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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

December 29, 2022

"Radio-Canada" redirects here. For the CBC's main French-language television network, see Ici Radio-Canada Télé. For the CBC's main French-language radio network, see Ici Radio-Canada Première. For the international broadcasting service of the CBC, see Radio Canada International.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.[3] It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Société Radio-Canada
Flag of the CBC
TypeCrown corporation
Industry
PredecessorCanadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
FoundedNovember 2, 1936; 86 years ago (1936-11-02) (radio)
September 6, 1952; 70 years ago (1952-09-06) (television)
HeadquartersCBC Ottawa Production Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Area served
National; available on terrestrial and cable systems in northern American border communities; available internationally via Internet Sirius Satellite Radio and on TV
Key people
Products
Services
Revenue $503.94 million[a]
(FY 2021)[1]
$173.24 million (FY 2021)[1]
$142.09 million (FY 2021)[1]
Number of employees
7,444 (March 2018)[2]
Corporation overview
Minister responsible
Key document
  • Broadcasting Act, 1991
Websitecbc.radio-canada.ca
Footnotes / references
  1. ^ Revenue was $1,898.29 million including government funding

Although some local stations in Canada predate the CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936.[4] The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique. (International radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website.) The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Télé, along with the satellite/cable networks CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Documentary Channel (partial ownership), and Ici ARTV. The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio-Canada Nord. The CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca/Ici.Radio-Canada.ca, CBC Radio 3, CBC Music/ICI.mu and Ici.TOU.TV, and owns 20.2% of satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada, which carries several CBC-produced audio channels.

CBC/Radio-Canada offers programming in English, French and eight aboriginal languages on its domestic radio service, and in five languages on its web-based international radio service, Radio Canada International (RCI).[5] However, budget cuts in the early 2010s have contributed to the corporation reducing its service via the airwaves, discontinuing RCI's shortwave broadcasts as well as terrestrial television broadcasts in all communities served by network-owned rebroadcast transmitters, including communities not subject to Canada's over-the-air digital television transition.

The CBC's federal funding is supplemented by revenue from commercial advertising on its television broadcasts. The radio service employed commercials from its inception to 1974, but since then its primary radio networks have been commercial-free. In 2013, CBC's secondary radio networks, CBC Music and Ici Musique, introduced limited advertising of up to four minutes an hour, but this was discontinued in 2016.

History

Main articles: History of broadcasting in Canada and Timeline of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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.[6] In 1932 the government of R. B. Bennett established the CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC).[7]

 
Journalists in a CBC newsroom in Montreal in November 1944

The CRBC took over a network of radio stations formerly set up by a federal Crown corporation, the Canadian National Railway. The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains, with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada. On November 2, 1936, the CRBC was reorganized under its present name. While the CRBC was a state-owned company, the CBC was a Crown corporation on the model of the British Broadcasting Corporation, which had been reformed from a private company into a statutory corporation in 1927. Leonard Brockington was the CBC's first chairman.[8]

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. It used this dual role to snap up most of the clear-channel licences in Canada. It began a separate French-language radio network in December 1937.[9] It introduced FM radio to Canada in 1946, though a distinct FM service was not launched until 1960.[9][10]

Television broadcasts from the CBC began on September 6, 1952, with the opening of a station in Montreal, Quebec (CBFT), and a station in Toronto, Ontario (CBLT) opening two days later.[11][12] The CBC's first privately owned affiliate television station, CKSO in Sudbury, Ontario, launched in October 1953.[13][14] At the time, all private stations were expected to affiliate with the CBC, a condition that relaxed in 1960–61 with the launch of CTV.

From 1944 to 1962, the CBC split its English-language radio network into two services known as the Trans-Canada Network and the Dominion Network. The latter, carrying lighter programs including American radio shows, was dissolved in 1962, while the former became known as CBC Radio. (In the late 1990s, CBC Radio was rebranded as CBC Radio One and CBC Stereo as CBC Radio Two. The latter was rebranded slightly in 2007 as CBC Radio 2.)

 
A CBC satellite truck, used for remote television broadcasts

On July 1, 1958, CBC's television signal was extended from coast to coast. The first Canadian television show shot in colour was the CBC's own The Forest Rangers in 1963.[15] Colour television broadcasts commenced on July 1, 1966, and full-colour service began in 1974.[16][17] In 1978, CBC became the first broadcaster in the world to use an orbiting satellite for television service, linking Canada "from east to west to north". The mission of CBC is contribution to the "moral economy of the nation".[18]

Frontier Coverage Package

Starting in 1967 and continuing until the mid-1970s, the CBC provided limited television service to remote and northern communities. Transmitters were built in a few locations and carried a four-hour selection of black-and-white videotaped programs each day. The tapes were flown into communities to be shown, then transported to other communities, often by the "bicycle" method used in television syndication. Transportation delays ranged from one week for larger centres to almost a month for small communities.

 
CBC North studios in Iqaluit in 2011

The first FCP stations were started in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Lynn Lake, Manitoba, and Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec, in 1967.[19][20] Another station began operating in Whitehorse in November 1968. Additional stations were added from 1969 to 1972. Most of the FCP stations were fitted for the Anik satellite signal during 1973, carrying 12 hours of colour programming. Those serving the largest centres signed on with colour broadcasts on February 5, 1973, and most of the others were added before spring. Broadcasts were geared to either the Atlantic time zone (UTC−4 or −3) or the Pacific time zone (UTC−8 or −7) even though the audience resided in communities in time zones varying from UTC−5 to UTC−8; the reason for this was that the CBC originated its programs for the Atlantic time zone, and a key station in each time zone would record the broadcast for the appropriate delay of one, two or three hours; the programs were originated again for the Pacific zone. The northern stations picked up one of these two feeds, with the western NWT stations picking up the Pacific feed. Some in northern areas of the provinces were connected by microwave to their own provincial broadcast centre.

Some of these stations used non-CBC callsigns such as CFWH-TV in Whitehorse, CFYK in Yellowknife, CFFB in Frobisher Bay and CHAK in Inuvik, while some others used the standard CB_T callsign but with five letters (e.g. CBDHT). Uplinks in the North were usually a temporary unit brought in from the south. A permanent uplink was established in Yellowknife, and later in Whitehorse and Iqaluit.

Television programs originating in the north without the help of the south began with one half-hour per week in the 1980s with Focus North and graduating to a daily half-hour newscast, Northbeat, in the late 1990s. Until then, there were occasional temporary uplinks for such things as territorial election returns coverage; Yukon had the first such coverage in 1985, though because it happened during the Stanley Cup playoffs, equipment was already spoken for, so CBC rented the equipment of CITV-TV Edmonton to use in Whitehorse that evening.

2011 transition to digital television

See also: Digital television in Canada and List of defunct CBC and Radio-Canada television transmitters
 
Radio Canada International transmitter site (CKCX) in Sackville, New Brunswick in 2009. The site was closed in 2012.

The CRTC ordered that in 28 "mandatory markets", full power over-the-air analogue television transmitters had to cease transmitting by August 31, 2011. Broadcasters could either continue serving those markets by transitioning analogue transmitters to digital or cease broadcasting over-the-air. Cable, IPTV, and satellite services are not involved or affected by this digital transition deadline.

While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory to digital (15 of 28 markets with CBC TV, and 14 of 28 markets with SRC). Due to financial difficulties reported by the corporation, the corporation published a plan whereby communities that receive analogue signals by re-broadcast transmitters in mandatory markets would lose their over-the-air (OTA) signals as of the deadline. Rebroadcast transmitters account for 23 of the 48 CBC and SRC transmitters in mandatory markets. Mandatory markets losing both CBC and SRC over-the-air signals include London, Ontario (metropolitan area population 457,000) and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (metro area 257,000). In both of those markets, the corporation's television transmitters are the only ones that were not converted to digital.

On July 31, 2012, CBC shut down all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters, following an announcement of these plans on April 4, 2012. This reduced the total number of the corporation's television transmitters across the country to 27. According to the CBC, this would reduce the corporation's yearly costs by $10 million. No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over-the-air signals for both CBC and SRC in markets where the corporation has one digital transmitter. In fact, in its CRTC application to shut down all of its analogue television transmitters, the CBC communicated its opposition to use of subchannels, citing, amongst other reasons, costs.[21] CBC/R-C claims that only 1.7 percent of Canadian viewers actually lost access to CBC and Radio-Canada programming due to the very high penetration of cable and satellite. In some areas (particularly remote and rural regions), cable or satellite have long been essential for acceptable television.[22]

Fallout over the Ghomeshi affair

In 2015, after allegations that CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi had harassed colleagues, Ghomeshi was placed on leave; his employment was terminated in October when the CBC indicated that they had "graphic evidence" that he had injured a female employee.[23] The corporation commissioned an independent investigation. The resulting report by Janice Rubin, a partner at law firm Rubin Thomlinson LLP, discussed employee complaints about Ghomeshi that were not seriously considered by the CBC. Rubin concluded that CBC management had "failed to take adequate steps" when it became aware of Ghomeshi's "problematic behaviour."[24]

Ghomeshi was charged by police on multiple counts of sexual assault but was found not guilty of all but one of these in March 2016. He was to be tried in June on the last remaining charge, relating to a complainant who had also worked at CBC; her name was later revealed to be Kathryn Borel. On May 11, 2016, however, the Crown withdrew the charge after Ghomeshi signed a peace bond (which does not include an admission of guilt) and apologized to Borel.[25] Borel was critical of the CBC for its handling of her initial complaint about Ghomeshi's behaviour. "When I went to the CBC for help, what I received in return was a directive that, yes, he could do this and, yes, it was my job to let him," she told the assembled media representatives.[26]

The CBC apologized to Borel publicly on May 11 in a statement by the head of public affairs Chuck Thompson. "What Ms. Borel experienced in our workplace should never have happened and we sincerely apologize...," he stated.[27] The corporation has also maintained that it had accepted Rubin's report and had "since made significant progress" on a revised policy of improved training and methods for handling bullying and harassment complaints.[28]

The Rubin report "contained several recommendations on how the CBC can change its workplace culture. One of those recommendations included the creation of a work and human rights ombudsperson who employees could use to raise concerns about the workplace." The CBC also severed its relationship "with two top executives, Chris Boyce, the former head of CBC Radio, and Todd Spencer, the head of human resources for English services."[24]

In a Toronto Star article by Jacques Gallant from May 11, 2016, public relations expert Martin Waxman spoke of a "damning indictment" of the CBC which included the following comment. "Yes, they did their inquiry, but if I were the CBC, I would think strongly about what is wrong with the culture and what they can do to repair it," he said.[28] The Star also quoted employment lawyer Howard Levitt stating that "harassment has not been fully addressed at the CBC," in his estimation. Levitt called the Rubin report a "whitewash" and reiterated his suggestion that a federal commission should conduct a more detailed inquiry into workplace issues at the public broadcaster.[28]

Federal elections and copyright claims

42nd Canadian Parliament: lawsuit threats

During the 2015 Canadian federal election campaign, the CBC issued cease-and-desist letters to the Broadbent Institute, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), the Liberal Party of Canada, and the New Democratic Party of Canada, accusing them of using copyrighted footage from CBC news programming in their campaign advertising without permission. The Liberals and NDP complied with the letters, pulling the ads in question, while the Broadbent Institute and the Conservatives persisted. Eventually, however, rather than go to court, the Broadbent Institute and the Conservatives agreed to remove the offending material, and as such, the CBC did not pursue them further for these alleged infractions in 2015.[29]

43rd Canadian Parliament: trial of suit

In October 2019, two weeks before the 2019 Canadian federal election, the CBC sued the CPC for using excerpts from its leaders' debates in campaign material. The CBC petitioned for an injunction against the CPC continuing to use the excerpts as well as seeking an acknowledgement from the CPC and its executive director, Dustin Van Vugt, that the party had "engaged in the unauthorized use of copyright-protected material." Furthermore, the CBC indicated that the clips in question were "taken out of context and are edited and relied on to make partisan points for the benefit" of the CPC.[30] In response, the CPC stated that 17 seconds of footage had been used and the video in question had been removed before the lawsuit was filed, and expressed "grave concern that this decision was made on the eve of an election that CBC is to be covering fairly and objectively."

