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Jr The Miami 5B Tuesday, July 15,1980 Sherry Woods TV I Radio Editor Fariss' reassignment bungled by Channel 7 A 3 0 OED CO CD iii GO CD WPBT PBS WTVJ CBS WCIX IND WCKT NBC WPLO ABC WLRN ETV WLTV IND WHFT IND 4 Mwv Griffin Tern A Jorry Irensido Brady Bunch Photography Cumbres Cartoons 00 IS $0 Electric Compeny 1 Woody Woodpocker cc I Droam of Joann. Bebop Bolo Negro Arthies PM 1 II 00 1 00 te 5 Emorgincy Convention S. of San Redo tho, Reading INcket II 00 Francisco IS AO M. SO 00 cc Know Show Noticias Whir Knows Bost PM is 00 00 00 Listen, The Kids 00 6 him Nowt Star Trok 61 News Picturi of Gomm: Pyle if if 00. 00 SS Health cr Dr.

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4 A.M. Movio SIGN OFF 130 A.M. SIGN OFF 1:05 A.M, SIGN OFF 310 A.M. SIGN OFF 2.35 A.M SIGN OFF 7.40 A As bungling goes, you'd be hard pressed to find a better ex- 144 'it ample than last week's handling of the Wayne Fariss situation at WCKT. It is, however, just the most recent evi Woods dence of poor planning at the station.

Fariss has been anchoring the Channel 7 news for the better part of a couple of decades. He is the only anchor ever to go head-to-head against WTV.I's long-dominant Ralph Renick and even come close to winning the competition. But faced with steadily declining ratings, particularly among those much-desired 18- to 49-year-olds beloved by advertisers, WCKT clearly needed to make some changes. Dave Choate, once second in command in the station's news department, had been brought back from the local NBC bureau nearly a year ago to replace the tough-minded Gene Strul as news director. And to him fell the assignment of getting WCKT's news hack on track and out of its ratings slide.

Ile's had the aid of a news consulting firm, McHugh-Hoffman, to do that. But what began in optimism at Channel 7 last summer has deteriorated into confusion and bad morale. Reporters and others in the news department have repeatedly made calls to The Miami News to talk about growing discontent. The first major blow to staff morale seems to have been the dismissal of Fariss' then-co-anchor, Connie Hicks, a warm, attractive journalist who has gone on to find a very satisfactory on-air niche at Channel 10. Hicks' dismissal also marked the first evidence of, if not chaos, then certainly incredibly inept planning.

The station had no replacement in mind. Carmel Cafiero was plugged into the slot and left there for months, before Steve Rondinaro was finally brought in from the Broward bureau a few weeks back. The decision to dump Hicks was also made so hastily that TV Guide ads promoting her continued to run after her departure. Since it takes only a couple of weeks to pull those ads, it seems incredible that no one at the station was even considering not renewing Hicks' contract a mere two weeks earlier. And if the move was under consideration, it seems stranger still that they didn't pull the ads just in case.

But that bit of poor planning was nothing compared to the way in which Wayne Fariss was summarily dumped from the newscast in the middle of last week while his promotions remained on the air. His future role remains under discussion, according to the curt station announcement, which finally came two days after reports of his dismissal were published. A man who has given as many years of service to WCKT as Fariss has deserves better. And certainly if the station expects to keep him on the air in any capacity, the change should have been handled with public grace, rather than days of secrecy and speculation. Even now, days after the fact, it is impossible to get station officials to return calls to discuss what's going on.

Word of who WCKT doesn't want Hicks and now Fariss has become public knowledge long before word of who they do. And meted out that way, the dribs and drabs of information tend to take on negative, rather than positive overtones. That's just plain bad public relations. It's also indicative that Channel 7's biggest news problems are behind the scenes, rather than on the air. Today II Ch.

