Author: Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780920380673
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Introduction of Pay-TV in Canada
Author: Institute for Research on Public PolicyPublisher: IRPP
ISBN: 9780920380673
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
When Television was Young
Author: Paul RutherfordPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802066473
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A decade after the first Canadian telecasts in September 1952, TV had conquered the country. Why was the little screen so enthusiastically welcomed by Canadians? Was television in its early years more innovative, less commerical, and more Canadian than current than current offerings? In this study of what is often called the 'golden age' of television, Paul Rutherford has set out to dispel some cherished myths and to resurrect the memory of a noble experiment in the making of Canadian culture. He focuses on three key aspects of the story. The first is the development of the national service, including the critical acclaim won by Radio-Canada, the struggles of the CBC's English service to provide mass entertainment that could compete with the Hollywood product, and the effective challenge of private television to the whole dream of public broadcasting. The second deals with the wealth of made-in-Canada programming available to please and inform vviewers - even commercials receive close attention. Altogether, Rutherford argues, Canadian programming reflected as well as enhanced the prevailing values and assumptions of the mainstream. The final focus is on McLuhan's Question: What happens to society when a new medium of communications enters the picture? Rutherford's findings cast doubt upon the common presumptions about the awesome power of television. Television in Canada, Rutherford concludes, amounts to a failed revolution. It never realized the ambbitions of its masters or the fears of its critics. Its course was shaped not only by the will of the government, the power of commerce, and the empire of Hollywood, but also by the desires and habits of the viewers.
Canadian Content
Author: Ryan EdwardsonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802095194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Canadian Content looks at Canada as an ongoing postcolonial process of not one but a series of radically different nationhoods, each with its own valued but tentative set of cultural criteria for orchestrating and implementing a Canadian national experience.
A Digest of Macrostatistics on Broadcasting and Telecommunications in Canada
Author: Canadiana
Author: Television and Public Policy
Author: David WardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135599920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Television and Public Policy analyzes the current state of television systems in a selected group of countries, exploring the political, economic, and technological factors that have shaped the sector over the past two decades. By positioning the television sector within issues of media policy and the regulatory framework, the book questions what these trends mean for television, and the historical, political, and cultural role in our societies.
Annual Report - Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
Author: Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Communications in Canadian Society
Author: Benjamin D. SingerPublisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Addison-Wesley
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Decisions and Policy Statements
Author: Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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