But radio does not just live off nice speeches. The management of the two stations is well aware of this. As early as 1951 it starts negotiations with CBC with a view to subsidizing transmission of its broadcasts in the West. They have in hand the recent report of the Massey Commission recommending that CBC/Radio-Canada establish a trans-Canada French network and affiliate with the stations in the West to carry its national broadcasts in French. On October 26, 1952, an agreement is reached between the western stations and CBC/Radio-Canada, which commits to covering the cost of installing and maintaining relay lines between Montreal and its western stations and providing them with 16 hours of programming a day. CBC/Radio-Canada pays $135 an hour for the rebroadcast of its sponsored programs. This amount is shared between the four stations in the West; their part of the contract is to broadcast two to three hours a day of programs from the French network. The agreement comes just at the right time for the survival of the French stations, for they see their advertisers eying the new TV which will appear in Saskatchewan in 1954.