Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The

, more commonly abbreviated CBC, is Canada's government-owned television_network and radio_network. In French, it is called ''la Société Radio-Canada'', or SRC.

Overview

The CBC was founded in 1932 when the federal government set up the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, or CRBC. The CRBC took over the radio_stations formerly set up by the government-owned Canadian_National_Railway. In 1936, the CRBC became a full crown corporation, and gained its present name. ''Maison de Radio-Canada in Montreal'' For the next few decades, the CBC was behind all broadcasting innovation in Canada. In July 1958, CBC TV was linked from coast to coast. It introduced FM_radio to Canada in 1946, television in 1952, and colour television in 1966. Since the 1970s, the CBC has not dominated broadcasting in Canada like it formerly did, but still plays an important role. Today, the CBC operates several television and radio networks, in both English and French:

two national broadcast television networks, one in English and one in French. Both sell advertising, and are otherwise similar to the privately-owned networks, but still rely more heavily on Canadian-produced programming than the others.

three national cable news channels: CBC_Newsworld, RDI, and Country_Canada

the Northern Service, television programmed for viewers in the far north

four national radio networks, two in each language. In English, CBC_Radio_One provides mostly news, information and general entertainment programming -- although historically on the AM band, many stations (especially in larger cities where RF interference affects AM_radio reception) are moving to FM. CBC_Radio_Two airs arts and culture programming, exclusively on FM. In French, these services are replicated by La_Premičre_Chaîne and La_Chaîne_Culturelle networks respectively. The radio networks do not accept advertising.

an international broadcasting service, Radio_Canada_International (RCI)

a domestic shortwave service for northern Quebec

new media projects, including CBC_Radio_Three and a 24-hour, 45-channel digital audio service, Galaxie. The CBC receives over a billion dollars annually in tax payer funding, which has led to some controversy in recent years. Critics accuse the network of being pretentious and holding a strong liberal_bias. Others counter that since the conservative_bias appears obvious in the private broadcasting networks, the CBC acts as an essential counter balance. Canadians continue to poll in favour of maintaining funding to the CBC.

Programming

CBC Television

''See: List_of_programs_broadcast_by_CBC'' Most CBC television stations are owned and operated by the CBC itself, and thus deviate very little from the main network schedule (although there are some regional differences from time to time.) A few stations are private ''affiliates'' of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but air a predominantly CBC schedule. Such stations ''generally'' follow the CBC schedule, although they may opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally-produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters (especially CH) which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may be broadcast at a different time than the network, or may not be broadcast on the station at all. Private affiliates generally opt out of CBC's afternoon schedule, Thursday night arts programming and Canada_Now. Private CBC affiliates are not as common as they were in the past, as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by CHUM_Limited, becoming NewNet stations. The CBC's French arm, ''Société Radio-Canada'' (SRC), has stations or repeater broadcasters in every province and territory, and is the only francophone network in Canada which broadcasts nationally. (TVA and TQS only broadcast over the air in Quebec, although TVA is available across Canada on cable.) SRC has some private affiliates in Quebec, although with few sources for non-SRC programming, these affiliates do not deviate from the SRC network schedule as much as the English network's private affiliates do. ''All'' SRC service outside of Quebec, however, is provided by the network itself.

CBC Radio

CBC radio programs include:

''As_It_Happens'' evening current affairs and human interest stories.

''C'est_La_Vie'' English language programme about Francophone culture

''Cross_Country_Checkup'' Nationwide phone-in on current affairs

''The_Current'' morning current affairs

''Definitely_Not_the_Opera'' pop culture magazine that airs opposite the Saturday opera

''Finkleman's_45s''

''The_House'' weekly national politics

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