After I recently argued that CBC must stop calling Rex Murphy "just" a freelance opinionator, several readers wrote to explain to me that there are actually two Rex Murphys at CBC.
They're right, at least in the muddled minds of CBC managers. But it is a sham.
On CBC Television, Rex number one is hired as "a freelancer," encouraged to say whatever he wants. As a freelance commentator, he can also write opinionated columns for the National Post and make paid speeches.
On CBC Radio, Rex number two is hired as a freelance host of Cross Country Checkup and contractually obligated to abide by CBC's Journalistic Practices and Standards. According to the CBC Ombudsman report, he can't reveal his own opinions, he must avoid any suspicion of conflict of interest and he must stay out of public controversies.
Hands up who thinks this works in the real world?
Read the full story by Frank Koller (Huffington Post) here.
cbcexposed is all about exposing the waste of the CBC ... over 1 billion dollars a year of taxpayer money funds the cbc and a lot of that taxpayer money is wasted.
Maxime Bernier - CBC needs to refocus
Bernier: CBC needs to refocus and get out of the advertising market.
Maxime Bernier, leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada joins BNN to talk about his policy plans for the CBC and provide his take on Canada's media landscape.
See the BNN video interview here.
Maxime Bernier, leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada joins BNN to talk about his policy plans for the CBC and provide his take on Canada's media landscape.
See the BNN video interview here.
Kevin O'Leary on the CBC
Kevin O'Leary on the CBC:
If the CBC were a real company, they would be out of business overnight. But the lights stay on because of the billion dollars of taxpayers' money that CBC gets from the government each year. It's your money but what are you getting for it?
In short, not a whole hell of a lot.
Watch his video here.
If the CBC were a real company, they would be out of business overnight. But the lights stay on because of the billion dollars of taxpayers' money that CBC gets from the government each year. It's your money but what are you getting for it?
In short, not a whole hell of a lot.
Watch his video here.
Canadian Taxpayers Federation Critical of CBC Funding Proposal
CBC/Radio Canada has submitted a position paper to the federal government proposing the public broadcaster move to an ad-free model, similar to the one used to pay for the BBC in the United Kingdom, at a cost of about $400 million in additional funding.
Critics have said that the CBC is taking ad revenue away from private media that are struggling financially.
CBC came under fire last week from two federal Conservative leadership candidates. Kellie Leitch said the CBC "needs to be dismantled," while rival Maxime Bernier said the public broadcaster's mandate should be reformed and its funding cut. Bernier also said it should not be allowed to sell private advertising.
Scott Hennig, a spokesman for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, was critical of the funding proposal. "At a time when the federal government is borrowing $71 million each day, making CBC ad-free shouldn't be at the top of the priority list."
Read the full story here.
Critics have said that the CBC is taking ad revenue away from private media that are struggling financially.
CBC came under fire last week from two federal Conservative leadership candidates. Kellie Leitch said the CBC "needs to be dismantled," while rival Maxime Bernier said the public broadcaster's mandate should be reformed and its funding cut. Bernier also said it should not be allowed to sell private advertising.
Scott Hennig, a spokesman for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, was critical of the funding proposal. "At a time when the federal government is borrowing $71 million each day, making CBC ad-free shouldn't be at the top of the priority list."
Read the full story here.
CBC Sued For Hundreds Of Millions
Subway is fighting back against a CBC report saying the fast food chain’s chicken is only about half chicken.
"We have issued a Notice of Action in Canada against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that asks for $210 million in damages over allegations made by its program, 'Marketplace,' that are defamatory and absolutely false," the company said in a statement issued to The Wrap.
“We do not know how they produced such unreliable and factually incorrect data, but we are insisting on a full retraction,” Subway told Business Insider last month.
Read the full story here.
"We have issued a Notice of Action in Canada against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that asks for $210 million in damages over allegations made by its program, 'Marketplace,' that are defamatory and absolutely false," the company said in a statement issued to The Wrap.
“We do not know how they produced such unreliable and factually incorrect data, but we are insisting on a full retraction,” Subway told Business Insider last month.
Read the full story here.
CBC Ombudsman has Dismissed 100% of Complaints in 2017
Found an interesting website called "The WatchTowers" ... They posted the following:
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In 2017 the CBC Ombudsman has Dismissed 100% of Complaints
The CBC Ombudsman ignored 11/11 complaints. She is not interested in holding the CBC accountable, for anything.
