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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2000 F13oc LOS ANGELES TIMES TODAY ON TV Prime-Time TV Rankings 9:00 a.m. West Wing' Episodes Help NBC Get Viewers' Votes "Survivor" inched up to a new ratings plateau, building toward its Aug. 23 conclusion. The program has slowly but steadily added viewers each of the last four weeks and proven a boon to "Big Brother," which is consistently attracting by far its biggest audience with the live Wednesday edition that now follows "Survivor." ABC's other highlights included a "Columbo" movie, which sleuthed out the network's highest Monday-night rating in 11 weeks. A preseason football game, by contrast, fared poorly, with CBS' Friday telecast drawing almost a third fewer viewers than the corresponding exhibition last year.

BRIAN LOWRY NBC used the week before the Democratic National Convention to launch its own campaign for "The West Wing," with four episodes of the program generating solid sampling among viewers last week, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. The only installment of "The West Wing," which stars Martin Sheen, that failed to exceed 10 million viewers ran Aug. 8 opposite "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy." Beyond capitalizing on the political season, the special week doubtless kept the show in the mind of Emmy voters the same week screening cassettes were being mailed out. ABC still managed to win the week thanks to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," while CBS' National Nielsen Viewership BRVO "Casino Royale" '67 2hr45 20772018 CMAX "Gloria" '99 (R) 1hr40 5153006 CNN CNN Today COM The Daily Show 8396142 DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN RoliePolie Olie(TVY) El The True Hollywood Story (TVPG-D) 326697 ESPN Racehorse Digest ESPN2 Tennis-ATP RCA Championships. 9054142 FAM The 700 Club FNC Fox News Live FSN2 The Method FX Beverly Hills.

90210 (TVPG) HBO Artists' Specials: Winslow Homer: An American Original (TVY71 248608 HIST Weapons at War (TVG) IFC At the Angelika LIFE The Things We Do for Love MSNBC Home Page MTV Mandy (TVPG) NICK Kipper 851852 SCI-H Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPGI TBS Hunter TLC Pappyland (TVY) TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-VI USA Ned and Stacey (TVPG-D) VH1 New Videos (TVPG) KCBS Martha Stewart 52142 KNBC 36, KMiH HomePage KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) 90326 KABCI3J KEYT 42 KESQ Live! With Regis 81622 KCAL Maury 36142 ID KTTV Divorce Court EB KCOPMontel Williams 52158 EE3 KSCI I Can Do It! KWHY Ellas, Inocentes Culpables 241 KVCR Sesame Street 16968 B3 KCET Barney (TVY) 55210 EE) KTBN Dr. Cherry S3 KOCE Yan Can Cook KVEA El Show del Padre Alberto BO KDOC Life in the Word HQ KJLA Mike Russell (TVG) BO KLCS Geometry AMC "The Farmer's Daughter" '47 2hr 229239 Night Court BETVideolink BRVO Moonlighting CNBC Power Lunch 93581 CNN Newsday DSC Interior Motives (TVG) DISN Otter (TVY) El Celebrity Homes ESPN SportsCenter FAM It's Itsy Bitsy Time (TVY) FNC Fox News Live FSN Sports Geniuses FX NYPD Blue (TV14-L) HIST The Real West (TVG) LIFE Who Knows You Best? (TVPG) MSNBC Headliners Legends MTV Live Through This (TVPG) NICK Little Bear 141332 SCI-H Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPG) SHOW "Waking Up Horton" '98 PG1hr30 5581239 (9:05) TBS Matlock TCM "All the Brothers Were Valiant" '53 1hr41 5739531 TLC Bingo Molly (TVY) TMCvV'Tovin' Molly" 74 (R) 1hr38 72140061 (9:05) TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT Lois Clark (TVPG) USA Jeff Foxworthy Show (TVPG) CHANNELS Los Angeles EB KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County B3 KDOC lnd.) 56 DKCBS CBSI02 SO KJLA (Ind.) 25 C3 KNBC (NBC) 04 ED KLC3 (tdj.) 17 HKTLA(WB)05 DKABC1ABCI07 Palm Springs 3 KMIR (NBC) 04 ID KTTV (Fox 11 42KESQIAB07. IHKCOP(UPN) 13 25 BUKSCIlnd.18 SantaBarbar. B3KCETPBS28 03 KPXN (PAX) 30 San Bernardino DKMEX(Unl)t4 2 KVCR PBS) 24 ED KTBN (Ind (40 Ventura County 03 KOCE (PBS) 50 3KADY(UPN16 Cable Services 39 ESPN 34 MTV 48 AMC 35 ESPN2 84 NICK 38 BET 57 FAM 47 SCI-H 87 BRVO 54 FNC 91 SHOW 41 CNBC 31 FSN 27 JUNO 36 COM 79 FSN2 59 CSPN 29 FX 89 ff" CMAX 45 HBO 33 SfP CNN 42 HIST 30 i f9 2 'FC 21 52 DISN 53 UFE 46 USA 44 El 63 MSNBC 90 VH1 62 Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus. Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure.

