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GIO THE SUNDAY DISPATCH AND ARGUS June 28, 1992 Entertainment CITYLINE Free Information Active 8 is getting active again r-r- and Advice 24 Hours A Day Call 757-1000 on a touch- tone phone then enter a 4Jigit category from below Alan Sivell show. It limped along another year until it was canceled around Christmas, 1983. For the next seven years, WQAD had just two nightly newscasts to concentrate on. (A noon news was added in 1986, but no full-time people were added to staff it The noon news show soon became the 11:30 news show as the soap opera fans besieged the switchboard with complaints). But even concentrating on just two nightly newscasts, the newsies Jennings gets the shaft Part of the reasoning was to get Peter Jennings out of the middle of the news shows.

Stick him at the end of it all where he could do the least damage. You see, urbane Peter Jennings doesn't play well in this largely blue collar town, and his low ratings didn't prove to be a good lead-in to the 6 o'clock news. But the experiment didn't go well The initial ratings were low, which was to be expected. But they stayed there. The new news director (as of February), Bob Young, inherited this unusual news lineup.

He says to understand why the station is returning to the more traditional 6 o'clock news, all you have to do is look at the performance (ratings). "We felt the audience, the people at home, gravitated toward local news at 6 o'clock," Mr. Young said. "After 30 years that is a habit that is UNITED STATES CELLULAR MOBILE TELEPHONE NETWORK CUSTOMERS Dial CL (25) produced features. It was designed to compete with "P.M.

Magazine" on KWQC. "Weekday Magazine" proved to WQAD-TV (Channel 8) is changing its news lineup. Again. Judging by the changes in its news format in the past decade, the station has given new raeaning to its nickname, Active 8. As of last week, Channel 8 has begun, once again, to air a 6 o'clock local newscast It ends a one-and-a-half year experiment of running the local news at 5:30 and the national news at 6.

It was an experiment that didn't work. The local news is third in the ratings, and Peter Jennings is fourth. Actually, the move is a return to WQAD's news roots. Up until the late 1970s the station aired local news at 5. But then the news magazine craze swept local television and the 5 o'clock show became "Weekday Magazine." A 6 o'clock "hard" newscast was added to the programming lineup.

"Weekday Magazine" was a soft newscast, featuring news headlines, syndicated inserts such as the "Green Grocer" (he's dead in case you were wondering) and locally at WQAD couldn't mount a ratings challenge to KWQC. Challenging be a popular show. Hosted by Rene KWQC for ratings is not an easy job, Hoke and then Kathryn Bohn, it Few stations in the country, if any, topped the ratings. But then the sta- have dominated their local market tion got active again. for as long and by as wide a margin A new news director came into as KWQC has.

town from Chicago. He made it So, in the fall of 1990, WQAD set plain that he wanted to cover crime, about trying something different corruption, crashes and conflagra- sort of. It began airing a 5 o'clock tions. And he made it plain that ne news show again. Then, in Febru- wasn too crazy aDoui tne sou a ary, iyyi, uie ociock news o'clock show.

He gutted the show of switched time slots with World New not going to change." 3C its people, equipment and priorities, lonight, which had been airing at By airing national news in a trad! The hosts were left with a shell of a 5:30. Living with 'Family Ties' legacy not easy By Charles Gans Associated Press fered him to play yuppie characters. He's appeared as a lawyer, advertising executive and writer in feature and TV films and on the LA stage. Unfortunately, Valentine and When a stripper is murdered, Hunter becomes the prime suspect and Clayton prosecutes him. Hunter hires Robert Clayton Sr.

(Mahoney) to defend him, unaware that father, other cast members of the USA Net- like son, is sleeping with his wife. tionally local news time slot Mr. Young said, WQAD was "handing viewers to our competition." WQAD's "First at Five" will remain at 5 p.m. Chris Minor and Erica Wilner anchor. Mr.

Young says the show will "soften up" a bit and offer some regular syndicated features along with Ms. Wilner's health beat reports. Local headlines will start the show. Mr. Young says the 6 o'clock news will be "our newscast of record." It is the show much of the staff will concentrate on.

Andrea Zinger and "a player to be named later," according to Mr. Young, will anchor. In other news from the WQAD newsroom: A 6 a.m. newscast is in the works. When it will first sign on is the next question.

