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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 ...
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.
In 2012, CBC Radio lost some of its funding due to large cuts in Canadian government spending. This has resulted in a reduction of the number of concerts being recorded, the closing of recording studios, and the laying off of technicians, [ 17 ] as well as the introduction of four minutes per hour of advertising on the Radio 2 and Espace ...
Sally Catto is general manager for programming at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. [1] Catto has explained the balancing act she and her colleagues must tread, in choosing productions to fund that help preserve a Canadian identity. [2] [3] [4] [5]
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) [1] [2] is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto.
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.
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