John Ivison: Now is CRTC's chance to tell CBC to get out of the advertising business

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The CRTC is unlikely to get to the root of the problem, which is that the taxpayer\u002Dfunded national public broadcaster sees itself as a publicly funded…

What we can expect from the regulator is a revised decision that puts stricter conditions on local programming and the amount of input from local production companies.

The evidence of the CBC’s ever more commercial bias is in its annual report. In its latest accounts, the CBC received $1.3 billion in public subsidy and $504 million from “self-generated revenue” – advertising, subscriber fees and other investments. With the public funding under threat – new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has made sympathetic noises about defunding the corporation – CBC management sees its salvation in online revenue.

The CRTC waved through the Tandem initiative as “onside with the general approach” the CBC is taking. It would be to everyone’s benefit that the newspaper subsidy is withdrawn, on the condition that CBC is told to get out of the advertising business.Article content

 

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What? Conservatives and others whine about funding for CBC now. How would taking away ad revenue help?

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