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The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 31

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The Wichita Eaglei
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Wichita, Kansas
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31
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ww i W1 1 Television THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Wednesday May 4 1983 15B KTVH Serious About Changing Image This Summer they were asking people what they would consider the model TV nftHnn tf they could have whatever they wanted" Bergamo said Oddly one of Channel 12k strengths led right into its largest image weakness were percrived as but we were also seen as old-fashioned staid conservative We were considered an old-line We will be trying to appeal to a state of mind not a particular age group" Bergamo said want to appeal to a basic lifestyle of community 0 0 0 Quickies Jon Davies former meteorologist on KSNW Ch 3 began new duties Sunday night as part of the onwir Weather Channel team (Cable 26 on our system) He Is the second former Wlchifon to join the Atlanta-based 24-hour service Dennis Smith who worked with Davies here in 1981 became part of the on-air team when it was launched one year ago Monday Radio KAKZ (1240 Alt) which found its niche with the nostalgic of Your crowd has added vintage comedy and drama shows to its nightly lineup starting this week The Age of Radio Theatre" runs two shows back-to-back beginning at 11 pm Monday through Friday The schedule varies from week to week but you can catch such things "X' Minus "Fibber McGee and Bet Your Life of "The Hall of Fantasy" and of and Great At KTVH Ch 12 calling it Miracle on 37th in a joking refer ence to the beloved Christmas movie cfoa-ric And new general manager Ron Bergamo has been pictured (although in Jest) giving his wish list to Santa Claus for all sorts of new equipment to ease production problems the station has been plagued with in recent years But Channel 12 is perfectly serious about rtmngiwg its image by midsummer and Bergamo insists the WichltaHutchiraon station is going to become a visible viable force in the community by the end of the year Bergamo brought in two months ago by new owners Ross Beach and Robert Schmidt of Hays is determined to do away with all the negative perceptions about nmnnri 12 that have built over the years That means launching a new look complete with new logo and perhaps colon and a new sound That even means launching new call letters There apparently is no print to nMng a lot of improvements if everybody thinks ITS still the rid KTVH By August after final FCC approval Channel 12 will be known as KWCH ers have committed nearly $1 million to replace aging deteriorating equipment that frequently embarrassed station officials when viewers groused about reception That Includes four new videotape machines at $25000 each a new to make local movies sharper a new audio board to make sound clearer and a new microwave link to the transmitter to make the picture crisper Next year Bergamo with crossed fingers said he even wants a new transmitter "The problem our people but our Bergamo mused didn't work There was not a good For this year there are also new for the station Including computerised weather graphics with $70000 price tag to replace Merrill Teller's hand-drawn weather maps and a digital video effects To combat that stodgy image the Peters people recommended displaying higher eitimugh Bergamo admitted he is dead-set against coming across Slick or too glossy" Research consultants also advised the station to become more visibly Involved in community activities Channel 12 has been instrumental in such things as the 3-year-old Winterfost but researchers recommended branching out Down the road Bergamo wants to beef up the news staff (currently at 27 including nine reporters and six photographers) and step up business reporting Channel 12 also hopes to add its CBS Watch" overnight news to give it 24-hour programming and there is folk of increasing locally produced programs What sort of an audience is ail this aimed at? system to allow imaginative use of visuals from squeezing to flipping The latter Is already in use and the new weether equipment is expected to be on the air by the end of this month While the upgraded equipment marks tangible improvements Channel 12 is also pursuing that nebulous area of in an effort to attract an audience Officials hired the San Diego-baaed Productions (headed by Ed Peters) to research the local audience and come up with a new image for Channel 11 Slhe Rockford FHos Movie "Billion Dollar (1967) Michael Caine Fiancotoe Dorteac Secret agent Harry Palmer becomes involved In Intrigue and double croa-Ing In Finland il Three Mooges i jumnacn aqvot vvwv jock gnny ss IbulmU I Monvyni upaaw MIDNIGHT 0 Lale tight WHh David Howard Wednesday Highlights Movta: Human Bondaga (1934) Bette Davis Leslie Howard Based on the novelby Somerset Maugham A young medical student wtth a serious deformity fads troglcaSy in love with a waitress 8 pm on Movfr: "Thm Shadow Rldan" (1982) Tom SeSeck Sam Hlott Two brothers return home after the Civil War to Snd their sisters and younger brother have been abducted by gueriRas who refuse to accept the defeat of the Confederacy 8 pm on (1974) Roger Moore Susannah York A crafty band of speculators led by an enterprising EngSshman devises a scheme to Jack up worid gold prices by Soodtag a South American gold mine Q) Movie "VictorVlctorkr (1982) Julie Andrews Robert Preston U' 4:55 am IJhnlakker 5 am 8 Zana Sivy Theatre Communicating Through Literature 8 The Making Of Balden Of The Lost An 5:30 am FlSO' Communicating Through Video IThelattayes Bat Patrol Time Oul Theater RBaures 5:45 am 8 Pastors Study 6 am Ns ABC News This Morning CBS Early Morning (B Top The Morning Marketing Perspectives las? 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