Proceedings of hearings held by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The proceedings breakdown as follows: Harry Bower, Commisioner, questions A.W. Johnson, CBC President, and Don MacPherson, member of CBC Board of Directors, about CBC financing, hiring of consulting firms, budget cuts, lobbying parliament, sales force efficiency (9:02-9:21); Steve Patrick, Commissioner, questions Johnson about capital projects and marketing (9:21-9:31); Commissioner Hebert questions Johnson and DesRoches about expenditures on regional programming (9:31-9:38); Hebert questions MacPherson and Johnson about sponsorship, institutional financing and the PBS (9:38-9:53); Vice-Chairman Fortier questions Johnson about the cost per hour of productions and other countries' broadcasting systems (9:53-10:00); Fortier questions Johnson and MacPherson about cutting broadcasting hours and BBC drama vs. CBC drama (10:00-10:06); Commissioner Klingle questions Johnson and MacPherson about hockey broadcasting, national news time slots and archives of broadcast material (10:06-10:21); Commissioner de la Chevrotière questions Johnson about the quality of tv signals in Quebec City (10:21-10:26); Commissioner Rogers questions Johnson and DesRoches about public relations budget, cost of televising CRTC hearings and televising of Commons proceedings 10:26-10:35); Chairman Camu calls meeting to order (11:00-11:01); Commissioner Gower questions Johnson and DesRoches about CBC response to their audience and the Victoria studio (11:01-11:19); Commissioner Bower questions DesRoches and R.C Fraser, VP Corporate Affairs, about private stations in remote areas, affiliates and Telesat (11:19-11:22); Commissioner Pearce questions Johnson about CBC finances, chain of command and accountability (11:22-11:34); and Camu questions Desroches about labour contracts and expiry dates (11:34-11:38).~Commissioner Gagnon questions MacPherson about ESD and FSD news rooms and reporters (11:38-11:42); Commissioner Rogers questions MacPherson, Johnson and David about service to minority groups in Quebec and elsewhere (11:42-11:50); John Johnson, CRTC counsel, questions Johnson and MacPherson about local vs regional programming, institutional advertising, the "Newcomers", statistical tables of CBC program costs, salaries, criticisms of CBC and the cost of satelites (11:50-12:08); Camu thanks the speakers, Johnson thanks the CRTC, Fortier thanks Ron Fraser (12:08-12:12); Senator Peter Bosa, representing the Council on Multiculturalism, discusses previous CBC consultations, radio and tv, war movies and sterotyping of miniority groups with VP Fortier and Commissioners Pearce, Bower, Rogers and Klingle (12:12-12:32); W.W. Thorpe representing the City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, gives a presentation on English language television service in that province and answers questions from Camu and Fortier about local and private programming (12:36-12:50); Benno Friesen, MP, discusses the accountability of CBC finances and criticisizes CBC managment and programing choices and is questioned by Dr. Fortier about a proposed production and transmission division (12:56-1:15).~Camu calls meeting to order after the lunch break (2:34-2:36); F. Lalonde representing La Fédération des Francophones Hors Quebec gives a presentation on the needs of each province concerning local French broadcasting and answers questions about hiring French staff outside Quebec, production centres in Eastern and Western Canada, French services in Moncton, NB and Nova Scotia, the improvement in CBC services, the francophone population in Saskatchewan, advertising in French programming, and French television in BC (2:36-3:55); presentation by CBC-TV-Network Advisory Committee represented by Terry Coles, Robert Bonneau, Dick Sharp, Peter Senchuk, George Skinner, Bob Elsden and Yvon Chouinard, about the role of CBC affiliates, regional markets, and Canadian programming (3:58-?); presentation by Kirwan Cox of the Council of Canadian Filmakers on the underfinancing of Canadian productions and a proposed cable surcharge to remedy the problem; and E. Marshall Wick representing the Canadian Association of the Deaf makes a presentation on close captionning.