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1 TV Weekly Sunday March 21 1982 America-star of powerful documentaries new six-: part PBS series presents human dramas' in the American community which tell much about the American dream Jim Carey mayoral candidate in Muncie Ind is featured in Campaign' The second show is Big which examines what basketball competition means to a town obsessed with high school sports to the coaches of both teams and most importantly to the players Localviewers may compareit with Dreher-Eau Claire the past season 1 of follows a small group of people whose fundamentalist beliefs rituals of exorcism and frequent fellowship gatherings vividlyf manifest their desire to sustain a daily intimacy with God The fourth program 90 minutes is Business" where a family of 10 struggles to save a business that seems on the edge of bankruptcy It is a family-run pizza franchise Time focuses on an engaged couple who have each been married previously as they look to the future realizing the wedding is only part of what must be arranged i The final show also 9 ') minutes is titled and the subjects are a group of high school seniors wending squirming and racing their way toward commencment is definitely true-to-life drama and one of better efforts Muncie A lot pf the program goes behind the scenes The film follows closely the personalities strategies ancf pressures involved in an American political contest The Democratic and Republican candidates share a similar stance on the issues yet their personal styles and backgrounds stand in stark contrast as each man seeks to gain the recognition and support of voters is brainchild as he sought to film six human dramas found in the "average" American community which tell much about the American dream During a Los Angeles interview following a preview of the opening show Davis a Peabody Emmy and Academy Award winner said program will follow the story of a separate group of individuals They cannot be called because they are all real people with ongoing lives is no narrator Propelled by character conflict and action each topic is examined I through the direct experiences of individuals at significant and challenging moments in their lives candidates running for office to high school seniors each stands at the threshold of a ritual -passage which will greatly affect his or her By RAY BENSON Television Editor The first segment of the new PBS series focuses on the mayoral race in Muncie ind The 90 minute segment! kicks off a six-week run of which premieres Wednesday (9 pm Channel 35) Al) of the episodes in were shot in Muncie which producer Peter Davis selected as his city There are two other 90- minute segments the others one hour The opener is a powerful drama about Democrat Jim bid for the office in PETER DAVIS i 1 on his own from Hardeeville situated at the north end of SL Helena 1 Island midway between Kiawah and Savannah The station's primary coverage area will be Kiawah Edisto and Hilton Head islands and Beaufort and Hardeville The main offices and studios will be located in Hardeeville with a satellite studio planned for Charleston The station will have broadcast power of 500000 watts for a minimum of 18 hours per day This could be increased to 24 hours depending on results of on-going programmming studies Pearlman said It will be serviced by International Independent News a satellite subscriber network but the overriding emphasis will be on local news Sporting events will come from Hughes TVS and Mizlou according to Pearlman IT NOW APPEARS the majority of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball will return to Channel 10 next season with announcement by NBC Sports that it has signed a three-year agreement with the ACC Metrosports had the ACC contract last year and Channel 25 acquired the majority of the regular-season games and theentire tournament Channel 10 the NBC t' affiliate had been the major local broadcaster of ACC games prior to that However Metrosports has lost the contract to Raycom which apparently will televise all games not airing on NBC The network acquired the tournament championship game i iAaddition to regular-season games- Channel is no longer Long-time announcer-wea thermal Dave Rogers has left WIS-TV Rogers who was into his 13th year with station has moved into field of broadcasting Rogers was known to thousands of viewers as the 1 O'clock weatherman He is being replaced -temporarily by Tom Anderson who is also Channel 10's weekend weatherman Bill Logan operations manager of the station said are seeking a meterologistlb take over that' position and he or she will also repoi Uie weather on WIS Radio" Logan said Joe Pinner would continue as weatherman on the Rogers was the voice of many local on and off screen in addition to being the voice of Channel promotions and station-breaks In broadcasting since 1947 he came to WIS-TV in 1959 from Florence a broadcaster and stay with he said see changing been around long enough for people to know me and so gone into the business of selling SOUTH CAROLINA is getting yet another television station this one WTGS-TV Channel 28 in Hardeeville Qn-the-air target date is Sept 30 and this independent station will have a similar format to WTBS-17 in Atlanta business and Minority Coalition Broadf tfsiled Ray Benson application with the FCC last year which now has approved a construction permit and the FAA has cleared the location of the tower our physical plants have been constructed and engineering tests completed we will receive our full operating said Charleston attorney Robert Pearlman one of the six owners Four other owners are from the Charleston area one from Columbia Site of theWTGS 1313-foot broadcast tower is 30 mile.