BS - Wednesday, November 10, 1982 - North Shore News

Galaxie wiper ‘out

IT WAS one of those afternoon TV programs that
parents would actually let their childrén watch.

My own feeling was that if
my “two youngsters were
going to resort to turning on
the tube on rainy afternoons,
I was able to-insist they'd
turn to: something. harmless

like The Polka’ Dot Door or

Bear.”
At least jt kept them away
from cartoons - _of the
Roadrunner ing rocks.

on Wily Coyote: or Popeye ;

beating up Brutus. ©

Now. it looks like the ¢ only, .

alternative to the negative
ing which passes

programmin:
for children’s entertainment |

is to unplug the set.

For, Paddington, alonp

with his friends Noddy and..

the Wombles, .as well as
other kids’ features. such as
immy and the

Green Forest have all been
wiped off North Shore

screens by Marc Lalonde -

and his six-and-five

Yes, it seems our masters |

in Ottawa spare no mercy
even for young tots.

fora minimum of ‘two vo hours
each weekday. afte

But. when the ‘Galaiie

kids,. whom. Cable West -

President Ken Fowler
describes as “a - -dedicated
audience”, tuned. in | Aast

scriber’
munications |

allow them to. be offered the
choice.

Community TV applied |

gic Dog.
and Peter Rabbit and- the ..

Minister :
Francis :‘Fox would not even

By CHRIS LLOYD

added a- number of services
including..Galaxie and the
muhkti-cultural service.

“We had. applied for an
increase of $1.50 a month,
which i is about six per cent a
year,” says Fowler. “It would
have covered - all our in-
creased. e

for arate increase a year ago;

- its first in three years,

during which time it had ,

AN OFFICER AND A.
GENTLEMAN (R) - Park

Royal - 7:15, 9:35. Sat.-Sun.
2:10

E.T. (G) West Van Odcon -
7:15; 9:20.

FIRST BLOOD (R) Capital -
2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30.
FITZCARRALDO (M)

Varsity - Mon.-Thurs. 8:00.
Fri-Sat. 6:45, 9:30. Sun.
2:00, 6:45, 9:30.

SINXED (M) Park Royal -
7:30, 9:30.

LADY CHATTERLEY’S
LOVER (R) Broadway -
7:3, 9:30.

THE MISSIONARY (M)
West Van Qdecon - 7:30,
9:10. Sat.-Sun. 2:30.
MONSIGNOR (M) Capital -
2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45.

MY FAVORITE YEAR (M)
Park Royal - 7:00, 9:00. Sat.-
Sun, 2:15.

PINK FLOYD THE WALL
(R) Denman Place - 7:30,
9:30

THE SECRET OF NIMH
(G) West Van - 7:00, 8:30.
Sat.-Sun. 2:00.

_ineluding

salaries and programming. »

Six ane

“We said ‘here’ is a

“Then the budget came
down with six-and-five and
we spent the entire month of
August writing Francis Fox -
and lost. We got a 44-cent
increase instead of $1.50.”

Around that time, .
Galaxy contract came up for

‘ renewal - at, $48, 000.2 year.

A viewer ‘survey put Galaxy
at lower ratings than the
community programming -
one of the other choices

being! looked at for cuts. —

NORTH SHORE
. 303 MARINE DR. N. VAN.
980-5754

- Galaxy. Even:now, he ‘says, -

We've brought back the 8 slice,
$3.99 pepperoni pizza, a million-
seller many times over at Mother's.
From now through November 14th,
you can enjoy a crisp crust,

our own special tomato sauce, an

~Chance’,” says Fowler.

"of laying off five or

Six people, regretful as it
may be, we'll can Galaxy.”

Fowler adds that the

station has received many

calls protesting the pulling of
there. will continue to be
made attempts to. get the
program back on the air.

Other community TV

stations have had‘to make wa

in Vancouver. This offer

applies to diningroom as well as

pick-up orders only.
FULLY
LICENCED

RICHMOND COQUITLAM
8440 BRIDGEPCRT RD. 2575 BARNET HWY.
270-8434 . >» 461-2233

ive budget

even more drastic cuts. “The __content _themselves with

difference between what we
applied for and what we got
was $600,000 a year - and it’s
hard finding that.”

Cable West's contribution
to meeting the shortfall was
to sacrifice Galaxy.

_,-And that, combined with
the recession and the federal
government’s “solution” is

the reason why children
"t!

being restricted to repeats of

Sesame Street. \

Maybe someday Canada,
with its hangup about
Canadian content and _ its
well-funded National Film
Board, will get.to gtips with
the REAL issue and put out .
some . children’s program-
ming of its own, rather than
merely decide a choice of
whether it buys childrens

~ shows from the U:S: or from

1c U.K. .

extra handful of cheese plus
plenty of spicy pepperoni, all for’
just $3.99 at any Mother's

LEE LE