It has created crown corporations to promote Canadian culture through media, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) and the National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ), and promotes many events which it considers to promote Canadian traditions.

A CBC Fifth Estate documentary in 2006 linked these two debates, naming Singer as a scientist who has acted as a consultant to industry in both areas, either directly or through a public relations firm.

In a 1987 interview with Shelagh Rogers for CBC Radio's The Arts Tonight, he remarked that he has always avoided behaviours he has considered masculine ; for example, he does not smoke and he noted that he was 45 years old and did not know how to drive a car.

CBC Radio One's flagship national talk program is the weekend Cross Country Checkup, which has been broadcast since 1965.

Atwood has published short stories in Tamarack Review, Alphabet, Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night, and many other magazines.

CBC Radio has five separate services, three in English, known as CBC Radio One, CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3, and two in French, known as Première Chaîne and Espace musique.

Historically, CBC Radio One has broadcast primarily on the AM band, but many stations have moved over to FM.

The CBC has two main websites.

With the Hamilton area already within the broadcast range of CBC Radio and CBC Television's services in Toronto, it was not financially or technically feasible for the public broadcaster to launch new conventional radio or television stations in Hamilton ; accordingly, the corporation has developed a new model, with Hamilton as its test project, to launch a local digital service that would be accessible on the Internet and telecommunications devices such as tablets and smartphones.

The CBC has been affected by a number of other labour disputes since the late 1990s:

Since the 1970s, the CBC has not maintained the dominance in broadcasting it formerly had, but it still plays an important role.

The CBC ’ s cultural influence, like that of many public broadcasters, has waned in recent decades.

Viewership on the CBC ’ s French television network has also declined, mostly because of stiff competition from private French-language networks.

Even after the advent of commercial television and radio, the CBC has remained one of the main elements in Canadian popular culture through its obligation to produce Canadian television and radio programming.

The CBC has made programs for mass audiences and for smaller audiences interested in drama, performance arts, documentaries, current affairs, entertainment and sport.

Competition from private broadcasters like CTV, Global, and other broadcast television stations and specialty channels has lessened the CBC ’ s reach, but nevertheless it remains a major influence on Canadian popular culture.

NBC Universal still owns the Trio brand, which no longer has any association with the CBC ( and, as of the end of 2005, became an Internet-only broadband channel ).

C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.

ARTV, the French-language specialty network co-owned by CBC, has a maximum captioning requirement of 53 %.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

Robert Zubrin was also recently featured in a CBC Television documentary special The Passionate Eye dubbed " The Mars Underground ".

The steering wheel sensor also helps in the operation of Cornering Brake Control ( CBC ), since this will tell the ABS that wheels on the inside of the curve should brake more than wheels on the outside, and by how much.

He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and had an uncredited ( and unconfirmed ) minor role in the 1964 television film John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance.

There is an urban legend that a CBC announcer once referred to the network on the air as the " Canadian Broadcorping Castration ", which also sometimes remains in use as a satirical nickname.

CBC supporters also claim that additional, long-term funding is required to provide better Canadian dramas and improved local programming.

New CBC News services are also proving popular such as news alerts to mobile phones and PDAs.

CBC Radio also operates two shortwave services.

In some areas, especially national or provincial parks, the CBC also operates an AM or FM transmitter rebroadcasting weather alerts from the Meteorological Service of Canada ’ s Weatheradio Canada service.

The CBC also operates three specialty television channels – CBC News Network, an English-language news channel ; RDI, a French-language news channel ; and Bold, a Category 1 digital service.

Established in 2002, the CBC / Radio Canada merchandising business operates retail locations and cbcshop. ca, its educational sales department CBC Learning sells CBC content and media to educational institutions, CBC Merchandising also licenses brands such as Hockey Night in Canada and Coronation Street.

However, in similar ads, CTV also claimed to be number one, stating there was a CBC audience of only 1. 2 million.

The CBC also had the only national radio network.

Some CBC programming is also rebroadcast on local radio, such as New Hampshire Public Radio.

Several PBS stations also air some CBC programming However, these programs are syndicated by independent distributors and are not governed by the PBS " common carriage " policy.

Some CBC Radio One programs, such as Definitely Not the Opera and As It Happens, also air on some stations associated with American Public Media or Public Radio International.

The CBC & SRC channel signals can also be obtained free of charge, over-the-air, through antenna receivers in Canada or in border states along the Canada-U. S. border, however CBC is not obtainable as a " free-to-air " ( FTA ) channel on FTA satellites ( signals are encrypted on the Anik space satellites ).

CBC members recalled in April 2012 have been reinstated per a emergency interim order by Judge Phil Lujan, CFR Court of Indian Offenses.

Such private affiliates are becoming increasingly rare, and there have been indications that the CBC plans to discontinue all affiliation agreements with non-CBC owned television stations in the 2010s.

While all labour disputes resulted in cut-back programming and numerous repeat airings, the 2005 lockout may have been the most damaging to CBC.

No plans have been announced to use subchannels to maintain over-the-air signals for both CBC and SRC in markets where the corporation has one digital transmitter.

The Global network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV, or for that matter most American broadcast networks.

He developed a keen interest in Haida art while working as a radio announcer in Toronto for CBC Radio, where he also studied jewelry making at the Ryerson Institute of Technology, having first learnt about his heritage from his maternal grandfather, who had himself been trained by Charles Edenshaw, a Haida artist of great renown.

The claim has been made in an interview with the CBC around the time of Brand's 90th birthday, and by his son in the interview segment of Jeopardy.

In a CBC interview, Sauvé conceded that the NDP members may have been right that the Liberals may have been allowed more questions over two or three days, but, on the whole, each party received an equal number of opportunities.

Because of this, the city has been seen on several network TV programs including CNN, CBS, CBC, and the BBC.

* " The books have been burning: timeline " by Daniel Schwartz, CBC News.

CBC has been the most commonly used mode of operation.

After its original run it has been shown repeatedly on PBS and satellite channels such as Telemundo in the United States, CBC in Canada, TV1 in Australia, TVB in Hong Kong, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and ITV3, Cartoon Network on 11 June 2012, in the UK, Disney Channel Asia in Southeast Asia, TV3 in Malaysia, MediaCorp Channel 5 in Singapore, ABS-CBN in the Philippines and RCTI in Indonesia.

It has been awarded the IRA / CBC Children's Choice award.

In Canada the live broadcasts have been heard since December 1933 first on the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and, since 1934, on its successor, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where they are currently heard on CBC Radio 2.

The Malaysian Bar has been advocating a Common Bar Course ( CBC ) and Examination ( CBE ) since the 1980s as a single entry point to the legal profession for both local and foreign law graduates.

It has been one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on CBC Radio ; it is also distributed in the United States by Public Radio International.

Notable CBC staff producers who have been associated with the program include Bernie Lucht, Geraldine Sherman, Damiano Pietropaolo, Phyllis Webb, and David Cayley.

Afterwards, in an interview on CBC, he admitted he had been playing with a ruptured medial collateral ligament.

Hoogland ’ s poetry has been shortlisted for the CBC literary awards ; the nominations include selections from her books Cuba Journal as well as her second and third books of poetry You Are Home and Marrying the Animals.

As of March 2006, Mesley had returned to the CBC full-time, but was under the care of an oncologist and had been taking the intravenous, anti-cancer drug Herceptin.

* The Congressional Black Caucus has sometimes been accused of dual loyalty to Africa, that as they were vociferous in their criticisms of nations such as Israel and apartheid South Africa, the CBC stayed largely silent about the numerous human rights abuses of black African dictators.