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(Uir Arizona Dmln Star Page Eight Section Tucson, Tuesday, January 1, 1985 Today's Viewing Transmitter trouble blurs KDTU's debut station Arts Entertainment Network Christian Broadcasting Network Cable News Network Oisney Channel Entertainment ft Sports Programming Network Galavlsion Home Box Ofllce Tucson stations KVOA(NBC) KUAT(PBS) KGUN (ABC) KZAZ (Ind.) KOLD (CBS) OU KDTU (Ind.) HE KTVW (SIN) Cabl CBN CNN DISN ESN GALA HBO Cotton Bowl Houston vs. Boston College. (3 hrs.) IT8l Rose Bowl Preview Tuesday Evening January 1 Morning Program not For more detailed program information, please consult The Arizona Daily Star's Sunday TV Week. Afternoon NOON 5:30 A.M. Made in Taiwan One Life to Live INN News fS2l El Chapulin Colorado CD CBS News 5:50 A.M.

Fteportaje de Noticias 12:30 6 A.M. All In the Family If Every Second Counts ill Cines Santo vs. El Especto del Es-trangulador." (2 hrs.) HTN Home Theater Network LIFE Lifetime MAX Cinemax NASH The Nashville Network NIK Nickelodeon PLAY Playboy Channel SHO Showtime SIN Spanish International Network 9 P.M. IT8l Carol Taking Advantage Jimmy Swaggart Here's Lucy CD CBS Morning News 6:30 A.M. 1 NBC News ABC News Muppet Show Creativity Moyers 8 General I 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 I 10:30 Orange Bowl: Oklahoma n.

Washington from Miami, (cont.) Int. Tonight Love Conn. News Best it Canon MacNeillehrer News Nova Frontline Daiii Susskind Sugar Bowl: Louisiana State n. Nebraska from New Orleans, (cont.) M'A'S'H News Tail Dallas Movie: "Sunlight at the 8.K. Corral" SCTY CD flashheagle Movie: "YictorKictoria" News Soap rjfi Movie "Torn Curtain" Menr Griffin Caul Burnett Bob Newhart 531 leonela Chespirite tl Maleticio Sabor Latino 24 Boras Emlyn Williams Charles Dickens lit the Met Great Writers 1915 CBN 700 Pub 1 Celebrity Chefs Bill Cosby Sroacha Burns Allen Love That Boh CWN Freeman Reports News Maneylirn Sports Tonight NewsNight OISN Animals 1 tPCOT Magazine! Movie: "Treasure Island" Theater Movie: "The Gift of Love" ESN Sportsfage '84 Skiing: Women's Downhill SportsCenter Boning 1984: Hear ef Change 8HU "FJ spirite De Brce Lee (cont.) Video Exitos Cine: "Eres Morable" AnillosOeflri HBO Movie: "Cross Creek" Movie: "Sudden Impact" HTN Movie (cent.) Ski Canada Movie: "Haiders Of The tost rk" Movie: "Hammett" Lift Regis Philbin's Lifestyles 6oodSe! Nature Whole New You Wt.

Watchers Regis Philbin's Lifestyles MAX Movie: "The Compleat Beatles" Movie: "Endless Love" NASH Nashville Now New Country Can Be A Star Yesteryear Nashville Now PLAY Movie: Timing" (cont.) Movie: "Swinging Couples" Loving Adults SHO Movie "Deal tf the Century" Paper Chase: The Second Year Movie: "Trading Places" SIN ElMaleficie Saber Latino 24 Moras One: "Santo Ys. il Especto Del Estrangnlader" TBS Movie: "Love Story" (cant.) World At War World at War Movie: "Good Neighbor Sam" TLA Love Boat Tournament of Roses Parade TMC Movie: "Silent Movie" (cont.) Movie: "Sudden Impact" "That Championship Season" TTV 3's Company Alice 3's Company Rituals Tournament of Roses Parade USA Wrestling (cont.) Aute Racing: ARCA 150 Gong Show Make Me Laugh Radio 1990 Arm Wrestling WGN Movie(cont.) News WKRP Love Boat "6ood Sam" WOR Movie "Soldier in the Rain" (cent.) Sergeant Bilke Barns Allen Hawaii five-0 With Bill Hospital Movie "In Circumstantial Evidence," mystery. (2 hrs.) flfl Insight 1:30 P.M. 0 Painting Ceramics Il8l Andy Griffith 2 P.M. 0 Movie "Under Secret Orders," mystery.

(90 min.) 0 Love Boat flSl Mary Tyler Moore 7 A.M. Today 0 Farm Day 0 Good Morning, America Flintstones flSl Voltron, Defender of the Universe l52l 700 Club (Spanish) 7:15 A.M. A.M. Weather 7:30 A.M. Lilias, Yoga You Tom Jerry rial Fat Albert f52l Jimmy Swaggart 2:30 Itn New UHF band, as is KDTU and the other newcomer, KPOL-TV, Channel 40, which hits the air officially this Saturday, although it's been up for tests irregularly lately.

