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Farmpunk
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posted 26 August 2008 03:21 PM      Profile for Farmpunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'll start.

How come I can't find my regional CBC station streaming online? I early last week. The same CBC links that led to a streaming audio list, now directs me to CBC's sitemap.

For which I'm grateful, because it's not like someone isn't being paid to set up a simple online link.

Or I can't get my local station streamed online. Wouldn't matter much, because local content on Ontario Morning is something of a joke. Even with limited resources a mostly talk\telephone based show should be able to dig up better stories than the B list from whatever's happening in the GTA.


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posted 26 August 2008 03:27 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This link should work.
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Farmpunk
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posted 26 August 2008 03:35 PM      Profile for Farmpunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It does.

Weird. What happened to my other access point? It was just a straight short text box audio list. Whatever, thanks Spector.


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posted 26 August 2008 03:52 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've never used or seen any other access point than the one I linked to above.

You're welcome.


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posted 26 August 2008 04:44 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
This past Sunday evening I flipped on the Mother Network and was surprised to hear Ruth Etting singing "Ten Cents a Dance" on CBC am.
I was starting to look forward to the rest of the show, when the announcer came on and started spouting the most idiotic drivel I've ever heard on CBC.

Who was that guy?

Say, M. Spector; Bea Wain is still alive!


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Farmpunk
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posted 27 August 2008 03:58 PM      Profile for Farmpunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Shit. I just tapped out a long review of Alien Nation while listening to hopefully the last episode.

I think it was summer series that was a little too full of personalities and people conflict. There wasn't really a "news" or current affairs angle.


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I turned on CBC 2 to listen to Tom Allen's new show this morning, and instead of the lovely classical music that has made me turn my dial to CBC FM each morning for the last five years, I heard Bob bloody Dylan singing "Hey Mr.Tambourine Man" or some such crap.

If CBC wants to sound like "All Hits, Oldies and Whatever Other Commercial Schlock That Sells" FM radio, then fine, but I turned my dial to our community station, which really does support local Canadian talent.

[ 02 September 2008: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]


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posted 02 September 2008 02:03 PM      Profile for Left J.A.B.     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Bob Dylan
That'll bring in the young'uns

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posted 02 September 2008 02:10 PM      Profile for kropotkin1951   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
In BC on the morning show we get "Homer" Cluff. He would do well in the Soviet Union with the pandering he does to the BC Liberals. I love the new CBC they have a leftie on and ask hard questions and then after the interview is over they get a neo-con on for a rebuttal that is allowed to stand without debate.

From listening to him "Homer" Cluff does about as much reading about current events in a year as Peter Gzowski used to do in a couple of days.


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I like the new CBC Radio 2 drivetime show.

I heard the Blind Boys of Alabama and a couple Canadian artists.


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posted 04 September 2008 05:36 PM      Profile for Adam T     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Music on the radio appears to still be important for people. So, while the switch in formats will obviously lose listeners in the short term, in the longer term making the CBC more than an enclave for classical music listeners could result in a net gain:

This is an American poll, but the timing is quite serendipitous given the CBC switch.

Rasmussen poll:

Radio still rules the roost for a plurality of music listeners, with CD players and MP3 players trailing and the good old record player a thing of the past.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that a plurality (42%) of Americans still prefer to listen to their music from a radio. Lagging far behind is the CD player at 25% and MP3 player at 14%

Source


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Radio seems to have a hold on people's habits, if nothing else. Hard to say how more on demand accustomed generations will listen to radio and music.

Admittedly, I'm not a real music fan, so the tinkering with Radio 2 doesn't register. Does seem like there's a lot of hours to fill with many kinds of music.

I listned to the newly reconfigured DNTO. Sounded like the old DNTO with a much worse new intro song. Is that really the best that DNTO could come up with??

The show itself was quite tame. Or lame. Or both. The opening bit was from an Winnepeg actress\writer who talked about her experience as a waitress in new restaurants. That immediately made me think that if the show is leading with its best piece then what the hell was the rest of the show going to be like?

