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TELEVISION C17 THEWINDSOR STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL29, 1982 ON-TV installing new decoders More Expos Channel 9 has been permission to carry are to protect. the gate on Detroit home games. Don Sharon, manager of program presentation and administration at Channel 9, said the station got permission to carry the games from Expos executive John Mcllale. The first broadcast to go opposite a Tiger telecast was last Saturday. There will be four more games in June, one each in July, August and September.

The next live telecast will be Cincinnati at Montreal May 29. given eight more live broadcasts of Montreal Expos games which were to be available in this area on a taped-delay basis only. The change now means baseball fans can see 1 8 live games plus another 1 2 on tape. The new games are ones which were being blacked out in the Windsor area because they conflicted with telecasts of Detroit Tigers away games. The 12 remaining blackouts TVRAEO TOM MCMAHON against pirates but it will not prevent it all together," he says.

THE NEW boxes aret primarily desinged to thwart pirates, but to provide better service, Wischman says. Along ith being able to offer different programming on each of the tiers, the new boxes also allow the subscriber to have the service on more than one television plus being able to connect external speakers. The conversion program will cost the company S3 million and is being carried out at a rate of 250 installations a day. Since Wischman has had little success preventing the sale of decoders in Windsor and since there is a proven market here, he is exploring the possibility of opening a decoder sales office in the city. We are again evaluating what we can do to go into business in Canada." he says.

Our firm of attorneys has just hired a person with FCC (U.S Federal Communications Commission) experience and he's evaluating it. Windsor and area ON-TV viewers could develop picture trouble by the end of the year thanks to the use of a second generation decoder now being installed by the Michigan pay-TV service. Wiiliam Wischman assistant general manager of ON-TV, says the Troy, Mich, company is changing its system to a more sophisticated converter which is used by subscribers to descramble pay-TV programming. THE NEW decoder will have five tiers which among other things will allow the company to offer pay per view-programs such as boxing matches. However, the conversion wont be finished in time to carry the Holmes-Cooney fight in June.

Because of the five-tier system the company will be able to use any one of five singals for transmission. Most decoders arc only able to descramble one signal. ON-TV has 61 ,000 subscribers who pay S22.50 a month for current movies, sporting events and entertainment specials, which are transmitted in a scrambled fashion from 8 p.m. on over (WXON) Channel 20. It has also been estimated that 10,000 or more households, including apartments on a master antenna, use decoders in the Windsor area.

Although Wischman calls them pirate boxes there seems to be no law to prevent their sale or use. Wischman, who has aggressively prosecuted those who pirate the signal in Michigan, says the new boxes will make it harder for non-subscribers, but not impossible, to receive ON-TV. It will assist us in the battle YVouk epic made a series LOS ANGELES (AP) The Winds of War, a 16-hour mini series based on Herman Wouks epic novel of the events leading to the Second World War, will be broadcast over a seven-day period next February, ABC television said Wednesday. Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Peter Graves and David Duke star in the series, which is produced and directed by Dan Curtis. Wouk rote the screenplay from his own novel.

Production on the $35-million mini series began aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach on Dec. 1, 1980, and was concluded last Dec. 8 in Port Hueneme, which doubled for Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1 94 1 that precipitated U.S. entry into the Second World War.

Mitchum stars as a U.S. naval officer who, along with his family experiences the events that led up to the war. File photo shows Led Zeppelin members including the deceased John Bonham (far right) Satanic messages heard on records Legislative pom rumor to be movie on tiia Dio! TORONTO Stephen Roth and Robert Lantos are planning alow-budget movie based on allegations that staff of Quebecs National Assembly used government premises to shoot pom videotapes. Incidentally, the allegations were incorrect, although video equipment was apparently borrowed for that purpose. GIANT 00 1 00 Solid Stata, Walnut Conaola Wt Tanner said the recording industry, musicians and other scientists who have studied the matter should be invited to testify.

