Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 20

gg formtnjhoM Paat-Hotold loturdoy June 30 1917 Butkus fumbles in 'Time Out for DacT a waitress-struggling musician (Beverly D'Angelo) to have his child Naturally she falls in love with him and complicates the matter Cable nils TODAY Days of Glory: Part (1987) DM-light at 8: five-hour film depicts highlights of the 1984 Bud Greenspan's threesome (Beatrice Rue McClanahan) lady but all Repeat NBC tonight at Willie Nelson hosts includes the funny History of White appears ABC tomorrow choice movie for this endearing (1941) football player then returned Chartes Grodin and delightfully villainous (1985) CBS Margot Kidder is limp melodrama Linette Harding ust took off possessions Will good credit rating Or will she forgive and take him tomorrow night on this sleepy Reynolds stars as a father He hires By Faye Zackermaa Special to Ike Poat-Hcnld Farmer Chicago Bear Dick Butkus icorei few touchdowni acting-wise on NBC tomorrow night with Out for Dad" at 7 Butkus fumbles through his role in this pilot for a series as househusband-retired football star Dick Kowalski wife (Sandy Faison) is pursuing a journalism career and left to cook clean shop and discipline their three children meeting your boss be fighting static be complains to his wife who replies a gotta do what a gotta What Kowalski must do is tackle the housework deal with an insensitive teacher and a snippy clerk at the grocery store give his daughter driving lessons and throw together a suitable meal for his boss coming to dinner His daughter wrecks the car jut prior to driving over his foot the bon tuns out to be a lecher Besides the trite plot you're subjected to Butkus' painfully stiff performance But does have one redeeming quality Harriet Nelson She makes all the right mom infuriating mother-in-law Still you miss much if you cut out at halftime Highlights of the (1984) CBS tonight at 7: Part three id four sees the rift between Kate (Dyan Cannon) and her son Tony (Harry Hamlin) widen her obsession with business increases Eventually Tony is pushed over the edge and Kate regrets put transgressions NBC tonight at I A handsome television actor (Lloyd Bochner) cornu to town to star in a local play and is Television stations tote up wins losses sidetracked by the Arthur Betty White and Each wants to be his leading settle for romantic overtures Night 10:30: Singer-songwriter this repeat show which Moments in the Danny DeVito Can (1970) night at The Day viewing is update of "Here Coma Mr Warren Beatty stars a taken to hum prematurely to Earth in a new body Dyan Cannon play a duo Up the tomorrow night at 8: effective in this otherwise about suburban housewife whose husband (David Ackroyd) with all their money and Harding ever establish a and re-discover romance? her vindictive husband back? (1981) NBC at 8: waste your time comedy in which Burt bachelor who wants to be a Summer Olympia in Los Angeles HBO tonight at 9: The rocker taka her extraodinary four-octave voice to Le Zenith concert haU where she sings such hits as through the Just Want to Have and Sporting goods ABC today at 1:30 and tomorrow at 3:30: Raymond Floyd defends his championship in the US Open live from San Francisco NBC today at noon: Either New Yankea in Baton playing the Red Sox or Cincinnati's Reds vs the Brava in Atlanta At approximately 3 Dodgers at Astros CBS tomorrow at 13:30: The 160-mile Detroit Grand Prix airs live from Motor City Sunday" CBS tomorrow at 1 A scheduled 10-round heavyweight fight between Bert Cooper and Carl Truth" Williams live from Atlantic City Also taped coverage from France of the 173-mile Paris-Roubaix Bicycle Rare NBC tomorrow at 3:30: Darrin Van Horn and Luis Santana take to the ring for a 10-round junior-middleweight bout Live from Lexington Ky 'Time Out for Dad newscasts earned ratings ranging from 3 to 4 depending on time coverage area and com considered and shares ranging 5 to 9 Those numbers compare to ratings ranging from 15 to 19 and shares ranging from 33 to 41 for the WBRC and WVTM news shows The rating is the percentage of all households tuned to the program The share is the percentage of the viewing audience that is tuned to a program Morock said WBMG is in an especially rough spot It is a UHF station up against the stronger VHF signals of channels 6 and 13 In addition WBMG is one id three CBS affiliates in the region The others are in Anniston and Tuscaloosa Morock said newscasts will continue to focus exclusively on the Birmingham area and have a higher story count than their competitors' programs WBRC News Director Luanne Reefa said consider them a threat to us yet That's a long haul to make an impact against two WVTM News Director Tom Roberts said WBMG had had impact at news you have to depend on viewer loyalty take 43 a tong tong time if ever to get Viewer loyalty is something Ms Reeb says has helped save WBRCs 5 news from a worse beating by VTM 5 pm' newscast drew slightly better Nielsen ratings than WBRCs Both Roberts and ms Reeb attributed in part to the Winfrey Show WVTM airs the immensely popular show from 3 to 4 pm on weekdays and Roberts said it draws almost 45 percent id the audience Both news directors said viewers who tune in to Oprah Winfrey tend to stay tuned