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8-D' Thursday, Jan. 13, 1983 Philadelphia Inquirer Women anchors here work hard for their credibility TVradio talk by Gail Shister Inquirer Staff Wriler Chris Wagner of WPVI-TV (Chan-ncl 6) was told by her first Doss in Milwaukee that she would never be an anchor because she was "too serious." WCAU-TVs (Channel 10) Deborah Knapp, replacing a former beauty quetn, was expected to play second fiddle to her male co-anchor in San Antonio, Texas. KYW-TV's (Channel 3) Diane Allen had to fend off advances from more than a few legislators when she was covering state politics and co-anchoring for New Jersey Public Television. Do male newscasters have more credibility than their female counterparts? Not anymore. Wagner, Knapp and Allen three of the most visible anchors in Philadelphia me to be a token, he'd better fire me.

He had never had an anchor present him with a situation like that." Beginning the next day, Knapp says, she was given a 50-50 split on stories. And she hasn't looked back since. She and Kane alternate leads. They share hard and soft stories. Her "Follow-up File" is a regular feature.

"Credibility is not something you're born with," says the Universi-, ty of Texas graduate, whom even bcr competitors consider a rising star. "You earn it by being knowledgeable, thorough and prepared. The old argument is that a woman's voice is not authoritative. But we're seeing more and more women being taken seriously on the air." Jay Feldman, Channel 10's vice president and general manager, is a stong advocate of women anchors. It was his decision, while news direc tor at KNXT-TV in Los Angeles, to make Connie Chung the single anchor of the 4:30 p.m.

news. Chung, who earns more than $500,000 annually, still holds the position in addition to Co-anchoring the 11 p.m. news. "Some women are more credible than men," be says. "Some men are more credible than women.

It all depends on the person. Credibility has a lot to do with what kind of work the reporter does. "If a female reporter Just reads medical reports and features, she's not going to be taken seriously. If she does the same news and enterprise reporting as a man, she'll have the same credibility." Wagner, 32, WPVT-TV's co-anchor at noon with Harry Martin and at 5 p.m. (until Lisa Thomas-Laury returns, from maternity leave) with Jim O'Brien, was told at WITI-TV In Milwaukee In 1974 that she would never be an anchor.

"Tbey told me to forget it," says Wagner, a Duke graduate who has been at Channel 6 since 1976. "They called me a 'women's libber! in a harsh tone of voice. Tbey said I was too serious, that I wasn't enough of a cheerleader. Well, I'm a serious person and it comes across. People get "In TV, God knows, there are people who are there because they look pretty or talk well.

They shouldn't be taken seriously. But women are not considered just window dressing anymore. People are. discovering that a woman can have a pretty face and a brain between her ears." Allen, 33, is luckier than most women in her position. Credibility, she says, has rarely been a problem si' 4r 'I I fc f-4T t' i ski i -J Jj yr I If i i 7 'f i iijij.i1ni.iin n'Tr i ttin mrf" A Obvrning People The Life and Adventures ol Nicholst Nickleby (Part 4) Newt Tonight Show MegMine Court O' Tic tec YouAiked The greatest American I Jo Close lit Takes 2Q20 Nightline Dough for It Hero for Comfort Two Word Magnum, P.I.

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The people who hired me gave me as least as much work as the male anchor. In some ways, I was probably more favored because I worked harder." 1 Originally a general assignment reporter and noon co-anchor at KYW-TV, Allen left the station in 1978 to co-anchor the 6 p.m. news at WLSTV in Chicago. She rejoined Channel 3 last February. "I certainly feel that women in my business are Just as bright and work just as hard as men," she says.

"In fact, we probably work a little bit harder because we have something to prove." Snider, group may buy Ch. 57 Channel 57, from I generally believed that a single market will not support two profitable subscription stations. WWSG-TV is owned by Leon S. and William S. Gross, who have extensive communications holdings in the region.

One of their companies operates a microwave system to distribute Home Box Office. Another, Radio broadcasting supplies car-telephone service and paging devices. William S. Cross, the president of Channel S7, said that reports of negotiations and a possible sale of the station were "just a rumor." However several operators of cable-TV systems In the Delaware-Valley indicated that they expected the station to be sold soon. The operators were informed by Prism officials in November that serious negotiations were under way.

