Country would lose at least $1.3-billion if government privatizes CBC: report
Thursday, June 16th, 2011Kate Taylor and Guy Dixon What would Canada lose if the government privatized the CBC? At least $1.3-billion in economic activity, says a report prepared for the public broadcaster by Deloitte & Touche. With the same analytical method used to measure the value of the BBC to the British economy, the accounting firm provided the [...]
CBC losses $36M in 2010: CRTC
Thursday, June 9th, 2011QMI Agency Canada’s national public broadcaster lost nearly $36 million last year, according to recently published figures from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation posted a pre-tax loss of $35.4 million for the year ending Aug. 31, 2010, mainly due to rising costs. In 2009, it lost $22 million. The CBC [...]
Secret plan for CBC revealed – Friends of Canadian Broadcasting
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Dear Friend, Something very alarming has just come to my attention which I want to share with you on an urgent basis. Stephen Harper’s secret plan for the CBC was revealed on November 23rd when the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage mused publicly about killing our public broadcaster! Dean Del Mastro floated [...]
CKUA Manager to CBC: Retrench to Your Original Mandate.
Monday, September 8th, 2008I believe what transpired at ACCESS and CKUA prior to privatization and what is presently happening within CBC differ only by degrees. If I am correct, then this chronicle is a classic illustration of one very real potential consequence of CBC’s current fixation on ratings, advertising and mass audience.