TV & VIDEO - May 4, 1989

Members of the American Nursing Assn. opted to go ahead and picket in front of KNBC-TV in Burbank on Wednesday, even though producer Aaron Spelling previously had vowed to change what they were protesting: the “offensive” portrayal of student nurses in NBC’s “Nightingales.” “We want to reinforce the enlightenment,” Terry Ajir, California Nurses Assn. Region 3 president, said before the planned 4:30 p.m. demonstration. She said that the signs would express thanks to those who were instrumental in changing the risque image of student nurses. She added that the group is encouraged with the vow but is regarding it with “guarded optimism.”