- WIOU (TV series)
: "For the radio station in
Kokomo, Indiana , seeWIOU (AM) .""WIOU" was a short-lived American television
drama series, which aired onCBS in1990 and1991 . The show was set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign was WNDY (interestingly, the station that uses these call letters in real life was once owned by CBS), but which was nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's financial struggles.The show starred
John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includedMariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay,Harris Yulin andHelen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson,Phil Morris as aggressive black reporter Eddie Bock,Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, andWallace Langham as newsintern Willis Teitelbaum.According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.
References
Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, "
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows "External links
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