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EARLIER THIS MONTH, WNEV-TV, channel 7 in Boston began featuring a new anchor team on its 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. Tom Ellis, who'd been the long-time anchor of WCVB-TV, channel 5, and Robin Young, who'd spent the last few years in glamorous New York and Los Angeles, were signed on to boost the station's perennially sagging ratings...
Both have received considerable media hype. Both are blow-dried, attractive rising stars with six-figure salaries. Both have appeared on Boston TV before. The new razzle-dazzle duo should boost ratings for a while, perhaps even enough to challenge channel 5--Ellis's old employer--for top spot in the ratings battle...
...CABLE WEEK, a four-color, 96-page weekly magazine to be published by Time Inc. starting in the first quarter of 1983. Its key feature is that it will be "system specific," meaning that in each cable area where it is distributed, the magazine will list every significant program channel that the viewer can get and none that he cannot. Said Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald: "Some people have told us that they need four program guides just to tell what...
...mile London-to-Venice trip, the train leaves Victoria Station at 11:44 a.m. each Friday and Sun day. The northbound V.S.O.E. leaves Venice's Santa Lucia Station at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday. The English segment of the train, which does not cross the channel, consists of seven chocolate-and-cream cars that were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted by name...
Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...