CMNS 130 Lecture 4: Week 4 130 notes
17 Apr 2016
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Media organizations described as social actors- able to influence public opinion and economic actors b/c they employ people. Policy intervention supports highly profitable practice of simulations substitution: allowing canadian networks to sell advertising on american network programming, telecommunications side. Private firms get subsidies to make universal service delivery: without policy regulation- there would be no canadian media. Monitoring and regulating telecommunications as well as broadcasting in canada. The telecommunications act, 1993: defined telecommunications as the emission, transmission, or reception of intelligence by any wire, cable, radio, optical, or electromagnetic syst3em or by any similar technical system, defines objectives of national telecommunications system. Crtc doesn"t need to go through the hoc: but still has lots of overlap and challenge to authority. Challenge #1- diversity of voices and vertical integration. High levels of concentration in media ownership: challenges social objectives. Making media companies more politically powerful: rules are vague for implementing variety of info.
