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6 Akron Beacon Journal Wednesday, November 30, 1983 TELEVISION Departing Roker didn start out to be weatherman morale around the station as well," said Dick Lobo, general manager of WKYC. "He learned his craft well before he Mark Dawidziak even got here. "The way he is every night on the broadcast is the way he really is in real life. Whoever we bring in will have some really big shoes to fill. And I've assured Al that if he ever gets homesick for Cleveland, he has a place to come back to." "It's been al nouncement will not be made until contract negotiations are finalized.

The general manager estimates that the new weatherman will start in three or four weeks. "We aren't going to out-Goddard Dick Goddard (WJKW-Ch. 8 weatherman) because he's been here for so many years," Lobo said. "But Al came closest to competing. He was very thorough and it's much to my regret that he's leaving." AS FOR ROKER, he's not looking past his new assignment in New York.

"I don't set goals," he said. "I've been very happy here, and that's what made this one a difficult decision. Now, I'm just looking at getting through one day at a time. "I might still think about producing or directing, but this is good work and a fun job. I might even try comedy writing for television some day.

But that would be way down the road. "I'm just going to keep riding this train until it runs out of steam." After five years forecasting Cleveland's weather, Al Roker is returning to the less snowy metropolis of New York. The Big Apple is home for Roker, and it's about the only place that could lure the broadcaster away from WKYC-Ch. 3 and Cleveland. "That's where my family is, and New York has been a goal of mine for a long time," the weatherman said.

"The one and only reason I'm leaving Cleveland is New York. "I've enjoyed Cleveland. It's been great to me. I've turned down a couple of offers from other markets, but New York was the big consideration in this move." ROKER, WHO WILL make his last Cleveland weather forecast Friday night, moves on to WNBC-Ch. 4, the network's owned-and-operated station based in Rockefeller Center.

His duties will include feature reports and occasional forecasts substituting for Dr. Frank Field, "the dean of television weathermen." Ironically, Roker never even intended on having a career on television. His original goal was to be a producer or director. "That what I really wanted to do when I was majoring in communications at Oswego State University (in upstate New York)," he said. "I took a couple of meteorology courses to fulfill some science requirements.

Then one of my teachers told me about an opening at a local station." THE OPENING WAS for a weekend weather reporter at WHEN (now WTVH) in Syracuse. Roker got the job as a sophomore, continuing to gain valuable experience at the small station during his college years. He later moved on to WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., again as a weather forecaster. He arrived at Ch. 3 in December 1978, replacing Bob Zappe on the 6 p.m.

newscast and Mona Scott at 11. "Al gave our on-air product a tremendous spirit, but he was great for Al Roker "I guess it would be an understatement to say I'm happy about the move," Roker said. "I never thought about working for Ch. 4, because the hot network newscast when I was growing up was ABC's Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby (anchorman) and Tex An-toinne (weatherman). "Now, NBC seems to be the local New York news on the move.

So, this is a chance to get in the market and not have pressures of being the No. 1 weatherman. "I can do weather-related features, science and feature stories. They're giving me a certain amount of freedom." most five years to the day since I came to Cleveland," Roker commented. "So, it worked out pretty well to be 29 and have been working in television for about 10 years, and now going on to New York." A replacement for Roker has been chosen, but, according to Lobo, an an- I TONIGHT Nashville Network is carried on Warner Akron cable position 7-P2, and on 32 for Warner Springfield and Warner Wadsworlh.

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1 last week, and substitute Automan, a TRON-Yike adventure series starring Desi Arnaz and Blue Thunder, an action series based on the hit movie about a super hebcopter. CBS won last week's Nielsens with 17.1 percent of the homes with TV sets to ABC's 16.8 and NBC's 16.4, which means that 49.7 percent of the sets in America's homes were tuned elsewhere or turned off. CBS leads for the nine-week-old season with 18.1 to ABC's 17.7 and NBC's 15.2. For the four-week November sweeps, when ratings determine what network affiliates will charge for commercials, Arbitron had: CBS 18.5, ABC 17.9, NBC 15.1. Nielsens had: CBS 18.7 ABC 17.8, NBC 15.0.

In evening news, NBC nudged ABC, 10.9 to 10.5, in their seesaw battle for second place behind years-long leader CBS, 13.2 last week. CBS' Wednesday Night Movie, a third night of movies added by the network, is five ratings points higher than last season's CBS Wednesday night series. 1. TheA-Team NBC 2. 60 Minutes CBS 3.

Dallas CBS 4. Kennedy, Part III NBC 5. Stripes ABC 6. Kennedy. Part II NBC 7.

