mace wrote:

I still believe that Radio Canada and CBC Radio One should be maintained. The former is extremely popular in La Belle Province and the latter has a multitude of listeners in most Canadian markets. CBC English television is where the main focus should be concentrated.

Agreed. English TV is a dumpster fire and has increasingly fewer and fewer viewers. If they're going to cut funding for anything, that's the place. The radio works and should be maintained, although perhaps they could use a reduction in multiple producers for every show. 

I am starting to wonder if any OTA networks, including the big four in the US are going to survive over the next 4-7 years.  All are likely losing tons of cash and this can't continue.  Other than football and maybe a few other sports CBS,ABC,NBC and FOX are not drawing many viewers. This applies to Global, CTV, City and CBC as well. 

It is even a stretch to call any of the popular scripted programs a hit show.  A program like Tracker only gets about 5-6 million live viewers on a good night, add in PVR play and streaming over one month and you maybe have 10-11 million, which isn't much and little value to advertisers.

Oddly enough, if CBC TV survives it could become a more vital service than it is now.  But with Canada's poor financial situation, and huge yearly budget spends on the military coming soon, no matter who is in office, CBC/Radio Canada's future doesn't look very secure.  
    

BowmanvilleBob wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

I am starting to wonder if any OTA networks, including the big four in the US are going to survive over the next 4-7 years.  All are likely losing tons of cash and this can't continue.  Other than football and maybe a few other sports CBS,ABC,NBC and FOX are not drawing many viewers. This applies to Global, CTV, City and CBC as well. 

It is even a stretch to call any of the popular scripted programs a hit show.  A program like Tracker only gets about 5-6 million live viewers on a good night, add in PVR play and streaming over one month and you maybe have 10-11 million, which isn't much and little value to advertisers.

Oddly enough, if CBC TV survives it could become a more vital service than it is now.  But with Canada's poor financial situation, and huge yearly budget spends on the military coming soon, no matter who is in office, CBC/Radio Canada's future doesn't look very secure.  
    

One of the things that CBC is doing to help it's own case is establishing news bureaus in smaller, underserved areas when local newspapers/radio have been downsized or consolidated. This is not only part of the Corp's long-stated strategic mandate, but I believe it will make it more difficult for any future government to cut back on funding, since these new bureaus will, in many places, be one of the only sources of local news for many communities. 
 

I think local news is often overlooked when people talk about the CBC. People in large cities like Toronto or Vancouver can easily forget that there are far more limited media choices in smaller markets. As an example, Prince Edward Island has a CBC TV station that is one of the very few media outlets in that province. CBC’s Compass newscast has long enjoyed high ratings. CTV serves that province with its regional Atlantic newscast, and Global serves PEI with a New Brunswick focused newscast.

There’s also the matter of CBC North, which is the only English-language TV news in the Territories, and they also provide TV news programming in the Inuit language. There’s no CTV Yellowknife to fill the void if there was no CBC TV up there.

Last edited by MJ Vancouver (December 15, 2024 10:10 pm)