- Esther is clearly ignoring tons of other complaints, only 11 answered in 2 months! (maybe she ‘lost’ them too?)
- She never, ever agrees with the complainant. Even when the CBC made factual errors and the person interviewed contacted them to correct the errors, then they screwed up again, Esther could only say “CBC News might want to keep an eye on its progress.”
- She doesn’t care about balance or bias and says the CBC doesn’t have to be impartial.
Visit the website here.
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Subway files $210-million lawsuit against CBC
Subway has filed a lawsuit seeking $210-million in damages against the CBC after a Marketplace report aired that alleged close to 50% of the chicken it uses in sandwiches is actually soy.
“Despite our efforts to share the facts with the CBC about the high quality of our chicken and to express our strong objections to their inaccurate claims, they have not issued a retraction, as we requested,” Subway said in a Thursday statement, according to the New York Post. “Serving high-quality food to our customers is our top priority, and we are committed to seeing that this factually incorrect report is corrected.”
Read the full story here.
What to do with the CBC and Radio Canada
Found an interesting forum (What to do with Radio Canada and the CBC?) where people have suggestions for the CBC ... the following is just one of many ...
See the complete thread here.
As noted on another thread, the CBC wants $400 million in annual increased donations from Ottawa so it can be ad-free.
I think CBC Radio is universally appreciated but far less so the CBC. In it's desperate bid for ad revenue we get our national broadcaster "bringing us together coast to coast to coast" by trying to find "Canada's Smartest Person" and of course what kind of self respecting CBC decade would it be without yet another rendition of Anne of Green Gables.
I think the only way the CBC TV will maintain any relevance is if it sways more towards a PBS platform with extras such as sports. Save a fortune and ditch every local newscast in the country and simply run the National. This would save a king's ransom for a service that is already provided 24/7 including the CBC. Local news can be covered by local private TV stations which nearly universally in English Canada get the higher ratings anyway.
I would like a commercial free CBC with nearly total or all Canadian content but not without a major overhaul of what the CBC and what it sees as it's future and if that means more renditions of Canada's Smartest Person, then they shouldn't get a cent.
Millions of Canadians willingly already pay for quality programming as exemplified by BC's Knowledge Network, Ontario's TVO, and even sending money to the US via PBS. The fact that hundreds of thousands of Canadians are willing to send their money out of country for decent programming says a lot about both the need and how little they feel they get from our national broadcaster.
I think CBC Radio is universally appreciated but far less so the CBC. In it's desperate bid for ad revenue we get our national broadcaster "bringing us together coast to coast to coast" by trying to find "Canada's Smartest Person" and of course what kind of self respecting CBC decade would it be without yet another rendition of Anne of Green Gables.
I think the only way the CBC TV will maintain any relevance is if it sways more towards a PBS platform with extras such as sports. Save a fortune and ditch every local newscast in the country and simply run the National. This would save a king's ransom for a service that is already provided 24/7 including the CBC. Local news can be covered by local private TV stations which nearly universally in English Canada get the higher ratings anyway.
I would like a commercial free CBC with nearly total or all Canadian content but not without a major overhaul of what the CBC and what it sees as it's future and if that means more renditions of Canada's Smartest Person, then they shouldn't get a cent.
Millions of Canadians willingly already pay for quality programming as exemplified by BC's Knowledge Network, Ontario's TVO, and even sending money to the US via PBS. The fact that hundreds of thousands of Canadians are willing to send their money out of country for decent programming says a lot about both the need and how little they feel they get from our national broadcaster.
CBC being sued by Subway for $210 million
Subway says it plans to sue the CBC over a Marketplace story claiming about half of the chicken in the popular restaurant chain’s chicken sandwiches is soy filler.
“We have issued a notice of action in Canada against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that asks for $210 million in damages over allegations made by its program, Marketplace, that are defamatory and absolutely false,” said Subway.
Read the full story here.
CRTC continues investigation into CBC
The CRTC, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, has been engaging in an ongoing investigation into the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over their slanted news regarding the GamerGate controversy since January of 2015.
The scandal that kicked off GamerGate filtered heavy into the topic of media ethics, journalistic impropriety and corruption. Various forms of collusion, cronyism and unlawful activity were discovered during the early months of GamerGate but the media decided to spin a narrative around women being harassed in the tech industry.
