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G2TheB eacon Journal Sunday, December 30, 1990 RADIO Teens are as popular as a mall finding WPHR Bob Dyer 1 -rJl inch of the New York City subway system? If not, the Associated Press wrote about two men who saw plenty of bizarre scenes during 722 miles of rail riding, but no murders, muggings or drug deals. The younger of the two, a 17-year-old, undertook the marathon as a project for his high school humanities class. The older man was identified as Roy Fox, 51, "a former radio talk-show host." He is also, it appears, a former morning disc jockey at Cuyahoga Falls' WCUE (1150-AM). Former station owner George Mamas says that he employed a Roy Fox about 15 years ago, and that it's likely this is the same fellow. Fox told the Associated Press he "wanted to see just how far a $1.15 token could go." The report said Fox is now the caretaker of a city-owned century house in Queens.

haven't lost that skill since taking their act to Denver. The ex-WONE (97.5-FM) duo, now employed as the morning team at KA-ZY, collected a flurry of newspaper and TV coverage for a bet they arranged with Denver Broncos linebacker Marc Munford. On the eve of a Colorado-Nebraska college game, the DJs phoned Nebraska alumnus Munford, a regular on their show, and proposed this bet: If Nebraska won, Cronauer and Fowler would sing the Nebraska fight song while sitting in a vat of creamed corn. If Colorado won, Munford would sing Colorado's fight song while sitting in a vat of Buffalo chips. Colorado won, 27-12.

Poor Munford. His team has played almost as poorly as the Browns. He's suffered torn cartilage in his knee and injured an elbow. His future as a pro is shaky. But he kept his word and stuck his Bronco butt in the chips.

fed operation to major player in local sports and news broadcasting. The station has announced that Reggie Rucker will join a growing sports staff that includes Larry Carlton and ex-WWWE (1100-AM) talk-host Geoff; Sin-delar. Starting Jan. 7, Rucker will fallow Sindelar's 5 to 8 p.m. weekday show.

Carlton is heard from 3 to 5 p.m. Rucker is perhaps best known among area sports fans as a favorite target of former Browns quarterback Brian Sipe. He is perhaps best known among broadcasters as the guy who said while doing a Browns-Bengals game on television that he had gone to dinner with Cjoach Sam Wyche the night before when he really hadn't. i Rucker spent seven years as an NBC football analyst and did Indians games for two years on WUAB (Channel 43). Following Rucker's show, WKNR will plug in a syndicated sports program called Sports Final USA.

That will run from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. giving the station 15 consecutive hours of daily sports programming. Bob Dyer is the Beacon Journal radio writer. Do you have trouble getting the attention of your teen-ager? You wouldn't have that problem if you were a disc jockey on radio station WPHR (107.9-FM).

Check this, from the new BirchScarborough ratings book: Of all the people between the ages of 11 and 18 living in Summit and Portage counties, 89 percent dial up WPHR at least once a week. Eighty-nine percent! Try to find another subject on which nine out of 10 teens agree. During a typical 15-minute period between 6 a.m. and midnight, 46 percent of the young folks who have their radios turned on are tuned to the Cleveland station, universally referred to as "Power 108." The station's format is what is known in the industry as "churban." That's a combination of "CHR" (as in Contemporary Hit Radio, also known as Top 40) and "urban" (music by black performers, in this case primarily dance and rap). If you can't find your teen at WPHR, you might zoom down the dial to Akron's WKDD (96.5-FM), where 63 percent of them stop each week.

But they don't stick around long WKDD's average quarter-hour teen share is only 14 percent. Only four other stations attract a significant portion of the teen crowd: WZAK: 29 percent of area teens listen at least once a week; 17 percent of the teens with their radios on during an average quarter-hour are tuned to WZAK WZIP: 13 percent, 7 percent WRQK: 15 percent, 5 percent WONE: 18 percent, 4 percent As was predicted here in October, WKNR (1220-AM), the former AM simulcast of country station WGAR, is gradually being transformed by its new owners from a nearly invisible satellite- Say what you will about Brian Fowler's songwriting and Joe Cronauer's guitar playing, but you can't deny that the former Akron morning team had an uncanny ability to drum up publicity. They Did you see the story and picture in Monday's paper about the guys who spent three days riding every square COUNTRY Year's resolutions for the music industry Jack Hurst pr The season to be jolly always seems to end soberingly, in a time of reflection and good-inten-tioned New Year's resolutions. In Nashville, it is often a doubly sobering interlude, replete with hangovers. Since many music businessmen and businesswomen have their hands full just applying aspirin at this time, they may require assistance in their reflecting.

