Opinion of Justice T. H. Miller in the Case of Lougheed v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-103
Author(s):  
Peter Lougheed
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

scholarly journals Writing for CBC Wartime Radio Drama: John Weinzweig, Socialism, and the Twelve-Tone Dilemma

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyne Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Compositional Style ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
Twelve Tone ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Library And Archives Canada

Radio drama was a quintessential source of entertainment for Canadian audiences during the Second World War, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) used the art form to distribute propaganda and garner support for the Canadian war effort. Similarly, CBC radio drama became an essential artistic outlet for artists and composers to articulate their political beliefs to a national audience. This article frames Canadian composer John Weinzweig’s works for the CBC radio drama series New Homes for Old (1941) within the socio-political climate of the 1930s and 1940s and suggests that radio drama provided Weinzweig with a national soapbox for his radical socialist ideals during a time of political upheaval. My research draws on archival materials from Library and Archives Canada, the CBC Music Library Archives, and Concordia’s Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism Studies to build upon the biographical work of Elaine Keillor and Brian Cherney. I establish Weinzweig’s socialist ties and argue that his political leanings prompted him to simplify his serial language in favour of a simplified modernist aesthetic, which appealed to Canada’s conservative wartime audiences. This study of Weinzweig’s radio works reveals how the composer desired to make serial compositions accessible and palatable, and shows how he incorporated vernacular idioms such as folk songs and national anthems as foils to the elitist European serial aesthetic. In doing so, I show how Weinzweig uses a powerful and pervasive medium to promote his unique compositional style and also to reflect the cultural, political, and aesthetic ideals of leftist socialism.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Ghomeshi Sex Scandal

2017 ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Cara-Lynn Scheuer ◽  
Jean Helms Mills ◽  
J. Kay Keels
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Are We on the Air?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Brookes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Chris Brookes conjures masterful features, mostly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Feature, as the word is used in Canada, Australia, and Europe, refers to a radio genre more boldly artistic than anything regularly heard on the radio in the United States. Chris writes of trying “not to explain things but to give listeners bits of a puzzle that . . . come together later.” In that spirit, he makes dazzling use of the fluttering of a bird’s wings.

Shared Space: How North American Olympic Broadcasters Framed Gender on Instagram

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952093289
Author(s):  
Rich G. Johnson ◽  
Miles Romney ◽  
Kevin Hull ◽  
Ann Pegoraro
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
News Media ◽  
North American ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The Olympic Games offer scholars the opportunity to better understand how broadcasters visually frame male and female athletes to their large audiences. Traditionally, scholars have focused their efforts on the televised Olympic broadcasts and photojournalism coverage in newspaper and magazines. Scholarship has historically found that female athletes were underrepresented in event coverage and framed along gender stereotypes; however, in more recent Olympic Games, research has shown the news media has provided more equitable coverage between the genders. Yet digital and social media platforms (SMPs) play a significantly larger role in how Olympic broadcasters share content and engage with audiences. Utilizing media framing theory, this study examines how gender is framed on the Olympic Instagram accounts of the two official North American rights holders: the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Researchers collected a cross-sectional sample from the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Results indicate that NBC and CBC were generally equitable in SMP coverage of men’s and women’s athletic achievements.

scholarly journals The CBC and the Juno Awards

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Young
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Recording Arts ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
Public Broadcaster

Abstract: Through a case study of the Juno Awards, this article attempts to enhance what is known about the crisis facing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The CBC worked with the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) on the annual ceremony for the Canadian music industry from the mid-1970s to 2001. An analysis of this time frame gives rise to three arguments about the CBC and the Juno Awards. First, as applied to the Junos, the concept of a promotional state for popular music provides insights into the CBC’s crisis. Second, the role of CARAS points to the possibility that outside control has exacerbated the crisis in the CBC. Third, the CBC’s response to CARAS’ control suggests that the public broadcaster may have contributed to its own crisis. Résumé : Au moyen d’une étude de cas sur les prix Juno, cet article tente d’augmenter ce qu’on sait sur la crise à laquelle le CBC fait face actuellement. Le CBC a collaboré avec l’Académie canadienne des arts et des sciences de l’enregistrement (CARAS) pour diffuser la cérémonie annuelle de remise des prix Juno du milieu des années 70 à 2001. Une analyse de cette période mène à trois observations sur le CBC et les prix Juno. Premièrement, en ce qui a trait aux Juno, l’idée d’un état promotionnel pour la musique populaire aide à comprendre la crise du CBC. Deuxièmement, le rôle joué par CARAS semble indiquer que des contrôles externes ont aggravé la crise au CBC. Troisièmement, la manière dont le CBC a réagi aux contrôles de CARAS suggère que le radiodiffuseur public a peut-être contribué lui-même à aggraver sa crise.

Book Reviews: Gordon and Suzuki - It's a Matter of SurvivalAnita Gordon and David Suzuki Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991, 278 pp. US$19.95 cloth. ISBN 0-674-46970-4. Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-286
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Bonnicksen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
The University

PrécisIn 1989 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a five-part radio series, “It's a Matter of Survival.” Anita Gordon was the originator and executive producer of the series. David Suzuki is Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia and the host of “The Nature of Things,” a science television program. This book grew out of the radio series and is described on the jacket cover by Edward O. Wilson as “the best piece of extended environmental journalism I've seen to date.” Cited in the end notes are publications in the popular press (e.g., The New York Times) and CBC interviews with a range of environmental commentators such as Lester Brown and Paul Erlich. The book indicts the environmental irresponsibility of human beings as a species and is intended as a response to the radio listeners who wrote to the CBC following the 1989 broadcasts asking what they could do to forestall environmental catastrophe.Gordon and Suzuki begin with a hypothetical glimpse into the “nightmare world of 2040.” Subsequent chapters question how we reached the stage of environmental crisis, explore myths that have blinded us to the crisis, predict future growth trends, describe the ethic of domination over nature, and review the devastation wrought by prevailing definitions of “progress.” The authors end with an alternative (and positive) look at the year 2040 that can be possible if the resolutions they discuss are sought. They conclude that humans as a species have “lost the ability to hear the warning cries of nature” (p. 234), but they hold the hope that humans can emerge from the crisis with a “new collective image of ourselves as a species integrated into the natural world” (p. 238).

Distributing CanCon: CBC strategies for international distribution

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Taurino
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
International Distribution ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Media Imperialism ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Canadian Content

This article tackles the evolution of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation international distribution strategies at the intersection of the contemporary television landscape, by providing a context and definition for Canadian content (CanCon) rules, so as to consider more recent debates on the positioning of foreign streaming services in Canada in relation to existing broadcasting companies. The aim is to problematize media policies, by outlining the present state of the debate and updating the conversation to include global streaming TV players. Key questions are explored, such as whether CanCon rules are outdated forms of cultural protectionism or still represent viable answers to the risks of media imperialism.

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