Is it because every modern media person seems to have gotten their start at CBC that they defend it so? It does all of their jobs, radio, TV or web, and does them for ‘free’. That effectively sets the price for all other content providers to squat.
Cause, folks, the CBC is eating you and there ain’t a whole lot left on the carcass, if you know what I mean.
Fromer was a key figure on The Morning Show since its inception in 2011 and her role, along with a number of others across the Global News network, has been impacted as a result of the changing and highly competitive media landscape in Canada.
Isn’t it about time the CBC had to compete for viewers and advertising like the private networks?
CBC ratings speak for themselves … so do the lawsuits and grievances for psychological abuse, harassment and wrongful dismissal. Any interest in the CBC has nothing to do with their content but rather the spectacle of their own ineptitude.
The CBC should be de-funded, the employees issued their walking papers and all of the hard assets sold off and applied against the national debt. The annual subsidy should be applied to the national debt as well.
Need an editor – one link is unrelated.
The bigger observation is that Fredericton has an “international Airport”?
To where?
Bangor?
The Liberal Party of Canada, not the people of Canada, should be paying for the government’s propaganda department.
The CBC/Radio Canada was originally established as a means to bring news of Canada and the world to the outermost reaches of the country when only weeks old newspapers and letters from home could bring the news of the day. It was taxpayer funded as no private enterprises had the funds or desire to undertake such a project. Again, it was to bring the NEWS to remote parts of Canada. Mandate fulfilled!!!
When I took telecommunications in college, we were encouraged to look at the CBC as they always had the latest and greatest equipment. But it was only goofernment money, right?!?!?
The beast has morphed into a public policy machine, telling Canadians what and how they should think. See Kate’s intro. Either the goofernment subsidizes all broadcasters(Lord forbid), remove all forms of advertising from the beast or defund the Mother Corp and let it sink or swim on its own merit like any of the other broadcasters.
I think a petition should be started to take the word Canadian out of the name and either replace it with:
L = Liberal LBC
I = Islamic IBC
Lets call it what it is!
The Communist Broadcasting Corp would only go away if the country became totally bankrupt and even at that, they would try to keep it going for as long as they could. After all, The CBC represents and protects anything that has to do with collectivism and the promotion of ever larger and intrusive Governments.
Radio-Canada, the Queerbec version has excellent ratings compared to CBC. It is loved and cherished there so trying to dismantle the CBC without touching RC is next to impossible.
In essence what protects the CBC the most is geopolitics. Imagine Harper had tried to kill the CBC…Even CTV and Global would have sided with their main Government broadcasting competitor.
Canada is a mediocre Country because it is too diversified, with 2 official languages that are regionally separated from each other instead of being uniformly mixed across the land and too much of it’s small population is concentrated in mind rotting big city cores.
If a referendum was held, citiots (Especially the 2 biggest Toronto and Montreal) would vote to keep their “voice”.
“We need to keep our Canadian heritage…England still has it’s BBC and Australia it’s ABC afterall…” woiuld be the slogan.
Like I said, a mediocre Country.
Countries have public broadcasting as a means of propaganda.
I haven’t had a tv set in over 25 years but I do listen to radio. When you cruise the dial listening to foreign radio you inevitably find public radio spewing the party line.
The cbc is both a public broadcaster and a competitor to the private sector. They shouldn’t do both.
They are not going away any time soon.
As an alternative to terrestrial radio – if your tired of listening to Gormless in SK or what passes for talk radio in AB – or elsewhere for that matter listen to National Post radio on xm. A nice change.
In Edmonton we had a local TV station called ITV. It was a cheeky fun station to watch and their news casts reflected local sentiments and interests. One day ITV became Global and on that day their news became hard Liberal. I checked several times after that but my ITV was gone and Liberal TV was here to stay. I haven’t watched them since. On the other hand CBC has always been Socialist/Liberal which is why back in the day I used to watch ITV. Now they could both fall off the ends of the earth and I would not even know about it unless someone told me about it on the web.
I should have pointed out that the channel on xm that carries National Post radio also has Adler. They feature the old Sun TV bunch. Channel 167
To defund and privatize the CBC … You might as well ask to defund and privatize the Liberal party of Canada.
Ham, if I may, CBC was not the government’s propaganda department when the Conservatives were in power, but the CBC is the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party of Canada 24/7, so your suggestion that the Liberals cover the cost is still right.
abtrapper, thanks for the XM Channel 167 tip.
One final note.
For a group that seems to want the cbc gone there sure seems to be a lot of cbc ‘experts’ here.
You guys watchin’ and listen’? Just askin’
It doesnt matter. TV news is going the way of newspapers. Irrelevant babble at best. Outright lies most of the time. TV news has a dwindling effect on taxpayer and voter sentiment. Witness trump and Brexit. Both in defiance of mainstream media.
What a joke. The CPC had a majority government to do away with their arch enemy and what did they do? Increased their funding. What did the CBC do? Slew footed them at every opportunity.
Not interested in talking about this anymore. It has not changed and will not change. The bleating is as much a fabric of this conversation as anything else.
I completely agree with your summation regarding the absolute error by the Conservatives.
Somehow I am reminded of the parable of the scorpion and the from.
“That’s my nature”
Anyone who kowtows and tries to ingratiate themselves with leftist liberals and their ilk, will get what they deserve.
Whoops!
The scorpion and the frog.
“Slew footed them at every opportunity.” That is the plan.
One reason for Trump’s rise is the fact that he regularly calls out the media for their bias.
The millions who feel abused by the propaganda press are ecstatic with the push back.
However, here in Canada, our “Conservative” leaders are quick to run and hide whenever the media attacks them.
