I am pretty sure the 3.1 billion is hiding with Jimmy Hoffa, the Eastern Cod Stocks, and the lids to all the travel mugs I buy.
I wonder if the CBC stole it in anticipation of a major budget cut?
I listen to CBC Radio every day. It has useful local programs, as well as intellectually stimulating (and often amusing, or just fun) programs from all across the country. It’s important to so many Canadians.
I love it the way it is now. I don’t want it to change.
I don’t think that just because some people (or many people?) aren’t interested in the CBC, that it should be mucked with by the current government. Heck, I’m not interested in hockey, but I don’t like it when bad things happen to the NHL, because I realize that it’s something that many Canadians enjoy.
I would be very sad if Radio 1 disappeared. There is absolutely nothing in commercial radio that is remotely comparable. I would pay $30/year for access to Radio 1 absolutely without question.
So would I, come to think of it.
I don’t like most of the commercial radio stations around here. Many of them play music I don’t like, and the rest play the same songs every few hours. I also like the local CBC morning and evening shows - very informative on news topics and other topics.
So, CBC TV has exactly the same volume of commercials as any other TV network. Sink or swim I say. Why are we supporting a TV network that still enjoys commercial revenues?
CBC Radio is commercial free: why? If CBC radio is so good then surely advertisers will flock to it.
I’m sorry but I think the government should get out of as much as possible. Thatcher had it right. Greece (among others) have it wrong.
I want core services. That’s pretty much it.
I wouldn’t know much about CBC TV because I never watch it.
For those against what the government may be planning to do to the CBC, there’s a petition you can sign. Not sure if it’ll do much good, but worth a try I suppose.
(I hope it’s okay to post this.)
Yeah. I’ll get right on that.
This is probably why we keep having this debate, and some people get all excited about possible changes to the CBC, and others of us are like, “CBC? Are we still paying for that crap?”
So you only want CBC Radio to never change? I could get behind that - get rid of CBC TV (also known as “TV For Torontonians, By Torontonians”) and leave CBC Radio.
Yup, that’s my point - it made sense at that time to have a public TV station and a public radio station.
Nowadays, the very notion of having “key” TV and radio stations is under assault - not by Conservative ideology of limited government alone, but by the march of technology. Any such station is bound to fade in significance when people have literally hundreds if not thousands of choices.
Maybe we need to re-visit what we (the whole population of Canada) want out of the CBC, and see if there is a better way to deliver that.
I certainly agree that CBC television has basically lost whatever niche it once occupied. But I can’t think of any other (terrestrial) radio station that’s similar to CBC radio. There isn’t an NPR Canada, is there?
CBC TV has tried to operate as a mainstream network, rather than as something that does not duplicate the private networks. For example, compare TVO, CBC TV, CTV and Global – TVO stands out as unique public television, whereas there is little to differentiate CBC TV from CTV and Global.
Whether CBC TV stays or goes, I’d like to see continued support for Canadian productions and a continued requirements for Canadian content on Canadian broadcast networks.
What will be interesting is to see how Canadian broadcast networks fare on the internet, for I expect that broadcasting over the internet will overtake broadcasting over the air. (For example, the only TV I get is through the internet.) It would be a pity to be lost in a sea of American productions.
I wrote a very detailed paper on CANCON music and broadcasting policy for my communications law class. It’s a pet topic of mine.
The short and narrow of it: the CRTC and the SCC have neither the means nor the will to regulate the Internet, or charge a Levy to ISPs for Canadian content production. Broadcast is slowly dying, as you suggested above, Muffin.
For all the obnoxious memes on my Facebook wall this week, the CBC “died” the second it agreed to air commercials. The old adage about not being able to serve two masters is completely true, and one has seen how CBC television panders to such Canadian greats as Wheel of Fortune, the Simpsons, and B Hollywood films.
The radio has been more ideologically pure because it was ad free, and that was the CBC’s feather in its cap. It really still is a national treasure, despite what right wingers will have you believe, particularly on the Internet where they’re maintaining CANCON legacy quotas. Go ahead. Download the CBC music app on your phone now, and tell me Im wrong! But in the recent license renewal, the CBC decides to try and increase revenue by opening itself to advertising, promising that it wouldn’t possibly change its mandate to serve advertisers.
Sorry for the mild rant, but the death of the CBC as we know it has been written on the wall for twenty years. We’re just seeing the rigamortis start to set in. Sad.
I know that some of our CanaDopers are still watching the snow melt, but I had to chime in and say that today was our first real spring day here. I was out working in the yard, and the plants are coming up. Even a couple of daffodils have bloomed.
The patio door to the deck is open, and the cats are at the screen, listening to the bird song and enjoying all the outdoor scents.
It’s been a nice day.
Glorious, ain’t it? I got the pool going this weekend.
We literally went from winter to summer here in Ottawa.
We always do, it seems! My grandma used to have Dutch neighbours, and every year during the Tulip Festival, they’d opine that Ottawa doesn’t have a “real” spring. I went from a long coat to a patio in about a 10 day span this year. And I love it. 
Give me one source - TV or radio - that does similar program like any I listen on a regular basis BETTER?
My regular CBC feast - Metro Morning, As It Happens, DNtO, The Q, Cross-country Checkup and on TV: The National, HNiC, 5th Estate, Rick Mercer Report.
All I ask is what station and what program - comparable to what I listed - you think is better?