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fer 0 Achenboch 2 erg ON I DAV Achenboch 2 NEWS OBSERVER MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4 1995 TV 4 Comics 8 Horoscope 9 111111111 11 DEAN PHILLIPS vi mTH and the s4 next genet The patr It 7 1s' '1 1 44 s' 1 THE and the next The 401 j- 'c I t- 1 7 '--N th S'N I klf 4t I' 't 7 hey've been rehearsing for the better part of a month at WNCN just waiting for the moment tonight when "Doogie Bowser" goes off That's when television news at least according to the people and the mike flags signs on the cars at Channel 17 enters the generation patriarch of this "New Generation of News" is Ron Bilek For the last year or so the station's news director has been assembling a cast and crew that will try to finally make NBC a player among Raleigh-Durham news operations The station has spent $75 million in the last year most of it to get a viable newscast on the air When NCN launches tonight at 7 U0 13 people will know it's different "from the opening shot" MO says anchor Dean WNCN BOB people will Know it's the opening shot" LANGFORD says anchor Dean LISA SPENCER PREVIOUS MARKET The Weather Channel NORTH CAROLINA TIE LISA SPENCER PREVIOUS MARKET The Weather Channel NORTH CAROLINA TIE xs7- A I 7 7t- i4 KJ: 4' i i- PREVIOUS MARKET he Weather Channel NORTH CAROLINA TIE 'i: ti 4 4 e' 444 7771 dolt None COLLEGE Memphis University 04 6- i 11' None COLLEGE Memphis University None COLLEGE Memphis University How? Three anchors: two male one female II No sports anchor II The control room is in the studio becomes a player tonight WHAT NEWS "Liked her NEW L( THE I 3 The wardrobe is supplied by Banana Republic mn ith 1 6I irs Why the effort to be different? First WNCN figures it has to newscast distinguish itself from its main competitors WRAL and WTVD The station "You can't come into a marketplace where two guys have been promises doing news for 30 years and do the same thing they're doing it Won't be and make any impact whatsoever" Bilek says the same The station is also looking for something different to reach its old story target demographic viewers 25 to 40 And WNCN executives figure TV news needs some changing NI Bilek says TV news has developed lots of technology but has forgotten about the art of communicating with the viewer "Television gives you news you can use in a structured almost unpalatable way" he says "A bunch of words" He doesn't want his anchors AI to just give the facts of say a fire He wants them to talk to the viewer like they would talk to a guy on the corner "You'd say 'Man I went to that fire this afternoon and it was the biggest thing I've ever seen'" So expect WNCN's news to be very conversational as newscasters walk around yes walk around the new funky set in their casual Banana Republic clothes and show more of their personalities Phillips for example will do something called "Our Nightly Juice" It's an update on the OJ trial but with an edge He says it falls somewhere between news and commentary "I'm allowed and encouraged to be irreverent" he says "To talk about it in a way that I know the people at home are talking about it" Phillips says this new generation is closer to the generation once removed "It's very much getting back to the roots of news when it started" Phillips says "It was an experiment But it's not a sideshow it's not a carnival We're still covering the news" Three of the anchors have North Carolina ties Ann Halloran was born at Fort Bragg Art Edwards worked as a reporter and anchor at WRAL from 1989 to '92 and Phillips anchored in New Bern from 1986 to '90 Lisa Spencer decided to leave The Weather Channel for WNCN even before it was bought by NBC In the end she just wanted to get back to a local station "As much as I liked The Weather Channel and I still watch them faithfully it's a very sterile environment You're there in the studio all night long" Spencer a meteorologist says with