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vir 'V -f '-fyr -r if Page D2, Sunday, September 8, 1991 The Deacon Journal H'f kJM Area TV viewers get an ABC choice 'Ten UttJe Indians' Cleveland's WEWS, Akron's WAKC both affiliates of network, causing rating woes for smaller station De Marino, most recently with country station WGAR (99.5-FM). has jumped to television, as the new managing editor of WUAB (Channel Ten O'clock News. The good news is that Channel 43 has gotten a competent, seasoned journalist. The bad news is that radio has lost one. And radio can't afford to lose any more.

These days, all but a handful of radio stations have reverted to the old "rip and read" school, in which one or two overworked "news directors" spend their days ripping stories off wire machines and reading them almost verbatim, rather than doing any real tegwork of their own. You can credit most of that development to the buying and selling binge of the late 1980s, when stations were traded faster than baseball cards. The frenzy was fueled in part by the elimination of a federal rule requiring a new owner to hold onto a station for at least three years. Deregulation brought scores of new investors into the business, many of whom stripped stations to the bone to show a higher profit margin, then dumped the stations a few months later for millions of dollars more than they paid. Mr.

Bojingles As 10-year-old WOAC (Channel 67) kicks off a new season this weekend, it is promising bigger and better things, including an all-new jingle package. Promotions Director J-D DiAn-gelis wrote the lyrics with help from others on the staff. A Dallas Newcomers to the area often are surprised to find two local TV stations carrying largely the same programming. In most cities, viewers have one ABC affiliate, one CBS affiliate and one NBC affiliate. But in this area, when you're talking ABC, you're talking multiple choice: Akron's WAKC (Channel 23) or Cleveland's WEWS (Channel 5).

That's a big part of WAKC's ongoing ratings problem. Because WEWS is older and bigger and has a stronger signal, it steals most of WAKC's thunder. Even within Summit County, WEWS has four times the viewers of WAKC. Overlapping affiliates are unusual but not unique. Within ABC alone, similar arrangements exist in Grand Rapids and Battle Creek, Sarasota and Tampa-St.

Petersburg, Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, Iowa; and Manchester, N.H., and Boston. Why put two affiliates in the same market? "The reason it started is because at one time ABC was the third network and there was a very aggressive affiliation move to try to get more clearance for its Bob It's beginning to look Christmas bazaar notices will be published Oct. following are guidelines for getting them in paper Classical E.J. Thomas arts rally Next Sunday is the Rally for the Arts at E.J. Thomas Hall.

It begins with a scavenger hunt on wheels at 4:30 p.m., continues with an entertainment (air on the E.J. Thomas Plaza from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and ends with a free laser light show from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on E.J. Thomas Plaza.

The Akron Symphony Orchestra, Ohio Ballet, Tuesday Musical Club, Children's Concert Society and University of Akron's College of Fine and Applied Arts will participate in the entertainment fair. Registration in the road rally costs $10 for driver and car registration, $5 per passenger (limit three). For more information, contact E.J. Thomas Hall at 972-7570. Music Concerts The Agora Metropolitan, 4900 Euclid Cleveland.

Phone: 881-6911, 881-6700. Front 242, 8 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $14. Blossom Made Center, 1145 W.

Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Phone: 920-8040. Tom Petty The Heartbreak-ers, Chris Whitley, 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $16 (lawn only).

Empire, 1012 Sumner Court at East Ninth Street, Cleveland. Phone: 861-3773. Armored Saint, Wrathchild America, Last Crack, 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $7.50.

Buddy Guy, 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $12. Palace Theatre, 1511 Euclid Cleveland. Phone: 771-4444.

Manhattan Transfer, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $24. Peabody's DownUnder, 1059 Old River Road, in Cleveland's Flats. Phone: 241-2451.

Subdudes, 9 tonight. Tickets: $8. Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, 8:30 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $5.

World Music Night, with Solid Steel The Samba Scouts, 9 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $4. Ponderosa Park, 9362 Salem Warren Road, five miles north of Salem. Phone: 332-0044.

