COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Service Canada, Night Heat, Satellite Television

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

Document Summary

People make history but not under conditions of their own choosing. Conditions: large country, small population, regionalism, proximity of. Motivations: create east/west economy, control over own lives (sovereignty), create canadian way of life. National policy; build an economy, an east/west economy. 1948 us television signals begin to cross border, this presents both cultural and commercial problems. 1952 cbc starts tv, single station policy for pribates. Cbc financed by tax on imported tv parts excise tax. Cbc supplies privates with network service and programming. Cbc becomes competitor to private sector but privates prefer importing us programs over producing own. Radio goes to background; pop music industry gets push. 1958 broadcast ac b/a and new regulator: board of broadcast. 1960 ctv network (with revenue/markets protected, stations expected to produce/distribute canadian content (cancon) (but big struggle over cancon)) Mid 1960"s cable threatens to floor system with us networks (fragment audiences) to stop, 1968 b/a creates crtc.