Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 107

Minneapolis Trlbun June 17, 1979 7G i l' 9t 'It I I II I flf ji f'Mf i I 'm i JAM V-X I rZir 7 1 I Season's opener at Stagecoach Tom Foster is the villainous Byke, with Mary Bersman as Pearl in the melodrama "Under the Gaslight," the season opener at the Stagecoach Opera House on Hwy. 101 between Savage and Shakopee. The classic work by Augustin Daly opens Wednesday, complete with the usual olios and acting up. This is the first time the venerable play has been performed at the Stagecoach, though ft has been done twice on the University of Minnesota Showboat. It plays through July 29, when "No Thoroughfare" by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Coillins opens.

Tuning in FromIG ity than for the old, lackluster effort on Ch. 9. WTCN's great outlays for promotion and all the news coverage-suggest that people were aware of the New News, but either wouldn't break their habits or tried Ch. 11 and weren't crazy about It. That ultimately could cost some jobs.

"I am never discouraged about ratings or about numbers," said Dyer, who, like it or not, Is the star of the show. "My concern Is with the newscast If I know we've done a good Job, then that's fine. I don't need to see it reflected in the ratings." Unfortunately, few station owners share those feelings, and neither a top anchor fronting a weak newsroom nor a solid newsroom with an unappealing anchor is going to go places. If an unscientific collection of comments means anything. Dyer Co.

of Ch. 1 1 may be in trouble. When my review of Newscenter 11 ran in March, I vowed to take another look in a few months. I have, and little has changed. Dyer still doesn't seem to reach through the glass to touch people, though more tight shots, so we could really see his face, might help; several people jeerlngly have called him "Plastlcman." Weathercaster Glenn Burns is overbearing with his disc-jockey delivery and full-screen slides; subtract one element and he'd come across as a person, but right now he's too slick to stick.

Sportscaster Bob Kurtz, a thoroughly pleasant guy on the phone, is a stum-ble-tongued shouter on the screen. None of the three was hired because he was a poor performer, and I don't blame them for Ch. 1 l's weak start. I blame the station for hiring people who happen to be wrong for the Twin Cities. Dyer, who professed to be unworried about future employment, answered the Issue himself: "Just because a person doesn't fit In one market doesn't mean they won't fit In somewhere else," he said.

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