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Coe Antriee Mmes Wednesday January 5 I983Part VI 7 (f) Comedy 0 What's Happening NONVIOLENT TV CABLE SOUGHT WEDNESDAY'S TV PROGRAMS MIA I 0 Battle Education AH Creatures Great and Small (F) Wall Steet Final (19 Today's Financial Final a Over Magazine eD Los Angeles Ahora (I) Praise the Lord a) Here's to Your Health (1) Best of Cover to Cover CA) Popeye Cartoons 0) All in the family AS Family Classics Elia Oriental Cooking (24) Images in Watercolors (ID Una Limosna de Amor a) Magic of Oil Painting (56) QD Children the Early Years 3:00 Barnaby (1) Happy Days Again 0 Starsky A Hutch Scili Cartoons 0 ABC Afterschool Special At 4414 "She Drinks a Little" (I) Mery 0 ijg Laverne A Shirley (1) The 0 Karnival TS) Sesame Street 0 Investment Tactics Stocks a Everyday Cooking CD The Growing Years CD Andrea 0 Soap World a) Praise the Lord a) Inside Orange County (56) Cartoons at) Personal Time Management GI) 01 ABC Afterschool Special CO Bugs el The People's Court 0 Quarter Horse Racing CrIli Kathy's Kitchen CD Project Universe a Hour Magazine (a) Here's to Your Health ea Electric Company 4:00 fi Barney 13 Perkins 0 Twilight Zone C) Scooby 0 Lund CHAMPAIGN Ill UPI A nonviolent movie channel is needed on cable television as an alternative to the violence-prone programming on many subscription channels a citizens group fighting TV violence says The National Coalition on Television Violence headquartered in Washington and Champaign said HBO Showtime and The Movie Channel all show movies with "extremely high rates of violence" "The monitoring of two months of summer and fall prime-time programming on each of the three leading home pay-cable movie channels found an average of 22 acts of physical violence per hour over the entire period" coalition chairman Thomas Radecki said The group's report said programming on those channels was 300 more violent than network television during the same period Radecki warned that pay-cable movie violence is the "most dangerous trend toward the increasing use of entertainment violence in America today" Many popular films fall into the nonviolent category he said including "On Golden Pond" "Chariots of Fire" "ET" "Gandhi" "Das Boot" "Ktamer vs Kramer" and "Ordinary People" "The simple formation of a cable movie channel with equal access to all nonviolent films at a fair market price along with the requirement that this channel be made available to the public at any time that one of these hyper-violent channels is offered would go a long way to correcting this problem" said Radecki "Let's give the American people a fair and honest choice" he said Radecki also criticized the movie rating system that allows violent movies to be shown on subscription television HBO he said has a policy of not carrying X-rated movies But many violent movies have been rated by the movie industry into a category assuring access to young people he said "If these extremely violent and sexually violent movies were appropriately rated the public would be warned" Radecki said T5) "Unsettled Cities" 0 Stocks Business News Learn Earn Report a) Executive Report a) TBN Religion a) Electric Company I MOO 0 (1) The Price Is Right 031 Wheel of Fortune 0 (3) Big Boat a) Mission: Impossible 0 It "June Wayne: The Dorothy Series" 0 Commodities Stocks 0 Commodity Comments investment Tactics a Mister Rogers 12) Classroom Instruction Ca Monde Latino CID Get in Shape a) instructional Programming a) Read All About It Art Corner 10:30 (3 a Hit 0 Love American Style 03 Are You Listening? 