45 Replies to “Things You’ll Never See On The CBC”

  1. The best quote is that they’re not worried. They’ve been bleeding viewership for years and the “Friends of CBC” are beginning to die off in droves. Not worried, right, they haven’t got a clue about how to attract viewers cause they’ve been pumping out garbage for years and they aren’t even aware of it. If the government didn’t back them, the bunch of them couldn’t operate a Mac Donald’s franchise on their own. Not Worried, tell me another one. I’m willing to bet that there will be more than a few CBC employees that are looking for any job that comes down the pike and will jump at it because the last ones to leave the CBC will be left holding the bag. The next government will not be financing a sinking ship, the Cons know it, the NDP know it and the Liberals are becoming aware that Canadians are not swallowing the same old bullsh#t that the CBC has been pumping out for years.

  2. Sobering thought for the day: The cost to taxpayers of roughly $1.5 billion works out to upwards of $3,000 for each of the 460,000 viewers. I’m probably included, because I was channel surfing and watched the CBC National news at 10:00 pm for a little more than two minutes a few months ago, I think.

    1. Okay, gimme $3000 smackers and I will watch CBC twice a week for the next six months! If every Canadian network would do the same,a guy could do fairly well.

  3. I have been a news junkie since I was ten. I have’t watched TV news in a decade.

  5. I am surprised there are that many people watching it. There must be a lot of places that can only get the CBC.

      1. Well, remember, there are diehards in our provincial capitals that yearn for confirmation bias in their progressive ways, and the Corpse supplies it.
        The Corpse will blame the loss of Mansbridge , but these ratings are really something, considering the Trump rage in the media, and the Ceeb is part of that. Ratings drop. It speaks clearly to the relevance of this media dinosaur. What a waste of tax dollars.

  6. I used to watch a fair amount of the American public news (PBS) – 6:00 PM. Been a good 3 years since I last watched. The final straw was them calling Obamacare “The Health Care Law” – not even “The Affordable Care Act” mind you which is its actual title. Which told you right there they knew the law was totally “unaffordable”.

    1. A long time ago, PBS was the only channel that I’d watch. I was a contributor for many years, but I slowly reduced my contributions. My membership came due at the end of last month but I didn’t bother renewing.

      What finally persuaded me was that dreadful Ken Burns documentary series about the war in Viet Nam that was shown last year.

      By comparison, Turner Classic Movies showed a number of old Randolph Scott westerns last night. They were delightful entertainment.

  7. This decline is not unique to the national. Traditional TV is losing out to other media.

    More interesting to me would be demographic data. Does anyone under forty watch it?

  8. Why bother watching narrative when the Web (cross examined from multiple sources) can help you discern the facts more reliably and faster?

    1. I stopped watching news on CBC when I realized how much time I was wasting having to fact check their stories.

  9. I have not watched CBC for over 12 years except for HNIC when there is no SN option. OK the odd Dragon’s Den but rarely.

    Harper knew what the CBC was when he had majority but did nothing. I talked to the House Whip of that era (name escapes me) and he had the balls to suggest that just because we did not like the CBC that it was very important to eastern Canada. Quite frankly my estimate of the CPC took a big hit that evening.

    The CBC is the taxpayer cost of promoting ‘progressivism’ in Canada. It is the propoganda arm of the Libel Party of Canada. It absolutely fails to address the many serious issues that threaten the survival of Canada.

    1. I had the same conversation with my CPC MP. He claimed that voters in Eastern Canada considered CBC “sacred”,thus Harper chickened out. I know the artsy-fartsy crowd everywhere in Canada loves the CBC,it’s us peasants who have no use for the Toronto-centric boondoggle

  10. Also, if you’re not indigenous, “trans” or “diverse”, why exactly would you watch CBC anyway?

    They’ve painted themselves into a demographic corner with their “niche” programming at a time when people have so many other choices.

  11. Dear 400,000 old white guys & gals still watching CBC,
    Here’s a news flash for you. You may be watching CBC news but let’s face it, your eyes glued to the set is the only participation we require from your kind. Never forget this is the ‘new Canada’ where the white male European look resides with the Dodo.
    We trust you will continue to watch and enjoy our excellent programs.
    Ms CBC head honcho

  14. Still too many white faces on the national. Isn’t there some Muslims to put up front.

  15. CBC is up Shitts Creek (SC).

    I saw them advertising something called SC while I watched a hockey game with a bud. What is SC? A 50’s sit com complete with all modern issues? Who’s the homo Eugene Levy? Now that might be funny.

    CBC ‘komedy’ has produced programming that is made for the cbc insider. If your not one of them you wont get it cuz it’s not funny it’s ‘cbc funny’.

    Now that slaphead mansbridge is no longer there do they still call themselves ‘Canada’s most trusted news’ or lead off with ‘Canada’s most watched newscast’?

    There maybe a lot of viewers in fish world but there are a lot in Saskatchewan as well.

    1. That show (refuse to say the name) is so typical ceeb. Haha, double entendre, So Fun NEE, its child humour.

      If the National’s ratings are so bad, they must be unmentionable for that Crap (lol, word play!).

