Ameche. 5878026 Mazar. (UU) t)5145303 tor his ex-tover's killer, Nick Nolte. (CC) 1377281 I inn vavanaugn.

i 1 aoviu If Lucy Fell (R, '96) Sarah Jessica Park- Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods. A SHOW Ferris Bueiter's Day Off (6:10) (PG-13, '86) Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara. A 48697910 On the Set: Star (TVPG) Hngr: (TVMA) 8169991 Extreme Measures (12:10) An ER doctor investigates a homeless man's strange death. Hugh Grant. 3969514 Bloodknot 44513137 er, Eric Schaeffer.

A (CC) 9082804 (IV14)fl 7458991 Robin of Locksiev (5:30) Summer Camp (7:15) Summer-camp youngsters turn the Feast of July (R, '95) Three brothers fall in love with the Cyberzone (R, '95) Marc Singer, Matthias PreyCham SHOW2 iUly Date (12:25) (PG, '96) Tim Guinee, Stockard Charming, A 64090458 Devon Sawa. 83265991 tables on their tormentors. Joe Flaherty. 24504674 same woman. tmoetni iDavidtz.

(CC) 6001842 HlieS. 43144bO 49627866 STARZ! Into the West Mystery Science Theater 3000 85120910 Apolio 13 (PG, "95) Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton. A (CC) 5550303 jWhlte Squall (PG-13, '96) Jeff Bridges. 12738842 The Big Chill (12:45) Tom Berenger. 99133885 Crack-Up ('46) A museum curator believes he is a train They Live by Night ('49) Farley iA Woman's Secret (9:45) ('49) Maureen O'Hara, In a Uneiy Place ('50) Humphrey Bog- Ginger and Fred (1:15) (PG-13, '8 TCM wreck victim.

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aoaoaa Saved-Bell Saved-Bell WGN Family: (TVG) Coach A Look Who's Talking John Travolta. 686378 News A (CC) 698113 Beverly Hills, 90210 661674 Heat of Night 401840 Simon Simon 266885 Solid Gold WTBS Coach A Family: (TVG) Family: (TVG) Coach (CC) Medicine Man (8:05) Sean Connery. 59285179 Rocky III (10:15) (PG, '82) Sylvester Stallone. 39678264 Twilight Zone: The Movie John Lithgow. 451250 Northern Exposure 296823 Law Order (CC) 770200 Biography (TVG) 756620 Castles: (TVG) 776484 Grand Tour: (TVG) 779571 GrandTour: Law Order (CC) 818674 Biography (TVG) 107798 Castles: (TVG) 477595 BET 227 794736 Rap City Planet Groove Top Twenty 129668 Hit List 215804 Comicview 218991 Comicview Rap City Top 10 118552 227 130972 Midnight Love 267866 Chantons BRAVO Dance Theatre of Harlem (TVG) 467945 Typewritr-Rifle 688736 The Steel Helmet ('51) 867277 I Shot Jesse James ('49) 995303 Shock Corridor Peter Breck.

550972 Typewritr-Rifle 506494 Addams Scooby Poo" CARTN Super Bravo: (TVY7) IChicken: 2-Dogs iToonHeads Dexter: (TVG) DinoStay: Tex Avery Coleman Globetrotters SpGhost: iCartoon Hong Kong Wacky Jabberjaw Bull 9232200 CNBC Business Great Stuff Hardball Edge Rivera Live 4240129 Equal Time Brian Williams 4243216 Charles Grodin 4280281 Rivera Live 3250601 Charles Grodin 6783682 Hardball CNN Crossfire News 222113 WorldView (CC) 847571 Moneyl ine Burden-Proof Larry King Live 394804 World Today (CC) 397991 Sports Moneyline NewsNight jShowbiz Burden-Proof (3 Sports Larry King COM You Can't Hurry Love David Packer. 7202397 Mystery Date Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo. 7207842 Blind Date (PG-13, '87) Bruce WiBis. 2917910 You Can Hurry Love David Packer. 2689798 Mystery Date CSN HR Derby fsports 97200 Notre Dame at Miami 81484 Roberto Quran Night at the Fights 425113" Duran a Notre Dame at Miami 226156 DISC Wings: Harrier.

