RADIO IN CANADA.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 19

RADIO IN CANADA.

TRANSOCEAN PROGRAMMES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVBH, February 16.

Tho chairman of the newly-appointed Canadian Broadcasting ' Commission, Mr. Hector, Charlesworth,; a veteran editor, announces that it >is the intention of tlie Commission to bring in British programmes as' often as possible. Theso transatlantic broadcasts are costb'j judged from tho etandpoint of the Commission's meagre sources of revenue, in the change-over from tho commercial system to the "controlled", system, but, with tho co-operation, of .the British Broadcasting Commission, '■'■ generously offered to Canada, programmes initiated in tho United Kingdom are to be given to Canadian listeners in increasing numbers. American brqa(l<!.a§ting concerns havq'indicated that they, too, will cooperate in transmitting British programmes to their listeners. A

"Wo,must doviso^a/new tcclmique," salil^Mr.; Charlebworth:-;'" "Very little has been done iii this" regard on this continent. The 8.8.C. has air versions o£ . ..many good j)lays,~ some Shakespearian. Wo intend to borrow theso plays and transmit.them across Canada. I am confident that we can find the talent, as the Little Theatre movement is producing excellent material for radio drama.'" "Wo intend rtlso to encourage Canadian authors and dramatists, to writo original sketches. This will bo a gradual development, and t!'C"'Canimisst(Jn~wiU liot'tie satisfied until real progress is made." Tho real tost of the Commission lies in divorcing, radio audienca from the ijrbgrammes put on the air by commercial advertisers. , "Advertising has hurt radio programmes," said Mr. Charlcsworth. "When you put your broadcasting in the hands of advertisers, you no longer depend on tho good taste of the artist, but upon tho taste of the advertiser. Instead of artists selecting their own programmes, the advertiser's agents, select .them1. ..Wo intend to allow plenty ,of latitude to orchestra conductors and artists."