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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. [5] It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.
In recent history, on August 15, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation locked out its 5,500 members in the Canadian Media Guild. The key point of contention was the broadcaster's insistence on more temporary contracts in the future while guaranteeing no change in employment status for existing employees. The dispute lasted eight weeks and ...
Radio-Canada employees in 1945. The CBC (better known in French as la Société Radio-Canada, or colloquially simply Radio-Canada) also operates three French language radio networks, two of which have a similar programming focus as the corporation's English-language radio networks.
The federal government provides CBC with over 1.2 billion Canadian dollars ($890 billion) in funding per year, or about 71% of CBC's/Radio Canada's source of funds last year.
Radio-Canada.ca is the French Language online service run by Société Radio-Canada, the French counterpart of the CBC.. In June 2013, the CBC announced that Radio-Canada's website was to be moved to ICI.ca in October 2013, as part of wide plan to re-brand all of the CBC's French-language outlets under a common brand, replacing "Radio-Canada" with "Ici" as its main public-facing brand.
Catherine Tait (born 1958) is a Canadian business executive who formerly served as the 16th president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She succeeded Hubert Lacroix for the position after being appointed on April 3, 2018, and beginning her five-year mandate on July 3, 2018. [1] [2] In June 2023, her mandate was renewed until January ...
Roger Abbott, late member of Royal Canadian Air Farce; Vik Adhopia, reporter covering affairs of Newfoundland and Labrador; Kate Aitken, radio and television personality of the 1930s to 1950s; Madeleine Allakariallak, former anchor of Igalaaq on CFYK-DT; Andrew Allan, national head of CBC Radio Drama from 1943 to 1955
Peter Mansbridge OC (born July 6, 1948) is a British-born Canadian retired news anchor. From 1988 to 2017, he was chief correspondent for CBC News and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast.