The Conference Communications Committee created in 1964 was organised along the same administrative lines as the National Board of Information and Stewardship with the work divided between Radio-TV/Broadcasting, Audio-Visual, and Press and Information Sub-Committees. The Board of Management of the Regional Literature Depot located in Winnipeg also reported to Conference through the Communications Committee. (The activities of the Radio-TV/Broadcasting Sub-Committee are described as part of the sub-series on Broadcasting.) Press and Information was responsible for liaison with media and issuing press releases as required. Audio-Visual was responsible for facilitating training in audio-visual materials and equipment as well as previewing materials for acquisition. This structure soon changed, however, as the creation of the Conference Committee of Congregational Life and Work in 1966 precipitated changes in the entire Conference committee structure.

In 1966 a new Advisory Committee for the Audio-Visual Education Library (AVEL) was struck as a sub-committee of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Conference Christian Education Committees to administer funds and set policy. However, within the year, Saskatchewan had withdrawn their support for this structure. The following year the AVEL Advisory Committee became a joint sub-committee of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Communications Committees. AVEL was briefly known as the Regional Audio-Visual Depot. A joint sub-committee approved the amalgamation of the Book Store and Regional Audio Visual Depot effective 1 January 1969 (1969 ROP, p. 69).

The high cost of program production was one of the motivations for the creation of the Prairie Regional Broadcasting Council in 1967. The Council encouraged co-operation in broadcasting among the three Prairie Conferences and consequently took increasing responsibility for the Broadcasting initiatives of Manitoba Conference after 1967. Miss Forbes, Regional Director of Broadcasting for Manitoba Conference along with Rev. Harold Alston in Edmonton, were Joint Directors.

The disappearance of Congregational Life and Work and the development and implementation of a new model of Conference structure by 1973, confusion over the mandate of the Conference Communications Committee, and the possibility of a full-time Communications staff person in the Manitoba Conference led to the appointment of a Communications Task Group in April of 1974 and a reorganisation of the Conference Communications Committee by November of 1974. The reorganised Communications Committee was to be composed of one member nominated from each Presbytery and who would serve as the Communications Co-ordinator for the Presbytery as well as a Chairperson and Secretary to be named by Conference. The goal of the committee was to facilitate communication within Manitoba Conference, to plan and recommend the communications strategy of the United Church within the Conference and to interpret to the Conference “the role of communications in the life, the work and the witness of the Church” (ROP, 1975, p. 35). The Conference Field Staff person for Communications, appointed in 1974, was to be a corresponding member. (The Communications staff position evolved into the position of Program Resource/Communication staff in 1977 and continued until 1981 when this position was eliminated.) Also in 1977, responsibility for the administration of the United Church Book Store and AVEL were assumed by the national Church. However, responsibility for promoting those services still remained with the Conference Communications Committee and a regional advisory board continued to exist.

In 1980, the Communications Committee began to provide coverage of the annual Conference by creating daily bulletins for delegates and issuing press releases. The committee had already been responsible for the Conference Newsletter "Cross-Currents" since 1970. Further Conference re-structuring in 1982 divided the work of Conference Communications between the Worship and Education Council and the Evangelism and Social Action Council. A new structure for inter-council co-ordination in Conference Communications would not exist until the creation of the Media Resource and Inter-Council Communications Committees in 1985.