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8L Asheville CItlien-Tlmes, Jan, 24, 1888 Changing Channels WLOS Making Effort 'To Be The Answer to Sunday Crossword Puzzle No. 297 published today. Cable Systems Your Cable i 111 I AlClRlEnD I TSMMB TTITAGS It- A til A I ONIIARNO ALA eIIe Ol SUR I A tVi A'R CpDA WUBIR GHSIT.ATE General Manager Says By TONY KISS later, he said. SAN A SDN ESTEHAL I EjnSE RJACllEBON ORJYebOKCIq AlPlQWS A El Is In IIIRM A YUElRlElsUbrRIErSlSllElAITlS Staff Writer Walk through the doors at WLOSChannel 13, and the reaction After some shake-ups on the news anchor desk including the departure last year of anchor John is instant. Gremer and sports anchor Ken Adel- This place is going through son Fiorile is happy with the air Answer to Sunday, Jan.

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Carpet is coming out. Walls job, he said. "She just signed another are coming down. multi-year contract," he said. The nightly news has a different in another month, Channel 13 look.

The studio is loaded with new will again run the ratings gauntlet high-tech equipment. Cameras. Re- the Arbitron and Nielsen surveys corders. Gadgets that produce taken four times a year to determine graphics and keep the commercials audience size (and advertising running. rates).

And there's a new boss upstairs In the November books, Channel Michael Fiorile, who replaced 13 finished third overall in the Ashe-Mike Gehring as general manager in ville-Greenville-Spartanburg-Ander-November. son TV market, but made improve-After two hectic months, Fiorile, ment in the Arbitron ratings. 38, is encouraged at what he's seen The 6 p.m. newscast increased and ready to press ahead in the quar- two share points from last Novem-terly ratings battle. ber, and there were other ratings found the station in good provements as welt.

Also, the ever-shape," Fiorile said, sitting in his sec- popular "Wheel of Fortune" contin-ond-floor office with a breathtaking ued to squash the opposition during view of Asheville and the mountains, an important 7 p.m. weeknight times-The new owner, Florida-based lot. "Jeopardy," 7:30 p.m. week-Anchor Media, "wants us to be the nights, claimed second place in that best station we can be," he said. "Our timeslot.

Both games have been pur-immediate goal is not to cut costs to chased until 1990. push up profits. Like any business, in the programming depart-we are interested in making money. ment, Channel 13 has bought rerun "But we want to be the best sta- rights to "Night Court," the judicial tion we can be." sitcom still in new, prime-time epi- To that end, Anchor has dished sodes on NBC. up money and plenty of it to im- Those repeats will be available prove the operation.

So far, the tally this fall, but Fiorile hasn't set an air-has hit $3 million. One piece of studio time. Next fall, he adds reruns of two equipment came with a whopping more hot network sitcoms $400,000 pricetag. ing Pains" and "Who's The Boss?" Construction should end in May, Channel 13 will go shopping for with everything in place a month more programs next month at the INATPE convention in February. Fiorile is expecting a ratings im All IplevtMon submitted bv networks ond local slot ions and aresubiecl to change.

5:30 2:30 I 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 1:00 1:30 2:00 12:00 12:30 BROADCAST STATIONS provement from the beleaguered ABC network. "It will be a big year with the Olympics and the Super Bowl," he said. He's also encouraged by two upcoming primetime entries "China Beach," a Vietnam war comedy-drama, combining elements of "Platoon" with "MASII." It bows Jan. 31. "The Wonder Years," which debuts in March, is a coming-of-age drama, set in 1968, about a young high school student living in the Hours 9-1 Sat.

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