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From: TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tim Mclellan)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: CBC Subsidy (was: That F'n Fed Sales Tax ...)
Message-ID: <639@UALTAVM.BITNET>
Date: 15 Aug 89 13:56:51 GMT
References:  <3249@watale.waterloo.edu>
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In article <3249@watale.waterloo.edu>, tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>
>It's not that I like taxes, but somebody's got to pay the bills...
>
 
I don't like taxes either.  And I don't like subsidizing CBC to the tune of
$50 million (a year?).  If CTV can get by with little or no federal help, why
shouldn't the CBC be expected to start being a self-sufficient network too?
 
I realize that once upon a time, there were a lot of people who couldn't gain
access to broadcast TV.  The CBC helped fill that gap.  But how many people
still don't have access to some form of broadcast TV?  What with satellites
and dishes, and just plain old cablevision, are there that many people who
need the subsidized services of CBC?
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     Tim McLellan                        University of Alberta
                                         Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
     "Personal shopping only."
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