Canadian Film Weekly Year Book of the Canadian Motion Picture Industry (1958)

of dollars has grown up around TV in Canada. The CBC, for instance, spent $4,968,475 more than the $70,567,216 it received—$28,410,000 as commercial revenue and the rest from or through the government. The National Film Board spends a guessed-at half of its $1,600,000-or-so production expenditure on TV films. An equipment supply business is developing. In 1956 films brought $3,072,992 in rentals. Broadcasting, according to ‘‘Definitions” (Section 2) of the The Radio Act, 1938, “means the dissemination of radioelectric communication, including radio telegraph, radiotelephone and the wireless transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures and sounds of all kinds by means of Hertzian waves, intended to be received by the public directly or through the medium of relay stations.” The authority of the CBC was defined and limited by this definition and it is assumed that it also applies to the new regulatory body. Television using coaxial cable or Bell Telephone wires, such as Theatre TV and fee-TV as represented by Rediffusion, Inc., Montreal, is therefore excepted, as is the Telemeter toll-TV project in London, Ontario. Toll TV, employing cable, wire or microwave, is excepted, since it is not public broadcasting but in the closed circuit category. So are Canada’s 175-or-so community antenna firms. The Telemeter proiect is expected to be in operation in the Spring of 1959. Meanwhile Selectivision, Inc., another USA pay-see TV system, claims it will open for business in this country. Associations THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTERS 108 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ont. (CEntral 3-4035) OFFICERS Presi GE icecsceecscstinccereeqtuneorsintipeereias . VY. Dallin Vice-President (Radio) ........... Phil Lalonde Vice-President (TY) 00000000... G. Stirling Executive Vice-President ....... . T. J. Allard Secretary-Treasurer ..... , .... Flora Love DIRECTORS ATLANTIC REGION J. A. Manning, CKCL, Truro, NS (Radio). D. M. Neill, CFNB, Fredericton, NB (Radio). G. Stirling, CJON-TV, St. John's, Nfld. (TV). FRENCH LANGUAGE D. A. Gourd, CKRN, Rouyn, Que. (Radio). R. Couture, CKSB, St. Boniface, Que. (Radio). P. Lalonde, CKAC, Montreal (Radio). T. Burham, CKRS-TY, Jonquiere, Que. (TY). CENTRAL CANADA J. A. Dupont, CJAD, Montreal (Radio). W. H. Stovin, CJBQO, Belleville, Ont. (Radio). W. N. Hawkins, CFOS, Owen Sound, Ont. (Radio) M. Brown, CFPL, London, Ont. (Radio). R. T. Snelgrove, CKYR-TV, Barrie, Ont. [TV). PRAIRIES R. J. Buss, CHAT, Medicine Hat, Alta. (Radio). D. Dawson, CKCK, Regina, Sask. (Radio). J. O. Blick, CJOB, Winnipeg, Man. (Radio). N. Bofterill, CJLH-TV, Lethbridge, Alta. (TY). PACIFIC J. Sayers, C-FUN, Vancouver, BC (Radio). A. G. Seabrook, CJIB, Vernon, BC {Radio). D. M. Armstrong, CHEK-TV, Victoria, BC ITV). This Association represents 148 privately-owned broadcasting and 35 telecasting stations. CANADIAN RADIO TECHNICAL PLANNING BOARD 200 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto 7, Ont. (WAInut 3-4543) OFFICERS Presid @[nt cccscsscsscemcnesserentarcsosgmvan Fe fds eo IPOUNSEIE General Co-ordinator ............ R. A Hackbusch Secretary-Treasurer . cece Fe. W. Radcliffe Director of Public Relations ........ R. C. Poulter The objectives of the CRTPB, which has 20 sponsors, are to formulate sound engineering principles and to organize technical facts which will assist in the development of the Canadian radio industry and radio services of the nation in accordance with the public interest. The activities of the Board are restricted to engineering considerations and all sponsors must be nonprofit associations, bodies or societies which have an important interest in radio and allied fields. One of the objectives of the Board is to advise government, industry and the people of its findings and recommendations. In actual practice the Board has acted in an advisory capacity to the Canadian Government in the matter of frequency allocations. The organization of the Planning Board includes the Main Board, made up of the contributing sponsor delegates and the chairmen of the Planning Board's six Main Committees (Standards and Allocations. Committee; Television Committee; Broadcast Committee; Committee on Radio Communications including point to point, portable, mobile and emergency services; Committee on Aeronautical Radio and Radio Aids to Navigation; and Committee on Industrial, Scientific and Medical). NATIONAL COMMUNITY ANTENNA TELEVISION ASS'N OF CANADA 6301 Park Ave., Montreal, Que. OFFICERS Past President si F. T. Metcalf Presi ents cept tectsiasernasen ... A. Rousseau Vice-President ...... . J. C. Couture Secretary ........... oe hee K. J. Easton Treas. & Associate Sec. ' . O. Girard DIRECTORS W. H. Cranston, G. W. Rymal, H. Gray, PGuerette, J. Beauchemin, W. H. Cook, W. SG. Pitter, Metcalf, Rousseau, Couture, Easton, Girard. RADIO-ELECTRONICS-TELEVISION MFRS. ASS'N OF CANADA 200 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto 7, Ont. (WAlInut 1-2898) President W. H. Jeffery