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G12 Friday January 8 1993 The Fresno Bee Television KBOS readies for snitch to news-talk today 7:10 am Saturday and at noon and 4 pm Sundays appeal! i Valley is 'Deep Space1 There's proof that the as ga-ga over Space Nine" the new "Star series as every place else on the planet The futuristic syndicated se-' two-hour pilot episode will When Charley Scott left KRGO last fall to become operations manager at KBOS AM and FM it take much prescience to conclude that news-talk was in immediate future This week as KRGO switched from news-talk to simulcasting Spanish-language music programming Scott announced that KBOS (AM 1340) will switch to news-talk from simulcasting contemporary music The change will occur around the mMla of the Scott said The KBOS stations were purchased last year by veteran broadcaster Steve Miller and former banking executive John urocKs One of the first persons the new owners hired was Scott who had switched country KMAK to country Literacy Hitors WANTED In just hours you can be trained to use the newspaper to teach adults to read This widely used program makes tutoring more rewarding and learning more relevant It focuses on events and issues affecting the life of the student and builds the skills needed for success This project to enlistvolunteers is sponsored by The Fresno Bee in cooperation with the Fresno Adult Literacy Council Tutors completing this workshop will be matched with students tty FALC REGISTER NOW Bee A Reader Workshop $20 (includes lunch) For those who want to become certified tutors At The Fresno Bee 1626 St Fresno 9 am-3 pm Saturday Jan 30 Saturday Feb 20 Saturday Mar 20 Fee includes FresnoAdultLiteracy Council membership tutor curriculum manual and materials Lunch and refreshments hosted by The Bee Please register by mail For scholarship information call 441-6092 -Phone Please register by mail be broadcast at 7 pm Saturday on Channel 47 and then will settle into its regular 7-8 pm Saturday slot the following week (See stray Page G1 and review Page G6) When promotional announcements for the new series began running last month Channel47 received requests from viewers asking when the promos were scheduled to air Trekkers wanted to tape the promos so have a complete video collection of Space The station and The Bee have received requests for publidty brochures photos press releases anything! about the new will be made available beginning today to radio stations in the United States and Mexico has for eight years the only Lati-no-controlled national radio service" said Hugo Morales Radio executive director Radio Bilingue is a non-commercial community radio network headquartered in Fresno that broadcasts on KSJV (FM 915) in Fresno KMPO (FM 887) in Modesto and KTQX (FM 901) in Bakersfield It also operates a station in El Centro It has produced daily reports on news of special interest to the Hispanic people in the United States especially the 25 percent who speak only Spanish Morales said is the very few media broadcasting honest information about Mexican political and social issues because there is no freedom of the press in Mexico and pom: understanding of situation here in toe He praised the work of the executive producer Samuel Orozco and the other producers Araceli Garda Elvia Diaz Boris Cardenas and Elena Rodrigo "Notidero has won numerous awards The new Latino Ed-idon will be available by satellite and is expected to be aired by about 70 stations in the UJ3 and another 50 in Maw'CO "Notidero Latino Edidon will be broadcast on the Radio Bilingue Valley stations at 2:10 and 7:10 pm ten Miller when Miller LANNY LARSON BROADCAST BEAT syndicators put some of their best programs on at the same time so we cant carry all of it Scott said For example in the early afternoon Scott has access to such talk stars as Alan Colmes Barry Father Charles Adler and Gene Barnes the same time slot to which Larry King is moving from late night on Feb 1 Scott said no commitments have been made on how to resolve the embarrassment of riches and his preference is run as much live as we Scott said that while live sports coverage is something he wants on KBOS-AM he nailed anything down yet He does plan to run 16 hours of ESPN radio sports programming on the weekends which is when he also plans to air how-to talk shows In the future Scott is optimistic about the prospects for a local talk show plus local news and sports reporting: News show launch! A weekly 14-minute edition of Radio Bil-ingue-produced Lati news-talk was an owner several years ago Scott and Miller said last fall that they were exploring several formats including news-talk for the AM station But the other options were discarded and Scott has been seeking news and talk programming and studio equipment adapted to the new format When KRGO announced its switch early this week Scott said some of the old KRGO programming would be carried on KBOS-AM whatever mill letters we wind up His biggest problem is deciding which shows to run and when the networks and Address City The requests are from folks seeking items that might some day be as valuable as collectibles related to the original and Trek: The Next have become Oh yes when toe satellite feed to Channel 47 came in just before New at least three station employees hooked up VC3ls to toe line to record their own tapes of the pilot episode ZIP Enclosed is my check for $20 payable to FALC (This tuition will be donated to FALC upon receipt) Send to: The Fresno Bee Community Relations 1626 Street Fresno CA 93786 Exp 11093 Larson is The Bee's broadcast Lanny oohjmntat TOWER'S STOREWIDE CLEARANCE HURRY! 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TOP 25 ALWAYS ON SALE! to (as in never shed his Easton who has coached actors including Tom Cruise and Ben Kingsley on New York accents and has files on dialect differences held linguistic sessions for the Canadian actors in the ABC movie He even has detected subtle distinctions in the words used by the Fishers themselves For instance there are generational differences between the way Amy and her mother Rose talk the word Amy says but Rose loses the final so it comes out (rhymes with Easton is used to all this fay now since he has many actors He recalls first meeting the late Michael Conrad who later went on to a role in Street Conrad had moved to California and told Easton that he was having trouble getting parts because of the way he talked I.