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| When was the first TV broadcast signal received in Canada | 1947 |
| Where was the first TV broadcast signal received in Canada? | Windsor, On |
| What role(s) does the CRTC perform in radio and television broadcasting | Licenses broadcasters; establishes Canadian Content quotas; establishes standards |
| What are the Canadian content reqirements during the broadcast day? | 60% |
| What are the Canadian Content requirements between 6 p.m. and midnight? | half |
| What is the most common Canadian content between 6 p.m. and midnight | news and sports |
| When Canadian content regulations implemented for TV | 1970 |
| When Canadian content regulations implemented for radio | 1971 |
| Original Cdn content requirements for radio | 30% |
| Current Cdn content requirements for radio | 35% |
| most influential figure in Canadian TV | Moses Znaimer |
| Station Moses worked for first | CBC |
| When Moses quit CBC | 1972 |
| What station Moses Znaimer started | City TV |
| What made City TV unique | first local, urban TV station in Canada |
| Famous thing City TV did first | Created racially and ethnically diverse newsroom |
| Who bought City TV? | CHUM |
| What Moses did when City TV was sold | Went to work for CHUM |
| What did CHUM do under Moses' leadership? | Created a conglomerate of specialty channels on cable. |
| 3 stations Moses created | Much Music, Bravo, Fashion TV |
| Moses Znaimer uses TV to inform us on what 3 things? | local and international life; multiculturalism; politics |
| What is unique about Moses' approach? | He lets us choose the form we want to watch. |
| 2 types of television funding | private and public |
| Where do public TV networks get their money? | Gov't (federal and provincial) and private donations |
| 2 examples of public TV networks | CBC; TVO |
| Where do private TV networks get their money? | Advertisers |
| 3 examples of privately-owned TV networks | CTV, Global, YTV |
| What do the letters CBC stand for? | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| How was CBC created? | an act of Parliament |
| When was CBC created? | in 1936 as a radio network |
| When did CBC TV begin? | 1952 |
| When did the CBC TV network stretch all across Canada? | 1958 |
| List 5 CBC shows. | Hockey Night In Canada, The National, Being Erica, The Rick Mercer Report, Dragon's Den |
| Canada's 1st privately owned TV network | CTV |
| % of English-speaking Canada reached by CTV | 99% |
| When a show is broadcast by different networks at the same time. | Simulcast |
| Why do Canadian networks like to show American shows? | Cheaper than making their own; audience likes them |
| Biggest investor in entertainment programming on Cdn TV? | Telefilm broadcast fund |
| Fund that provides money for distinctly Canadian programs | Canadian Television Fund |
| When was Canadian Television Fund established? | 1996 |
| First North American Newspaper (when, where, what called) | 1690, Boston, Publick Occurrences |
| First Canadian newspaper (when, what was it called) | 1752, Halifax Gazette |
| % of Canadians who check the news daily | 90% |
| 2 styles of journalism | British and American |
| Style of journalism used by Canadian journalists | American |
| Objective of news reporting | to be objective |
| 7 factors that affect the news | gatekeeping; news hole; flow; staffing; perceptions of audience; availability of material; competition |
| Gatekeeper | a media person who influences messages en route to audiences |
| news hole | space for news after the ads have been placed |
| flow | variation from day to day in the significance of events worth covering |
| staffing | available staff resources to cover the news |
| 5 trends in journalism | non-stop news; live news; unedited blogs; exploratory news; soft news |
| schadenfreude | we take delight in the misfortunes of others |
| type of program that satisfies our need for schadenfreude | reality shows |
| citizen's advocacy group that cares about Cdn content | Friends of Canadian Broadcasting |
| # of families who belong to FCB | 60,000 |
| How FCB started out | grassroots organization |
| What FCB is now | advocacy/activist group |
