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The Buffalo NewsTuesday August 2 1983 Page 6 TELEVISION On the Air By ALAN PERGAMENT New Channel 49 Getting Act Together 5 PM 10:30 PM 5:30 PM 8:30 PM 1 1 PM 6 PM 1 1 :30 PM 9 PM 6:30 PM MIDNIGHT 7 PM 9:30 PM 12:30 AM 7:30 PM NEJ Makes 15 qts 299 KB IO PM 1 AM Rjunitt You'll Love The Taste Case 12 01 Plus Dep A 100 8 PM 629 1:30 AM 0 NBC News Overnight 2:30 AM 0 CNN Headline News 3 AM 0 CBS Nightwatch You 25 DLl REE TEDDY BEAR WORTH $4 EH200 MDOSB1! PUREXTHE SYMBOL VALUE NOW YOU NEED IT 'i vnnrwAZA LJ LbJ CLINTON ROSSLI 4 siciur RADIO SPECIALS Net Cast 25 Mail in Rebate 6 12 oz Cans lit SWMtNW VMW DAVE MASON the WGR program director whose station has suffered the double blow of losing both the Buffalo Sabres and talk show reruns of the excellent drama series that first played on ABC 0 Local News Rept 0 Charlie's Angels (cont) Three's Company WKRP in Cincinnati (9) Mork and Mindy (JJ Hour Magazine (cont) (D Over Easy: Guest is Billy Daniels CJ 59 Sesame Street (cont)D One Day at a Time 0 NBC Nightly News CBS Evening News QJ News (cont) 0 ABC World News World Beat News (D Nightly Business Report Vision On: "Air" JB Mary Tyler Moore Remington Steele: Laura's ex boyfriend gets them involved in the wine business 0 Movie: "The Promise" young couple's plans for the future are ruined by a tragic accident Kathleen Quinlan Stephen Collins 0 Three's Company: A telephone mixup gets Jack involved with a cache of hot diamonds Dynasty: Drama with John orsythe Joan Collins (TJ) Knots Landing: Mack moves in with his ready made family (D Lifeline: Dr William Watson Morgan (3 The Long Search: "Loose Ends" £2 Movie (cont) Hart to Hart: Drama with Robert Wagner (D Ireland: A television History: Part 5 of 13 (J9 People Patterns 03 Mary Hartman Mary Hartman (10:15) 0 McMillan An apparent auto accident turns out to be a poisoning and the suspects are all friends of Mac's News inal QJ Hawaii ive McGarret offers himself as a hostage in an attempted prison break 0 People's Court: Legal cases are argued in court 0 Charlie's Angels The Music Game 0 The Jeffersons: Comedy series CJ (TJ Hour Magazine: with host Gary Collins (D Reading Rainbow Q9 Sesame Street: Children's series The Pink Panther 0 0 0 (JJ News WKRP in Cincinnati (D Doctor Who: "Robot1 Part 2 of 4 Q9 Polka Dot Door The 20 Minute Workout: Exercise show 0 St Elsewhere: Dr Morrison makes unauthorized house calls Dr iscus pulls his gun on a patient 0 Movie (cont) National: News 0 QD The Barbara Walters Summer Special: Interviews with Willie Nelson Goldie Hawn and Eddie Murphy Remington Steele (cont) Movie (cont) Too Close for Comfort: Comedy 0 Reggie (Special preview): Man faces a mid life crisis Dynasty (cont) (TJ Knots Landing (cont) (D Lifeline (cont) 59 Long Search (cont) 03 Movie (cont) 0 (TJ Entertainment Tonight: Melissa Manchester starts a new concert tour 0 The Muppet Show ame: Drama 0 Tic Tac Dough: with Wink Martindale Definition: Game show host Jim Perry (D MacNeil Lehrer Report Q9 Once Upon a Time Man: Animated show One Day at a Time 0 Vi Hour Comedy Hour: comedy variety with guests Robert Guillaume John Schneider The all Guy: Lee Majors (D Nova: "Obesity" National Geographic: "The Haunted West" Movie: "The Sunshine Boys" two former vaudeville partners reunite to renew their friendship and their feud George Burns Walter Matthau 0 (TT) The A Team tries to protect a veteran cop from corrupt fellow officers 0 On the Road: with Charles Kuralt This Land: "orests of Canada" 0 The A Team (cont) 0 Our Times: with Bill Moyers This Land (cont) 0 Joanie Loves Chachi: Al fires the band they end up in an Irish PubQ ffi The all Guy (cont) (D Nova (cont) 0 National Geographic Movie (cont) 0 Quincy: Elderly suicide victim was a victim of abuse by his son Movie: "Mohawk" fanatical landowners incite warring Indian tribes Rita Gam Neville Brand (TJ Hawaii ive Attempts are made to steal a top secret military weapon Twilight Zone "our O'clock" 0 Tonight Show: Johnny Carson with John Davidson Mary Jac Witherspoon 0 Alice: Comedy Barney Miller: Inspector Luger turns a demonstration into a riot 0 ABC News Nightline News (cont) amily Brown Q) PBS Latenight fQ Sanford Son (11:45) News (D Nightly Business Report 0 Talking ilm Saturday Night (cont) NESTEA LIGHT ICED TEA MH 0 David Letterman: Ron Luciano Small Town News Lie Detector Movie: "House of the Seven Corpses" strange happenings at a mansion being used as a film site where there is a history of violent deaths aith Domergue John Ireland INN News (12:45) 0 PM Magazine: Outlaw building jumpers how exercise can help beat depression The Joker's Wild ame (cont) 0 amily eud: Game host Richard Dawson The New Wilderness: "Cry (TJ Smith and Smith (D Dick Cavett Show: guest Barnard Hughes 0 Magic Shadows: "Carry On Screaming" Part 2 of 4 All in the amily 8 PM 03 'k'kir The Sunshine Boys: George Burns Walter Matthau Two former vaudeville partners reunite to renew their