Is it time to kill CBC ?

[CapitalGuy]

News have to be from a unbiased source.

Well that eliminates the CBC, aka the most biased news agency in Canada. Good grief, man! CBC IS left-wing Canada. :frusty:

 

[oldjones]

So we give 1 billion dollars in tax payers money and the CBC says they still need more. WTF !! Time to end this ??

I believe what you really meant was: I never watch CBC-TV, so whether or not other people do, and irrespective of the fact that the corporation serves listeners as well as viewers, and operates in a language I don't care about, it should be cast adrift without a penny from Canada; as a nation we have nothing to say to each other or to the world.

But maybe if they carried the Super Bowl, or more American football …

 

[blackrock13]

Umm ... that's my point.

Who really gives a hoot about what "international awards" and "people and associations that know more about the broadcast industry than you" ... are you serious?

Hey, if that is the attitude, then no money for the CBC, Harper should kill it right now.

That is the problem. I do not need the CBC, especially now that hockey is not in their future. Yet they need my money as a taxpayer to keep on going. Then we have the attitude that the CBC is actually good for you and me, because people who know better tells us it is. The CBC stands for 1. sit down. 2. shut up. 3. pay up.

In my opinion, that position is not easy to defend.

Pull the plug!

:deadhorse:

Who care about awards? Tell that to people who won Oscars and Palm D'ors. You are recognized by your peers as someone to be held up for an example of excellence.

If 'what' is at the attitude? you may not need the CBC but there are people in this country who do and there are sen more who want it.

This thread is almost an annual thread what comes up ever so often, almost like a thread on snow tires. The same points come up opponents and the same points put them down.

 

[blackrock13]

What you really meant was: I never watch CBC-TV, so whether or not other people do, and irrespective of the fact that the corporation serves listeners as well as viewers, and operates in a language I don't care about, it should be cast adrift without a penny from Canada; as a nation we have nothing to say to each other or to the world.

But maybe if they carried the Super Bowl, or more American football …

What Bruce doesn't know is that the CBC costs each Canadian only ~$1.30 a year and has not gotten a raise in over 10 years to do their work, but that won't stop him form arguing his point. would he be able to do his job on the same budget as in 1993.

 

[blackrock13]

I've heard from somebody that works for the CBC that the CBC employs 6,000 people- 50% of whom are Managers or Executives. What other organization has a management to employee ratio of 1:1? It's bad enough that the taxpayers are on the hook for this level of management incompetence but now the taxpayers are going to also subsidize Rogers through the NHL deal where CBC will televise Hockey Night in Canada while Rogers will collect the ad revenue (while supposedly paying the production costs). CBC will still have significant costs just supporting the Management staff to "supervise" the technicians running the control rooms across the nation.

Rogers cannot maintain the Hockey Night in Canada over the air broadcasts without the CBC because Rogers only has over the air television stations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton & Winnipeg. Time for the government to step in and stop the cash flow. If there are special circumstances such as providing services where only subsidized television or radio can survive, then spin off those stations and subsidize them. Sell the balance of the CBC if any part of it is saleable (to anyone but Rogers).

You'd better define manager. How does that 50% compare to other networks. Without a comparison, it means very little.

 

[oldjones]

What Bruce doesn't know is that the CBC costs each Canadian only ~$1.30 a year and has not gotten a raise in over 10 years to do their work, but that won't stop him form arguing his point. would he be able to do his job on the same budget as in 1993.

That would be less than a penny a day. If we still had pennies.

In the same time the PMO's budget has increased exponentially, and all they do is hide facts from us, forcing CBC reporters (amongst others, but has a CTV report broken a story since Duffy? Ooops, he was a bit of a PMO lapdog wasn't he?) to winkle them out so we voters wouldn't be completely at the mercy of party spin doctors.

 

[Onelongfinger]

Well that eliminates the CBC, aka the most biased news agency in Canada. Good grief, man! CBC IS left-wing Canada. :frusty:

CBC has exposed unethical behaviours from all parties. It is still the most unbiased news source in Canada. I must admit I'm a news junkie.

 

[danmand]

Why stop with the CBC. Let us get rid of Canada. We can save on border security, military, postal services, welfare, schools etc, just become part of the US. Fox news will support it.

 

[blackrock13]

Well that eliminates the CBC, aka the most biased news agency in Canada. Good grief, man! CBC IS left-wing Canada. :frusty:

Say what's If you knew anything about those who work for the CBC you realize how wrong you are. The Chairmanship has been a series of Conservative supporters, The number one Talking Head, Peter Mansbridge would bleed blue, if you cut him. Very few of the senior news team is any where near left wing. Unless of course you know differently.

 

[Big Sleazy]

Kill the CBC - Communist Broadcast Corporation -. Then what are the Fed's going to use for there propaganda mouthpiece comrade ?

BS

 

[dirk076]

A waste of taxpayer money. There are lots of options out there for news now. Their reason for being no longer exists.

 

[Insidious Von]

As an avid listener of CBC Radio, I'm much more comfortable with my tax money going to them than the Senate.

 

[night ride]

Unfortunately, the state of journalism is very sad indeed. But, don't confuse the need to keep 'em honest, with a need to keep this bloated corporation going in it's present state. There are many cheaper ways a downsized CBC could still do this as well keeping the national identity thing happening.

 

[danmand]

I find it ironic that the same people who drape themselves in the canadian flag at every chance want to destroy anything that are uniquely canadian, in favour of american institutions or lack of same.

 

[Elmore Scruggs]

I find it ironic that the same people who drape themselves in the canadian flag at every chance want to destroy anything that are uniquely canadian, in favour of american institutions or lack of same.

Uniquely Canadian like Coronation Street every weeknight in primetime?
That's the CBC's mandate I guess, telling Wetherfield stories to Canadians! :canada:

 

[danmand]

Uniquely Canadian like Coronation Street every weeknight in primetime?
That's the CBC's mandate I guess, telling Wetherfield stories to Canadians! :canada:

Increase the budget if you want original programming.

 

[Elmore Scruggs]

CBC radio is even worse, all the crap phone-in shows are the result of reduced spending.
We have gardening shows, appliance repair shows, closet rearranging shows, wine shows, a lame Cross Country Checkup...

Either double the budget or kill it quickly in a humane way, don't starve it to death.

 

[Elmore Scruggs]

Increase the budget if you want original programming.

How about uniquely Canadian like you said the CBC was?

 

[dirk076]

What Bruce doesn't know is that the CBC costs each Canadian only ~$1.30 a year and has not gotten a raise in over 10 years to do their work, but that won't stop him form arguing his point. would he be able to do his job on the same budget as in 1993.

And that $1.30 they extort from me would be better spent by me on a coffee. I'd get far more enjoyment out of the coffee than anything on CBC.

 

[Muddy]

God I have never read so much crap on TERB in ages. The let's-beat-up-on-the -CBC gang, unhappy with the $2.00 a year their taxes are used to support an independent television and radio network are having a blast. One correspondent said CBC stood for Communist Broadcasting Corporation (!) and another said that it was Conservative ("Peter Mansbridge bleeds blue")... I'd cheerfully spend 10 times what I spend on the CBC, one institution that binds this huge and very diverse country together a lot more effectively than the Trans Canada Highway. OK, one final thought; I'll bet dollars to Tim Hortons doughnuts that all the anti-CBC cretins around here voted for Ron Ford, and would again if the election were tomorrow.