Film Weekly 1956-57 year book : Canadian motion picture industry (1956)

service was $1,071,791. The 1954-55 opera¬ tion expenditure was $29,103,538. CBC television operations include six English-language and two French-language stations and the supplying of a national service of programs for 22 private stations. The English-language service was avail¬ able to 9,000,000 English-speaking people, the French service, on five stations, to about 4,000,000 French-speaking people. The national service averaged 35 hours a week in English and 27 hours in French. It included sustaining programs supplied and broadcast free of charge on private stations. Private outlets also shared in the commercial revenue from sponsored CBCproduced programs they carried. Gross billings to sponsors and agencies totalled $19,471,530, from which there were deductions of $2,706,455 to private stations, $3,261,870 for agency and network com¬ missions and $4,368,260 for direct produc¬ tion costs. The excise tax revenue of $22,799,955 was up by about $1,330,000 from 1954-55. It provided $17,737,991 for television ser¬ vices and $5,061,984 for radio. This revenue is expected to drop this year as television sales are near the saturation point. Miscellaneous sources such as broad¬ casting license fees charged to private stations, interest on investments and profits on the sale of bonds totalled $757,502. During the last fiscal year, the CBC received its sixth television service loan, amounting to $8,250,000. The corporation now owes the Government $24,250,000 for television, and $3,173,802 for radio, or a total of $27,423,802. The loans are repaid in semi-annual payments over periods ranging up to 30 years. Among other costs for both radio and television, engineering expenditures were $7,699,907; wire lines for station networks cost $2,498,306; and administrative ex¬ penses amounted to $1,561,857. These fig¬ ures showed small increases over 1954-55. The CBC report indicated that it was “planning to maintain services and carry out essential development within the limits of the resources available” pending Par¬ liament’s decisions on future financing. It said the parliamentary decisions would be based on recommendations contained in the report of the aforementioned Royal Commission on Broadcasting. The CBC report was tabled in the House of Com¬ mons during the Spring session by Na¬ tional Revenue Minister J. J. McCann, who reports to Parliament for the Crownowned corporation. All aspects of Canadian television and sound broadcasting, including financing and the power of the Canadian Broadcast¬ ing Corporation to regulate private broad¬ casting, were reviewed by the three-man Commission appointed by the Cabinet. The Commission is not a law-making body but one which makes recommendations based on its findings. R. M. Fowler of Montreal, president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, is chairman. The other members are James Stewart of Toronto, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and Ed¬ mond Turcotte, Canadian ambassador to Colombia. Many organizations submitted briefs to the Commission. Some endorsed the CBC, some opposed it broadly and others made suggestions for minor revisions in its scope or/ and policies. The brief of the Canadian Association of Radio and Television Broad¬ casters suggested reduction of the CBC to a production agency only and merging it with the National Film Board, a Govern¬ ment production-distribution organization which will direct about 50 per cent of its output in 1956 to CBC TV outlets. Associations THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTERS 108 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont. (Phone 4-1660) OFFICERS President F. A. Lynds Vice-President (Radio) D. A. Gourd Vice-President (TV) ........ H. A. Crittenden Executive Vice-President T. J. Allard Secretary-Treasurer . . Flora Love DIRECTORS ATLANTIC: J. Hirtle, CKWB, Bridgewater, NS (Radio); F. A. Lynds, CKCW, Moncton, NB (Radio); G. Sterling, CJON-TV, St. John's Nfld. (TV) — FRENCH LANGUAGE: D. A. Gourd, Ra¬ dio Nord Inc., Rouyn, PQ (Radio); Henri Lepage, CHRC, Quebec, PQ (TV); R. Couture, CKSB, St. Boniface, Man. (Radio); F. B. Ricard, CHNO, Sudbury, Ont. (Radio) — CENTRAL CANADA: J. M. Davidson, Northern Broadcasting Co. Ltd., Toronto (Radio); W. T. Cruikshank, CKNX, Wingham, Ont. (Radio); J. A. Hammond, CFCF, Montreal (Radio); W. N. Hawkins, CFOS, Owen Sound, Ont. (Radio); E. E. Fitzgibbons, CKCOTV, Kitchener, Ont. (TV) — PRAIRIES: R. J. Buss, CHAT, Medicine Hat, Alta. (Radio); V. Dallin, CFQC, Saskatoon, Sask. (Radio); J. O. Blick, CJOB, Winnipeg, Man. (Radio); H. A. Crittenden, CKCK-TV, Regina, Sask. (TV) — PACIFIC: C. J. Rudd, CHUB, Nanaimo, BC (Radio); M. P. Finnerty, CKOK, Penticton, BC (Radio). COUNSEL Copyright Counsel Samuel Rogers, QC French-language Counsel Taschereau Fortier 162