That's for the station owners, the New York Times, to decide. Mr. Sivell is a former full-time TV reporter who now teaches several courses in mass communications at St Ambrose University in Davenport i NEW YORK As Nick the biker, sculptor, inarticulate underachiever and general of the Keaton family on NBC's "Family Ties," actor Scott Valentine scored a TIME AND TEMPERATURE Press 4444 Time and Temp whenever you need it. Sponsored by United States Cellular CELLULAR PHONE FACTS Press 2355 Thinking about getting a cellular phone? Call for helpful information from United States Cellular SPORTS TRIVIA CHALLENGE Press 3500 Do you know sports? See if you can beat our Sports Trivia! CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN TOP 10 Press 1580 Produced by AM 1580 KFQC STOCK QUOTE HOTLINE Press 1000 Updated every 1 5 minutes TOP 10 COUNTRY SINGLES Press 41 90 Presented by FM 101 WLLR QUAD CITY WEATHER Press 2000 Call for local weather updated several times daily. Produced by WQAD-TV i QUAD CITY NEWS Press 2500 QUAD CITY SPORTS Press 3000 What's happening in the Quad Cities? Get the latest from the Active 8 News Team.

Produced by WQAD-TV SOAP OPERA UPDATE Missed your favorite soap? Don't despair -find out what happened with the daily soap update. it work movie were burdened with an underachieving, ludicrous plot and A learning experience dialogue that could have been writ- As with any role, Valentine says ten by Nick and Mallory. he looked upon playing Clayton as a As the title character, Valentine learning and growing experience, left a high-priced New York law firm He'd love to do a Broadway play, but to become the district attorney in a said the theater "won't feed my fam-Georgia county near Atlanta. ily and put my kids through school." "I would like to just be able to look "On the very few nights I get to sit back and think I made a difference," down and watch television, I some-he tells his lawyer-father (John Ma- times say, 'My God, how can they honey of CBS' "The Human Fac- put these shows And the most in one of many well-worn lines disgusting thing is that the next day peppering the script I'm out trying to get a job in this me- At his high school reunion, he re- dium." kindles a love affair with his old Scott Valentine sweetheart, Katherine Evans (Eve Gordon of NBC's "The Powers That Her rich, loutish husband, Hunter (Kevin Conroy, formerly of THE QUIZ IS PART Of THIS NEWSPAPER'S NEWSPAPER IN EDUCATION PROGRAM "Dynasty" and "Tour of is a good or boy who into kinky sex. (10 points for each question answered correctly) WORLDSCOPE m.

K' 1.7 "Sr Your right to information is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. mm 4048 One Life to Live 4050 Santa Barbara 4051 Bold and The Beautiful 4052 Young and the Restless 4056 L.A. Law 4058 Knots Landing 4041 All My Children 4042 Another World 4043 As The World Turns 4044 Days of Our Lives 4045 General Hospital 4046 Guiding Light 4047 Loving MiUS great comic success as Mallorys boyfriend. But living with the legacy of Nick three years after the series ended is not so funny, Valentine says. "It was a big plus in terms of getting exposure," he says, "but very detrimental in people thinking that I was the monosyllabic idiot that I portrayed." In an otherwise forgettable USA Network movie "The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton," Valentine played a lawyer who returns to his native Georgia and is embroiled in adultery, a father-son rivalry and a murder trial.

"Part of my reason for doing this role was to play an educated, literate adult," Valentine, 34, said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and two children. A lot of decision-makers the players know me as a blue-collar, illiterate Joe and I'm hoping that they see a different side. 'A fickle business' "It's a very shallow, fickle business," he said. "A lot of the people making the creative choices are not creative people, and it's very frustrating at times." There have been other obstacles besides typecasting in Valentine's career. In 1981, he was run over by a truck in New York City and had to depend on public assistance and Medicaid.

He couldn't act during several years of painful rehabilitation, and he has an artificial hip, pelvis and femur that leave him with a slight limp. "I had to convince people that I could walk, talk and would not fall down on stage," he said. "I remember at one casting meeting that I got so exasperated that I got up on this woman's desk and started dancing." Valentine, who had never done comedy, moved to Los Angeles to make a fresh start. He auditioned in 1985 for what was to be a one-shot appearance on "Family Ties" and ended up as "the date that wouldn't leave." A planned spin-off series about Nick fell through, though, and since "Family Ties" ended, Valentine has spurned the blue-collar roles of- 1) This scene shows part of a group of more than 10,000 students participating in a rally against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in downtown the capital of Serbia. The signs read "Co away Slobo." 12) Ireland recently voted to affirm its support in favor of the treaty on MATCHWORDS Richmond Hill Players Present "Cheaper By The Dozen" A comedy by F.

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