CBC Music
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Type of site
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Public |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Area served | Canada |
| Owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Industry | Music |
| Website | music |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Current status | Active |
CBC Music is a digital music service, launched by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on February 13, 2012. The service provides online streaming of 53 web radio services, including the existing radio networks CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3 and 47 streams devoted to particular genres of music. Some of the genre webstreams were already provided by Radio 2 or Radio 3, while others were new offerings at the 2012 launch.
A similar site, IciMusique.ca (formerly espace.mu, in reference to former radio branding Espace Musique), is also offered by the CBC's French radio division, Société Radio-Canada.
In addition to the website, the service is also available as a smartphone application for Android, iPhones, iPads and BlackBerry.
The service was launched shortly after the CBC reached a music licensing deal with the AVLA in January 2012. The site is one of the first large-scale ventures into online broadcasting to be available in Canada since the launch of Iceberg Radio in 1997; at the time of CBC Music's launch, popular international ventures such as Pandora or Spotify remained unavailable to Canadian consumers.
Shortly after the service's launch, Stingray Digital, the owner of the cable audio service Galaxie, filed a complaint with the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, alleging that the CBC's access to government funding gave it an unfair competitive advantage over private for-profit services. Noting that the CBC pays the same copyright royalties to SOCAN as the competing services and that it places a much greater emphasis on Canadian content than the commercial services, the CRTC dismissed the complaint in August 2012.
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