>There is a minor debate going on up here about the money CBC gets from the govt.<
Oh? You weren’t there back when Martin was still the PM and one parliament member point blank asked the CBC president..HOW MUCH MONEY DOES HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA RAKE IN?
The CBC guy refused to answer. Molson won’t even say in public how much it pays to the telecasts which I surmise has been in the half billion for 1 season. And nothing trickles back to the taxpayers.
There is currently a minor debate going on. How much the CBC gets from the government is known. It is over a billion dollars. How they spend that billion plus isn’t known. Whether the CBC deserves that billion plus a year is the debate. It is minor in the grand scheme of things but it is percolating.