El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 23

nST AVA1LABIE COPY EL PASO HERALD-POST Tuesday August 19 1986 3 Liffestyletelevlslon Will Little Gloria find happiness? Judy FlandeiwSK KCIK to hook up with Fox network TV newscasts confuse viewers with fast pace survey shows By Don Woodyard El Paso Herald-Post KCIK-TV has agreed to become an affiliate of the new Fox Broadcasting Co says Robert Munoz general manager of the independent television station arc all set we arc going Munoz said Monday The agreement wilh Fox officials he said is to signing the papers are really he added can expect a fresh look in the fall we arc going to be coming on strong in KCIK Channel 14 (Cable Channel 8) will be the 80th affiliate of Fox Broadcasting The first Fox programming on KCIK will be Late Show Starring Joan It will run 10 pm to 11 pm wceknights beginning Oct 1 It will be in competition with Tonight starring Johnny which airs at 10:30 pm on KTSM-TV Channel 9 Rivers had been the permanent guest host on Tonight taking over when Carson would be on vacation She left when Fox offered her her own show Following the premiere of the show in October KCIK will begin carrying a three-hour block of new shows around March 1 says Jay Duncan KCIK program manager Kicking off the evening prime-time period will be Street an actionadvcnture from producer Stephen Cannell Two comedies and Out in Beverly and will also be new Fox Broadcasting programs RADNOR Pa (UPI) The fast-paced nature of television news often makes the stories appear to blend into one another TV Guide reports that despite a cutback in the number of stories that appear on each newscast viewers are confused In its Aug 23 issue the magazine said a survey of one week of television news from 1976 and one week from 1986 found that TV news today is faster paced and offers more lengthy features but covers fewer headline news stories and lasts a shorter period of time Mark Levy a broadcast-journalism professor at the University of Maryland said the fast-paced nature of the news causes stories to blend into one another often leaving the audience confused research shows that as a general rule fewer and longer is better in terms of he said But he added that the trend toward a kaleidoscopic picture-magazine approach may offset the advantages that longer stories offer not at all sure that television is any better today in telling complicated he said The study also said a high-tech revolution took place in television news during the decade between 1976 and 1986 That revolution in technology has made immediate live pictures available from Beirut Moscow or Tokyo Ten years ago it took weeks to prepare for live coverage have come to expect up-to-the-minute reports by satellite from all over the the magazine said TV Guide said the news philosophy of all three networks has changed from 1976 when Walter Cronkite dominated television news with his concept of a headline news service that told viewers what happened Burton Benjamin who produced Cronkite' CBS Evening News in 1976 said the show was "very hard-news orientcdWe were much more Washington-conscious Now TV news attempts to explain the news and show viewers how the news affects them Lane Venardos former executive producer of CBS Evening News says the most significant change was conscious decision to move the news out of the hearing and briefing rooms of Washington and into the towns and cities where one could assess the impact of Washington Levy said despite the changes television retained levels of bureaucratic -without accompanying explanation He also said the news was still dominated by officials and official spokesmen" The conclusion of Gloria Happy at (KTSM Channel 9 at 7 pm) more than explains the irony of its title Heiress Gloria the one who sells jeans and perfume now had a horrendous childhood according to this account Her mother left her with her Aunt Gertrude (Angela Lansbury) to go partying in Europe Then mom was in a custody battle for the 10-ycar-old child The story splendidly produced and performed is actually very sad But it makes great watching Moscow doctor How the other 1 percent lives: The Russian profiled tonight on on (7 pm on KRWG Channel 22 and 8 pm on KCOS Channel 13) is Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Fyodorov a world-prominent eye surgeon who 25 years ago first implanted artificial lenses in the eyes of a girl blinded by a cataracts He bucked the Soviet medical establishment which tried to block his work and now lives a life that includes a chauffeur-driven car a posh city apartment and a country villa Series picks "Simon (KDBC Channel 4 at 7 pm) are bedeviled by a psychotic ex-con who has it in for them On the Boss?" (KVIA Channel 7 at 7 pm) Jonathan tries to get Tony and Angela together on Day by fixing them both up with On (Channel 7 at 7:30) Maggie gets in hot water with a story that falsely accuses a developer of taking bribes while Jason gets a job offer he thinks he refuse Carol Burnett guest-stars on (Channel 4 at 8 pm) as a bank teller who hires the private eye then locks them both in a time-released bank vault On "Moonlighting" (Channel 7 at 8 pm) a 90-year-old man tries to hire Maddie and David to witness his murder so his family can collect his insurance they turn down the case but get involved anyway