The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 17

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Saturday April 2 1988 T7A Changes In The Air At News By JEFF BORDEN Radio TV Wrttor Moving day approaches for one of the focal points of the revamped edition of on WPCQ (channel 36) When the station expands its newscast to an hour at 5:30 April 25 it will unveil a new team of anchors And those anchors will be perched on a new set red white and blue Now the set lies in pieces inside Studio Displays Inc a Charlotte firm that builds convention displays and trade show booths Thursday it will be loaded onto a 30-foot truck and hauled to the channel 36 studios on Hood Road for installation Along with the new faces anchors Tom Miller and Jesse Johnson Sports Director Jim Ce-lania and a weather forecaster still to be hired the set symbolizes a clean break with the older version of which has been a distant third in the ratings since it premiered in September 1 986 does break with the said Jeff Davidson vice president and general manager of WPCQ the old one looked like art deco This is going to be a much nicer The anchors will sit at a curved desk Directly behind them will be murals of the Charlotte skyline To the left will be a mural of the new coliseum To the right a mural of CharlottcDouglas International Airport Davidson reveal the cost of the set Farther to the right of the set will be a room containing meteorological equipment but the forecaster be seen there The station is installing a patio outside the west wall of the building The forecaster will deliver all reports from there care if raining snowing sleeting or foggy gonna be out Davidson said Animated logos costing $30000 will open and close the revamped broadcast New theme music recorded in Atlanta has also been purchased Asked how much the musical theme cost Davidson replied Meantime Davidson said the staff of the weekend newscast has been set It will air at 1 1 pm Saturday and Sunday starting Apnl 30 Assistant News Director Karen Adams will team with Rick Jack-son a reporter at channel 36 who was named weekend anchor last week Larry Sprinkle who has been filling in as weather forecaster since the departure of Russ Frye will do the weather Hannah Storm a sports reporter from Houston will do sports Davidson said weekend reports earlier in the evening will be added later in the year i I CBS Axes Comedies NEW YORK (AP) CBS is dropping its low-rated Tuesday lineup of comedies and putting back in its Monday night time period The critically acclaimed was spared the ax and will return to the schedule shortly CBS said It had been moved from Monday to Tuesday id the schedule shake-up last month will replace on Mondays but also will return soon CBS said and of and Sister have had their last Tuesday broadcasts and CBS announced no plans to bring them back Those comedies and were the four lowest-rated network shows last Nielsens CBS will replace the Tuesday lineup with theatrical movies the meantime and the detective senes will return Apnl 26 nnaaHBrcoupoN iBHflBHBi TV Ratings Gardini BEEF-H-CHEDDAR ONLY TOP 10 The national ratings for the week ending Sunday compiled by the AC Nielsen Co 1 Cosby NBC (1) 2 Different NBC (2) 3 NBC (3) 4 She CBS (9) 5 The Boss?" 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