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8C MondayMarch 24 1986Mlnrieapolis Star and Tribune DoonetburyBy Garry Trudeau COLEMAN: WTCN is taken 'COURSE, THAT 'TORE KOUftf. AN ABC NEWS CLOSE UP The I Channel 1 1's general manager, Joe Franzgrote, was unavaiiaDie tor comment. But Tom Kirby, Channel 1 1 '8 vice president for news, ac- knowledged that the station is aware that it might need to new name. "I rinn't know uhnrn it stands, but Joe (Franzgrote) has left opeiiteft 5 Ftmm says map'amFFOMimmuA The Far Side By Gary Larson 1M6 possiDinty tnai our can leners moved to Washington," "Joe told a group of peopleThuisi day morning that it's being dfaF cussed." i a A name chanae would leave Channel: 1 1 In a Kit nt a nuanHaru ftnnH i I I HI VI, VI VI tUUI -ww, readily identifiable call letters are hard to come by. When the station changed its name last year it dumped one of the oldest and most-, recognized broadcast names in the area, WTCN, which had served the station since it first signed on the aif in 1953 and which had identified a Ounagln's PeopleBy Ralph Ounagin universal Preee Syndicate in local radio station long before that.

SLINGSHOT Cd III I The station also dropped a bundle of green promoting the red, white and: blue of WUSA. Its promos were orgies of flags, fireworks and Barry Manilow music when it ran the lew name up the flagpole and retired the old call letters. While a bit too flashy and jingoistic for some tastesMrp new name has caught on ana sewed Channel 11 well. The station can't get WTCN barX Those call letters were picked ypMby a Stillwater radio station. It prooalOy l1 1 won't want to swap names witrt-i WDVM because the DVM stands for District, Virginia and Maryland and wouicnvt a station in a ivunneapoiis- suburb unless they came to stand I for Deephaven, Victoria and Minne- tonka.

The station's only choice may be li the name that NBC newsman John -5 Chancellor suggested last year when he heard that Channel 1 1 was "No kidding? I Continued from page 1C some patriotic oomph to the company's bottom line. Gannett approved Channel 1 1 's move to embrace the new call letters last summer, but that was before Gannett made a $717 million deal to acquire several TV stations owned by the Evening News Association, including Washington's CBS affiliate, WDVM. Gannett has its corporate headquarters in the Washington area and also has its USA Today offices there. The company's broadcasting division is moving to Washington from Atlanta, so WDVM will be the company's flagship. Rumors have it that Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth believes that the only thing he needs to make his Washington power base complete would be four rtty-bitty call letters, WUSA.

And Gannett knows just where it can get them. Gannett has yet to apply to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to move WUSA's name to Washington. But the impending name change is the worst-kept secret in Washington since Wilbur Mills and Fanne Foxe bellyflopped in the Tidal Basin. A report in Friday's Washington Post had Gannett executives telling Channel 1 1 to dream up some new call letters, pronto, because the letters WUSA were being drafted and ordered to Washington. Gannett officials deny that they have gone that far but admit that the idea is under consideration.

"Nothing's being done on it at the moment, but it sounds like they would be good call letters for the nation's capital," said Ed Pfeiffer, vice president and general manager of Gannett's WDVM. "There's noth-. ing chiseled in stone at this point, but on paper it seems like a pretty good idea. No commitment has been made, but I wouldn't say it's not on the drawing board. We have been kicking it around." i a Bloomington 835-0255 Brooklyn 537-7779 Coon Rapids 757-2210 476-0579 Edina 925-5878 i "4 I changing its name to WUSA.

Dennis the MenaceBy H. Ketcham The Family Circus By Bit Keane P6ARG0P SAY, TEXAS PONY I MATTER NOUm TONOBOWr Issac Asimov's taper Quiz Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman level, 2 points on the Graduate level and 3 points on the Ph.D. level. Algebra and Geometry tireshman level triangle with three equal sides is gnawer The distance around a rectangle is fiswer -3The odd angle of an isosceles trian-d)e is 20 degrees. How large are each of the other two angles?" Answer Graduate level 4How many sides has a cube? Answer 5tf I21x squared, what is Answer 6What is the largest common factor of 15, 6, and 48? Answer Ph.D.

level 7A line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the mid-point of the opposite aide is a 4ns wer segment of a circle is an Answer ifAny two angles that total 180 degrees are called Answer VVuzzles By Tom Underwood Each Wuzzle is a rebus a word riddle created from combinations ot words, letters, syllables, figures or symbols, positioned to create disguised words, phrases, names, places, sayings, etc. Example: NOON GOOD a GOOD AFTERNOON The rebus dates back more than 2,000 years. 1 me someone someone Print your answers here: 1 Today's answers: enoius dnl! eui 6u)mooj s.euoauiosi Cryptoquip (Each letter used stands for another. If you think X0, for example, it would equal 0 throughout the puzxle.) Today's Cryptoquip clue: equals KMXXDU QPD QYTWKRYE'T FBYXEWYT QWQR'F PMOPUT BXMQ OPFYE. Saturday's answer: OUR INSINCERE SUITOR'S OFFENSE: AFFECTATION OF AFFECTION.

Super Quiz answers 1 Equilateral 2Perimeter 380 degrees 4Slx 511 or -11 63 7Median 8 Arc 9Supplementary Scoring IS points Congratulations, Doctor; 15 to Xt points Honors graduate; 10 to 14 points You're plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to; 9 points You really should hit the books harder; 1 to 3 points Enroll In remedial courses immediately! points wno reaa -A 2 8 i Color Rprl A 'Dear God!" slipped on a welcome mat, tool" bug collection in our dictionary!" for work, Miss Bowers, take a. SIX, mm of Bursixr UPSTMRS IBBOOCWT WEUl.ICOILINT VCW YOJR FMORlTE! HQVIS SURTWCnoN COMING? rui wvaniisi AV. i 'I Chancellor said. 8 Kimn ii i II ii vtv tept gaining aixl losing the same 20 pounds, Thenlsaiatiiistime itsngtobediiroiL tried every pill, every gimmick to lose weight. Only to feel miserable when gained tt" -ail back.

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