Cable companies are concerned about the future of the station because they are selling Prism to their subscribers for about S10 to $12 per month over the basic service charge. The operators are fearful that they will lose some of their business if Prism starts selling Its programming over the air for a lower overall price. A lower price According to one cable official. Prism executives offered assurances that the subscription-TV channel would be priced at $20 to $25 per month. At that price, the service would appeal primarily to viewers without cable service, but not to people who could obtain comparable programming at a lower price from a cable company.

The over-the-air feature programming may also vary slightly from the mix on Prism. The prospective pur-chasers are considering occasional pay-per-view special events and late-night adult films. Williams indicated that bis company was very interested in finding a way to distribute Prism over the air in Philadelphia because most of the city won't have access to the channel on cable TV for at least three years. Since Prism transmitted Its first programming on Sept. 1.

1976. the service has been acknowledged as the nation's largest and fastest-growing regional pay-TV network. The channel reaches about 328.000 cable customers through 76 cable systems in Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Delaware. Prism was originally owned by Snider.

20th Century-Fox Corp. and United Artists Corp. Fox bought out United Artists' interest In 1978, then Snider bought out the Fox interest in April. Neither Williams nor the spokesman for Oak Industries would provide information about the proposed sale price or other financial details. didn't get where they are today by wearing the right shade of lipstick.

Though some people still cling to the notion that men are inherently more credible than women when it comes to reading news, all three anchors agree that such thinking Is fast becoming extinct. Women in TV, they argue, are gaining credibility the old-fashioned way. They're earning it. "At KENS-TV (San Antonio) the male co-anchor had always led the broadcasts," recalls Knapp, 28, WCAU-TV's co-anchor at 5 and 11 p.m. with Larry Kane.

wanted to alternate leads. I went to the news director and told him if he expected While Nicholas Nickleby is winding down. Channel 12 will be opening a new round of cases to be solved by that redoubtable Scotland Yard detective Sergeant Cribb (9 p.m.). In the first of a series of five episodes, the bowler-wearing Cribb. played by Alan Dobie.

investigates a murder that occurs because the London Zoo decides to sell one of its elephants. 20 (Ch. 6. 10 p.m.) reports on the problem of missing children, some ol whom come to lolent ends; on the increasing use of lie detectors, and on Garry Marshall, the pro CD Woody Woodpecker 8:00 Jim Bakktr Tom and Jerry 8.30 Jotle and the Puseycalt 03 Great Space Coatter 8:45 CD Weather 9:00 Hour Magazine OQ Donahue CD So You Think You Got Troubles Sesame Street (Closed cap- t'Onpf5 OQ) Certoont 0 Jimmy Swaggart fB School Programming QD Richard Slmmont 9:30 CD Tattlelalet Krofft Superttart 19 Delaware Valley Forum 69 Newtprobe QDDelVel 10:00 People Are Talking CI AM Philadelphia CJ Rhode OQ The New 825,000 Pyramid Mister Roger 700 Chip fi) The Facta of Life OD Newt 10:30 (J Sale of the Century fc)C3 ChHd'l Play In School Programming 69 Fenteey CD All the Family 11:00 Ctrd Sharks CJ Joker -t Wild Jon Voight and Maria Schell in 'The Odessa 8 p.m., Ch. 29 Worth watching WLVT Bethlehem (Ch.

39): WGN Chicago ducer of highly successful situation comedies such as "Happy Days," "La-verne Shirley" and "Mork Mindy." The Greatest American Hero (Ch. 6. 8 p.m.) comes to the rescue of Max when a scientist kidnaps him lor experimentation A runaway Japanese girl runs Magnum, P.I. (Ch. 10, 8 pro.) into trouble with her violent father On Too Close for Comfort (Ch.

6. p.m.) Muriel's mother thinks she has found the man of her dreams, but then so did his six wives l-'our hours ol television programming tonight arc set in Victorian Cngiand. That probably is a record one that Guinness certainly will ignore but it does means entertaining Mewing for a large number ol television watchers. Those who have been following The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Jiickleby (Ch. 3.

