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This paper explores the regulation of Fairchild Television by the CRTC in the context of theoretical research into localism and group identity. The paper argues that while the regulation of Fairchild TV by the CRTC appears to contradict the principles of localism, in reality this regulatory control represents an effort to foster diversity in the Canadian ethnic media market by undermining forces supporting polarization in that market. Fairchild TV, as a potential polarizing agent, is thus limited by regulation to a national Canadian as opposed to regional Canadian focus, which minimizes its potential to utterly dominate the Chinese Canadian broadcast media market.

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"The Fairchild Media Group is a Canadian company founded in 1984 by Chinese Canadian Thomas Fung, with its headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. It has three primary media holdings - Fairchild TV, which broadcasts mainly in Cantonese to Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary; Fairchild Radio, with stations in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary; and Talentvision, a television broadcaster exclusively in Mandarin (Fairchild.com). As a media broadcaster in Canada, Fairchild TV is subject to the regulatory control of the Canadian Radio-Television and..."

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