Audio: Interview with Richard Stursberg on his book The
Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets and Successes Inside the CBC.

Jacket design by Jessica Sullivan  Unlike Britain, which opted to invest in public non-commercial broadcasting in the early ’60s, Canada chose a hybrid model that freed the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to augment its Parliamentary appropriation with advertising revenues. Canada’s 1968 Broadcast Act prescribed a broadcasting system controlled by Canadians that ‘safeguards and strengthens our [...]

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