CBC is facing budget cuts and was off bitching about it to The Mop and Pail which dutifully printed their worries while simultaneously promoting CBC’s new music service.
Well with great fanfare CBC launched a 40 channel online radio service. Intially we thought they might be trying to compete with iTunes, which would have been foolish, but instead they are simply competing with private broadcasters using your tax dollars which is wrong.
Can anyone tell me what Kelly Clarkson, Aerosmith or Meatloaf have to do with CBC mandate?
This is not a Canadian music service, as you might think from reading the Canadian Press story on the service.
No, CBC is using tax dollars to build a service which competes with private radio stations as well as online services such as Iceberg Radio or Rdio.
Take a look at the screen capture below, this was taken just after 7pm Monday. The artists include Spice Girls, Rhianna and Elton John, who has pretty much shown up every time I’ve checked out the site today.
When the 10% cut comes to CBC’s budget and they start complaining about having to cut vital services, remember that they chose to put their money into this rather than a bureau in Beruit or an increased presence in an underserved part of Canada.
Hubert Lacroix wants to build a media empire that goes far beyond what Parliament asks of him. If he wants to run that kind of empire he should ask the government to sell CBC so that he can take it private.
CBC is evil. Pure and simple.
“Hubert Lacroix wants to build a media empire that goes far beyond what Parliament asks of him. If he wants to run that kind of empire he should ask the government to sell CBC so that he can take it private”
Maybe he should buy it himself. He must be able to afford it after all we have paid him over the years. It’s not as if it’s worth top dollar.