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-D-4 The Sacramento Bee Final Tuesday March 21 1989 TELEVISION A shaky Channel 13 may finally be on steady ground Nrit I NN i 1 c' l''''' 1-'1: BOB WISEHART TV Columnist creative services director too Cyndie Reynolds from WDZI-TV in Miami Finally Mori le reached to another continent to grab Kurt Eichsteadt in Indonesia where he'd gone to help start a new national TV network The respected Eichsteadt who'll start next month will be the station's program director a position he held at both Channels 3 and 10 The most visible part of any network affiliate is news especially the anchor team and it's routine for a new man at the top to deny any plan to make changes there until the moment he makes them That kind of swift and unexpected change quickly establishes that things are different now though it's easily overdone One of the first things Pfeiffer did at Channel 13 was fire Susan Blake which he later admitted was a mistake Blake of course is now at Channel 10 Action for action's sake is a "ridiculous way to run a television station or anything" scoffed Fiorile Handicapped by the Narragansett tight-fistedness "I don't think our people have had a chance to show what they can do" 4 41' 1 4 1 1 1 r4 4 14 6 4:4 4 4 It 1 I if I i e' 'V 'It fi 11 i It 0 5 4'' kr i-Z 7 6 4 1 1 I i 1 A 4 4t viewers are counted as accurately as possible to set advertising rates front-running Channel 3 had its strongest ratings performance in a long time Channel 3 pulled off a difficult feat by making wide-ranging changes in its news personnel without suffering any ratings damage which reinforces the notion that Sacramento TV isn't personality-driven Change is usually an anathema to the leading TV station For Channel 13 the good news is that for the first time in years it has an owner with deep pockets Anchor Media owns TV stations in Sacramento Asheville and Columbus Ohio plus six radio stations in Dallas Albuquerque NM and Las Vegas Nev With headquarters in St Petersburg Fla it's an affiliate company of the Robert Bass Group Inc Bass is a Texas billionaire whose local holdings include almost 2000 acres in Roseville bought last year for $45 million He also agreed to buy the ailing Stockton-based American Savings and Loan investing $550 million in the process Florae cautioned that Bass isn't involved in the broadcasting operation which is run by Alan Henry Anchor Media's chairman and chief executive officer a way of making the point that there's a TV pro at the top It's impossible to tell how the scenario will play out There are so many intangibles even Mori le can't know for sure But for now at least he's making the right sounds It's been a long time since there was any noise at all from Channel 13 IN THE TWO months since Mike Florae took over a TV station reeling being bought and sold so often it resembled a used car nobody can accuse the Channel 13 general manager of sloth After a dizning flurry of firing and hiring Flohle reassembled his management team took the first steps to get the station's 159 employes out of the cramped facility on Arden Way and saw his company the AnchorMedia Broadcast Co sue the former owner The suit filed March 9 in Superior Court charges Narragansett Capital Inc former general manager Ed Pfeiffer and former sales manager Christopher Pike with 'fraud conspiracy and breach of contract" and accuses Narragansett of withholding information and stealing key employees Pfeiffer and Pike couldn't be reached for comment AnchorMedia bought Channel 13 from Narragansett for $162 million only two years after Narragansett itself bought the station for S104 million It as the fourth time Channel 13 had been sold in this decade Narragansett and Pfeiffer who had a small piece of the station were the broadcasters from hell Narraoansett's history is that it buys and holds TV stations long enough to make a lot of money on a sale and spends as little as possible in the meantime As a rival broadcaster said "Narragan sett