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Entertainment
University Daily Kansan, September 14, 1982
ABC affiliate replaced Local cable to add MTV
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
MTV is coming to Lawrence.
Sunflower Cablevision, 644 New Hampshire,
will begin transmitting Music Television on
Cable 2 Wednesday. Roger Bain, director of
marketing for Sunflower Cablevision, said
Friday.
"Rock now catches your eyes and ears, where rock used to only catch your ears." Pair said.
MTV, the idea of Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, is a one-year-old channel that entertainment clips of rock music. MTV was named magazine products of the year by Fortune Magazine in 1981.
Although MTV has been around since 1981, Lawrence has not received it before now because the introduction of a new channel was an important development. Sunflower could not act on impulse. Bains said.
IN ORDER to make room for MTV, Sunflower Cablevision had to drop one of its other stations, KQTV, Channel 2, an ABC affiliate from St. Joseph, Mo.
The decision to substitute the channels was based on a survey by Baints that showed 56 percent of the cable viewers polled watched KQTV less than two hours a week.
"Most of the reception complaints Sunflower (Cablevision received were about Channel 2," Bains said. "That is because it comes from so far away."
"We're not getting a thing out of having ABC
on two channels. We should promote cable, not serve as a service for network distribution."
MTV IS AIMED at an audience ranging in age from 12 to 34, Bains edits. Eighty-four percent of the homes in Bains's survey had audience ages between 18 and 65. James LaWrence a good market for MTV he said.
The MTV channel can be received by all cable subscribers. Bains said.
"It costs nothing extra, unless you want the stereo adaptor." he said.
The adaptor channels the sound through stereo speakers rather than television speakers. This allows you to use the same speaker for both.
MTV may be popping up in places besides homes.
"MTV is ideal for the big screen TVs in bars," Bains said.
Bains said he hoped the new channel would attract viewers to cable that do not regularly use it.
Because programming changes from day to day the songs will not be repeated later. Baises the song up for a longer period of time.
The subscribers are not the only ones benefiting from MTV. Artists get exposure for their songs, too. Bains said.
IT IS BECOMING more important for artists and groups to have video clips of one or two of the songs off each album for advertising purposes, Bains said.
Craftsmen handy at Fall Arts & Crafts Festival
Four/year/old Cody Cummings, son of Tricia Gideon, Lawrence, paints a masterpiece outside the fence of the paint and play pen. The service was set up by Lawrence Parks and Recreation for children at the arts and crafts festival at South Park today.
DON DELPHIA/Kansas Staff
By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter
Helen B. Weaver sat at her booth in Lawrence's South Park yesterday at the Fall Arts & Craft Festival, putting together a windchime.
As she completed one windchime for her display of clay and ceramic crafts, a woman approached the display table and said she wanted a woodchine with terra-cotta bipopotamuses.
"Having a hard time selling them?" the woman asked.
"All right!" Weaver velled
"No." Weaver said. "I want them to have a good home."
Weaver, a Lawrence resident, was one of 118 exhibitors at the third annual festival, which took place from noon to 5 p.m. in South Park on Massachusetts Street.
THE LAWRENCE PARKS and Recreation Department sponsored the festival, which was called "Life. Be in It."
Kathy Fode, program supervisor for the department, estimated that 8,000 people attended the festival, at which artists and craftsmen from Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and displayed their paintings, woodworking, weaving, pottery, jewelry, wreaths and stained glass.
Also at the festival were live entertainers, who provided country-western music, bely dancing or juggling.
Special entertainment was provided for children. A race of "big wheels," tricycle-like vehicles with oversized front wheels, was conducted next to the park on Massachusetts streets. Children were placed in children at the "paint and playen" where the children could paint under adult supervision.
Fode said employees in the Parks and Recreation Department decided three years ago to sponsor a fall arts and crafts festival similar to the Spring Art in the Park festival. The springival is co-sponsored by the Lawrence Arts Guild and the Parks and Recreation Department.
THE FALL FESTIVAL is designed to provide display time to out-of-town exhibitors and craftsmen, Fode said, because the policy of the spring festival is to exclude them.
Weaver said she worked with clay as a child and continued practicing the art through college. She said she had worked at various jobs but more interesting and financially profitable.
Weaver, a 1972 KU journalism and psychology alumna, said she had attended the spring festival for 15 years, although this year's fall festival was the first in which she had a display.
She said she worked mainly in cuisines but also in copper enameling. She enjoys weaving the mats for her customers.