Fall Round-Up (Darryl Don Gatlin), 2 this afternoon. Tickets: $15. THEATER 'Hamlet' at Coach House Coach House Theatre opens its 1991-92 season with a production of Hamlet at 8 p.m. Thursday in the theater at 732 W. Exchange Akron.

Performances continue at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 12. Tickets are $8.

Call 434-7741. Carousel presents 'Fiddler' Carousel Dinner Theatre presents Fiddler on the Roof at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The production continues through Nov. 3, with performances Tuesdays through Sundays.

Tickets are $24 to $29.75 for dinner and show, $13.50 to $19.25 for show only. The Carousel is at 1275 E. Waterloo Road, Akron (724-9855). 'Seven Keys to Baldpate' The Western Reserve Playhouse debut of Seven Keys to Baldpate opens at 8 p.m. Friday in the theater at 3326 Everett Road, Richfield.

Performances continue through Sept. 28. Tickets are $6, $5 for students and senior citizens. Call 659-6705, or 659-6444. Lakewood world premiere The world premiere of Lake-wood Little Theatre's Oh Jonah is 8:30 p.m.

Friday in the Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 17801 Detroit Lakewood. Performances continue at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays, through Oct. 6.

Tickets are $9 and $10. Call company produced it. A listen to the demo tape reveals a heavy emphasis on the station's sports programming, its local orientation and its status as an independent station. Although promotional material identifies Channel 67 as serving both Canton and Akron, the new package won't do much to make Akron viewers feel welcome. You don't have to be a genius to realize that the "Hall of Fame City" they're referring to is not Akron, regardless of the fancy plans for an Inventors Hall.

Format scorecard The most popular radio format these days, as judged by adding up the Arbitron surveys taken all over the country, is "adult contemporary." That's the industry name for mainstream, soft-rock stations such as WLTF (106.5-FM), WDOK (102.1-FM) and WQMX (94.9-FM). Just over 14 percent of the nation's radio listeners have their dials tuned to such stations. Arbitron identifies 16 other format categories. Here's the best of the rest: Album rock or classic rock: 12 percent. Top 40 10 percent Country: 10 percent.

News or news-talk: 7 percent. Urban contemporary (black-oriented): 6 percent. Oldies: 6 percent. Nostalgia: 5 percent. Spanish: 3.2 percent.

what? BAZAAR mmnmm MONDAY 7:00 a.m. Today (Ch. 3, 21, WTOV) Katie Oniric, on maternity leave, returns as co-anchor, interviews actress Katharine Hepburn, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney; Dr. Holly Atkinson begins as Today medical correspondent, discusses sleep disorders; John Tesh; new Adventures of Mark and Brian series tennis' Jimmy Connors; King Hussein of Jordan. (Stereo) (Closed-Cap-tioned) 85151 Good Morning America (Ch.

5, 23, 33) Comedian Dom DeLuise; talk-show host Oprah Winfrey; author Dominick Dunne; the Philippines' Im-elda Marcos; Sen. John Kerry on MIA hearings; Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. (Closed-Captioned) 39118 14880 25557 This Morning (Ch. 8, 27, WTRF) The 20th anniversary of The Price Is Right; Ruth Warrick (All My Children); author Shelby Steele (The Content of Our Character). 65373 The Hall present Ten p.m.

Friday of Fame Players Little Indians ar 8 in Mayfield Center, 3825 13th St. formances through Sept. and $6. Call 9982. S.W., Canton.

Per-continue nightly 15. Tickets are $5 494-2322, or 4J7- Improvisational theater Sex at Seven, an improvisation-al theater program focusing on the sexual relationships of college students, will be presented at 9 p.m. Tuesday, 8 p.m. Wednesday and 7 p.m. Thursday in the Press-er Recital Hall on the Mount Union College campus.

Admission is free. ART Twins exhibit in Falls. Taylor Memorial Library, 2015 Third Cuyahoga Falls, will exhibit watercolors, collages 'and acrylic paintings by twin sisters Marjorie and Mary Jane Evans through September. For information, call 928-2117. KSU opens season On Wednesday, Kent State University's School of Art will open its exhibition year with Contemporary Works in Felt It will run through Oct.

