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Mail from Listeners
Thousands and thousands of listeners have written to us since the
inauguration of the International Service of the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation in 1945. Many have written more than once,
a fair proportion of these several times. At all times we try to give
satisfactory replies and to answer the numerous questions and supply
the information desired. Needless to say, we are pleased to receive
mail and the more the better. Letters of praise and criticism are
both welcome. Both types help us to plan our programs in such
a way as to bring pleasure and satisfaction to the greatest number of
people within range of our broadcasts.
Although we speak of audience mail in a collective sense, there is
nothing impersonal in our manner of handling it. Each letter is
given individual attention by mail clerks from the different language
= sections. We know that only friends take the trouble to write and we |
| cherish our friends. No effort is spared to give satisfactory replies.
In many cases, letters are answered only after consultation with
departmental heads and with official sources of information outside
the GbE
Who writes to us? It is not too much to say that we get mail from
a cross-section of the world’s peoples. It comes from the more than
forty countries to which we broadcast in Europe and in Latin America
and the Caribbean area. It also comes from many other countries
in Africa, the Far East and Australasia. Letters are received from
urban and rural dwellers, from students and businessmen, from house-
wives and teachers, from physicians and scientists, from boys and
girls in their formative years and from hundreds and hundreds of
others who fall into numerous other classifications. Our exchange of
correspondence, like our broadcasts, is in more than sixteen languages.
People write to us about many things. A great percentage of the
writers comment on the quality of our programs and offer suggestions.
Others comment on our Monthly Program Schedule and suggest
topics dealing with Canada which they would like to learn about.
Students and teachers are eager to know more about the curricula
and the educational systems in Canada, farmers are interested in the
way Canadian farmers do things, workers inquire about working
conditions and the standards of living. From prospective immigrants
we get specific questions about the prospects of earning a living in
the various regions of Canada. Many letters contain real human
interest in pointing out how our broadcasts have brought people |
of different countries and Canadians closer through correspondence.
Nearly every letter gives evidence of a great interest in the Inter-
national Service and in Canada and we consider it a privilege to have
a part in maintaining and furthering that interest.
Cover: The mail clerk handles the thousands of letters received yearly and sees that all
mail reaches the language sections” correspondence clerks.
Photographs: Studio Jac-Guy.
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