stripped the station The surprise isn't that Channel 13 has problems it's that they're not worse Fiorile who came to Sacramento from the Anchor Media station in Asheville NC understated the case when he said I think that we (Channel 13) haven't been very good citizens We intend to get better" Several years ago the owner prior to Narragansett Outlet Communications bought land in Natomas for a new facility Knowing it wasn't going to be around very long had nothing to lose and profit to gain Narragansett sold the land Florile is dickering for a parcel of land in West Sacramento Too under Narragansett Channel 13 was rarely a serious player in program acquisition and news director Bart Feder had to make do with a lesser budget and staff than his rivals Channels 3 and 10 Fiorile's orientation is local he once ran the sales operation at Channel 10 and he has tended to hire people with Sacramento experience Brad Thomas who served as the Channel 13 news assignment editor in 1979 and again in 1984 recently returned for a third time There's a new CHANGES WILL come because change is the nature of TV But Horne wants to wait and see Besides Fiorile's research tells him Sacramento isn't a personality-driven TV market anyway Viewers here tend to watch stations not people so a raid on another station wouldn't do any good Anchor Media has its work cut out for it and Mori le knows it In February when 4 KOVR general manager Mike Rod le says of his station "I think that we haven't been very good citizens We intend to get better" EVENING Gregory Peck's film career honored in gala celebration TUNE IN TONIGHT By Jon Burlingame man It cost a then-phenomenal $ti million to make This showing includes a new score commissioned by the BBC ftIM Series notes iva liv 'qua I 6:00 li 6:30 ii 7:00 1 7:30 8:00 8:30 II 9:00 I 9:30 1000 10:30 11:00 11:30 i 0 NBC News INews jUSA Today Entertain- THighway to Heaven In the Heat of the Night 17th Annual AR Life News Carson (R) on TV rnent Tonight Achievement Award i drs World of Moyers 'MacNelltenrer NewsHour Great Perform Th ances: Bacall on Bogart Caine Mutiny (10:10) ('54) 140 Animals Humphrey Bogart Jose Ferrer 0 News 10 of Jeopardy! Inside Tour of Duty Purple Heals (R84) News Pat Sajak Eaition Ken Wahl aeryl Ladd a) ABC News New Ferny Win Lose or Who's the The Wonder Roseanne Anything But thirtysomething News Nightline Draw Boss? Years (A) (R) Love 0 Notero 1Noticiero Senora Amandote Encadenados Noticiero Desde No Es un Juego Vivir (R) Illniviston Univision Hollywood en Three 'Night Court Barney Miller 'Benson He's Fired She's Hired (84) News All in the Honey- Twilight Company Wayne Rogers Karen Valentine Family mconers Zone 0 Family Tes Newhart Cosby Cheers The Key to Rebecca (Part 2)(85) News WKRP in Star Trek Cliff Robertson David Soul Cincinnati eD Airwoll Magnum PI Plutonium Incident (BO) Rockford Files Relatively SCTV Janet MEirgolin Poimstrs Boothe Speaking A The Girl in the Picture (PG-13 '86) The 'Slap' Henry Ford: Tin Lizzie The Girl in the Picture (PG-13 '86) John Gordon-Sinclair Irma Brook Associates Maxwell Tycoon John Gordon-Sinclair Irma Brook AMC The Road to Glory C36) For Heaven's Sake (50) The Road to Glory C36) Fredric March Warner Baxter Clifton Webb Joan Bennett Fredric March Warner Baxter DISH The Point (71) Family Circus Thomas Edison Macauley's Daughter C87) Ozzie Treasure Bryan Brown Nom Hazlehurst Harriet Island cspN Boxing: Tony Thornton vs Kevin Watts Middleweights Lighter Side SportsCenter Weightlifting Bodybuilding: Men's Junior SportsLook SportsCenter National FAM Mevie (8) Breakthrougr The 700 Club Remington Steele The First Olympics: Athens Ministry The 700 Club 1896 (Part 2)(84) Special HBO (PG' '84) Nadine (PG The Killing Time (R '87) House of Games Scott Schwartz Cinnamon Idles Jeff Bndges Beau Bridges (R '87) KRA Magnum PI Charles in Secret Exposed (9'83) News: Fishman Carl Cheers Taxi Charge Identity (R) Hastassia Kinski Rudolf Nureyev 4 xTvT Impasse ('69) Webster Cheers Carol Morton Downey Jr Gong Show