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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was established on the 2nd of November, 1936, when its predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, was reorganized under its present name. Leonard Brockington was the CBC's first chairman.
Starting in 1967, the CBC offered a Frontier Coverage Package of limited television service to remote northern communities. Low-power transmitters carried a four-hour selection of black-and-white videotaped programs each day, with tapes physically flown between communities. The first stations opened in Yellowknife, Lynn Lake, and Havre-Saint-Pierre in 1967, and most were reconfigured in 1973 to receive colour satellite programming.
The CBC gem logo, designed by graphic artist Burton Kramer in December 1974, is also known colloquially as "The Exploding Pizza". According to Kramer, the design represents "Canada broadcasting to the world", with the central C standing for Canada, the radiating parts symbolizing broadcasting, and the blue circle representing the world.
On the 15th of August, 2005, CBC CEO Robert Rabinovitch locked out approximately 5,500 employees, about 90% of the workforce, in a dispute over the use of contract workers versus full-time hires. The lock-out ended on the 11th of October, 2005, after a tentative deal was reached on the 2nd of October.
Ghomeshi's employment was terminated in October 2015 after the CBC stated it had graphic evidence he had injured a female employee. An independent report by Janice Rubin concluded that CBC management had failed to take adequate steps when aware of his problematic behaviour. The CBC subsequently severed its relationship with two senior executives, Chris Boyce, former head of CBC Radio, and Todd Spencer, head of human resources for English services.
The CBC receives funding from parliamentary appropriations, commercial advertising on its television broadcasts, and subscriber fees from cable and satellite networks. The CBC has received $1.2 billion in annual public funding since fiscal 2018, with parliamentary funding rising to nearly $1.4 billion for 2020-2021 to cover retroactive salary inflation and pandemic-related costs.