HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Canadian Content

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4 May 2018

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HUMA 2740

Lecture 36

- By late 80s, CBC’s share of Canadian TV audience

down to around 20% in English and 30% in French

- Beginning in 1960, be Canadian TV broadcasters

required to offer 55% Canadian programs and in

1970, this was 60% in prime time

o Controversial issue

- Since 60s, consensus on without Canadian content

requirements commercial broadcasters would have

no incentive to produce Canadian programs

- CRTC spent most of 70s developing a regulatory

framework for rapidly expanding cable industry which

had emerged in TV’s early days as community

antenna services to remote areas

- CRTC had to ensure that cable too contributed to the

overriding policy objective of delivering Canadian

television to Canadians

- CRTC also charged with putting in place Canadian

ownership regulations, limiting foreign participation in

Canadian broadcasting companies to 20% up till

1995

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