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This and 11 other prize- winning children’s stories, plus a score of other stories and poems by Guild members goes on sale in the. 1986 edition of the Guild maga- zine, The Osprey’s Nest next week at the Castlegar Trade Fai

winning children's stories in this edition include:, Terry's Spirit by Denny. Terry; The Hamberger by Dary! Stepaniuk; Rainbows by Karen Skibinski; Down the Bathtub Drain by Gavin Mealing; The Myster-

Hughes; I Hate Those Mice by Alesha Campbell; Jason Graystone — Day of a Master by Rebecca Rheault; The Day the Aliens Took Over the School by Brendon Heard; Supercat and the In- vasion of the Killer Mice by Jason Wallers.

Top films to be shown

Four films that won awards at the 10th annual Banff Festival of Mountain Films will be presented Mon- day at Stanley Humphries secondary school.

The screening, co-sponsor- ed by the West Kootenay Avalanche Rescue Group and the Banff Festival of Moun- tain Films, is part of a tour of B.C. and Alberta following a sold-out series of present- ations in Calgary.

The Festival of Mountain Films, held each November at The Banff Centre, had a special rar in 1985 to

NBC rises high among networks

By FRED ROTHENBERG

NEW YORK (AP) — Five years ago, the joke in the U.S. television industry was NBC was the fourth-place network — behind CBC, ABC and Atari.

But this week, after a 1985-86 season of dominating the weekly ratings, NBC wrapped up its first overall vietory since the system for estimating television viewership began in 1955.

The story of NBC's rise is remarkable and — for a field long associated with tedium and trash — heartening.

Under the steady hand of Grant Tinker, promising shows have been allowed to grow instead of being cancelled; and, in the process, have won loyal audiences of all ages — particularly the young urban professionals sought by advertisers.

The flash of Miami Vice, the wisecracking of Golden Girls, and above all the charm of Bill Cosby have become smash hits and industry trends.

It’s a long way from just four years ago, when Tinker had been chairman of NBC for just three months and there was loose talk by parent company RCA of dismantling the network. Pre-tax profits of $152 million in 1977 were down by about two thirds by 1981 and only one show — Little House on the Prairie — was in the Top 10 of audience levels, as estimated by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

SHOW SHIFTED

Viewers who might have been attracted to one of NBC's new shows, Hill Street Blues, could hardly find it as it moved from Thursday to Saturday to Tuesday and back to Thursday

“In those days, nobody wanted to (launch projects) with NBC because of the way shows were being treated,” says Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertain- ment

But Tinker, former head of the respected MTM

OSPREY'S NEST .

- Derek Armstrong is shown with 1986 edition of The Osprey's

Nest, a book put out by the Castlegar Writers’ Guild. Armstrong's story and others written by 11 other children are included in this year's edition of the book.

Operators want content changes

TORONTO (CP) — Several pay TV operators are asking

pemmamadiys festival's 10th an- niversary.

In addition to the judging of new) films, the award winning films from past festivals were adjudicated to determine “The Best of the Best.”

The co-winners of the “Best of the Best” selection — Eiger and Sherpa — are featured in the touring pres. enation, along with Cloud- walker (1985 Best Film on Mountaineering) and UP (1985 Best Film on Mountain Sports and co-winner of the 1985 Festival Grand Prize).

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for major of their Canadian content require. ments, including a cut to 15 per cent from 50 per cent by the “two English-language movie channels.

The movie channels - commonly known as First Choice-Superchannel are also seeking changes in the formula governing expendi tures on Canadian programs.

The movie channels say there are not enough Can adian feature-length films available, and that viewers frequently complain about the number of repeats that must be shown to meet the

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spending formulas, which re quire 45 per cent of total revenue and 60 per cent of programming funds to be spent on acquisition or in vestment in Canadian con tent.

The movie channels are proposing the formula be changed to 50.1 per cent of adjusted gross revenues, de fined as total revenue minus non-programming operating expenses.

Allarcom Pay Television Ltd. of Edmonton, which operates west of the Mani. toba-Ontario border, is ask: ing for the same changes as First Choice Canadian Com. munications Corp. of Tor. onto, which runs,similar pro- gramming east of the Mani toba-Ontario border.

