Castlegar News May 24, 1989 BUSINESS able industry braces for September rate hikes By BILL ANDERSON © The Canadian Press Their ears still burning from con sumer complaints last fall, members of the Canadian-cable-industry are bracing for another round of price hikes and channel changes in Septem ber The changes will vary depending on local cable companies, but they involve the move of The Sports Network to basic cable from Pay TV, the launch of a Frenchslanguage sports channel and the start of CBC Newsworld, an English-language all-news channel A few cable companies will also move MuchMusic to basic cable from pay TV, while others may be. in troducing or juggling their “unscram. bled ier,” designed to offer several satellite channels at lower cost Shaw Cable has already moved The Sports Network and MuchMusic to its basic cable service in the Castlegar area. Overall, there area dizzying number of combinations possible, but the changes — combined with regular an naul increases — will mean a boost of about $2 per month on most basic cable bills. TAX BITE UP The first price rise actually hits, in June, with a relatively minor increase of one per cent in the fedéral tax y still more increases likely with changes due in retransmission royalties, Scheduled increases fof previous specialty channels and a proposed French-language news channel. While some consumers are bound,to be angry, the cable industry is also feeling some bitterness at its role in all this. It argues that the federal broadcast regulator is forcing it to ‘‘pass through"’ a great number of the charges — and so the industry gets little revenue but most of the gfief, as customers blame it for the increases. The CRTC has distorted the relationship we have enjoyed with our subscribers,"’ Michael Hind-Smith, president of the Canadian Cable Television Association, said at a recent industry convention in Toronto ONWITHTASK” * Cable managers also grumble privately that the CRTC, after devising the “pass through” system, has calmly retreated from the situation and left the cable companies to handle the dirty job of selling it to the public Still, the industry is attempting to bury its gripes and get on with the task Rather than simply give notice of the price increases and then Weathering a storm of protest, cable companies are planning an array of strategies But afier September, there will be _ designed to sell the entertainment value of cable TV and the role of cable firms in the community Cable subscribers, for example, may see small “‘newspapers’’ arriving on their doorsteps that have. been produced by their cable company MAKEFRIENDS Gerry Kirkby, who produced such a all for the cable firm he miths Falls, Ont., says itis possible “to turn subscribers into friends" with some common-sense ef forts — mostly telling viewers in clear language what changes are coming and providing anew channel guide Janice Gillies, general manager of Monarch Cable TV in\Medicine Hat, Alta., told the cable convention “You're fooling yourself if you think someone won't complain — but the job is to let them know and that’s half the battle. * “When people get their shirts in a knot, they forget all the good things you do. You haye to remind them that you are a good corporate citizen and that life does go on after a September rate increase."" An important part of this process, cable executives suggest, is ensuring that every person who answers the phone at the company if fully infor med on the issues. Cable managers are also being urged to increase the num Funeral businesses unhappy with ad ban VANCOUVER (CP) — Cemetery operators want provincial Labor Minister Lyall Hanson to change his mind about banning telephone soliciting by their industry, but con sumer advocates couldn't be happier about the ban The ban by Hanson, also minister responsible tor consumer affairs, will force many people to make painful decisions about funeral arrangements while grieving a death, argued the Cemetery ~~ and ~ Crematorium Association ot British Columbia It said telephone soliciting is the most effective tool for attracting pre: paid business. Losing it will reduce in come, leading to poorer maintenance of cemeteries and higher prices for ser vices, the association said But a church official said the association's members are in the funeral business mainly for the money Priscilla Turner, president of the major Protestant denominations and the Catholic Church in Greater Van couver and the Fraser Valley The ban was announced by Hanson May I1, only four days after he told the funeral industry that new legislation would allow funeral homes to join cemeteries in using telephone soliciting to drum up sales. [AUTOMOTIVE SALES PERSON Self motivated sales person for automotive sales Hanson denied reversing himself, saying draft legislation would have banned all telephone soliciting ‘The problem is an aversion with the public. to. telephone soliciting of any kind,” said the minister. **People dislike that intrusion."” ber of employees, increase the number of telephones, (0 go when notice of the price increases arrive in the mail, not just onSept. | when the channel changes appear on screen. industry is coming to see it as money that must be spent to put a fresh shine onits appearance. the convention, telephone companies are eager to move in on cable’s turf, and “‘our survival depends even more on the perception of service than anything else.”” TV pictures, good image becomes the key to suc- cess ind have them all ready Sunfest Slopitch See Topemeny June Castlegar" sc * room by 32 » owas DEADLINI riday May entry > Pi Be includes 10 dance tickets Call Katrine Conroy at 365-3270 Hii or 365-5616 to enter nter your team TODAY! 