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Coming Tomorrow: Men's underwear no longer just a basic piece of clothing In LIFESTYLE i 9 i Green Bay Press-Gazette Comments? Call Lifestyle Editor Jeff Ash, (414) 431-8216 Sunday, August 27, 1995 BOOYAH (BOO yah, A tasty soup or stew. It's also the name of this column, which also is full of things you'll enjoy) MM At Artstreet today UNUN 15b VLTlJnUNcJLh V-U ULtA Entertainment schedule Hours: 10a.m.-5p.m. Additional hours: art i jiji'iLriHiiiljy' fair, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; youth area, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; children's art tent, noon-3 p.m.; other events, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 4VmM j- fr f--'1 7t Main Stage 10 a.m. Ziji, jazz combo with Chris Salerno 1 1 :30 a.m.

Four Shadow, a cappella pop quartet from Minneapolis 1 p.m. A. Scotty Haward Earthmother's Marimba Band, world music 3 p.m. Ed Biebel The Heartland Band, country Gazebo Stage 1 1 a.m. Cafe Poets 12:30 p.m.

Sandy Stevens, harp 2 p.m. Darryl St. John and Dennis Panneck, contemporary acoustic 3:30 p.m. Grupo Sombra Escura, traditional Mexican Port Plaza Mall Stage 1 1 a.m. Black Velvet Band, traditional Irish 12:30 p.m.

Bay City Chorus, popular tunes 2 p.m. Phoenix Middle Eastern Dancers 3:30 p.m. Divine Agenda and Prophets of Praise, gospel group from Milwaukee Youth Area Noon-2 p.m. and p.m. Oneida pow-wow exhibition 1-2 p.m.

Randy Peterson, children's musician and storyteller p.m. Sunshine Review Drill Team 2:1 p.m. Oneida flute playing p.m. Oneida storytelling Ongoing entertainment Balloon Brothers Ltd. Myrrdin the Storyweaver Jeff Pockat, Celtic harper Bauknecht Brothers, balancing sticks Danny Ognavic, fiddler Oneida crafts and pow-wow exhibition J- A Press- Zk.

I Gazette Marti Spittell and Tom Milbourn, -as; weseiy, above, will be spending twice as 1 left, and much time on air at Channel 11. Behrend, I. LJ I 1 below IT'S ABOUT MONEY, LOCAL NEWS AND MONEY Welcome the Pointers You're invited to welcome the Pointer Sisters to Austin Straubel International Airport as they arrive today for final rehearsals of Ain't Misbehavin'. Green Bay Mayor Paul Jadin will be among those greeting Anita, June and Ruth Pointer, whoso flight from New York is scheduled to arrive at 5:04 p.m. The welcome will take place in the airport's second-floor atrium.

The Bourbon Street Firehouse Band will play, and the Pointer Sisters will get gifts. Ain't Misbehavin' opens Tuesday, Sept. 5, at the Weidner Center. The original eight performances are 90 percent sold, and added performances through Sept. 13 are 50 percent sold.

Warren Gerds "We treat the news just like another business," Tomlin said. "It's a business you invest in to get returns." By joining Fox, Channel 11 gets a plum: Most Green Bay Packers broadcasts. Packers games typically draw more than 300,000 viewers locally. Because of the Packers, Channel 26 last year led all Fox affiliates in some ratings categories for National Football League broadcasts. Again, money talks: Ixjcal advertising spots in those games generate substantial revenue for the stations.

But as much as Channel 26 liked carrying the Packers, Tomlin said the station would much rather have the ratings NBC delivers seven days a week. Such ratings translate into dollars. Fox is spending "several hundred thousand dollars" on promotion on television, newspaper, radio and cable, Ware said. Channel 26 and NBC also are spending "hundreds of thousands of dollars" on promotion, Tomlin said. 11 will expand its news presence by 2 hours, to 412 hours a day, and add three people to its support staff.

