Can the CBC Learn a Lesson or Two From NPR?
Posted on March 24, 2009 - Filed Under culture |
Just read Anya Kamenetz’ Fast Company story on NPR and am convinced, in light of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s recent Parliament panhandle, that the CBC could learn a thing or two about combining quality programming with innovative and competent business practice from the American public broadcaster.
Now, if you judged things by just reading comment sections of Canada’s newspapers, you’d think half the country wants to sell it off while the other would sell their left arm to keep it as is. To those who want it dismantled — it costs you $12/year. That’s a pitcher of beer. Or a shot and a pack of smokes (if you’re lucky), so relax. To those who want to give our national broadcaster all it wants, take off the maple leaf-coloured glasses and step into reality. The network is, by many accounts, filled with complacent lifers and plenty of other wasteful policies.
Why can’t the CBC land somewhere between the goverment-funded BBC (which, by the way, costs Brits £139.50/year) and the publicly-supported NPR? Any ideas?
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