Dynasty ABC 8. NFL Football CBS 9. Falcon Crest CBS 10. Simon Simon CBS NEW SERIES 11. Hotel ABC 13.

AfterMASH CBS 24. Hardcastle McCormick ABC 25. Oh Madeline ABC 37. Webster ABC 43. Boone NBC 45.

Emerald Point N.A.S. CBS 50. Lottery! ABC 55. We Got It Made NBC 56. WhizKids CBS 57.

Trauma Center ABC 58. Just Our Luck ABC 60. Jennifer Slept Here NBC 61. Yellow Rose NBC 62. Mr.

Smith NBC MICHAEL JACKSON'S 14 minute, $1 million version of Thriller, the song that's hot on the music charts, will premiere at 3 p.m. Friday on Music Television (MTV), a cable service, and will be repeated three to five times daily throughout the month. MTV also will premiere a one-hour special, Michael Jackson: Making the Thriller Video, Jan. 19. Videocassettes of the documentary, which includes the complete Thriller and other formerly unreleased videos, go on sale Dec.

12 for $29.95. LONI ANDERSON-Lynda Carter's detective series, a midseason NBC replacement, will be called Fifty-Fifty. GARY BURGHOFF, Radar on MASH, will guest in February on AfterMASH, the MASH spinoff. Burghoff has been touring for 18 months in the lead role of Boney Kern. KIRK DOUGLAS will play an 80-year-old former baseball coach in Amos, a CBS movie to air next year.

GEOFFREY EWING has joined NBC's Another World as district attorney Adam Banks. USB Chicago WGN ffl New York WOR EH Atlanta WTBS HElSteubenville WTOV EB0 Wheeling WTRF BED ARTS (Alpha Repertory Television Service) ED Black Entertainment Television ffl Christian Broadcasting Network 03 Clnemax HD Cable News Network IB Daytime 699 Disney Channel Eg ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) HD Home Box Office ffiH Cable Health Network mini Learning Channel US Movie Channel IB Music Television BSD Nashville Network S3 Nickelodeon Iffl Playboy Channel BSD Satellite Programming Network HID Showtime USA Network 9 Closed captioned for the hearing-impaired 8 p.m. CD All The King's Men This Academy Award-winning adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel details the rise and downfall of a politician in the deep South. Broderick Crawford is brilliant as Willie Stark, a thinly disguised Huey Long. Joanne Dru, John Ireland and Mercedes McCambridge also star in this stellar 1949 film.

9 p.m. CD CD CD High Schools Subtitled "A Film Essay on the 1983 Carnegie Report on the American High School," this one-hour documentary offers vignettes from classrooms and corridors, school offices and after-school jobs, as well as comments by teachers, students and principals. The special also suggests possible routes toward improving the nation's troubled secondary schools. PBS. 10 p.m.

Q) MM St. Elsewhere The normally calm Dr. Westphall (Ed Flanders) begins to show signs of stress, while Dr. Ridley (Paul Sand) tries to treat a child tennis star. NBC.

7:00 p.m. Browns '83 Highlights of Baltimore Colts game; a preview of the Denver game. Entertainment Tonight Christopher Atkins talks about his Dallas role and his movie career. 7:30 p.m. PM Magazine Why people like to be scared.

7:35 p.m. fiftSl NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Philadelphia 76ers 8:00 p.m. CD SM Real People A "Salute to Women" includes Sarah Purcell's jump with a group of female skydivers, a female auto racer in Virginia and a Colorado mine with a female shift boss. CB CB The Fall Guy Midget stunt experts aid Colt's efforts to expose a police officer involved in a high-priced cocaine deal. CD BSD Whiz Kids Richie inadvertently makes his divorced mother the target of thieves when he enrolls her in a computer dating service.

GD CD Survival "The Amazing World of Spiders" Some of the most unusual spiders, selected from a range of thousands of different species, are discussed, rJ CD The Rockford Files Counselor Beth Davenport engages Rockford to find a missing witness who can provide an alibi for her client. CD Movie "All the King's Men" (1949) Broderick Crawford, John Ireland. Based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren. An idealistic Southern politician quickly becomes corrupted by power and ambition. CD Movie "Beau Geste" (1939) Gary Cooper, Ray Milland.

Three French Foreign Legionnaires claim responsibility for a jewel theft in order to protect a lady's honor. HID Charlie's Angels The Angels investigate when an electronics firm is hit by some well-organized thieves. Effl I Spy Red sash of courage. EH Movie "Split Image" (1982) Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen. A young man's induction into a religious commune and subsequent efforts to deprogram him are chronicled.

