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Television www.lsj.com Lansing State Journal Thursday, January 15, 2004 5D 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 P.M. 6:00 9:00 spies are best tonight TONIGHTS MUST-SEE: "Friends," 8 p.m., Channel 10 (NBC). Each year, this terrific series has one "clip show" stuffed with scenes from previous episodes. Here's one more, midway in the 10th and final season. The situation starts when Rachel and Phoebe spot Chandler getting into a car v.

i t) with an anonymous blonde. Soon, there are revelations and flashbacks. TONIGHTS MUST-SEE II: "Frontline: From China With Love," 10 p.m., Channel 23 (PBS) The case of FBI agent J.J. Smith and informant Katrina Leung continues to intrigue people. To some, it's straightforward: For decades, Smith and Leung (both married to other people) had an affair.

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money and $435,000 in direct pay. "I think this is all about sex, quite one observer, Jack Keller, says in the documentary. "Free sex at the cost of the government'' Leung would sneak material from Smith's briefcase, the government charges, then photocopy it and give it to the Chinese government A raid of her upscale home produced copies of staff directories and investigations. OTHER CHOICES: "Tin 8 p.m., Channel 47 (Fox). The latest tragedy has happened right in the morgue.

Now Tru goes back in time to try to prevent it Threat Matrix, 8 p.m., Channel 53 (ABC). Kilmer's probe into the murder of Vargas leads to a look at a North Korean official. "Cadet Kelly (2002), 8 pjiu, Disney Channel Now that Hilary Duff is also a movie and pop star, people might want to catch this light film. The story is so-so, with a free-spirited New Yorker suddenly in a military academy. Duff brings so much personal charm, however, that the film remains enjoyable.

The Apprentice, 830 p.m. to 9:30 p.n, Channel 10 (NBC). The network originally announced this episode for Wednesday, then inserted a rerun instead. Tonight both teams try to come up with an ad campaign for a personal jet That puts the pressure heavily on Jason Curis, 24, the Michigan State University advertising grad. He's in charge of the men's team; if they lose for the second straight week hell be one of the prospects Donald Trump could fire from the show.

"Will Grace, 930 p.m, Channel 10. This episode overflows with guest stars. Geena Davis plays Grace's older sister, with a financial scheme. John Cleese returns as Lyle, Karen's suitor; Minnie Driver is her former competitor, who also happens to be Lyle's daughter. "ER, 10 pm, Channel 10.

Abby and Neela have a wrenching day in the intensive-care unit for babies. Mike Hughes' column appears Mondays through Fridays. WKAR: MSU's public TV station is the second-oldest in the country PBS takes special chances that other networks wouldn't uui.iij lpiwwwv wmv" 1 1 v- Aj)l Inside WKAR Today: Launches WKAR-DT, with a separate, digital signal. For now, that can be received only by antenna, via digital sets. I More stations: The WKAR monolith also includes two radio stations, two separate cable channels, a Web site and more.

I Local programming: "Off the Record" (9 p.m. Fridays and 11:30 p.m. Saturdays), "QuizBusters" (6 p.m. Saturdays and 11:30 a.m. Sundays), "QB Jr." (630 p.m.

Sundays), "Michigan at Risk" (quarterly), plus occasional specials, debates and forums. PBS By Mike Hughes Lansing State Journal For most of its 50 years, WKAR has been the one steady place to find documentaries and dramas, concerts and classics and the daily reassurance of Fred Rogers and Big Bird. With modern choices ranging from Nickelodeon to the Discovery Channel, do we still need PBS? More than ever, some people insist. Just ask Gregory Nava, producer of "American Its entire second season (beginning April 4) will be ambitious, a 13-episode arc that flashes back and forth through a Latino family's history, including wars in Iraq, Korea and Mexico. "No one except PBS would let me try something like this," he said.

Or ask David Hyde Pierce. He makes his money on NBC's "Frasier," but his passion involves fighting Alzheimer's disease, which affected his father and grandfather. Now he's part of a PBS night do a program. From the very beginning, a Web site was designed. (We have) this massive outreach and community part nerships," said Pat Mitchell, the PBS president Critics point out that PBS only hovers around 2 Nielsen rating, meaning that the typical show is seen in 2 percent of homes.

The average viewer is 58 years old. Mitchell responds with other statistics, saying PBS: Stays even. It's the only broadcast (non-cable) network that doesn't have declining ratings. Has an average audience (counting all homes) that at least doubles that of any basic-cable channel. Ifs 113 percent higher than any of its main competitors, Discovery, TLC or I Gets most people in one way or another.

About 70 percent of TV homes watch PBS sometime in a typical week. Us popular. "In every survey we're ranking sixth out of about 100-plus choices." Hs in pretty good shape with the age thing. "The larg Continued From ID "She started singing. Then she just panicked and ran out of the studio and never came back.

That was one of the joys of live television." It really was joyful, people say. "The thing I miss the most is the fun of live television," said Terry Braverman, a former sportscaster for the station. "I miss that, and I think the community does, too." The station is still a fun place to work, Meuche said. "Public TV is a different world. People really have a commitment." What has changed is the scale.

WKAR has only a few local shows and a lot of lush PBS ones. "'Sesame Street was a big, big deal when it came out," Page said. "It still is." The biggest deal today will be the addition of a digital signal For now, that can be seen only by people who have a digital set and use an antenna (not cable); still, Meuche says this is key. "It's beautiful," he said. "It's just incredible, so crisp and clear." It also seems to be centuries away from the black-and-white days of 1954.

