History
With CNN already being widely available in Canada, during the 1980s both private and public Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) awarded a licence to the CBC, and on July 31, 1989, CBC News Network (then known as CBC Newsworld) began broadcasting.
CBC News Network originally broadcast from studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. However, budget cuts over the years eventually forced the network to centralize most of its operations in Toronto and Calgary.
It is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising. Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment — although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.
While sometimes thought to be a mandatory basic cable channel, there are in fact a number of Persona cable systems that do not carry CBC News Network at all. The channel was dropped by these systems in 2000, due to a fee dispute between Persona (then known as Regional Cablesystems) and the CBC. The channel has since returned to some, but not all, of the company's cable systems.
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