HEARINGS UPSET TV VIEWERS

Daytime TV viewers apparently did not take kindly to their favorite programs being interrupted Monday for coverage of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings in Washington.

CBS here logged some 600 complaining telephone calls between 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., while CBS in New York received more than 200 calls protesting the preemption of the regular game show/soap opera lineup.

ABC in New York was bombarded with close to 1,000 calls when the network broke into “One Life to Live” for the testimony of former national security adviser Robert McFarlane.

NBC here reported 753 calls from viewers upset that they missed “Days of Our Lives,” “Another World” and “Santa Barbara.”

Channel 28 heard from 60 callers, a few supportive of the live coverage but the majority particularly displeased that the hearings bumped a repeat of the final episode of “The Africans” that was to have aired at 1 p.m.