CRTC Online Consultations on CBC’s Radio and Television Licence Renewals
Monday, June 27th, 2011Welcome to CRTC Consultation on CBC’s Radio and Television Licence Renewals The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issues and renews licences for all Canadian broadcasters. In September 2011, the CRTC will hold a public hearing in order to renew the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) radio and television licences. Welcome to the CRTC online consultation [...]
CBC Television: from arts champion to glorified karaoke club
Monday, June 13th, 2011John Doyle From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 12:00AM EDT Last updated Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 7:34AM EDT It’s all very well for people to come to the defence of dancer Margie Gillis when she’s being mocked and verbally abused by the ludicrous Krista Erickson on Sun News, but where’s the [...]
CBC shuffles senior management, again
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011CBC rearranges executive suite to face down competition from CTV and Global Television. TORONTO – There’s more top management shuffling at the CBC post-Richard Stursberg. Christine Wilson, executive director for CBC network programming, who stepped in as acting general manager while the public broadcaster late last year looked for Stursberg’s permanent replacement as head of [...]
New CBC head to undo predecessor’s controversial legacy
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011GUY DIXON From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 6:00PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 6:15PM EST Kirstine Stewart, the new head of CBC English-language services, plans to undo one of the most controversial recent moves by the broadcaster. When the CBC began airing the game shows Wheel of Fortune [...]
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.”’