9. A free, public opening reception will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. The exhibit will feature three illustrated lectures: 6 p.m. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, and 8 p.m. Sept. 27, all in room 202 of the-art building. A three-day felt-making workshop (one credit, graduate or undergraduate) will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Sept.

27 to 29. For information, call 672-7853 or the KSU College of Continuing Studies, 672-3100. 'Of Human Form' Kent State University's Student Center Gallery will exhibit Of Human Form, figurative sculpture by Megan Sweeney, David Alban and Steven Bradford, from Wednesday through Oct. 4. A free, public opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday. For information, call 672-2554, Ext. 215. Asian series in Cleveland The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East will begin its Asian Autumn series with Masterpieces from the Collection, focusing on works from China, Japan and Korea. The exhibit will be on view Sept.

17 to Jan. 5. Also being shown are ceramics from the collection of late museum trustees Severance and Greta Millikin. The ceramics were bequeathed recently to the museum and have been incorporated into its Chinese and Japanese ceramics collection. For information, call 421-7340.

Sculpture series to start The Sculpture Center, 12206 Euclid Cleveland, will exhibit the works of Chris Daresh in its Window to Sculpture series Sept. 20 to Oct. 18. For information, call 229-6527. Contemporary Soviet art First Freedom: Soviet Masters of Expression is a show and sale of contemporary Soviet art for the benefit of the Leningrad Society of Artists.

It will be held Sept. 15 to Oct. 20 at Art at the Powerhouse, the PowerhouseNautica complex in the Cleveland Flats. For details, call 696-1942 or 431-7500: Photographs in Warren The Trumbull Art Gallery, 720 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren, will exhibit works by the Trumbull County Area Photographers and mono-prints by Susan Hood Cogan through Sept.

28. For information, call 395-4876. programs," said Krys Keller, director of affiliate relations for ABC. "The network was needing to get as much exposure as possible." Affiliates are paid to maintain a relationship with the network, and they also are given time within network shows to sell to local advertisers. One of the touchiest subjects between affiliates and networks is pre-emptions times when a local station airs its own programming (say, a high school sports event) rather than carrying the network feed.

Naturally, the network wants all of its programs to be carried by all of its affiliates, because the greater the overall audience, the more money the network makes. Nationally, some contracts spell out the number of pre-emptions permitted; others do not. Keller declined to be specific in terms of WAKC or WEWS. In practical terms, WEWS can get away with more pre-emptions than WAKC, because WEWS is a much bigger fish. From WAKC's standpoint, of course, pre-emptions by WEWS are welcome, because that leaves WAKC as the only game in town.

Unfortunately for WAKC, WEWS usually pre-empts ABC during the network's weakest time slots. Jumping ship Longtime radio newsman Mark List your featured items and include the theme or title if there is one. Make sure the dinner andor lunch costs include both adults' and children's prices. Attach the coupon to a larger sheet of paper. Only one person from a sponsoring organization should mail in a coupon.

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Human papilloma virus; living near Hawaiian volcanoes. 27224 2:00 p.m. U.S.S.R.: Changing Tiroes (CNN) Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Republic President Boris Yeltsin, KGB Chief Vadim Bakatin. Repeat. 128156 6:00 p.m.

Danger's Edge (Weather Channel) Documentary on hurricanes. 6:30 p.m. Dick Cavett (CNBC) Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen (Barton Fink). 5348514 7:00 p.m. World Premiere Cartoon Spectacular (Ch.

3, 21, WTOV) Canadian surfers Chip Pepper preview Saturday morning programming. 50088 Minute (Ch. 8, 27, WTRF) Used-car dealers who alter odometer read Summer's swan song won't be sung Until Sept. 22, but some folks already are humming Jingle Bells. The creatures are stirring 'round the houses, creating Christmas decorations, gifts, stocking-sniffers and other items to feature at upcoming holiday bazaars.

The Beacon Journal will publish a holiday bazaar calendar in the NOW section on Oct. 6. Non-profit organizations in Summit, Portage, Medina, Wayne and Stark counties are eligible. To list your bazaar, fill out the accompanying coupon. The deadline is Sept.

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