However, the station is doing so with a key position open. News director Don Shafer resigned Wednesday. Channel 11 will have locally-oriented news from 6 to 8 a.m., 5 to 6:30 p.m. and 9 to 10 p.m. News at 9 p.m.

is a first for the Green Bay market. It's done elsewhere, but people in the industry are curious to see whether local viewers turn out for it. Channel 26, which had no news, is building a news department. Aries Telecommunications, which owns WGBA, will spend $3 million on a newsroom and and equipment. The expected launch of Channel 26's news, on July 19, 1996, is scheduled to coincide with NBC's coverage of the Olympics.

After it hits the air, the news operation will add between $1 million and $1.5 million to the station's operating budget, WGBA president and general manager Jim Tomlin said. The costs are looked upon as an investment. News is a form of currency as Green Bay's Channels 11 and 26 switch networks on Monday. The existence of a news operation was one reason SF Broadcasting bought WLUK, Channel 11, which becomes a Fox station. For NBC, which is moving to WGBA, Channel 26, a prime concern is "getting a successful news product on the air," said Carl Schweinler, the network's vice president for affiliate relations.

In fact, the emphasis on local news is why this switch is different from other recent network changes at Green Bay stations. All five of Green Bay's commercial stations have changed affliations and owners in the past four years. Monday's switch will test the Fox and SF Broadcasting philosophies that local news and being on a VHF station will make a difference in building Fox ratings. Local news "is what drives the value of a TV station in the eyes of the viewers," said Adam Ware, Fox's senior vice president for network distribution. With Monday's switch, Channel Best bet Larry Penn: Today, 2 p.m., out AT CHANNEL 26: A TURNAROUND Monday's arrival of NBC on Channel 26 is a triumphant turnabout for the station.

WGBA twice fought off bankruptcy. It inherited Fox programs when another station failed. It inherits the strong NBC lineup in the wake of aggressive moves locally and nationally by Fox and its various partners. WGBA was in the right place at the right time for a major network to come looking for a new affiliate. The morale of long-time station employees is "sky high," said president and general manager Jim Tomlin, who has headed the station for 11 years.

"They are elated. They went through the good and the bad and the ugly. Now it's good." To see the top three network shows Friends, Seinfeld and ER viewers will have to turn to Channel 26. The Super Bowl, the next three Summer Olympics, Tonight, Today and Days of Our Lives are among many other attractions going to Channel 26. "These are great things to look forward to," said Tomlin, who is both delighted and awed by the switch.

The enthusiasm is not lost on NBC. The people at WGBA are "awfully excited about being affiliated with us," said Carl Schweindler, the network's vice president for affiliate relations. Channel 26 arrived in 1977 as WLRE, an independent station. By the mid-1980s, its owner, the Newman Companies, was embroiled in serious financial and legal straits. "The station had little or no ratings at the time and little or no income, and then shortly thereafter went into bankruptcy and had the Newman scandal thing, which was always tied to TV-26," Tomlin said.

In the late '80s, another of WGBA's owner ran into financial trouble. "The news people on the competitors were waiting for the other show to be dropped and waiting for the padlock on the door to be closed," Tomlin said. "Since then, we've taken the padlock off the door, kicked the damn door down and made a very viable product and property through perseverance, a lot of hard work and a lot of luck." doors, Oshkosh Public Museum. The songwriter and singer of railroad songs performs on the "Summer Sounds" series. Free.

(414) 424-4731. Parents no longer need to feel guilty about being unable to afford encyclopedias. Now it's a computer. A real conservative is one who still blames all the nation's woes on FDR. It's really a fast-food place if you don't even have to slow down at the drive-up window.