(R) In the grid, denotes a repeat program. TV RATINGS ITVY) All Children TVY7 Directed to Older Children PVY7-FV) Directed to Older Children; FantasyViolence (TVG) General Audience (TVPGI Parental Guidance (TV14) Parents Strongly Cautioned (TVMA) Mature Audiences Only (D Suggestive Dialogue ID Coarse Language IS) Sex Violence Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Morning Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Aug. 7-13) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates that there are 260 million potential U.S.

viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions. Program 10:30 a.m. Not- VbW- Program work on 107. Young Americans WB 2.53 108.

7th Heaven Beginnings WB 2.51 109. Baby Blues (8:30 p.m.) WB 2.39 110. IDaieYoul UPN 2.27 111. Secret Agent Man UPN 2.19 Baby Blues WB 2.19 113. Dawson's Creek WB 1.98 114.

The Strip UPN 191 115. Roswell WB 1.89 116. 7 Days UPN 1.81 117. Popular WB 1.72 118. Young Americans (repeat) WB 1.57 119.

Dilbert UPN 1.45 120. Shasta UPN 1.41 TLC Pappyland (TVY) TMC "Hannah and Her Sisters" '86 (PG-13) 32990245 (7:151 TNT CHiPs (TVPG) VH1 Back to Back Videos (TVPG) 7:30 a.m. KCAL Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (TVY7) 2421 0 IB KCOP S3) KADY Sabrina, the Animated Series 53644 00 KSCI Iran-Sima (Farsi) 55790 83 KCET Zoboomafoo 98500 HQ KTBN Marilyn Hickey 63 KOCE America Sews S3 KVEA Aventuras en Panales S3 KDOC Hollywood EH KJLA Mike Russell (TVG) SO KLCS Dragon Tales (TVY) EB KRCACapulina AMC Rachel and the Stranger" '48 1hr30 517968 DISN Bear in Big Blue House (TVY) El Talk Soup (TVPG-D) 208332 ESPN2 NFL 2Night 4587564 FAM Angela Anaconda (TVY7) FSN National Sports Report FSN2 The Method FX MASH (TVPGI HBO Babar (TVY) HIST Gadget Boy's Adventures in History (TVY) LIFE Denise Austin's Daily Workout MTV TRL Wannabe's (TVPG) NICK Hey Arnold! 684622 SCI-FI Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPG) SHOW "Tourist Trap" '79 (PG) 1hr25 5924790 SUND "The Real Blonde" '97 (R1hr45 85846210 (7:35) TLC Rory's Place (TVY) 8:00 a.m. El KCAL Monster Rancher (TVY7) EB KC0PI63J KADY Pepper Ann KVCR Charlie Rose 244887 S3 KCET Dragon Tales 45887 CD KTBN Kenneth Copeland SD KOCE Jenkins' Art Workshop KVEA Pistas de Blue EB KJLA Laura Gregory (TVG) BO KLCS Reading Rainbow 63245 S3 KRCA Cine Northern Exposure (TVPG) BRVO Bravo Profiles (TVPG) COM "Zapped Again!" '90 (R 2hr 8393055 DISN Bear in Big Blue House (TVY) Coming Attractions (TVPG) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Baseball-Little League World Series, South Regional Final. 4531413 FAM Kids From Room 402 (TVY7) FNC Fox News Live FSN2 Yoga Zone FX MASH (TVPGI HBO "Lost Found" '99 (PG-13) 1hr35 310535 HIST Year by Year (TVG) IFC "Nosferatu the Vampyre" 79 (PG) 20522974 (8:15) UFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) MTV MTV Jams Countdown NICK The Wild Thornberrys (TVY) SCI-FI Ray Bradbury Theater TBS Mama's Family TLC Skinnamarink TV (TVY) TNT CHiPs (TVPGI USA Fired Up (TVPG) VH1 Music Videos (TVPG) 13! KEYT Mad About You (TVPG) El KNBC Access Hollywood 14210 I24I KVCR Martha's Sewing Room 36! KMIR Judge Mills Lane EE! KTBN Casey Treat B3 KOCE Designer's Landscape S3 KDOC New Zoo Revue (TVG) 196546 EH KJLA Bio-Med Check-Up SO KLCS Crafts for Kids 79852 COM Canned Ham The Original Kings of Comedy 9883582 DISN Bear in Big Blue House (TVY) ESPN America's Horse FSN2 Yoga Zone IFC IFC Short Film Collection II 444871 LIFE The Things We Do for Love NICK Franklin 147516 SCI-FI Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPG) SHOW "The Earthling" '80 (PG1hr42 99918451 (10:35) TIC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC "Arthur" '81 (PG) 1hr37 93681719 (10:45) USA Hearts Afire (TVPG) Cable Top 10 Here are Nielsen's top 10 cable programs in prime time last week, also ranked by total viewers (in millions).

