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4C Anderson Independent-Mil Thurs April II 19M New TV- ville and Spartanburg and we will also go into Clem- gol It was founded by Anderson media mogul Wilton Hall former publisher of the Anderson Independent and Ander-son Dally Mail newspapers and former owner of WAIM-AM and WCAC-FM (the FM station eventually became WAIM-FM and is now WCKN-FM) Channel 40 which was the fourth TV station In the state was an affiliate of both CBS and ABC and later was also part of the South Carolina Educational Televirion Network Hall sold the station in the late 1970s and by May 1979 it was off the air a long period of financial according to a newspaper story written at that time The new Channel 40 will have no connection with the old station which had a broadcast radius of only Smiles When WAXA-TV begins operations It will become the sixth commercial station operating in the market Weir Michael son and Greenwood" he said Because the transmitting antenna be In the mountains the WAXA signal will not travel noth to the Asheville area he said Channel 40 plans to broadcast some Anderson-area but when it begins operations the station have 10 reporters and four news vans and a Kuprissaid are licensed to Anderson and we recognize that we have a commitment to serve the needs of this area more involved in that than Just picking which network reruns we will The station will probably air some In-depth local news shows he said are looking at several different Channel 40 has had a long and colorful history in the Electric City A station began broadcasting on Channel 40 here at 8 pm Dec 15 1953 with the call letters WAIM-TV Grammy winning single 5 caDedEat 3 proved to be a huge success ft- Weird A1 Eating Up Success At Last I ft i if By YardenaArar iMIlMWPIMWl LOS ANGELES In a business where timing can be everything A1 Yankovlc make that hit the jackpot with his parody of Michael superhit It'1 lerhad No sooner had the Grammy Award for record of the than Eat a musical twin in year liik MS tiU! 3 musical humorists as Stan Frieberg Tom Lehrer and Alan Sherman The first of his works to be immortalized on vinyl was Balogna" a takeoff on the 1979 hit by the Knack Recorded in a college bathroom my low-budget it was followed a year later by One Rides the from Queen's One Bites the At first Yankovic's hallmark was his selfaccompaniment on the accordion an instrument he had plaved since his parents made him take lessons as a guess it was a good Yankovlc deadpann-ed as we all know die accordion is becoming the fastest-rising rock instrument in the world today has been chosen as the official rock instrument for the 1984 Mostly through repeated exposure on Dr (a deejay named Barry Hansen) nationally syndicated musical oddity radio program Yankovlc won limited fame but not much fortune So after finishing his degree at California Polytechnic State University he worked for two years in a mail room minding out parodies all the while -In the end it was video that made a foil-time show business career possible last year Yankovlc had tran-formed Toni Baril's into a sendoff on the 1950s Love show and with a $4000 investment he put together a clip complete with Yankovlc as Ricky Ricardo being pestered by actress Tress MacNeille as a wbiny Lucy accordion is becoming the fastest-rising rock instrument in the world today It has been chosen as the official rock Instrument for the 1984 Olympics Weird Al Yankovlc I into moist curls and face scrunched into a funny scowl leading a troupe of cutlery-clutching street warriors and then curling up with a glass of Alka-Seltzer Does Jackson mind? Not at all In fact he shares songwriting credit for the tune after all he did write the music pretty funny on the label it says by Michael Jacluon and Al as if the two of us were sitting in a room like this somewhere and I was saying Michael what do you think about this What actually happened was a bit more mundane As he does with all his parodies Yankovlc approached Jackson through lawyers and business people with the idea first like to see if the artist has a sense of he said Once he gets the nod then he submits the lyrics for approval It" is by far Weird most successful effort but it's not the first fling at the fine art of song parody by Yankovlc who names as his idols such '50s and Academy Awards Dallas Top Ratings LOS ANGELES (AP) The CBS dynasty rolled to Its fifth consecutive victory in the annual ratings race winning the 1963-84 prime-time season with the help of America's perennial two top shows and Here are the 10 top programs: 1 Academy ABC a rating of 303 or 253 million households 2 CBS 249 or 208 million 3 CBS 229 or 191 million 4 NBC 223 or 186 million 5 Barbara Walters ABC 220 or 184 million 6 ABC 216 or 181 million 7 Movie-'TThe 179 million 8 CBS 210 or 175 million 9 Part II CBS 208 or 174 million 10 Washington" Part III CBS 207 or 17 million lyrics are replaced with a a picky eater seemed to is everywhere "It was all luck to tell you the Yankovlc said in an interview with the Associated Press at CBS -Records which has just released his second album and also label was pretty concerned for a while because I had the basic idea for the song pretty much when first Tame Yankovlc said by the time it went through all