RADIO REPORT
CANADIAN PROPOSALS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right).
(Received this day at 11 a.m.)
OTTAWA, September 11.
A royal commissioner which investigated'‘radio broadcasting in Canada, recommended to the Government to-day that broadcasting be controlled and operated by a Government owned company with three representatives of the Dominion, and one from each of the nine provinces. The task of supplying programmes to fall on the provincial representatives. The present owners of stations to be recompensed when the plants are taken or dismantled. The operation and maintenance .expenditure to be met by license fees and rental of time for a programme, employing indirect advertising and subsidy from the Dominion. As a neeleus seven fifty thousand watt stations will be provided.
Tiie report is to be submitted to the technical officers before Cabinet consideration. It would require important legislation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1929, Page 5
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138RADIO REPORT Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1929, Page 5
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