As all of British Columbia and 46 people east of the Rockies and 89 people south of Bellingham Washington already know, Vancouver and Whistler (in British Columbia) will be hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The TV bids are coming in, with the deadline for bids for the Canadian rights coming due in February 2005.
NBC has the American rights, for which it paid a record $2.2 billion for the 2010 and 2012 Games combo package.
The bidders in Canada are Bell Globemedia in a joint bid with Rogers Communications, CanWest Global and The Score, and the state-run CBC?
Why is the nation’s state-run, state-owned CBC bidding—with taxpayer dollars—against private companies? What kind of a government competes against its own citizens for business-sector profits? What kind of a country do we live in when private citizens have to compete against their own (liberal-left) government to make a living and to make profits?
I think the CBC should get the heck out of the way and mind its own “business”, or better yet, wind up its “business” entirely.
Taxpayers can find a better use for the CBC’s nearly one billion dollars per year in subsidies. Like keeping the billion dollars per year in their pockets in the first place.
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