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Page D2, Sunday, October 18, 1992 KV The Beacon Journal r- -1 ijj -T'irife' fVojafls I .1 3m: Local TV news teams go far and away for special reports tion's third-largest market Thursday with microphones blazing. If Stern makes it to the top in Chicago and the only reason he might not is that he's heard on a low-rated station on the AM band (WLUP) he will own the three biggest markets in the country. He's already No. 1 in New York and Los Angeles. And don't forget No.

5 market Philadelphia, where he also reigns. Wonder how he'd play in Europe? Flying Fox Cleveland's Fox affiliate, WOIO (Channel 19), is on a roll. A Thursday ago, the station pulled in some of the best numbers in its eight-year history. From 5 to 9 p.m., its programming beat every show on Channel 3, the NBC affiliate, and every show on WUAB (Channel 43), the independent station. Four shows during that period also beat Channel 8, the CBS affiliate.

And two shows beat everybody, including the ABC affiliate. Granted, one of those programs was The Simpsons, Fox's strongest series. But Channel 19 has been making steady inroads in "local access" time, the hours where local stations wage war with syndicated purchases. That's a time slot where Channel 43 once shone. Today, Channel 43 clearly has its work cut out.

Radio shuffles Lynn Tolliver and Ralph Poole have worked so well together on Saturdays at WZAK (93.1-FM) that they've taken their act to mornings. Jeffrey Charles has returned to fill the midday slot vacated by Poole. Jerry Shirley, among those displaced when Howard Stern arrived at WNCX, is doing the graveyard shift, 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Another Stern victim, Paul Tapie, has resurfaced as morning driver at all-sports WKNR (1220-AM).

Staff writer Bob Dyer covers local television and radio. tiV FAMILN VALUES. WITH AWN Music 'Tosca' in Cleveland David Bamberger will direct a Cleveland Opera production of Puccini's Tosca at 2 p.m. today. The performance stars Vernon Hartman as Scarpia, Mary Jane Johnson as Floria Tosca and Craig Sirianni as Mario Cavaradossi.

It will be at the State Theatre, Playhouse Square, 1519 Euclid Cleveland. Tickets cost Call 241-6000 or (800) 492-6048. Chamber music tonight At 7 tonight, Gabrielli and Friends will perform chamber music by Mozart, Rossini and Dvorak in the Music Room of Stan Hywet Hall, 714 N. Portage Path, Akron. Tickets cost $12.

Call 672-3114. Orchestra at night The Cleveland Orchestra will perform under guest conductor Yoel Levi at 8 p.m. Thursday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto. The concerts are at Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Cleveland.

Tickets cost Call 231-1111 or (800) 686-1141. Orchestra in morning At 11 a.m. Friday at Severance Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra under Yoel Levi will present the first matinee concert of the season. Tickets cost Call 231-1111 or (800) 686-1141. I NFL Football: Kansas City Chiefs at Rand, along with videographer Brian Archer and special-projects coordinator Suzanne Wise, stayed in a research camp.

"It was pretty rustic," Rand says. "There were huts, but they were completely open. It was like living right in the heart of the jungle, with all the sights and sounds. None of us ever slept. Tarantulas were running through our rooms." Overall, though, the conditions were not nearly as brutal as she had anticipated.

The group visited in July, Peru's winter, and the temperature was only about 85 degrees. Even better, the clouds of mosquitoes she had expected didn't show up. Still, it was hardly Club Med. The rain would arrive without warning and come in a deluge. And, says Rand, who has won 11 local Emmy awards, "the bugs are huge.

If you saw them back here, you would go berserk. But there they were just part of scenery. "The only thing I saw that scared me was a bird-eating spider 7 inches in diameter. In our outhouse." All this only confirms the longstanding opinion of Yours Truly, who believes any "camping" trip should include a Marriott. By the way, Rand has a sequel in the works.

