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

  1. Close to the same chance as catching Covid-19. There maybe a correlation between those two diseases…

  2. .8%? Is that equivalent to the number of civil servants that work in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal ?

  3. For each and every person watching that crappy network, it costs taxpayers $4200 per year. Let that sink in.

      1. Jd did that for me. He got $5000 per viewer, but used $1.5b subsidy, rather than the $1.2 b cited in the article. Either way, way too much.

    1. Blame the Conservative Party.

      Nine years of Conservative Government got you bupkis.
      The Conservative Party does an amazing Washington Generals impression and Conservatives love to play Charlie Brown to the Party’s Lucy as the ball is always pulled away.
      Kind of like waiting for Obamagate indictments.

      More myth than mystery. Now that describes Canada!
      They did and will do nothing about the CBC, even if they ever regain power.
      Which tells you everything you need to know about the Stupid Party.
      Allowing the Liberal Party Mouthpiece to continue abusing Conservatives and more important, the democratic process, is and was imbecilic.
      It’s not like the CBC is the only Canadian Media Mouthpiece for the Liberal party.

      You would think that wholly supporting one party in a two party system is pretty shortsighted, but does the CBC seem worried?
      Once again, the Conservative Party and its adherents show a great appreciation for stupid and for self delusion.

    2. 37.5 Million CDNs
      0.8% is 300,000 viewers
      Subsidy is ~1.5 billion
      or $5000 per viewer
      or $40 per canadian
      or $54 per tax Filer (CRA says 27.5 million filed a return)
      or $81.52 per tax Payer (CRA says 18.4 million paid taxes)

      of course, even if you eliminated the subsidy, that tax money would go to some other purpose.

      it also doesn’t include the $124.4 million that they receive in Subscriber fees, $116m in financing and other income, and $248m in advertising revenue (numbers are for 2018-2019, because that’s what I could find quickly).
      https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/impact-and-accountability/finances/annual-reports/ar-2018-2019/financial-sustainability/revenue-and-other-funds

      it’s a jobs program for things that most people don’t care about, and like most government subsidy programs, it has concentrated benefits and diffuse costs.

      1. Good work, JD. And helpful analysis. But I suspect the numbers are still heavily overstated. So lets start with your derived value of 300,000. I know for a fact that any given day if you walk into the Parliamentary office of any MP or Senator. you will find at least one television permanently on CBC Newsworld. So, given assorted offices, we can throw out at least 1,000 supposed viewers right there. The same kind of consideration will apply to various government ministries with a Minister in residence. Again about 500 or so.

        Second, this is all dependent on Neilsen sampling methodology. We have no way of knowing the degree to which their methods may be overstating the absolute number of viewers. For all we know, the CBC’s vaunted 0.8% viewership may be entirely fictitious.

        1. Unfortunately, Nielsen’s doesn’t release the data on their sample size in a location that i can find, but it’s probably safe to say that they don’t count commercial and/or political locations as they use individual devices so they can get their demographic information.

          also remember that it should be considered a projection, as they don’t sample every household.

          assuming there are approximately 12.4 million households in canada, if their sample size is 1% (so 124,000 households), 3,000 households would have to view the cbc at some point in a given ratings period in order to be counted for their 300,000 viewers. However, if their sample skews towards “friends of Canadian Broadcasting” (364k supporters, allegedly), then the sample size would indicate more viewers than expected.

          Of course, if FOCB has that many members, it reflects badly on the CBC that their viewer numbers are lower than that.

      2. The subsidy figure does not include how much of their advertising revenue is from government departments grossly overpaying CPM as a form of money laundered subsidy. CBC (and many other media) subsidies are hidden in the budget of valid government functions, and the prom minstrel gets to brag about how much he has invested in something useful but nothing ever gets accomplished.

        1. If someone were so inclined, they could file an ATIP request to get that information, pick a department, and go to town on it, that information shouldn’t be secret, and it’s only $5 to file the request, though they may take 11 years to get back to you, like they are for the supporting information on the OIC banning guns.

      3. How much of the other non-advertising income came from Schitts Creek licensing?
        My guess is that’s the one truly profitable show. Like a gas station scratcher, without that score, the balance would shift a more bit into the red.

        BTW how long before the second wave of Trudeauvid (so much worse than the first wave back in the 70s… and I’m from Alberta), expands their budget to buy no non-viewer votes.

        If I’m right and they get ‘relief money’ it’ll be good news for Rosemary, she’ll be moving into a whole new Chardonay aisle soon.

  4. Absolutely brutal. I haven’t watched CBC TV in decades other than HNIC. When HNIC moved over to Sportsnet it removed any reason for me to tune in. I don’t even listen to CBC radio either as the on going litany of progressive thought being spewed out is utterly tiresome.

