The Stuart News from Stuart, Florida • 189

IN TUNE WITH Brothers cashes out as Viacom beefs up station Port St Lucia Today it with the help of cable 650000 homes from Vero Beach to Boca Raton as well as Okeechobee and Hendry counties 1 Viacom eventually intends -to operate WTCN out of the WFOR Channel 4 (CBS) building west of Miami In- -temational Airport WFLX lineup changes Effective Monday WFLX Channel 29 will rearrange Its late afternoon reruns and add a returning news- larly scheduled net-work times Currently WB primetime programs often run at odd times on WTVX another Viacom-owned station Brothers said he is most proud of his community involvement during his WTCN tenure He cited his telethon-hosting chores his Under series which Bill Brothers a colorful fixture on Treasure Coast television for nine years as host of numerous telethons specials and call-in shows has entered a new phase of his life now that he officially sold his two Stuart-based TV stations to Viacom the parent company of CBS be going into semi-retirement' he said the other day The businessman who is also a licensed real estate broker has formed a new company Towers Investment Trust operating at 819 Federal Highway in Stuart He plans to acquire and build broadcasting and tow-ers structures across the Southeast be leaving behind the business of running TV stations The Martin County resident said he pocketed $77 million after he signed on the dotted line ana unloaded WTCN Channel 43 (Adelphia Cable 15 Comcast Cable 20) and Spanish-language WWHB Channel Channel 48 (an over-the-air only station) to Viacom Both which reach most of the Treasure Coast will continue to operate far a few more months from their long-time home of 1500 NW Federal Highway in Stuart and then move their base of operations to Miami Viacom hopes to construct new studios for WTCN (and sister station WTVX Channel 34UPN and The WB) in West Palm Beach the attorney called and said the fluids (from the sale) were transferred I had a smile a mile wide on my face" said Brothers 48 of Point He predicts Viacom will transform WTCN into a ftill-fledgedWB affiliate which will mean viewers here finally will be able to see such shows as Gilmore "Blue Collar and at their regu tal concerns and his series of political debates spotlighting local candidates He admits that WTCN be as local under the Viacom flag as when he was running the show they can take the station to the next level especially in entertainment he said rode the train as far as I could and abandoned it out West" Brothers said that Viacom's muscle will be able to boost the schedule (already it has added reruns of Factor" Becker" and Grace" and -dumped prime-time infomercials) and he hinted that the new company might eventually add a 10 pm newscast to one of its perhaps WTCN or WTVX In its heyday the 15-yearold WTCN programmed one-hour locally produced programs at 7 pm Monday through Friday all focus- on the Treasure Coast West Palm Beach-based Fox affiliate will add Current at 630 pm weeknights originally hosted by Maury Povich returns with host Tim Green an author columnist lawyer and former NFL player The show originally debuted in 1986 and has been off the air since The new Fox29 lineup: 4 pun Prince of Bel-Air" 430 pun 5 pun and Gregr 530 pm Simpsons" 6 pm 630 pm Current Around the dlaL Carey Codd a WPEC Channel 12 reporter has switched stations and now reports for CBS-owned WFOR Channel 4 He left WPEC at the end of his contract in eariy March Next time at City-Place in West Palm Beach check out the new digs of WRMF (979 FM) The station recently moved from its old location on South Congress Avenue to the more people-friendly shopping center locale bobibetcherQxrippsJxm Monday through Friday local strip Brothers aid business has changed But Viacom has the strength to bring the station to the next level" When Brothers took over WTCN from original owner August Gabriel the station only reached 80000house-holds in Martin County and 5 Sunday April 17 through Saturday April 23 2005.