Well, some viewers, readers and concerned consumers have called out the press on their antics and commissions like the CRTC have been answering the call of duty.
Read the full story here.
The scandal that kicked off GamerGate filtered heavy into the topic of media ethics, journalistic impropriety and corruption. Various forms of collusion, cronyism and unlawful activity were discovered during the early months of GamerGate but the media decided to spin a narrative around women being harassed in the tech industry.
Well, some viewers, readers and concerned consumers have called out the press on their antics and commissions like the CRTC have been answering the call of duty.
Read the full story here.
Was CBC report on TD bank accurate?
The head of Canada's main financial services ombudsman says allegations about aggressive sales tactics by TD Bank employees raise "serious concerns" and the watchdog will be keeping an eye out to see if similar issues persist in the broader industry.
"We'll certainly be monitoring our complaint volumes and monitoring the situation," Sarah Bradley, the head of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, said in an interview Monday.
Bradley's comments came in the wake of several CBC reports that current and former employees at TD (TSX:TD) alleged they broke the law to meet sales targets in order to stay employed.
In a statement late Sunday, TD Bank CEO Bharat Masrani said he doesn't believe the reports are an accurate portrayal of the bank's workplace, but he takes the concerns the story raises seriously.
Read the full story here.
"We'll certainly be monitoring our complaint volumes and monitoring the situation," Sarah Bradley, the head of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, said in an interview Monday.
Bradley's comments came in the wake of several CBC reports that current and former employees at TD (TSX:TD) alleged they broke the law to meet sales targets in order to stay employed.
In a statement late Sunday, TD Bank CEO Bharat Masrani said he doesn't believe the reports are an accurate portrayal of the bank's workplace, but he takes the concerns the story raises seriously.
Read the full story here.
CBC partners with iCopyright to monetize online content
If you’d like to send some friends an article from the CBC’s website, then the CBC would like $20. If you want to print six copies of an article, the CBC wants $10. And if you’re interested in posting an excerpt of an article to your blog, then the CBC is interested in charging $500 to your credit card for each year your post is online.
Of course, you don’t need to pay the CBC anything. You could just copy and paste a CBC article into an email and pay nothing. You could hit Ctrl-P and print as many copies as you like. You could drag and drop a chunk of text from a CBC webpage to your blog post without reaching for your Visa. And you could do any of these commonly done things without even knowing that the CBC wants to charge you to do them. Unless you share CBC content in a very specific and somewhat obscure way—by clicking the little icons at the end of each article or a button labeled “Republish,” you can freely share their stuff the way people share everything else on the Internet—copy and paste.
But if you do, it might interest you to know that the CBC is encouraging the friends you share their content with to rat you out in the hopes of scoring a $1,000,000 reward. This bizarre scheme comes via a company called iCopyright, which the CBC has partnered with to “monetize” their online content.
Read the full story here.
Of course, you don’t need to pay the CBC anything. You could just copy and paste a CBC article into an email and pay nothing. You could hit Ctrl-P and print as many copies as you like. You could drag and drop a chunk of text from a CBC webpage to your blog post without reaching for your Visa. And you could do any of these commonly done things without even knowing that the CBC wants to charge you to do them. Unless you share CBC content in a very specific and somewhat obscure way—by clicking the little icons at the end of each article or a button labeled “Republish,” you can freely share their stuff the way people share everything else on the Internet—copy and paste.
But if you do, it might interest you to know that the CBC is encouraging the friends you share their content with to rat you out in the hopes of scoring a $1,000,000 reward. This bizarre scheme comes via a company called iCopyright, which the CBC has partnered with to “monetize” their online content.
Read the full story here.
CBC's Hubert Lacroix promised to keep CBC at the "centre of a revolution"
The president of the national broadcaster says the CBC has plans to expand its reach into new media platforms, and compete with private broadcasters for professional sports broadcast rights.
Hubert Lacroix promised to keep CBC at the "centre of a revolution."
"Around the world, the public broadcaster is being challenged," said Lacroix. "And, of course, the most severe critics are the private media groups who seek to limit its role and activities in order to gain a competitive advantage."
