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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: CBC Subsidy (was: That F'n Fed Sales Tax ...)
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Date: 16 Aug 89 06:59:16 GMT
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In-reply-to: TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET's message of 15 Aug 89 13:56:51 GMT

In article <639@UALTAVM.BITNET> TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tim Mclellan) writes:

   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?

Hmm, all debating about the virtue of the CBC aside, perhaps you
should concentrate your efforts on getting rid of Significant
Expenses.  Like this daycare scam.  That's BILLIONS of $$$.  Not this
piddly million stuff.

   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?

I'm not so sure that the mission of the CBC is still to give people
access to TV in isolated parts of the country.  I think that CBC has
now taken on a more cultural preservation role, and in that I believe
it does a fine job of giving us an alternative to American
gunshots-and-car-chases TV shows.
--
Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada