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Summary Of Richard Cavanagh's The Development Of Canadian Sports Broadcasting

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In Richard. P. Cavanagh’s reading The Development of Canadian Sports Broadcasting he focuses on the emergence of sports media in Canada but more importantly looks at the historical development of sports broadcasting. Both professional and amateur sport structures played crucial roles in the emergence of sports broadcasting becoming a staple of Canadian programming. After Canadian programming became popular and imminent in society the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was created. The CBC had its first origins in the 1920’s and 1930’s when the government wanted to establish a national public radio broadcasting system. As well, in Mary Vipond’s article The Beginnings of Public Broadcasting in Canada :the CRBC, 1932-1936 she discusses how Canadian
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