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Entertainment The Vancouver Sun, Monday, December 23, 1996 C3 STATIONS from page CI A need to show city's changing face a fn irl tU1 is Whatever station chosen, Dobell In fact, 40 per cent of Vancouver's community. said, it must reflect the city's cultural and ethnic communities if it is to succeed: "Vancouver is an inclusive city, with a strong and vibrant production community. We have arguably one of the most successful, culturally diverse communities in Canada, and perhaps even the world. It's time we saw ourselves on our televisions, not people from thousands of miles away." MOSES ZNAIMER: populist style and a commitment to B.C.-based film much advertising money chasing too few stations, according to at least two ad agencies will mean advertisers will continue to buy air-time on KVOS, even with another station. Vancouver Island The Greater Victoria region is the fastest growing area in Canada outside of the Lower Mainland, yet is served by just one TV station CHEK-6.

Advocates for a second Vancouver Island TV station point out that the region is the only provincial capital in Canada without a local CBC-TV outlet (CBC regional director Donna Logan said last week that a CBC-Radio station for Victoria is still in the works, despite recent cutbacks at the public broadcaster). One of the five applicants, CanWest-Global, is proposing a second TV station for Vancouver Island, along the lines of Vancouver's U.TV but with more local, Island-based programming. The general health of Canadian broadcasting CRTC commissioners have to balance the needs of the region against the over-all broadcasting picture in Canada. With the steady erosion of Canada's public broadcaster, there is increased pressure on the commission to ensure that Canada's sole broad-based private network, CTV, remains healthy enough to survive a 500-channel universe in which special-, ization will be the rule. CanWest-Global had hoped to establish a second national privately-owned network with a TV station in Edmonton, joining existing stations in Vancouver and Central Canada, but were rejected in favor of a competing bid from Winnipeg-based Craig Broadcast Systems.

population is foreign born; the city now has more citizens of Asian origin alone than any major city in North America, about 20 per cent.) Last September, more than 100 Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island residents, community groups and industry professionals testified at CRTC public hearings in Vancouver. More than 10,000 written letters were filed in support of the various applicants. A petition on Vancouver Island raised more than 60,000 names and addresses in five weeks the equivalent of the total population of the city of Victoria and 12.5 per cent of Vancouver Island's population of 526,688. The petition was a true outpouring of public sentiment, according to Island resident John Ansell, who is supporting a bid by Can West-Global for a Victoria station. "I think it's fair to say the CRTC has never seen anything like this before," Ansell said.

Some of the intervenors, like chief Steven Point, argued passionately for the merits of one proposal over another (Point, noting that B.C's 197 First Nations have too often "been subjected to the power of the media, as opposed to being part of the process," endorsed the bid by Toronto's Baton Broadcasting a proposal, he said, that is both sensitive and committed to aboriginal concerns). Others, like Vancouver city manager Ken Dobell, speaking on behalf of city council, and Canadian Film and Television Production Association president Elizabeth McDonald, argued only for the need for another station. That station, they insist, must be oriented toward B.C.-based production and reflect community concerns. "It's a fundamentally important issue," Dobell said. "One of our councillors, Maggie Ip, said that when she switches on her TV set, she would like to see herself reflected on the TV screen not as a movie star but her reality, her dreams, her aspirations.

And not only her aspirations, but her neighbor's reality and aspirations as well." A new station, Dobell said, could be a catalyst for cultural and public activity, and have a major positive impact on the As it is, according to former planning-commission chair Alan Herbert, Vancouver's existing stations have not been up to the job of reflecting the rapidly changing face of the city. Herbert, who is endorsing a bid by CHUM-Citytv mogul Moses Znaimer, said that too often BCTV, U.TV and even CBUT seem remote and removed from the day-today life of the city. Znaimer's populist, street-theatre style of television and his commitment to B.C-based film and longform drama productions has won the support of a wide range of multicultural and arts organizations, as well as prominent artists, writers and public figures. Vancouver activist Blaine Culling, who chairs a downtown Vancouver re-vitalization committee and supports Znaimer's bid for a downtown-based, storefront studio, said the city has grown to the point where it desperately needs an eye that will accurately reflect what is happening at street level. "I've lived my entire life in Vancouver," Culling said.

"Vancouver is my city, my home, my family. And the city desperately needs another television station. When I told someone I was talking to the CRTC, they yawned and said they were getting a dish. We get all the other they said, Vhat do we need another station Well, that's precisely why we need another station. We need a voice our own voice." Hanson Lau, host of a CHMV radio Cantonese talk show since 1973, said Vancouver's conventional television stations have not met the challenge posed by the city's burgeoning Chinese-Canadian community.

Lau is supporting a bid by Winnipeg-based Craig Broadcast Systems that would see a nightly 6 p.m. newscast in Cantonese, followed by a 6:30 p.m. newscast in Punjabi, both with English tides. Lau said he was impressed by Craig's commitment to Chinese-language drama and entertainment programming; it is the first time, Lau said, that anyone in Vancouver mainstream television has reached out to the Chinese-speaking community, rather than the other way around. THE ISSUES CRTC commissioners, as they consider a licence for a fourth conventional, over-the-air TV station in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, are pondering: Regional vs.

national considerations Observers point out the need for a local, broadly-based TV station that will focus exclusively on B.C. issues and concerns. Some producers maintain, however, that access to a national audience is crucial to raise the kind of money needed to finance quality drama and bring B.C. stories to the rest of the country. The $1,500 cup of coffee B.C-based producers bemoan the lack of a local TV station that has the autonomy to authorize local production on its own.

Because most creative and financial decisions are made in Toronto, a meeting between a producer pitching a story idea and an executive with the resources to back that idea has come to be referred to as "the $1,500 cup of coffee" the cost of return airfare to Toronto. The CRTC is likely to insist that a new TV station have the authority to make financial and creative decisions in Vancouver. Multicultural diversity Vancouver's rapidly changing ethnic and multicultural mosaic is increasingly marginalized in the local television scene. The CRTC commissioners have to weigh the merits of two competing philosophies: a station with individual, community-based, specific-language programming scattered throughout the day (a program in Cantonese, for example, followed by programs in Mandarin, Italian, Punjabi, Korean, as proposed by Rogers; or a more generalized station, as proposed by Craig, featuring a 6 p.m. newscast in Cantonese, a 6:30 p.m.

newscast in Punjabi (both with English subtitles), and non-specific language ethnic programming throughout the day. Repatriating Canadian dollars CRTC commissioners hope licensing a fourth B.C-based TV station will "repatriate" Canadian advertising dollars that are presently going to an American station, KVOS TV-12 in Bellingham. Many observers believe KVOS is here to stay, however. They believe that Vancouver's tight market too irrnTr mm Purchase Movit Tickets up to 7 Days in Advance! Call (604)434-2463 ro DctailsI SHOWTbMES FOR MONDAY, PCCHWIBBB TO THURSDAY, PECEMBHI ZB -ViTT7-Tni-ir. CEHanng NOW PLAYING! ENGLISH PATIENT: Mon Tues: 1 00.

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