Intellectual property academic Michael Geist stated that the use of the footage was likely covered by fair dealing provisions.[31][32] CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait contends that she does not believe that the use of journalistic material for partisan ads is covered by the "fair dealing" exemption of the Copyright Act.[29]

Resolution: court allows "fair dealing"

On May 13, 2021, the CPC lawsuit was dismissed in the Federal Court of Canada, with Justice Phelan's clarification that the CPC's use was fair and allowable.[33] The decision made precedent. "Prior to this decision, Canadian jurisprudence held that to meet the requirements of criticism and review, the copyrighted work in use must be critiqued and analyzed. Furthermore, the Court held that for attribution of the source and author, the inclusion of the CBC's logo was sufficient" to meet Copyright Act requirements.[34]

Logos and slogans

Logos used by the CBC
 
1940–1958
 
1974–1986
 
1986–1992
 
1992–present

The original logo of the CBC, designed by École des Beaux Arts student Hortense Binette[35] and used between 1940 and 1958, featured a map of Canada (and from 1940 to 1949, Newfoundland) and a thunderbolt design used to symbolize broadcasting.

In 1958, the CBC adopted a new logo for use at the end of network programs. Designed by scale model artist Jean-Paul Boileau, it consisted of the legends "CBC" and "Radio-Canada" overlaid on a map of Canada. For French programming, the "Radio-Canada" was placed on top.

The "Butterfly" logo was designed for the CBC by Hubert Tison in 1966 to mark the network's progressing transition from black-and-white to colour television, much in the manner of the NBC peacock logo. It was used at the beginning of programs broadcast in colour and was used until all CBC television programs had switched to colour. A sketch on the CBC Television program Wayne & Shuster once referred to this as the logo of the "Cosmic Butterfly Corporation."[36]

The fourth logo, known internally as "the gem", was designed for the CBC by graphic artist Burton Kramer in December 1974, and it is the most widely recognised symbol of the corporation. The main on-air identification featured the logo kaleidoscopically morphing into its form while radiating outward from the centre of the screen on a blue background. This animated version, which went to air in December 1974, is also known colloquially as "The Exploding Pizza". The appearance of this logo marked the arrival of full-colour network television service. The large shape in the middle is the letter C, which stands for Canada; the radiating parts of the C symbolize broadcasting, and the blue circle the logo was placed in represented the world, so the entire logo, according to Kramer, represented the idea of "Canada broadcasting to the world". The original theme music for the 1974 CBC ident was a three-note woodwind orchestral fanfare accompanied by the voiceover "This is CBC" or "Ici Radio-Canada".[37] This was later replaced by a different, and more familiar 11-note woodwind orchestral jingle, which was used until December 31, 1985.[38][39]

The updated one-colour version of the gem/pizza logo, created by Hubert Tison and Robert Innes,[35] was introduced on January 1, 1986, and with it was introduced a new series of computer graphic-generated television idents for CBC and Radio-Canada. These idents consisted of different background colours corresponding to the time of day behind a translucent CBC gem logo, accompanied by different arrangements of the CBC's new, synthesized five-note jingle. The logo was changed to one colour, generally dark blue on white, or white on dark blue, in 1986. Print ads and most television promos, however, have always used a single-colour version of this logo since 1974.

In 1992, CBC updated its logo design to make it simpler and more red (or white on a red background). The new logo design, created by Swiss-Canadian design firm Gottschalk + Ash,[35] reduces the number of geometric sections in the logo to 13 instead of the previous logo's 25, and the "C" in the centre of the logo became a simple red circle. According to graphic designer Todd Falkowsky, the logo's red colour also represents Canada in a symbolic way. With the launch of the current design, new television idents were introduced in November that year, also using CGI. Since the early 2000s, it has also appeared in white (sometimes red) on a textured or coloured background. It is now CBC/Radio-Canada's longest-used logo, surpassing the original incarnation of the Gem logo and the CBC's 1940 logo.

CBC television slogans have been periodically updated:

  • 1966: "Television is CBC"
  • 1970: "When you watch, watch the best"
  • 1977: "Bringing Canadians Together"
  • 1980: "We Are the CBC"
  • 1984: "Look to us for good things" (general) / "Good to Know" (news and public affairs)
  • 1986–1989: "The Best on the Box"
  • 1989–1992: "CBC and You"
  • 1992–1994: "Go Public" / "CBC: Public Broadcasting" (to emphasize that CBC is a public broadcaster)
  • 1995–2001: "Television to Call Our Own" and "Radio to Call Our Own"
  • 2001–2007: "Canada's Own"
  • 2007–2014: "Canada Lives Here"
  • 2009–present: "Mon monde est à Radio-Canada, SRC" (English translation: My world is on Radio-Canada)
  • 2011 and 2016: "Yours to Celebrate" (French: "Un monde à célébrer") (for the CBC's 75th and 80th anniversaries)
  • 2014–present: "Love CBC" / "Fall for CBC"

Personalities

Main article: List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities

Notable CBC alumni have included future Governors General of Canada Jeanne Sauvé, Adrienne Clarkson, and Michaëlle Jean, as well as future Quebec premier René Lévesque.

Knowlton Nash, whose career at the CBC spanned the years between 1965 and 1992, was a beloved and trusted news anchor for the news programme The National. Peter Mansbridge then took over the reins at the premiere Canadian news broadcast until July 1, 2017.[40][41] For a time Mansbridge shared the anchor position with Wendy Mesley, who was forced to retire after a 38-year career under a cloud for inappropriate use of language in two closed editorial meetings.[42]

A staple in Canadian living rooms since 1952 is the weekly Saturday night broadcast Hockey Night in Canada. Personalities like Foster Hewitt, Dick Irvin, Harry Neale were amongst the light-blue jacketed commentators of the 20th century. Ron MacLean had many great moments with Don Cherry[disambiguation needed] in the second intermission Coach's Corner until a slip of the tongue caused the latter's fall from grace in the aftermath of a broadcast on Remembrance Day 2019.[43]

Organization

Main article: List of assets owned by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Mandate

 
The CBC Ottawa Production Centre serves as the headquarters for the CBC

The 1991 Broadcasting Act[44] states that:[45]

...the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as the national public broadcaster, should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens and entertains;

...the programming provided by the Corporation should:

  • be predominantly and distinctively Canadian,
  • reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences, while serving the special needs of those regions,
  • actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression,
  • be in English and in French, reflecting the different needs and circumstances of each official language community, including the particular needs and circumstances of English and French linguistic minorities,
  • strive to be of equivalent quality in English and French,
  • contribute to shared national consciousness and identity,
  • be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose, and
  • reflect the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canada.

In June 2018, the Government of Canada launched a review of the Broadcasting Act as well as the Telecommunications Act, and the CBC mandate is subject to updating following the review's completion. CBC also submitted a paper to the Review Panel entitled "Our Culture, Our Democracy: Canada in the Digital World", which included various recommendations regarding the strengthening of public broadcasting within the global broadcasting market. The Review Panel submitted its final report and recommendations on January 29, 2020.[45]

Management

As a crown corporation, the CBC operates at arm's length (autonomously) from the government in its day-to-day business. The corporation is governed by the Broadcasting Act[44] of 1991, under a board of directors and is directly responsible to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. General management of the organization is in the hands of a president, who is appointed by the Governor General of Canada in Council, on the advice of the Prime Minister.

According to The Hill Times, a clause in Bill C-60—an omnibus budget implementation bill introduced by the government of Stephen Harper in 2013—"appears to contradict a longstanding arm's-length relationship between the independent CBC and any government in power."[46][47] The clause allows the "prime minister's cabinet to approve salaries, working conditions and collective bargaining positions for the CBC."[46]

Board of directors

In accordance with the Broadcasting Act, a board of directors is responsible for the management of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The board is made up of 12 members, including the chair and the president and CEO. A current list of directors is available from the Canadian Governor in Council here.[48]

As of April 2021, the CBC's board of directors page lists:[49]

Presidents

Ombudsmen

English (CBC)

French (Radio-Canada)

  • Bruno Gauron (1992)
  • Mario Cardinal (1993–1997)
  • Marcel Pépin (1997–1999)
  • Renaud Gilbert (2000–2007)
  • Julie Miville-Dechêne (April 1, 2007 – July 2011)[53]
  • Pierre Tourangeau (November 14, 2011 – April 2016)
  • Guy Gendron (April 1, 2016 – 2021)[54]

Financing

For the fiscal year 2006, the CBC received a total of $1.53 billion from all revenue sources, including government funding via taxpayers, subscription fees, advertising revenue, and other revenue (e.g., real estate). Expenditures for the year included $616 million for English television, $402 million for French television, $126 million for specialty channels, a total of $348 million for radio services in both languages, $88 million for management and technical costs, and $124 million for "amortization of property and equipment." Some of this spending was derived from amortization of funding from previous years.[55]

Among its revenue sources for the year ending March 31, 2006, the CBC received $946 million in its annual funding from the federal government, as well as $60 million in "one-time" supplementary funding for programming. However, this supplementary funding has been repeated annually for a number of years. This combined total is just over a billion dollars annually and is a source of heated debate. To supplement this funding, the CBC's television networks and websites sell advertising, while cable/satellite-only services such as CBC News Network additionally collect subscriber fees, in line with their privately owned counterparts. CBC's radio services do not sell advertising except when required by law (for example, to political parties during federal elections).

CBC's funding differs from that of the public broadcasters of many European nations, which collect a licence fee, or those in the United States, such as PBS and NPR, which receive some public funding but rely to a large extent on voluntary contributions from individual viewers and listeners. A Nanos Research poll from August 2014 conducted for Asper Media (National Post, Financial Post) showed 41% of Canadians wanted funding increased, 46% wanted it maintained at current levels, and only 10% wanted to see it cut.[56]

The network's defenders note that the CBC's mandate differs from private media's, particularly in its focus on Canadian content; that much of the public funding actually goes to the radio networks; and that the CBC is responsible for the full cost of most of its prime-time programming, while private networks can fill up most of their prime-time schedules with American series acquired for a fraction of their production cost. CBC supporters also point out that additional, long-term funding is required to provide better Canadian dramas and improved local programming to attract and sustain a strong viewership.[citation needed]

According to the Canadian Media Guild, the $115-million deficit reduction action plan cuts to CBC which started with the 2012 budget and were fully realized in 2014, amounted to "one of the biggest layoffs of content creators and journalists in Canadian history." The 2014 cuts combined with earlier ones totalled "3,600 jobs lost at CBC since 2008. The CMG asked the federal government to reverse the cuts[57] and to repeal Clause 17 of omnibus budget bill C-60 "to remove government's interference in CBC's day-to-day operations."[57]

In September 2015, the Canadian Media Guild announced that the CBC planned to sell all of its properties across Canada to gain a temporary increase in available funds. Media relations manager Alexandra Fortier denied this and stated that the corporation planned to sell only half of its assets.[58]

In September 2015, Hubert Lacroix, then-president of CBC/Radio-Canada, spoke at the international public broadcasters' conference in Munich, Germany. He claimed for the first time that public broadcasters were "at risk of extinction."[59] The Canadian Media Guild responded that Lacroix had "made a career of shredding" the CBC by cutting one quarter of its staff—approximately 2,000 jobs since 2010 under Lacroix's tenure. More than 600 jobs were cut in 2014 in order "to plug a $130-million budget shortfall."[59] Isabelle Montpetit, president of Syndicat des communications de Radio-Canada (SCRC), observed that Lacroix was hand-picked by Stephen Harper for the job as president of the CBC.[59] For the fiscal year 2015, the CBC received $1.036 billion from government funding and took 5% funding cuts from the previous year.[60]

In 2015, the Liberal Party was returned to power. As part of its election platform, it promised to restore the $115 million of funding to the CBC that was cut by the Harper Government, over three years, and add $35 million, for a total extra funding of $150 million.[61]

On November 28, 2016, the CBC issued a request for $400 million in additional funding, which it planned to use towards removing advertising from its television services, production and acquisition of Canadian content, and "additional funding of new investments to face consumer and technology disruption". The broadcaster argued that it had operated "[under] a business model and cultural policy framework that is profoundly broken," while other countries "[reaped] the benefits of strong, stable, well-funded public broadcasters."[62]

Services

See also: List of assets owned by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

News

Main article: CBC News
See also: Le Téléjournal
 
CBC News journalist and camera crew reporting on an rally in support of Alexei Navalny outside the Russian consulate in Montreal, January 2021

CBC News is the largest broadcast newsgathering operation in Canada, providing services to CBC radio as well as CBC News Network, local supper-hour newscasts, CBC News Online, and Air Canada's in-flight entertainment. Recent CBC News services are also proving popular, such as news alerts to mobile phones and PDAs. Desktop news alerts, e-mail alerts, and digital television alerts are also available.[citation needed]

Radio

Main article: CBC Radio
Further information: List of defunct CBC radio transmitters in Canada

CBC Radio has five separate services: three in English, known as CBC Radio One, CBC Music, and CBC Radio 3; and two in French, known as Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique. Over the years, a number of CBC radio transmitters, with a majority of them on the AM band, have either moved to FM or have shut down completely. The CBC plans to phase out more CBC AM transmitters across Canada.[63] This goal however remains to be seen in light of the CBC budget cutbacks.

