The CBC does not seem to be acting any differently than the BBC and other public broadcasters, which make ambitious programming and then license it internationally. Your expectation of the CBC to do something radically different, for free, seems unrealistic.
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Again, the BBC is ad-free for the people who fund it. That's a huge difference. I don't think the CBC should give away its stuff internationally, just here. However: why do we need other countries to do something first before we do it?
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Replying to @JesseBrown @iD4RO
A lot of this is just a question of money. If the CBC were better funded I'm sure they'd love to remove ads from TV. They already don't have them on radio. Likewise a better funded broadcaster wouldn't need to worry as much about recouping costs on shows.
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Replying to @EthanCoxMtl @iD4RO
the opposite is true. They'd love to introduce ads to radio and have already done so when they could get away with it: on CBC Radio2 and in releasing radio online (podcasts). Once FM is done, ad-free CBC Radio will go too.
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But I think that's born of desperation in the face of repeated cuts and the need to bring in new revenue. I agree it should be ad-free, but that requires a significant government investment in boosting the budget to compensate for lost ad revenue.
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You can't ask the CBC to be the BBC without also tripling its funding. Jesse, have you ever advocated such a massive increase in CBC's government funding?
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Replying to @iD4RO @EthanCoxMtl
yes in fact, I've often said I'd be willing to pay much more for public broadcasting if it were in fact public broadcasting - not a commercial/public hybrid that makes dubious commercial content, starves its news org and hurts the media industry by acting as a competitor.
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This is moving the goal post. It's an argument for not doing Alias Grace at all (as opposed to having it run on Netflix at same time).
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I wasn't changing the parameters of my original argument, I was responding to Ishmael's question. But yes, if CBC can only make shows like this by withholding access to them from Canadians and selling ads against them, I question why we need to make them at all.
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Yes, it is. Free when broadcast (to more Canadian homes than have Netflix) and free to anyone with internet access (again, more than Netflix in Canada). That's why I find Jesse's argument so baffling.
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And truly free. Not requiring a monthly subscription fee like Netflix.
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