Susan Noakes, CBC News;

The Canadian Media Production Association estimates TV production volume in Canada was $2.3 billion in 2014 with more than 125,000 full-time jobs associated with the sector.

last week's announcement that more expensive dramas are to be encouraged could remove money from genre productions, such as cooking shows, children's programming and documentaries, areas where Canada already has proven excellence.

Most of those people do not make dramatic programming.

Baker argues that there is no formula for making a hit — and giving it a $2 million an hour budget is not going to solve the quality problem.

"We need quantity, just like they do elsewhere in this world, especially in the U.S. and U.K., where they have a tremendous quantity of shows so a few of them can rise to the top," he said.

This ruling feels like it was made by an accountant with no understanding of how other counties industries succeed.

You don’t buy hit shows. You buy 9 failures for every success. And that success pays for the failures.

CRTC quest for quality set to shake up Canadian production

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