Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 7

Reno Gazette-Journal Saturday, December 2, 1995 7A Krxi Takes To The Air Sunday News will air from Oakland Man who didn't father girl must pay her support PITTSBURGH (AP) He looked like a father, acted like a father and in all respects thought he was a father for six years. But a 32-year-old bus driver suddenly learned that someone else had fathered the girl who called him "Daddy." Now he is trying to cut off all ties to the 8-year-old girl but a judge won't let him. The odds are against the man known in Erie County Court papers only as "Mr. Family law experts say a legal determination of parenthood at birth is extremely difficult to alter later in a child's life. Mr.

was ordered earlier this month to resume monthly payments for the 8-year-old girl. He lived with but did not marry the girl's mother when the girl was born in 1987. The case raises an interesting question: If a man thinks he's a father and acts like a father, does that make him a father even if he's unrelated to the child in a biological sense? Pennsylvania law says yes. So do the laws of most other states. But Mr.

is appealing to state Superior Court in an attempt to change that. KTVU News On KRXI RENO SIMULCAST 10 O'clock News: Starting Sunday, it'll air daily from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sundays through Fridays, and from 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Saturdays. Simulcast: The "10 O'Clock News" will be rebroadcast daily at 1 1 p.m. on KAME-TV Channel 21, the region's United Paramount Network affiliate. Mornings on 2: Starting Monday, it'll air from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

weekdays. KTVU 5 p.m. News: Starting Dec. 10, KRXI will air this news program from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Sundays. Smoking From page 1 A bcr of foster families. "I can't ban the employment of smokers," McDowell said. "I believe there is good judgment used among counselors and employees," said McDowell, whose homes are for abused and neglected children with emotional and behavioral problems. He said the agency does have a smoking policy that allows only one smoker at a time inside the home.

"I do know that common courtesy is being used and they are not having smoking parties," he said. Healy's complaint is not new among non-smokers who say that cigarette smoke is a health problem. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that second-hand smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths a year in nonsmoking adults and impairs the health of children. Tobacco advocates respond that the EPA claims were crafted from politics, not science.

State deputy attorney general Donald Winne said his office plans to look into Healy's complaint. Meanwhile, child advocates also agree that second-hand smoke should be kept away from children, but fear a state-imposed restriction will deter potential and people had told us thcyoissed it," Harvey said. KRXI still must determine how many minutes of local news it'll insert on a temporary basis into KTVU newscasts, he said. "We'll have to look at their show format, and how long we'll need to cover headl i nes of local news," Harvey said. the word out airs on KAME-TV Channel 2 1 A separate advertising campaign will begin in January, to promote KAME as a United Paramount Network affiliate.

KAME's campaign will not run simultaneous to KRXI's. because the station's officials don't want to confuse viewers, Harvey said. KRXI's current campaign includes 20 billboards in the Reno-Sparks area. Print ads include displays in TV Guide and the Gazette-Journal's weekly television guide. By Wayne Melton GAZETTE-JOURNAL At the start, Reno's newest television station, KRXI-TV Channel 1 1 will air news straight from its sister channel in Oakland.

KRXI says by late March it'll start inserting Reno-area news into its simulcasts of "The 10 O'Clock News," produced by its sister station KTVU-TV Channel 2. And in time the new Reno station plans to phase out all of KTVU's newscasts to air news generated in the Reno area, said Andy Harvey, KRXI spokesman. KTVU news programming includes upbeat, lively and in-depth segments on fashions, entertainment, business and personal finances, he said. Nevada Television Corp. still hasn't determined whether it'll produce its own local news, have it done by another local station or by a news production company not currently airing in the Reno market, Harvey said.

For the short-term, KRXI decided to air KTVU news, responding to local residents who told the station they want that popular program aired in the Reno market, he said. "It previously had been on for several years in Reno on cable, Station getting Billboards are busting out all over in the Truckee Meadows, along with radio and newspaper advertisements promoting KRXI-TV Channel 11. It's all part of a promotional campaign and marketing strategy costing several hundred thousand dollars, said Andy Harvey, KRXI spokesman. The campaign started several weeks ago, and it'll run through most of December, Harvey said. The station begins airing Sunday.

That's when it'll start airing Fox programming, which currently DREXEL HERITAGE. Double vS; OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS RENOVATION IS COMPLETED! Our Lady of the Snows Church resumes its regular schedule of Masses in the renovated church the weekend of December 2-3. Sincere thanks to Gene Ceragioli and his co-workers for a job well done. Thanks also to the Renovation Committee for its assistance and to our parishioners for their patience during the past two months. We would like to especially acknowledge the assistance of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in allowing the use of their church for Sunday Masses during October and November.

