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Author Raboy, Marc, 1948-

Title Missed opportunities : the story of Canada's broadcasting policy / Marc Raboy
Published Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 471 pages)
Contents Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 THE NATIONAL PURPOSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1928�32) -- Introduction -- Canadian Broadcasting in the 1920s -- The Aird Commission, 1928�29 -- Setting the Stage, 1929�32 -- A Public Debate, 1932 -- 2 ADMINISTRATIVE BROADCASTING (1932�49) -- Introduction -- A False Start: The CRBC, 1932�36 -- Building a Bureaucracy: The CBC, 1936�39 -- Broadcasting in Wartime, 1939�45 -- Power and Prosperity, 1945�49 -- 3 THE PRIVATE APPROPRIATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (1949�58) -- Introduction
The Massey Commission, 1949�51Television and the Need for a Coherent Policy, 1952�55 -- The Fowler Commission, 1955�57 -- The Broadcasting Act, 1958 -- 4 COMMERCE AND CRISIS (1958�68) -- Introduction -- New Conflicts in Broadcasting, 1958�59 -- The Rise of the Private Sector, 1958�62 -- The Critique of Broadcasting in the Early 1960s -- Cultural Policy and Broadcasting Reform, 1963�65 -- Public Broadcasting, Authority, and National Crisis 1966 -- From Public to State Broadcasting, 1966�68
5 FROM BROADCASTING TO COMMUNICATIONS (1968�74)Introduction -- The System in Flux, 1968�70 -- Broadcasting and the Struggle for Quebec, 1970�71 -- Policy Wars, 1971�74 -- 6 POLICY AND POLITICS (1974�76) -- Introduction -- Policy: Who Speaks for the Public? 1974�76 -- Politics: Who Speaks for Canada? 1976�80 -- 7 THE ECLIPSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1980�88) -- Introduction -- Canadian Broadcasting in the 1980s -- Pathways to Privatization, 1980�84 -- Conservatives in Power, 1984�88
The Mulroney Government's Broadcasting Policy, 1988CONCLUSION -- Policy, the Public, and the State � Learning from the Canadian Experience -- From National Media to Public Media -- Pathways to Democratization � Some Alternative Notions -- Reconstituting the Public � Elements of Democratic Public Broadcasting -- Opportunities to Seize -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X
Summary Toward the end of his career, Graham Spry used the phrase "missed opportunities" in reference to Canadian broadcasting. Raboy shows which opportunities have been missed and clarifies the relationship between the evolution of Canadian broadcasting policy over the past sixty years and the changes in Canadian society during the same period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-446) and index
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Subject Broadcasting policy -- Canada -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Radio.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Broadcasting policy
Rundfunkpolitik
Geschichte
Radiodifusao.
Canada
Kanada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562363
0773562362