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The system will have news feed points in London, New York and Washington, giving Channel 6 access to more national and international news. 1 4 I 1 If Al I ri 1 I i I I II II 1 I I "VI I i Although its anchorman is leaving and its sportscast-er has been under fire, Channel 6's "10 O'clock News" will be ex panding to an hour-long format" in the not-too-distant future with at least the possibili- Woods tylof an already-familiar local newsman at the helm There are, however, still a lot of question marks about the exact date for the expansion and about the rftao or woman who wijl anchor it, according to news director Dick Descutner. Anchorman Prescott Robinson's contract with WCIX expires this week and he is departing for a morning slot ori Richard Casper's neSV all-news and talk radio station. Allan Hoffman, who has regularly subbed for Robinson in the past, will be serving as the anchor until a permanent replacement is chosen. Hoffman, who was recently appointed assistant news director, is also among the candidates for the anchor job, Descutner said.

In addition, there have been dozens of responses to an ad in "Broadcasting" magazine and Channel 6 is just now beginning to sort through the videotape cassettes from potential out-of-town candidates. It is, however, a fairly strong possibility that the job could go to a local broadcaster. Descutner has talked with former Channel 7 anchor Larry Klaas, WINZ's Ken Taylor, former Channel 7 newsman Pat Banghart, Peg Rayborn and Marshall Moore. He wtefcw I fir BxMisL mmmismMm- I a i1ijlr. I iWwVWtff1 I 1 I I I 7C AUTO INSURANCE P.l.P FROM $25 YR.

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of the University of 1978 The Miami News ffi 1 1 7 I IIP sv" I AAw-llk lit 1 1 i i ri i ri rjn Larry Klaas has also had confidential conversations with two other local newsmen, currently on the air at other stations. Of these, one source has said that Klaas may have the inside track because he is already established and "his price is right." Descutner hopes to have a decision on the new anchor within the next few weeks in order to have the person on the air and used to the Channel 6 operation before it begins its hour-long newscast, tentatively set for sometime in June. The station is gearing up for the expansion by installing a new satellite receiving station this week, This year there was another replacement. Donald Ogden came in after Larry Linville, who was Maj. Frank Burns, left to seek his fortune elsewhere.

"This has been the best group to work with," Farrell says. "I am so in love with these people." One of his major worries was that Loretta Swit Hot Lips Houlihan wouldn't accept him because she and. Wayne had been so close. Toward the end of that first year, Loretta said she had a present for Farrell. "She said she had been saving it because she didn't know how I would take it.

"You know the line of clothing designed by the other Wayne Rogers? Loretta had cut out a clothing ad and gave it to me. It said, 'Wayne Rogers, get off my I've got it up on my wall at home. It's terrific. "I was concerned about her reac- Ledger. She became chief editorial writer in October.

She won several awards from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors and the Florida Press Club while with The News. She won a national Robert F. Kennedy journalism award and a national Sigma Delta Chi award for her work in RADIO BITS Richard Caspei continues to raid other local sta tions in putting together his new all-news and talk format for what has been WFUN. He's hired WKAT's Nell Rogers to go up against Alan Courtney in the evenings and has picked up WIOD psychic Mickie Dahne for a morning slot from 10 to 12. The twist for Dahne is that she'll be doing a straight talk show aimed at women, with only occasional lapses into psychic phenomena.

Dahne, by the way, hadn't finalized her decision to leave her once-a-week show on WIOD until that station's general manager, William Viands, called her during her Friday night broadcast March 17 and asked if there was a change coming up in her life. It may have been a clever psychic-style trick, but it cost him a popular regular show host. Larry King takes his all-night show on the Mutual Network to Washington on April 3. He'll be broadcasting from here again late next fall. He'll continue to be heard on WIOD.

Gene Teibloom, who has been with WKAT and WVCG news, has now moved over to the Channel 6 staff. Mike Farrell (right) plays second fiddle to Alan Alda (left), but that doesn't bother Farrell. 'I knew it was Alan's show' tion to me because of Wayne, and here she was concerned I was going to be sensitive." A year later Farrell met Rogers at a party. "He said, 'I want to tell you something. One time Elliott Gould came up to me and said are you doing me or are you doing Donald Wayne said he was doing Gould.

Gould said, like me better. He said, 'What I want to tell you is that I've seen what you do and I like you Now, that's class!" Gould was Trapper and Sutherland was Hawkeye in the movie that inspired the series. Farrell, who previously starred in two other TV series, "The Interns" and "The Man and the City," said he had no problems taking a secondary role. "I think it's clearly Alan's show, but I've never objected to that. You see Wayne may have had a gripe going in that he thought it was to be evenly divided or that there was a possibility of its becoming his show.

With that understanding, I can see how he was dissatisfied. "I knew going in that it was Alan's show. That I was going to be secondary. I felt all along if I did the right kind of job with the right kind of character it would be secondary yet important." Baked Onion Soup Quintessence Salad Choice of i FLORIDA RED SNAPPER NEW YORK SIRLOIN DUCK A LA ORANGE Baked Potato or Fresh Vegetable Fresh Fruit Petit Fours Ten Dollars per person Served every evening, except Saturday, from 5 pm 'till 11 pm Opfcp every Evening 15801 Soih Dixie Highway JKS-6151 M-A-S-H's Farrell is a happy second fiddle 4 Ill TfT Meet David Kraslow. His reporting of secret negotiations to end the Vietnam War earned him esteemed awards.

One of the nations most respected journalists, Kraslow is a Graduate I film 1 1 A Miami 048) and was a Nieman Fellow in Latin American JERRY BUCK Auociattd Press 'LOS ANGELES Mike Farrell Went into the "M-A-S-H" company the same way a soldier is reassigned from a replacement company. Wayne Rogers Trapper John Mclntyre left the hit CBS show in its fourth year, rotated stateside from the Korean War, so to speak. He wanted out because he felt he was playing second fiddle to Hawk-eye Alan Alda. Farrell, as Capt. B.J.

Hunnicutt, rrjoved in. That was the same year tnat Harry Morgan, as Col. Sherman Potter, replaced McLean Stevenson. "It was terrifying," recalls Farrell, now in his third year. "I was convinced that if the show sank it Was going to be my fault." Farrell had no need to fear.

"M-A-S-H" remains one of the most popular shows on TV. studies at Harvard. Cox Newspapers brought him back to Miami from his post as Chief of the Cox Washington Bureau to run our paper. That's the Cox commitment. According to Kraslow, his own commitment is "to preserve and strengthen Joanna Wragg's leaving News for television post The Miami News as an essential ingredient in this community." I x1 David Kraslow makes The News.

Joanna Wragg, chief editorial writer of The Miami News, will leave the newspaper next month to become editorial director of television station WPLG (Channel 10.) will replace Carolyn Jay Wright, who resigned from Channel 10 two weeks ago. Wragg came to' The News as an editorial writer five years ago from The Lakeland Radio Highlights I' TONIGHT 7t.p.m. (WTMI-FM 93.1) Adventures in Good Music. Karl Haas devotes this program to the irrestible personality and artistry of today's greatest cellist Mstislav Rostropo-vijch. 730 p.m.

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