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1 0 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday. August 22. 1 985 TELEVISION i.WMLBM.1111 IIW IIIIIIWW New chief old hand at what makes WUAB-Ch. 43 tick with his station holding tightly to its "king of the independents" crown. Still, the field became a little more crowded in May when WOIO-Ch.

19 joined WUAB and WCLQ-Ch. 61 in the Cleveland independent battle. The hew station debuted strongly, and Schuch knows his first priority is to keep Chan-" nel 43 in the No. 1 spot. "The competition doesn't bother me," he said during a telephone interview from his WVTV office.

"I feel good about it. The adrenalin is flowing. Look, it either brings out the best in you or you get out of the business. If anything, the competition is stronger here in Milwaukee. And I don't want it to seem as if the independents are our only competition.

All the stations are after" as big a share of the audience as they can get." Coming out of the sales end of the broadcast business, Schuch has spent 16 years at WVTV. During that time he rose from account executive to local sales manager to national sales manager to general sales manager to assistant general manager to general manager. Even though Cleveland and its competitive television market are new to Michael A. Schuch, he's quite prepared to take over as vice president and general manager of the area's most successful independent station, WUAB-Ch. 43.

The 42-year-old Chicago native has spent the last four years as the vice president and general manager of WVTV-Ch. 18, the Milwaukee station that, like WUAB, is owned by Gaylord Broadcasting. "I feel very comfortable about going over to Channel 43 because the two stations are so similar," said Schuch, who was named WUAB's general manager last Thursday. fact, I've been doing a lot of thinking about the similarities. We do a lot of the same things.

"Both stations are strong independents (not owned by or affiliated with a network). They both have excellent film libraries. And they're both heavily into sports. We have the Bucks, a basketball team that was exciting to watch last season. WUAB has the Cavs, a team that got hot last season.

17-county area and 7 of the people watching TV. That's down slightly from' Channel 43's May figures (39), but WOIO also slipped (l4 compared -to May's 25). The July book, however, doesn't carry much weight. That's because good' weather keeps people outside and drops the viewing levels to yearly lows. In the hotly contested 6 p.m.

local' news race, WJKW-Ch. 8 experienced its annual summer drop, placing second (1429 to WEWS-Ch. 5 (17357c). NBC-owned WKYC-Ch. 3's hour-long newscast continued to be a distant (612).

Rounding out the 6 p.m. race were. Alice on WUAB (48), One Day at a Time on WOIO (23) and WAKR-Ch. 23's local report (1. 2).

WJKW's news won narrow victories at noon (931 to WEWS 930)J and 11 p.m. (1531 to WEWS' 15 30 and WKYC's 1121). NBC's prime time on WKYC outdis-t tanced ABC on WEWS and CBS Ofl WJKW. "I don't have any grand plan to get there and completely turn everything upside-down," he said. "It's incumbent on me to get my feet wet and see what has been working.

We're the team to beat, and it's going to stay that way." There were hints, however, of what could change at Channel 43. "The business has changed," Schuch said. "You've got to make sure you're budgeting enough for promotion. You have to be i willing to spend money in that area. It's an important area and, coming out of sales, I feel good instincts there.

"It can never be business as usual. You always have to put what you're doing under a microscope." WUAB's general manager will be arriving to some good news. The July Arbitral ratings book showed Channel 43 with a comfortable edge over hot newcomer Channel 19. Measuring the average total audience for each day of the ratings period, Arbitron's figures showed WUAB with 2 of the 3.6 million TV homes in the Mark Dawidziak "We have the Brewers, a baseball team that's going through a losing season. WUAB carries the Indians, a team having a bad season.

We carry Big 10 basketball. WUAB carries Ohio State basketball. Soccer will be new to me. The Force is the big addition." Schuch, who plans to start at Channel 43 during the first week of September, replaces Jack Moffitt, the extremely popular 38-year Cleveland broadcasting veteran who announced in July that he was leaving to become the general manager of KTHT-Ch. 67, a new station in Houston.

