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Show 4 15 Monday, January 20, 1VA The Salt Lake Tribune, Television Fare Horizons Brightening for CBS News, Vows President By Jay Sharbutt the current sea ion ends in April, or Bos Angeles Times Writer afterward, lest the program hamper second place CBS' bid to wrest victory this season from the current ratings leader, NBC. "West 57th," which had a brief trial run that began in August, had been expected to return in March. Sauter, who lavishly praised the program, would venture only vaguely that it would return "sometime in spring, with Jankowski echoing that. Sauter's press session was his first since December, when he became CBS News chief for the second time in his career after incumbent Ed whom Sauter had picked as Joyce was replaced after his successor two years and given a new post at - HOLLYWOOD The "CBS Morning News" has "stabilized and may start a comeback ig the next few months. All is well W CBS News after the turmoil of 1985 CBS Inc. is doing all right, too, despite the $1 billion debt it incurred to fight off Ted Turner. low-rate- d Such were the sounds of optimism heard from CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter and his boss, CBS Broadcast Group President Gene F. Jankowski, as they met Thursday TV writers and here with critics. About the only note of uncertainty was whether CBS News jazzy new "West 57th series will rejoin the netschedule before work's prime-tim- e - n CBS Inc. that 973-300- Channel 5, 575-553- 5 Channel 1 1, (Provo) KSL-T- MM.', KTVX, Channel 4, KLED, Channel 7, 0 378-529- KSTI-TV2- 0, 8 KOOG, Channel 30, (Ogden) Monday January 20 5:15 a.m. Down To Earth 5:25 a.m. (D Together 5:30 a.m. CD CD (D NBC News Morning Stretch CBS Early Morning News 5 EYEWITNESS Carol Burnett And CD 39 News ABC's World News This Morning CBS Morning News Jimmy Swaggart (D Guiding Light Mister Rogers Bewitched 39 1:30 p.m. City (D Popeye 6:45 a.m. (LD Today 0 0 Flying Nun dD 39 39 She-R- a Plasticman 7:30 a.m. CD 39 Sesame Street Timmy And Lassie Voltron, Defender Of The Universe 39 M A.S K. 8:00 a.m. CD 39 39 25,000 Pyramid Sesame Street Scooby Doo Captain Harlock 8:30 a.m. CD 39 39 Card Sharks Figuring It Out Flintstones 2:30 p.m. Newlywed Game Educational Programming I 0 3:00 p.m. Days Of Our Lives Charlie's Angels Love Boat Mister Rogers CD CD CD CD 0 0 Jetsons Superfriends CD CD CD 39 39 Big Valley 9:30 a.m. CD 39 Perfect Match Polka Dot Door Weekday (I1 10:00 a.m. Sale Of The (a1 ti) CL) 39 39 Century New Love American Style Talk About Utah Focus Today s Special Movie - "File Of The Golden Goose." 1969, Yul Brynner, Charles Gray Mayberry R.F.D. 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Why, then, was had to shoulder an additional lion in debt in stock repurchases to 81 bil- In a news organization, Sauter later added, bonding is essential if we are going to do our tasks well. (In the December job shuffle, Sauter retained his post as an executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. In that capacity, he now oversees CBS News and, as CBS News president, theoretically reports to himself.) Dressed in a safari jacket, the pipesmoking executive put on a deft performance Thursday as he got through an hour of questions without once mentioning or being asked about either Phyllis George or NBC News enward off the flamboyant cable-Ttrepreneur "We are not to such a degree that we cant run our operabut without tions," he said, citing the 1986 giving specific figures budgets for CBS Entertainment and debt-ridde- CBS News. He was asked about persistent rumors that CBS founder William S Pa-lewho yielded the board chairmanship of CBS to Thomas Wyman in 1983, is planning to return as head of the company. far as he knew, Jankowski plied, its strictly rumor. As re- asMb Bs&ssss xussfas Vftss 2-D- Gene F. Jankowski Charts Future of News 555 SfcBas SATELLITE CLEARANCE! SAVE OVER 50 AY Connie Chung. Before George quit in August, she the "Morning News had for nine months amid much criticism. Chung, who formerly worked for Sauin Los Anter when he ran KCBS-Tgeles, has been rumored to be the object of wooing by CBS News to coanchor the program after her NBC contract expires this summer. Sauter indirectly repeated CBS previous denials of those rumors, saying that I see no change in the personnel of that broadcast in terms of the major roles. Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver have the program since September. Last weeks Nielsen ratings averages show the Morning News still deep in third, getting a 14 percent share of the estimated audience compared to 21 percent for ABCs "Good Morning America and the 25 percent for NBCs resurgent "Today Show. Nonetheless, Sauter declared himself very pleased by the programs progress under its new executive producer, Johnathan Rodgers, who joined it in November. Sawyer and Shriver are really quite good and have tremendous potential, he addV SAVE OVER cno OU O ASK ABOUT OUR SPECIAL ON INSTALLATION FINANCING AVAILABLE Have Ever Considered A Satellite System, If You Don't Miss This Sale! JI ed. Without citing George by name, Sauter said there is an inevitable decline in ratings when anchors are changed, and indeed this particular change in personnel her exit last summer was one of the most widely publicized in the broadcasting business. However, he continued, the expected ratings decline of the Morning News was stopped far earlier than we had anticipated and now were stable. (Today producer Steve Friedman, citing still-loratings for CBS program in recent weeks, insisted Friday that that's not stabilized. Thats comatose.) Over the next few months, Sauter predicted, the Morning News is going to show growth and then become as competitive in the morning-shoratings race as it was in late 1982 and early 83, when it and Today" briefly were true competitors. He said that CBS primary goal now is to make its morning program as good as we can, then start heavy w Carson's Comedy CBS News Nightwatch ill News 2:05 a m, Certified After S.L. Seminar 2-D- ay Inspectors of the Utah Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials have been in Salt Lake City atseminar involving tending a two-da- y a study of the uniform plumbing code in order to qualify as certified plumbing inspectors. 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