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A2 THE CAZETTE montrealgazette.com MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2069 TO INQUIRE OR COMMENT ABOUT HOME DELIVERY, OR TO SUBSCRIBE! Montreal area: 514-987-2400 elsewhere: 1-800-361-8478 readthegthegazette.canwest.com Wt guarinttt home delivery by 6:30 a.m. weekday! In the greater Montreal area; 1010 Ste. Catherine St. suite 200, Montreal, QC, H3B5Llmontrelgaztte.eom 514-987-2222 MONDAY CALENDAR THE WEEK AH EAD SEPTEMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 1 SEPTEMBER AUGUST 3 51 SEPTEMBER) West African leaders meet for a special summit to discuss the situation In Niger. President Mamadou Tandja is seeking an extension of his term despite a constitutional provision requiring him to leave office in December.

I I Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission will announce preliminary results of the Aug. 20 presidential election. The Canadian Women's Open golf tournament begins Its first round in Calgary. The Montreal Juniors play a preseason game against the Val d'Or Foreurs at Samuel Moscovitch Arena in C6te St. Luc.

SEPTEMBER 4 It's a full moon at 12:03 p.m. You can howl then or wait until dark. The Deutsche Bank Championship PGA golf tournament begins in Norton, Mass. Tiger Woods will be there, and we assume other golfers as well. The Juniors end their preseason With a match against the Baie Comeau Drakkar at the Laval Col-isee.

They'll start the season with a four-game road trip before their home opener on Sept. 25. The CFL-leading Alou-ettes face the B.C. Lions in Vancouver for a game starting at 10:30 p.m. SEPTEMBER 1 Fall classes begin for most students at McCill University and University de Montreal.

The STM moves to a proof-of-payment system, which also means old-style coloured tickets will no longer be accepted (people with those tickets can get reimbursements). The manufacture and sale of wood stoves that haven't passed low-emission standards becomes illegal in Quebec. Tampa Bay Lightning star and tie Bizard native Vincent Lecavalier hosts a poker tournament at the Montreal Casino to raise money for his foundation. Global Quebec officially rebrands itself Global Montreal, after a CRTC decision this summer allowing it to change from a regional station to a local station and get access to local advertising. City blue-collar workers begin a 24-hour strike at 12:01 a.m.

Essential services will be maintained, but others, like garbage pickup, may be disrupted. It's the most wonderful time of the year: Students at the Lester B. Pearson and English Montreal school boards begin their first day of classes. The Soci4t4 de transport de Montreal changes its bus network to a fall schedule. A commission named by U.S.

President Barack Obama is expected to present its review of the American manned space program. The U.S. Open tennis tournament begins in New York. It runs until Sept. 13.

CBC television stations across the country -including CBMT in Montreal begin airing 90-minute local evening newscasts beginning at 5 p.m. 10 Happy birthday: Guy Laliberte, who is in Russia preparing to blast off into space on Sept. 30, turns 50 years old today. Representatives of the United States, Russia, China, France, Germany and Britain are to meet in Frankfurt to discuss potential UN sanctions against Iran in response to its nuclear development. The Phoenix Coyotes saga is back in court as Jim Balsillie and the National Hockey League fight for ownership of the bankrupt franchise.

The Carolina RailHawks face the Impact at Saputo Stadium at 7:30 p.m. for United Soccer Leagues First Division action. The Let's Get Married bridal exhibition takes over Place Bonaventure '), today and tomorrow. I. NASCAR'i Sprint Cup series heads to Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Pep Boys Auto 500.

The Hockey Canada Cup, an international female hockey tourna- ment, holds its champi- onship final in Vancouver-', at 10:30 p.m. The event is a warmup to the 2010 Olympics, whose hockey'- tournaments will be held''' on the same ice. The Killers perform at the Bell Centre with Wolf-mother. The concert was originally to take place at the Jacques Cartier Pier at the Old Port. The Impact visit the Cleveland City Stars for a game starting at 2 p.m.