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Nova Rocky Mountain elk. 03 CD Home Free The effort to return the bald eagle to sanctuaries in western Massachusetts. Si Movie -kit "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" Part 1 (1977) Ben Gazzara, Lome Greene. What might have happened if President John F. Kennedy's assassin had lived.

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Movie "Waterhole No. 3" (1967) James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor. Gambler is pursued by crooks, the sheriff and his seductive daughter. 8:30 p.m. CD WM Family Ties Steven and Elyse plan to spend an evening alone together.

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EE Simon Simon A union leader (Gary Lockwood) hires the Simons to find a blackmailer threatening to expose him as a Vietnam War deserter. Repeat, Q9 Movie "Boardwalk" (1980) Lee Strasberg, Ruth Gordon. An elderly Jewish couple deals with daily problems. GD Movie it it it "The Jolson Story" See Mark's Best Bets. UD Movie "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (1979) Stockard Channing, Jonathan Winters.

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A Chicago mobster arranges the deaths of associates and lawmen. 1:00 a.m. CB Women In Crisis Carol Lawrence, Gary Collins, Steve Allen, Mary Ann Mobley. WoTl Joe Franklin Exercise expert Lorin Simon; weightlifter Jack Walsh. EH Viewer Call-In John Norfleet.

correspondent with the City News Tribune. Radio 1990 Heart, Robert Plant, Warren Mills. 2:00 a.m. Ill Nlghtwatch Jennifer Beals (TtieZ Bride) Movie it "The Student Con- nection" (1975) Ray Milland. 4 FRIDAY 5:30 a.m.

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reem Abdul-Jabbar; John Davidson, Danny Cooksey. 5:00 p.m. Live on Five Sister Audrey director of Coar Children's Village irr" El Salvador. Music videos to turn Channel 19 into an all-nighter From staff and wire reports WOIO-Ch. 19, the Cleveland independent station that started broadcasting in May, will expand its Wednesday-Saturday schedule to 24 hours a day with the addition of late-night music-video service Odyssey, which will premiere Friday, Aug.

30. Packaged by a production company in Florida, Odyssey offers a mix of. urban contemporary and pop-music videos. WOIO will tape the Satellite service and air it about a.m. Wednesday through Friday and a.m.

Saturday. Ken Howard, the white basketball coach at a predominantly black high school in The White Shadow series, will play a lawyer on Dynasty II: The Colbys, ABC's spinoff of Dynasty. Howard will start his character in a two-hour Dynasty episode in November, before The Colbys premieres. Tony Curtis will play Chicago gangland chieftain Sam Giancana in NBC's Mafia Princess movie. Susan Luccl will play Antoinette Giancana, who wrote the best-seller about life with her father.

Pinnochio, Disney's first gamble on the videocassette market with a perpetually re-released theater-movie animated classic, is second to Jane Fonda 's Workout in videocassette sales and just ahead of USA for Africa's We Are the World. In rentals, where The Karate Kid and Falcon and the Snowman rank one-two, Pinnochio has fallen to ninth. CBS' West 57th ratings dropped in 10 cities for the second of six planned outings MARK'S BEST BETS 8:00 p.m. QQJlil The Cosby Show In this hilarious episode from last season, Denise (Lisa Bonet) brings home a boyfriend who impresses Cliff (Bill Cosby) and Claire (Phy-lica Ayers-Allen) until he starts criticizing doctors and lawyers. NBC.

9:00 p.m. GD The Jolson Story Corny, yes, but extremely entertaining. Larry Parks (mouthing the words to several Jolson standards) stars in this 1946 film biography as the Kaczmarek legendary singercomedian who conquered Broadway and made the' first "talkie," The Jazz Singer. WCLQ. 10:00 p.m.

