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Leading Discount Communications Company! 655 St. Andrews 252-7171 MOBILE ALCEL Florence (234 W. Evans 679-9500 AUTHORIZED AGENT Columbia Mall, 788-9111 Persenel Cone 55815-68 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1997 C7 time Veteran comic slams filth' on today's TV From Staff and Wire Reports TV legend Steve Allen doesn't think much of the current television landscape. Monday, during a keynote address at the annual Banff TV Festival in Canada, Allen summed up today's TV as "vulgarians entertaining barbarians." According to an account of the gathering in The Hollywood Reporter, Allen called U.S. television executives merchants of "filth" who are helping to push American culture and society "down a moral sewer." In his heyday, during the 1950s, TV was rooted in good taste, Allen said, adding that TV today has fueled a breakdown in ethical standards.

"Our burlesque entertainers never used the vulgarity of the sort that one hears now even on daytime television, which is to say where children can and do see it," Allen noted. The veteran comic, who was host of "The Tonight Show" and "The Steve Allen Show," said he wasn't a curmudgeon or a prude, and that no topic was ever out of bounds for him. But, he said, the problem today is the vulgar way comedians deal with material. As an example, Allen praised HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" for its quality but slammed it for its foul language. Allen said the show would be just as funny if it eliminated the profanity.

Troubled Florence TV station. WEYB, channel 56, has changed its schedule again. This past weekend, it became an automated relay for Network 1, a satellite service that provides programming to low-power stations. WEYB had been the Fox affiliate for the Beach television market TV until Jan. 1.

That's when Fox switched to WFXB, leaving WEYB to go it as an independent. That usually spells trouble in a smaller market such as Florence. Not surprisingly, the station recently was sold to JME Media which hopes to take over in 30- 45 days. pending approval of the sale by the Federal Communications Commission. JME has not announced its plans for the WEYB.

The change also ended the local "Doug Williams Show." The 68-year-old Williams has been a part of the Pee Dee radio-TV NEWS AND TALK SHOWS 7 a.m. Today: Cameron Diaz. (WIS10) 12437; Good Morning America: "Batman cooking outdoors. (WOLO-25) 75147 8 a.m. This Morning: Jason Patric Princess Diana's dress auction.

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Rosie O'Donnell: David Hyde Pierce; En Vogue; young chef Justin Miller. (R) (WIS-10) 99437; Oprah Winfrey: Book club. (WOLO-25) 86505 5 p.m. Montel Williams: Women who lost weight. (WLTX-19) 70789 5:30 p.m.

Inside Edition: Buying a Suggestions for viewers today 'The Talk of the Town': Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman star in this 1942 comedy-drama from director George Stevens. Grant's a suspected murderer who hides out in Arthur's house, where lawyer Colman is a boarder. (7 p.m., AMC) 'Noah the Ark: Voyage to a New Few figures in the Bible are as important as Noah, but how much do we really know about him? This "Biography" program suggests that he may have been "history's first Renaissance man," which would seem to entail a lot more than shipbuilding prowess. And then there's the question of how he ever persuaded all those animals to get on the ark. Teachers of religion and biblical scholars comment.

(8 p.m., 'Simon Simon: In Trouble Again': Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney returned to their long-running private-eye roles for this 1994 reunion movie of the show that ran from 1981 to 1988. This time they're somewhat uneasily reunited in Seattle, where circumstances soon force them to rely on their detective skills. With series regulars Mary Carver, Tim Reid and Jeannie Wilson. (9 p.m., CBS) Best bets business for more than 40 years. 'Homicide' cast changes.

NBC has confirmed that Melissa Leo, who has played detective Kay Howard on "Homicide: Life on the Street" since its 1992 premiere, won't be back for the sixth season in the fall. As part of a cast shake-up, Max Perlich, who played J.H. Brodie, the unit's videographer, also will be missing in September. Joining the cast in the fall will be Jon Seda and Peter Gerety, who both appeared in the season finale in which Lt. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) told the homicide unit of an upcoming staff rotation system that could result in transfers for any one of them.

Seda will play Paul Falsone, a car theft detective, and Gerety returns as internal affairs Detective Stuart Gharty. car. (WIS-10) 7708 7:30 p.m. Entertainment Tonight: Julia Roberts. (WIS-10) 4857 8:30 p.m.

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