The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 11

iMtaS LlFESTVLH I 3 I Tuesday, January 25, 1977 Section Who's on top? The local radio ratings ju be MIDI '-t i i 1 'r ft l-i lr Ml By SHERRY WOODS Miami Ntwt TVRadio Editor A handful of callers in recent days have all been suffering from the same confusion. "Alan Courtney says he's num-ber one. Larry King says don't listen to the other guys. Craig Worthing says he's doing great. Which one is telling the truth," one confounded woman asked.

Oh, that it were that easy. The local radio competition can be broken down by talk stations, by Spanish-language stations, by rock stations or simply according to overall numbers. And with 26 radio stations rated in the American search Bureau survey of Miami for October-November, almost any claim can be substantiated. The one clear statistic is that Alan Courtney has not only the top-rated talk show in South Florida, but the number one show in his 9 to midnight time period. Courtney, whose contract at WIOD was not renewed at the end of summer, was picked up by WINZ faster than you can say, do I sign?" His listeners followed just as rapidly, leaving his WIOD replacement, Larry King, trailing along in the dust.

Courtney opens at 9 p.m. with an average quarter-hour audience of 18,800 listeners, tied for first with the front-running Spanish station, WQBA. King, who has al-' ready had a two-hour warm-up on WIOD by that time, has an audi-ence of 8,800. At 10 p.m. Courtney's audience climbs to its peak of 21,500 listeners, far and away the leader.

King follows with 13,200. The WKAT duo of Irv Schindler and Shirley Spellerberg has an average listen-ership of 5,100 at 10 p.m. Although the two alternate nights, their audiences aren't separated in the Ar-bitron report. At 11 p.m. Courtney remains on top, though his audience goes down to 19,000, while King drops to and Schindler-Spellerberg climb to 6,800.

In other talk competitions, WINZ's all-news format wins the 6 to 10 a.m. block with an average of 28,200 listeners per quarter hour. WIOD's Mike Reineri, who talks along with his music offerings, draws 26,400 listeners. WVCG's music and news presentation has an audience of 10,700 per quarter hour and WKAT's news package has 9,500. WINZ's all-news format again leads the way from 10 to 3 with 16,500 listeners.

Big Wilson's audience averages 15,700 on WIOD and Craig Worthing's WKAT share is 9,100. In the hourly Wilson-Worthing battle, Wilson leads all the way with 20,000 listeners to Worthing's 8,800 at 10 a.m., 17,800 to 9,300 at 11 a.m., 16,900 to 9,400 at noon, and 14,400 to 7,400 at 1 p.m. In the 3 to 7 slot, WINZ again wins, barely edging out WIOD to 12,800 listeners. In the head-to-head battle between WIOD's Bill Calder and WKAT's Neil Rogers during those hours, the ratings see-saw back and forth. The controversial Rogers, who recently announced on the air he is a member of the Miami gay community, has 10,300 listeners to Cald-er's 10,200 at 3 p.m.

Calder moves ahead at 4 with 13,200 to Rogers' 11,900. At 5 Calder takes off with 17,600 to Rogers' 8,800. In the race among rock stations', which has been turned upside down by the new dominance of FM outlets, WMJX-FM on Miami Beach has made tremendous strides, as has WINZ-FM. Based on quarter-hour listening estimates from 6 a.m. to midnight, WHYI-FM(Y-IOO) leads among the rockers with 5.8 per cent of the metro audience and an average of 22,300 listeners in anys15-minute segment.

WMJX is second in its share of the metro audience with 5.2 per Continued on Page 7B. 4 yfS mmmmms EfeASiW'iilvllllllllj im.i The scramble (from left): Alan Ourtney, Neil Worthing, Larry King TONIGHT The Fonz is on for hours followed by 'Roots' By BILL1E O'DAY Miami New Reporter Got a good thing going? Cash in on it. At least that's the theory at ABC. As anybody who reads the ratings knows, "Happy Days" is the number one series in television. Ordinarilly it's a 30 minute show.

But if 30 la toacco farmer played by Lome Greene. xmight, the year is 1776. and Kinte, now a 26-ar-old played by John Amos, escapes, but losis his right foot. Nursed back to health by a s.ve woman, he's sold to plantation owner pbert Reed. Tonight's 1-hour episode is on Ch 0 at 10.

i CBS is still in there pitching with "Who's minutes is good, two hours has to be super. Right? If you tune in to Ch 10 at 8 that's whatWho" (Ch 4 at 8), the magazine format type wm. iwmmmmt- i 1 VC 1 you'll get two hours of "Happy Days i If you're a hockey fan, be sure you're on Ch 2 at 9 for the National Hockey League All-Star Game from Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Plavers include Bobby Clark of the Flyers, Rod. Gilbert of the Rangers, Denis Potvin, Islanders; Guy Lafleur, Canadiens; Gil Perreault, Sabres; and Borje Saiming, Maple Leafs.