(TVG) 201755 Gimme: (TVG) 752804 Wild Disc. (TVG) 761552 News 127674 Storm: (TVG) (TVPG) 857303 Justice Files 727378 Wild Disc. (TVG) 105330 News 934205 Storm: (TVG) Fangs: News Weekend 308113 Videofashion Gossip: News Weekend 864194 Gucci Empire 957858 Melrose Place A 202798 Talk Soup: (TVPG) 867281 Stern: (TV14) Stern: (TV14) Talk Soup: (TVPG) 514205 Stern: (TV14) I ESPN 3 Up Close Sportscenter 687552 Boxing: Jorge Luis Gonzalez'vs. Michaej Grant. 131397 PGA Golf: Kapalua Int'l.

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Emeril Live ThreeDog Quench HIST Waco (TVG) 3363246 World War (TVG) 7138674 In Search of History: Ancient Inventions. (TVG) 7045910 Hell In the Pacific (G, '69) Lee Marvin. 8466804 Hell in Pacific In Search of History: Ancient Inventions. (TVG) 8907750 Garden: BeforAftr House Dr GoodTaste Interiors Walls-Work Workshop: Home Front Party-Home Homes GoodTaste Interiors Walls-Work Home Front Homes House Dr Party-Home INSP Kenneth C. Cerullo Variety John Hagee Robison Zola Levitt Brkthrgh Praise Bishop P.

Jewels Benny Hinn Interviews CollectKnife Crosstalk World Impact Washington Prophecy LIFE Unsolved Mysteries A Homicide: Life on the Street Place A 499682 Place A 666427 Golden Girls Supermarket 596200 Debt: (TVG) 587552 Intimate Portrait: Sarah Brady. A (TVG) 426264 Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy ('94) Danica McKel-lar, Dee Wallace Stone. 276561 426084 A 300359 A (CC) 901378 MSNBC News Chat (5:00) 9331674 InterNight 2730823 Big Show 2749571 Brian Williams 2736007 Weekend Mag 2739194 Brian Williams 1235311 Big Show 5649842 Weekend Mag 3892779 InterNight MTV Rock 578804 Sports MTV Live A (TVPG) 470823 Sports Music Festival: Sports and music festival. A 285755 Mattrock Weekend 341754 Beavis: Sex 202717 Daria: (TVPG) Daria: (TVPG) Amp: (TVPG) NASH Dukes of Hazzard 416571 Dukes of Hazzard 967620 Auto Racing: World of Outlaws. From Las Vegas.

(Live) A 562571 Dallas A 932194 Auto Racing: World of Outlaws. From Las Vegas. A 572359 NICK FigureOut: Tiny Toon Doug: (TVY) Rugrats: Taxi 125543 Newhart Kablam: HappyDays Wonder Yrs. Bewitch: Lucy 565465 Odd Couple M.T. Moore Van Dyke Bob Newhart Rhoda Happy Days Home Life ODY Life Choices Our House 9780194 Father Murphy 9877674 In Your Wildest Dreams Lise Wilbum.

9783281 Our House 1545910 In Your Wildest Dreams Lise Wilbum. 4534040 Life Choices SCI-FI Starship Night Stalker (CC) 1485736 Swamp Puppet Master (8:01) Elizabeth MacClellan. 5416741 Frl. the 13th Series 6761638 Frl. the 13th Puppet Master II (12:01) Elizabeth MacClellan.

7396595 Night Stalker (CC) 9904200 NBA Action BCavs SPTCH BNBA Basketball 185682 NBA Basketball: Cleveland Cavaliers at Boston Celtics. (Live) 937026 Sports FOX Sports News 316587 3 FOX Sports News 103620 Racing gFcotbaff TLC Hometime: Hometime: Real America 978736 Home Again Home Again Heaven's Breath 916277 Real America 927262 Earth's Fury (TVG) 981200 Earth's Fury (TVG) 471866 Heaven's Breath 631 31 1 Home Again Kung Fu: The Legend Con Lois Clark: Adventures of NBA Basketball: Orlando Magic at Detroit Pistons. From the Palace of Inside the NBA Basketball: New York Knicks at Los Angeles Lakers. From the Great TNT Policewoman Centerfold Melody Anderson. 470137 tinues 409281 Superman 366718 Auburn Hills.

(Live) A (CC) 470281 NBA 121359 western r-orum. (Live) (UJ) TRAV Earth Burt Wolf Burt Wolf Destination Destination Road Trips Burt Wolf Taste-Travel Travels Earth Destination Destination Burt Wolf Taste-Travel Travels Holiday Road Trips TVLAND That Girl That Girl That Girl That Girl Petticoat Jet. Green Acres BosomBud Phil Silvers Green Acres Flip Wilson Mannix 198842 Petticoat Jet. That Girl Hogan Flip Wilson Hogan Walker, Texas Ranger: Ghost The Professional (R, '94) A hit man takes an orphan USA Baywatch: Leap of Faith. A (TVPG) (CC) 849939 Highlander: The Series: See No Evil.