An advice-to-thc-lovelorn columnist (Phyllis Frclich) who is speech- and hearing-impaired calls on For (Channel 7 at 9 pm) (Channel 4 at 9 pm is trying to have a quiet weekend to heal wounds between himself and his son but murder and mayhem intervene TV talk Wednesday on (Channel 9 at 6 am): Chris- topher Reeve Farrah Fawcett continues in a five-parter Wednesday on Morning (Channel 7 at 7 am) Steve Bell fills in for vacationing David Hartman until Friday Among the segments on (Channel 9 at 9 tonight): Connie Chung on the increase of devil worship among middle-class teen- agers On Best of (Channel 9 at 10:30 pm): Charles Grodin Anita Morris Comedian Gilbert Gottfried and boxer Wimpy Halstead arc guests on Night with David (Channel 9 at 11:30 pm) Movie alert John Wayne and Donna Reed arc in Along the (7 pm on KCIK Channel 14) Coble channels in Action 2: The (HBO Channel 18E at 9 pm) Chuck Norris as Col Braddock is imprisoned with his men by the North Vietnamese and fight their way out High quotient of action excitement and gore (Cinemax Channel 221 at 9 pm) Amy Madigan is reason enough for watching this Louis Malle film about the clash between Vietnamese refugee fishermen and Texas locals Judy Flandcr writes about television for United Feature Syndicate KTSM-TV drops single news anchor for dual format Maybe if the mini-series docs well CBS might make a full-fledged series out of it Then if a successful series it might outshine Crest" In that case sour grapes may result What comes after grapes-and-raisin TV shows? Maybe something about a conniving cabbage conglomerate Return to roots Last week KTSM-TV held its fall lineup preview in the renovated Westin Paso del Norte Hotel For KTSM which marks its 57th anniversary on Aug 22 it was a return to its origins KTSM radio began on Aug 22 1929 in the basement of the Tri-State Music Co on South El Paso Street The TSM in the call letters come from Tri-State Music In 1932 it moved to the top floor of the Paso del Norte Hotel from which it broadcast until 1947 when it moved into its present facility at 801 Oregon St Mitchell trip Bill Mitchell director of broadcast operations at KDBC-TV will be one of six Southwest newsmen going to Israel for nine days starting Aug 30 He said he hopes to meet government officials in the trip Don Woodyard is radio and television editor of the Herald-Post A new co-anchor is not the only change at KTSM Green says that Randy Williamson formerly with KFIM-FM will be joining the radio side of KTSM on Sept 1 He said Williamson will be handling the morning drive on KTSM-AM newsAalk radio Tony Webb is being shifted from morning drive to afternoon drive Doug Mosier will be sandwiched between Williamson and Webb with the midday drive The story line for an upcoming CBS mini-series caught my eye It may also catch the attention of Beyer The six-hour mini-series is and Beyer grew up around Fresno Calif Centered on a powerful raisin-producing family it sounds like a poor also on CBS The popular is more high-class focusing on a powerful wine-growing family I wonder if wine-makers talk to mere raisin-growers? has potential with its cast It stars Carol Burnett Dabney Coleman Charles Grodin Gregory Harrison and Teri Garr CBS reports that Burnett plays the matriarch of the raisin family in tale of bruised passions and bruised grapes" KTSM-TV switches to a dual news anchor format on Sept 1 according to news director Ralph Green KTSM thus will join KVIA and KDBC both of whom have been using two anchors for their 6 pm and 10 pm newscasts for some time Debra Beyer who joined the KTSM news staff last week will be the new co-anchor teaming up with Horst Longen-V ecker who has fWim Bmgr 1 beCn the sin8le Debra Beyer weckday anChor for 18 months have worked with both said Green the dual anchor works better it's more enjoyable to the viewer to have two people communicating It also helps the pace of the show and in the collection of Jack Rye executive vice president of KTSM believes the station may have had a dual anchor setup many years ago but not in recent memory Green hastens to say there will be no or chitchat between the two He says they will on the Although she be on-air until Sept 1 Beyer will be doing some field reporting as she becomes familiar with the newsroom procedures and with the city Beyer will be doing a five-part series on Mexico In addition she will also be doing segments for the local portion of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon Ted Bender KTSM weatherman will be hosting the telethon Beyer is no newcomer to El Paso She says she has been to the Sun City before taking in Diablos and Sun Bowl games think going to enjoy El Paso a she says Before coming to El Paso she was the news co-anchor with KLST a CBS affiliate in San Angelo Texas She grew up on a farm near Fresno Calif and worked in the insurance industry before going into broadcast Show off you cant really rood STOP This is the first in a new Set of three I comic strips that make up a little story designed so that children can teach themselves I to read by reading them This staircase of storybooks increase in difficulty in imperceptible baby steps The first five books were I each built around a single one-word sentence' In this set we will move on to a story that uses several different words and one-word.