In the first year there were 400 to 500. I do know--and it's curious--that the CBC has a department of seven people now just to handle the requests that are coming in primarily from Sun Media. This is costly. I can think of other things that seven people could be doing, but there you have it. This is so that the requests can be dealt with in an expedient manner, as is required.
On October 6th, 2011. See this statement in context.