The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 104

Media Talk WYEA Makes Changes In Name and ormat By Sandra Okamoto TV Book Editor There are a lot of changes going on at WYEA TV 38 or one thing when the station signs off tonight be the last time as WYEA Starting at 6 am Monday the station call letters will be WLTZ TV 38 (or 38) Also starting Monday night Ch 38 will be on 24 hours a day will be running classic movies after Tomor row said general manager Don McGouirk think Columbus is ready for it There are enough people available to watch movies late at night for the classic movie package to be a viable thing to McGouirk said the late night movie 24 hour a day tele vision operation is a growing trend among TV stations The first movie Tuesday morning at 2 am is Others on tap later in the week include and Unto The latter movie stars Ronald Reagan riday night is 38 right Horror and thriller movies will air Saturday night at 11:30 pm the University of Georgia football games taped earlier in the day will be aired The first game is against Tennessee Sept 5 Night will be taped and shown at 1:30 am after the Georgia game Two popular shows will be shown weekdays on 38 Muppet will air at 5:30 pm while eud will be shown at 7:30 pm A new show in this market featuring Deney Terrio will be on Saturday at 7:30 pm All of these changes begin the week of Sept 6 Two Columbus couples and a Phenix City couple re cently appeared on a national TV game show Art and Margaret Angell and Mike and Judi Collins ol Columbus and Jerry and Delba Marlin of Phenix City ap peared on Vegas The game will air Wednesday and the Collinses will be on Thursday anc riday The segments be on until Sept 16 17 The game show airs at 10 am EDT All three couples went to Las Vegas for a WYEA TV 38 sponsored client sales trip Collins the general man ager of Ken Thomas Datsun said the Columbus delega tion was invited to attend the taping of the show at the Tropicana Hotel When they got there they were invited to interview for the show After doing well in the interview the couples were cho sen to play a trial game After that the couples had their names put in a fishbowl and the producer drew names from there way we knew we were going to be on the show was when the girl came out and said want to find some Devils to play against the said Art Angell Once chosen for the actual game the couples were al lowed to go back to their hotel room to get two extra changes of clothing just in case they won and they had to do another show were two days of pre said Margaret Angell had to go over the rules of the game the 12 The Sunday Ledger Enquirer Aug 30 1981 eligibility requirements and we signed a lot of Some of those papers were agreements not to appear on any other game shows within 90 days of the Vegas appearance Six of shows are taped in one day Collins and his wife won $1000 in cash some He said that the producer said re ceive their prizes 90 180 days of the air Marlin the manager of Sterchi Brothers Stores Inc said he a little Art and Margaret Angell were the big winners They won $23839 in cash and prizes Art is the owner of a local advertising agency Margaret a registered nurse at Doc Hospital said she have traded the experi ence for anything One of the most popular features of WTVM news casts has been the football predictions that pit sports director Mark Haggard against the computer named red This year the computer is out and Scott Miller is in Miller the sports director of WRCG AMWCGQ and Haggard will predict game scores for the Southeast Con ference the top NCAA games and all of the professional football games be on the Thursday and riday newscasts at 6 pm and 11 pm start predictions this week PERSONALITIES: A few years ago one of the most popular disc jockeys town was Vai McGinness He was the host of in the on WCGQ After spending the last three years at Montgomery and Little Rock Ark radio sta tions Vai is back This time doing his in the show on the from 6 10 am Monday Sat urday He got started in radio 11 vAnrc non in ChnrIfiQtnn kKI 111 IVUlVllf SC a native of lorence SC and has worked at WPNX AM and WRCG AM By the way McGinness said that former WTVM 9 sports director Gary Hogan is a bigger star in Little Rock than he was while he was here still doing the same thing he used to do here playing ball with the ball play ers and working out with the Nautilus fitness Barry Cammon been the production director at WYEA TV 38 since January is leaving that station to go to WRBL TV 3 as production manager got 10 years in television now and got a chance to go into manage His first big project is the upcoming Muscular Dystrophy Telethon on Labor Day Doc Holiday of WDAK AM has some loyal fans Martha Golden and Sybil anner both of Columbus called to take Media Talk to task In last Media Talk Becky Walker said she was happy to have helped with the ratings at WDAK AM (After only three months of being a coun try music station the radio station came in third in the metro area ratings) She mentioned that no one was left there from the time the ratings were taken No one except Doc Holiday pointed out Ms Golden aS VAL MCGINNESS.