Friends of CBC launching ad campaign by Julie Chow
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Aug 23, 2000
by Julie Chow
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and the Save Compass committee are launching an advertising campaign in an attempt to remind federal Island politicians that they don't plan on backing down on the issue.
A press release Tuesday from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting said the group would be launching the campaign Thursday. supporters of Compass will be on hand to send off the MPs, who will leaving next week to meet with Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the cabinet at a gathering of the National Liberal Caucus in Winnipeg at the end of August.
"This idea came from the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting as a follow-up to the pamphlet drive," Dolores Crane, chair of the Save Compass committee, said this morning.
The advertisements will be running in both The Journal-Pioneer and The Guardian, as well as other media outlets in the province.
Crane continued that the message contained in the ads will be clear.
"They say in bold letters 'Stand up for Compass, Stand up for the Island'," she said.
Crane said people are still very upset with the cut at Compass, and it would be up to voters if they chose to express their displeasure at the polls in any upcoming election.
"Our goals have never changed," she said.
"There was a sense of satisfaction by a number of people when they found out it was going to go to a half hour (instead of being cut to 10 minutes or less)."
But the chair said the Save Compass committee feels this move is negative because it continues a process of "chipping away" at the quality of local programming.