Movie "The Chosen" (1981) Maximilian Schell, Rod Steig-er. A friendship slowly develops between a worldly, assimilated Jew and the son of a Hassidic rabbi. (PG) (BH Movie "Final Assignment" (1980) Genevieve Bujold, Michael York. A Canadian TV reporter in Moscow discovers a Russian scientific experiment using steroids on children arid smuggles incriminating material out of the country. (PG) mSHI 1-40 Paradise Activities at a restaurant and entertainment spot outside Nashville.

CH Movie "The Godfather, Part II" (1974) Al Pacino, Robert Duvall. Michael Corleone assumes his late father's throne and power as he becomes the new head of the Mafia, finding problems with rival factions and the law throuahout his rpinn DBD HED BD1 QUI Candle Unto Candle (Carried only on Warner Amex of Akron cable position 8-P1, Warner Canton 12-P1 and position 6 on Warner Springfield and Warner Wadsworth.) On this first night of the Jewish Festival of Lights, this Hanu-kah special features Mike Burstyn of the Broadway show Bamum and his two puppet friends. Max and Her-schel. Hanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem by Judah Maccabee and his followers of more than 2.000 years ago. It is a holiday of religious and personal freedom celebrated for eight days, beginning this evening.

8:15 p.m. fjiyl Daytime Butcher Veal Picarro. 8:30 p.m. OB Living Magazine 175-year-old home. fpf Mouseterpiece Theater Two for the record.

The three little wolves, jpl Fandango Harold Reid. 8:45 p.m. Eft Anchor Conversations Oscar Brand. 100 PJM. (43) Von Ryan's Express Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard Ad.

9:00 p.m. QQ) BSD "The Facts of Life Mrs. Garrett's health-food store faces disaster when a competitor begins to attract all of her clients, Q) Q) Dynasty Wealthy playboy Peter De Vilbis (Helmut Berger) charms Fallon, while Alexis schemes against both Steven and Denver-Car-rmgton. OfflfJlf Movie "An Uncommon Love" Premiere. Barry Bostwick, Ed Flanders avenge Elaine's death and Det.

Dono-hue breaks the news of Chester's apparent demise to Jessica. iWrin All in the Family Gloria's 24-hour-a-day job as a new mother doesn't leave much time for Mike. fMl Nashville After Hours Whiskers and Lace. 11:15 p.m. nuTrsI Great Paintings Featured: Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.

11:25 p.m. EES Nightcap Science-fiction authors Isaac Aslmov, Harlan Ellison and Gene Wolfe. 11:30 p.m. CD BSD Tonight Joan Rivers; Rita Moreno, Joan Collins, rock star Boy George. Barney Miller Barney seeks help from a female detective when a woman brings a charge of rape against her husband.

Maude Maude plans for a job as a congresswoman's assistant. (Parti) CB 700 Club Dr. Edward Cole on the myth of machismo. CD CD CD Latenight America James Bamtord, investigative journalist, on what he learned when he infiltrated the National Security Agency; health specialist Dr. James Radabaugh Jr.

on how to avoid being ripped off by medical gimmicks. CD IWfflfl Police Story A veteran cop close to retirement is teamed with an ambitious, headstrong rookie. CD Police Story Two officers (Tony Lo Bianco, Don Meredith) try to keep pace with a classy and crafty con artist (Larry Hagman) The Saint An exclusive health farm doubles as the cover for a secret mercenary army. iH Hawaii Flve-0 An eccentric billionaire is suspected ot killing one of his business associates. USUI SportsCenter The latest scores, news, and other features in the world of sports.

HD Movie "Right of Way" (1983) Bette Davis. James Stewart. An aged couple take drastic steps to prevent their separation. BSD Offstage Charlie Fach. Movie "Alone in the Dark" (1982) Jack Palance, Donald Pleas- ence.

Four inmates at an asylum for the criminally insane escape and ter rorize a suburban family. (R) 11:45 p.m. ESQ Movie "Blackout" (1978) James Mitchum, June Allyson. A massive electrical blackout in New York City gives a trio of psychotic killers the chance to escape from their police escorts en route to a state hospital. (R) tRfttl NFL's Greatest Moments Highlights of the 1968 New York Jets and the 1969 Kansas City Chiefs.

Midnight Hawaii Flve-0 McGarrett Investigates a bunco scheme involving sunken treasure. CB Thicke of the Night Flip Wilson, author Erica Jong, Carl Wolfson, comedian Brad Garrett, music by Angel and the Reruns. S3 Love Boat A woman finds romance with a wheelchair-bound passenger, the meeting of an old married friend and her son gives Julie second thoughts about her career and a man tests his theories on male-female relationships. fWfifl Portrait of America Oregon. HQ Movie "Look Out Sister" See 9 p.m.