Hannah led the way WKAR goes back to the expansionist views of MSU President John Hannah, Page said. "He saw television as the future." So Hannah moved early. This was only the third public TV station, Meuche and Page said; one has folded, so only one public station (in Houston) is older. After a start-up phase on the fifth floor of the Electrical Engineering building (where the cow lost its nerve and its supper), the station opened in 1954 in three metal Quonset huts. They had been built for the military, Page said, and one was still being used as a kitchen.

Still, they worked well for TV. "It was state of the art," he said. "Although the art was pretty low at that point." The huts were vulnerable to nature. During rain, the metal roofs made concerts impossible; critters were another problem, "We had rats and mice and squirrels," said Braverman, now retired head of the Ralph Young Fund. "Once, we had a dead raccoon." That's in addition to the crit- was a wonderful time." With Jim Adams and others, Braverman did the delayed telecast (1L30 p.m.

Saturdays) of MSU football Their "Spartan Sportlite" used elaborate football footage. "We'd had 12, 14 minutes of the game," Braverman said, i 5 That. was when the station had a VHF channel The only one available was Channel 10, which a commercial broadcaster also wanted. They decided to share it. That began in 1959 and was unprecedented.

One bizarre half-hour began with a 15-minute local newscast from the public TV people, then switched to NBC's 15-minute "Huntley-Brinkley Report" with all the commercials stripped out. Both outgrew the shared relationship. In 1972, Page said, the commercial station (now WILX) gave WKAR $1.7 million to build its own transmitter and begin broadcasting on Channel 23. By then, the young PBS (descended from educational TV cooperatives) was 3 years old. "Sesame Street" and "Masterpiece Theatre" had been started; stations no longer had to do it alone.

WKAR got a real home in 1981, in the new Communications Arts Building. The Quon: set huts burned down the next year, with the Breslin Center eventually taking the spot. By then the number of locally originated shows had diminished. Still Meuche takes pride in the ones that have been created. "We were toying to gain some visibility" in the Capitol, he said.

WKAR has done that by continuing "Off the Record" and by holding debates and forums. It has linked with other stations for "Michigan at Risk," a quarterly show with in-depth documentaries. It also revived the old "High School Quiz Bowl" into the "QuizBusters" show. "Now we have schools calling us up to ask how to get on," Meuche said. As he retires, he's being replaced by DeAnne Hamilton, fresh from KQED in San Francisco.

Hamilton comes from a station that had an ambitious slate of local shows, involving everything from cooking to independent filmmakers. She takes over a station that has gone beyond its days of nervous cows, missing monkeys and hesitant sopranos. Contact Mike Hughes at 377-1156 or mhugheslsj.com. est number of people (Wednesday) that includes two Alzheimer specials. "I cannot imagine it being f' '6Y ever in history (will turn) 50 in the next Personal matter: David Hyde Pierce hosts a 30-minute segment of "The Forgetting: A Portrait Of Alzheimer's" at 9 p.m.

Wednesday. The audience numbers are important when PBS tries to convince the government and corporate underwriters that it's still important. The catch," however, involves getting underwriters. The classy documentaries are drawing corporate money, but "Masterpiece Theatre" isn't. "I find this one completely confusing and perplexing," Mitchell said.

For the rest of this has big plans: The lush "Forsyte Saga" wraps up with five new hours over three nights, Feb. 8, 15 and 22. In April, "Masterpiece" will spend two Sundays with the richly regal "The Lost Prince," focusing on Prince John, who was hidden from the outside world by his parents a century ago. It follows on the next two Sundays with the ferocity of Helen Mirren's "Prime Suspect." For now, however, PBS has to finance those shows out of its limited central funds. No corporation has replaced Exxon Mobil, which is stepping down after decades as the sole "Masterpiece" funder.

"It's a huge amount of money," said "Masterpiece" producer Rebecca Eaton. That depends on the perspective: "Masterpiece" shares its costs with British producers. An entire season costs PBS between $6 million and $8 million. An entire season for $6 million? The "Friends" stars total that much for one episode. TNT spends that much on one movie.

HBO spent 10 times as much on its six-hour "Angels in America." By modern standards, it seems, PBS is still permy-pmching world. done better on CBS or the WB or "any nve years. We re well-positioned to meet the needs of that group of peo other net 1 work." he said. ple." 'ri sir V' "We ters in the shows. "Once, a pet monkey got loose in the studio," Dunlevy said.

"I was trying to trap the darned thing." Still, those shows had their charms. Jeanie Croope, now a WKAR publicist, fondly recalls visiting "Culver's Clubhouse" (the show with the monkey) when she was a grade-schooler in East Lansing. She also recalls learning Michigan history from Miss Bliss and watching "Land of Play" with Helen Shaw. "She had these amazing cut-out animals," Croope said of Shaw. "I remember one of them was an ostrich.

She would walk among them and talk in this very soothing, Mr. Rogers kind of voice." There were many such shows "Mr. Murgle's Musse," "Open Door to Michigan," "4-H TV Science Club" and more. There were ambitious classical music shows. "Don Pash brought in the brightest young musicians," Page said.

"He was very good at getting them to come to our Quonset huts." Jessye Norman, the opera-star-to-be, was there. So were such noted musicians as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Murray Perahia, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Stoltzman, Ralph Vota-pek and more. Political stars also were there, especially with debates and Tim Skubick's "Off the Record" WKAR has had every Michigan governor since 1972, plus future and former presidents (Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush) and activists (Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Coretta Scott King). Sports also brought stars.

"The '60s were when Duffy (Daugherty) and Bubba (Smith) were there," Braverman said. "It UUU I JUS I. A 1 Second season: Raquel Welch (left) and Edward James Olmos star as sister and brother in "American Family," a drama series that chronicles the lives of the Gonzalez family of East Los Angeles..