The Canadian pubcaster has been ad-supported in part for all of the over 80 years it's been in existence, with the TV network currently running ads (the radio networks only run political ads during national elections)--the net claims that the additional funding will allow it to wean off of advertising and be more like the BBC (although they haven't said anything about a possible license fee on TV sets, probably because they know the Tories, who want the CBC privatized for its alleged "liberal bias," will fight a license fee tooth and nail--and have already said that they will fight the proposal for additional funds:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-radio-canada-ad-free-proposal-1.3871077 For the record, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been funded by general government support for over 45 years (the only other funds it gets are from sales of videos and other tie-in items, either online or in shops at its studios and in the country's major cities) and New Zealand's pubcasting system, although state owned, has been deregulated, with ads on every channel and the grumbling in the chattering classes of "dumbing down." Australia's second pubcaster, SBS, has been running ads since 1991 and when the original policy of running ads only between programs was changed about 15 years ago (supposedly to combat channel changes during those long between-program breaks while the commercial networks have pretty much adapted the U.S. "seamless" model) to initial complaints about programming being scarred, but it seems to have been accepted as a necessary evil. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
