CBC Will No Longer Compete for Pro Sports Rights Packages

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http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=448916

The CBC/Radio-Canada announced on Thursday that the network will no longer compete for the rights to professional sports, as the national public broadcaster is cutting $130 million from its budget this year and eliminating 657 jobs over the next two years.
"As of today, CBC and Radio Canada is out of the business of competing with the private (broadcasters) for professional sports," network president Hubert Lacroix told employees in a corporate-wide town hall.
The crown corporation maintains it will still compete for other sporting events with interest to Canadians such as the Summer and Winter Olympics.
"We remain committed to signature events of national importance such as the Olympics; but, as with Sochi, we'll approach these events in new ways - new ways of producing, new technologies and new partnership arrangements," the network said in a statement.
While CBC will still broadcast Hockey Night in Canada NHL games on Saturday nights over the next four years, incoming rights holder Rogers will produce the programs, sell the ad space in the time slot and keep the revenue.

Wow. It's such a huge business now, sports that is, that the CBC has lost just about all pro sports packages simply because they can't compete with private multi-media conglomerates. But still, surprising.

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They don't even want to try. Now that Peter Gzowski is gone from CBC, there is nobody to bring women together from Vancouver and St. John's that knit sweaters out of Dog hair.

Seriously, don't even get me started. CBC is so wrapped-up in Political Correctness, they are afraid of everything except everybody that is a weirdo and who is a severe minority.

If you are an unemployed, First Nations, substance abusing, Trans-gendered, Hermaphorodite with 3 Boobs and 2 Penises, that has lost a leg in a wheelchair and has Mesothelioma, then CBC will give you your own show, no questions asked and make you a gazillionaire.

They only have money for the exception of society, nothing else.