If so, they're in luck. In a sincere (well, at least straight-faced) effort to help country music assure itself the brightest 12 months possible in economically foreboding 1991, the following random resolutions are suggested for use by the below-named entities and individuals: Texas To formally re- iwfl i tort If Cfrn if Pnnnfrir Tlia K.T. Oslin To seek out a few more old pop songs to do. Oslin usually sings only songs she has written herself, and many of them are exceptional, but her rendition of the 1940s You CaiJ Everybody Darlin' on her new Love in a Small Town collection was perhaps the most charming album-closer of the year. Finally, the Country Music Association To give Patsy Cline some kind of sales award.

Cline, the greatest female vocalist in country music history, has a Greatest Hits album that, after 3 years, is still on the country hit charts and, at 2 million-plus copies, is the biggest-selling one by a female in the whole list which ain't bad for anybody, let alone a lady who has been dead for 28 years. ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Wired, Livewire, Rounder (three stars out of a possible four): With this debut album, a voung bluegrass act makes a formidable entry onto the scene, with impeccable instrumentalism and supremely tight and self-assured vocal harmonies. Its selection of material could stand some improvement, with the quality thinning on Side 2 as the band more noticeably indulges a commendable taste for risk-taking, but the first eight cuts are exceptional. With roots in the bands of the great J.D. Crowe and Doyle Lawson, this appears to be another great aggregation in the making.

Jack Hurst is a country music writer whose columns are distributed by Tribune Media Services. ing them physically; they're too big an asset to the field to be allowed to fall by the wayside from exhaustion. Garth Brooks To restrain the urge to throw up when his peers begin imitating him next year by inviting their spouses to the podiums of awards shows to accept their statuettes. A weeping Brooks', refusal to permit his equally tearful wife, Sandy, to remain behind in her seat when he won the Country Music Association's Horizon award last fall was one of country music's most moving moments in 1990 prime time. Reba McEntire To take more time off to have more kids.

Coming back from her considerable pregnancy hiatus like a house afire, with a hot tour that seems to have stoked up more heat for 1991, McEntire replaced a slight sag in her career with a marked surge that put her in the pages (and sometimes on the covers) of a lot of 1990 general-circulation women's magazines. Kathy Mattea To continue to take the kinds of chances most country stars don't. On the heels of winning her first CMA female-vocalist-of-the-year award in 1989, she released the moving love-in-old-age song Where've You Been, and quickly doubled her own prominence in Nashville, thereby earning country music some mainstream respect in quarters where it's rarely noticed. Mary-Chapin Carpenter To sing a few more joke-songs on prime time TV. The Ivy League-educated and pop-ish Carpenter, who might seem an unlikely practitioner of the country art, won over its most traditional insiders and captivated a huge viewing audience when, on the 1990 CMA awards show, she consented to do a song she hasn't even recorded about the travails of an act opening shows for an ego-ridden star.

Don Williams To record more up-tempo albums. Williams' current True Love, perhaps the most up-tempo album of his life, has caused a rumbling resurgence in the career of a retiring balladeer, who has been quietly making worldwide country hits for more than a generation. Patty Loveless To work more shows with George Strait. Opening shows for Strait's huge crowds for a couple of years had much to do with Kathy Mattea's ascension to Female Vocalist of the Year in 1989; Loveless, Mat-tea's principal competition in 1990, has started being seen a lot on Strait's stages herself. Twitty, who in 1990 celebrated his 25th year as a country giant, imparted these tips for longevity: Do few interviews, avoid TV cameras and never accept a TV series or get suckered into becoming No.

1 (because the only place to go from No. 1 is history). Hank Williams Jr. To do everything possible to continue his two-season affiliation with Monday Night Football, for which he serves as the greatest opening act in the game. His service there is not only not hurting his visibility with the kind of audience most likely to love (or learn to love) him, it's not hurting country music, either.

The Kentucky HeadHunters To stop long enough to breathe. In 1990, the wild and woolly-headed interlopers from rock came close to working more shows than there were days in the year, and by year's end, the ordeal had come close to destroy RADIO OkSM(Cont.) 960-WKVX-AM, Wooster 1520-WJMP-AM, Kent uuiiiv iuvu ait vuunu Lone Star State informally has been called that for nearly a decade now in recognition of the fact that its native son, George Strait, country music's reigning two-time entertainer of the year, is an automatic sellout from Beaumont to El Paso. The Horde of New Stars To study precepts laid down by the venerable Conway Twitty if they wish to continue drawing crowds instead r' celling used cars a couple of from now. 98 1-WTCf-FM, Canton IT AduH Contmporwy 92.5-WDJOfM, Wkance 94. 1-WHBC-FM, Canton 94.9-WOMX-fM, Akron 98.9-WKBNfM, Youngstown 102.