9:30 a.m. 7:00 a.m. Net- view- Prograa writ en 1. Wrestling (Mon 10 p.m.) USA 850 2. USA 6.63 3.

"Running Mates" TNT 589 4. "the Truth About Jane" UFE 490 5. "The Haunting" HBO 4.43 6. Sen and the City HBO 4.42 7. "Deep Blue Sea" HBO 4.31 8.

"The American President" TNT 3 56 9. Wrestling (Sun 7 p.m.) USA 3.43 10. "Deep Blue Sea" (Sun.) HBO 3.40 Martin Sheen 11:00 a.m. ED KTTV Divorce Court H3 KCET Between the Lions (TVY) (R) 72429 EE! KTBN Unfolding Majesty B3 KOCE Mollie Katzen's Cooking Show II: Vegetable Heaven 00 KDOC Benny Hinn KJLA Dow 30 Report (TVG) ESI KLCS Geometry Night Court CNN Burden of Proof 335239 DISN Out of the Box (TVY) El Mysteries Scandals (TVG) FAM CBN Special Edition 747149 FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion UFE Who Knows You Best? (TVPG) NICK Blue's Clues SCI-FI Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPGI SUND "Olympia" '98 986993 TLC Salty's Lighthouse (TVY) USA Something So Right (TVPG) 1. Survivor CBS 28.00 2.

Millionaire (Sun.) ABC 21.66 3. Millionaire (Tue.) ABC 21.43 4. Millionaire (Thur.) ABC 19.60 5. Big Brother (Wed.) CBS 17.65 6. The Practice ABC 13.33 7.

2020 Downtown ABC 12.77 8. Every. Loves Raymond CBS 11.81 9. ABC 11.76 10. 60 Minutes CBS 11.29 11.

"Vamslted" ABC 10.95 12. CBS 10.78 13. West Wing (Wed 10 m) NBC 1066 14. The Simpsons FOX 10.21 15. TtieWestWmg NBC 10.18 16.

"Columbo: Ashes to Ashes" ABC 10.15 17. The West Wing (Mon.) NBC 10.14 18. Becker CBS 10.07 19. Touched by an Angel CBS 10.04 20. Friends NBC 9.71 21.

Malcolm in the Middle FOX 9.67 22. Dateline NSC (Fd.) NBC 963 23. law Order SVU NBC 957 24. 2020 (Fn.) ABC 9.41 25. 2020 (Wed.) ABC 932 26.

"Heart Full of Rain" CBS 926 27. ER NBC 9.24 28. Will Grace NBC 9.19 29. 60 Minutes II CBS 9.18 30. Just Shoot Me (9:30 p.m.) NBC 8.69 31.

Big Brother (Mon.) CBS 8.43 32. La 4 Order (Mon.) NBC 840 33. Whose Une Is It? (8:30 p.m.) ABC 836 34. King ol Queens CBS 8.27 35. Frasier NBC 823 36.

The West Wing aue NBC 8.14 37. Judging Amy CBS 802 38. Funniest Home Videos ABC 7.98 39. Just Shoot Me NBC 780 40. 3rd Rock From Sun (Thur.) NBC 7.76 41.