Li December or January, Channel 5 will air The Making of the Rainforest, documenting the Cleveland Zoo's construction of the $30 million rain forest exhibit scheduled to open in late November. Bravo. It's great to see local television use its awesome influence to focus public attention on worthwhile topics, rather than blatant ratings-seekers like the obligatory nine-part series on prostitution. Stem, Stern everywhere Maybe it shouldn't be surprising that Howard Stern is fast becoming the first national morning radio personality in more than a generation. He is, after all, the "King of All Media." But the speed with which he's adding new cities to his ad-hoc network is remarkable.

Cleveland, which came aboard at the end of August via WNCX (98.5-FM), was the fourth city to sign the New York loon. He has since added Dallas, Chicago and Albany, N.Y. Albany, N.Y.? Yep. Industry observers say he is willing to bother with the nation's 54th market only because he has a personal vendetta against a program director at another Albany station. Chicago definitely is more his style.

And he roared into the na CNbU. By Barbara Brandon Redman, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets: $18.75. George Wallace, Dennis Wolfberg, 8 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets: $19. Peabody's Cafe, Cedar and Taylor roads, Cleveland Heights. Phone: 321-4072. Sammy's Good Eye, 10 p.m.

Tuesday. Tickets: $3. The Word, 10 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets: $3.

ATS, 10 p.m Thursday; Tickets: $1. The Waynes, Jehova Waitresses, 10 p.m. Friday. Tickets: $3. Family Brewer Shipley, 8 p.m.

Saturday. Tickets: $13. Peabody's DownUnder, 1059 Old River Road, Cleveland. Phone: 241-2451. Integrity, Asphalt, Windpipe, 3 Punk Bastards, Westside Market, 9 tonight.

Tickets: $6. Sister Carrol, The Word, 9 p.m. Monday. Tickets: $10. Ernie Krivda's Fat Tuesday Big Band, 9 p.m.

Tuesday. Tickets: $5. Legs Up, Kidd Wicked, Dia Posan, 9 p.m. Friday. Tickets:" Free.

SHOCKRA, Oroboros, 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $6. Rhythms, 1422 Euclid Cleveland. Phone: 771-1818.

Jeremy Wall, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday. Tickets: $10. Shooters Live, 1148 Main Cleveland. Phone: 771-6000.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, 8 p.m. Wednesday. $10. Robben Ford The Blue Train, 8 p.m. Thursday.

Tickets: $12. Bo Diddley, 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $16. im im Halloween With the Adda ma JIT Amazon, Cuba are two places visited for series Who says local TV news departments are just going through the motions during this tight-money era? Cleveland's WEWS (Channel 5) sent a crew all the way to South America for a half-hour special on the destruction of the Amazon rain forest.

The result, which aired Wednesday evening, was a thoughtful and visually riveting report on an important topic. And WJW (Channel 8) recently shipped a crew to Cuba for an upcoming look at one of the last bastions of communism. Anchor Eleanor Hayes and videographer Bill Wolfe have returned and are assembling a five-part news series for November. WKYC (Channel 3), not to be left out, is in the middle of taping a prime-time documentary, The War Within Us All, which will look at local race relations. That special will air in early December.

What's going on? Coincidence, mostly. Although we are approaching the important November "sweeps" period, when ratings help determine what local stations charge for commercials for the following three months, documentaries and serious news features generally are not ratings blockbusters. In fact, you can't hope to do much better than Channel 5 did Wednesday, when it finished second in its time slot, well behind Channel 3's Unsolved Mysteries. With programs such as Channel 5's Amazonia: The Vanishing Forest, money isn't the only issue. There's also a physical price.

How would you like to slog through the Peruvian jungle with a bunch of camera equipment? Supervising producer Patty Rand, who spent eight days doing just that with two other Channel 5 staffers, thought it was absolutely wonderful. "It's a much nicer jungle than this (urban) jungle," she says with a laugh. "Much friendlier." (t Family News 857 NBC News iHockey News8895 NBCNews MONDAY Midnight Araenkt Hall (Ch. 8) Ally Sheedy; Kris Kross; Nick Mancuso; Dave Koz. (R) 1:00 a.m.