The author of the bill, Assemblyman Phil Wyman, said backward messages on records, called backward masking, can manipulate our behavior without our knowledge or consent and turn us into disciples of the anti-Christ. He said scientists have known for some time about subliminal advertising, whereby messages that cannot be consciously perceived but are noticed only by the subconcious are flashed on movie or television screens. He said he introduced the bill when a constituent, Monika Wilfley, came to him complaining about backward messages on rock records. Wilfley, who described herself as a 20-y ear-old mother, said she saw a Christian television program that described Yarrolls research. She said she then went home and played some of her rock records backward with her finger and heard the satanic messages Yarroll described.

We threw away a lot of records and tapes and such," she said. It was really frustrating. Some of them were new." Yarroll, who has a research firm called Applied Potentials Institute, said the subconscious part of the brain can understand a backward message and store it as the truth. He said a man from the Church of Satan called him after the Jan. 14 television show, broadcast by Trinity Broadcasting of Santa Ana, and warned him not to pursue his research.

He said rock artists add the backward messages because "the Church of Satan and their followers have a pact, that if you perform certain things in your particular line of work, in return Satan will give you certain favors back." Yarroll said that in research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre in Denver, he found some of the backward phrases from rock records repeated in young peoples suicide notes. SACRAMLNTO. Calif. (AP) Members of the state legislatures consumer protection and toxic materials committee listened intently to a Led Zeppelin rock music tape played backward. Perceptible in the cacophony of the backward tape of Stairway to Heaven were mumbled words such as Heres to my sweet Satan" and I live for Satan.

William Yarroll of Aurora, who said he studies the brain, told members the subconscious mind can decipher the messages even when the record is played forward. Yarroll contended that the messages, placed there by rock stars in league with the Church of Satan, are accepted by the brain as fact. The committee skeptically recommended more study for a bilj to require warning labels on records with subliminal messages recorded backwards. Committee Chairman Sally-Tanner said the entire subject of subliminal messages is "exciting and interesting and should be considered at a hearing next the fall. TITANIC TOSHIBA 1 00 Solid Stata, 50-Month warranty $49995w.

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2020 features a segment on women who have waited until their 30s to become mothers. Channel 7 at 10 p.m. Radio Evening Newstalk with David Newman. A spokesman for the tobacco institute talks about smoking, 4-8 p.m., WXYZ-AM(1270). Kaleidoscope.

Ivory, Ebony and Stardust. The life, times and music of Louis Gottschalk, 7:15 p.m., WJR-AM (760). June Lowe Program. The evening edition of the astrology program, 7:30 p.m.,WCXI-AM(l 130). Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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Grant Lowe is another actor who holds down a job as well as an acting career. Each week day, the 32-year-old actor takes his seat at 5 a.m. behind the wheel of a taxi and for the next six hours, hustles for fares. Around 1 1 a.m., he shows up at the citys Lunchbox Theatre. for warmup before his noon-hour performance and by 1:30 p.m.

hes back on the road again with the meter ticking. Its a 12-hour work day," Lowe said. Sometimes the taxi pays more than the theatre job. Other times, its the other way around. But with a wife and two children to support, a second job is a necessity for an actor, especially in Calgary.

My rent increase in the past few years is equal to a weeks salary in the theatre." Apart from a handful of performers who move from show to show throughout the year, many professional actors and actresses in Canada arc forced to take extra jobs to subsidize their acting careers. Actress Linda Kupecek, who has branched out into a second career as a freelance journalist, calls holding an extra job "diversification as a survival skill." Kupccck said a second job has a demoralizing effect on some performers. Some people in more stable professions tend to think that if an actor is not currently under contract, he is no longer an actor. Taking a second job does not diminish talent or commitment. Its a fact uf survival." Ackroyd admits he found it difficult ut first to reconcile $65797 SENSATIONAL I NOW NON-OPTIONAL SERVICE POLICY $29.95 NEW-USED DEftlOS SAVE 10-50 PHONE TONITE DELIVERY TONITE TOSHIBA I KIM VK-250 6 HOUR VIDEO TAPES NOW ,99 16' 20" Color Port.

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