| The Budget of 2012 |
[15 Apr 2012|11:17am] |
Well...we've had a couple of weeks to absorb the first few shocks.
For example?
I'm listening to Michael Enright and Eric Peterson discuss the budget-coerced end of radio drama - hopefully, a temporary error! - on The Sunday Edition at the moment.
What's sticking in your own craws over this latest...situation?
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| RIP: The Age of Persuasion |
[11 Dec 2011|09:58pm] |
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It's just been announced by Tod Maffin over at the CBC Fan Club on Facebook, and confirmed by implication by Terry O'Reilly at AoP's own fan page there.
Five years of good lessons in advertising history, methods, ethics, and opinions. Not a bad run.
Apparently, though, O'Reilly and his partner in founding the show, Mike Tennant, have new stuff in the works for CBC Radio. Under The Influence is O'Reilly's new project. Details on Tennant's contribution yet to be unveiled...
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| News Feeds from Three More Cities |
[27 Oct 2011|12:27am] |
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I noticed tonight that we've got news home pages on CBCNews.ca for Thunder Bay, Sudbury and Windsor now.
Good to see this!
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| Ottawa: Kathleen Petty Leaving _The House_ |
[25 Jun 2011|09:56am] |
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I'm going to miss her handling of that particular show here in Ottawa.
Calgarians reading this? You're getting a treasure back again, seeing as she's moving back to the old family turf.
Treasure her. Please.
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| Wire Tap |
[11 Jun 2011|03:13pm] |
I quite enjoy Radio One on Saturday. It's an ecclectic and thoroughly entertaining mix. With one exception: Wire Tap.
The morning will be going along swimmingly, I'll be feeling informed and entertained. Then "The Debaters" will end and I'm plunged into 30 of the most tedious minutes in Radio.*
It was rather interesting, then, when today's Wire Tap was about how the woman who does the intro and outro for the show had won an award when whiny Jonathan had won in none of the categories he was entered in. He was told there is a spike in listenership on the show at the beginning and at the end, but that listenership drops dramatically for the period between the intro and the outro. He complained that the insinuation was that Wire Tap is a "garbage sandwich."
To be fair, I don't think Wire Tap is a garbage sandwich." It serves a purpose, much like a sorbet at a multi-course dinner. It clears all thoughts of joy and entertainment from the mind, as a sorbet clears the palette, preparing one to go on and experience the new joys of the rest of the programming day. It is not a "garbage sandwich," it is more of a shit sorbet. I honestly don't know why anyone thinks it even belongs on the schedule, let alone in the place where it is now, stinking up the Saturday lineup.
*Yes, I will often turn it off, but, unlike commerical radio, I'm still paying for it, so I have every right to complain.
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| Happy Birthday, CBC! |
[24 May 2011|08:29pm] |
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Per the CBC (Unofficial) Fan Club on Facebook:
"On this date in 1932, Parliament passed a bill establishing a national broadcasting system — the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Also on this date in 1968, CBC/Radio-Canada started building a new Montreal headquarters called Maison de Radio-Canada, to be finished by April of 1972.)"
Long may she wave in as many languages as possible!
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| A consequence of the Key Porter Books shutdown |
[20 Feb 2011|09:12am] |
I was browsing at a local Coles storefront yesterday and in the sports section spotted two Hockey Night in Canada books published under a joint CBC/Key Porter Books label. And seeing that H.B. Fenn shut down the Key Porter brand before going into bankruptcy proceedings, CBC - and we who would like to support their print offerings now have a problem: CBC needs a new venue for getting stuff they want their logo on into print.
For obvious economic, logistical, political and patriotic reasons, a homegrown and domestically-owned book publisher serving as that venue is preferred.
Any recommendations, people?
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| Pride in the CBC: A Musical Request and Challenge |
[26 Jan 2011|10:57am] |
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A challenge - which I'm crossposting on several net.venues today:
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) budgie_uk pointed out a song to me by a gent name of Mitch Benn, "I'm Proud of the BBC". It's been making the rounds across the anglophonic portion of the Net, and quite possibly beyond that corner for a few months now. It's even generating some spin-off merchandise of its own.
