The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 28

i ap wu Kt1 Mto 6CTHE WICHITA EAGLE Saturday August 29 1992 Broadcasting TODAY'S BEST BETS Ch 12 chief DiPasquale gaining control of station all still the same Sandy DiPasquale bobcurthght plans to drop it yet "But I could see that snowballing" he said Primetime programming however apparently is sate would be very difficult to preempt primetime programming It would be very complicated We have no plans to do he said DiPasquale said the real meaning of the upcoming ownership change concerns his career in Wichita "I basically made a longterm commitment to the station and the city" DiPasquale said "It sound humble but it was a great business opportunity And we love living Besides DiPasquale the mqjor investor in the new SD Communications is Communications Partners an investment tend affiliated with Veronis Suhler and Associates which is a media investment banking firm in New York City Movie "The Big (1958 western) Gregory Peck Jean Simmons Carrol Baker Burl Ives Charlton Heston (9 pm KPTS Ch 8) Series "The Four orphaned strings reunite (7 pm ABC and KAKE Ch 10) A professor is accused of beating a student (9 pm ABC and KAKE Ch 10) Spectate "The Brakaw Report: Schools: Pass or Fal? (9 pm NBC and KSNW Ch 3) "Acapulco Jazz Performances by Jean Came Pete Escovedo Alex Bugran Hosts: Sinbad and Najee (7:30 pm BET Ch 28) Sports NFL preseason Ibotbal: Minnesota VNngs at Washington Redskins (7 pm CBS and KWCH Ch 12) Basebal: Milwaukee Brewers at Toronto Btucjays (noon CBS and KWCH Ch 12) Basebal: Atlanta Braves at Phladelphia Phillies (6 pm TBS Ch 17) and "Dangerous and replacing them with more lucrative syndicated programming Channel 12 already bumps CBS late-night programming at 1030 pm to cany the syndicated "Married With Beginning Sept 21 the rest of the lineup will be "All in the Family" at 11 pjiL "Barney at 11:30 pm and "Arsenio" Just dropped Friday from KSAS Ch 4-24 at midnight By next year CBS is hoping to entice its local affiliates to cany lowrated programming by paying local stations more to carry them DiPasquale noted The kicker however is that CBS also will reduce the tees it pays to affiliates to cany such blockbuster shows as "Murphy and "60 terrible" DiPasquale said "But probably The reduced compensation which DiPasquale estimated could cost Channel 12 25 percent of the fees It gets from CBS could go into effect in 1991 Wjr WCH Ch 12 and Us three a sister stations In Western If Kansas are changing hands within the next couple of months giving president and general manger Sandy DiPasquale controlling interest DiPasquale who has been at Channel 12 since 1989 will also become chief executive officer The newly reorganized KBS Inc will then be renamed SD Communications Inc after the new major shareholder Routine approval by the Federal Communications Commission was expected within 60 to 75 days DiPasquale said The previous amtrolling shareholder Robert Smith said he is selling his interests in the stations in order to buy other broadcast properties Smith will remain with the new SD Communications as a board member DiPasquale declined to give details of the deal other than to note that the change of ownership was internal all still the same play- stations in the top 15 markets it wait mean anything For stations in the 2540-75 markets (Wichita is 61st) it will have a little impact But it's not a makoor-break situation for DiPasquale said "We should be able to offset any (CBS fee) losses with the syndicated programming in late he said Where plan might hurt he said would be for stations in the smallest of the approximately 210 markets DiPasquale said that sane stations are also eyeing "CBS Morning as a Jow-rated loser that could be replaced with more lucrative syndicated shows Even though in last place behind "Good Morning and DiPasquale said he has no era" DiPasquale said DiPasquale said viewers will notice no changes in operations at KWCH Ensign's KBSD Hays' KBSH nr Goodland's KBSL "Absolutely not No its ands or buts No DiPasquale said to the possibility of changes "I am proud of what we have accomplished in Kansas the past three years We Inherited strong stations and under our leadership the stations are even stronger While the operations and personnel change DiPasquale noted that certain programming wilL He is dropping "CBS Late Night" the low-rated weeknight series such as "Sweating Bob madta TONIGHT ON TELEVISION Networks plan series on abuse By Plano Lewis The Wichita Eagk A television documentary about child abuse scheduled to be broadcast simultaneously by CBS NBC and PBS on Friday and by ABC on Sunday has hit sane snags with its Wichita airings The CBS and NBC local affiliates KWCH-TV Ch 12 and KSNW Ch 3 will broadcast the show "Scared Silent Exposing and Ending Child from 9 to 10 pm Both plan local programming in conjunction with the show public television station KPTS Ch 8 has no plans to air the special a spokesman said ABC stations will run the show at 9 pm Sept 6 but locally and at sane other stations around the country that is when the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon fa muscular dystrophy will be broadcast So KAKE-TV Ch 10 will air "Scared Silent" at 6 pm Sept 5 said Jacque Gegen program manager The program Is believed to be the first time a non-news event has been aired in this way Arnold Shapiro the executive producer has enlisted as host Oprah Winfrey who has openly discussed her own childhood abuse The program's goal Is to break the silence that often surrounds child abuse i Silent" presents six case histories of physical sexual or psychological child abuse with victims and perpetrators telling their stories Shapiro said hundreds of cases were considered with the six chosen not to maximize shock he said but to be representative There is some strong language that crosses the usual primetime bounds Shapiro won an Emmy and Oscar for Straight" In 1979 in which Juvenile offenders were given the hard facts of criminal life by gruff prison inmates He said when he undertook "Scared he wondered whether anyone would watch "It take much research for me to realize that all he said "Mae than anyone would believe victims and perpetrators are around The cost of investigating child-abuse repots is huge ($53 billion nationwide each year he said) and people can manifest the abuse they suffered as children in ways destructive to themselves and others alcoholism drug abuse anorexia depression suicide prostitution and violent crime At KSNW reporter Laurie Roberts has put together a five-part series on child abuse in Kansan which will begin airing during the 10 pm newscast Monday KWCH plans to air reports on child abuse locally during its 6 and 10 pm newscasts Friday The Weather Channel will present a special program on Hurricane Andrew in place of the documentary which was previously scheduled "Dark Days of follows Hurricane development from a tropical depression to a category four hurricane and traces its destructive path through Florida and the Gulf Coast It will air Sept 13 (7 pm on cable Ch 26) The program goes behind the scenes to The Weather Channel forecast center in Atlanta showing teams of meteorologists tracking the hurricane and 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