29 - Sunday, February 5, 1989 - North Shore News

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TV month

THERE ARE dedicated people working behind the screen
of your cable-fed television set and they would like you to
know that February is Cable Television Month.

Shaw Cable, headquartered at
1471 Pemberton Ave. in North
Vancouver, will be holding an
open house Saturday, Feb. 25, 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. The open house,
which will be seen five on channel
four, will feature tours and a draw
for a color TV.

Fifty-six thousand customers
from Horseshoe Bay to Deep
Cove, representing 88 per cent of
North Shore TV viewers, are plug-
ged into the Shaw cable system.
Shaw offers its subscribers 28 basic
channels, seven pay TV channels
and over 40 FM stations.

According to Shaw’s system
manager Terry Medd, the Cana-
dian cable company is the fourth
largest multi-system operator in
the country. Shaw is active in
B.C., Alberta, Ontario and in the
Maritimes.

The eye-popping program varie-
ty and the number of channels
currently offered to the local
public is expected to grow in the
not-1e0-distant future. Said Medd:
“We really pride ourselves on the
variety. Our approach is to provide
as wic: a variety as we can. We're
excited at the way that it’s going.”*

The company is expecting to ex-
pand to a SOQchanne! capacity
within the year. ‘‘We want to pro-
vide more channels of choice so
that we can entertain and educate
everybody,”’ he said.

Wide broadcast programming
also includes ‘‘narrow-casted’’

See Shaw
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SHAW CABLE progran: coordinator Leslie Payne (left) and system
manager Terry Medd take te the controls at the Shaw studio. The cable
TV headquarters will be holding an open house Saturday, Feb. 25, 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. The open house, which will be seen live on channel four,
will feature tours and a draw for a color TV.