The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 123

SDR Section Program guide: Jan 8-14 0: ft Gene Cless is the program director for Kansas new television station KEKR-TV (staff photo by John Switzer) The chess game of TV programming than any other program director in the city As in any game there are rules to be followed of the things I learned early on was that you program a station for yourself because if you did you would be totally biased and you would probably not have much of an he said To play the game you have to start with a SeeKEKR pg 3J coll grams to broadcast and when to show them a big chess he said everybody in this business likes to play that At 52 Mr Cless has been a playing the chess game for 15 years the last ten of them at KMBC-TV Channel 9 Before that he was program director at KCMO-TV Chan- nel 5 for three years He has become a grand master having planned and scheduled programs longer By Barry Garron The Star's TV-radio critic Deciding what shows will go on a brand-new television station might sound like a dream come true But when Gene Cless was handed the task he knew that his work was cut out for him Mr Cless is program director for KEKR-TV Channel 62 which signed on a month ago His job includes deciding which pro.