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The Sacramento Bee Final Tuesday March 29 1994 D5 TELEVISIONRADIO Arrow 108 aims to win the older rockers Pat Evans A I 1 1 The Channel 31 weather reporter has accepted a job in Dan Cortese left with George Scott and Bill Nunn are homicide detectives struggling with personal and professional dilemmas in Wisehart: Family of cdps Arrow 108 (KXOA 1079 FM) landed in Sacramento over the weekend armed with expectations of striking down classic rocker the Eagle (KSEG 969 FM) and oldies station Cool 101 (KHYL 1011 FM) As expected what had been XTRA 1079 swapped its new Broadcasting aduitcontempo- rarv format for By Dan Vierria a music-inten sive one that targets mostly 1970s rock hits with a few late and early hits thrown in Arrow was born last fall on KCBS in Los Angeles where the format has performed well with adults aged 25 to 54 (ranks No 3) Arrow stands for All Rock Roll Oldies (the is there to finish spelling the word) and among those groups being played on Arrow 108 are Lynyrd Skynyrd Doobie Bros Rolling Stones Beatles Allman Brothers Band and Eagles Over the weekend we also heard hits like Sly and the Family to the and the Really Got To distinguish the arrow format from oldies you hear doo-wop Motown surf songs or romantic ballads (no Bobby Vinton) To distinguish it from classic rock stations like the Eagle you hear songs other than familiar hits Arrow is sort of a semioldies format for the Woodstock generation Arrow 108 had commissioned a research study on its old rock-based adult contemporary format (which was getting clobbered by Y92 (KGBY 925 FM) While there were for the format general manager John Geary said there was much more for listeners Broadcasting bits Channel 31 (KRBKi weather reporter Pat Evans has accepted a weather position at Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE and will leave Channel 31 after the May Nielsen sweeps period Evans will team with former Channel 10 (KXTV) anchor Kim Insley at KARE Bee political columnist Dan Walters will begin hosting his own weekly radio talk show on AM 650 TalkRadio (KSTE) this Saturday from 9-11 am Kirk Uhler who had that schedule slot will move to 3-6 pm Saturdays The station has dropped A1 syndicated afternoon program and Bay Area-based psychiatrist Dr Carla early evening show on Saturdays and will debut a sports talk show from 6-9 pm Initially the sports show will be a nationally syndicated live program from Talk America but station manager Michael Espinoza said looking for a local host for the three-hour block Without its portion of the National Football League package this fall (it went to Fox) CBS affiliate Channel 10 (KXTV) has cancelled the Sports its round-table sports-talk show However program director Bob Montgomery said the station is investigating the feasibility of a Sunday night sports wrap-up show (9 pm Channel 6) will chronicle the Stanford University basketball team and its so-called miracle 1989-90 season the goes behind the scenes from the start of the season to the finish and then tells what has happened to the coaches and players since their championship season DAN column appears Tuesday and Saturday in Scene Write to him at Box 15779 Sacramento 95852 or call (916) 321-1 119 listener acceptance for Arrow we switched to Arrow eventually somebody else would have done said Geary Early last week the station fired morning personality Jim Carmichael and news director Ken Hunt setting up the change Arrow according to Geary will not emphasize air personalities who will be known only by their first names or initials The talent lineup will be JT (Jeff Thomas) Scott (Forrington) and Jacqui (Freeman) in the mornings from am Laura (Joyce) middays from 10 am to 3 pm Tom (Nakashima) from 3-7 pm and Lee (Pitt) from 7 pm to midnight Former evening personality Phil Brooks will be music director and work weekend shifts Y92 Mix 96 (KYMX 961 FM) and the two new adult contemporary stations Smooth Jazz KSSJ (1019 FM) and the Breeze (KQBR 1043 FM) stand to benefit from the format change since they will have one less competitor while the Eagle and Cool 101 can expect a spirited promotional fight Continued from page D1 In between the two generations was another cop father who was killed in the line of duty and grandfather and grandson are always squabbling though that does calm down a bit in the second episode Chris is a bit of a hot dog who think that he needs help especially from his grandfather who is the soul of expmence and wisdom not to mention suspicious of modern methods and modern people probably be tempted to put the entire cast of Friends of under arrest