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Television Facilities of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
By J. E. HAYES
This paper describes the television stations which the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has built in Montreal and Toronto for the inauguration of television broadcasting in Canada. In planning these stations certain special requirements had to be met such as the necessity for programming in two languages in Montreal and the need for producing a relatively large percentage of locally originated shows in both cities.
AT MIGHT BE SAID that the first official step in the development of a Canadian television service was taken in January 1950 when the Governor-in-Council approved a loan of $4,500,000 to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for the purpose of establishing television stations in Montreal and Toronto. Actually, of course, much work had preceded this action. We had kept in close contact with progress in England, France and the United States, and had prepared for our management detailed reports covering technical, program and financial aspects of television. The Board of Governors of the CBC was in a position therefore to make recommendations to the Canadian Government with a full knowledge of the existing television situation in other countries and the probable effect of its impact on Canada. Detailed engineering work was started
Presented on October 6, 1952, at the Society's Convention at Washington, D.C., by J. E. Hayes, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., P.O. Box 6000, Montreal, Canada.
immediately and a position of Coordinator of Television established to ensure coordination of the planning of the program, engineering, policy and financial aspects of the project. The duties of this post were undertaken by J. A. Ouimet who was, at that time, Chief Engineer. Appointments were made of the key personnel for both the Montreal and the Toronto stations in order to permit the organization of the operating staff during the period of construction. A senior position, reporting directly to Management, of Director of Television, was established for each location and, under him, positions of equal responsibility, Technical Director and Program Director. These men, with their respective assistants, formed the nucleus of the operating group for each station and under the general guidance of the Coordinator were given the responsibility of developing program plans, determining staff requirements and setting up training and hiring schedules timed to fit with expected completion dates for the stations.
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November 1952 Journal of the SMPTE Vol. 59