The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 21

WWWKANSASCOMUVNG WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28 2002 THE WICHITA EAGLE 5C Wichita I ow power KSMI-TV plans local Spanish newscast Fm In which will have a marathon showing on Labor Day on Fox Kiefer Sutherland center plays FBI agent Jack Bauer Also In the show ar from left Elisha Cuthbert Leslie Hope Dennis Haysbert and Sarah Clarke a religious station been Telemundo (Spanish) Bloomberg (news) World Harvest (religion) America One (family) and since last December HTVN (Hispanic Television Network) Recently HTVN filed for bankruptcy prompting local officials to look for another source of programming Initially AZA will be available 10 hours a day Dickens a two-hour morning Mock a six-hour midday Mock and a two-hour prime-time block Hours are still up in the air because Wichita will be getting a new Central Time Zone feed that yet launched Dickens said By Match that will be moot because AZA is expected to go a 24-hour schedule Labor Day marathon(s) You have a choice of two marathons this Labor Day weekend You can watch Jerry Lewis do his bit for kids with muscular dystrophy beginning at 10:35 pm Sunday and running to 6 pm Monday (on KAKE Channel 10) which is the good and noble thing to da Or you can plug into the repeat of Fox's groundbreaking "2V about the worst day in the life of an FBI agent trying to foil a presidential assassination plot which will run from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday (on KSAS Channel 24Cabfe 4) The clever filing about fire Fox series is that it is told in real time beginning at midnight and run- seems to feature Jerry Lewis evolving from entertaining into annoying The saving grace is that there are local cut-ins every hour this year with Channel 10 personalities Larry Hattebergand Jemeile Holopirek The two will preside over phone banks in the studio and talk with local doctors and Wichitans with MD try to have fun as well as educate people" said Hatteberg a fixture of KAKE for three decades is a serious disease but we want to have fun on the show Tm a people person and I love to see how these people cope with life" said Hatteberg best known for his empathetic video portraits in People" Tbr the most part they are very positive They uplift me" he This is the 32nd annual MDA telethon for KAKE although Lewis started the telethon on a local basis five years before has always been die telethon station here since Day Hatteberg said Most of the money raised locally helps local people The only local goal is to beat last year's total said a spokesman from die Ark Valley Chapter of the MDA The best thing to do then is to tune in with Lany and Jemeile make your pledge early then turn over to and enjoy yourself with a clear conscience Reach Bob Outright at 266394 cr bcurtrightfiwlchitaeaglaucoih BOB CURTRIEHT baseball and basketball to boxing and auto racing And it carries die highest-rated Mexican news program "We are planning a local (Spanish-language) newscast to go along with it like to start that same week but probably not practical" Dickens said Dickens is looking for people fluent in Spanish who would be in sales but also able to on-air He is also looking fix: a talk-show host The newscast will be a joint project of die TV station and die local Spanish-language magazine Mi Gente Hoy (My People Today) published by Bob Hernandez -Dickens said the station is trying to put on at least eight hours a week of local programming to be on cable under a Senate bill now pending in Congress called the Television Voices of 2002 Traditionally cable has had to cany all local full-power stations but not low-power stations Currently KSMI is available only by antenna and only in a small area within Wichita city limits KSMI has had a varied track record of affiliations Launched as ning one hour per episode for 24 shows The timing works perfectly for a marathon repeat because what happens at 8:17 am on the show will happen at 8:17 ajn in Wichita and so on an addictive series that kept me coming bade week after week This is a chance to catch any that you may have missed to sort out the exceedingly complicated and twisting plot Kiefer Sutherland days FBI agent Jack Bauer who is assigned to solve a threat against die first Mack US presidential candidate (Dennis Haysbert) He gets his assignment at midnight on the day of the California Primary presumably when the candidate will be an open and easy target Meanwhile daughter goes missing Then his wife Both are snatched by conspirators in die planned assassination Suddenly the plot becomes very personal and very desperate The story is concocted so cleverly that never certain whom you can trust including some who are working closely with Bauer in the FBI The show moves at lightning speed I was amazed at how much it could pack into each hour This is one marathon worth watching all the way through Unfortunately you say that about the traditional Labor Day Telethon which always Wednesday Prime Time Aug 28 Labor Day offers marathon choice: conscience versus fun low-power TV (station KSMI 'Channel 51 will be converting to die Spanish-language Aztaca America (AZA) network on Sept 16 and officials hope to launch a local Spanish-language newscast shortly thereafter RJ Dickens news director and creative services director fin: Channel 51 said die agreement to affiliate with AZA was signed last Friday after whirlwind negotiations earlier in the week "We will be the northernmost affiliate in the country" Dickens said citing such other cities as Los Angeles Las Vegas Phoenix Dallas and Miami There is a tremendous upside" to affiliating widiAZA The affiliates in Houston and Los Angeles outdrew ABC in the last ratings period" Dickens said AZA is the US arm of TV Azteca one of the oldest and largest networks in Mexico Wichita is die 10th Upmarket to affiliate AZA plans call for doubling that number within a year Programs that will be newly available in Wichita by mid-September include sudi notorious soaps as "Lo CUie Callamos Las Women Keep "Subete ml Moto" on My and Without AZA also carries lots of sports from Mexican league soccer BEST BETS Movie Ride" (2002 drama) Riley Smith A high school gridiron star finds that his wild side is jeopardizing his promising football career (7 pm WB and KWCV Ch 5-33) (2002 drama) Linus Roache James CromwelL Made-for-cable biopic mixes fine acting and a taut script to recall Robert tumultuous last years (7 and 11 pm FX Ch 31) (1987 drama) Crispin Glover Keanu Reeves Fact-based drama about the apathy among teens when rate murders his girlfriend (8 pm TNN Ch44) Series Wife and The Kyles head out fin: a family dinner at a restaurant (7 Jn ABC and KAKE Ch 10) The threat of a terrorist attack puts the president mid his staff on high alert (8 pm NBC and KSNW Ch 3) The fourth season begins with a matchup of three auto engineers and three Detroit muscle men trying to build the fastest dirt-throwing mud buggy for a three-heat race (8 pmTLCCh43) Specials Last Speculation on what happened to bandleader Glenn Miller a US Army major whose plane is said to have crashed into the English Channel on Dec 15 1944 while en route to Paris from England (7 pm PBS and KPTS Ch 8) Teen USA The 20th annual event will be shown live from South Padre Island Texas (8 pm CBS and KWCH Ch 12) "Arab and Jew: Return to die Promised Author David Shipler again explores the fundamental conflicts and tensions that divide Israel (9 pjn PBS and KPTS Ch 8) Sports US Open Tennis: Early rounds (6 pm USA Ch 28) Major League Baseball: New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox (6 pjn ESPN Ch 32) XJ 1 1 'V v' V-s GUfflE TD THEWSOT m4 New episode Ip appicabto farjf Imort game shows and news pro-! 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