8 p.m.) will be pleased to see another three hours of the brilliant Koal Shakespeare Company version of the Charles Dickens novel, but they also will be disappointed that the nine-hour cxtravan-ganza draws to a close tonight. TV today MORNING 5:20 Farm, Horn and Garden 5:30 Morning Stretch 1 Perspective CD Newt 5 50 (3D Community Update 6:00 HO Early Today (J Newt Human Network Insight JD Health Field 6:30 IIOO Newt CD Morning C9 D. James Kennedy RD New Zoo Revue 7:00 00 Today fl Good Morning America OO Morning Jack LeLann Barney Bear and Droopy Dog (D The Fllntttones 7:30 Romper Room Bugs Bunny (Ch. 9); WTBS Atlanta (Ch. 17) who remain so fond of him that they are paying him alimony Simon Simon (Ch.

10, 9 p.m.) pose as college students to investigate a death at a fraternity house. Mouivs 21 Hours at Munich (Ch. 17. 8 p.m.) is a made-foMelevision dramatization of the murder of Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. William Hold-en and Shirley Knight star.

Jon Voight plays a reporter on the trail of a Nazi war criminal in The Odessa FD Whal CD The Brady Bunch EVENING 6:00 OOO Newt Barney Miller 8X2 Rick's Animals 63 leverne A Shirley A Company CD Mork end Mlndy 6:29 C9 Delaware Lottery 6:30 Butlneea Report C9 The Jertertont Everyday Cooking With Jtcquet Pepin GD Happy Days Again CD WKRP In Cincinnati 7:00 Evening Megailne featured, a house made from styrofoam. Tic Tec Dough Entertainment Tonight C3 MeeNeHLerirer Report C3 Little Houee on the Prairie Three's Company ffl Consumer Line Quests: Nancy Kunz, Proiect Director, New Jersey Department of Agriculture and Gef Flimlim, New Jersey Sea Grant Extension discuss what is being done in New Jersey to preserve the fish Industry. M'A'S'H CD Santord tnd Son 730 People's Court CJ You Aaked for 11 Featured: Hong Kong's dragon race; biggest doll-house in the world. FM Magazine Featured: a house made from styrofoam; Josh Hooper visits a group in Baltimore who are the Roiling Stones Clones. Family Feud Wildlife Thester Mews CD All In tht Family 7:55 OTsks Five 7:57 S3 New Jersey Lottery 6:00 CJ The Life A Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Pan 4.

Roger Rees and David Threllall star as Nickleby and his crippled triend Smlke In the Royal Shakespeare Company's lavish version of Dickens' novel about a young man who tries to save his family from an evil uncle. The Oreeteet American Hero Maxwell Is kidnapped bya demented scientist who plans on using him In his genetic engineering experiments. Feme Leroy befriends a tough but talented youngster who's been hanging around the school, and Coco challenges visiting celebrity. OQ Magnum, PJ. Magnum gets Involved with a runaway Japanese girl, a kidnapping and an attempted murder when he tries to do a favor tor Higqins.

(R) All Creatures Greet and Small C9 21 Hours at Munich (1976) fWB McLaughlin's Beet CJ Movie "The Odessa File." (1974) Q3 Basketball Duquesne vs. St. Joseph's. 6:30 fDQ Health Metiers Guests: Drs. Richard L.

Berman and Robert O'-Driscoll discuss the significance of the Increase In Cesarean births over the- last decade. 6:50 Zoo Crostures Great and Small File (Ch. 29, 8 p.m.). Cable Callipoli (SHOWTIME. 8 p.m.) is an Australian movie about the ill-fated invasion of Turkey during World War I.

a venture that cost the Australian army many casualties. Sleeping Dogs (HBO, 8:30 p.m.) is a movie Irom New Zealand that tells the story of a man (Sam Neill) who seeks isolation in a desolate place and finds himself leading a revolutionary force. John Tate fights Danny Sutton in a heavyweight bout (ESPN, 8:30 p.m.). TED KNIGHT ti IRIS' GIGOLO! LAiT RIOT! ADV 9:00 OToo Close for Comfort The Rush family has high hopes that Muriel's mother has found the wealthy man ol her dreams. Olmrne a Break The Chief catches Julie smoking after she promised him she wouldn't.

