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CJI At 8 p.m., Ch. 13 presents 'Live From Lincoln Center: An Evening With Kathleen Battle and Thomas Hampson' INNER TUBE 1 if till MTV AGAIN DIALS UP RADIO CITY FOR 12TH ANNUAL MUSIC AWARDS Make it two in a row for Manhattan. MTV announced yesterday that its annual Video Music Awards show this fall will take ptece Sept. 7 at Radio City Music Hall, the same venue as last fall. After debuting here in the early '80s, the video cable network took the celebrity-laden awards show to Los Angeles, where it remained until last year.

The 12th annual telecast will, as usual, be broadcast live. No host, musical Yesterday WNYWCh. 5 guests or presenters were said Giuliani was joining its named yesterday. top-rated morning program tion to the reruns with ads underscoring the unprecedented first-run kickoff episode. Inside Media reports that the non-rerun rerun-launch episode will air on ABC later in the fourth quarter of the year.

Then, the next time it airs in the syndicated run, it'll be a legitimate rerun. R.H. Frontier values Forty years ago, every boy in the country was singing the Davy Crockett theme song and wanted a coonskin cap like the one Crockett wore in the "Disneyland" miniseries about his life and lore. Fess Parker, who played Crockett, is now a real estate mogul and winery owner in the Santa Barbara, area. Looking said he feels there was a lot to be learned from the show.

"The folks whd come to visit me at the winery tell me over and over how much that character shaped their lives," he said. "I have to believe that the impact of those programs was due as much to the values inculcated in them as to their entertainment quality. I've yet to see anything that suggests that youngsters took values from the Western shows that came along shortly there-after." 7 Router Casting call John Turturro will star as legendary Chicago Mafia kingpin Sam Giancana in HBO's "Sugartime," which will go before the cameras in early May in Toronto. The film follows the love affair between Giancana and Phyllis McGuire, one of the McGuire Sisters, the singing trio of the 1950s. That role has not been, cast.

Giancana, one of organized crime's most notorious figures, was known for.his friendship with Frank Sinatra, his relationship with a woman who allegedly was also involved with President Kennedy and his alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. "Forrest Gump" Oscar nominee Gary Sinise is set to star in the title role of "Truman," also for HBO. The film will be based on the biography of President Harry Truman penned by David McCul-lough. Variety Dot's Tonight's "Hard Copy" (WCBSCh. 2, 7 o'clock) features a chat with disgraced skate champ Tonya Harding.

Tonight at 10, former "Charlie's Angel" star Farrah Fawcett guests on CNBC's "Charles Grodin." Actor Eric Stoltz will make a second guest appearance on NBC's "Mad About You" as Jamie's (Helen Hunt) former boyfriend. The episode is currently in production, but no air date has been set. Christy Slewinskl Doug Herzog, executive vice president of programing and promotion at MTV, will head the production team for the program. Roseanne hosted the 1994 installment. The brash actresscomedian's live and lurid exchanges with veejay Kennedy turned out to be the show's most memorable moments.

Presenters at that show included Rangers captain Mark Messier and, in a makeup reunion, Madonna and David Letterman. Nomination ballots for the '95 awards will be sent out shortly to members of the music industry. Richard Huff Another new job Add correspondent to the various jobs Donna Hanover Giuliani already plies in this city. "Good Day New York" as a contributing correspondent. Her primary assignment will be profiling accomplished New Yorkers.

Besides her First Lady chores, Mrs. also anchors the News Views Show" on cable's Television Food Network, and regularly appears as a guest and substitute host on local radio and television shows. According to a Ch. 5 spokesman, there is no set schedule for Mrs. Giuliani's appearances on the program.

She'll show up on a sporadic basis, he said. The new gig is something of a homecoming. Hanover Giuliani was a freelancer for Ch. 5 during 1992 and 1993. Local viewers will best remember the First Lady as an anchor for WPIXCh.

11, MOBSTER ROLE: John. Turturro where she toiled for seven years before leaving in 1990. R.H. Non-rerun rerun Buena Vista Television, producer of ABC's hit series "Home Improvement," has something in store for fans of the series when reruns are syndicated this fall: a brand new episode. The fresh episode, accords ing to Inside Media, a trade publication, will be the focal point of a big-time promotion campaign that'll help launch the syndicated reruns this fall.

Local stations should be able to attract plenty of atten RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Junior mill vmrhmg urf ime at '(Ml By DAVID HINCKLEY MORNING 8:00 WBBR, WCBS-AM, WINS News and information (Continuous) 6:00 WWRL DriveTime Dialog. Rep Ed Towns (D-NY) 10:00 WUB Global Black Experience with Imhotep Gary Byrd AFTERNOON Noon WABC Rush Ltmbaugh Noon WNYC-AM New York Co. by Scott Shannon. If he came to 'MXV now, the main competition would be WPLJ programed by Scott Shannon. TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Jerry Blavat, a deejay well-known to oldies fans since the early '60s, has been sued by a woman at his Philadelphia radio station for sexual harassment.

