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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s national public broadcaster. Every day, we provide distinctive programming that informs, enlightens and entertains people in communities all across our country. Get to know your public broadcaster: CBC/Radio-Canada at a glance; Learn more about how we serve all Canadians: Celebrating Canada’s sporting talent
Updated. The main difference is that CBC and Radio-Canada produce content in English and French respectively, and CBC/Radio-Canada is the umbrella organization. CBC/Radio-Canada is the formal...
- Founding of The CBC/Radio-Canada
- Early Programming
- Canadian Drama
- The Advent of Television
- Television Programming
- Contemporary Programming
- The Loss of Regulatory Functions
- Government Funding
The creation of the CBC/Radio-Canada as a crown corporation on 2 November 1936 followed two earlier experiments with public broadcast ownership in Canada. During the 1920s the Canadian National Railways (CNR) developed a radio network with stations in Ottawa, Montréal, Toronto, Moncton and Vancouver. Its schedule included concerts, comic opera, sch...
The development of indigenous programming proceeded more slowly than the extension of coverage. Considerable use was made initially of entertainment, serious music and talk programs produced in the United States and the UK. Following a program survey to determine the extent and location of Canadian talent, the broadcaster gradually created its own ...
The further expansion of public affairs programming after the war was accompanied by programs on the arts, such as Critically Speaking, and a significant increase in the production of Canadian drama. In 1940, the CBC had introduced Canadian Theatre of the Air, and in 1944 Andrew Allan's greatly admired Stageseries made its debut. But the heyday of ...
The major impetus to action from within the CBC/Radio-Canada came from the Report on Television(1947), for which the corporation's assistant chief engineer, J. Alphonse Ouimet, was largely responsible. Ouimet, who had built and attempted to market his own television system in Montréal in the early 1930s, was appointed co-ordinator of television and...
Internationally recognized personalities have long been featured on CBC/Radio-Canada's television services. Actor Jim Carrey's first movie, Introducing…Janet (1983), was made for CBC TV, Alex Trebek hosted CBC TV’s Music Hop (1963–64) and Reach for the Top (1966–73) before going on to become the host of Jeopardy! in the United States, and actor Mic...
CBC/Radio-Canada’s contemporary programming lineup produces content that is rebroadcast around the world, as well as on the 82 radio stations and 27 television stations that the broadcaster operated across Canada as of 2011. Canadian content makes up over 80 per cent of prime-time schedules on both TV and radio, with the radio service airing 99 per...
Despite evidence of popular successes in recent decades, the strength of the CBC/Radio-Canada’s cultural presence has continued to weaken since the 1980s. It is arguable that some of the problems confronting the corporation have been compounded by the fact that it no longer performs the regulatory role assigned to it by the 1936 Broadcasting Act. I...
The CBC/Radio-Canada has often been criticized for having a top-heavy bureaucracy, but studies have shown that it compares favourably in efficiency and productivity with other public and private broadcasting organizations throughout the world. Despite the encouragement for supporters of public broadcasting in the publication of the report of the Ca...
CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s national public broadcaster. Our mandate is to inform, enlighten and entertain, in order to strengthen Canadian culture.
CBC/Radio-Canada built hundreds of radio and television transmitters to serve communities with 500 residents or more. Today the network reaches most of the Canadian population with over 750 transmitters across the country.
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and ...