In the past Cortese was so manic that he was virtually impossible to watch Most people first saw him on a series of irritating Burger King commercials -David Letterman used to do hysterical rants against them on his show and later on a remake of that lasted only two episodes In he calms down Maybe the medication kicked in? He still has his irritating ipo-- ments but most of the time resembles a human being! The hulking Scott who bould fill the shadows left by those de-ceased hulksters Raymond Burr and Orson Welles plays his usual gruff and grizzled self leavened by the tenderness he occasionally lets bubble to the surface a Will go anywhere? As" always with a new series the odds are much stacked against it corny at times and there are moments when the relationship' iaj milked for more than worth? But Scott and Cortese make something out of what they have tdr-work with and that should count for something I BOB WISEHART is The Bee's TV cbJurn-mst Write him at The Bee PO 1 1 5779 Sacramento 95852 or call (916) 321-1142 I 1 -t ru Not your typical British crime-solver ON TV Cracker Tonight at 6 and 10 on ings with On April 5 Say I Love introduces mother (character actress Beryl Reid) and pits him against a contemporary Bonnie and Clyde And on April 12 a missing child and an angry crowd highlight Day a Lemming Will Both air at 6 and 10 pm For the record can be something explosive a lying boaster an exceptionally excellent person or thing or someone or something crazy nails them all RESULTS: BEE-ir CLASSIFIER Real Estate 321-1234 By Jean Prescott Knight-Ridder Newspapers At last a loathsome crime-solver we love to hate! We had begun to believe that British television produced complex but only minimally flawed heros inspectors Morse Frost and the like for their superior mystery series Then along comes Eddie Fitzgerald in a three-parter that debuts tonight (6 and 10 pm) on Fitz portrayed with lots of soul but questionable style by Robbie Coltrane is a forensic psychologist who drinks smokes and gambles all to excess So insufferable is his behavior that his wife takes their daughter and leaves him and a teenage son (Kieran in a perpetual state of ennui) on their own Bad move The law relieves Fitz of his investigative duties and are mere hours from charging the suspect when an anonymous but corroborating phone call tips the scales one way for the police and the other for Fitz who already has his doubts about the amnesia guilt The climax is surprising but hardly disappointing American audiences know star Coltrane best from the 1990 comedy film on the with Eric Idle however list of credits is long won a BAFTA (the British Emmy) and the role earned him a Silver Nymph award for best actor at the Monte Carlo Festival just a couple of months ago viewers get two more out With far too much time on his mind and hands to think and indulge the aforementioned excesses Fitz dives into a case of brutal murder in episode Mad Woman in the Three women have been slashed to death the third aboard a train And the only suspect is an amnesia victim discovered unconscious beside the tracks There is gore aplenty There is abusive behavior Even examination of the suspect is brutal in its own fashion but his hammering is tempered with humanity and with the suspect in his protective custody Fitz takes off for the dog track 'u'V S'i I 1 i I IS i A The legends will take swing when debuts TV NOTES also was nominated Reclaiming her son: Rebecca De Mornay stars in a TV movie airing April 25 on ABC De Mornay plays a young Georgia parolee who upon her release from prison defies both her mother and the child welfare system in an attempt to gain custody of the son to whom she gave birth while in jail The two-hour movie is based on a play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman It co-stars Ellen Burstyn Bqe news services Acclaimed producer Ken long-awaited documentary series will play at least two hours each over nine nights each episode is dubbed an from Sept 18-22 and from Sept 25-28 Burns says the story of baseball is the story of America and among the subjects the nine innings will cover are the clash of labor and management the search for heroes the rise of popular culture and the quest for racial justice The exact length of each inning will be known only after the final editing is completed this summer The best of HBO: On April 25 HBO will rebroadcast its two criti-' cally acclaimed original programs Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary which won an Oscar for best documentary feature and Broadcast Tapes of Dr which 2 lU VC 'S yA? -A? 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