Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


00:02:40 1 History
00:06:23 1.1 Frontier Coverage Package
00:09:20 1.2 CBC Television slogans
00:11:04 1.3 Logos
00:14:43 1.4 Nicknames
00:16:08 2 Corporation
00:16:17 2.1 Mandate
00:17:32 2.2 Management
00:18:33 2.2.1 Board of directors
00:19:00 2.2.2 Presidents
00:20:21 2.2.3 Ombudsmen
00:21:19 2.3 Financing
00:27:10 3 Services
00:27:19 3.1 News
00:27:56 3.2 Radio
00:28:56 3.3 iRadio Guide/i
00:29:53 3.4 Long-range radio plan
00:31:10 3.5 Other CBC Radio services
00:33:11 3.6 Television
00:36:31 3.7 Children's programming
00:36:47 3.8 Online
00:38:15 3.9 Merchandising
00:38:53 3.10 Interactive television
00:39:11 3.11 Commercial services
00:39:49 3.12 Miscellaneous
00:40:07 4 Unions
00:41:36 4.1 Labour issues
00:45:57 5 Cultural significance
00:49:47 6 International broadcasts
00:49:57 6.1 Newsworld International and Trio
00:51:34 6.2 U.S. border audiences
00:52:54 6.3 Carriage of CBC News
00:54:56 6.4 CBC Radio
00:55:41 6.5 Caribbean and Bermuda
00:56:38 6.6 Availability of CBC channels and programming
00:57:31 7 Controversies
00:57:40 7.1 Closed captioning
01:00:31 7.2 iBeyond the Red Wall/i
01:01:27 7.3 Radio-Canada rebranding
01:03:53 7.4 Employee harassment policy
01:06:37 7.5 Allegations of bias
01:06:55 8 Over-the-air digital television transition
01:09:43 9 Personalities
01:10:06 10 See also
01:10:57 11 Notes and references
01:11:07 12 Further reading
01:12:46 12.1 Primary sources
01:13:09 12.2 In French
01:13:55 13 External links



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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television. The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole.
Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Music, Ici Radio-Canada Première, Ici Musique and the international radio service Radio Canada International. Television operations include CBC Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora, Documentary Channel (part 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). 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.
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 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.