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"You don't speak for me."
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Be sure to take the poll; so far 57% say it is a waste of money.
I say cut $250 million each year for four years and give the money to Veterns … it would be put to better use.
Corruption? At the CBC? NO!
Considering their viewership, it’s a tempest in a teapot.
How much would you pay to advertise to 300,000 grannies??
I know we can’t de-fund this monster 100% in year one, but we can deflate the beast and ultimately destroy it.
Cut 1-2% of their funding every year, and in 50-100 years they will cease to exist.
The sooner the better!
@ 9:21 MDT…57% waste of our money. How long before it disappears(the poll,not CBC,unfortunately)
Sorry, but I don’t see the indignation here. Should competitve bidders for the NHL broadcast contract be entitled to know how much the Ceeb paid, simply becaust it is a public broadcaster? Would -for instance- QMI be willing to divulge the equivalent information to Global, or CTV, or even the Ceeb. Most FOI statutes have an exemption for “commercially sensitive information” – this qualifies.
dcardno – That would be true if CBC was a commercial enterprise. It is not, it is a taxpayer-funded competitor of private enterprise. We, the taxpayers, are entitled to know where our money is going and what offsets the CBC generates, if any, to reduce that tax burden.
Is the CBC learning transparency from the White House or vice versa?
The CBC won’t divulge how much revenue hockey generates for it because it is embarassed that hockey is the only programming that it actually makes money on. HNIC is the only thing on the entire network that operates in the black and the most profitable ad revenue time is the 7 minutes of Coach’s Corner. They will never admit that to anyone.
I hate the CBC.
I miss Big Bobby Clobber.
dcardno – so a single line saying profit/loss per game (not giving amount of advertising sold for cash, amount given or sold to other CBC programming, or even amount of advertising sold in time) is too much to ask? BS. There’s enough fudge factor in promoting other CBC shows and, I would expect, disparity in advertising rates depending upon time in the show to make it difficult if not impossible to determine advertising rates. Their standard obfuscation is just the standard government agency scurrying for dark places behind the fridge when a light turns on.
What CO2 offsets is the CBC willing to sell since they haven’t had a broadcast since???
Gawd, don’t they have any capitalist accountants/marketing agents counting the munny?
Does anyone know if the CBC pays taxes?
so a single line saying profit/loss per game (not giving amount of advertising sold for cash, amount given or sold to other CBC programming, or even amount of advertising sold in time) is too much to ask?
Yes.
The litmus test is: “would this information be avaialable from a private competitor?” – and it would not. I wholeheartedly agree that we would be better off without the Ceeb, but that is a different issue.
Some here might be interested in the BBC “28 gate” scandal.
The BBC spent hundreds of thousands of pounds to hide information from a pensioner.
At a FOI tribunal the pensioner represented himself and had his wife along for support. The BBC had SIX lawyers and sent top brass to lie under oath.
It turns out that a blogger from Italy was so pissed off by this BBC piling on that he got to work and found the incriminating information on the Internet.
Great entertaining story. Google “omnologos” and look around!
Stephen Harper,who has lately infuriated the pro-business opposition,Mulcair and Trudeau,with his cautious re-evaluation of the Nexxen takeover,should placate the Opps by selling the CBC to China!
I mean,if we’re gonna be protectionist like a bunch a’ damned Conservatives,okay, but if not ,sell ’em the Ceeb!If it’s good for them to own our oil,it’s better they should own our finest broadcasting network,right?
I can’t wait to see the replacement workers.
Johnny – We can dump the CBC, and it can be done immediately! We don’t have to do it over the course of 40 or 50 years, rather we can just ‘set it free’. If it sells advertising it survives. If not, tough! Hockey, probably the only meaningful product they have will surface elsewhere immediately. The rest of their propaganda? – who cares!!!