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4 0 11 Sherry 3 TV Radio Editor Hollywood blurs news, entertainment in ABC special h. 6 expands news show June 26; unt continues for woman co-anchor JOHN J. O'CONNOR TM Now York Times Mows Wok newspaper folks. Play begins at 9 a.m. and goes all day with Bob Griese once again serving as host for the event.

Channel 6 has finally set the date for the expansion of its '10 O'Clock News" to an hour. The longer show will begin June 26. Larry Klaas will solo at the helm At rib irm of the expanded newscast, at least 4, 1 for now. A search continues for a coanchor, whom station officials would like to be a woman. In addition news director Dick Descutner is looking for an additional eight full- Woods time reporters, photographers and the like, plus a Couple of part-timers to complete his news staff.

Even with the new people, much of the time In the new hour-long format will be filled with national and International reports provided by the station's newly-installed satellite news service. In addition to adding a half-hour to the weeknight newscasts, WCIX will also launch a half-hour edition Saturday and Sunday nights, with assistant news director Allan Hoffman as the anchor. It too will air at 10 p.m. beginning July BITS 'N PIECES Channel Ws weather expert, Walt Cron Ise, has signed up to do weather briefs on WINZ. They'll turn up throughout the day on the all.

news station. Also at WINZ, Rachel Cope Ian will launch a new talk show beginning at 9 p.m. Sunday. The three-hour weekly open phone broadcast will deal with varying human relationships. Tom Webb, formerly news director of WSIIE-FM.

has switched over to ZETA-4. Webb's news career In-eludes stints with the Army Information Service. WHOP in Hopkinsville, Ky. and as a free lancer with NBC News. He is also a former dean of Jones College in Orlando and former president of Southern College.

The dust has settled finally and a decision has been reached on Just who will be announcing the Miami Hurricanes football games on WINZ in the fall. WPEC sportscaster Jim Gallagher has been signed for the play-by-play with Ron Harrison set to do color. A minor flap arose several weeks ago, when it was learned that last season's announcer, Mel Allen, had not been picked up for a second season. Ills initial contract, however, had been just for a single season. Roger Twibell, who also worked on last year's games.

is leaving the area for Boston's WBZ-TV. NEW YORK While suspicious eyes were trained on this week's debut of "20-20." attempting to de. tect how far ABC News might go in the use of entertainment gimmicks, the network was quietly preparing another project that is bound to trigger heated debate about future directions in its news division. The curious news-entertainment hybrid is entitled "1968: A Crack in Time," and it can be seen this Sunday at 8 p.m. (Ch.

10). With Jeff Gralnick as "coordina- tot" and Bruce Cohn as producer, the project reviews the events of 1968 as "a turning point in history." Films, graphics and "new electronic technology" are employed to look once again at, among many other things, the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Pueblo incident, violent student demonstrations, the withdrawal of Lyndon Johnson, the Chicago convention and the launching of Apollo 8. Apart from the fact that network news documentaries are hardly covering the present with any thor oughness, this excursion back into the past may justifiably raise pro. fessional eyebrows for a couple of other reasons.

For one thing it was made in Hollywood, complete with pop music recordings and trick photography. For another, underlining Reynolds the liaison of show business with news, the hosts are one TV journalist, Frank Reynolds, and one actor, Cliff Robertson. As in most television anthologies of this sort, the problem is that everything, whether momentous or silly, tends to wind up at the same superficial level. The Beatles and "Laugh-in" become equal to the Vietnamese let offensive and the poor people's march on Washington. The Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia has given no more weight than the New York Jets winning a football championship.

While content is deflated, nationalization for the concept is escalated. The year 1968 is described as "a miracle of historical compression" which supposedly could "reveal more to us in 12 short months" than any normal decade. Turning to Reynolds, Robertson observes that "1968 was quite a yeat, Frank." Robertson Reynolds, In turn, begins recounting the "hammer blows" to our national competence. This being show business territo ry, most of the material Is dramatically milked. Coverage of the assassination of Robert Kennedy Includes, of course, a recording of the song asking "Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend, Bobby?" A solemn Robertson, Just before the cunmercial break, then ominously warns that "it was June 1968 was still only half finished.