Norm (9:30 p.m.) ABC 7.57 WWFSmackdownl UPN 7.57 43. Big Brother flue.) CBS 746 44. America's Most Wanted FOX 7.44 45. Mysterious Ways NBC 7.19 Dateline NBC (Wed.) NBC 7.19 47. Big Brother (Thur.) CBS 7.18 48.

Spin City ABC 7.07 49. WalkerRanger (10 p.m.) CBS 6.94 50. Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 6.89 51. The Drew Carey Show ABC 6.86 52. Beyond Belief: FactFiction FOX 6.81 53.

Providence NBC 6.75 54. "Richie Rich" NBC 6.72 55. NYPD Blue ABC 6.67 56. The X-Files FOX 6 49 57. "Spin and Many ABC 644 58.

Whose Une Is It Anyway? ABC 6.40 59. Family Law CBS 637 60. "Cutthroat Island" NBC 6.36 61. Guinness Wodd Records FOX 6.30 62. King of Die Hill FOX 6.17 Cops FOX 6.17 64.

Sabnna.lhe Teenage witch ABC 6.16 65. 48 Hour CBS 602 66. "Mother Knows Best" ABC 6.01 67. The Pretender N6C 595 68. Making the Band ABC 5.94 Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season.

last Sottoa nek to date ABC 9.94 million 13.13 CBS 8.87 11.71 NBC 7.75 11.46 FOX 5.77 8.26 UPN 3.42 3.79 WB 2.66 3.34 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Not- View-Program wort an 69. Boy Meets World ABC 5.85 70. Making the Band (9 pm.) ABC 584 71.

Becker (Thur.) C8S 5.71 72. Futurama FOX 5.64 73. Big Brother (Sat) CBS 5.51 74. NafjdiitMtion Football CSS 5.43 75. Titus FOX 5.39 76.

That '70s Show FOX 5.35 77. Dateline NBC (Sun.) NBC 5.19 78. 3rd Rock From the Sun ABC 5.18 79. AllyMcBeal FOX 5.09 80. "Boys on the Side" FOX 4.94 81.

Walker. Teas Ranger CBS 4.89 82. Two Guys and a Gid ABC 4.87 83. Opposite Set FOX 486 84. King of the HHI (Wed.) FOX 4.48 85.

Ladies Man CBS 4.37 86. Family Guy (Wed.) FOX 4.35 87. Family Friendly Awards CBS 4.29 88. Sammy NBC 4.12 89. Angel WB 3.98 90.

Norm ABC 3.94 91. Bully, the Vampire Slayer WB 3.73 92. The Jamie Fon Show (Sun.) WB 3.65 93. American High (9:30 p.m.) FOX 3.62 94. American High 9 p.m.) FOX 3.61 95.

The Parkers UPN 360 96. Amer. High 9 p.m.) FOX 3.52 97. For Your Love (Sun.) WB 3.31 98. Amer.

High 9:30 p.m.) FOX 3.27 99. GrownUps UPN 3.19 100. Moesha UPN 3.15 101. 7th Heaven WB 3.08 102. Charmed WB 3.07 103.

Star Trek: Voyager UPN 2.98 104. For Your Love (Sun.) WB 2.96 105. Malcolm Eddie UPN 295 106. Steve Harvey Show WB 2.59 0 KCBS The Early Show 50697 El KNBC 36 KMIR Today 41993 KTLA Morning News 9BB71 KABCI3I KEYTI42) KESQ Good Morning America Democratic National Convention. 90239 01 KTTV Good Day A.

