Ottawa, November 17, 1999 - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) announces the appointment of Raya Gallagher to its Prairie Regional Council.
A St. Albert native and graduate of the University of Alberta, Raya Gallagher has been with CFRN-TV in a variety of capacities since January 1986. She is currently Manager of Human Resources at CTV’s Edmonton station and a Certified Human Resources Professional. In 1996-97 she received the Award of Academic Excellence from the Human Resources Management Association of Edmonton.
The Prairie Council, like all other CBSC Regional Councils across the country, is made up of three public and three broadcast representatives. The Chair of the Prairie Council is Sally Hall, former President of the Consumers Association of Canada and a CBSC public member since 1990. The ViceChair is Daryl Braun, News Director of Golden West Broadcasting Ltd. in Steinbach and a CBSC broadcast member since 1993/94. The other Prairie Regional Council public members are former Member of Parliament Dorothy Dobbie of Winnipeg and former Dean of Law and Director of the Diefenbaker Centre for the Study of Cooperatives Daniel Ish, Q.C., of Saskatoon. The other industry member is Vic Dubois, General Manager of CJWW-AM and CFQC-FM in Saskatoon.
CBSC National Chair Ron Cohen stated: “The past five years have been an important growing time for the broadcast industry’s self-regulatory body. Since the CBSC’s decisions in the Power Rangers and the Howard Stern cases, the public have become more and more aware of this unique system established by Canada’s private broadcasters. As a result, we have become much busier and yet, at the same time, more responsive to public complaints. None of the ongoing challenges could possibly be met without the dedication and thoughtfulness of our Regional Council volunteers. We are fortunate to have been able to attract individuals with such outstanding records of public service, commitment and leadership.”
Canada’s private broadcasters have themselves created industry standards in the form of Codes on ethics, gender portrayal and television violence by which they expect the members of their profession will abide. In 1990, they also created the CBSC, which is the self-regulatory body with the responsibility of administering those professional broadcast Codes, as well as the Code dealing with journalistic practices first created by the Radio Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) in 1970. More than 430 radio and television stations and specialty services from across Canada are members of the Council.
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