Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 THE NATIONAL PURPOSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1928–32)

Introduction

Canadian Broadcasting in the 1920s

The Aird Commission, 1928–29

Setting the Stage, 1929–32

A Public Debate, 1932

2 ADMINISTRATIVE BROADCASTING (1932–49)

Introduction

A False Start: The CRBC, 1932–36

Building a Bureaucracy: The CBC, 1936–39

Broadcasting in Wartime, 1939–45

Power and Prosperity, 1945–49

3 THE PRIVATE APPROPRIATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (1949–58)

Introduction

The Massey Commission, 1949–51

Television and the Need for a Coherent Policy, 1952–55

The Fowler Commission, 1955–57

The Broadcasting Act, 1958

4 COMMERCE AND CRISIS (1958–68)

Introduction

New Conflicts in Broadcasting, 1958–59

The Rise of the Private Sector, 1958–62

The Critique of Broadcasting in the Early 1960s

Cultural Policy and Broadcasting Reform, 1963–65

Public Broadcasting, Authority, and National Crisis 1966

From "Public" to "State" Broadcasting, 1966–68

5 FROM "BROADCASTING" TO "COMMUNICATIONS" (1968–74)

Introduction

The System in Flux, 1968–70

Broadcasting and the Struggle for Quebec, 1970–71

Policy Wars, 1971–74

6 POLICY AND POLITICS (1974–76)

Introduction

Policy: Who Speaks for the Public? 1974–76

Politics: Who Speaks for Canada? 1976–80

7 THE ECLIPSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1980–88)

Introduction

Canadian Broadcasting in the 1980s

Pathways to Privatization, 1980–84

Conservatives in Power, 1984–88

The Mulroney Government's Broadcasting Policy, 1988

CONCLUSION

Policy, the Public, and the State – Learning from the Canadian Experience

From "National" Media to "Public" Media

Pathways to Democratization – Some Alternative Notions

Reconstituting the Public – Elements of Democratic Public Broadcasting

Opportunities to Seize

Notes

Bibliographic Note

Bibliography

Index

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