New research on the impact of national public broadcasters has the potential to inject a fresh theme into the ongoing discussions in this country around what to do about the struggling CBC/Radio-Canada.
Tag: public broadcasting
As the CBC and its supporters search with growing urgency for solutions to the public broadcaster’s critical funding problems, an idea gaining some traction is that CBC television be dismantled, and spun off into a clutch of subscription-based cable specialty channels.
Market failures that justify public service broadcasting are still with us in the digital era.
A new, 12-year contract with the NHL will commit CBC to continuing heavy reliance on commercial sponsorship, a strategy which many of its fans see as disastrous in the long term.
fundamental to public broadcasting is its universal accessibility. Like medical care and formal education, it should be available to everybody, for the simple reason that everybody benefits from being part of a healthy, well-educated community
There are two obvious responses to the crisis facing our public broadcaster, and both involve eliminating advertising on CBC television. Both the theory and practice of public service media demand this.