O60EH Hometown The premiere of a Big Chill-Wke drama about seven friends who reunite after 15 years. Starring Jane Kaczmarek and Daniel Stern, the series gets an early start before the fall season. CBS. SYMBOLS GUIDE Chicago (H New York EH Atlanta Bfflsteubenville ESE Learning Channel ID Lifetime IM) Movie Channel ErD Music Television Nashville Network EU Nickelodeon ffl Playboy Channel ED People That Love (H Satellite Programming Network EID Wheeling Arts Entertainment Network Black Entertainment Television CBN Cable Network Cinemax Cable News pi Showtime USA Network Warner Akron cable pos. 8-P1 Warner Springfield Network GEO ED C-SPAN (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network) ES Disney Channel position 6 Warner Wadsworth position 6 Marks position 1 1 Closed captioned for hearing-impaired I ESPN (Entertainment Sports Programming Network) ED 9 Home Box Office Home Theater Network from 10.9 of TV homes to 9.7, but at least part of the slide is New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden's fault.

While Gooden was striking out 16 San Francisco Giants on New York's independentcable superstation WOR, West 57th got 8.3 of the New York TV homes, only 7.4 for the final 30 minutes when Gooden was threatening strikeout records. West 57th's premiere drew 10.4 in New York. Lassie TV series lineage: Mother: Jan Clayton (widowed Ellen, 1954-57), Cloris Leachman (married Ruth, 1957-58), June Lockhart (Ruth, 1958-64). Child: Tommy Rettig (Jeff, 1954-57), Jon Provost (Timmy, 1957-64)). Father: Jon Shepodd (Paul, 1957-58), Hugh Reilly (Paul, 1958-64).

Ms. Leachman was in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis. Ms. Lockhart was in Lost in Space and Petticoat and is in ABC's General Hospital. Rettig, now 43, after drug-related arrests left acting and lives in Los Angeles.

Ms. Clayton did some stage work and died in 1983. George Cleveland (Gramps, 1954-57) died in 1957. Provost, now 35, left acting. Shepodd and Reilly are out of show business.

George Chandler (Uncle Petrie, 1957-58) retired. For 1973-74, the collie settled on a ranch run by Keith (Larry WUcox, who starred in CHiPS and who produces Ray Bradbury Theater for Home Box Office pay-cable service). Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian) will join-NBC's Silver Spoons as the uncle of Kate (Erin Gray). Julie and Dinah Kirgo, creatorswriters for Hometown, which will premiere tonight (at 10 on WJKW-Ch. 8, WKBN-Ch.

27), are daughters of novelistmovies-TV writer producer George Kirgo. The Kirgo sisters wrote for One Day at a Time for three years. You by Stevie Wonder) Nashville Now Porter Wagoner, Mike Snider, Ray Scott, Tom Grant. 9:30 p.m. 0) tH Night Court Mac's wife, Quon Le, is brought to court for soliciting.

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See Mark's Best Bets. 0 Mystery Reilly: Ace of Spies. A clairvoyant gives Pepita hope that Reilly is alive. (Conclusion) ID Virtuoso Pianist Earl Wild plays pieces by Schumann, Chopin and Liszt and his variations on four songs by Rachmaninoff. fJl Movie "Streets of Fire" (1984) Michael Pare, Diane Lane.

Mercenary tries to rescue his former girlfriend, a rock-music star, from a motorcycle gang. IE3 Friday Night Video Fights Viewers vote on two videos. Brothers Cliff develops an interest in a Soviet wrestling champion who Is more interested in Lou. Repeat, 10:20 p.m. MM! Movie "True Grit" (1978) Warren Oates.

Not John Wayne's Oscar-winning version. 10:30 p.m. ClHl The Heart Has Its Reasons The work of Jean Vancier with the mentally handicapped In France. Movie "Hanky Panky" (1982) Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner. MEWel, Country Leon Everette, Where's the Fire? 11:00 p.m.

Top 20 Countdown Weekly Be a Star See 8:00 p.m. A Case of Libel A brilliant lawyer.