Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!kim From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: CBC Subsidy (was: That F'n Fed Sales Tax ...) Message-ID: Date: 16 Aug 89 06:59:16 GMT References: <3249@watale.waterloo.edu> <639@UALTAVM.BITNET> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: can Organization: PAMI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 In-reply-to: TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET's message of 15 Aug 89 13:56:51 GMT In article <639@UALTAVM.BITNET> TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tim Mclellan) writes: I don't like taxes either. And I don't like subsidizing CBC to the tune of $50 million (a year?). If CTV can get by with little or no federal help, why shouldn't the CBC be expected to start being a self-sufficient network too? Hmm, all debating about the virtue of the CBC aside, perhaps you should concentrate your efforts on getting rid of Significant Expenses. Like this daycare scam. That's BILLIONS of $$$. Not this piddly million stuff. I realize that once upon a time, there were a lot of people who couldn't gain access to broadcast TV. The CBC helped fill that gap. But how many people still don't have access to some form of broadcast TV? What with satellites and dishes, and just plain old cablevision, are there that many people who need the subsidized services of CBC? I'm not so sure that the mission of the CBC is still to give people access to TV in isolated parts of the country. I think that CBC has now taken on a more cultural preservation role, and in that I believe it does a fine job of giving us an alternative to American gunshots-and-car-chases TV shows. -- Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.edu Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada