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FOOD & BEVERAGE SPORT & RECREATION EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2013 HEADLINES OF 2013 PRESIDENT’s MESSAGE SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE RIFE WITH CAN-CON. B5 A4 Sunday, April 21, 2013 Leader-Post • leaderpost.com Sunday, April 21, 2013 A5 More than 180 rigging points with HD over 4,535 kg of equipment overhead mobile Another Record Year Governance with 13 150 60 strobe light fixtures, 731 metres cameras speakers of lighting trusses, 720,000 watts in 14 of lighting power and 587 moving SOUND clusters head lighting fixtures The year 2013 will go down as In 2012, we finally made application to the Province of &VISION artsBREAKING NEWS& AT L EA D ERlifePOST.COM Canada’s annual music awards yet another record year for Evraz Saskatchewan to step away from our original (1907) Act. extravaganza — to be hosted at SECTION B TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 Regina’s Brandt Centre tonight — requires a monumental effort in Place (operated by The Regina It has served us well for over a century, but had become planning and logistics. Here’s last year’s stage with some of the key numbers for this year’s event. Exhibition Association Limited): outdated for our current business activity and contemporary Design by Juris Graney 1,800 LED BRYAN SCHLOSSER/Sunday Post • Record revenues of $34.8M. governance model. In 2014, The Regina Exhibition panels Crews prepare the elaborate stage for the Juno Awards being held at the Brandt Centre tonight. on 13 suspended Setting the stage towers • Three extraordinary high Association Limited will continue under The Non-profit Transforming the Brandt Centre for tonight’s profile entertainment offerings Corporations Act, 1995, with one voting member, the City of PH Juno Awards is a massive undertaking OTO : P OST TERRENCE MCEACHERN M LEADER-POST ED I A – the nationally televised JUNO Regina, which owns the land and buildings known as Evraz FIL ES hen Mike MacNaughton was Wworking on the 12 video projectors The PA system is capable 360-degree viewing STAR KISSED bid to host the 2013 Juno on 6 giant screens of producing 275,000 of the show on Awards, he argued one watts of audio power 3 stages 11,000 person hours to Award Show with the Gala JUNO Place. The Regina Exhibition Association Limited continues 100 channels of radio 2.74 km of camera cable, 4 km fame, fortune always centre stage advantage Regina had over frequencies for micro- of optical fibre cable and 9.4 km set up the show, half of competing cities was the phones and intercom of lighting power cable which are local crew weather. for pop icon mccartney “Well, it’s not that bad,” said MacNaughton, chair of the 2013 JUNO Awards Host people who made calls and successful. BRUCE WARD burn tint in his hair. Awards dinner and Red Carpet to be governed by a capable and committed volunteer Board Committee. Regardless, the finessed that deal,” she said. One advantage with the POSTMEDIA NEWS McCartney was always the hard- bid worked as Regina will On Juno night, the show Regina bid was that funding est working Beatle, the most prolific host the show tonight at the will be directed from a tele- was already in place — with and the one who truly enjoyed play- Brandt Centre. vision mobile unit. Cox will $350,000 from the City of n early December 1961, Brian ing live. He was the most successful In terms of broadcasting, be in another room, with Regina, $50,000 from the Epstein drew up a contract ex-Beatle by far in the 1970s. PAUL Lindsay Cox admits putting network executives and pro- City of Moose Jaw, $1.5 mil- that bound the Beatles to him Millions of us tapped the steer- the Junos together each DON HEALY/Sunday Post ducers, watching the show lion from the province for Event; a Mosaic Stadium Paul of Directors, aptly led by our Board Chair, Jeff MacPherson. MCCARTNEY for five years. Only Paul Mc- ing wheel in time as the radio played year is a lot of work and a Lindsay Cox, supervising producer for the 2013 Juno Awards tonight from what is informally the licence fee and $150,000 Cartney was hesitant about hits by McCartney in various com- 8 p.m., Wednesday “massive personal sacri- at the Brandt Centre, says moving to different cities and venues is known as the “producer’s from the Regina Hotel As- Mosaic Stadium signing it. McCartney told binations with his wife Linda and fice,” but in a good way. one the of the big challenges for the show. palace.” sociation, he said. Epstein that he hoped the band Wings — Uncle Albert/Admiral “To be a part of the level “We don’t tell our director