RADIO CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 8

RADIO CONTROL

THE CANADIAN POSITION A CORRECTIVE PROCESS (From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVER, May 20. Once again, radio broadcasting is at the cross-roads in Canada. Each year since the Radio Commission was appointed—three members, with salaries ranging about £2000 a year each—a legislative committee has investigated the system, but the new Liberal Government of Mr. Mackenzie King is determined to institute a system, more, nearly akin to the 8.8.C., with the control in the hands of one man, with a Board of Governors, who will receive payment by fees only. The present Radio Commission, finding its revenues insufficient, entered the advertising field, with the result that it perpetuated the system it was intended to abolish. Long and unsavoury discussion has taken place before the present investigation regarding political broadcasts made by the Conservative, Liberal, and other parties before the last Federal election, in which it has been made plain that the Government of the day regarded radio broadcasting as a branch of the Administration, to be ordered about at will. There is a prospect that some gtenerally-accepted forlm of control may be devised before Parliament adjourns next month. j