CRTC - Soon to be obsolete

[jdobbin]

Don't quite understand what you're saying here,

but I do know that the only thing that sells on CBC to Canadians is the sports stuff(Hockey) and that is going to end when the NHL begins broadcasting all their games on TSN. Along with hockey,TSN is going to take away CFL football from the CBC as well.

With a $billion a year pumped into the CBC,it's not cheap,but it is horrible.

What I hate the most is the mockumentaries that are constantly being shown over and over like they are factual pieces of history(Trudeau,Douglas,Leveque,War Measures Act) but are "dramatized" to "appeal" to audiences.

I was referring to U.S. programs that come in. Cheap and horrible is how people sometimes describe them but it is what Canadians want.

CBC is probably gone within three years if there is no changes to its format, how it is funded and what its mandate ought to be.

[mcqueen625]

You may hear that the big phone companies won a major victory. You may even see a change in your monthly phone bill.

Ignore all this.

Maxime Bernier took the right, momentous decision.

Canada's established phone companies have won their longstanding fight for less regulation of their local phone business — a move the telcos say will benefit consumers.

On Monday, Industry Minister Maxime Bernier gave BCE (Bell Canada), Telus and the country's other incumbent telcos the power to set their own prices, as long as there is sufficient competition in the local area.

CBC

That's how the CBC would choose to present this decision.

I would say rather that my vote for the Conservatives has been vindicated and only a Conservative minister from Quebec could do this. Dion Liberals couldn't. Whatever Harper's government does in its short mandate, this decision implies the greatest long term effects for Canada.

Hats off to Bernier.

Here! Here! The CRTC should be dismantled, because it is a bureaucracy for centuries past, interested in protectionism and nothing more. Canadian content, what a crock! It is simply a mechanism for mediocre talent to leach off the taxpayers and put before Canadians productions that were better left on the cutting-room floor. If these productions had any merit whatsoever they would be making it on their own without the producers having to put their hands into the pockets of Canadians to produce much of this dribble. CBC is one of the worst offenders and should be told, either stay out of the commercial market, or go completely commercial with absolutely no funding from the taxpayers. Make it a subsciber based entity much like the PBS in the States, where the only public money comes from subscribers.If they are going to compete for advertising dollars against unsubsidized rivals they should not get money from the public purse, period.

[Saturn]

Get rid of the CRTC, adult men and women should make their own choices as to what we want to hear, see on tv and read.....Let those leftwing idealist's who love the CBC etc, fund it themselves with direct user pay fees......Only Communists regulate free speech and free press like in Canada.....The taxpayers in this country are overburdened...Cut programs and cut taxes.....

Only right-wing nazis force people to pay for their stupid wars. If nazis love Afghanistan etc, they should fund their war themselves. The taxpayers in this county are overburdened...cut the military and cut taxes...

The media in Canada is owned/controlled by 3 people (like it was in nazi Germany), so only nazis allow "free" speech and "free" press like that.

[rbacon]

I think that we should end Official Bilingualism as a start, $700,000,000.00 tax dollars spent and the only result has been a unilingual rascist separtist Province.....

[Remiel]

There are no seperatist provinces in Canada. That is a myth.