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  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, was established in 1932 by the government of R.B. Bennett after an intense lobbying campaign by Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt of the Canadian Radio League which had been set up in 1930 to campaign for the implementation of recommendations by the Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
CBC television stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages, such as Inuktitut, Gwich'in, and Dene.
CBC Transmission has extensive experience in the design, installation and maintenance of broadcast transmission facilities and is able to provide a full menu of service offerings to the private sector.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soci%c3%a9t%c3%a9_Radio-Canada   (4614 words)

  
 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Private CBC affiliates are not as common as they were in the past, as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by CHUM Limited, becoming NewNet stations.
CBC Television stations in northern Canada tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages.
CBC Television and CBC Newsworld are the only broadcasters in Canada (and very likely the only broadcasters worldwide) required to caption 100% of their programming.
open-encyclopedia.com /CBC   (1783 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
CBC Radio has five separate services—three in English, known as CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, and CBC Radio 3, and two in French, known as La Première Chaîne and La Chaîne Culturelle.
CBC Radio Two and La Chaîne Culturelle, which are found exclusively on FM, air arts and cultural programming, with a primary focus on music, mostly classical.
CBC Radio 3 is a new service focused at "youth", and is available only on the Internet.
www.ipedia.com /canadian_broadcasting_corporation.html   (1194 words)

  
 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Quebec, where the majority speaks French, the television of Radio-Canada (the French division of the CBC) is popular and gets some of the highest ratings in the province.
The language barrier keeps viewers from tuning to US channels in as large number as the rest of English-speaking Canada, but it is also explained by other cultural differences.
During MSNBC's coverage of President George W. Bush's visit to Canada, CBC Senior Parliamentary Editor Don Newman appeared on MSNBC.
hallencyclopedia.com /Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation   (2081 words)

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