Download or read book Development of Radio Communication in Canada written by Arthur L. Neal and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radio Communication in Canada written by Sharon Anne Babaian and published by National Museum of Science & Technology. This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper outlines the course of development of radio communication in Canada from the earliest days to the present, looking at some of the factors that influenced its direction as well as at the scientific and technological breakthroughs that made possible and improved and expanded its applications in society. It begins with a lengthy discussion of the history of non-broadcast radio communication in Canada. A brief description of the basic scientific principles upon which radio communication is based follows. An examination of the evolution of radio technology from the earliest mathematical equations and laboratory experiments through the rudimentary systems devised by the first inventors in the field and into the modern era of fully electronic radio technology concludes the paper. Most of the information is taken from government records, both archival and published.
Download or read book The Early Development of Radio in Canada 1901 1930 written by Robert P. Murray and published by Sonoran Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Come Quick Danger written by Stephan Dubreuil and published by Canadian Government Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to capture the nature and history of marine radio communications in Canada, based largely on first-person accounts, beginning from Marconi's invention and the establishment of the first commercial marine radio station in North America. The role of marine radio in protecting ships and their crews is noted throughout, including the participation of Canadian radio operators in such disasters as the sinking of the Titanic and the Empress of Ireland. Other topics covered include the establishment of marine radio networks, transatlantic communications, Coast Guard radio, marine traffic services, and radio navigation.
Download or read book Communication History in Canada written by Daniel J. Robinson and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive blend of history, geography, government, economics, and biculturalism meant that communication systems and the mass media evolved differently in Canada than in either the United States or Europe. Bringing together twenty-six articles that range in subject from colonial newspapers in the early 1800s to music television in the 1980s, Communication History in Canada provides the historical foundation for a thorough contextual analysis of modern-day media and communication in this country. From Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis to Mary Vipond and Will Straw, the authors in this volume represent a wide cross-section of disciplines, including history, communication studies, sociology, journalism, political science, and film studies. Their essays are grouped in five sections: Time, Space, Technology, and Nation, which explores the relationship between media, society, and human thought; Postal Systems and Telecommunications, which centres on the telegraph, the telephone, and computers; Print Mass Media, which describes the origins and diffusion of newspapers and magazines, with a particular emphasis on commercialization through advertising and market research; Broadcast Media, which charts the rise of radio broadcasting in the inter-war years and of television broadcasting from the 1950s through the 1980s; and Cultural Industries, which examines film and sound recording.
Download or read book Radio Morality Culture written by Fortner, Robert S. and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada before Television written by Len Kuffert and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any. In Canada before Television, Len Kuffert takes us back to the earliest days of broadcasting, paying particular attention to how programs were imagined and made, loved and hated, regulated and tolerated. At a time when democracy stood out as a foundational value in the West, Canada’s private stations and the CBC often had conflicting ideas about what should or could be broadcast. While historians have documented the nationalist and culturally aspirational motives of some broadcasters, the story behind the production of programs for both broad and specialized audiences has not been as effectively told. By interweaving archival evidence with insights drawn from secondary literature, Canada before Television offers perspectives on radio’s intimate power, the promise and challenge of US programming and British influences, the regulation of taste on the air, shifting and varied musical appetites, and the difficulties of knowing what listeners wanted. While this mixed system divided Canadians then and now, the presence of more than one vision for the emerging medium made the early years of broadcasting in Canada more culturally democratic for listeners who stood a better chance of getting both what they already liked and what they might come to like. Canada before Television offers an insightful look at the place of radio and debates about programming in the development of a cultural democracy.
Download or read book Communicating in Canada s Past written by Gene Allen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-11-14 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicating in Canada's Past evolved out of essays presented at the inaugural Conference on Media History in Canada of 2006, which brought together media historians from across the disciplines and from both French and English Canada. The first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada. Communicating in Canada's Past includes a substantial introduction to media history as a field of study, historiographical essays by senior scholars Mary Vipond, Paul Rutherford, and Fernande Roy, and original research essays on a range of subjects, including print journalism, radio, television, and advertising. Editors Gene Allen and Daniel J. Robinson have provided a sophisticated, wide-ranging introduction for those who are new to media history while also assembling a valuable collection of new research and theory for those already familiar with the field.
