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we figure if he had lived to eat them for the past decade he would be the biggest star in show biz today About as big as say Iowa Peanut butter and banana are good together But the semiofficial food of the OutFront column peanut butter and jelly first got together oh we don't know Years ago III ''4': iiF' '4 (') 4 i 1 Isk By JEFF BORDEN RadioTelevision Writer IFor the first time in 20 years Charlotte is getting a new full-power television station WJZY (channel 46) an independent licensed in Belmont with studios at 3501 Performance Rd in Charlotte arrives two years after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted its license request It's the area's fifth commercial station airing a schedule heavy with movies network reruns including "Star Trek" "Hawaii Five-0" and "Knight Rider" and first-run children's programs such as "Dinosaucers" and "Marshall Bravestarr" Since March WJZY has been airing two commercial-free movies from 7 to 11 each night On Wednesday it expanded its commercial-free movies to 9 am to 11 pm It will also be added to most of the cable television companies serving the Piedmont Next Wednesday channel 46 becomes a full-fledged station it will air commercials along with its 1912 hours of regular daily programming WJZY has a 5 million-watt signal broadcast from a 2000-foot tower near Dallas NC will reach more viewers than any Charlotte station except WBTV (channel 3) Its radius will be roughly 70 miles bounded by Boone Asheboro Winnsboro SC and Asheville The station will stress its Independent status and its library of films especially recent releases including "The Woman in Red" "The Mean Season" "Ghoulies" "The Falcon and the Snowman" and "To Be or Not To Be" "We got In early with our film purchases signing agreements long before we were on the air" said general manager Mark Conrad 48 "Nobody is going to be able to touch our titles The only people who are going to be showing more movies than us is HBO" In all the station will air 31 movies per week By fall Conrad said the station will offer brief news and weather updates during prime-time programs By next year he added WJZY could field a local news operation Airing a week of films without commercials effectively promotes the station as a movie center but it's really a concession to area cable TV firms and will cost WJZY about $30000 Some cable services including Cablevision of Charlotte are dropping out-of-town stations to make room for channel 46 If they continued to carry an out-of-town station for even one day in July the cable companies would have had to pay a fee to the Copyright Royalty Tribunal a federal agency that collects a percentage of gross profits for distribution to copyright holders Cablevision of Charlotte for example would've had to pay $500000 to $600000 said President Jeff King What WJZY did was push up its official sign-on date by a week to help out the cable firms "I'm burning off product (movies) that ordinarily I'd use later in the year" Conrad said "We'll have to buy more inventory but it was worth it We have a strong working relationship with the cable systems Half the homes here are (served by cable) If I came in and blew a quarter of a million dollars on promotion and publicity and half the people couldn't receive us it would be a waste" WIZY is owned by Metro-Crescent Communications Inc a local broadcast group that includes Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt Metro-Crescent was awarded the license for channel 46 in 1985 but last year sold 49 of the station to Capitol Broadcasting See NEW Next Page By JEFF BORDEN RadioTelevision Wrtter or the getting a new full-power television station first time in 20 years Charlotte is WJZY (channel 46) an independent li censed in Belmont with studios at 3501 (FCC) granted its license request It's the area's fifth commercial station airing a cschihdiednug le heavy shtarTrewkith movies Hawaii Five andKnigihn-t Rider" and first-run children's programs such as "Dinosaucers" and "Marshall Bravestarr" Since March WJZY has been airing two commer- cial-free movies from 7 to II each night On Wednesday it expanded its commercial-free movies to 9 am to II pm It will also be added to most of the cable television companies serving the Piedmont Next Wednesday channel 46 becomes a full fledged station it will air commercials along with its 1912 hours of regular daily programming WJZY has a 5 million-watt signal broadcast from a 2000-foot tower near Dallas NC will reach more viewers than any Charlotte station except WBTV (channel 3) Its radius will be roughly 70 miles bounded by Boone Asheboro Winnsboro SC and Asheville The station will stress its independent status and its library of films especially recent releases inuct ing "The Woman in Red" "The Mean Season "Ghoulies" "The Falcon and the Snowman" and "To Be or Not To Be" "We got in early with our film purchases signing agreements long before we were on the air" said WRY Program Schedule WEEKDAY Icky Hickey: It's official nothing that's fun is safe We've long known that everything we can eat or drink causes cancer heart disease and fallen arches Then we found that sex spread AIDS Scratch that pastime Now they say even the innocent flirtations of high school dances and old Ford coupes will get you Hickeys spread herpes Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine reports the case of a man age 22 who reported an inch-wide swollen blistered spot on his neck for several days after his girlfriend gave him a hickey there In the sore area doctors found herpes simplex virus type I the variety that causes cold sores and fever blisters The other common variety type 2 causes genital herpes "Even hickeys are not totally innocuous" wrote Dr Nester del Rosario of Eastern Virginia Medical School MI 3:30 OGOOMMOM rts 4:30 PO M110000 Jet SO 8 Porky Pig Friends 7 am OOOOOO Jetscms 7:30 Inspector Gadget 8 am 10000110000 Heathcliff 8:30 cm OOOOOOOO OOOOOOOO MIMI Supertriends 5 -Superman 5:30 It To Beaver 6 pm 000011160-0 Wonder Woman 7 pm OOOOOO 1100 Kung Fu 8 pm-------- Hawaii Five-0 9 am Morning Movie 11 Masterson 11:30 am Noon Have Gun Will Travel 12:30 pm Afternoon Matinee 2:30 pm Porky Pig Friends 3 ----inspector Gadget 11 PM00WII0 Wanted: Dead or Alive 11:30 pan-------- Night Owl Movie pm- Big Monster Movie 6 sm------------Porky Pig Friends 7 cm-- Oa Bionic Six 7:30 sm--------Superman 8 9 am----------Maverick 3 pm- Black Belt Theater 5 pm---- Alias Smith Jones 7 pm-- Star Trek (through 1 am July 11 only) 10 aMOM0000000600 Wrestling 9 9 lock Movie 11 cm OOOOO 11086eineOW0000000011 Three Stooges Noon Tarzan Movie 11 pm-------- Midnight Madness Movie UNDAY Live Long Prosper: Residents of Hawaii famous for sun and fun have the nation's longest life expectancy Residents of Washington famous for government and lawyers have the shortest The figures are from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co which says the average life expectancy for the whole country is 739 years People in Minnesota Iowa and Utah live considerably longer than average they say and those in South Carolina Georgia and West Virginia fall far short (On the other hand It seems longer in South Carolina) Doug Robarchek 3 Cinema II Porky Pig Friends 5 pm Grizzly Adams 8 pm--Star Trek 7 pm Sunday Night Movie 11 pm-- Sunday Late Movie Compiled By Dave White Three Stooges 10 am Abbott Costello Theatre 11:30 --Comedy Classic ----Sunday Cinema.