I'm a full supporter of the CBC ... the public absolutely needs a publically funded broadcaster and news organisation.

What we don't need is high paid executives that soak so much needless waste just to hold on to supposed high ranked talent. Spread the money around and fund more young journalists, writers, producers and production people. It would be better to have lots of moderately paid professionals, rather than try to spend as much money as possible in a few high priced executives.

And move the headquarters away from an expensive downtown city. Place it in a part of the country that needs the money. We live in a digital world so there is no great need to physically locate your office in the most expensive place possible.

I can't get any reasonable source of where CBC money goes because the federal government doesn't provide a sunshine list of what people actually make and how much they actually spend. Which is also a problem as the costs the CBC incurs should be fully disclosed. How are we to judge how much to give to the CBC if we don't fully understand where their funds go.

There are ways to save the CBC, we don't need to save a few high priced people, high priced contracts in order to do it.

Fuck them for defunding CBC. They have too much value to lose to austerity.

10%?

The slow squeeze to kill the CBC, by letting it die on the vine, has begun.

They compete with corporate media. Corporate media, rightly or wrongly, see this as an opportune time to try again to quash the information railroad of our country.

They have cajoled the Govt to have TB(I assume?) dictate terms to reduce staff. Always starts with that fucking “10%”. The savings will be spent on corporations in the form of tax breaks and “incentives “. Or some other bullshit.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday that it plans to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce and axe some programming to cope with a potential $125 million budget shortfall.

The corporation said earlier this year it had begun cutting $25 million through measures such as limiting travel, sponsorships and marketing, and delaying technology initiatives.

The public broadcaster blamed its budget issues on "rising production costs, declining television advertising revenue and fierce competition from the digital giants."

Chris Waddell, professor emeritus at Carleton University's school of journalism, said the cuts come as no surprise at a time when news organizations around the world are struggling.

In June, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) Inc. announced it would be axing 1,300 positions and closing or selling nine radio stations.

At the time, Bell — the parent company of CTV National News, BNN and CP24 — said the job cuts were a response to unfavourable public policy and regulatory conditions that it could no longer wait out.

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