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OTTAWA—A Senate committee is calling on Canada’s public broadcaster to publicly disclose how much employees make and ensure non-executives aren’t getting paid more than their peers in private broadcasting.
The Senate’s communications committee is also calling on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to find new ways to fund its operations in order to limit the amount of funding it receives from the federal government.
The committee rejected the idea of stable, multi-year funding for the Crown corporation, saying funding is based on “the fiscal demands of the federal government.”
Senators raised the possibility of using the PBS funding model — where viewers donate money or pay for sponsorships of programs — or charging a license fee to every home in the country with a television, which is how the BBC receives some of its funds.
“Even though it’s more subtle, this is proposing to cut CBC’s budget,” said Ian Morrison of the advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The Senate committee also called on the CBC to cut production of all non-news and current events programs that private companies develop. In its place, the committee recommended the CBC create a “superfund” that would dole out cash to private producers, as opposed to the CBC spending the money on in-house productions.
Such a move, Morrison argued, would render CBC nothing more than “a transmitter of programs that are conceived and thought up by private interests.”
The committee says it’s time to update the Broadcasting Act, noting the legislation hasn’t been updated since the “pre-smartphone, pre-multi-platform” era of 1991.
CBC must find new funding sources Senate report says Toronto Star
PBS, BBC and now CBC are on their way out.
The Senate’s communications committee is also calling on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to find new ways to fund its operations in order to limit the amount of funding it receives from the federal government.
The committee rejected the idea of stable, multi-year funding for the Crown corporation, saying funding is based on “the fiscal demands of the federal government.”
Senators raised the possibility of using the PBS funding model — where viewers donate money or pay for sponsorships of programs — or charging a license fee to every home in the country with a television, which is how the BBC receives some of its funds.
“Even though it’s more subtle, this is proposing to cut CBC’s budget,” said Ian Morrison of the advocacy group Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The Senate committee also called on the CBC to cut production of all non-news and current events programs that private companies develop. In its place, the committee recommended the CBC create a “superfund” that would dole out cash to private producers, as opposed to the CBC spending the money on in-house productions.
Such a move, Morrison argued, would render CBC nothing more than “a transmitter of programs that are conceived and thought up by private interests.”
The committee says it’s time to update the Broadcasting Act, noting the legislation hasn’t been updated since the “pre-smartphone, pre-multi-platform” era of 1991.
CBC must find new funding sources Senate report says Toronto Star
PBS, BBC and now CBC are on their way out.