a smile that the difference she brings to the market's weather pattern is obvious "I'm the only woman in this market doing weather Twenty years or so ago there were lots of women doing weather Well maybe reading weather is a better way to put it "There were very attractive women who had no idea what they were talking about" Spencer says 'And that's been a hard thing to combat Because if with its first newscag The station promises it won't be the same old story AT AT What's Mick Jagger really singing about in 'Beast of Burden'? Are you 4 at a loss PREVIOUS MARKET i Atlanta i i for words? NORTH CAROLINA TIE Anchored in New Bern i BY LORETTA GRANTILM COX NEWS SERVICE COLLEGE i George Mason University ou've done this i You've sung alo ng to DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HER WHAT NEWS DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HIM a song maybe in the i' on The Weather Channel" Has a distinctive style shower maybe in rush i hour and you've ii sung along wrong Thing is you were gleefully ignorant And that's the hoot 0 0' 11( Been thinking Eric Clapton's "Lay Down Sally" was "Way Down Been crooning "the ants are my friends they're blowin' in the wind" to Bob Dylan? You're not a loon er alone "I used to think it was just me" said Gavin Edwards author of 'Scuse Me While i Kiss This Guy and Other heard Lyrics" (Fireside $895) "But when we ran a few as a column in Details magazine we IIRT got a huge response People Details contribut- ing editor started compiling His book memorializes the line 'scuse me while I kiss the sky" in Jirni Hendrix's "Purple i i ii Haze" "It started for me with 'Row Row Row Your Boat' says riw 4 Edwards 26 "I was convinced that the line was 'life's a butter i -Tf: Or- dream' Obviously dairy prod- 77 ucts were crucial to me as a i i 0''' child" -4'- A yi" N'sA Well he's certainly milking ''N: 't s'': '''''''''''''''''7' f'' this idea Here are 10 misheard Nc lyrics Can you sing the correct line and name the song? 1) "I'll never leave your pizza -7'''''''''' 4 burnin'" The Rolling Stones IALA1 tooc 2) "Slow motion Walter fire- engine guy" Deep Purple 3) "The girl with colitis goes 4-: by" The Beatles ih''iiF-'-'-4fi: 4) "Mice aroma" The Knack 5) "Baby I'm a warm shoe Baby I'm a neat shoe" Bread 6) "Baking carrot biscuits" i PREVIOUS MARKET l'i: PREVIOUS MARKET Bachman-Turner Overdrive Cleveland Providence RI i 7) "Keep it common law" KC and the Sunshine Band NORTH CAROLINA TIE NORTH CAROLINA TIE i 8) "There's a bathroom on the right" Creedence Clearwater Ichorireporter at Born at Fort Bragg Revival i COLLEGE COLLEGE i 9) "She sees a hat rack is she going to touch it?" Genesis el State-Hayvvard University of Oklahoma i 10) "They sent you a tie clasp" DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HIM i WHAT NEWS DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HER Elvis Presley "Salt Of the "Warm and friendly" SEE ANSWERS RICE 3C Bill i i': 4 'The Walking ef Man' Gibson 4- 'K14s'': -4 a of Valleao 44: If 1'1 Calif passes hypothermia which z' 1 -744 7 I 4 through '-el---N'' 1 re A 1 Hanover NH 50-degree weather strikes more people in i- i' i fE ittil tz The 14 I I it i 1 than in subzero tem- tI :1 1 1 1111 '1 '''--1 I Appalachian ''-f rt till 11 I llitil Trail passes peratures li i 1 1 nri i Ls: the 1 it ie''''1111 III i 1 i 1 arn a nonhiker Fbr iit months I woke up 4 -1 U1( 7111-1 I own with visions of myself -7' L''' i Il 1 I 4 MICHAEL KODAS shivering by the side x'------7 4-'' '-'4-1 4411 li NE I I gt THE HARTFORD f' tr COURANT three weeks on the trail mountain trail quietly dying 'ii I not convinced me that I can iit eir -----t- his kt-t'vi fear colored my mood I :1:: on Michael and I started week out of Hanover the l's most sophisticated (and Its ensive) town with two first- SEE TRAIL PN3E 3C DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HER on The Weather Channel" I- ri 1 i- 1 PREVIOUS MARKET Cleveland