Proto tor CasMews by Kathy Armstrong

Fiddlers hold contest

Three fiddlers from Castle. gar and two from Robson placed in the top five in their category at the B.C. Oldtime Fiddlers (Chapter No. 9) Fid. die Contest at the Castlegar Arena Complex

Fiddlers from all over B.C., Alberta, Idaho and Washing ton attended the third annual contest held April 12.

In the Junior category, Mary Anne Miller of New port, Wash. was first. The Novice category saw Frank Bilinski of Castlegar taking top spot, followed by Frank Rodgers of Nelson, second Ron Gemmill of Castlegar, third; Anna Kitchen of Rob son, fourth and Harry Waller of Robson, fifth.

In the Limited class, Dawn Bennett of Nine Mile Fails. Wash. was first; Norman Gunter of Vancouver, was second; Bea Hassler of Chase, third; Tony Sman dych of Creston, fourth; and

Art Waite of Vernon, fifth.

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pr — he is Mary Tyler Moore's ex-husband — replaced Fred Silverman in July 1981. Under Tinker’s calm influence, the network began to attract the coveted young, urban viewers who had been drifting away from television.

“The producers all knew if they had a product that was unique, different and had a touch of class, they could get it on the air,” on NBC, says New York advertising executive Paul Schulman.

The first prime-time schedule of the Tinker-Tartikoff regime began in 1982, with new shows like Cheers, Family Ties, Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere and a mid-season replacement called The A-Team.

The A-Team didn’t win any Emmys, but it picked up viewers, and these shows together began NBC's season-by-season improvement that faltered only in the first half of 1983-84, when nine new shows were introduced and all bombed.

SELF-DESTRUCTS

While NBC was rebuilding. ABC. relying on formula programming, was self-destructing. It began the 1964-85 season, for example, with seven series from executive producer Aaron Spelling, including the Love Boat, Glitter and Finder of Lost Loves.

Perrenial season-winner CBS, meanwhile, stayed too long with some old horses — notably Dukes of Hazzard and Alice — and took few programming risks. Tartikoff suggested the rival network might have followed its hit Dallas with an innovative program, but opted instead for another serial, Falcon Crest

CBS was also unable to develop an appealing early evening comedy “and that allowed us to get in the door virtually every night of the week,” said Tartikoff.

“If you're doing business at eight, it goes a long way toward solving your other problems.”

Super-day Bill Cosby did just that, helping to turn Thursday night into a winner. NBC has 11 other comedies of which 10 are winning their time slot

“Pulling it all together was Grant's patience,” said Tartikoff. “He made it work because he wasn't breathing down everybody's neck.”

Despite the praise, Tinker says his renewal of quality shows “was not an act of altruism

“It was done for the most selfish reasons. If you do stick with them, more often than not they will pay big dividends.”

Don Johnson tops poll

Hr may be sweaty and bristly, but the female stars of prime-time series think he’s Hollywood's hottest hunk

Don Johnson of Miami Vice topped Tom Selleck of Mag num P.I. and Robert Wagner, formerly of Hart To Hart and Lime Street, in a TV Guide poll

Powers, Jane Seymour, Con- nie Sellecea and Shari Bel. afonte-Harper voted on who was the sexiest man on TV.

Also in the top 10 were: Dynasty’s John Forsythe, Bruce Willis of Moonlighting, Pierce Brosnan of Remington Steele, Bill Cosby of The Bill Cosby Show, Robert Urich of Spenser: For Hire, William Devane of Knot’s Landing and Hollywood Beat's Jack Scalia.

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Author marks term end

The Kootenay School of Writing wraps up its 1985-86 term this week by co-spon- soring author Noel Hudson's visit to Nelson during Na-

workshops, and evening

at the Student Union Building throughout the .

About 100 students enroll- ed in courses, and more than 500 area residents attended readings.

Author Ernst Havemann, whose work has been pub- lished in- Atlantic and has won three CBC national lit-

erary awards, said the even- ing events at the SUB have inspired and been crucial in building the community of writers in the Kootenays since the closing of the David Thompson University Cen- tre.

Guest readers included Joy Kogawa, Margaret Hol-

Fred Wah, Tom Wayman and Carol Bolt.

Subjects included Japan- ese internment in New Den- ver, Greenham Common, writing about work, and being Chinese and growing

Up in Saskatchewan. The Valentine's Weekend Foofaraw proved to be an ef-

fective way to fight the

February blahs and bring the community together.

