The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) brought in more than two dollars from the government for every dollar of operating revenue in 2015, according to the CRTC’s latest release of Canadian conventional television financial results.

The public broadcaster relied on the government for 68.5 per cent of its revenue last year, the first time it’s exceeded the two-thirds mark since 2005, when public coffers accounted for 67.5 per cent of its revenue.

The CBC’s advertising revenue fell by 53 per cent to $220.1-million in 2015, in large part due to losing the NHL broadcasting rights to Rogers.

Some other key takeaways from the report detailing CBC and public TV revenues in 2015:

• The CBC has seen annualized ad revenue decline by 12.2 per cent over the last five years, while the nation’s private broadcasters have posted a more modest 1.7 per cent annualized decline
• The average CBC employee makes $100,528 a year, 23 per cent more than the $81,709 average private conventional TV employee makes before fringe benefits.
• 67.2 per cent of the CBC’s total expenses are spent on programming, compared to the 75.1 per cent allocated by conventional TV providers.
• Excluding grant money, the CBC brings in $67,108 in annual revenue per employee. Conventional TV providers make $301,867 per employee on an after-grant basis.