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Page t-C THE EL PASO TIMES. Thursday. September H. 1885 radiotelevision KCIK general manager named Sam and Diane gear lor new season iu iiimoruy panel By Phil Ross into broadcasting. The Channel 14 manaeer al on TV tonight "Cheers" will air at 8 p.m.

Thursday on Channel 9-KTSM. By Bill Hayden Gannett News Service Every prime-time serial worthy of the Times staff writer At independent Channel 14-KCLK, Jay Duncan has been named program 'manager. Duncan, a self-styled movie trivia expert, has been the station's film director since April 1984 and will continue as host of "Jay's Pix." the station's highly rated Saturday night movie program. Duncan's boss, KCIK general manager Robert Munoz, has been appointed to his second committee assignment as a member of the National Association of Broadcasters board of directors this time as a panel chairman. Munoz will head the association's 10-member minority executive committee.

Its mission, he said, is to get more Hispanics ready serves on the broadcasters' national children's TV committee. Lisa T. Lem is the new promotion director for Channel 13-KCOS. El Paso's Public Television Service station. Lem, who began at KCOS this month, came to El Paso from San Diego, Calif.

She replaces Estela Mora, who resigned from the station last month to move to Washington, D.C. Channel 14 and Channel 9-KTSM have new national sales representative firms. KCIK is being represented by Independent Television Sales. KTSM's new national rep is the John Blair Co. Both firms are based in New York.

iif S'T ft i If1 The first season was spent with then fighting against the increasing physical attraction they felt. It ended in a clinch and vi; ers wondering "Would they?" Season Two showed the answer definitely "Yc.t." im and Diane spent that year trying nd something more than physical in ccmr.ic::. It ended with the search being in vein end Diane walking out of Cheers, seeming! forever. She was back at the start last seascr, but with Kelsey Crammer's Dr. Frasier Crane as her boyfriend.

He was the shrink ho nursed her back to mental health a'Lr l.cr breakdown following the affair's He, she stoutly maintained, was the true love of her life. So, Diane and Sam spert of the season denying to themselves and all who would listen that a mutual attraction existed. Then, Diane took off to accompany Crane to Italy, where he has taken a temporary teaching job. But she maintains a long-longdistance telephone relationship with Sam. In the repeat, after an absurdly funny dinner episode in an Italian restaurant whose chef has just died, Diane agrees to marry Crane, but only if they wed immediately.

Diane then phones Sam to forlornly give him the good news. It is a desperate Sam who hurriedly hops a plane to Italy. Will Sam find Diane and Crane? If he does, will he stop the wedding? Will Diane return to Cheers? And who is Woody? Tune in next week. uamc i.iues oui eacn season witn a cliff-hanger episode. "Dynasty," for instance, had the entire cast gunned down at a royal wedding.

"Knots Landing" left viewers wondering whether Val would recover her twin infants. "Dallas," in true melodrama fashion, milked every last tear possible out of Bobby Ewing's death. Network protocol also calls for each sudser's season closer to be repeated the week before the new season's first-run episodes appear. "Cheers," on NBC Thursday, strictly adheres to that protocol. Now entering its fourth season, it reruns its third season final episode tonight.

Ostensibly a situation comedy, this particular series has offered an ever-growing audience some of the medium's best and genuinely funny soap opera through its chronicling of the rocky romance of Ted Danson's Sam Malone and Shelley Long's Diane Chambers. Sam is the recovering alcoholic and ex-Red Sox relief pitcher who runs the neighborhood Boston bar that gives the show its title. Diane is the well-bred, overeducated teaching assistant-turned-cocktail waitress. From the moment this culturally mismatched pair laid eyes on each other, their relationship has been a witty battle of the sexes. SPECIAL PURCHASTTt- Low mileage, great looking Camaros loaded with everything you have Air Conditioning and Automatic Transmissions.

Come See Them! AND CHOOSE 1 fROMl Shelley Long and Ted Danson co-star in the NBC series "Cheers." UUrtti jwno down (casn. iraoe or eqorvawr! pftyrwnte would $199 fi3 month tor 4A months DAtof'M Payment $10 361 24 Annual Percentage Pate 49 SuOict to approved OwtM NBC's 'Golden Girls' debut tops week's television ratings New Spanish station seeks to bring back 'Golden Era' tunes You Ttortom' Btirtw for 6frsr tin Goy to Tom life TOYOTA 'fiftb SEMIRB beautifully because 'Miss America' was right after it." said Bob Igiel, senior vice president at the NW Ayer advertising agency. "It got good promotion, good press, and its performance was a real accomplishment on Saturday night." Last season, network viewing on Saturday night experienced the largest declines, falling victim to video cassette rentals and the networks' own inept programming. NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff said NBC was fighting back by scheduling its best pilot, "Golden Girls," on Saturday. "The show got sampled, and that's important," said Curt Block, an NBC vice president.

