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Originally Posted by Loco101

I agree with your points but I still support the English-language CBC.

You are correct about how they tend to focus way too much on things such as Trump's tweets or the British monarchy. Not much diversity in their coverage. Many conservative-type people call the CBC a left-wing or socialist organization when in fact the network will often be backwards or out of touch with those on the left. A common complaint that I agree with is that the CBC often represents too much Toronto and to a lesser extent Vancouver. And often certain regional cities are over-represented. But we could debate forever about fairness and coverage.B]

The fact that Atlantic Canada has twice as many CBC radio/Radio-Canada affiliates as the 3x more populace Prairie Provinces says a lot about variable representation across Canada. (so unfamiliar on The Prairies, I had to wiki Radio-Canada to find out it actually stands for CBC french )

If CBC were to be more responsible for it's funding like the private broadcasters have to, there would be even better advertising for not only private sector but also better media representation across the country.

example, CBC TV Saskatchewan is only one of six TV network affiliates in the province,
Global & CTV Regina, Global & CTV Saskatoon and CityTV Saskatchewan are the others.
also a city like Lethbridge has a Global TV affiliate... but no CBC affiliate.

Originally posted by MonctonRad

I agree with you only in the sense that the left wing agenda of the CBC has been hijacked away from traditional socialist causes such as expanding the welfare state and protecting medicare, and instead has been supplanted by victimology and identity politics. This sort of shift in coverage is really divisive and pits people against people. The CBC should return more to the more inclusive aspects of traditional socialism (such as maintaining the social welfare system), which, in it's own way is just as much a form of nation building as is building highways or pipelines.

Identity politics is just purely toxic in any form..........

That's part of the reason why in province like Saskatchewan, CBC has lost a lot of respectability due to it's irresponsible reporting of news facts on provincial and on national level. The CBC incorrectly reporting that death of Saskatchewan first nations Colten Boushie as innocent bystander looking for help for flat tire on Gerald Stanley farm was an example of that, or CBC not bothering to report local news such as when miners are stranded in Saskatchewan potash mine fires over the last few years etc etc. something even The Canadian Press reports.

CBC Saskatchewan radio has lost several percentage points in last couple years alone and listeners in Saskatoon and Regina represent less than a half or a third the percentage of listeners in other cities in BC and east half of Canada.

The cost of keeping CBC relevant in Canada is becoming more and more unaffordable. The average CBC employee's 6 figure salary is in top 10% of entire Canadian workforce.

Not only are CBC employees overpaid, their performance has been questionable. Their advertising revenues have fallen 32 per cent in just the last year, and 12.2 per cent annually for the past five years.

Already costing taxpayers $1.04 billion in 2015 and facing rising competition, the CBC's fiscal burden set to jump by $75 million in 2016 and $150 million in 2017.

News media is undergoing a rapid and beautiful process of creative destruction: digitalization means vastly lower costs, fewer barriers to entry, and a wider variety of competing options for consumers to enjoy. Amid this innovation and weeding out stands the too-big-to-fail albatross, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blog...cbcs-privilege

I think CBC should take on the form of what PBS & NPR is like in the States, it would get more viewers/listeners than it does now and probably get more respectability abroad.