The Dippers’ mindset in a nutshell:
Heritage Minister Shelly Glover said Monday the government has no intention of regulating or taxing the Internet content providers, a proposal the New Democratic Party described as “indecent.”
The Dippers’ mindset in a nutshell:
Heritage Minister Shelly Glover said Monday the government has no intention of regulating or taxing the Internet content providers, a proposal the New Democratic Party described as “indecent.”
“Lacroix insisted new sources of funding are vital for CBC/Radio-Canada to ensure its survival or else the quality of its programming will decline.”
Here’s and up to the minute news bulletin for Hubie “When the quality of you’re programming has hit rock bottom it can’t decline any further.”
Funny how the so-called intelligentsia can’t seem to make that connection.
“Is it going to be two cents, is it going to be a buck? I don’t know.”
“A buck” is ridiculous, 2 cents is still TOO much!
I will NOT pay a bloody cent for CBC! Let the damned dinosaur go down the toilet unless it can support itself through advertising.
Let ‘er sink,folks,let ‘er sink.
The CBC bosses think they can read our minds. If they could they would be shocked!
Hard to feel sorry for the cbc. They had it their way for decades, got fat, lazy, producing programs for themselves. They ignored the internet and the changing marketplace – didn’t understand it. ‘Something’s not working’ they now say. Actually everything is working just fine, just not for you guys, and it wont be working well unless you get up to speed in a very short time.
The cbc might convince the CRTC that they need a new funding model but the CRTC is already being pressured to change the way cable tv is being offered. Consumers want to pick individual channels, not some packaged plan that includes a bunch of crap nobody wants. I’m betting that if the cbc went to a subscription service (tv as well as radio) they might be shocked at what the Canadian market tells them.
I can’t see any federal government being sympathetic to the cbc. There is no upside to it. Even the leftys are quiet on this. The amount of cbc influence in the country couldn’t influence the outcome of one riding in a federal election no matter how loud they whine.
I find it odd that people are trying to “tax” internet services for their content, considering those providers already pay a fee or royalty to provide the programs on their services in the first place.
Know what? CBC, in its present subsidized form, is going to be with us forever.
Know why? Because Harper’s Conservatives didn’t have the guts and smarts to kill it in the first year of their majority.
But take heart (as in schadenfreude). At least we’ll have the bitter pleasure of watching our most despised and blatant parasite bringing down the very lifeguards who wouldn’t save us from its clutches.
There surely is a god.
“Consumers want to pick individual channels, not some packaged plan that includes a bunch of crap nobody wants.”
Yes, exactly abtrapper, this is what people want and it is the future. Whoever offers exactly and only what people want, be it college courses or individual song tracks or even specific places on a vacation tour, they are going to rule the market by tailoring their offering to exactly what people want to buy.
Enough with this “you’ll buy what we decide for you and you’ll like it” package, all larded up with Leftist PC propaganda thinly disguised as entertainment and forcing us to pay for our own indoctrination along with the few items we do want.
We’re in the 2nd decade of the 21st century, it’s time to live it.
Killing the CBC isn’t as easy as all that, because there are more Canadians who are mostly indifferent to the CBC but who kinda like it at times – I’ve met a few people who praise CBC radio just for Randy Bachman’s show, for example – than there are people like us who absolutely despise the CBC for its bias and for sucking the public teat.
The CBC is being squeezed harder than it ever has, and as nominal CBC supporters start to burn out on the issue there’s increasingly less noise about this..condition.
Slow and steady – playing the long game – is the smarter approach.
EBD is right. Killing the CBC is a long game. The first and most important real blow was struck with the loss of HNIC. A huge chunk of CBC’s advertising revenue went this that loss. It will be followed by an inevitable loss of viewers when HNIC migrates to other channels after the current agreement with Rogers lapses. That’s when the rest of CBC’s advertising rates will start to decline as well. We’ve already seen CBC’s loss of revenue and shedding staff this year, and this is only the beginning. Less revenue means an increasing resort to lower cost, cheaper programming, and so the circling the drain continues and gets worse.
It’s done like dinner, boys, but dinosaurs take a long time to die. And with this we’ve seen the countermove. CBC sees that its only hope is a variation of Britain’s infamous television tax that props up the BBC. Ain’t gonna happen on Harper’s watch, so they will need Shiny Pony to get elected desperately. This is Grumpy Tom’s effort to get some of that Friends of CBC vote. It’s going to be an interesting bun-fight between the two parties on the left to outbid each other as to who can prop up the CBC the “best”.
Whats a cbc? Sound like a virus that needs to be eradicated. I cut cable over a year ago and haven’t looked back. The internet gives you all the entertainment you need with adblocker there is no commercials or propaganda to pollute your mind.
We should not be too confident that we will be able to get real choice in television any time soon. So far, most of the proposals I’ve seen so far would still leave us having to pay for and prop up channels like Vision TV and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. I can accept requiring the inclusion of CPAC (even if I have to set a filter so as not accidentally to come across Catherine Clark’s program)as part of the right of Canadians to see the parliamentary gong show we pay for, but they will smuggle in compulsory-carry for those other marginal channels. I expect also that we won’t be able to de-list CBC and CTV and Global, and, if so, we should at least demand that SunNN also be part of the basic package.
And EBD, what kind of people do you know who can abide the dim-witted and self-centred Randy Bachman? Ugh! Better seek out the podcasts that Danny Finkleman was posting. Does Bachman introduce every sone with some tiresome story about when he played with/partied with/was stuck in an airport with the musicians he will eventually get around to playing?
Four years of no TV and going strong. Cut the cord, my friends. You won’t be missing anything good. Just a whole lot of bad.
CBC’s viewership/listenership is worse than CNN’s, eventually it will die by its own hand. Being the leading organ of Leftist propaganda dissemination is not a growth business model.
Ask TorStar how its working out for them in the print world.
We cut our TV in the spring of 2000, over 14 years ago.
We’ve saved about $4300 @ the $25/month we were paying back then.
like said upthread, I like cbc radio and of course you must be willing to putup with the nutty stuff,..there aint a course to teach that..
The issue is whether or not we should be forced to pay for it, not listen to it.
Even if you like it now, the programming can change tomorrow, and you may not want to listen to it anymore, but you’ll still be forced to pay for it.