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MERV NOW AT TODAYDurk Pearson's BEST HOME REMEDIES a) Mery 0 The flintstones 0 Financial Wrapup fp a Mister Rogers (fa Luisana Mia a) Always Abounding a) Sesame Street (56) Land of the Giants fp Eat Well Be Well 0 Chung a) Get Entertainment Tonight a-) Happy Bays Again g) la What's Happening (10) The People Court 00 Super Friends (14) a) Electric Company 0 Solutions 13 CI Sesame Street OD Captain Andy 11) Raisin' Up 5:00 if) 0 0 "Reagan News Conference" ummj Live coverage (1) Eight Is Enough 0 Little House on the Prairie C) Battlestar Galactica 0 The White (I) One Day at a Time ao (DB ig Powerhouse 0 News Watch 18 Ken Connolly ca show Buxton a) Life Anew (56) Orange County at the Mall 0 George Kenna 5:30 0 0 0 News The leffersons (E) (E) Over Easy -0 Nye Please Turn to Page HON WILLIAM WEBSTER Director of the Eat HON POTTER STEWART Justice (retired) US Supreme Court FRED FRIENDLY Professor of Journalism Columbia University L1 A 0' DIM Continued from First Page feeling that if I organized a demonstration against TV coverage of demonstrations TV would cover that too For an inaugural effort the hour contained relatively few glitches The only major one I noticed was a Channel 11 reporter doing a voice-over narration simultaneously with a film story being reported by someone else That's one novel way to expand coverage do stories simultaneously New anchorman Bill Matz from KG0 in San Francisco) is smooth pleasant and likable as was his predecessor the freshly fired George Reading I was sorry to see Reading go Not only was he among the more credible news anchors in town he also did a piece of able reporting from time to time That didn't save his job though indicating that the most important item in an anchor's arsenal is not the ability to report but the ability to smile and be loved It was Reading's misfortune to be point man in a newscast that made only a minimal dent in the market and sometimes seemed to be planned the way sandlot footballers call plays in the huddle Send everyone deep then throw a pass and will catch The US has been secretly training exiles from Sierra Madre to invade that hypothetical country and destabilize the government A source leaks the news to a reporter working in a Washington newspaper bureau What right does the American public have to this information? 'k 440- vottfr: yE1 0 gi 0 Vi Et it SCHLESINGER Former Secretary of Defense BRIT HUME Correspondent ABC News HODDING CARTER III Former Assistant Secretary of State I (:::: 1' '144t-1 --Aaltla --3 11 HON ORRIN HATCH US Senator State of Utah HOWARD SIMONS Managing Editor The Washington Post HON US JAMES The new weatherman meanwhile is Bill Austin from KTBC in Austin Tex) who told viewers what was "shakin' with the weather and the new sportscaster replacing Gil Stratton) is Andy Leopold from WBRZ in Baton Rouge La whose corner of the newsroom set is called "Sports Central" Leopold gave a generally credible sportscast He also announced "Sports Sound Off" a regular feature that will give viewers the opportunity to have their gripes voiced on Channel 11 even when they're about Leopold Here's mine: I'm tired of hearing Rams Coach Ray Malavasi's win over the 49ers described by sports reporters like Leopold as "possibly his last" Rams victory because he may be fired If there is attribution for that speculation fine then state it But to keep throwing it out there as fact and go on to something else is irresponsible rumor-mongering Also Andy will be some kind of sportscaster if he stops saying when referring to a football game "some kind of defense" However the "new Channel 11 news" is some kind of newscast But what kind? Film at 10 HON GRIFFIN a BELL Former US Attorney General DAN RATHER Managing Editor CBS Evening News noom VAN GORDON SAUTER President CBS News '''''N: :::4:::: ROBERT BORK JACK NELSON HON HARRY EDWARDS HON FRANK McGARR Circuit Judge Washington Bureau Chief Circuit Judge Chief Judge Court of Appeals Los Angeles Times US Court of Appeals US District Court LYLE DENNISION Supreme Court Reporter The (Baltimore) Sun MAX FRANKEL Editor Editorial Page The New York Times 0: -C44 -iiiiimii 4: itiiiiii: Itiii A gMe 4' 1 e7 111 TELEVISION RATINGS PHILIP BUCHEN Former Counsel to President Ford HON HANS A LINDE FLOYD ABRAMS Justice Attorney Oregon Supreme Court Cahill Gordon Reindel SAMUEL SKINNER Attorney Sid ley Austin Don't expect a polite