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D6 TIII'VANQUATUSIX SAI'rUDAV, U'NI- 2. 2001 MIX Tasty trio Noon-hour concert a treat THE VANCOUVER PIANO TRIO Out for Lunch Friday, Vancouver Art Gallery and Telecommunications Commission CKVU will become the new 'VU, Vancouver's answer to Citytv. These changes will be reflected on the cable dial. While details are still being negotiated with Shaw Cablesys-tems, some facts are certain. Government regulation reaulres cable companies to make channels 2 through 13 available to local broadcasters, which means the New VI will probably air on channel 10, bumping K0M0-ABC higher up the dial the way VTV bumped KCTS-PBS to channel 27 when the then-new station was awarded channel 9.

FALL SEASONINGS Sept. 1 Is an auspicious date, for that Is the day CTV programming will revert to VTV from BCTV and CHEK, and Global programs now seen on CKVU will switch to BCTV and CHEK. As of Sept. 1, BCTV and CHEK become the official Global affiliates In Vancouver, Victoria and the Lower Mainland, while VTV will become the official affiliate for CTV. CBC will remain as Is, and pending approval from the Canadian Radio-television By LLOYD DYKK In) 1)5 a long time coming.

"For the longest time, it was just me and my camera," Mulligan said, reached in Hawaii where he was covering the opening of Pearl Harbor for Bravol "My life will be turned completely upside down by this, and if we do our job well it will shake up the local TV scene as well." Veteran media analyst David Stanger, president of Vancouver-based David Stanger Associates, predicts the new station will make its presence felt. "I suspect their real identity won't be revealed until January because there's no physical way for them to get up and running in that time. Good things are going to come, but it's not going to be an overnight flick of the switch." Stanger suggested some broadcasters Craig and CTV among them may try to file interventions with the CRTC which, while they would not affect any long-term decision the CRTC has already decided to make would slow the process. One of CIIUM's key selling points to the CRTC was the so-called "repatriation" of almost $25 million in ad revenue from Bellingham, KVOS-TV, an American TV station that broadcasts primarily to the Lower Mainland and sells ad time to Vancouver agencies. KVOS buys the local programming rights for many of its top-rated programs from CHUM, including Star Trek: Voyager and Seinfeld reruns.

Now that it is close to owning its own station in Vancouver, CHUM hopes to claw back those rights when its programming contract with KVOS expires Aug. 31. Stanger said an early draft of the New VI fall schedule shows a station that combines KVOS programs like Relic Hunter and VJ.P. with Citytv staples like Ed the Sock! and a Vancouver Island-themcd Speaker's Corner. There will be three nights a week of movies, as opposed to Citytv's seven.

While this may not sound as glamourous as new episodes of Friends or Will Grace, Stanger said it is a shrewd and profitable business model. Programs like Bujjy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek: Enterprise the new Star Trek spinoff are less expensive to buy than shows like ER and The West Wing. More importantly, shows like VIP. and Buffy target. 18- to 49-year-olds, which makes the New VI more appealing to advertisers than, say, CBC-TV, which Stanger says gets similar numbers to mm It's called Out for Lunch but it's music that's on the menu.

Now in its 16th season of running noon-hour concerts in a third-floor room of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the series presented the Vancouver Piano Trio, a group of about two years' standing: violinist Carolyn Canfield-Cole, cellist I leather Hay and pianist Kenneth Broadway. The series has proven successful, being varied in content and accessible for downtowners. It seems rarely a problem drawing the 100 or so people that the room can hold and which made Friday's concert real chamber music that is, music in a chamber rather than a theatre. The acoustics aren't bad, if a little bright. The trio's program of Haydn, Dvorak and Brahms went over like free lunch for the early-arriving audience, especially one hyper-enthusiastic man who sat alarmingly close to the musicians and seemed on the verge of breaking out into a clog-dance.

Part of the appeal of the series is the proximity of musicians and audience. The group played the most popular of Haydn's 40-plus trios, the 25th, famous for its jaunty imitation of Hungarian dance music in the last movement. Their playing was spirited, nicely balanced and accented, with some especially songful violin work in the slow movement. Brahms' Trio in Op. 87 sailed away full-toned on broad romantic melodies, Broadway never swamping the strings despite the piano lid being up at full-stick.

The fleet, shadowed scherzo movement, terrifically hard to pull off with its rapid light scamper of unison sixteenths, was very deft, followed by a jocose finale. Only a few times was there a sense of strain to the violin's tone. My own leaning was the Slavic plangency of Dvorak's rarely played four Romantic Pieces, written for amateurs but appealing to the connoisseur in anyone, especially the halting dance of the larghetto. They were written for violin and piano but Canfield-Cole's father added a cello in a nice arrangement that deals the tunes out more generously. After an appealing performance, the violinist realized she'd forgotten to credit her father, Charles Canfield, and went into the audience and gave him a kiss.

Vancouver Sun Classical Music Critic ldykkpacpress.southam.ca KVOS in the Vancouver area but skews much older, toward i year-olds and older. For his part, Switzer is well aware that the audience for conventional television is shrinking. Still, he is philosophical. CHUM is in a better position than some because the company also owns a brace of specialty channels, like MuchMoreMusic, Space: The Imagination Station and Canadian Learning Television. "Someone's loss is somebody else's gain," Switzer explained.

"If you're one of the big old conventional networks, you're worried. If you're one of the growing specialists in niche broadcasting, this is a very good time. I can live with a one- or two- per cent share of the audience as long as I have six or seven channels and networks and each one is reaching a different audience." Switzer believes that if the Citytv model is to thrive in the 200-channel universe, it must continue to provide a fresh, local voice. "As the president of CHUM Television I have some worries at night," Switzer conceded. "And part of that worry is how to keep the spirit of providing an alternative to the networks, when we grow and have this creeping problem of becoming part of the establishment which our whole spirit was designed to counter.

I'm determined to continue to choose our people carefully, and instil and cultivate and nurture them and give them the tools to do the job right locally. Not because it's better or worse, but because that's what makes us different and that's one of our unique competitive advantages. And we do it very well If you go to any of our stations, anywhere across the country, people will tell you the things we don't do well. We're not good at all things. But the things we're proud of, we want to be the best at." 9 I 1, CUV vW7KiIiimniK crass.

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