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FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2(XX) F25 LOS ANGELES TIMES TODAY ON TV The Big Challenge: Fine-Tuning KABC AM FX Beverly Hills. 90210 (TVPGI HIST True Action Adventures LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPG) MTV Hot Zone (TVPG) NICK Maggie Ferocious Beast SCI-FI Star Trek SHOW "A Merry War" '97' (PG-13)1hr40 7612484 TBS "She's Out of Control" '89 (PG)2hr 787858 TLC Bingo Molly (TVY) TNN Dallas (TVPGI TNT "D.A.R.Y.t." '85(PG2hr 333200 USA Wings (TVPGI VH1 Top 10 Countdown (TVPG) CHANNELS Los Angeles 03 KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County 03 KDOC (Ind.) 56 HKCBSICBSI02 EB KJLA (lnd. 25 11KNBCINBCI04 BU KLCS (Edu 1 17 KTLA (WB 05 EKBCAlnd.20 II KABC (ABC) 07 Palm Springs HKCALlnd.09 36 KMIH NBC 04 IDKTTv(fox11 42 KESQ (ABC) 7, IHKCOP (UPN) 13 25 DO KSCI (Ind.) 18 HO KCET (PBS) 28 1 tYT (ABC) D7 B3 KPXN (PAX) 30 San Bernardino H3KMEXUm 14 24 KVCR (PBS) 24 OD KTBN (Ind.) 40 Ventura County EE KOCE (PBS) 50 6J KADY (UPN) 16 Cable Services 39 ESPN 34 MTV 48 AMC 35 ESPN2 84 NICK 38 BET 57 FAM 47 SCI-FI 87 BRVO 54 FNC SI SHOW 41 Radio Having posted its worst ratings in 40 years, the station looks for ways to restore its prominence on the airwaves. Around the Dial By T.L STANLEY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Struggling talk radio staple KABC-AM (790) may be in for a make-over of Madonna-sized proportions. Just because the station doesn't play pop music doesn't mean it can't take a cue from the queen of reinvention, says its recently named program director Erik Braverman.

"It's a matter of staying in touch with what the times are telling you, as Madonna has been so adept at doing," said Braverman, who, at 30, is a 13-year talk radio veteran who has been an on-air reporter, a producer and programmer. "You have to evolve." Executives at Disney-owned KABC have reason to be introspective. The station finished the recent Arbi-tron ratings for January through March with its worst showing in 40 years, a 1.9 share of the listening audience. By May, soon after the numbers were released, KABC's program director of two years, Drew Hayes, left. His departure followed a series of on-air shake-ups this spring liberal comic Stephanie Miller was ousted over "creative differences" was creative, they weren't," she said on her way out), and conspiracy theorist and late-night host Art Bell retired.

Radio talk show veteran Michael Jackson, now at competitor KRLA-AM (1100), had made an exit shortly after Hayes arrived. Braverman, who has been at KABC four years and in his new job a few days, says "everything is under review. There's no magic formula to fix a radio station. You need to use your research and your gut, and combine it with good programming and talent." It's still to be decided what changes might take place in the station's talent or program lineup, but Braverman said the tweaking will begin before the fall Arbitron ratings. Marketing, both on- and off-air, will intensify around that time, aiming at the core 35-to-64-year-old AM talk radio listener.

On the talent side, mainstays Larry Elder and Dennis Prager, the station's top-rated personalities, will remain at the center of the lineup. Other strong performers likely to stay: Al Rantel, Mr. KABC (Marc Germain) and John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou John Ken As a first step in trying to reverse the slide in listeners, the station's on-air promotional spots have been revamped, dropping their former self-effacing, tongue-in-cheek approach and adopting a no-nonsense tact that emphasizes history and reliability. The image campaign was created after KABC's recently conducted research project found that listeners associate the station with a balance of opinion and informed on-air personalities, said Braverman, who heads research for KABC and its sister stations Radio Disney and KLOS-FM (95.5), an area he will keep under his purview. "So many people grew up listening to) this station," Braverman said.

"They knew they could hear the latest news, they'd hear from newsmakers and community leaders, and they'd get dialogue from all points of view. We'll respect and embrace that history." There is much for the station to overcome. KABC, whose line-up includes talk stalwart Paul Harvey, Web maven Matt Drudge and feminist attorney Gloria Allred, faces its most keen competition from the nearly dozen other talk stations available in Los Angeles, whose hosts range from local talent to the big syndicated powerhouses such as Howard Stern, Don Imus, Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh. Its chief rival is top-rated talk station KFI-AM (640), with a 3.5 share of the listening audience, or roughly 60,000 listeners per quarter hour in the most recent ratings period, almost double KABC's average of 33,200.

