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Pog3 For sale (maybe) one FM station Sunday, April 24, IMS On the air By Mark Marymont Sently surprised he found Dennis so quickly. "We looked at over 20 people," he said. "It helps when you already know a lot of good people to choose from. Dennis will bring in the experience, leadership, and competitive spirit that we need to maintain our ieadership position. "Springfield and KYTV are both attractive to a lot of people.

We haven't had many changes over the years," Pederson said. "When we do have an opening a lot of good people are interested in it" You can't follow the bouncing ball Now that the regular season of the National Basketball League has ended the playoff season begins, and it seems like it goes on about as long. Twelve of the 23 NBA teams are still alive and bouncing, as it were. Some of the playoffs have been and will be prompted by KOLR, the home of CBS in the Ozarks. KOLR officials have reinterated the statements they made to us in late Feburary that NBA games just don't draw that well here.

A playoff doubleheader will air today, beginning at noon. However, next Friday's game will be prempted. The station will air only half of the scheduled double-header on May 8 to make room for a Cardinal baseball game. Friday, May 13, will also be an unlucky one for local fans, as the KOLR meanies shoot down that game. Game two of the finals on Sunday, May 29, has also been deleted from the local schedule.

The other playoff games should run, as scheduled by the NBA and CBS, including the finals. Don't forget, Channel 23 on TeleCable usually has any network programs pre-empted by the local stations. The radio station that may be for sale is KWFC, the 100,000 watt stereo FM station owned by Baptist Bible College. The commercial station went on the air in April, 1969. The Rev.

W.E. Dowell, president of BBC, acknowledged that the station is on the market, but with some conditions. "We would consider selling the station," he said last week. "But we would want to be assured by the Federal Communications Commission that we could get another station with lower power. We want to be able to reach out and cover Springfield and the immediate area.

BBC is a nationwide school and the radio station is local." Dowell said he couldn't comment on how far along the sale of the station might be. "I don't want to put out a lot of information, because we aren't sure about getting the conditions that we would have to have to sell the station." Dowell said that some people associated with BBC were not happy about the possibility that the station might be sold. "There are some against it," he said. "The "people, who object to selling the station are those that don't understand why we might need to do it. Some would prefer to keep things the way they are.

We have some good people at the station, and if we did sell it, it would be no reflection on them." Dowell said if another station is put on the air it wont be commercial. "We will carry on with our outreach, but not with commercials. The station we have now is good public relations for us. The station is profitable, and we have some good programming on it" i Dowell would not say how much the school has been offered for the station. -a; "We have had some very lucrative offers for he said.

"A number of people have tried to buy it over the years. At this point the college needs some extra cashflow." If KWFC were to be sold it could have a quite an impact on the Springfield radio picture. Right now, KWTO has the only FM outlet for rock music that reaches all of the city and county. Like KWFC, KWTO-FM broadcasts at 100,000 watts. It would certainily be interesting to see what would happen if KWTO-FM had some competition besides KRFG-FM, Springfield's top-rated out-of-town station, with 10 watts of booming power.

Dowell said that if KWFC were purchased by a company that would program rock music the announcement of the sale would be made in plenty of time to disassociate the school from "that sort of music." "We would make it very clear that the station was being sold and that BBC no longer had anything to do with the programming." The last radio station to be sold in Springfield was KGBX, which was purchased earier this year by a local group led by Al Sikes. They paid about $850,000 for the AM-only operation. A stereo FM station would be worth much more than that. And now, here's KYTV program director Stanley Pederson has hired a news director for the station. Patrick Dennis has been assisant news director at KOCO-TV; Oklahoma City.

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri. Dennis has also worked in Wilkes-Barre, Detroit; Indianapolis and Green Bay, Peterson, 'who had recently speculated that it could take him up to three months to find a replacement for deposed news director Jerry Adams, said he was plea- Mark Marymont, a former radio disc jockey and producer; is a columnist and features writer for Springfield Newspapers. London court approves more James Bond films United Press International HOLLYWOOD There will be more James Bond movies forthcoming with Sean Connery in the role of su-perspy 007, a part taken over by Roger Moore in recent years. Kevin McClory, who produced "Never Say Never Again" a Bond epic starring Connery said a London court ruling opened the possibility to still more Bond films made from source material assigned to McClory by the late Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional McClory and co-writer Jack Whittingham wrote several James Bond film scripts with Fleming in 1959 that Fleming later used as the basis for his novel,.