Download or read book Radio Revolution Classic Concerns written by Sean Graham and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s a new broadcast technology emerged which drastically changed the nature of communications and home entertainment. Radio's unique, and as yet unheard, ability to bring the world into living rooms raised questions about how it should be developed and used. From Canada's first coast-to-coast hook-up for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1927 to the incorporation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1936, Canadians struggled to establish a workable broadcasting policy. Important issues such as political interference, language and regional representation, and American influence, stalled, yet ultimately shaped, Canadian broadcasting. This thesis argues that these three factors had a profound impact on broadcasting in Canada, giving form to the industry as it addressed each concern. Presented thematically, this investigation examines issues arising from the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting in 1929, disputes over jurisdiction in the early 1930s, parliamentary committees in 1932, 1934, and 1936, and the struggles of a national public broadcaster, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), from 1932 to 1936. As well, this study delves public perception and participation in the process and how lobbying efforts were instrumental in securing a national public broadcaster. While most historians argue that limiting American influence was the major factor in establishing a Canadian broadcaster, this thesis argues that this motivation worked in conjunction with the desire to eliminate parliamentary interference and to give equal representation to various language and regional interests. The result was a national broadcaster created to promote Canada and designed to meet the needs of citizens across the country.
Download or read book Missed Opportunities written by Marc Raboy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Missed Opportunities, Marc Raboy reveals the short-sightedness behind the traditional view of Canadian broadcasting policy as an instrument for promoting a national identity and culture. He argues that Canadian broadcasting policy has served as a political instrument for reinforcing a certain image of Canada against insurgent challenges, such as maintaining the image of Canada as a political entity distinct from the United States and acting against internal threats, most notably from Quebec. It has served as a vehicle for the development of private broadcasting industries and to further the general interests of the Canadian state. Most of the time, Raboy maintains, this policy has been the object of vigorous public dispute.
Download or read book Downsizing the Dial written by Randy Lyle Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private radio broadcasting in Canada has generally been examined as a component of the larger broadcasting system. This system includes television and public broadcasting, and in more recent years, the so called new media. To properly situate private radio within this larger context, the various factors that have contributed to the development of private radio as a distinct entity need to be investigated. In so doing, we can develop a better understanding of content and programming, but also communication policy and regulation in this country. Radio is inherently a communicative medium with a framework that is constructed around the notion that communication exists between one broadcaster and a larger body of listeners. This is, of course, a reductive simplification, although it serves to illustrate the importance of the individual broadcaster as a point of origin. This thesis begins by exploring English-language private radio, in particular, private radio broadcasters, from a cultural perspective. This is done by applying a model of analysis that includes an examination of the founders and leaders in the private radio sector and the codes and values that are transmitted and adopted by newcomers to the field. Given that Canada's private radio stations are governed by the Broadcasting Act, the growth and development of private radio must be gauged alongside the cultural objectives specified in the Act. To that end, several key variables are examinbed in this paper including the use of technology and the degree to which private broadcasters have been able to affect change in the regulations that govern their use of the broadcasting spectrum. This research also documents the dramatic influence of the US on radio programming and culture in Canada. The methodological approach includes extensive interviews with broadcasters that examine hiring practises, programming philosophy, and format development. The thesis suggests that as a result of these forces local private radio in English-Canada has been has been redefined providing fewer community programming alternatives. The paper concludes with a discussion focused on the potential for change in private radio to better reflect the potential of the medium to communicate.
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Shield written by Arthur Eric Zimmerman and published by Kingston, Ont. : A.E. Zimmerman. This book was released on 1991 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Communication and Development written by Heather E. Hudson and published by 1974.. This book was released on 1974 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands of Resistance written by Andrea Langlois and published by New Star Books. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since radio's invention, some Canadians have been concerned about the increasingly commercialized and centralized nature of medium. Sometimes working alone, more often in teams, and always illegally, these activists represent islands of resistance within the ocean of homogenous frequencies, pirating radio signals for personal, political and artistic expression. In the first book published on the subject, Islands of Resistance gives you a view from the crowsnest of the phenomenon of pirate radio in Canada. Here is a collection of seventeen activist manifestos, artistic treatises of intent, historical essays on the development of radio and its regulatory bodies, sociological examination of pirate radio's application in new social movements, and personal anecdotes from behind the eyepatch. Just as the new media ostensibly renders the old obsolete, Islands of Resistance unveils the existence of a thriving clandestine counterculture. An invaluable addition to an unscrutinized subject in Canadian media studies, Islands of Resistance appeals to the anarchist, anti–authoritarian impulses in all of us. Visit the Islands of Resistance website for more about the book and to hear audio clips of pirate radio.
Download or read book Invisible Empire written by Jean-Guy Rens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's "national" technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries.
Download or read book Downsizing the Dial written by Randy Lyle Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Radio Development Project written by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
