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The cumpany. predicts it

will’ pay more than’ $20 milliun to Canadians in exhibition rights and production funding ‘during its first five years... .

Would an‘ Alberta-licensed

‘service do more for , local

_praduction?.-

"Neil : Webber, “assoclaie’” minister of telephones, said’:

in an interview there are no

plans for Alberta content — -Tegulation. The .“‘protec- _...llonist: approach” cof the |

CRTC has: not done much

for Canadian produetion, he”

said, ‘Tf the province - galned jurisdiction uver pay TV it

“mnight have. ty intruduce. - _ Canadian-content — regul- _ations to avoid trouble with

the - pravince’s broad- casters. -

Over-the-air signals are

‘subject to such federal the °

regulations, and bruadcasters have argued it would be unfair for pay TV and cable. companies’ to with fewer

There’s another coin- plication. Cable and pay TV

‘are. difficult to separate

because pay TV (signals usually arrive via ‘cable.

Poa 1 . 1

- juriediction. * A similar case might end.

“up in ‘the provinces’ favor foday because of changes in”

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The Alberta government

could use ita telephone pules for pay TV, but ‘that would

require laying cables. _ The province is’: not considering doing that and

. Webbe dislikes govern-

nent doing. what private. industry candy.”

“A 1977 Sipreme ‘Court of

Canada decision said cable ‘comes — under: federal

telecdinmnunications tec- hnology, Webber said. Alberta Independent Pay

. Television : may muddy the ©

legal

waters for the government by expanding . its services outside Alberta borders. An interprovincial: service would appear to be out of provincial control.

- Webber -cunceded an expansion would hurt the government's case, but said

‘Bumehow mean cyntinued ‘provincial jurisdiction. The’ province has a ‘law giving .its Public Utilities Board jurisdiction over nen- breadeast telecummuni- cations. inside Alberta. Regulations that ‘would allow:the law to work have not been written. ,

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~Q, What's become of the _

much-touted new TV series starring Suzanne

Somers? Has she been

dropped by the network ex-

~- ecutives? —. N.R.

. A. For quite some. time, Suzanne and her” manager-—~ .husband Alan Hamel

“~ 4--ed any help, Dale picked up.» _

st™ “THURS. iv a 11. -12. ps ne wuss SAT. Vd aus “Da. me

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assured us her new TV--

series would air over CBS.

sometime in the winter. She was to star.as a dizzy but lovable flight atten- dant, with Gene Barry - playing: the pilot. Well, ~ things didn’t work: out somehow. with script and -

casting difficulties ~

- creating big headaches. So .. it was back to the drawing board. Now, Suzanne and

. Alan say a-new series pilot’

isin the works with Suzie playing a dizzy blonde. starring in-a series of her - own. The character is also a single parent. If you get . the ‘ide& that art closély resembles life. in this .case,, you're right on, the “mark, ‘The new pilot is to be titled, ‘'Suzie

Mahoney". which happens —

to be Somers’ real hame. * ‘* . .

cable. distribution - would...

MY PAD OR YOURS: ~

; Jim Dale, the original’star

of. the Broadway musical . “"Barnum’', entered a‘ Manhattan curio: shop . recently where he began. examining several abjels art. When the proprietor inquired whether he need-

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a pad from the. desk. Then,=. = .—;..

suddenly remembering, he --

produced a. pad from. his

own pockel and-tound a’ |.

_ page on which he'd already wrillen, ‘'Have- laryngitis today, Just browsing — but _ thanks anyway!” .

TOUGH MAMA; Ethel

don’t - take - any - of - your “2 nonsense. mothers; At'son . ‘Bobby’ $ “recent. engage ‘ment party tolawyer Emi- —. “ly Ruth’ Black, the “late *_ senator's. widow. didn't like © ’ something her- 27-year-old offspring said ‘in his ‘toast . arid tossed’a glass of cham-, pagne at him. Z -

” Kennedy is one of your I- ”