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The cumpany. predicts it

will’ pay more than’ $20
milliun to Canadians in
exhibition rights and
production funding ‘during
its first five years... .

Would an‘ Alberta-licensed

‘service do more for , local

_praduction?.-

"Neil : Webber, “assoclaie’”
minister of telephones, said’:

in an interview there are no

plans for Alberta content —
-Tegulation. The .“‘protec-
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CRTC has: not done much

for Canadian produetion, he”

said,
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jurisdiction uver pay TV it

“mnight have. ty intruduce. -
_ Canadian-content — regul-
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the - pravince’s broad-
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Over-the-air signals are

‘subject to such federal
the °

regulations, and
bruadcasters have argued it
would be unfair for pay TV
and cable. companies’ to
with fewer

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plication. Cable and pay TV

‘are. difficult to separate

because pay TV (signals
usually arrive via ‘cable.

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“up in ‘the provinces’ favor
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The Alberta government

could use ita telephone pules
for pay TV, but ‘that would

require laying cables.
_ The province is’: not
considering doing that and

. Webbe dislikes govern-

nent doing. what private.
industry candy.”

“A 1977 Sipreme ‘Court of

Canada decision said cable
‘comes — under: federal

telecdinmnunications tec-
hnology, Webber said.
Alberta Independent Pay

. Television : may muddy the ©

legal

waters for the
government by expanding .
its services outside Alberta
borders. An interprovincial:
service would appear to be
out of provincial control.

- Webber -cunceded an
expansion would hurt the
government's case, but said

‘Bumehow mean cyntinued
‘provincial jurisdiction.
The’ province has a ‘law
giving .its Public Utilities
Board jurisdiction over nen-
breadeast telecummuni-
cations. inside Alberta.
Regulations that ‘would
allow:the law to work have
not been written. ,

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~Q, What's become of the _

much-touted new TV
series starring Suzanne

Somers? Has she been

dropped by the network ex-

~- ecutives? —. N.R.

. A. For quite some. time,
Suzanne and her” manager-—~
.husband Alan Hamel

“~ 4--ed any help, Dale picked up.» _

st™ “THURS. iv a 11. -12. ps ne
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assured us her new TV--

series would air over CBS.

sometime in the winter.
She was to star.as a dizzy
but lovable flight atten-
dant, with Gene Barry -
playing: the pilot. Well,
~ things didn’t work: out
somehow. with script and -

casting difficulties ~

- creating big headaches. So ..
it was back to the drawing
board. Now, Suzanne and

. Alan say a-new series pilot’

isin the works with Suzie
playing a dizzy blonde.
starring in-a series of her
- own. The character is also
a single parent. If you get
. the ‘ide& that art closély
resembles life. in this
.case,, you're right on, the
“mark, ‘The new pilot is to
be titled, ‘'Suzie

Mahoney". which happens —

to be Somers’ real hame.
* ‘* . .

cable. distribution - would...

MY PAD OR YOURS: ~

; Jim Dale, the original’star

of. the Broadway musical .
“"Barnum’', entered a‘
Manhattan curio: shop .
recently where he began.
examining several abjels
art. When the proprietor
inquired whether he need-

.

a pad from the. desk. Then,=. = .—;..

suddenly remembering, he --

produced a. pad from. his

own pockel and-tound a’ |.

_ page on which he'd already
wrillen, ‘'Have- laryngitis
today, Just browsing — but _
thanks anyway!” .

TOUGH MAMA; Ethel

don’t - take - any - of - your
“2 nonsense. mothers; At'son .
‘Bobby’ $ “recent. engage
‘ment party tolawyer Emi- —.
“ly Ruth’ Black, the “late
*_ senator's. widow. didn't like ©
’ something her- 27-year-old
offspring said ‘in his ‘toast
. arid tossed’a glass of cham-,
pagne at him. Z -

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