The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 51

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1989 ArtsEntertainment Drama unfolds as four firms go after new Ottawa TV licence CanWest Ltd Owned by Izzy By Tony Atherton -Citizen staff writer Bob Redmond, owner of easy-listening station CJEZ in Toronto, has teamed up with Ottawa's Pierre Nadeau to propose a station aimed at 35 to 54-year-olds. In addition to music, the station proposes public affairs programming with an arts and culture emphasis. Start-up costs wilT.be slightly over $1 million and the station will employ over 30. Standard Broadcasting The Toronto-based chain is looking for an FM station to marry to its local AM station, 54 Rock (CJSB). Working out of the same building, the station would employ an additional 20 people.

Rawlco Communications The western-based chain already owns AM station Energy 1200 (CFGO). It plans to launch its new station out of the same headquarters. Robert K. Whyte One of the founders of the Canadian Home Shopping Network, Whyte proposes a station that would cost nearly $3 million to get started. station also proposes a five-hour block of multi-lingual ethnic programming on Sundays.

Mid-Canada Communications The chain, which owns Pembroke's CHRO as well as TV, radio, and cable interests in Northern Ontario, is currently for sale. That may yet affect its application which, in many ways, is the most ambitious of the lot The company plans to spend $17.3 million to launch the station and would create 126 jobs. Its schedule includes 46 hours of local programming per week at a cost of $44.6 million over five years. More than a third of that would go to local independent producers for prime-time programming. One proposal is Ottawa Presents, a prime-time showcase of independent features including pilots for series development News would be half-hour bites four times daily at 7:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 6 p.m.

and 11 p.m.. ming, inspired by some college courses and produced by students. There are also plans for a 13-week local variety series and a sports show with former national men's basketball coach Jack Donahue. CapitalCITY-TV The application from Toronto's CITY-TV is the smallest of the group. CITY founder Moses Znaimer says he wants to provide an alternative to major stations such as CJOH.

CITY proposes spending $10 million to start up a downtown, storefront operation which would, like its Toronto station, eschew studios. The station expects to employ 105. It would spend $23.5 million over five years on Canadian programming of which $20 million would be local an average 18.5 hours a week. The bulk of the local programming would be news, 10 hours a week, with a half-hour newscast at 5 p.m., an hour at 7 p.m. and a half-hour at 10.

The applicants are proposing: Television Metro Broadcasting Created by local broadcasting executives but controlled by Montreal's Lavalin Metro plans to spend a minimum $16 million to start up its new station. Metro promises to broadcast 37 hours of local programming weekly, at a cost of $28 million over the five years of its licence. The proposal includes hiring 140 employees. Local programming includes an hour-long weekday newscast beginning at 5:30 p.m.; prime-time multicultural and seniors programming; and a weekly prime-time mix of programming, including a hot-seat public affairs show, music specials and amateur theatre productions. Metro has also negotiated with Algonquin College to provide a major block of morning program Asper, the Winnipeg businessman involved in a court battle for control of Global TV, CanWest proposes to spend $13.7 million launching a station that would employ 130.

The station would spend $32.5 million over five years to produce 41.5 hours of local programming weekly. The station's primary innovation is a local hour-long newscast beginning at 7 p.m. There would also be an half-hour of news at 11 p.m. which would repeat at 7 the next morning. Proposed programming includes a live Sunday evening public affairs show which would be shared with CanWest's other stations in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon.

There are also plans for a chain-wide anthology drama series, and a weekly business program. Radio Redmond Communications H'Four broadcasting companies are promising to spend tens of -millions of dollars in a fierce Ciompetition to obtain a new Otta-wa TV licence. Local drama series, innovative approaches to news, and committments to local independent producers are being proposed in ap- plications made public Friday. --The applicants will present Z- their cases before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) at a hearing beginning June 27. In a separate round, the CRTC will also consider applications from four companies seeking a new Ottawa FM radio licence, as well as requests from Ottawa "University's CFUO for a commu- nity FM licence, and from CBC to switch its two local AM stations, CBO and CBOF, to the FM band.

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