The Hub- Commercial enterprise or public broadcaster? The CBC wants it both ways
Just being a public broadcaster isn’t good enough for the CBC.
Our $1.3 billion federal subsidy2 isn’t enough to make the CBC love us back. It wants more.
The deciding panel of five CRTC Commissioners was split. Very broadly, two were inclined to impose strict “conditions of license.” The winning three preferred “expectations,” based on the fact they trusted CBC to do the right thing.
This, then, is how the Great Canadian Broadcasting Game is played.
The CBC, considering itself the CRTC’s equal, pretty much charts its own course—but will take minor directions on relatively inconsequential matters so the commission doesn’t lose face. In exchange, the CRTC stays out of the way as CBC hides a commercial warrior behind the shield of a public broadcaster.
Give the employees 2 weeks notice. Put the real estate up for sale, sell off all the equipment, put the bandwidth up for sale. Use the money to pay down the debt. Apologize to all citizens. Never let any employees into positions of any power whatsoever for the rest of their lives.
The CBC mess, like the RCMP mess, is beyond salvage. Raze it to the ground, and never, ever let it rise again.
And send Rosie the Ruminant to graze in the far Arctic.
C.A.G.E.
Harper had the chance and he didn’t. The result is the imminent collapse of what we knew is Canada. We have become a fascist state. Not kind of but a true fascism but with a smile. A rose by any other name. We won’t collapse all of a sudden but this slow grind we are all feeling then all of a sudden but no one will recognize it. They don’t recognize the predicament we are in now and they won’t know it then. Fat and happy with HNC and poutine. Bread an circus. The flag that I was born under is now considered a racist symbol of hate by our own government. There is nothing left to say. The US is 10 years behind but catching up quickly so there is no escape.
The Ukraine War has taught us that state sponsored media are not to be trusted, hence the ban on RT.
Could a province ban all state sponsored media from institutions it funds? Care homes, hospitals, colleges, schools, etc.
‘(Author) Peter Menzies is a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a former newspaper executive, and past vice chair of the CRTC.
This, then, is how the Great Canadian Radio and Television Game is played.
I wouldn’t worry about it. They’re not going to make any money on the commercial side, everybody knows there is -nobody- watching the CBC. All their ‘viewership’ is TVs playing in empty waiting rooms with the sound off. Like CNN, but with less waiting rooms.
The CRTC was a mistake from the very beginning.
Don’t forget who inflicted it upon us.
The CRTC, like just about any other federal government department and agency, was concerned with satisfying those regions of the country that could be counted upon to keep the Liberals in power.
“The CRTC was a mistake from the very beginning.”
Before the CRTC the CBC licensed its competition. CTV had to jump through hoops from CBC.
I say rent bandwidth to any radio or TV station if it is available. Allow them to broadcast anything that is not perverse or vulgar. Any city could have a dozen TV spots and 100 radio spots. There’s more TV if you want UHF. If someone quits paying the rent on the license or quits broadcasting, the license goes up for auction. Also limit the number of stations any related group can have in one market to say 2 TV stations and 5 radio stations. It’s time we quit worrying about broadcast billionaires driving each other out of business.
In the U. S., portions of the spectrum are auctioned off to whoever is willing to pay for those frequencies.
I rarely watch cable TV now – just PBS on Saturday and Sunday Evenings (love Masterpiece Mystery). Mostly watch Netflix, Crave or old episodes of Mystery, Vera, Inspector Morse on http://www.youtube.com. I can see the day soon when I will even get the basic cable which I now receive.
I’ve cut back on my TV viewing in recent years. As I’ve mentioned numerous times here on SDA, my favourite channel is Turner Classic Movies. I also watch AMC once in a while and, lately, it’s because of Better Call Saul (a Breaking Bad prequel), but that’s coming to an end in a few weeks.
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot of movies on YouTube, some of which I’ve mentioned here. I also listen to podcasts, so I have a number of options for entertainment.
If it wasn’t for TCM nowadays, I might not even have cable TV, though I’d have to look for another Internet service.
When Harper became PM I stated often that his first priority should be to dismantle the CRTC!
Guess it wasn’t a priority for his so called “conservative” caucus.
I have one question for “conservatives” all across Kannada and the United States. If you think you have it all figured out why are you not governing our country.
You dismiss all small government folks….and then loose.
It could be, as is sometimes said, they see the writing on the wall.
How many of the people who voted for the CBC to be able to unchain itself, and compete with other government funded media, previously worked for the cbc, or have received appearance fees from the CBC?
Wanna watch the progressive left bleed from the eyes in outrage, suggest CBC’s budget get transferred to the Native Station APTN. Oh the poor liberals and dippers won’t know which way to turn.
Looks like the deep state wants to hand commerce over to organized crime. Regulations and laws make crime, eh what?. We will know the deep state is serious when they empty the prisons.
Make cbc a true subscription operation.
You want it? Pay for it like XM radio or McLean’s magazine.
The CBC is an example of an unaccountable weaponized deep state propaganda organ. It should have been abandoned with the advent of cable and satellite. It knows it is safe as long as its LPC/NDP paymasters rule and they act accordingly.