Opportunities and obligations report in the works!
Monday, May 7th, 2012The Stand On Guard for CBC Coalition is in the final stages of completing an analysis of CBC’s place within the international standards of public broadcasting. On the eve of the Reimagine CBC event at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, we thought it appropriate to let supporters of the cause for public radio know that [...]
Please sign petition to save CBC Radio recordings archive
Friday, February 24th, 2012Petition to save the CBC music archives The CBC is getting rid of its physical music collections in Vancouver and other sites across the country, a treasure trove of over 100,000 artifacts amassed over decades. Valuable, rare and historic recordings on vinyl and tape will be destroyed or dispersed, lost to all of us forever. [...]
100,000 reasons to mute latest Conservative attack on CBC
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun February 6, 2012 Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/reasons+mute+latest+Conservative+attack/6106986/story.html#ixzz1lqWDG7hq Heritage Minister James Moore releases the earthshaking discovery that of the people who toil at the CBC, 730 earn $100,000 a year or more! Can you believe it? Eighty-seven per cent of CBC employees do not – let me repeat, DO NOT – fall [...]
Reimagine CBC web site launched
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012http://www.reimaginecbc.ca/ The CBC is under intense pressure. Good public media is good for our democracy and culture, and we all have a say in its future. So today, we are launching a new campaign to “Reimagine the CBC,” and make Canadian media better for all of us.
Majority Of Canadians Wants Funding Kept Intact
Friday, November 11th, 2011SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/10/cbc-funding-cuts-budget-poll-canadian-support_n_1087210.html?ref=email_share EXCERPT: OTTAWA – The Conservative government’s long-standing promise to keep the CBC’s federal funding stable appears to be in tune with public opinion. A Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent of Canadians would like the CBC’s funding to stay at the current level and 23 per cent would [...]
CBC gets timeout to plead for more cash
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011Mark Dunn- Senior National Reporter July 8, 2011 OTTAWA — The CRTC has postponed licence renewal hearings for the CBC until next June – a delay that will allow the state broadcaster to plead its case for more money from Heritage Minister James Moore and Canadian taxpayers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) sought [...]
Cuts ahead for CBC, arts, Moore says
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011CBC/Radio-Canada is expected to face a cut of at least five per cent in its parliamentary allocation in the next budget, Heritage Minister James Moore says In his first major interview since the Conservative majority government was elected, Moore ruled out privatizing the public broadcaster, but said all government spending, except for health care and [...]
Donlon out at CBC
Saturday, July 9th, 2011Denise Donlon has been shuffled out of the top slot at CBC Radio following corporation management changes announced Friday. Named executive director of English-language radio operations in 2008 by Richard Stursberg, the former head of CBC’s English-language services, Donlon was largely an administrative chief and a respected figurehead with high-profile broadcasting experience as a host [...]
CBC Appoints Executive Director Radio and Audio
Saturday, July 9th, 2011CBC today announced that Chris Boyce has been appointed executive director, Radio and Audio. Reporting to Kirstine Stewart, executive vice-president, CBC English Services, Boyce assumes responsibility for the operations of CBC Radio and the execution of its strategic plan, in addition to his existing duties leading radio programming. This appointment is effective today and reflects [...]
Arts and culture: making the case for federal cash
Monday, July 4th, 2011By Dan Leger The Swiss honour artists in a manner most Swiss: they put them on money. The 10-franc note portrays the architect Le Corbusier and the 100 has sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Earlier this year, Hungary’s government renamed the main airport in Budapest after the composer Franz Liszt. In Hungary and Switzerland, art is an [...]
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