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i B4 Akron Beacon Journal Friday, September 7, 1984 TELEVISION Production group offers cause for networks9 concern Saturday night, and WCPN-FM (90.3) will turn on the juice at 10 with a Mel Torme benefit concert broadcast live from the Masonic Auditorium. "You always want more time," said Leonard Will, general manager of. Mark Dawidziak tures will further dilute a talent pool that once was the almost-exclusive domain of the three networks. And producers just might prefer an ironclad, profit-guaranteeing syndication deal to the networks' traditional 13-week tryout. Another problem area for the networks will be stations like WJKW.

What happens if New Program Group produces a blockbuster miniseries? Does Channel 8 bump the network schedule to make way for it? "It's a little premature to worry about that," Whitaker said. "But it would be the classic scenario. Sure, we'd drop prime-time programming if the alternative was attractive enough, but I don't think an affiliate would jeopardize its relationship with a network. "I think the network-affiliate relationship is going to change as these options develop. It still will be strong, but it won't be as complete." Torme broadcast Public radio returns to Cleveland p.m), and Storer is very close with Metromedia, which is the biggest independent distributor going." Syndication through ad hoc networks is hardly a new development.

Paramount went that route this summer in marketing The Jesse Owens Story. And the Mobile Showcase Network has done very well in setting up networks for such productions as Nicholas Nickleby and King Lear. "It's the size and resources of this group that makes it important," Whitaker said of the New Program Group. "It does seem to be a consortium of significant proportions." WJKW's general manager, however, also doesn't see this as the start of a fourth network. "You'd need the resources of millions, if not billions, of dollars for that," he said.

"This just sounds like an effort to have more programming to rely on." Still, with cable outfits like Home Box Office and Showtime stepping up their output of original programming, New Program Group and similar ven When you put it all together, they I have the capacity to reach 45 percent of i the American viewing public, with stations in 21 of the top 25 markets, They're claiming this isn't the start i of a fourth network, but I guarantee you i nervous heads were turning at ABC, i CBS and NBC when five of the country's i biggest groups of stations announced they would jointly produce original programming. These aren't five fly-by-night companies we're talking about. This consortium, which is being called the New Program Group, will pool the considerable resources of Metromedia the Gannett Broadcasting Group, the Hearst Broadcasting Stations, Storer Communications and Taft Broadcasting. Metromedia alone is a formidable broadcasting force. It operates seven television stations in such far-flung cities as New York, Los Angeles and Washington and has been successful in syndicating original episodes of such series as Too Close for Comfort.

The reasons given for this partner- WCPN, "but when I think the first electrician showed up in March and, six months later, we're ready to you bet I'm pleased." A operation, WCPN. will reach listeners in Cuyahoga? Lake, Geauga, Lorain and Medina counties, including some who can't ship are the rising costs of syndicated network shows and the diminishing amount of product. "This is the first I've been hearing about it, but it doesn't come as a surprise," said C. David Whitaker, general manager of WJKW-Ch. 8, a CBS affiliate owned by Storer.

"The costs for programs like Family Ties and Cheers have become just outrageous. And there's less and less product. As soon as a show becomes available, it gets gobbled up. "Our company has been getting more and more into original programming. We are an equity partner in Divorce Court (starting Monday at 4:30 Mel Torme get Kent public radio station WKSU-FM.

Besides All Things Considered and 4 Prairie Home Companion, WCPN has scheduled several news-information and contemporary jazz shows. I TONIGHT 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 News NBC News Peo. Court Fmly.Feud Baseball: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (Live) News TheTonightShow Friday Night Videos News ABC News Fortune Joker's Preview Webster Blue Thunder Matt Houston News Movie: "The Wild One" Sings" News CBS News Entertain PM Magaz. Comedy Zone Movie: "The Shadow Riders" News Maude Movie: "And Now The Screaming Starts" PlusorMinus60 In Touch Camp Meeting USA Jim Bakker Plus or Minus 60 INN News Sound Prophecy Eagle's Life Spirit INN News News NBCNews TicTac PeaCourt Baseball: Chicago Cubs at New York Mets (Live) News TheTonightShow Friday Night Videos News ABC News Music Music Preview Webster Blue Thunder Matt Houston News Nightline The 700 Club ABC Rock 3-2-1 Con. MacNeilLehrerNews Business Wash'ton Wall Masterpiece Theatre High School Football: Cleveland Area Teams Off the Air News CBSNews Jeffersons M'ASH ComedyZone Movie: "The Shadow Riders" News Movie: "Theatre of Blood" News ABC News Fortune Sanford Preview Webster BlueThunder Matt Houston News Nightline ABC Rock Swaggart Off the Air Alice Laverne M'A'S'H 3'sComp.

