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B12 TH VAMiKAH SIX WTDNFSIHY. KK)J243IHI ENTERTAINMENT. fieri E3tgb, NOSFERATU Early Vancouver extended market area CKVU takes biggest ratings hit Wednesday. Oct. 31.

2O01 ORPHEUM THEATRE (Source Bureau of Broadcast Mea surement) Station. Program. Average aurJ- ercefKHnrute, Status AdutslS (Septetnber-OctDcer) MtjtTahg The erigifl Docatt TNs Stent Hra classic reri to Iral and scariest dm apeearanc of most tamota nmpt if al. scared! Joa tor ta er specs Halomeen cetebratna. kosktntu art tic tuf svmptionj erchesfra! Global BC, BCTV Morning News.

29,940 (530-9amL Up (differert length) Aan Anderson, conductor BC CTV. CTV Breakfast. 6,810 Down (efferent length) It's Halloween, 10 comt costumet wmmm PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN OUT FOR THE BEST COSTUMES! Tickets $20 $25 Single tickets available at al as outlets of bu online at mm kcketmaster ca tor GROUP SALES information call 604.684.9100 aMCOHVfl 5WHONY vancouversyrnphony.ca NOOIE 61240, Up CH victoria, CH News at Noon. 12,080. Up Late afternoon: Global BC.

BCTV Early News, 99,620. Up Global BC, Global National, 33,490 Up (from Canada CH Victoria, Down (different length) BC CTV, CTV News at 5, 22350 Lrp (different length) CMThe New VI, VI Land News, 5,500, New Supper hour Global BC, BCTV News Hour, 197450, Up BC CTV, CTV News at 6, 42,910, Up CH News at 6, 44,450, Down (different length) CBC, Canada Now, 34,470, Down CBC. Canada Now B.C 37,640, Up CKVUckvu 13, Wen's at 6, 31,630, Down Evening: CBC, 7he National, 92,940, Up Late right (11 pm): Global BC, BCTV News Hour Final, L(UIUtj IEs promotional campaigns, with new graphics and a new look and in the case of BC CTV, new anchors." Froehlich said. "There's a lot of buzz and excitement around that, whereas we've stayed the same steady course. All of those things, when you add them up, hurt us.

There's no doubt about it But this isn't over yet Once CHUM comes in here, we can start putting a game plan together." Froehlich said that while his newscast's over-all audience is down, it is reaching a younger audience than its competitors, in keeping with CHUM's philosophy to appeal to the young, hip, urban viewer. "We're definitely going after the younger audience," Froehlich said. "Let Global and CTV duke it out for the older audience." For his part. Hurst is only too happy to cater to a more mature, upscale audience. While many stations, as well as media buyers and advertisers, covet the 18- to 49-year-old audience demographic.

Hurst makes no secret of his desire to tailor BC CTVs newscasts to 25- to 54-year-olds. At a Vancouver public forum last week on local news, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Journalists and the University of B.Cs School of Journalism, Hurst noted that many young people don't watch TV news. It's only when they marry, have children, take on mortgages and wrestle with important responsibilities like schooling, health care, job security and planning for retirement that they become actively interested in their community and the world around them, Hurst said. While Hurst is elated at vaulting to second place from fourth, he is quick to note that BC CTV faces an uphill climb if it is to knock Global BC and BCTV News Hour off its perch. Watching TV news is a habit, Hurst told journalism students Most viewers have to be given a reason not to watch before they sample the competition.

Hurst sees the battle for first place as a war of attrition that may take up to five years before any definitive conclusion is reached. For his part, Froehlich isn't throwing in the towel just yet "We're not going to just sit here and watch the numbers go away," he said. "We're obviously going to combat that" And don't look for former B.C. premier Glen Clark to become CKVUs new 6 p.m. anchor, as Sihota did at The New VL, when CHUM relaunches CKVU in a new image.

"No, no, no," Froehlich said. "Absolutely not very happy with the anchors we have." Sun Television Critic astrachanpacpresssouthaTTLca From B9 BC CTVs supper4iour newscast audience has more than doubled from the same period Last year; to 43,000 viewers from 19,000. The gains have come at the expense of CKVU. which is down to 32,000 from 67,000. The first half hour of CBCs Canada Now, which focuses on national and international news, is also down, to 33,000 from 37,000.

The second half hour, the more local-oriented Canada Now B.C, hosted by former Broadcast One anchor Gloria Macarenko, is up slightly, to 38,000 viewers from 35,000. The New VTs VI Land News, co-hosted by Sihota, is a non-factor, with just 5,500 viewers. Most local media analysts predicted that any audience gains for CTV and The New VI would come at the expense of established front-runner Global BC Instead, Global's BCTV News Hour has actually gained audience. It averages 197,000 viewers in any given minute, up from 192,000 a year ago. If any newscast has suffered, it is CKVU's.

Ironically, news insiders and media buyers alike say that has little to do with the relative quality of CKVU's newscast. Instead, they say, it has to do with the popularity of the program in front of it, or "lead-in" in industry parlance. Prior to Sept 1, the lead-in for CKVU's supper-hour newscast was the popular soap opera The Young and the Restless. BBM's electronic audience-measurement devices, called people meters, showed that most of the viewers who watched The Young and the Restless at 5 p.m. stayed to watch CKVU's news at 6 p.m.

