Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!robinson From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps. Message-ID: <1163@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 00:36:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1163 Posted: Mon Jul 15 00:36:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 03:04:49 EDT References: <1121@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1110@mnetor.UUCP> <1135@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1252@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Distribution: can Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 18 Summary: In article <1252@mnetor.UUCP> sophie@mnetor.UUCP writes: >Wait a minute there! CBC was never meant to be a profit-making >operation. It is a service operation providing information, ideas, >entertainment to people. I personnally am very happy that they are >losing money. It means that they spend more time producing services >than selling them. On the other hand, a lack of profit could be the sign of an organization which has become bloated due to the fact nobody ever told them to watch their expenditures. >.................................................... Given the >cuts in CBC's budget, it is amazing that they are still managing to >produce such high-quality programs. See above comment for a possible answer to this one. J.B. Robinson