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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
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 History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562363
0773562362