Then there's Sook Yin.... Nora please come back. Pleeeeeeease!

Will this be the season that I give Wiretap another chance and still fail to understand how anyone could enjoy that crap? Probably.


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posted 06 September 2008 05:14 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Speaking of Nora Young, I was so glad that they brought back Spark. I could listen to her for hours and the interviews/subjects were great. They also renewed that medical show White Coat, Black Art that has really grown on me. Today's program was about doctor-patient romantic liaisons.

And it was such a treat to not hear Sean Cullen this morning. Brent Bambury is back and today's GO was really entertaining and funny.

I haven't tuned into The Current but the promos seem to suggest that it's going to be more issue oriented than current news analysis.


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Nora makes everything sound good, I've found. I didn't listen to Spark very often, but the episodes I did hear were good.

The Current is changing its focus? I wish it was a little less talking with experts and little more live reporting\documentary based. Stil, it's a good show.


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posted 07 September 2008 08:48 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Farmpunk:
How come I can't find my regional CBC station streaming online?
How come I can't find the Radio 2 stream for the Pacific time zone?

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posted 09 September 2008 03:48 AM      Profile for Farmpunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Alert!

I believe the very fabric of existence is threatened. When Spector can't locate a link, then the end is surely near. Beware, these are troubled times.


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posted 09 September 2008 03:54 AM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Isn't it here?
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posted 09 September 2008 11:18 AM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks, unionist.

Why is there no link HERE, where I used to find it?

ETA: never mind. The links are there at the bottom - "LOW" and "HIGH" - but there's no label saying what they are.

[ 09 September 2008: Message edited by: M. Spector ]


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Well, if you start here, it tells you you're linking to "Listen to a Radio 2 live stream", but you're right, it's a bit enigmatic.
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posted 09 September 2008 04:42 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If I head correctly, "Q" is moving to the "Sounds Like Canada" spot at the end of the month. Not sure what they are going to put in the early afternoon slot but hopefully not "Free Styling".
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posted 09 September 2008 05:53 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Q is horrific. Sometimes it comes on when I forget to switch from the CBC Montréal local show (which used to have Anne Lagacé-Dowson!) to Espace-Musique (Radio-Canada 2). Radio-Canada has done a much better job of integrating classic, chanson, musiques du monde and many other genres, in a listenable format.
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posted 09 September 2008 06:48 PM      Profile for Lard Tunderin' Jeezus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Q is horrific, but I get the impression that the host, Jian Gomeshi, is actually a rather good interviewer; and that it's the program manager that needs to be fired for the piss-poor subject matter they present day-after-day.
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posted 09 September 2008 07:15 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So why are they pulling the plug on Sounds Like Canada? Anyone know. I thought the new host was doing a decent job.
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posted 09 September 2008 07:20 PM      Profile for thorin_bane     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by laine lowe:
Speaking of Nora Young, I was so glad that they brought back Spark. I could listen to her for hours and the interviews/subjects were great. They also renewed that medical show White Coat, Black Art that has really grown on me. Today's program was about doctor-patient romantic liaisons.

And it was such a treat to not hear Sean Cullen this morning. Brent Bambury is back and today's GO was really entertaining and funny.

I haven't tuned into The Current but the promos seem to suggest that it's going to be more issue oriented than current news analysis.


Finally heard my first episode of White Coat... and it was really good. B Goldman was saying how a great many doctors are against health care as it is seen as cutting into their pay. Nice to see insight form a doctor. Good god if I never hear Sean Cullen I will be happy, sadly he is a canadian institution that not many like(i don't know anyone.) Go is usually decent with The Age of Persuasian coming on afterwords being great. Ah CBC saturdays mornings are great. Esp with Jeff Good now off of the morning show that use to grate on my nerves for some reason(mostly the music I didn't like).

The Current is a really good show too. If you haven't heard it. A.M. Tremonti is from my area asks good question of both sides, she ain't Peter G, but she does a far sight better than her TV counterparts. I would recommend looking up her site and listening to some past shows. Don't forget Q & Q saturday at noon and Vinyl Cafe on Sunday....oh Dave what have you got yourself into now!

