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I p.m. TTtr gygjjl Restaurant HjQ VD f1 Park TV TONIGHT Gazette television columnist Mike Boone picks the best of tonight's programs: Wonderful World of Disney (CBMT-6 at 5r. Tourist Trap. It Happened One Night (TV Ontario at 6): Classic won five Oscars. South Bank Show (Bravo at 6): Steven Bochca Biography at 7): John F.

Kennedy Jr. Tom Jones at 8): Epic mini-series begins. From the Earth to the Moon (The Movie Network at 8): 12 part chronicle of Apollo space program. Air Farce (Channel 6 at 8): 60-minutespeciaL Beaux Dimanches (CBFT-2 at 8): The career of Jean-Pierre Ferland. Telethon Jean Lapointe (CFJP-35 at 8): Fundraiser for detox centre.

Titanic: Untold Stories (Discovery at 8): Recollections. Rock Roll (MuchMusic at 8): 10-part series begins. Passionate Eye (Newsworld at 8): Legal prostitution in Australia. Grands Reportages du Point EVERY WEDN A Columns Internet and Good news for the uncabled CKMI has boosted power of its broadcast signal Montreal's not-so-new Global television station has finally become available to everyone in the city CKMI-46 has boosted the power of its broadcast signal from 4,850 watts to 33,000 watts. The increase, approved recently by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, should eliminate signal-reception problems that have plagued the Global station since it signed on in mid-September.

CKMI was readily available to cable subscribers at channel-position 3 on the Videotron grid. But some non-cable subscribers trying to get Global were getting reception that ranged from fair to awfuL This was particularly frustrating for viewers who were fans of popular American prime-time series such as Seinfeld and The X-Files that showed up on the new station because Global holds their national rights. Before Global got its Quebec license, these programs were purchased for local telecast by CFCF-12, a station that is readily available without cable. Loud were the lamentations from the wretchedly unca and stories about the Wo Id Wide the Web (Channel 2 at 9): Israel. The Patron Saint of Liars (WCAX- 3 at 9): Dana Delany stars.

Uht (SixzttU 1 Masterpiece Theatre (VPTV-33 at 9); Prime Suspect 5: Errors of 4V A- IT THE HEARTTHROB IN THE IRON MASK." DAVM ANSFN. KHWiWI fK 9 bled masses. Some suspected that they had been written off by the new Global station, which had callously calculated that its advertisers weren't interested in reaching people who can't afford cable subscriptions. Not so, Global said. The new station wanted to reach as many Montrealers as possible and, eventually, decided that a power increase was the only way to do it.

"We're still doing some field testing, mil- cor 1 CINEMA IMPERIAL LAST 2 DAYS MIKE BOONE TV RADIO i.Xlir.r 1 is but we're happy with initial results," said Patrick O'Hara, Global director of operations. "The signal has improved by a factor of 10." Global shares a transmitter site on Mount Royal with two other ultra-high frequency TV stations, Television Quatre Saisons flagship CFJP-35 and Tele-Quebec-17. CKMI engineer Mark Cavanagh says that part of the problem is viewers' confusion about UHF television signals. "People think that you can pick up UHF signals using the rabbit-ears antenna of a TV set," Cavanagh said. "That's not the way to do it." The engineer says UHF reception requires an 8-inch loop antenna.

Most new TV sets come supplied with one, and the loop is readily available at electronics stores for about $10. "With our power increase, anyone using the correct antenna should be able to get a perfect signal," Cavanagh said, adding the caveat that viewers living in the vicinity of the mountain may still experience some problems with CKMI-35, as they do with the TQS and Tele-Quebec signals. Cavanagh also suggested that in a pinch, viewers could use an 8-inch loop of coat hanger as a homemade UHF antenna. "That idea takes me back," O'Hara added. "I can remember my father trying to pick up TV signals from Pittsburgh by attaching steel wool to the tips of our rabbit ears." A UHF antenna won't help you pull in the two best pro I I ACADEMY AWARDfi 1 BE ST Pi" CTURE if 4 Till NOW PLAYINGI i I wwin oocoN I cwfuAs aufio I fpifi bofoN cm pi tt ooiow I I A1WAHH UCOBDlIRi 11 1 UStlU IPIlcil I Ctrl I Nirf-CUK I BR0SSAR0 t.rj UVtt (6all CHECK THEATRE DIRECTORIES FOR SHOWTIMES mm ijwjiui.

