IN HIS OWN

How did you get involved in the
newspaper business? *'] was doing
a science degree at UBC when |
joined the Sun. Hal Straivht hired
me as a camerman,. I'd always
done a bit of writing. | was young
and brash and running around
like crazy... was the first one to
have a radio telephone in his
car...

“It was an exciting time. I
remember the infamtous shooting
down at the False Creek Flats,
where two detectives were shot
and killed...f was there, down
behind my car, Pd been following
it on my radio. That was in the
days when the Sun published a
late edition. | got on the phone,
called the office and told them, ‘I
think you'd better stop everything
fellas.” Dead bodies were splashed
all over page one.”

How did you manage to win the
licence for CHAN? *‘I decided
that television was just coming,
and I’d always been interested in
motion pictures... was producing
95 per cent of the TV commerciats
in the area at the time. One thing
led to another. When KVOS first
went on the air they operated out
of my place. Our production facil-
ity became their facility... Then I
got this crazy idea. I'd heard that
broadcasting was going to open
up. I wrote a brief — something
like six inches thick. Some of the
other applicants were : the Van-
couver Sun, the Province, CKWX,
CKNW — I must have been out
of my mind.

**} wrote a brief — something
like six inches thick... Almost
everything | did in preparing it
was trying to second guess what
might happen. I guessed pretty
correctly. My raison d’etre was,
here I was in the film production
business, and all I wanted to do is
what I said in jest so many times

Cultured pearl strand

with detachable Mabé pearl

and diamond pendant.

when dl gase people a tour of my
film studio: ‘All we needed was to
switch the motion picture camerits
for live cameras, get a set of rab-
bit ears on the root and a licence.
and we could become a TV sta-
tion.’ "*

What were your responsibilities
during your involvement with the
Greater Vancouver Convention
and Visitors Bureau? “Tl became
the first appointed president and
CEO of the bureau. 1 did that all
through Expo. I was running our
tourist association and promoting
the city as not only a visitor des-
Unation, but as a convention des-
tination. I'd been fighting for
years for a convention centre,
which finally came to fruition
when Expo came along. And |
worked hard to get the convention
and tourism business to finally be
recognized as an industry."*

How and why did you get involv-
ed in the Variety Club? *‘! was
involved in Variety when it was
formed here 25 years ago...One
thing led to another within a cou-
ple of months I was on the board
of directors. 1 got extremely in-
volved with the Telethon..-About
three or four weeks ago they ask-
ed me to consider taking on the
presidency. I tell you, when you
see things at some of these
children’s hospitals, children in
very distressing states, it really
touches you.’”

&

Go.

Sunday, December 16, 1990 - North Shore News - 23

AFFLUENCE & INFLUENCE |

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ART JONES (centre) interviewing Pierre Berton.

TV still figures in Art Jones’ life

From page 22
term he jokingly refers to as his
‘*reign of terror.”*

When he wasn't promoting
tourism he was sitting on the
board of practically every con-
ceivable committee, charity, and
club (his resume is mind-boggl-

Q

It's that time of year again . . Ff
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entertaining month, get

ing). Then one day he decided to
“cut back’’ his ‘29-hour days.””

But those who knew Jones best
knew he hadn’t the foggiest idea
of what cutting back meant.

Today he runs his own market-
ing consulting company, Art
Jones and Associates.

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