A (CC) 496216 Scorned (NR, '94) A woman seeks revenge on the man who mined her life. Andrew Stevens. 746939 Last Call (R, '90) William Katl, Shannon Tweed. A 215682 Hiaer. I VKi) 309736 unoer nis wing, jean Heno.

(uu) 3U2823 VH1 Big '80s Hollywood Storytellers 871484 Bandstand Pop Up jNashvilte The turbulent lives of country music stars on stage and off. Lily Tomlin. 147129 Pop-Up Video 896392 Top 10 The numbers that you see after the programs are the codes for users of VCR Plus, a remote that automatically sets the VCR to tape on the correct day, time and channel from the program number. TV each take a small bite, but those bites add up to a big chunk. Even now we see that, although The WB and UPN are not exactly battling for the top of the Nielsen charts, they are taking bites out of the audience once reserved for the broadcast networks.

Cable services of course do likewise. The moves by Paxson and Diller put two more sharks in the Geraldo Rivera (9 a.m. Ch. 8, noon WGN) Celebrity news. Live Regis Kathie Lee (9 a.m.

Ch. 21, 11 a.m. Ch. 5) Larry Hagman. Sally (9 a.m.

Ch. 3, Ch. 33) Making guests' dreams come true. Home Team (10 a.m. Ch.

8, Ch. 27) Actor Darius McCrary. Jenny Jones (10 a.m. Ch. 3, Ch.

33) HIV-positive teen gives advice. Gayle Kings. (10:30 a.m. Ch. 21) Liza Minnelli.

Leeza (11 a.m. Ch. 21) Things some people do for cash. View (11 a.m. Ch.

33) Tommy Tune, Princess Diana's dresses. Maury (3 p.m. Ch. 3, 4 p.m. Ch.

21) Giving birth in unusual places. Ricki Lake (3 p.m. Ch. 8) Sexiest blue-collar men contest. Jerry Springer (4 p.m.

Ch. 3) Guests reveal actual gender. Montel Williams (4 p.m. Ch. 27, 5 p.m.

Ch. 3) Paternity tests. Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m. Ch. 5, 5 p.m.

Ch. 21) Members of the Kennedy clan. Rosie O'Donnell (4 p.m. Ch. 8, Ch.

33) Mary Tyler Moore. ver King broadcasting stations, among them Channel 61, and the Home Shopping Network. Last month, Diller made a deal to take over USA Networks (which includes USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel) and production company Universal Television. Several reports, including one in Mediaweek, speculate that the Silver King stations could carry some of the USA and Sci-Fi programming so those services can reach beyond cable and satellite-dish audiences. Does all this help viewers? In the strictest sense of providing another viewing option, sure.

And it's a boost for program producers looking for another way to get their product seen. But for the major networks, all of this recalls a line by the late Brandon Tartikoff when he was running NBC's entertainment division. Asked how it felt to compete with dozens of cable networks, Tartikoff likened it to being nibbled to death by sharks. They may 55). But any network coming in now would find all the entertainment stations affiliated with a network: WKYC (Channel 3) with NBC; WEWS (Channel 5), ABC; WJW (Channel 8), Fox; WOIO (Channel 19), CBS, as well as Channel 43 (UPN) and Channel 55 (The WB).

That leaves Channels 23 and 67, both run by Paxson as outlets for its infomercials and other programs; WQHS (Channel 61), part of the Home Shopping Network, and WDLI (Channel 17), part of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. So Paxson has a leg up on another would-be network because it owns stations here and elsewhere and can simply switch them over to its programs. And while Paxson is making its move, the TV industry is closely watching Barry Diller, the former Fox and ABC executive who has repeatedly made attempts to launch his own national network and has also built a station base. Diner's holdings include 12 Sil Paxson has a leg up because it owns stations Continued from Page Cl stations reaching more than 60 percent of the nation's TV viewers. One of the challenges facing any new network is the ability to reach its audience, and that's not always easy.

Both The WB and UPN were initially affiliated with WUAB (Channel 43), but The WB was the secondary affiliate and saw its programs moved all over the schedule. Earlier this year, Channel 43 decided to work exclusively with UPN, leaving The WB to search for a new affiliate. It then made a deal with WBNX (Channel 7:00 p.m. Penguins Game Day (FSPITT) 880007 8:00 p.m. Equal Time (CNBC) 4389571 SATURDAY Midnight Essence of Emeril (FOOD) Repeat.