Paid Programming (Ch. 21) Sign-off delayed. 798277 7:00 a.m. Good Morning America (Ch. 5, 23, 33) Jeremy Irons and wife Sinead Cusack; author William Pagonis; debate preview; 1987 stock market crash; Kathie Lee Gifford; book, How to Be President of the U.S.A.; artist James Gurney.

(CC) 87364 54513 93345 This Morning (Ch. 8, 27) Robert De Niro (Night and the City); k.d. lang; author Bruce Fiersten (Real Men Don't Bond). (CC) 53161 81635 Stunt Dawgs (Ch. 43) 3956364 Bob Dyer IE-NET "TO WW? EXPLAIN ip we.

NOlM M0UU7THAT Ohio Chamber opener The Ohio Chamber Orchestra opens its 1992-93 season at 8 p.m. Friday with soloist Benedetto Lupo performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Guest conductor David Lockington also will lead the orchestra in Handel's Concerto Grosso in minor, Op. 6, No.

10 and Carlos Surinach's Ritmo Jondo. The concert will be at the Cleveland Convention Center, 1220 E. Sixth St. Tickets cost Call 781-4466. Akron Symphony Guest conductor Raymond Harvey will join the Akron Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m.

Saturday for a performance of Beethoven's Violin Concert with soloist Andrew Jennings, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 and Barber's Essay No. 2. The concert will be at E.J. Thomas Hall, University Avenue at Hill Street, Akron.

Tickets cost Call 535-8131. Concerts Agora, 4900 Euclid Cleveland. Phone: 881-6911, 881-6700. Basehead, Outface, 10 p.m. Friday.

Tickets: $9. Coliseum, state Route 303, Richfield. Phone: 836-8910. Def Leppard, 8 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets: $22.50. Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Phone: 449-5000. Das EFX, EPMD, K-Solo, km km Dallas Cowboys (Live) 9821 66 Dallas Cowboys (Live) 1 37654 Florida. Repeat.

947876 Flix (VH-1) Pure Country, The Public Eye, Waterland. Videos: Beauty and the Beast, Basic Instinct. 777234 1:30 p.m. Mark Finley (Ch. 17) Not If Is Written.

20296 Moneyweek (CNN) Wall Street reacts to the presidential debates. Repeat. (aosed-Captioned) 772708 2:00 p.m. Movie (WGN) Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup (1990). Not West of the Divide.

Animated. 336037 3:00 p.m. White Shadow (Ch. 8) Christopher Columbus movie ends at 3 p.m. The King Is Coming (Ch.

17) Not R. Godwin. 95876 Mickey Donald Kidding Aronnd (WGN) Not West of the Divide. 430031 Top 21 Countdown (VH-1) Richard Lawson (All My Children). 549673 4:00 p.m.

Movie (Ch. 3) Curse of the Black Year (1977). Not Memories Then and Now and Halloween With the Addams Family movie. 708 and 31383 Movie (WGN) Benji the Hunted (1987). Not Grand Ole Opry.

459166 Horse Racing (ESPN) Budweiser International, Laurel, Md. 680128 5:00 p.m. Scary Tales of Halloween (WGN) Not Grand Ole Opry. Animated. 265654 6:30 p.m.

Inside Business (CNN) Anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash. Repeat. 134499 7:00 p.m. Life Goes On (Ch. 5, 23, 33) A calendar model comes to life in Corky 's fantasy; Paige foils a rape by Becca's English teacher (Leigh J.

McCloskey). (Stereo) (Closed-Captioned) 40321 12875 73215 (I Minutes (Ch. 8, 27) CNN interviewer Larry King; famine threatens to kill 500,000 in Somalia; wealthy Cuban-American businessman Jorge Mas Canosa's plans for post-Castro Cuba. (aosed-Captioned) 33031 64505 EI Stand-UnSlt-Down Comedy (E!) Series premiere. Pam Stone (Coach); host Robert Klein.

7:30 p.m. Ben Stiller Show (Ch. 19) James Dor OPEN thru Nov. 1 Sunday, free Wednesday, Thursday 7.00 P.M. 10:00 P.M.