    What passes as journalism in Canada is a sad commentary on the co-opting of an essential service in a free society. The ruling party of Canada has paid off the main street money thru a $600 million dollar slush fund. Play the game or no money. It is working very well for the Liebels. My news comes from Rebel News or SDA or business articles.

    1. Same here CT. I have never deliberately watched CBC since I arrived in Canada 38 years ago, I quit the news on all the other a long time back as well. I’ve subscribed to the Rebel since day one, and check out a variety of news sources, Breitbart, Daily caller, Blaze etc, and SDA of course. Mostly I watch Fox news, but even they are slowly drifting leftward. Also, yeah I was pissed they employed Brazille, but that’s their call. Not sure where else to go if I need to quit Fox. I do note the suggestions of SDA posters for other feeds such as whatfinger, Newsmax etc. The reality is there are not many places for righties to go for news that is fit for consumption.

  5. I refuse to watch CBC. I report it as spam everytime it shows up on my devices. Why the heck am forced to pay for it.

    1. You are forced to pay for CBC because it is liebral propaganda. I first noticed during peeair the previous second election campaign. So I stopped watching CBC tv. It has been many years since I watched tv of any kind, but I listen to enough CBC radio to be sure that I know what my enemy wants me to think. I was terribly disappointed when Stephen didn’t sell off CBC tv.
      Constantly Bullshiting Canadians.

    2. @Chris down

      Because Canada. And Canadian “culture”.

      That’s what all those English-accent BBC-type TV shows are: cancultura

      mhb23re

  6. Do that many work? It seems a very high proportion of those employed in the civil service.

  7. I haven’t turned on a TV to any channel in a decade. I’m not the only one. Like Video Killed the Radio Star, the internet killed TV.

    1. Meh…CBee who.??
      Streaming has been far far better than I had hoped when I cut the Cord 3 yrs ago….ZERO REGRETS. Paying at the time some 130/month for what..?? Identical copies of GARBAGE for the most part.

  8. We are forced to pay for CBC because the Socialist Bureaucratic Dictatorship takes the position that an economy is static. That economies do not grow and that the economic resources are finite. Thus, it sets up “make work” projects as a means to artificially create employment. Just like Dear Leader is doing with hiring 50,000 more civil servants.
    In reality, using tax dollars to create artificial employment shrinks the economy. We’re stuck with CBC until we become Venezuela North.

    1. Bang-on. But the typical ignorant-but-smug leftist Canuck still believes you can grow the economy by adding government jobs. Or through government “stimulus” spending. Or that government employee “taxes” add to the tax base.

      As for the Commie Bunch of Clowns, I like the quote I read here years ago:

      “They can force me to pay for it. They can’t force me to watch it”

      mhb23re

      1. “…But the typical ignorant-but-smug leftist Canuck still believes you can grow the economy by adding government jobs.”

        And that includes the financial wizards penning columns in the business sections who are too stupid (or too dishonest) to make the distinction between the value to the economy of a job in the private sector versus one that is paid for by taxpayers.

    2. Except Venezuela is suffering due to over 6 years of US economic sanctions for oil, what is Canada’s excuse?

        1. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about, nor do you understand the global impact of oil politics. Go back to your narrow minded, imbilcile armchair politics.

      1. Sure; because no one else in the world buys oil. I’ve spoken to Venezuelan ex-pats. One’s father had his relatively small oil company expropriated by the government for about five cents on the dollar. The state bureaucrats ran it into the ground and rendered it worthless in less than three years. Another’s parents had their small store bankrupted because the government fixed the prices they were allowed to sell for but did nothing about the costs they needed to pay to stock the shelves in the first place. Those are just examples. But hey, “Kool-aid, Kool-aid tastes great”, right?

        1. Your “relatively small oil company” was raping the oil exports just like any other multinational oil company. Pay you fair rates or f off.

          This applies to any country in the world who gets taken advantage of, save the North Sea, who realize they must benefit from a finite resourse.

      2. Hi Venezuelafacts, my name is Michael.

        Say, you have a really stupid name, has anyone ever told you that?

    3. MikeT, “we’re stuck with CBC until we become Venezuela North” Yup, but it won’t be long!

    4. You can’t expect the Liberals to pay for their own propaganda. It might be considered an illegal political contribution.

  9. The essential question is, how many people work at the joint? Another big question is, what it is they do?

  10. Government funding of beaver hat makers or type writer manufacturing is about as relevant in today’s world.
    If the feds stole our money for some nuclear power plants up north or space exploration at least there could be some type of argument/result for 1.2 billion.
    Defund the federal government completely is what we really need to do.

  11. So if no one watches it then why do you constantly care what their opinion is? The way to destroy the CBC is to never mention it again. Ever.

