How the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Served the Military in Korea, 1951-1956
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (cbc) offered vital support to the Canadian forces engaged in the Korean theatre during and after the war, waged from 1950 to 1953.Though motivations varied between bureaucrats, service personnel, and broadcasters, all considered radio a means of evoking a sense of home on foreign soil or seas.To that end, the cbc went beyond reporting on the conflict to supply the armed forces with hundreds of hours of radio content, all carefully chosen to meet popular tastes, religious needs, and language requirements.Material passed from the cbc to the Far East by means of teletype circuits, shortwave transmitters and airmail parcels, filled with tapes and discs.This was only possible through collaboration with news agencies, Commonwealth broadcasters, and radio stations that served allied troops.This article traces the changing rationale, resources, and relationships on which the cbc relied as it helped to build a radio service for the armed forces, starting with the earliest efforts in 1951, shortly after the first Canadians arrived, and continuing until 1956, when few still remained in Korea.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".