Look at Brian Jean here in Alberta. The day he was elected party leader he ended up tossing some poor fool out of the party because the dude, rightly, suggested that brown people be in front for the picture. Why did he say what he did? To avoid the media charge of racism. Attempting to avoid the false charge simply brought it on. Media 1 – Brian 0.
Lately another member retweeted something not nice about the corrupt premier of Ontario. Once again Brian threw him under the bus. Media 2 – Brain 0.
Both times Brian could have stood up and defended his people and attacked the media bigots. He didn’t, thereby proving he is not a leader. The media OWNS him now and knows he can be cowed by the simple waving of a bigot card. The media will simply bide their time now that Brian is under control, and bring out their racist/misogynist/homophobe/islamophobe charges if and when needed.
We need Conservative leaders who not only understand that the majority of the media is the enemy (a literal existential threat to liberty and freedom) but are willing to openly challenge them, point out their bigotry and ignorance, and show them to be the vile, progressive, liars they truly are.
Until then we will get more Notleys, Wynnes, Coderres, and Trudeaus.
The CBC is where one goes to maintain their sophomoric leftist narratives despite the realities outside their doors. It is a repository for snarky progressive media-weasels. A grown-up nation would allow it to die but it justly deserves a more kinetic demise.
All the CBC-dark-light-shining aside, I am kinda glad that Global saw what I saw in Liza Fromer. She just seemed pretty vacant and a few steps behind the world each and every morning on the show.
Jeff McArthur and Carolyn MacKenzie [Fromer’s (former) co-hosts] are at least able to up the intelligence ante regularly, and don’t need the joke explained to them ad nauseum like Fromer does live on air.
The Global Morning Show is definitely saccharine-sweet and shallow in content, and I don’t know why I watch it when I eat my cereal and drink my coffee. It does seem marginally better than the now-defunct septuagenarian-pleasing Canada AM, the unwatchable Brownian motion of CITY-TV Breakfast Television, and the Phantom of the Paradise Marcia McMillan on CTV NewsNet. I don’t think I’ve ever tuned into CBC News Network on my TV. Ever. I know that Heather Hiscox is there, and I know if I watched, I’d just want to offer her toothpicks to keep her eyes open, lest the 3/4kg of mascara permanently seal them shut.
Just when I had this all buried away in a deep dark corner, you have to bring this up lance?!!! My disappointment, anger and resentment at Harper and/or the Harper government not doing anything on the CBC file.
No disbandment, No dismantling, No dividing and segregating, No privatising, No nothing!!! Nothing to address the balance of broadcast product. I’m so sickened that this thing wasn’t completely dismantled into many pieces and privatized while the opportunity was there. That, or sell the whole thing to Conrad Black and friends, even at a loss, just get rid of it.
Markon: Best Comment of the day…I could not agree with you more.
The Enemedia has supported Marxists all along (ACADEMIA “Feminists” “Climate Activists” etc. ad nausea). THEY have been visibly Anti-Capitalist & Anti-Christian to a fault in an attempt to engineer a society that naturally thinks LEFT. In doing so they have trampled Freedom of Speech and will not accept any opposing view whatsoever…in that, they have pretty much succeeded in my mind.
Let us hope this virulent disease does not invade Saskatchewan…
steakman says, “Let us hope this virulent disease does not invade Saskatchewan…”
I would add, “again!”
Let us hope this virulent disease does not invade Saskatchewan…again!
Where do you find ratings for TV programs?
I searched far and wide and could not find any ratings for any network or programs,just broad statements by Reporters that “ratings are up or down at XXX network”.
Remember a few years back when CBC was close to being forced to reveal their ad revenues, but were saved by either the government of the day or the CRTC?
I said then and I’ll repeat it now, I believe the CBC is running a scam in league with whatever government is in power, regarding advertising revenues.
When you watch a CBC program, often most of the ads are from government funded agencies,the military, and every other taxpayer funded agency in Canada. I believe a great portion of CBC’s so-called advertising revenue is actually just another government department shovelling money their way,IOW, money being taken from the right hand and given to the left hand, in a massive circular boondoggle.
But the revenues of CBC are the most closely guarded secret in Canada, undoubtedly for a good reason.
I gave up on CBC except for 3 things: the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts, and the podcasts for “Quirks and Quarks” and, occasionally, “Ideas”.
The rest I can do without. The last time I watched CBC on TV was while I was waiting for my plane at an airport.
One of the arguments to have an “ad-free” CBC is that the cost to administer and generate the CBC’s ad revenues exceeds the value of the revenues generated … but Harper was the crazy one.
Global has replaced Fromer with the latest style in news/talk – a very gay little Asian fellow. Seriously, this seems quite the fashion. Personally, I miss Liza.
Look, face it, 63 percent of voters in the last election voted Liberal, NDP, or Green…so the CBC is here to stay. And there’s probably a fair number of pinky PCs out there who think it’s just fine, too.
there will not be a discontinuation of cbc services – that is not possible in a short arc of time. it is nonetheless reasonable to insist that, over a period of ten years (an arbitrary number,) the institution adapt and become a more competitive presence; the mechanism simple – taxpayer subsidy reduced by an amount equal to 10% of advertising revenue annually (paid subscriptions to take up the loss of revenue.)
sink or swim – figure it out – 10 years is generous – and lots of time to re-invent the original mandate.
Never heard of her. Or that 16×9 thing they were drooling over or any of the awards they say it won.
Rex Murphy is the only thing worthwhile on CBC.
A night of the long knives at the CBC would have people cheering in the streets. Make ’em pay. Slash every CBC drone’s salary by 65% for starters.