9, Now York 0 Ch. 17, Atlanta OM Underdog Lucy Show Meet the Mayors El sesame Stree-t al One Day at a Time MD Phil Donahue Shelley Winters. Olg) Fran Carlton tj Bonanza Family Feud CEI co Lester Sumrall Trinity Presents Joe Franklin Family Affair 11 ,,4 A. i e'i I' 1, A (Siddsoll a (I 1111'11i; it Ak 01,, 0, 4' of 4 0' z' Ait, 4:00 Over Easy Van Johnson. (Repeat) (closed captions) Mery Griffin Andy Gibb, Billy Preston Syreeta, Johnny Dark, Robert Clary, Cal Tjader and Mess O'Mutts.

C) John Davidson Robert Hays cohost', with Cheech and Chong. Susan Richardson, Mickey Gilley, Gordon Jump. 003 Tom I Jerry Ironside OD The Brady Bunch (0 Match Game CD Photography Movie (to p.m.) "The VIolent Enemy" Flintstones 430 0 Electric Company Woody Woodpecker a) I Dream of Jeannie G3 Cross Wits 03 Bebop Eli) Rojo Negro Gilligan's Island Dancer and choreographer Agnes De Mille explains how she overcame the paralyzing effects of stroke on Over Easy Channel 2 at 4 p.m. 9:30 a Jefferson. MD Health Field Program about the retina.

(a Sanford Son GO One "Maria de las noche." ED Canada News From Home 0 Green Acres lom Best Bets r1(''' 1 I v4 ANov hi: 1:: II v', ir 111 1 1 4 4, 4, 1 '111' 1, i. kumok 46tii 1 Christine McKenna and Alan Parnaby co-star in "Flambards," a 1 2-parter beginning at 9 tonight on Channel 2. Channel 6 for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," a story of how greed can change normal human beings. Tim Holt and Walter Huston play three gold prospectors. John Huston directed the 1948 film which won father Walter a best supporting Oscar.

7:30 p.m. The GOP Covention continues tonight with all three networks preempting their regular fare. Highlights include speeches by the convention keynoter, Rep. Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan and Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater.

If all the political hoopla turns you off tune to 5:00 0 Mister Rogers 0 John Davidson Robert Hays co-hosts, with Greg Evigan, Karen Grass, George Miller and Joyce Sufl) Mike Douglas Rita Coolidge and Glen Campbell. 00 David Letterman a) Big Valley al Green Acres CO 700 Club O) Stock Market Report III Romper Room Movie "Affair in Trinidad." iTI1 MacNeilLehrer Report tD Bewitched 0 Sesame Street CM Emergency 0 Jim Rockford The Streets of San Ran cult (E) Carol Burnett Friends al Ride the Reading Rocket My Three Sons Movies Tiambards' proves U.S. has no hold on silly soaps 5:30 JOHN J. O'CONNOR The Now York Times Nowt Wyk MOO ci MASH News 03 Joker's Wild CI) Know Show Kids, 5:45 Noticies I Dream of Jeannie 6:00 1:35 a.m. 0 (3 hrs.) "IS PARIS BURNING?" (1966) Leslie Caron, Orson Welles.

2 a.m. oa) (2 hrs.) "IT'S A BIKINI WORLD" (1967) Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk. Watch this one only if you're desperate. 3 a.m. II (2 hrs.) "OTLEY" (1969) Tom Courtney, Romy Schneider.

4 a.m. ED (2 hrs.) "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1937" (1936) Dick Powell, Joan Blonde'', Glenda Farrell. More in the series with some nice musical numbers. 4 a.m. MD (2 hrs.) "REVENGE OF THE CREATURE" (1955) John Agar, Lori Nelson.

Routine sequel to "Creature From Black Lagoon." 5:22 a.m. III (114 hrs.) "CREATURE WALKS AMONG US" (1965) Jeff Morrow, Leigh Snowden. Wednesday 10 a.m. 0 (2 hrs.) "BEST OF EVERYTHING" (1959) Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Joan Crawford. Wednesday Noon 0 CD (2 hrs.) "SOUTH SEA WOMAN" (1953) Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo.

Murky tropical isle story of love and deceit. Wednesday 1 p.m. 0 (2 hrs.) "FLIRTATION WALK" (1934) Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler. Wednesday 1 p.m. (2 hrs.) "STAGE DOOR" (1937) Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball.

4 p.m. (2 hrs.) "THE VIOLENT ENEMY" (1968) Ed Begley, Susan Hampshire. 7:30 p.m. MD (212 hrs.) "TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE" (1948) Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt. Excellent film of gold prospecting, greed and human nature at its worst.

8 p.m. 0 (3 hrs.) "FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX" (1966) James Stewart, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine. Effective tale of plane crash leaving grouop of men stranded in the Arabian desert. 11 p.m. 0 (212 hrs.) "MAJOR DUNDEE" (1965) Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Senta Berger.

11:30 p.m. 0 (2 hrs.) "CAGE WITHOUT A KEY" (1975) Susan Dey. Teen is imprisoned after mistakenly covicted of murder. 11:30 p.m. CM (212 hrs.) "PASSAGE HOME" (1956) Peter Finch, Anthony Steele.

Ship's captain takes on British girl stranded in South America. Midnight II (2 hrs.) "RIDER ON THE RAIN" (1570) Charles Bronson, Marlene Jobert. ailling suspense piece about mysteic us man who uses woman as accomprce. a.m. 10 (B (2 hrs.) "RIVER OF PRO tIISE" (1976) Joe Santos.

1 a.m. a) (2 hrs.) "AN ANGEL FROM TE(AS" (1940) Eddie Albert. Grade comedy about yokel who take the city slickers. ture Of new technologies. Meanwhile again, there are the servants and their shifting relationships with the masters.

Christina quickly strikes up a questionably friendly relationship with young Dick, the stable groom. She is not especially pleased, however, to discover that Dicks saucy sister seems to be enjoying a certain closeness with the arrogant David. Will Christina, the poor orphan girl, find love and happiness with David, William or Dick? Will Uncle Russell stop drinking and growling long enough to perceive the true vvorth of his spirited niece? While setting up the answers, "Ham-bards" is packed with enough one-dimensional types to make this country's "Dallas" envious. David is the budding IR. Ewing.

And William is the quintessentially nice brother. There is even a estate "radical" who talks knowingly about "the starving millions." If nothing else, "Flambards" has the courage of its unflagging superficiality. The cast, headed by Christine McKenna as Christina, goes through its paces nicely. And all those shots of horses and vintage planes are very attractive indeed. i NEW YORK "Flambards." a 12-part Yorkshire television series based on stories by Kathleen Peyton, gets under way on PBS Tuesday (9 p.m., Channel 2).

Chief among this British production's virtues is the vivid illustration that American television holds no monopoly on silly soap operas. Beginning in 1910, when "things are changing," the story has Chris. tina, 16 years old and orphaned, arriving at Flambards, the decaying estate overseen by her loutish Uncle Russell. It is expected that when she comes into her inheritance in five years, she will marry Russell's even more loutish son, David. Iler money will then be used to restore Flam bards.

Meanwhile, there is the younger son, William, a gentle sort who spends most of his time tinkering with model airplanes. lie is openly contemptuous of his father and brother's "medieval" preoccupations with horses and boozing. The lines are thus neatly drawn between the traditional past of the country squire and the dawning fu 0 Zoom 0 no go News 00 Star Trek co Picture of Health Gomer Pyle CO Biscayne Greyhound Report, 6:15 Joker's Wild Andy Griffith 6:30 Dr. Who 000 Network News 01 International Kitchen Host is Nino J. Martin.

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GO Super Este ler OD Gospel Crusade Hour (97.) Flambards Story set in early 19003 about young orphan girl sent to live with the Flambards, decaying home of her uncle and his two sons. (closed captions) 0 II) Republican National Convention (j) Spoleto 'SO al Iris Chacon CO Hour of Hope TV key mailbag Q. "Oh, God," wish I knew who wrote the original story or script so he, she or they could receive the applause so justly deserved. Its a thing-to-live-by classic, wonderfully portrayed by George Burns and John Denver. Names, please.

Houston, Texas. A. That 1977 Warner Bros. release you saw on NBC is based on Avery Corman's novel of the same title. Larry Gelbart, the veteran comedy writer with credits going back to writing "Duf fy's Tavern" and working for Bob Hope, Sid Cae sar and Red Buttons and up to "MASH" and "Untied States," wrote the original screenplay.

