Village Squire, 1977-11, Page 36subject from outside London but if one is
found, he'll get precedence over a similar
expert from the city, he says.
Part of the reason for this policy, of
course, is to build an audience for the show
outside of London. But part too, Clark says
is to keep Londoners informed of what
people outside the city are doing. It's easy
for people in a large centre to become
isolated from the area around them. since
the city is nearly self contained. The aim of
the show is to broaden the horizons of the
London viewer as well as those outside the
city.
Swan was chosen this year as the male
half of the team that hosts the show. He
replaces Pat Donelan who hosted the show
last year with Carol Campbell. Swan is no
stranger to Mrs. Campbell. She worked at
CKNX before joining the London station in
the news department as Carol Harrison.
After her marriage and her move to London
she won the hostess position on the show
last year and kept it into the second season.
The two provide the faces•for a multitude
of behind the scenes workers who put the
show on for 60 minutes a day; five days a
week. They also point up the marriage of
news and production that brought about
the show. Campbep has a news back-
ground. Swan comes from an entertain-
ment information background. That is the
dicotomy of the show, bringing the news
and production departments of the station
together. The show is to combine news and
entertainment and this is reflected in the
fact it has co -producers, Clark from the
news side and John Sommers from the
production side. They head up a staff of
seven full-time employees with 13 more
working part-time providing features,
research and writing. In addition, the news
department which has 50 persons working
full-time, lends two cameramen a week to
the show to film features. They shoot
13,000 feet of film a week for the programs.
The program tries to do some
investigative reporting, Clark says though
it doesn't have the staff to do it on a regular
basis. An example was a series on child
beating that was to be aired the following
week, put together by one of the part-time
members of the crew. In addition there are
14 regular features such as consumer
reports, book reports, Orlo Miller's ghost
stories and cooking shows.
The show is done live from the studio
though segments of the show such as film
features break up the 60 minutes giving the
crew time to relax and plan the next
feature, readjusting camera angles,
ironing out any technical problems, making
sure everyone knows what's coming up.
"People hear the word live and they
think it means unorganized", Swan says,
but with this show there is so much
organization done in advance that the show
goes together like clockwork. This
organization is the part of the operation
that seems to fascinate Swan. He shows
visitors the schedule boards in the office,
one that shows a week or more in advance
that shows advanced booking for shows
weeks, even months in the future.
The organization of the show is a wonder
to him because of his years of doing shows
with hardly any organization and even less
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