the legalities of getting permission plus recording and the mechanics of putting out a record it was several months down the line "But as it turns out Michael Jackson obviously hasn't lost any steam and it Just so happened that about the time the record came out all the awards shows were happening so it actually timed out Also bene fitting from the Jackson coattail effect is video which also spoofs the $150000 original Directed by Yankovic's manager Jay Levey it features Yankovlc spectacles intact but hair coaxed I AC Fine Arts Festival I JPlans Exhibits Theater 5 7 By Betty Martin Make Someone Feel Special with a Personal Greeting in Classified begins Tuesday is an adaptation by Aurand Harris from the original Brothers Grimm tale It is directed by Denise Stevenson who heads the theater department Bitsy Hendrix of Anderson plays the maid Laura Jo Shaw of Starr portrays the tailor Other cast members are Sandra Sansbury of Moores ville Beth Sachs of Myrtle Beach Barry Bradley of Beth une and Todd Deming of Cayce Performances are scheduled at 9:30 am April 24 26 and 27 and at 1 pm April 25 27 and 28 All shows will be held in the Fine Arts Center Tickets are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children Other events of the Arts Festival will be the presentation of the Faure with Mrs Anita Bridges as organist Jeff Clayton baritone and Connie Williams soprano The performance is in the Fine Arts Center at 7:30 pm Tuesday There is no admission charge The sophomore recital of Donnie Nix and Jan Holcombe will take place at the Fine Arts Center at 8 tonight and the sophomore recital of David Child and Debbie Bannister will be at 8 pm April 26 in the Sullivan Music Building There is no admission charge for either recital Anderson College's ninth annual Fine Arts Festival opened Sunday with the South Carolina College Art Show spon- T'sored by the art department and will con- xlude April 28 with the theater presentation of a children's play The 66 works included in the collegiate 5 art show were submitted from 9 South 'iS'jCarolina schools Awards were presented at the opening reception Tya Evatt a Limestone College senior v-received the of award for Sutler oil painting entitled Street" XNMonlca Allen a former AC student now 'attending Furman University won top honors in Division II (Junior and senior) for her collagraph Her work was purchased by the art department for its permanent col-l lection Robin Craig of Limestone won first place in Division I (freshman and sophomore) with her Raku (ceramic) piece entitled His Box The exhibit will continue at the Fine Arts Center throughout the festival and is open to the public The play "Brave Little Tailor" which Brighten day with a Personal Greeting everyone will see Only s970 Just right for: Birthdays Birth announcements Anniversaries Congratulations or any occasion of note Creative borders draw extra attention to your special greeting in the classified section Beginning April 13 ETV- Continued From Page 1-C about $19 sources she In fact the budget million comes from several soi said ordered another eifiergency budget cutback she said situation (with state funding) has eased she said still back where we used to be We still have only 300 people (on staff) rather than But the network is definitely in better financial shape than during the 1982 crisis she said If membership continues to grow (it is now at about 30000) the network should be able to buy all of its prime-time programs with viewer contributions by 1985 she said One last word on the proposed new Greenwood station: Like WNTV-TV it will only broadcast programming from the main Columbia network headquarters and will not have its own studio A channel has not yet been assigned to the station Ms Dressier said The largest chunk about $13 million is chipped in by the state and much of that cadi goes for salaries and other Ijusorted non-programming expenses network also receives money the Corporation For Public and federal fun' Tra 1420000 contributed during the ETV Festival fundraiser went into a sraarate and is used Just 20 buy programs through a complicated -arrangement she said One reason the network Is in better financial shape this year than in 1982 is that viewers are coming through with i money she said Another reason is that the state Star Tackles Wimp Role 4 LOS ANGELES (AP) Kathleen Turner the seductive and treacherous Matty Walker of had to make a screen test to convince the pro- ducers of "Romancing the that she could play the early wimpy Joan I Wilder 4 She met with Michael Douglas the producer and star and director Robert Zemeckis and assured them she enniH play the role of the woman who is timm and insecure at the beginning of the pit fore felt we really needed to see she said I was hurt in a way that they take my word for it But when it came to doing it no I mind doing that I mean I think my Job have more confidence she said not afraid of portraying a woman alone every night and lonely and unsure about herself It was time to do that You'll like the view To place your personal greeting simply call a classified representative at 224-4321 outside Anderson County call 1-800-922-2163 in GA 1-800- 845-2381 (toll free)- Looking At Life 8k Sieve Bkmdo AnAtrston JnAcpenAfnt-ittail AnAa3WepenAent-4tM.