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6-C Friday, June 6, 1986 The Philadelphia Inquirer TVRADIO TALK Only change he sees is in the competition Write yourself a loan at Newman back at Ch. 10 Channel 3 has finally signed Philadelphia native Ukee Washington as weekend sports anchor. He will report to KYW-TV July no word on when he'll go on the air. What took so long? The delay, Washington said yesterday, came because his current employer, WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, wouldn't let him out of his three-year contract, which expires June 20. "I had no problems with that," said Washington, 27, in town to give the commencement address tomorrow at his alma mater, Dover (Del.) High (Class of 76).

"Fortunately, the people at KYW didn't have any problems with that, either. We just waited on each other." Washington will replace veteran Bob Bradley, who will return to weekday reporting. From the morning news wars: NBC's Today show made it 10 in a row and 24 of the last 25, winning last week's Nielsens with a 5.7 rating and 28 percent audience share its highest share since January 1982. ABC's Good Morning America had a 4.622; CBS Morning News a 3.216. In other CMA news, Joan "Who Needs NBC?" Rivers has been signed to cover the July 23 royal wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

She'll dish the bluebloods live from London July 21-23 and tape some features. And GAM'S Joan Lunden, fed up with her second-banana role to host David Hartman, says she won't renew her contract with the show when it expires Aug. 22 unless she's granted equal status with ol' Dave. GMA spokeswoman Ja-chelene DeMave yesterday said that ABC "doesn't discuss contract negotiations." Over at Channel 57 the station if? By Gail Shister Inquirer Staff Writer His nickname in the newsroom these days is "New Man," but Jay Newman, Channel 10's once and current news director, doesn't buy it. "1 don't think I'm a new person," says Newman, 35, whose abrasive personality didn't win him any popularity contests at the CBS station the first time around or at Chicago's WBBM-TV, for that matter.

"I think all of us, as we go on with life, broaden ourselves and grow." Since Newman's return to City Avenue in April he left WCAU-TV for the Windy City in August newsroom insiders say he has softened his approach with reporters. He's still a taskmaster, they say, but now he listens better and has learned to smile. The outspoken Newman says he hasn't changed, but he thinks his competition has. The Philadelphia market today is far different from the one he saw when he came to Channel 10 in September 1983, he says. Channel 3 (KYW-TV) "is de-emphasizing hard news," Newman says.

"They used to be more aggressive in their coverage of news. Their emphasis now is clearly in the softer feature areas. It's not us or what we want to be." Across the street, Channel 6 (WPVI-TV) "is not as aggressive as they once were, either. They're more predictable than they used to be." And the newest newsy in town, Channel 29 (WTAF-TV) "is in a different ball game, but it's a solid broadcast. I'm glad viewers are getting an independent news service." Speaking of Channel 29 The Ten O'Clock News will expand to weekends beginning Sept.

20. News director Roger LaMay hopes to have a one-hour weeknight edition by July 1987. LaMay may hire a full-time weekend news anchor who would also report three nights a week, or he may go with Charles Thomas, his ace reporter and anchor Lee McCarthy's backup, as his weekend man. Bill Perry, fill-in for sports anchor Howard Eskin, is top candidate for the weekend jock beat. General manager Randy Smith labels "premature" published reports that Channel 29 has signed on as an affiliate of the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Co.

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3 again, off-again negotiations, N.Y. museums tie in to Lady's birthday rus, the American Jewish poet who wrote the sonnet engraved on the Statue of Liberty's base. It was her poem that gave the statue, originally titled "Liberty Enlightening the World," its subsequent nickname as "Mother of Exiles." Two museums will honor the statue with photographic shows. The International Center of Photography, Fifth Avenue and 94th Street, has two exhibits running from June 27 through Aug. 31.

"Liberty: The Statue and the American Dream" features photos of both the statue and those she welcomed. In the second show, 60 large-scale color prints of American landscapes and the statue comprise "Light on America: Photographs by Jay Maisel." "Liberty: Photographs by Ruffin Cooper" will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern from June 26 through Sept. 8. The Cooper Hewitt Mflseum, Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, has an exhibition of 50 19th-century embroidered ship portraits that were, like scrimshaw, the work of sailors during slow times at sea. The exhibition ties in with the Op Sail parade of tall ships in New York Harbor and will run through Sept.

7. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and 82d Street, is exhibiting designs by Richard Morris Hunt, the prominent architect who By Ellen Freilich United Press International NEW YORK Museums across the city are celebrating the 100th birthday of the Statue of Liberty with a fascinating series of exhibits devoted to Lady Liberty and the immigrants who passed beneath her torch. Among the most intriguing is a group not usually thought of in those terms the blacks who came to the United States as immigrants, not as slaves. In Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Lenox will offer an exhibition on the little-known history of voluntary black immigration. Photographs, films and other exhibits trace black immigrants to America from pre-colonial times to the present, their migration through the United States and, in some cases, their departure for the Caribbean, Africa and elsewhere.

The show runs from Thursday through Sept. 7. Another show, "Beyond the Golden Door: Settlement Houses in New York," celebrates the 100th anniversary of settlement houses; it's at The Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue and 103d Street. Settlement houses provided an educational and social support system for the new immigrant and the sense of community fostered there spawned larger movements which child labor laws. The show is to run through Nov.

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