The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 48

12 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1996 -toot ver the past 35 years, CFCF 12 has built a strong reputation for high standards in broadcast journalism and for the exceptional quality of its local programming. As a solid Montreal English-speaking community leader, the station has contributed generously to annual telethons, blood drives and numerous local sponsorship programs. Above all, CFCF 12 has enriched the lives of all Montrealers by giving us a voice, and by defining the characteristics that make us unique. For these reasons, we can take special pride in being able to call CFCF 12 our very own. 1 Jrfa.H.aB.A hr-Tlfrrn-vf-t.

nhtaii. ftaBtfaflaaaiaJIIJ-laMllMlOlllll oday, your favourite local television personalities and all CFCF 12 Mm Mm 1 1 ft It employees are fighting for their careers, their livelihoods and their love for Montreal, due to a serious threat imposed by an unwanted intruder: CanWest Global Television. This company intends to sneak its way past normal CRTC requirements, and capture the Montreal English-speaking market and its advertising revenues by merely retransmitting a signal from its proposed Quebec City station. If Global is allowed to slip through the back door, it will mean: NO investment in our community. NO new job opportunities.

NO more local programming. NO more fund-raising or sponsoring. NO future for our young talent. NO more as we know it. JLhat is why we are calling on your support as someone who has grown with us these past 35 glorious years.

Help us nip this Global takeover in the bud. Do it for the magic candy on Magic Tom, Johnny Jellybeans squawk box, for Like Young Saturdays twisting the time away, the escape routes we've taken on Travel Travel with Don McGowan and Suzanne Desautels, and for the many familiar faces we've come to trust over the years on Pulse. Yes, do it for all the memories we share, but most of all, do it for those memories we want to continue building with you. i i "i 't fA I If Vy I I A 5 Ki fi I i I i J. 'l in 1 illtil 1 ii i i -irrn 1 nri iiffii fy.m i.