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"HT THE rnLSNO DEE Friday September 6 1985 Cl vvm Television Channel 18 promises end to pledge pushed back to 8:10 or 8:15 try" said Rowe According to Rowe the philoso-" been to phy In the past often had been to Before becoming news director at KM PH Cheatwood was a report on yg anchorman for some eight months qM at the station Viewers who expected their to start at 8:05 be become angry Several times year PBS stations across the country hold what they call During these' festivals special programming usually is featured most of it top-notch stuff and very diversi delay the start of a program until a pro-designated number of pledges I been received And if a pledge ending pledge breaks" has been preceded by nearly three weeks ot on-air announcements featuring KMTF Station Manager Colin Dougherty In the announcements Dougherty who keeps talking past the allotted time is shooed from the set cut off in mid-sentence plunged into a dunk tank and driven away from the camera in a car Cheatwood attended Fresno State ir University from 1977-81 and hatimff lived in Fresno off and on most ot fied everything from mysteries to documentaries to musicals and switch to something else PBS stations started realizing that by letting people ramble on and on the pledge breaks were becoming dull repetitive and counterproductive Fresno's PBS affiliate KMTF Channel 18 was one station to recognize that So KMTF is promising that the break was going well it was extended Either way noted Rowe viewers often became upset his life Before going to KMPH 18 months as an execur worked for Please Stand By The big test win come next week when KMTF starts its "Autumn Fes 1M tive producer with KP1X-TV (Chary- nel 5) in San Francisco Prior to that he worked for Channel 30 (KFSN)lV- a mum eiiBiifumflllt MtltflT IlfVi fOf assignment editor and for aU in fun" said Dougherty the message is there We are going to start aU programs at the scheduled time I end of "the never-ending pledge at It means has arrived What ing" etc etc But one of the biggest aggravations during these festivals has been the motor-mouth who stays Die purpose of the festivals is to raise money and attract new viewers PBS stations need local money to keep operating and to purchase programs During these festivals also known as there are regular pleas for money PBS staffers and members of the community get up and urge (some critics say beg) the audience to send in bucks your station" is the often thrown-out reminder station and your dollars which keep it go- rival" (Sunday through Sept 22) If a person is still yakking at 8-05 or whenever a program is scheduled to start the program will come on and the talker will be left talking to thin air Plans also call for a "countdown to be flashed in one comer of the screen showing the amount of time left before the next program starts The experiment to end news I the now defunctFresno Guide for I two years as a general assignments reporter -hrW II rtoill PLEASE STAND BY appears seitv end times each week Lee Marksbu-fj ry is a Bee staff writer 4 is that if a show is scheduled to begin at 8-05 it will begin at 8:05 and not a minute later the word from KMTFs Development Director Jeannine Rowe "We've listened to what our viewers have had to say about past festivals and we're willing to give this a LEAVING KMPH Joel Cheatwood news director at KMPH (Channel 26) for the past 15 months is leaving the station for a similar position at WXEX-TV in Richmond Virginia Today is his last day bles on and on going far beyond given to the allotted time given to make the pitch Programming which had been scheduled to start at 8-05 gets Evening takes a I i Timothy Sam ana sain Night Fight Please Don't Let Me Dio 11:00 3D (29 CD (SI CD CD TOO CD Family Faud WaS Street Weak Entertainment To- Lehrer (nb 711 The Public EnemyfT1 1931) James Cagney Don- -'3 aid Cook 1 320 GDIhban Suburban I Morning Rock gTDNows wurl £nS1 Newa Weather Sports 'jraiiL rail Bound For TheVT I Promised Land -yiia M0 Cannon MacNoll -Newahour SNotlctoto CD Nows r(R)(CC) Australian Rule Jim McLain (1952) Wayne Nancy Olson Nancy Olson 12:30 32) CD Friday Night W- John A 1 nt and hie assistant attempt to atom the tide of terrorist activities In 1020 (1 hr 30 min) Taxi soar ewH BportsCsntsr Movie Vb (1973) WKRP In CfockmaO MASH Benaon Mayberry kFA Jlnwny Swaggart fuaS! 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Cain beat him to the punch at NBC the network most receptive to new ideas The "Miami Vice characters and initial script were creat-edby Street Blues" alumnus Anthony Yerkovich who quickly left the show but Mann always has been in charge The measure of good work is its afterlife The best films and TV shows can be enjoyed no matter how old they are Nobody watdjes an old movie to laugh at the width of a character's tie hut only an awkward stumbling first step The real question is where the style goes from here if it OS.