If we spend $1 billion per year on news, local news, local sports, radio I am fine with that.
If CBC can't cover for 1/4 of that with income, big deal.
The point being that we should get more out of what we pay as taxpayers, and by more I mean more of the the things nobody else will spend money on.
Local News & things like CBC Marketplace which is just fantastic and an important part of consumer (taxpayer) protection.
Local Sports
Local Radio
Then you look at things like Canada wide news where there are more players & international news, where there are even more players and see where CBC fits in.
I think they do a decent job on both those things as well.
Those things provide max value to the taxpayer.
TV programming where you are competing against deep pocketed private corporations do not provide value.
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