Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!csri.toronto.edu!norvell
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From: norvell@csri.toronto.edu (Theodore Stevens Norvell)
Subject: Re: Royal Canadian Air Farce
Message-ID: <1989Aug19.162644.28256@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <640@UALTAVM.BITNET>
Distribution: can
Date: 19 Aug 89 20:26:44 GMT

In article <639@UALTAVM.BITNET> TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET 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?
 
In article <640@UALTAVM.BITNET> TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET writes:
>And now for something completely different ...
> 
>I DO love a lot of things on CBC, and especially CBC Radio.
>I usually listen to the RCAF when I can.

This seems a little contradictory.  I would guess that a good part of that
$50 million is going towards producing and broadcasting matieral for two very
good commercial free national radio networks.  Without federal funding shows
like the Air Farce (and the Frantics, As it Happens, Morning Side and Ideas)
would never see the ether.  TV may be a different story; but as I don't
watch it, I won't comment.