On 07/03/2011 11:40 AM, Nunya Bidnits wrote
We have the Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC) here. While the
television part of it is commercially funded, the radio portion is
commercial free. Needless to say it has a lot of detractors, people on
the left say that it toes the government line too much, and people on
the right say it is totally leftist. I tend to find it extremely
informative and well balanced. A lot of people who I consider to be
intelligent and well informed tend to listen to it and I often here them
talking about things after introducing it by saying ``I heard something
really interesting on CBC the other day...``
I live close enough to the US border that I get to hear a lot of NPR
which is in the same league as the CBC. When I was working I spent a
lot of time driving around the Niagara peninsula. When I was on the
north side of it I listened to CBC but as I went further south and it
started getting static I would switch to NPR. Unfortunately at home i am
on the far end of the fringe for NPR out of Buffalo and it has to much
static to enjoy.
Having spent so much time listening to the great programming on CBC and
NPR, it is really hard for me to listen to commercial radio stations. I
can't stand the idiocy of most of the talk radio, and I find the noise
and repetition of commercials hard to take.