Channel 2 News Wins Top Emmys : Television: KCBS’ 5 and 6 p.m. shows lead a 12-statuette night, but Channel 7 wins the most honors with 13 trophies.

KCBS Channel 2’s 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. news broadcasts took top honors Saturday at the 43rd Annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, winning both categories for best regularly scheduled daily news programs. KCBS took home 12 statuettes in all during the ceremony at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, which honors locally-produced news and entertainment programs and is put on by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

KCBS reporter Harvey Levin won awards in both the investigative reporting and newswriting categories, for his expose of unscrupulous local doctors, while newcomer Michael Tuck, hired by KCBS last year from a San Diego station, won the news commentary category for “A Blind Eye, a Better World,” condemning Malibu residents’ attitudes toward unemployed day workers.

Overall, KABC Channel 7 won the most Emmys--13--in categories including crime/social issues, non-news writers and mini-documentaries. KCET Channel 28, which dominated last year’s Emmy contest with 14 statuettes, got nine awards this year.

Other multiple winners include KTTV Channel 11, which took home eight statuettes to last year’s two. Winning two Emmys each were KCOP Channel 13, KDOC Channel 56 and KTLA Channel 5. KNBC Channel 4, whose news at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. won the best regularly scheduled newscast category in 1990, won two statuettes this year, in the education and news reporting categories.

KCAL Channel 9, whose 3-hour nightly newscast “Prime 9 News” celebrated its one-year anniversary in March, won six Emmys. “Prime 9 News at 8,” the only other nominee in the 60-minute regularly scheduled daily news category, was praised by KCBS executive producer Michael Horowicz in his acceptance speech: “You guys have raised the level of news gathering in this town,” Horowicz said.

The evening’s crowd-pleasing winners were KLOS-radio morning disc jockeys Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, who took home awards for KTTV’s “Andy Griffith’s Christmas Special Hosted by Mark and Brian.” “What are you people, nuts?” said Phelps, who added that the duo hadn’t bothered to bring along an acceptance speech. “We’ll read it Monday on the show,” Thompson said.

Also happily surprised about their win were Peter (Mr. Pete) Chaconas and Maggie Sebastian, who beat out competitors such as Fritz Coleman, Larry McCormick and Minerva Perez in the hosts/moderators--series category. The hosts of Century Cable’s public-access channel program “The Late Mr. Pete Show,” which began in 1987, gained a cult following and was picked up in September, 1990, by KTLA, said they were thrilled to be recognized with an Emmy.

“Coming from a little public access show, you just don’t know,” said Sebastian.

Chaconas added that the win was “not bad for a $35 public-access show. You people talk about no budgets!,” he said, continuing a theme that ran throughout many of the acceptance speeches.

Rounding out the list of winners were KOCE Channel 50 and cable channels Cityscope and City TV, which each won one statuette.

Bill Welsh, a KTTV commentator who has been in television for 45 years, was the recipient of the Los Angeles Area Governors Emmy Award, which recognizes “individuals, shows or organizations that have made a special and unique contribution to Los Angeles Area Television.” The Governors Award is voted on by the academy’s 50-member board of governors.

Following is a complete list of winners:

Governors Award: Bill Welsh.

Travel and Leisure/L.A. Local Color: “Tokyo by Day” (“Eye on L.A.”), KABC.

Health and Science/Environment: “Inside Information,” KCET.

Education: “Fighting Failure,” KNBC .

Crime/Social Issues: “The Fires of August,” KABC.

Arts and Culture/History: “Hollywood Strike” (“Los Angeles History Project”), KCET.

Camera Crew--Hard News Breaking Story: “Cave In,” Channel 2 Action News at 5, KCBS.

Camera Crew--News Feature: “Return of the U.S.S. David R. Ray,” Prime 9 News, KCAL; “Yesco Sign Co.,” Fox News at Ten, KTTV.

Camera Crew--Non-News: “Troubled Teen-age Runaways” (“Eye on L.A.”), KABC.

Public Affairs Series (Remote): “Keys to the City,” Cityscope.

Public Affairs Series (Studio-Based): “Have, Have Not” (“By the Year 2000”), KCET.

