We know how to ensure the CBC’s suvival: the Senate committee archives are stuffed with sane, solid suggestions, almost none of which showed up in the report released last week. Yes, it will cost some money, but what price do we put on the maintenance of democratic values, the spread of education, and the promotion of cultural literacy?
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whether the new digital media are a natural extension of print, or of radio and television, is a moot point. Sites like thestar.com and cbc.ca are an amalgam of both traditions. So broadcasters might as easily complain about newspaper websites horning in on their territory as vice-versa.
Mr. Chambers, who led the team that came up with the CBC strategic plan just announced, appears to be a major part of that problem. The only viable strategy for the survival of our much–loved, much-criticized, and grievously afflicted CBC is for it to rediscover what it means to be a true public broadcaster, and to follow that path.
With a sense of great urgency, we, the undersigned, call upon you and all members of the Board,
to consider the inevitable consequence of this most recent funding cut in particular, and, in
accordance with your responsibility as Board members, to clearly and publicly inform the
Government that these cuts will effectively eviscerate CBC/Radio Canada and will ultimately bring
about the demise of this important and valued national public service.
the public broadcaster is not a business in any conventional sense. It exists not to make money or to satisfy any financial goals, but to fill a public need—one that is not being served by private media outlets. The CBC is a public good, like the school system, like medicare, like our universities and colleges, our public museums and galleries.
New research on the impact of national public broadcasters has the potential to inject a fresh theme into the ongoing discussions in this country around what to do about the struggling CBC/Radio-Canada.
As the CBC and its supporters search with growing urgency for solutions to the public broadcaster’s critical funding problems, an idea gaining some traction is that CBC television be dismantled, and spun off into a clutch of subscription-based cable specialty channels.
Market failures that justify public service broadcasting are still with us in the digital era.
A new, 12-year contract with the NHL will commit CBC to continuing heavy reliance on commercial sponsorship, a strategy which many of its fans see as disastrous in the long term.
Who’s to blame for the disastrously bad Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery on CBC television?