Radio / Television News

Station made a mistake and made the correction, like it’s supposed to: CBSC

OTTAWA – An inaccurate news report that aired on Global Edmonton violated a broadcast code, however, the station aired a correction in keeping with the code, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has determined.Global Edmonton’s (CITV-DT) Global News at 5 aired a report about the sentencing of an airline pilot that erroneously stated that the pilot had been banned from flying for two years, when in fact it was one year.  The report, which aired on April 4, 2017, explained that a Sunwing pilot who had pleaded guilty for trying to fly with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit had...