The Rockford Files Movie: "Banyon" Sanford Gold Hits Solid Gold Famine: Emergency Spokem'n DoY'rself MacNeilLehrerNews Wash'ton Wall Making of Mankind P'trauma M. Python BumAllen European Off the Air The BJLobo Show Jeannie Getalong Movie: "Mad, Mad Movie Makers" The White Shadow Generat'n Tennis Movie: "The Hound of the Baskervilles" Gold Hits Gidget Battlestar Galactica Movie: "The Slipper and the Rose" CNN News Scoreb'rd Movie: "Dial a Deadly Number" Off the Air Good Time Bunker Alice Burnett Movie: "Niagara" News INN News Twil.Zone Cannon Movie: "Report to Commissioner" S.WAT. News Movie: "Edward, My Son" Don't Ask Me, Ask God HowWestWasWon TheSaint LucyStrow C.Burnett Gom'rPyle A Griffith Movie: "Shenandoah" The High Chaparral Report Baseball: Braves at Giants(1 1:05 Game Joined in Progress) Ballet Sotheby's Women in Jazz Minister Last Wine Two's Co. Monteith Sky at Westminster Worn Jazz Nightcap Minister Last Wine Two's Co. Monteith Hot Potato Rifleman Here Come the Brides Robinson Superb'k The 700 Club Phantom A'ther Life Groucho BurnAllen J.

Benny Joan Love Bob Movie: "The Brink's Movie: "Brian's Song" Movie: "Deal of the Century" Eros Movie: "Love Trap" "Knight" News Ask CNN Moneyline Crossfire Primenews Freeman Reports CNN Evening News Moneyline SptsJon. NewsNight Crossfire Update Animal EPCOT Movie: "Dumbo" Mouseter. Movie: "Superdad" DTV Movie: "Five Weeks in a Balloon" Colors OfftheAir Horse W'k SportsL'k SportsCtr. SpeedW'k NFL Game Pro Football: Ottawa Rough Riders at Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Live) SportsCtr. SportsL'k Karate: ThomasMcClelland (R) Remember When: West Inside the NFL Movie: "Airplane II: The Sequel" Movie: "The Verdict" NotNews Movie: "The Pony Soldier" UtahAriz.

Movie: "Eddie Macon's Run" Mexico Movie: "The Munster's Revenge" Korea Movie: "Honkytonk Man" Simmons It Figures Baby '80s Worn. Pet Peeves World Rpt. Healthstyles Good Sex! Nature Chefs Athlete Healthstyles Good Sex! Nature Movie: "Five Days One Summer" Movie: "Eddie Macon's Run" Movie: "Kentucky Fried Movie" Movie: "The Party" (1:15) Movie: "Fan" Pickin' Wagoner Paradise Dancin' BeaStar Fandango NashvilleNow NewC'try BeaStar Yesteryear Nashville Now NewC'try Nick Rock Mr. Wizard Can't Do Mouse BET-Jury B. Cosby Portraits Come Tog.

