Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 85

I- Jri Aslfc Affcr 14 I Ji i K-y 4 A- tnai11 IN Mi i i r.i i i Mill ffWF ill I i 2 in Hawaii If Ex-Isle Call Letters KHJK-TV Next S.F. Station? By BERT DARK KHJK, the call letters which signified "Henry J. Kaiser" when it beamed programs at Hilo on the Big Island, probably will be San Francisco's next television outlet. Kaiser Broadcasting, now headed by vice president Dick Block who gave orders at Honolulu's KHVH before Bob Berger acquired the station, has had a petition pending before the FCC for months for a new Bay Area station. KHJK-TV would be UHF (ultra high frequency) Channel 44 in Baghdad by the Bay.

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i owns KFOCi-FM in San Francisco, WKBS (Channel 48) in Philadelphia; and WKBD (Channel 50) in Detroit, now under the careful eye of John Serrao, who once managed KHVH here. Other Kaiser broadcast interests include KMTW in Los Angeles, now under construction, and Boston's Channel 68, for which Mr. Block awaits final FCC approval, as he does for San Francisco's KHJK. HJK Henry J. Kaiser Location of the Tower Site Biggest stumbling block to date for the Bay Area outlet is location of the tower site, either atop Mount San Bruno or Mt.

Sutro. Tall towers, at the moment like tall buildings, aren't the most popular topic of conversation among civic groups bent on preserving scenic beauty. Kaiser Broadcasting also seeks permission to install subscription TV in the already pay-TV-troubled California area. The corporation has petitioned to allow Phonevision at KMTW, its station in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court, though, only recently rescinded the referendum banning pay-TV in California as unconstitutional.

Now it's a waiting game with the FCC. Bill Gargan to Return Bill Gargan, one-time movie-radio star and lead of "Martin Kane" TV fame, will be paid tribute by Eel Sullivan on the latter's nationwide Mainland telecast 4Raid on the San Francisco Mint' Veteran actor Ronald Reagan, whose political aspi ration in California have made news lately, is the this Sunday. KGMB will televise the program next Sunday night, Apr. 10, at 7 o'clock. Gargan, with his wife, Mary, will be visiting Hawaii beginning Apr.

25, when he'll take a well- imm.typg";j'ii.iiiM"i earned rest to vacation and assist the Hawaii Chapter of the Ameri 1 source of TV headlines this week as the hero of a true "Death Valley Days" tale. Reagan, starring as flamboyant San Francisco banker Billy Ralston, tells the true story of how a daring ruse saved a city from financial panic. Titled "Raid on the San Francisco Mint," the historic "Death Valley Days" account unveils the daring plot of Ralston to hoodwink the army general in command of the mint. KHVH colorcasts the episode Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. tea can Cancer Society in its current campaign.

Another sequence on the same "Ed Sullivan Show" next week brings actress Debbie Reynolds to Bill Gargan TV screens in a rare "live" appearance performing a song from her new movie, "The Singing Nun." TV fans may be interested in one item Sullivan Reagan Continued on page 43.