TV & VIDEO - Oct. 23, 1989

Former CBS News and “West 57th” correspondent Jane Wallace begins her new, less nomadic life today at 1 p.m. when she enters the afternoon talk show wars with the debut of “The Jane Wallace Show” on Lifetime Cable Network. Wallace told the Associated Press that she quit after 6 1/2 years with CBS because “I’d had it with traveling 250,000 miles a year. My close personal friends were taxi drivers and car rental people.” She said her new show won’t focus exclusively on typical women’s issues. She conceded that Lifetime “is a woman’s network. But it’s not as if a man tunes in, he’s going to get a rash. We’re looking to broaden what women’s issues are considered to be.” Subjects of some early shows include: mothers on crack and Phoebe Snow, who dropped out of the music business to raise a handicapped child.