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Television The Sacramento Bee Tuesday December 3 1985 C3 BobWisehart TV critic 6 am News ID A New Morning (B News This Morning CD The 700 Club fetusi'i Movie (1983) 6:30 am Farm Day (D Early Morning News ID News This Morning Dawn CO Mighty MouseHeckle Jeckle 6:45 am AM Weather 7 am 0 Today Hooked on Aerobics (D Morning News IB Good Morning America (CC) 03 Jewish Voice CD Robotech CD MASK 7:30 am Lilias Yoga You (D Jimmy Swaggart CD Scooby-Doo CD Jayce the Wheeled Warriors 8 am Electric Company ID Jim Bakker CD Tom Jerry CD Heathcliff rebut! Movie Double" (1984) 8:30 am Mister Rogers' Neighborhood CD Popeye CD The Jetsons 9 am Hour Magazine Sesame Street (CC) ID The $25000 Pyramid IB Sally Jessy Raphael ID Richard Roberts CD Great Space Coaster CD The Waltons 9:30 am 03 Press Your Luck IB Divorce Court CD My Three Sons 10 am Wheel of Fortune Educational Programming ID The Price Is Right (B Catch Phrase ID Larry Jones CD Wild Wild West CD Little House on the Prairie l-iUHij Movie Angel' (1984) Nightline Cine CD Twilight Zone Bizarre Midnight Eye on Hollywood (R) CD Alfred Hitchcock Pres ents Comedy Tonight 12:30 am Late Night With David Letterman (R) America's Top 10 CD One Step Beyond Movie Limit" (1957) n-nntt'i Movie "Love and Death" (1975) (R) 12:40 am McCoy (R) 1 am Odyssey Music Entertainment Network CD Movie "The Man Who Had Power Over Women" (1970) 1:30 am Here Come the Brides 2 am Nightwatch 2:25 am Movie Miles to Midnight' (1963) 2:30 am Candid Camera Ktnn'i Movie (1976) 3 am CNN News 4 am KKiii'l Movie Buddy System (1984) Nuestra Comunidad mmri Movie and Death" (1975) 2:30 pm Ligia Sandoval CD Alvin The Jetsons 3 pm Days of Our Lives 0 Secret City Headline Chasers Diff rent Strokes Los Anos Pasan CD Care Bears GoBots 3:30 pm Mister Rogers' Neighborhood America The Jeffersons CDGI Joe Thundercats rebut'! Movie (1 984) (R) 4 pm Donahue (R) Sesame Street (CC) Three's Company Llevame Contigo CD Transformers He-Man the Masters of the Universe 4:30 pm News People Court CD Voltron She-Ra 5 pm 0 News 0 3-2-1 Contact (CC) Principessa CD Bewitched Star Trek reran Movie (1 983) (R) 5:30 pm Hooked on Aerobics News (CC) CD Happy Days Again EVENING 6 pm 0 NBC News Nightly Business Report News News Noticiero 19 CD Too Close for Comfort 6:30 pm News MacNeilLehrer NewsHour Love Connection Dynasty Noticiero Nacional CD Benson ffi Taxi 7 pm 0 Entertainment Tonight Wheel of Fortune The New Newlywed Game Loco Amor CD Dallas muti'i Movie (1984) 7:30 pm Evening Wild America (CC) Jeopardy' The Price Is Right Barney Miller 8 pm The A-Team (CC) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (R) Who's the Boss? (CC) Cristal CD Nearly No Christmas Movie Man" (1981) 8:05 pm 10:30 am Scrabble IB All-Star Blitz ID Radiant Living 11 am Super Password ID The Young and the Restless IB All My Children (D Marilyn Hickey CD Fantasy Island CD Inday News 1 1:30 am Sale of the Century (D Eleventh Hour CD Bob Newhart CD What Hot! What's Not? Noon 03 News Sneak Previews CD Perry Mason CD Andy Griffith mltit'i Movie (1983) (R) 12:30 pm Educational Programming (D As the World Turns (D Jim Bakker CD Mary Tyler Moore 1 pm Santa Barbara (B One Life to Live CD Movie Fighter" (1951) CD Movie Sword of All Baba" (1965) 1:30 pm Capitol Swaggart 2 pm Another World Guiding Light General Hospital Nova (CC) 8:30 pm Growing Pains (CC) 9 pm Riptide Movie (1978) Moonlighting (R) (CC) Johnny Canales CD Movie Mystery Tour" (1967) Movie Double" (1984) (R) 9:10 pm He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' 10 pm Remington Steele Spenser: For Hire (CC) Bodas de Odio CD All in the Family News 10:20 pm National Geographic (CC) 10:30 pm 24 Horas CD Bob Newhart INN News 1 1 pm 0 News CD Comedy Break Sanford Son Movie Valley Girls" (1982) 1 1:20 pm Wild America (CC) Noticiero 1 1:30 pm 0 The Tonight Show Simon Simon (R) off the beaten path CLIMB UP ON Uncle lap and tell you about what you won't see on TV tonight Some 200-plus CBS affiliates this evening will broadcast the movie starring singer-song writer Barry Mani-low But not Channel 10 which as of this writing is the only one that Such are the mystical ways of TV that while it's "No-pacabana" for Sacramento on Tuesday the movie will mysteriously appear on Channel 10 Saturday night at 11:30 Manilow fans will have to stay up late but nobody said it was easy It could have been worse In fact it almost was The station originally planned to dump the movie altogether' and change its mind until Monday morning Instead of on Tuesday Channel 10 will show the 1978 miniseries a hackneyed wartime soap opera with Angie Dickinson Dennis Weaver and Robert Wagner moping around in Pearl Harbor while they wait for the bombs to fall "Pearl" starts tonight continues Wednesday and Saturday is loosely based on Manilow's 1978 hit record of the same name Set in the 1940s the story of pianist-composer Tony Starr (Manilow) who's in hot pursuit of a spunky