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2A DETROIT FREE PRESSSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1994 CBS reveals plans for Channel 62 f) NEAL RUBIN'S NflTOIMfiR 'r ttnmhv why i 'iwn I i ft Archie picks his favorite Blossom r. JOHN LUKEDetroit Free Press CBS executive Jonathan Rodgers gestures happily as he discusses the implications of the network's purchase of WGPR-TV (Channel 62). TRI-STAR PRODUCTION CBS, from Page 1A "If I could get Bill Bonds, the answer would be yes," Rodgers said. "If I could get Mort Crim, the answer would be yes." News anchors Bonds and Crim are under contract to WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and WDIV-TV (Channel 4), respectively. But Rodgers said the wooing of local talent will be an ongoing process, as will WGPR's drive to acquire the rights to popular syndicated programs.

"When 'Entertainment Tonight' is up for bids, we'll be bidding," said Rodgers, citing the popular program that airs on WXYZ. "And if Mort Crim is up for bids, we'll be bidding." Crim and Rodgers worked together at CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago in the George Mathews 1970s. Crim could not be reached for comment on Friday. "What I want this station to do is be responsive to the local community," said Rodgers. "It should look and feel like Detroit, with Detroit people doing it." Until a Channel 62 news team is assembled and ready to debut which could take up to sue months Rodgers said there are tentative plans to do limited reports with personalities from WWJ-AM radio, the CBS-owned all-news radio station.

And when CBS builds new WGPR studios, it is likely that WWJ, housed at the WJBK-TV studios in Southfield, will be moved to the same new facility. A heavy promotional blitz billboards, direct mail, "whatever it takes," said Rodgers will begin almost immediately. But popular CBS programs such as Charlie Sheen, left, gets down with father Martin Sheen and brother Emilio Estevez Friday at the unveiling of the Charlie Sheen star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Friends on hand included noted houseguest Kato Kaelin. pride in the fact that we're now making it possible to bring some new jobs to the city of Detroit" Over the years, Channel 62 has been a low-rated, uncompetitive independent station that features paid religious programming, syndicated reruns and local music and ethnic programs.

Both Rodgers and Mathews said that such locally produced shows as "Arab Voice of Detroit" and "The New Dance Show" may still have a home on Channel 62. In addition to the purchase of WGPR, CBS announced Friday that it has found a new Atlanta outlet and will pay $22 million cash for WVEU-TV, Channel 69, another UHF outlet. The two sales, which are subject to federal regulatory approval, are expected to be completed by late this year or early 1995. In the interim, Rodgers said, CBS will operate WGPR under a temporary local management agreement with the purrent ownership. fter more than 50 years of juggling Betty and Veronica, comic-book tramp Archie Andrews has finally settled on a woman and she's none of the above.

Archie Comics, surfing a mammoth wave of publicity as it promises an end to the eternal triangle, has not revealed Archie's selection. But it's going to be Cheryl Blossom, an affectionate prep-school redhead who first threw herself at him in the mid-1980s. If you think this actually concludes things, of course, you probably believed Superman was dead. Continuing to speak for their rebellious generation, the Rolling Stones have sold their lips-and-tongue logo to a Maryland bank for use on credit cards. The official Rolling Stones Visas and MasterCards are good for discounts at selected music stores, and of course can be used to pay for purchases, such as Efferdent and AARP memberships.

TO APPLY for a Rolling Stones credit card, call 1-800-937-5000. Please speak slowly and talk real loud. A SUPPOSED millionaire who was using a billboard to hunt for a bride in Columbus, Ohio, has shut down his search at the suggestion of a postal inspector. At least 80 letter-writers had responded to an ad proclaiming, "Millionaire Looking for a Wife! Ages 35-45." Inspector Tami Doyle says she never learned whether the search was legitimate, but she couldn't help but wonder why a millionaire would charge potential mates a $10 processing fee. U.S.

SENATE candidate Oliver North supports the flying of the Confederate flag as a symbol of Virginia's heritage, and says anyone who doesn't is just being touchy. The flag is "part of the great heritage of this state," he contends, and those pesky African-Americans who take slavery personally are simply motivated by "political correctness." FINALLY FIGURING OUT that the movie version of her "Interview With the Vampire" can help sell books, novelist Anne Rice took out an ad in WW Andrews: Wooed Basingen Courted Variety Friday gushing about the film and lead actor Tom Cruise. "I was honored and stunned to discover how faithful this film was to the spirit, the content and the ambience of the novel," she says. "I never dreamed it would turn out this way." In fact, she spent months growling things like, "Tom Cruise is no more my vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler." Main Line Pictures sued Kim Basinger last year for backing out of "Boxing Helena," the tender story of a doctor who amputates his lady love's limbs.

She lost an $8.1 million judgment and eventually declared bankruptcy. But the California Court of Appeals just ruled the jury received "prejudicially ambiguous" instructions from the judge and sent the case back to trial court, so it might not cost her an arm and a leg after all. Officials want new interstate to run north through Jackson BRIEFLY Fitness: Free Press health and I fitness writer Bill Laitner will 1 receive the inaugural Healthy Michigan 2000 Award Tuesday from the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports. In the spirit of the occasion, he'll sprint to Lansing for the ceremony. Witness: Country star Travis Tritt says he got his start as an underage Elvis impersonator, singing in front of a mirror "at the top of my lungs until I'd open both eyes up and look out the comer of one eye and see my father looking at me like I was crazy." Witless: Sen.

Strom Thurmond, rendered goofy by a dizzy spell Monday, has been released from the hospital, though doctors still' don't know what ailed him. Hitless: Clint Black fans in Greenwood, won't get to hear him this weekend. The civic center won't support ceiling lights, and the only power source was' a generator, so he canceled. Hipless: Actor Gerard Depardieu credits his 44-pound weight loss to swearing off wine. Hapless: A heck of a pilot but apparently not much of a mogul, Dick Rutan has flown Voyager Aircraft Inc.

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Woodward 547-7770 AP pqppoooopq MtVt't TV pooooogqpppopoppgQgggpi "60 Minutes," "Murphy Brown" and "Late Show With David Letterman" won't begin airing on Channel 62 until Nov. 27, when CBS's affiliation agreement with WJBK-TV, Channel 2, expires. "Area cable systems are already calling us," Rodgers said. "And a number of them have promised to move (Channel 62) up to a more prominent position on the (cable) dial." The sale of WGPR marks the end of an era in Detroit for the nation's first black-owned TV station, which went on the air in September 1975. "I think we made a prudent business decision," said George Mathews, president of WGPR and of the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, the national African-American fraternal society that has owned Channel 62 since its founding.

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