Of course the CBC will spend 20 million dollars in tax payers money.
I think the day and age of state televisions is gone. I think that the CBC should become a upper cable system on a subscription channel, and they should actually be forced to make a profit or break even based on advertising sales and sponsorship.
It serves no useful purpose in a day and age that other channel do a better job of reporting and programming and we don't have to pay tax money for.
There aren't a lot of shows on that T.V. that are actually good.
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We all have our opinions, everybody and every institution is biased, it's a matter of survival, but for my money CBC is less biased than every other network I can watch. If you want to get into bias, Fox news wins hands down although Pravda would have gave them a run for their money years ago.
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There are more members of the Conservative Party than any other who want to cut the CBC loose from taxpayer funding. Of course the CBC is biased against them.
The quicker we privatize the CBC in major markets (and revamp or trash the CRTC), the better off we'll all be.
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We all have our opinions, everybody and every institution is biased, it's a matter of survival, but for my money 3CP-1 is less biased than every other network I can watch. If you want to get into bias, CBC wins hands down although Pravda would have gave them a run for their money years ago.
I know bashing them is the thing to do on here, but I love the CBC. It's one of the few things that make Canada unique...the news documentaries and sports coverage are still second to none in my opinion (if you think otherwise, just watch a major world sporting event on NBC).
CTV/Global don't provide anything unique. They have the same low-level content like every other American network, often from an american network....I have no idea why people want another another one.
I have hundreds of channels down on my tv, and I'd trade a chance to watch the National for any one of them.
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Your post was so ridiculous, it only deserved 3 syllables. Yes, CBC is very even-handed... if you live on Queen Street, vote for NDP, and walk behind your wife with your head bowed (a rather common sight in Toronto)... Give me "What Fits into Mother Russia" instead any day of the week... Back to downloading SCTV torrents...
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I know bashing them is the thing to do on here, but I love the CBC. It's one of the few things that make Canada unique...the news documentaries and sports coverage are still second to none in my opinion (if you think otherwise, just watch a major world sporting event on NBC).
So let them sink or swim on their own like every other broadcaster in Canada. Why do they get government funding and others dont? If they have this superior way to show sports and make documentaries, then by all means they should do quite well privately and no longer being completely propped up by $1.1 BILLION taxpayer dollars.
I know bashing them is the thing to do on here, but I love the CBC. It's one of the few things that make Canada unique...the news documentaries and sports coverage are still second to none in my opinion (if you think otherwise, just watch a major world sporting event on NBC).
CTV/Global don't provide anything unique. They have the same low-level content like every other American network, often from an american network....I have no idea why people want another another one.
I have hundreds of channels down on my tv, and I'd trade a chance to watch the National for any one of them.
It's funny how location can change your perspective on this. When I lived in the U.S. I had very fond memories of the CBC and its programming. Now that I am back up here I find a lot of it to be a complete waste of air time. I still watch the occasional show on CBC but beyond HNIC it doesn't happen very often.
I understand the purpose behind the CBC and actually, I tentatively support that purpose. However, the programming stinks and it's a sinkhole for tax dollars. Canadian culture is disappearing in a mass of crap American sit-coms, but we've got to find it elsewhere.
So let them sink or swim on their own like every other broadcaster in Canada.
The whole benefit of the CBC is that it shows programming that doesn't have to bend over to the forces of ratings and marketability....just like the BBC or NPR/PBS to in their respective countires. These stations provide us with things that regular market forces would never allow. Look at the crap that's on all the other networks....######ed dancing shows and cheesy hollywood lawyer shlock everywhere you look. Do we really need another channel with that crap?
While there is no doubt a left-leaning bent, shows to me like the National or The Hour are really entertaining without resorting to hysteria. Look at the gong-show that news programming has turned into down in the States....CNN, FOX, Headline news.....they've all turned into a whiz-bang circus of yelling and blaming. None of them can come close to offering the intelligent and thoughtful news coverage of a publically funded organizations like CBC/PBS/BBC etc.
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The whole benefit of the CBC is that it shows programming that doesn't have to bend over to the forces of ratings and marketability
Again...then do it privately without taxpayer money. If their shows are so awesome and stand alone in quality, then they will have no problem staying afloat and becoming independantly financed like EVERY OTHER broadcaster.
PBS is not federally funded, they survive with fees carged to member stations along with individual private and public donations. They dont drain on the feds for a billion freaking dollars a year.
TV stations live and die with their ratings which are driven by viewership, and if most is stuff that you dont particularly care for that means you are in the minority. Just because some take umberage with what's popular, that does not mean an intervention by government with public money is an action that should be taken.
If you owned the Acme widget company and worked hard to make it a success, how would you feel if the government then propped up my T99 widget company and allowed me to directly compete with you for the very clients you have worked hard to secure? Sure you make the weird sized widgets that almost no one needs or wants, but you do make some of the same ones I do but your market share is smaller because the government gives me your money every year to make that happen.
Its assinine IMO. Government agencies competing directly with private enterprise in no way, shape or form should be allowed in any free-thinking society.
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Your post was so ridiculous, it only deserved 3 syllables. Yes, CBC is very even-handed... if you live on Queen Street, vote for NDP, and walk behind your wife with your head bowed (a rather common sight in Toronto)... Give me "What Fits into Mother Russia" instead any day of the week... Back to downloading SCTV torrents...
I'll jump at any excuse to watch my favorite skit of all time:
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CBC to study whether they are biased
Yes, CBC is very even-handed... if you live on Queen Street, vote for NDP, and walk behind your wife with your head bowed (a rather common sight in Toronto)... Give me "What Fits into Mother Russia" instead any day of the week... Back to downloading SCTV torrents...
