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The Cincinnati Post Wednesday September 26 1990 7D Leisure time to make cable debut with old movies game shows TV notes audience gains each night and sticks with it absolutely thrilled with the size of the said Tom Law a spokesman for WCET He said the show has attracted the largest audience of anything the station has broadcast in his four years with WCET Live from Riverfront WLWT (Channel 5) news anchor Jerry Springer and sports anchor Greg Hoard wili broadcast the early news live from Riverfront Stadium until the Reds clinch the National League West title said Mike Hevel news director Other key news people will be moved over to the stadium when it looks like the Reds finally will wrap up the season-long chase its two Big Red Machine specials back-to-back starting at 12:30 pm Saturday The Big Red Machine reunion game that was played earlier this month in Blue Ash will be followed by the one-hour special Channel 9 produced on the 1975-76 Reds Smash hit for PBS Civil the PBS documentary that enters its fourth night tonight is rolling up some impressive ratings for WCET (Channel 48) the Cincinnati PBS affiliate The series has averaged a 69 rating (percentage of TV-equipped homes) and a 9 share (percentage of sets in use) for the first two nights of the five-night broadcast Although those numbers are a long way from the kind of numbers the commercial networks can attract with some of their series they represent a major coup for public television day to launch a nightly news show anchored by Charles Kur-alt and Lesley Stahl at 11:30 pm WCPO (Channel 9) however has no plans to carry the show according to Jack Cahalan who is in charge of programming promotions and operations at the station Cahalan said Charles Kuralt the station plans to continue running at 11:30 pm followed by reruns at 12:30 am and a rebroadcast of the 11 pm newscast at 1:30 WHIO (Channel 7) in Dayton plans to carry the news show with a half-hour delay at midnight after the syndicated Big Red rerun WCPO (Channel 9) will rerun ies from 7:30 to 11 pm on weekends and 7 to 9 pm weekdays The coverage area should include an oval bounded roughly by Arlington Heights on the north Fairfax on the east Highland Heights and Park Hills on the south and Covedale on the west according to Block The last new station to be launched in Greater Cincinnati was Channel 64 which went on the air for the first time in its first incarnation as WBTI in 1980 Block said the Star Network has sold commercial time for many of the shows His station will be responsible for selling local ads Arsenio beats Charles News junkies will have to tune in the Dayton CBS affiliate to catch the new CBS news series that debuts Monday night on affiliates all over the country CBS announced plans Mon By Greg Paeth Post staff reporter If you feel shortchanged with a measly 50 choices on cable brace yourself for the launch of another broadcast TV station Sometime over the weekend and no later than next Monday a low-powered UHF station with the clumsy call letters W25AI will be on the air for viewers within a five-to 10-mile radius of a tower atop Dollar Saloon in Corry-ville theme is that old TV shows die they go to heaven and this is TV said Elliott Block who runs Block Video Productions and is putting the station together TV 25 will have a schedule loaded with old TV programs and game shows running from 4 pm to 1 am on weekdays and is expected to broadcast music videos in the mornings and afternoons when kids are preparing for or returning from school The program lineup includes a number of forgotten or almost-forgotten TV shows that will be fed to Cincinnati via satellite from Orlando by a New York-based company called the Star TV Network The TV 25 schedule includes of Grey and reruns of four game shows: "Play the and On the weekends the Star Network programming will run from 3:30 pm until 1 am The station will run old mov New shows pull CBS out of cellar Associated Press avalanche of hype The animated family finished last among 8 pm Thursday shows and placed 67th for the week New episodes begin Oct 11 an event Fox executives hope will boost ratings for the series that once ranked No 4 in its original Sunday night slot At CBS executives were ecstatic about finishing first but cautious about calling it a sea-son-long trend not saying going to be No all the time said CBS ratings expert David Pol-track we are going to be CBS has the most new shows on television this fall Ten of 13 original series have already aired The ambitious slate represents the first fall schedule delivered by entertainment president Jeff Sagansky who has held the job less than a year CBS won a season since 1984 when it had a stable of hits such as and The AC Nielsen prime-time television ratings for the week of Sept 17-23: 1 NBC 2 ABC 3 (tie) CBS CBS 5 Cosby NBC 6 CBS 7 NBC 8 Different NBC 9 NBC 10 (tie) NBC CBS LOS ANGELES The perennially last-place CBS network is finally No 1 in the closest opener of the fall television season in more than two decades CBS emerged from last fall preview week in first place nosing ahead of usually top-rated NBC by just two-tenths of a ratings point The networks finished this tightly in a premiere race since 1966 network executives said Tuesday in response to the latest ratings released by the AC Nielsen Co CBS had a 136 average rating NBC had 134 and ABC had 132 Each ratings point represents 931000 homes NBC responded to the ratings with a press release that began week almost by definition is an atypical Cosby opened its season in the No 5 spot again embarrassing has plummeted in the ratings since moving to the same time period in an "My doctor approves of my losing 87 lbs He also approves of how I lost it 7 used to be sick all the time And my blood pressure was way too high My doctor felt I had to lose weight He agreed that going to NutriSystem made sense So I tried it It was the best decision I ever made The program really works And it's completely safe Now I'm at a weight i can live with My blood pressure is normal And 100 healthier and happier" Oj 3 '-'W Try the NutriSystenf Crave-Free" Weight Loss Program that includes a variety of delicious meals and Craving Control'" snacks nutritional and behavioral counseling light activity and weight maintenance 7:30 pm (48) This Old House Installing a radiant heat system air conditioners and plumbing fixtures (CC) (Re) We Succeed Where Diets Fail Yous 8:00 PM CH 9 Can three men babysit three kids and not go bonkers? 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