Fair point, I admit I embellished a bit, I don't hate the CBC that much. The RCAF, This Hour has 22 minutes (note the source of my 8-minute ads comment), "Hahkey", and Peter Mansbridge are the shining pillars of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The only point I'd like to keep is this: The CBC has been going more and more in the direction of commercial stations. The advertisement quantity is nearly as large, and has been criticised in The Globe and Mail on numerous occasions.
PBS, though it has to resort to those damned telethons, has few advertisements besides "This program brought to you by...", and is altogether more sound, no?
This is great! A public broadcasting corporation which has enough guts to spend telethon money on technology to bring it to the forefront of TV broadcasting. As a Canadian, I've watched our own CBC, the public broadcasting system, commercialize to the point where it's virtually indistinguishable from American networks.
The "Stop wasting my tax dollar" point of view from Americans ticks me off. You don't realize what a gem you have. PBS has intelligent programming, teriffic movie features (Dickens' "Great Expectations" for example), and should be supported more. Do you really think that eight minutes out of every half-hour you watch TV should be devoted to ads?
This article reminds me of a competition Dell was sponsoring a few weeks/months ago: Whoever could prove they had in their possession the oldest personal computer would win a $3000 Dell system, and have their computer placed in a museum. Anyone know what became of that? Is it still open, 'cause my friend has a homemade PC in a wooden case lying in the basement.../:)
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The only point I'd like to keep is this: The CBC has been going more and more in the direction of commercial stations. The advertisement quantity is nearly as large, and has been criticised in The Globe and Mail on numerous occasions.
PBS, though it has to resort to those damned telethons, has few advertisements besides "This program brought to you by...", and is altogether more sound, no?
Once again, good points.
Commander Taco, I'd love to hear about the end result of this competition.
The "Stop wasting my tax dollar" point of view from Americans ticks me off. You don't realize what a gem you have. PBS has intelligent programming, teriffic movie features (Dickens' "Great Expectations" for example), and should be supported more. Do you really think that eight minutes out of every half-hour you watch TV should be devoted to ads?
Flame away, docu-drama fans.
This article reminds me of a competition Dell was sponsoring a few weeks/months ago: Whoever could prove they had in their possession the oldest personal computer would win a $3000 Dell system, and have their computer placed in a museum. Anyone know what became of that? Is it still open, 'cause my friend has a homemade PC in a wooden case lying in the basement... /:)