"Kojak" has settled in on Tuesdays at 10 oii Ch 4 putting him opposite "Police Story" on Ch 7, which isn't good news if you're a fan of both. Tonight, both shows have a Spanish flavor to them, as Kojak persuades a young Puerto Rican policeman to go undercover in his old neighbor- hood to discover who's behind a barrio gang war, and two officers assigned to patrol barrio high schools on "Police Story" discover the toughest gang of all is made up of girls. RATHER GO OUT? Howard Keel opens to-night for a five day run in the musical the Theater of the Performing Arts Ringling Bros. Circus is at the Miami Beach Co-vention Center throiigh Monday Frank Sinatra is at the Sunrise Theater through Sunday. In the first segment, Richie unexpected!" becomes a hero when he sinks the game-wi? ning shot in a basketball tourney.

He has oe worry what does he do for an encore? After that, pre-empting "Laverne Shir'y" and "Rich Man, Poor Man," ABC combines the season's opening two episodes (the first shv of the season was an hour) for a 90 inute Charles Kuralt report on people both known and unknown. Tonight, Rather profiles Andrew Young, the Congressman- from Atlanta whom Jimmy Carter named as Ambassador to the United Nations. Barbara Howar visits teen-age movie star Jodie Foster and in an "on the road segment," Kuralt talks with the people of North Platte, Nebraska. ComDetition is "Baa Baa Black Sheep" (Ch 7 "Happy Davs" devoted to Fonzie's rnatice with the sexy motorcycle-daredevil, Piitfy Tus- at 8) on which a tough new top mechanic tries cadero. to take over the outfit; the 1945 movie, "The Have you been watching "Rootsr'The saga Spanish Main" (Ch 6 at 8), with Paul Henreid as.

of a black American family which h4 its roots a pirate, Maureen O'Hara as a "lady fair" and in 18th century Africa began Sund.y and will Walter Slezak as the villain; and "The Davie continue for six more nights. La night, 17- Rodeo" (Ch 2 at 8) with top professional cow-year-old slave Kunta Kinte was so to a Virgin-. boys from around the country. Complete TV listings on Page 6B Roz Kelly (Pinky), Henry Winkler (Fonzie) The highlight is on hair coloring, says Leslie Blanchard v2l 5' Mil DQDdDD By TERRY JOHNSON KING Miami Newt Lifestyle Editor You think only your hairdresser knows for sure? The modern-day hair coloring expert is one who touches and tells for how else would you know that Candice Bergan was a mousey blonde, that under Ali McGraw's rich burnished locks lies a lank hank of hair-colored hair, that Ellen Burstyn was plagued with fine, dull brown hair until it was "enhanced" to a reddish chestnut hue. "It's surprising how many of the stars have very ordinary hair to begin with," says touch-up guru Leslie Blanchard, well-known for his years as color consultant for Clairol and today the owner of a string of Leslie Blanchard hair color studios across the country.

Here to unveil his latest, in the hair salons of Jordan Marsh, he talked about the change in attitudes regarding dye jobs now called by any other name, and certainly nothing like the brassy peroxide looks of the past. "Hair today tends to be duller than in years past," he says, "because of the use of electrical appliances on the hair, because of industrial pollutants, hurried care, increased exposure to the elements as sports grow more popular. "And while I don't necessarily think that all women should look young, I believe in people looking youthful. I believe in plastic surgery, healthy exercise, and highlighting the hair. "Especially with simple styles.

Just as the more exquisite the fabric the more simple the line you can cut in haute couture, I think the neat, short styles call for exceptionally good color. Vibrant. He's very high on hair conditioning, which he sees as the key to rich color, and says the day of the flat one-color dye job is gone, gone, gone. Today's jargon involves high- Blond highlights maintain a natural look but color is more vivid 'It THE CHENILLE BLOUSON. SENSATIONAL AGAINST SAND AND SUNSHINE A brilliant resorter with texture interest, a strong fashion trend for spring.

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And the old 100 strokes with a hairbrush is not nearly as Important as massaging the scalp. "Exercise and vitamins make all the difference in the world, too," he says. He did a number of holiday hair styles for the handicapped at Christmas, "and the people who were ambulatory, who were moving around, had much healthier hair from just that little bit of exercise." One final bit of information he imparts is that there is no reason, no matter how fine the hair or how outrageous the color that nature gave it, why any head of locks cannot be turned into something successful vibrant, youthful. "Modern hair coloring products have come a long way." This hairdresser knows for sure. lights, play of lights, streaking, touching up.

"More people turn to hair coloring -for drab hair than for grey hair," say Blanchard, "and I don't like to color really beautiful grey hair that's soft and flattering. It doesn't need it." Lifeless grey with a yellow cast may well need help, however. His New York salon is a mecca for the famous. Barbara Walters, who has her hair done almost daily, is a regular. "She's very quiet, because she's tired out by the time she comes in, but she's very intelligent about keeping her hair at its best." Alexis Smith is another: "A beautiful woman.

Fine hair, but manageable." So is Teresa Wright: "We've streaked her grey, and she loves -it." Regarding hair care, he says you Jmrcdi A unit of Allied Stores i.