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'rrrrrrrr WWW "rpf rn ri The Miami Herald Tuesday January 5 1988 TV-Radio 7C Big Tin ee US networks find news markets abroad Closer Look Date rape CHRISTINE (SHARON Gless) must defend her reputation as well as fight the system when a date with a respected business man turns to date rape Despite her testimony reputation in the community seems spotless and Christine must prove her own innocence as well as his guilt On Cagney Lacey as it moves to its new night at 10 pm on channels 4 11 and 34 Sharon Gless 4 Daytime Highlights 5:30 am Getting in Touch (10) A man who craves attention fear of being lost 7:00 am This Morning (4 11 34) Patrick Swayze baseball's National League President A Bartlett Giamatti 2 hrs Today (7 5 20) Military personnel the controversial chemical lithium Christopher Plummer FBI director William Sessions 2 hrs Good Morning America (10 12 26) Debate over health warnings on alcoholic beverages science fiction authors discuss their collaboration on a new book about the universe Aretha Franklin Allyce Beasley two octogenarian women who row boats as a hobby 2 hrs 9:00 am Wil Shriner (4 12) Party" Kim Fields Soleil Moon Frye fashion consultant Cindy Piccoli comedian Pete Barbut-ti dream analyst Arthur Bernard 1 hr Donahue (10 5 20) Unsuccessful attempts at rekindling old romance 1 hr Movie (6) Always Fair Weather" (1955) Gene Kelly Dan Dailey TV commercializes the reunion of three adventuresome GIs 10 years after V-J Day 2 hrs Hour Magazine (11 34) Lam-le Kazan Arlene Sorkin singles and AIDS sexual fantasies shelter for homeless women and children 1 hr 10:00 am Geraldo (10 12) Female medi- cal-test scandal 1 hr 11:00 am Sally Jessy Raphael (10 12) REPEAT Epstein-Barr virus chronic fatigue and depression 12:30 pm Movie (29) "The (1938-BW) Fredric March Franciska Gaal Pirate Jean La-fitte comes to the aid of General Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812 2 hrs 30 mins 2:00 pm Movie (2) "Second Chorus" (1940-BW) Fred Astaire Paulette Goddard Two trumpet players both interested in the same girl vie for her affections and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra 1 hr 30 mins 5:00 pm Live at Five (7) Determining what is obscene hot vacation spots for 1988 1 hr By JAY SHARBUTT Los Angeles Times Service NEW YORK Imagine watching TV in Paris and Dan Rather comes on You explain to your French friends that this is the CDS Evening News CBS Journal Televise du Soir The friends might rightly be puzzled It is 8 am when Rather signs on Welcome to the expanding universe of global American network news by satellite Although Cable News Network has been in it since 1982 the Big Three of American networks are just now getting involved Reasons cited by network officials for this move include reaching a potential audience of affluent well-educated foreign viewers many in the international business community the easing of foreign restrictions on broadcasting and of course the possibility of earning a few more dollars CBS and ABC newscasts heretofore aired overseas only on the Armed Forces Network began beaming abroad last year ABC in Japan and CBS in Japan France Switzerland Monaco and much of Italy Although officials at each network say these operations money-makers they believe that they have great potential for that NBC now only sending its NBC Nightly News by satellite to a few Atlantic Ocean cruise ships yet plunged into the overseas news race but will get into it too says NBC News president Larry Grossman in Japan Public TV already is in it The MacNeil-Lehrer Newsllour has signed for a year's test run with NHK broadcasting system NHK airs World News Tonight and has broadcast excerpts of Cable News Network programs since 1982 (CNN ventured into Europe in 1985 and says that it now serves 61 countries including 113 hotels in Western Europe and in the London area its half-hour Headline News broadcast) Why would foreign broadcasters want Rather or Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw and their weeknight newscasts? A basic reason says ABC News senior vice president Richard Wald is that is a broad cut of English-speaking population in the business and professional world outside the United and that group while not large is desirable" Foreign broadcasters and advertisers alike he says want them as viewers a point that gets agreement from Sam Roberts a former CBS News foreign editor now running efforts to send Rather Co broadcasts abroad Rather in France getting a very upscale audience people who do business with the United US network anchors Dan Rather Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw are becoming familiar to TV viewers abroad States plus travelers obviously" Roberts says That foreign broadcasters now are trying to import these 22-minute American newscasts is made possible by the easing of government control over broadcasters overseas Roberts says: "Up until the past couple of years television was controled totally by government broadcasters And in each of the countries now getting American programs) they've opened it up to private broadcasting that's where these guys are emerging either in cable or limited facility broadcasting" And he says referring to Europe "I think an astonishingly ripe market developing over there" There is also the matter of language differences But that