Fun Facts on The CBC
CBC President Hubert Lacroix gave a speech last week that had some interesting factoids fun facts about the CBC:
- Canadian’s personal annual contributions to CBC/Radio-Canada is $34 a year, less than a dime a day. The BBC receives $124 per Briton, and funding in France was $65 per citizen in 2007;
- CBC audiences download close to two million podcasts every month;
- In addition to offering its services in English and in French in five time zones, the national public broadcaster also provides coverage in eight Aboriginal languages, in eight international languages for new and aspiring Canadians, and nine languages via our worldwide radio network.
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$34.00? Interesting.
I paid $35.00 (Canadian) for a membership at WNED Buffalo. I did this because I appreciate classical radio and CBC, who, apparently, uses thirty-four of my dollars yearly, chose to ruin the best classical music radio on the planet. They didn’t ask what I or other loyal listeners thought. They didn’t care.
I only have an aerial so don’t receive the PBS station, but enjoyed their commercial-free quality television when I lived in the city. I receive CBC TV, but aside from the news, documentaries and the occasional other well-done program (none of which have been made in or purchased from the U.S.), I don’t watch.
I also donated $25.00 to Jazz FM 91 because that’s where I have to go to hear good jazz.
I, and many others like me, are not against funding the CBC. It’s the idiots making the really stupid decisions that turn us off.
And we, then, turn CBC off.
Don’t have access to Mr Lacroix’s numbers so I’m using Wiki’s.
31,612,897 Canadian population 2006
966 Million for the CBC in 2006 from the Feds
365 Days in 2006
0.083718216095973533354362754118211 Cents per day per Canadian.
I like the sound of 8 cents a day better than a dime.
We have six time zones in Canada. Not from Wiki but from my grade school studies.
When Daylight Saving Time is observed subtract one for time zones. Except most of Saskatchewan which remains on MST UTC -7 all year
NST: UTC−3.5
AST : UTC−4
EST: UTC−5
CST: UTC−6
MST: UTC−7
PST: UTC−8
I hope Mr Lacroix has a word with his speech writers and their fact checking or if he prefers I don’t mind offering my services as a fact checker.
Factoid: A factoid is a spurious—unverified, incorrect, or fabricated — statement formed and asserted as a fact, but with no veracity.
Tut, tut
slight correction “Glad no lock out until 2014″; Sask is on Central time all year long, not Mountain time.
Thanks KennS
With apologies to the residents of the most popular province to draw in geography class.
Hey Leithcam: I found another definition of factoid: “an invented fact believed to be true because of its appearance in print”.
You learn something new every day.
Glad:
I suspect the reason he says 5 timezones is because programming isn’t done separately for Newfoundland time. It gets everything that’s being broadcast in Atlantic time, which is why everything’s “half an hour later in Newfoundland and parts of Labrador”. I can see Hubert’s reasoning and it makes sense. CBC just pretends the extra half hour doesn’t exist which is why the world at six is actually the world at 6:30 in Newfoundland.
Much like the PBS and other public radio/tv stations, why doesn’t the CBC open up to donations? If the opportunity was there, I would happily “subscribe/donate” to the CBC and add another $50-100 to my $34.
The CBC has Television and Radio in Newfoundland and Labrador with staff producing local content and programming.
Take a look
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/programs/
I am glad CBC changed Radio 2. I can actually listen to it now. It is way more appealing to a way larger audience.
Just my 2cents.
Classical Canuck, are you saying you gave $35 dollars of your money to a station that you can’t even get? Did I read that right? And you are complaining about CBC wasting money? Give your head a shake brother. How many people listen to classical music? I would think the number is very low. CBC is trying to produce content that is enjoyed by as many people as possible. If they were number one in the ratings would you say the money was being well spent? The ratings are on the increase with all the recent changes. I think they are going in the right direction.
Tony
I receive the classical music station which I listen to for several hours each day.
The TV station is immaterial to me.
Thousands of people like classical music. And if you are interested in checking the BBM numbers, you will find that Radio Two is listened to by fewer people than were listening prior to the change.
If down is the right direction, I guess you are right.
Imagine if Hudson’s Bay Company still only sold fur coats and hats.
Imagine if the Hudson’s Bay Company was still owned by a Canadian.
Imagine companies giving up tv licenses, just giving them up and walking away. Imagine newspapers just closing the doors.
Imagine a phoenix rising from ashes.
Ok so factoid is corrected to fun fact but the info stating CBC producing in only 5 times zone is still up and incorrect.
Trivial and pathetic comments!!! We’re talking about one of the last major Canadian voices that is at stake right now! Local voices must be heard and must have a forum to express. We’re trading our culture for war and carbon capture. Stephen Harper, please be accountable to my culture and my hard earned tax dollar: it stays put with CBC.