Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 37

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(I960 Edward Woodward and Jack Thompson star (MAX 8 P-m) Dean Martin stars in The Ambushers (1967 Matt Helm is sent to Mexico to find an experimental flying saucer (Channel 17 8:05 pm) In Rollercoaster (1977 a safety inspector desperately attempts to find the extortionist who is planting homemade explosives in leading amusement parks George Segal and Timothy Bottoms star (HBO 8:30 pm) An orphaned fox and a hound puppy are raised together in perfect animal friendship in Free Spirit (1978 Eric Porter and Rachel Roberts star (TMC 9:30 pm) i Talk shows Vi i yHj -V er Tt SSi-t Nicholas Colasanto and Shelley Long they're in the premiere of tonight fl ABC shopping around for a new outlet here? NEWSCENTER 27 AND YOU Good things happen when we get together 55:45 11pm usan White Leader TV cohimnist killed my buddy Is trying to killmer Magnum becomes a moving when a reunion of war buddies suddenly explodes into a deadly search-and-destroy mission! Where is the enemy? Who is the enemy? The answer will stun you! TODAY Kentucky Considered: Stuffing your fish or deer for display (Channel 46 7:30 pm) Tonight: Guest host George Carlin with Bob Hope (Channel 18 11:30 pm) David Lettennan: TV writers Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses (Channel 18 12:30 am) Signature: Dr Jonathan Milled (Part 2) (CBSC 7:30 pm 10:30 pm 1:30 am) FRIDAY Today: A report on the Epcot Center a futuristic community at Walt Disney World (Channel 18 7 am) Good Morning America: A report on the Epcot Center (Channel 36 7 am) Phil Donahue: Corporate life in America (Channel 18 9 am) Regular fare Fame graduates to a second season In episode Bruno presides over the school musical with a tad too much authority and alienates his rlassmates (Channel 18 8 pm) At third season begins for handsome Magnum PI (Ton Selleck) and friends in Hawaii shoving off with a twohour segment Magnum and TC savor a reunion with an old Vietnam War comrade until he reveals a secret fear He believes a rival from war days has marked them all for murder (Channel 27 8 pm) When Joanie and Chachi journey to Chicago to audition for a TV show they get entangled with a talented group of musicians who elect the Fonz in the season premiere of Joanie Loves Chachi (Channel 368 pm) Jennie Lee (Kathy Maisnik) is only 16 but her singing career is already starting to sparkle in the new show Star of the Family Her fireman dad Capt Buddy Krebs (Brian Dermehy) not quite sure how to cope with a star in the household Another singleparent comedy with music that ABC hopes is the way to go (Channel 36 8:30 pm) Ted Danson stars as an ex-big league pitcher who owns a Boston bar called Cheers a case of opposites attracting when a well-bred teacher named Diane '(Shelley Long) waits in the bar for her fiance As the hours drift on it becomes apparent been jilted it she says and drops her reserve to become a cocktail waitress tdr Danson and his colorful family and patrons And all the comedic situations that should involve thereafter (Channel 18 9 pm) The newest member erf the family is bom on the season premiere of Too Close for Comfort Henry home when Muriel feels contractions And no cab to be had So mom hops aboard Monroe's motorcycle for a wild ride to the hospital (Channel 36 9 pm) In the season premiere of the popular Hill Street Blues a nun is savaged by thugs and Furillo pulls out all the stops to find her attackers putting some of his better judgment aside And Joyce becomes disturbed when his actions toward the two suspects border on unethical (Channel 18 10 pm) Gary seem to choose between his love affair with Abby and his family life with Val in the season premiere of Knots Landing (Channel 27 10 pm) An interview with former secretary of state Alexander Haig conducted try Barbara Walters will be aired on the season premiere of 2121 (Channel 36 10 pm) Last month some of big brass came to Lexington for a visit but they stop at their affiliate station WTVQ-TV (Channel 36) In fact they even call and say hello Instead they settled in at WKYT-TV (Channel 27) where they tried to convince vice president and general manager Ralph Gabbard to end his affiliation with CBS and sign on instead with them After some deliberation Gabbard turned them down But now according to several sources ABC has turned its attention to Channel 18 Harry Barfield the president and general manager comment on the matter saying only that he been offered a contract with Of course manipulations have stung Channel 36 which finds itself in the position of the woman scorned or at least insulted But general manager Bill Service is trying to keep it all in perspective maintaining that overtures to his competitors merely constitute business practice not only in television but in any Service seems to be the most upset about the poor image that wanderings may give his station an image he says is inaccurate pointing out that Channel 36 is among the 20 fastest growing ABC affiliates in prime time programming and that his third-place news has moved into second in at least one specialized category: adults under 50 what ABC has done in other man kets I know they will change affiliates if they he said matter-of-factly they prefer to go with the news leader (Channel 27) personally believe doing this to get me not to preempt network programming as much as I do" he went on actually I preempt less than any station in the Channel 36 the first station to find itself forced to sit by and watch as its network propositions its rivals ABC- has been trying to improve its position in many cities yith one of its biggest successes coming in Atlanta where an NBC affiliate switched to ABC On paper an ABC deal may seem hard to refuse According to some sources ABC may offer a station more money for promotion more money for client parties and other extras and most important as much as a 50 percent increase in its network station rate the amount of money the network pays the station to carry network programs and while many other factors enter into an affiliatenetwork financial agreement these rates do serve as bargaining factors at contract renewal time Right now for instance ABC pays Channel 36 8128 for each hour of prime time network programming it carries with that rate decreasing during other parts of the day NBC pays Channel 18 8262 JO for each prime time hour but it also stipulates that each month the station run the first 24 hours of network programs for free NBC also pays Channel 18 85000 each month toward the cost of operating a microwave link that delivers network programs between Lexington and Cincinnati The rate that CBS pays Channel 27 be quoted precisely because Channel 27 refuses to include its network station rate in its public files as do the other stations Ralph Gabbard would say only that his flat rate was per prime time hour But on the basis of certain adjustments in his contract with CBS (these adjustments were also made for each of the other stations) that comes out to an actual rate of just 829484 Even if a station being courted by ABC ultimately turns -down its offer the station usually benefits financially When Channel 27 was approached by ABC a year and a half ago for instance CBS countered by boosting the rate it pays Channel 27 to its present' comfortable level And no doubt Channel 27 perhaps Channel 18 will benefit similarly this time around Even Channel 36 may benefit if a network shuffle does occur If Channel 18 were to join ABC then NBC would have to turn to Channel 36 in order to maintain a Lexington outlet But Channel 36 wouldn) sign on for a bargain-basement rate It could aid probably would use as the ultimate bargaining chip the threat to forego any network affiliation and become in- -stead an independent station Commercial TV at its best tonight By DAVID B1ANCULL Kafcht-ttkfcrNewvipen This time of year when turkey after turkey prances across the TV screen viewers become less curious and more insistent while asking one seminal question: When will something good be on? The answer thank goodness has arrived the night At 8 pm turn to your favorite NBC channel sit back and worry about moving the dial until the late news comes on Thursday lineup is an unqualified treat: Fame Cheers Taxi and Hill Street Blues Each of these programs is witty intelligent sensitive and thoroughly entertaining Considering the creative drought that has loomed over commercial network television the past few years to have all four of these -programs on TV at all is unbelievable enough 1 "Theykilled my husband and I'm gonna prove it!" Sid's murderers are let go-but Karen the handsome new attorney keep her out of danger? QD With Kevin Dobson awr KNOTS LANDING mVt-Tv CHANNEL 27 LEXINGTON k- aJkk IOIOOU JkUL.