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The Dyer is cast: Christmas Concert K0WB ANNOUNCES vSpOINT BLANK He's leaving Ch. 1 1 THE HOUNDS VIDCCI Jim Dyer has told WTCN that next Sunday is his last day. He and weekend weathercaster Keith Eichner gave Ch. 11 officials letters Qf resignation this month, although Eichner offered to stay until Feb. 3.

mm PIINT BLANK general manager Bob Fransen said T. ininri jfl he wouldn't fight uyers resignation but hadn't decided about releasing Eichner. NealGendler SUNDAY DEC. 23rd it 7 00 P.M. MET CENTER ment; Fransen said that's not what GENERAL ADMISSION OPEN OANCE FLOOR at HIT fl AFFICC DONALDSONS thp ads were seeking, but the resuu POSTIVELY 4TH MSA TOO.

ALL WAX MUSEUMS SEUMS, was an offer for Eichner from a Bos Dyer, hired as the star the week-night anchorman for the new WTCN newsroom last winter, has been unhappy almost from the beginning. "Four months into the contract," which began in February, "I went to them and asked that I be released after the first year," Dyer said last week. "1 said I didn't feel I fit into the type of news operation that they A -I 0 MIDLAND RECORDS. AND THIRD SIUNt sic. ton station that would hire him only wth written re ease from wiun FOR MS M.

WTCN refused, saying it was renew TICKETS S3 (2 ALL NET PROCEEDS Af ts? ing him for another year. TO BENEFIT MS SOCIETY I AW il Firhner is unconvinced, and the day ho it ihp Boston iob. he said, his lawyer sent a certified letter of resignation. He, too, has no offers but in wants out even though his contract apparently doesn't give him were putting togetncr, aim mm "your needs can better be met by someone else." He said he initially was refused but finally convinced Fransen and news director Brink Chipman that "the news department would get along better, that we'd met with a negative response by the press and I'm a marked man here." that option. "It's not eoing to do them any good to have an unhappy employee," he said.

"I'm being nice enough to give nANriN' WITH CHUCK them two months notice. FOR CAMBODIAN MEDICAL RELIEF FRIDAY DEC. 28th LAMONT CRANSTON, DAISY DILLMAN AND CURTISS A. rh 4's Cambodia special, "A Little Johnnv B. Goode What evolved, apparently, was an agreement to switch Dyer and weekend anchor Stan Bohrman in August and for Dyer to stay until he found another job or the station found someone it liked better.

That result-ph i think, in imorovenient in week- Miracle at Khao 1-Dang," drew an audience worthy of its subject ana Roll Over Beethoven cost, but it didn please everyone. Kern PICKYOUR SPORT WCCO asked Arbitron to do a so-called coincidental survey, in which School Days Maybelline Reelin' And Rocki a fpw hundred households are teie night newscasts and, not so oddly, in better performance by Dyer, freed of the pressure of carrying the big-bucks weeknight newscasts. "A month ago," Dyer said, "Mr. Franspn asked if I'd be willing to mm mim phoned to learn what the folks are watching. The survey a kind not noted for precision but used widely hnwpri that "Miracle." in the Brown Eyed Handsom vJL nrimest of time.

8:30 p.m. last Sun Rock And Roll ivius Mv Ding A Ling stay on for another year in the weekend capacity." Fransen said it was just a casual question; Dyer replied day, had 31 percent of the audience, second to a Pink Panther sequel on Sweet Little Sixteen i KSTP with 36 percent. GENERAL ADMISSION But WCCO-TV recorded more than BEER BARS ARE OPEN MET CENTER 7:00 P.M. TICKETS $5 50 ADVANCE TirirtTC DONALDSONS 150 complaints the operator final that he still wanted to go DacK easi. Dyer, a source said, picked his departure date after a flap over vacation.

Dyer was married in October and that month wrote a request for a Dec. 24-Jan. 2 vacation so he and his wife could spend the holidays in Vir-oinin with his familv. his first trip iv wrote on the lofi that there were POSTIVELY 4TH MSA TOO. ALL WAX MUSEUMS, MIDLAND RECORDS, AND THIRD STONE MUSIC.

50. OF EACH TICKET .8 DONATED TO CAMBODIAN RELIEF FUND home since starting at WTCN. This was in line with his contract, which fnrhiftu vacation durine ratine peri too many to count. Summaries of typical comments: "Tell Al Austin to take care of starving children in his own country before going to "Get that Cambodia junk off; "We get that shoved at us all the time if I wanted to be depressed I would have turned to something that would make me depressed," and from nine people, "Why isn't 'The Jeffersons' on?" ods, one of which starts early in Jan uary. 1930 Winter Olympics Needing flight reservations, Dyer later asked Chipman about the vacation and was told to schedule it.

the source said. Dyer did and so did many relatives, planning to meet the couple in Norfolk. A couple of weeks behind Dyer's request, Bohrman asked for vacation in the same period, when his first grandchild is due; Lake Placid, New York February 12 -24 Lv OFFICIAL TOUR OFFERS lUis See todays travel section Op CAN BE THE! a couple of weeks ago, cnipman rum Dyer he'd have to change his plans. Chipman disagreed with that version, telling me Dyer hadn't been promised those dates. Promise or not, that was the last straw for Dyer.

He submitted a letter of resignation Dec. 7 with an effective date of Jan. 4, when untaken vacation will run out, but Dyer says he'll be home for Christmas and 0 won't be back except to pack, fransen said he'll likely use Gil Amund-son, anchor in independent days, as a replacement for at least one of the missing stars. Dyer told me that he has no job offers and, southern gentleman to the end, refused to say anything bad about the station or anyone there. rc .3.

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"They don't need me or anyone else leavine as the 'disgruntled anchor fnn Of ARDENHLLS I ,0" 1 Yr the holidays are man'; to be downright truthful about I (-36-4123 Exl. 141) ,05 it thev've been verv nice to me JEFFERSON TADCUID i'vp ent no Quarrels with WTCN," he Reservations and Advance trft5 Bar All iNiqrn Live Entertainment Favors Hals Coffee, Quiche Danish Rolls said, except about the vacation: "I P.wment Required. Point 2ero just felt it was totally unfair. lit Eichner is unhappy about playing second fiddle to Glenn Burns when III a. he, not Burns, has had American Me- i tpnrnineteal Socletv certification jVfFlRIOMITARSHtP and about living far from friends and -Dl ltt TjyiiiaP UI1PPCTS family in New Jersey.

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