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wMfeiii.jWMiay)i -iwwvs. A WitM(fc a cy 5 'Vp a .1 OCTOBER SPECIALS FREE Sweater Service Bring in 3 sweaters the 4th is laundered FREE! idfc. s- 4 A a I A I- 1 i U' I Discounts on all School Uniforms st. V-Jy COLUMNSFEATURES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1992 FI Canada in Question 99 Seasoned anchors poised to cover historic moment IN CONCERT The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Concert Band, not to be confused with the law enforcement agencys musical ride, will perform Monday at 8 m. at the Cleary International Centre.

The goodwill organization performs across the country constantly, up to 300 concerts a year, most of which are charity or community service projects. The band will also play during the afternoon for students. Tickets for the evening performance are $6 50, available at the Cleary, Long McQuade music store, Windsor Credit Bureau or by calling 255-6615. The event is a fundraiser for the local Cnmestoppers program. FLOWERS: HOW TO The volunteer committee of the Art Gallery of Windsor presents The Art of Flowers, a seminar on arranging, with demonstrations, lunch and a hands-on workshop on Nov.

2 starting at 10 a.m. Instructors include Margaret Gillis and Linda Roeckelein. Gillis, of Grosse Pointe, is a member of the Garden Club of America and has been in charge of flower arranging at the Detroit Institute of Arts and at Christ Church in Grosse Pointe. Her daughter, Roeckelein, lives in Washington, where she is involved with the National Cathedrals flower arranging, as well as having displays at the Smithsonian and various embassies. Tickets, which vary in price depending on how involved youd like to be, are available at the gallery gift shop.

Call the volunteer office at 977-9610 for details. ON STAGE A new subscription senes announced by the George Burns Theatre in Livonia, includes music comedy and drama, with appearances by many well-known names of TV and stage, past and present. Lauren Bacall and Richard Kiley star in Love Letters, Nov. 17-22. Comics Dennis Miller and Rita Rudner perform Dec.

4 for two shows. Magician Harry Blackstone is there Dec. 11-13. Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca are Together Again, Dec. 31-Jan.

3. The music of Kander Ebb is featured in The World Goes Around, Jan. 5-10. Michael Fein-stein and Rosemary Clooney are in Say It With Music, Jan. 19-24.

Julie Harris stars in Lettice Lovage, Jan. 26-31. Mario Thomas is in Six Degrees of Separation, Feb. 3-14; Don Knotts and Barbara Eden are Last of the Red Hot Lovers, March 12-21. Anthony Quinn brings The Many Faces of Man in April, dates to be announced.

Call Windsor 792-2222. THIS CTV team will cover the referendum: From left, Thalia Assuras, Lloyd Robertson, Keith Morrison, Pamela Wallin and Eric Mailing. Lloyd Robertson feels weight of responsibility Stories by Ted Shaw Star Television Writer have a successful career as an anchor, no journalism experience required, Postman and Powers write. But the problem is that it is almost impossible for the viewer to figure out which anchor knows his stuff and whos faking it. A good anchor is a good actor (who) can convince you that you are seeing the real thing a concerned, solid journalist." THAT MAY be true of many of the anchors Postman and Powers are referring to in local TV markets in the U.S.

certainly there are prime examples on Detroit television. But Robertson and Peter Kent, who is profiled in the accompanying article, are exceptions to the norm: They put their experience on the line whenever the camera lights are fired up. Recently, Robertson won two prestigious broadcasting awards the 1992 Gemini as best anchor-interviewer and the Broadcaster of the Year Award from the Central Canadian Broadcasters Association. He has been named the most trusted TV journalist five times in TV Guides annual readers poll. He has anchored eight Olympic Games, dozens of federal and provincial elections, a handful of royal wedding and state funerals, several Parliamentary openings, and CTV's coverage of the Gulf War.

His next assignment is co-anchoring CTVs coverage of the Referendum vote Monday evening. His co-anchors that night will include Pamela Wallin (who recently announced she was defecting to join CBCs Peter Mansbridge on the new Prime Time News), Keith Morrison, Eric Mailing, and Thalia Assuras. When the major news events of our generation happened, you can bet Robertson was there to tell us about them. As CTVs chief anchor and senior news editor, he partici pates in all behind-the-scenes discussions about what will be covered and how. Ive been around a while, Robertson, 58, conceded, but dont get me started on that.

The Stratford native began his broadcasting career at CJCS Radio in his home town in 1951. After a brief stay at a Guelph radio station, Robertson joined CBC Radio as a staff announcer in 1954, first at CBE in Windsor, then in Winnipeg and Ottawa. From 1962 to 1970, he anchored CBC-TVs Weekend News in Toronto, then took over as anchor of The National, 1970-76. IN 1976, he joined CTV, first as co-anchor of CTV National News with Harvey Kirck, then as the sole anchor and senior editor from 1983 on. Robertson is the first to admit that he has been around long enough to become a habit with Canadian viewers.

Its even a source of comfort in the face of increasing competition. "Its interesting that the all-news channels havent caught on on a daily basis the way the national newscasts did years ago," he said. That has something to do, I believe, with people's habits. That is, they will continue to want to watch, in the U.S., (Pet-, er) Jennings or, in Canada, (Peter) Mansbridge or Robertson, or whatever their favorite is. News seems to be a habit in that respect.