to Channel 13 into the 5 pm newscast But WBRC doa have some reason to rejoice 4:30 pm we have a 31 share We jump thpt to a 34 share (at 5 Ms Reeb said mans 13 percent of the people who are watching television at that time are getting up and changing the By Susan Keith FNt-lfcnM Reporter Birmingham television stations are counting the wins and fossa of one of the four batttes fought yearly in the continuing ratings war a battle of numbers in which what one side sea as foa may be considered by the party to be at lost partially mitigated by circumstance a battle in which a role is played by drcumstanca focal station can't control network sebed-ula and frequencies The spoils are advertising dollars Data gathered in May and released a few days ago by Arbitron and the AC Nielsen Co reveal among other things that: 9 Ratings for the newscasts done the new kid on the news block fBMG Channel 43 improved slightly but were still nowhere near those of newscasts on news veteran WBRC Channel 6 and WVTM Channel 11 The strong Winfrey made a mark on the ratings of foal news shows For what WVTM officials say is the first time WVTM tied WBRC in sign-on-to-sign-off ratings WVTM had traditionally trailed WBRC font by the strong daytime network schedule the ABC affiliate airs and by what until a few years ago was a strong ABC prime-time schedule NBC of which WVTM is an affiliate now has the stronger prime-time schedule WTTO Channel 31 and WBMG were neck and neck for third and fourth place in the sign-on-to4ign-off ratings from Arbitron WDBB Channel 17 and Alabama Public WBIQ were fifth and sixth respectively New programming from Fox Broadcasting Co gave WDBB ratings strong enough to keep the station optimistic about future we were very pleased with Programming Director Charla Roundtree said WBMG News Director Frank Morock said he is pleased that news operation which went on the air in January did not lose ratings points Horoscope SATURDAY'S MOVIES JUNE 20 1987 VININQ Part (1986) condudad in a lotbfndary mannor owing to davalopmant you don't now know about AQUARIUS (Jan 2Dfob 19) Now Mdd contact! that you make could bo helpful Mofco good anpratiion PISCES (Fab 20Morch 20) Financial csmS-lioni ora much moro tovorobla for you Ban Bay wmo yuderdoy If you've made a bum dual make Bo corradiQni now ARIES (March 21-April 19) Something par-lonotty beneficial could develop from your totial involvement It wR ba Brough a connection you've been eager to mako TAURUS (April 2DMay 20) Daiirabio rwuki can bo obtained Brough your promt commercial anongamantt provided you don't appear to be too amdeut to make a deal HEAYHCUFF Ankers Cadet on Young The star of a burlesque revue and her boyfriend are enmeshed in back-stage intrigue when several strippers are found murdtirod tMSN "Merry Andrew" (1958) Danny Kaye Pier Angeli WON 14 "Lafayette EscadrHIe" (1958) Tab Hunter Etchika Choureau American volunteers serve In a flight squadron in France during World WarL MAX 14 "Back To (1986) Rodney Dangerfield Sally Ketierman 09 "Night Of The (1981) Jamie Gill is Ryan Hilliard Wodd War II soldiers in suspended animation thanks to a nerve gas are revived to terrorize civilians near the site of their German battlefield AU 14 "Lydia" (1941) Made Oberon Joseph Cottea An elderly women recato her romantic past following a nostalgic reunion with four of her former lovers (1985) Joe SHOW 6:00 MSN "16 Days Of Glory: Directed by Bud Greenspan 7:00 CBN "Lassie: The New Beginning" (1978) John Reilly Lee Bryant En route to CaH-fomia Lassie becomes separated from the two orphan children she loves when they are temporarily placed in a foster home MO "American Anthem" (1986) Mitch nK) Gaylord Janet Jones USA "Exorcism At (1979) Lawrence Tierney A strange voodoo spell claims victims from New York City to London AU Vk "Lydia" (1941) Marts Ofaeroa Joseph Cottea An elderly women recalls her romantic past following a nostalgic reunion with 10:30 Brooks Edward Woodward 1:15 MO Death" (1985) Denise Coward Frank Runyeon 1:45 MAX "Krush Groove" (1985) Blair Underwood Joseph Simmons 2:00 88 "The Big (1930) John Wayne Marguerite Church A young trapper leads a group of pioneers through unexplored territory USA Of (1946) Evelyn Ankers Carteton Young The star of a burlesque revue and her boyfriend are enmeshed In back-stage intrigue when several strippers are found murdered 2:55 MO "Ram bo: First Blood Part (1965) Sylvester Stallone Richard Crenna 3:00 WON- "Soyfent Green" (1973) Chariton Heston Edward Robinson A poiceman in the 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W1U 14 Naked (1954) 12:00 MSN "Raintree County" (1957) EHza-Chartton Heston Eleanor Parker Billions of sol- beth Taylor Montgomery Clift dier ants invade a South American plantatioa 12:10 MAX "Hot Resort" (1985) Tom Parsekiea 8:30 MAX "House1' (1986) Wiliam Katt George Debra Kelly Wendt 1:00 0 "Web Of The Spider" (1970) Anthony 9:00 SHOW "Pale Rider" (1985) Clint East- Franciosa Michele Mercier A feckless man wood Michael Moriarty attempts to disprove a local legend that anyone 10:00 MO (1986) Sylvester Stallone Bri- who enters Blackwood Vila on the "Night of the gitte Nielsen wi not come out alive USA "Queen Of Burlesque" (1946) Evelyn 1:05 SHOW "Unde Cabin" (1987) Avery I HIP SWIM BOMBf.