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VICTORIA (CP) — The tiny community of Fort St.
James, 600 kilometres north of Vancouver in the rugged
wilderness of northers British Columbia, is taking on the
Canadian Radio and Tek i Com.
mission on behalf of television viewers in rural Canada.

The Fort St. James T.V. Society has launched a
letter-writing campaign in a bid to get the federal
government to overturn a CRTC decision that would
virtually ensure the society's death.

The end of the society would mean that television
viewers in the rural area surrounding Fort. St. James, about
60 per cent of the’area's 5,000 residents, would be stuck with

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proceedings against several of them because the govern-
ment is reviewing its communications policies.

Drury said the society, which has equipment valued at
more than $250,000, was started in 1970 to provide television
coverage because cable operators refused to set up shop.

“We had to look after ourselves and we want to continue
to do that, mainly because the television society is the only
way everybody can get the same programming. The
majority should not be sacrificed.”

He said cablevision is fine for urban areas where the
population is concentrated, “but cable does not work in rural
Canada.

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follows:

He pointed to the nearby community of Vanderhoof
which had a television society that supplied television
signals to 6,000 people until a licence for cablevision was

The commission's decision Oct. 19 to grant a licence to granted for the downtown area, and now “4,500 people do
Omineca Cablevision Ltd. to install a cable system in the not get any television.”
village's downtown area. The society is financed through a property assessment | Nome (Please Print)
The society, a non-profit organization set up with the which averages $27 a year for each household, and Drury |
backing of the village council and financed by a small said it is prepared to have this increased to $45 a year, and
OTTAWA (CP) — The two property levy, re-broadcasts television signals obtained with spend $35,000 more annually, to replace the three pirated
million members of the Can- 4 satellite dish. Homeowners need only an exterior antenna movie channels with Canadian stations.

He said the cablevision company proposes to charge a

$35 installation fee plus $18.40 a month to provide service.

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“I think our credibility is
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labor executives agreed to
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to function since it gets 80 per-cent of its revenue from the
downtown area.

Many communities across Canada that have been put in
the same situation where private operators have been
allowed into communities and the television societies have
been forced to close up shop because the CRTC restricts
them so severely that they can't survive, Drury said in a
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also provic neial support through licensing, and discriminates against a large number .
to the strikers and help them of rural communities without any consideration of the effects The city block is gone,
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IN MEMORY of a loving husband, Toronto area, one in London . man for the san Diego fire
father and grondtother, Joseph and one in St. Catharines. “They don't really care how many people the cable Gepartment, which rushed
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