1 138 Wright Street, Reno, Nevada 323-6894 nt SCOll toster families. Child welfare officials say the foster-care system in Nevada has been stretched to the breaking point as more children are neglected, abandoned or abused by their parents addicted to drugs and alcohol. Washoe County has 151 licensed foster homes and Douglas County 51, including Carson City. "There is a grave, grave shortage of foster homes," said Sharon Gibbons, coordinator of the county's Child Protective Services. Foster families get paid little for opening their homes.

State officials asked the 1995 Legislature to increase reimbursements to foster families in an effort to make the job more attractive. A 5 percent increase was approved, but it's still not enough, Gibbons said. For example, it costs more to keep a dog in a kennel in Washoe County than it is to house a child in a foster care home. Foster care parents can receive up to $9.70 a day for a child under 1 3. Average for housing a dog in a kennel is S12.

And ordering guardians not to smoke may have an adverse effect. "Foster parents are volunteers and if we start talking about their personal habits and lifestyle, I'm not sure what would come out of that," said George Pelham of the Child and Family Services. DREXEL HERITAGE. Station From page 1A lumbia Cable in Miriden, Gard-nerville and Fallon. Here's what you'll find: Fox Broadcasting programming such as "Melrose Place," "Beverly Hills 90210" and "The X-Files," which is Fox's highest-ranked show but was only in 40th place in the Nielsen ratings in the last week of November.

Fox carries 1 5 houq of original programming each week, including National Football League games. 10 p.m. daily news from sister station KTVU-TV in Oakland. KRXI promises that by late March it'll start inserting Reno-area news into "The 10 O'Clock News." KRXI also will air syndicated episodes of "The Simpsons" and "Seinfeld." KAME-TV Channel 21 will become a primary United Paramount Network affiliate on Sunday. It will continue to air a full menu of "Star Trek" shows, including UPN's "Star Trek: Voyager." KAME also will air "M.A.S.H," and other syndicated programs.

Fox's NFL broadcasts will be broadcast on both stations through the remainder of this season. "Everybody has worked hard, and we're ready," Kevin O'Brien, KRXI's new general manager, said this week. "On Sunday at 6 a.m., Luther will push the button and we'll be on the air." But firing up a new station, Mack learned, is harder than pushing a button. Mack hea-d 10 years ago that the Federal Communications Commission was going to grant a new VHF band license in the Reno area. He and local attorney Steve Walther competed against 20 other business interests for the license, and after a dozen trips to Washington, D.C., Mack won the license after promising his station would be deeply involved in the community.

But that was just the beginning. Mack as president, chairman and a primary stockholder of a privately held corporation (Nevada Television Corp. or NTC) set up to own the station had to negotiate a number of other deals. Among them: NTC recruited Cox Broadcasting highly respected throughout the TV industry to run its new station. Cox owns and operates TV stations nationwide, including KTVU-TV in Oakland.

Then, with the help of Cox, Mack lured Fox Broadcasting away from KAME-TV, which has a much weaker UHF signal. Mack saved his company millions of dollars, by negotiating a deal clearing the way for KRXI to broadcast from the headquarters of an existing Reno TV station KAME. Cox also agreed to manage KAME. Cox will pay KAME-TV owner Ellis Communications more than $10 million for non-licensed assets, including its building and transmitters and other equipment. Mack helped garner a dial slot on TCI of Nevada, ensuring KRXI will get cable customers.

Mack also helped negotiate a unique agreement with clearing the way for the first broadcast tower ever on Peavine Peak. Until the Peavine transmitter is turned on early next year, KRXI's transmitter will be on Red Peak north of Reno and will give the new station a service area compa rable to KTVN-TV ThahnH anH KRNV-TV Channel 4. And after the Peavine transmitter is turned on. its service area will be neanv as large as KOLO's. Current plans call tor KRXI to have a total 20 transmitters it ei ther owns or that are owned bv other comDanies.

That comDares to a total 75 transmitters used bv KOLO. Transmitters will be used to send over-air KRXI sienals as far as winnemucca ana ration to tne east, busanvi to the north, and Hawthorne. Goldfield and Tono- pah in the south, Mack said. Frankly, I thought it would take 1 5 or 20 vears to eet the sta tion on the air. not lust 10 vears.

Mack said. O'Brien said KRXI is not sched uled to make a net orofit until 1998. Mack and others declined to say wnat Kind ot prom a station this size could exnect. but sources say VMh stations in markets or Reno size stand to make net profit of $3 million to $5 million a year. KRXI is the area's fifth VHF- band TV station.

Officials at Re no existing commercial VHt- sta tions KOLO-TV Channe 8. an ABC affiliate: NBC's KRNV-TV Channel 4 and CBS KTVN-TV Channel 2 have said thev wel come tne competition. Mack and Walther haven dis closed what Dercentaee of NTC they own. From the start, NTC's stockholders have included Brian McKay, former Nevada attorney general, and Karen Zupon Kor- check of Incline Villaee. a former KRNV-TV Channel 4 reporter and a former Nevada denutv at torney general.

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