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a balanced and diversified program schedule requires that the CBC should keep control over the type and quality of all programs it carries. Consequently, commercially sponsored programs will be accepted only when the CBC considers them to be of sufficiently high quality and of suitable content.
Programs are being produced in two languages — English in Toronto and French and some English in Montreal. In addition, the film-recording equipment permits an exchange of programs between the two cities prior to the completion of the microwave network. Experience in sound broadcasting has proven that a bilingual program service is not entirely satisfactory to the majority of listeners, and it is expected that before long a second transmitter will be installed in Montreal to permit independent programs for the French and English viewers. The completion of the network between Toronto and Montreal will make the addition of the second transmitter a logical step. This will not be too difficult to do from a technical standpoint since the layout of the existing equipment has been made in such a manner that the second transmitter with its associated facilities may be added and integrated with the existing equipment.
The two stations began a limited television service during August and the official inauguration of the service took place early in September. The initial program schedule is being limited
to approximately three hours in the evening with the expectation that the number of hours will be increased gradually as the service develops.
Discussion
Louie L. Lewis (WOI-TV, Ames, Iowa): Are you going to distribute your programs by relay only, or are you going to distribute them by kinescope also?
Mr. Hayes: We will have to use kinescope recordings to feed Winnipeg, Vancouver and the Maritimes Station. We foresee the microwave network extending east of Montreal to Quebec City and west of Toronto as far as Windsor, but it may not be economical to extend it farther. At present we are exchanging programs between Montreal and Toronto because the network is not yet operating between these cities.
Mr. Lewis: Are you going to make positives and negatives then, and make copies?
Mr. Hayes: We expect to do so as soon as additional stations are in operation. For the moment we are not making any prints but are sending the one and only copy from one station to the other.
Barton Kreuzer (RCA, Camden, N.J.): How many stations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are operating now, TV stations?
Mr. Hayes: Two. Just the one in Montreal and the one in Toronto, and we have four more under construction.
Mr. Kreuzer: Where are those four?
Mr. Hayes: Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa and one in the Maritimes. Actually the physical construction hasn't started, but we are locating sites and carrying out the engineering on these stations.
J. E. Hayes: CBC Television Facilities
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