COMN 1000 Final: COMN1000 - Exam Study Guide #2

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

Broadcast act b/a and new regulator: board of broadcast governors (bbg). Mid 1960"s cable threatens to flood system with us networks (fragment audiences). So in 1991 : new broadcasting act (see g,s&l:216-217) section 3 and it sets out the. B/a creates the cbc as crown corporation (both program producer and distributor, Bill c-58 : 1976, parliament passes bill c-58, an amendment to income tax act to stop. Aird commission (1929) : gov"t struck a royal commission on radio broadcasting in. 1929 to look into the matter. (aird commission). Broadcasting act (b/a) created the canadian radio broadcasting commission (crbc) a government department that basically did two things: i) undertake network responsi- bilities; ii) produce canadian programs. Cbc financing : cbc financed by tax on imported tv parts (excise tax). Cbc supplies privates with network service and programming but privates prefer importing us programs over producing own.