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C2 Akron Beacon Journal Sunday, June 30, 1 935 Ernest Angley backs new Christian TY station gley Ministries. "They haven't been able to get it on the air. We've been in sales and production for years. They had a good idea. They just lacked the.

resources and the experience." Angley and his operation had both. Last summer, Ernest Angley Ministries paid $2 million for the Rex Humbard Foundation's television studio and office complex on State Road in Northampton Township. Already a television veteran, Angley was producing a weekly program from his Grace Cathedral on Canton Road in Springfield. That show, aired in this area on Canton station WDLI-Ch. 17, is seen in more than 100 markets in the United States, Canada, the Philippines and Africa.

"There is a contract between By Mark Dawldzlak Beacon Journal tvteviilen wrtttr Now that Cleveland's new independent station, WOIO-Ch. 19, has shaken up the area's television scene, a corporation backed by Akron faith healer Ernest Angley is planning to have Channel 55 on the air by the end of the year. The Akron-Rhema Television a non-profit organization headed by North Ridgeville minister Amer Shab, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission five years ago for permission to build a studio facility that would broadcast on Channel 55. Shab, who runs the Crystal Springs Resort Camp, and his associates planned to air religious and family programming, and a the two organizations," Spangler said. "We're supplying the faculty and financial support.

They simply couldn't afford to build a studio. We're technical advisers and have the responsibility for finding programming." Although Shab named Ann Spear as Channel 55's general manager, she suggested that all questions be directed to Spangler. The station has yet to name a program director, and Spangler said that programming decisions are being made by a committee made up of representatives from both Ernest Angley Ministries and Akron-Rhema. "I would say that I speak (or that committee," said Spangler, who also is acting as Channel 55's general sales manager. Spangler declined to say Just how much money Angley is putting into the station.

Channel 55's transmitter will be on the same Brecksville tower that's used by Cleveland radio stations WZAK and WWWE. The FCC has assigned Channel 55 the call letters WPSC, but Akron-Rhema has petitioned to have them changed to WBNX. Spangler refused to comment on why the switch was requested. The Independent station will be the 12th must-carry local signals cable operators are required by law to carry for most Akron-area cable systems. "We were shooting to be on the air July 16," Shab said, "The main studio will be in Cuyahoga Falls (the actual mailing address of the Northampton facility), but we will be doing some program ming from Crystal Springs." Spangler said that he has no specific target date to begin broadcasting, but it "certainly will be by the end of the year" and It "hopefully" will be by September.

"It's going to be a Christian family station," he said. "It won't be, if you'll pardon the expression, wall-to-wall preachers. There will be a considerable religious presence, but It won't be 24 hours of ministers. We'll have several hours of local and national ministers, and we'll also have family shows. "I can't get Into specific titles, but there will be old family shows like Leave It to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show programs in that spirit.

We're still finalizing agreements for titles." Barry Manilow will make acting debut vy" construction permit was issued in 1984. "That was the critical part of the application procedure," said Carl Fielstra, an attorney with Gammon Grange, the Washington, D.C., firm that represents Akron-Rhema Television. "Once construction is complete, which it almost is, they can go on the air under what's called program test authority. Then you make a routine application to the FCC that shows you are operating under the guidelines of your permit, and you get your license." Akron-Rhema, however, ran out of operating funds earlier this year. That's when Angley stepped in.

"The Akron-Rhema Corp. held the permit," said Lou Spangler, executive director of Ernest An Barry Tuesday and Wednesday at Blossom Music Center). While his unabashedly middle-of-the-road approach is clearly at odds with the current trend toward flashy, cartoon-style pop stars, Manilow continues to draw crowds and probably will continue to draw them when many of today's more colorful hotshots are nothing more than trivia-question fodder. "The danger with that kind of cartoony thing is that it can't last," the singer says. "It's too bad, because some of those (performers) are really talented.

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You've got to do a lot of road work beforehand." Manilow, in fact, has been studying acting for five years with Nina Foch, a film actress of the 1940s and '50s who has since turned to teaching. "I went to one of Nina's classes because a friend told me, 'You've got to see her and I ended up falling in love with what I saw," says the singer. "She knew a lot that I wanted to learn, and I started going to her classes with no particular goal in mind." According to Manilow, Copaca-bana wasn't his first opportunity to act professionally. "The studios have been sending me scripts all along, but I've turned them all down, because for my taste they weren't good enough to warrant me devoting the time to them that I was going to devote," he says. "I just didn't feel that any of them were for me.

