The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 11

o) i.i Miss Manners B2 rHarvev' B3 Wayne Harada B3 Word game B4 Liwnrni The Honolulu Advertiser Tuesday, April 28, 1987 Moore T7ie making of a No, 1 anchor li I mm By Douglas Young Special to The Advertiser I t's a pretty humble office for Hawaii's TV News Wars Today: Joe Moore: 'I'm a communicator Tomorrow: KGMB't search for a giant killer a guy who makes more than $300,000 a year. Former Channel 2 anchorwoman Barbara Tanabe jokingly' calls it "Joe Moore's closet" an 8-by-12 foot room with a small beat-up desk and an armless chair covered with cracked yellow-green plastic. This is the workspace of Hawaii's dominant TV news anchorman. KHON president Bill Snyder says that Moore received a raise last December from around $200,000 to "in the neighborhood of $350,000 a year." That would be $1,346 per weekday, a pretty good neighborhood to be in. Why is he worth it? Moore told Honolulu magazine: "I may be may be the best communicator (in town) but I'm certainly not the best newsman.

I know that. And it doesn't bother me, because my job is to communicate the stories that our people our very good people gather." (Joe Moore declined to be interviewed for this series.) Young Joe Moore Moore, 39, was born in Maryland and came to Hawaii when his Air Force pilot father, Joseph "Catfish" Moore mum ml Above, today Joe Moore and sportscaster Les Kelter lead KHON's newscasts, which top the ratings. Left, back in the 1970s, Moore (standing) was part of the team that included Bob Jones (now KGMB's principal anchor) and Tim Tindall (now KITV's principal anchor). moved here. Young Joe won a statewide school debating contest, and he was student body president and captain of Aiea High school's football team.

Moore went to the University of Maryland on a football scholarship. But, at age 19, a potentially crippling pinched nerve ended his days as a football player. Instead, he filled in as a commentator for a radio broadcast of a Maryland football game. As he recalled for Oahu Magazine: "'By the end of the first half, I was talking on the radio as much as the play-byplay guy. And I thought: 'This is a snap.

I've got a new career Moore left college and enlisted in the Army, serving as a See The rise on B-4 i KIT looks for more respect (and maybe expansion) By Douglas Young Special to The Advertiser 0 at- -I 'V cr 'II smaller (27 full-time vs. 40 at Channel 2). Dick Grimm. He took command of KITV in 1973, and is the most senior television station general manager in Hawaii by far. He is a big man, blunt in speech and conviction.

He doesn't buy the Channel 2 and Channel 9 line that "as local news goes, so goes the station." Says Grimm: "I've never seen anything to prove it" His philosophy is well-known and unambiguous: "I'll match my bottom line against theirs any day." Grimm took a two-month strike in 1980 and won from AFTRA (the TV reporters' union) the only open shop in Hawaii and one of the few in the country. KITV news pay scales reflect it. Wally Zimmermann, formerly Channel 2's news director, says there was typically about a $6,000 difference in pay between his and KITV's reporters: "I never had any problem hiring anybody I wanted from over there." KITV reporteranchor Tina Shel-ton. who moved there from KGMB in 1985, says having fewer resources forces KITV to emphasize "news news" (police reporting, courts, city government). KITV reporters also do more stories per week than their counterparts at other stations.

Shelton adds that KITV news director Paul Udell, who took over in 1985, "has worked wonders." Udell, who was Joe Moore's predecessor as KHON anchor, has held major anchor positions in Chicago, San Francisco and New York. Channel 2 news director Kent Baker says "Never, never underestimate Paul Udell." Around anchors Tim Tindall (who moved from KGMB in 1982), Emme Tomimbang (who got her start as a KITV secretary) and Shelton, Udell began building by hiring newspaper journalists. Among them were former Advertiser reporter Gerald Kato and former Star-Bulletin reporter Alan Matsuoka. KITV assignment editor Mike Keller, a former Advertiser assistant city editor, adds that Udell should be credited for pioneering the use here of more naturalistic gesturing by reporters and on-camera interaction between anchor and reporter. Udell says his biggest success so far See Third-place on Page B-4 he sun may be peeking out from behind the clouds for the KITV-Chan-nel 4 newsroom.

