The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 23

i aiSamsm mtmm HQMCfe fftta nmm 4 Thursday October 1 1992 THE WICHITA EAGLE 3C Broadcasting TODAY'S BEST BETS Nostalgia Television ready to bring oldies to life 5 Cross your Angers Friday night is expected to be when Nostalgia Television finally comes to Wichita about two months later than planned In the first night's lineup are such classic shows as and BOBCUmUGHT package than some local radio stations caught flak from some (radio) stations" he said are going after a different niche: the mom and pop stores that afford TV Among advertisers launching the station are restaurants elites a delivery service clothing stores and music and tape stores Nutt said Once Nostalgia gets on Nutt said River City Broadcasting can then concentrate on launching two other new non-cable stations for which the broadcast group holds licenses Playboy After Dark on Channel 51 (costing $20 per month) is expected to launch within a month Finally an unnamed pay-extra movie channel on Channel 53 is scheduled to begin after the first of the year Series The Man From the Pru" (9 pm KPTSCh 8) Ginger must choose between career plans or loyalty to Jeff (8 pm ABC and KAKE Ch 10) "Middle Walter tries to help others get over his heart attack (9 pm CBS and KWCH Ch 12) "The Dizzy (Ken Gartto) and Jodie are officially engaged (8 pm KSAS Ch 4-24) "Crook Guests wW be Garth Brooks and Path Page (7 pm TNN Ch 5) An Ottawa Kan policeman wil be featured (7 pm CBS and KWCH Ch 12) Special Word From Our Look at commercials past and present (9 pm NBC and KSNW Ch 3) Sports Baseball: San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Braves (6:30 pm TBS Ch 17) ing Then there was a malfunction of the sound signal had a video path working good but the audio Nutt said "We brought in a gentleman from California to clear that up Well be shutting down Friday afternoon to put in surge protection for the equipment then be ready to launch at 6:30" Part of the last-minute frenzy involves advertisers Nutt admitted the first of the month and we have committed to our advertisers pushing us time we were Nutt said For the past couple of weeks Channel 55 has broadcast a test pattern with a request for anyone seeing it to call and tell the station how far away they were and how the signal looked had more than 800 Nutt said "We had calls from east of Winfield south of Wellington north of Newton and Into Kingman which we expect Of course many of them have outside the low-power non-cable station will be found at Channel 55 on the dial if you have one of those little loop antennas (about $150 at electronics stores) What you'll see first is a half-hour tape introducing station honchos and showing construction of Channel 55 regular Nostalgia programming (geared to the over-40 set) will begin at 7 pm with In the first nighfs lineup are such classic shows as at 0 pm Casey" at 10 and at 11 followed by a midnight movie this week "The Carnival Saturday morning will bring Cowboy Cinema beginning at 10 am followed by such afternoon programs as "Annie "Northwest and "Judge a reach of about 45 to 50 miles from the new antenna which is 800 feet up on the KSAS Ch 24 tower "It was surprising to us that that many people were looking for us without any publicity One lady even called to say they were so excited that they spent all day watching the test Nutt said "I guess that says something about the state of Wichita When it finally gets on Nostalgia will run 24 hours a day ITs an advertiser-supported station with 30econd spots that are cheaper as low as $1375 in a 40-spot Roy And evening fare will Include an 8 pm movie "The Great Dan a music program called "Harmony and "Dancing to the a sort of "American for oldsters Local programming will begin next week including a daily 1 P-m community talk show with for mer Channel 12 anchor Julie Becker and a nightly 10 pm forum with former KXLK personality Mike Miller Most of the problems in getting Channel 55 on the air have been equipment delays said Ron Nutt president of River City Broadcast SuMbys Ihesdays TONIGHT ON TELEVISION Race gets slot on By Thomas RossnstM Lot Angeles TimetfWashington Post Service A BCS will devote Monday-night broad-Mjk casts to the race for president with political analyst Jeff Greenfield anchoring beginning next week and continuing until Election Day The programming a reprise of what ABC did in 1988 is the only regularly scheduled programming devoted exclusively to the campaign on any of the three mqjor broadcast networks airs at 11:30 pm on KAKE Ch 10) CNN has a half-hour program Politics that aim twice dally cm weekdays (3:30 and 11:30 pm on cable Ch 16) Greenfield said that he intends to begin each program by briefly establishing where the race stands will kiss off the horse race early" and then will focus on some concern about the campaign that is not covered in the nightly news or elsewhere on television One example Greenfield suggested in an Interview might be: "Who are the Clinton years ago Bush got all the Republican voters virtually and about a quarter of he explained "This year so for Clinton is getting all the Democrats and about a quarter of the Republicans Who are the defecting Republicans? Are they all suburban affluent women who are (angry over) the choice issue? Are they business people who think enough and they've got to try something different? It may be that it's the remnant of liberal Republicanism that has no real voice in choosing A third segment will feature some element of the race that people seen such as "an unusually interesting comment If someone says something particularly eloquent or maybe noiteloquenL It might be the best one-liners of the week either from comedians or maybe the "Inside Politics 92" which has been on for months is more of a straight-news program that covers the latest developments in the race that day reports on the polls scrutinizes ads and then usually Includes a debate by guests over some Issue of the moment King profile Mike planned "60 Minutes" profile of Larry King will differ from King's 90 minutes with Ross Perot last Monday For the King profile CBS News cameras were In kitchen to record Monday call-in to the show Close behind King as official Interviewer of Perot Is ABC Barbara Walters who Friday will have Perot on for a third time (9 pm on KAKE Ch 10) Perot Interview was his fourth Contributing New York Times News Service 1 i J' 1 SELBY Fall Trunk Show Week that special time ofyear when you can see all Selby has to offer Join us for a Trunk Showing of our newest collec tion or we will be happy to help you choose the style size October 11 and width just right for you Now thru Sunday 152 StylesColorsMaterials 132 Different Sizes NOW SHOWING! 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