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Political Science Cultural Policy

A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting

Public Good versus Private Profit

by (author) David Skinner

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2025
Category
Cultural Policy, Economic Conditions, Media Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774871464
    Publish Date
    Jan 2025
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774871495
    Publish Date
    Jan 2025
    List Price
    $125.00

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A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting takes readers from the days of the telegraph to the current digital age, examining the role of public broadcasting in the wider context of regulation, private capital, and foreign programming. This comprehensive history spans over a hundred years, highlighting the shifting technological character of the media system within anglophone Canada and the key place of public broadcasting within it.

 

Situated in Canada’s broader economic history, David Skinner’s account ably demonstrates how broadcast regulation has been derived from the historical relationships between the Canadian state and private capital, and that this has tended to sideline its social goals. The book concludes with suggestions for encouraging the creation of distinctively Canadian programming.

 

Coming just after the first major reform to Canada’s broadcast legislation in three decades, A Political Economy of Canadian Broadcasting is a timely contribution to the history of broadcasting and the policy discussions that frame it.

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Contributor Notes

David Skinner is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. He has been involved with the media reform movement in Canada for over twenty-five years. He has published numerous articles and book chapters in the field, and has co-edited two books on the subject, Alternative Media in Canada and Converging Media, Diverging Politics.

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