Zurich Citizens News, 1973-10-04, Page 5THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1973
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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RV SHIRLEY J. KEL LEF
Cable television hit our area
this year. For the first time in
our entire TV lifetime, we are
able to have a choice of telev-
ision programs at almost any-
time of the day or night.
There was never any doubt
that the Keller family would be
serviced by cable television if
and when it became available.
To be truthful, there are really
only two television nuts in our
household ---me and my young-
est son. We're the kind of people
you see, who enjoy watching
television so much that even
the test pattern is interesting
enough when there's nothing
else to view.
But there are two men in the
household --my husband and my
eldest son --who are real die-
hard sports enthusiasts. They like
everything in the sporting world
from hockey through hand -
wrestling, and if either of them
has a spare moment he's search-
ing the television dial for some
kind of an athletic encounter.
Naturally, cable television
provides the best of all possible
viewing all the time so our
family willingly signed on the
dotted line.and paid the going
rate for our at-home entertain-
ment centre,
Of course because of the wide
variance in program taste at
the Keller abode, we have found
it necessary to hook-up not
just one but two televisions to
the cable in order to provide the
ultimate in viewing satisfaction
for all members of the family.
(Perhaps it should be pointed
out here that our daughter seld-
om views anything more than
the inside of the bathroom when
she's at home. What the girl
spends her time at when she's
barricaded in the bathroom for
hours on end is more than any-
one can fathom, although I'm
told 15 year old girls have the
same passion.)
Though some may feel that
cable television is a waste of
good money, I can assure you it
is a near necessity in our time.
Babysitters, for instance, will
not work in a home which is
not serviced with cable. That's
true, What's more, some baby-
sitters prefer to stay with child-
ren whose families have color
television sets and if one can
work in a home where there is
a color television serviced by
cable, that's a top priority sit-
uation indeed.
And remember how kids you
knew used to say, "My dad is
stronger than your dad." Well
that's old-fashioned in our
neighborhood. Now the criteria
by which children select their
associates is, "We have cable
television on contract for a
whole year." That's much more
impressive than those poor kids
in the area who are signed up
on a month-to-month basis and
may loose their cable television
privileges at the whim of the
family budget.
I've learned a few things
since cable television took over
our house. That's simply that
Canadian television has much
more to offer than American
Television.
I suppose Canadian Stations
really depend on American
programs to anchor their program
days, but Canadian -produced
programs are getting better and
better, and for my money, they
surpass many of the things Amer-
ican television passes off on the
viewers.
Canadian produced "specials"
have a kind of sophisticated
quality which is seldom found in
the hollywood-spectacular type
production from the USA, I
guess I'm referring especially
to documentary programs or
those marvellous profile program;
which tell the life stories of
such well-known Canadians as •
Mike Pearson and John Diefen-
baker, jusr for example.
Recently I had a choice bet-
ween the gaudy Miss America
spectacular on an American
station and the sedate, almost
poignant CBC program The Pipes
filmed in part at the Scottish
Festival at the Canadian Nation-
al Exhibition grounds in Toronto.
It didn't take me long to make
ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr. and Mrs. John Consitt,
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold McCann,
and Mr. and Mrs. Dori Campbell
attended the N.A.M.I,C.`
Convention in Toronto for a
few days.
Mrs. Arabelle Merner is a
patient in South Huron Hospital,
Exeter.
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my selection and I have no
regrets about choosing the latter
It was one of those once-in-a-
lifetime kind of productions
which Canadian viewers are
blessed with so often via telev-
ision.
As far as I'm concerned,
government need not be too worn
ried with the prospect of able
television bringin in so much
Yankee influence. Canadian
television is cornpeting except-
ionally well and men, women
and children who appreciate a
quality product keep coming
back again and again to our own
brand of television which is
absolutely superb stacked up
against the average imported
offering.
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