The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 32

Saturday June 12 1993 THE WICHITA EAGLE 3C Broadcasting Sci-Fi Channel coming to town on UHF Letterman to remain a Dave-come-lately dentist and a transsexual teacher were labeled as bigots and challenged by their enlightened children But Bozell also objects to "Dinosaurs" which he said is not Just an innocuous kiddle sitcom Other offending shows are In order (3) "Northern for "promoting Chicken Little environmentalism feminist rhetoric and homosexuality ad nauseum" (4) "Melrose Place" for solving problems with (5) "Murphy Brown" (down from third place last year) (6) "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" for Amerkabashlng" over environmental causes At No 7 Incredibly is 44th Emmy Awards" (a first for an awards show) for former Wlchl-tan Kirstie Alley (among others) throwing barbs at then-VP Quayle over the Murphy Brown single-mother flap Rounding out the list are (8) "The Becky Bell Story" for its pnxhoice story (9) "LA Law" (it must be getting bland to be this low In this list) and (10) Hall for playing host to Bill Clinton and making a point of not inviting Geoige Bush for a little equal time Because of the reshuffling Playboy channel subscribers will be getting a bonus: three more hours per day for their $20 per month charge (which indudes the $10 decoder fee) Playboy will begin at 8 pjn rather than 10 pjn nightly and will run until 5 ajn rather than shutting off at i Nutt said there are about 200 Playboy subscribers Subscribers wanting both Sd-Fl and Playboy will pay $2150 per month he said Liberal top 10 Move over Murphy Brown not the liberal scourge you used to be In the eyes of conservative media watchdog Brent Bozell ID who has kept a scorecard of such matters for the past three years new Fences" about eccentric small-town life In Rome Wis leapfrogged over Quayfebeshing to become the "most liberally biased" show on television this year The show centers around the town sheriff (Tom Skerritt) and his wife (Kathy Baker) the town physidan who try to raise their three kids while coping with their careers "All too often conservative views were corrected by enlightened liberal characters by the show's Bozell says He singled out episodes where people who rejected an HIV-positive Sew York Times News Service David Letterman cannot take the title "Late Night" with him when he moves to CBS this summer because it belongs to NBC But he will be doing the next-best thing CBS has announced: Letterman will call his new program "Late The show will have its premiere Aug 30 and will run Mondays through Fridays from 1035 to 1135 pjiL the network said (Locally KWCH Ch 12 will tapedelay the show until 11 pjn as "Married With will run in the 1030 pjn time ShNBC Which annnunrad in April that Conan a little-known comedy writer would replace Letterman has not decided on a name for its new late-night show NBC officials said Thursday BOB CURTRIGHT Wichita) when Multimedia CaNevi-ston passed on that year-old service for lack of cable capacity Negotiations were completed earlier this week for Sd-Fl to become a payextra over-theair service here Sd-Fl will cost $1150 a month for a decoder box which is $150 more than the $10 basic monthly fee for Cable Video Store Nutt said But the movie channel also charged $195 per movie on top of the fee The new weekday service will run from 5 ajn to 8 pjn with two sdencelction movies per day Interspaced between vintage television series Weekend schedules will feature more movies Highlights from the Monday-Friday series schedule available next week include of the Worlds" at 5 bjtl "Dark Shadows" at 10 am "Dr Who" at 11 bjo Step Beyond" at 4 pjiL "Space 1999" at 5:30 pjn and "Buck Rogers" at 7 JO before the 8 pjn local signoff Saturday Prime Time June 12 9:30 10:00 i 10:3011:00 11:30 Mdnt 4 12:30 1 6 1 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 that the show would start in June 25 will be last night on NBC which will broadcast reruns of his show until goes on the air ABC logo ABC will be the first of the Big Three networks to display its logotype in the lower right comer of the screen during most of its programming joining a growing trend among cable and broadcast systems The logo a semitransparent circle with the transparent letters ABC will make its first appearance next week ABC spokesman Steve Batiaglio said The logo will appear during all news programs when the anchor is not on camera in an network promotional spots and in the first five seconds after commercial breaks in entertainment shows Battag-lio said CBS News and NBC News already use their network logos during news programs CMbMhC Associated Press (130) Hoe- The Sd-Fl Channel Is finally coping to Wichita but not on local cable television as designed by the channel backers And It won't be free as It Is In other markets around the country Instead this channel full of vintage science fiction movies and television shows will arrive Monday via UHF It will share Channel 51 with the scrambled Playboy Channel You win need a UHF loop antenna (available in electronic stores fin' a couple of bucks) to receive It and your set must be disconnected from cable The new program service will replace Cable Video Store a service of pay-perview movies that was tauncnea we last year nut proved to be a disappointment Fewer than 100 households had subscribed to the movie service said Ron Nutt president of River Qty Broadcasting which operates Ch 51 as well as Nostalgia Television on Ch 55 Nutt said the interest in Cable Video Store was low apparently because of the violent nature of many of the films He said after receiving numerous complaints that subscribers wanted more bm-lly fare his company reevaluated the service and decided to dump it They went after the Sd-Fl Channel which is a sister channel to USA on basic cable (Ch 21 In BEST BETS Movies "Exodus" (I960 historical drama) Paul Newman Eva Marie Saint An Israeli nationalist a US nurse and 611 Jewish refugees break a 1947 British blockade (4 pjn Encore) "To Kin a Mockingbird" (1962 drama) Gregory Peck Mary Bad-ham An Alabama lawyer with two children defends a man who is accused of rape (7 pjn AfcE 020) "The Pink Panther" (1964 comedy) Peter SeUets David Niven Clumsy Inspector Jacques Clousean chases a Jewel thief and his nephew (8 pjn FAMCh31) (1922 horror) Max Scfareck Alexander Cranach This German silent film features Scfareck as one of the eer-iest of the screen Draculas (9 pjn KPTSQ8) "Her Final Ftay: Betty Broderick the Last Chapter" (1992 drama) Meredith Baxter portrays a woman who is obsessed with keeping her husband (8 pjn CBS and KWCH 012) Series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (7 pjn ABC and KAKECH 10) "Dr Quinn Medicine (7 pjn CBS and KWCH Ch 12) "All Creatures Great and Siegfried plans to expand the practice of hiring another assistant Calum Buchanan (8 pjn KPTSO8) Specials Kansas Pag-eant" (8 pjn KAKE 0 10) "Louie Anderson: Louie in St (830 pjn Showtime 6) Sports College World Series: Wichita State University vs LSU-Long Beach State winner in the 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