CBC Righting the Ship? The last 5 years and the next 5
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By Justin Beach, February 2, 2011 Way back in 2005 I was fortunate enough to get a short gig at the CBC just in time to be part of the CBC lockout. Although it was a dark time for the Ceeb and everyone’s focus was on getting back to work I can still say “fortunate [...]
CBC’s back-to-basics plan to save itself
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011By John Doyle, The Globe and Mail Well, lookee here – the CBC just woke up and recalled that it is, in fact, a public broadcaster. Tuesday’s announcement of a five-year strategy plan, called Everyone, Every way, is, essentially, CBC president Hubert Lacroix’s life-saving, interventionist plan for the corporation. It is also, at last, the [...]
New Boss, Same Old Stursberg Manifesto
Thursday, January 27th, 2011By Howard Bernstein from his blog – Medium Close Up Now it’s my turn to change the narrative. The response to my last blog about the excessive nature of the coverage of the terrible death of Sgt. Ryan Russell has been overwhelming. Perhaps shockingly, there has been only one negative response. I was expecting to [...]
Let’s infilitrate the CBC
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010By Steve Anderson On Oct. 21, the brisk morning air met an assemblage of the media innovation vanguard as its members made their way into the CBC/Radio-Canada’s Annual Public Meeting (APM) in Vancouver. The plan was unspoken, but the wry smiles exchanged amongst us were more than enough to acknowledge our purpose. After all, while [...]
CBC President Hubert Lacroix sets the record straight about Stursberg departure
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010In an article on insidethecbc.com, CBC President H. Lacroix states the following: “With the creation of a new strategic plan, this is a good time to review the leadership of CBC. The decision to change leadership was not a sudden decision triggered by any specific incident. And, by the way, we did not escort Richard [...]
Richard Stursberg leaves CBC
Friday, August 6th, 2010We are happy to inform you that Richard Stursberg is leaving CBC. Here are links to the various news items: CBC Globe and Mail Toronto Star National Post And here is a Twitter post that sums up our view: Stursberg is out at CBC. Can we have Radio 2 back now, please? ‘Cause, Richard, music [...]
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 [...]
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.”’