NORTH CAROLINA TIE Anchorreporter at COLLEGE Cal State-Hayward DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HIM "Salt of the ART EDWARDS PREVIOUS MARKET Cleveland NORTH CAROLINA TIE Anchorreporter at COLLEGE Cat State-Hayward DIRECTOR RILEK LIKED "Salt of the hypothermia which strikes more people in 50-degree weather than in subzero tern- peratures For months woke up am a Inon hikeo with visions of myself shivering by the side mountain trail quietly dying three weeks on the trail not convinced me that I can this Maybe fear colored my mood on Michael and I started week out of Hanover the most sophisticated (and expensive) town with two first SEE TRAIL PM3E 3C PREVIOUS MARKET Atlanta NORTH CAROLINA TIE Anchored in New Bern COLLEGE George Mason University WHAT NEWS DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HIM "Has a distinctive style" )0K NEWS PREVIOUS MARKET Providence RI NORTH CAROLINA TIE Born at Fort Bragg COLLEGE University of Oklahoma WHAT NEWS DIRECTOR BILEK LIKED ABOUT HER "Warm and friendly" What's Mick Jagger really singing about in 'Beast of Burden'? Are you at a loss for words? BY LORETTA GRANTHAM cox NEWS SERVICE you've done this You've sung alo ng to a song maybe in the shower maybe in irush hour and you've sung along wrong Thing is you were gleefully ignorant And that's the hoot Been thinking Eric Clapton's "Lay Down Sally" was "Way Down Been crooning "the ants are my friends they're blowid in the wind" to Bob Dylan? You're not a loon er alone "I used to think it was just me" said Gavin Edwards author of 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics" (Fireside $895) "But when we ran a few as a column in Details magazine we got a huge response People loved them" Edwards a Details contributing editor started compiling His book memorializes the line 'scuse me while I kiss the sky" in Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" "It started for me with 'Row Row Row Your Boat' says Edwards 26 "I was convinced that the line was 'life's a butter dream' Obviously dairy products were crucial to me as a child" Well he's certainly milking this idea Here are 10 misheard lyrics Can you sing the correct line and name the song? 1) "I'll never leave your pizza burnin'" The Rolling Stones 2) "Slow motion Walter fire engine guy" Deep Purple 3) "The girl with colitis goes by" The Beatles 4) "Mice aroma" The Knack 5) "Baby I'm a warm shoe Baby I'm a neat shoe" Bread 6) "Baking carrot biscuits" Bachman-Turner Overdrive 7) "Keep it common law" KC and the Sunshine Band 8) "There's a bathroom on the right" Creedence Clearwater Revival 9) "She sees a hat rack is she going to touch it?" Genesis 10) "They sent you a tie clasp" Elvis Presley SEE ANSWERS PAGE 3C Bill 'The Walking Man' Gibson of Va Calif posses through Hanover NH The Appalachian Trail passes through the town MICHAEL KODAS THE HARTFORD COURANT ((liking anon posses ugh )r NH xhion 'asses ugh own KODAS MORD RANT :1 r--'''' 1 I WHAT NEWS NEWS SEE LANGFORD Survival above the timberline Iberline Unearthly beauty of wind-whipped White Mountains APPALACHIAN ADVENTURE I I II IN A I 1 III AN ruRE IW3E 3C On to the Whites so named by early European sailors who from the sea spotted the snow on the sum- mits even in the sum- AN API men On to the Whites the end of photogra- ADVE pher Michael Kodas' and my respective eight- and four-week hiking adventures The White Mountains are the behemoths of the Appalachian Trail Northbound through-hikers are told that entry into New Hampshire marks 80 percent of their distance and 50 percent of their work The AMC White Mountain Guide contains a long serious warning against AN of a Even have do early our trail's BY SUSAN CAMPBELL HARTFORD COURANT FRANCONIA NOTCH NH 0 to the rugged White Mountains where above the timberline there dwell hardy plants that survive unprotected in a summit's unearthly weather but take 20 years to regenerate from a wayward boot step 1.