Frank Magee

Magee Hickey returns to the local airwaves on Thursday with “Parent to Parent,” airing 8:30 to 9 p.m. live on MSG MetroGuide (Ch.70 in Manhattan).

The show will take a look at parenting, featuring guests and experts (all parents) taking a “self-deprecating” look at this exhaustive, non-stop job.

First up: A five-minute segment with child psychiatrist Dr. Harold Koplewicz.

Other featured guests include Donna Hanover, Vera Wang, Kathleen Turner and Rosanna Scotto.

Hickey is a former reporter for Chs. 2, 4 and 7.

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March of time

Ole! In the just completed March ratings book, Spanish-language WXTV/Ch.41 averaged a 4.1 prime-time weeknight rating (279,000 households).

That was good enough to beat WWOR/Ch.9’s prime-time weeknight average (265,000 households).

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Express Lines:

*On tonight’s “NewsStand: CNN & Time” (10 p.m. on CNN): Christiane Amanpour reports from the Kosovo/Albania border – speaking with refugees …

*WNYW/Ch.5 airs its first three Yankees games tonight (10:30 p.m.), tomorrow (10 p.m.) and Wednesday (4 p.m.) …

*MTV has added an extra phone number, (212) 398-9287, for viewers who want information on its “Wanna Be a VJ Too” contest …

*WCBS Newsradio 88 anchor Deborah Rodriguez and her husband, Dr. Hector Rodriguez, have welcomed a daughter, Sarah Joy …

*Sunday “Today” scored its best-ever quarterly ratings (3.6 million households) for the first quarter of ’99 …

*Sorry: We meant to say E! funnyman John Henson is not related to the Hensons of Muppet fame. Henson also never appeared in the movie “Secret Places.”