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Show Park City News Thursday, March 17, 1983 Page A9 Park City Home Theatre signs up new movie channel, adult programs Park City's Home Theatre Inc. has changed its format since it debuted this January. Janu-ary. The service now offers a wider range of movies than before, said Bob Urals, the company's owner and manager, man-ager, as well as "adult entertainment." Home Theatre found it had problems meeting its original ori-ginal goal to program movies based on requests from the Park City audience. But since March 1, Urals said, Home Theatre has been using a TV satellite subscription subscrip-tion service out of California. "If We 'couldn't target the audience, we will offer as many different movies as possible. ON-TV has more movies than HBO, Showtime, Show-time, or any other service," he added. For an additional fee on the monthly payment, local viewers can recieve "adult movies" on Home Theatre. Urals said some 40-45 percent per-cent of viewers in a survey .said they were interested in such programs. The Utah State Legislature recently passed two bills regulating pornography on cable television. But Urals said the new laws do not affect his company. "The bills exclude anything broadcast broad-cast over the air in Utah," he said. Even so, Home Theatre offers a number of special devices for broadcast. A locking device for the television televi-sion set is available for a $12 optional fee, Urals said. The adult movies are also broadcast broad-cast on a scrambled signal and can't be received on your set without a decoder box. Urals said it would be hard to predict the explicitness of the adult movies. At least, you can't tell much from ratings. "I have seen R-rated R-rated films that are really soft-X," he said. "As far as that's concerned, I'm confused." con-fused." The basic price for installation install-ation of the service, Urals said, is $30. In addition, the firm also asks for a $19.95 deposit fee for equipment security. This is refundable to the subscriber. The monthly fee is $14.95, and for $3 more you get the decoder box to receive the adult material. Urals said Home Theatre had planned to show movies requested by local audiences. audi-ences. But the movie-supply service didn't meet expectations. expecta-tions. "We cleared all the' Kimball Klassic teams formed Teams for the Kimball Klassic, a ski race-fundraiser for the Kimball Art Center, are now being formed. The race, to be held March 22 on Park City Ski Resort's Clementine Run, will have a racing format easy enough for all skiing abilities. Teams will be handicapped. All participants will be awarded Nastar pins. Awards will be presented to the winning teams. The race also includes refreshments County agenda Used to be if you wanted to find out what the Summit County Commission was up to, you had to call the county clerk the day before their meeting. No longer. The commission commis-sion is starting a process that will better plan the agendas for themselves, and get the word out in advance to the public. Starting next week, the Park City Newspaper will be able to carry an agenda for the County Commission meeting on the following Tuesday. To do that, however, the county needs cooperation from residents who want to meet with the commission. To be . considered for a TuedaV:meatiag agenda,, t said County -Planner Stan Srebel, you should notify his office by Monday of the week before. Why apply so far in advance? It enables County Planner Stan Strebel to set up an agenda a week in advance. At their Tuesday morning meeting, the commissioners com-missioners can review the applicants who want to meet with them seven days hence. The person may be placed on the agenda or he may be referred to another county official who can better help to publicize in advance him. (This saves time for everybody, say commissioners.) commission-ers.) The new process will take some work off the shoulders of County Clerk Reed Pace, said Commissioner Ron Perry. Per-ry. The agenda work was given to Strebel because much county business involves in-volves his department, said Perry. It is still possible, he said, that the commission would allot an "open-door" time on its schedule for people who want to see the county officials on shorter notice. "We don't want to close anybody out," said Perry. The commission also might decide to set aside a time period in the evenings to hear citizens. "The important thing here is letting the public know about meetings," he said. Walter Larsen Presents SALT LAKE CITY'S SPRING ANTIQUES-SHOW & SALE ' m MxfSANDS OF ANTES AhTO COLLECTIONS DM WIDE PRICE RANGES. 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Complete details of the day's activities are outlined on the registration available at the Art Center. All reservations need to be made by Saturday March 19. The Kimball Klassic is being chaired by Kimball Art Center board members Brad Olch, Dick Beck and Steve Dering. For further information, call Peggy at the Kimball Art Center, 649-8882. titles with them, but they ended up giving us only eight of the 25 movies we wanted." The station also decided, to forego locally-originated programming, he said, since the community had little interest in it. Urals said the Home Theatre has subscribed about 100 homes so far. "It's gone much slower than we thought," he said. But subscriptions have gone up since the company joined with ON-TV. And interest in the adult movies has been healthy. "We ran out of decoder boxes," he said. NOT in avalanche terrain, NOT on a golf course track, we offer a delightful remedy for downhill blahs. 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