Funding shortfall would force CBC to consider more U.S. shows

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TORONTO — Days after appealing to the federal government for financial assistance, the CBC says a $62-million funding cut released in Thursday's government estimates is no cause for concern.

The cut, which amounts to 5.6 per cent of the broadcaster's overall budget, is the same amount the broadcaster has received in annual non-recurring funding in each of the last six years.

That funding has not yet been approved for 2009-10, said CBC spokesman Marco Dubé.

“It looks like a cut, but it's not a cut,” he said. “If we don't get , it will add to the financial pressures we're facing now.”

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Go ahead.
Get rid of Bash Night in Canada with the basher.
Get rid of the Grey Cup. The US versions of the next coming are much more appreciated.
Limit the radio stations to one per provence. Or perhaps to one per ten million.

Get the people involved!

But of course we won't have any truth. We will just have more BS.

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1. So Now

Radio 1 will have advertising.

I don't watch TV. Now I will have to go somewhere else. Who will provide information now? The rabble rousers?

HUBERT LACROIX Duration: 00:00:26

"Financial disaster". "Tough times ahead". "Budget crisis". Phrases like those have resonated through the halls of almost every workplace in Canada -- and the halls of the CBC are no different.


Today, the President of the CBC, Hubert Lacroix, talked about the particular challenges for the nation's public broadcaster, in a speech to the Empire Club. And afterward, we reached the CBC President in Toronto.


http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/latestshow.html
It is the second segment in the Part

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/asithappens/20090226-aih-1.wmv