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Farmpunk
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posted 26 August 2008 03:21 PM
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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Adam T
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posted 04 September 2008 05:36 PM
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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Farmpunk
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posted 06 September 2008 04:08 PM
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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M. Spector
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posted 09 September 2008 11:18 AM
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 ]
From: One millihelen: The amount of beauty required to launch one ship. | Registered: Feb 2005
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thorin_bane
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posted 09 September 2008 07:20 PM
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. [ 09 September 2008: Message edited by: thorin_bane ]
From: Looking at the despair of Detroit from across the river! | Registered: Jun 2004
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Farmpunk
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posted 14 September 2008 04:38 AM
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. [ 14 September 2008: Message edited by: Farmpunk ]
From: SW Ontario | Registered: Jul 2006
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Farmpunk
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posted 18 October 2008 09:32 PM
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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farnival
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posted 24 October 2008 06:43 AM
DAVID FRUM HOSTING THE CURRENT THIS MORNING!!!!what the @$#@$#@$?????? richard perle is his first guest described as "one of washingtons most important security advisers...". he's the freakin' "prince of darkness" . an american on the street interviewee called obama "socialist" in the first 5 min. perle called iraq a sucess. i've already called in a complaint. [ 24 October 2008: Message edited by: farnival ]
From: where private gain trumps public interest, and apparently that's just dandy. | Registered: Jul 2004
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al-Qa'bong
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posted 24 October 2008 03:19 PM
quote: Originally posted by farnival: DAVID FRUM HOSTING THE CURRENT THIS MORNING!!!!what the @$#@$#@$??????
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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Farmpunk
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posted 05 November 2008 05:08 PM
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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laine lowe
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posted 06 November 2008 06:13 PM
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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thorin_bane
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posted 06 November 2008 09:24 PM
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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