36055 EB KC0P63! KADY Doug 93429 KWHY Bizbirije 48581 B4) KVCR The Remarkable 20th Century 243158 HD KCET Barney (TVY) (R) 82993 03 KPXN Employment Television 03 KMEX jDespierta America! 503326 HD KTBN Rod Parsley SO KOCE Uncommon Knowledge KVEA Doug; Rocko 17:15) EB KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) SO KLCS Learning English KRCA Nubeluz (TVY) 61351 Ape Man (TVG) BET Morning Moves CMAX "Breakout" '98 834871 CNBC Market Watch 26351 CSPN Convention Events 365158 DISN Madeline ITVY) El El News Daily 123697 ESPN SportsCenter FAM New Addams Family (TVG) FNC Fox News Live FSN Regional Sports Report FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion FX MASH (TVPG) HBO The'Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (TVY) HIST Year by Year for Kids (TVY7) LIFE Denise Austin's Fit Lite MSNBC Morning Line NICK CatDog 672887 SCI-H Ray Bradbury Theater TBS Little House: New Beginning TCM 'The Great Caruso" '51 G)1hr53 8703719 KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV1 4) 59968 KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABCI 3 KEYT Port Charles (TV14-LI 99944 KCAL The Newlywed Game ED KTTV Living Single (TVPGI EB KCOP Jenny Jones 18784 EB KWHY La Corte del Pueblo 1241 KVCR Sew Creative 53 KCET Noddy (TVY) 61784 03 KMEX Suenos (TVPG) 30535 (361 KMIR The People's Court EE) KTBN James Robison 421 KESQ Leeza 81210 EE KOCE Shay Pendray's Needle Arts Studio EE) KDOC Southland Today S3 KJLA Local Angle (TVG) BO KLCS Taxes in U.S. History AMC "Louis Prima: The Wildest!" '99 1hr30 320974 Magnum, P.I. BET Jam Zone CNBC Street Signs COM Win Ben Stein's Money (TVPG) CSPN Pre-Convention Program 130245 DSC Lynette Jennings Design DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) ESPN NFL Yearbook FAM It's Itsy Bitsy Time (TVY) FNC Fox News Live FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HBO "Pokemon: The First Movie" '99 G1hr36 2115697 HIST True Action Adventures (TVG) UFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPGI Please see TV LOG 14 Southland Viewing Here are Nielsen's Top 10 prime-time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week. The rankings are based on the number of households watching. a KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) 131 KEYT Home Improvement KNBC EXTRA 84054 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TVPGI 80806 KABC 421 KESQ The View 75974 KCAL Judge Mathis (TVPG) ED KTTV Queen Latifah (TVPG) 11790 EB KCOP Forgive or Forget 53608 KWHY Hablamede Amor 124! KVCR Creative Living 53 KCET Sesame Street 94784 KMEX Maite 1361 KMIR Judge Mills Lane EE) KTBN Behind the Scenes S3 KOCE Scheewe Art Workshop KVEA "La Venenosa" 41535 EB KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) S3 KLCS in Me; Entrepreneur in You; World of Work (10:15) E9 KRCA "Tiempo Destiempo" 2hr 96061 Murder, She Wrote BET Hits From the Street KCAL Beakman's World (TVY) EB KCOP Ml KADY Recess B3 KCET Arthur (TVY) 44158 03 KPXN James Robison EE) KTBN Laverne and Edith Tripp Bfl KOCE Teletubbies 520806 EB KVEA Dragon Ball SI KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) 50 KLCS Cursive Handwriting Phonics in Context (8:45) CMAX "Live Wire" '92 (R) 1hr25 123622 DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) Fashion Emergency (TVG) FAM Mary-Kate Ashley (TVY) FSN Regional Sports Report FX MASH (TVPG) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Rugrats 923992 SCI-H Ray Bradbury Theater (TVPG) TBS Mama's Family TIC Skinnamarink TV (TVY) USA Almost Perfect (TVPG) Sta- Haa Pngrta tloa kokti 1.

Survivor KCBS 884,664 2. Millionaire (Tue KABC 868.960 3. Millionaire (Thur.) KABC 827,083 4. Millionaire (Sun.) KABC 680,511 5. "Columbo: Ashes to Ashes" KABC 586.286 6.

OtiarmaSGreg KABC 560.113 7. 2020 Downtown KABC 539,174 8. Friends KNBC 533.939 9. Dateline NSC (Fit.) KNBC 476.358 10. 'Vanished" KABC 460,654 RADIO DhaliwaTs cWorkT Commands a Loyal Following Radio coverage, 5 p.m.

to conclusion, KCRW-FM (89.9), KPCC-FM (89.3). Drama-Comedy-Family p.m., a.m. Gunsmoke: "Gun for Chester" (May be delayed or preempted for coverage of the Democratic'1 National Convention), KNX (1070). p.m., i.m.-The Whistler" A criminal cheats the executioner only to 9 find there is no honor among thieves (originally broadcast Sept. 24, 1945) (May be delayed or preempted for coverage of i )i PBS the Democratic National Convention), KNX (1070).

