Alain Trudel, Classical Transience
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Alain Trudel, Classical Transience | Music In this lengthy and excellent article about the trombonist and conductor, a later section reveals Trudel’s thoughts around the time of the dissolution of the CBC Radio Orchestra and the reasoning behind the creation of the Nation Broadcast Orchestra of Canada. Here is the relevant excerpt: Considering the unceasing [...]
Stop stonewalling, CBC told: Watchdog delivers a rocket
Thursday, June 24th, 2010[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story appeared in Metro, the free Toronto subway paper on June 4, 2010. Amazingly, neither the Star nor the Globe appears to have picked it up.] Stop stonewalling, CBC told: Watchdog delivers a rocket Canada’s information commissioner has smacked the CBC for stonewalling requests under the access-to-information law. In her 2009-2010 [...]
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 [...]
Wit – a new poem by Sandra Bruneau
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Wit Sandra Bruneau There was a young girl who had a quick wit. Her grandma and momma had taught her to knit. They gave her some wool, some needles, a kit. Yet the craft failed to interest her, not the least bit! She said she would rather play tunes on a flute Her grandma and [...]
Cue the National Broadcast Orchestra
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Reconstituted CBC ensemble to perform live, while branching out to high-def video, Internet By David Gordon Duke, Special to The SunSeptember 16, 2009 Conductor Alain Trudel conducts the National Broadcast Orchestra at the official launch Tuesday of the newly established ensemble at the Chan Centre. Photograph by: Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun, Special to The Sun [...]
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 [...]
Protect our national treasure
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009[Prime Minister Stephen Harper] also ignored a unanimous House of Commons committee recommendation that “in the interests of fuller accountability and arm’s length from government, nominations to the CBC board should be made by a number of sources, and the CBC president should be hired by and be responsible to the board (Lincoln Report page 567).”
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.”’
CBC’s golden opportunity to cut commercial strings
Thursday, April 9th, 2009TheStar.com – Opinion Public broadcaster would be freed from self-defeating ratings game April 09, 2009 by Wade Rowland Professor of communications studies at York University If the CBC is to survive the shock-doctrine opportunism of federal Conservatives bent on either privatization or elimination of the public broadcaster, it needs to once and for all come [...]
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