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This week's good time to read a book

Tucson Citizen UNIVERSE This week's good time to read a book I got to read a book this week. What a wonderful experience. It's quiet when you read a book: All the noise goes on in your imagination. Not so with television, which, ordinarily, I am compelled to attend with studiousness and frequency. But I didn't have to watch television this week. Ironic, isn't it? Here is is Premiere Week for the nation's commercial television networks - the week dedicated television viewers anticipate with bated breath of thumping hearts, the week they spend perhaps more time than ever in the company of their TV sets - and I'm reading a cheap western novel for the fifth time. My boss hates it when I write about not watching television, but in this instance I feel confident of being forgiven on account of I've already seen all these wonderful new things you're experiencing for the first time. Premiere Week holds no thrill for me: I saw it all last June in Phoenix and Los Angeles, and already know what you've been wasting your time all week finding out: We're in for another dull year. Next week is another matter altogether, as PBS and KUAT Channel 6 launch a very ambitious undertaking called "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews." More detail on that Monday next. Meanwhile, I will endeavor to finish reading "Sackett" and prepare myself to re-enter the world of video. I only hope that this past week of new shows and season premieres of continuing series has not so soured you on the medium that you refuse to read what I have to say about it. QUO VADIS TV dinner By Jeff Smith Or, more pertinently, where will they vadis? With KZAZ Channel 11 having announced its own sale for the second time this year, one can only hope for the sake of deserving local entrepreneurs, that this time it will stick . ... . And perhaps for one more small thing. Maybe a little less of Mom and Pop Adelstein on the air. I realize that Channel 11 has been a low-budget, Mom-and-Pop operation compared to the network affiliate stations, and that recently, with George Borozan's political involvement, owner/manager Gene Adelstein has been called upon to sit in front of the camera more often to read the news. But with the purchase of the station by the Providence Journal, I hope these talents can be put to better use Too often Channel 11's and that more appropriate faces home-cooking is half-baked. will appear on the screen when I hit the button that says "11." THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG Because clearly the ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF Adelsteins possess considerable US off-screen talents. Anyone who Or is it? could convince anyone else to According to our resident spend million in for the neighborhood of $13 intellectual, Lawrence Cheek (of a small, independent the Lubbock Cheeks) no other TV station in Tucson, Arizona, city in the country is big enough, has persuasive skills deserving of but Phoenix, which is neither the our deepest respect. That's some biggest, nor by anyone's most neighborhood, $13 million. whimsical definition the Of course, that is only a high-browest city in the U.S., is rumored sales price, but it is the first to have competing based upon a firm, reported commercial classical music radio •figure of $13.2 million, for which stations. Ackerley Communications, Inc. KMZK-FM of Phoenix, had earlier agreed. to buy Channel which had been a rock 'n' roll 11. That was in mid-March. But oldies outlet, announced this June Ackerley backed out of the week that it plans to raise its deal, saying it wasn't satisfied brow and swap its electric that KZAZ was taking in as much guitars for harpsichords and revenue as advertised in the such. No big deal: They're both sales negotiations. stringed instruments and both are Now we've got another deal plucked. (Look it up, dummy.) working, subject of course to What is the big deal is that approval by the Federal the new KMZK goes eye-brow to Communications Commission, high-brow against KHEP-FM in and I for one, wish all parties Phoenix, which since 1973 has Godspeed. I must presume that enjoyed sovereignty over the the new buyer, Providence Valley of the Sun's classical Journal Broadcasting, knows music audience - commercially, enough to check the news clips, at any rate. and therefore is on the qui vivre about the disputed operating Frankly, 1 I wonder if there's revenue figures. enough audience to support both, or more importantly, to support I seriously and sincerely enough advertisers to support hope that the new owners will both. have sense enough to bring an end to KZAZ's home look, If it hasn't happened in New with Gene doing news and wife York, San Francisco, or even Ellen doing her interview show. here in Tucson, how can it succeed in a cultural toxicdump such as Phoenix?
Article from 28 Sep 1984Tucson Citizen(Tucson, AZ)
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