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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Star critic names Radio 2 makeover one of 5 worst events of 2008
Sunday, December 28th, 2008The Toronto Star music critic John Terauds named CBC Radio 2 makeover one of the five worst musical events of 2008. Note that even a critic who welcomed the changes to Radio 2 considers the implementation a disaster. Mr. Terauds said: “CBC Radio 2 makeover. My radio dial rarely left 94.1 FM (and 90.3, its [...]
Pop made your numbers go down
Thursday, December 18th, 2008… top brass of CBC Radio are pushing really commercial music on the unfortunate Tom Allen, who hosts the morning music show on Radio 2. They want to make that show the flagship. My spies tell me that the programmers of that show are not happy with the pressure coming down from on high to play more of the likes of Nelly Furtado and Jann Arden. (The pressure seems to have increased at around the same time as the appointment of a former MuchMusic and Sony Music Canada executive as head of radio.) Their point, I imagine – and I can’t disagree with them – is that you can hear Nelly Furtado, indeed must hear her, in any Aldo shoe store in any mall in Canada. Why should the government pay for it?
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 [...]
CBC seems bent on its self-destruction
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Ottawa Citizen Monday, October 27, 2008 Re: CBC has gone too far by letting reporters go, Oct. 23. I very much agree with Bernard Sigouin’s letter that the CBC may end up in trouble so that the government decide to cease public funding of the CBC. I was saddened, but not surprised, to hear [...]
Peter Milliken: “reduction of classical music on CBC2 is truly unfortunate”
Monday, October 13th, 2008The reduction of classical music on CBC2 is truly unfortunate. I appreciate the effort involved in creating the document entitled “What MPs Can Do” and I sympathise with all those devoted to this endearvour.”
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