Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 45

Iff I ICuJiii Magaiim lirwinghwi Part Harold Friday May ll 198 PogaY TTiis Week With David Brinkley a Sunday news show with an unusual format has high ratings in the rest of the nation but aired in Birmingham Television From pap 4 Night With David Letterman's most recent show debuted on NBC Feb 1 1982 It lasts an hour and in the words of NBC spokesman Peter Spivey is Upper version of the Carson Tonight with Carson is plenty informal but Letterman's show is even more informal Besides the celebrities Letterman often has inventors pet acts and young comics on with him NBC broadcasts the show Monday through Thursday Spivey said more than 90 percent of NBCi 215 affiliates carry either at the regular time (11:30 pm) or later carry it because we would have to tape and delay says Everett Holle of Channel 13 delay the show one full hour and that runs into David Letterman's time At some point you cant keep Channel 13 delays Carson to show and in the Family" from 10:30 to 11 JO pm At 12:30 pm when Carson goes off Channel 13 shows a movie PBS Many programs connected with PBS do not get broadcast in Birmingham affiliates at 2 pm on Saturdays but affiliates may tape and delay the broadcast publicist Art Berke did not have an exact number of affiliates that pick up the show but said it is seen In IS percent of the country is no compelling reason to carry it" Bolton says have had good com-merical and audience success with afternoon movies" aukj wv The local PBS affiliate WBIQ can't afford them "Alabama public television has me of the shortest broadcasting schedules of any public television network in the says Ann Burkhardt spokeswoman for WBIQ have historically been underfunded at the state The station cant afford the personnel necessary for a longer broadcasting schedule Nor can it afford to pay for the extra programming WBIQ is at its shortest from May 21 to September 7 During this period the station's weekday schedule is 3 pm to 11 pm For contrast there's the PBS affiliate in Dallas Texas That station signs on at 5:30 am and broadcasts until am Mrs Burkhardt said WBIQ carries the basic PBS offerings MacNeil-Lehrer but misses such programs as a live talk show Creatures Great and Wodehouse "Great Railway Journeys of the several British comedy programs and many how-to programs All stations considered Birmingham television is narrowest during the late-night hours Most major markets offer the majority of the following: Tonight Night With David America" and of the a syndicated talk show designed to compete with Car-son Of these Birmingham gets only and that's delayed primary goal is to beat the competing stations" Bolton says The accepted way of beating the competition in Birmingham is to show reruns and movies -1 VH i 1 Ted Koppd anchor of award-winning js seen in Birmingham if tyy widtinnai Hi liii je i 1 i a 4 i.