Feds consider bailing out private networks

I haven't given this any thought yet, but my first reaction is to wonder how a government could justify helping out private networks but not the public network. I imagine they would say it's because they already give money to the CBC. I imagine CBC defenders would argue the network is underfunded compared to every other public network in the world, so it wouldn't hurt the feds to throw them a few dozen million dollars.

Scratch all that. My first reaction is WAHHHHOOOOOO to anything that could help the industry. The above is my second reaction.