News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 38

On the Cover Letters WOIO sought Mario Thomas talks about her career and her marriage to talk-show host I mm i Bill Barrett Phil uonanue in a story on page 3. of a public affairs TV series to be produced by Hambrick. The deal is still on, but some changes have been made. The series was to have been a weekly hour of spirited debate on some contemporary issue or other now it's planned as a half hour show. It was to be called "American Exchange" now the title has been changed to "Other Voices, Other Views." The Hambrick series, on which his brothers, John and Mike also TV news anchors will appear from time to time, is still to be carried on the other NBC-owned stations In New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington.

In addition, it has been picked up by IS or 16 other stations around the country, according to Judd. And it Is still scheduled to start in the fall, he says, "unless there's a change." Channels Cleveland (WKYC) Columbus (WCMH) Cleveland (WEWS) Columbus (WTVN) Cleveland (WJKW) QD Columbus (WBNS) Toledo tWTOL) (D Toledo (WTVG) 8) Akron (WAKR) 5) Toledo (WDHO) 6) Cleveland (WVIZ) fS Columbus (WOSU) Cleveland (WUAB) E3 Cleveland (WCLQ) TBS -Turner Brdcst. (WTBS) CNN Cable News Net. CBN -Christian Brdcst. NIC -NickelodeonArts MTV -Music Television DAY -Daytime SPN-ESPN Network USA -USA Network HEA Cable Health Network SHO- Showtime.

MOV -Movie Channel HBO Home Box Office Movie Ratings Best Good Fair Poor (R) Repeat (CO Closed Captioned for the Hearing Impaired News Journal Phone 522-3311 70 West Fourth St. Mansfield, Ohio 44902 Cleveland's newest television station, Channel 19 which won't be on the air until early next year will be called WOIO (as in if the new owners can arrange it. The proposed call letters have yet to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission, but chances are they'll be allowed as long as no other TV station out there in the boondocks has them. Meanwhile, officials of the station are hoping to lease space on the transmitter tower of some other TV station In the Cleveland area to avoid the expense of having to build their own. They're shopping for office and studio space, too.

All of which suggests that the Channel 19 license has, Indeed, finally been claimed for good. One challenge was raised when the new owners, organized as Channel 19 were awarded the license last fall. But after hearing arguments in the matter, the FCC upheld the Channel 19 Inc. ownership by unanimous vote on May 12. Hubert Payne, former sales manager at Channel 3, is part owner and president.

Norman Wain and Robert Weiss, who used tp own a radio station in Cleveland, are part owners, too. So is Malrite Broadcasting which owns radio stations WHK and WMMS in the Cleveland area. Malrite's president is Milton Maltz who, like the other owners of the Channel 19 license. Is a Clevelander. "It'll be a scrap, all right, --getting into the competitive Cleveland TV market," Payne conceded.

"But our hopes are high. More and more advertising money is being spent on Cleveland television commercials, and all signs indicate that growth will continue." The new station intends to air pretty much the same kinds of programs that most other independent (non-network) stations present syndicated shows, movies and some locally produced programs. But not full-blown not for a while. News is an expensive TV commodity. When Judd Hambrick became Channel 3's news anchor not so long ago, the deal included accetance by NBC, the network that owns Channel 3,.

Tongues wagged at competing stations the other night when the entire news staff of Channel 5 was assembled to meet "a new news executive." Was Eric Braun through as news director at the station where news ratings lately haye slipped seriously? Certainly not, said the Channel 5 bosses. The new news hand is Joshua Loory, just arrived from Denver, to become executive producer of Channel 5 News, a newly created position at the station. Braun has been on vacation this week. When he returns, Channel chieftains say, he'll still be the station's news All listings are subject to last minute changes by the stations and the networks. Wholesale Retail William J.

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Friday, June 10, 1983.