OTTAWA – The role of the public broadcaster should be redefined before the next federal election, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge says, as the Liberals hedge against a possible change in gover...
  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    The federal Liberals have been promising for years to update CBC’s mandate to meet the modern needs of Canadians

    On brand.

    I’ve only used CBC radio/web for news for the past couple of decades. In the 1990s they had great interviews and documentaries on Radio 1, but I stopped enjoying them in the early 2000s.

    I’ve heard proposals for CBC only doing news and local broadcasting (but keeping the coverage for remote communities). That seems like it would gut the service, but I don’t know how popular the non-news content is.

  • grteOP
    2·
    11 months ago

    I accidentally posted the archive with a broken link, it’s fixed now.