How to eliminate the redundancies in public media funding?

[Dexter Sinister]

What huge difference?

What does the CBC presently do that privately funded media does not?

Listen to CBC Radio for a day or two, it'll be immediately obvious.

 

[taxslave]

I listen to Radio 1 & 2 exclusively.

Satellite radio isn't free. I've been able to pick up the SK radio 1 AM broadcast as far as Omaha Nebraska when driving to San Antonio.

Why on earth would I want to pay Sirius?

So you are not stuck listening to CBC.

 

[Machjo]

When was the last time you listened to C.B.C. radio?

On the radio, about a year ago. Online, about a month ago.

For people like me who rarely watch TV and listen to the radio, why not allow me to opt out with a media voucher to subscribe to my favourite online media?

 

[tay]

If you want to eliminate public media funding you have to eliminate private media funding as well.




CBC lashes out at Quebecor's $500-million in public subsidies


CBC lashes out at Quebecor's $500-million in public subsidies - The Globe and Mail






I would go further and ban paid government advertising which of course is another form of subsidizing all media.........






the Tories’ oft-criticized Economic Action Plan ads — the (*wink*) non-partisan information campaign that has cost taxpayers, as of this writing, about three quarters of a billion dollars — could the Liberals have come up with the idea for the radio spots that have been pumping through my car stereo speakers over the past week or so?




http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/gordon-omg-stop-spending-our-money-on-political-advertising










When was the last time you watched a YouTube clip of a clever political television commercial from Britain?


The answer is probably never, because the U.K. bans paid political advertising on television and radio.


Isn’t it about time Canada followed suit?






Let’s follow Britain’s lead: Ban political TV and radio ads | National Newswatch

 

[Machjo]

If you want to eliminate public media funding you have to eliminate private media funding as well.




CBC lashes out at Quebecor's $500-million in public subsidies


CBC lashes out at Quebecor's $500-million in public subsidies - The Globe and Mail






I would go further and ban paid government advertising which of course is another form of subsidizing all media.........






the Tories’ oft-criticized Economic Action Plan ads — the (*wink*) non-partisan information campaign that has cost taxpayers, as of this writing, about three quarters of a billion dollars — could the Liberals have come up with the idea for the radio spots that have been pumping through my car stereo speakers over the past week or so?




Gordon: OMG, stop spending our money on political advertising | Ottawa Citizen










When was the last time you watched a YouTube clip of a clever political television commercial from Britain?


The answer is probably never, because the U.K. bans paid political advertising on television and radio.


Isn’t it about time Canada followed suit?






Let’s follow Britain’s lead: Ban political TV and radio ads | National Newswatch

Good ideas.

 

[captain morgan]

Listen to CBC Radio for a day or two, it'll be immediately obvious.

Obvious in the sense that the journalists insist on treating their position(s) as their own private platform to espouse their individual ideals and positions.

Get up really early some morning and listen to the BBC broadcast that precedes the on-air time of CBC... That is how a public broadcaster is supposed to behave

 

[petros]

So you are not stuck listening to CBC.

I'm never stuck. It's a nickleback free blessing.

Obvious in the sense that the journalists insist on treating their position(s) as their own private platform to espouse their individual ideals and positions.

Get up really early some morning and listen to the BBC broadcast that precedes the on-air time of CBC... That is how a public broadcaster is supposed to behave

The ABC news is very well done.

 

[JLM]

I'm never stuck. It's a nickleback free blessing.



The ABC news is very well done.

I listen to C.B.C. radio pretty much exclusively and I only have two complaints
1. To much repetition in that in a week you can get the same program three or four times.
2. (my biggest one) Too much time spent on discussions of alternative sexual orientations and the ramifications of such. I'm no prude and don't want to curtail gays etc. but the broadcasting should reflect the 95% who are heterosexuals. Or start up C.B.C. 3 devoted entirely to that audience.