By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

AFTER 24 years in com-
munity television on the
North Shore, local per-
sonality Martyn Stubbs
was given his walking
papers last week.

Stubbs was one of 20 employ-
ces in technical and supervisory
positions at community televi-
sion studios throughout the
Lower Mainland that were laid
off by Rogers Cablesystems on
Nov. 19.

At the same time, the
Toronto-based company
announced the closure of five of
its 11 TV studios in the Lower
Mainland.

Rogers’ North Shore facility,
which is on Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver,
escaped closure but suffered the loss of Stubbs along with
another employee and the transfer of one other.

MARTYN Stubbs...
laid off by Rogers
last week.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

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Vera Piccini, Rogers’ vice-president of programming and
Christmas display that will be switched on this Saturday at 7 p.m. Located at Cotton and Brooksbank in North

community relations, would not release the names of the

others affected by the layoffs.

Local viewers knew Stubbs as Buzz Miller, co-host of the
popular late-night alternative music show Sound Proof,
which aired on community TV through the ’80s and into
the 90s. More recently, Stubbs was station manager of the
Pemberton facility.

With the Rogers takeover of Shaw Cable last July, he
became programming supervisor.

The layoffs were necessary for the cable company to con-
solidate its operations, Piccini said on Wednesday.

“These were very, very difficult decisions,” she said.

Piccini added that the consotidation would not have a
major impact on the coverage of local events.

“Customers or viewers won’t notice much of a difference
in community television programming,” she said.

Replacing Stubbs as programming supervisor is George
Lacny, who Piccini described as having “long years in com-
munity programming and a great deal of skill.”

Lacny held a similar position at Rogers’ Surrey tacility.

Stubbs could not be reached for comment to press time
Thursday.

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