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-Asa cs v4r srn'trt ry ximv -J 1 i'i Page Sis BUCYRUS (OHIO) TELEGRAPH-FORUM Wednesday, August 15, 1990 BUSINESS TELEGRAPH-FORUM Mansfield TV station offers news, features By MIKE REDELSON T-F Staff Writer The new studios are slick, the staff professional and well seasoned in the art of news. There is a roving videographer, a stage with eight sets, a weather radar tracking station, (the only one in mid-Ohio located at a television station), and something like 60 years of experience in bringing the public the news over the airwaves. A television station in Cleveland or Columbus, you ask? No. TV 50, Mansfield, is the newest channel to hit the airwaves. For those in the Bucyrus area with antennas instead of cable, TV 50 can be seen daily.

The station, located at 2900 Park Avenue West, went on the air four months ago and offers a news and entertainment alternative for Mansfield-area residents who have only been able -to view big city broadcasts. Besides a news production team, several original programs are produced at the studio which was built behind the WVNO radio studios expressly for the new television operation. Richland Business airs Mondays from 7:30 to 8 p.m. The program is hosted by Doug Theaker and explores the local and national economies. Geared toward the retailer, industrialist, employee and shopper, and broadcast live, the viewer is given a chance to call in questions about the economy and business in the region.

TV 50 Sports Talk airs Tuesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. Hosted by Sports Director Mike Greene, the show features guests from the professional and scholastic sports arena and also features a call-in session. Glenn Cheesman, general sales manager for TV 50, said the program will also feature local media experts on sports in coming months who will offer their commentary and take calls from area sports fans. Not for Women Only airs 7:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.

Hosted by Adriana Wilkinson, the show is designed with a special accent on women and their interests, but not designed, as its title suggests, just for women. The show features special guests from the fields of education, politics, business, medicine, the social services and regular features on home decorating, fashion, gardening, and cooking. Wildlife Adventure airs Wednesday at 7 p.m. The half-hour show features Jack Hanna, director of the Columbus Zoo, his staff and his animal friends. Hanna aftd staff visit the Mansfield studios every week bringing in some of the popular animal features at the zoo.

Cheesman points out local students are invited to the tapings to meet the animals and learn about some of the interesting features of the capital citys zoo. Mid-Ohio Home Show airs at 2 p.m. Saturdays and 10 p.m. Sunday. The show offers the viewer samples of area homes up for sale along with narrations on the homes and what they feature and sell for.

Besides producing the local shows, the station features a commercial studio where commercials for local firms are made. The station also is home to DR and a company which produces commercials. The firm produced commercials before the opening of the station and also does industrial videos. Cheesman estimated that 90 percent of the commercials aired on TV 50 are produced in house. The salespeople go out and see what you the local business think you want, we write it and then bring in the local client to review it, said Cheesman, who says the system is cost efficient for the client and gives the client an opportunity to review an idea turned into a Don Tudor The team residents of the greater Mansfield area with a greater emphasis on local developments than the Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo stations can.

TV 50 Evening Journal anchormen, left to right, John Badenhop, weather, Steve Nelson, news, and Mike Greene, sports, take a moment to relax on the set before starting a taping. Billed as the home team the station is attempting to bring news and features to commercial. The station also has the only television station radar weather unit outside of Cleveland and Columbus in the area. Cheesman said this gives the radio and television station an edge when it comes to local weather over other channels who pick up Columbus radar reports. Cheesman also boasts of the modem technical equipment such as teleprompters on the actual television camera allowing the anchor to look into the camera instead of down at notes, plus the reconstruction of the weather map on a screen behind the weather announcer which shows the viewer the exact radar picture while the announcer explains it.

A daily program guide of TV 50 shows a block of evening news programming, or a full hour features a headline segment, two 4minute news segments followed by a two-minute medical news story, a four-minute weather show, three-minute TV 50 Feedback, iVi minute sports, one-minute score board and a one-minute community events segment. The second half-hour features a 30-second headline segment, followed by 4 minutes news, four-minute business news, three-minute weather, three-minute sports commentary, a 2 minute feature, one-minute newswrap up followed by a one-minute community events calendar. Cheesman said the station is hoping to expand their news departments and their news coverage. He said the station will attempt to cover the events most interesting and most affecting its coverage area, both in the area of hard news and features. He said the philosophy of offering the news at different times is, Basically, give us an hour and well give you the local news.

