Canadian Marconi: CFCF Television From Signal Hill to the Canadian Television Network

Godfrey, Donald G.; Spencer, David R.

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“…Indeed, we need to pay more attention to the policy developments that continue to shape this industry. Additionally, many scholars have noted the dearth of research concerning commercial television in Canada, both in its historical and contemporary iterations (Godfrey and Spencer, 2000; Urquhart and Wagman, 2006; Wagman, 2010). This research can be framed as an attempt to remedy this lacuna .…”

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A broadcast system in whose interest? Tracing the origins of broadcast localism in Canadian and Australian television policy, 1950–1963

Ali

2012

International Communication Gazette

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The television systems of Canada and Australia are often assumed to be similar if not synonymous. Both are dominated by American imports; rely on a networking of stations; and trace their media systems to a combination of American and British influence. Moreover, in the past decade, both have implemented tremendous changes to their broadcast policies, particularly with regard to local television. Yet despite these similarities, scholars have never critically reflected on the evolution of these countries’ local television policies. As such, this article concentrates on how Canada and Australia have historically framed, defined, and implemented the concept of localism in broadcast policy. Through an analysis of policy documents from 1950 to 1963, the argument is made that when compared with Australia, localism was not an immediate priority, but rather a taken-for-granted assumption by Canadian policy-makers. Thus, the nationalism debate in Canadian television was fought at the expense of the local.

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A broadcast system in whose interest? Tracing the origins of broadcast localism in Canadian and Australian television policy, 1950–1963

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2012

International Communication Gazette

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“…Despite such formidable scholarship, there is a noted paucity of academic accounts of the history of Canadian private television, particularly from the 1960s onwards (Wagman, 2010). Other scholars have also commented on the dearth of critical analyses of Canadian private broadcasting history (Attallah, 2007;Godfrey & Spencer, 2000;Urquhart & Wagman, 2006). Godfrey and Spencer's (2000) history of CFCF-TV and Canadian Marconi is a rare exception to the noted lack of scholarship.…”

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“…Other scholars have also commented on the dearth of critical analyses of Canadian private broadcasting history (Attallah, 2007;Godfrey & Spencer, 2000;Urquhart & Wagman, 2006). Godfrey and Spencer's (2000) history of CFCF-TV and Canadian Marconi is a rare exception to the noted lack of scholarship. The authors argue that Canadian Marconi had a substantial impact on broadcasting and that CFCF was a "pioneering station" in Canadian broadcasting history (p. 451).…”

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“…In concert with this, a second gap has been in chronicling the histories of the local stations-both public and private-that make up Canada's television networks. While studies by McLean (2005) and Godfrey and Spencer (2000) represent strong exceptions, the fact remains that Canadian scholarship is relatively fixated on the national level. This stands in contrast to American and Australian scholarship, both of which have a strong tradition of analyzing the histories and policies of media localism (Napoli, 2000;O'Regan, 1993).…”

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Of Logos, Owners, and Cultural Intermediaries: Defining an Elite Discourse in Re-branding Practices at Three Private Canadian Television Stations

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2012

Canadian Journal of Communication

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This article explores the relationship between local television stations and national networks through a careful study of station re-branding. The relationship is exploredO n August 18, 1997, viewers of CKND-TV in the prairie city of Winnipeg turned on their televisions to see the station had been re-branded, seemingly overnight, as Global Winnipeg. As then-CanWest president Jim Sward explained of the decision to re-brand all owned-and-operated stations to Global, "In a world of increasing fragmen-

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Canadian Marconi: CFCF Television From Signal Hill to the Canadian Television Network

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A broadcast system in whose interest? Tracing the origins of broadcast localism in Canadian and Australian television policy, 1950–1963

A broadcast system in whose interest? Tracing the origins of broadcast localism in Canadian and Australian television policy, 1950–1963

Of Logos, Owners, and Cultural Intermediaries: Defining an Elite Discourse in Re-branding Practices at Three Private Canadian Television Stations

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