Informational Series (Remote): “Science & Society,” KCET.

Informational Series (Studio-Based): “Troubleshooter,” KCBS; “Studio 22,” KCBS.

Entertainment Programming: “Studio 22 Grammy Preview,” KCBS.

Children/Youth Special: “Clue You In: The Case of the Scene Stealer,” KCBS.

Children/Youth Series: “Teen Talk,” KCAL.

News Special: “McMartin: Trials and Errors,” KCET.

Sports Special: “A Need for Speed,” KABC.

Sports Series: “The John Robinson Show,” KCBS.

Live Sports Coverage: “Dodgers Baseball,” KTTV.

Live Special Events: “Live From the Hollywood Bowl,” KCOP.

Instructional Special: “On Fire,” KCET.

Instructional Series: “Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior,” KOCE.

Directors of Edited Programs: Lee Stanley, “Drug Watch--L.A.,” KTLA.

Directors of Unedited Programs--News: Peggy Burkhart, Prime 9 News, KCAL.

Directors of Unedited Programs--Non-News: Harry Kooperstein, “Live From the Hollywood Bowl,” KCOP.

Feature Segment: “Turkeybone Man--By George,” Fox Entertainment News, KTTV.

Information Segments: “I Can Hear the Laughter” (“A New Beginning”), KDOC.

Public, Municipal and Operator-Produced Cable: “Women of the Georgian Hotel,” CITY-TV.

Short Promo/PSA: “Channel 2 Graveyard Shift,” KCBS.

Special Class--Program Area: “Take Five: Science & Society,” KCET; “Take Five: Arts & Culture,” KCET; “John Michael Talbot--Quiet Reflections,” KDOC; “The Video Adventures of George and Larry,” KTTV.

Live Coverage of an Unscheduled News Event: “Universal Fire,” Eyewitness News, KABC.

Mini-Docs: “Watts: 25 Years Later,” Eyewitness News, KABC.

Investigative Reporting: “Doctor Danger,” Channel 2 Action News, KCBS.

Spot News: “Glendale Fire,” Fox News at Ten, KTTV.

News Reporting: David Garcia, “St. George Utah/Nuclear Testing Fallout,” Channel 4 News, KNBC.

Sports Reporting: “Italian Basketball,” Lakers Pregame Show, KCAL.

Feature Reporting: Jane Wells, “King News,” Fox News at Ten, KTTV; Rick Garcia, “Craig Hindall,” Fox News at Ten, KTTV.

News Commentary: Michael Tuck, “A Blind Eye, a Better World,” KCBS.

Hosts/Moderators--Specials: Mark Thompson, Brian Phelps, “Andy Griffith’s Christmas Special Hosted by Mark and Brian,” KTTV.

Hosts/Moderators--Series: Peter Chaconas, Maggie Sebastian, “The Late Mr. Pete Show,” KTLA.

Performers: Tim Conway as Dorf (“A.M. Los Angeles”), KABC.

Film/Tape Editors of Hard News Programs: Jim Eichenberger, “Watts: 25 Years Later,” Eyewitness News, KABC.

Film/Tape Editors of News Features: Jodie Mena, “Morningside B-Ball,” Prime 9 News, KCAL.

Film/Tape Editors of Non-News Programs: Dave Alvarez, Jeff Caldwell, Arthur Klein, “Troubled Teen-age Runaways,” (“Eye on L.A.”), KABC.

Newswriters: Harvey Levin, “Doctor Danger,” Channel 2 Action News, KCBS.

Non-News Writers: Marc Brown, “The Fires of August,” KABC.

Graphics: “Cinco de Mayo,” KABC; “Countdown to the American Music Awards,” KABC; “Countdown to the Academy Awards,” KABC.

Creative Technical Crafts: No Emmy awarded.

Sound: “Inside Information,” KCET.

Technical Direction: “NBA Lakers Basketball,” KCAL Sports, KCAL.

Regularly Scheduled Daily News--30 Minute Format: Channel 2 Action News at 6, KCBS.

Regularly Scheduled Daily News--60 Minute Format: Channel 2 Action News at 5, KCBS.