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The Sacramento Bee Final Tuesday November 131990 DT TELEVISIONRADIO on notiaso-hot idea KROY gives Station abandons its contemporary-hits format for '60s to '80s rock mlors JR Tom Sullivan Sacramento's prime-time viewing habits are a bit different from the national average Nielsen figures for the week ending Nov 4 show "The Simpsons" finishing 19th nationally but fifth in Sacramento and "Doogie Howser MD" 26th nationally but eighth in Sacramento ti 41 4 it A 4 ir A i a i 11 74''-11 44 Morning personality should be comfortable with new format ITI3K financial talk- show host is into change BROADCASTING By Dan Vienia ing audience KROY had often finished third in recent ratings periods "I've said all along there's not enough room in this market for three CHR stations" said Jerry McKenna FM 102 general manager "Now the battle is just between Pepsi and RC Cola My feeling is you just don't mess around with us" KROY (FM 969) pulled the plug on its Hot 97 contemporary-hits radio format Monday morning and switched to classic rock At 8 am the station which for the last three months had been the subject of repeated format-change rumors announced it would henceforth be playing Foreigner and Steve Miller instead of Janet Jackson and MC Hammer Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" kicked off the switch-over and general manager Tom Schorr said the station's image would be "Sacramento's Eagle" Schurr apparently expects KROY to soar above the competition Among KROY's new competitors according to SchutT will be rock stations 93 Rock (KIOCQ FM 937) and KZAP (FM 985) oldies station Solid Gold 101 (KHYL FM 1011) and Country 105 (KRAK FM 1055) Those stations have formats that appeal to the same demographic grouping: age 25-54 Among rockers 93 Rock tends to play more heavy metal and KZAP a mixture of rock styles "We'll be playing rock from the '60s '70s and early '80s" Schurr said "We worked hard at making Hot 97 work but obviously we never broke through in the ratings Even the top-rated CHR station is suffering (FM 102) This is a big rock town and we plan to rock" For the next few weeks Schurr Radio bits Although former KZAPer Pat Still has rather miraculously transferred his rock jock talents to the CHR format at KWOD would KROY dare dangle a morning classic rock job his way? Car dealer Cal Worthington will host Solid Gold 101's morning show at a yet-to-be-determined date next month Tom Sullivan KFBK (1530 AM) financial talk-show host admitted last week that he never passes up loose change on the street even bending down to pocket pennies Mix 96 (KMYX FM 961) this week began rerunning a half-dozen clever television ads it had run a few months ago (example: the rocker who during a lab experiment flips out listening to adult contemporary) Sounds like a counteroffensive to rival K108's (KXOA FM 1079) ads featuring Dick Clark said the station will be music-intensive before morning personalties JR and Trudi reemerge as rockers rather than rappers Both have experience at rock-format stations Trudi will continue reporting news during the interim while IR said he has some vacation time coming "They're both very talented air personalities and IR is very comfortable with the new format" Schurr said As Hot 97 KROY's main listening group was under age 30 and its CHR competitors were FM 102 (KUM FM 1025) and KWOD (FM 1065) The format has suffered nationwide but in Sacramento three stations with a CHR format fragmented the listen TV shorts After inheriting the Saddam Hussein news set look-alike honors from Channel 10 (10(TV) last week the vibes from Channel 40 (KTXL) are that a new set is in the plans The film "Terminator" last week attracted an impressive 85 rating and 13 share locally for Channel 58 (KSCH) It was one of the station's highest film ratings ever Channel 58 featured testosterone programming last week with it's "No Girlie Man Week" DAN VIERRIA'S column appears Tuesday and Saturday in Scene Write to him at PO Box 15779 Sacramento 95852 or call (916) 321-1119 'Knots Landing' leads soap nominations Entertainment News Service Amick (Shelly Johnson "Twin Peggy Lipton (Norma Jennings "Twin and Lynne Moody (Pat Williams "Knots Outstanding villain: Sam Behrens (Danny Waleska "Knots Richard Beymer (Benjamin Home "Twin and Gregory Harrison (Michael Sharpe "Falcon Outstanding villainess: Piper Laurie (Catherine Martell "Twin Michelle Phillips (Anne Matheson "Knots and Andrea Thompson (Gene le Ericson "Falcon Outstanding hero: Kevin Dobson (Mack Mackenzie "Knots Michael Ontkean (Harry Truman "Twin and Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing "Knots Outstanding heroine: Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna Hayward "Twin Nicollette Sheridan (Paige Matheson "Knots and Sheree Wilson (April Ewing Outstanding couple: Jack Wagner and Kristina Malandro (Frisco and Felicia on "General Matthew Ashford and Melissa Breman (Jack and Jennifer "Days of Our and Grant Aleksander and Beth Chamberlain (Phillip and Beth "Guiding Outstanding prime-time soap: "Dallas" "Knots Landing" and "Twin Peaks" Outstanding lead actor: William Devane (Greg Sumner "Knots Joseph Gian (Tom Ryan "Knots and Kyle Mac Lachlan (Dale Cooper "Twin Outstanding lead actress: Michele Lee (Karen Mackenzie "Knots Cathy Podewell (Ca Ily Ewing and Joan Van Ark (Valene Gibson "knots Outstanding supporting actor: ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes Everett McGill (Ed Hurley "Twin and Larry Riley (Frank Williams "Knots Outstanding supporting actress: Madchen Outstanding supporting actress: Julia Barr (Brooke Chandler of All My Darlene Conley (Sally Spectra of The Bold and the and Maureen Garrett (Holly Lindsey "Guiding Outstanding supporting actor: Jordan Clarke (Billy Lewis "Guiding Bradley Lockerman (Shep Casey-Casey Rogers "General and Stephen Schnetzer (Cass Winthrop "Another Outstanding villainess: Lynn Herring (Lucy Quartermaine "General Christopher Norris (Laura Asher "Santa and Sherry Stringfield (Blake Lindsey "Guiding Outstanding villain: Peter Boynton (Tonio Reyes "As the World Kin Shriner (Scott Baldwin "General and Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe "Guiding Outstanding hero: Doug Davidson (Paul Williams "The Young and the Charles Shaughnessy (Shane Donovan "Days of Our and Jack Wagner (Frisco Jones "General Outstanding heroine: Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan "The Bold and 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