{OK, I can't find the original article I was quoting from but did use it in the past, on another site that bashes the CBC, one blogger claimed it was 2 billion.}

“Rural and remote regions will feel the heaviest blows because they often rely on the CBC as their primary media presence,” said Tyler Morgenstern with Reimagine CBC, a citizens group associated with the organization OpenMedia.ca.

Unlike their inspiration, the BBC, the CBC has to contend with a much larger land mass and other logistics that you don't get in a nation that can fit within Newfoundland and Labrador with 2.4 times the population.