The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 472

TV-RADI04C BOB SWIFT2C MOVIE TIMES5C LIVELY ARTS6C Thursday June 9 1988 IS! going on at Channel to 7 Affiliation swaps in other markets have diffused viewer to local newscasts and so all stations are trying to strengthen their news product before the swap occurs While acknowledging that catalyst WSVN General Manager Bob Leider says simpler than that He says the changes would have happened at his station even if NBC had not bought WTVJ He attributes them mostly to the hiring of a new news director who thought changes were necessary to improve the newscast something other broadcasters and critics have been rreCHANNEL7 4C WSVN was for years seemingly content with journalistic and ratings mediocrity so long as costs were kept down and profits fueled in recent times by the success of NBC kept rolling in So why all the changes now? The X-factor that has triggered much of the upheaval in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market in the past month is the imminent network affiliation change Between now and Jan 1 NBC will move its programming from Channel 7 to WTJV-Channel 4 which it now owns nless 7 wants to become an independent station and suffer an enormous drop in value it will resolve its differences with the CBS network and CBS programming will move from 4 Jettisoned from WSVN-Channel 7: Peter Ford Frank Robertson Julie Feldman Peter Lundquist Cecelia Fernandez Dr John Miller Don Dare and numerous behind-the-scenes personnel Resigned: Jill Beach Brett Lewis Doug Vaughn long-time news director Dave Choate and just Wednesday reporter Tom Berman This Reign of error follows a Reign of Error that long made WSVN-Channel 7's news product third-rated and third-rate In trying to figure out whether things are changing for the better or whether the deck chairs (and anchors) are merely being re-arranged on a video Titanic one needs to consider the possible reasons for all the sudden waves STEVE SQNSKY TELEVISION Onetime co-anchors Peter Ford and Sally Fitz: Word is they turned each Parents need I just thought I could make a difference what everybody says Kathleen Magrath the first politician in my family Maybe the a summer vacation too almost over! counting down the days with my kids had it with homework Over the past nine months collected rainwater charted cloud formations sewed hand puppets one to look like a CPA the other an obstetrician for the do you want to be when you grow career project practiced long division had marathon spelling bees supervised construction of a papier mache volcano probably good enough to rumble right along with Mount St Helens I think of summer as sane time a 1 0-week break from scheduling from mountains of homework from forgotten field trip money from my droning on about being prepared from cranky kids tired from a full day of school afterschool day care after-school activities and errands weary from negotiating school night bedtimes George Shultz devise a concession tempting enough to get my twins to give up watching Growing Painsand hit the sack And waking up two sleeping beauties takes more strength than Mighty Mouse could possess except of course on Saturday and Sunday when my kids rise at dawn to catch the cartoons Enough with bagging turkey sandwiches and frozen boxes of Lite Hawaiian Punch going to let the kids bag their own feasts for day camp You can bet eat only Cheetos Oreos and grapes during July and August So what? expect to smell meat loaf in our oven again until September This summer going to fill a giant bowl with vegetables each Sunday night and let the gang build personalized salads from whatever they can find in the refrigerator or pantry Grilled-cheese sandwiches on rye bread are about as fancy as get I see summer as a break not just for kids but for mom and dad too wo months of evening bike rides trips to the library for easy-reading books even find some to read aloud because my kids still get a kick out of listening to stories rent videos go to twilight-priced movies even allow bedtime curfew to slide and go to Baskin-Robbins for scoops of cappuccino chip ice cream This summer determined not to argue with or listen to whining from anyone under five feet tall Gary Coats a Fort Lauderdale psychologist and director of the Adolescent Achievement Center says summer is a time to loosen up but not give free rein especially to teen-agers the summer school is not predominant in life with Coats says the top of the list are pleasure and enjoyment Parents have to play a role in providing structure for that fun not a good time for most kids to have carte If summer school is not in the picture Coats suggests a summer camp program for younger children check with your county parks department Girl Scout or Boy Scout councils or local YMCAYWCA for reasonably priced activities and some work-related activities for teens need a Coats says they want to live Without some planning many kids will spend their summers watching the soaps or worse Coats say and get into trouble need right now to be talking out some summer plans with their he says Get kids involved completing projects around the house painting or re- Pleaseturnto PARENTS 3C ERICABERGER Miami Herald Staff i Her hand rests Former Dade School Board member Kathleen Magrath says family and friends helped pull her through on her shoulder a a st By MARGARIA FICHTNER Herald Staff Writer "If I were trying to write a novel about the school system or local politics I would never have written Kathy into that kind of says school board member Janet McAliley who has known Magrath since they were both PT A volunteers in the early Although she still will not clarify why the alarm bells failed to go off over the dubious propriety of San money and how she could have got into such a mess in the first place Magrath will say this: about campaigning the thing Winning is everything You get so tired so tired ah political corrupter Less than a month later she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a probation and 350 hours of community service When San Pedro was arrested police dubbed him great for his bragging of all the officials he had bought off The names that cropped up in his police-taped conversations included those of commissioners legislators judges a police chief and a TV reporter South Florida braced for a blowup of historic proportions et Magrath remains the sole elected official to be disciplined The scandal was a reeling disappointment for this soft-spoken mother of six a former Nebraska 4-H queen well-known for her activism on social issues and her long record of front-line community service basically happy with my life B9 Tf she says think that my faith has become stronger al ways had a very strong faith but I think that I put things in perspec-tiv better now really important like family and On Aug 18 1 986 after serving slightly less than half a term on the Dade County School Board Kathleen Magrath resigned amid charges she illegally had accepted and failed to report two cash campaign contributions over the 1 00 legal limit from Alberto San Pedro the mouthy Hiale Please turn foMAGRATII 3C ass anics MTV to aim show at Nealon says Fuentes plucked from a field of 300 candidates wanted it so badly and I think why I got says MTV Inter-nacionalisan important progression in Hispanic programming MTV Internacional'is yet another attempt by MTV to expand its broadcasting domain MTV started a European version of its network last year MTV is also syndicated in the Japanese and Australian TV markets Levinson says MTVInte rnacionalwiW be syndicated to every Latin American beginning midsummer Even Cuba? Levinson says "You would name a where we aren't going yet But working on sound like Noel be huge for us and Emmanuel will also be heavily Henry Silverman president of the e-lemundo elevision Group says MTV I n-ternacionalcan be seen on WSC V-Chan-nel 5 1 beginning at 9 pm July 8 The show will air at 9 pm Fridays and 6 pm Saturdays seen the pilot and Silverman says Anchoring the show are two Spanish-Americans Daisy Fuentes 2 1 discovered reading the news on a New York Spanish-language station and New York actor Eddie rucco 23 MTV Interna-cionalwiW be filmed in New York says Nealon Fuentes and rucco will interview new and established artists if an interne with Madonna we would subtitle it in Spanish particularly for the Latin American By RYAN MURPHY Herald Writer MTV will launch an hourlong syndicated program catering to Spanish-speaking audiences in the nited States and Latin America next month The program titled MTV Intcrnacion-al could expand to a 24-hour format if the demand is there said Sara Levinson executive vice president of new business development The program will feature lively mix of international sounds and styles" says Liz Nealon vice president of international business be playing heavy metal on this program It will be a dance-music-ori-ented show Artists like Madonna and Lisa Lisa will get heavy video rotation New Hispanic artists with a broad international Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam videos will provide some of the dance music Emmanuel will be heavily featured on the new program.