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Entertainment BIO CALGARY HERALD Tuesday, January 5, 1999 U.S. TELEVISION GORD KELLY CFCN broadcaster retires from airwaves Canada's Newman loses co-anchor job at ABC 4 Calgary Herald Veteran CFCN broadcaster Gord Kelly is retiring from the airwaves after 41 years of service. The white-haired, warm-voiced Kelly is one of Calgary's most familiar on-air personalities. He will retire from TV news reporting as of Feb. 1, he said Monday.

He and the station (Ch. 3-4) are working on plans to bring him back occasionally on special projects, such as stories requiring in-depth research, he said. Kelly, 62, is by far the longest-standing employee at CFCN. Tm anxious to hand that mantle off to someone else he said with a chuckle. Born in Lac La Biche, Kelly grew up in northern Peace River Country, the son of a railroad man.

He joined CFCN Radio in 1957 as an announcer and disc jockey. When CFCN Television was launched in i960, Kelly's was among the first faces seen on the air. Over the years he worked on-air and behind the scenes in roles such as program manager, in radio and TV. He co-hosted a TV magazine program, Today From Calgary, for about 15 years. He has been a TV news reporter ing back "warmth with intelligence and a sense of family." It wasn't clear how long Sawyer and Gibson will do the job before handing Good Morning America to a new set of hosts.

Sawyer, whose star power is second only to that of Barbara Walters, said it will probably be "a few months." "We'll do it for as long as it takes," Gibson said. Good Morning America has sunk well behind NBC's Today show in the ratings in the last few years. The slide continued when McRee took over for Joan Lun-den in September 1997 and Newman replaced Gibson last spring. Sawyer and Gibson will start on Jan. 18.

McRee, who is pregnant, will be a Los Angeles-based ABC News correspondent Good Morning America premiered in 1975 with co-anchors Nancy Dussault and David Hart-man. It was re-launched in May with a new set, graphics and The Associated Press NEW YORK Making a bold move to turn around Good Morning America, ABC announced Monday that Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson will take over as interim co-hosts of the struggling program. The show's current hosts, Canadian Kevin Newman and Lisa McRee, will be given new assignments. Newman, a former host of CBC-TVs Midday who became co-anchor of Good Morning America last spring, will become a correspondent for ABC's Nightline. It's a return to morning TV for Sawyer and Gibson.

Sawyer was host of the CBS Morning News from 1981-84, and Gibson ended years as Good Morning America host just last April ABC News president David Westin said the network's news division wanted to make a strong statement that it is committed to improving the program by bring v. I I i i wvfto Gord Kelly since the mid-1980s. Kelly, a grandfather of three, said retirement will give him more tirrie to pursue his hobbies, such as restoring antique cars, and to do volunteer work. "I'd like very much to put something back into the community," he ABC Newscaster Kevin Newman has been reassigned. IN Brief adults.

Her second book, a sequel, has topped the lists all summer in Britain. Rowling said including British folklore and' laf guage hasn't limited her overseas appeal CBS leads awards race II new york NYPD Blue and CBS lead the nominations for the first TV Guide awards, to be broadcast on Fox. More than one million people participatdjin the balloting to pick the winners, the magazine reports in its Jaa 9 issue. NYPD Blue had four nominations, including' Favourite Drama, two nominations for Favdufff e. Actor in a Drama (Jimmy Smits and Denig Franz) and Favourite Actress in a Drama (Kim Delaney).

The X-Files earned three nominations, for Favourite Drama and actor-actress nominee's for stars David Duchovny and Gillian Andersoa' CBS led the networks with 15 nominations lowed by NBC with 14 and ABC with 11. four blocks from my house, so I lower my voice and say, Hi, this is Mr. Reveles, and I'd like to get a Television fitness expert Denise Austin and aerobics video star Donna Richardson also came clean about their junk food habits. The two admitted they crave Krispy Kreme doughnuts. "They just melt in your mouth," Austin said.

"I eat well 80 per cent of the time and eat junk the other 20 per cent of the time," she said. "I work out, and that keeps my metabolism up I don't do 20 more minutes of exercise because I ate one doughnut." Best-seller no longer poor NEW YORK In three years, Joanne Rowling has gone from hard-up single mother to literary phenomenon. "I went from being as poor as you can get without being homeless to being pretty well off," said the 33-year-old British writer, whose first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, has zoomed up the best-seller lists for children and DeNiro to face off against Rocky the squirrel NEW YORK It's Rocky vs. the Raging Bull Rocky the Flying Squirrel, that is. TV Guide reports in the Jan.

9 issue that cameras are about to roll on Universal Pictures' Rocky and Bull winkle, which will combine animated and live characters. The film stars Robert DeNiro as a man who tries to take over the world by hypnotizing people through their television sets on the eve of a presidential election. Jason Alexander stars as the duo's usual menace, Boris Badenov. Rocky and Bull winkle will, of course, play themselves in the big-screen feature film version of their cartoon adventures. King launches Web site PORTLAND, ME.

If you think you've been getting accurate in- From Herald News Services formation about your favourite horror writer on Web sites named the Stephen King House O'Love or the Hungarian Stephen King Headquarters, think again. Fed up with misinformation spread about him online including that he's retiring and that he gives tours of his house on Halloween King has set up an official site (www.stephenking.com). The site debuted in mid-December. Fitness gurus eat junk WASHINGTON When you're Richard Simmons, satisfying your junk food craving can require going undercover. "It's terrible because where can Richard Simmons go to get pizza?" the fitness guru said in Monday's USA Today.

"There's a Domino's about From Page B9 Ratings: CFCN dominates for news CFCN's Brian Vos surmises channels. A-Channel's Big Breakfast is en- "Because there's a new ser- ticing a young audience that ei- vice that appeals to them, they ther ignored morning TV previ- may be creating more new ously or watched non-local Vos said. on strong. A-Channel's 6 p.m. audience has doubled since last spring.

Also, Calgary fs viewer total is growing at 5:30 p.m., now standing at 69,600. With no local show between 6 a.m. and 9 THE FACULTY (14A BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (G)Tue. -Tllu. violence )Tue.

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Our prime time performed exceptionally while (CFCN) had a pretty rough ride in it." Bagshaw acknowledged A-ChanneFs nightly movies are drawing an audience, but he said the A-Channel blockbusters aired during sweeps periods aren't indicative of the station's movie quality on a year-round basis. "That's not what they run normally," Bagshaw said. "It's not sour grapes, it's just reality." In local news, CFCN still dominates at 6 p.m. with roughly 160,000 viewers for its first half hour, compared with Calgary 7's 74,000, CBC's 16,500 and A-Channel's 9,500. But competitors are coming li jl mm! THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (PG) No Passes liir 'STa 12:30,1:00,2:00 :25,5:00,5:30,6:35,7:15,7:45,9:25 CFCN leaves that slot to Calgary 7 and A-Channel, and both seem to be winning.

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