Reinventing The CBC (For Better Or For Worse)

“Richard Stursberg took over as the CBC’s executive vice-president of English TV a little more than two years ago. It has been a fractious time, at best. Year one left him with a $100-million budget shortfall due to the season-long lockout in NHL hockey, the CBC’s single-richest source of revenue… Stursberg is now in the midst of perhaps the most radical retooling of CBC television in its history. Most would agree that it’s sorely needed. But whether he’s presiding over its rebirth or its death rattle depends on whom you ask.”