I note in the most recent TV ratings in Canada not one of the Top 30 programs is CBC. Not one.
The only time CBC places in the top 10 anymore is when Hockey Night in Canada airs. Even at that its flagship viewing numbers are well off its heyday as a percentage of the viewing public from 30-40 years ago. Beyond that, most folks could care less about CBC shows and they clearly aren’t going to watch the fake news, Trudeau puff and SJW opinion pieces masquerading as “news” on The National.
We don’t need to be paying taxes for a state broadcaster that’s little more than the Liberal Party’s propaganda wing. If I were PM, here’s what I’d do with the CBC:
- CBC Television would be privatized and spun off, keeping the CBC name.
- Ici Radio-Canada Télé would be sold to Quebecor Media and merged into TVA, finally giving that network OTA stations outside of Quebec
- The CBC’s English and French radio units would be spun off as non-profit, listener-supported networks akin to NPR in the US, with a name change for those spun-off entities.
In 2018, there is no reason for a publicly (taxpayer supported) network such as the CBC. In the 1930’s government funding of a public radio network from coast to coast to coast had merit. In the 1950’s a publicly funded TV network from coast to coast to coast (probably) was rightly viewed as having merit.
However with the explosion in the 1970’s of cable media, and now the exponential growth of online news media content and variety, there is no longer a need IMO to provide a taxpayer funded, wallet-sucking media black hole that the CBC has become.
Edited by AllseeingEye, 24 September 2018 - 11:20 PM.