CBC Radio One and Première focus on news and information programming, though they also air some music programs, variety shows, and comedy; in the past, they aired some sports programming as well. Both of these services used to broadcast primarily on the AM band, but many stations have moved over to FM. CBC Music and Ici musique is found exclusively on FM, airing arts and cultural programming, with a focus on music. CBC Radio 3, found only online and on satellite radio, airs exclusively-independent Canadian music.[citation needed]

 
A live audience attending a special anniversary broadcast of Information Morning, a morning show on CBHA-FM

CBC Radio also operated two shortwave services. The first, Radio Nord Québec, broadcast domestically to Northern Quebec on a static frequency of 9.625 MHz; and the other, Radio Canada International, provided broadcasts to the United States and around the world in eight languages. Both shortwave services were shut down in 2012 due to budget cuts; the Sackville transmitter site was dismantled in 2014.[64] Additionally, the Radio One stations in St. John's and Vancouver operated shortwave relay transmitters, broadcasting at 6.16 MHz. Some have suggested[65] that CBC/Radio-Canada create a new high-power shortwave digital radio service for more effective coverage of isolated areas.

In November 2004, the CBC, in partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio, applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a licence to introduce satellite radio service to Canada. The CRTC approved the subscription radio application, as well as two others for satellite radio service, on June 16, 2005. Sirius Canada launched on December 1, 2005, with a number of CBC Radio channels, including the new services CBC Radio 3 and Bande à part.[citation needed]

In some areas, especially national or provincial parks, the CBC also operates an AM or FM transmitter rebroadcasting weather alerts from the Meteorological Service of Canada's Weatheradio Canada service.[citation needed]

Long-range radio plan

The CBC's long-range radio plan (LRRP) was developed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in collaboration with the CBC to identify those FM frequencies that would likely be required to deliver the CBC's radio services to the maximum number of Canadians. The CBC is not subject to any conditions or expectations concerning its LRRP. The CBC noted that Première Chaîne (now Ici Radio-Canada Première) and CBC Radio One were available to about 99% of the Canadian population. The CBC stated that it plans to maintain its radio service but has no plans to grow the coverage area. It described the LRRP as a planning vehicle and indicated that it would no longer use it. Given reductions in public funding to the CBC and given that Première Chaîne and Radio One are available to the vast majority of Canadians, the Commission considers that the CBC's plan to maintain current coverage and discontinue the LRRP is reasonable. Accordingly, the Commission accepted the CBC's proposal to discontinue the LRRP.[66]

Radio Guide

Beginning in 1981, CBC radio launched the monthly magazine Radio Guide, which included CBC Radio program listings alongside feature content, such as profiles of musicians and writers and behind the scenes looks at CBC programs.[67] The magazine was released both by subscription and as a newsstand title. In 1984, due to budgetary pressures at the CBC, the magazine began accepting paid advertising from outside clients;[68] in 1985, due to further budget cuts, the magazine was discontinued as a standalone title, and instead became a supplement in Saturday Night.[69] In 1988, the magazine was sold to Core Group Publishers of Vancouver,[70] and continued in this format until 1997, when it was discontinued due to a declining subscriber base.[71]

Television

Further information: CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, List of CBC Television stations, and List of CBC Television Programs
 
Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal holds the headquarters of CBC Radio-Canada's French-language output
 
The Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto serves as the CBC's English-language master control point

The CBC operates two national broadcast television networks: CBC Television in English, and Ici Radio-Canada Télé in French. Like private broadcasters, both of these networks sell advertising, but offer more Canadian-produced programming. All CBC television stations are owned and operated by the CBC itself and carry a common schedule, aside from local programming and other regional variation (such as the CBC North stations in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon carrying an additional newscast in the Inuktitut language and a weekly Cree program), and CBET-DT in Windsor amending its non-primetime schedule at various points due to program rights conflicts with Detroit stations.[citation needed]

Both CBC's English and French networks previously had a number of private affiliates owned by third-party owners. However, the majority of them have either been bought by the CBC and subsequently shut down during the transition to digital television, or have switched to other networks and program services. The only remaining privately owned affiliate of any CBC-owned network is Ici Radio-Canada Télé affiliate CKRT-DT in Rivière-du-Loup (which is part of a triplestick also containing private affiliates for Quebec's two private networks).[citation needed]

One of the most popular shows is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games. In English, the program is known as Hockey Night in Canada, and in French, it was called La Soirée du hockey. Both shows began in 1952. The French edition was discontinued in 2004, though Radio-Canada stations outside of Quebec simulcast some Saturday night games produced by RDS until 2006. The network suffered considerable public embarrassment when it lost the rights to the show's theme music following a protracted lawsuit launched by the song's composer and publishers.[72] In 2013, the exclusive national media rights to the NHL were acquired by Rogers Media, although Rogers would reach an agreement with the CBC to license the Hockey Night in Canada brand for use in its coverage of Saturday-night games, and broker a version of the broadcasts to CBC at no charge.[73][74]

The CBC also wholly owns and operates three specialty television channels—the news channels CBC News Network and Ici RDI, and the French-language network Ici Explora. It also owns a managing interest in the Francophone arts service ARTV, and Documentary Channel.[citation needed]

CBC provides viewers with interactive on-demand television programs every year through digital-cable services like Rogers Cable.[citation needed]

Children's programming air under the commercial-free preschool programming block called CBC Kids. In French, the children's programming block is Zone Jeunesse on ICI Radio-Canada Télé.[citation needed]

Online

Further information: CBC.ca and Ici TOU.TV

The CBC has two main websites: CBC.ca is in English and was established in 1996;[75] and Radio-Canada.ca is in French.[76] The websites allow the CBC to produce sections that complement the various programs on television and radio.

In May 2012, as part of an initiative to improve its service in "underserved" markets, the CBC launched a CBC Hamilton news operation for Hamilton, Ontario. With the Hamilton area already within the broadcast range of CBC Radio and CBC Television's services in Toronto, the outlet focuses exclusively on digital content, including a section of the CBC News website oriented towards the market. CBC Hamilton reporters have occasionally filed reports for the CBC's television news output, in the event of major stories centred upon the city.[77][78]

Also in 2012, the corporation launched CBC Music, an internet radio service that produces and distributes 40 music-related channels, including the existing audio streams of CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3.[79][80] In October 2019, the CBC launched a successor to the CBC Music platform known as CBC Listen, which encompasses the CBC's radio, music, as well as podcast output.[81]

CBC offers feature-length documentary films through the documentary Channel [sic], a digital television station.[82]

Merchandising

Established in 2002, CBC Merchandising operates retail locations and CBCshop.ca;[83] its educational sales department, CBC Learning,[84] sells CBC content and media to educational institutions; as well as licensing brands such as Hockey Night in Canada (whose branding is still owned by the CBC)[85] and Coronation Street (as a Canadian licensee under arrangement from ITV Studios).[citation needed]

Miscellaneous

CBC Records is a Canadian record label that distributes CBC programming, including live concert performances and album transcripts of news and information programming such as the Massey Lectures, in album format. Music albums on the label, predominantly in the classical and jazz genres, are distributed across Canada in commercial record stores, while albums containing spoken word programming are predominantly distributed by the CBC's own retail merchandising operations.[citation needed]

CBC provides news, business, weather and sports information on Air Canada's inflight entertainment as Enroute Journal.[citation needed]

Unions

Unions representing employees at CBC/Radio-Canada include:[86]

Labour issues

During the summer of 1981 there was a major disruption of CBC programming as the technicians union, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, went on strike. Local newscasts were cut back to the bare minimum. This had the effect of delaying the debut of The Journal, which had to wait until January 1982.[citation needed]

The CBC has been affected by a number of other labour disputes since the late 1990s:

  • In early 1999, CBC English- and French-network technicians in all locations outside Quebec and Moncton, members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, went on strike.[100] The Canadian Media Guild was set to strike as well, but the CBC settled with both unions.[101]
  • A similar dispute, again involving all technicians outside Quebec and Moncton, occurred in late 2001 and concluded by the end of the year.[102]
  • In spring 2002, on-air staff in Quebec and Moncton (again, on both English and French networks) were locked out by local management, leaving, among other things, NHL playoff games without commentary on French television.[103]

2005 lock-out

On August 15, 2005, 5,500 employees of the CBC (about 90%) were locked out by CBC CEO Robert Rabinovitch in a dispute over future hiring practices. At issue were the rules governing the hiring of contract workers in preference to full-time hires. The locked-out employees were members of the Canadian Media Guild, representing all production, journalistic and on-air personnel outside Quebec and Moncton, including several foreign correspondents. While CBC services continued during the lock-out, they were primarily made up of repeats, with news programming from the BBC and newswires. Major CBC programs such as The National and Royal Canadian Air Farce were not produced during the lock-out; some non-CBC-owned programs seen on the network, such as The Red Green Show, shifted to other studios. Meanwhile, the locked-out employees produced podcasts and websites such as CBCunplugged.com.[citation needed]

After a hiatus, talks re-opened. On September 23, Joe Fontana, the federal minister of labour, called Rabinovitch and Arnold Amber—the president of the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild—to his office for talks aimed at ending the dispute. Late in the evening of October 2, 2005, it was announced that the CBC management and staff had reached a tentative deal which resulted in the CBC returning to normal operations on October 11. Some speculated that the looming October 8 start date for the network's most important television property, Hockey Night in Canada, had acted as an additional incentive to resolve the dispute.

While all labour disputes resulted in cut-back programming and numerous repeat airings, the 2005 lock-out may have been the most damaging to CBC. All local programming in the affected regions was cancelled and replaced by abbreviated national newscasts and national radio morning shows. BBC World (television) and World Service (radio), as well as Broadcast News feeds, were used to provide the remainder of original news content, and the CBC website consisted mainly of rewritten wire copy. Some BBC staff protested against their material being used during the CBC lock-out. "The NUJ and BECTU will not tolerate their members' work being used against colleagues in Canada," said a joint statement by BBC unions. The CMG questioned whether, with its limited Canadian news content, the CBC was meeting its legal requirements under the Broadcasting Act and its CRTC licences.[104]

Galaxie (which CBC owned at the time) supplied some music content for the radio networks. Tapes of aired or produced documentaries, interviews and entertainment programs were also aired widely. Selected television sports coverage, including that of the Canadian Football League, continued, but without commentary.

As before, French-language staff outside of Quebec were also affected by the 2005 lock-out, although with Quebec producing the bulk of the French networks' programming, those networks were not as visibly affected by the dispute apart from local programs.

International broadcasts

 
A QSL card from 1956 promoting CBC Radio-Canada's international service

CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, CBC News Network, and all other CBC channels can be received through cable and satellite TV channel providers across Canada, such as Bell Satellite TV, Telus Optik TV, Rogers Cable, Videotron, Cogeco, and other smaller TV providers. The CBC and Radio-Canada channel signals can also be obtained free of charge, over-the-air, through antenna receivers in Canada's largest markets as well as in some border states along the Canada–U.S. border; however, CBC is not obtainable as a "free-to-air" (FTA) channel on FTA satellites (signals are encrypted on the Anik space satellites and require a dedicated satellite receiver).

Caribbean

Several Caribbean Countries carry feeds of CBC TV, including in:

United States

CBC radio and television stations can be received over-the-air and have a significant audience in U.S. border communities such as Bellingham and Seattle, Washington; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and Burlington, Vermont.[105] Farther from the border, some American fans of the network have acquired Canadian IP addresses to stream its sports broadcasts.[106] Some CBC programming is also rebroadcast on local public radio, such as New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. CBC television channels are available on cable systems located near the Canada–U.S. border. For example, CBET Windsor is available on cable systems in the Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio, areas; much of the rest of the state of Michigan receives CBMT Montreal on cable. CBUT Vancouver is broadcast on Comcast in the Seattle area. At night, the AM radio transmissions of both CBC and Radio-Canada services can be received over much of the northern portion of the United States, from stations such as CBW in Winnipeg, CBK in Saskatchewan, and CJBC in Toronto.[citation needed]

On September 11, 2001, several American broadcasters without their own news operations, including C-SPAN, carried the CBC's coverage of the September 11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. In the days after September 11, C-SPAN carried CBC's nightly newscast, The National, anchored by Peter Mansbridge. The quality of this coverage was recognised specifically by the Canadian Journalism Foundation; editor-in-chief Tony Burman later accepted the Excellence in Journalism Award (2004), for "rigorous professional practice, accuracy, originality and public accountability," on behalf of the service.[citation needed]

C-SPAN has also carried CBC's coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Parliament of Canada, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U.S. presidential elections (e.g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.[citation needed]

Several PBS stations also air some CBC programming. However, these programs are syndicated by independent distributors, and are not governed by the PBS "common carriage" policy. Other American broadcast networks sometimes air CBC reports, especially for Canadian events of international significance. For example, in the early hours after the Swissair Flight 111 disaster, CNN aired CBC's live coverage of the event. Also in the late 1990s, CNN Headline News aired a few CBC reports of events that were not significant outside Canada.[citation needed]

Newsworld International and Trio

From 1994 to 2000, the CBC, in a venture with Power Broadcasting (former owner of CKWS in Kingston), jointly owned two networks:

  1. Newsworld International (NWI), an American cable channel that rebroadcast much of the programming of CBC Newsworld (now known as CBC News Network).
  2. Trio, an arts and entertainment channel.