Q. 1 saw an excellent movie on TV titled "The Swimmer." 1 believe this movie was made In the 1950s. Can you tell me who the actor was who portrayed the middleaged man obsessed with swimming? Minneapolis, Min. A. The film is not that old, was produced in 1969, and starred Burt Lancaster in the story of one man's odyssey on a hot afternoon in Two Ronnie' Movie (to 1:30 am.) "Cage without a Kay" Da) Movie (to 2 a.m.) "Passage Home" Do Tonight James Garner, Ellen Burstyn, David Letterman and Dr.

Landon Smith. 00 News (10 Dine "Maria de la Noche" I RAM' A.M.) 0 700 Club a Villa Alegre, Dr. Who, 6:30 0 a) Community Close-Up; Speed Racer, 6:30 El Agriculture and the Con. sumer Today, Community Report, 6:45 0 Help Yourself; Noticiaa, Job Line, 6:45 GO What's On Your Mind, 6:45 0 News, 9:30 Radio highlights CMIDNIGHT1 0 Captioned News am) News Movie (to 2 en.) "Rider on the Rain" Face the Music 0) Once Upon a Classic co Today with Lester Sum rail TONIGHT PM Magazine Segments include a look at the hazardous job of the secret service agent for the president and a bicycle messenger on the San Francisco streets. CO Adrian.

CD John Stombridgo 11 Doting Game 0 Baseball Mets vs. Atlanta Braves, On Company Business, part 1 Three-part documentary on American foreign policy and how it has been influenced by the CIA In the last 30 years. oa) News 03 Faro 17 (I) Una Muier Mercado Life of Riley 7:00 CP Wednesday Morning MD Star Blazers 00 Today Former President Gerald Ford. 1:0 CB Good Morning America Coverage of Republican National Convention. (1) PM.

Club 1 News 0 Fun Time 7:30 p.m. (W1OD 610) Baseball. Kansas City vs. Boston. 8 p.m.

(WKAT 1360) Lee Mandel. 8 p.m. (WNWS 790) Neil Rogers. Open phones. 8 p.m.

91.3) Marian MePartland's Piano Jazz. Barbara Carrol plays and discusses jazz. 10 p.m. (W1OD 610) Baseball. Baltimore vs.

Kansas City. Midnight (WKAT 1360) Barry Farber POST MID1 Nightly Business Report, 12:30. Star am Movie, 2:00 "It's A Bikini Movie, 4:00 "Revenge of the Creature" CM Tomorrow, 1:00 00 Movie, 12:50 "River of Promise" Job Line, 232; Nokias, 2:47 What's On Your 2:32 0 News, Reach Out, WEDNESDAY MORNING AFTERNOON 10 a.m. (WIOD 610) Sandy Payton. A panel of men discuss anything Itz everything.

10 a.m. (WKAT 1360) Craig Worthing. A salute to the state of Montana. 10 a.m. (WNWS 790) Al Rantel.

Ben and Paul Perry from the credit counselors corporation. 12:20 p.m. (WIOD 610) Bill Smith. Former state attorney Richard Gerstein. 2 p.m.

(WKAT 1360) Elaine Bloom. 3 p.m. (WKAT 1360) Drew Hayes. Lowell Ponte on "the plot against those hoping to produce low cost fuel." Also Mike Thompson, Dade Republican leader, will report on the Florida delegation's activities. IIJ 10:30 a) Noticies Cli) Praise the Lord I Nine on New Jersey -1 8:00 All Creatures Great end Small The routine of Skeldale House is disrupted when Alice McTavish arrives bringing "wee Tristan" with her.

OD 2020 ED Here's to Your Health Actor Peter Graves introduces a look at narcolepsy unpredictable lapses into sleep as told by victims and doctors. (IiiiD 31 00) Flintsionts PIL Club c-----1 1 00 0 MacNeilLehrer Report 00 Newt 00 Maude Maude storms out of the house and to a Midnight (W1OD 610) Larry King. 3 a.m. (WWWL-FM 84.3) Album Feature. "For Every Nian." Jackson Browne.

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