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A National Icon Deficit: What the Ghomeshi Scandal Illustrates About the State of CBC Radio One

October 31, 2014
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A National Icon Deficit: What the Ghomeshi Scandal Illustrates About the State of CBC Radio One

The sudden departure of Jian Ghomeshi from Q illustrates that the CBC's once innovative radio division needs to focus on developing new personalities and formats if it is to adapt to a rapidly evolving mediascape.
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

June 28, 2012
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Why Little Mosque Matters [Part 5]

Why does Little Mosque matter to viewers, and why does it matter to television scholars?
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

June 26, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Challenges of Distribution [Part 4]

Program buyers in over ninety countries thought their audiences would find Little Mosque worth watching, but the upcoming Hulu premiere is the first time the show had U.S. distribution.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]

June 21, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Jokes and the Contradictions of the Sitcom [Part 3]

The conventions of the sitcom that Little Mosque on the Prairie adopted often worked at cross-purposes with humor’s potential to draw people’s assumptions about the world into question.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

June 14, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: How Little Mosque Found a Home [Part 2]

The various people involved in Little Mosque’s production were positioned differently in the communities between which they were mediating, and as a consequence, the factors that influenced their creative decisions differed, too.
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

June 12, 2012
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Little Mosque on the Prairie: Humor as a Medium of Translation [Part 1]

Kyle Conway begins a multi-part series exploring the production of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a CBC sitcom set to debut in the U.S. on Hulu this month.
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WikiLeaks “Bombshell”: The CBC is the Enemy

December 1, 2010
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WikiLeaks “Bombshell”: The CBC is the Enemy

Considering the revelations which could emerge from WikiLeaks, news that U.S. Embassy Officials in Canada were vilifying CBC's fictional programming was...unexpected.
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