In 2000, CBC and Power Broadcasting sold these channels to Barry Diller's USA Networks. Diller's company was later acquired by Vivendi Universal, which in turn was partially acquired by NBC to form NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal still owns the Trio brand, which no longer has any association with the CBC (and became an Internet-only broadband channel which was later folded into Bravo.) The channel was shut down and was replaced with the NBCUniversal channel Sleuth (later known as Cloo).

However, the CBC continued to program NWI, with much of its programming simulcast on the domestic Newsworld service. In late 2004, as a result of a further change in NWI's ownership to the INdTV consortium (including Joel Hyatt and former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore), NWI ceased airing CBC programming on August 1, 2005, when it became Current TV. Current later folded and became Al Jazeera America on August 20, 2013.

International broadcast of radio programs

Some CBC Radio One programs, such as Definitely Not the Opera, WireTap, Q, and As It Happens, also air on some stations associated with American Public Media or Public Radio International. Some of the CBC's radio networks are available to SiriusXM subscribers in the United States, including CBC Radio One (a special feed that exclusively contains CBC-produced content and no regional programs) and Première (a simulcast of its Montreal flagship CBF-FM), CBC Radio 3, and music-oriented services exclusive to SiriusXM.

Controversies

Allegations of bias

See also: CBC News § Allegations of bias

Several outlets and politicians over many years have accused CBC News of bias.[107][108][109][110] Surveys have found the Canadian public perceives a centre-left/Liberal Party bias in CBC News coverage.[111][112][113][114][115]

Falun Gong and Beyond the Red Wall

In November 2007, the CBC replaced its documentary about persecution of Falun Gong members in China, Beyond the Red Wall: Persecution of Falun Gong,[116] at the last minute with a rerun episode regarding President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan. The broadcaster had said to the press that "the crisis in Pakistan was considered more urgent and much more newsworthy," but sources from within the network itself had stated that the Chinese government had called the Canadian Embassy and demanded repeatedly that the program be taken off the air. The documentary in question was to air on Tuesday, November 6, 2007, on CBC Newsworld, but was replaced.[117] The documentary aired two weeks later on November 20, 2007,[116] after editing.[118]

CBC President's comparison of Netflix's influence to colonialism

In January 2019 CBC President Catherine Tait came under fire for comparing Netflix to colonial imperialism in India and parts of Africa.[119] Tait did not offer an apology and Heather Mallick defended her comparison.[120] Tait's comments made American headlines with J.J. McCullough of The Washington Post suggesting that "the state-sponsored" corporation shielded her from criticism and that the Canadian industry "was built in part as a bulwark against American influence."[121] Canadian TV critic John Doyle, who has long criticized what he perceives as the low standards of Canadian programming, claimed that CBC had a problem of complacency rather than imperialism.[122]

Closed captioning

CBC Television was an early leader in broadcasting programming with closed captioning for the hearing impaired, airing its first captioned programming in 1981.[123] Captioned programming in Canada began with the airing of Clown White in English-language and French-language versions on CBC Television and Radio-Canada, respectively. Most sources list that event as occurring in 1981,[124] while others list the year as 1982.[125]

In 1997, Henry Vlug, a deaf lawyer in Vancouver, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) alleging that an absence of captioning on some programming on CBC Television and Newsworld infringed on his rights as a person with a disability. A ruling in 2000 by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which later heard the case, sided with Vlug and found that an absence of captioning constituted discrimination on the basis of disability. The Tribunal ordered CBC Television and Newsworld to caption the entirety of their broadcast days, "including television shows, commercials, promos and unscheduled news flashes, from sign on until sign off."[126]

The ruling recognized that "there will inevitably be glitches with respect to the delivery of captioning," but that "the rule should be full captioning." In a negotiated settlement to avoid appealing the ruling to the Federal Court of Canada, CBC agreed to commence 100% captioning on CBC Television and Newsworld beginning November 1, 2002.[127] CBC Television and Newsworld are apparently the only broadcasters in the world required to caption the entire broadcast day. However, published evidence asserts that CBC is not providing the 100% captioning ordered by the Tribunal.[128]

In 2004, Canadian retired senator Jean-Robert Gauthier, a hard-of-hearing person, filed a complaint with the CHRC against Radio-Canada concerning captioning, particularly the absence of real-time captioning on newscasts and other live programming. As part of the settlement process, Radio-Canada agreed to submit a report on the state of captioning, especially real-time captioning, on Radio-Canada and RDI.[129] The report, which was the subject of some criticism, proposed an arrangement with Cité Collégiale, a college in Ottawa, to train more French-language real-time captioners.[130][131]

English-language specialty networks owned or co-owned by CBC, including documentary, have the lower captioning requirements typical of larger Canadian broadcasters (90% of the broadcast day by the end of both networks' licence terms).[132][133] ARTV, the French-language specialty network co-owned by CBC, has a minimum captioning requirement of 53%.[134]

2013 Radio-Canada rebranding

On June 5, 2013, the CBC announced that it would be phasing out the Radio-Canada brand from its French-language broadcast properties, and unifying them under names prefixed with "Ici" ('this is' or literally 'here'). For instance, the CBC planned to re-brand Télévision de Radio-Canada as "Ici Télé", Première Chaîne as "Ici Première", and move its French-language website from Radio-Canada.ca to ici.ca. Radio-Canada vice-president Louis Lalande stated that the new name complemented its multi-platform operations, while also serving as an homage to the broadcaster's historic station identification slogan since the 1930s, "ici Radio-Canada" ('this is Radio-Canada').[135]

 
Logo for Ici Radio-Canada Première, the corporation's French-language radio network

The announcement was criticized by politicians (such as Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore), who felt that the new "Ici" brand was too confusing, and that the CBC was diminishing the value of the Radio-Canada name through its plans to downplay it. The re-branding was also criticized for being unnecessary spending, reportedly costing $400,000, in the midst of budget cuts at the CBC.[136] On June 10, in response to the criticism, Hubert Lacroix apologized for the decision and announced that the new brands for its main radio and television networks would be revised to restore the Radio-Canada name alongside Ici, such as "Ici Radio-Canada Première".[137][138]

In March 2013, the CBC also filed a trademark lawsuit against Sam Norouzi, founder of CFHD-DT—a new multicultural station in Montreal—seeking to have Norouzi's registration on the name "ICI" (as an abbreviation of "International Channel/Canal International") cancelled because it was too similar to its own "Ici"-related trademarks. Despite Norouzi's trademark having been registered prior to the registration of CBC's, the corporation argued that Norouzi's application contained incorrect information surrounding his first use of the name in commerce, and also asserted the long-time use of "Ici Radio-Canada" as part of its imaging. Norouzi stated that he planned to fight the CBC in court.[139][140]

Suspension of local newscasts during the COVID-19 pandemic

On March 18, 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, CBC News suspended all of its English-language local newscasts (excluding those carried by CBC North, which include an English-language newscast and a second in Inuktitut), replacing them in their time slots with simulcasts of CBC News Network.[141][142] The CBC stated that this was done in order to pool its local resources to CBC News Network as a "core news offering."[143] An employee memo suggested that a lack of staff at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre and "much stricter newsgathering protocols" were another factor in the decision.[142] CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon similarly stated that the broadcaster had decided to consolidate news production because their outbreak had "place[d] incredible demands on our staff and our infrastructure", and not all jobs associated with television production were capable of being done remotely.[142] These consolidations only affect news programming on CBC Television; CBC Radio and Ici Radio-Canada Télé have continued to carry local content.[142]

The CBC's decision faced criticism for its lack of clear justification, and resulting reduction of local news coverage during a major news event—especially in markets where CBC's local newscasts are the only news programming specific to the region (such as Prince Edward Island, which resulted in criticism of the move by Premier Dennis King).[144] The Canadian Media Guild stated that the decision "flies in the face of past experience which has proven time and again that in times of significant events, Canadians trust and rely on CBC news coverage, particularly for its widespread coverage of regional and local impact, something no other Canadian network can match."[142] Montreal Gazette media writer Steve Faguy questioned whether this change was in compliance with the individual stations' CRTC licences, as all CBC stations are required to produce local newscasts daily, and a minimum amount of local programming per-week.[142]

In an editorial for The Globe and Mail, former CTV News president Robert Hurst stated that it was unusual for a journalistic operation to cut back on its operations during a crisis, and suggested that decision was the culmination of "decades of CBC News mismanagement" and low ratings in comparison to competitors (such as CTV, Global, and Citytv) in most markets.[145] The Toronto Star similarly wrote that the CBC had "decided to bail on local communities across the country".[146]

On March 24, the CBC announced that it would introduce "an expanded 30-minute local news segment on CBC News Network" beginning March 25, and would "make every effort to have all of the dedicated local shows back up on the main network".[147]

CBC Tandem and branded content

Since 2016, the CBC has utilized branded content, publishing advertisements that are designed to look, read or sound similarly to news produced by the CBC itself.[148] In 2020 the CBC formally launched a division called Tandem that focused its branded content marketing efforts, promising corporate clients they can "leverage" the CBC's reputation by aligning their message with the "trust Canadians have in our brand". Over 500 current and former employees called on CBC management to end Tandem, saying "in an era of 'fake news,' where misinformation is already rife, it undermines trust...what's worse, it uses [Canadians'] tax dollars to do it."[149] In November 2020 former employees requested that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission investigate Tandem as part of the public broadcaster's upcoming licence renewal, concerned the content blurs the lines between advertising and news, adding that "Canadians have a right to a national public broadcaster that puts their news and information needs ahead of the desires of corporate clients."[150]

Private sector media criticized the CBC's ability to dominate the Canadian advertising market, using taxpayer-funded subsidies to unfairly compete with local newspapers and broadcasters, driving them out of business.[151]

CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait states that the CBC has since put "guardrails" in place that will ensure there is no confusion between CBC journalism and commercial advertising.[148]

The CRTC integrated its investigation of Tandem into its hearings on the renewal of CBC's federal broadcast licences, ultimately renewing the CBC's licence from 2022 to 2027 and approving the Tandem program. The CRTC required that the CBC must establish, maintain, and publicize their guidelines on branded content as well as measure whether branded content is confusing to Canadians.[151]

The CRTC decision has been criticized as allowing the CBC to disregard its mandate as a public broadcaster, transforming into a "publicly funded commercial broadcaster."[152]

Kenneth Muzik verdict

On December 15, 2021, Manitoba Bench Justice Herbert Rempel ordered the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to pay investment advisor Kenneth Wayne Muzik nearly $1.7 million in damages for a story it had aired in June 2012 featuring a former client, William Worthington, who complained about the performance of his investment portfolio. Muzik was represented by William Gange of Gange Collins Holloway.[153] In March 2022, Rempel ordered CBC to pay nearly $300 thousand to cover Muzik's legal fees.[154]

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Further reading

  • Allen, Gene, and Daniel J. Robinson, eds. Communicating in Canada's Past: Essays in Media History (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
  • Graham, Sean. "A Canadian Network? The CBC and Television, 1936–1939." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2014) pp: 1–19.
  • Ménard, Marion. CBC/Radio-Canada: Overview and Key Issues (Library of Parliament publication No. 2013-92; 2013) ; 11 pages
  • Murray, Gil. Nothing on but the radio: a look back at radio in Canada and how it changed the world (Dundurn, 2003); Popular history
  • Peers, Frank W. The politics of Canadian broadcasting, 1920–1951 (University of Toronto Press, 1969)
  • Taras, David. Digital Mosaic: Media, Power, and Identity in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2015)
  • Teer-Tomaselli, Ruth. "Empire and broadcasting in the interwar years: towards a consideration of public broadcasting in the British dominions." Critical Arts (2015) 29#1 pp: 77–93.
  • Weir, Earnest Austin. The struggle for national broadcasting in Canada (McClelland and Stewart, 1965)

Primary sources

  • Bird, Roger, ed. (1988). Documents of Canadian Broadcasting. MQUP. ISBN 9780773580893.