So I kept plodding away at my acting classes, and I'm glad that I had those five years of training. "I think that it shows up on the screen, because what ccrr.es across is very natural," Manilow says. "I've seen some of the (film footage), and I'm very happy with it. It doesn't look like I'm trying too hard; my performance isn't strained or self-conscious. The critics probably won't give me a chance, but I think an actor who sees what I've done would shake my hand." His work in Copacabana over, the singer is spending most of this summer on the concert trail (including 8:30 p.m.

appearances I've never been fashionable," -Manilow says. "It's never been fashionable to be a Barry Manilow fan; I've never been trendy. I don't like following trends. If anything, I would like to set a trend, but I don't really care about that. I just do what I do, and I don't know how to follow a trend.

If I see one, I get out of the way. If I'm going to endure, It's because 1 try to write or record standards and make music that will outlive me. I try to create a persona that people will remember after I'm gone, whether they like it or not." What Manilow who sees his image as that of a "clean, down-to-earth city guy who knows a little bit about music and is out there to please people" would most like to be remembered for Is 2 AM Paradise Cafe, a jazz-flavored album of saloon songs released late last year. The record, now nearing the million mark In sales, received generally good reviews. For once, Manilow agreed wholeheartedly with the critics.

"It's one of the best albums I've ever heard," says the singer, who rounded up such jazz greats as Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan and Gerry Mulligan to back him on the project. "This has nothing to do with me; the other people on the album are legends and people should listen to them. The album is great, and I hope that when I'm dead and gone this record is still selling. This is what I want the public to remember me for, not for I Write the Songs-" Manilow, who cites Billy Joel, Stephen Sondheim, Puccini and Chopin as his favorite composers, got the idea for the Paradise project after his 1982-83 tour. "I had culminated eight or nine years of wonderful, sold-c-ut con spending.

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on TV Barry Manilow Where: Blossom Music Center, 1145 W. Steels Corners Road, Northampton Township When: 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday Cost: $11 (lawn) Information: 920-1440 ground," he acknowledges. "I can see why people go nuts and get into trouble with drugs or alcohol. What threw me for a loop was the emotional side of things.

Emotionally, I lost it for a while. I didn't know how to handle all the adulation. The success was very heady, and I wasn't used to it. "I think that I probably became a real creep for a while," he says. "I don't know for sure, but people remind me of things that I did back then that I'm embarrassed about now.

Well, not really embarrassed, but I feel bad about the way I treated people. It all happened because of being scared and not knowing the arena that I had been thrown into. I mean, I was struggling a long time, but when Mandy hit I became successful basically overnight. There's all this pressure, and you're being applauded and patted on the back you can't go to school to learn how to handle that. Now, of course, it's 10 years, things have calmed down, and I'm feeling much more in control." Our All New Luncheon Special "LITEDIET" SUPER GIGANTIC SALAD TABLE Mon.

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I was a very happy man, but it all felt so final, like the credits should be rolling by. I was in great shape, I wanted to do something else, but I didn't know what. Making another album of pop music didn't turn me on. Neither did going out on the concert trail and singing I Write the Songs again. "So I didn't do anything.

I tied myself to a chaise longue, because relaxing Is something that is difficult for me, and I waited for inspiration. Little by little it came, and when I got the idea for the album of saloon songs, I took it all the way to the end. I did that album for me, and I felt so good about it that I didn't care if it made it to No. 1 or not." Manilow recently embarked on another personal project writing his memoirs. "I've been keeping a journal for 12 years, and I've made a deal with a publishing house," he says.

Those hoping for a sleazy tell-all are doomed to disappointment. "I want the book to be uplifting, something that will give people a shot of encouragement," Manilow says. "You know, 'If I can do It, so can There'll be no revelations about problems with drugs or alcohol, for instance; Manilow says he never was tempted by either. "But once success hits, it's very difficult to keep your feet on the TIIECniSPOT TOD. Single Site Parade Of All-Gas Homes Tour 9 Beautiful New ALL-GAS Homes tenet Gen: 'W it mi umw mm Stark Counlv 1 Home Buiide's Association, Inc 4M.

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