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the STAIt-PIIOENIX Saskatoon, Saturday, February 13, 1971 1 I CBC producing 21 hours TV list on Games Live hockey action March 10 and March 17 casualties on the CFQC-TV schedule because of Canada Winter Games coverage this week will be one episode of Edge Of Night (Tuesday), Telescope, Johnny Cash, Big Country, Here Come the 70s and afternoon movies a film, shot at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. Bear on the John Smith Reserve iri Saskatchewan, will be incorporated into a portion of This Land (Wednesdays at 10) in the near future Mr. Bear celebrated his 99th birthday last fall but still keenly recounts tales of past history.

Fred Davis, who handled the opening ceremonies, is in Saskatoon on behalf of the winter games committee and is not part of the CBC working crews Under Attack, a syndicated program of which Fred is moderator, has completed four segments at Oxford Univeisity (a departure from the usual Canadian setting) and one of the people on the hot seat was Lord Thomson of Fleet one of the Controversies during Lord Thomsons hour involved his hiring of white but not black persons on his newspapers it will be seen soon on CFQC-TV the CBC radio network will be assisting in the production of some tapes for a Russian network, with the Soviet providings its own commentary on the Saskatoon games although CBC has exclusive rights, Canadas other TV network, CTV, is permitted three minutes of news film per day. of the season by the two shows around it, Flip Wilson and Dean Martin. Hopes tour of U.S. bases in Vietnam and the Far East wasnt televised in Canada this year and it has to be presumed the CBC-TV network, because of tight 60 per cent Canadian content regulations, couldnt make room for it. The Apollo 14 moon shot was considered Canadian content, largely because the CBC used its own anchormen, even though it did accept a U.S.

network feed of the actualities. Dave Van Horne will be the play by play commentator on the Montreal Expo baseball games, starting the earliest date ever, March 31, on the CBC-TV network. The network has signed a three year contract with the National league club and this years schedule will include 18 regular games plus the March 31 exhibition game against Winnipeg Whips from West Palm Beach, Florida. The schedule includes all Wednesday dates, one in April, four in May, four in June, three in July, two in August and four in September. Starting times are usually 6 p.m.

CST. Van Horne was a broadcaster for the Richmond, Virginia, Braves in the International league but now lives the year-round at Kirkland, Quebec. His sidekick will be Don Drysdale, former pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. DON DRYSDALE on baseball beat Call letters for the new Saskatoon television outlet, once it becomes operational, will be CBKST Rural Route, a series of eight agricultural television programs, will be returning to a network of Saskatchewan stations this month the 15 minute programs will provide information about better farming techniques The Family, starting Wednesday at 9, is a CBC-TV series of four unrelated dramas about modern family life each is a drama within itself and the others will follow on Feb. 24, By NED POWERS Features Lditur The games flame has arrived, Prime Minister Trudeau has declared the 1971 Canada Winter Games open, the athletes have taken the official oath, and now its down to the business of competition for 2,200 young Canadians at 16 venues in and near Saskatoon.

And with the sports underway, CBC television cameras are bound to follow, providing 10 hours of national network coverage and 21 hours on a Saskatchewan hook-up. CBC, with exclusive rights to games coverage, will shoot the events in national focus for the prime time programming on weekend afternoons and Monday through Friday evenings. But Dave Cruickshank, production co-ordinator for both TV and radio, said Saskatchewan athletes will get the major attention on the provinces own hook-up, which includes the Regina originating station, plus CFQC, Saskatoon, CKBI, Prince Albert and CKOS, Yorkton. Live coverage of two hockey games is planned. One will be at 8:30 a.m.

on Saturday, Feb. 20, with Saskatchewan playing Nova Scotia. Another will be a semifinal at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21, and with a little luck, Saskatchewan might be there, too.

There will be a live mens basketball game on Tuesday at the skiing on Wednesday afternoon will only be a matter of a one-hour delay; and there will be an assortment of occasions when smaller portions of events will be live. There will be at least four venues where three color cameras will be set up. They will be at Blackstrap, the Arena, the education building gymnasium and the physical education centre, also at the university campus. The cameras will be worked on a rotating basis. The complexity of the job is emphasized by the fact that a three-camera mobile unit requires 12 technicians and likely seven on the production staff.

The CBC-TV network will also be providing slow motion and instant replay coverage. Portions of all sports will be covered, with coverage in some limited to the use of mini-pack cameras, a one-man unit. Most sports will be BOB HOPE makes ratings zoom ANNE MURRAY special on March 1( shot in color but, there will be occasions when only black-and-white camera work can be available, Gymnastics lends itself well to color coverage and there will be ample proof of this during the Thursday and Friday schedules. Don Wittman, Ernie Afaga-nis, Ted Reynolds and special skiing commentator Nancy Greene Raine will be part of the TV crew; Beattie Martin, Fred Walker, Don Chevrier and Bob Willson will be among the sports team for radio. Talk about good fortune for a promoter! The next Anne Murray special on CBC-TV, Straight, Clean and Simple, will be presented on Thursday, March 11.

Straight, Clean and Simple is also the title of heir next Capitol album. And thats just 24 hours before Anne goes onstage for two concerts at the Centennial Auditorium in Saskatoon. The sound portion of the special is recorded on 16-track stereo equipment and will be simulcast in stereo on CBC-FM stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Stan Jacobson, a Canadian who has been producer of the Johnny Cash show since it started in 1969, has left the ABC-TV unit, presumably because of a clash with a Screen Gems production chief. Jacobson had produced 51 of the shows, including the two-part country music story.

The 1971 Super Bowl, seen on Jan. 17, has become the highest-rated television sports event in history. It attained a 39.9 rating of North American homes, adding up to something like 24 million viewers. The previous high was a 1963 World Series game in which Sandy Koufax pitched Los Angeles to a fourth-game sweep over the New York Yankees. Also a Sunday production, its rating was 39.5.

And what does a guy like Bob Hope mean to the ratings? His Christmas show on NBC in mid-January attained a 45 rating (second highest ever) and sparked the best ratings TIIE NEW SEEKERS, AN AUSTRALIAN SINGING GROUP theyll appear with Tommy Hunter on Friday at 9.