The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 18

Tonight Steve Allen comedy show to debut SKR rRTHVRTON KCKN-FM may get a shot in the arm Tuesday December 9 I960 Page 4B senses: touch as used in human communication from psychiatric therapy to lovemaking Dr Jonathan Miller has dragged his the background into his terrific series Body in (8 on Channel 11 9 on Channel 19) The series By Judy Hander I960 Untuaraal Pfeaa 9yndq4a It is time to cheer tonight as the "Steve Allen Comedy Hoar" (9 on channels 4 and 27) begins its series (limited to how well it does in the It is great to have Allen as a comedy host par excellence He has surrounded himself with the kinds of batty people who made his old show memorable including Kaye Ballard Foster Brooks Donald and Martin Mull The specials Joanie has a wreck on the road to romance on (7 on channels 2 and 9 Knives are thrown at Ijiveme on (7:30 on Channel 2) Jack is a busboy on (8 on channels 2 and 9) Henry 's girls threaten to move out on Close for (8 30 on channels 2 and 9 The dog lands a TV commercial on to (9 on channels 2 and 9) Local show Dr John Bremner who took a leave of absence from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas in Lawrence to be a consultant to the Gannett newspapers joins John Masterman and Laurel Defoe on (7:30 on Channel 19) Other movies calling Burkhart in for advice on KCKN was in the offing before Allbritton Co bought KCKN-FM and KCKN-AM in October need this outside opinion which potentially will give us a chance to see how outsiders view us" LaBonte said started shortly after I started The will operate on the FM side LaBonte said and the AM side will get a different treatment LaBonte would not elaborate on plans for KCKN-AM but said the station was not slated for a change in format lots of room within these (country and variations) he said Burkhart would not: predict a No 1 finish for KCKN-FM but said the station definitely would gain a better position in die market The results of 'the Octo-berNovember survey have not been published yet and counsel will not show if until thispring ratings book Still he is known for the smashing success in New York and that will not be forgotten soon was the right thing to do at the right time" Burkhart said Super Bowl victories happen very rarely A lot of that was sheer luck Burkhart 46 was born and reared in Bay City Texas and has been in broadcasting since he was 10 When he approached the owner of a local radio station to request a weekend program geared toward school-age listeners the owner suggested that Burkhart do the show and his career was under way He graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in journalism and worked in radio until 1973 when he parted company with Pacific Southern Broadcasting and began the consulting firm Burkhart said he had compiled an 85 percent success rate in the consulting business me not be negative but turn to the positive" he said "Eighty -five percent of our work is successful and we think pretty good because we never saw Ted Williams bat 850 can tell you that management has to be on your side If not you certainly end up in that negative 15 He has solid endorsement LaBonte hired Burkhart to do consulting work at stations in Seattle and he competed against a Burkhart station in Cincinnati LaBonte knows Burkhart's work and trusts his judgment He said older population same people wno used to listen to Leslie Gore sing My now listen to Dolly Parton sing essentially the same type of song music is very comfortable to the average person It has sort of taken the place of what I call the old MORs (middle-of-the-road music formats) It's now what the Tony Bennett songs used to Kansas City unlike New York does not have a population of millions to divide and one well-known country station already rules the market know accurately what Burkhart said of WDAF-AM make your own station good enough and you know going to increase the ratings" John Houseman fans and peo pie who get sentimental at this time of year may enjoy "A Christmas Without (8 on channels 5 and 13) It is a holiday heartstring-puller about the sad old and poor parishioners of an impoverished church Going on (7:30 on Channel 9) is a drama about a father and son who have lost touch with each other Charlie Brown (7 on channels and 13) is 15 years old but it is a nicelv under done animated show for still another generation of moppets Ann and Andy in the Great Santa Claus (7:30 on channels 5 and 13) nas a title that offers more than this animated half-hour delivers The young ones will love it NBC has another trash sports event vs Country (7 on channels 4 and 27) in which Melissa Gilbert Brian Kerwin Tanya Tucker Lou Gossett Larry Wilcox Danielle Bri-sebois and others will be cavorting for cold cash On PBS (7 on Channel 11 8 on Channel 19) explores aspects of one of our most neglected James Stewart portrays a railroad troubleshooter trymg to recover a stolen payroll in (8 pm and 2 am on Channel 41) on the Black Hand (10:50 pm on Channel 2 12:20 am on Channel 9) starring Clarice Tayior and Leonard Jackson is a comedy about a patriarchal barber Clint Eastwood is seen as a wounded Union soldier who stumbles on a Southern school for girls in (12:30 am on Channel 5) There is a doctor in the house at KCKN-FM and competing Kansas City area radio stations better beware Kent Burkhart radio consultant from Atlanta has a reputa lion for building successful radio formats He took the ailing WKTU a middling FM station in New York under his wing in the summer of 1978 and turned it into a disco powerhouse that rocked to the core of the Big pple Burkhart and his Lee Abrams Lee Michaels and Dwight make house calls to radio stations around the country His prognosis for KCKN which recently changed ownership is good we want to do here right away is tack on three or four ratings points onto what Abrams said in an interview during a recent visit to the station know this sounds weird but as scientific as the order of records played on air how the call letters are given on air how to give the time and temperature and other little things like that see we believe that KCKN already has more listeners than are being reported cm the ARB (Arbitron ratings survey version of the Nielsens)' and all we want to do right away is be sure that when they fill out those diaries they remember our call In television the mere mention of a consultant puts a damper on staff morale and conjures thoughts not unlike those turkeys must have the day before Thanksgiving Bob LaBonte general manager of KCKN said the intent in hiring Burkhart was to create not destroy the problem is not with the LaBonte said with the execution This is not a For the management of WKTU in New York touch was far from the cold blade of an executioner Rather than a bloodletting in the offices the sweet wine of success flowed freely Although the disco format was a temporary phenomenon Burkhart sees the country music played by KCKN as enduring knew right up front it last a Burkhart said of disco music keeping a station on top of the market country adopted personality) is going to be around a long time because the demographics have grown up now a 25-plus he said referring to the increasingly ABC to present Kreght-ftddar Newapapare CARPETS CLEANED THIS WEEK ONE? 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