By Steve Marinucci
Published Thursday, October 19, 1989, San Jose (CA) Mercury News
The networks and local stations are scheduling special programs tonight in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake.
CBS is pre-empting a "48 Hours" program on beauty pageants for an hourlong report on the quake. (The program will air locally at 8 p.m. on Channels 5, 10 and 46.) A spokesman said "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather flew into the Bay Area from New York on Wednesday morning to head up network coverage.
ABC's "PrimeTime Live" (at 10 p.m. on Channels 7, 11 and 13) is preparing a report from San Francisco with co-anchor Sam Donaldson. A network spokesman said other ideas for the program, still in the planning stages, call for reports on other American cities vulnerable to quakes, a tour of the San Andreas Fault and a story by Chris Wallace on quakes in Armenia, a country also vulnerable to quakes.
An NBC spokesman said Wednesday that the network had no special programs on the quake scheduled.
Locally, KICU-TV (Ch. 36), which had to delay the first part of Tuesday's scheduled two-hour opening segment of the movie "Exodus" to Wednesday because of the quake, will broadcast the two-hour conclusion at 8 tonight.
The PBS series "The American Experience" will substitute a repeat of "The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906" in place of "The Great War -- 1918" on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on KQED (Ch. 9). The show also will air at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 on Channels 54 and 60.