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Demo Derby 89 provided more than just smash-up action. BMX racing kept fans entertained between De few othe: th cod Costtews Photo by Guy Bertrand heats. These dirt daredevils took this bumb along witha round the track. Jays capitalize on error for victory TORONTO (CP) — Alex Sanchez’s show was about to close minutes after it opened Tuesday, so Bob Brenly used a few jokes from a familiar routine. The 35-year-old Blue Jays catcher, a stocky man with lines of experience grooved into a rugged face, has seen plenty of fresh-faced ‘‘kids’' like 23-year-old Sanchez suffer an attack of nerves in their debuts. The humor worked. Sanchez hung on for six inhings, allowing one run on five hits and five walks, and the Toronto Blue Jays exploited a three- base error by John Moses in the 86ers heading into new season VANCOUVER (CP) — Bob Lenarduzzi is trying to forget his Vancouver 86ers are the defending Canadian Soccer League champions. The Vancouver coach prefers to focus on the future as the 86ers — unbeaten in their last 28 soccer games last year — attempt to win their second straight CSL title “Ll know we'te the defending champions and that to me is a negative connotation,”’ Lenarduzzi said Tuesday “I don't want to defend what we've accomplished — I want to go out and win it again."’ The 86ers lost only once in the CSL last season and Lenarduzzi is determined to push Vancouver to another successful season in Canada’s only prop soccer league Lenarduzzi retired as a player after two seasons as the team’s playing-coach. He will conceritrate his efforts on coaching, although he took on the additional duties of director of operations after the off-season resignation of general manager Buzz Parsons “I don’t think we can accomplish more statistically than we did last year,"’ Lenarduzzi said after a news conference and win the championship again. “Certainly we can go out “We averaged three goals a game over the season last year and that's almost unheard of in outdoor soccer. I'd like to try and achieve that again this season ESSES OFFENCE Lenarduzzi, 34, a Vancouver native, is committed to an attacking style of soccer. He promises nothing will change, even though his familiar No. 5 will not be positioned 4t left fullback The Vancouver native, who played his first game for Canada in 1973, fe believes Canadian talent can be skills. ped by Z on CANADIAN SHINES Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Don’t let the rather plain-sounding name fool you. John Jones is for real, and he’s far from ordinary. The 23-year-old from Thunder Bay, Ont.,.is the youngest driver in Sun- day’s Indianapolis 500 and also the fastest rookie qualifier in Indy history. He’li start from the inside of the ninth row, next to former winner Danny Sulliv in. ‘I've been talking to the other drivers, especially the veterans, asking them what's different about this place,”” Jones said Tuesday before a lunch in honor of the fastest rookie qualifier. “I’ve done a lot af oval racing since last year, but still, with this place, you can’t help wondering. They all said, ‘Look, you've got to keep calm, don’t let all the hype affect you, attack it as just another race,"’ Jones said. But he knows it isn’t just another race, of course. He tried to get into the $00 a year ago, when he first passed his rookie test, but he made one unsuc cessful qualification attempt and quickly learned what Indy is all about “Because of the difficulties last year, it probably was the most frustrating month in my career There’s always the question out there ‘Why didn’t you qualify?’ 1 just wan- ted to come back and try again, to start over with a clean slate.’’ Jones drove in 14 other Indy-car races besides Indianapolis last year, with his best finish seventh. He was 11th in the season point standings and was voted the Championship Auto Racing Teams rookie of the year. In the two races so far this season, he was 16th at Phoeriix and 20th at Long Beach. He qualified for his first start at Indianapolis at 214.028 mph, breaking the former rookie record of 210.096 set last year by Dominic Dobson. “To >be the fast rookie is just a bonus for me,”’ he said. “Obviously, it’s a very exciting thing to be a part of. But it means a great deal just to qualify."’ The only other rookies in Sunday's race are Scott Pruett, who qualified at 213.955; and Didier Theys and Ber- nard Jourdain, the two slowest qualifiers in the lineup, at 213.120 and ninth inning to pull out a 2-1 win over the Mirinesota Twins. David Wells, 2-2 pitched three itinings of one-hit relief, striking out three for the win. The performance extended the bullpen's scoreless str- eak to 24 innings Juan Berenguer. 2-2, took the loss by giving up a one-out sacrifice fly to The Twins wasted a two-hit performance over eight inn- ings by starter Shane Rawley Both Toronto runs were unearned Sanchez, drafted out of UCLA two years. ago, arrwed from Class AAA Syracuse on Monday. He started the first inning he's pitched on artificial turf by walking Dan Gladden on four pitches. When the right-hander threw two balls to Al Newman, pitching coach Al Widmar limped to the mound Brenly greeted Widmar with .the wry question: “‘What am I doing wrong?" Sanchez walked Newman, so Bren ly went out again. With the danger- ous Kirby Puckett coming up, the situation looked messy “Don't worry kid."’ Brenly said “You've still got your no-hitter." HUMOR WORKS Sanchez, who said he was keeping his mouth open to allow the stomach butterflies an escape route, apprec iated the humor. Sanchez got Puckett to fly to right, Randy Bush to ground out and Gary Gaetti on a fly. Meanwhile the Twins were left to explain the ninth inning. With one out and Kelly Gruber up centre fielder Puckett was playing deep. George Bell. ones 213.105, respectively Jones started racing go-karts in Canada at age 14. AU 17, he was the Canadian Formula 2000 series champion, and two years later he became the first Canadian and the youngest IMSA GTO champion in history. He was the only North American in the European Formula 3000 series in 1986-87, and in his first Indy-car season a year ago earned almost $360,000. “T’ve been the youngest driver in every series I’ve run, so it’s not something really new to me,”” he said “Being in this race is a bigger deal than my age. I plan on another 20 years or so. Voting for Indy 500 rookie of the year will be done by a 33-member committee after the race on Sunday and announced Monday night at the annual Victory Dinner. That possible honor is also on Jones’ mind, he said, although it’s something he tries “to downplay, so I won't mess up” in the race. “But this (fast rookie award) is going to help. Now it’s a mat- ter of running a good race.”” ONE STEP AWAY Heat now on Habs CALGARY (CP) — If one were to listen t8 the voice of the Montreal Canadiens, the most successful franchise in North American sports history, all they really had to play Tuesday night was two minutes of hockey The Canadiens and the Calgary Flames played 20 minutes of interesting hockey followed by 40 minutes of mostly uneventful activity when, in the end, the outcome of the Stanley Cup game was decided in the first and last minutes. The Flames took a 3-2 win and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series because the breaks in those two minutes went their way. Or as some of the Canadiens suggested, perhaps they weren't really breaks after all Lumbering Joel Otto scored on a breakaway at 28 seconds when his own rebound bounced off his leg into the net. It was a goal that an angry Montreal coach Pat Burns said should not have counted “That was hard to take,"’ Burns said before he smashed a stick on the floor and then verbally blasted his team, liberally spicing his French speech with profanities. “If you look at the video,. skates in the crease."’ That break, coming after Montreal defenceman Rick Green fanned on the puck at the blueline to create Otto's breakaway, fired up the Flames. For eight minutes they teased the Canadiens who had difficulty just gétting the puck out of their own end. FOUGHT BACK The non-stop pressure finally resulted in Joe Mullen's goal. Then the Canadiens, aided by three power plays, dominated for 11 minutes, outshooting Calgary 10-0 and getting a goal from Bobby Smith That was offset by Al Macinnis’s power-play goal with 29 seconds left in the period, a_ typically, faster-than-a-speeding-bullet drive that was in the back of the net before goaltender Patrick Roy could react. The goal extended MacInnis's playoff record points streak to 16 games and gave him a playoff-leading 29 points. The only scoring after that was Mike Keane's goal you can see both his late in the second period that made the score interesting The Canadiens, a team but not necessarily the game that lives and. dies with defence, tried to mount sustained attack in a desperate bid for victory in the final period. While they outshot Calgary 11-5 in the period and, for the first time in the series, matched the Flames th 28 shots overall, their best scoring chances were foiled. Not by. Calgary goaltender Mike Vernon or his shot-blocking defencemen but, rather, by the movement of the net STOPS PLAY The nets in Calgary ‘seem to come off the mooring , more often than anywhere else, a situation the Canadiens certainly noticed. Especially when the net was displaced on some of their best chances, including the final one with eight seconds left Vernon made a good save on Smith from in, close but as Ryan Walter corralled the rebound and fired Calgary's Colin Patterson moved the net. “Obviously he did it on purpose,” said Russ Courtnall,\who had fired high on a tremendous scoring chance moments earlier. ‘They've been doing it all series. “The referees have to start calling it, Flames) do it every game.”’ Smith, Montreal's leading playoff scorer with 18 points, argued the point but to no avail. “The guy knocks the net off for the 15th time with eight seconds left,” he angrily said later, “The replay shows it’s true but the referee doesn’t want to call a penalty shot because he knows he'll never hear the end of it.” Whatever the complaints from the losers and the comments from the winners, what is clear is that the Flames will now try to accomplish what no other team in the history has done — win the Stanley Cup ip the Montreal Forum Since the Forum was built, the Canadiens have played 11 potentially Cup-clinching games there and have never been beaten. Game 6 is Thursday they (the Clark delivers blow SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Will Clark enjoys his new role as Kevin Mitchell's tablesetter. But every now and then his home run stroke gets the best of him. Thanks in so mall part to the white-hot Mitchell hitting behind him, Clark is leading the national League in runs scored with 32 and But this .292 hitter isn’t turning slap-happy like Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn. An inside fastball still often translates te four bases for Clark, whether he means to hit it out or not “All I'm trying to do is get on for Kevin,” he said after his two-run homer in the seventh inning provided I'm having a blast out there right now."” So are the Giants as a team, having won 10 of 14 games to move to within half a game of first-place Cincinnati in the NL West. Even with only one pitcher with more than three wins, they are five games over .500 for the first time this season. the majors with a .373 batting average. What last year would have been ball four outside often is a base hit to right this season; last year’s NL leader in walks isn’t even in the top the winning margin for Rick Reuschel in San Francisco's 4-2 Montreal Tuesday night “This is fun not only for me but in watching Kevin,” 10. “It's definitely pressureless play GETS CREDIT victory over The credit belongs to Reuschel, who became the NL's first eight- game winner, and an offence that leads the league with 36 homers (22 by Mitchell and Clark). he said By TERRY SCOTT The Canadian Press The loudest fan reaction during the Montreal Ex pos’ recent nine-game homestand at Olympic Stadium didn’t come until the sixth inning of the final day It had nothing to do with the Expos’ sudden arousal from an unseemly slumber that had resulted in only two victories in the first eight games. The crowd’s emotions were tweaked when a roving camera focused on a young man wearing a Calgary Flames sweater and the image was projected on the scoreboard. This, after all. was a playful fanning of the flames in a Stanley Cup rivalry. All but a handful of the 24,231 onlookers, staunch supporters of the hometown Canadiens. booed lustily but good naturedly The stadium resounded with cheers a few seconds later when the scoreboard operator superimposed a Canadiens’ crest over the one on the Flames’ sweater Combined with a 3-1 lead for the Expos, a glimmer of sunshine was evident for the first time in almost a week. Bryn Smith, the winning pitcher on this afternoon with a superlative four-hitter, isn’t a booster of the Flames. But he also isn’t appreciative of the hockey related intrusion at a crucial juncture of the ball game. SEND TELEGRAM “1 don’t know who’s running the show,”” he'said, alluding to the scoreboard operation. ‘‘But someone should tell the people if they want to send messages maybe they should send a telegram, but don’t put it on the scoreboard. “This is a baseball game, not hockey. I’m trying to concentrate out there and it’s hard to do with whatever is going on. Yeah, it peeved me off alittle.”” As distractions go in the team’s history, this one may have ranked with the jet that mesmerized rookie Balor Moore at Jarry Park in the early 1970s. Moore was about to deliver a pitch when a low-flying aircraft, larger than anything Moore had ever seen, prompted him to step off the mound with mouth agape. Smith has been around long enough not to be un- Settled by such a sight. He has also been a member of the Expos since 1982, so presumably he’s also been around Expos play in shadow long enough to sense the infatuation Montrealers have with Les Canadiens. Prior to Sunday, the most spontaneous reaction from the fans at Olympic Stadium was when the scoreboard teasingly revealed a score in the Flames- Canadiens game, which had Montreal into an early lead. SCORE FLASHED That's not much different than most stadiums around the league, where the progress of a National Football League team playing in the same-city as the baseball. squad is acknowledged by a noisy response when the score is flashed on the board Ofcourse, in most cities Where there are at least two professional sports teams, the baseball squad is on at least an equal footing with its neighbor. In Montreal, the Expos could opeh the season with a 20-game winning streak and it would. likely remain—a_secret_until the Canadiens no longer had a chance to sip champagne from the Stanley Cup What are the Expos to do from a management and player standpoint? For at least the first two months of the season, they compete for fan attention and their hard-earned dollars against an organization that has won 23 Stanley Cups. The Canadiens’ tradition is in the CH that’s worn near the heart; the Expos were their tradition on their sleeve, still stained by the tears of what might have been Baseball players who have been weaned on baseball in such hotbeds as California or Florida can’t help but feel like an ignored son, whose father only has eyes for his first born Surrounded by reporters from San Francisco, where he played with the Giants last year, Mike Aldrete, an Expos outfielder was asked recently to contrast the atmosphere at Candlestick Park and Olympic Stadium “It was a more exciting atmosphere at Can- dlestick,”” he remarked. “It’s pretty quiet here, but that could be because the Stanley Cup playoffs are still on, and maybe it will change “One positive thing is that, as poorly as I've played so far, the fans haven"t booed me too much.” Then again, Aldrete wasn’t wearing a Calgary Flames jersey.