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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Replying to @EthanCoxMtl @JesseBrown
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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What do you mean "withholding access" Jesse? They're freely available on the website, and on demand on our TVs. They're available all the same places you access Netflix.
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Alias Grace was pulled from the CBC's site when Netflix Canada added it.
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Interesting. Would changing the tax law make it more likely for Netflix to invest in Canada without partners (and thus show globally)? (Not a rhetorical question: genuinely curious).
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