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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), […]
Libby Davies starts a new petition to increase CBC funding - please sign
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Libby on increased funding for the CBC
September 24, 2009
Blog entry
Dear Friends,
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is an intrinsic part of Canadian culture. From Vancouver East to Whitehorse to St John’s, the CBC provides coverage that resonates with Canadians.
Last year the CBC announced a $171 million budget shortfall due to lost advertising revenue in the economic downturn. […]
Three videos from Public Forum on CBC July 8 2009 Vancouver
Saturday, August 15th, 2009A Public Forum on the Future of the CBC
July 8, 2009 Vancouver Plublic Library
Charlie Angus on CBC holdback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ex1IwMoZfU
Charlie Angus on CBC and patronage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azo4XBeeNY
Charlie Angus and Bill Siksay on CBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsPvSvZtgY
Jennifer Wells wins award for Stursberg profile
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Journalist Jennifer Wells has won a National Newspaper Award in the arts and entertainment category for her profile of Vice-President of CBC English Services Richard Stursberg (June 28, 2008). See the announcement here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/globe-wins-six-national-newspaper-awards/article38848/
The Globe and Mail still has the article on their web site here.
We reprint it here for convenience.
Jun 28, 2008
Source : Globe & Mail
Richard […]
CBC is “on a fool’s errand” - Wade Rowland
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This incredible piece of writing by Wade Rowland (from about 10 months ago) clearly articulates why Richard Stursberg & Co. are “on a fool’s errand.” An in depth analysis that shows how, in commercial media companies, listeners and viewers are the product that is delivered to advertisers, and that the CBC simply has no business being involved in that arrangement with advertisers. To quote from the article: ‘We can contrast that with the mission statement proposed for the BBC by its celebrated founding director, John Reith, writing in 1924. The role of a public broadcaster like the BBC, he said, was to “bring into the greatest possible number of homes … all that is best in every department of human knowledge, endeavour and achievement.”’
Loyal CBC listeners would object to ads
Thursday, February 19th, 2009The Ottawa CitizenFebruary 11, 2009
Re: Heritage minister defends Tory cuts to arts funding, Feb. 10.
The possibility of advertising on CBC radio is not a new idea. It has been considered and rejected in the past, for valid reasons.
The CBC’s condition of licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission forbids advertising (except under rare and […]
Most voters support public funding for CBC, poll finds
Friday, October 31st, 2008Group wants Harper to clarify position on ‘commercialization of CBC Radio’
Chris Cobb
The Ottawa Citizen
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Arts and culture, traditionally invisible topics during Canadian federal election campaigns, bounced back onto the campaign agenda again yesterday, fuelled by ongoing fears that a majority Conservative government would slash funding to cultural programs and institutions.
A new poll released […]
CBC Radio Orchestra to live on with new name and mandate
Thursday, October 30th, 2008ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
October 30, 2008, Globe and Mail [source]
The CBC Radio Orchestra’s final concert is less than a month away, and music director Alain Trudel is planning lots of encores - several years’ worth, in fact.
Trudel and Montreal businessman Philippe Labelle say the CBC’s 70-year-old Vancouver orchestra will carry on after its official farewell concert on […]
What makes classical Classical?
Sunday, September 21st, 2008The term “classical music” – once so clear in meaning – has become murky. On the one hand, it is invoked in a positive sense, to suggest “bestness”; on the other hand it has acquired (in some circles) negative connotations of stuffy over-formality and pretentiousness.
Change is in the air and I don’t like it - The Chronicle Herald
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008By Peter Duffy
THE TRUTH IS, I’m having a bit of trouble with change. Once upon a time, I could handle it without any problem. I’ve changed jobs on a whim. (Twelve newspapers in 15 years.) I’ve lived in more towns and cities than I can almost remember.
Change? It’s been my life, ever since I was […]