Among the items she had on display were windchimes, clay pins with animal shapes and terra-cotta clay planters in the shapes of miniature houses.
"Ideas come a lot of times from customers." she said. "Don't you do a rabbit pin?"
One fall festival exhibitor who has not been allowed to display his work at the spring festival is Paul Kneale, a Lawrence resident who makes jewelry by cutting heads and figures out of coins. He then attaches the cut-out parts to chains and medallions.
He said his coin jewelry was not pure enough art for the spring festival,
THERE IS NO problem with federal law, he said, because it prohibits only the defacing of the building.
Dimes are probably the most popular item,
Dimes are all at most craft show, he said, he is
the only exhibitor.
Another one-of-a-kind exhibitor at the fall festival was Pat Sigg, a Carlyle resident who displayed her glass etching. Sigg said she had seen it as an idea like here at the many crafts she attended.
Sigg said she started the hobby 1 ½ years ago.
"I saw patterns in books," she said, "and I thought it was cool."
An etching is done in stages, Sigg said. The most time-consuming stage is the first, in which she places a piece of glass on a light table and covers the glass with paper. She cuts the pattern on the paper onto the glass. The sandblasting of the glass takes only a few minutes, she said.
THE RESULT IS a white pattern on the glass. Sigg said her most popular item was the personalized baby bottle, which is a bottle with a name sandblasted onto it.
Lawrence resident R. L. "Bud" Johnson was the only person displaying hand-tooled leather-craft and hand-carved pictures at the festival, but he said several other people in Lawrence had formed the craft. Area leatherworkers have formed a group in Topaka, he said, and might start a guild.
Johnson said he became interested in leather craft three years ago.
"We were at a church camp one summer," he said. "They had a leather craft class for kids, and they made them."
Johnson spent two years working on wallets, and purses, before he began making
baskets.
"It just grows on you," he said. "You get started, and you can't get away."
Johnson starts with a side of leather, usually about 26 square feet. He cuts a piece from the leather. For a picture, he uses a mallet to tie onto the leather a pattern drawn on transparent paper. Then he adds details directly on the leather.
"I still find out something new about it (leather craft) every week." he said.
"It's amazing what you can do with a piece of dead cow."
Johnson said he preferred not to do custom work, because a picture or billfold takes four to six weeks of his free time and a customer might not like the result.
He said a disadvantage of the hobby was the expense. Tools are costly, he said, as are sides of leather. A side of leather usually costs $130; the leather for a small picture typically costs $15, and a larger picture might require $35 worth of leather.
The values of an arts and craft show such as the fall festival, Weaver said, are meeting people and hearing their ideas.
Weaver said she had watched many local children who had attended the spring festival grow from grade schoolers to high schoolers. She added, "When they bought what they bought from her at the festival, she said
"Doing art shows is important — watching people's faces, seeing their reaction, getting their input," she said.
On campus
TODAY
PUBLIC RELATIONS Student Society of America will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room.
LINGUISTICS COLLOQUY, featuring Anne Ediger on Language-Based Stereotypes in Japanese, will be at 7:30 p.m. at 207 Blake Hall.
COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, featureuring Jerome A. Feldman, professor of computer sciences, will be at 3:30 p.m. in 300 Strong Hall.
COLLEGE ASSEMBLY will be at 4 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union
CLASSIFIED SENATE will meet at 7 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
STUDENT ASSISTANCE CENTER Communications Workshop will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, will speak at a HUMANITIES LECTURE on "The Humanistic and Scientific View of Human Behavior" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium of the Union.
TOMORROW
University Weekly LUNCHON FORUM will feature Rose Greaves, professor of history, who will talk about Pakistan and its relationships at the Center for the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in parlors A and B in the Kansas Union.
CONTEMPLATE PRAYER SESSION will
be imprint at the Ecumenical Christian
Ministry Centre.
SMALL CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 4 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries
No Credit Cards, Service work or Sale items please.
DO YOU LIKE BLUEGRASS MUSIC?
Join the SUA van group for an exciting weekend of bluegrass at the Walnut Valley Festival In Winfield, Sept. 18-19.
$45 includes roundtrip van transportation,
Sat.-Sun. ticket and campground pass.
More info: SUA Office, 864-3477
Signup deadline: noon, Sept. 16
SUA FILMS
Presents TONIGHT
Lawrence Olivier in
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
with Hugh Griffith—Dorothy Tutin
Please note: This film has been moved to the Big 8 Room. We apologize for the inconvenience.
7:30 p.m.
$1.50