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  CBC/Radio-Canada - CBC Television Programming Plans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The challenge CBC Television faces is to deliver great Canadian programming to Canadians - programming that captures their attention and their imagination...programming that speaks to their unique sensibility.
CBC Television operates in the most competitive broadcasting market in the world and Canada's proximity to the U.S., and the resulting flood of American programming that flows across our borders, is just one of the challenges facing CBC Television.
CBC Television, as Canada's national public television broadcaster, has a cultural mandate to tell compelling, original, audacious and entertaining Canadian stories in a way that Canadians want to watch, and in large numbers.
cbc.radio-canada.ca /speeches/20060310.shtml   (2648 words)

  
  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936.
Television broadcasts from the CBC began on September 6, 1952, with the opening of a station in Montreal, Quebec (CBFT), and a station in Toronto, Ontario (CBLT) opening two days later.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation   (5114 words)

  
 CBC Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of 2002, CBC Television and CBC Newsworld were the only broadcasters in Canada (and very likely the only broadcasters worldwide) required to provide closed captioning for 100% of their programming.
CBC News: Sunday Night airs in the 10:00 slot on Sunday nights, while there is only a short news update, at most, late Saturday evenings -- during hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of the second game of the doubleheader on Hockey Night In Canada.
CBC television stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, branded as CBC North, tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut, Gwich'in, and Dene.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CBC_Television   (1763 words)

  
 INSIDE TELEVISION - CBS & CBC (Templeton Memoir)
Television" then, and it seemed pointless to mount an expensive show in opposition to him, so the Bishop was dumped into the 8:00 p.
It was the story of a successful television comedian, a mercurial man, restless in his job of making people laugh.One night he interjects a note of political comment into his monologue and,by luck, touches a national nerve.
In early September, 1957, I was leaving the CBC building on Jarvis Street, when I was intercepted by a tall, somewhat awkward young man with a round face, heavy horn-rimmed glasses and a mound of wavy hair.
www.templetons.com /charles/memoir/tv-start.html   (10711 words)

  
 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The CBC was founded in 1932 when the federal government set up the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, or CRBC.
For the next few decades, the CBC was behind all broadcasting innovation in Canada.
They introduced FM radio to Canada in 1946, television in 1952, and colour television in 1966.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cb/CBC.html   (252 words)

  
 CBC Television Networks
The CBC English Television Network, now numbering 46 stations (only 6 of which were CBC-owned) and accessible by 91% of Canadians, celebrated its status as the world's longest television network by broadcasting a July 1 program via microwave from links stretching between Victoria, British Columbia and Sydney, Nova Scotia.
CBC was host broadcaster for Expo ’67, the World’s Fair called Man And His World, which ran for six months on a group of man-made islands on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal to mark the 100th Anniversary of Canada’s Confederation.
CBC's networks began to be carried on the newly-established Anik-1 satellite, aiding in expanding the scope of CBC's reach, particularly to areas of the far north that formerly were dependent on receiving CBC's national prime-time programming via Frontier Coverage Packages.
www.broadcasting-history.ca /networks/networks_CBC_Television.html   (2035 words)

  
 Cavenger - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
In 1978, CBC became the first broadcaster in the world to use an orbiting satellite for television service, linking Canada “from east to west to north.” Since the 1970s, the CBC has not maintained its dominance in broadcasting it formerly had, but it still plays an important role.
CBC and Radio-Canada are often mistakenly considered two separate entities when they are a single legal entity established by the Broadcasting Act.
The $616 million budget for CBC Television is in fact smaller than, for example, the $656 million in revenues earned by private broadcaster CanWest Global for its various television operations in fiscal 2006, considered an "off" year for CanWest's Global and CH networks, which trailed rival CTV's ratings by a wide margin.
www.cavenger.com /cbc.php   (1483 words)

  
 UNESCO >> WebWorld | Communication and Information | Public Service Broadcasting : A comparative Legal Survey | Canada
CBC journalists pay considerable attention to domestic politics and are often at the forefront of critical investigations into the conduct of government.
Similarly, no licence issued to the CBC may be suspended or revoked by the CRTC except on application by, or with the consent of, the CBC (58).
The CBC is also subject to the Cabinet’s discretionary power to issue orders, through the CRTC, directing all or some broadcast licensees to broadcast a specific programme deemed to be of singular public importance (59).
www.unesco.org /webworld/publications/mendel/canada.html   (2223 words)

