CBC hiring someone to watch CBC
Given the extreme lack of regular consumers of CBC products, the state broadcaster is spending some of its $1.6 billion in annual subsidies to hire someone to monitor CBC broadcasts for viewer experience issues.
The main purpose of the monitoring system is to be “remote eyes and remote ears” for CBC/Radio-Canada support teams (operators) to provide monitoring visibility into viewer and listener experience across all Canadian regions for TV and Radio linear CBC/Radio-Canada broadcast networks.
The monitoring system shall proactively detect and alert the operators, in real-time, to viewer and listener experience issues affecting TV and Radio regional playout. The monitoring system shall also, in real-time, allow operators to validate this alerting enabling the operator to see and hear TV and Radio content as the content is being played out in the regions.
According to a 2022 report in the Western Standard:
Despite getting $1.5-billion of taxpayers’ money, data from the CRTC show the CBC has dropped to less than 3.9 per cent of viewership across Canada in 2018-2019 – a whopping drop of 25 per cent in just one year.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Editor-in-Chief, Alberta Bureau Chief, member of the board of directors, and host of The Gunn Show at Rebel News. Sheila also serves as President of the Independent Press Gallery of Canada. A mother of three and longtime conservative activist, Sheila is the author of bestselling books, including her most recent release, Independence Blueprint: What Alberta Can Learn From Quebec.
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