The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 131

a Little insight: KIKU -TV Little "The Family Holvak," with Glenn Ford and Julie Harris doing excellent jobs in a show that was too often uneven, has been cancelled by the network. And word has it by John Little that the glory has faded for David McCallum, whose "Invisible Man" has been erased from the second season. Jo I VV Joanne 1 Ninomiya 4V John Henry Faulk, remember him from "Fear on Trial?" has been signed as a continuing member of the high-rated syndicated series "Hee Haw." Faulk will tell stories about "the folks back home," much as he did on his old CBS radio show before he was fired because of the blacklist. "Beacon Hill" fans weep with the series cancellation. The Captain and Tennille, chart-busting recording artists Will Keep Us Together" and "The Way I Want to Touch will have a series this summer.

On those Country Music Awards, John Denver garnered honors qs Entertainer of the Year and Song of me Year, "Back Home Again." Minnie Pearl made the Hall of Fame. "The French Connection" smashes onto the small screen Saturday and you should see it if you haven't. Excellent. KIKU, call letters for Channel 13, means chrysanthemum in Japanese. Thus the tradition of the land is engraved in the code of the station, which caters to the Japanese population in Hawaii.

While there are a few first generation Japanese who have kept their native tongue and acquired little English, over the next 10 to 20 years, Joanne Ninomiya, KIKU's general manager, sees the population becoming multi-lingual. The strong, loyal Japanese audience prefers drama, she noted, with love stories next. While these are universally understood, requests for subtitling continue. Accordingly, the station began sub-titling the shows in 1970. There are a handful of bi-lingual translators at the station (Aloha TV recently carried a story on sub-titling at KIKU) and 50 per cent of the shows are now subtitled.

Miss Ninomiya hopes to have all the shows subtitled within five years; quite. a project with a tiny staff of 13 and 12 part-timers. Kiku is owned by Richard Eaton, head of United Broadcasting Company in Maryland, who has a reputation for developing stations among minority populations on the Mainland. He bought the then KTRG-13 in September of 1967. It was.

a black-and-white station showing mostly movies. Since then, after six managers from the Mainland passed through unsuccessfully, Miss Ninomiya has managed the controls. Demure, light and marvelously in command of the helm, she is in the unenviable position of being some 5,000 miles from the home office for policy making guidance and 4,000 miles from Tokyo and deci-. sion making on programming. "I sometimes wish, for less pressure, like having my boss be in the l'fT-l 'fir "Kamen Rider," draw the child legions by the droves.

Monsters, music, men-of-war, the programs parade like dream armies, stepping from one mishap to the next with the cadenced imagination of a child, the kind where anything is possible and heroes are friends in need. Nearly a third of the station's programs are youth oriented and youth is a collective word; it lacks racial barriers and sometimes, even age. There are 44-and-one-half hours out of the week KIKU is on the air. That's less than two days. Yet well over one-third of the state of Hawaii is served through these hours.

"I remember when we were just black-and-white, when we served only the Japanese community," Miss Ninomiya was saying. "I never expected such warm response to the programs we offered. And the continued interest in programming here has stimulated our service to the community as a whole, interculturally, and we're always learning how to be an ambassador. We enjoy what we're doing." Apparently, Hawaii does too. next office so I can run in and ask him a question.

But it's good discipline and I've learned the local station is best equipped to determine local policy in programming," she said. "From 1 967 to 1 970 we were exclusively Japanese. We moved toward intercultural attitudes by responding to the many requests for subtitling. We first subtitled a samurai show in 1970. The response was indicative of the mixed audience we served.

So we began subtitling as we went along and the audience grew," she said. In this move toward bi-lingual broadcasting, Hawaii has enjoyed some excellent drama, with 50 per cent of KIKU's audience in the 40-year-old-and-up bracket. But the station cannot compute the vast under-eight age group which floods the station with queries on heroes like "Kamen Rider," "Kikader," "The Body-guards" and "Best 30 Hit Parade." Hundreds of thousands of piggy bank dollars and allowances have gone into T-shirts and toys from the monster genre and special appearances, like the one last week by "Laugh-ln's" Rowan and Martin will be back with another series -it'll be on Mondays when "NFL Football" ends. What about getting "The Outer Limits" back on TV for local fans of the far out? "The UFO Incident" was a dandy James Earl Jones, Estelle Parsons and Barnard Hughes were flawless. i Tl ri riri A look at the miracles wU rvn fTiforts jTS within the human body.

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