While other AM radio is the most direct competition, Braverman also sees TV news as a threat, and a bigger one than the Internet, which he says can complement radio because people often use both media concurrently. Another major challenge: good times. With a strong economy, low unemployment and optimistic consumers, there isn't as much demand for talk radio these days as there was in years past. But the genre still has a place, says Braverman, who started in sports talk when he was a 17-ycar-old high school junior in his native Houston. "Listeners aren't quite as angry as they were in the late '80s and early '90s," Braverman said.

"But large numbers of people still use talk radio to become informed, because they might not have time to read the papers or watch the news everyday. They also turn to it for entertainment, and we can't forget that's part of our mission." Though he will aim for a dramatic turnaround, Braverman says it can't happen overnight. "It's not like an accounting job where you have to go from red to black in six months," he said. "It's much more subjective. The question we'll keep having to ask is, 'Are we on the right LIFE Denise Austins Daily Workout NICK Hey Arnold! 792649 SHOW "Driving Me Crazy" '91 PG1hr29 7250113 (7:45) TLC Rory's Place (TVY) 8:00 a.m.

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ABC's two-hour Peter Jennings special "The Search for the Historical Jesus" also found a receptive audience, delivering the network's highest rating for a documentary since 1993. As a sign of "Millionaire's" ratings trajectory, meanwhile, the reruns are drawing more viewers than they did when they originally were broadcast in August. Although "Survivor" is attracting young viewers to CBS generally an older-skewing network so far the program has short coattails. The network still ranked third last week among adults age 18 to 49. -BRIAN 1.0 WRY The windup to the long Fourth of July holiday weekend didn't produce the usual ratings swoon for the broadcast networks, which continue to receive a lift from so-called reality programming, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

With "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in reruns, CBS' summer series "Survivor" received the most votes from the Nielsen judges, topping the prime-time standings for the second straight week despite the first week-to-week audience decline since the program's May 31 premiere. CBS attributes the dip in part to lower viewing in the opening hour of prime time due to Daylight Savings Time, noting that more people watched the final portion National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last are based on the average number of people who watched a program from U.S. viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions. week (June 26-July 2) as compiled by start to finish.

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The ABC program, which is taped in advance, said it had two top-prize winners in the space of a week (the first, Kim Hunt, a math teacher from Collierville, won Thursday night). That brings its total to six, out of about 250 total contestants in the course of its first 1 1 months on the air in the U.S. Producer Michael Davies, announcing "another two American lives changed for the good" at a New York press conference, said the new winners provide some dramatically emotional moments, as well as a chance for a "call out to our regular viewers" at a time when they may not be tuning in to each and every episode of what is currently a three-night-per-week show, soon to be four nights a week in the fall. The show, Davies said, is undergoing an "interesting transition. We were an event program.

Now 'Millionaire' is becoming a regular television series. We're not the massive thing, totally different, totally reinventing television. That mantle has been passed on." 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. Sta- Housa- Program lion holds 1.

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Dcmolistciv IaHI-HM 88 9) Dec. 7, 1955), KNXU070). 1 p.m. Radio Hall of Fame Hour: episodes of "Boston Blackie" (1946) and "The Phil Harris Alice Fayc Show" (1948), KNX (1070). Classical 8-9 a.m.

Commuter Classic: Mendelssohn Overture," Hanover Band), KM.T-I (105.1). 10-11 a.m. Morning Symphony: Michael Daugherty Symphony," Baltimore Symphony), KCSN-FM (88.5). 7-8 p.m. Symphony at Seven: Borodin (1st Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic), KMZT-FM (105.1).

Country-Folk-Jazz-Pop "i 10 a.m. -Charlie Tuna, KUC (570). i Tips for Today p.m., a.m. Dragnet: High school students arc suspects in a siring of robberies (originally broadcast July 19, 1951), KNXU070). 10 p.m.

-midnight Cleveland Orchestra: William Steinberg conducts Brahms (3rd Symphony; Piano Concerto No. 1, pianist Maurizio Pollini); Saint-Saens, Dvorak, KMT-FM (105.1). 1 1 p.m. -midnight law Set With Branford Marsalls: "Louis Armstrong: One Hundred Years," tribute by the Carnegie Hall Jazz Hand. Kl.ON-1'M (88.1).

Drama-Comedy-Family p.m., a.m. The Lone Ranger: "Foxfire" (originally broadcast 4 yfiif! 'iI'd'; MM II.