The Commercial Appeal du lieu suivant : Memphis, Tennessee • 11

EMPHIS THURSDAY JULY 14 1994 oncombative Murdoch tells critics: Fox on ove TOM WALTKR Programming Preview Memphis Fox affiliate WPTY-TV Channel 24 have a newscast and one isn't fanned soon lurdoch said Fox offers affiliates such as Channel 24 Rupert help in setting Murdoch up a newscast but admitted like to see more progress than we Fox stations have more local advertising time to sell than other network affiliates and many program two hours of news in the morning and an hour from 9 to 10 pm Murdoch said developing a national newscast in the early evening part of the plans think people watch them very much' he said Much nas been made that Fox might lose up to $100 million a year on football It paid an average of $385 million a year to get the NFC games away from CBS But Murdoch ft i 1 1 Is manned flight in space a fizzle? Report takes look LOS ANGELES Rupert Murdoch chairman of Fox Inc rarely stoops to addressing television critics too busy gobbling up the world of television to do that But for the first time since starting Fox Broadcasting Co in 1986 Murdoch talked to the critics Wednesday He was less feisty than many imagined the Australian magnate would be not exactly conciliatory but not combative at all message was that Fox was on the move with fights to the NFL games with the first year in which it can concentrate solely on gristing programming and not worry about putting new nights of programs on the air and with the Fox Network which is the ratings leader among kids Murdoch chose to emphasize educational shows such as Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? and not the prime reason for boost none kids: The superviolent ighty Morphia Power Rangers But then this is Hollywood where the sunny side always is up Murdoch has caused the most turmoil in broadcast history with his investment in the -New World stations which are switching their affiliations from the Big Three networks to nit Part of the strategy is to stations with a stronger yHF signal but those new Fox stations also broadcast news something he said he wanted all the Fox affiliates to da TALK SHOWS 6ajnCE 6 am CSPAN 81143m am CSPAN Evening News From (Repeal) 70893424 (E TMi morning I 7 un (E Title Morning Paabo Bryson Tony Danza preparing tor an IRS audit: a pretien 61 CBS Reports: Specs: The last Frontier or Lost Frontier? 30725 7 ajn (E Today Film director Jim iCameron the dangers of come household products women abused by their da a cooking demonstration Andrew Bergman Sleepless NlgMa) animal expert Jim Fowler 7 ajn Good Morning America Series on losMst foods continues violence In dating with young women 61424 7 am CSPAN Viewer CaHSi (Uve) il 658462 75 am CSPAN Viewer Call-In (Live) 63354608 830 am CSPAN PubUc PoScy Conference $30) 2M90B 9 am CE Uve Regia A Kathle Lae Family recipe contest eemlfinallst Robin Mattson MM My Children) 38649 8 am CB Donahue Rule TV commercial 48511 6 am OS Maury Pe 1 large famlHea 42375 10 am CE SaMy A 19-year-oW serving time for having sex with his 14-yearold girlfriend 38714 10 am a Mike A Maly 80559 JO am 8 Jenny Jones Man who control the way their fiancees dress 22153 10 am WWOR Richard Bey WOridi women face off with In the home 189424 10 am CSPAN House of Representatives (7:00) 4009714 11 am CE Barfice Berry Children confront their mother about cheating on their father 59576 11 am OB Charlie Rose Two discus-Mona of the tobacco controversy with FDA Commissioner David Kessler Joseph CalNbno Jr and others 82820 11 am care Medalists and breast cancer survivors share their experiences 60795 11 am WON Geraldo Women who discover their husbands are gay 543608 Noon Monlel WVSama Teens trying a parent's suicide to recover 82424 Noon LIFE Queens Musical group the on buying a diamond Noon El Lata Night With David Latter- man 376996 Noon CNN Sonya Uve 967761 '1 pm McU Lake Teens who don't want to Uve with their parents dleorse the reasons behind their decision 91172 3 pm (E Oprah Winfrey Dr Thomas Rusk otHsithor of The Power of Ethical Persuasion talks about how people out" with everyday Indiscretions and white Has 49576 6 pm CSPAN Evening News From Moscow 424849 630 pm CSPAN Viewer CaS-ln (Uve) 6 pm El Lam Night With David Latter- nan flflSIUlg 6:15 pm CSPAN Viewer CaS-ln (Uve) 15610443 630 pm CNN Crossfire 216789 7 pm El Howard Stem 499153 7 pm CSPAN Event of the Day (3-00) 618153 9 pm WpmHwBvrf Slim 6487 i 0 pm CSPAN Event of the Day (230) 336117 1035 djil CD Tonight Show Arnold srwaBar" 1135 pm CB Late Show whh tknM Latterman From February: Super Dave Osborne singer John Michael Montgomery Dave's mother Interviews Hiltary Rodham Clinton 28258004 1135 pm CE Late Night CybM Shap- aUHpmOArsento HaS The Beet of Aeenfa From 1989: MMml Doudas Denny DeVito singer Terence Trent PubSe PoSey Contap 1237 ffiBB Unbar 8590298 12:35 am CE Later Dick CavetL Howard Stem 331115 1am CNN Larry King Uve (Repeat) 135am (E Geraldo See 11 am IStHIOIMWa said that Fox has sold more than $700 million in so-called advertising for the 1994-95 season (advertising bought in advance for au programs) which is 30 percent more than it sold last year and which nearly makes up the football loss Plus he said the value of the Fox-owned stations has risen as a result of getting football With all the affiliation switches that are going on Murdoch said that he worried the affiliates that have jumped to him recently will jump back to someone else in the future "We feel our affiliates will be the most profitable in their he said emphasizing that in television money talks But for viewers what counts is what ends up on the air Murdoch said he was proud of The X-Files and Living Single which premiered last season and the fact that Melrose Place the steamy soap opera seems to be on track even as it moves to 7 pm Mondays where steamy normally play And his philosophy for the network? want to entertain and inform people with the best material available in this country or anywhere he said Television reporter Tom Walter is in Los Angeles attending a press tour of new programming from the networks cable public television and first-run syndication TUNE III man also discuss life and work numerous ips from the Trek series and movies are included Lindsay Wagner stars in She WokeUp (7 pm WHr TV Channel 13) a 1992 movie thriller about a woman who awakens from a coma only to realize that she is a target for murder by an unknown assailant Daria Dukes and Frances Sternhagen are also in the cast UAAE In Concert a two-hour weekly showcase for top rock and roll acts debuts (8 pm) with concert footage Chicago and the Beach Be Some of the film has been seen on Li Conceit but none of it has previously aired in prime time Also included: host Elliott interviews with the performers Silent Witness: What a Child Saw (8 pm USA) is a two-hour drama about the impact of gang crime on an inner-city family A boy witnesses a brutal murder then must decide whether to tell the police and thereby risk his own safety Mia Korf and Richard Year-wood star Fox TV promotes a Fox movie in The Making of (8:30 pm WPTY-TV Channel 24) a half-hour behind-the-scenes look at the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film that opens tomorrow In terviews with co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold are included Scheduled on Dateline NBC (9 pm WMC-TV Channel 5): a Brian Ross investigation into charges of serious problems in on-board computerwarning systems on many commercial airliners which are designed to avoid midair collisions Scheduled on PrimeTime Uve (9 pm WHBQ-TV Channel 13): a report on "cold squad two detectives who look into long-unsolved murder cases and a profile of Clinton administration foreign-policy aide Robert Boorstin Cove 3801 8 381 26 381 20 Cir 381 1 7 38134 winner Sport! taction By Jon Burlingame United Feature Syndicate HOLLYWOOD The future of manned space program is examined in a new CBS Reports (9 pm WREG-TV Channel 3) titled Space: Last Frontier or Lost Frontier? Connie Chung anchors the broadcast which begins with a look back at the Apollo 11 mission 25 years ago this month in which American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon Interviews with Aldrin and then-CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite are included The hour places the landii in historical perspective wil an examination of the political climate of the era (especially the Cold War and the space race with the Soviets) Political issues related to the space shuttle and the impact or the Challenger disaster are also examined along with arguments pro and con on the merits of the planned orbiting space station Also interviewed are astrophysicist James Van Allen who is critical of the shuttle program and Vice President Gore who supports further manned exploration The hour generally disappoints attempting to cover too much territory in too little time interviews with scientists such as Carl Sagan are so brief as to be misleading about their overall views Biography (7 pm is a must for Star Trek fans the first film profile of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenber-ry which draws on interviews with the television writer-producer conducted prior to his 1991 death and talks with several actors on both Star Trek series including Leonard Nimoy James Doonan Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn Roddenberry's widow Majel Barrett contributes both reminiscences and home movies Star Trek associate producer Robert Justman biographer David Alexander ana Next Generation producer Rick Ber Sure Saver Summer Rates EQStieiiton ALABAMA fcrnw Chrk Crater GREATlCAIQlVEAWAYj 9587 Shadow Point 597 Stephens PI 685 Eaton Cove 5209 Meadowcrest 6754 Bent Tree Ave If youraddresa appearajiere a iee thfG reaT CAGIveaway RULES Want ppwdi 17 and unilwWy Wafts swam aMi i saauaraWraWwne Wise ITT ahsnSonCwpoiWoii i I.