When you want it, said Cheesman, pointing out a viewer can watch a half-hour segment and later in. the evening come back and catch the second or updated part. Cheesman said he sees the fact of the team work between WVNO and TV 50 as an advantage that strengthen each of the entities in their efforts to keep the community informed. Crawford County represented on Mansfield TV stations staff By MIKE REDELSON T-F Staff Writer Glenn Cheesman, a Sulphur Springs native and Galion resident, general sales manager for TV 50 and its affiliates, WRGM AM and WVNO FM, says the concept beliind TV 50 is to provide area residents with a Local CNN (Cable News Network), reporting and investigating local developments of interest to persons in Ashland, Richland, Crawford, Huron, Knox and Morrow County. Cheesman points out that Mansfield is at the center of what he terms a dynamic and growing regional market.

And as one can tell by checking the license plates in the station parking lot, Crawford County is well represented, maybe even dominant in its contribution of persons working at the station. The staff features veteran newcaster Steve Nelson as news anchor and news director. He co-anchors the stations Evening Journal each weeknight. A native of Mansfield, Nelson has been in broadcast journalism since 1968 serving as news director for WVNO since 1973. Nelsons news department there won more than 35 awards from United Press International and Associated Press.

Nelson is currently board chairman for UPI in Ohio. Joining Nelson as co-anchor is Jane Imbody, a native of Marion, who has been with WVNO news since 1987. Prior to that, she worked for a Marion radio station as a reporter, writer and news editor. TV 50s weatherman John Badenhop is a familar face and voice to Crawford countians. Badenhop, who has been in broadcasting since 1976, formerly worked in Galion at WQLX in Galion and at WBCO in Bucyrus.

He also worked in both the news and production departments at TV 22 (now TV 54) in Bucyrus. A Galionite, he is a Citizen-Airman with the Ohio Air National Guard and a former U.S. Navy officer, where he served as a statistical analyst Heading up the sports department is Mike Greene, a Shelby native and a graduate of Muskingum College. Besides his sports anchor duties, Greene hosts the weekly Sports Talk program which features interviews and stories on professional and scholastic champions. News reporters Lauri Reinhart and Larry Stein will handle special reports.

And besides the on-air talent, many of whom have worked in Crawford County, the Crawford connection goes behind the scenes. Eric Assenheimer, a Bucyrus area resident and Wynford graduate, is the stations night-time director. A veteran disc jockey at the Mad Bull and other local entertainment establishments, Assenheimer formerly worked at TV 54. Assenheimer puts together special programming at the station and directs the live Sports Talk every Tuesday night. Kelly Bauer, a Crestline resident and Crestline High School graduate, is traffic manager at TV 50.

She is charged with producing public service announcements and the daily production log. She is also in charge of customer maintenance. Luann Garverick of Galion, a Car-dington High graduate, is account executive at TV 50 in charge of the sales Her background includes both writing and on-air work. She was forrtterly a continuity writer and on-air personality with Y-105 in Mansfield. Garverick spends much of her time on the road.

It is something new to the area and I think many people feel a sense of pride in the home team, said Garverick. Armed with a video recorder, pager and found at everything from local fairs and festivals to council meetings and traffic mishaps is Bucyrian Dann Johns, a Bucyrus High School graduate, and former cameraman and production man at TV 54. Recently, Johns had the unprecedented job of being the pool cameraman for the Dr. Boyle murder trial in Richland County Common Pleas Court. Common Pleas Court Judge James Henson chose Johns as the lone cameraman permitted in the courtroom during the trial.

Johnss shots were picked up by the pool of cameramen from television stations in Cleveland, Columbus and Erie, Pa. He jokes about going home at night and flipping on all the Cleveland and Columbus channels and seeing my work. Johns usually spends the day on the road being dispatched to breaking stories, covering meetings and shooting bumper video, film shown in weather segments and features. A former Timken employee, Johns said he wanted to be a videographer since he saw a man operating a camera on the old Ed Sullivan Show. Johns said he thinks the people of the Mansfield area are very glad to have a local station taking a deep interest in their community and their lives.

Weve been accepted very well, people are really glad to see the effort being made on local television news. Don Tudor Lights, camera Brad Francis, a TV 50 engineer, right, takes a sound check and camera check of TV 50 Evening Journal news co-anchor Steve Nelson, seen upper left in monitor. The station, which went on the air four months ago, is located at 2900 Park Avenue West in large studios behind WVNO. Creditors relieved Carnpeau is gone JL lacocca: Car industry in the tank rv far thwKar, far tlhjjear, automakerJsvere a combined $7.7 billion in debts, still have not announced when they plan to file their formal plans for emerging from reorganization. U.S.

Bankruptcy Judge J. Vincent Aug Jr. of Cincinnati is overseeing their operations. Rosenbloom said he has had no personal contact with Carnpeau and no indication that the companies were being managed under his direction. He said the creditors he represents want Federated and Allied to survive because the two companies have historically demonstrated they are profitable.

