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131 TVK WICHITA EAGLE Thursday May 35 1971 KTVH News Team Will Debut Today on 4 Bing Crosby 8 pm Ch 10 Documentary producer Marshall Flaum knows ho to dig up rare film as evidenced tonight in this well-done retrospective on the one and only Bing Grooby Flaum mixes scenes from a number of Qosby movies and TV appearances along with comments from old friends tying it all together with a narration by William Holden who co-starred with Bing in Country Another cotar from that film Princess Grace (Kelly) of Monaco reminisces about Bing as do Rosemary Clooney Bob Hope Frank Capra Fred Astaire Mary Martin Danny Kaye Dinah Shore and family and butler They all agree about one thing Bing Crosby was an original The new four-person news broadcasting team for KTVH Ch 12 will be led by Dennis Shreefer 31 and Andi Joyce 23 as co-anchors according to an announcement from the president and general manager Dale Larsen Joyce a reporter at the station since February now to solo anchor for the news Shreefer and two other new staff members will Join her on air Sunday They are Bob Walker 41 weatherman and Des Taylor 31 sportscaster When they take to the air the KTVH news shows at I and 10 pm daily will be called UNTIL EARLY in May it was "The Bob Scofield named for the man who had been solo anchor since last August Scofield promotion manager and part-time weatherman at the station before he became news anchor last August went on duty with the Kansas Air National Guard early this month when Larsen announced that Joyce and three men would broadcast the news of Monday (May 22) the station and 1 have agreed that we are no longer compatible" Scofield Mid Wednesday He to continuing this week mi duty in the public information office at McConnell Air Force Base where he has been making up duty days accrued over the past few months He is a tech sergeant in the Air National Guard Larsen and the station have promised to help him find another job in broadcasting he said He had been at file station since 1961 MEANWHILE GUS Grebe former radio a job he held while at KTVH He also to putting together a statewide network of radio clients for his weather forecasts and now to heard on stations in Saline Dodge City and Liberal as well as four small southwest Kansas stations Background of the "The broadcMters to: Shreefer a native of Grand Island Neb graduated from Iowa State Univenity with a degree in economics He has been in broadcasting 13 years last was the news anchorman for WSPA-TV hi Spartanburg SC He has worked in Detroit Philadelphia and Cleveland also He and his wife Sheril have four children Joyce who grew up in Dearborn Heights Mich graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in radio and television She was a reporter and weathercaster for KKTV in Colorado Springs before coming to KTVH Walker file weatherman grew up in Tidewater Va He has degrees in both English and history from the University of Virginia He has been in broadcasting for more than IS years and was news anchorman for WVEC-TV in Hampton-Nor-folk Va before joining KTVH He also has worked for radio and television in Richmond and Norfolk Va He to an associate member of the American Meteorological Society He and his wife Barbara have four children Taylor the sportscaster to from Cedar Rapids Iowa He graduated from Kent State University in 1173 with a degree in telecommunications Since 1974 he had been sportscaster and weekend anchorman for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids QUARTET TO INITIATE NEW FORMAT AT KTVH Seated Dennis Schreefer back from left Des Taylor Andi Joyce Bob Walker THE WALTONS (R) Fans who missed this show last February will want to take advantage of its repeat here tonight Olivia and John Walton are celebrating their 3Sth anniversary and the kids are planning a big surprise party What counts here is the look on their faces On die other side of the coin Mary Ellen weighs the success of her tram marriage and care for the comparison 7 pm Ch 12 NBA BASKETBALL A National Basketball Association World Championship Playoff Game matches the Washington Bullets against the Seattle Super-Sonics I pma Ch 12 THE BASTARD Part Tonight is the concluding episode of the four-hour presentation of from John Jakes' novel of the same title It to the story of a young Frenchman (portrayed by Andrew Stevens) raid his mothers Marie (Patricia Neal) who set out to establish his birthright as the son of an English nobleman Their efforts to share in the title and estate are opposed by the nobleman's family with the result that the mother and son are forced to flee to Colonial America for safety When the mother dies the man sets out on a new career with a new Americanized identity Philip Kent I pm Ch 1 THE ADVOCATES "Should Commercials be Banned from Children's Television?" Arguing in favor of the proposition to Advocate Nicholas Johnson former FCC commissioner and his