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Save Canada'S National Broadcaster

Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 12:18pm


Coolness: 106205	The Canadian government (Steven Harper) has refused to provide loans to the CBC to cover its budget shortfall this year (from lack of publicity revenues). This is forcing the CBC and Radio Canada to drastically cut over 800 jobs as well as programming. The CBC is asking for temporary loans amounting to just $6 per Canadian, or less than 2 pennies a day for each of us. We can make this happen, so let's pull out all the stops to deliver a massive petition to Parliament and Save the CBC! (and save the jobs of 800 young CBC employee's) [ www.avaaz.org ]

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 1:54pm


Coolness: 103425	isn't don cherry with cbc? fuck that dick

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:41pm

Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:49pm


Coolness: 93585	yeah...this station pays cherry 1 million dollars a year. thats fucking rediculous. Perhaps if they made less stupid decisions, they wouldnt find themselves in such a precarious position

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:53pm


Coolness: 76800	Originally Posted By DATABOY employee's) Ahem... Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine there.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ufot replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:54pm


Coolness: 93190	ya... its ridonkulous now btw... pfff... get it straight peeps Ufot-grammmmmmmar

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:57pm


Coolness: 93585	Originally Posted By LUKEPERIL Ahem... Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine there. ahhahahha...grammer with an "a". Classic lolz

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 3:05pm


Coolness: 76800	WHATCHOO SAY BOUT MY GRAMMER? DON'T YOU BE DISSING MY GRAMMER! She at home knittin', best step off.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 3:19pm


Coolness: 106205	Originally Posted By GAMOS yeah...this station pays cherry 1 million dollars a year. thats fucking rediculous. Perhaps if they made less stupid decisions, they wouldnt find themselves in such a precarious position Ya blame CBC for the recession... CBC costs every Canadian 35$ a year. Compared to the bbc (124$ a year) and radio France (77$ a year), CBC is a bargain.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 3:49pm


Coolness: 93585	How exactly do CTV and Global survive recessions? CBC ALREADY gets funding from the government that other broadcast corporations do not. Now you want them to get additional handouts in a recession? If companies cant manage their businesses around the business cycle, wtf are you paying their management for? IF they can't turn a profit its because not enough people give a shit about what their producing and broadcasting - so either drop the shit not enough people like, or change it so enough people like it.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 4:37pm


Coolness: 106205	Actually the company's like CTV and Global are receiving bailouts from the government. The reason why CBC are short a few millions is because company like GM and ford pulled there ads's, cus they when bankrupt. The fact is CBC is failing because the whole private sector is failing. Like hospitals and schools, CBC is a public service, its mandate is not to turn a profit. In times of recession, the government should fund infrastructures and public services not eat away at it.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Gamos replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 5:27pm


Coolness: 93585	I beg to differ. A corporation makes more in good times than in bad times. Its job is to make enough money in the good times to cover losses in the bad times. In all recessions, troubled industries cut back on advertising, and in all good times, industry loads up on advertising. The result is that ad-revenue is higher in good times than in bad times. If you average out profits over a cycle, a firm should be profitable. CBC is given 200 million dollars a year to fulfil their mandate. If its not enough, they should ask for more yearly funding, not emergency and temporary loans. Emergency and temporary loans are a sign of bad management, and poor programming. If CBC gets bailed out, the same shitty programming will continue. If the government funds public service in recessions and in expansions the result would be them becoming really inefficient over time since most efficiency gains occur in recesssions. I bet you the 800 job cuts will barely affect programming.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 6:59pm


Coolness: 76800	Originally Posted By DATABOY company's Thi's i's gettin'g ou't o'f contro'l.

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 7:24pm


Coolness: 106205	The first mistake here is was to sell publicity in the first place. That is where the mismanagement happened. By doing so, CBC positioned itself against the private sector with is definitely not in there mandate. Originally Posted By GAMOS I bet you the 800 job cuts will barely affect programming. I can guaranty that it will. You probably wont notice if you never watch or listen to cbc, but one of North Americas best radio show, Macadam Tribus is being pulled, ofter 12 years on the air. All the evening programing on the 95.1 fm will become reruns of the day. Many of the shows that used live music will be cancelled (the musicians will feel it to). Why should the federal government bail out the privately owned company s and not one of its own public institutions?

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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 7:29pm


Coolness: 159210	Erm, because the federal government can barely make the difference between its ass and its face ?

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