Page 7 . _ When asked what he thought. of CBC-TV's The Journal, a — colleagne threatened to budget, - ‘pay-TV or. “that program.’ ne . 2s He probably isn'| ‘aloe _ certainly - “not in: “Toronto | ‘anyway, where BOG daysit ‘seemed. gossip “columnists "would haye to close up! shop. if it: weren't: “for : Barbaie _ Frim's | hair, Mary ~ "Low ' Finlay’s wardrobe, or-some tidbit - on, the. atest - ‘top- seoret : riemo, high-tech. set. or nine-week “vacations,” The: ‘current. affairs program, was overhyped’ well’ before it went.on air: Jan, 11," It ‘wasn't: much helped by. CBC. executives, who through long delays - _ caused by biidget problems, strikes’. and © ‘equipment: testing = fostered. the -program’s” ‘image as a savior of the publicly funded . network. When it. was teamed with . The: National in: a . prime- tinie. package, : ‘they said, CBC ‘would.been seen as a distinct alternative. to other channels: The’. network would have: a Faison: d'etre - - by: offering : ‘news ‘and company wouldn't duck its. _ Xiewers ‘nightly’ when the: a Journal’s Season Ends _ ok ‘plaints: Some said hosts Frum and Finlay didn’t do their hemework allowed too’many guests to go unchallenged. Some. argued the interviews were and . interviewed an Israeli cabinet minister during the Lebanese . crisis and the Argentinian defence _Minister during - Falitands crisis, too long, while: others said. “they were cut off. just as~ _, they started, to Bet in- : teresting. ' rea The. show was accused of. being a rip-off of American. and. many - - viewers were justifiably... “annoyed . that ‘producers - programs |; tried to. pretend studio in- Aerviews were live, when in fact very few were. .. But; -just-'as all the. fuss ‘should ‘have died ‘down, an April 3news story reported - ‘hat Journal Staffers were taking: nine. weeks. off ‘because they were “tired. a It. wasn't until several weeks. later. that CBC ‘executives .replied the program: was actually being . taken off because there was not enough -mortey in the 1982-3 budget to rum it 52: weeks, Mark Starowiez; show’s executive: producer, “says CBC. mishandled the whole affair.and admits he should have been ‘more : clear that we were going olf the air under protest.”* _ ‘I suppose it would have. "been a lot: cleaner if I'd ‘Those: sons of. screamed bitches at “the CBC” are killing us,’ " he says. now. But he. says he sym- pathized with the. budget fj problems:.““Do.you. demand... that we stay on the air at all. costs if it means destroying regional programming and the further crippling of “radio?” Still, he says “we've read that we’re going away for _ nine weeks of sunning and ’ surfing and the staff is being portrayed as laggards— it’ 8. an obscenity." ‘The staff will - take: its regular vacations and the - rest of the time will be spent . working on. next season's ‘The. episode’ ended the -SCASOn On: a somewhat sour . hate, but Starowiez says he -is proud of-~-the ac- complishments:. The: show million cae: ‘hoped: ‘for --900,000; : ‘more,’ ‘than ~ 100: documen- ‘tarles were produced, some ‘from. .as far. away as Uganda, - Kampuchea ’ Poland and the Middle East, “places where Canadian film ‘crews have rarely ventured. ~ Viewers now have come * 40 expect..ta “see major | he. says, - newsmakers, * pointing out that bi show the | “Among: sake" Biggest changes Plansied for. next - geagon is Kent’s greater. irivolvement In the studio as ; head of a unit for special, large documentaries. . on j 7 . . the “I decided it was time to pul away my. suitcases,” Says Kent, whose ‘wife recently had a’baby. “That was the agreement I.had when joined — that Lwould "be onthe: road for one year. me There will also be “more film and less talk” when the . program returns on Labor , Day and‘more use will be made of interviewing guesis live from the Toronto studio. 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