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14 The Windsor Star, Wednesday, December 6, 1972 Quebec TV network seeking expansion, CRTC told said operational problems for the system have been overcome. He said CKAC prepares in Montreal the network's national, international and provincial news segments in three-to five-minute broadcasts, allowing reporters at the other stations more time and opportunity to get out and cover local events more fully. Mr. de Gaspe Beaubien said the system made money and utilized experienced personnel at the CKAC station in Montreal who had built up a solid reputation. Gilles Liboiron of the Outaouais Professional Journalists Association told the commission the news service at CKCH in Hull had deteriorated badly since it was taken over by Telemedia ear'y in 1970.

He said that several of the staff had left for various reasons and were never replaced. He said only three men were left to man the station's offices and there was only one reporter free to go out and cover local events. Mr. Liboiron said the CRTC should concern itself with forcing Telemedia to improve staff conditions at the station before granting it a licence for a news network. Mr.

de Gaspe Beaudien replied that Telemedia assumed $1 million in losses when it took over CKCH to keep it from going under. He said this was the first year in five that the station was renewal. CRTC decisions are normally announced about a month after the hearing. Applications for each new station to be added to the network would be heard at future hearings. Stations CHLT-TV in Sherbrooke and CJBR-TV in Rimouski, owned by Telemedia Quebec are expected to apply for disaffiliation from the CBC's French-language network and joint TVA.

Hearings are expected in the spring on an application by CFTM to established a second French television station in Hull. No details were announced on the Sept-Iles expansion. The discussions concerning the TVA network came within hours of an application from CKAC a Montreal-based broadcasting company, for a licence to set up Canada's first private French-language radio news network. The network, Le Reseau Telemedia, would serve radio stations CKAC in. Montreal, CHLN in Trois Rivieres, CHLT in Sherbrooke and CKCH in Hull.

CKAC Ltd. has already been providing the service under a temporary permit granted by the CRTC. The temporary permit allows setting up of a system to see how it works. Four objections were presented to the commission, including one by the Outaouais Professional Journalists Association. Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, chairman of the board of CKAC, MONTREAL (CP) The recently-established Quebec television network TV consisting of stations in Montreal, Quebec City and Chicoutimi, is planning expansion to Sherbrooke, Rimouski, Sept-Ues and the Ottawa-Hull area, the Canadian Radio-Television Commission was told Tuesday-Representatives of TVA also described plans to increase their news and public affairs shows, admitting they have not yet met the goals they set for the co-operative network at a 1971 CRTC hearing.

CRTC members questioned the network representatives about the extent station CFTM-TV in Montreal dominates the network and about what is being done to encourage production by other Quebec stations, both within and outside the network. TVA is applying for a renewal of its network licence. Roland Giguere, president of Tele-Metropole owners of CFTM, speaking during the hearing of his station's application for a licence renewal, said he hopes to increase production facilities and begin making feature-length films for movie theatre and television use. Mr. Giguere was also the chief spokesman for the network during the hearing of its application.

The other network stations are CFCM-TV in Quebec City and CJPM-TV in Chicoutimi. TVA began operations about 14 months ago under a two-year licence that expires in March. The application is for a five-year operating at a profit and it was his intention to bring up the quality of the news coverage. Today he is to answer interventions by the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, the Assemblee Generale de 1'IIe de Hull, and Jean-Andre Leblanc of Ottawa. On other business Tuesday the CRTC: Spent two and one-half hours exploring the service provided by Wawa Cable Vision Ltd.

to its 187 subscribers in Wawa, Ont. And was told by the owners that CKMI-TV in Quebec City is "a major contribution at the local level to Canadian unit." France Fortin, executive vice-president of Tele-Capitale also said that his company is keeping the English-language station operating even though there appears to be no chance it will show a profit. Tele-capitale, which also owns the French television station CFCM-TV in Quebec City, is applying for a renewal of its television licences. Mr. Fortin spoke briefly of CFCM operations, saying a third of their programs are produced in Quebec City.

Before the hearing began, Ron Paquette of Lauzon, filed a letter with the CRTC charging that "the English population is being discriminated against" since CKMI has a general lack of children's programs and movies, plus poor programs. Quebec municipalities to benefit by police training reform Hnlw 1A Shnnnina Dnv; till Christmas bo Visit wooco s. loyiana ror QUEBEC (CP) A reform of 'police training which will eventually require all Quebec police officers to have three years of post-secondary training was announced Tuesday by Justice Minister Jerome Choquette. Mr. Choquette told a news conference the reform will be introduced gradually.

But from 1979 on, all police recruits will need 2M years of junior college studies and six months of training at Quebec's Police Institute. The justice minister said the reform will save municipalities in Quebec about $2,750,000 a year because persons planning a police career will no longer be on the police payroll during their training period and the provincial government will pay the costs of operating the Police Institute. It also would save the provincial government about $960,000 a year in salaries paid to Quebec Provincial Police recruits while in training. This aspect of the plan will come into effect in September, 1973. Mr.

Choquette also announced: Establishment of a special fraud and bankruptcy section of the justice department to co-ordinate the work of police and other agencies in fighting "commercial crime;" Justice department aid to groups working to rehabilitate criminals leaving prison. In the period between next September and 1979, when the first police officers with a full three-year post-secondary training begin to enter police forces in the province, Mr. Choquette plans interim improvements. Police recruits will receive nine months' training rather than four months as is current practice. Their nine-month course will be divided into two semesters, one at a junior college and the other at the Police Institute.

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