I like an lot of CBC but it has taken a turn for the worse in the last 3 years or so. I was watching an episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000(they riff movies, you might remember 3 silhouettes sitting in theatre seats) and the movie "final sacrifice" was filmed in canada, it is really bad and deserved to be skewered, but the guys did their research, at one point the hero ZAP ROSDOWER turns the radio on and they say "Damn all that is on is As It Happens" I laughed pretty hard at that one.

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posted 09 September 2008 10:09 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by lagatta:
Radio-Canada has done a much better job of integrating classic, chanson, musiques du monde and many other genres, in a listenable format.


Yeah, the playlists on Espace Musique are great, but I doubt that any of the eraserheads in CBC management have heard of the station.


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posted 13 September 2008 10:13 PM      Profile for al-Qa'bong   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
"Go" was good today. I even aced some of the Beatles lyrics questions that the expert contestants missed.
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posted 13 September 2008 10:45 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I also aced lots of the Beatle's questions on Go. Good fun for sure.

I really enjoyed Friday morning's SLC program, especially the last 1/2 half hour with Greg Lawrence and Tony Silvestro. It was about Lawrence running his own "leadership" campaign to be Prime Minister. It was very funny.

I have no idea why the brain trust at CBC is axing "Sounds like Canada" as hosted by Sylvestro. He really is good and reminds me of Bill Richardson and his "Sad Goat" show, which I miss so much. I guess us old-timers have become irrelevant as far as the CBC is concerned.


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Sylvester (god damn how is that spelled?) annoys me. I still remember his months long on-air personal saga of trying to decide whether to go from broadcasting to writing and illustrating his fucking children's book. All on air, at the expense of, you know, Canadians. It was an insult to listeners to have that crap on air.

That being said, I like his radio voice and delivery.

I agree about the Gomeshi comments, too. I kinda like Gian. But I don't like Q. There are simply too many arts\culture shows on CBC 1. Maybe that's why SLC is going. But SLC was always more varied and current affairs than simply cultural.

DNTO sucks.

Hey, it's Sunday. That means a new episode of Wiretap. I do hope that Gregor has managed to grow his beard and that Goldy will call a pal of his on the phone and talk about toe lint.

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posted 25 September 2008 02:44 AM      Profile for triciamarie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Adam T:
while the switch in formats will obviously lose listeners in the short term, in the longer term making the CBC more than an enclave for classical music listeners could result in a net gain

Harper intends on privatizing the CBC. So the rebranding objective is not only, and probably not even primarily to gain more listeners. It's to gain a more saleable product. As it was, (-- As it happens? --) the classical music format was incapable of supporting the kind and degree of advertising required for a station owner to make a profit off radio. To gain profit you need frequent opportunities to cut in with ads, and so much the better if the ads are not too dissimilar to the programming. You also need to be reaching a demographic of listeners who buy things.

Same thing happening with CBC television, with the introduction of popular movies etc as well as the changes to the news.


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Former CBC Montreal radio noon host Anne Lagace Dowson is running for the NDP in Westmount Ville Marie. I loved her on the radio and now I'm hoping she'll kick ass in Ottawa. Check out her website.website
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If the "nerds" who run CBC radio were given the opportunity to run the country - what do you think the outcome would be? The voters of Westmount-Ville Marie think that would be a good thing - and they will elect Anne Dowson for that very reason.
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I'm fond of Jian Ghomeshi but I'm finding that his program doesn't work well in the morning. Culture -- as covered on Q -- is pretty narrow: books, new music releases, indie movie directors etc. It doesn't seem to work as a steady diet in the morning.

And I can't get a feel for the new afternoon show -- The Point -- at all except it doesn't say anything to me. I mostly ignore it even if it's on or else I put one of the digital music channels on.

It always seems to come back to that age-old question: is there any point in trying to attract all these mythical new listeners while alienating long-time listeners like me?


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I haven't been able to listen to the new morning and afternoon feature shows.