The Impact are 2-0 against the expansion Stars this season. Michael Jackson is scheduled to be buried at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif, (unless it gets delayed again it was originally supposed to be on Aug. 29, his 51st birthday). THE BLUFFER'S GUIDE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR A DINNER CONVERSATION ABOUT Changes in local television The Gazette). It's on Channel 62, is part of the network, formerly CH, And what happened to it? On Fridays the CRTC approved an application 'Yj from Channel Zero to buy CJNT (along with CHCH in Hamilton, Ont.) from Canwest.

For how much? $12 for both. Isn't that cheap for a TV station? The price is nominal. CJNT and CHCH have never made money, and the alternative would have been to shut them down, as Canwest is doing to El stations in Victoria and Red Deer tonight. The sale removes red ink from Canwest's balance sheet. What's going to happen to Channel Zero is keeping all CJNT's local ethnic programming, and is plan ning to air ethnic music videos and movies to fill its schedule.

i. Open-ended discussion question: 't What kind of future does local TV have in an on-demand online world Jj" So, what's going on? The local TV universe is changing. TQS and Global Quebec are rebranding, CBC is expanding its local newscasts, and CJNT is getting a new owner. What's happening to TQS? It changes its name, effective today, to V. As in that obscure '80s sci-fi TV series? Not quite.

It's as in vedettes, vitesse, voyages, vices, ve'rite', violence and any other description of programming they can think of that starts with that letter. Why change the name from TQS? Because TQS has a really bad brand, known for airing cheap programming that titillated instead of educated. In March 2008, when Remstar bought TQS and brought it out of creditor protection with massive cuts (including its entire news division), that reputation only got worse. What else is TQS doing? The biggest new show this fall is Dumont 360, a daytime talk show hosted by former Action democra-tique du Quebec leader Mario Dumont. It begins next Monday at 5 p.m.

Other shows it will debut are Quebec versions on reality formats popular elsewhere, including Wipeout, Le Mur (based on a Japanese game show), Taxi payant (Cash Cab) and La guerre des clans (Family Feud). French-language versions of South Park, Entourage, The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Fringe and Private Practice are also on the menu for prime time. And news? Don't be silly. News is expensive. The closest you'll get, besides Dumont's show, is a new morning talk show and a sports roundtable show to replace 110.

How about Global? Tomorrow is the big day for CKMI, better known as Global Quebec. The station, which debuted in 1997 as a regional station technically based out of Quebec City, got approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission this summer to change its licence to a local station based out of Montreal. The biggest benefit to this change is that the station will finally get access to local Montreal advertising, which it had been prohibited from accessing newscasts to 90 minutes from an hour. They'll also start earlier, at 5 p.m. instead of 6, and, starting next week, Montreal's newscast is getting new anchors.

Who? Andrew Chang, who is a regular reporter on the newscast, and Jennifer Hall, who comes from CTV's A network, where she was the national correspondent from Ottawa. What happened to Michel Godbout? The outgoing anchor is going back to reporting (and says he's looking forward to it). He'll play a "very prominent role in the newscast." How many journalists are they hiring to fill this extra air time? Other than Hall, none. The CBC is expecting to use its existing staff to fill the 90 minutes a day of news, which is structured as three consecutive 30-minute newscasts. And CJNT? What is that? That's the local ethnic station owned by Canwest (Canwest also owns Global TV and Why was it prevented from getting local ads? Competition.

The CBC and Montreal's CTV affiliate CFCF objected to Global's application to buy CKMI in 1997, arguing to the CRTC that the increased competition would hurt their ad sales in the tiny anglophone Montreal market. As part of the deal, the CRTC barred the station from broadcasting any local advertising. The station tried in 2001 to get local advertising in Quebec City, but again CFCF balked and the CRTC said no. So what changes will we see on air, aside from the ads? Not much. The logo is changing (replacing "Global Quebec" with "Global and it has a campaign going on asking its viewers what they like about the city, but the station has been a de facto Montreal station for quite some time.

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