The all-news channels, while they draw huge audiences for things like the Gulf War, have found their audiences even tend to drop off after coverage like that to levels lower than they were originally. People go back to the traditional news times because they know what theyll get and they know who the people are. There is a comfort factor there. See ROBERTSON, F4 VERY weeknight, more than a million Canadians tune into Lloyd Robertson on CTVs National News for the last word on the days events. Its a responsibility Robertson accepts and respects.

I dont want to sound pompous, said the vet-eran newsman whose voice has the timbre of authority even over a telephone, but I do feel that responsibility. You try to make sure things are correct, to make sure that what youre doing is accurate. He quoted the American newspaper commentator, Walter Lippmann, saying, You try to be concerned about reportable truth. After 22 years with CBC and 16 at CTV, mostly as a news anchor, Robertson is Canada's most watched and trusted source of news and information. He was even lampooned by SCTVs Joe Flaherty as Floyd Robertson, the businesslike counterpart to Eugene Levys buffoon, Earl Camembert.

THE IMAGE of the know-nothing talking head prevails among critics of the television medium. In a recent book, How To Watch TV News, by Neil Postman and Steve Powers, the anchor is dismissed as a poseur. If you can read news convincingly on television, you can Peter Kent attributes return to referendum WINNING SINGERS Local winners of the recent YTV-sponsored Vocal Spotlight, held at the Devonshire Mall, are: Kortney Marie Galernu, 13, and Tamia Washington, 17. Galernu won in the 10-14 age category, while Washington won in the 15-18 group. They each received a Yamaha keyboard, a YTV tour jacket and the opportunity to have their performances included on the cable networks Rock Talk program.

Celebrity judges Sue Medley, MiLsou, Glass Tiger and Love Sas will view videotapes of winning performers from across the country for the national finals to be staged Dec. 31 at the West Edmonton Mall and broadcast on YTV (cable 28). CANCELLED The touring version of A Christmas Carol, featuring Jack Palance and scheduled for Dec. 1-6 at the Fisher Theatre, has been cancelled. JOINING FORCES A partnership between the Motown Museum in Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is in the works, with plans for a Motown exhibit at the Ford msueum in 1995 and hopes that the West Grand Boulevard Hitsville building will eventually be expanded.

Henry Ford president Harold Skram-stad plans a $750,000 exhibit at his museum, a display that would be donated to Motown after a run in Dearborn. ITS A DATE Jazz artists Hiroshima with George Howard and Bobby Caldwell are at the Fox Theatre on Oct. 30. Freddie Jackson, Najee and M. Morgan Macio are at the Fox on Oct.

31. Warrant, Lynch Mob and Tora Tora are at the Fox Nov. 3. Canadian heroes Blue Rodeo are the Majestic with Lucinda Williams on Nov. 7.

Guitarist Pat Metheny is at the Fox on Nov. 10. Paul Weller, ex-Jam and Style Council, is at the Majestic on Nov. 14. Comedian George Carlin appears at the Fox on Nov.

19, followed on Nov. 20 by A1 Jarreau and Joe Sample. Johnny Mathis is at the Fox Nov. 23-25. Kiss, Great White and Trixter are at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Nov.

27. Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is at the Ritz on Nov. 28. Billy Ray Cyrus and DeAn-na Cox are at the Palace on Jan. 30.

Compiled by Owen Jones i -f A IN THE SPIRIT of democracy, Peter Kents family voted on where they wanted to -live. His wife, Cilia, and 10-year-old daughter, Trilby, had an equal say on where his next career move would be. We sort of took a vote and my family didn't want to live in Los Angeles or Atlanta," said Kent, 49, who has returned to Canada after an eight-year absence to take over as anchor of Global-TVs evening and late news. They didnt really like the idea of Washington or New York, and Europe wasnt practical. So we all decided Toronto was it." IN ADDITION to anchoring Global News (Channel 22, cable 3) with former Newsworld anchor, Jane Gilbert, Kent and Gilbert will be Globals coverage team on Referendum night.

The much-travelled Kent is the elder brother of Norma Kent, formerly of Windsors CBET-Chan-nel 9, and Arthur Kent, the infamous Scud Stud who reported for NBC during the Gulf War. He was also one of the first of Canada's most prominent news peonle to migrate south to big bucks and exposure on American networks. Kent, the son of a journalist, left Canada originally in 1979 to join NBC as its South African correspondent. He also met his wife there. From 1981 to 1984, he was back in Canada as senior correspondent and anchor of CBCs new current affairs show, The Journal.

IN 1984, he left the country again and became NBCs Central America reporter based in Miami. In 1986 and '87 he was based in New York as a senior reporter and producer. From 1987 to 1990, Kent served as NBCs senior European correspondent based in London, where he filed stories on major events like wars in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Africa, and regularly reported from Moscow. For the last two years, until April of this year, Kent was based in Boston with World Monitor, the television arm of the Christian Science Monitor. The program Included news features from various international TV networks and could be seen weekly in Canada on CBC Newsworld.

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