I was never really a fan of Q. I don't mind Gian. But the Point or whatever the hell it's called... from the promos I get the feeling I'm going to like it. And I value Sharon's opinion.

I have been listening to The House and the world at six and As It Happens fairly often. The World had some good reporting from the campaign.

Where are these rumours of privatization coming from? I suspect Ceeb tv will be in trouble before Ceeb radio.

Then again - there is Q in the morning...


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The "Point" is leaving me cold. "q" with Gian was a vast improvement to "Freestyle" but it still wasn't as good as "Sad Goat". And "SLC" was really growing on me with Sylvestro as a host. He was very good and it had that reaching across Canada, feel good feeling happening.

As for "DNTO", what is with the constant shrinking of that program? Didn't it originally run for four hours? Now it's down to two hours. And what the hell is Sheila Rodger's show doing there? Don't we gave better book review programs already or has CBC axed Ian Brown and Eleanor Wachtel?

It really does seem like they are priming CBC for a private sector sale.


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DAVID FRUM HOSTING THE CURRENT THIS MORNING!!!!

what the @$#@$#@$??????

richard perle is his first guest described as "one of washingtons most important security advisers...". he's the freakin' "prince of darkness" . an american on the street interviewee called obama "socialist" in the first 5 min. perle called iraq a sucess.

i've already called in a complaint.

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quote:
Originally posted by kropotkin1951:
In BC on the morning show we get "Homer" Cluff.

I am glad there are others who find him as objectionable as I do, and stunned that he is still hosting in Vancouver. From the age of being able to turn on the radio, I listened to CBC 1 every morning while getting ready to head out the door. When I moved to Vancouver, after a few months of Cluff-isms, I decided to do the unthinkable - listen to music and avoid CBC until
it was time for the next program and a different host.

My sympathies are with all the Lower Mainlanders. Really, they are.


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quote:
Originally posted by farnival:
DAVID FRUM HOSTING THE CURRENT THIS MORNING!!!!

what the @$#@$#@$??????


Not a fan of the liberal media?

I didn't listen today, but yesterday on The Current I heard the announcement, right at the end of the show, that Frum would be hosting.

There seemed to be a certain symmetry to that announcement, given that Frum's mother is the legendary BROADcaster Babs Frum, and a piece on Marc Lepine's mother opened the show.


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Frum is hosting a Ceeb show in BC? For how long?And why hasn't this been brought to the Nerds thread earlier?

I'm going to be in deep minority terrain here, but... Frum has hosted The Current before. And, to be honest, it made for interesting radio.

Anyhow, what's everybody been listening to lately? I haven't heard The Current in a long while. A little bit of The House leading up to the Canadian election. Quite a bit of World At Six and As It Happens.

The Point?


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Ah one of the Frum spawn will be hosting on CBC. Too bad we get the axis of evil one, the other could have let us know which are the "in" party schools this fall. Does anyone know if he will be paying Canadian or American income tax for the coin he receives for this gig?
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Frum is going to be on to counter all the socialist spin coming from comrade Obama in the states
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quote:
Originally posted by thorin_bane:
Frum is going to be on to counter all the socialist spin coming from comrade Obama in the states

And that he is fleeing from the US and will be living here in exile.


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The CBC: The voice of the people military industrial complex.
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quote:
Originally posted by aka Mycroft:

And that he is fleeing from the US and will be living here in exile.


His first guest will be that stalker con radio host. He may even get a new fan with her
Radio 1 is slowly being reprogrammed to death. If they keep moving programs around, cancelling good ones and putting crappy ones on, the general public and left supporters will tire of it and it will be the death of it. Cons love to rot and hollow out government on purpose. Make it look bad and even the left will abandon it, which suits their cause anyway. How did sean cullen get a show AGAIN. What is with afghanada(some of them are OK, but mostly propaganda). Where is madly off? the new comedies are OK but not as good. The day the cancel Vinyl Cafe and Quirks, I am done with the CBC. The house is awful with kathleen petty. Her rather provincial POV pisses me off regularly I have writtne in complaints 4 times this year with the way she handles guests. Not that the last guy who is now reporting out of china(saint something), but I miss david moskovich both on TV and radio.