Classical 8-9 a.m. Commuter Classic: Gershwin Overture," St. Louis Symphony Tips for Today 11 i.m.-noon, 1-2 p.m. Performance Today: "What Makes Irving Berlin So Great?" (11 a.m.-noon), KCSN-FM (88.5). 4-8 p.m.

Duffy and Christian singers the Orange County Supertones p.m.); former presidential candidate Steve Forbes p.m.), KKLA-FM (99.5). p.m. Rockline: Music and Interview with Alice Cooper, KCBS-FM (93.1). 10 p.m.-mldnight Chicago Symphony: Pinchas Zukerman conducts Haydn (Sinfonia concertante in B-flat); Mozart (40th Symphony); Ravel for a Dead Princess Saint-Saens (Cello Concerto No. 1), KMZT-FM (105.1).

Democratic National Convention 9-11 a.m. Larry Mantle's Alrtalk: "The Democratic Party and Labor" a.m.); California Superintendent of Instruction Delaine Eastin a.m.), KPCC-FM (89.3). p.m. Talk of the City: John Stewart of Comedy Central guests, KPCC-FM (89.3). 1-3 p.m.

Which Way, LA.T Interviews and commentary from both the Democratic National Convention at Staples Center and the L.A. Shadow convention at Patriotic Hall, KCRW-FM (89.9). 5 p.m. to conclusion Democratic National Convention Coverage: Reports and interviews live from Staples Center, KFWB (980), KNX (1070); National Public Orchestra), KMZT-FM (105.1). 10-11 a.m.

Morning Symphony: Leopold Mozart (Two symphonies in Sovak Chamber Orchestra), KCSN-FM (88.5). 11:10 a.m.-noon Masterpiece of the Day. Rimsky-Korsakov (2nd Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra), KMZT-FM (105.1). 7-8 p.m. Symphony at Seven: Nielsen (1st Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt conducts San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), KMZT-FM (105.1).

1 Country-Folk-Jazz-Pop 9 i.m.-noon Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW-FM (89.9). i 10 a.m.-l p.m.-Global VUIage, KPFK-Fm! (90.7). 8-10 p.m.-MetropolIs, KCRW-FM (89.9). aired earlier in the day in Britain, and others are new or repackaged for Americans. "You'll get straightforward reportage, but you'll also get longer stories, especially investigations that ITN has broken," said Dhaliwal.

"People can tune in and get information about what's happening in Europe and Asia. A half an hour does go very quickly, and a special investigation goes 12, 13 minutes. Some viewers say they would like an hour." Before becoming an ITN presenter, Dhaliwal worked as a reporter in northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England as a follow-on to a BBC training program "the best in the world," she said. "The best way to learn your craft is to be in the business. I don't think you can learn journalism sitting in a classroom.

If you want to be a reporter, and you want to sharpen your instincts, you can only do that on the road." Northern Ireland, she said, "is basically where I cut my teeth as a journalist. I spent a lot of time in Donegal, Derry, Dublin, Conne-mara. I was based in Belfast for a year and a half." At ITN, where she's worked since 1995, Dhaliwal still keeps a jacket in her office in case she's sent out on a story. But that doesn't mean she just shows up for her show and reads what her producers have written. "I'm very hands-on with my scripts," she said.

"The words that are said by me have been rewritten by me. I've been there the longest on the program and worked with international news a lot, more than anybody on the team. I come up with ideas for stories. You don't stop being a journalist just because you're sitting in a studio." And it's important to her that viewers understand she has a news background. "In Britain we don't have the tradition of picking somebody because they look and sound good," she said.

"I'm very, very opposed to that You need to know how to handle interviews. You need to know how to make it more balanced, to get both sides of the story, to be more accurate. If you just pulled somebody off the street, they're not going to know that." Still, for ITN's "World News," she acknowledged that her role "is basically behind the desk that's the format." She might have been behind a desk anyway if she'd picked her other career teaching. With a degree in philosophy and history from Polytechnic of East London (now the University of East London) and a master's degree in politics, history and economics from the University of London, Dhaliwal considered teaching and journalism. High Achiever and Trailblazer' "I was always interested in doing something involving public service," she said.

