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CBC Plans Radio Service Canadian NorthlandBy DON HANHIGHTOITAWA (Cr — The CBC will launch a regular shortwave radio service to the Canadian North this summer.The publicly - owned corporation is awaiting government approval for its plan, which calls for making night use of its present 50,000 - watt international service transmitters at Sackville,N.B.The interna tionjil service,broadcasting to Europe in 15 languages, closes down in theearly evening when most of Europe is in bed. Capitalizing on this time difference, the CBC proposes to reverse the Sackville antennae and broadcast to the Arctic from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight MDT daily.Target date for the new service is Aug. 1.TWO FOLD AIMCBC officiaLs say the aim of the shortwave service to the Arctic is two-fold:1. It is the only way that the entire Canadian North can be served by radio. The nine community radio stations already set up and the two additional ones planned will serve only about half the 55,000 population of theYukon and Northwest Territories.2. It will give Arctic residents a Canadian program substitute for shortwave listening fare now consisting largely of the competing propaganda from radio Moscow and Washington's powerful Voice of America, evangelism from the Voice of the Andes station in Ecuador, and the musical-variety routine of a U.S. armed forces operation from Los Angeles.CBC authorities expect no difficulty in obtaining cabinet approval for the plan, which would be far less costly than the corporation’s original proposal to establish a new and separate shortwave station in Western Canada.Cuban Head Asks For Negro SupportHAVANA (AP) — The Fidel Castro regime is conducting a campaign for support among U.S. Negroes.While deriding the American government, Castro’s supporters are bombarding American Negroes with massive doses of propaganda and inviting them to visit this “Negro paradize.”Almost weekly delegations ofNegroes from the United States are brought to Cuba to see for themselves what the Cuban government says is the “true picture” of revolutionary C u b a. Many travel at Cuban expense.Last year Joe Louis and a public relations firm were given a contract to popularize Cuba among Negroes in the United States.More recently Negro members of the U.S. national “committee for fair play for Cuba” haveStates.” It was filled with reports and photographs portraying maltreatment of Negroes.EducationChangeAnnouncedQUEBEC (CP) — Quebec’s new Liberal government, which made education a key issue in campaigning to topple the Union Nation ale government before the June 22 elections, has announced its first major change in that field.Premier Jean Lesage’s first cabinet meeting since the swearing-in ceremonies Tuesday ranI \They also recall that it was at government suggestion in atthe CBC expanded its northern service in 1958 by setting up small, low - power community stations through the north.SOME OPERATE NOWAlueady in operation are such stations at Goose Bay, Labrador; Fort Churchill, Man.; Yellowknife, Fort Smith and Hay River, N.W.T.; and Whitehorse, Dawson and Watson Lake in the Yukon. Power of these stations ranges from 40 to 250 watts and they serve populations ranging from 15,000 at Goose Bay to 350 at Watson Lake.Scheduled to begin operation in December is a new 1,000-watt station at Inuvik, the new Mackenzie Delta townsite replacingAklavik. Partly staffed by Eskimo announcers, it will cover the Mackenzie River Delta as well as nearby settlements such as Tuk-loyaktuk on the Arctic coast.Also planned by the corporation is establishment of another new station next year at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.RECORD CBC PROGRAMSMost, of those stations operate with recordings of CBC programs. al t li o u g h occasionally they pick up the signals of other CBC transmitters in southern Canada and boost them to “readable” quality for the local listeners.Otherwise, the only ordinary radio service reaching the Arctic is a hit - and-miss reception from such privately - owned stations as CJBR Rimouski, Que., CKBI Prince Albert, CFGP Grande Prairie, Alta., nnd the regular CBC transmitters at La-combc, Alta., and Watrous, Sask.Tests from the Sackville shortwave transmitters during the last six months have proven the feasibility of the new plan. Radio reception was good at almost all Arctic points reporting on the tests.Major listening need for isolated Arctic residents is news. This, plus tlie informational-type program and talks, is expected to make up most of the programming of the new service.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Thu, Jul 07, 1960
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