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9U rrr 30 The Windsor Star Saturday, November 17. 1979 STS CUT TVRadio By Tom McMahon n1! nryiTyr if vyy 1 BINGOS PAGE 16 Its a first-run freebie FROM THE MAGICAL WORLD OF SID AND MARTY KROFFT THE FAMILY MUSICAL SPECTACULAR OF THE YEAR admittance ESTRICTEO A BARRY AND FRAN WEISSLER PRODUCTION NOV. 20-25 to HtsoNS 1 TtAtS Of AGE ovtt Parents Theatre Guide The Ontario Ministry of Consumer and (onim.rdal Relations, Theatres Branch, lists three classifications by which anhibitats may mdicata to lha public lha nature al a motion picture. These classifications ora cornel) in newspaper advertisements or in the fronts at the thaatros. The classifications are: Restricted means that no one under the age at ID years will be admitted.

Adult Entertainment means that tho film is suggested lor odults only but ell ages may be admitted. General or unclassified Category means ell ages may be admitted "Its (the code) been broken," said Rod Deline of the electronics firm of C.M. Peterson on Glengarry Avenue. Deline said the three integrated circuits required to build thedecoder cost about $58. There have been a number of inquiries for the parts and Deline knows of at least 15 persons who have bought the required circuits.

Deline said the knowledge of how a television works is the biggest asset, in building a decoder. He said he has worked it out on paper but hasn't built one himself. However, there is a catch if you want to make your own descrambler. Deline will sell you the required parts but you will have to know what to ask for. If someone asks for a it for Channel 20 1 wont give it to them, he said.

Electronic firms in Detroit also report an active business selling the needed descrambler components. Apparently the job is fairly simple for someone with a background in electronics but at least one Detroit area resident got in over his head. He blew up his television when he hooked up his descrambler. Pat Kerich, general manager of ON TV, said he constantly hears rumors of persons building decoders but he doesnt think many are doing it. "What the citizen does in the privacy of his home we have no control over, he said.

But if someone begins to produce the descrambler for re-sale Kerich said the company would go after them to the fullest extent of the law." The signals are protected under a privacy Although the first pay television licences in Canada wont be issued before the end of 1980, some resourceful Windsor residents are tuning in free first-run movies carried on Channel 20 by a Detroit pay-TV company. The movies they are "pirating" come from ON TV, the pay-TV service which began operation July 1 in Michigans Oakland County. In Michigan ON TV costs S22.50 a month, $49.95 for installation plus a $50 deposit for approximately 40 hours a week of first-run movies, sports events and special entertainment presentations like Barry Manilow in concert. The signal is available to anyone who can receive Detroit station WXON (Channel 20), but it is scrambled in transmission and a descrambler, which the company installs with the purchase of the service, is necessary to make viewing possible. onight subscribers and persons with homemade descramblers will be able to tune in the film Who Will Stop the Rain with Nick Nolte at 8 p.m.

and The Big Fix, with Richard Drey-fuss, at 10:15 p.m. Channel 20 carries a regular schedule until 8 p.m. when the air space is turned over to pay-TV. ON TV, which is now city-wide in Detroit, is not available in Windsor because of the Canadian governments opposition to U.S. pay TV.

However two city electronic firms plus an electronic specialist confirm that individuals are building their own "black boxes in an effort to decode the scrambled pay-TV signal. section of the U.S. Communications Acts, which allows for fines of up $10,000 for violations. But things are not as clear when it comes to the Canadian jurisdiction. Kerich admitted he doesnt know the Canadian law, but in one case involving a number of Buffalo stations the Canadian Federal Court ruled the stations have no ownerhsip of their signals in Canadian airspace.

However Kerich said the existence of descramblers doesnt seem to be hurting business. ON TV now has 20,000 subscribers and is signing up new customers at the rate of 1,000 a week. Kerich said the company shouldnt have any trouble reaching its first-year goal of 50,000 subscribers and should have between 200,000 and 300,000 subscribers within four years. Although Kerich couldnt give a figure for the number of inquires he has had from the Windsor area he called them substantial. "We continue to have plenty of them (inquiries).

Wed love to do Canada, but we're going to co-operate with the Canadian government, he said. Meanwhile David MacDonald, Canadian federal communications minister, has said he hopes the first pay TV licences could be issued by the fall of 1980. Contacted in Ottawa, MacDonald was asked if the Detroit system will be available to Windsor viewers once pay-TV becomes a reality in Canada. MacDonald said that idea would appear to fly in the face of every statement thats ever been made about Canadian broadcasting." ADULT TICKETS Frl i Sat Evas: $12.50 11.50 10 50 8 50 6.50 All Others: $10.50 9 50 8 50 6 50 4 50 Tues-Sat Eves at 8 pm Sun Eve at 6:30 MATINEES: Nov 22 NoonNov 23 24 1 1 am, 2 pm Nov 25 2 pm DISCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER! MUSIC IiaII center Box Office 963-7680 Group rates: 963-7622 Tickets tor Tues, Wed, Sun Eves Sat, Sun Mats on sale Nov. 12.

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SF A JOHNSON fr By Peter J. Boyer LOS ANGELES AP) The subject matter of two TV shows planned by NBC seems noteworthy, perhaps even telling. Momma, a pilot starring Esther Rolle, is about a housemaid with an abiding passion for murder mysteries. Allison Sydney Harrison is about a 14-year-old, daughter of a high-priced detective, who has an insatiable curiosity and a terrific nose for trouble. And, no doubt, an abiding passion for mysteries.

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