A8 - Wednesday, June 6, 1984 - North Shore News

T CAN GET A BIT COMPLICATED,

get this straight

by Doug Collins

Forget it, ‘VU!

this

business of who will knock whom off the TV.

But one thing comes through:

it isn’t worth

moving a single channel in order to fatten the
pocketbooks of Daryl Duke and CKVU. Screw

them.

As you may have heard,
the two North Vancouver
councils are objecting to the
CKVU plot, and let’s hope
that by the time this tirade
appears, West Vancouver
counci! will have done the
same thing. If it hasn't, it
should be sentenced to watch
CKVU for a whole week,
which, God knows, would be
worse than falling into the
clutches of the Ayatollah.

There is no limit to the
greed displayed by those
CKVU types. Greed is what
makes the world go round, of
course, but we may object
when their avarice costs us.
And it would cost us either
the displacement of one of
three American channels, in-
cluding KCTS9, Seattle, or
the partial disruption of
same. Minions at CKVU are
ordered to deny all that, of
coure, but | would as soon
believe that Art Kube is Santa
Claus as I would believe any
of that propaganda.

The least worst that could
happen would be that the
CKVU predators force our
local community television to
shift its place on the dial with
no other harm done. But why
should they be permitted to
barge around on the dial like
a lot of drunks, knocking
people over and _ obliging
viewers to remember new
numbers?

When Duke & Co. applied
for their licence, they crawled
all over the floor in front of
the CRTC, promising
miracles and the virtual sav-
ing of mankind if only they
could get into the money.
And that was from a small-
range UHF channel. Then
they got onto cable, and now,
not having the audience they
think they deserve, they want
to give orders to the cable
people.

What they are after, is
more viewers on Vancouver
Island. But what has Van-
couver Island done to deserve

CKVU? People over there
certainly aren't clamoring for
the left-wing, radical chic,
partor-pink, addle-pated rav-

ings of Laurier LaPee, the
well-known French
commentator.

Nor can they be gasping
for more of CKVU's half-
baked news programs, in
which simpering girls and
pimply-faced youths parade
in confusing succession. And
the rest of the stuff is what
you can get on 20 other sta-
tions: Charlie’s Angels, One
Life to Live, and a pile of
movies interrupted by more
ads than decency permits.

Which brings me to my
peroration. The Criminal
Code should be amended to
make it an indictable offence
to interfere in any way with
KCTS9. The station is not
perfect, but thousands of
people in these parts — in-
cluding me — actually pay to
keep it on the air. Its Master-
piece Theatre series alone is
worth the money. Further-
more, you don’t have to suf-
fer through advertisements
for Tampax and toilet paper.
The station is worth a thou-
sand CKVUs.

If the CRTC grants this re-

@ mailbox
Diagonal
parking can
save lives

Dear Editor:

This 19-year-old girl’s
death while riding a bicycle
could have been prevented if
we had diagonal parking
rather than parallel parking
on main thoroughfares.

We see people struggling
to park a full-size auto in a
space barely long enough for
it, while holding up a string
of traffic in the process.

With diagonal parking
you can pull into a slot and
back out again without all
that jockeying, and watch
oncoming traffic over your
right shoulder. Also, your
door, when open, isn't
straddled over the oncoming
traffic lane.

J.H. Cooley
West Vancouver

quest, it should be made to sit
in front of the CKVU screen
right through the summer
holidays. In the meantime,
you can help to. avert
catastrophe by complaining.
There is just time to do it, the
deadline for inverventioNS
being June 8. The address:
Secretary General, Canadian
Radio Television and
Telecommunications Com-
mission, Suite 1150, 700 West
Georgia, Vancouver, B.C.
V7Y 1C6. And a copy of
your objection must go to
CKVU.

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