Now CKVU's supper-hour newscast is preceded by reruns of Spin City and Seinfeld. CKVU news executive producer George Froehlich said that while he is concerned at CKVU's performance of late, he is not alarmed. CKVU's sale to Toronto-based CHUM Ltd, owners of Toronto's Citytv and The New VI in Victoria, was approved last week by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. CKVU, recently rebranded as ckvu 13, will undergo another facelift in the next several months as CHUM puts its imprint on the station. Russ Froese and Jennifer Mather will stay on anchors.

Mather, originally wooed from BCTV, recently signed a two-year extension to her contract "The other stations all launched major 5fM PHONY I til A TELUS PREMIERE SERIES Friday Oct 26, 2001 8pm Saturday Oct 27, 2001 8pm Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Paul McCreesh, conductor Linda Maguire, mezzo-soprano "What an actress, what a moving one thought of Maria Callas!" Monde, Paris I SMSMEOI (first half hour) 76,380, New BC CTV, CTV News (national), 70,310, Down TELUS" CBC, The National Update, 40,300, Up CMThe New VI, VI land News at IX 5,430, New Conductor Paul McCreesh and brilliant mezzo-soprano Linda Maguire present an evening of beautiful arias and recitatives from Gluck's Orphee etEurydice and Handel's Rinaldo, in the sumptuous surroundings of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Also, hear exerpts from Handel's beloved Water Music. Late night (130 Global BC, BCTV News Hour Final, (second half hour), 41,570, Down BC CTV, CTV News at 11:30, Ill lit) fulfil I Call VSO Customer Service 604.876.3434 orTicketmaster 604.280.3311 outlets or buy online at www.ticketmaster.ca Tickets $32 to $42 ankx itargn apply Single tickets available at all for GROUP SALES information call 604.684.9100 38,930, New CKVUckvu 13, News at 11:30, 12,540, Down CH Victoria, CH News Final, 12,240, Up OFflCML HtMk AIR CANADA i OWQUWHOf am MexStrachan Show has developed presence in the Downtown Eastside Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble presents W. A. Mozart's From B9 "So we kind of come in around the edges, in the neighbourhoods where we can, like the Downtown Eastside, which has become a core of the show.

This Haddock is again entertaining overtures from the network in the U.S. Ironically, Da Vinci's very Canadian-ness may be hurting it in regard to that sale. year especially we've investigated industrial Vancouver, looked at that side of Vancouver you hardly ever see on TV. I think that by targetting, year to year, unusual areas around town that we mi wanted to explore, by just coming out on the street, getting the crew used to being on the street and working really hard to make sure the extras fit the scene, that over time, we have devel oped a cumulative exploration of the town. When you have a crew that's from here, they know the town, they know what looks in place and what's out of place.

They're not trying to guess what Chicago looks like." The central character of Dominic Da develop storylines that audiences seem i to respond to." And audiences are resrxmcling. Despite a move to Sunday nights, away from Wednesdays, where Da Vinci's Inquest had become a comfortable fit for CBC- TVs mid-week lineup, the series is thriv- fling with an average 155,000 viewers in the Jj; Vancouver and Victoria area, winning its time period handily against higher-pro-file, heavily promoted U.S. shows like Alias and Law Order Criminal Intent, i "We're in a field where, quite frankly, every new season a lot of new shows come with horns blaring, and they tend to fade away once people realize there's just a lot of flash. I think a lot of shows flounder after the first year of episodes when they realize that, we need some good writing here to sustain the show. I often see the first few episodes of a show that may have a strong premise, that shows promise.

But that promise is never realized. They just flounder, because the writing isn't there. A writing staff takes time to first of all gather, second of all organize, and of all be encouraged to stay. They have to feel rewarded." Haddock is again entertaining tures from the network in the which has considered adding Da Vinci's Inquest to its schedule in the past. Ironm ically, Da Vinci's very Canadian-ness may be hurting it in that regard; dock says is impressed with the show's quality, but has leaned more; toward English programming for imports in the past.

"Da Vinci's Inquest would make an excellent fit, but they've got a real Anglophile following. People there kind of look at Da Vinci and say, 'Is that American or what is that They told me today, 'If you had a British accent, we'd buy it in a Only in Canada, you say. Pity. Sun Television Critic astrachanpacpress.southam.ca Vinci has changed in subtle ways since the show's inception, Haddock says. He more aware of his aging and vul nerability.

He's become aware that he's no longer the young challenger, he's more the middle-aged challenger. He has to pick his opponents a little more care fully. He realizes he's hit the glass ceiling in his occupation. I think he's looking around more, trying to judge where that's not true of a lot of actors. They have a certain number of tricks in their bag.

They may not be aware of them, but they're always there. And they start to reemerge after a while. "He's also willing to portray himself unflatteringly. I'm not just talking about physically, where he's happy to look ragged, with a bedhead, which a lot of actors would recoil in horror from. He's also willing to portray a character whose unflattering, who sometimes can be mean-spirited and small-minded.

That's a real blessing for writers, because there are actors out there who would never do this, who would never show their character being unheroic." Da Vinci's Inquest has changed in sub-tle ways behind the scenes as well. While it has managed to keep its core ensemble of actors Campbell, Terzo, Donnelly Rhodes, Ian Tracey, Sarah Strange a shorthand has evolved to the point where cast and key crew members are unafraid to take chances and push the proverbial creative envelope. "It's a gradual and subtle process, that just comes with time," Haddock says. "The actors need to time to get to know how to work with each other as an ensemble. And that has allowed me, as a producer, to write to the actors' strengths and characters' strengths and Two Performances! Saturday, October 27, 2:00 P.M.

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