Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy 9780773562363
In Missed Opportunities, Marc Raboy reveals the short-sightedness behind the traditional view of Canadian broadcasting p
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Table of 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, 1949–51
Television 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, 1988
CONCLUSION
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
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