Lacroix said CBC will push ahead with plans to use its public subsidy to expand to new platforms and create new television channels. Lacroix told his audience that CBC, which gets a $1.1-billion subsidy from taxpayers each year, might make a bid for the French-language broadcast rights for Montreal Canadiens games. Those rights are currently held by RDS, the French version of TSN.
CBC has licences to launch new all-sports channels in English and French that would compete with existing private channels.
Read the full story here.
Hubert Lacroix promised to keep CBC at the "centre of a revolution."
"Around the world, the public broadcaster is being challenged," said Lacroix. "And, of course, the most severe critics are the private media groups who seek to limit its role and activities in order to gain a competitive advantage."
Lacroix said CBC will push ahead with plans to use its public subsidy to expand to new platforms and create new television channels. Lacroix told his audience that CBC, which gets a $1.1-billion subsidy from taxpayers each year, might make a bid for the French-language broadcast rights for Montreal Canadiens games. Those rights are currently held by RDS, the French version of TSN.
CBC has licences to launch new all-sports channels in English and French that would compete with existing private channels.
Read the full story here.
CBC TV bets on arts and culture
Just as the private Canadian networks launch schedules full of Muppets, superheroes and other new American series, CBC is wading in with arts and culture. Have they painted themselves into a corner?
Sure, CBC is also touting next week's return of long-running hits such as "Murdoch Mysteries" and the "Rick Mercer Report." New, Canadian-made scripted shows such as Chris Haddock's sexy spy drama "The Romeo Section" will also help CBC stand out from the import-packed competition.
Making a serious scheduling commitment to arts programming in prime-time in 2015, however, simply would not happen at a rival broadcaster — which is why Heather Conway is doing it.
Conway, CBC's executive vice-president of English services, is in the second year of a five-year plan to steer the public broadcaster toward a digital future, and one that is — as she emphasized last May at the CBC season launch — "identifiably Canadian."
Conway was the chief business officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario prior to joining CBC in 2013. She sees the arts strategy as one that will "make sure we have a distinctive voice, an offering that doesn't look or feel like anything else on the dial."
Selling art-related programming on TV has risks, agrees Conway.
Read the full story here.
Sure, CBC is also touting next week's return of long-running hits such as "Murdoch Mysteries" and the "Rick Mercer Report." New, Canadian-made scripted shows such as Chris Haddock's sexy spy drama "The Romeo Section" will also help CBC stand out from the import-packed competition.
Making a serious scheduling commitment to arts programming in prime-time in 2015, however, simply would not happen at a rival broadcaster — which is why Heather Conway is doing it.
Conway, CBC's executive vice-president of English services, is in the second year of a five-year plan to steer the public broadcaster toward a digital future, and one that is — as she emphasized last May at the CBC season launch — "identifiably Canadian."
Conway was the chief business officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario prior to joining CBC in 2013. She sees the arts strategy as one that will "make sure we have a distinctive voice, an offering that doesn't look or feel like anything else on the dial."
Selling art-related programming on TV has risks, agrees Conway.
Read the full story here.
CBC continues to distort the market
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch this week proposed to dismantle Canada’s state broadcaster.
“The days of a bloated, taxpayer-subsidized CBC are numbered,” said the Ontario MP. “So long as the CBC continues to distort the market by consuming advertising revenues and having its operations underwritten by the taxpayer, the market is uncompetitive.”
It is a proposal that speaks to Canadian frustration with a public broadcaster that in recent years has been rocked by scandal, allegations of political bias, a lack of transparency and accountability, declining audience and, arguably, a self-serving mandate.
A 2015 Senate report on the future of the Crown Corporation, which receives $1 billion of taxpayer funding, concluded the CBC needs to change.
Read the full story here.
“The days of a bloated, taxpayer-subsidized CBC are numbered,” said the Ontario MP. “So long as the CBC continues to distort the market by consuming advertising revenues and having its operations underwritten by the taxpayer, the market is uncompetitive.”
It is a proposal that speaks to Canadian frustration with a public broadcaster that in recent years has been rocked by scandal, allegations of political bias, a lack of transparency and accountability, declining audience and, arguably, a self-serving mandate.
A 2015 Senate report on the future of the Crown Corporation, which receives $1 billion of taxpayer funding, concluded the CBC needs to change.
Read the full story here.
Report calls for CBC to stop selling digital ads
Public Policy Forum report calls for CBC to stop selling digital ads.
