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Cross Talk: Season six, Episode Four
On preserving Canada's radio and tv history. From November 25, 2021. Radio history is part of our history. But there's no publicly-funded, organized institutional repository or archive of significant audio or other records from Canada's radio history. By contrast, the United States has a Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress. In Canada, a charitable foundation -- the Canadian Communications Foundation -- started with a grant from broadcasters as a "Centennial Project" in 1967 appears to have run its course, and is likely to archive its decades of writings and audio online…
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