The translators are low power. The newcomers are relatively high power. The difference in signal strength is wreaking havoc with the pre-amplifiers many foothills residents have hooked up to their antennas to boost the low-power translator signals. Only folks with pre-amps are likely to have problems receiving the low-power translators. If you don't have a pre-amp, you should be getting your normal reception on the UHF band, according to Bernie Sask, assistant chief engineer at KVOA-TV, Channel 4.

Many viewers have already called KDTU to complain. Laughlin says a local lawyer called to threaten filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. But Allison says the station is within the law. Engineers at some of the other stations agree. Allison says the problem is "another example of Tucson's growing pains," and he points out that it's curable via something called a "signal trap" installed before the pre-amplifer.

You'll need one for Channel 14 and one for Channel 40. Costs vary, but figure $20-30 each. But signal traps are likely to be as hard to find as Bambi teeth in the days ahead. Calls to local electronics stores reveal sellouts and near sellouts. Viewers are reminded that patience is among the noblest of virtues.

While we're on the subject of KDTU, a few corrections are in order. The Star recently reported: That any profits from the station will go to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. Profits, if any, will remain in the station, which pays the normal load of taxes, say KDTU officials. That KDTU plans on running "paid-for" religious programming. Allison says that's just not the case.

He says he will be choosing the best religious programming available, and not necessarily Roman Catholic programming, although the church will undoubtedly be well represented. That KDTU will run very little Spanish-language programming. Laughlin says we can expect six to eight hours a week immediately. Dick Van Dyke Show 57 Lo Que el Cielo No Perdona 8 A.M. 0 Sesame Street 0 Gilligan's Island CD Cotton Bowl Festival Parade QI New Zoo Revue 1521 El Chapulin Colorado 3 Rose Burnett Friends 10:30 P.M.

Best of Carson CD SCTV CD Soap LIS Bob Newhart 152 24 Horas 10:35 P.M. Taxi 11 P.M. 8 Nature of Things Movie I) "Return of Charlie Chan, mystery. (2 hrs.) CD Fall Guy 11:05 P.M. 0 ABC Nightline Entertainment Tonight Frontline (Repeat, closed-captioned, 1 nr.) 0 Barney Miller HE Merv Griffin 52 El Maleficio 9:15 P.M.

CJ To be announced 9:30 P.M. Love Connection 0 MASH 52 Sabor Latino 10 P.M. 0 CD News 0 David Susskind Bowl Ohio State vs. USC. (3 hrs.) 0 Hawaii Five-0 0 He-Man Masters of the Universe Hour Magazine Featured: Nancy Reagan; Lisa Hartman from "Knots Landing." (1 nr.) fill Rifleman il Guadalupe 8:30 A.M.

CJ Hogan's Heroes 18 Tournament of Roses Parade (3 hrs.) 52 Eduardo Manzano 9 A.M. Tournament of Roses Parade C3 Mister Rogers 8 Divorce Court Movie () "Bridger," adventure. (2 hrs 1521 Desfile de las Rosas 3:30 0 Mister 0 Scooby rial Fat Albert 401 Heathcliff By Dan Huff The Arizona Daily Star Maybe the gods were angry. The debut of KDTU-TV, Channel 18, on the UHF band here was marred yesterday by transmitter problems that made small screens all over town look like Sgt. Preston of the Yukon wearing white chinchilla in a snowstorm.

In other words, folks who tuned in expecting to see the first-ever episodes of their favorite sitcom reruns, as promised, were disappointed and confused when they drew a blank, and about 2,000 called the station to say so. Meanwhile, KDTU program manager Fred Allison was fighting a case of nausea. Allison had been preparing to go on the air live with a brand new talk show, "Tucson Midday," when the techno-snowstorm hit at a quarter to noon. At first he thought the queasy stomach was due to the subject matter of the ill-fated show: how to make microwave party mix. He had nibbled the mix as he waited for the transmitter to come back up, which it didn't until about 10 minutes to 4, after the feverish ministrations of chief engineer the Rev.

Michael Bucciarelli, a Catholic priest, who labored religiously high in the Tucson Mountains at the transmitter site. The cause of the problem, stated in non-technical jargon, was that something in the transmitter "blew up." That's according to KDTU promotion director Cassandra Laughlin. She says the station will re-run those first-ever episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "The Rifleman" at their normally scheduled times next Monday. So grease up your VCRs. As it turned out, the suspect party mix was not to blame for Allison's ailment.

He had the flu, which crimped his New Year's merrymaking considerably. And merrymaking has been subdued among a sizable portion of the local TV audience as well, not only because of KDTU's first-day stumble, but also because of what is shaping up as a chronic problem, which Allison describes, accurately, as "growing pains." It's complicated: Basically, folks on the northwest side have always had problems with poor reception. So the local stations installed translators, which re-broadcast the standard signals on different frequencies, and different channels. Those channels are in the Muppeteer' By Fred Rothenberg The Associated Press NEW YORK Call it great character acting. Caroll Spinney, the alter-ego of both the chirpy Big Bird and the cantankerous Oscar the Grouch, says he has no trouble keeping their voices and personalities distinct.

