Considering Canadian Television: Intersections, Missed Directions, and the Prospects for Textual Expansion

A broadcast system in whose interest? Tracing the origins of broadcast localism in Canadian and Australian television policy, 1950–1963

“…Indeed, we need to pay more attention to the policy developments that continue to shape this industry. Additionally, many scholars have noted the dearth of research concerning commercial television in Canada, both in its historical and contemporary iterations (Godfrey and Spencer, 2000; Urquhart and Wagman, 2006; Wagman, 2010). This research can be framed as an attempt to remedy this lacuna .…”

Inside Out: The Internationalization of the Canadian Independent Recording Sector

“…the gradual incorporation of the music industry into the domain of cultural policy over the 1970s and 1980s proceeded on the assumption that this would result in a larger number of canadian recordings, as well as in a larger canadian audience for them. As Urquhart and wagman (2006) warn, we should remember that these cultural policy goals do not necessarily figure in the aims and strategies of these industries themselves. canadian record companies are not pursuing a national project, either cultural or industrial.…”

Of Logos, Owners, and Cultural Intermediaries: Defining an Elite Discourse in Re-branding Practices at Three Private Canadian Television Stations

“…Despite such formidable scholarship, there is a noted paucity of academic accounts of the history of Canadian private television, particularly from the 1960s onwards (Wagman, 2010). Other scholars have also commented on the dearth of critical analyses of Canadian private broadcasting history (Attallah, 2007;Godfrey & Spencer, 2000;Urquhart & Wagman, 2006). Godfrey and Spencer's (2000) history of CFCF-TV and Canadian Marconi is a rare exception to the noted lack of scholarship.…”