  
 CBC Television - The TV IV
CBC Television is the English language broadcast television network run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
All shows airing on CBC Television, and most ads, are closed captioned.
CBC Television is time shifted for each Canadian time zone except the Newfoundland Time Zone which receives the Atlantic feed instead; hence the times in CBC ads are often qualified as "half an hour later in Newfoundland".
tviv.org /CBC_Television   (126 words)

  
 CBC Unplugged | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The CBC is Canada's public broadcaster -- it is funded partially by the federal government (the rest of its revenue comes from advertising, although the radio services are ad-free) but operates at arm's length, with a board of directors appointed by the government.
CBC does an admirable job of biting the hands that feed it, far better than we can expect from toadying corporations who must, because they are businesses, put the bottom-line first and all else -- including quality journalism -- a distant second.
CBC could afford to take the gamble because 1) it fit with their mandate (for instance "contribute to shared national consciousness and identity") and 2) if couldn't get companies to buy ad-time they could still eat the loss of revenue and justify it to the board of directors.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/44473   (7883 words)

  
 Towards a Canadian Television Museum
The world's first television broadcast via coaxial cable is transmitted from New York to Washington D.C. Allen B. DuMont forms the first television network by joining two stations, known as the DuMont television network.
The American television audience increases by a staggering 4,000 percent this year, due to a jump in the number of cities with television stations.
Queen Elizabeth's coronation is also televised this year, and the CBC beats U.S. competitors to the punch by flying footage across the Atlantic.
www.bairdtelevision.com /consult.html   (2308 words)

  
 What’s wrong with CBC captioning? (Joe Clark)
CBC currently leaves in place the original real-time captions when programs that have been captioned in real time are repeated.
CBC already has a lot of expertise in how to manage the workflow of a major broadcaster where every single thing has to be captioned.
It is ridiculous that CBC has two in-house captioning manual and a wealth of experience attempting to comply with 100% captioning, but treats all that information as a secret.
joeclark.org /access/captioning/CBC/qa   (2099 words)

  
 Canadian Television Programming in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
However, the multi-talented first CBC head of programming Mavor Moore and his producer/directors (who were drawn from the National Film Board, the theatre, radio and off the street) were interested in experimenting with the forms of television.
The result was that the CBC offers weekly a church service drawn from a variety of denominations and that individual stations program local church services or sell time to a few evangelists on late night or early-morning television.
For the first twenty years of CBC TV drama, in the absence of any strong professional theatre, the general policy was that it should entertain, inform, and reflect national and regional concerns (intermittently and with significant gaps).
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/canadianproge/canadianproge.htm   (6146 words)

  
 What is the (Next) Message?: CBC is Dead! Long Live CBC!
Antonia Zerbisias, the media columnist-cum-blogger for the Toronto Star believes that CBC Television is down for the count this time.
Among the components that comprise the mandate of the CBC are the need to reach from the most densely populated urban areas all the way to the remote Arctic wilderness - from sea to sea to sea throughout this vast land, as they say.
When CBC reopens for business, it should, like the BBC, open its archives and make its footage available to Canadians (and others citizens of the global village) for the express purpose of remixing and remaking our stories.
whatisthemessage.blogspot.com /2005/08/cbc-is-dead-long-live-cbc.html   (721 words)

  
 CBC television news guilty of anti-American bias says new study : ArriveNet Press Releases : Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This anti-American bias at the CBC is the consequence of a "garrison mentality" that has systematically informed the broadcaster's coverage of the US.
To gauge the extent of anti-American sentiment on CBC, one year's coverage of the Corporation's flagship news program, The National, for 2002 was examined.
Neutral statements, however, constituted 58.1 percent of the total coverage, which somewhat restored balance insofar as even a factual report on terrorist activity is usually seen to be a negative reflection on terrorism.
press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/649413.html   (808 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In English, CBC Radio One provides mostly news, information and general entertainment programming -- although historically on the AM band, many stations (especially in larger cities where RF interference affects AM radio reception) are moving to FM.
CBC Radio Two airs arts and culture programming, exclusively on FM.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=CBC   (423 words)