Goodbye New Burt Reynolds Anne Francis Burnett York (R '85) IIFE ER' Easy Street Spenser: For Hire Cagney Lacey Farntly Sins (87) Spenser: For Hire James Farentino A Eikenberry MAX Murder on the Orient Evress (5:30) Any Which Way You Can (PG '80) 110 (R '79) (PG 74) Albert Finney Clint Eastwood Sondra Lociie Dudley Moore Bo Derek Nashville Now Video- Crook New Country You Can Be American Nashville Now Video- New Country You Can Be ir (5) Country Chase a Star Magazine Country a Star wit Finders Double Dare Inspector Looney Mr Ed Patty Duke My Three Donna Reed Saturday SCTV Laugh-In Car 54 Keepers Gadget Tunes Sons Night stinw Sarah Portrait of a Teenage Critical Condition (ft '87) Brothers Garry World Gone Wild Aicoholic (75) Linda Blair Richard Pryor Rachel Ticatin Shandling (R '88) Ilk NBA Basketball: (5) Detroit Pistons at NBA Basketball: Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles Lakers Shafts Big Score '72) Atlanta Hawks Richard Roundtree Moses Gunn Inc Explore Explore Profiles of Profies of Operation Barbarossa IThe 1930s Camera Wocld Scotland Above New Zealand Nature Nature Monitor Story King ScOomon's Mines (PG-13 '85) The ProdLoters C68) The House on Carroll Street (PG '83) Body Double Nalard Chamberlain Sharon Stone Zero Kelly MoGillis Jeff Daniels TNT Ben-Hur (5)(26) The Hunchback al Notre Dame (Color)(39) IThe NigM Is Young (35) Ramon Navarro Charles Laughton Maiteen O'Hara I Ramon f4ovarro USA She-Ra Cartoon Miami Vice Murder She Wrote Law Harry McGraw Diamonds Miami Vice Express wrij Ford: Man and News USA Tonight Honey- Hill Street Blues The Cassandra Crossing (R '77) Maine (5) (Part 1) mooners Sophia loran Burt Lancaster bysily The Came Mutiny (5)1'54) Honey- M'A'S'H St Elsewhere Morton Downey Jr Hogan's Home Shopping Humphrey Bogart MOOnera Heroes WWORIHunter News Benny Hill Morton Downey Jr Arsenio Hall Joe Franklin Goverment Loans INNING AN OSCAR is nice but there is a still greater honor in the movie industry: The American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award presented for "a fundamental contribution to the art of film in America" This year's recipient actor Gregory Peck accepted this career accolade before a black-tie audience in Beverly Hills on March 9 Highlights from that event are condensed into "The I7th Annual API Life Achievement Award: A Salute to Gregory Peck" (10 pm Channel 3) The title is almost longer than the show Audrey Hepburn whose first big break and her Oscar came when she starred with Peck in "Roman Holiday" (1953) is the emcee In an hour filled with film clips and montages several acting colleagues speak warmly of the 72-year-old actor: Lauren Baca (who starred with Peck in "Designing Woman" 1957) Jennifer Jones in the Sun" 1946) Dorothy McGuire and Dean Stockwell Agreement" 1947) Anthony Quinn Guns of Navarone" 1961) Louis Jourdan Paradine Case" 1948) and Charlton Heston Big Country" 1958) Other options "Highway to Heaven" resurfaces for a week (8 pm Channel 3) with a story drawn from the headlines Jonathan and Mark (Michael Landon Victor French) are teachers in a church-sponsored preschool whose council decides all its teachers must be Christian and teach Christianity Two CBS stalwarts Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd "The Fulfillment of Mary star in "Purple Hearts" (9 pm Channel 10) an 1984 movie that casts them as a Navy medic and a feisty nurse respectively stationed in Vietnam Reviews were mixed at best Cult choice Here's another example of why every cablesystem in America should carry TNT: the rarely seen 1926 silent version of "Ben-Hur" (5 pm) starring Ramon Novarro and Francis Bush Tony and Angela begin to regret the warm welcome they extended to their new neighbors on "Who's the Boss?" (8 pm Channel 3) Seymour's professional ambitions and Anderson's plans conflict on "Tour of Duty" (8 pm Channel 10) Kevin's mother enrolls in pottery class on a repeat of "The Wonder Years" (8:30 pm Channel 13) Dan and Roseanne's night on the town is marred by some sobering news on a repeat of "Roseanne" (9 pm Channel 13) A physician suspects foul play when a man dies suddenly of apparent heart attack 'on "In the Heat of the Night" (9 pm Channel 3) Hannah's old boyfriend reappears on "Anything But Love" (9:30 pm Channel 13) The women go camping on "thirtysomething" (10 pm Channel 13) Late night TV Scheduled guests: Singer Dionne Warwick comedian Louie Anderson and actress Jennifer Tilley are on "The Best of Carson" (11:30 pm Channel 3) actor Joe Penny newsman Robert MacNeil singercomposer Rupert HolmeS' and dog-sled racer Susan Butcher are on "The Pat Sajak Show" (11:30 pm Channel 10) basebalrannouncer Harry Caray and Scottish musical duo The Proclaimers are on "Late Night With David Letterman" (12:30 am Channel 3) musical group Manhattan Transfer and actor Billy iDee Williams are on "The Arsenio Hall (1 am Channel 10) singer Tony Orlando talks about Freddie Prinze on "Later With Bob Cos-(as" (2:30 am Channel 3) DAYTIME 12:30 I 1:00 II 1:311 2:00 II 2:30 11 3:00 I 3:30 jI 4:00 4:30 11 5:00 II 5:30 I 7:00 II 7:30 il 8:00 II 8:30 II 9:00 II 9:30 II 10:00 II 10:30 II 11:00 II 11:30 II noon 4 0 I Today Geraido Sale of Win Lose or Super Scrabble News Sally Jessy Raphael Santa Barbara Days of Our Lives Donahue: Taking Care of News 4 Century Draw Password Your Heart (R) 1 i ----4 i3-2-1 uare One Mister Sesame Street Reading Read It Bookbird Mathematics Equal Justice Equal Justice Voyage of ThinkAbout Community GED Tax Proles 3-2-1 Sesame Street 0 Humanities quare One Mister 4 'Contact TV Rogers Rainbow MathWay Mimi Contact TV Rogers I 0 This Morning Bamaby Jones The Price Is Right The Young and the News Bold and the As the World Turns Gukling Light Oprah Winfrey Superior The Judge News CBS News Restless Beautiful Court 1 4 4 a) Good Morning America LIVE With Regis Home All My Children News One Life to Live General Hospital A Team People's A Current News Kathie Lee Court Affair 0 Morns Cerulk Study in the -tentage Today Richard Roberts Divorce Jewish Voice Eleventh Hour TV Mujer Cuna de Lobos Solteras del Pirruris Softer() Aire Rocketeria Pasiones Nina Bonita Word Prevention Dos Presenta i i Jetsons Yogi Bear Ghostbusters Smurfs My Three Alfred Perry Mason Bob Newhart The Gong Show Dating Game Newlywed rivorce One Day at a Scooby-Doo Dennis the Duck Tales Fun House Silver Webster 0) Sons Hitchcock Jeffersons Game Court Time Menace Spoons co Gumby Popeye Heart Dyke Heroes Beaver Woody Bewitched Straight to Weight Loss Trapper John MD Hill Street Blues Andy Griffith Dick Van Fall Guy Radon Hogan's Chipmunks Popeye Leave It to Brady Bunch Facts of Life Kate Allie Wcoipecker i Beveny Hits Tom Jerry Porky Pig Care Bears Synchronal Synchronal CHiPs High Chaparral Bonanza Wanted: 'Rifleman Gidget Gilligan's Snorks Rintstones Tom Jerry Bugs Bunny Knight Rider tio Teen DediAlive Island Atc COmedy lGolden Is Paris Burning? (Part 1) Child's Life Profiles The 20th Chronicle World of Comedy Golden Is Paris Burning? (Part 1) Child's Life Profiles The 20th Chronicle World of Henry Ford: Tin Lizzie Break lAge11 (-66) Gert Frobe Century Survival Break AgeTV (66) Gert Frobe Century Survival Tycoon AMC the lur (6) For l-leaven's Sake For Heaven's Sake The Road to Glory ('361 For Heaven's Sake (50) C5C0 (12)(50) Fredric March Warner Baxter Clifton Webb Joan Bennett DISH Pooh Comer Donald Duck Dumbo's The Sword in the Stone You and Me Walt Disney Presents Zorro Wind in the Hertile The Love Bug Contraption IDumbos Pooh Corner Mouse The Donald Duck Kids Inc Edison Twins mickey Circus 4G '63) Kid Willows Circus Factory Raccoons EspN WinterWorici Ski Worki Getting Fit Training Bodies in Body Shapinc College Basketball: National Invitation Tournament World Outdoor Life Legends of World Class Final Four ISunkist Inside PGA SportsLook SportsCenter Monster Muscle Magazine Workout Motion Second-Round Game (R) Superbike Mag Wrestling KIDS Truck FAM The 700 Ckbb Scott Ross Talk Jerry Falwell Celebrity Flying Nun Here Come the Brides Campbells Green Acres Hazel