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Saturday, August 16th, 2008I’ll confess that the experience of listening to CBC Radio while driving across Canada a few times in the mid-90s inspired me to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen. Back then, CBC Radio presented the cutting edge of a range of cultures including Inuit. I still find it difficult to […]
Culture 101 for Richard Stursberg
Saturday, August 16th, 2008June 30, 2008
Mr Richard Stursberg
Executive Vice President
CBC English Services
PO Box 500, Station A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1E6
Dear Mr. Stursberg,
The changes to CBC Radio suggest misplaced priorities. According to a recent article in the Globe and Mail, you do not have prior experience in radio and television programming, nor have you dedicated your life to cultural issues […]
Paul Ohannesian on Everett-Green’s “Canon Fire”
Thursday, August 14th, 2008August 3, 2008
This is a copy of a Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, that was not printed.
Sir;
Robert Everett-Green predicts that “[CBC] Radio 2 faces the decimation of its public within 10 years”. [Review, Saturday, August 2] This will come as bad news for thousands of Canadian youths for whom there will be […]
Eric Ball: how can we listeners remove those executives?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008LETTER TO JOSÉE VERNER
29 July 2008
Hon. Josée Verner
Minister of Canadian Heritage,
Status of Women and Official Languages
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Dear Josée Verner:
Re: CBC Radio Orchestra and CBC Radio One and Radio Two music programming
I’m writing with a specific question that I hope you can help me with, but first let me explain what my concerns […]
Keith Kinder, McMaster School of Arts Director: CBC genre argument spurious
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:57:47 -0400
Keith Kinder wrote:
Prime Minister Harper, Minister Verner, Deputy Minister LaRocque;
I am writing to add my voice to those thousands of Canadians who are
dismayed by the demolition of CBC’s Radio 2, in particular the
reduction of “classical” - I prefer the term “serious” - music
broadcasting from 120 to 25 hours/week and […]
Ed Martin says BBC a good model for CBC Radio
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Subject: Classical Music in Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:20:30 -0700
Dear Ms. Verner, Mr.Casgrain, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Lacroix:
I write as a dedicated listener of the CBC Radio Orchestra and of CBC Radio 2.
As I am sure you are all aware, CBC recently announced some very dramatic, and I believe ill advised changes. Besides […]
Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra President letter
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Hubert T. Lacroix President and CEO,
CBC PO Box 3220, Station C
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 1E4
On behalf of the 275 musicians, their families, conductors, board of directors and staff of the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYSO), I write to protest the loss of the CBC Radio Orchestra and to voice our objection to the programming changes planned […]
CBC destroying Canada’s autonomy
Thursday, July 17th, 2008July 14, 2008
Hubert T. Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC/Radio Canada
Dear Mr. Lacroix:
Being somewhat hard of hearing, I find much of the rock and pop music to be anchored by heavy, overly repetitive drum beats. This is offensive to my ears so I quickly turn this music off. The promises of the CBC fall programming […]
I’m crying as I write this to you
Thursday, July 17th, 2008To: kathleen.martin [at] cbc.ca
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:46 AM
Subject: CONCERTS ON DEMAND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR CBC CLASSICAL RADIO
Dear Ms. Martin,
Please be so kind as to forward my letter to each individual member of the CBC Board of Directors. I have already emailed my message to Mr. LaCroix and Mr. Casgrain.
Thank you very […]
Stursberg and Boyce: an agenda of destruction?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008July 7th, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Hubert.T.Lacroix, President and CEO, CBC
Tim Casgrain, Chair, Board of Directors, CBC
Richard Stursberg, English Radio and television
Chris Boyce, Programming Director, CBC English Radio
Bill Stunt, Production Manager, Radio Music, CBC
Re: Destructive Changes to CBC2
We are so upset, angered and sad over your destruction of CBC 2 radio we feel compelled to […]