  
 MediaChannel.org - REPORTS | CBC Part I
"CBC Television's share of the early-evening news audience is less than half of what it was a decade ago," he told a parliamentary committee.
By 1984 a memo was pinned up in CBC newsrooms across the country: "Don't wear your fur coat in the studio." Now, after 16 years of government cuts coupled with a stubborn in-house refusal to change, the Corporation is an object of derision for stand-up comics and columnists alike.
Unlike the States' PBS, the CBC is mainstream: from the '50s on, it was the news channel, the sports channel, the concert channel, the made-in-Canada sitcom and drama channel.
www.mediachannel.org /views/oped/macleod-cbc.shtml   (2365 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: One Man's Opinion on the CBC Strike
Still, this is the third overall national strike (CBC workers in Quebec and Moncton, New Brunswick belong to different unions - the Quebec union having gone on strike twice itself) by CBC staffers in seven years.
The CBC needs its full-time employees, and while it needs to be efficient it also needs to be the public network it has been since its inception.
CBC radio does a good job with its political and current events coverage but the rest of its stuff is garbage.
blogcritics.org /archives/2005/08/15/190424.php   (2328 words)

  
 Cbc Television | Pax Television | Effects Of Television | Sharp Lcd Televisions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 CBC television is politically biased - cbcwatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
CBC Radio, CBC Television, and CBC.ca are all actively involved in the project.
Jane Chalmers, Vice-President of CBC Radio, states that, "We have set out to reflect the diverse population of Canada, both in front of the microphones and behind the scenes.
Innoversity is a not-for-profit organization that aims to increase cultural diversity in media by bridging the gap between minority groups and media organizations.
www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/7/91   (684 words)

  
 Nordic Ski Racer - CBC Pre-Olympic TV Broadcast Plans Include Canadian World Cups
Cross Country Canada and CBC Television are pleased to announce that CBC will provide national coverage of the Nordic World Cups from Vernon and Canmore in December.
The programs will be repeated on the main CBC network each Sunday evening (December 11th and 18th) as part of CBC Sports Late Night, as well as on Country Canada during the week after each event.
CBC commentators Scott Russell and Mark Connolly will call the action and Jack Sasseville and John Heilig will be on site with expert analysis.
nordicskiracer.com /cgi-bin/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=439   (772 words)

  
 CBC television is politically biased - cbcwatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
CBC television is politically biased, and its news coverage is stuffy and ponderous.
The study included opinion-poll results, and while the summary doesn't give detailed numbers, it does report many Canadians find the CBC to be biased in its political coverage.
The CBC's low ratings have generally worked in favour of private broadcasters, who stand to benefit every time a bored CBC-watcher reaches for the channel-changer.
www.cbcwatch.ca /?q=node/view/7   (296 words)

  
 cbclost
Still, there's a lingering sense out there, even within the CBC itself, that radio was doing well and that most of the lockout (with all the debates over contractual versus permanent workers and even the larger relevance of the CBC) had more to do with TV than radio.
One CBC insider added that CBC Radio managers were not as militantly behind the lockout as their TV counterparts.
However, "I would be concerned if I was a CBC Television executive" with the fall season now well under way, said Michael Nolan, an industry veteran and professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario.
www.byrnesmedia.com /News/2005/october/cbclost.html   (648 words)

  
 Pierre Berton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1957 he became a key member of the CBC's public affairs flagship program, Close-Up, and a permanent panellist on the popular television show Front Page Challenge.
Berton raised eyebrows in October 2004 by discussing his forty years of recreational use of marijuana on two CBC Television programs, >play and Rick Mercer Report where he gave tips on how to roll a joint [1] [2] [3].
Berton died at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto, reportedly of heart failure, at the age of 84 on November 30, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Berton   (625 words)

  
 CBC Smartens Up :: Entertainment :: thetyee.ca
If CBC viewers don't start supporting the network by contacting their MPS the future is on the wall - and it won't be the soft-soap stuff described in the essay at the top of this thread.
CBC's international reports are so much superior to any other major channel (with the possible exception of BBC) that it isn't even a contest and you know it Colin.
I'll bet the CBC would be happy to put the contents of their awards shelf up to comparison with Global/Canwest, CTV et al.
thetyee.ca /Entertainment/2006/09/26/CBC   (3825 words)

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