Video Soul Juv.Jury B. Cosby Portraits Come Tog. Video Soul OfftheAir Camera Electric Blue Movie: "Christina" Movie: "Summer of 72" Camera Electric Blue Heritage Gorman Allen New Song Camp Meeting USA Jim Bakker Sound Ch. Lives LSumrall Ufeguide Jim Bakker I Levitt Heritage Movie: "The Next One" Movie: "Still of the Night" Movie: "Friday the 13th, Part 3" Rockofthe'80s Movie: "Knightriders" Telephone Auction Music Outdoors J.Houston This Is New Zealand Mediterranean Echoes Image Moview'k Insight Cartoon Express R'dio 1990 Dragnet Magazine Drysdale Boxing: Johnny BumphusRalph Twining Night Flight (Repeats at 3:00 a.m.) In DAWIDZIAK' BEST BETS SYMBOLS GUIDE Ha Chicago WGN IS New York WOR EBD Atlanta WTBS EllSteubenville WTOV EE Wheeling WTRF Ell Arts Entertainment Network ED Black Entertain Ml Playboy Channel ED People That Love EES Satellite Programming Network BU Showtime USA Network ED Warner Akron cable position 8-P1 BH Warner Springfield 5:00 p.m. G39 Commercialization of Space Viewers may phone questions to Sen.

Paul Trible, R-Va. 6:00 p.m. Solid Gold Hits Deborah Galli (American Boys); Dexy's Midnight Runners (Come on Eileen). Video: Elton John, Sad Songs (Say So Much). Fffl B'nal B'rlth B'nai B'rith International Conference's topic: why do bad things happen to good people? (gni Tonight's Playllst Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do With It, Howard Jones, Pearl in the Shelt, Style Council, You're the Best Thing, De-peche Mode, People Are People, Chicago, Stay the Night, A Flock of Seagulls, The More You Live.

6:30 p.m. CD The Do It Yourself Show Interior paint wallpaper. Proper paint application; pre-pasted wall coverings. BSD EPCOT Magazine Host: Barbara Bosson of Hill Street Blues. 7:00 p.m.

Entertainment Tonight Angela Lansbury's TV series debut in Murder, She Wrote, a new CBS series this fall. BED Solid Gold Hits See 6:00 p.m. IMll-40 Paradise Calvin ruins his chances to get free tickets to the celebrity softball game. ED Mi Exercise With Judy Cainl Repeat. 7:20 p.m.

ES Israeli Elections B'nai B'rith International Conference panel discussion on the Israeli elections. 7:25 p.m. EH Travel Utah. 7:30 p.m. PM Magazine "Ghetto Preacher" Jesse James; windsurfing; bowling preschoolers; behind the scenes of La Cage aux Folles.

CD The Get Along Gang Fun-loving animals with the personalities of children learn to cooperate in an annual scavenger hunt and car race. Animated. 8:00 p.m. SDQ) Saturday Preview "Weird" Al Yankovic joins Scooby and Scrappy-doo for a visit to Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, and a look at ABC's fall Saturday morning programs lineup. 6D EE Comedy Zone Patty Duke Astin; Bob Dishy; Paul Reiser.

Sketches include two persons preparing for a blind date, ffl CD CD Washington Week In Review 1984 voter registration; the Conservative landslide in Canada. Movie "The Mad. Mad Movie Makers" (1974) Frank Cala-cagnini, Michael Paktaki. Two star-struck cabbies who become Hollywood producers decide to let their wives star in their productions and let their mothers-in-law finance the venture. GD Movie "The Slipper and the Rose" (1976) Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven.

The story of Cinderella and her Prince Charming takes a contemporary musical twist. EE Yes, Minister Newly elected MP (Member of Parliament) Hacker presents his radical ideas to the Civil Service. ESQ NFL Game of the Week San Francisco 49ers" 30-27 victory over the Detroit Lions. HO Movie "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982) Robert Hays, Julie Hag-erty. The neurotic hero of "Airplane!" returns to rescue a defective space shuttle, en route to the moon, from certain destruction.

fjfTTil fwOTl Movie "Eddie Macon's Run" (1983) John Schneider, Kirk Douglas. An escaped convict is stalked by an unconventional policeman determined to prove himself still capable by capturing the fleeing man. Dug You Can Be a Star Judges: Margo Smith, Sheb Wooley. HD Movie "Still of the Night" (1982) Meryl Streep, Roy Scheider. A psychiatrist, investigating the murder of a former patient, is pursued by the killer.

