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RADIO-TV CONTROL
Defense Dept. Plan Changes Urge
By JOHN OSBON
A SUBSTITUTE for the controversial military radio-TV control plan — advocating a new Communications Act amendment to include all electro-magnetic radiation devices but eliminating the far-reaching implications of the Defense Dept. proposal — was being weighed by the Senate Inter
CAB REPORT
Signpost To Future
NO CONTEMPLATED increase in license fees, cooperative war reporting for member stations and increasing public relations were featured in the annual report of General Manager Jim Allard of the Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters, Ottawa.
On finances, Mr. Allard reported that despite a heavy drain on the CAB reserve due to the NARBA and Royal Commission hearings in the past year, there is no need for an increase in license fees, basis of which has not changed in the last 11 years. With "prudent management and barring substantial rises in cost of doing business," Mr. Allard said he felt present fees would be sufficient.
He reported that CAB attendance at NARBA conferences has resulted in only two minor changes for British Columbia member stations. Mr. Allard told in detail of preparations and help for stations appearing before the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences last year, and intimated the Commission report will not be available before April.
The report also contains details on civil defense planning for broadcasting stations, associations with the Brand Names Foundation, plans for Sales Director Pat Freeman to go to Great Britain to round up radio business, issuance of a CAB booklet on the Canadian market being distributed now in the United States to advertisers and agencies, operations of CAB Radio Bureau at Ottawa, sending Bert Cannings, CKWX Vancouver, to Alaska, Japan and Korea for member stations, and liaison with various government departments.
He dealt in detail with public relations functions, from giving talks before various public organizations to supplying data for theses on commercial radio to university students, and contacts with many national associations. Report mentioned close cooperation with other national and international broadcasting station bodies, advertising agencies, technical planning board, special services planned for French-language stations and the assistance given to individual member stations. There are now 103 member stations plus 36 associate members, and only 11 nonmember English broadcasting stations in Canada.
state & Foreign Commerce Committee last week in the wake of a united broadcast industry stand.
The amendment was offered by the committee during the course of two-day hearings on legislation (S 537) introduced by Sen. Ed C. Johnson (D-Col.), committee chairman, at the request of the department, and reportedly had the tentative though unofficial endorsement of at least one military official.
Sen. Johnson recessed the hearings, held Wednesday and Thursday, pending further study of the committee proposal by the Dept. of Defense, NAB, FCC, RadioTelevision Mfrs. Assn., and other groups. While recessed "until a later date," Sen. Johnson told Broadcasting • Telecasting that future hearings may not be necessary.
If the reaction proves satisfactory, as is generally expected, the committee may take up the bill
in executive session this Wednesday and report it out favorably, he indicated.
The bill in its present form would empower the President to control radio-TV broadcasting and other radiations whenever he "deems it advisable in the interest of national security," or authorize use of stations and devices by such agencies and departments he may designate.
The industry stood united, through NAB and RTMA, on the common ground that power over stations is provided under Sec. 606 (c) of the Communications Act, and that the military plan is potentially "very dangerous" to the nation's broadcasters under the loose-jointed language inherent in the legislation.
Text of the proposed amendment:
Sec. 606(c). Upon proclamation by the President that there exists war or a threat of war, or a state of public peril or disaster or other national emergency, or in order to preserve the
neutrality of the United States t President, if he deems it necessary the interest of national security defense, may suspend or amend, j such time as he may see fit, the ru and regulations applicable to any all stations or devices capable of en ting electromagnetic radiations wit! the jurisdiction of the United States prescribed by the Commission, a cause the closing of any station i radio communication, or any dev capable of emitting electromagne radiations between 10 kilocycles a 100,000 megacycles, and the remoi therefrom of its apparatus and equ ment, or he may authorize the use control of any such station or dev and/or its apparatus and equipment, any department of the government u der such regulations as he may pj scribe upon just compensation to t owners.
NAB, which felt an amendme to the Communications Act wot; be preferable to new legislatic was studying the committee pi posal at week's end. It was undt stood that NAB might question t leeway suggested in the phra alluding to the President's d cretionary power.
Spearheading the industry £ ( Continued on page 68 )
CAB CONVENES Annugl MeeH"g °pens T°dc
By JAMES MONTAGNES ABOUT 300 Canadian broadcasters, agency executives, station representatives and their associates from the United States are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Assn. of Broadcasters at the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec City this week from Monday to Thursday. While no definite assurance has been given the CAB, it is hoped that the report of the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences, headed by Hon. Vincent Massey, will be available for discussion by CAB members on the final day.
Unlike previous annual CAB meetings, this year's meeting will be largely in the form of panel discussions. Business meetings will be left to two sessions, on Tuesday afternoon and on the last day. New directors have been appointed by the various regional
groups, and will hold their first meeting on the afternoon of March 1. Business to be discussed will include, in addition to annual reports, changes in wording on rate cards and contracts and related matters.
Agenda for the annual meeting includes Monday morning panel on "Earnings and Services" under chairmanship of F. H. Elphicke, CKWX Vancouver; Monday afternoon panel, "Information Please," with W. Vic George, CFCF Montreal, as chairman, and will deal with national business; Tuesday morning session, "Earnings and Audience," under chairmanship of Ralph Snelgrove CKBB Barrie, will deal with audience measurement. The Tuesday afternoon program on "Civil Defense and Local Disaster" will be a closed session at which it is expected that
Canada's civil defense administi tor, Gen. F. F. Worthington, will present. Wednesday afternooi panel, "Operations and Earning; under chairmanship of W. F. Sou( Canadian Marconi Co., Winnipe will deal largely with the equi ment situation.
The annual meeting of the B reau of Broadcast Measurement slated for the Wednesday mornii session. Maurice Mitchell, Ass ciated Program Service, New Yoi will be luncheon speaker on t opening day. Dr. J. R. Petrie, C nadian Tax Foundation, will guest speaker at the annual dinn Tuesday when the first John Gillin award will be made. Adc tionally Canadian General Electi Award and the CAB Quarter Ce tury Club memberships will presented. R. G. Lewis, Canadic Broadcaster, will be lunchei speaker on Wednesday.
THE seldom seen board of governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., seen at the January meeting in the new CBC Radio Canada Bldg., Montreal, included (I to r), Jesse P. Tripp, Oxbow, Sask.; Prof. J. A. Corry, Queen's U., Kingston, Ont.; Dr. G. Douglas Steel, Charlottetown, P.E.I.; Rene Morin, vice chairman, Montreal; A. D. Dun
ton, chairman, Ottawa; Dr. A. Frigon, general manage Ottawa; Donald Manson, assistant general manager, C tawa; Dean Adrien Pouliot, Laval U., Quebec, Que.; F. Crawford, Toronto; W. H. Phillips, Ottawa, and Mi Mary E. Farr, Victoria, B. C.
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