Sharon Powell-Ross, 32, to whom Blavat gave the on-air name "Lady Love" at WPGR, says Blavat fon Daily News Staff Writer TPVVO FAMILIAR New York names have surfaced I in the crossfire of rumors about who will bell come the next program director of FM), where 10-year PD Robert Dunphy is stepping down at the end of March. Both say not to count on it. "Good rumor," says Joel Salkowitz, who pro gramed Hotl03-turned-Hot97 during its long run as a dance no, it's not true." Salkowitz, who has been working for dled her and said, "We should live together. Let me show you what a real man is about" Blavat, 54, married and a grandfather of Author Bill Bryson in panel discussion on talk-radio 12:15 WOR Food Talk. News restaurant critic Arthur Schwartz, host 1:00 WON Smart Money WNVC-AM Talk of the Nation With Ray Suarez 3:00 WABC Bob Grant Show 3:00 WE VD Ruth Jacobs Show.

Actress Sondra Gorney Sylvia's 3:00 WOR Health Talk With Dr. Ronald Hoffman WPAT-AM David Brenner 5:00 WNYC All Things Considered. Outstanding NPR newscast EVENING WBAI Evening News 6:00 WEVD Dick Oliver Show. A look behind the headlines. WFAN NHL Hockey.

Rangers-Whalers (Live) 7:00 WABC Lynn Samuels 7:00 WOR Sonny Bloch Show. "Affordable Housing for Investors" 7:00 WQEW Del De Montreux Show. American popular standards :00 WFUV Four Comers. Sara Hickman WQXR Live From Lincoln Center: An Evening With Kathleen Battle and Thomas Hampson. Simulcast with WNETCh.

13. (to 10 p.m.) 8:40 WEVD College Basketball. SJU-Syracuse (Live) :00 WOR Design for Living lOrOO WABC Jay Diamond Show 10:00 WOR Barry Gray Show 11:00 WMC A Barry Farber Show 11:00 WNYC-AM MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. News and public affairs Midnight WFAN Steve Somers 2:00 WABC Curtis Sliwa Show AM FM AM FM WABC 770 WITW 106.7 WALK 1370 97.5 WMCA 570 WAXQ 104.3 WMJC 943 WBAB 102 3 WMJU 106.3 WBAI 99.5 WMXV 105.1 WBAZ 101.7 WNEW 102.7 WBBR 1130 WNJft 1430 WBGO 88 3 WNWK 105.9 WBU 106.1 WNYC 820 93.9 WBLS 107.5 WNYE 91.5 WCBS 880 101.1 WNVG 1440 WORE 92.7 WNVU 89.1 WEVD 1050 W0R 710 WFAN 660 WPAT 930 93.1 WFAS 1230 103.9 WPU 95.5 WFDU 89.1 WOCD 101.9 WFUV 90.7 WQEW 1560 WGBB 1240 WQHT 97.1 WGSM 740 WQXR 96.3 WHU 1100 WRHU 88.7 WHIZ 100.3 WRKS 98.7 WHU0 100.7 WRTN 93.5 WINS 1010 WSKQ 620 97.9 WKCR 89.9 WUSB 90.1 WKDM 1380 WVOX 1460 WKJY 98.3 WWDJ 970 WKRB 90.9 WWRL 1600 WUB 1190 WWRV 1330 WUM 1580 WXRK 92 3 WLIR 1300 WYNY 103.5 WLIX 540 WZRC 1480 a record company, does say the right opening could lure him back into radio. "I couldn't have any comment," says Larry Berger, who was program director at WPLJ in the '80s and now programs KSOL in San Francisco.

The rumors probably started, Berger suggests, because of his 14-year association with Jim Kerr, morning man for him at 'PLJ and now the morning man at 'MXV. "But there's nothing imminent at this point," says Berger from his KSOL office. "I like it here, It's 60 degrees every day." He does note, however, that his son, mother and sister still live around New York and besides, there would be an almost irresistible symmetry if he did ever take this job. When Berger programed WPLJ, the main competition was WHTZ, programed five, called the charges "absolutely false." His attorney called Powell-Ross "a disgruntled woman who was in danger of losing her job." Blavat produced oldies albums in the '60s using his "Geator with the Heater" persona, kind of a Caucasian Barry White thing where he would do long romantic monologues about "The Fox and the Coyote." AROUND THE DIAL: WPAT (930 AM) has dropped the afternoon David Brenner show and is deciding whether to replace it with another talk show. Meanwhile, the station is simulcasting WPAT-FM again in the afternoon.

Ex-Mayor Ed Koch could start an expanded daily show on WABC (770 AM), 10 a.m.-noon, within two weeks, says Program Director John Mainelli though no deal is signed yet The long-term plan is to put Koch into national syndication. rn What do porn stars do for a living when they stop selling sex? You'd be amazed! I 1 I Cl 2 Today at '(fiffc'' I i -f BONAHUI co CD.