CBC Survey
Source : Broadcast News
Aug 29, 2002
OTTAWA – More money for the C-B-C. That's what a lobby group wants the federal government to promise.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting says the C-B-C needs 250 (m) million dollars more a year to become more relevant. This after results of a poll suggested more than 80 per cent of Canadians want a renewed national broadcaster.
The group is urging Ottawa to make the 50-year-old C-B-C more accessible and more community oriented. It says years of budget cuts have undermined the public broadcaster's ability to meet its mandate.
Almost 90 per cent of those polled by Ipsos-Reid between August 6th and 11th said they wanted to see regional C-B-C services strengthened in their part of the country.
The poll of 11-hundred adult Canadians commissioned by the lobby group is considered accurate to within three percentage points, 95 per cent of the time.
