A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 6, 1996 TV show gets mixed reviews Straight Up called ‘how-to guide’ for teen sex By KATHLEEN BRANDSMA A NEW CBC program exploring the lives of teenagers is coming under fire from Terrace viewers, including some teens themselves. Caledonia grade 12 student Leslie Dickson says she docsn’t think the producers of the show know what teenagers are all about. “The first episode was obsessed with sex and the show portrays teenagers in a very negative way,” says Dickson. But she amdils the show does have some redecming qualities. In a review in Cal’s student paper The Dose she writes “what was nice about the show was that it didn’t fol- low the happy cnding formula. The rough edges of this show suit the sub- ject matter and the intended audience.” She says il’s realistic in some points but adds it only covers certain aspects of teenage life, and those seem to be the negative ones. Tim Morton, the TV operations manager at CFTK, says he’s received a number of phone calls from viewers who are offended by the show. “Y don’t think there’s anything in the show that’s worth running,’’ he says. But the local station is obligated to carry it anyway. “We are a CBC affiliate,”’ explains Morton: “And they make two types of shows available to us, reserved, and avail- able,”’ “| always figured we could wateh CBC when everything else was gross, but now they're gross too.” He says CFTK is under contract to run the reserved shows, one of which is ‘Straight Up,” but can choose whether or not to run available shows. He says he’d prefer if “Straight Up” were put in the available calegory, or, if that’s not possible, to air it during a later time slot. He says a spokesperson at CBC Toronto told him the show is a pilot Series and will only air six times. He was also told it was only the first show that was sexually explicit. “T watched the second show and it was beller,’’ says Morton. “If the rest are like that J can live with it.”* The show is produced in Toronto is marketed as a gritly look at an eclectic mix of teenagers in the '90’s, “Is as far away from ‘‘Beverly Hills 90210” as you can get,” says a show publicist, One local viewer, Irenc Mullican, says she was shocked when she saw “Straight Up’ for the first time. “Tt seemed like a how-to guide for sex,”’ she says. And she’s concerned about the mes- sage that could send to young people. “I always figured we could watch CBC when everything else was gross, but now they’re gross too,’”’ m Skeena recyclers SKEENA STUDENTS loaded up two years worth of recycling fast week onto a truck donated by Bandstra. The paper and old notebooks were collected by a now defunct recycling club. That's Kevin Andolfatto and Shaun DaSilva, helping to load the truck which made its way to Kitimat yesterday, CBC Radio awaits the knife EXPECT MORE budget trimming at CBC Radio’s northern outlets. Already suffering from several years of staff reductions, the crown corpora- tion’s Prince Rupert and Prince George bureaus will be asked to do more with less, says CBC Radio offi- cial Susan Englebert. The news end has been particularly hard hit with the CBC's Prince Rupert-based reporter all but assigned full time to Vancouver . “It’s not been completely decided yet but we may take that reporter out of there,’’ said Englebert. CBC's Prince George reporter moved away last weck but thal posi- More cuts loom for north tion will be filled soon, she added. “We are faced with downsizing. There’s no question. We may be moving people around when impor- tant things come up on occasion,” Englebert continued. CBC Radio has already combined its Prince Rupert and Prince George moming shows as a result of budget cuts, Its Prince Rupert operation, for in- stance, is now down to two staffers and a contract worker. One new venture under considera- tion is the creation of a newscast just for the interior and the north. That’s one way of countering com- plaints that CBC Radio pays too much altention to the lower mainland. ““What we can do depends on our resources,’’ said Englebert of that idea, CBC Radio began changing its ap- Proach to the north in the late 1980s when its CFPR Prince Rupert station was dissolved in favour of creating bureaus and programming in Prince Gcorge and Kelowna and by placing reporters throughout the interior. 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In the past few years the government has recognized the Tatshenshini-Alsek, the Khutzcymateen Grizzly Sanctuary and three marine parks in the inside passage as protected areas. And Ken Zimmer at the Smithers Parks office says he expects the Kitlope to receive official park desig- nation this spring. It was protected from resource extraction in the fall of 1994. “Staffing levels are the same as they’ve always been,” he says. “There have no full-time equivalents designated to Jook after the new parks.”* “And this is a concern for us.”? He says there is currently one full-time area super- visor working in Terrace and they hope to have a sec- - ond person in place some- lime ‘between April and June. And there is, and always has been a budget in place to hire and train seasonal auxiliary workers. 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