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.

The CBC has also been mistakenly referred to as the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

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.

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 two largest talk radio networks in Canada are the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English language CBC Radio One and French language Première Chaîne.

She was the recipient of a Canada Council Major Award, two National Magazine Awards, the 1990 Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Author's Award, and a CBC short story award.

Berton raised eyebrows in October 2004 by discussing his forty years of recreational use of marijuana on two CBC Television programs, Play and Rick Mercer Report.

Television broadcasts from the CBC began on September 6, 1952, with the opening of a station in Montreal, Quebec ( CBFT ), and a station in Toronto, Ontario ( CBLT ) opening two days later.

From 1944 to 1962, the CBC split its English-language radio network into two services known as the Trans-Canada Network and the Dominion Network.

An Abacus poll from August 2011 showed that approximately one out of two Canadians would like to see the CBC's funding switched to the PBS / NPR model, while one out of three Canadians want Parliament to sell off or privatize the CBC.

CBC Radio also operates two shortwave services.

The CBC operates two national broadcast television networks ; CBC Television in English, and la Télévision de Radio-Canada in French.

From 1994 to 2000, the CBC, in a venture with Power Broadcasting ( former owner of CKWS in Kingston ), jointly owned two networks:

Additionally, along with the Montreal Canadiens, Smythe purportedly did not wish to split Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) hockey revenues three ways rather than two.

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.

For CBC and CFB, reusing an IV leaks some information about the first block of plaintext, and about any common prefix shared by the two messages.

As a special case, if the plaintexts are always small enough to fit into a single block ( with no padding ), then with some modes ( ECB, CBC, PCBC ), re-using an IV will leak only whether two plaintexts are equal.

Later, in 2005, after a lockout at CBC, Air Farce gained two new cast members, who had previously appeared on the show as recurring guest stars: Alan Park and Craig Lauzon.

In Canada, the main public broadcaster is the national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ), which operates two television networks ( CBC Television and Télévision de Radio-Canada ), four radio networks ( CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, Première Chaîne and Espace musique ) and a number of cable television channel including two 24-hour news channels ( CBC News Network and RDI ) in both of Canada's official languages.

The main character of a Canadian television show produced by the CBC called Our Hero, Kale Stiglic ( Cara Pifko ) created her own zine.

Rodeo events are broadcast nationally by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) on its main network, as well as its specialty channel, Bold.

Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment — although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.

The three main Canadian English networks also broadcast over the air in Quebec: public broadcaster CBC and private broadcasters CTV and Global Television.

The program is also aired on CBC News Network ; on weekdays, the initial version that airs live to Atlantic Canada on the main network is simulcast on CBC News Network at 9: 00 p. m., with several repeat broadcasts overnight.

Between 1992 and 1995, the main network's newscast was called Prime Time News ; the name The National was retained on CBC Newsworld.

The opening sequence started with the CBC News ID which flowed into the main graphic sequence, followed by Mansbridge or the fill-in anchor saying " Tonight ..." followed by a verbal listing of the main headlines and accompanying video and graphics.

The main CBC Radio 3 site was shut down for part of 2005 to facilitate the relaunch, although the podcast, the media-on-demand subsites and the Saturday night Radio Two program remained active.

The main CBC Radio 3 website was relaunched a few days earlier, now featuring a collaborative music blog and an Icecast stream of Canadian music.

Alexis Mazurin, the original host of CBC Radio 3 in its radio show format, died in October 2005, and the main Vancouver studio was named the Alexis Mazurin Studio in his memory.

CBWT is CBC Television's flagship station for the Central time zone, airing the main CBC schedule one hour after the CBC Television stations in the Eastern time zone ( for example, The National airs at 10 p. m.

Between 1983 and 1986, Laurie Mustard hosted a Sunday morning local program for kids called Switchback, which was the title used for similar programs across the CBC main network.

Owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, it is sister to Télévision de Radio-Canada station CBOFT-DT ( through its Société Radio-Canada arm ) and both stations share studios at the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre on Sparks Street in Downtown Ottawa, alongside the main corporate offices of the CBC.