CS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Common Booster Core, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Westphalian Sovereignty
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You"re on the aird : canada"s first royal commission on broadcasting. The idea that radio could help build a country was one of the factors behind the first royal commission on broadcasting. Politicians began to worry about the domination of canada by american mass media. Created to examine the dangers that american programming posed to canadian culture. Canada would have both public and private radio stations. The government"s proposal regarding public broadcasting revolved around three issues, which still form the basis of the crtc policy today: Broadcasting services were to be made available to anyone in canada, no matter where they lived. Broadcasting was not to be exploited by private interests. In 1931, the canadian radio broadcasting act was passed. By 1936, the canadian broadcasting corporation (cbc) was formed. The evolution of canada"s broadcasting act of 1958. The forming of the board of broadcast governors (bbg) which would oversee the granting of broadcasting licenses.