witnesses Tracy Weston of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection and Joan Gussow chairman of the Program in Nutrition at Daytime TV ILMinat Providsd ty Local Stations Death of Grandpa Upsets Thomas But Miss Memorial Show tiated last August by Larsen to improve ratings for the news show and attract a younger audience At that time Ollie Thompson was anchorman Cecil Carrier was weatherman and Grebe sports director Thompson now to working at Federated Merchandisers a Wichita novelties manufacturer Carrier who quit the station shortly after initiation of Bob Scofield to continuing as weatherman for KFH apparently He broke his toe during one performance) It was a happy return to the stage Thomas started as a child actor in the New York theater And he grew up backstage although it was backstage at the ballet Frisr Sucks RcstauruitClub SERVES SMALL STEAKS to HAMBURGERS at LUNCH 13th A WestSt 942-0761 942-1001 TV caosav College of Columbia University Arguing against the proposal to Ed Diamond media analyst and director of MTTs News Study Group and his Richard Jencks former president of the CBS Broadcasters Group and attorney Lee Loevinger former FCC commissioner I pm Ch MOVIE Hanteaae" The sound effects of a hurricane in progress easily are the hit of the show and viewers hardy enough to bear it may find some of the people involved in the storm of interest Mostly handled in such episodic form we're barely aware of their identity However the couple out pleasure-boating who are caught up in the eye of the storm (Jessica Walter and Larry Hagman) gain your sympathy and concern and the late Frank Sutton's insufferable assurance that he and his friends win ride out the storm builds up a sense of foar 11 pm Ch 12 TONIGHT SHOW Johnny Car-son with Eugene Fodor (violinist) Bob Uecker (baseball announcer) 10:30 pm Ch 3 NIGHTWATCH MOVIES Tonight's movies are to Save a "The Violent and "Devil's 1 a Ch 10 TOMORROW Three rising young comedians Billy Crystal David Letterman and Merrill Narkoe will discuss the perils of trying to make it in bigtime comedy Midnight Ch 3 TV are amMaS filly lor wri-dy srosrsms 0KMI1 wti oroisvitsttsiis and move by Tl WtetUfi Caste ant Bas- jiaaja AhIIba Uaiakaa flu usviv raieviiion iwer rarime f-oranr- ur conwtate mrimlHi ddilh stasis Ha Sunday's TV WHk Tl Caste amt sacan's wHkhMaatfw Hrvica auWa tar tataulilan Programs SuMact Is Chans Without Natical Programs By BETTELOU PETERSON Knight-Ridder News Service The death April 22 id Will Geer who played Grandpa Walton on like I really lost my grandfather We were very dose He taught me so mid Richard Thomas John-Boy in the series Geer's death upset plans for next season The producers have to find a way to explain the absence of Grandpa "It's my Hid Thomas "that the first show will explain that Grandpa has died and the Waltons will have a memorial service for him on Walton's mountain "BUT WHATEVER they do John-Boy will have to miss it The show goes into production in the middle of June and I'll still be working on the sequel" Thomas became an occasional member of "The Waltons" cast last season after five years of playing the oldest son He agreed to return for several shows a year but he has concentrated on other roles A recent TV special was what he hopes is a big step in showing a different Richard Thomas He co-starred with Bess Armstrong in "Getting on CBS may shock a few people who think of me only as quiet John-Boy" said Thomas one's was a farce a real old-fashioned screwball comedy I really enjoyed doing it and we had a marvelous cast Bess to so good as the girl I Salad Bar -A Potato Texas Toast Offer good sports director for the station continues as an employee but no longer will give the on-air sports features he delivered during the Bob Scofield era Larsen uid Grebe also wrote the sports news that Scofield delivered and I are talking every day trying to work out something but no decision has been Larsen said The new on-air news team to the second act of a drama of change ini It was his first movie for TV An earlier effort for theaters "September 30 1955" still hasn't had a general national release "It's a small explained Thomas title to the date of James Dean's death and the film shows how that affected a smalltown "ITS NOT or Wars' and I don't think Universal knows how to sell it It's opened in New York and it's finding an audience But I have the feeling that if it had been made in Europe and sold as an import it'd really take Thomas will be seen in three episodes of "Roots: The Second Hundred Years" ABC's 14-hour continuation of Alex Haley's story of his family Thomas plays the son of Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland "Mr Fonda plays an important railroad man in Henning Tenn in the 1880s The character I play marries a Mack girl who later to Alex Haley's uid Thomas "It's a great part and working with Mr Fonda and Mia de 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