#6 The Source

1. Every morning and night my dad has CBC Radio 2 on. He uses it mostly because he always likes music playing, as well as for the news. It is usually left on for me in the morning, or I am told to turn it on during the day. I don't purposely listen to CBC Radio 2 to be informed of what is going on in the world, and I do not really enjoy watching the news or reading the newspaper. Although I do turn on the radio sometimes myself, it is only because I do not always enjoy complete silence, and it does usually play good music. I enjoy the fact that it plays newer music as well as classical music, and that when they tell news stories, they do not always take a long time to do it.

2.
a) CBC Radio 2 is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is owned by the government.

b) The CEO and President of CBC is Hubert T. Lacroix. Hubert has now been appointed for two, five year terms as President and CEO. He recieved a Bachelor of Civil Law, as well as a Masters in Business Administration. At CBC, Hubert oversees the management. He was also the senior advisor at the Montreal office of Stikemen Elliott, and a senior partner at McCarthy Tétrault law firm for 20 years. From 2000-2005, he was also the executive chairman of Telemedia Corporations.


c) CBC makes money by its government funding, advertising revenues, specialty revenues as well as other revenues. The government funding is close to one billion dollars. 20% of their source of funds comes from advertising.

d) Since the government give CBC so much money, they are responsible to Parliament as well as the people of Canada. They report to Parliament through the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and their Corporate Plan summary. For that, they have to make annual public meetings as well as annual and quarterly reports. This would affect the media they show because it cannot be extremely offensive towards the government, or going against the government because they would most likely not give so much funding money if there was a conflict that arose between CBC and Parliament. I would assume that CBC would most often take Parliament's side of world events, or support their actions because of the financial connection between the two. Although, they do want to stay true to Canadians seeing as the funding from advertising supplies CBC with a lot of money as well, it seems like the Government has the most power.