    1. Dream on.

      That’s what the CBC counts on: nobody watches. Nobody says anything. Nobody cares.

      Banking on typical Canadian apathy. Because more importantly, how are the Leafs doing?!

      The waste of that organization needs to be hyped. As more disposable income gets lost to federal waste and you put the funding cost of the CBC into dollars per year per taxpayer, it’s the only way to push for change.

      I thought Harper was a great PM. I still don’t forgive him for not throttling this public sector leftist propaganda vehicle.

      mhb23re

      1. You are not thinking about the strategy here for its elimination mhb.

        If no one watches and no one cares about it, then it will be easier for a non-liberal government to kill it. But it wont just be the CBC. All cable TV is dying. The future is streaming. Global content is now available almost at no cost. Why pay for cable subscription when you get so much on the net?

        If you are still paying for cable TV you need to stop. Wasting your money.

  12. I have no use for them. Last fall when we had an extended power outage due to a not record breaking but very nasty October blizzard I couldn’t access internet to find out what was going on. The telephones (cell and landline) were out too. I used my radio to try to get CBC in hopes they might tell me something. I got a nice story about being without power in River Heights for three hours and the difficulties of cooking dinner by candlelight on the gas stove. Not one word about the literally tens of thousands of people outside the perimeter struggling with a major catastrophe. What is the point of having a national broadcaster that doesn’t broadcast anything but tripe during a disaster?

  13. In the UK, you have to buy a $200 “TV license” every year to subsidize the BBC.
    Maybe there’d be more outrage in Canada if the money wasn’t buried in general government expenditures.

    1. Do they still have RF monitoring vans scouring neighborhoods to find scofflaws with unlicensed TV’s?

      Good luck with that on an owner without an old fashioned aerial who’s watching tv on the internet.

      mhb23re

  14. If I want political news from Ottawa, I sure as hell don’t tune in the CBC or the rest of the socialist bought and paid for media. I go to Blacklock’s Reporter.

  15. The CBC is garbage UN Globalist propaganda, it’s agenda is to protect the globalist puppet party of Canada and sell to the Canadian public the selloff of Canada to the third world.

  16. It’s weird that fewer and fewer people are watching, not only CBC but CTV and Global as well.

    And yet the progressive boiler plate propaganda they spew is still the default cultural norm that most Canadians mindlessly regurgitate.

  17. Another thing about CBC that bothers me is the constant streams of articles about how my ex-wife and I get along so much better now that I’ve become a woman too, the joys of being polyamorous, to be in a three way relationship or all sorts of weird combinations. Those alternate with stories of how oppressed someone is. You have oppressed Chinese Canadian fighting antiChinese bigotry due to the virus. (My comment about how criticizing the communist regime in China is not racism was removed by the mods.) Then there is the multiple stories of the horror of being a successful Black university professor in places like Winnipeg, followed the shame of being white and successful, followed by the stupid little virtue signaling thing my family is doing to save the planet from climate change by giving up plastic straws, followed by how I suffered as an indigenous person adopted by an upper middle class white family. And always there has to be a story about a Muslim women in hijab even though the hijab is itself a sign of radicals and oppression of women. The list of “woe is me” just goes on and on. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a story about an ordinary blue collar or middle class White Canadian family with a mom and dad and kids.

    1. Justin, you mean to tell me that I’m missing all that ‘cuz I neither listen to or watch CBC? And I’ve been ignoring them for what, 20 years? Global and CTV seem to be working hard to catch the CBC in that.

    2. JB, Aha, so you do admit your guilt of binge watching CBC, Careful, the SDA moderator might outright ban you for that sin!

  18. ”Canada’s public broadcaster entered the current fiscal year with a $21 million deficit.“

    That “deficit” seems to be a $billion short

    mhb23re

  19. Surely no one here is suggesting Peter Mansbridge isn’t worth every penny of his $500,000/year indexed pension.
    The cottage in Gatineau ain’t gonna heat itself.

    BTW – if any here have Satellite or cable via Shaw or Bell – although given the myriad of options I can’t imagine why, you’re essentially subsidizing the CBC with your monthly fees.
    Cut the cord. You’ll feel better about yourself.

    1. CBC is a tier 1 network in Canada, meaning, they must be carried on all cable provider services.
      No one with cable Tv service in Canada is free of the CBC.
      I think… this includes the French network as well, even in places like “fill in the blank” Alberta, French speaking population = zero.

      The CRTC decides, who is and who isn’t. Hence the demise of SUN-Tv in Canada, when the Harper Gov’t decided to not include them in tier 1 service (or to overrule the CRTC ruling).

      This is all the government’s fault. They’ve decided who is rewarded, and who is punished.

