XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, bc.politics   
   From: weasel@stew.yum   
      
   On 11/27/2013 2:41 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:   
   > On 27/11/2013 4:51 PM, ConɀRConɀ wrote:   
   >   
   >> The negotiations that were going on had the NHL DOUBLING the fee that   
   >> CBC would have had to pay the NHL to keep HNIC on CBC - from $100   
   >> million to $200 million a year.   
   >> Now CBC doesn't have to pay anything . . . . not even their yearly $100   
   >> million fee.   
   >>   
   >> So, you might say they lost $175 million revenue from hockey televising,   
   >> but they now get to keep the $100 million they used to pay.   
   >> Net difference:  $75 million.   And yeah, a reinstatement of Harper cuts   
   >> to CBC would cover that off.   
   >>   
   >> Vote for the Mulcair team and we get our CBC back, fully financed, like   
   >> they were.   
   >   
   > I have no interest in having the CBC be fully-financed as government   
   > financing usually translates to a network becoming a tool of propaganda.   
      
   It's been used a Liberal Party state organ for decades.   
      
   > However, CBC saving $100 million is meaningless   
   > since it only retains rights to HNIC for the next four years, and it is   
   > apparently going to become a Sportsnet-corrupted broadcast. What happens   
   > after those four years?   
      
   Lots of re-runs of David Suzuki.   
      
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