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Sunday, December 6th, 2009[EDITOR’S NOTE: My friend, Shirley Bradley, sent this letter to CBC Radio 1’s Early Edition re: the visit of Hubert Lacroix and the phone in on Thursday morning, December 3. Published here with her permission.]
The callers to your program on Thursday morning (Dec 3) and eloquent visitors to your studio on Friday morning (Dec 4), […]
globeandmail.com: Dear Canada: Your opinion on the CBC is ‘pathetic’
Monday, November 16th, 2009globeandmail.com: Dear Canada: Your opinion on the CBC is ‘pathetic’
EXCERPT:
And there’s the rub - weeks after the new-format National was launched, the emphasis on the superficial is all too clear. I know that. You know that. But what do we know, really? We’re “pathetic.”
Memo to Richard Stursberg - the CBC belongs to all […]
Analysis of Radio 2 BBM data, March 2009
Friday, April 17th, 2009On a regional basis, compared to the same period last year, share has fallen significantly in Vancouver, where the share was the highest nationally (from 7.3% to 5.6%), as well as in Edmonton, Calgary, and slightly in Ottawa. Share in Winnipeg has increased somewhat, as has the small share in Toronto (from 1.9% to 2%.
Letter to the Auditor General of Canada requesting accountability of CBC
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Office of the Auditor General of Canada
240 Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G6 March 10, 2009
Attention: Sheila Fraser
Dear Ms. Fraser:
We ask for your help in ensuring that CBC/Radio-Canada fulfils its mandate and its responsibilities to the Canadian public. As members of the Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition, we have […]
Music preferences of BC transit users: prefer classical - all ages
Friday, January 16th, 2009In December 2008 NRG Research Group did a survey for TransLink Listens, a self-selected group of “advisors” to TransLink, the public transit
umbrella for Metro Vancouver. Here’s an excerpt:
“What type of music would you support being played inside SkyTrain stations on a trial basis? (Check one or more)”
Out of 2843 SkyTrain riders who were invited, 1206 […]
Requiem for a Radio
Thursday, January 1st, 2009On November 4, I removed the radio from the window ledge, dusted its wooden top, and wrapped the thin wires around its body. For years its music and CBC radio announcers had kept me company in the office, offering me one delicious classical piece after another. Often the music simply played in the background, a […]
On possible cuts to CBC
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008In response to blog comments following Bruce Cheadle’s thought provoking piece, now that Americans have voted in an intelligent and eloquent President, maybe Canadians can put an end to the “elitist” bashing that has been nothing more than a political appeal to those with little or no attention span. It reminds me of the school […]
About the ruin that is CBC Radio 2
Monday, November 24th, 2008by Robert J. Mulvaney
As a part-time resident of Canada, and a listener for many decades to CBC2, I have watched the revolution taking place at the station with alarm and profound disappointment. Now that the housecleaning seems to be complete, and as I move south for the winter, let me make a few observations about […]
Elmer Iseler and the CBC
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008A Selection of quotes from Walter Pitman, Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary, Toronto: Dunburn Press, 2008
by Miriam Mittermaier
Walter Pitman’s new biography of Elmer Iseler, founder and conductor of the Festival Signers and the Elmer Iseler singers and long-time conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, describes not only one musical genius but a rich period of development in […]
Is this what 1984 is like?
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Hello,
I am 42 years old and have listened to CBC Stereo/ Radio 2 for my entire adult life. I was surprised by the recent changes and have missed all the older programs.
There is no longer any reason to keep CBC on my radio “playlist”. I have been forced to a local commercial classical station to […]