Anne MacLennan

York University, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty Member

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Address: Department of Communication Studies,
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,
York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture,
Faculty of Graduate Studies,
3025 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building,
York University,
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario
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Editor’s Remarks: Communities and Commemoration

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2018

This issue of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media features two symposia. The first symposium, asse... more This issue of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media features two symposia. The first symposium, assembled by Phylis Johnson and Matthew Linfoot, explores LGBTQ+ and Radio/Audio Media. As noted by Johnson and Linfoot, this collection comes almost 50 years after the Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 in New York (Johnson & Linfoot, 2018). The array of work contained in the symposium demonstrates the range of scholarship in the field that intersects radio/audio and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Private Broadcasting and the Path to Radio Broadcasting Policy in Canada

Media and Communication, 2018

The largely unregulated early years of Canadian radio were vital to development of broadcasting p... more The largely unregulated early years of Canadian radio were vital to development of broadcasting policy. The Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting in 1929 and American broadcasting both changed the direction of Canadian broadcasting, but were mitigated by the early, largely unregulated years. Broadcasters operated initially as small, independent, and local broadcasters, then, national networks developed in stages during the 1920s and 1930s. The late adoption of radio broadcasting policy to build a national network in Canada allowed other practices to take root in the wake of other examples, in particular, American commercial broadcasting. By 1929 when the Aird Report recommended a national network, the potential impact of the report was shaped by the path of early broadcasting and the shifts forced on Canada by American broadcasting and policy. Eventually Canada forged its own course that pulled in both directions, permitting both private commercial networks and public...

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Charity and Change: Montreal English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of Depression

Urban History Review, 1987

The depression of the 1930s forced private and public charities across Canada to adapt to new cir... more The depression of the 1930s forced private and public charities across Canada to adapt to new circumstances. The crisis was particularly acute for the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, a minority English Protestant organization in a city reluctant to accept any responsibility for public services. The Council was forced to assume the burden of relief services for its community. The abrupt and long term disruptions in the operations of the Council caused by the Depression forced it to reevaluate and reassess its role in social services. Consequently, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies tried to compel municipal, provincial and federal governments to play larger roles in welfare work to relieve immediate and future problems. Most importantly, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies was guided through the 1930s by the principles of the Charity Organization Society, which were retained and reinforced rather than weakened by this crisis.

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“Private Broadcasting and the Path to Radio Broadcasting Policy in Canada,”

Media and Communication, 2018

“Promoting Pity or Empathy? Poverty and Canadian Charitable Appeals,”

Advertising, Consumer Culture & Canadian Society: A Reader, ed. Kyle Asquith Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2018, pp. 225-243., 2018

Circumstances beyond our control: Canadian radio program schedule evolution during the 1930's

ABSTRACT Despite the best efforts of many Canadian nationalists and government agencies to contro... more ABSTRACT Despite the best efforts of many Canadian nationalists and government agencies to control and develop radio broadcasting in the 1930s such factors as the abilities, strengths and weaknesses of the private broadcasters as well as the availability of various types and forms of programming governed the direction and development of the program schedule offered to listeners during the decade. A simple random sample of radio program schedules has been selected from The Vancouver Sun, The Montreal Gazette and The Halifax Herald employing three weeks from each year of the decade for all three cities. A content analysis of the sample was conducted to assess trends and the development of Canadian radio programming in the 1930s. This analysis has allowed for the re-creation of the broadcasting environments of Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal and permitted the development of a typology that describes the stages of the evolution of Canadian radio stations from novice to mature. Studying the similarities of programming strategies as these radio stations moved through common stages of development isolates and amplifies the impact of local and national circumstances. Canadian radio stations operated within a fixed framework determined by their geographical location, local population distribution, language and wavelength restrictions. Successful survival depended upon their objectives, financing and to a significant extent, the manipulation of their program schedules. Most importantly, these stations existed within the context of a broader North American radio industry characterized by the domination of networks. In the United States during the 1930s, NBC, CBS and Mutual modelled the development of diversified program genres. In Canada, the creation of a public broadcasting body, first the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) and then the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), was the most significant innovation in Canadian broadcasting history. Through the analysis of program schedules, this thesis explores and explains how Canadian radio stations survived the Depression decade by diversifying their offerings through the use of a combination of local and network, Canadian and American programming.