jujw im mi. 1 1 ii ii Iritis hottest since 'Basia Instinctlyr Ss( NNIViSAiY grams on tonight's TV schedule: Tom Jones and From the Earth to the Moon, both of which are on cable channels. Tom Jones, a three-part adaptation of Henry Fielding's ribald novel, begins at 8 on If you deem it impossible to top the 1963 Academy Award-winning Tom Jones directed by Tony Richardson (who also won an Oscar), adapted by John Osborne (he won one, too) and starring Albert Finney in the title role check out this Broadcasting Corporation co-production. Jtisi TRAVOLTA 9tU NEWTON-JOHN devilishly clever! A wild riieri fr Umwt mi tit fu istheword The Jones boy (played by hunkali-cious unknown MaxBeesley) romps through 18th-century England with petticoat-chasing exuberance, compiling a wench list that Bill Jones romps through 18th-century England with petticoat-chasing exuberance, compiling a wench list that Bill Clinton would envy. NOW PLAYING! CHECK THEATRE DIRECTORIES FOR LOCATIONS AND SHOWTIMES USrfl NGS or APR! to 9 IINIFO-RLM: BBS-Q111 MMMMM aRMUMAl HMLHH WFR.IOM NOW PLAYINUI I n.ECWf MAS QUUO" I CIHtPLEK OOlON 1 1 CIMtPLEX OOtM ObiON r.mfpii't ooeow-! iJlUSAlli (MKel.

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From the Earth to the Moon is a mammoth 12-hour chronicle of the Apollo space program. Tom Hanks (executive producer, plus director of one episode, writer of another and actor in the series' finale) brings fresh angles to a story that has been partially told in The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 and the miniseries based on James Michener's Space. Hanks didn't skimp. From the Earth to the Moon, produced for HBO and picked up by Canada's pay-TV movie channel, cost $65 million U.S. and features 100 major characters, 400 speaking roles and rooms full of high-tech toys.

So how do you watch both series? You can avoid the schedule conflict by either taping or catching a rerun. The Tom Jones debut is repeated tonight at midnight on Each Sunday episode of From the Earth to the Moon will air again the following Thursday on The Movie Network. Tom Jones begins tonight at 8 on From the Earth to the Moon begins at Son The Movie Network. Thu 3 00 9 40 ii 111 672-2229 5000 TasotwrMu Bivd 706 Si Camefine Si 5ih Floor 985-6730 MR NICE GUY (G) 1 MEET THE OEEOLES (G) 1235 3 00 5 00 TITANIC (G) 12004 00 600 MEET THE OEEOLES (Gt Sun-Tut Thu 12 30 2 30 7 00 12 30230 AMERICAN PERFEKT (13) 4 30 9 20 THE TANGO LESSON tG) 1220240500720945 TITANIC V.F. (G) 12 4 6 15 6 GREASE IGI 1 15 4 10 7 00 9 45 GREASE V.F.

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JOHN'S, Nfld. Kim Stockwood always hoped her debut album would go places, but even she didn't realize how far. The Newfoundland singer's debut album, Bonavista, is about to take off, literally, as it heads into orbit on the next space-shuttle mission. Canadian astronaut Dave Williams will be taking Bonavista and about 20 other recordings when he blasts off on the space shuttle Columbia on April 16. Stockwood said she was delighted by the news.

"We met on Canada AM about a year ago and we just hit it off. He ended up getting up and singing with me on one of the songs." Stockwood said she was invited to Florida to watch the shuttle launch, but had to decline because she's in the middle of recordings new album. But she will get a keepsake of her album's trip to the stars. "He said he's going to take it up and then he's just going to take some pictures of it for me." she said. "It'll definitely make thescrapbook." CP GENERAL ADMISSION SS 00 MATINEES S4.2S TUESDAY WCONE80AY 14 25 CHILDREN GOLDEN AGEJ4 25 HOMME AU MASQUE OE FER (Gl 122S 3 20 6 4S9S0 A.

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