A public-policy group has issued 12 recommendations to revive the Canadian news industry, including cutting off digital revenue to the public broadcaster.
The report by the Public Policy Forum maintains that the decline of traditional media, audience fragmentation, and fake news are undermining faith in Canadian democracy.
"Free cbc.ca of the need to 'attract eyeballs' for digital advertising, which can run contrary to its civic-function mission and draw it into a 'clickbait' mentality," the report states. As things stand now, the CBC generates about $25 million in annual digital revenue, according to the report.
Read the full story here.
A public-policy group has issued 12 recommendations to revive the Canadian news industry, including cutting off digital revenue to the public broadcaster.
The report by the Public Policy Forum maintains that the decline of traditional media, audience fragmentation, and fake news are undermining faith in Canadian democracy.
"Free cbc.ca of the need to 'attract eyeballs' for digital advertising, which can run contrary to its civic-function mission and draw it into a 'clickbait' mentality," the report states. As things stand now, the CBC generates about $25 million in annual digital revenue, according to the report.
Read the full story here.
CBC wants hundreds of millions more
CBC/Radio-Canada wants all its services to broadcast ad-free -- but would need $318 million in new annual funding to do so, the public broadcaster said Monday in a proposal to the federal government.
The recommendation was one of several the CBC made in a submission to Canadian Heritage's public consultation on homegrown content in a digital world.
"In order to exit advertising, CBC/Radio-Canada would require $318 million in replacement funding," states the filing.
"This figure takes into account the lost advertising revenue ($253 million), the cost to produce and procure additional Canadian content ($105 million) that is required to replace the advertising programming and the cost savings associated with the reduced cost of sales ($40 million)."
"The business model and cultural policy framework in which CBC/Radio-Canada operates and carries out its public mandate is profoundly and irrevocably broken," reads the proposal.
"Advertising revenues for conventional television are down as audiences become more fragmented, ad-free content becomes more available, and alternate content providers such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and, Apple TV/iTunes continue to make inroads."
The filing cited numerous benefits to an ad-free CBC/Radio-Canada, including "a net total GDP gain of $488 million" as well as the creation of 7,200 jobs.
CBC/Radio-Canada is also calling for its funding to be "predictable and stable, tied to the existing five-year licence cycle, indexed to inflation, and separated from the election and annual government budget cycles."
Read the full story here.
The recommendation was one of several the CBC made in a submission to Canadian Heritage's public consultation on homegrown content in a digital world.
"In order to exit advertising, CBC/Radio-Canada would require $318 million in replacement funding," states the filing.
"This figure takes into account the lost advertising revenue ($253 million), the cost to produce and procure additional Canadian content ($105 million) that is required to replace the advertising programming and the cost savings associated with the reduced cost of sales ($40 million)."
"The business model and cultural policy framework in which CBC/Radio-Canada operates and carries out its public mandate is profoundly and irrevocably broken," reads the proposal.
"Advertising revenues for conventional television are down as audiences become more fragmented, ad-free content becomes more available, and alternate content providers such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and, Apple TV/iTunes continue to make inroads."
The filing cited numerous benefits to an ad-free CBC/Radio-Canada, including "a net total GDP gain of $488 million" as well as the creation of 7,200 jobs.
CBC/Radio-Canada is also calling for its funding to be "predictable and stable, tied to the existing five-year licence cycle, indexed to inflation, and separated from the election and annual government budget cycles."
Read the full story here.
What if there was NO CBC in a Canadian broadcasting system
This is an interesting abstract from 2001 but a very good read today!
How would the Canadian broadcasting system look if there were no CBC? What would be the programming mix? Would it be deficient, leading to market failure? Digitization, convergence, and the development of the Internet are transforming broadcasting. If there were no CBC, would we create such a public service broadcaster now in a broadcast system where numerous choices, including 64 specialty channels, are available by cable and direct broadcast satellite? Would the benefits of creating a CBC be greater than the costs? If we invented a CBC today, what would be its focus? How does this compare to CBC's current operations and to the vision of its President? Our examination of these questions will concentrate on CBC English television.
