CBC To Boost Ads

Posted on Wednesday, June 08 at 12:51 by Action-Jackson

The CBC has hired American Jonathon Dube to change CBC.ca into a "free-fire" advertising zone.

Currently 15% of the CBC's website is open to ads. This will change to 80% under Jonathon Dube.

Canadian Internet expert Rick Broadhead has said the move "could be controversial."

[Changed article title to be less alarmist. Jesse]

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  1. by avatar Jesse
    Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:30 pm
    I changed the article title because we don't need to be sensationalist. "CBC Website to be 80% ads" is jsut misleading, especially since that's not at all what they are changing. <p> If you don't like ads, use <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox">FireFox</a> and the <a href="http://adblock.mozdev.org">AdBlock</a> extension, which will strip out any and all ads. <p>---<br>Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.

  2. Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:18 pm
    We need to know some things about this fellow.
    1) What does he think of the reportage in the USA, post
    9-11, that occured on the websites of his former
    employers?
    2) Does he consider the War on Iraq to be a
    humanitarian mission?

    My gut tells me that if he is not someone who is fleeing
    the media environment in his country to work in Canada
    because he is sick and tired of "patriotic news", he is
    wrong for the job.
    In other words, he's either with us or against us.

    ---
    "The very fact that the concept "anti-American" can exist exhibits a totalitarian streak that's pretty dramatic." Noam Chomsky

  3. by N Say
    Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:54 am
    this is awful. i wish the cbc had no ads at all, like the BBC

    ---
    "George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

  4. Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:08 am
    Too many ads on CBC TV and now it seems on CBC.CA - the ad. blockers will do the trick for the web site, what we really need now is something similar for the TV. At least CBC Radio 1 does not have any of these "insults to the intelligence". I have to confess that I go to bbc.co.uk for a lot of my "world news" now.

    Frank

  5. Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:42 pm
    Can Americans rescue the CBC? Hopefully, it's so boring and biased that it's not worth the time. But we probably don't need Americans to save our Canadian bacon - the CBC could be sold to Conrad Black for a dollar and he would likely be able to turn it into something worthwhile. Oh Canaduh...

  6. by N Say
    Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:02 pm
    why conrad black? why not rupert murdoch?

    ---
    "George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

  7. by avatar Jesse
    Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:13 pm
    There is (was?) a way to avoid tv ads, and it is called a Personal Video Recorder. The TiVo was the best of them, though I think they've been pressured to not block all ads:<br />
    <br />
    <a href="http://www.tivo.com/1.0.asp">http://www.tivo.com/1.0.asp</a><p>---<br>Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.



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