Canadian Heritage committee  Goodness, it's D-Day every day at about 1:30, when the numbers come in to tell us how we did the night before. That's just in terms of the program audiences. In addition to that, on a weekly basis we look at ourselves and the competition. We're constantly looking at the environme

Canadian Heritage committee  Right, and we would too, but the price point is different and the impact's different. We would be interested in doing it as one show out of a lot of shows, but not as the main part of our diet, ever.

Canadian Heritage committee  Treaty co-productions are regulated by Telefilm. We currently have one treaty co-production. Out of 27 Canadian series that we have, we have one treaty co-production. That's the most we've ever had on the air at any given time. Because you bring the audience great content like Th

Canadian Heritage committee  I just hate being accused of getting a number wrong. The audience for The National of two million is that two million people a night watch CBC The National on some platform, not necessarily that newscast. Over time that's been pretty steady. It's just that people are starting to

Canadian Heritage committee  You know, it's interesting, because sometimes people think about diversity as a social good kind of issue. For a public broadcaster, for sure it's that. But it's also a really important business issue, because we know that Canadians want to see themselves on TV and hear their sto

Canadian Heritage committee  “Live Right Now” was a national spectacle of participation between CBC and non-governmental organizations that actually started because of the release of the StatsCan survey that showed that our kids were not going to live as long as we did because they were overweight and they w

Canadian Heritage committee  I know, it just keeps getting better. We've had Coronation Street on for 50 years, and somehow over time we got to be nine months behind, right? For a long time this was a bit of a joke among Corrie lovers—and they are legion and vocal—but then it got to be a bit of a business p

Canadian Heritage committee  Correct, it will be at 6:30.

Canadian Heritage committee  Absolutely. We were partners in Breakaway, so we're very happy about that. It will be on CBC. One of the most exciting things we're doing that speaks directly to your point is that we will be offering, starting next summer, a two-hour block of Canadian film every week. You might

Canadian Heritage committee  I was going to say that when you look on this chart, you can see why in English Canada it would be a different situation. We're the only broadcaster that owns any content that we could offer up, and it becomes a bit of a rights issue. We have made absolutely sure that our conten

Canadian Heritage committee  We've got a brand-new scripted drama starting in January, the one from the Arctic called Arctic Air. Is that what you mean by scripted drama?

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh, absolutely. I mean, Republic of Doyle is a scripted drama, Being Erica is a scripted drama, and Heartland. I think we have six scripted dramas on the air right now. In January, Arctic Air will be starting. It's the story of two families who own a commercial plane business

Canadian Heritage committee  Children's programming is the largest genre of any programming we have on CBC. We have 32 hours of children's programming a week. What's probably special, and it's why parents count on CBC, is that we don't provide programming that just the kids like; we provide programming that

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the things for which we count on the $60 million is that local news is pivotal, obviously, but reaching out to communities on non-news kinds of issues is really important too. Looking at the cultural lives or the larger lives of people in communities, one of the things it'

Canadian Heritage committee  The red light is on. Is that a good thing?