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posted 06 November 2008 07:39 AM      Profile for martin dufresne   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, Howard Zinn is speaking in Montreal on Wednesday November 19 at UQAM, Salle Marie Gérin-Lajoie, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin (doors open at 6:45 p.m.; entrance fee: what you can give, door money turned over to local activist causes TBA). Please, let's all clamor for CBC radio to have him in. Contact: LUX Éditeur: (514) 750.5660
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laine lowe
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posted 06 November 2008 06:13 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by thorin_bane:

His first guest will be that stalker con radio host. He may even get a new fan with her
Radio 1 is slowly being reprogrammed to death. If they keep moving programs around, cancelling good ones and putting crappy ones on, the general public and left supporters will tire of it and it will be the death of it. Cons love to rot and hollow out government on purpose. Make it look bad and even the left will abandon it, which suits their cause anyway. How did sean cullen get a show AGAIN. What is with afghanada(some of them are OK, but mostly propaganda). Where is madly off? the new comedies are OK but not as good. The day the cancel Vinyl Cafe and Quirks, I am done with the CBC. The house is awful with kathleen petty. Her rather provincial POV pisses me off regularly I have writtne in complaints 4 times this year with the way she handles guests. Not that the last guy who is now reporting out of china(saint something), but I miss david moskovich both on TV and radio.


You summed up my feelings pretty well. I work at home and CBC 1 has been a mainstay in the background for many, many years. These days, I turn the radio off more than I turn it on. I don't want to lose hope in the CBC because I do think there is a deliberate goal of trying to turn off hard core supporters who have saved the CBC in the past. It really is quite depressing.

Also, has anyone else noticed the increased frequency of technical glitches. Did they somehow manage to downsize their tech support in the past year?


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posted 06 November 2008 09:24 PM      Profile for thorin_bane     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by laine lowe:

You summed up my feelings pretty well. I work at home and CBC 1 has been a mainstay in the background for many, many years. These days, I turn the radio off more than I turn it on. I don't want to lose hope in the CBC because I do think there is a deliberate goal of trying to turn off hard core supporters who have saved the CBC in the past. It really is quite depressing.

Also, has anyone else noticed the increased frequency of technical glitches. Did they somehow manage to downsize their tech support in the past year?


I guess you listen to CCC with rex mouthy. Yeah I think they have a lot of tech issues not just on radio, but any live programs these days. I think this has to do with the strike a couple years ago and some paring down despite what harpy says. Again the BBC has a budget 5 times that of the CBC and I don't know if that covers it's radio and internet content.
Rex Mouthy was very rude to a guest that thought we shouldn't be in Afhganistan. What a hawkish prick he is. The guy wasn't rude or impolite, just stating that even Karzai thinks we should negotiate. RM runs over him in typical fashion that he always does to the left. "

We should get organized like the right and start writing in everytime the CBC has something like this happen. Krista Erikson is a prime example. She was a good reporter that lost her job because she provided a liberal with questions to ask in comity. I guess the fact the harper government is so secretive and you need a reporter to get an MP to ask question to get any info should be a canary in the coalmine event. Not a reason for being moved to the hinterlands.


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laine lowe
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posted 07 November 2008 05:45 PM      Profile for laine lowe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You're right thorin_bane. We better start fighting before we lose the CBC.

The last round of e-mails I sent never received replies, which was surprising. In the past, whether it was praise, general commentary or a complaint, I usually got a reply, even if it was only an acknowledgment of receipt.


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posted 08 November 2008 07:28 AM      Profile for Farmpunk     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've found some shows are better than others at responding to email. As It Happens has never replied. The Current has been good, and so has The Sunday Edition. Ontario Morning, my region's weekday morning show, not so good.

Nationally, it seems to me the Ceeb needs something like an updated Sad Goat for that afternoon slot. Maybe The Point will fill this gap... Has anyone been listening to it? The only thing I've heard from The Point are promos.


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