More than 25 contestants brought forth their most dripping and vitriolic senti- ments before a large audi- ence in a hard-fought contest for the approval of Canada’s best poetry judges.

Paulette Jiles, Fred Wah, John Newlove, Diana Hartog and Timothy Shay dispensed accolades in a wide range of categories, from pathetic victim in leve" to “bunkhouse doggerel.”

Births & Funerals

oiRTHS

— To Judy Betts ond David Okros of Nelson, o girl, born March 21

BETTS/OKROS

BROWN — To Mr ond Mrs. Gor don Brown of Christina Lake, a boy, born April 10.

LYSOHIRKA To Debbie and Carl Lysohirka of Fruitvale. o boy, born April 6.

McFARLANE Barb and Darwin McFarlane of Trail, o girl born April 12

MANNINGS — To Lourie and Ed Mannings of Nelson, a boy, born April 10.

MERKLEY To Mr. and Mrs. An. dy Merkley of Wynndel, girl born April 5

WHITE To Jacqueline and Richard White of Nelson, a boy born April 13. DEATHS BROTIO — lo (Doc) Brotto of Rossland died April 12 after o lengthy iliness at age 85. He is survived by his sisters Angela Fogale and Sister Palmira Brotto both of Haly; and many nieces and nephews in Italy

COWLIN Thomas Cowlin of Castlegar died suddenly April 14 ot age 82. He is survived by his wite Esther; daughters Shirley Cutillo of Vancouver, Beverley Varty of Kimberley and Patricia Crantz of Trail; sons Bud of Van. couver and Bob at home; 11 grandchildren; one great grendchild: ond three nieces and

2 nephew ial donations to the charity of one's choice would be appreciated by the family as expressions of sym pathy

EWINGS — Florence Ewings of Fruitvale died April 7 after o lengthy iliness at age 62. She is survived by her husbond Dovid; doughters Shirley Levin of Win: nipeg, Sharon Rothwell of Fruit vale, Catherine Cook of Elkftord end Dawn Campbell of Fernie; tive grandsons; sister Helen An derson of Fruitvale; and brother Nelson Mcinnis of Courtenay

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HACKETT — Eileen Hackett of Trait died Aprit 11 after a briet illness ot age 77. She is survived by her son John (Sonny) of Trail; ters Connie Aiken of War- Shirley McNeil of Calgary Diane Chambers of Rossland: 10 grandchildren; tive great-grandchildren; sisters Jennie Rivard of North Del Merle McGee of brothers A

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Of White Rock and Dennis Blond of Calgary. Memorial donations may be made to the B.C. Cancer Society, Box 310, Trail.

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KOOZNETSOFF — Sam J. Kooz- netsolf of Winlaw died April 2 at p90 82; He is survived by his wite Lucy of Winlow;

Winlew; siegerers ie mony Kolesnikoltt. Betty Poznikott and

13 great-grandchildren; sister Anastasio Shkooratolt Blairmore, Alta

PALMASON — Dean John Palmason of Slocan died April 12 at age 24. He is survived by his

and brother-in-law Linda and Joe Beales of Castlegar; brother and sister-in-law Wayne and Ellen of R Deer, Alta.; four nieces and @ nephew; and many aunts, un: cles and cousins.

POTTER — Robert Arthur Potter died April 13 at oge 59. He is

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TAYLOR — bwin Martell Lonce Taylor of Solmo died April 3 at 70. He is survived by hie wite lard of Salmo and Allen of Lethbridge: tive gran dchildren; brother Horley Taylor of Nelson; and sister Mildred Anderson of Nanaimo.

Blue Pencil Cafes were another experiment this year. Instructors took their blue editing pens to the li- braries in Nelson and Grand Forks, and for a small fee sat down with writers to evalu- ate their work, be it poetry, newswriting or prose.

This year’s offerings at the

manuscript marketing, scriptwriting, short story writing, the creative journal, media and propaganda, and poetry.

Next year, the KSW will again offer basic courses, but is planning to add sessions on children’s literature, and oral history and performance lit. erature.

Anyone with ideas or who wants instructors to bring a class to their community, write to the KSW at Box 894, Nelson, B.C. VIL 6A5.

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