This report is something I saw that I found very interesting. I hope you will as well. Why do we give the CBC over
$1 Billion of our tax dollars
EVERY year?
These are excerpts from a statistical profile of CBC/Radio-Canada. Based on data released by the CRTC for the 2010 and 2011 broadcast fiscal years, and data released by CBC/Radio-Canada
In the 50 years since 1962, the Parliamentary operating appropriations actually received by CBC/Radio-Canada totaled $31.4 billion. Using 1962 as the base year, the total amount by which the CBC/Radio-Canada Parliamentary operating appropriations exceeded inflation from 1963 to 2012 was $16.9 billion.
when spending on sports is excluded, private conventional television broadcasters spend more on Canadian programs than does CBC/Radio-Canada
CBC English conventional television got 57.7 per cent of its total viewing from sports and foreign programs, with the entire balance of the schedule accounting for only 42.3 per cent of its viewing.
Across conventional television, private conventional TV delivers higher viewing to Canadian programs than does CBC/Radio-Canada conventional TV.
The 1974 CRTC hearings on CBC/Radio-Canada licence renewals led to the elimination of commercials on CBC/Radio Canada radio services. They also saw an interesting exchange between CRTC Chairman Pierre Juneau and
CBC/Radio Canada President Laurent Picard, during a discussion about CBC English
conventional television. As reported in The Toronto Star:
- This was the point at which Juneau crossed Picard’s path. If the CBC did not now exist, would Picard recommend that it be created in its present form? For the first time, Picard paused. “No,” he answered, “I would recommend that it be created as a purely public network".
Prepared for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters October 5, 2012
Read the full report
here.
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