ED GU Movie "One Dark Night" (1982) Adam West. Meg Tilly. A sorority pledge encounters a vampire during a night spent In a haunted mausoleum. (PG) GEE Nashville Now Live features highlighting country music. 12:30 a.m.

CD EH Late Night With David Letterman Hussian psychic Lev Shneider, Peruvian comedian Mel Conchita. HQ Bonanza Hoss runs afoul of local sentiments when he takes the sheriff's job on a temporary basis. 03 Jack Benny Jack and Mickey Rooney explore what may happen if prisons get progressively more lenient. THURSDAY Noon ESS Take Two Former CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite and Ray Ellis, who did the artwork for Cron-kite's book, South by Southeast; divorce lawyer Michael Minton, the value of a housewife; Hirsh Goodman, chief military correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, U.S.-lsraell relations. tle sister's admiration of Jennifer leads to unfortunate consequences.

10:00 p.m. CD MM St. Elsewhere Drs. Ridley and Caldwell are drawn into the dispute between two boys over the conflict in Northern Ireland, steroids threaten the health of a young tennis player, Westfall suffers a stress attack and Nurse Rosenthal makes a decision about her breast surgery. CB CB Hotel One of the hotel's junior executives falls victim to blackmail, Mrs.

Cabot becomes involved with a lonely guest and her children, and Billy discovers a "stowaway." CD CD CD The International Violin Competition ol Indianapolis Highlights are presented of this quadrennial event that drew 44 performers from more than 20 countries. HQ Movie "Silent Rage" (1982) Chuck Norris. Ron Silver. A critically injured psychopath is revitalized and made almost indestructable by the handiwork of a mentally unhinged scientist. (R) USD The Hitchhiker When morning comes.

The tables are turned on a weekend hunter (August Schellen-berg) who suddenly becomes the prey. MCVl Movie "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947) Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo. A meek man burdened with domestic attachments conjures up illusions of himself as a hero. 10:05 p.m. GEO Beethoven: Symphony No.

9 The French National Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with soprano Marita Napier, mezzo-soprano Ruth Hess, tenor Peter Hoffman, bass Sigmund Nimsgern and the Chorus of Radio-France. 10:30 p.m. fOSMYl America the Beautiful Tour the United States. ESI Yesteryear in Nashville Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Charley Pride and Roger Miller talk about Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.

Ml Countdown to '84: Sarajevo and Los Angeles Highlights and previews of worldwide pre-Olympic competitions, profiles of Olympic participants and world record updates. 11:00 p.m. Soap Danny and Burt decide to Kathryn Harrold. The romance between a marine biology professor and an attractive student is threatened when her work as a prostitute is discovered. CD CD CD High Schools in America A documentary view of seven public high schools presents the strengths and weaknesses in secondary education that have been discussed in the recently released Carnegie Report on American High Schools.

(Story on page B9.) CB Movie "Von Ryan's Express" (1965) Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard. An American leads a prisoners' revolt against the Nazis taking them to Austria. US Movie "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (1977) Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders. The highly volatile and eccentric multimillionaire uses wealth and influence to indulge his offbeat obsessions and curious rages. (Bt3 Beethoven: Egmont Overture The French National Orchestra, with conductor Lorin Maazel, plays Beethoven's Egmont Overture.

ED Movie "Look Out Sister" (1946) Louis Jordan, Peggy Thomas. A health ranch in the West is in danger of losing its mortgage. CBHl 700 Club Dr. Edward Cole on the myth of machismo. JM Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse Animated.

Join the famous mouse as he celebrates his 55th birthday with a series of clips from his classic cartoons. HMD Nashville Now Live features highlighting country music. EfflMovIe "Blackmail" (1939) Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey. Falsely sentenced, a man breaks out of prison to prove his innocence.

(ED BS3D D30 Music Vision (Carried only on Warner Amex of Akron cable position 8-P1 and position 6 on Warner Springfield and Warner Wads-worth.) 9:25 p.m. MS Arts Visits With Lorln Maazel Lorin Maazel, former maestro of the Cleveland Orchestra and the first non-Viennese ever to be appointed General Manager and Artistic Director of the Vienna State Opera, talks about the art of conducting. 9:30 p.m. 00)11 Family Ties Skipper's lit 2:30 p.m. BED Auto Racing SCCA Super Vees.

from Laguna Seca, Calif. 4:00 p.m. (BSD College Basketball Indiana vs. Notre Dame..