European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television focusing on satellite reception by Sarah Bottorff want in watch american to in Greece if you slay Al the department of defense s contract hotel in downtown Athens you can watch super Slation an from i rank furl West Germany of All places. Down die Road a bit at i Lell Nikon a next to the Athens Airport you can watch Southern european broadcasting irom Vicenza Italy. And a Lew caulk Al Miles South at Iraklion As in Crete you ret Eive american military broadcasts via Salel Lile from i of Angeles. Make sense it does t even make sense to military Troudt asters. Al one Point last week every station a Al a Sib etc., thought it was the one that Broadt ass its shows to Iraklion. Quot i i less we should know who s seeing us Quot muses is b Programmer Denny Mckell. It is hard to figure out at this Point what with military television beaming All Over Europe via coded signals. Ain for example now goes from Frankfurt to a slew of Merit an embassies All Over the place a Geneva Switzerland Vienna Austria Budapest i Hungary Koine Vatican City. I get a great mental picture of the embassy Guy at Vatican City inviting the Pope Over to watch Gasthaus Greece is among the most confusing places to go. An is b the 1 of Angeles armed forces radio television network service signal Are just the tip of the iceberg. 1 he Navy maintains a Cable television system at its Souda Bay naval support activity on Crete another with two channels at tiny Nea Makri communications station up near Marathon until recently such on base Cable was All that was officially available for americans not at All bases. The greek government which beams the English a language sky mtg Europe can channels nationwide to greeks americans alike a has been Headset against americans Satel Liting in any military television anywhere. The provincial government in Crete has tended to ignore that prohibition which is Why Iraklion has been broadcasting videotaped material All Over the Island Lor .1 while according to a knowledgeable source. But that s another Story so How did Ai n seb arts finally arrive i he . State department Kepi refusing to push the greek government on the to Issue americans kept doing without to finally one source says Dod decided not to wait any longer. Why Send All three Safe Cable satellite expert John i talpers explains that the satellite dish at Dod s Athens contract hotel the Pallon won t accept seb. And seb s signal won t Roach Iraklion though it can be picked up at hell Nikon. The Only other question now is Why Send anything Iraklion is Likely to be around for a while bul Dod plans to dose hell Nikon in a year a half. But Halpert says All hell Nikon got was a big satellite dish that can be loaded Back up on a c-130 taken someplace else when the base closes. Quot possibly Croton Quot  Halpert a reference to the prospective italian Home of the 401st tac fighter Wing now based in Spain. In the meantime seb has started Reading out the drachma Exchange rate in its news broadcasts for its new viewers an is telling people from Budapest to Athens to Check the stars stripes daily an us listings to get their to schedules an hour to the . Time to get Central european Tim Halpert is still hoping someone will convince the greeks to let the americans broadcast coded nationwide. Quot we re now concerned about our nato Sites Quot says Halpert Quot we be got people on mount Parnis in Thessaloniki. My main concern is these people in Remote  stay tuned. Or dished. Garry Shandling or. Ruth Westheimer Bob Newhart May be the latest victims of Dod budget cuts the first two axed a basically a by an the last a possibly a by arts in los Angeles. At an the shrinking dollars prompted a decision to end programming after 2 ., Send the operators Home just broadcast sat net the satellite feed from errs Angeles with All the sports news. With that decision went it s carry Shandling s show what s up or. Ruth several other occasionally risque shows that an technicians used to put on after 2 ., explains Tom Baxter chief of broadcast operations. Quot we just can to have a staff going 24 hours a Day a he says. Quot it s not the programs that Are the problem it s the manpower to Pul them  included in that group of no shows Are George Schlatter s comedy hour comedy tonight which like the new or. Ruth had been about to Start on an. Baxter says All of the above May be shown from time to time if there s a Lull in the programming after Midnight a grand Ole opry has been moved from late night to thursday mornings. Newhart a which like Shandling is leaving the air in the slates anyway at the end of the season a is Likely to be victim of arts attempts to Cut Back get Only programs that its generally Young audience wants. Newhart is not presently in arts plans Larry Marotta programming manager of the television division says arts thinks the show does t Appeal to the target audience. More heat there s even worse news now on the matter of that in the heat of the night episode the one that ended the season with chief Gillespie seb s microwave dish in Vicenza Italy a amps file kidnapped a Quot to be continued Quot line. It turns out arts says that the new season coming to an in mid july starts with chief Gillespie sitting at his desk not a hair the worse for Wear no explanation As to what happened to him. Abc got a Quot jeers Quot line from to guide s Quot cheers jeers Quot column last year when it launched the new season in such a ridiculous manner. The Little notice at the end of that first show telling viewers a later episode would Complete the Kidnap Saga did not help the situation at All the Magazine Fig a up carry Shandling Bob Newhart Quality programming that is both painful uplifting to watch seems to be the theme this week on an. You Don t have to die at 7 . Get wednesday is about the experience of having cancer told through the eyes voice of a 10-year-old boy his parents it s excellent equally Good is Winnie the Story of a mentally retarded woman who slowly edges her Way out of institutional life into the real. It s on at 8 . Get wednesday. Meredith Baxter Birney of family ties plays Winnie she s Brilliant. Also starting this week is a.d., a Max series based on the Anthony Burgess novel starring James Mason it has christians Caligula fabulous sets Beautiful women Good acting a Good script. It s also a major investment of time consider your next five Friday late nights gone if you watch this starting at 10 40 . This Friday. A different world starts a new year at 7 . Ce1 tuesday the companion the Cosby show is coming Back in another weekend Reading Rainbow comes on again at 2 05 . Get thursday the latter is a kid s show that appears Dull it s about books but nevertheless has won a few Little hearts i. Know in Frankfurt. In wildness the newest nature show makes an hour of watching grouse dancing seem interesting it airs at 9 30  Sunday. For movies weekend War is a 1988 based unreality movie about a National guard unit that goes to Honduras to train finds itself fighting for real tin the nicaraguan Border it will be shown As sports permit on sunday. And try the Man who loved women with Burt Reynolds Kim Basinger at 11 40 . Get thursday. Most critics dislike it except this one. A Little weak sure but a decent comedy. Seb has such stuff As Gidget goes hawaiian at 1.w . Sunday House ii the second Story of corpses stupid plot lines at 9 15 . Friday Pis two hours of drum Bugle corps music in the 1989 summer music games at 3 . Wednesday. In other words this is not a major week for Seit there is however a time to Triumph the True Story of a housewife Patty Duke who becomes an  helicopter Pilot at a time to be announced 1 weekend it s not bad if you Don t expect absolute reality. Studs Lonigan with Harry never ending miniseries about the Dull life 0 a Chicago fellow starting wednesday at 9 15 pm1, i1t taking up the same time Slot for two More nights 24 stripes Magazine March 15, 1990