Friday A Saturday 7:00 P.M. Midnight CLOSED Monday Tuesday 1a 7 mm? J.J..,.i.K..iJJ.ii.llf.i1 PARKING I FREt BABVSITTIHQW I I I FOR GROUP RATES Calf (216) 724-8100 I NFL FootbaW: Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers (Live) 485654 Christopher Columbus (1949) Fredric March. 51 1 692 I NFL Football: Houston Oilers at Denver Broncos (Live) 61 0234 ED Paid Programming 500166 I NFL Fooibatt: Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers (Live) 252234 I NFL Football: Philadelphia EaglesWashington Redskins (L) 9491 66 WTOV NFL Football: Kansas City Chiefs at Paid Programming 32050 I NFL Football Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers (Live) 48701 2 WTRF NFL Football: Philadelphia EaglesWashington Redskins (L) 513050 han, Scotty on Star Trek, is guest host. 12031 ECHX Hockey (WTOV) Dayton at Wheeling. 390055 Stand-Up Spotlight (VH-1) Sue Kolinsky; Al Clethen Billiam Coronel.

197789 8:00 p.m. Baseball (Ch. 8, 27, WTRF) World Series, Game Two: Toronto Blue Jays at Atlanta Braves. 136876 987418 138234 10:00 p.m. Democracy In America (CNN) The conduct and record of President Bush.

11:00 p.m. Flix (VH-1) See 1 p.m. 603925 11:30 p.m. Siskel Ebert (Ch. 8) See 11:30 a.m.

Inside Business (CNN) See 6:30 p.m. Features Editor Michelle LeComte 996-3569 Entertainment Joan Rice 996-3564 Fashion Jewell Cardwell 996-3567 Food Jane Snow 996-3571 Television John Olesky 996-3565 Travel Betsy Lammerding 996-3573 Celebrate the Grand Opening of GALLERY ONE-AKRON with a sale so big it spans two FREE T-SHIRT with a purchase of $200 or more! .0 MENTOR CakRON 20 mmulrs fast of Ckvrland BtlvmCimkmliml Columbia I Rl. 615 -lust off Rl. 2 Fairlawn Town Centre 7003 Center St. 2671 W.

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8, 27) Singer Johnny Mathis; author Victor VUlasen-or (Rain of Gold), whose family emigrated from Mexico to California; Cincinnati's Operation Tallstacks riverboats celebration; Philadelphia's urban garden program; John Leonard reviews TV's Railway Station Man movie. 98321 658708 9:30 a.m. Legislative Review (Ch. 19) Not Spotlight on Business. Sen.

Howard Metz-enbaum, D-Ohio. 45505 10:30 a.m. Pace the Nation (Ch. 8) Debate Impact and the Race in the Regions. Gov, Carroll Campbell, Gov.

John En- fler, Gov. Zell Miller, en. Tim Wirth, D-Colo. 63760 Newsmaker Sunday With Frank Sesno (CNN) Orson Swindle, Perot campaign national coordinator. 11:00 a.m.

Meet the Press (Ch. 3) How the Keynote Speakers at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions View the Debates. Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N. Sen.

Phil Gramm, R-Texas. 17128 McLaughlin Group (Ch. 25) Debate opinions; campaign tactics. 21302 11:30 a.m. This Week With David Brinkley (Ch.

5, 23, 33) From George's Dinner Bell Restaurant in Painesville. Ohio, Campaign Battleground. Gov. George Voinovich, R-Ohio; Rep. Mary Rose Oakar, D-Cleveland; Martin Hoke, House candidate; Ohio Lt.

Gov. Mike DeWine, Senate candidate. 390960 253418 Siskel Ebert (Ch. 8) Consenting Adults, Under Siege, A River Runs Through It, The Public Eye. 52465 Noon Winnie the Pooh a Day (or Eeyore (WGN) Not Blood on the Sun movie.

1:00 p.m. Movie (Ch. 8) Christopher Columbus (1949) Movie ends at 3 p.m. Adventures With Mickey (WGN) Not Blood on the Sun movie. 539876 College Football (SPTCH) Auburn at CHILDREN'S FBI.

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