      Ratings don’t matter to the ceeb, its all a make work project for D-grade actors and producers for Cancon, while supporting Canadian……………………CULTURE!

    1. Yes, what are their ratings relative to other private networks? No context data is GIGO.

      1. Tried to check. Is this a state secret? There are 28 million potential viewers in Canada watching 130million hours.

        Based on that, yes unscientific, CBC has .18% of potential viewers watch their programs, so about a 1/4million hours.

        So taxpayers are subsiding at the rate of $2000 per hour of viewing. In this day and age why should it be anything?

        Not one show in top 20 except for Hockey Night in Canada, which isn’t theirs anymore. IOW zip in the real viewing world.

        Canadian shows are nowhere across networks, 1.4m winners in a sea of 7m. Murdoch Mysteries tops CBC’s sad list.

        But CBC makes us pay the whole shot for their Kim economy network.

        It’s easy to say it now, but Harper should have killed the CBC dead.

        http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/20162017-canadian-television-report-card-ctv-is-canadas-most-watched-network-for-the-16th-year-in-a-row/

  18. Let`s all raise a glass for the supercilious twit Rick Mercer who aired the final episode of The Mercer Report this week. There goes another chunk of the CBC audience.

  19. I’m almost wanting to buy a Tv so I could watch The National, any couple of evenings would do, just to see what sort of balance they’re bringing to news shows these days. I know it’d be cheaper to just go to a friends house and watch it, but I don’t have any that will admit to watching this. Even my parents in Regina (the city that rhymes with “fun”) … and life long CBC watchers, won’t admit to watching only it, insisting to me that they watch other news broadcasts “too” … as in, “as well as the CBC”. I don’t know what sort of black magic the CBC uses but I think they’ve somehow managed to instill in my mom, the willingness to lie to her son regarding this, and that’s something I never thought I’d be witness to. Nor forgive the CBC for.

    1. If you are into torturing yourself, their newscasts are available on the Corpse site, and probably Youtube. See how proud they are of a single article they made and posted on Youtube? Blind squirrel syndrome.
      The CBC is so irrelevant to most Canadians, its a travesty. Harper should have destroyed CBC TV, and leave the radio alone (who listens anyways, but its far cheaper to run). Sure, leave the Kebecers to their own devices, whatever. In English Canada, the ceeb is a joke. And CTV news is no better with that old harridan LaFlame emoting her leftwing views and LOVE of Trudeau. Both are unwatchable

      1. You said the right word: unwatchable. Laflamme with her bizarre interjections and even more bizarre appearance and the CBC foursome with their giggling and backslapping. There is very little news and a lot of self promotion here.

  20. I cannot believe that there are 460,000 people in this country who are stupid enough to watch the CBC. Do they really believe they will get real news from the CBC??

  21. When the executive says she is not worried, what she really means is she doesn’t give a damn. CBC is broadcasting to an elite of like minded “progressives” and as long as a lucrative subsidy is included ratings don’t really enter into it, If the producers and on air announcers can ensure that a Liberal/NDP government remains in power their subsidy will be guaranteed. They will do everything in their power to ensure that a conservative party remains on the outside. Just examine the statement of the new head honcho Tait, her remarks could well have been penned by the PMO, maybe Butts wrote them himself.
    And as the new reporting deteriorates, CBC becomes simply a mirror of the anti-Trump agenda of US TV, a subsidiary of CNN.
    Their supposed mandate involves telling Canadians their stories, but wall to wall coverage of local US news reporting makes that absurd. US government/politics is extremely complicated, CBC reporters themselves do not fully understand what they are regurgitating from their liberal sources, pity the audience trying to make some sense of what they are viewing.

  23. The CBC had no reasonably defensible purpose after the advent of cable and satellite. Now the uber-leftist state broadcaster is pure anachronism. I have been against its existence for at least 40 years but it is some consolation to know that 50 times more people listen to Rush Limbaugh (and therefore Mark Steyn) than watch the CBC.

  25. If you all want some fun at CBC’s expense. Try this.
    Sign up for “IN CANADA” website. They are the CBC’s polling agent.
    I’ve spent many an amusing hour answering their questionnaires.

  26. They don’t really want a western Canadian audience. They aren’t even airing the Jets playoff games.

  27. I’m sure CBC is somewhere on my TV; couldn’t tell you where. Maybe the viewership is the result of all those screens in every airport in the country. Captive audience.

    1. Air ports and business places receive funding for leaving the tv on tuned to certain channels.
      I asked a local business why his tv was tuned to cnn and that’s what he told me. It’s not a lot.

  28. I used to be a fairly regular viewer of the National until I saw their coverage of the U.S. election coverage when trump was elected. The only member on the panel that wasn’t openly weeping was Mansbridge. He was professional enough to do his crying during the commercials.
    I revisited several times after the election to see if they had moved on. Every broadcast was spent ridiculing Donald Trump. Actual Canadian news was given brief mention if at all.
    If i want to listen to deranged lefties rail against Trump I will watch CNN or MSNBC.
    CBC are dead to me.

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