iFather Big Valley Bonanza Our House First Olympics: Chefs Knows Best Athens 1896 BO Trouble Little Women Nadine (PG '67) The Woman in Red (pG-13) The Train Robbers (PG '73) Trouble The Trouble With Warning: Radio Days1PG '87) The Legend of the Lone Ranger (PG) With Grandpa Jerf Bndges 484) Gene Wilder John Wayne With Spies Spies Food Ma FerrOW Setts Green ('81) Klinton sbuty Michael Hore Splis KRA Popeye Care Bears Brady Bunch Brady Bunch Happy Days Laverne Love Boat Bonanza Twilight Emergency! CHiPs New Gidget Punky Sliver Couch Knight Rider Shirley Zone Brewster Spoons Potatoes Km Dating Game Newlywed Regis Kathie Lee CHIPS Fall Guy Happy Days ILaverne One Day at a Bewitched E3eamer's COPS Beverly Hills IPunky Diff 'rent Cheers Cosby Night Court TJ Hooker Game Shirley Time Komedy Teen Brewster Strokes LIFE It Figures It Figures Regis Priiibin Marcus Welby MD Mother- 'Mother's Day Attitudes Wok With Goodnight ER Easy Street Cagney Lacey Attitudes Passions (84) svorks! Yan Beantown Joanne Woodward Lindsay Wagner ilAy Fkmers in the dung Jim (4v8hissmuser Any Wrich Way You Can (PG '80) i Going Bananas (PG '87) Forty Carats (PG '73) The Long Ships (64) 'Orient Attic I Johnny ChM Eastwocd Sondra Locke Dom DeLuise Liv U1117181111 Edward Albert Richard Widmark Sidney Pother 'Express NASH Movie (6) Fandango Video- Crook American Fandango New Country Holiday Gourmet American Fandango Crook Nashville Now You Can Be American Holiday Gourmet Crook Nashville Now Country Chase Magazine Magazine Chase a Star Magazine Chase NICK Mr Wizard 'Dennis the Lassie Belie Pinwheel 'Sharon Lois Maple Town Pinwheel Noozles 'David the IToday's Mysterious Count Heathcliff Lassie Dennis the You Can't Do-Don't Just Sit 'Menace Sebastian Gnorne Special Cities Duckula Menace That on TV There SHOW Sarah Portrait of a Teenage Surnrner Stock ('50) Greystoke: The Greystoke: The Legend of anneqUil (1' 87) The Cap In Search of Historic Jesus (PG 8 Alcoholic (75) Linda Bier Judy Garland Gene Kelly Legend of Tarzan Taaan Lord of the Apes (12) Andrew McCarthy -(G '80) John Rubinstein Tx The Dolimaker (Part 2)(114) Andy Griffith Perry Mason Caboblanco (R '80) Tom Jerry Flintstones Rintstones Brady Bunch Gilligan's Leave It to Alice 'One Day at a Andy Griffith Sanford NBA Basketball: Detroit at I Jane Fonda Charles Bronson Dominique Sancta Island Beaver Time Son Atlanta TDC Living Isles English Of Pure Blood Oasis in 'Journey Into Spacewatch Leading rdoelln the Wild A Deming Wines of Italy Deaf Mosaic Austha Hands Wild South World of Spirit of Asia World Monitor Rendezvous Thompson True Garden Space India North the Sea Adventure fill King Solomon's Sweet Bird of Youth (62) Gandhi (PG '82) Gandhi (10) Firstworks Nighthawks (R '81) resterday Today and Tomorrow (84) i ms mn (6) PGA 3 Paul Newman Geraldine Page Ben Kingsley Candioe Bergen Sylvester Stallone Sophia Loren wDrecklingarec'las Medical Center (6) TNT Kild re Jean Harlow William The Hardys Ride HO (19) Ra2e in Heav (41) Muppets Bugs Bunny lliam Powell Lewis Slone Mickey Flooney Robert Montgomery Ingrid Bergman Fraggie Rock BenHur (28) USA Cartoon Express She-Ra Cartoon Express Riptide Alfred Hitchcock Hour Hot Potato Play the Chain Bumper Name That Face the Press Your Tic Tac High Rollers $25000 Dance Party USA Percents Reaction Stumpers Tune Music Luck Dough Pyramid wGN -151Aes of Hazzard Charlie's Angeis Geraido News Andy Griffith Dick Van Leave It to Yogi Bear Bugs Bunny GI Joe COPS Fun House Facts of Life WKRP in Cheers Night Court Ford: Man and Dyke Beaver Cincinnati Machine (Part 1) Family Ties Family Ties Cheers Newhart The Caine Muth 1 wsuK Beverly Di Alicillilircev AM Boston Trapper John MD Maude 'The Gumby My Little Ghoststers Care Bears Chipmunks Duck Tales Fun House Punlisi Hillbillies 1Sweethearts Newlywed Dating Game Cannon Jeffersons Pony Brewster (54) it Hawaii Five-0 TJ Hooker Matt HoustA Cosby Kate AMA Hunter i VAV OR Poo i i News a le Are Talking Connection Game lo 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I.