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[Nparker]

CBC executives earn their bonuses for successfully fleecing taxpayers for larger sums year-after-year.

[Victoria Watcher]

Billions per year. And something like a 5% market penetration.




Despite getting $1.5-billion of taxpayers’ money, data from the CRTC show the CBC has dropped to less than 3.9 per cent of viewership across Canada in 2018-2019 – a whopping drop of 25 per cent in just one year.

https://www.westerns...1fadc175c9.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 March 2023 - 09:53 AM.

[Nparker]

Fewer viewers = less ad revenue = increased government funding. Eventually, Canadian taxpayers will be paying for a service that literally no one is watching.

[LJ]

^It's the Canadian way.

[Mike K.]

Sounds like this might come to the CBC’s profile, or at least it’s likely given Twitter’s decision to label NPR as government media.

[G-Man]

It makes far more sense for the CBC than it does for NPR which is really more of a listener co-op. I expect NPR will have that rescinded in a couple of days.

[Mike K.]

Now that Twitter has labelled CBC government-funded, Trudeau says “I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada. They're choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations,” after Poilievre’s letter to Twitter suggesting the CBC receive the same label.

[lanforod]

Lol. Does anyone truly believe the CBC is independent media? Quite literally, they are dependent on government funding.

[lanforod]

I do believe that many CBC employees and even editors try to maintain at least a outward veneer of impartiality, though they fail at that a lot. I do read and will continue to read CBC news stories, but for any news story, no matter where it comes from, if I want to learn more, I'll look for more sources and more information.

[Nparker]

Now that Twitter has labelled CBC government-funded, Trudeau says “I think it says a lot about the Conservative Party of Canada. They're choosing to constantly attack independent media organizations,"...

Justin could immediately cut all government funding to the CBC and then we'd know for sure they were an independent media organization.

[todd]

Lol. Does anyone truly believe the CBC is independent media? Quite literally, they are dependent on government funding.

I just think of it as media releases from the government. Never watch CBC TV except for the occasional episode of Schitt's Creek. Can’t remember the last time I listened to CBC radio.

But if the government didn’t control the narrative somebody else would just do it

[Nparker]

I have greater trust in almost anyone but the government to tell me the truth.

[todd]

I have greater trust in almost anyone but the government to tell me the truth.

I just ask you.

CBC might be better than a “dictator” run media organization is all I’m saying.

Edited by todd, 17 April 2023 - 09:43 AM.

[Nparker]

...CBC might be better than a “dictator” run media organization...

Would we notice the difference from what we have now? Some of us haven't forgotten the events in Ottawa of February 2022.

[todd]

Would we notice the difference from what we have now? Some of us haven't forgotten the events in Ottawa of February 2022.

as I say I don’t watch CBC TV/radio, maybe for just a few seconds as I switch between Global and CTV.


That being said I’m working on installing a bank of video monitors in my octopus incident command centre/smoking room, maybe I’ll put it on one of them

Currently just enough monitors for Global and then all the WebCams of Victoria and a few other things. TVs are so cheap these days

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

 

 

[E2V]

An excellent example of the CBC misrepresenting facts. They are masters of it.

[todd]

^ lol, billion dollars. what should they show the pennies also? It’s 2023 hunny

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