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The Canadian government regulates media ownership and the state of media through the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Section 3(d)(iii) of the Canadian Broadcasting Act states that media organizations should reflect "equal rights, the linguistic duality and multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society and ...
While American television stations, including affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS, near the Canada–US border were available for several years prior, and gained a sizeable audience in cities like Toronto, within range of U.S. signals, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was the first entity to broadcast television programming within Canada, launching in September 1952 in both Montreal and ...
The mass media in Canada (James Lorimer & Company, 2000) Vipond, Mary. "The Mass Media in Canadian History: The Empire Day Broadcast of 1939." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada 14.1 (2003): 1-21; The 2003 Presidential Address of the CHA; Vipond, Mary.
The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV (an acronym of Canadian Television since the logo ident of 1998), is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned television network and is now a division of the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE ...
The Report of the Special Senate Committee (Davey) on Mass Media is published. The CRTC issues network licences to the CBC for the first time. 1971 Canadian content regulation (minimum 30%) in force for AM radio music. First French-language private TV network opens. Experimental radio and TV from the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. 1972
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.
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.
The All Red Line cable for the British Empire.Canada as an interconnection-point. c.a. 1903. The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada.While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated ...