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' West Coast Chimney Service
Clean chimney maintenance dealer
for: FINGUARD CHIMNEY FIRE EX-
TINGUISHERS, Phone 635-9557,

Pro Tech Electronics

‘ Complete electronics repairs. and

services, Service centre for most
major brands, Satellite TV systems.

4519 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace, B.C.

Phone 635-5134,

Northwest Consolidated Supply Ltd.
Your complete source for all your
heating needs. 5239 Kelth Avenue,

Terrace, 8.C, Phone 635-7158,

Total Business Services
Typing, volce pager, photocopying,
24-hour answering service, No. 1
3238 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C.,
V8G 2N4, Phone 638-8195.

All-West Glass Terrace Ltd.
Auto glass speciallsts, ICBC claims

handied promptly. 4711-A Keith.

Avenue. Phones 638-1166.

Ken’s Marine

Mere Crulsers, Mariner outboards,
Hamilton and outboard Mariner
Jets, Homelight lawnmowers,
Yamaha 3 and 4 wheelers, Yamaha
Power Products, Shindalwa chain
saws and power products. DL No.
7550. 4946 Greig Avenue. Phone
635-2909,

B & GQ Grocery
Laundromat and Carwash, Open
8:30 to 10:30 p.m.daily. 2701 South
Kalum Street. Phone 635-6180.

Terrace Equipment Sales Lid.
Sales and Service for Motorcycles,
Chainsaws, Snowmobiles, Marine
Supplies. 4441 Lakelse Avenue, Ter:
race. Phone 635-6384,

Doc’s Cartage & Storage Co.
(1984) Ltd.
Agents for United Van Lines, ...
Across town or across the nation.
3111 Blakeburn Street, Terrace, B.C.
Phone 635-2728. In Kitimat Phane
632-2544,

Nate’s Electric
Industrial, Commercial & Residen-
tlal Wirlng. 4931 Lazelle Avenue, Ter-
race, B.C. Phone 638-1876. Nathan
Waddell - Electrical Contractor.

-HI-Quality Belting & Contract!
. Services hed

Inflatable Boat Repairs, Durable.

‘High Quallty Vulcanizing Repalrs.
We specialize in Conveyer Belt In-
stallations, Splicing, and Repairs.
Vulcanizing and Pulley Lagging. 24
hour service, reasonable rates.
Phone 638-0663 or

North Coast Auto Repairs Ltd.
Specializing in 4x 4 and Automatic
Transmission Repairs. 3220 River
Drive, Terrace, B.C. Phone 635-6967.

_ DLN Contracting
Commercial & Residentlat Construc-
tlon, Maintenance, Repairs &
Renovations Wood Stove Installa-
tions. No. 4-3976 Mountalnview
Avenue, Terrace, B.C. Phone
635-5850.

Kalum Electric Ltd.
Major Appliances: Frigidaire, Elec-
trohome, Westinghouse, Quasar
T.V., Sales & Service, VCR, Parts
Depot for all makes, We service all
makes. 3234 Kalum Street, Phone
635-6286.

Thornhill Grocery & Laundromat
Open 7 days a week 8 a.m. to 11
p.m., Frash meat cut dally, Fresh
produce, ‘Take-out foods, Stamp
Agency. Across from Thornhill
Elementary. Phone 635-6624,

Chimo Dellvery ;
Do you have problems picking up
prescriptions, grocerles, appilances
or anything else? For all your mov-
Ing and deilvery needs, phone for ex-
perienced and speedy service. Dally
Grocery Pickup from Safeway and
Co-op 1:30 and 5:30 pm. Only $4.00,
free to Seniors, only through Chimo

and Safeway. Phone 638-8530.

Fulton: CFPR
not a luxury

Letter

To the Editor;

A recent guest column in
Northwest newspapers by our
local CBC radio station manager
deserves a response. While sym-
pathetic to Ray Hudson’s role in
having to explain the closure of
CFPR-Prince Rupert, as an avid
fan of local CBC radio and as a
Member of Parliament, I must
protest the attempt to sugar-coat
a very serious loss of broadcast
service. |

In the column, CBC calls our
local station ‘‘an accident”, and

claims that reducing local radio.

coverage to ad hoc broadcasts
via Prince George will be to our
benefit. ‘They argue that: the
result will be less ‘‘isolation’’
and more news ‘‘about Prince
George’’. :

Attempts to make the closure

of CFPR look good do not

satisfy me, nor do I suspect they
satisfy the vast majority of CBC
listeners in the Northwest who
have written my office in the
hundreds to protest cuts to the
local operation.

