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.) .1 1 53 RADIO 3 FAlSEASONIOFiTEENlSEXCAPADES Doogie Loses His Virginity, Too By Dennis McDougal LOS ANGELES TIMES TV has come a long way from 1978 when teen actor Lance Kerwin lost his virginity on NBCs James at 15. The network was so uneasy about the scene that it squelched writer Dan Wakefields effort to have the girl deliver a line about being responsible a reference to the then-taboo subject of birth control. Not surprisingly, reaction to this new candor is mixed. In August, just days after the first reports that Doogie and his girlfriend Wanda (Lisa Dean Ryan) would consummate their teen romance this season, Steven Bochco Productions and ABC received several letters from concerned parents. I am not a raving, angry viewer, but I do select carefully and have taught my children the same, and they are children at this point in each ones life," wrote Kathleen Gallagher, a mother of three teens from Crestwood, N.Y.

Therefore, I react with concern that the writers, producers and directors find it necessary to present Doogie as sexually active in an upcoming episode." The message to millions of impressionable and often lonely teens will be that everyone is doing it, including Doogie Howser, and that intercourse will somehow relieve that loneliness, Gallagher predicted. HOLLYWOOD THIS SEASON ON ABCs Doogie Howser, M.D. (which returns tonight at 9), 18-year-old Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris) will experience making love for the first time. This development will be the latest example this brief TV season of teen sexuality being openly discussed. Already: On Fox True Colors, 18-year-old Terry Freeman (Claude Brooks) was ridiculed by his family for being i gin.

By the end of the episode, his non-virgin girlfriend i it clear to him that he wouldnt be for much longer. On the first episode of NBCs Blossom, 15-year-dd Blossom Russo (Mayim Bialik) debated going to second base with her boyfriend. On the season premiere of ABCs Roeeanne, 16-year-old Becky Connor (Lacy Goranson) asked her mother to help her get birth control pill On PBS In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story," a high school senior is engaging in unsafe sex with her boyfriend while researching a report on teen-agers with AIDS. Doogie (Neil Patrick Harris) and Wanda (Usa Dean Ryan) In the season TEEN SEX on Bags 58 premiere of Doogie Howser, M.D. 3 ITVJSPOTS fAMHFM By Ben Kubasik STAFF WRITER CBS Wins Week Hy raul D.

but latest attempt to resolve the competition; for the FM frequency, which' has been in -flux poised to take over one of since the how-defunct WHBI lost PART II NY NEW YORK NEWSOAY, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1991 seven years ago because FCC rescinded' The areas more unusual its stations, the multilingual of irreeularities. WNWK 1 105.9 under 1990 Lviinr granting the eeWemmit approved bjMmadxnin- to ft Hispanic groupTH Americas If I istrative law judge at the Federal Communications which now is Communications Commission. expected to receive $2.1 million lBft fftan Multicultural under the latest submitted the settlement offer, say- plan. v.

mg it had struck desLto fwe xgai expenses will no doubt swell CBS, with four of Nielsens top five shows last week, led the three mqjor-net works premiere week with a 14.5 rating 25 share to NBCs 12.4 21 and ABCs 11 19. CBS last had four shows in the top five in November, 1984. Murphy Brown (23.8 35) and Designing Women (21.9 36) were number one and two, respectively. NBCs Cheers (20.9 33) was third, followed by CBS Major Dad (19.2 30) and 60 Minutes (19.1 34). ABCs Roeeanne (19.1 29) tied for fifth.

ABC tried to excuse its third-place finish by saying it had only 59 percent original programs against 84 percent for CBS and 82 percent for NBC. NBC Bays it held its own; if so, it wasnt enough in the face of the CBS premiere-week onslaught Fox, which programs only 12 prime-time hours compared to 22 each for ABC, CBS, and NBC, averaged 7.8 13 for the time it was mi the air. Combined ratings for the last weeks head-to-head programing on ABC, CBS, and NBC was 37.9 65; a year ago, their premiere week drew a combined and heftier 40.2.68. In all the above, ratings are the percentage of all U.S. TV households; share is the percentage of those households watching TV actually tuned to a specific network or program.

Multiculturals well beyond $5.1 million. But even at $10 million, the station would be a steal. On the open market, an FM license in New York would sell for around $25 mil-; to end their bids fear the sta-J tions license. The license has been -S held the past few years on an interim and. nonprofit basis by, the Global tl Broadcasting Arthur 8.

Liu, the president of Multicultural, said it was prematura to. discuss his plans WNWK, a valuable franchise that' broadcasts, shows in Polish, Farsi, Armenian and dozens of other lan-j. guages. 'T am confident that this, matter: will end in our fevor. he i nr' i jnOir pMtfUs good an agras any, Vi tfMcabouft tnifrifl 1 lion and possibly much more.

The interim operator of WNWK, Global Broadcasting chairman Guy Le Bow, said he fears that Multicultural will have to alter WNWKs unique multilingual format to something far more commercial in to raise. the $5.1 million. I cant do anything about it, Le Bow said, Im sore as hell about it. Le Bow has called on the FCC to declare WNWKs format vital to the New York melting pot. He added: I have offered to run the station for no tP money.

lWABC77WiOto ijaaaian)K Step might fsaid following the judges decision' of 15, but you never know what could happen Further eratkms at the FCC remain. All-Stars for Stringer Award In papers filed earlier with the Multicultural said it proposes a consisting pri-manly of unique foreign language r(WN6Tjrj3affl): savv WOR Adds NBC's 'First Ught' programs produced by and directed of ethnic minorities. to members NewYo CRy Opadtjfi Marriage of'f It isnt enough CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer is getting the Southern California Region Entertainment Industries Division of the National Conference of Christians and Jews Humanitarian Award on Oct 28 in Los Angeles. Stringer also has enlisted 60 Minutes correspondents Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley to emcee and top CBS News producers 48 Hours executive producer Andrew Heyward and 60 Minutes producers Maurice Murad and Jon Klein to document his life story on tape. Although WNWKs studios are on Madison Avenue, Newark would remain the outlets ritjr-of-license, so that, the papers say.

the station K-will present English language news Ps end public affairs programs direct-ed toresidents of New Jerseys largest dtv. -r1 Liu and his. wife, Yvonne," have ePHeiaw WeOlecki; 8); NBC Radios First Light, a national newsmagazine derigned as a lead-in to local stations, morning shows, has found a home on the New York diaL WOR710 AM recently added the program from 5 to a.m., the slot once occupied by the stations own Morning Busi-. ness Journal, with Larry Hatzi, who died in June. First Liit originates from the NBC newsroom in Arlington, Vs.

Besides the days headlines and sports, it features business news from iFfawostt hosts a documentary il iiV rinTifnlmn nm oe-rm -I-n ponmpMi on ft -T cV VwA llumipt ewmtete.oJhej Garth Brooks' TV Special owned businesses that transmit Chinese-language radio if on so-called subcarrier and they have, had stock in the Daily, focal "'i newspaper. Multiculturals settlement offer is y- 'vt' noaso see Country musics Garth Brooks first net work-TV special will air later this fall on NBC, Brooks LP Ropin the Wind tops the Billboard charts this week. II rm 8t i 1 rjt HZTYT I a -s-rt nr.