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INSIDE TV &Amp; RADIO; Listeners Won't Have to Miss Harvey

Posted on: Friday, 29 July 2005, 15:00 CDT

WTMJ-AM (620) says it will start airing veteran radio commentator Paul Harvey on Aug. 8, ahead of the rest of the ABC Radio news programming the station has picked up.

Harvey's quirky five-minute morning newscast will air at 8:25 a.m. weekdays. His 15-minute "News and Comment" will run just after the noon newscast weekdays and Saturdays. "The Rest of the Story" will run around 5:22 a.m. weekdays, just before WTMJ's morning airing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

WTMJ won't start airing other ABC news material until mid- September. But the early addition of Harvey will help bridge the gap for listeners who want to keep him a part of their radio routine.

The octogenarian Harvey's final appearance on WISN-AM (1130), the home for his nationally syndicated commentaries for 47 years, is scheduled for Aug. 6.

He's changing Milwaukee addresses because WISN has signed on with Fox's new radio news network, along with a number of other Clear Channel Communications-owned news-talk stations.

The 11:30 a.m. half-hour, which now includes Harvey's daily report, will be filled by an expanded Bob Dolan-Jay Weber midday show.

WISN is losing all of its ABC radio programming, except for the one show that's most important to its male-targeting news-talk format: ABC-syndicated Sean Hannity.

Hannity's show will continue to air in the 8 to 11 p.m. weekday slot.

For the broadcast history buffs out there, a check of radio listings in the old Milwaukee Sentinel shows Harvey first popping up on WISN's schedule on Jan. 30, 1958, in the 7:10 p.m. slot with a five-minute program.

To get a little perspective, Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House, Frank Zeidler was mayor of Milwaukee and your favorite TV/radio columnist was just 2 weeks old when Harvey first became part of the WISN lineup.

CHANNEL SURFING: For all you Fox News Channel viewers asking about Linda Vester's disappearance from "Dayside," she departed July 1 on a one-year maternity leave. . . . And every time Don Imus disappears from MSNBC for a couple days, the calls start coming in. You can stop calling, since the I-man will be back on TV at 5 a.m. Monday after a scheduled one-week vacation. . . . When ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" returns in spring, it'll include a half- hour results show each week. Sounds like they're setting themselves up to kill a successful summer show by starting it before summer, and expanding it to two nights a week. . . . ABC News has reached across the water to find someone to run "Nightline," which is likely to be revamped when Ted Koppel leaves later in the year. James Goldston comes from Britain's ITV, where he was executive producer of "Tonight with Trevor McDonald," the most popular British current affairs show. . . . And on one last ABC note, Rachel Nichols is moving from Fox's summer sleeper "The Inside" to ABC's "Alias," where she's likely to get some of the action that pregnant Jennifer Garner will have to give up while awaiting the arrival of her baby. "The Inside" is likely to disappear after its summer run.

ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS: Fans of Fox's "Arrested Development" can feast on two-hour marathons of the travails of the Bluth family over the next three Friday nights.

The rerun fun starts at 7 tonight on Channel 6.

Thanks, Fox.

Call Tim Cuprisin at (414) 224-2397; e-mail tcuprisin@journalsentinel.com.

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Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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