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Lorain 1390-WFMJ-AM. Youngstown 1520-W1NW-AM, Canton BuatnMt 1420-WHK-AM, Cleveland Chaalcal 89.7-WKSU-fM, Kent 95.5-WCLV-FM, Cleveland CoflegM 88. 1-WZlP-fM. Akron 88.7-WWC-FM, John Carrol 88.9-WROl-fM, Ashland 89.3-WCSB-FM, Cleveland State 91.1-WRMU-fVL Mount Union Cohge (Cont.) 91.1-WRUM-FM, Case-Western 91.5-WOBC-FM, Obertn 91.9-WCWS-FM, Wooster Country 99.5-WGAWM, Cleveland 101.3-WNCOfM. Ashland 104.5-WQKT-FM, Wooster 105.1-WQXK-FM, Salem 990-WDG-AM.

Masaton 1220-WKNR-AM, OeveJand 1350-WSLR-AM, Akron Eaqr Uttonhg 930-WEOL-AM, Byrla 1310-WDPN-AM, Alance Jan 90.3-WCPNflvt Cleveland Nw Aqj 107.3-WNWV-fM, Byna 107.7-WBZW-fM, Loudonvle NtwiTritSportt 100.1-WNIR-FM, Kent 570-WKBN-AM, Youngstown 1100-WWWE-AM, Cleveland 1240-WBBW-AM, Youngstown 1300-WERE-AM, Cleveland 1590-WAKR-AM, Akron OUtM 93.3-WBBG-FM, Youngstown 98.5-WNCX-FM, Cleveland 105.7-WMJI-FM, Cleveland 103.3-WCRF-FM, Cleveland 104.9-WZLE-FM, Lorain 640-WHLOAM. Akron tOOO-WCCO-AM. Cleveland 1 150-WCUE-AM, Cuyahoga Fans 1260-WRDZ-AM Cleveland 1540-WABO-AM, Cleveland Rock 89.1-WAPSflt Akron 9a7-WQKfM, Mount Vernon 95.9-WNPC-FM. New Phi 965-WKDDfM, Akron 97.5-WONtFM, Akron 100.7-WMMS-fM, Cleveland 101.1-WHOT-FM, Youngstown 105.3-WYHT-FM, Mansfield 106.1-WNCDfl Ntes 1069-WRQK-FM, Canton 107.9-WPHFrFM, Cleveland 1330-WHOT-AM, Youngstown UrtMti Contampofify 92.3-WJMOFM, Cleveland 93.1-WZAK-FM, Cleveland 1040-WJTa North Ridge 1490-WJMO-AM, Cleveland bl NFL Football: Cleveland Browns (3-12) at Cincinnati Bengals (8-7). Announcers Tom Ham- Quantum Laaplfl Misslnglfijg Memories Newi NBC News mono1, Joe Namalh.

Bengals need a win an Oilers deleat of Steelers lor AFC Central Irtle, Ll NFL Football: Dallas Cowboys (7-8) at Atlanta Falcons (4-11). Falcons have the NFL's No. 4 Id NFL Football: Detroit Lions (6-9) at Seattle Seahawks (8-7). Announcers Verne Lundquist, passing offense. (Live) John Madden.

A victory puts Seahawks into the playoffs. (Live) NFL Football: Cleveland Browns (3-12) at Cincinnati Bengals (8-7). Browns lead the NFL in Race For No. 1 College Bowl From the Heart News NBC News tost fumbles with 23. (Live) Preview fc NFL Football: SanFrancisco (13-2) at Minnesota (6-9).

Announcers Dick Stockton, Merlin Lj NFL Football: Detroit Lions (6-9) at Seattle Seahawks (8-7). It Bengals or Oilers lose, disen. 49ers will be home team through playoffs; Vikings won't be in Seahawks are In playoffs, even if Seattle loses. (Live) wTnv fcj NFL Football: Cleveland Browns (3-12) at Cindnnat i Bengals (8-7). At long last, Browns' Paid Program Abbott Paid Program Family Ties News NBC News worse season of the Modell era comes to an end.