Funding is used for Beatles would make it big, as Halsey, Jet, Band on the Run, Silly Later, his lyrics became insipid of challenge, both techni- Besides airing the show, event a new challenge each lometres of lighting power what shots to take, but we marketing and to support Howard Sounes recounts in Fab: An Love Songs, Listen to What the Man — rhyming words that fit the mel- cally and creatively, is in- CTV’s role involves adver- year. She notes many of her cable, 720,000 watts of light- communicate. My job is to events and venues in Regina McCartney Concert and …. IIntimate Life of Paul McCartney. “But Said, and Live and Let Die, still the ody but didn’t add up to much of toxicating,” said Cox, vice- tising and marketing the staff and crew have been in- ing power, 63,500 kilograms keep the show on time and and Moose Jaw during Juno I’ll tell you now, Mr. Epstein,” McCa- best of the James Bond themes. anything. The craftsmanship was president of production event — including a com- volved with the Junos since of equipment hanging over be prepared to drop things week. In addition, about 600 Another Record Year rtney declared, “I’m going to be a star McCartney’s concerts have steadily always evident on his albums, however, and supervising producer mercial that aired during 2002, and in some cases, the stages, more than 150 if we need to and respond volunteers are helping out with Insight Production the Super Bowl. prior to that when CBC held speakers, 2.7 km of camera to challenges. So, I do not with various aspects of the anyway.” evolved over the years. At first, he even if the music wasn’t memorable. Company. A noticeable change the broadcasting rights. cable, 13 cameras, four km sit with the director — he event, such as security and Macca was 19 at the time. He turned played only Wings songs, then he add- If McCartney’s albums got kind of This is the 19th year since CTV took over the “We go to different arenas of optical fibre cable and would not want the distrac- working in ticket booths. 71 on June 18, and the steely resolve he ed Beatles’ numbers he wrote solo — sucky, his singles often provided the Insight has produced broadcasting rights is the every year, so we’re not in a 11,000 hours of labour ― tion,” she said. The rationale for pro- The year 2013 will go down as •yet anotherHosted record year for Evrazover Place (operated70,000 by the Reginapeople for the 101st Grey Cup showed Epstein has never wavered. The Long and Winding Road, Yester- kind of slick and powerful rock he’d New Future Home of the Saskatchewan Roughrider the broadcast, including change of venue each year. position where we can learn half of which is local. Cox and CARAS have moting Regina’s weather McCartney, worth about $650 mil- day, Blackbird, Lady Madonna. created on Abbey Road. His catalogue every year since CTV was Previously, the Junos were the nuances of an arena already begun discussions stemmed from the 2010 Juno lion according to Forbes magazine, is Now his shows feature some of the is filled with grand pop radio confec- awarded the broadcast mainly held in Toronto, and apply it the next year Buble hosting around organizing next Awards in St. John’s when Exhibition Association): on the road this summer to burnish famous collaborations with Lennon, tions — Jet, Band on the Run, My Love, rights in 2002. with occasional shows in — it just doesn’t work that year’s show in Winnipeg, “many people almost didn’t his musical legacy. Not only his own, including Eight Days a Week, a No. 1 Helen Wheels, Maybe I’m Amazed. “Even when you’re in Vancouver and Hamilton. way,” said Cox. “There is no On the production side, but the actual planning make it,” said MacNaugh- but the Beatles’ legacy too. The plan hit in March 1965. These songs work well in concert the middle of it and you’re However, since CTV took predictability, and it’s really Cox says one of her most begins about a month from ton. Festival with 3 concerts in the Brandt Centre and 7 is to cement his place in pop history There’s a cute story with that one. because, as Sounes notes in Fab, live working really hard and over, the show has been exciting because of that.” important tasks is booking n o w. “Even though it’s chilly Football Club in 2017 by giving fans what he calls, with Liv- McCartney was being driven to Ken- rock music is as much theatre as it is you’re feeling so much spread out to places like Having the same staff the musical performers and Still, “it all starts pretty here right now, flights are BRYAN SCHLOSSER/Sunday Post erpudlian understatement, “a good wood, Lennon’s country estate, for a a listening experience.