Economically, closure of the
station and the reduction in staff
from 14 to 2 will mean a direct
economic loss of over $800,000
annually.

Northwest listeners will also
lose an important focal point for
cultural, social, and political
events. To expect that two
reporters can cover an area from
the middle of the province to the

Queen Charlotte Islands is _

ridiculous. The area is larger
then the whole of the Province
of New Brunswick!

Make no mistake about it —
there will be a drastic reduction
in service. We may hear more
‘“fabout Prince George’, but we
will hear less and less about
Stewart, Terrace, Kitimat,
Smithers, Massett ... a whole
host of communities.

The Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation argues that AM
radio service must be expanded
in the B.C, Interior, that CBC
Stereo service must be brought to
the Victoria area, and that the
only way to finance the change is
by closing down our only local
CBC radio station. .

CBC fails to mention that
poor corporate judgement in its
relationship with an Ontario
broadcaster has now meant that
the Corporation will be spending
$10 milllion on a new Toronto
repeater,

CBC fails to mention that tens .

of millions of dollars could be
saved on the proposed $600
million Toronto broadcast
center by relocating to less ex-
pensive land,

CBC fails to mention they will
ask the federal government for
$50 million for the new Toronto
center, while not a peep is heard
on the need to maintain CFPR.

Instead, it is the CBC that is
viewing the issue in ‘‘isolation’’,
preferring to pit’ one under-
served group of British Colum-
bians against another group of
under-served British Colum-
bians. It won't wash!

CBC, of course, is not totally - ; a

Pro and

con

re “Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 2, 1988 23

for CBC move:

_ Station manager answers critics

Letter

To the Editor;

I wish to respond to some
points raised in the recent letter
-discussing the CBC Radio im-
provement plan. I will not recite
all aspects of the plan. They
were well covered in previous re-
ports. I will deal-with the fol-
lowing, however:

“CBC's plan to destroy pro-
gramming in the Northwest
won't save them a penny. In fact
Start up costs will exceed
$640, 000. ”’

— The plan is to be carried out
with the money now available to
Prince Rupert and the Van-
couver Daybreak Show. The
strength of the plan is that it will
vastly improve the way we spend
those public funds, serving
many hundreds of thousands of
people, who pay for the service,
in areas of the province which
are not well served by CBC now.
If we are not on the ground
across the province, it becomes
difficult in the extreme to pro-
vide knowledgeable balanced
reporting. The plan will put
resources into these areas of
poor coverage and high popula-
tion, We are, of course, commit-
ted to continued coverage of the
northcoast as well.

— In the matter of the start.up
costs, these are neither outside
nor in addition to the other costs
of the plan. The start up costs
are derived from the sale of CBC
property. The plan is self-
financing for start up, and self-
financing for on-going opera-
tions. There is no new money in
this plan!

“The morning show format
will be changed to allow for a
longer broadcast of the Van-
couver news to accommodate
the items we neither need or
want to know, ”’

— That’s assuming a lot on
behalf of radio listeners, and
spoken from a rather narrow lo-
cal perspective, I believe. North-
west listeners, even the ones liv-
ing in Prince Rupert travel out-
side of the district, or have in-
terests outside of the CFPR
district. They do need to know
road and weather conditions in
the Prince George and surround-
ing areas, as do many listeners in
the east end of our existing net-
~work as they travel about and

to blame. The present predica-
ment began because of cuts to
public broadcasting by both the
Mulroney Cabinet and previous
Liberal governments. These cuts
have been initiated without any
protection or consultation with
the regions of the country.

The Northwest is already an
under-serviced market without
the luxury of CBC stereo ser-
vice. We must not lose our only
local CBC radio station.

CFPR is not an ‘‘accident’’,
hor is it a luxury. CFPR is an
award-winning station. It is also
CBC's most successful station in
Canada in terms of market

shares. In the move to expand

radio service to the B.C. In-
terior, CFPR is not a deserving

victim. Jim Fulton, MP
Skeena

otherwise go about their lives.

There seems to be an implica-
tion that there is nothing in com-
mon across Highway 16. Issues
of forestry, mining, pulp, Native
affairs, social programs and
general lifestyles are pretty much
common right across the north.
The North by Northwest Tour-
ism offices are located in Smi-
thers, but service all of Highway.
16 and the Hart Highway. The
issues we deal with now will con-
tinue to be the issues in the pro-
grams under the new plan,
nothing changes very much. |
have pointed out time and again
that news of the Northwest will
continue to receive coverage. Ci-
ty council meetings, community
news, all current marine weather
reports including the. Terrace
briefing will continue, as will
community service announce-
ments and all other so called
“survival information’’. For the
people of Ooona River and
other outlying communities,
Message Time will continue as a
free public service including free
access. In dealing with increased
amounts of information we will
add, perhaps by dropping some
music, material from the full
region and the province. In addi-
tion, stories and issues from this
part of the province will get
wider distribution, both into the
interior and the lower south
coast. ,

The Afternoon show, with
material available from five
bureaus, will be much more pro-
vincial in socpe and certainly-
much less Vancouver-oriented.

“CBC says that Northwest
residents will still have local
programming as a sub-region of
Prince George. What utter
nonsense.”’

— Currently we produce a three-
hour morning show from Prince
Rupert, for our region, with
three people. The Prince Rupert
bureau will comprise two people
whose sole task is to cover the
coast, not. to read newscasts, not
to prepare program formats, not
to do station breaks. Simply to
gather and present material
from the coast and feed it to the
four person bureau in Prince
George. That’s a total of six
people working in the northern
region. I fai] to see how this level
of activity can be dismissed as
“utter nonsense”’.

“Those who read the CBC's
application to the CRTC will
recognize that the authors af this
plan are woefully ignorant of
life and geography in the North-
west, ”’

— The primary authors of the
Radio Improvement plan are
Murray Hanna and myself, Be-
tween the two of us we comprise
about 26 years of broadcasting
and community service to the
Northwest.

“It is ridiculous to think that
the programming provided by 14
people can be improved...etc.”’

— We do not have 14 people .
doing programming! Our pro-
gram staff is comprised of three
reporters, six announcers and a
researcher. The rest are engaged
in technical and administrative
operation of the station. The
new plan converts some of the
support positions to program
positions, thus reducing the
amount of technical and admin-

’ > istrative strutture in favor of

Hearing
March 10

On March 10 at 9 a.m, in
Prince Rupert’s Highliner Inn,
public hearings will be held to
allow members of the public |
and interested groups to pre-
sent their views on proposed
amendments to the broad-
casting license of Prince
Rupert radio station CFPR.

The proposal involves mov-
ing staff and production facil-
ities of the station from Prince:
Rupert to Prince George.
Copies of the proposal are
available for examination at
the CBC facility in Prince
Rupert at 346 Stiles Pl.

Further information on in-
terventions can be obtained by
calling the Canadian Radio
and Telecommunications
Commission in Hull, P.Q. at
1-819-997-1328.

programming.

“Ts it really worth losing all of
this for the sake of one more sta-
tion in Victoria?”

— Again ... we are not putting a
station into Victoria. We will
operate a repeater transmitter on
Saltspring Island to provide the
stereo network service to the
south end of Vancouver Island.
It will carry no local program-
ming. -

We truly understand the con-
cern many feel about the
changes. We regret as well that
CBC Prince Rupert is the major
source of resources to be
redistributed. At the same time
we cannot justify the continued
resourcing of this location with
the on-going lack of service to
most of the rest of B.C. As well,
this plan is proposed in a time of
continued budget cuts. To sim-
ply maintain the status quo with
the B.C. Radio operation would
have been to undergo further
seriously damaging cuts both to
Vancouver and certainly Prince
Rupert.

The Minister of Communica-
tions, Flora MacDonald, in
responding to the Mayor of Ter-
race January 11, reviewed the
plan and added the following
remarks:

“Given that the Broadcasting
Act specifically calls for the ex-
tension of CBC services to all
parts of Canada, as it becomes
possible to do so, the Corpora-
tion is fulfilling its mandate. In
extending services without re-
quiring a massive infusion of —
federal funds, the CBC is also
meeting its responsibility as a
federal agency by sharing in the
attempt to improve the Cana-
dian economic situation through
curbing the growth of the na-
tional debt.’’

In summary, this is a plan, if
approved by the CRTC, which
will redress the current and
untenable imbalance in the use
of radio resources in B.C. We
have committed to continuing a
high level of service to the north
coast and I reiterate that com-
mitment. We will assure a
balanced coverage of the region
through the Morning show, and
wider representation in the pro-
vince and network than exists
now. . .

Ray Hudson
Station Manager, CFPR _
Prince Rupert