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Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC)

Canadian public broadcasting service, created in 1936 to promote Canadian culture and serve as an instrument of national unity. It offers French- and English-language programs over AM and FM radio networks, television networks, cable television channels, and shortwave radio. Noted for its news and public affairs programs, the CBC also presents documentaries, dramas, classical music, entertainment, and educational programs as well as sports programs.


CBC

(1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast.

(2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. The problem of repeating ciphertext that results from the electronic code book method is eliminated. See mode of operation, block cipher and CBC-MAC.



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Thirty-plus years after its inception, the CBC has tripled in size.
8/03, Norman Spector, also Jewish and a former Canadian embassador to Israel, accused the CBC of bias in reporting news from the Middle East.
CBC sued Disney and ABC in September for allegedly stealing its ``Radio Aahs'' format and confidential information gathered during the eight months when ABC was national advertising representative for Aahs.
 
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