[Newsbot]

Title: CBC wants more, hard economic times others cut, the public broadcaster begs
Category: Political
Posted By: mtbr
Date: 2009-02-22 07:41:06
Canadian

[ridenrain]

� the CBC employs more people than all of the country�s private TV broadcasters combined.�

[Canadian_Mind]

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

[herbie]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

[mtbr]

herbie herbie:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

They have the balls to ask for more money while all other networks have to make cuts because ad revenue is disappearing. They should stick to the news(objective news ) and STFU for a few hours a day, I'm sure the people out in the boonies will survive.

Make cuts like everyone else.

[Axeman]

mtbr mtbr:

They have the balls to ask for more money while all other networks have to make cuts because ad revenue is disappearing. They should stick to the news(objective news ) and STFU for a few hours a day, I'm sure the people out in the boonies will survive.

Make cuts like everyone else.

The CBC turns a profit for about 3 weeks during the year, at the end of May and into early June during the Stanley Cup semis and finals, and on the rare Saturday Nights when 2 Canadian teams meet in the early HNIC game. They should take a page from TVO's and PBS's playbook and, instead of airing "Coches Corner", they should be drumming up donations during intermissions. Any private broadcaster similarly managed would have gone tits up ages ago.

[ridenrain]

herbie herbie:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

Yeah.. because everyone wants to know what's happening in Toronto.

[PluggyRug]

herbie herbie:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

I live in the boonies, my coat hanger works fine.

[scarecrowe]

Axeman Axeman:

mtbr mtbr:

They have the balls to ask for more money while all other networks have to make cuts because ad revenue is disappearing. They should stick to the news(objective news ) and STFU for a few hours a day, I'm sure the people out in the boonies will survive.

Make cuts like everyone else.

The CBC turns a profit for about 3 weeks during the year, at the end of May and into early June during the Stanley Cup semis and finals, and on the rare Saturday Nights when 2 Canadian teams meet in the early HNIC game. They should take a page from TVO's and PBS's playbook and, instead of airing "Coches Corner", they should be drumming up donations during intermissions. Any private broadcaster similarly managed would have gone tits up ages ago.

...if the CBC was into porn they may actually be able to pay us back.

Sell the CBC (and don't give me this crap about selling low and buying high). A $billion+ a year in savings is a damn good investment.

[Canadian_Mind]

herbie herbie:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

I buy newspapersand tune into CKA.

As for people out in the boonies, why would they pay any different an amount from me?

[mtbr]

Sell it to Al Jeezera we wont notice the difference.

[Axeman]

scarecrowe scarecrowe:

...if the CBC was into porn they may actually be able to pay us back.

Sell the CBC (and don't give me this crap about selling low and buying high). A $billion+ a year in savings is a damn good investment.

Agreed. Governments' role is not to provide me with hockey broadcasts and re-runs of the Simpsons and Anne of Green Gables.

[PluggyRug]

mtbr mtbr:

Sell it to Al Jeezera we wont notice the difference.

They couldn't afford to pay the wages of half the Canadian population.

[Scape]

Sell the TV, put a little more into the radio and net. Keep newsworld. Put the rest on the debt.

[herbie]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

herbie herbie:

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Fuck it, I've changed my stance on this, CBC should be privatised.

Why so it can rip you off even more?

Tell us again why everyone out in the boonies should have to PAY to watch the news, but you shouldn't.

I buy newspapersand tune into CKA.

As for people out in the boonies, why would they pay any different an amount from me?

If you live in a city, you don't have to pay for tv, you choose to pay. Or you'd have a coat hanger/rabbit ears too.
The problem is the transmitters have been OFF for over 5 months here. And most people are so damn brainwashed they think you have to pay for service so they're not demanding CBC stick to its mandate and deliver those rural services the taxes pay for.