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I I I I fc DENTAL DIFFERENCES SOLUTIONS 8 AT HOME ON SHOWTIME E3 I FREE TOMMY CHONG TOUR TODAY IN KC E6 I i wwwkansascitycom THE KANSAS CITY STAR 13 2003 Thursday November STARGAZING A NEW KIND OF Not always live not always local Kansas City TV station KSMO (Channel 62) which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group will be rolling out a unique newscast next year It will blend locally produced segments with parts that are simulcast from a central newsroom in suburban Baltimore how an hour of news will break down Some of the folks in our graphic are from 66" the Central" affiliate in Flint Mich which is already up and running NEWS How 'News Central' works 9:00 COMMERCIAL BREAK NATIONAL NEWS Looks almost LOCAL NEWS The newscast opens with 10 minutes of live local news from each of the stations officials say they try to steer clear of crime and disaster news in favor of issues-driven stories and to present all points of view KSMO and corporate parent will present blend of local and national reports Bacharach By AARON BARNHART The Kansas City Star Baltimore Kansas City staff at local stations (like San identical to the local news set but this one is in Maryland at Sinclair corporate offices These live stories will be seen simultaneously on all stations Many right) Burt Bacharach and Ronald Isley pair up for "Here I Am: Isley Meets out this week But Isley told The Los Angeles Times the two have met before Bacharach remember this but Isley swears he interrupted an Isley Brothers recording ses sion in 1962 when they were about to record his song It Easy on Yourself" previously a hit for Jerry Butler As Isley tells it the producer of the session asked the group to alter one lyric and when Bacharach caught wind of the change he rescinded his permission for them to record it at all With only 20 minutes of studio time left they had to fall back on a Bert Bems-Phil Medley song intended as the B-side of the It single: and COMMERCIAL BREAK S- MORE LOCAL NEWS In all about 18 minutes of each newscast Antonio originates different free of built-in political and viewers the East Jones national anchor For more Stargazing see Page E-2 For more entertainment news see Showtime on E-3 OCKEYSVILLE Md After George Will and Bill the best-known conservative commentator on TV today just might be Mark Hyman Never heard of him? You will look now but your tax dollars just funded a workshop on having safe sex with male Hyman a 45-year-old former naval officer delivers such verbal heat-seeking missiles in a nightly commentary called -The What makes these one-minute broadsides stand out is that they appear across the country in the middle of local TV newscasts soon lo include KSMO (Channel 62) in Kansas City KSMO also known as WB62 will air nightly editorials as part of a unique one-hour program called Central" a "blended the first of its kind Beginning some time next year half the newscast will originate from the Kansas City Kan studios of KSMO which will hire a news staff of about two dozen The other half will be broadcast live from the ground floor of this suburban Baltimore office building where the corporate offices of Sinclair Broadcast Croup owner are located The result will make Kansas fifth local newscast look utterly tmlike the other four Start with the dueling anchors The newscast will open with a single anchor based here The anchor will present 10 minutes of local news with reports from the newsroom staff After a commercial break presto chango a new face appears the national anchor based in Baltimore (though the anchor doesn't say that) This segment consists of world and national news including reports filed by its national desk Washington bureau and as needed local Sinclair stations Back and forth it goeS: After each break up pops a different talking head The local newscaster comes back to deliver more stories some of the sports and the closing The weathercaster might say in Kansas City" even though he or she is actually in Maryland one of the problems critics say tricks viewers into thinking watching an all-local newscast when in fact much of it is being piped in (To make switching locations more seamless Sinclair is building cookie-cutter sets in each city that will resemble the one in Baltimore) is that the correctness bias that see from Coast Morris WEIRD NEWS The city of Winnipeg Manitoba I recently installed 10 surveillance cameras at a municipal dump The cameras are needed to help combat pilferage CEE) COMMERCIAL CEID from the local station BREAK HONALLOCAL SPORTS two major league teams in KSMO likely will do a most-local sportscast However Bal-ore is there if needed COMMERCIAL BREAK CLOSE (LIVE AT STATION) The Flint anchor called his newscast and Sound familiar? COMMERCIAL BREAK COMMERCIAL BREAK THE More national news followed by Mark take-no-prisoners editorials get called a liberal a lot less than I get called a Hyman admits WEATHER The most controversial part of because the weathercaster is actually in Maryland BREAK LIFE BY THE NUMBERS 20 Percent of Americans who say health care is the nation most pressing issue 44 Percent of Americans who are unhappy with what they pay for health insurance See NEWS E-6 32 Percent of Americans who were unhappy about what they paid for health insurance in 1998 li'i In AARON BARNMARI Uraphu In OAII MIISSI RThi Kansas City Star 28 Percent of Americans who rate health care in the U5 as poor TREND STREET TALK EMBRACES THE 'QUEER' WORD HEALTH Going 12 rounds First female boxing manager rules out the highs and lows of life Percent of Americans who rated health care in the US as poor in 1998 Source: Employee Benefil Research Institute Compiled by Karen Uhlenhuth The Star By MARTHA IRVINE I hr Assoc iatrd Press By EDWARD EVEID The Kansas City Star Something queer is happening to the word "queer" Originally a synonym for "odd" or the word e'olved into an anti gay insult in the last century only to be re claimed by defiant gay and lesbian activists who chanted: here were queer gel used to it" Now is sneaking into the main stream and taking on a hipster edge as a way to describe any sexual orientation be vond straight Jay Edwards a 28-year old gay man from Houston has noticed it Jay" a straight co-worker recently said "Have you met the new guy? He's real ly cute and queer too Just your type!" the kind of exchange that still makes many ga or straight wince be cause in the 1920s and '30s the word "queer" became synonymous with "sissy" and even "pervert" says Gregory After a few misdiagnoses her doctors didn't consider heart problems at first Kallen had successful surgery on two blockages found out that this is often the pattern of said the 57-year-old Kallen who lives in Los Angeles on a real high everything seems to go right and suddenly things turn on a dime and it all starts Kallen is bringing her double message of perseverance and healthy living to the American Heart Women's Heart Health Luncheon on Friday at the Fairmont first giant upswing in life came in the early 1990s after several career shifts from sports journalist to publicist to boxing manager She was a novelty in the boxing world a woman matter how good things get life will come back to bite you What matters is how you react Jackie Kallen once the darling of the boxing world keeps learning that lesson The latest reminder arrived in the form of a heart attack in the summer of 2002 Apparently things were going too well what with Meg Ryan portraying Kallen in "Against the a movie about her life as a boxing manager had pain in the jaw and shortness of Kallen said about her symptoms "1 felt so tired The pain was immobilizing up my jaw and into the back of my neck It was very scary 1 ended up in emergency HILARY' LISIDRI Former boxing trainer Jackie Kallen speaks Friday at the American Heart Association's Women's Heart Health Luncheon at the Fairmont 401 Ward Parkway FRIDAY IN FYI Tour these homes for the holidays See KALLEN E-2 See QUEER E-2.