European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse On television done to know what son we done to either Sarah b0tt0rff to plus editor. J i re i t has come to our attention that a lot of people Are confused about what a supposed to be on television these Days. As if War weren to confusing enough you need a ouija Board to figure out if you re going to be watching Arsenio Hall tonight. First they Tell us we re going to get nothing but news. Then they say they re going Back to a a Normal programming. Then they say we re not going to get any sports. Then they say if we done to get any sports we wont get any saturday night live either. Then they say we re going to get sports. Again. A a a a. Get it As it stands now All the military stations in Europe and in saudi Arabia should be getting everything they always got a sitcoms sports talk shows and All a interrupted by whatever news comes up. But that Sas it stands now and it could change momentarily. In the meantime we thought it would help if we tried to explain who a a they arc a who a this a a a they that decides what gets on the air. There arc several a a they a arid its difficult for the average person to know who did what. So we re running so you know whom to Call or a write. A. Quot a a a Quot a. A the first thing you need to know is done to Call George George is in our City room at the stars and stripes and he does no to know what to do when you phone and Tell him to put the bold and the Beautiful on the air. _ the second thing is there arc two Basic Cal go pics of stuff on to timely and any old time. Any old time is sitcoms and dramas and soaps and exercise programs things like who a the Boss or twin peaks or morning stretch. A military outfit called armed forces radio and television service in los Angeles tapes All these shows and sends them off to your local ebs to or an to or whatever your local military television station. So what this boils Down to is if you done to like. Which shows arc on the air write arts 10888 la tuna Canon Road Sun Valley Ca 91352 a 2098. If you Don t like when the shows Are on Call your local to stations because its up to them when they play the tapes. A now for the second category. Timely is anything that you would Rij want to see if it gets too old sports news news talk shows like Larry King live and the today show entertainment shows like the tonight show and entertainment this week unique shows like saturday night live Etc. Arts in los Angeles beams All this stuff by satellite to the local stations and the local stations can eith for put it on the air immediately or tape it and show in later. Abc Peter Jennings explains the War to children in a news special airing this week on most of the military networks. A. A a a a /. A a a a a often they tape everything but the news and the sports since for example saturday night live comes in a at about 9 . Sunday morning Central european time. Who wants to Sec sol sunday morning so the local stations often tape it and run it the following saturday night at Midnight. Here a where the War comes in arts was so Busy sending news it decided for a while not to a Send anything but news. No tonight show. No _ basketball. No Arsenio Hall. The service reverted to the regular programming late thursday night but not soon enough for Many of the shows like entertainment tonight that it usually sends All week Long. A 1 so if you done to get to see Arsenio Hall this week or any week write to arts. If you done to. _ like when they put on Arsenio Hall write to your local station. A is this All As Clear As mud it gets better. The people Down in saudi done to have yet a local telc vision station so what you Guys Are seeing Down there comes straight off the arts satellite. If you done to like what you Sec you can write to arts too. But if you done to like when you Sec it Tough. Its coming to you live straight off the networks and Well you could write Dan rather if it makes you feel Good. He might write Back. A or a w hat the Heck. Just Call George. As for what son this week Well,.As of this w rating it w an t really Whin or when was going to be on. This is our ouija boards Best guess a Check the schedules on pages 12 and 13 Days and limes a on an to the murder of Mary i Hugai is based on a Larry Mcmurtry lonesome Dove script and stars Jack Lemmon and Given All that of course its excellent. Its also based on a True Story the murder of a Young girl working in a Pencil factory in Atlanta in 1913, and the jewish factory manager who was unjustly convicted of Hei death. A real Sleeper movie silence of the North is also set in die Early part of this Century not in Atlanta but in the desolate Beautiful stretches of Way North Canada. Ellen Burstyn and do some of their Best work As a Frontier drifter and his Wile. Its on tentatively tuesday morning. Finally a laugh a tear is Vav Hoodie Goldberg and most of the country a Best Black funnyman and women in a tribute to Black humor timed for Black history month. Ltd Southern european broadcasting has Clial Lenger a made for to film that tries to Tell us what happened that Day when six astronauts arid a teacher were killed in the shuttle Ros Casmear Quetty is desperately seeking Susan Madonna along with a lot of other people. A finally you May have noticed we have a new look for some of the to schedules its meant to provide More information in less space and we Hope you like it. The european that neat English language weekly provided the inspiration for the format and the stars and stripes computer Genius Anita May made it work
