Archive for December, 2008
Star critic names Radio 2 makeover one of 5 worst events of 2008
Sunday, December 28th, 2008The Toronto Star music critic John Terauds named CBC Radio 2 makeover one of the five worst musical events of 2008. Note that even a critic who welcomed the changes to Radio 2 considers the implementation a disaster. Mr. Terauds said: “CBC Radio 2 makeover. My radio dial rarely left 94.1 FM (and 90.3, its [...]
Pop made your numbers go down
Thursday, December 18th, 2008… top brass of CBC Radio are pushing really commercial music on the unfortunate Tom Allen, who hosts the morning music show on Radio 2. They want to make that show the flagship. My spies tell me that the programmers of that show are not happy with the pressure coming down from on high to play more of the likes of Nelly Furtado and Jann Arden. (The pressure seems to have increased at around the same time as the appointment of a former MuchMusic and Sony Music Canada executive as head of radio.) Their point, I imagine – and I can’t disagree with them – is that you can hear Nelly Furtado, indeed must hear her, in any Aldo shoe store in any mall in Canada. Why should the government pay for it?
Media watchdog: Conservatives plan to cut CBC funding by $200 million
Friday, December 5th, 2008By Jessica Werb, The Georgis Straight Publish Date: December 5, 2008 The Conservative party wants to cut $200 million from the CBC’s parliamentary grant, claims an independent watchdog of Canadian programming. In an e-mail sent out yesterday (December 4) by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, spokesperson Ian Morrison claimed that a confidential source had alerted the [...]