8:05 p.m. H3D Movie "Shenandoah" (1965) James Stewart. Doug Mc-Clure. A prosperous Virginia widower refuses to take sides during the Civil War until members of his family become victims of the conflict. 8:15 p.m.

CD ESI Baseball Chicago Cubs at New York Mets. 8:30 p.m. QSfJ) Webster Webster convinces Catherine's secretary Jerry (Henry Poke II) to quit his job and start a health dub. Repeat. 2 CD CD Wall Street Week Paul Aron.

the Japanese economy. ED Movie "Edward. My Son" (1949) Spencer Tracy. Deborah Kerr. A married couple fail to realize the emotional impact their relentless bickering has on their sensitive son.

BSJ Last of the Summer Wine Com-po and Ctegg lack Foggy's enthusiasm over the reopening of an old 'Superman' star joins 'Sat. Nighf From wire reports NBC's Saturday Night Live will begin its 10th season with a series-record 10-person cast, including British comic Pamela Stephenson, a three-year veteran of England's Not the Nine O'Clock News series and Robert Vaughn's sidekick in the Superman J7J theater movie. Other new cast members are Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Martin Short and Rich Hall. Returning players are Gary Kroeger, Mary Gross, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss and Jim Belushi. f.

Declining to return are Eddie Murphy and Joe Plscopo, and involuntary absentees are Tim Ka-' zurinski, Brad Hall and Robin Duke. Rev. Jesse Jackson, former 1984 Democratic presidential candidate, will host Saturday Night Live on Oct. 20 for the standard SNL host fee $5,000. Doris Roberts, rumored axed from NBC's Remington Steele, will return as Mildred Krebs, a middle-aged IRS-agent-turned-de-tective.

"I even get to fall in love this season," Miss Roberts said. The 8th Annual Soap Opera Awards, previously an episode of. the syndicated Merv Griffin Show, will be a syndicated one-; hour special available for stations' airing between mid-October and early November. The awards, chosen by readers of Soap Opera Digest, will be co-hosted by David Hasselhoff, the Knight Rider star who was Snap- per on CBS' The Young and the Restless, and his wife, Catherines Hickland, on CBS' Capitol. 2:30 a.m.

Movie "Thunder Alley- (1967) Fabian, Annette Funicello. ESQ Yesteryear See 1 1:30 p.m. 2:55 a.m. EB Movie "Ghosts on the Loose. (1943) East Side Kids, Ava Gardner" 3:00 a.m.

Effl Movie "Lucky Partners (1940) Ronald Colman, Ginger Rog- ers. Sweepstakes winners. S3 Women In Jazz See 11:00 p.m.. ED The 700 Club See 9:00 p.m. 1 liSU Boxing Lightweights, Terrence Alii vs.

Frank Newton; Gary "Light ning" Lightbourne vs. Pisa Finai. Re-! peat. Movie "Where the Buffalo Roam" (1980) Bill Murray. Peter Boyle.

An outrageous journalist. Movie "The Next One1 (1982) Adrienne Barbeau. 3:10 2 HDMovl "Strange Invaders' (1983) Nancy Allen. 3:30 a.m. S) Movie "The Human Monster" (1940) Bela Lugosi.

HD Nightcap See 1 1:30 p.m. 4:15 a.m. 23 Movie "The Scarlet Letter't (1926) Lillian Gish. 4:40 a.m. EH Movie "Five Days One Sum? mer" (1982) Sean Connery.

4:45 a.m. 2 iBitli Midler Art or Bust Is Jg Love, The Rose. 4:50 a.m. GD Movie "If I Were Rich1 (Cash)" (1933) Robert Donat. Ed-1 round Gwena SATURDAY 1 10:00 a.m.

CB Star Search The Grand Champa onships. Lee Majors. Dick Clark. 10:30 a.m. ESHerballfe 130-minute special.

