Hyacinth

2018-05-17 01:49:31 -0400

Ever wonder why the various main stream media outlets parrot the same items almost verbatim as the CBC ? Media is not as independent as you think Ron, why do you think the government wants to control the internet?



In 1929, the Aird Commission on public broadcasting recommended the creation of a national radio broadcast network. A major concern was the growing influence of American radio broadcasting as U.S.-based networks began to expand into Canada. Meanwhile, Canadian National Railways was making a radio network to keep its passengers entertained and give it an advantage over its rival, CP. This, the CNR Radio, is the forerunner of the CBC . Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt lobbied intensely for the project on behalf of the Canadian Radio League. In 1932 the government of R. B. Bennett established the CBC’s predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( CRBC ). While the CRBC was a state-owned company, the CBC was a Crown corporation on the model of the BBC . Leonard Brockington was the CBC’s first chairman. For the next few decades, the CBC was responsible for all broadcasting innovation in Canada. This was in part because, until 1958, it was not only a broadcaster, but the chief regulator of Canadian broadcasting.

TELEVISION in 1952 foreshadowed an end to the system under which the CBC was at once the regulatory authority and the principal Canadian programmer. Television began under CBC auspices, as the Massey Commission had recommended, but the twin responsibilities of program production and national distribution were so expensive that the government of Louis St-Laurent decided against construction of CBC outlets in every province. CBC -TV could not be self-sufficient, as was BBC -TV in Britain. Once more, private-station licensees were expected to distribute the national programs provided by the CBC . Then along came the CRTC . The CRTC is an independent public authority in charge of regulating and supervising Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications.



Ok now that I sufficiently bored myself and others you see that CTV is not as independent as you think, all main stream media is interwoven at some level, endorsements or lack of can make or break careers. If not for the endorsements by CBC Brent Butt would be basically an unknown.

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