Missed Opportunities : The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy

Toward the end of his career, Graham Spry used the phrase "missed opportunities" in reference to Canadian broadcasting. Raboy shows which opportunities have been missed and clarifies the relationship between the evolution of Canadian broadcasting policy over the past sixty years and the changes in Canadian society during the same period. Frontmatter Preface (page xi) Acknowledgments (page xv) Introduction (page 5) 1 THE NATIONAL PURPOSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1928-32) 2 ADMINISTRATIVE BROADCASTING (1932-49) 3 THE PRIVATE APPROPRIATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (1949-58) 4 COMMERCE AND CRISIS (1958-68) 5 FROM "BROADCASTING" TO "COMMUNICATIONS" (1968-74) 6 POLICY AND POLITICS (1974-80) 7 THE ECLIPSE OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING (1980-88) CONCLUSION Notes (page 359) Bibliographic Note (page 419) Bibliography (page 423) Index (page 447)