And I like listening to it.
And it got me thinking.
It's no secret I have a pro-CBC/Radio Canada bias. Have had such for a longish while now. Some of you reading this posting - wherever you're reading it - share in that bias, and rightly so.
The point: I'd like to see a fan-song extolling the historical and present virtues of the Ceeb. I don't quite know what rules to set on the thing so we don't run afoul of any laws or lawsuits. I just know I don't have the lyrical talent we need for this.
HELP!!!
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[17 Dec 2010|11:53am] |
http://www.friends.ca/ILoveCBC/
On November 23rd, 2010, Stephen Harper’s secret plan for the CBC was revealed when the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage mused publicly about killing our public broadcaster! You can hear the audio for yourself here.
On Dec 6th, 2010, the matter of the government’s plan for the CBC was raised in Parliament. The Heritage Minister was asked to disavow his Parliamentary Secretary’s idea of cutting all funding to the CBC. Twice Minister Moore was asked to dismiss the notion that the government should kill public broadcasting. And, twice he refused to do so. You can see the exchange in the House of Commons here.
It's widely known that Prime Minister Harper exercises extremely tight control of his government’s messaging. None of his Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries or MPs speak out without prior approval from the Prime Minister’s Office.
We recognize the threat posed by Harper could be the most serious peril CBC has ever faced. Now is the time for all of us who love and depend on the CBC to stand up and be counted.
Please sign the petition and help spread the word!
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Is there a real danger of this happening? I found it via Facebook. Lots of my film-school friends work at CBC, so I daren't post anything there about how maybe I kind of can see how if CBC is so pricey, it should be changed somehow, esp. CBC TV.
However in Ireland, RTE is a pretty fancy public broadcaster, but I think they don't have the many private TV stations that Canada now has, and they are maybe in the same situation with their proximity to the UK, that they need their own programming. Maybe things have changed from when the CBC was begun and we are not in imminent danger of being influenced by US media? What with all the other media choices we now have?
Perhaps we should have the CBC adopt a PBS viewer-supported model, and truly show things that are not covered on private TV. Though I suppose HNIC keeps the entire CBC boat afloat and that's why the CBC would remain viable.
I don't even listen to CBC Radio anymore. I can listen to NPR on Rogers cable and that's fine with me. I find it's less corny... well a different corny, but more academic. I like the idea of Radio 3 but I don't personally listen to it.
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| ‘Joe Canadian’ named co-host of CBC Radio's ‘As It Happens’ |
[16 Dec 2010|05:37pm] |
I think they should lose the awful puns that are usually in the show intro. However, due to the existence of Jian's rhyming intro and The Voice for the Current, seems CBC likes its quirkiness a little too much for that.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/joe-canadian-named-co-host-of-cbc-radios-as-it-happens/article1839222/
‘Joe Canadian’ named co-host of CBC Radio's ‘As It Happens’
The actor who played “Joe Canadian” in a Molson Canadian ad campaign has been named co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens.
CBC Radio One says Jeff Douglas officially joins veteran broadcaster Carol Off behind the mike on Jan. 4.
Douglas had been an occasional guest host and replaces long-time co-host Barbara Budd, who left in April after 17 years on the air.
Douglas is probably best known to Canadians as “Joe Canadian” from the “I am Canadian” campaign.
CBC says Douglas, 39, has a “deep background in documentaries,” and cites a long list of TV hosting gigs that include Ancestors in the Attic on History Television, the National Geographic documentary series Making History, and the documentary series, Things That Move on National Geographic Canada.
Douglas says he's excited about the series and sees the posting as a great new opportunity.
“I am fascinated by the format of co-hosting a show like As it Happens – there are endless possibilities to telling stories through the simple act of picking up the phone,” Douglas said Wednesday in a statement.
“Co-hosting As it Happens is a great new opportunity for me to actively contribute to the production of radio and to try find the heart of the story – every day.”
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