In French

  • Bergeron, Raymonde, and Marcelle Ouellette. Voix, visages et legends: Radio-Canada 1936–1986. Montreal, Que.: Entreprises Radio-Canada, 1986. N.B.: The subtitle appears on front cover. 256 p., ill. with b&w ports. ISBN 0-88794-328-4
  • Witmer, Glenn Edward, and Jacques Chaput, eds. 50 [i.e. Cinquante] ans de radio: Radio-Canada, 1936–1986. Montreal, Que.: Entreprises Radio-Canada, 1986. 47 p., amply ill., chiefly with b&w photos.

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Radio Canada redirects here For the CBC s main French language television network see Ici Radio Canada Tele For the CBC s main French language radio network see Ici Radio Canada Premiere For the international broadcasting service of the CBC see Radio Canada International The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation French Societe Radio Canada branded as CBC Radio Canada is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television 3 It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government The English and French language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio Canada respectively Canadian Broadcasting CorporationSociete Radio CanadaFlag of the CBCTypeCrown corporationIndustryMass media Public broadcasting Radio Television Digital mediaPredecessorCanadian Radio Broadcasting CommissionFoundedNovember 2 1936 86 years ago 1936 11 02 radio September 6 1952 70 years ago 1952 09 06 television HeadquartersCBC Ottawa Production Centre Ottawa Ontario CanadaArea servedNational available on terrestrial and cable systems in northern American border communities available internationally via Internet Sirius Satellite Radio and on TVKey peopleMichael Goldbloom Chair Catherine Tait CEO Barbara Williams EVP English Networks Michel Bissonnette EVP French Networks ProductsTelevision Radio Digital mediaServicesCBC Television Ici Radio Canada Tele CBC Radio CBC News CBC ca Radio Canada caRevenue 503 94 million a FY 2021 1 Operating income 173 24 million FY 2021 1 Net income 142 09 million FY 2021 1 Number of employees7 444 March 2018 2 Corporation overviewMinister responsiblePablo Rodriguez Minister of Canadian HeritageKey documentBroadcasting Act 1991Websitecbc wbr radio canada wbr caFootnotes references Revenue was 1 898 29 million including government fundingAlthough some local stations in Canada predate the CBC s founding CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada The CBC was established on November 2 1936 4 The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks The English language CBC Radio One and CBC Music and the French language Ici Radio Canada Premiere and Ici Musique International radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks the English language CBC Television and the French language Ici Radio Canada Tele along with the satellite cable networks CBC News Network Ici RDI Ici Explora Documentary Channel partial ownership and Ici ARTV The CBC operates services for the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio Canada Nord The CBC also operates digital services including CBC ca Ici Radio Canada ca CBC Radio 3 CBC Music ICI mu and Ici TOU TV and owns 20 2 of satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada which carries several CBC produced audio channels CBC Radio Canada offers programming in English French and eight aboriginal languages on its domestic radio service and in five languages on its web based international radio service Radio Canada International RCI 5 However budget cuts in the early 2010s have contributed to the corporation reducing its service via the airwaves discontinuing RCI s shortwave broadcasts as well as terrestrial television broadcasts in all communities served by network owned rebroadcast transmitters including communities not subject to Canada s over the air digital television transition The CBC s federal funding is supplemented by revenue from commercial advertising on its television broadcasts The radio service employed commercials from its inception to 1974 but since then its primary radio networks have been commercial free In 2013 CBC s secondary radio networks CBC Music and Ici Musique introduced limited advertising of up to four minutes an hour but this was discontinued in 2016 Contents 1 History 1 1 Frontier Coverage Package 1 2 2011 transition to digital television 1 3 Fallout over the Ghomeshi affair 1 4 Federal elections and copyright claims 1 4 1 42nd Canadian Parliament lawsuit threats 1 4 2 43rd Canadian Parliament trial of suit 1 4 3 Resolution court allows fair dealing 2 Logos and slogans 3 Personalities 4 Organization 4 1 Mandate 4 2 Management 4 2 1 Board of directors 4 2 2 Presidents 4 2 3 Ombudsmen 4 3 Financing 5 Services 5 1 News 5 2 Radio 5 2 1 Long range radio plan 5 2 2 Radio Guide 5 3 Television 5 4 Online 5 5 Merchandising 5 6 Miscellaneous 6 Unions 6 1 Labour issues 6 1 1 2005 lock out 7 International broadcasts 7 1 Caribbean 7 2 United States 7 2 1 Newsworld International and Trio 7 3 International broadcast of radio programs 8 Controversies 8 1 Allegations of bias 8 2 Falun Gong and Beyond the Red Wall 8 3 CBC President s comparison of Netflix s influence to colonialism 8 4 Closed captioning 8 5 2013 Radio Canada rebranding 8 6 Suspension of local newscasts during the COVID 19 pandemic 8 7 CBC Tandem and branded content 8 8 Kenneth Muzik verdict 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 11 1 Primary sources 11 2 In French 12 External linksHistoryThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed June 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Main articles History of broadcasting in Canada and Timeline of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 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 6 In 1932 the government of R B Bennett established the CBC s predecessor the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission CRBC 7 Journalists in a CBC newsroom in Montreal in November 1944 The CRBC took over a network of radio stations formerly set up by a federal Crown corporation the Canadian National Railway The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada On November 2 1936 the CRBC was reorganized under its present name While the CRBC was a state owned company the CBC was a Crown corporation on the model of the British Broadcasting Corporation which had been reformed from a private company into a statutory corporation in 1927 Leonard Brockington was the CBC s first chairman 8 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 It used this dual role to snap up most of the clear channel licences in Canada It began a separate French language radio network in December 1937 9 It introduced FM radio to Canada in 1946 though a distinct FM service was not launched until 1960 9 10 Television broadcasts from the CBC began on September 6 1952 with the opening of a station in Montreal Quebec CBFT and a station in Toronto Ontario CBLT opening two days later 11 12 The CBC s first privately owned affiliate television station CKSO in Sudbury Ontario launched in October 1953 13 14 At the time all private stations were expected to affiliate with the CBC a condition that relaxed in 1960 61 with the launch of CTV From 1944 to 1962 the CBC split its English language radio network into two services known as the Trans Canada Network and the Dominion Network The latter carrying lighter programs including American radio shows was dissolved in 1962 while the former became known as CBC Radio In the late 1990s CBC Radio was rebranded as CBC Radio One and CBC Stereo as CBC Radio Two The latter was rebranded slightly in 2007 as CBC Radio 2 A CBC satellite truck used for remote television broadcasts On July 1 1958 CBC s television signal was extended from coast to coast The first Canadian television show shot in colour was the CBC s own The Forest Rangers in 1963 15 Colour television broadcasts commenced on July 1 1966 and full colour service began in 1974 16 17 In 1978 CBC became the first broadcaster in the world to use an orbiting satellite for television service linking Canada from east to west to north The mission of CBC is contribution to the moral economy of the nation 18 Frontier Coverage Package Starting in 1967 and continuing until the mid 1970s the CBC provided limited television service to remote and northern communities Transmitters were built in a few locations and carried a four hour selection of black and white videotaped programs each day The tapes were flown into communities to be shown then transported to other communities often by the bicycle method used in television syndication Transportation delays ranged from one week for larger centres to almost a month for small communities CBC North studios in Iqaluit in 2011 The first FCP stations were started in Yellowknife Northwest Territories Lynn Lake Manitoba and Havre Saint Pierre Quebec in 1967 19 20 Another station began operating in Whitehorse in November 1968 Additional stations were added from 1969 to 1972 Most of the FCP stations were fitted for the Anik satellite signal during 1973 carrying 12 hours of colour programming Those serving the largest centres signed on with colour broadcasts on February 5 1973 and most of the others were added before spring Broadcasts were geared to either the Atlantic time zone UTC 4 or 3 or the Pacific time zone UTC 8 or 7 even though the audience resided in communities in time zones varying from UTC 5 to UTC 8 the reason for this was that the CBC originated its programs for the Atlantic time zone and a key station in each time zone would record the broadcast for the appropriate delay of one two or three hours the programs were originated again for the Pacific zone The northern stations picked up one of these two feeds with the western NWT stations picking up the Pacific feed Some in northern areas of the provinces were connected by microwave to their own provincial broadcast centre Some of these stations used non CBC callsigns such as CFWH TV in Whitehorse CFYK in Yellowknife CFFB in Frobisher Bay and CHAK in Inuvik while some others used the standard CB T callsign but with five letters e g CBDHT Uplinks in the North were usually a temporary unit brought in from the south A permanent uplink was established in Yellowknife and later in Whitehorse and Iqaluit Television programs originating in the north without the help of the south began with one half hour per week in the 1980s with Focus North and graduating to a daily half hour newscast Northbeat in the late 1990s Until then there were occasional temporary uplinks for such things as territorial election returns coverage Yukon had the first such coverage in 1985 though because it happened during the Stanley Cup playoffs equipment was already spoken for so CBC rented the equipment of CITV TV Edmonton to use in Whitehorse that evening 2011 transition to digital television See also Digital television in Canada and List of defunct CBC and Radio Canada television transmitters Radio Canada International transmitter site CKCX in Sackville New Brunswick in 2009 The site was closed in 2012 The CRTC ordered that in 28 mandatory markets full power over the air analogue television transmitters had to cease transmitting by August 31 2011 Broadcasters could either continue serving those markets by transitioning analogue transmitters to digital or cease broadcasting over the air Cable IPTV and satellite services are not involved or affected by this digital transition deadline While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31 2011 CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory to digital 15 of 28 markets with CBC TV and 14 of 28 markets with SRC Due to financial difficulties reported by the corporation the corporation published a plan whereby communities that receive analogue signals by re broadcast transmitters in mandatory markets would lose their over the air OTA signals as of the deadline Rebroadcast transmitters account for 23 of the 48 CBC and SRC transmitters in mandatory markets Mandatory markets losing both CBC and SRC over the air signals include London Ontario metropolitan area population 457 000 and Saskatoon Saskatchewan metro area 257 000 In both of those markets the corporation s television transmitters are the only ones that were not converted to digital On July 31 2012 CBC shut down all of its approximately 620 analogue television transmitters following an announcement of these plans on April 4 2012 This reduced the total number of the corporation s television transmitters across the country to 27 According to the CBC this would reduce the corporation s yearly costs by 10 million No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over the air signals for both CBC and SRC in markets where the corporation has one digital transmitter In fact in its CRTC application to shut down all of its analogue television transmitters the CBC communicated its opposition to use of subchannels citing amongst other reasons costs 21 CBC R C claims that only 1 7 percent of Canadian viewers actually lost access to CBC and Radio Canada programming due to the very high penetration of cable and satellite In some areas particularly remote and rural regions cable or satellite have long been essential for acceptable television 22 Fallout over the Ghomeshi affair In 2015 after allegations that CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi had harassed colleagues Ghomeshi was placed on leave his employment was terminated in October when the CBC indicated that they had graphic evidence that he had injured a female employee 23 The corporation commissioned an independent investigation The resulting report by Janice Rubin a partner at law firm Rubin Thomlinson LLP discussed employee complaints about Ghomeshi that were not seriously considered by the CBC Rubin concluded that CBC management had failed to take adequate steps when it became aware of Ghomeshi s problematic behaviour 24 Ghomeshi was charged by police on multiple counts of sexual assault but was found not guilty of all but one of these in March 2016 He was to be tried in June on the last remaining charge relating to a complainant who had also worked at CBC her name was later revealed to be Kathryn Borel On May 11 2016 however the Crown withdrew the charge after Ghomeshi signed a peace bond which does not include an admission of guilt and apologized to Borel 25 Borel was critical of the CBC for its handling of her initial complaint about Ghomeshi s behaviour When I went to the CBC for help what I received in return was a directive that yes he could do this and yes it was my job to let him she told the assembled media representatives 26 The CBC apologized to Borel publicly on May 11 in a statement by the head of public affairs Chuck Thompson What Ms Borel experienced in our workplace should never have happened and we sincerely apologize he stated 27 The corporation has also maintained that it had accepted Rubin s report and had since made significant progress on a revised policy of improved training and methods for handling bullying and harassment complaints 28 The Rubin report contained several recommendations on how the CBC can change its workplace culture One of those recommendations included the creation of a work and human rights ombudsperson who employees could use to raise concerns about the workplace The CBC also severed its relationship with two top executives Chris Boyce the former head of CBC Radio and Todd Spencer the head of human resources for English services 24 In a Toronto Star article by Jacques Gallant from May 11 2016 public relations expert Martin Waxman spoke of a damning indictment of the CBC which included the following comment Yes they did their inquiry but if I were the CBC I would think strongly about what is wrong with the culture and what they can do to repair it he said 28 The Star also quoted employment lawyer Howard Levitt stating that harassment has not been fully addressed at the CBC in his estimation Levitt called the Rubin report a whitewash and reiterated his suggestion that a federal commission should conduct a more detailed inquiry into workplace issues at the public broadcaster 28 Federal elections and copyright claims 42nd Canadian Parliament lawsuit threats During the 2015 Canadian federal election campaign the CBC issued cease and desist letters to the Broadbent Institute the Conservative Party of Canada CPC the Liberal Party of Canada