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the STAR-PHOENIX Saskatoon, Thursday, April 24, 1975 25 William Hutt wins ACTRA best acting award tinguished contribution to sports affairs TV broadcaster for her broadcasting. CTV Network show, Canada Helen Hutchinson, best public AM. actor who was one of the industrys most respected members until his death in 1966. Other awards included: Don Chevrier, CBC-TV, best sportscaster in television or W. O.

Mitchell, best radio drama writer, a two-time winner. Jack Webster, of radio station CJOR, Vancouver, the Gordon Sinclair Award for outspoken opinions and integrity in broadcasting. Leo Dufault, radio documentary writer award for Two Oranges and a Handful of Nuts. Michael Maclear, CTV, best news braodcaster award. Bill Good Vancouver, the Foster Hewitt Award for dis TOONS KITCHEN 424 20th West Chinese Foods and Dixie Lee Fried Chicken DINING ROOM Phone 652-6353 FREE DELIVERY JACKPOT BINGO Tonight Legion Hall 7:30 p.m.

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None of the Toronto awards went to Quebec. An internal dispute last year caused a schism in the organization and Quebec awards were presented separately this year. The National Dream was the only show to win awards in two categories. Besides Hutt as best actor, William Whitehead and Timothv Findlev of Toronto won best-writer awards for one National Dream segment. The best film acting award went to Stuart Gillard who played the innocent young reporter In the National Film Boards feature production, Why Rock the Boat? John Howe, director, accepted the award in Gillards absence.

Mordecai Richler, author, and Lionel Chetwynd, adapter, won the best drama writer awards for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, a film that won box office acclaim in Canada and the U.S. Robert Weaver, for many years a writer and sponsor of young writers in the CBC, won the John Drainie Award for dis-t i i contribution to broadcasting. This special ACTRA award is named after the t-TV MOVliS TORONTO (CP) William Hutt, veteran Shakespearean Festival actor-director, won the best acting award of the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) on Wednesday for his versatile performance as John A. Macdonald in The National Dream. As the tipsy first prime minister of Canada after Confederation, Hutt won the ACTRA award for the best acting performance male or female-in the visual media, which covered both films and television.

Other top awards presented at a black tie banquet given CBC-TV network coverage were: Harry Rasky, producer-direc-tor-writer of the CBCs documentary on the Holy Land, Next Year in Jerusalem, declared the best program of the year 1974. Ron Harmann, Toronto radio actor, for his performance in the title role of Shakespeares Othello, the best radio acting award The Irish Rovers, Vancouver song and comedy group, declared best variety performers for their CBC special filmed in Cork, Ireland. Barbara Frum, winning her second ACTRA award as best public affairs radio broadcaster for her CBC evening magazine show, As It Happens. Hutt. now director of the Festival Theatre at Stratford and associate director of the festival, is one of the countrys most experienced actors.

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Nash has delivered some strong lectures on the power of the electronic media but probably none stronger than a recent talk in Edmonton. Nash says that some television today is significant, important and occasionally breath-takingly creative and effective and that is the way he thinks it should be. He says "It has to be more than a techno-barbaric Juggernaut programmed for mindless, lowest common denominator hypnotism. His philosophy for a public broadcasting system includes: a populist, people orientation in programming; new styles of programming, not to be delued by misleading nostalgia of high priests of yesterdays programming; far more investigative journalism new faces on the screen; a full reflection of regionalism in Canada; Immediate responsiveness to the public and popular in programming, and not a whisper heard only by the elitist handful of Canadians. Based on the statistic that Canadians are watching about 24 hours of television a week, he, sees the medium as the most effective tool, is firm in his opinion that the integrity of TV news is the highest of any medium, and predicts that newspapers will eventually become dally magazines, leaving the job of delivering the hard news to television.

IN DISCUSSING THE EFFECTS on public opinion, Nash believes a broadcasting system can expand the knowledge of people, give them the chance to examine various altema- tives, teach them to be skeptical of all official statements and policies, and provide them with an ombudsman agency and the outlet for public expression. He agrees with a Fowler Royal Commission finding of a few years ago that "one of the essential tasks of a broadcasting system is to stir up the minds and emotions of the people and occasionally make a large number of them acutely uncomfortable." Whats ahead in the future? According to Nash, some new and exciting developments, already introduced by BBC and Reuters, with a highly sophisticated system of news and information distribution, He says the systems will permit a person, at home, to flash on his screen the latest news, stock information, business re-jports of shopping information. He says the cost of such systems should be within the realm of most consumers within five years. He also sees video cassettes on TV documentaries, dramas and historical pieces having a major effect or (the book publishing business because he says people will find it easier and more effective to watch a cassette rather than (read a book. Nash, naturally, believes the CBC is doing an excellent job.

He points out that the money the CBC gets is about $300 million, a bit less than the BBC in Britain or NHK in Japan. He says the CBC produces twice as much as the BBC and NHK, with half as much staff. He says the CBC does twice as much regional programming as Britain, six times as much as Japan, and all this, in spite of the geographical problems. The hardware costs in Canada, he adds, are simply staggering and much of the CBC money must be pumped into distributing the signal across Canada. He points to some strong journalistic advances with The Ombudsman, Marketplace and Access and says that although people still talk about This Hour Has Seven Days, it would probably be laughed off the screen today, "Weve moved way beyond the styles and approaches taken then, and are dealing with far more controversial subjects in far more sophisticated ways.

NASH CERTAINLY TAKES AN idealistic approach in promoting the merits of a television journalist. He can take a certain pride, especially at the level of a national broadcasting system, which has been able to lure people like Robert Cooper and Joan Watson into responsible places, attract many top-flight people from the newspaper industry right into their offices, and been able to spend rather freely to make the news readily available. Such efforts can easily be justified, too, because perhaps, in most Canadian communities, the 11 oclock news at night is the only viable journalist service available. The CBC News? What do you fairly compare it with? Not a daily newspaper because all of the dally newspapers are community-oriented and not national dailies. Does quality journalism occur in electronic media at the station levels across Canada, whether CBC-affiliated, or whether independent, and isnt this really the place for comparison between TV journalism and the print media? Any media today can build up logical arguments in their own defence.

If all continue to strive for quality, the Canadian public will be well rewarded. Nash himself admits that nobody is going to be well rounded in his or her knowledge unless they use all their faculties for gaining knowledge unless they not only watch television and video cassettes but also read newspaper magazines and books. It is most heartening to sit down and talk with Nash, or listen to a lecture, because he is a journalist capable of relating to a subject which is terribly important to all Canadians. An expert in the field should always talk about what he knows best. Which leads to one final question? Why does a member of the electronic media, Harvey Kirck, a news reader from CTV, come to Saskatoon and preach Confederation to a group of Saskatoon businessmen, who were alt probably better equipped at knowing Albertas and western Canada's position in nation-building than Kirck? A news reader hardly rates as a political scientist in todays fastchanging world.

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