Unless CBC can refocus and become truly distinctive (a goal it has largely achieved in radio but not television), people will increasingly question whether they are getting value for money. Because of non-rivalry in consumption, the cost of publicly supporting the CBC is the same whether it has an audience of 2 million or 200,000, and whether its audience share is 25% or 3%. With the increase in the number of channels available, the audience share of CBC's English-language television network, for the peak 7:00-11:00 p.m. period, has fallen from 23.3% in 1984 to 9.4% in 1998-99 (see Task Force on Broadcasting Policy, 1986; CBC, 1999). McKinsey & Company (1999) report that the audience share of CBC/SRC ranked 19th out of 21 public service broadcasters surveyed. Only PBS in the United States and TRT in Turkey obtain a lower audience share. Unlike the case for CBC radio, whose audience share has been virtually unchanged over the past five years, CBC television's audience share continues to decrease year by year. How far does CBC's audience share have to erode before Canadians conclude that it is not worth supporting?
Read the full story here.
How would the Canadian broadcasting system look if there were no CBC? What would be the programming mix? Would it be deficient, leading to market failure? Digitization, convergence, and the development of the Internet are transforming broadcasting. If there were no CBC, would we create such a public service broadcaster now in a broadcast system where numerous choices, including 64 specialty channels, are available by cable and direct broadcast satellite? Would the benefits of creating a CBC be greater than the costs? If we invented a CBC today, what would be its focus? How does this compare to CBC's current operations and to the vision of its President? Our examination of these questions will concentrate on CBC English television.
Unless CBC can refocus and become truly distinctive (a goal it has largely achieved in radio but not television), people will increasingly question whether they are getting value for money. Because of non-rivalry in consumption, the cost of publicly supporting the CBC is the same whether it has an audience of 2 million or 200,000, and whether its audience share is 25% or 3%. With the increase in the number of channels available, the audience share of CBC's English-language television network, for the peak 7:00-11:00 p.m. period, has fallen from 23.3% in 1984 to 9.4% in 1998-99 (see Task Force on Broadcasting Policy, 1986; CBC, 1999). McKinsey & Company (1999) report that the audience share of CBC/SRC ranked 19th out of 21 public service broadcasters surveyed. Only PBS in the United States and TRT in Turkey obtain a lower audience share. Unlike the case for CBC radio, whose audience share has been virtually unchanged over the past five years, CBC television's audience share continues to decrease year by year. How far does CBC's audience share have to erode before Canadians conclude that it is not worth supporting?
Read the full story here.
Privatize CBC says Another Conservative Party Leader Hopeful
From Brad Trost:
If the Conservative Establishment in Ottawa spent as much time listening to you about policy as they do squeezing you for money, we’d have already privatized the CBC
If you’re a member of the Conservative Party of Canada you know exactly what I mean. When it comes to taking your money, the party is efficient and persistent. When it comes to taking your advice on policy however, Establishment Conservatives are determined to do their own thing.
Rank-and-file members of our party are against taxpayers owning and funding a state broadcaster – especially one so openly hostile to our values. They want to cut the apron strings (more than $1-billion a year) and let the CBC – allegedly a world-class organization – stand on its own two feet.
Establishment Conservatives in Ottawa think they know better though.They don’t care what you think as long as you keep sending them money.
I understand and share your frustration. That’s why I tabled Bill C-308 in the House of Commons last fall to privatize the CBC despite being pressured by Establishment Conservatives not to “rock the boat.” I did it because I’m not one of them. I’m not an Establishment Conservative.
I work for you, not them.
Unfortunately, the Establishment is winning the battle for votes among Conservative MPs in Ottawa. Two weeks ago, two of these MPs delivered speeches in the House of Commons opposing my bill and praising the CBC. One of these two had even seconded the bill when it was introduced last fall.
Your read the right – a Conservative MP delivered a speech opposing a bill he had seconded while Liberal and NDP MPs watched and laughed at the spectacle. That’s how bad things are in Ottawa.
I say – enough!
Send a message to the Establishment Conservatives in Ottawa. Say no to their pro-CBC agenda by clicking on the link below and signing my petition.
This is your party. It’s time to take it back!
Sincerely,
If the Conservative Establishment in Ottawa spent as much time listening to you about policy as they do squeezing you for money, we’d have already privatized the CBC
If you’re a member of the Conservative Party of Canada you know exactly what I mean. When it comes to taking your money, the party is efficient and persistent. When it comes to taking your advice on policy however, Establishment Conservatives are determined to do their own thing.