singer named Lola (Annette who is in turn pursued by a sinister nightclub owner (Joseph Bologna) Fstelle Getty of "Golden Girls" plays Manilow's mother With 10 songs written exclusively for the movie the first made-for-TV musical in decades so it has sort of a double appeal for Manilow fans And for what it's worth "Copacabana" isn't bad campy fun and will not lead anyone who watches it to a life of crime in cash flowing in The decision has a little to do with timing and a lot to do with money Channel 10 owns local broadcast rights to and had one showing left before its deal expires at the end of the year Saturday marks the 44th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Channel 10 Program manager Kurt Eichsteadt explained timing seems to be for the station to an audience and make some money Channel 10 will glean more money from than from "Copacabana" because the station-can sell virtually all the commercial time itself CBS sold the lion's share of the commercials in and left affiliates with about four-minutes for themselves Eichsteadt scheduled the miniseries before he knew about but said it have mattered anyway He offered to switch it to Sunday after- noon but for ratings purposes CBS wanted the movie either in prime time or late night chsteadt and CBS finally compromised on late Saturday night When an affiliate rejects a network program it becomes fair game for any other station in town But if Channel 10 hadn't changed its mind it would have been hard cheese for Manilow mavens The other affiliates Channel 3 (NBC) and Channel 13 (ABC) were out because would not bump programming from their own networks and independent stations Channel 31 and Channel 40 were locked into print advertisements promoting their lineups This sort of thing is unusual but happens occasionally Ironically Eichsteadt was involved the last time then as the programmer at Channel 3 Last spring NBC scheduled the Richard Chamberlain miniseries A and it conflicted with an Oakland baseball game Channel 3 was committed by contract to broadcast When Channel 3 bumped "Wallenberg" Channel 40 picked it up as a prestige item The word does not leap to mind with thoughts of Barry Manilow was heavily promoted and TV Guide has a story about Manilow in this week's issue So one way or another viewers know it's coming even if not arriving when it's supposed to Despite his change of heart Eichsteadt still expects the telephone lines to be seared by angry fans who think of him as the grinch who stole Barry "And" he conceded be interested in any Movies White 2:25 am Miles to Midnight" (1963) Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins 2:30 am mran "Sparkle" (1976) Lonette McKee Irene Cara PG 12:30 am Limit" (1957) Richard Widmark Richard Basehart nuxi'i and Death" (R)(1975) 1 am CD Man Who Had Power Over Women" (1970) Rod Taylor Carol board a psychedelic-painted bus in a wild home movie in the '60s reran "Body Double" (R) (1984) 1 1 pm reran "California Valley Girls (1982) Cindy Shepard Misty Dawn AO IN PRIMF' TIME network affiliates like Channel 10 usually broadcast what their network gives them With undeniable popularity it was more than a little odd that the station excised from prime time what promises to be a high-rated movie This brings us to cash loss as Tune In Tonight By Judy Flander 7 pm ytrafl "Birdy" (1984) Matthew Modine Nicolas Cage Two young Vietnam veterans come back to a stateside hospital for rehabilitation R' 8 pm Man" (1981) Sissy Spacek Eric Roberts During the 1940s a lonely divorcee's affair with a sailor shocks residents of her small-town Texas community PG' 9 pm "Pearl" (1978) Angie Dickinson Robert Wagner The lives of residents of Pearl Harbor are shattered when the island is attacked by Japanese forces (Part one) CD "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) The Beatles 1 pm CD Fighter" (1951) Richard Conte Lee Cobb Bitter over the massacre of his family a Mexican prizefighter finances arms for a revolutionary movement Sword of Ali Baba" (1965) Peter Mann Jocelyn Lane Ali Baba becomes the leader of a gang of thieves 2 pm reran and Death" (1975) Woody Allen Diane Keaton A cowardly Russian reviews his life just prior to his execution 'PG' 3:30 pm reran (R) (1984) 5 pm "Christine" (R) (1983) 6 am Pnfln "Christine" (1983) Keith Gordon John Stockwell A victimized young man purchases an old car that begins to have a marked effect on his personality R' 8 am reran Double" (1984) Craig Wasson Melanie Griffith A claustrophobic actor house-sits a Hollywood home R' 10 am reran "Angel" (1984) Donna Wilkes Cliff Gorman Private-school student by day prostitute by night is stalked by psychotic killer R' Noon "Christine" (R) (1983) Time for Rudolph to the rescue Talks in Channel 40 sale I THINK interesting that so many animated stories for children have plots about the underdog who saves the day Sometimes as in the case of the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Channel 10 at 8 pm) the