Eh; the CBC doesn’t interest me, I don’t much watch it, and I don’t much care if its funding is decreased by 10 per cent.
The CanaDoper Café (2012 edition of The great, ongoing Canadian current events and politics thread.)
Sorry, didn’t mean to kill the thread with my ennui. 
I’m still trying to figure out who would hire a botnet to disrupt the NDP leadership convention. I mean, seriously. The NDP leadership convention?
Ever since the Beachcombers was over, there hasn’t been anything worth watching. But then the lack of channel choices meant that we thought crap was good. Now there is no reason to watch it at all.
Fortunately, you and Uzi are in the minority, and we have the numbers to back that up.
For me, the CBC is the most important broadcasting system in the country. Part of the reason for that is professional - none of the other television networks or radio stations give a shit about the performing arts. It seems to me that we’ve had this discussion before…
But a huge part of that is personal - long before I became a performer, CBC Radio was a huge part of my life. It was like having a second library in our town.
Funding cuts have already hurt what was a wonderful resource in the 70s and 80s. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the CBC that a restoration of full funding wouldn’t cure. If there is no culture, there is no Canada.
CBC Radio is an important part of my city.
Full funding for the CBC would mean more programmes that I don’t watch or care about.
I question your premise, too, that CBC is the bastion of culture in Canada.
Why? Do they employ a lot of people where you live?
As I said in another thread (or this one, I don’t know) I watch quite a few shows on Radio-Canada. Many of them seem rather popular around here.
Unlike the Sun’s network.
It is exceptionally good at spreading the word as to what is going on in the city. Local news on hard and soft items; notices, ongoing coverage and followups of activities and events; lots of in-depth interviews.
It’s not a zero sum game.
I don’t listen to any radio at all, so CBC Radio means nothing to me. It looks like there might be CBC News back in Calgary again, so I might look into that - I lost interest in the CBC local stuff when they took their bureau out of Calgary.
Ah. OK. In my city I could say exactly the same thing about our local AM news station. I find the CBC to be less responsive, and have less local programming.
ETA: I do listen to both however.
I do, so it means a lot to me, as does the TV network.
CBC 3 is a writeoff in my case, but I have browser links to CBC 1 and 2 radio stations across the country, including CBC North stations.
If they’re rather popular, they should be able to support themselves, rather than relying on a constant infusion of taxpayer dollars.
Same with CBC Radio. Sell a few ads. It’s not going to kill anyone, and if it’s as popular as people say it is it should make up the shortfall in funding lickety-split. If there’s zillions of listeners out there who just can’t go without their CBC Radio, then sell a few spots an hour and they’ll go for an absolutely princely sum, and few people would complain about two or three ads an hour if they understood the reason why.
Accept an ad and a week later it’s like the Corus network — at least 17 minutes and more of promos and ads every 30 minutes.
The CRTC quislings now allow limitless ads. They’d sell their mothers for a handful of magic beans.
Whatever Rick. I don’t know what Radio-Canada’s budget is, and anyway anything I’m going to find is going to be about the CBC/Radio-Canada ensemble, not about whether Radio-Canada Television itself could survive as a private network. I did find this about them having 12.2 % of the market during the week of 12-18 March, which as you can see is much lower than the 27.1 % of TVA. But I don’t find anything interesting on TVA, while Radio-Canada has a whole bunch of great shows. Sorry about that.
I’m too exhausted to even care about the student protests right now, but I just have to say that seeing 6 police helicopters fly in a relatively tight formation back and forth over the city as they watched what was going on today was pretty freaking cool. Noisy, but cool.
Agreed. The should be set free like Petro Canada and Air Canada, it isn’t the 1950’s any longer. I can think of better things to spend 2 billion a year on, it also irks me that they believe they are beyond access to information requests.
So when a competitor asks Ibanez Inc. to reveal the salaries of all of its talented employees, you would instantly comply? That’s the basis of the Sun Media/Quebecor ‘access to information’ requests - they want to out-bid the CBC for on-air talent, something the CBC is prone to because of previous funding cuts. When CBC fought the access to information requests, Sun Media went for a further hatchet job on the CBC.