is not proving a major problem network executives say According to Roberts of CBS astonishing thing to is a finding that a major segment of the French audience watching the CBS Evening News consists of who want to improve their English if you go over there and talk to anybody who deals in international business they all say the same thing that English is the language of the future in Europe" Commercials differ There are differences in the matter of commercials that air overseas in the CBS and ABC newscasts World News Tonight retains its American commercials although ABC is considering proposals to let them be replaced in Japan with local advertising The CDS Evening News on the other hand is sponsored in Europe and Japan with a different set of commercials many of which are aimed at the international business market The MacNeil-Lehrer program aired in the United States without commercials is being broadcast the same way in Japan WSVN names news director Hews Break WSVN-Channel 7 has found its successor to long-time news director Dave Choate who abruptly resigned in December following a dispute with station management Joel Cheatwood most recently assistant news director for WEDS the Scripps-Howard station in Cleveland will sign on as Channel news director beginning Jan 18 WSVN vice president and general manager Bob Leider said this week Prior to his post in Cleveland Cheatwood was news director of WXWX in Richmond Va news director of KMPH in Fresno Calif and executive producer of the nightly news on KPIX in San Francisco He is a graduate of time would be Some of the 123 affiliates have balked at giving up their tried-and-true movie formats for another night of Fox programming as long as Saturday remains weak And based on comments it looks like current Saturday-night offerings Mr President with George Scott and The New Adventures of Beans Baxter will bite the dust Fox will plug in a show based on The Dirty Dozen and a Charlie's Angels update called Angels Meanwhile the fate of the service's new late-night offering The Wilton North Report is uncertain It got off to a terrible start both critically and in the ratings and could be replaced by a series with Arsenio Hall who tried to revive late-night talk show after Joan Rivers evaporated Etc Brooke Adams will play Bruce hormone stimulator in a few episodes of Moonlight ing Peter Wagg exec producer and co-creator of canceled Max Headroom has signed an exclusive two-year production-and-development deal with Warner Bros TV A two-hour pilot is in the works Child Saver starring Alfre Woodard as a hotshot ad executive who puts her life on the line for a young boy involved with drugs (Deon Richmond) will air Jan 18 on NBC California State University with a major in English STEVE SONSKY Change at ABC ABC made the long-expected announcement Monday that it had appointed a new executive producer for World News Tonight its evening newscast with Peter Jennings Paul Friedman 42 who had been the London-based director of news coverage for Europe Africa and the Middle East signs on effective immediately Prior to joining ABC in 1982 as a senior producer in London Friedman was at NBC for 14 years serving as executive producer of Today and for various NBC News magazine shows Friedman reportedly impressed ABC brass and came under consideration for the top World News Tonight post after his efforts as part of a brainstorming assignment to come up with new ideas for formatting the newscast Friedman succeeds Bill Lord who was vice president and executive producer of World News Tonight since April 1984 tenure was notable for his stormy relations with anchorman Jennings with whom he had several highly publicized clashes over story selection and news judgment ABC has not yet announced in what capacity if any Lord will stay on with the network STEVE SONSKY Fox delays plans Fox Broadcasting Co spokesman Michael Binkow confirms that the so-called fourth network won't start a third night of programming this spring as planned because of dissatisfaction with the Saturday night schedule Programming chief Garth An-cier told Electronic Media magazine in a recent interview that the addition of a third night of prime Radio Highlights Bill McQuage 10 am WIOD (AM 610) At 12:30 George Depontis former campaign coordinator for Gary Hart discusses Hart's comeback Focus on Your Investments 1:05 pm WSBR (AM 740) Eliot Pearson editor of the Silver Barron and Stocks USA from Reno Nev Al Rantel 3 pm WNWS (AM 790) Image consultant Shirley Peters Alan Beshany 4 pm WVCG (AM 1080) Larry Williams of the Commodities Times Newsletter Debbie Ellis 7 pm WNWS (AM 790) Fred Hayward of Rights Inc Chicago Symphony Orchestra 8 pm WTMI (FM 931) Lorin Maazel conducts music by Hindemith and Mahler Jerry Wichner 9 pm WNWS (AM 790) Tom Parker author of "Rules of Thumb Larry King 11 pm WKAT (AM 1360) and WPBR (AM 1340) Guest host Jim Bohannon Guest: Media analyst Stephen Hess Craig Worthing 1 am WNWS (AM 790) Topic: Crime Our 75th Year STONE CRAB RESTAURANT it SLAFOOD STEAKS HOPS 1 ravelHohday Magamr Award every saux IWl londa first restaurant lo receive HALL OF FAME AWARD Prevented by Nations Restaurant News Lunch Tuesday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 2 Dinner served every niht 5 to 10 pm TLILPHONE 671-0365 ()rt ixk RttjuiaJ CORN! 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