character has a handicap that's turned into an asset Series picks Hannibal goes undercover as a neighborhood-watch block captain on (Channel 3 at 8 pm) On the (Channel 13 at 8 pm) Samantha has a hard time working even though it means the difference between earning her costume for the drill team or being dropped from the roster On (Channel 13 at 8:30 pm) Mike rues the day he disobeys his parents and rides his friend dirt bike On "Moonlighting" (Channel 13 at 9 pm) David's happy-go-lucky brother turns up On For (Channel 13 at 10 pm) an ex-prostitute gets in trouble with the law PBS picks is the appealing title of (Channel 6 at 8:05 pm) Among those who design and build their own abodes water spiders the leafrolling beetle the bank swallow If you and your children like nature shows expect to be enthralled Makes Me Feel Like (Channel 6 at 9 pm) stars New York City Ballet dancer Jacques D'Amboise in a sparkling special in which he dances with a thousand New York students WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS SATURDAY! 7 PM TV-3 1 Proudly Welcome WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HOSTED BY BAY BOMBERS SACRAMENTO MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM Regular Seats at all regular outlets (9 16) 449-5181 I LOST 75 LBS not finished yet but for the first time in my life getting control of my weight and changing my life! Ilene Williamson DEC 5th 6th 7th ONLY By Bob Wisehart Bee TV Critic THE SEARCH FOR a buyer by KXTL Channel 41) took another twist Monday when its owners confirmed that they're talking to the ninth-largest broadcasting company about a sale While Channel 49 president Jack Matranga said has been no deal" he added that the station's owners are dickering with the Gaylord Broadcasting Co of Dallas "I would not characterize the talks as hot" said Matranga "I would say that they are lukewarm" In addition to Channel 40 the TV stations involved include KDVR in Denver and KPDX in Portland The Business Men's Assurance Co of America in Kansas City Mo owns 80 percent of Channel 40 and 64 percent of the Denver and Portland stations Matranga is minority owner If Gaylord or another broadcasting company made an offer for all three stations "then we would be in a selling posture" Matranga explained However in the talks with Gaylord Matranga said that the two sides very far apart" regarding the worth of the Denver and Portland stations Matranga said he'll travel to Dallas later this week for a programming meeting but doesn't intend to meet with Gaylord executives One rough appraisal last summer put the value of the three stations at $105 million A more detailed report later supposedly arrived at a higher figure Sources say that representatives from Gaylord Broadcasting have visited the Channel 40 facility several times recently and talks have been going on for at least a month Gaylord Broadcasting owns seven television and two radio stations Its subsidaries Include the Grand Ole Opry and Opryland amusement park in Nashville The Nashville Network a country music cable channel and one-third of the Texas Rangers baseball organization It is also involved in TV production and syndication with the series "Hee-Haw" TV movies such as "Stone Pillow" w'hirh starred Lucille Ball and was broadcast by CBS a few weeks ago and Shelley Duvall's "Fairie Tale Theatre" on the Showtime cable pay channel It also has interests in music publishing and hotels Gaylord is known to be acquisition-minded as a result of a Federal Communications Commission ruling recently that raised to 12 the number of TV stations any one entity could own as long us the stations reach more than 25 percent of the country The possible sale of Channel 40 and its sister stations has been a continuing rumor in broadcasting circles for several months In August the stations were listed with Morgan Stanley a New York-based brokerage firm that represents sellers of broadcasting properties and links them with buyers "Morgan Stanley is handling all of the inquiries of which there have been quite a few in addition to Gaylord" said Alex Matthews vice president of corporate communications with the Business Men's Assurance Co "But to date no deal has been closed with Early this year Taft Television and Radio Inc supposedly made a $121-million offer for the three TV stations but sources say the deal fell through at the Iasi minute While Channel 40 is among the most profitable independent TV stations in the country the Denver and Portland stations have been on the air for only two years and the start-up costs relatively low ratings and commercial-time rates associated with new stations make them less attractive properties All three are independent stations not affiliated with any network i 0 I HOM Ttt KI DS TO SllkS KHOM MORMV to evening Tl IK CHICK ET LOOK THE IOOKTIlVr SllOt LI) BE vot ks Join our Charge" Weight Loss Program Now and get a FREE Portable TV Call Today! 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