PVvVn I WHAT YOU'LL SEE MONDAY Fox programs move to WLUK, Channel 1 1 which will call itself Fox 11 NBC programs move to WGBA, Channel 26, which will call itself NBC 26 Channel 1 1 increases its news by 2 hours, to 412 hours a day Channel 1 1 gets most Green Bay Packers broadcasts (11 of 16 games this season) Channel 26 works toward adding local newscasts in mid-summer 1996 WXGZ, Channel 32, will have new call letters, WACY. It is affiliated with the UPN network. I i Vv a "1 I -v Doug Larson 1 Satellite dishes at WGBA, Channel 26 When it comes to resisting authority, some kids are rebels without a pause. The flaws in otherwise perfect children can be attributed to hereditary influences from the other side of the family. The greatest traffic hazard today is the driver traveling 10 miles over the speed limit while talking on the telephone and drinking coffee.

There's no problem getting a job these days if you are willing to start at the bottom and are satisfied with lateral mobility. Doug Larson is a Green Bay Press-Gazette columnist. Write to him at P.O. Box 19430, Green Bay, WI 54307-9430. AT CHANNEL II: MORE NEWSr MORE WEATHERr MORE SPORTS hi immlii in, Vi ii I i ii imm P.S.

Mueller For a TV news anchor, it's a dream cometrue. Starting Monday, Channel 11 goes from 2 12 to 4 12 hours of local news on weekdays. "This is probably the leading edge of the next generation of local communications," news anchor Tom Milbourn said. "In that sense, it's real exciting." Milbourn and Marti Spittell will anchor two of WLUK's new shows, from 5 to 6 p.m. and 9 to 10 p.m.

"The big undertaking is anchoring two one-hour shows a day, which is unheard of in this market and in many markets," Spittell said. "That's an anchor's dream to have so much exposure and so much contact with your viewers." Channel 11 's half-hour newscast at 6 p.m. will continue to be anchored by Jay Johnson and Teri Barr, But the question remains: Is there enough news in Green Bay, the Fox -Valley and the rest of Northeastern 1 Wisconsin to carry all the newscasts? Former news director Don Shafer, who with stations in Milwaukee and Madison for state news. Weather will play a slightly different role. The main weather reports will air around 5:30 and 9:30 p.m., in hopes of capturing people switching channels.

Two shorter weather reports will air in each hour-long evening block. "One of the things that's always a problem is there's never enough time for weather, and I'm going to be able to have more time," weather forecaster John Chandik said. Sports is getting more time, and it will come earlier in some newscasts. "Our time for sports is basically almost double," sports director Jeff Conner said. "We normally get anywhere from three to four minutes, and now we're looking at five to seven minutes." All this will take more preparation.

"Most people think a newscast is slapped together at the very last moment and all the pieces just fall into place," Chandik said. "Yes, the pieces fall into plac but there's a tremendous amount of preparation for it." once worked in San Francisco, wondered about that, and whether all the material could be edited on time. But he's out of the picture, having resigned last week. The anchors aren't worried. A half-hour newscast contains only about eight minutes of news, Spittell said.

"We are constantly dropping stories that we don't have time to tell because of commercials sports and weather." More time will ease some frustration. The news block also is growing by an hour on weekday mornings, from 6 to 8 a.m. "For me, the most fun of the job is not sitting around and waiting for it to happen," said Amy Hanten, who is anchoring the morning show with Pete Petoniak. "It's doing it on-air. "From that standpoint, we're excited about it.

We're all a little nervous, of course." WLUK's plan includes local news, weather and sports combined with state, national and international coverage. Channel 11 will rely on CNN and Fox for some material. It also has agreements 0 Cover story: All of your favorite net-! work shows are moving as i Channels 11 and 26 change networks, but most of your syndicated favorites will stay put. On Page 4: To i get a sense of the huge change in local TV, look back only four years ago, when each of the four top commercial stations had a dif-; ferent network jj if i "4n A.M.lMJ.ftd rj.jgjLiiiifiiiirf ffiiiiBifjunil iiiiiif 4 Tiffi nrfLjf mf iwH tut nfniiiiH rf i iff1 jirfmiff i inf n4 fflf wif i iff ifff irf ii' inB. rftmi.