Broadcasting Telecasting (Apr-Jun 1957)

Canada-U. S. Pact Provides Tv Shifts in 3 B. C. Cities IT has been announced by the FCC that the Canadian-U. S. television agreement has been amended to change channel assignments in three British Columbia cities. Ch. 2 went from Vernon to Kelowna, with ch. 7 added to Vernon, and ch. 13 from Kelowna to Penticton, which previously was not allocated a channel. The changes were made at the request of a Canadian applicant who wanted to build a mother tv station on ch. 2 in Kelowna with satellite stations in the other two cities. The Canadian government agreed that any assignment made for these channels would stipulate that the transmitter site must be at least 190 miles from any city in the U. S. in which the same channel is assigned. CBC Building 6-Story Edifice THE CBC has a new six-story building under construction on Sumach Street, north of Queen Street East, Toronto, which will house much of the television production department under one roof for the first time. The new building will have 240,000 square feet of floor space and will house the design department and 12 rehearsal rooms and studios. Much of CBC's tv production at present is scattered in old buildings, schools and warehouses throughout downtown Toronto. The new building on Sumach Street, to be opened this summer, will eliminate much of the costly trucking operations between the various tv production buildings and studios. A large center to house all CBC tv and radio production and news services is expected to be built in the next few years, following the recently published recommendations of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting. Broadcast Industry Measurement A SURVEY to determine the size of the Canadian radio and tv broadcasting industry is now being undertaken by the government's Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The information is being gathered in such a way that it will be published only as for the entire industry, not by individual stations or groups of stations, and all data is being supplied in confidence for use only in a total industry set of figures. Such information has to date been difficult to obtain in Canada, and is considered extremely valuable in the industry. Canadian Microwave Extended CANADA'S microwave television network was extended on April 28 westward from Winnipeg to add CKX-TV Brandon, Man., and CKCK-TV Regina, Sask. The network now extends more than half the length of Canada from Quebec City in east to Regina in the west, and will be completed coast-tocoast by early 1958. A regional microwave network is already in operation on the Atlantic coast and will be joined to Quebec City by year-end. In 1956, TOWER supplied over one hundred major / Micro W3V6 Installations Mid-Continent Broadcasting Co. Television Station KSAZ Radio Station KFYR Radio Station WWTV Amalgamated Wireless Ltd., Australia Collins Radio Co. General Electric Lenkurt Electric Co. Motorola, Inc. Page Communications Engineers, Inc. Philco Corp. Radio Corporation of America Raytheon Western Electric American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Bell Telephone Laboratories Colorado Interstate Gas Co. Michigan Bell (SAGE project) Mid Valley Pipe Line Ohio Power Co. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. U.S. Air Force with Towers, Reflectors and Buildings tower fabricators and erectors the world over TOWER CONSTRUCTION CO. SIOUX CITY. IOWA WRITE TODAY FOR FREE BOOKLET 1 TOWER CONSTRUCTION CO. 2700 Hawkeye Dr., Sioux City, Iowa Please send me FREE copy of "Aluminum Reflectors" Name Firm I I I AddressCity State I I J Broadcasting • Telecasting May 20, 1957 • Page 89