OO Simon Simon Sergeant Cribb Sergeant Cribb tries to find out who wants to prevent the sale of Jumbo, the most celebrated elephant at the London Zoo, to America. (Closed captioned) ffi The Good Soldier Robin Ellis and Jeremy Brett star In an adaptation ol Ford Madox Ford's novel tracing the relationship between two wealthy Edwardian couples who meet yearly In a fashionable German spa town. (Closed captioned) 9:30 It Takes Two Sam and Molly's anniversary plans are disrupied by Molly's cowardly witness and Sam's roiuctant patient. Cneera Oane re-evaluates her relationships with the people at Cheers following the death 'of her cat. 10:00 02020 HID Street Blues OO Knots Lending Mack proposes to Karen, who finds her love lite Increasingly complicated when an old boylnend comes to town.

63 Rain Foreet An exploration ol the rich variety of plant and animal Hie in the ram forests ol Costa Rica is presented. nShsNaNa CD News 10:30 13 Here's Lucy RD Newt 11:00 OOOOO News Claudius CJ Hogen's Heroes KDSoap CD Saturday Night 11:30 OO The Tonight Show ONIghtNnt) OG Ouincy OlSpy GD Mademe't Piece 12:00 CJ The Lett Word GDKoJek CD Movie "The Hoodlum Saint." (B-W)(1946) 12:30 Late Night With DavM Letter men Medame't Piece TOO Club 12:40 OO McCloud 1:00 Perspective: Deieware CJ Late Night With David Letter- men GD Movie "Shack Out on 101." (3-' W)(1965) 1:30 News 2:00 CIO News Forum. CJ Delaware Valley Forum 2:30 Movie "Dual Alibi." (B-W) (1947) ONewa Community Update 4:05 CJ Newt lifestyles '83 Wheel ol Fortune OO The Price It Right 03 Lovt Boat 11:30 0 Wheel ol Fortune Family Feud I Hit Men C3 Newt ffl Bewitched AFTERNOON 12 00 OOO Newt CD Jane Whltnty Everett In Winter 0 Soap World ID Rhode Powerhouse (Closed cap-Toned) GD Gllllgsn't Island CD Leave It to Beaver 12:30 IIO Starch for Tomorrow CJ Ryan Hope OQ The Young and the Rattiest Hogan't Heroet ffl Olal A-L-C-OH-O-L QD Movie "Running Wan." (1963) CD McHale't Navy 1.00 OO Day tol Our Lives AN My Children Hitler's Night ol the Humming Bird CD I Spy ffl In School Progrtmming CD Oomer Pyle 1:30 CDQ Aa the World Turn CD Dick Van Dyke 2:00 HO Another World CI One lift to Live Here Come the Puppets Movie "The Ruthless Four." (1970) CD The Munttere 2:30 OO Capitol Spider-Men CD Buga Bunny tnd Frtendt 3:00 CI MtwtM Frve-0 CI General Hotplttl CJ Fenteey OO Ouldlng Light Electric Company GD mcreetmg Children's Moll vetlon to Reed end Write GD Bugt Bunny 3:30 C5 J-2-1 Contact Buperfrtendt CD Woody Woodpecker 4:00 CJ The Weltoflt CJ Merv Qrrtttn CJ Hour Megailne Cheriltt Angela C3 Sesame Street (Closed captioned) Cartoon CJ Oancln' en Air fB Mlater Rogert f) Tom end Jerry CD The Fllntatonet 4:30 C3 Incredible Hulk ffi Sesame Street (Closed captioned) CD Pink Panther 5:00 OOO Newt Three's Company Mister Rogers fij CHIPS Petrol ScoobyDoo 5:30 Entertainment Tonight IB Over Esty (Closed captioned) Ltverne Shirley A Company (SOI Untamed World The Philadelphia Home Show You've got a lot of living to Radio today MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS 6-6 WXPN (M l) Croetroeds Jazz, classical, traditional folk and contemporary music 6-Noon WXPM Homegrown 10K-Noon WFLN (900, fS.7) Mozart Family L. Mozart. Trumpet Concerto; X.

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