The Complaints of Jim Shaw

[dewline]

I am annoyed by Jim Shaw, CEO of Shaw Communications, over something that he's threatening to do to the Canadian Television Fund unless CBC is further starved of funding - via CTF specifically - posthaste.

Mr. Shaw, please cease and desist in this behaviour. Shaw Communications, as far as I can tell, is doing quite nicely as it is. CBC's survival and current levels of funding does not hurt your company irreparably. Your employees are capable of keeping the corporate ship afloat without you making such noises as these. And as a Canadian citizen, a friend to assorted customers of yours, and a CBC viewer and listener, I wish that private broadcasters would kindly fall silent on the subject of the CBC. Their complaints over the fact of its continued existence annoy me. Especially when it succeeds at doing the work that the Broadcasting Act of Canada requires of it.

Comments

[madlycool.livejournal.com]

The CRTC should make companies pay for their licences. In fact, they should punish Shaw by cancelling their licences, and assigning them to another broadcaster.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

No argument.

Any recommendations as to whom the licenses should be reassigned to?

[madlycool.livejournal.com]

They should open bids, and auction them like they do (did?) in the UK, except with a minimum price.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Anyone from the UK want to weigh in on this one? How was/is it done in the Kingdom?