Noon (D Jack Van Imp Presents Net Maxwell, founderdirector. Women, Alive; Van Impe's message: "World Terrorists Strike Again." 12:30 p.m. I The Cisco Kid Program changed 1:00 p.m. Movie "Princess of the N.ie"- (1954) Debra Paget. Jeffrey Hunter!" Affairs Network) ESI Disney Channel EED ESPN (Entertainment Sports Programming Network) DU Home Box Office HI Home Theater Network BED Learning Channel ED Lifetime BSD Movie Channel ED Music Television GSU Nashville Network ESI Nickelodeon 8:00 p.m.

(Ml Brian's Song This moving, well-acted 1971 TV movie tells of the deep friendship shared by Chicago Bears running backs Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Cann) who died of cancer in 1971. Jack Warden plays George Halas. Cinemax. 9:30 p.m. The Verdict Paul Newman is outstanding as a disenchanted Boston lawyer looking for a measure of self-redemption in a malpractice suit.

Home Box Office. 10:30 p.m. CD CD Monty Python's Flying Circus In this classic '70s show, the comedy troupe presents its versions of the Spanish Inquisition and Wuthering Heights. WNEOWEAO. cm position Warner Wadsworth ment Television CBN Cable Network Cinemax Cable News Network C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public position 6 SID Marks position 1 1 9 Closed captioned for hearing-impaired rem Williams railway line.

ED Bill Cosby Chet encourages a young photographer. EED Pro Football Ottawa Rough Rid- ersat Winnipeg Blue Bombers. (Live) IBM! Fandango Interview: Tom T. Hall. 9:00 p.m.

QEBCB Blue Thunder The helicopter team battles a private air force hired by a crime syndicate to destroy a crime boss' granddaughter (Maylo McCaslin) Repeat. CD Ell Movie "The Shadow Riders" (1982) Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott. Two Texan brothers seek their younger brother's kidnappers. Masterpiece Theatre To Serve Them All My Days. Having lost the election, Chris considers David's marriage proposal.

With John Duttine. (Part 12 of 13) CDMovIe "Banyon" (1971) Robert Forster, Darren McGavin. A murder victim in the private detective's office. CD CD The Making of Mankind Anthropologist Richard Leakey examines the past, (p EH Two's Company Robert wants Dorothy to buy a Rolls-Royce. EH The 700 Club The "beautiful side of the life of a convict.

ES Presidential Candidate Viewers may phone questions to Sonia Johnson. Citizens Party candidate for President. El Regis Phllbln's Healthstyles Dick Cavetr. Louis Gropp. editor of House Garden magazine: summer camps for children; Lynn Hippen of Little Shop of Horrors stage play.

53 Nashville Now Bob Murphy. Johnny Cobb. Lome Morgan. Host Ralph Emery. El Boxing Former World Boxing Council welterweight champ Johnny Bumphus (22-1.

16 KOs) vs. Ra'ph Twining (27-7. 23 KOs); Charlie "Choo-Choo" Brown (23-3-1) vs. Ezzard Charles Adams (13-11-1). lightweights; Vmny Pazienza (12-0) vs.

Richie McCain (5-5-2). lightweights. Atlantic City. 11:05 p.m. GB Movie "Dial a Deadly Number" (1975) Gary Collins.

Woman with homicidal dreams. 11:20 p.m. fWTlfl Baseball Atlanta Braves at San Francisco Giants (joined in progress) 11:30 p.m. OQEHThe Tonight Show Lo- nette McKee, the American Ballet Company, Bo Derek. Movie "The Wild One" (1954) Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy.

Motorcycle gang. QJ Movie "Theatre of Blood" (1973) Vincent Price, Diana Rigg. A Shakespearean actor gets even. CD Solid Gold Hits RPM, Savoir Faire, Stephen Bishop, On and On; Eddy Grant, Romancing the Stone CD EE Tennis U.S. Open Championships highlights.

E3 Nightcap Street performers Philippe Petit and Will and Ned. Hi Movie "The Party" (1968) Peter Sellers. Claudine Longer A bumbling Indian bit player. DM Yesteryear In Nashville Interview: Joe and Rose Lee Maphis. EES Rock of the 80s The Human League (Don't You Want Me) INXS One Thing); Icicle Works; Joe Ely.

