Snapshot: Two Forms of Electronic Music

MuchMusic, the first of a series of Canadian specialty stations dedicated to airing music videos and music-related programming, was licensed by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to CHUM Ltd. in 1984. The decision to license CHUM over its competitors was influenced by the highly successful music video programming on Citytv, a CHUM-owned, Toronto-based station (LaPointe 1984). Once licensed, MuchMusic, with media mogul Moses Znaimer ...