"It's easy because they're so different," said Spinney, a puppeteer for 40 years who began playing Big Bird and Oscar when "Sesame Street" began 16 years ago. "It doesn't mess up my head at all." Spinney goes underground from behind a trash can when he plays the immobile Oscar, but he dons orange leggings and a bulky, canary-yellow body costume to play the lumbering 8-foot character, Big Bird. One hand held aloft maneuvers the beak and the other hand moves one of the bird's feathery claws. It's hard physical work. When he hasn't performed for a while, Spinney lifts weights to stay in shape.

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(3 hrs. 15 min Three's Company Q8j PM Magazine 52 Mundo Latino P.M. 6:30 P.M. 0 Arizona Illustrated WKRP in Cincinnati CD Benson fill Family Feud 57 Noticiero Nacional SIN 7 P.M. 73 MacNeilLehrer News CD Dallas CD 8 Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown Animated.

(Repeat) rial Moviel) Torn Curtain," drama. (2 hrs.) 1521 Leonela P.M. 7:30 P.M. CD Movie VictorVictoria," hrs. 30 min.) comedy.

(2 8 P.M. 0 Nova (Repeat, closed-captioned, 1 CD Movie () Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," Western. (2 hrs. 30 min.) 52 Chespirito P.M.

Company Tonie Stanton Show 9:07 a.m., KNST (940-AM). Let's Talk Douglas J. Bol, family counselor, hosts call-in show, 10 a.m., KVOI (690-AM). Owen Spann KNST (940-A M). NCAA Football Cotton Bowl, 1 1 :30 a.m., KTUC (1400-AM).

Michael Jackson Arte Johnson is the guest host, 1 2:05 p.m.-2 p.m., KNST (940-AM). Bible Answerman Dr. Walter Martin hosts call-in show, 3 p.m., KVOI (690-AM), Business Times Chris Farrell and Rogers Doo 4 P.M. 9:30 A.M. 0 Sesame Street 0 Hart to Hart 0 Brady Bunch CD People's Court fi8l Voltron, Defender of the Universe f52l Lo Cien Dias de Ana TBS WTBS, Atlanta TLA KTLA, Los Angeles TMC The Movie Channel TTV KTTV.

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0 Eugene Iverd-E. Iverd 0 All My Children 0 700 Club 3-2-1 Contact 0 CD News CD Jeffersons fjjj Eight Is Enough l52l La Fiera Sarah Pureed, left, and David Hasselhoff host the 96th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, beginning at 9 a.m. on Channel 4. Mei yl Gordon report on the stock market and major business transactions, 4:30 p.m., KUAT (1550-AM). NCAA Football Sugar Bowl, 5:45 p.m., KNST (940-AM), KCKY (1 1 50-AM).

Zig Ziglar Internationally known motivator, 6:03 p.m., KVOI (690-AM). Jazz Mix Anne Mummert is the host, 7 p.m., KXCI (91 7-FM). Cleveland Orchestra Robert Page conducts Leonard Bernstein's "Can-dide," 8 p.m., KUAT-FM (90.5-FM). Golden Age of Radio Theatre 9:05 p.m., KNST (940-AM). Pillow Talk Contemporary romantic music hosted by Wayne Radant, 10 11:30 A.M.

Fiesta Bowl UCLA vs Miami, Fla. (3 hrs. 30 min.) 5:30 CJ Electric Radio Dial America in the Morning National news with host Jim Bohannan, 5 a.m., KNST (940-AM). Wall Street Journal Report Three-minute updates on business news 10 minutes before every hour, beginning at 5:50 a.m., KTUC (1400-AM). Thorn Boyd Sports updates and commentary, 6:40, 7:40 and 8:40 a.m., 4:40 and 5:40 p.m., KTKT (990-AM).

Paul Harvey tary, 7:35 a.m (940-AM). News and commen-and 4:10 p.m., KNST New Year's Day From Vienna The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Year Day concert, 9 a.m., KUAT (1550-AM). and prints made has dual role Maneuvering his awkward character, who sometimes rollerskates, requires real coordination. The costume has no eye holes, so Spinney has a miniature TV monitor strapped to his chest to see where he's going and who he's talking to. But he only can see what the camera is covering.

"It can get a little stuffy in there," said Spinney. Sixteen years ago, Big Bird was much scrawnier, "the equivalent of Mickey Mouse's pal Goofy," said Spinney. "He started out looking very ratty, sort of an ugly duckling who turned into a good-looking bird." In the next decade and a half, Big Bird has grown in stature and aged from 4y2 to 6 years old. Meanwhile, his appeal, as the loving, naive child in all of us, has always been universal. "I have the sweetest audience in the world," said Spinney.

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