  20. the cbc needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century – 20% annual cuts until the mandate is funded “bare bones” – fundraisers on top of subscriptions. programming directors will suddenly have a new appreciation of what the word “market” means!

  21. Canada’s CBC is no Different WHATSOEVER from joseph Goebbels’ “Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda”.

    The Same NAZI FIlth emanating from Toronto as was sent from Berlin.

    Example: Find a Scapegoat and pound on them 24/7

    1935: the Jews are unclean – “untermensche”
    2020: White / Euro-Centrics – 100% RACISTs

    And there are many other examples of their (and their ideological Leaders: the PMO), National Socialist bent…..a Certain RFQ comes to mind..??

    Those of you armed with more than a pellet gun had better keep them hidden…

  22. There are NEW Canadian News options on Cable that are Straight News/without the Commentary , but they are now Just Toronto based…. The CBC has been obsolete for > 20 years,,,,, WHAT DO THEY SPEND ALL THAT MONEY ON?, is it funding for UN hidden agenda’s, It certainly is NOT Canada……Who is the EXEC Producer and what is their BIO?..

    The CRTC has the Authority to deny CBC Spectrum… Every Complaint to the CRTC MUST be addressed….The Method is simple for anyone to follow… Just Down Load the Complaint form… Do not make your complaint a personal attack.. make it systematic! They know the Cast of characters.

    Get it done

  23. Anyway, I’m not worried. Pinky O’Toole is gonna squash that nest of parasites first chance he gets.

  24. Nobody watches it but their influence is huge because of all the proganda they saturate the digital world with. Media outlets are lazy and cheap and CBC’s fake news fills all the empty voids.

  25. Years ago I was the volunteer chair of a program and we ran into an obstacle that temporarily stalled our progress. It was unforeseen and ultimately solvable.

    Because it was public rumors began to fly and I got a call from cbc Edmonton. They wanted an interview. I refused.
    Nothing to see here folks.

    Within a week the situation had been resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.

    I have zero time for the parasitic cbc. Vermin.

  26. Heh. You could probably make the CBC evening news if you protested outside their offices with a sign that said “Down with the 1%!” or “Screw the 1%!”

    Because don’t realize that that’s all their audience is, 1%, and that quoted numbers don’t only mean what CBC thinks they mean. They’re not self-aware enough to realize that that is their support base.

  27. 130 to be laid off, that’s probably just the cleaning staff at their headquarters. Don’t know what the entire staff of CBC is but if I, as a taxpayer who has been helping pay for this leftwing social club all my life, might have a say lay everyone off from the top to the bottom. The biggest mistake Harper made was not dumping this thing when he had a majority and I hope to God that O’Toole sticks to his promise of pulling all tax payer money out of it during his first term in off. (assuming he ever gets that chance). It’s been so long since I watched CBC that I don’t even remember what channel it comes on.

  28. The CBC is merely telling their made up stories to nobody watching or listening. It’s even worse outside their news programming.

  29. I’ve got the CBC app on my Iphone. I glance at it a couple of times a day.
    Checked it out this afternoon. News has not been updated since yesterday and I guarantee it won’t be until Tuesday morning.
    And I’m paying for this shit???

  30. I understand they have been selling Canadian Assets… All the CBC Programming Shows, since they began, are owned by Canadian taxpayers… Those are worth big bucks and must be kept in the vault….Wayne & Shuster, Front Page Challenge, ETC

    JMHO

  31. Close to $2billion a year in free money stolen from working people and they’re going broke.

    You’re an idiot if you vote for this bullshit.

  32. I blame Harper for CBC’s tough times.

    He let HNIC go to a competitor.

    He reduced the GST to 5% after the Liberals talked of the need to raise it to 9% to support important Canadian institutions such as the CBC.

    1. CBC has always demanded the best tools and infrastructure at maximum cost to the taxpayer, but only are interested in furthering their narrow liberal agenda never given anything In return.

      In their state of the art facilities they choose to produce content that is amateurish and right out of the liberal party/ UN / Critical race theory playbook.

      Sponsors are uninterested in their tiny SJW and elderly audience and management keeps layering in costs that are entirely born by the taxpayer, who would rather watch Police Academy 5.

      They are a nasty bunch of folks who are not friends of Canada and Canadians.

      Defund the CBC.

    2. Yes Walter, isn’t it glorious? By making them compete in the marketplace Harper forced them to recognize just how unpopular their drivel is. The long game that Harper started is beginning to have effect.

  33. CBC has thousands of storytellers pumping out crap. Other media outlets pickup these stories and quote them or rework them and the message is driven into the public. None of these reporters do their own investigation, they are lazy and stupid but they need something to print and that is what CBC offers.

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