6887408 3:00 a m. Mattrock Weekend (MTV) With Aerosmith. (Stereo) Repeat 912359 3:30 a.m. Sports Bar (Ch. 8) Pathetic football team.

(Stereo) 30682 4:00 a.m. Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (Ch. 8) A high-speed chase begins in New Hampshire and ends in Massachusetts; a crime spree in Little Rock, Ark. Repeat 51175 4:30 a.m. Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (Ch.

8) A young driver flees on foot after hitting a patrol car, troopers encounter partying teens; brutal rape and murder lead to a car chase, Repeat 49866 5:00 a.m. Adventures of Sinbad (WGN) Ron-gar returns to his homeland. (Stereo) 377717 (Closed-Captioned) Beverly Hills style at a Akron price, at "Best only $8.95 MTV mixing up sports, stunts and tunes 10:00 a.m700 Club (FAM) Abuse at the hands of the IRS. 713736 11:00 a.m. Real TV (Ch.

8) Hidden cameras catch a crime ring. (Stereo) Repeat. 54026 (Closed-Captioned) Our Home (LIFE) Michael Peterson leads a tour of the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Stereo) 913113 11:30 a.m. Real Stories of the Highway Patrol (Ch.

8) Hitchhikers steal their driver's van; armed fugitive tracked down in Utah. 55755 Noon Judge Judy (Ch. 33) Fight over video game system. (Stereo) 28858 (CC) Hollywood Vinyl (VH1) Elvis Presley films. Repeat.

676026 Golf (SCOHIO, FSNETW) Gene Sarazen World Open Championship Second Round. From Braselton, Ga. (Live) 570858 177246 12:30 p.m. Inside Edition (Ch. 21) Stars estranged from parents.

99804 (CC) 1:00 p.m. 700 Club (Ch. 43) (Lea in Progress) Abuse at the hands of the IRS. 3268692 Mattrock Weekend (MTV) With Aerosmith. (Stereo) 563587 1:30 p.m.

Premiere Videos (VHl) 302939 2:00 p.m. Muppet Babies (NICK) 505823 3:00 p.m. Ail-Time Top 10 (MTV) Female music videos. (Stereo) Repeat 470303 Senior PGA Golf (ESPN) Energizer Senior Tour Second Round. From Myrtle Beach, C.

(Live) 569842 3:30 p.m. Inspector Gadget (NICK) 328216 4:00 p.m. Judge Judy (Ch. 19) Fight over video game system. (Stereo) 96533 (CC) NCAA Weekly: The Slant (FSPITT) Repeat 515281 4:30 p.m.

Theodore Tugboat (Ch. 4549) Scary things. 9319303 WAC Magazine (FSPITT) 511465 5:00 p.m. Real TV (Ch. 27) Truck owners battle firefighters.

(Stereo) 50281 (CC) 5:30 p.m. Twelve Angry Viewers (MTV) (Stereo) 591755 5:30 a.m. Rebecca's Garden (Ch. 43) On loca- tion with Dr. Quinn.

(Stereo) 3144866 8:00 a.m. Sing Me a Story (Ch. 5) Each child is unique. (Stereo) (Kl) Repeat. 12040 Usiuseu-iapuoneai Just arrived: hundred of new dsclgna for all occasional Starting at From Hmem Journal unre services Hmm, let's see.

Snowboarding. Skateboarding. BMX dirt bikes and in-line skating. Must be MTV! The network formerly known as a purveyor of music videos will devote three hours tonight and seven hours tomorrow, to bringing us the first-ever Sports Music Festival, chock-full of alternative tunes (competitors got to pick the music they wanted to skateboard bike to) and death-defyin' feats. So precisely why is MTV doing this kind of thing? All together out with friends, not worry about being captain of the football team," Frattini said.

The show was taped last month in Austin, Texas, and, in case you were wondering, nobody got hurt -'just bruises and scratches," Frattini said. In addition to the sports and stunts, it features performances by 311, Blink 182, the Crystal Method, Everclear, the Offspring, Reel Big Fish, Smash Mouth and the Wu-Tang Clan. Catch it tonight from 8 to 11, and tomorrow from noon to 7 p.m. "Our audience, the 12- to-24-year-old audience that we're targeting. There really is a connection between what these kids listen to and what they do in their down-time," said MTV vice presidentexecutive in charge of production Sally Frattini.

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