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Requested move 22 September 2020

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) -- Calidum 04:12, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation → CBC
CBC → CBC (disambiguation)

– This appears to be the main topic for the name CBC on Wikipedia. —ÐW^(T•C) 23:33, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: CBC titles a dab page with content, so it is ineligible unless it is also renamed. This request has been modified to reflect that fact. P.I. Ellsworth ed. ^put'r there 00:46, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - while CBC is the branding, the full legal name remains Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and that should be the name of the article just as the name of the BBC's article is British Broadcasting Corporation or the article for ABC is American Broadcasting Company. There are cases where we do use the initials such as CBS but in that case the company legal changed its name from Columbia Broadcasting System Inc to CBS Inc in 1974. The CBC has never legally changed its name to its initialism. Similarly, NBC hasn't legally been the National Broadcasting Company for some time. Also, CBC does not have the same recognition internationally and there are a number of other entities that use the CBC initialism. Sowny (talk) 23:46, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

BBC is at BBC, not the full name, and for ABC, both the American and Australian companies have relatively equal claim to primary significance. This issue with ABC is rather unique, and I don't think that's the case for CBC. kennethaw88 • talk 01:29, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation? Sowny (talk) 01:56, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well I don't know about the BBC, perhaps the wikipedia article is wrongly named, but officially the CBC remains the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation so that should be the title. See [1] Conversely, CBS and NBC officially dropped their original names years ago and adopted the initialisms as their official names. CBS is run by the CBS Entertainment Group which in turn is owned by ViacomCBS - officially there hasn't been an entity called the Columbia Broadcasting System since the 1970s. Similarly, NBC is operated by NBC Entertainment, which is owned by NBCUniversal Television and Streaming and there hasn't legally been an entity called the National Broadcasting Company for decades. However, legally there is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sowny (talk) 02:47, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation is also listed at CBC; what's your point? My point is that the comparison to ABC isn't really a good one, because in that case, the usage is roughly evenly split. That is not the case here. For example, here are the relative page views for Canada/Caribbean: [2]. Do you have other evidence that the usage for CBC is not so one-sided? kennethaw88 • talk 04:05, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You've ignored my main point. Do you have any evidence that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is no longer the CBC's legal name the way Columbia Broadcasting System is no longer CBS's legal name? Sowny (talk)

Oppose Not always known by the initials. Walter Görlitz (talk) 05:09, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- CBC is overwhelmingly more used than the full name, like probably an order of magnitude.--Ortizesp (talk) 13:37, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - It may be used more frequently in Canada, but not around the world. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:30, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt that usage of the full name is much different outside of Canada or that usage of the full name outside of Canada has a big impact, see: (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=cbc,%2Fm%2F0hm0k) it is google trends so take it with a grain of salt blindlynx (talk) 20:01, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Curious. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:07, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose first move, support second While there are many media and organizations that use CBC as acronym (ex. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Carribean Broadcasting Corporation, Capital Broadcasting Center in Egypt, etc) even in medical terms it has known as Complete blood count, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the primary abbreviation for CBC. It was different from 14 years ago when similar RM takes place. Anyone who typing "CBC" in internet will see it as a Canadian one in first result, even in news articles most of them are published by CBC News itself, which based in Canada. So move disambiguation page over redirect would be necessary than just move the page. In other side, first title should be maintained as this as Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the legal full name of CBC. 180.244.145.224 (talk) 09:14, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- You haven't explained what to do with title "CBC": I assume a primary redirect to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:42, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as WP:NATDAB per WP:NCBC#Networks. Generally, the change doesn't seem to be a worthwhile improvement. -- Netoholic @ 09:18, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Yes, it's pretty much always known by the acronym.--Ortizesp (talk) 13:36, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Sowny & Netoholic. I will also say that despite how commonly "CBC" is used in Canada to refer to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, there are many other prominent uses of the acronym throughout the world, including Complete blood count (medical term), Cannabichromene (chemistry, medicine), Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbedos), Capital Broadcasting Center (Egypt), and there are various colleges in the US and Canada that use the acronym "CBC". We are supposed to take a global view. I don't think doing so permits us to give prominence to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over other "CBCs".--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:46, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:COMMONNAME; WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and the BBC precedent blindlynx (talk) 19:39, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Sowny. Metric Supporter 89 (talk) 02:32, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"Radio-Canada" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Memorable programming

this spot would describe some of the great shows, such as Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Front Page Challenge 2605:B100:142:43B1:2411:DEFF:FEFF:596A (talk) 02:34, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Change citation 74 "https://nationalpost.com/tag/a-new-era-for-cbc-hopefully-things-could-finally-start-looking-up-for-the-beleaguered-public-broadcaster-in-2016/" to "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-new-era-for-cbc-hopefully-things-could-finally-start-looking-up-for-the-beleaguered-public-broadcaster-in-2016"

The national post link is no longer valid, this is the new one. IonicFusion (talk) 13:44, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Skynxnex (talk) 16:58, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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2 billion of goverment funding and need to say failing cbc news company that hasent made money in years and with given over 2 bill they still went in the red more. Also needs to say liberal owned and censored to not take different opinions and to spout lies 2001:569:6FE2:2322:602C:92C3:C3F:C547 (talk) 17:01, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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