Over the past decade the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has lost more than half its viewers for CBC-produced programming. “From the ’50s through the ’70s, the CBC was one of the world’s great public broadcasters. But the Corporation was also evolving into its own self-contained world of bigger budgets, exploding infrastructure, myriad administrators and, ultimately, a kind of on-air arrogance.” Now budget cuts and a failing mandate with the politicians threatens the network. – Mediachannel 07/00