Tak Communications bought the ABC affiliate for $50 million and took control this month. Says one KITV News source, "For the first time ever, somebody is talking expansion." In the small and talkative world of Honolulu's television newsrooms, KITV has long been generally regarded as the Rodney Dangerfield of the group. It gets no respect Channel 9 reporters will typidally watch the entire Channel 2 newscast but generally only scan KITV's headlines. Says one Channel 2 manager bluntly: "They're a minor-league team in a major-league ballgame." TV news insiders say there are two reasons: Fewer resources. The KITV annual news budget is substantfally smaller than its competitors.

Best estimates are: KHON-2, $1.9 million; KGMB-9, $1.75 million; and Channel 4, $1.1 million. KITV's pay scale is lower and the news staff substantially AdwrtiMT photo by CtttrfM OltMnurt From left, KITV anchor Tim Tindall, news director Paul Udell, and reporter anchor Tina Shelton. 1 People By Milt Guss Copy Editor I 0,. Scott Lamotte real Mr. President more accessible to the news media.

Today, President Reagan will answer questions from six reporters for 15 minutes. Lately, Reagan has been chatting with reporters at plancside, even answering questions during photo sessions. At this rate, he may soon be enjoying coffee breaks with ABC's gadfly, Sam Donaldson An American sailor, held by Australian authorities Edward Lamotte, 22 will be sent back to the U.S. to face charges of desertion. Lamotte was arrested in Sydney after going AWOL from his unit in Va.

He has dual British-U. citzenships A poll shows that although 76 of Bntons believe Prince Charles would make a good king, only a third want Queen Elizabeth to abdicate in hi3 favor. However, the newspaper Minneapolis. It's for use by himself and the whole area Japan's Emperor Hirohito turns 86 tomorrow and solidifies his position as the world's longest reigning monarch with 61 years on the throne Oral Roberts says his fund-raising under the threat of God's calling him home "was the finest moment in the history of the church." He added that people who didn't know his name before now know it Wade Roberts, a GI who defected to Russia, has been offered a job studying snakes in a remote and underdeveloped area of the U.S.S.R Would you believe that Shirley Temple (Black) is now o3T The Naval Academy was the victim of a pre-dawn attack. Two students from SL John's College Brigbam Bccbtel and Simon Mc.Nab tarred and feathered the statue of the academy's first mascot, a goat named Bill I.

The culprits were nabbed and made to clean up the goat. The hijinks took place just before the annual croquet match, which they apparently take seriously Sister Ada Marie Host's Chattanooga home was burglarized, but she i3 richer for the experience. When she caught the burglar red-handed, he fled, dropping $3.50 in coins from his pockets. That same day, thinking about those coins, the nun bought three $1 raffle tickets. She won $500 Space shuttle veteran Daniel Brandensfein was named head of the astronaut corps yesterday to replace John Young, who was promoted recently to another NASA post Cmhntr4 Sem Smxn Johnny Carson has chosen Fox Broadcasting to air his company's new TV series, "Mr.

President" Fox also carries the talk show of ex-pal, Joan Itivers. Carson said NBC had been offered the half-hour series starring George Scott but didn't seem interested. However, the "fourth network was very supportive, he said. The series, which debuts Sunday, May 3, (3:05 p.m. KHNL, Channel 13) revolves around the problems of the first family.

I low will that affect Johnny's relationship with Joan? He'll cross that Rivers when he gets to it Aide Howard Baker's strategy has been to make the Today said: There is a growing concern that Charles could be a grandfather by the time he becomes king." Prince Rainier of Monaco reportedly i3 upset over Princess Stephanie's new boyfriend. Frenchman Mario Jutaxd. 35. He's twice divorced and once drew a suspended sentence for sexually battering a 19-year-old woman Prince (the one that sings) is building a $10 million recording, film and video complex near.