LINDA loves the sun and is happy now that summer seems to have finally arrived. Kept eopopant busy with a modelling career she still finds time to read and write poetry. Metcalfe addresses NDP AS - Sunday, June 3, 1984 - North Shore News STATION CHANGE THE GENERAL manager of television station CKVU feels his company has been misrepresented in the current controversy over the station’s application for the right to broadcast on VHF Channel 10. Barry Duggan said the Station has received two let- ters supporting the move and By JOANNE MacDONALD CKVU facing heavy protest competition from the CBC who were applying for the frequency for a Victoria- based station. Duggan said the CBC won the channel, ‘‘since they were the national network,’’ and CKVU was given UHF channel 21, which is cur- about 16,000 against it, the interference from our signal. rently provided to North majority of those from There are also certain Shore viewers on cable 13. Vancouver Island residents, with a few from _ coastal communities like Sechelt. If approved, the move would effectively bump guidelines that we and the CRTC are under which state that we are to provide a signal to as many people as possible. In our case, that However, the CBC sur- rendered the VHF channel about 18 months ago, and CKVU_ decided to submit another application for the Channel 10 on the com-- means the north and south channel. munity cable channel. end of Vancouver Island,’’ Duggan said station It would also interfere said Duggan. management approached the with the transmission of the “Also, I’m wondering CRTC last August and were American public. broad- casting channel, KCTS 9, from Seattle to scores of Vancouver Island viewers, and some Lower Mainland viewers. North Shore residents have reacted to the applica- tion by sending letters and petitions in support of the intervention to be filed by local cable outlet, Shaw Cable, which is protesting the application. Program Manager Martin Stubbs says official letters in support of the intervention have also been received from numerous MLAs and MPs. Stubbs says the applica- tion has created a unique situation in that it throws into jeopardy the survival of two public broadcasting stations. ‘This is a real grassroots movement. There's a_ real rumble going on _ because people don’t want to lose their public broadcasting channels. If Channel 9 and 10 were moved, the whole identity of those two stations CAPILANO NDP members the Highland Community What ts needed, he argues, would be lost,’” says Stubbs —- and anyone else interested School, 3150 Colwood | is a radical revotution in the “With the support of the will get the word on the = Drive spirit, and nature of society public and the CRTC 's delay need for a new society from Metcalfe contends that and new ideas to replace the of the deadline for submis controversial writer and such measures as increased ‘worn out ideas’’ of both sions on the apphcation, | broadcaster Ben Metcalfe production, work sharing, — the left and the nght think our chances for success Wednesday might lower taxes and pubhe works Members of the general are good "' Metcalfe will be guest program aren't what's public of all political But CKVU'’s Duggan speaker atthe annual general needed to end the current persuasions, as well as 9 maintatns the total story has meeting of the NDP federal “orisis’’ in Canada and members of the association, not been told in the issue riding association, to be held other Western world are being invited to attend “*The technology os Wednesday at 7:30 pm at countries Wednesday's session Ambleside Angels “DO IT YOURSELF” or HAVE IT DONE MANUFACTURED Ey DYWIDAG FAB CON available to filter out any SUNDAY BRUNCH what the cable stations have done to filter out the CHEK signal which comes from Saturna Island, which could cause the same disturbances as our signal from Saltspring Island. They’ve managed to remedy that.”* CKVU originally applied to the CRTC for VHF 10 in 1975, but were faced with given the go-ahead for the application. An earlier ap- plication was discouraged by the CRTC on the grounds the CBC might re-consider and decide to use the fre- quency again. “‘} think our chances of getting this application are pretty good.’ said Duggan. Fire department suspects arson NORTH VANCOUVER City fire officials say arson is suspected in a fire early Friday morning that gutted a Volkswagen in an underground parking lot. Firemen were called to 144 West Fourth Street at 4 a.m. to battle the car fire, which filled the underground parking lot with smoke but caused no other damage. Officials were continuing their investigation to deadline for this tssue of the News, attempting to determine how whoever torched the vehicle got past two locked parking gates to set the fire. A damage estimate was not immediately available ‘ FREE WEEK (wee Van Only) Exercise to Music. 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