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Restore the CBC Radio Orchestra within a revitalized CBC.
DONATE NOW TO SAVE OUR NATIONAL CBC RADIO ORCHESTRA
AND REVISION RADIO 2 PROGRAMMING.
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- If you want to just use the SEND MONEY button at the Paypal site, the email address to which you should send your donation is: standonguardforcbcradio [at] earsay.com.
- We encourage you to pay by credit card because the fee is low. If you use eCheck, 9% of your donation goes to Paypal in a fee.
DONATE BY REGULAR POST: we accept cheques and money orders. Please make your cheque payable to: “Stand On Guard for CBC” and mail to:
Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition,
Suite 289 – 720 Sixth St.,
New Westminster, BC V3L 3C5
CANADA
DONATE BY DIRECT DEPOSIT: please contact fund manager at this email address standonguardforcbcradio [at] earsay [dot] com.
On March 28, 2008, one day after they announced the elimination of the CBC Radio Orchestra, the CBC began a massive advertising campaign,
to try to convince the Canadian people that their changes to Radio Two will be great for everyone when they come into effect in the fall. Those CBC Radio Two feel-good ads continue to be placed every week; there have been about a dozen in various newspapers in the four weeks since the announcement, likely costing the equivalent of one year of the orchestra’s musician budget. The orchestra’s last budget is estimated at about $350,000 per year for musicians’ salaries (an additional $300,000 for the producers, engineers, plus concert production expenses including hall rental and promotional expenses including flyers, advertising etc.).
Listeners all over the world are dismayed. We value intelligence in Canadian public broadcasting. We believe the CBC should continue to provide Canada and the World with programming that will “inform, enlighten and entertain”–in that order.
Stand On Guard for CBC asks for donations to
restore the CBC Radio Orchestra within a revitalized CBC.
Your financial and volunteer support will help us to promote and advertise the cause on this web site, in newspapers across the country, and help defray the costs of this massive volunteer campaign (items such as postage, printing, and transportation costs, for example). Please include your phone number in the message box if you would like to volunteer for the cause.
Please consider a donation of $10 or more
A full-page ad in the Globe and Mail is rumoured to cost about $50,205 according to this article.) Doesn’t that just get you steamed! We don’t have anywhere near the resources to counter their ad campaign with a similar one of our own, but we will fight them with more brains and less brawn.
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