Film Weekly 1962-63 year book : Canadian motion picture industry with television section (1962)

TELEVISION IN the year since the last edition of this Year Book was issued many important things have happened in TV at home and abroad. The major event was Telstar, the USA satellite which brought French and British television to American and Canadian screens and American and Canadian programming to Europe in July of 1962. In Canada March saw the beginning of construction of a 3,000-mile microwave network to carry color and black-and-white TV signals between Montreal and Vancouver. To cost $36,000,000 when completed in 1964, the network will be owned and oper¬ ated jointly by the CPR and the CNR. It will be Canada’s second network of that size, the CBC owning the first. At present CTV Network Ltd. is oper¬ ating a network with its member sta¬ tions as links. In May, 1962 the Board of Broadcast Governors eased up on its Canadian Content requirements, which were at a maximum of 55 per cent. Telemeter, the Paramount-Famous Associations ASSOCIATION OF RADIO & TELEVISION EMPLOYEES OF CAN. 121 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ont. (CEntral 6-9459) OFFICERS National President . Omer C. Higgins National Vice-President IZone 2) G. R. Willson National Vice-President IZone I) Ota Reichman BOARD OF BROADCAST GOVERNORS 48 Rideou St., Ottawa 4, Ont. (CEntral 2-8211) FULL-TIME MEMBERS Chairman . Dr. Andrew Stewart Vice-Chairman .. Caryle Allison Member Bernard Goulet PART-TIME MEMBERS Joseph Frederick Brown, Vancouver Dr. Mabel G. Connell. Prince Albert, Sask. Dr. Emlyn Davies, Toronto Edward A. Dunlop, Toronto Ivan Sabourin, QC, St. -Jean, Que. Dr. Colin B. MacKay, Fredericton. NB Roy DesBarres Duchemin, Sydney, NS Leslie M. Marshall, St. John's, Nfld. R. Louis Burge, St. Peters Bay, PEI John B. Lewis, Montreal, Que. Players toll-TV system in the Toronto suburb, Etobicoke, which has been going for two years, raised its installa¬ tion rate from $5 to $15. Telemeter will be a partner with the Maple Leaf Gardens in presenting the away-fromhome games of the Toronto Maple Leafs over theatre TV in a large To¬ ronto cinema. Theatre television was tried from New York to Rochester in March, Dynamic Theatre Networks Inc. of NY having presented the Broadway play, Gideon, on a 15x20-foot screen at from $1.50 to $3. The experiment was con¬ sidered a mild success. Some new TV stations and many satellite stations extended TV services considerably. TV’s increasing depend¬ ence on old motion pictures for pro¬ gramming and the willingness of the distributors and producers to supply them has continued to harm cinemas, particularly since such films are now offered in opposition to theatres, as indicated by time slots and advertis¬ ing. THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS 108 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont. (CEntral 3-4035) OFFICERS President Don Jamieson Immediate Past President M. T. Brown Vice-President, Radio Allan Waters Vice-President, Television . . J. A. Pouliot Executive Vice-President T. J. Allard Secretary-Treasurer Flora Love ATLANTIC REGION R. F. Large, CFCY. Charlottetown (Radio) T. Tonner, CHSJ, Saint John, NB (Radio) D. Jamieson, CJON-TV, St. John's, Nfld. (TV) FRENCH LANGUAGE A. Pelletier, CHRC, Quebec (Radio) C. Lavigne, CFCL, Timmins (Radio) M. Dansereau, CHLN, Three Rivers (Radio) J. A. Pouliot, CFCM-TV. CKMI-TV, Quebec City (TV) CENTRAL CANADA T. D. French, CKLC. Kingston, (Radio) A. F. Waters, CHUM, Toronto (Radio) H. C. Caine, CHWO, Oakville (Radio) S. C. Ritchie, CKLW, Windsor (Radio) R. T. Snelgrove, CKBB, CKVR-TV, Barrie (Radio) PRAIRIES L. Moffat, CKY, Winnipeg (Radio) D. Hartford, CFAC, Calgary (Radio) E. R. Rawlinson, CKBI, Prince Albert (Radio) N. Botterill, CJLH-TV, Lethbridge (TV) PACIFIC K. Hutcheson, CJAV, Port Alberni (Radio) M. Maclachlan, CHWK, Chilliwack (Radio) R. G. Chapman, CHBC-TV, Kelowna (TV) 113