Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 249

ri i cz TT-rvTT rr August 26 September Tht Sundv Sjir 7fjHin 4 Advcrtitcr Prora by th ol the Honolulu SUr Bulletin 411 ft If ku MrW. Hawaii tratpappr iffy. Int. 1 M.J 11 JH V) Clockwise from top, Ted Koppel's 'Nightline' returns; an encore for with Marc Singer; Tracy and Rooney in 'Boys Town'; Sen. Ben Cayetano is part of the lineup on 'Spectrum'; 'ABC's World News This Morning' with Kathleen Sullivan and Steve Bell debuts here.

By Dianne Conrad, Star-Bulletin H'nier i 4x KITV is expanding its news programming and moving its 9:30 p.m. local newcast into the 10 p.m. slot in direct competition with the late news on KHON and KGMB. "ABC's World News This Morning" and "Nightline" with Ted Koppel join Channel 4's lineup Monday and "This. Week With David Brinkley" will be added to the Sunday lineup Sept.

2. Channel 4 will shift its late evening local newscast to 10 on Sept. 10 because "in asking ourselves where can we best serve everybody competitively, the answer is 10 p.m.," KITV program director Larry Cazavan says. The 10 p.m. slot not only affords 30 more minutes of entertainment programming before the news but means that the late local news of KITV, KHON and KGMB will be head-on-head.

KITV will sign on with "World News" at 5 a.m. Monday through Friday. Steve Bell who also handles newscast chores for "Good Morning America" and Kathleen Sullivan anchor this 60-minute newscast which went on the air in mid-1982 on the Mainland. 5 vj if VzLa: "Nightline" has since switched back to the 30-minute format. "We got a lot of complaints when was cancelled," says Cazavan.

But, he says, at the time the station could not afford the satellite charges. KITV also dropped "This Week With David Brinkley" about the same time, but for a different reason, Cazavan says. KITV did not have a consistent time slot for Brinkley "but now that our Sunday schedule has opened up we have a time period that will allow us to keep a continuous flow." The program will now be seen at 3:30 p.m. on Sundays, beginning Sept. 2.

The station has no plans to move it's 5:30 early evening local news to 6 p.m. the time when Channels 9 and 2 air theirs. "We have estabished that there is a viable news audience at 5 (when the ABC evening news with Peter Jennings is broadcast) and 5:30," Cazavan says. A survey made by the station several years ago showed that "66 percent of all news viewers in Hawaii are home by' 5 p.m. and ready for a newscast." However, KITV will change the programming that follows the 5:30 news.

Reruns of "Happy Days" will be put on hiatus Sept. 3 to be replaced at 6 p.m. by reruns of "One Day at a Time." KITV will also start its prime-time network programming at 7, rather than 6:30 p.m. starting Sept. 25.

On the 25th, reruns of "Diff'rent Strokes" will fill the 6:30 time slot Tuesday through Friday. In case you've wondered how many more weeks of reruns you face on the affiliates of the three major commercial networks: It looks like KHON the NBC affiliate will lead the new season pack. New and returning shows will start appearing the week of Sept. 16. KGMB ICBS) and KITV (ABC) will begin to unveil the new crop and new episodes of returning programs the following week.

KITV is the first Hawaii affiliate of a major network to carry a national early morning newscast, in this case ABC's offering that precedes "Good Morning America." Like "GMA," the "Today Show" (NBC) and "CBS Morning News" on the Mainland follow the first network newscasts of the day. Those newscasts started in 1982 out of concern that a news service offered by Cable News Network might be picked up by network affiliates across the nation. Associated Press' television writer Fred Rothenberg calls "World News" "an alert, aggressive and exceptionally well-rounded hour of news, business, sports and weather packaged in 15-minute remarkable that there's so little repeti I 11 P. 1 ill Ik tion on a show that manages to be both a 15-minute gulp of news for the dashing commuter and a longer meal for the more leisurely breakfast-clubber. Stories that appear in more than one quarter hour are given fresh angles or are structured to look ahead." Koppel's "Nightline" makes its latest debut on KITV at 11 p.m.

Monday. It will air Monday through Thursday at 11 and on Friday at midnight. "Night-line" will move into the 12:30 a.m. slot on Fridays the week that Channel 4's late local newscast changes from 930 to 10 p.m. "Nightline," which focuses on topical news and issues of the day, is back on KITV after about a year and a half.

The station dropped the program when it went from 30 to 60 minutes. I. mid-1983 on TV sets across the nation, sneaky reptilian creatures from a far-flung and endangered planet invaded Earth and took over on the pretense that it was in the earthlings' best interest. But, a handful of akamai homo sapiens were on to these creatures, who'd disguised themselves as humans, and banded together to oppose the tyrannical invaders. The miniseries was called and when it ended on the note that "the war is just beginning" there could be little doubt that NBC had at least a sequel and perhaps a spinoff series in mind.

Sure enough, the sequel The Final Battle "flashed across screens earlier this year. And in October, a Turn to Page 2 1 tSsgO; iLicitjt 1.