and the New Democratic Party of Canada accusing them of using copyrighted footage from CBC news programming in their campaign advertising without permission The Liberals and NDP complied with the letters pulling the ads in question while the Broadbent Institute and the Conservatives persisted Eventually however rather than go to court the Broadbent Institute and the Conservatives agreed to remove the offending material and as such the CBC did not pursue them further for these alleged infractions in 2015 29 43rd Canadian Parliament trial of suit In October 2019 two weeks before the 2019 Canadian federal election the CBC sued the CPC for using excerpts from its leaders debates in campaign material The CBC petitioned for an injunction against the CPC continuing to use the excerpts as well as seeking an acknowledgement from the CPC and its executive director Dustin Van Vugt that the party had engaged in the unauthorized use of copyright protected material Furthermore the CBC indicated that the clips in question were taken out of context and are edited and relied on to make partisan points for the benefit of the CPC 30 In response the CPC stated that 17 seconds of footage had been used and the video in question had been removed before the lawsuit was filed and expressed grave concern that this decision was made on the eve of an election that CBC is to be covering fairly and objectively Intellectual property academic Michael Geist stated that the use of the footage was likely covered by fair dealing provisions 31 32 CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait contends that she does not believe that the use of journalistic material for partisan ads is covered by the fair dealing exemption of the Copyright Act 29 Resolution court allows fair dealing On May 13 2021 the CPC lawsuit was dismissed in the Federal Court of Canada with Justice Phelan s clarification that the CPC s use was fair and allowable 33 The decision made precedent Prior to this decision Canadian jurisprudence held that to meet the requirements of criticism and review the copyrighted work in use must be critiqued and analyzed Furthermore the Court held that for attribution of the source and author the inclusion of the CBC s logo was sufficient to meet Copyright Act requirements 34 Logos and slogansLogos used by the CBC 1940 1958 1974 1986 1986 1992 1992 present The original logo of the CBC designed by Ecole des Beaux Arts student Hortense Binette 35 and used between 1940 and 1958 featured a map of Canada and from 1940 to 1949 Newfoundland and a thunderbolt design used to symbolize broadcasting In 1958 the CBC adopted a new logo for use at the end of network programs Designed by scale model artist Jean Paul Boileau it consisted of the legends CBC and Radio Canada overlaid on a map of Canada For French programming the Radio Canada was placed on top The Butterfly logo was designed for the CBC by Hubert Tison in 1966 to mark the network s progressing transition from black and white to colour television much in the manner of the NBC peacock logo It was used at the beginning of programs broadcast in colour and was used until all CBC television programs had switched to colour A sketch on the CBC Television program Wayne amp Shuster once referred to this as the logo of the Cosmic Butterfly Corporation 36 The fourth logo known internally as the gem was designed for the CBC by graphic artist Burton Kramer in December 1974 and it is the most widely recognised symbol of the corporation The main on air identification featured the logo kaleidoscopically morphing into its form while radiating outward from the centre of the screen on a blue background This animated version which went to air in December 1974 is also known colloquially as The Exploding Pizza The appearance of this logo marked the arrival of full colour network television service The large shape in the middle is the letter C which stands for Canada the radiating parts of the C symbolize broadcasting and the blue circle the logo was placed in represented the world so the entire logo according to Kramer represented the idea of Canada broadcasting to the world The original theme music for the 1974 CBC ident was a three note woodwind orchestral fanfare accompanied by the voiceover This is CBC or Ici Radio Canada 37 This was later replaced by a different and more familiar 11 note woodwind orchestral jingle which was used until December 31 1985 38 39 The updated one colour version of the gem pizza logo created by Hubert Tison and Robert Innes 35 was introduced on January 1 1986 and with it was introduced a new series of computer graphic generated television idents for CBC and Radio Canada These idents consisted of different background colours corresponding to the time of day behind a translucent CBC gem logo accompanied by different arrangements of the CBC s new synthesized five note jingle The logo was changed to one colour generally dark blue on white or white on dark blue in 1986 Print ads and most television promos however have always used a single colour version of this logo since 1974 In 1992 CBC updated its logo design to make it simpler and more red or white on a red background The new logo design created by Swiss Canadian design firm Gottschalk Ash 35 reduces the number of geometric sections in the logo to 13 instead of the previous logo s 25 and the C in the centre of the logo became a simple red circle According to graphic designer Todd Falkowsky the logo s red colour also represents Canada in a symbolic way With the launch of the current design new television idents were introduced in November that year also using CGI Since the early 2000s it has also appeared in white sometimes red on a textured or coloured background It is now CBC Radio Canada s longest used logo surpassing the original incarnation of the Gem logo and the CBC s 1940 logo CBC television slogans have been periodically updated 1966 Television is CBC 1970 When you watch watch the best 1977 Bringing Canadians Together 1980 We Are the CBC 1984 Look to us for good things general Good to Know news and public affairs 1986 1989 The Best on the Box 1989 1992 CBC and You 1992 1994 Go Public CBC Public Broadcasting to emphasize that CBC is a public broadcaster 1995 2001 Television to Call Our Own and Radio to Call Our Own 2001 2007 Canada s Own 2007 2014 Canada Lives Here 2009 present Mon monde est a Radio Canada SRC English translation My world is on Radio Canada 2011 and 2016 Yours to Celebrate French Un monde a celebrer for the CBC s 75th and 80th anniversaries 2014 present Love CBC Fall for CBC PersonalitiesMain article List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities Notable CBC alumni have included future Governors General of Canada Jeanne Sauve Adrienne Clarkson and Michaelle Jean as well as future Quebec premier Rene Levesque Knowlton Nash whose career at the CBC spanned the years between 1965 and 1992 was a beloved and trusted news anchor for the news programme The National Peter Mansbridge then took over the reins at the premiere Canadian news broadcast until July 1 2017 40 41 For a time Mansbridge shared the anchor position with Wendy Mesley who was forced to retire after a 38 year career under a cloud for inappropriate use of language in two closed editorial meetings 42 A staple in Canadian living rooms since 1952 is the weekly Saturday night broadcast Hockey Night in Canada Personalities like Foster Hewitt Dick Irvin Harry Neale were amongst the light blue jacketed commentators of the 20th century Ron MacLean had many great moments with Don Cherry disambiguation needed in the second intermission Coach s Corner until a slip of the tongue caused the latter s fall from grace in the aftermath of a broadcast on Remembrance Day 2019 43 OrganizationMain article List of assets owned by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Mandate The CBC Ottawa Production Centre serves as the headquarters for the CBC The 1991 Broadcasting Act 44 states that 45 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the national public broadcaster should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs enlightens and entertains the programming provided by the Corporation should be predominantly and distinctively Canadian reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences while serving the special needs of those regions actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression be in English and in French reflecting the different needs and circumstances of each official language community including the particular needs and circumstances of English and French linguistic minorities strive to be of equivalent quality in English and French contribute to shared national consciousness and identity be made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means and as resources become available for the purpose and reflect the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canada In June 2018 the Government of Canada launched a review of the Broadcasting Act as well as the Telecommunications Act and the CBC mandate is subject to updating following the review s completion CBC also submitted a paper to the Review Panel entitled Our Culture Our Democracy Canada in the Digital World which included various recommendations regarding the strengthening of public broadcasting within the global broadcasting market The Review Panel submitted its final report and recommendations on January 29 2020 45 Management As a crown corporation the CBC operates at arm s length autonomously from the government in its day to day business The corporation is governed by the Broadcasting Act 44 of 1991 under a board of directors and is directly responsible to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage General management of the organization is in the hands of a president who is appointed by the Governor General of Canada in Council on the advice of the Prime Minister According to The Hill Times a clause in Bill C 60 an omnibus budget implementation bill introduced by the government of Stephen Harper in 2013 appears to contradict a longstanding arm s length relationship between the independent CBC and any government in power 46 47 The clause allows the prime minister s cabinet to approve salaries working conditions and collective bargaining positions for the CBC 46 Board of directors In accordance with the Broadcasting Act a board of directors is responsible for the management of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The board is made up of 12 members including the chair and the president and CEO A current list of directors is available from the Canadian Governor in Council here 48 As of April 2021 update the CBC s board of directors page lists 49 Michael Goldbloom Catherine Tait president and CEO Guillaume Aniorte Suzanne Guevremont Rene Legere Sandra Mason Jennifer Moore Rattray Francois R Roy Rita Shelton Deverell Sandra Singh Bill Tam Marie Wilson Presidents 1936 1939 Leonard Brockington 1940 1944 Rene Morin 1944 1945 Howard B Chase 1945 1958 A Davidson Dunton 1958 1967 J Alphonse Ouimet 1968 1972 George F Davidson 1972 1975 Laurent A Picard 1975 1982 A W Johnson 1982 1989 Pierre Juneau 1989 William T Armstrong 1989 1994 Gerard Veilleux 1994 1995 Anthony S Manera 1995 1999 Perrin Beatty 1999 2007 Robert Rabinovitch 2008 2018 Hubert T Lacroix 2018 present Catherine Tait 50 Ombudsmen English CBC William Morgan David Bazay 1995 October 30 2005 Vince Carlin January 2006 December 2010 Kirk LaPointe November 2010 2012 Esther Enkin January 1 2013 December 2018 51 Jack Nagler January 2019 present 52 French Radio Canada Bruno Gauron 1992 Mario Cardinal 1993 1997 Marcel Pepin 1997 1999 Renaud Gilbert 2000 2007 Julie Miville Dechene April 1 2007 July 2011 53 Pierre Tourangeau November 14 2011 April 2016 Guy Gendron April 1 2016 2021 54 Financing For the fiscal year 2006 the CBC received a total of 1 53 billion from all revenue sources including government funding via taxpayers subscription fees advertising revenue and other revenue e g real estate Expenditures for the year included 616 million for English television 402 million for French television 126 million for specialty channels a total of 348 million for radio services in both languages 88 million for management and technical costs and 124 million for amortization of property and equipment Some of this spending was derived from amortization of funding from previous years 55 Among its revenue sources for the year ending March 31 2006 the CBC received 946 million in its annual funding from the federal government as well as 60 million in one time supplementary funding for programming However this supplementary funding has been repeated annually for a number of years This combined total is just over a billion dollars annually and is a source of heated debate To supplement this funding the CBC s television networks and websites sell advertising while cable satellite only services such as CBC News Network additionally collect subscriber fees in line with their privately owned counterparts CBC s radio services do not sell advertising except when required by law for example to political parties during federal elections CBC s funding differs from that of the public broadcasters of many European nations which collect a licence fee or those in the United States such as PBS and NPR which receive some public funding but rely to a large extent on voluntary contributions from individual viewers and listeners A Nanos Research poll from August 2014 conducted for Asper Media National Post Financial Post showed 41 of Canadians wanted funding increased 46 wanted it maintained at current levels and only 10 wanted to see it cut 56 The network s defenders note that the CBC s mandate differs from private media s particularly in its focus on Canadian content that much of the public funding actually goes to the radio networks and that the CBC is responsible for the full cost of most of its prime time programming while private networks can fill up most of their prime time schedules with American series acquired for a fraction of their production cost CBC supporters also point out that additional long term funding is required to provide better Canadian dramas and improved local programming to attract and sustain a strong viewership citation needed According to the Canadian Media Guild the 115 million deficit reduction action plan cuts to CBC which started with the 2012 budget and were fully realized in 2014 amounted to one of the biggest layoffs of content creators and journalists in Canadian history The 2014 cuts combined with earlier ones totalled 3 600 jobs lost at CBC since 2008 The CMG asked the federal government to reverse the cuts 57 and to repeal Clause 17 of omnibus budget bill C 60 to remove government s interference in CBC s day to day operations 57 In September 2015 the Canadian Media Guild announced that the CBC planned to sell all of its properties across Canada to gain a temporary increase in available funds Media relations manager Alexandra Fortier denied this and stated that the corporation planned to sell only half of its assets 58 In September 2015 Hubert Lacroix then president of CBC Radio Canada spoke at the international public broadcasters conference in Munich Germany He claimed for the first time that public broadcasters were at risk of extinction 59 The Canadian Media Guild responded that Lacroix had made a career of shredding the CBC by cutting one quarter of its staff approximately 2 000 jobs since 2010 under Lacroix s tenure More than 600 jobs were cut in 2014 in order to plug a 130 million budget shortfall 59 Isabelle Montpetit president of Syndicat des communications de Radio Canada SCRC observed that Lacroix was hand picked by Stephen Harper for the job as president of the CBC 59 For the fiscal year 2015 the CBC received 1 036 billion from government funding and took 5 funding cuts from the previous year 60 In 2015 the Liberal Party was returned to power As part of its election platform it promised to restore the 115 million of funding to the CBC that was cut by the Harper Government over three years and add 35 million for a total extra funding of 150 million 61 On November 28 2016 the CBC issued a request for 400 million in additional funding which it planned to use towards removing advertising from its television services production and acquisition of Canadian content and additional funding of new