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rr Minneapolis Tribune Mar. 18, 1979 13Q Ch. 1 1 weathercaster encounters turbulence One person who doesn't like News-Center 11 Is Tonl Hughes. HZ ly sat down and listened and decided It was fine, that we'd get no reaction." He must have been one of the few to grasp the loftier meaning. I "Scared Straight," a torrent of profanities rushed past as abusive lifers fired point-blank salvos of street talk to describe prison as a living deuth of assaults, murders, homosexual rapes and slavery.

VP- "People would call and complain and we'd ask them what's the story about. That would end the conversation because they'd only listened to one line," he said. "They'd make up their own stories." Tuning in There were no fewer than six warnings about the language, and the overwhelming majority of WTCN's calls were favorable, although one caller promised to drive out and punch Program Director Art Ludwlg in the nose. So far, his nose is intact, Ludwlg said, and he's answering parents' complaints that the 10 p.m. program was on too late for most kids to watch.

In addition to taking requests for a tape of the show from schools, WTCN is scheduling a second NealGendler WTCN took more than 600 calls by the end of business the day after March 4's "Scared Straight." The program showed a force-feeding of verbal castor oil for teen-age troublemakers who seemed on a lock-step march to the pen. A sprinkling of the program's language would get movies ratings; in Toni Hughes Statf Photo by Bruce Bisping $ao(Q)(Q) OFF ANY REGULAR MEXICAN DINNER OR COMBINATION DINNER LIMIT TWO DINNERS PER COUPON Offer Expires April 1, 1979 on Its hit list after employees wear-led of explaining It to outraged callers. The disco station said "There But for the Grace of God Go Includes the words: "Let's find a place they say, somewhere far away, with no blacks, no Jews and no gays." "Every time we played the song we'd get three or four calls," said Program Director Gary DeMaroney. That meant meant 25 to 30 calls a day. The song's Intent, said KFMX Manager Ross Davis, Is to show the folly of seeking an environment without other racial, ethnic or cultural types to rear a child; the people in the tune move away from folks unlike them only to find their daughter bombs out on their hopes.

"The parents' own xenophobia and bigotry are the things that destroy their child as a human being, not tht Influence of these other people," Da vis said. He and DeMaroney said the seven-minute record has only three paragraphs of lyric and the offend lng line appears only twice. That's enough to cause RCA's Hologram Records to Issue a sanitized version and a letter to "Dear Everyone" claiming: "This record was never meant to be offensive to any community." "It was a very good song," DeMaroney said. "We'd watched it national NOW OPEN Hacienda Room Serving all your favorite Mexican foods and drink. Faturing: Lime and Strawberry It cost her her job.

For 10 years and nine weeks, Hughes was the week-night weathercaster for the old, unaffiliated WTCN. Her last night was March 2, the- Friday before Ch. million-dollar news team' blew In weathermen Glenn Burns and Keith Eichner. She was the only member of the old news team not kept on the station's staff. "I was terminated as a result of them hiring a meteorologist and I have no job," she said last week.

"I was not given any severance pay, either." Hughes said her first knowledge of potential unemployment was a November newspaper report that WTCN would hire a meteorologist for newscasts after joining NBC on March S. She was handed a termination notice at the end of the Jan. 26 newscast, she said. She was the only old news-team person not retained. "She was a free-lance person In the first place and not really a staff employee," said News Director Gil Amundson.

"We told her back several months that come the change, we needed a meteorologist," he said. "Everybody else has meteorologists if we're going to be competitive, that's what we had to do." "My classification was a free-lance basis but I was not able to work at another television station because I was affiliated with them," she said. "Also, that was a regularly scheduled news show, five nights a week, so I don't think that's too free-lancy." Amundson said Hughes has been advised of a WTCN office job. Hughes said she'd received a memo about logging commercials at an office-help wage for 40 hours a week. It's too little money to support herself and her family and too many hours for her to take the extra jobs with which she supplemented her similarly Insufficient income from 15 weekly hours as weathercaster.

Hughes said she's told WTCN that she's interested "only In a responsible, on-air position with opportunity for fair, upward mobility at an adequate living salary and normal working benefits." She wrote that she's a bright woman with broad experiences and skills, and "any position which does not employ these attributes would limit my growth and potential." Hughes has a degree in nursing and English from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul and was a University of Minnesota medical student for two years until 1976. She's divorced and she doubts she'll return to class. "I have a daughter In college and a son who's a junior In high school, so I will be working," she said.

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