Radio annual (1938)

of the Corporation upon request of such representatives. 4. The time mentioned in all program logs and contracts used in connection with broadcasting shall be local standard time (or local daylight-saving time if that is in force) unless otherwise specified Or agreed. 5. Each station shall, each week, file with the Corporation in a form acceptable to the Corporation an advance copy of its program schedule for the following week, showing the exact hours and how they are to be occupied each day. 6. Each station shall announce its call letters not less than once nor more than four times an hour, during hours of operation. Programs in General. 7. No one shall broadcast (a) anything contrary to law; (b) the actual proceeding at any trial in a Canadian Court ; (c) abusive comment on any race, religion or creed ; (d) obscene, indecent or profane language ; (e) malicious, scandalous, or defamatory matter; (/) advertising matter containing false or deceptive statements ; (g) false or misleading news; (h) upon the subject of birth control; (i) upon the subject of venereal disease, or other subjects relating to public health which the Corporation may from time to time designate, unless such subjects be presented in a manner and at a time approved by the General Manager as appropriate to the medium of broadcasting; 0) (i) programs presenting a person who claims supernatural or psychic powers, or a fortune-teller, character analyst, crystal-gazer or the like, or programs which lead or may lead the listening public to believe that the person presumed claims to possess or possesses supernatural or psychic powers or is or claims to be a fortune-teller, character analyst, crystal-gazer or the like. (ii) programs in which a person answers or solves or purports to answer or solve questions or problems submitted by listeners or members of the public unless such programs prior to being broadcast shall have been approved in writing by a representative of the Corporation. 8. (1) Political broadcasts are governed by subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 22 of The Canadian Broadcasting Act, 1936, which read as follows : — "(3) Dramatized political broadcasts are prohibited. "(4) The names of the sponsor or sponsors and the political party, if any, upon whose behalf any political speech or address is broadcast shall be announced immediately preceding and immediately after such broadcasts. "(5) Political broadcasts on any Dominion, Provincial or Municipal election day and on the two days immediately preceding any such election day are prohibited." (2) Each station shall allocate time for political broadcasts as fairly as possible between the different parties or candidates desiring to purchase or obtain time for such broadcasts. Advertising Content. 9. (1) The advertising content of any program shall not exceed in time ten per cent of any program period. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) any station shall upon instruction in writing from the Corporation reduce the total daily advertising content of its programs if the said total daily advertising content in the opinion of the Corporation occupies an undue proportion of the daily broadcast time. (3) Upon notice in writing from the Corporation any station shall change the quality or nature of its advertising broadcasts. 10. Notwithstanding the provisions of these regulations the Corporation may, upon satisfactory evidence being submitted to it of a contract or contracts for the use of mechanical reproductions outstanding on November 1, 1937, which contain more than the advertising content prescribed in section 9(1) or which relate to the subjects mentioned in section 7 (/) permit the continued use of the said mechanical reproductions until, but not beyond December 31, 1937. 11. (1) In any program no one shall advertise (a) any act or thing prohibited by law; (b) the prices of goods or services, except the prices of publications auxiliary to the information services of the Corporation ; (c) any insurance corporation not registered to do business in Canada; (d) bonds, shares, or other securities or mining or oil properties or royalties or other interests in mining or oil properties other than the securities of the Dominion or Provincial governments or municipalities or other public authorities, provided nothing herein shall prevent anyone from sponsoring a program giving quotations of market prices without comment ; (e) spirituous liquors; (/) wine and beer in any province of Canada wherein the provincial law pro 416