investments to face consumer and technology disruption The broadcaster argued that it had operated under a business model and cultural policy framework that is profoundly broken while other countries reaped the benefits of strong stable well funded public broadcasters 62 ServicesSee also List of assets owned by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Main article CBC News See also Le Telejournal CBC News journalist and camera crew reporting on an rally in support of Alexei Navalny outside the Russian consulate in Montreal January 2021 CBC News is the largest broadcast newsgathering operation in Canada providing services to CBC radio as well as CBC News Network local supper hour newscasts CBC News Online and Air Canada s in flight entertainment Recent CBC News services are also proving popular such as news alerts to mobile phones and PDAs Desktop news alerts e mail alerts and digital television alerts are also available citation needed Radio Main article CBC Radio Further information List of defunct CBC radio transmitters in Canada CBC Radio has five separate services three in English known as CBC Radio One CBC Music and CBC Radio 3 and two in French known as Ici Radio Canada Premiere and Ici Musique Over the years a number of CBC radio transmitters with a majority of them on the AM band have either moved to FM or have shut down completely The CBC plans to phase out more CBC AM transmitters across Canada 63 This goal however remains to be seen in light of the CBC budget cutbacks CBC Radio One and Premiere focus on news and information programming though they also air some music programs variety shows and comedy in the past they aired some sports programming as well Both of these services used to broadcast primarily on the AM band but many stations have moved over to FM CBC Music and Ici musique is found exclusively on FM airing arts and cultural programming with a focus on music CBC Radio 3 found only online and on satellite radio airs exclusively independent Canadian music citation needed A live audience attending a special anniversary broadcast of Information Morning a morning show on CBHA FMCBC Radio also operated two shortwave services The first Radio Nord Quebec broadcast domestically to Northern Quebec on a static frequency of 9 625 MHz and the other Radio Canada International provided broadcasts to the United States and around the world in eight languages Both shortwave services were shut down in 2012 due to budget cuts the Sackville transmitter site was dismantled in 2014 64 Additionally the Radio One stations in St John s and Vancouver operated shortwave relay transmitters broadcasting at 6 16 MHz Some have suggested 65 that CBC Radio Canada create a new high power shortwave digital radio service for more effective coverage of isolated areas In November 2004 the CBC in partnership with Standard Broadcasting and Sirius Satellite Radio applied to the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC for a licence to introduce satellite radio service to Canada The CRTC approved the subscription radio application as well as two others for satellite radio service on June 16 2005 Sirius Canada launched on December 1 2005 with a number of CBC Radio channels including the new services CBC Radio 3 and Bande a part citation needed In some areas especially national or provincial parks the CBC also operates an AM or FM transmitter rebroadcasting weather alerts from the Meteorological Service of Canada s Weatheradio Canada service citation needed Long range radio plan The CBC s long range radio plan LRRP was developed by the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC in collaboration with the CBC to identify those FM frequencies that would likely be required to deliver the CBC s radio services to the maximum number of Canadians The CBC is not subject to any conditions or expectations concerning its LRRP The CBC noted that Premiere Chaine now Ici Radio Canada Premiere and CBC Radio One were available to about 99 of the Canadian population The CBC stated that it plans to maintain its radio service but has no plans to grow the coverage area It described the LRRP as a planning vehicle and indicated that it would no longer use it Given reductions in public funding to the CBC and given that Premiere Chaine and Radio One are available to the vast majority of Canadians the Commission considers that the CBC s plan to maintain current coverage and discontinue the LRRP is reasonable Accordingly the Commission accepted the CBC s proposal to discontinue the LRRP 66 Radio Guide Beginning in 1981 CBC radio launched the monthly magazine Radio Guide which included CBC Radio program listings alongside feature content such as profiles of musicians and writers and behind the scenes looks at CBC programs 67 The magazine was released both by subscription and as a newsstand title In 1984 due to budgetary pressures at the CBC the magazine began accepting paid advertising from outside clients 68 in 1985 due to further budget cuts the magazine was discontinued as a standalone title and instead became a supplement in Saturday Night 69 In 1988 the magazine was sold to Core Group Publishers of Vancouver 70 and continued in this format until 1997 when it was discontinued due to a declining subscriber base 71 Television Further information CBC Television Ici Radio Canada Tele List of CBC Television stations and List of CBC Television Programs Maison Radio Canada in Montreal holds the headquarters of CBC Radio Canada s French language output The Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto serves as the CBC s English language master control point The CBC operates two national broadcast television networks CBC Television in English and Ici Radio Canada Tele in French Like private broadcasters both of these networks sell advertising but offer more Canadian produced programming All CBC television stations are owned and operated by the CBC itself and carry a common schedule aside from local programming and other regional variation such as the CBC North stations in Nunavut the Northwest Territories and the Yukon carrying an additional newscast in the Inuktitut language and a weekly Cree program and CBET DT in Windsor amending its non primetime schedule at various points due to program rights conflicts with Detroit stations citation needed Both CBC s English and French networks previously had a number of private affiliates owned by third party owners However the majority of them have either been bought by the CBC and subsequently shut down during the transition to digital television or have switched to other networks and program services The only remaining privately owned affiliate of any CBC owned network is Ici Radio Canada Tele affiliate CKRT DT in Riviere du Loup which is part of a triplestick also containing private affiliates for Quebec s two private networks citation needed One of the most popular shows is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games In English the program is known as Hockey Night in Canada and in French it was called La Soiree du hockey Both shows began in 1952 The French edition was discontinued in 2004 though Radio Canada stations outside of Quebec simulcast some Saturday night games produced by RDS until 2006 The network suffered considerable public embarrassment when it lost the rights to the show s theme music following a protracted lawsuit launched by the song s composer and publishers 72 In 2013 the exclusive national media rights to the NHL were acquired by Rogers Media although Rogers would reach an agreement with the CBC to license the Hockey Night in Canada brand for use in its coverage of Saturday night games and broker a version of the broadcasts to CBC at no charge 73 74 The CBC also wholly owns and operates three specialty television channels the news channels CBC News Network and Ici RDI and the French language network Ici Explora It also owns a managing interest in the Francophone arts service ARTV and Documentary Channel citation needed CBC provides viewers with interactive on demand television programs every year through digital cable services like Rogers Cable citation needed Children s programming air under the commercial free preschool programming block called CBC Kids In French the children s programming block is Zone Jeunesse on ICI Radio Canada Tele citation needed Online Further information CBC ca and Ici TOU TV The CBC has two main websites CBC ca is in English and was established in 1996 75 and Radio Canada ca is in French 76 The websites allow the CBC to produce sections that complement the various programs on television and radio In May 2012 as part of an initiative to improve its service in underserved markets the CBC launched a CBC Hamilton news operation for Hamilton Ontario With the Hamilton area already within the broadcast range of CBC Radio and CBC Television s services in Toronto the outlet focuses exclusively on digital content including a section of the CBC News website oriented towards the market CBC Hamilton reporters have occasionally filed reports for the CBC s television news output in the event of major stories centred upon the city 77 78 Also in 2012 the corporation launched CBC Music an internet radio service that produces and distributes 40 music related channels including the existing audio streams of CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3 79 80 In October 2019 the CBC launched a successor to the CBC Music platform known as CBC Listen which encompasses the CBC s radio music as well as podcast output 81 CBC offers feature length documentary films through the documentary Channel sic a digital television station 82 Merchandising Established in 2002 CBC Merchandising operates retail locations and CBCshop ca 83 its educational sales department CBC Learning 84 sells CBC content and media to educational institutions as well as licensing brands such as Hockey Night in Canada whose branding is still owned by the CBC 85 and Coronation Street as a Canadian licensee under arrangement from ITV Studios citation needed Miscellaneous CBC Records is a Canadian record label that distributes CBC programming including live concert performances and album transcripts of news and information programming such as the Massey Lectures in album format Music albums on the label predominantly in the classical and jazz genres are distributed across Canada in commercial record stores while albums containing spoken word programming are predominantly distributed by the CBC s own retail merchandising operations citation needed CBC provides news business weather and sports information on Air Canada s inflight entertainment as Enroute Journal citation needed UnionsUnions representing employees at CBC Radio Canada include 86 Canadian Media Guild CMG 87 represents on air production technical administrative and support staff outside of Quebec and Moncton Association of Professionals and Supervisors APS 88 American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada AFM 89 Alliance of Canadian Cinema Television and Radio Artists performers ACTRA 90 International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees stagehands IATSE 91 Writers Guild of Canada WGC 92 Association des realisateurs AR 93 Syndicat des communications de Radio Canada SCRC 94 Societe des auteurs de la radio de la television et du cinema SARTeC 95 Syndicat Canadien de la fonction publique Conseil des sections locales Groupe des employe e s de bureau et professionnel le s SCFP 96 Societe professionnelle des auteurs compositeurs du Quebec SPACQ 97 Syndicat des technicien ne s et des artisan e s du reseau francais STARF 98 Union des artistes UDA 99 Labour issues During the summer of 1981 there was a major disruption of CBC programming as the technicians union the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians went on strike Local newscasts were cut back to the bare minimum This had the effect of delaying the debut of The Journal which had to wait until January 1982 citation needed The CBC has been affected by a number of other labour disputes since the late 1990s In early 1999 CBC English and French network technicians in all locations outside Quebec and Moncton members of the Communications Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada went on strike 100 The Canadian Media Guild was set to strike as well but the CBC settled with both unions 101 A similar dispute again involving all technicians outside Quebec and Moncton occurred in late 2001 and concluded by the end of the year 102 In spring 2002 on air staff in Quebec and Moncton again on both English and French networks were locked out by local management leaving among other things NHL playoff games without commentary on French television 103 2005 lock out On August 15 2005 5 500 employees of the CBC about 90 were locked out by CBC CEO Robert Rabinovitch in a dispute over future hiring practices At issue were the rules governing the hiring of contract workers in preference to full time hires The locked out employees were members of the Canadian Media Guild representing all production journalistic and on air personnel outside Quebec and Moncton including several foreign correspondents While CBC services continued during the lock out they were primarily made up of repeats with news programming from the BBC and newswires Major CBC programs such as The National and Royal Canadian Air Farce were not produced during the lock out some non CBC owned programs seen on the network such as The Red Green Show shifted to other studios Meanwhile the locked out employees produced podcasts and websites such as CBCunplugged com citation needed After a hiatus talks re opened On September 23 Joe Fontana the federal minister of labour called Rabinovitch and Arnold Amber the president of the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild to his office for talks aimed at ending the dispute Late in the evening of October 2 2005 it was announced that the CBC management and staff had reached a tentative deal which resulted in the CBC returning to normal operations on October 11 Some speculated that the looming October 8 start date for the network s most important television property Hockey Night in Canada had acted as an additional incentive to resolve the dispute While all labour disputes resulted in cut back programming and numerous repeat airings the 2005 lock out may have been the most damaging to CBC All local programming in the affected regions was cancelled and replaced by abbreviated national newscasts and national radio morning shows BBC World television and World Service radio as well as Broadcast News feeds were used to provide the remainder of original news content and the CBC website consisted mainly of rewritten wire copy Some BBC staff protested against their material being used during the CBC lock out The NUJ and BECTU will not tolerate their members work being used against colleagues in Canada said a joint statement by BBC unions The CMG questioned whether with its limited Canadian news content the CBC was meeting its legal requirements under the Broadcasting Act and its CRTC licences 104 Galaxie which CBC owned at the time supplied some music content for the radio networks Tapes of aired or produced documentaries interviews and entertainment programs were also aired widely Selected television sports coverage including that of the Canadian Football League continued but without commentary As before French language staff outside of Quebec were also affected by the 2005 lock out although with Quebec producing the bulk of the French networks programming those networks were not as visibly affected by the dispute apart from local programs International broadcastsThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message A QSL card from 1956 promoting CBC Radio Canada s international service CBC Television Ici Radio Canada Tele CBC News Network and all other CBC channels can be received through cable and satellite TV channel providers across Canada such as Bell Satellite TV Telus Optik TV Rogers Cable Videotron Cogeco and other smaller TV providers The CBC and Radio Canada channel signals can also be obtained free of charge over the air through antenna receivers in Canada s largest markets as well as in some border states along the Canada U S border however CBC is not obtainable as a free to air FTA channel on FTA satellites signals are encrypted on the Anik space