Midnight Movie. "And Now the Screaming Starts" (1973) Peter Gushing. Bride-to-be. The 700 Club See 9:00 p.m. G)A8C Rocks Music videos: Billy Joel (Leave a Tender Moment Atone) Dan Hartman Can Dream About You).

Jump 'n the Saddle (Cuny Shuffle), Scandal (The Warrior) Corey Hart (Sunglasses at Night). CD Solid Gold Mickey Gilley and Charty McCtain (Candy Man) Eddie Rabbrtt Love a Ftainy Nighf) Way-' Ion Jennings (Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys) Alabama (The Closer You Get); Anne Murray (A Little Good News). Repeat GD EE Movie "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1939) Basil Rath-bone, Nigel Bruce. Sherlock Holmes. SSI Yes, Minister See 8:00 p.m.

12:15 a.m. Hfl Movie "Romantic Comedy" (1983) Dudley Moore. Mary Steen-burgen. Playwright and would-be dramatist collaborate. 12:30 a.m.

OS) EH Friday Night Videos An interview with Cyndi Lauper; musical performances by Rod Stewart (Some Guys Have All the Luck) Tina Turner (Better Be Good to Me) Teddy Pen-dergrass (You're My Choice Tonight) B3 Summer Wine See 8:30 p.m. DUD Karate Lightweights, champ Cliff Thomas vs. Nick McClelland. Repeat. Movie "Knightriders" (1981) Ed Harris.

Motorcyclists. a.m. SDfl Two's Company See 9:00 p.m. 1:15 a.m. Movie "Jolson Sings Again" (1950) Larry Parks.

Musical great. BU Movie "The Fan" (1981) Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn. 1:30 a.m. GD ABC Rocks See midnight. 123 Kelly Monteith See 9:30 p.m.

fiuol New Country McGuffey Lane. (SI Movie "Killer Bats'" (1940) Beta Lugosi, Dave O'Brien. 2:00 a.m. Q) Movie "The Scar (1948) Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett Ex-con assumes the identity of his murder victim EH The Jo Franklin Show Actress Dorothy Lamour. ED Sky See 10:00 p.m US To Light a Candle Dr.

Leroy Sanders of World Ministry to Others on the Mark Buntain Ministry. GUI College Football Preview The Pac-10. Repeat EU Offtse Bitty Edd Wheeler. 2:05 a.m. Inside the NFL Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti on the National Foot-baa League.

9:30 p.m. Kelly Monteith Bachelorhood. Movie "The Verdict" (1982) Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling. A drunken lawyer in a malpractice suit against the Catholic church. Movie "Friday the 13th.

Part 3" (1982) Paul Kratka. 10:00 p.m. 60 Matt Houston Matt is framed for the murders of a policewoman and his archenemy, Elgin Cody (Lloyd Bochner) Repeat, CD CD Polytrauma A docudrama of modern emergency procedures. HI Sky at Westminster British rockers at Westminster Abbey. Ell Movie "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977) Evan Kim.

Satirists. EE Friday Night Video Fights Viewers vote on two video clips. 10:30 p.m. CD CD Monty Python's Flying Circus Semaphore Wuthering Heights, courtroom charades. Rill Phantom Children Joseph Cam-panella.

Middle EastAfrica children. Dual New Country McGuffey Lane. 11:00 p.m. E3 Don't Ask Me, Ask God Hosts Pat Robertson, Anita Gillette; Steve Allen. Ruth Buzzi.

Tony Danza. Dean Jones. Jayne Meadows, Ben Vereen. The questions people would want to ask God. ES Women Jazz Dakota Staton, Jean Lee.

Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton. IS Movie "Five Weeks in a Balloon" (1962) Red Buttons. Barbara Eden. BaDoonists take off for unexplored Africa. El Celebrity Chefs Vincent Price.

Danielle Briseboise. Ft Top 20 Countdown MTVs most popular songs. ED Be Star See 8:00 p.m. B3 Movie "Summer of '72" (1980) Annette Haven, Lorn Saunders. S3 Night Flight Commercial-free half-hour of avante-garde music from the United Kingdom..