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29, the 56-year-old Ansin, whose family moved to Florida from Massachusetts in the 1940s, bought WHDH-TV, Channel 7. His return to his home state has prompted melodrama worthy of WSVN, as Boston poobahs worry that Edmund Ansin will defile one of the last sanctuaries of high-toned news. ACK AT WSVN, OVERNIGHT desk ratings in a sheets sit wood-paneled reatly on office. a Abstract paintings and a few plaques interrupt the sparse decor. Ed Ansin fiddles with an empty coffee cup as he looses what, for him, is a veritable torrent of words.

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I believe people in Boston are looking forward to a more vital type of news product. The public in Boston is ready for change. They're hungry for change." Miami is hungry for news about the murdered child. Or so WSVN assumes. The top of the 5 p.m.

newscast, blinking a BREAKING NEWS headline, goes live to a reporter on the scene. Without having had time to gather facts, she speculates about the cause of the gunfight a dispute over a bicycle, or drugs? and the type of weapon "possibly a .357 magnum?" Next comes a stand- up interview from the hospital, where a reporter, waiting to interview family members and doctors, explains that the bullet entered the child's back. Bending over, he points to the corresponding spot on his own anatomy. Lesser stories rely on taped footage, punctuated by updates from the Edit Bay, the Satellite News Center, and the Tape Center. A highway worker killed by a runaway Corvette.

Three people shot in a Miami Beach card game. A Daytona Beach woman sentenced to 25 years for strangling her boyfriend during sex; she claims it was accidental. From anchorman Rick Sanchez's tone, Hurricane Calvin should be jailed, too. "A killer hurricane that's right, killer is tearing up the west coast of Mexico," he proclaims. The health segment introduces "cardio-combat," an exercise fad that combines aerobics with boxing maneuvers such as uppercuts and right hooks.

It's valuable information for viewers who want to pump up their heart rates and practice punching purse-snatchers. news, recent NSOLVED series resurrected on MYSTERIES," old WSVN Mi- A ami murders. But the title applies equally well to another mystery: Why does the station's owner sanction a format so much at odds with his own personality? WSVN is passionate; Ansin is detached. WSVN is exaggerated; Ansin is understated. WSVN is fastpaced; Ansin speaks slowly.

WSVN is out of control; Ansin eats lean meat, drinks decaf, and never touches a French fry. On WSVN, blood flows freely; Ansin prides himself on.