(Live) Costello fcl NFL Football: Dallas Cowboys (7-8) at Atlanta Falcons (4-11). Falcons have NFL's No. 3 ti NFL Football: DetroitLions (6-9) atSeattle Seahawks (8-7). (Live) WTRF rushing defense. (Live) HIGHLIGHTS shackled! on WCUE (1150-AM).

a man who seemingly is on top ol the world Is led astray by friends. Tuesday 9 p.m.: Works by Enesco, Gould and D'lndy are heard on Cleveland Orchestra Archives on WCLV Today Noon: The Detroit Symphony performs music by Schumann and Wagner on WCLV (95.5-FM). 9 p.m.: WMMS (100.7-FM) airs Dawn of a Decade, a three-hour special recapping 1990. Monday 7:30 p.m.: On the religious drama Un 1 1 p.m. Booknotes SPAN! See 8 p.m.

OS 7 a.m. Monday Today WM Rochester, N.Y., writer's clinic for urban youth teaches basketball and poetry; sexism in cartoons; Penelope Ann Miller (Kindergarten Cop film); music's Lionel Hampton; author Richard Abrams (Will It Hurt the fl Good Morning America 63 TV producerhost Dick Clark; the year in science, medicine, entertainment, sports, law politics; entertainer Bobby Short; columnist Pat Buchanan, political strategist Bob Beckel evaluate President Bush's first two years. 5:30 p.m. Man of the Year Profile of Time magazine's choice. QS 7 p.m.

60 Minutes Q) IJJ Botched mob hit makes unsuspecting targets of a New Jersey widow and her son; acid rain; problems with polybutylene pipes. Making of a Continent The Rich, High Desert He Once called the Great American Desert by Europeans, the fertile soil of America's Great Plains is the breadbasket of our country and quite a few of theirs. 8 p.m. Booknotes HW Garry Wills (Under God). 1990 awards; 1992 presidential field.

Hour of Power 0 Host Robert H. Schuller, pastor of Southern California's Crystal Cathedral; former Iraqi hostage Gene Lovas; reflections of the late American industrialist Armand Hammer. 2 p.m. Year in Review Persian Gulf crisis; reunification of Germany; end of Thatcherism in Great Britain; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's role in ending the Cold War. International Programming lETO) Japan.

4 p.m. Take 6 YH Grammy-winner a cappella gospel group, in New Orleans during its So Much 2 Say tour. Performance clips; interviews with Alvin "Vinnie" Chea, Claude V. McKnight III, Mervyn Warren, Cedric Dent, Mark Kibble, David Thomas; Ridin' the Rails with k.d. lang; Turn with Joe Sample.

9:30 a.m. Meet the Press S) See 1 0:30 a.m. 10a.m. Wrestling Mr. Perfect, Tugboat, Nasty Boys, Jake Roberts, Big Boss Man, Undertaker.

10:30 a.m. Meet the Press Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, Congress and the New Year. Persian Gulf crisis, the economy Congress. Moderator: NBC Chief Congressional Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Panel: columnist Robert Novak of Chicago Sun-Times, Tim Russert, NBC Washington bureau chief.

1 1 a.m. Wrestling Rockers, Barbarian, Rick artel, Texas Tornado, Power Glory. McLaughlin Group Persian Gulf crisis; WWWJ JUi Tit tin COMING ATTRACTIONS and midnight Monday. Tickets: $24.75. Empire Concert Club, 1012 Sumner Court at East Ninth Street, Cleveland.

Phone: 861-3773. First Light, Impacto Nuevo, 10 tonight. Tickets: $5, or $1.01 for customers in pajamas. Jn US-QAt El I 1 PRIME CHOICE Jl1 NF.W YEARS Featuring a selection of over 50 Hot and Cold Delicacies! Mi USDA Choice Sirloin Steak Gus' Favorite Our Traditional Pork Sauerkraut The steak that made us famous Top Sirloin Steak ART Public reception The Little Art Gallery of the North Canton Library, 185 N. Main will open two new exhibits with a public reception from 2 to 4 p.m.

next Sunday. On view through Jan. 29 will be paintings by Don Fusco of Hopedale and pottery by Inger Licht of Canton. For more information, call 499-4712. Fiber works The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East will exhibit the fiber works of Cleveland artist Evelyn Svec Ward through Feb.

3 in Gallery 240. For more information, call 421-7340. MUSIC Concerts Front Row Theatre, 6199 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights. Phone: Millie Jackson, The Manhattans, 8 tonight. Tickets: $21.75.

LeVert, The Rude Boys, 8 p.m. 55.95 $6.95 EVE PARTY PALLADIUM KIGHTCLU3 At The Red Carpet Inn, located at Route 8 and the Turnpike. Free hors d'oeuvres Live D.J. Lots of dance space. Come join the party! Admission 5.

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