The head of the CBC is hitting back at Conservative Leader Stephen Harper over the national broadcaster's funding. Harper told a private radio station in Quebec that the CBC's budget crunch isn't due to government cuts, but because of its low ratings. After the CBC's annual general meeting in Winnipeg, CEO Hubert Lacroix says the CBC has healthy ratings but is crippled by a broken funding model. (Lacroix says Canada must look to other European countries for ideas on how to fund public broadcasting.)

Date: 2015-09-29
Placeline: WINNIPEG.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 15 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << not about I like it. Ian it's about a broken Finance model a revenue model that doesn't work that was used to be built on Advertising revenues supporting a drop in front of a jury appropriation right now in this environment it doesn't work anymore >>

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