Needless to say, for all of the year's disasters, the program man. ages to end on an upbeat, quoting the Incurably optimistic Hubert Humphrey and dropping cliches almost recklessly time to live, a time to die" or "those who cannot 'remember the past are condemned to repeat "Tonight, we remembered," the program maintains. A better word might be "exploited." AT THE NET Local media representatives, who fancy themselvesilvals for Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg on the tennis court, will take part in the second annual "All Media Tennis Tournament" Saturday at the Key Biscayne Hotel. Although final match-ups are still being worked those in the gallery will see WTV.I's Skipper Chuck, Roger Twibell and Tony Segreto, WCKT's Wayne Chandler and Allen Sternberg, WPLG's Chuck Dowdle, WINZ's Risa Jill Miller in the competition, plus lots more from the ranks of local radio, TV and Mano lo Reyes, formerly Mfrs Latin news expert, has sold out his journalistic integrity. Only a few months after leaving his long-running role as a local journalist, he's doing commercials for Financial al.

I Donahue, 'Days of Our Lives' top Emmys for daytime TV 5. 1, Associated Press Twof i NEW YORK Syndicated talk show host Phil Donahue walked away with two Emmys and NBC's hit soap opera. "Days of Our Lives." was named the year's best daytime dramatic series during nationally televised cermonies this week. ANDRAE CROUCH Sillily Graham Crusade Donahue, who began his variety 'show on WLWD in Dayton, Ohio, in 1967, won an Emmy as the outstanding host or hostess in a talk, service or variety series, and his syndicated "Donahue' show was named the outstanding series of that type. "Days of Our Lives," which premiered Nov.

19, 1965, was one of four soap operas nominated for the top award in daytime drama by members of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The others were "All My Children" and "Ryan's Hope" on ABC and "The Young and the Restless" on CBS. James Pritchett, Dr. Matt Powers in NBC's "The Doctors," was chosen outstanding actor in a daytime dramatic series, and Laurie Heineman, who played Charlene Frame Matthews in "Another World" on NBC, was named best actress. Richard Dunlap of CBS' "The Young and the Restless" won an Emmy for directing, and an ABC 1 soap opera, "Ryan's Hope," picked up one for writing.

Awards covered the period be. tween March 14, 1977 and March 28, 1978. ABC was the big winner overall with seven Emmys, four of them for children's programming, while NBC had five and CBS and the Pub. lic Broadcasting Service two each. I ABC had 28 nominations, NBC I 18, CBS 13 and PBS eight.

The outstanding game or audi- ence participation show was NBC's 4 "Hollywood Squares," and Richard IDawson, host of "Family Feud" 'on ABC, was the outstanding host in 4 the same category. Captain Kangaroo," which made its debut on CBS in 1955, was named the outstanding children's series. With Cliff Barrows: Geo. Beverly Shea: Tedd Smith: John Innes SPECIAL GUESTS APPEARING DURING THE SERIES: JOHNNY CASH JUNE CARTER ANDRAE CROUCH CHUCK COLSON SUBJECT: BILLY GRAHAM 4, Radio Highlights TONIGHT 6:30 p.m. (WLRN-FM) Studs Clergyman William Sloan Cotten.

7 p.m. (WIMI-FM 93.1) Adventures in Good Music. Karl Haas presents "Great Danes," a sampling of both vocal and Instrumental music written and performed by Danish masters. 8 p.m. (WKAT 1360) Baseball.

Atlanta at Philadelphia. 8 p.m. (WLRN-FM 91.3) Options. "Norman Borlaug: Food Supplies in a Fertile, Unstable World." 9 p.m. (WINZ 940) Alan Court.

ney. Peyton Magruder and a panel of military representatives including Col. George Day, long held prisoner in Hanoi. 9 p.m. (WLRN-FM 91.3) Jazz Made in Germany.

Music of Sigi Busch, "Professor of Bass," and one of West Germany's young talents in the area of Jazz and the related style of rock and beat. 10:30 p.m. (WKAT 1360) CBS Mystery Theatre. "A Long Way From Home," starring Russell Horton. Mid.

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