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As a Canadian the CBC model is a disaster.

Why it's a disaster?

I don't think the CBC model is a complete disaster. Almost all of its services are either highly rated (eg. CBC Radio One, Radio-Canada Premiere, Radio-Canada Tele) or have found their niche and serve their purpose. CBC's English TV service is severely floundering in terms of ratings and relevance in comparison to the other services it offers, and that service gets the bulk of the criticism and reasoning as to why CBC should be defunded. We also don't have a TV license fee here, CBC gets a direct $1.5B subsidy from the Federal government, and that may fluctuate depending on who is in power. So they have to rely on TV advertising on both the English and French main TV networks, and on CBC.ca.

Also, everything the CBC does is for Canadians. They don't have a global-facing commercial news channel that they need to take in consideration of when it comes to news coverage. Sure, there's a lot of content from CBC News that's available to a worldwide audience, but they're not concerned about someone in Asia being turned off by a completely Canadian running order on The National or CBC News Network.