satellites and require a dedicated satellite receiver Caribbean This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Several Caribbean Countries carry feeds of CBC TV including in Bahamas on the coral wave Cable Bahamas television system in the Northern Bahamas Channel 8 Barbados on the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation owned cable system Multi Choice TV Channel 703 and on the Columbus Communications owned cable system FLOW Barbados Channel 132 Bermuda on the CableVision digital cable service Grenada carried on Columbus Communications owned cable system FLOW Grenada Jamaica distributed in areas served by FLOW Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago on the Columbus Communications Trinidad Ltd CCTL television system United States CBC radio and television stations can be received over the air and have a significant audience in U S border communities such as Bellingham and Seattle Washington Buffalo New York Detroit Michigan and Burlington Vermont 105 Farther from the border some American fans of the network have acquired Canadian IP addresses to stream its sports broadcasts 106 Some CBC programming is also rebroadcast on local public radio such as New Hampshire Public Radio Vermont Public Radio and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network CBC television channels are available on cable systems located near the Canada U S border For example CBET Windsor is available on cable systems in the Detroit Michigan and Toledo Ohio areas much of the rest of the state of Michigan receives CBMT Montreal on cable CBUT Vancouver is broadcast on Comcast in the Seattle area At night the AM radio transmissions of both CBC and Radio Canada services can be received over much of the northern portion of the United States from stations such as CBW in Winnipeg CBK in Saskatchewan and CJBC in Toronto citation needed On September 11 2001 several American broadcasters without their own news operations including C SPAN carried the CBC s coverage of the September 11 attacks in New York City and Washington D C In the days after September 11 C SPAN carried CBC s nightly newscast The National anchored by Peter Mansbridge The quality of this coverage was recognised specifically by the Canadian Journalism Foundation editor in chief Tony Burman later accepted the Excellence in Journalism Award 2004 for rigorous professional practice accuracy originality and public accountability on behalf of the service citation needed C SPAN has also carried CBC s coverage of major events affecting Canadians including Canadian federal elections key proceedings in Parliament of Canada Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau the power outage crisis in summer 2003 U S presidential elections e g in 2004 C SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009 citation needed Several PBS stations also air some CBC programming However these programs are syndicated by independent distributors and are not governed by the PBS common carriage policy Other American broadcast networks sometimes air CBC reports especially for Canadian events of international significance For example in the early hours after the Swissair Flight 111 disaster CNN aired CBC s live coverage of the event Also in the late 1990s CNN Headline News aired a few CBC reports of events that were not significant outside Canada citation needed Newsworld International and Trio This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message From 1994 to 2000 the CBC in a venture with Power Broadcasting former owner of CKWS in Kingston jointly owned two networks Newsworld International NWI an American cable channel that rebroadcast much of the programming of CBC Newsworld now known as CBC News Network Trio an arts and entertainment channel In 2000 CBC and Power Broadcasting sold these channels to Barry Diller s USA Networks Diller s company was later acquired by Vivendi Universal which in turn was partially acquired by NBC to form NBCUniversal NBCUniversal still owns the Trio brand which no longer has any association with the CBC and became an Internet only broadband channel which was later folded into Bravo The channel was shut down and was replaced with the NBCUniversal channel Sleuth later known as Cloo However the CBC continued to program NWI with much of its programming simulcast on the domestic Newsworld service In late 2004 as a result of a further change in NWI s ownership to the INdTV consortium including Joel Hyatt and former U S Vice President Al Gore NWI ceased airing CBC programming on August 1 2005 when it became Current TV Current later folded and became Al Jazeera America on August 20 2013 International broadcast of radio programs This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed April 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Some CBC Radio One programs such as Definitely Not the Opera WireTap Q and As It Happens also air on some stations associated with American Public Media or Public Radio International Some of the CBC s radio networks are available to SiriusXM subscribers in the United States including CBC Radio One a special feed that exclusively contains CBC produced content and no regional programs and Premiere a simulcast of its Montreal flagship CBF FM CBC Radio 3 and music oriented services exclusive to SiriusXM ControversiesAllegations of bias See also CBC News Allegations of bias Several outlets and politicians over many years have accused CBC News of bias 107 108 109 110 Surveys have found the Canadian public perceives a centre left Liberal Party bias in CBC News coverage 111 112 113 114 115 Falun Gong and Beyond the Red Wall In November 2007 the CBC replaced its documentary about persecution of Falun Gong members in China Beyond the Red Wall Persecution of Falun Gong 116 at the last minute with a rerun episode regarding President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan The broadcaster had said to the press that the crisis in Pakistan was considered more urgent and much more newsworthy but sources from within the network itself had stated that the Chinese government had called the Canadian Embassy and demanded repeatedly that the program be taken off the air The documentary in question was to air on Tuesday November 6 2007 on CBC Newsworld but was replaced 117 The documentary aired two weeks later on November 20 2007 116 after editing 118 CBC President s comparison of Netflix s influence to colonialism In January 2019 CBC President Catherine Tait came under fire for comparing Netflix to colonial imperialism in India and parts of Africa 119 Tait did not offer an apology and Heather Mallick defended her comparison 120 Tait s comments made American headlines with J J McCullough of The Washington Post suggesting that the state sponsored corporation shielded her from criticism and that the Canadian industry was built in part as a bulwark against American influence 121 Canadian TV critic John Doyle who has long criticized what he perceives as the low standards of Canadian programming claimed that CBC had a problem of complacency rather than imperialism 122 Closed captioning CBC Television was an early leader in broadcasting programming with closed captioning for the hearing impaired airing its first captioned programming in 1981 123 Captioned programming in Canada began with the airing of Clown White in English language and French language versions on CBC Television and Radio Canada respectively Most sources list that event as occurring in 1981 124 while others list the year as 1982 125 In 1997 Henry Vlug a deaf lawyer in Vancouver filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission CHRC alleging that an absence of captioning on some programming on CBC Television and Newsworld infringed on his rights as a person with a disability A ruling in 2000 by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which later heard the case sided with Vlug and found that an absence of captioning constituted discrimination on the basis of disability The Tribunal ordered CBC Television and Newsworld to caption the entirety of their broadcast days including television shows commercials promos and unscheduled news flashes from sign on until sign off 126 The ruling recognized that there will inevitably be glitches with respect to the delivery of captioning but that the rule should be full captioning In a negotiated settlement to avoid appealing the ruling to the Federal Court of Canada CBC agreed to commence 100 captioning on CBC Television and Newsworld beginning November 1 2002 127 CBC Television and Newsworld are apparently the only broadcasters in the world required to caption the entire broadcast day However published evidence asserts that CBC is not providing the 100 captioning ordered by the Tribunal 128 In 2004 Canadian retired senator Jean Robert Gauthier a hard of hearing person filed a complaint with the CHRC against Radio Canada concerning captioning particularly the absence of real time captioning on newscasts and other live programming As part of the settlement process Radio Canada agreed to submit a report on the state of captioning especially real time captioning on Radio Canada and RDI 129 The report which was the subject of some criticism proposed an arrangement with Cite Collegiale a college in Ottawa to train more French language real time captioners 130 131 English language specialty networks owned or co owned by CBC including documentary have the lower captioning requirements typical of larger Canadian broadcasters 90 of the broadcast day by the end of both networks licence terms 132 133 ARTV the French language specialty network co owned by CBC has a minimum captioning requirement of 53 134 2013 Radio Canada rebranding On June 5 2013 the CBC announced that it would be phasing out the Radio Canada brand from its French language broadcast properties and unifying them under names prefixed with Ici this is or literally here For instance the CBC planned to re brand Television de Radio Canada as Ici Tele Premiere Chaine as Ici Premiere and move its French language website from Radio Canada ca to ici ca Radio Canada vice president Louis Lalande stated that the new name complemented its multi platform operations while also serving as an homage to the broadcaster s historic station identification slogan since the 1930s ici Radio Canada this is Radio Canada 135 Logo for Ici Radio Canada Premiere the corporation s French language radio network The announcement was criticized by politicians such as Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore who felt that the new Ici brand was too confusing and that the CBC was diminishing the value of the Radio Canada name through its plans to downplay it The re branding was also criticized for being unnecessary spending reportedly costing 400 000 in the midst of budget cuts at the CBC 136 On June 10 in response to the criticism Hubert Lacroix apologized for the decision and announced that the new brands for its main radio and television networks would be revised to restore the Radio Canada name alongside Ici such as Ici Radio Canada Premiere 137 138 In March 2013 the CBC also filed a trademark lawsuit against Sam Norouzi founder of CFHD DT a new multicultural station in Montreal seeking to have Norouzi s registration on the name ICI as an abbreviation of International Channel Canal International cancelled because it was too similar to its own Ici related trademarks Despite Norouzi s trademark having been registered prior to the registration of CBC s the corporation argued that Norouzi s application contained incorrect information surrounding his first use of the name in commerce and also asserted the long time use of Ici Radio Canada as part of its imaging Norouzi stated that he planned to fight the CBC in court 139 140 Suspension of local newscasts during the COVID 19 pandemic On March 18 2020 in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic CBC News suspended all of its English language local newscasts excluding those carried by CBC North which include an English language newscast and a second in Inuktitut replacing them in their time slots with simulcasts of CBC News Network 141 142 The CBC stated that this was done in order to pool its local resources to CBC News Network as a core news offering 143 An employee memo suggested that a lack of staff at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre and much stricter newsgathering protocols were another factor in the decision 142 CBC News editor in chief Brodie Fenlon similarly stated that the broadcaster had decided to consolidate news production because their outbreak had place d incredible demands on our staff and our infrastructure and not all jobs associated with television production were capable of being done remotely 142 These consolidations only affect news programming on CBC Television CBC Radio and Ici Radio Canada Tele have continued to carry local content 142 The CBC s decision faced criticism for its lack of clear justification and resulting reduction of local news coverage during a major news event especially in markets where CBC s local newscasts are the only news programming specific to the region such as Prince Edward Island which resulted in criticism of the move by Premier Dennis King 144 The Canadian Media Guild stated that the decision flies in the face of past experience which has proven time and again that in times of significant events Canadians trust and rely on CBC news coverage particularly for its widespread coverage of regional and local impact something no other Canadian network can match 142 Montreal Gazette media writer Steve Faguy questioned whether this change was in compliance with the individual stations CRTC licences as all CBC stations are required to produce local newscasts daily and a minimum amount of local programming per week 142 In an editorial for The Globe and Mail former CTV News president Robert Hurst stated that it was unusual for a journalistic operation to cut back on its operations during a crisis and suggested that decision was the culmination of decades of CBC News mismanagement and low ratings in comparison to competitors such as CTV Global and Citytv in most markets 145 The Toronto Star similarly wrote that the CBC had decided to bail on local communities across the country 146 On March 24 the CBC announced that it would introduce an expanded 30 minute local news segment on CBC News Network beginning March 25 and would make every effort to have all of the dedicated local shows back up on the main network 147 CBC Tandem and branded content Since 2016 the CBC has utilized branded content publishing advertisements that are designed to look read or sound similarly to news produced by the CBC itself 148 In 2020 the CBC formally launched a division called Tandem that focused its branded content marketing efforts promising corporate clients they can leverage the CBC s reputation by aligning their message with the trust Canadians have in our brand Over 500 current and former employees called on CBC management to end Tandem saying in an era of fake news where misinformation is already rife it undermines trust what s worse it uses Canadians tax dollars to do it 149 In November 2020 former employees requested that the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission investigate Tandem as part of the public broadcaster s upcoming licence renewal concerned the content blurs the lines between advertising and news adding that Canadians have a right to a national public broadcaster that puts their news and information needs ahead of the desires of corporate clients 150 Private sector media criticized the CBC s ability to dominate the Canadian advertising market using taxpayer funded subsidies to unfairly compete with local newspapers and broadcasters driving them out of business 151 CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait states that the CBC has since put guardrails in place that will ensure there is no confusion between CBC journalism and commercial advertising 148 The CRTC integrated its investigation of Tandem into its hearings on the renewal of CBC s federal broadcast licences ultimately renewing the CBC s licence from 2022 to 2027 and approving the Tandem program The CRTC required that the CBC must establish maintain and publicize their guidelines on branded content as well as measure 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