friendship and their feud 1975 9 PM 0 The Promise: Stephen Collins Beatrice Straight A young couple's plans for the future are ruin ed by a tragic accident 1979 12 Mid Mohawk: Rita Gam Neville Brand anatical landowners incite warring Indian tribes 1956 12:30 AM 'A House of Seven Corpses: aith Domergue John Ireland Violent deaths occur at a man sion being used as a film site 1973 CANEI BIANCO RICHARD health and cooking act has become a little stale on Channel 2 and the station is planning to pull it from the 9 am time slot in the fall for a new syndicated maga zine show Channel 2 is also planning to replace at 3 pm in the fall with JOHN LAB Extra Stock LOWEST PRICE IN TOWN! 0 St Elsewhere (cont) Movie (conf) Journal: News 0 (TJ Barbara Walters (cont) Hart to Hart (cont) (D Ireland: A TV History (cont) 0 Journeys in Time Saturday Night (10:45) INTRODUCING NEW PUREX HEAVY DUTY DETERGENT PLUS ABRIC SOTENER 25 more product than the leading brand Cleans as well as the leading brand ights static cling WLVC AL Baseball: NY Yankees at Toronto 7 PM Stan Barron Sports Show: Live sports Inter views and scores until midnight with Ted Darling 7:30 PM Sports: The weeknight sports call in show 8 PM Henry Aldrich 8 PM Tuesday Night: Leonard Slatkin conducts Puccini's opera "Turandot" 8:30 PM WEBR Screen Directors Playhouse 9 PM The Request Hour 10 PM Ten PM Special: "Greece Today" 10 PM Ultimate Request Hour: Slick Tom plays all requests 10 PM Sentimental Journey 11 PM Metal Shop: Best of Heavy Metal featuring Def Leppard Anvil and Motorhead 9:30 PM 0 Reggie (Premiere): Emmy Award winner Richard Mulligan stars in the title role of this comedy series about an average American coping with midlife crises caused by his wife children and his boss Barbara Barrie and Jean Smart co star 10 PM 0 Barbara Walters Special: Goldie Hawn Willie Nelson and Eddie Murphy present fascinating portraits of their lives and careers in these revealing fun filled encore interviews in this hour long presentation BARBAR WALTERS SUMMER SPECIAL! 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COLD CASE BEER BARQ's DIET ROOT BEER OOD CLUB QQc TOMATO CATSUP OLD MILWAUKEE £47 DEED '000 LIQUORS BLACK VELVET 1299 300 I realize the summer the best time to tell you that more reruns are on the way But another independent television station loaded with reruns is hoping to be on the Buffalo airwaves by this time next summer The ederal Communications Commission awarded Bison City TV a construction permit five months ago and the group of 12 partners has begun purchasing programming for the new station Channel 49 Hal Protter executive vice president and general manager of Koplair Communications which owns TV stations in St Louis and Sacra mento Calif is the only one of the dozen part ners with experience running an independent station Contacted at KPLR TV in St Louis Protter said the group is trying get in line solid fi nancing to get on by next summer or earlier and be a viable television Protter said the dozen partners include two Western New York ers Dr red Gordon and Alan Wiegley Gor don is a dentist and Wiegley is a CPA Protter said According to Protter the station would be run in a manner to Channel 29 only commercial independent station Richard Simmons: Channel 2 pulls the plug He said the group already nas paid $duuuuu fees and proposal money to get the license and is starting to pay off the $250000 it owes to the three groups it beat out for the license in return for their agreeing to waive their right to appeal the granting of the franchise With many local radio and television stations lamenting soft advertising sales this summer prompting rumors that Channel 7 and Channel 2 can be had for a price it seems a strange time to try to start up a new station (the business climate) make it any easier to get the financing said Protter we feel the area economy has nowhere to go but Among the happiest people to see the arrival of a new TV station are the national syndicators of the many rerun shows that have been a dif ficult sell in the Buffalo market Channel 49 already has purchased the option for "Hawaii 5 reruns cartoons and movies and its entrance into the market could drive up the costs of other syndicated shows Of course owning the rights to shows is one thing Having the facilities to get them on the airwaves is another and Channel biggest expenditure would consider raising $6 million the ideal said Protter main thing is to get the rest of the financing so a solid enough war chest to be a major force" Once the facility is obtained or built Protter expects the staff size to be 40 or 50 people Although based in St Louis Protter is no stranger to the upstate New York market He worked at Capital Albany station with Channel 7 General Manager Phil Beuth a couple of decades ago have no question that Buffalo is a viable long range television said Protter Sale Ends Saturday' Aug 6 i I v'? 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