Our constituency believes that the return of the companies to the marketplace as operating companies outside of Chapter 11 is very, very important to the health of the companies, he said. Carol Sanger, a Carnpeau Corp. spokeswoman in Cincinnati, said Federated and Allied have been remote from Carnpeau sidee the Chapter 11 filings. She said his removal may please the creditors. Ultimately, I think it may prove to be a good thing in that many of the creditors were urging that this be done all along, Ms.

Sanger said. It will have no direct impact as far as were concerned. By JOHN NOLAN Associated Press Writer CINCINNATI (AP) Creditors overseeing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations of the Federated and Allied retailing companies say the ouster of Carnpeau Corp. chairman Robert Carnpeau is not likely to affect the proceedings. Still, lawyer Lewis Rosenbloom said Monday the creditors feel some relief Our1 view was that any role he would play Would be in the ultimate reorganization of those companies, and that he would potentially present an impediment to the reorganization process, Rosenbloom saiddV Rosenbloom represents several hundred thousand unsecured creditors of Federated including merchandise distributors, suppliers and labor unions.

Toronto-based Carnpeau whiqh owns Federated Department Stores Inc. and Allied Stores announced Friday that Carnpeau, 66, the Canadian businessman who founded Carnpeau Corp. more than 40 years ago, had been forced out as chairman and chief executive. He remains as a company director, but his future role has not been announced. We obviously hope that (t would have some positive although I doubt any immediate direct impact.

His involvement has not had any apparent effect on the administration of these cases, Rosenbloom said. I think whats important is his removal reflects realization by his board of directors and shareholders of the financial destruction wrought by the administration of Federated and Allied. Rosenbloom said Campeaus ouster is reassuring to creditors because it suggests that he will not attempt to involve himself in the reorganization by claiming some 1 equity faf the reorganized Federated and Allied. Federated and Allied, bothbased in Cincinnati, operate 256 stores in 28 states and employ about 100,000 people. Lawrence Gottlieb a lawyer for unsecured creditors of Allied, said of Carnpeau: We havent seen him at all.

Whats going on behind the scenes, I cant tell you. Carnpeau engineered the 1986 purchase of Allied and the 1988 buyout of Federated in leveraged deals that saddled Federated and Allied with debt that prompted them to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors on Jan. 15. Federat So car and truck sales by the domestic running 3.6 percent behind last years pace. Car sales were down 4.8 percent and truck sales were off 1.5 percent.

During early August, Hondas normally strong sales number slipped 15.7 percent compared with last year Company spokesman Jeff Leestma said supplies of domestic cars were short. WpMo "41uS lvcpui aaiu Mondays edl- tions that at the end of last month, Honda had a 20-day inventory of unsold cars, considered low for this time of year. Overall, Wards said, dealers had a 55-day supply of all domestically made cars and a 71-day supply of light trucks on hand at the end of July. Chrysler led the early-August sales decline, reporting a 38.6 percent drop in car iles and a 22.5 percent decline in truck sales, combining for a 31.1 percent decline in vehicle sales. For the year Chryslers vehicles were selling at a pace 13.8 percent slower than last year.

Ford said early-August sales of its cars and trucks ran 14.9 percent below last years pace with car sales down 21.3 percent and truck sales falling 4 percent For the year, Ford car and truck sales were down 8 i percent. 1 GM said its early-August car sales were down 22 2 percent and truck sales were off 18.1 percent for a com bined 20.6 percent drop in vehicle sales. So far this year, GMs car and truck sales were 3.4 percent behind last year. By FREDERICK STAND ISH AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) An 18.5 percent drop in the early-August car and truck sales rate shows that the U.S. auto industry is in the tank, Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca says.

The 10 major U.S. automakers said Tuesday their average daily car and truck sales rate fell to 27,419 during the Aug. 1-10 period this year compared with a daily average of 33,660 during the same time last year. Car sales dropped 20.7 percent and truck sales were off 14.9 percent. General Motors Ford Motor Co.

and Chrysler said their car sales were off 24.3 percent, led by a 38.6 percent tumble in Chryslers sales. Part of the Chrysler sales slump was due to a double-rebate offer in effect during early August last year for its Plymouth Sundance and Dodge Shadow cars. Sales of cars made in North America with Japanese nameplates rose 11.5 percent. The industry is in the tank, lacocca said. Somebody stopped buying something in a hurry in the last 10 days.

I hope that doesnt keep up. Sales during early August last year were strong as automakers began enhancing existing incentive programs to clear out dealer lots of 1989 models to make room for 1990 cars and trucks. This year, incentive packages still were being offered, but they covered fewer vehicles and offered generally smaller cash rebates. Earlier this year, automakers sharply reduced inventories and have held them in the 60-day range for the past several months..