Rank-and-file members of our party are against taxpayers owning and funding a state broadcaster – especially one so openly hostile to our values. They want to cut the apron strings (more than $1-billion a year) and let the CBC – allegedly a world-class organization – stand on its own two feet.
Establishment Conservatives in Ottawa think they know better though.They don’t care what you think as long as you keep sending them money.
I understand and share your frustration. That’s why I tabled Bill C-308 in the House of Commons last fall to privatize the CBC despite being pressured by Establishment Conservatives not to “rock the boat.” I did it because I’m not one of them. I’m not an Establishment Conservative.
I work for you, not them.
Unfortunately, the Establishment is winning the battle for votes among Conservative MPs in Ottawa. Two weeks ago, two of these MPs delivered speeches in the House of Commons opposing my bill and praising the CBC. One of these two had even seconded the bill when it was introduced last fall.
Your read the right – a Conservative MP delivered a speech opposing a bill he had seconded while Liberal and NDP MPs watched and laughed at the spectacle. That’s how bad things are in Ottawa.
I say – enough!
Send a message to the Establishment Conservatives in Ottawa. Say no to their pro-CBC agenda by clicking on the link below and signing my petition.
This is your party. It’s time to take it back!
Sincerely,
CBC's Downward Spiral
The long series of ill-formed, unaccountable decisions... makes it clear that an inexperienced, government-appointed president and board of directors is a root problem.
Looking back, it really began in 1992 when CBC TV took a gamble that ignored its most important asset, the public. Then-president Gerard Veilleux and his board of directors moved the flagship national news program from 10 .p.m to 9 p.m. The president claimed preposterously that people were going to bed earlier; research showed that was untrue, and managers thought there were enough internal checks and balances to stop the move to 9 p.m. They were wrong. The change was made and the audience plummeted to new lows.
CBC has announced a new strategy that could equal the 1992 disaster of moving The National. CBC is making Internet services the top priority and CBC TV the lowest. Radio, too, will be less important than Internet services. The success of the new strategy will be judged primarily on an internal survey commissioned by CBC, not traditional audience measures from independent surveys.
Read the full story here.
Looking back, it really began in 1992 when CBC TV took a gamble that ignored its most important asset, the public. Then-president Gerard Veilleux and his board of directors moved the flagship national news program from 10 .p.m to 9 p.m. The president claimed preposterously that people were going to bed earlier; research showed that was untrue, and managers thought there were enough internal checks and balances to stop the move to 9 p.m. They were wrong. The change was made and the audience plummeted to new lows.
CBC has announced a new strategy that could equal the 1992 disaster of moving The National. CBC is making Internet services the top priority and CBC TV the lowest. Radio, too, will be less important than Internet services. The success of the new strategy will be judged primarily on an internal survey commissioned by CBC, not traditional audience measures from independent surveys.
Read the full story here.
CBC’s most highly guarded secret
In the wake of an announcement that Peter Mansbridge will be stepping down as anchor of Canada’s third most watched newscast (in a field of three) people have begun talking about his salary again.
Watch as I walk you through what we’re finding out about what has been one of the CBC’s most highly guarded secrets even though we taxpayers are the ones who pay his salary.
In the real world, you wouldn’t keep paying more for someone whose ratings are continually going down but CBC doesn’t live in the real world.
Watch the online video here.
Watch as I walk you through what we’re finding out about what has been one of the CBC’s most highly guarded secrets even though we taxpayers are the ones who pay his salary.
In the real world, you wouldn’t keep paying more for someone whose ratings are continually going down but CBC doesn’t live in the real world.
Watch the online video here.
CBC’s revenue drops 62%
Interesting story from online news source Blacklocks: “CBC Revenues Nosedive 62%.”
What would happen if your company lost 62 per cent of your revenues?
Many newspapers and magazines in Canada have lost 62 per cent of their ad revenues, too, which is why a newspaper or magazine is shut down every month in Canada, or has massive layoffs every quarter.
Only the CBC is immune.
If they were a real company, the CBC be out of business within one payroll period.
Read the full story here.
What would happen if your company lost 62 per cent of your revenues?
Many newspapers and magazines in Canada have lost 62 per cent of their ad revenues, too, which is why a newspaper or magazine is shut down every month in Canada, or has massive layoffs every quarter.
Only the CBC is immune.
If they were a real company, the CBC be out of business within one payroll period.
Read the full story here.
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