Talk:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Election related news

CBC was not #1. CTV was. [unsigned]

The day after the election, two ads were run, one from each network. CTV's numbers were for their main channel and did not include CTV Newsnet; CBC's numbers included Newsworld, the equivalent 24-hour news network. Thus, coverage from the CBC drew greater numbers than the equivalent coverage from CTV. To parse the figures otherwise would be disingenuous. -JTBurman 23:09, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Macleans is running a story on this issue, which adds detail. See it here

-JTBurman 20:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Using Firefox and Adblock

I'm wondering what others think of adding a few lines to point people in the direction of Adblock and FF, in the case of Canadian citizens, we have already paid for the site, and should not have to see ads. Lorax 01:03, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be accurate, you haven't paid for the site, at least not all of it. Canadian citizens only pay for 2/3rds of the CBC's cost. The government hasn't covered the entire budget of the CBC in decades.

So CBC has had to make up the difference. Hence the advertising on the web site. Zedcaster 06:15, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's also not Wikipedia's place to promote particular software in this way. We have to let users make their own decisions about advertising on websites, and how they want to respond to that — the NPOV rule pretty much demands that Wikipedia not express personal opinions that such a matter is objectively a bad thing. Bearcat 19:47, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's a relevant argument Bearcat. Debate about the misappropriation of resources within the CBC is best kept on the blogs. :) Lorax 01:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]