"I thought journalism would be more exciting and fun. And I'm right, because some of my friends who went into teaching are so depressed." DhaliwaTs choice of a career reflects her independence. She, her sister and two brothers, bom and raised in London, are "all very different, very individualistic, and that's partly because of the way we were raised," she said. "Our parents basically left us to our own devices." Her parents, she said, had a traditional arranged marriage in India. "Basically they both saw each other on the day they got married.

My father came over to England from Punjab in the '50s; my mother came over in the '60s." As the eldest, Dhaliwal said, "I'm the first person in my family to go to university, to pass a driving test, to get a car, to leave home, to take a foreign holiday without the family. I think I was just a self-starter, fairly focused and motivated. Being the oldest does give you certain kind of privileges, but I mean responsibilityprivileges rather than rewards or entitlements the opportunity to learn new things, to be the trail-blazer." Dhaliwal, who is single, lives in London's chic Notting Hill area, and because she is the daughter of parents born in India, she is often asked to be a cultural bridge. In February, she moderated a panel on International Press Freedom Day at the United Nations. In April, she was part of a British contingent that went to India to improve ties between the two countries.

"World News for Public Television" airs weekdays at 5 p.m. on KCET-TV in Los Angeles. Televisional want this woman to bring me the news every says David Letterman. Many news consumers agree. By PATRICIA BRENNAN WASHINGTON POST On UN's "World News for Public Television," airing from London, Daljit Dhali-wal brings international stories to Americans five days a week alongside Jennings, Rather, Brokaw and PBS stalwart Jim Lehrer.

But because her newscast often airs against those icons of American broadcast news, only viewers who have searched the airwaves for more in-depth foreign coverage, or for an alternative viewpoint, know who she is. Still, such viewers are often devoted fans, and Dhaliwal, a very slender woman of 5-foot-3, finds that they are the ones especially those in large cities, where her pro-. gram draws its largest audiences who sometimes recognize her. "I've been stopped in the Carnegie Deli in New York and the Gap in Miami," she said. "When 1 went shopping" in the Washington area, "there were a couple of women at Nordstrom's and they recognized the voice, and they said, 'Are you the news The program crosses over to different types of people." Besides her "World News" duties, Daljit pronounced Dal-y'eef in India and Dal-j'if (her preference) in Britain reports at 7 p.m.

weekdays for Channel 4 News, the main newscast on one of Britain's five TV channels. She occasionally stands in for daytime anchors on LBC, a London talk-radio station. 1TN produces Channel 4's news and owns LBC. She also is one of 10 "presenters'anchors, in U.S. parlance for ITN News Channel, launched Aug.

1, a digital all-news channel. The 24-hour service is transmitted live to televisions, digital radios, telephones, PCs, laptops and, later this year, videophones. In the United States, one of DhaliwaTs fans is "Late Show's" David Letterman, who said he had watched Dhaliwal "for years and years" via a satellite dish. Letterman talked with her on his July 6 show, telling viewers "you should see her Radio Station Guide All stations AM unless otherwise noted MUSIC: COUNTRY ISLA .93.9 .92.7 .95.9 MUSIC: ADULT CONTEMPORARY KBIG-FM .104.3 KIK-FM ....943 KUT-FM K0ST-FM 103.5 KXMX-FM MUSIC: CLASSICAL Says Daljit Dhaliwal: "You don't stop being a journalist just because you're sitting in a studio." present the news because, no matter what the news, it makes you feel better about life, about the world and about yourself. I want this woman to bring me the news every night." Calling her "gracious and smart, calm and soothing," he assured her that CBS anchor Dan Rather, whom he compared to "an old saddle," would be happy to step down and let Dhaliwal, 37, take over his news desk.

(He offered to marry her "for that green-card She laughed. Letterman is not her only admirer. In 1999, Dhaliwal was one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" (she was No. 37) and one of Esquire's "Women We Love." Fans have built Web sites devoted to her. 'VeryHands-On With My Scripts' American viewers first saw Dhaliwal in November 1996 when ITN's "World News" was offered on 19 U.S.

stations. Two years later the BBC geared up a competing news program. Some stations chose the BBC show; others, hearing from DhaliwaTs fans, decided to air both. And new PBS stations signed on for ITN. Now "World News" airs on 72 PBS stations, potentially reaching 55 of Americans, mainly those who live in the seven largest television markets, said Kellie Specter of WNET-TV in New York City.

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