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Originally Posted by The Ditch
I don't know what your argument is could you please explain it more? NBC is doing absolutely great at giving coverage to the athletes, you understand that CBC and CTV bid for the right to show the Olympics and CBC won the bid (tax payer dollars). CTV if they had won would have done just as good of a job maybe better as they have to be accountable not having an endless stream of funds to fall back on.
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The CBC also covers these sports in non-Olympic years, at least more than CTV or TSN. Like I said, they are the only network that gives them any meaningful coverage. The exposure CBC gives them should definitely help them gain more private sponsors. If Canadians really cared about most of these sports, then it would be profitable for all the networks to cover them - not just during the Olympics, but all the time. The CBC can cover them, because they are not profit driven. If you cut CBC's funding, you would be hurting the athletes more than helping.
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You can't compare a single NHL hockey team (privately owned) to an athlete wanting to represent their country, sorry.
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It's easily comparable. They would both bring measurable amounts of national pride. Besides, I didn't say to fund a privately owned team. Make it a government holding.
Besides, if I can't compare funding of NHL hockey to Olympic athletes - because as you put it; they are too different, then how can you compare funding of the CBC to the funding of Olympic athletes which aren't even remotely the same thing? If NHL hockey in Winnipeg and Olympic athletes are apples and oranges, then Olympic athletes and a television network are apples and orangutans.