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The CRTC and Broadcasting Regulation in Canada
Examine the history and current state of the CRTC and the broadcasting world with The CRTC and Broadcasting Regulation in Canada. This unique guide provides better understanding of intricate administrative matters and extracts the relevant issues from the more important decisions and cases. This book reviews the CRTC and broadcasting regulation in Canada at a time when much is changing in the broadcasting environment. It examines CRTC decisions, past and present, in light of the reasoning that lies behind them and their implications for Canadian broadcasting, public access, freedom of expression and competition. Each chapter looks at a different aspect of the CRTC’s work, discussing it in plain language and also providing extensive endnotes based on CRTC decisions.

In a field of endeavor so thoroughly infused with controversy, The CRTC and Broadcasting Regulation in Canada provides a summary of the main issues and debates, along with an epilogue that offers the authors’ analysis of the past four decades of broadcasting regulation.

Contents

Introduction

PART 1: Foundations

  • Regulation and its (Dis)contents: The CRTC as Social and Policy Regulation
  • Broadcasting at a Glance: Services and Technologies of Broadcasting
  • Inside and Outside the Broadcasting Act
  • How it Works: The Powers of the CRTC and How They are Used

PART 2: Freedom to Communicate

  • Say What You Will: Freedom of Expression
  • Voices from the Margin: Broadcasting with a Social Mandate
  • Voices from the Centre: State-Supported Broadcasting

PART 3: Tools and Techniques of Broadcasting Regulation

  • Tools and Techniques: Managing the System and Creating Diversity
  • Canadian, eh: Creating Canadian Broadcasting and Production
  • All that’s New Under the Sun: New Services and Technologies

PART 4: Economic Matters

  • Competition Rules: Economic Regulation of the Canadian Broadcasting System
  • Pulling Strings: Ownership and Control
  • Epilogue

Index

About the authors: Liora Salter, F.R.S.C., is a Professor cross-appointed with Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Prior to joining Osgoode Hall in 1990, she was Professor and Acting Vice-President Academic at Simon Fraser University. She currently serves as the Director of Osgoode’s Graduate Program in Law.

Felix Nii Lantei Odartey-Wellington is a Barrister-at-law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He studied at the Universities of Ghana and Cape Town, as well as the Ghana School of Law and Concordia University. He is currently a Rogers Doctoral scholar in the Ryerson-York Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. His area of specialization is communication policy and regulation.

Written by Liora Salter and Felix N.L. Odarty-Wellington. Published by Carswell, 2008.
   
Catalogue No. 978-0-7798-1471-8
Price $100.00
Format Softcover
Pages 808
Language English only
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