discussion Starting with an not too far from real Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr stimulates some surprising answers from the distinguished panel You'll find yourself on one side of an issue only to have your mind turned around the next minute The Constitution: That Delicate Balance a special series presented by The Media and Society Seminars includes three other broadcasts on the subjects of Criminal Justice moderated by Professor Charles Nesson Harvard Law School School Prayer Gun Control and Protest moderated by Professor Arthur Miller Harvard Law School and Reverse Discrimination and Affirmative Action moderated by Attorney Tyrone Brown Commentary on all four broadcasts Nywill be provided by Retired US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart The four programs are to be included in a projected thirteen-part television series and college-level resource on constitutional issues made possible with a grant from The Corporation for Public Broad- castingThe Annenberg School of Communications Project (CPBASC) Additional funding for the first four broadcasts is provided by The Times Mirror Company The CPBASC's goals are to create innovative high-quality college-level materials to demonstrate the use of telecommunications in bringing about unique higher education opportunities 38 Benson 39 Quincy 41 FParitvheetrel 42: Fat i Gu) 43 Malt Hi 44 Square 45 Cagney 46 Cheers ABC NBC NBC CBS ABC ABC CBS CBS NBC 151 151 131 151 159 149 147 145 144 39 Quincy MI NBC 40 Father Murphy NBC 41 Private Benjamin CBS 42 Fall Guy ABC 43 Matt Houston ABC 44 Square Pegs CBS 45 Cagney Lacey CBS 46 Cheers NBC 47 Seven Brides Seven Brothers CBS 48 Rose Bowl Postgame NBC 49 "Miss All-American Beauty" CBS 50 Gator Bowl ABC 51 Fame NBC 52 Sugar Bowl Pregame ABC 53 Bring 'Em Back Alive CBS 54 Dukes of Hazzard CBS 55 New Odd Couple ABC 56 Tales of the Gold Monkey ABC 57 Knight Rider NBC 58 Gavilan NBC 59 Orange Parade NBC 60 "Asbestos: The Way to Dusty Death ABC 61 "Secrets-Bermuda Triangle" NBC 62 Voyagers' NBC 63 Orange Bowl Game NBC 64 "Reagan at Midterm" NBC 65 The Ivory Ape- ABC 137 136 135 133 133 132 130 129 129 119 117 113 109 ABC 104 98 89 87 84 The following are the top-rated programs in Los Angeles for the week Dec 25-31 as compiled by Arbitron Co Here are the ratings for national prime-time television last week (Dec 27-Jan 3) as compiled by the A Nielsen Co Each rating point is said by Nielsen to repro- sent 833000 homes or 1 of the 838 million US households that have Tv Net- Rat-work ing Program 1 60 Minutes CBS 2 Sugar Bowl (6) ABC 3 Hart To Hart ABC 4 One Day At A Time CBS 5 Jefferson CBS 6 Gloria CBS 7 Three's Company ABC 8 The Black Stallion CBS 9 Rose Bowl (Conclusion) NBC 10 Magnum PI CBS 11 Archie Bunker's Place CBS 12 NFL Game 2 CBS 13 9 To 5 ABC 14 Simon Simon CBS 15 MASH CBS 16 Dynasty ABC 17 Hill Street Blues NBC 18 "Skeezer" NBC 19 Little House New Beginning NBC 20 Trapper John MD CBS 21 "Live And Let Die ABC 22 NFL Monday Night Football ABC 23 Newhart CBS 24 Dallas CBS 25 Walt Disney CBS 26 Happy Days ABC 27 Facts Of Life NBC 28 Real People NBC 29 Laverne Shirley ABC 30 Family Ties NBC 31 Falcon Crest CBS 32 Knots Landing CBS 33 Taxi NBC 34 CHIPs NBC 35 "Mazes and Monsters" CBS ABC ABC CBS CBS CBS ABC CBS 288 244 241 236 234 224 215 211 21 0 20 7 20 6 203 20 2 19 9 195 493 192 191 190 18 9 187 186 185 183 179 179 179 173 170 170 166 16 3 16 2 16 1 IT ratE 00) AT 121110aq12 BALA J12 4'do 0 0 Rogn HAT Sta- Rat-Program tiOn 1 BO Minutes KNXT 23 2 Magnum Pt KNXT 21 Simon Simon KNXT 21 4 NFL Monday Night Football (ABC 19 Three's Company (ABC 19 6 Facts ot Lite KNBC 18 9 to 5 KABC 18 8 Dynasty (ABC 17 Happy Days (ABC 17 Hart to Hart KABC 17 The Love Boat KABC 17 NFL Football KNXT 17 A production of Media and Society Seminars Graduate School of Journalism Columbia University in association with WITW11 Chicago and WNET13 New York CBS 15 6 NBC 154 ABC 152 36 "Cocaine And Blue Eyes" 37 Ripley's Believe It Or Not.