Learning to Listen: Becoming a Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2013

Reading Radio: The Intersection between Radio and Newspaper for the Canadian Radio Listener in the 1930s

Radio and Society: New Thinking for an Old Medium. Mollgaard, Matt ed, 2012

Cultural Imperialism of the North? The Expansion of CBC’s Northern Service and Community Radio

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2011

Resistance to Regulation: Early Canadian Broadcaster and Listeners,” in Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada

Pirate Radio in Canada. Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky and Marian van der Zon eds., 2010

Women, Radio Broadcasting and the Depression: A “Captive” Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials

Women's Studies, 2008

Linking the Radio Audience from the Past to the Present: Communication of Knowledge through Websites and Electronic Resources

Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences: From Dissemination to Public Engagement. Beaudet, Céline, Pamela Grant-Russell, and Doreen Starke-Meyerring eds., 2008

Singh, Parbudyal, Deborah Zinni and Anne F. MacLennan, Graduate student unions in the United States

by Anne MacLennan and P. Singh

Journal of Labor Research, 2006

Graduate student unions have been attracting considerable academic and practitioner attention rec... more Graduate student unions have been attracting considerable academic and practitioner attention recently, especially since the New York University decision in 2000. Given the declining fortunes of the union movement, it seems as if the academic sector has the potential of becoming a vital new organizing frontier. However, there is scant research on this issue. We trace the origins and evolution of graduate student unions in the United States, discuss the relevant statutory and case law, analyze pertinent collective bargaining and strike issues, and suggest avenues for future research.

American Network Broadcasting, the CBC and Canadian Radio Stations during the 1930s: A Content Analysis

Journal of Radio Studies , 2005

Zinni, Deborah, Parbudyal Singh and Anne F. MacLennan, An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada

Relations Industrielles /Industrial Relations , 2005

Charity and Change: Montreal's English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of the 1930s

The Urban History Review , 1987

Books by Anne MacLennan

Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956. Halifax: Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2017.

by Anne MacLennan and Michael Windover

Editor’s Remarks: Communities and Commemoration

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2018

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Private Broadcasting and the Path to Radio Broadcasting Policy in Canada

Media and Communication, 2018

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Charity and Change: Montreal English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of Depression

Urban History Review, 1987

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“Private Broadcasting and the Path to Radio Broadcasting Policy in Canada,”

Media and Communication, 2018

“Promoting Pity or Empathy? Poverty and Canadian Charitable Appeals,”

Advertising, Consumer Culture & Canadian Society: A Reader, ed. Kyle Asquith Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2018, pp. 225-243., 2018

Circumstances beyond our control: Canadian radio program schedule evolution during the 1930's

Learning to Listen: Becoming a Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2013

Reading Radio: The Intersection between Radio and Newspaper for the Canadian Radio Listener in the 1930s

Radio and Society: New Thinking for an Old Medium. Mollgaard, Matt ed, 2012

Cultural Imperialism of the North? The Expansion of CBC’s Northern Service and Community Radio

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2011

Resistance to Regulation: Early Canadian Broadcaster and Listeners,” in Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada

Pirate Radio in Canada. Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky and Marian van der Zon eds., 2010

Women, Radio Broadcasting and the Depression: A “Captive” Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials

Women's Studies, 2008

Linking the Radio Audience from the Past to the Present: Communication of Knowledge through Websites and Electronic Resources

Research Communication in the Social and Human Sciences: From Dissemination to Public Engagement. Beaudet, Céline, Pamela Grant-Russell, and Doreen Starke-Meyerring eds., 2008

Singh, Parbudyal, Deborah Zinni and Anne F. MacLennan, Graduate student unions in the United States

by Anne MacLennan and P. Singh

Journal of Labor Research, 2006

American Network Broadcasting, the CBC and Canadian Radio Stations during the 1930s: A Content Analysis

Journal of Radio Studies , 2005

Zinni, Deborah, Parbudyal Singh and Anne F. MacLennan, An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada

Relations Industrielles /Industrial Relations , 2005

Charity and Change: Montreal's English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of the 1930s

The Urban History Review , 1987

Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956. Halifax: Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2017.

by Anne MacLennan and Michael Windover

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