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BY JAN NOBLE

Nows Reporter

THE global tentacles of media baron Rupert Murdoch have reached the North Shore.

Under a $2.5 billion dea! announced Wednesday, Murdoch's News Corporation will swallow New World Cominuaications Group.

New World contrulled Cannell Production Services Lid. and Two Productions, which rent production and administrative offices at North Shore Studies.

What the deal means forthe 30 Cannell per- sonnel and [00 Two employees in’ North Vancouver remains unclear, Cannell media relanions manager Ram Douglas said Wednesday.

“People are anxious to find out what their status will be. but it’s totaly pein the air” sbe

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Bellevue Ave. man contends Land Act favors the wealthy

BY iAH NOBLE News Reporter

WEST Vancouver homeown- ers are reclaiming land left behind by the sea.

ICs a long-standing and [egal tradition, but a West Vancouver resident character- izes the practice of land accretion as the wealthy getting wealthier.

“The people down here are stinking rich and here we are giving them more land.” said Adrian Dowell. a renter on Bellevue Avenue. “I just don’t think it's tight.”

His neighbor recently received approval from B.C. Lands to extend his property line 15 metres (50 feet), or a total of 258 square meters (2,860 square feet).

Two others on the 2700-block have also applied for similar extensions, said Patrick Ringwood, the Victoria-based sur- veyor general of B.C, Lands.

Ringwood explained that naiur boundaries, such as the sea, mov Erosion could occur, or a slow and imper ceptible build up of material is possible.

Owners are entitled to apply to the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks to have their waterfront: property lines expanded if they believe the natural boundary has moved.

After an application that includes a full survey by a qualified B.C. land surveyor is received, the application goes through a “rigorous” review process. ff it's approved, the owner will get a property line extension, said Ringwood. The appli-

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NEWS phate dike Wekofieid OWHERS of waterfront homes are adding to their property through the fand accretion process,

cation fee is $500.

Ringwood said many approvals for land extension are allowed cach year under the Land Titles Act for watertront property throughout B.C.

But Dowell argues that as beaches grow larger the extra area should be for the public to use.

He worries that by publishing informa- tion on land accretion, more homeowners will take advantage of the process.

“That would be a tragic side of the whole thing.” he said.

But he believes his West Vancouver neighbors won't be happy if they knew of the “windfall” being given to waterfront

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said. “It will probably take a few weeks to hear how it will affect everybody.”

New World itself purchased Cannell last year, The transaction announced Wednesday must sul) be approved by New World share- holders and the Federal Communications Commission in the United Stites.

In New York. New World chiel executive officer William Bevias sounded ballish

“With this transaction, New World caps at brief but remarkable history by permanently

joining our ecenanie interests with the world’s

Most Innovative enterbunmient company under the vistonary leadership of Rupert Murdoch.”

New World bulls itself ats a “vertically mite. grated entertainment company,”

ft produces telestsion programiming. dis. tributes programming imernationally. sells advertising tine on stations and programming and owns 12 ULS.-based television stitions 1Qof them alfitiated with News Corporation's

The purchase makes News Corp the biggest owner of television stations in the United States in terms of the number of people reached through owner-operated stations.

Its 22 stations would help Fox leapfrog NBC. CBS and ABC. The networks also reaeh siewers through affiliated stations.

Currently, Cannell is not producing any Shows. Two is producing a syndicated show that wall air on CTV and American stations, said Douglis.

With the production, 100 treehtnee workers have been added to the Two pasrott. said Douglas,

Shows produced by Cannell include 2/ Jump Street. Bavker, The Commish and Strange Lack. Cannel has been at ils present North Shore location since September 1989.

The pn duction company also has opera- fons in Burnaby