"We may be building a comedy bloc on Saturdays the way CBS did in the '70s with "All in the Family," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Newhart." NBC's other Saturday comedies, "Facts of Life" and "Gimme A Break," ranked 11th and 15th, respectively. NBC apparently benefited from CBS and ABC not yet introducing their new Saturday programs. ABC is counting on Robert Wagner's "Lime Street," which is set to debut this Saturday, while CBS will go with new theatrical and made-for-TV movies. Last Saturday, ABC's competing movie, "In Like Flynn," ranked 55th out of 60 shows. CBS' movie, "Illusions," was 57th.

The last show opening better than "Golden Girls" was CBS' "AfterMASH," which had a 31 rating, 47 share in September, 1983. ABC also showed improvement last week, thanks to football, Walters and a rerun of the "Lady Blue" movie pilot, which ranked eighth with a 19.2 rating, just below the 19.8 it had in April. "Lady Blue" was up against CBS' critically acclaimed "Death of a Salesman," which ranked 24th with a 14.5 By Fred Rothenberg Associated Press writer NEW YORK Hoping to be this year's "Cosby Show." "The Golden Girls." NBC's geriatric comedy, got a head start on the 1985-86 season and raced to the top of last week's A.C. Nielsen rankings, finishing with the highest ratings for any premiere program in two years. "Golden Girls," lavishly praised by TV critics and advertising agencies, had a 25 rating and 43 share, according to Nielsen figures released Tuesday.

(A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 85.9 million TV homes tuned in. A share measures the percentage of the sets in use that are tuned in. "Golden Girls" led NBC to its 16th victory, including one tie, in 17 weeks. NBC averaged a 14.7 rating. ABC, helped by strong performances from its opening "Monday Night Football" game and its "Barbara Walters Special," finished second with a 14.0 rating.

CBS, with only one show in the Top Ten the episode launching the 18th season of "60 Minutes" had a 12.5. With one week left in the 52-week TV year, CBS leads with a 15.1 rating to NBC's 15.0 and ABC's 13.7. "The Golden Girls," about four elderly women living together in Miami Beach, finished ahead of a rerun of "The Cosby Show," which had a 24.6 rating, 40 share. NBC's new comedy following "Golden Girls," "227," also was well-sampled, finishing third in its debut with a 23.8 rating, 40 share. The "Miss America Pageant" capped NBC's Saturday night, ranking fourth with a 23.7 rating, 44 share.

"NBC placed the 'Golden Girls' premiere 14-piece portrait collection 2-8xl0s, 2-5x7s 10 wallet size Two months after KAMA-AM vacated the 1060 frequency to move down the dial to 750 kilohertz, the new KFNA-AM has gone on the air with 10,000 watts of non-directional power. At sunrise Monday, KFNA, like KAMA a Spanish-language station, officially began broadcasting a daytime-only (sunrise to sunset) signal. John S. Chavez, president of controlling Fina Broadcasting, said the signal reaches as far north as Truth or Consequences, west to Lordsburg, east to Van Horn and Pecos, and south into northern Mexico. "We want to bring back the old radio entertainment.

The thrust is going to be on fine, romantic music of the Golden Era," Chavez said, referring to the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Chavez's original El Paso station long-defunct KOYE-AM played many of those songs when it still was new in the late '50s, and he is hoping to capitalize on nostalgia by bringing back the songs of Agustin Lara, Pedro Vargas, Vicente Fernandez, Tona La Negra, Maria Victoria and Los Churumbeles, among others. Promotional material is dubbing the new station as "Radio Fina: Epoca de Oro (the Golden Era)." Four on-air personalities already have been hired by Chavez, although exact permanent time slots for each have yet to be determined, he said. The four are former KOYE personality Jose Martinez, former Juarez Channel 5 personality Carlos Manuel Tarango, longtime El Paso-Juarez broadcast figure Jose Munoz and Javier Munoz Rodriguez, who also has experience with several area stations. Ed Miles, assistant chief engineer at Channel 4-KDBC, has been hired on a freelance basis to consult on broadcast engineering.

Chavez said he still is interviewing other possible station employees, including salespeople and other technical help. -Phil Ross m95 includes 95c deposit Sears Portrait Studio No appointment necessary. 95 lor each additional subject In photographic portrait package. Adultsfamilies welcome. POSES OUR SELECTION.

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your Soars Crtdii Cord I Hispanic designers' fashion show from ington, D.C. The "Topacio" episode normally shown at 7 p.m. Saturday will air at 7 p.m. Sunday, while the Sunday "Topacio" has been moved to 8 p.m. Sunday.

"La Hija de Nadie," normally shown at 6 p.m. Sunday, will be pre-empted by the fashion show telecast. Two specials on Channel 26-KINT this weekend will affect two highly rated Spanish International Network novelas The international OTI, or Organizacion de Television Iberoamericana, competition from Sevilla, Spain, will be carried live on the El Paso Spanish-language station at 6 p.m. Saturday. At 6 p.m.

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