Monday, August 9, 2010

CBC axes exec for ratings success: Toronto Sun take on Stursberg

"By the measure that matters to most television executives, Richard Stursberg was a big hit at CBC: A lot more people are watching now than when he started.

"And yet, Stursberg was canned by the CBC on Friday after nearly six years as executive vice-president of English-language services, apparently because he was too good at getting more people to watch the programming that Canadian taxpayers subsidize to the tune of $1 billion a year," writes David Akin, the Sun's Parliamentary bureau chief.

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