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We call it Body Politics.

JIM SHAW

More cable TV variety

CANADIANS can look forward to more vareity
and choice in their cable television fare, says cable

TV magnate Jim Shaw.

Shaw, whose company
Shaw Cablesystems Lid.
serves 10 communities in

British Columbtra in-
cluding North and West Van-
couver made his com-
ments recently while in Van-
couver on business.
“Technology has almost
gone beyond regulation,’’
said the 50-year old Edmon-
ton resident. ‘‘] think there
are going to be more open

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“YOUR CHOICE’

By JIM JAMIESON

skies. Ill take a while but
iS coming.”’

What Shaw means by
‘‘open skies’’ is a free enter-
prise system virtually unfet-
tered by regulation from the
Canadian Radio and Televi-
sion Commission ~— similar
to the way cable TV is set up
in the United States.

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“Expansion of services 1s
the biggest tissue of the pre-
sent time in cable TV,’’ said
Shaw: ‘‘Our ability to offer
home entertainment signals
has just started. You're going
to see things like a cable news
network, arts and entertain-
ment channels and distant
Canadian stations — like for
example, making a Toronto
station available in
Vancouver.”’

Shaw said that the CRTC
is in the process of deciding
on the licensing of a religion
channel called Inner Faith,
and in the near future will be
hearing applications for
health, youth and _ family

viewing channels.

JIM SHAW

But, if the CRTC does
eventually let the floodgates
open, does that mean our
converters will be clogged
with dozens of esoteric
channels?

Not so, says Shaw

“You definitely won't see

foo many (channels)
Research shows that once
you pet up to SO. the
customer won't watch any
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Edmonton where they
were much more interested in
the country music channel.”’

Under the guidance of
Shaw, his cable TV company
formerly known as both
Cable West TV and Capital
Cable TV has been
characterized by careful,
steady expansion since its in-
ception in Edmonton in 1970,
The company now owns 13
cable systems across Canada
from Vancouver Island to
Newfoundland with 305,000
subscribers. That compares
very favorably with the
multi-national Rogers
Cablesystems — the largest
cable operator in the world
which has 1.5 million
subscribers in Canada.

The idea of getting into the
cable TV business was not
new to Shaw, whose father,
Francis, started Canada’s
first cable company in Lon-
don, Ont. in 1954. In 1968,
Shaw and his brother, Leshie,
got involved in purchasing a
cable TV outlet in the Wood-

stock/Ingersoll area of
Ontario.
It wasn’t until Shaw —

who along with his brother
were executives for Shaw In-
dustries, a steel pipe treat-
ment concern based in
Toronto was transferred
to Edmonton in the mid-60s
that he saw the potential for
cable TV in the West

“*L telt people in Edmonton
were being deprived,’’ said
Shaw, who found the Alberta

city oa Stark contrast to
Toronto where cable TV was
already firmly entrenched

“At the time, Edmonton on
ly had two channels C BO
and C TN and CIN had
just Started —

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