The Sudbury Star thinks Stursberg should explain his corporate lifestyle. Fat chance, but top prize for pushiest headline.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
$550 to see what everyone earns at the CBC
November 30, 2008 – 1:30 pm
Stop banging your head against the wall, Rod, and go for it.
Bad news is good for CBC
November 28, 2008 – 2:34 pm
Radio One celebrates (frugally, of course) becoming Number One in TO.
Stursberg and Cruikshank and your media
November 28, 2008 – 8:51 am
The Globe and Mail quotes Stursberg: He was a great fit here. We got on great. I’m very fond of him. People in news admired him as a great leader. Sometimes these things happen. And Fake Tod Maffin at insidethecbc quotes Cruikshank: I’m going to The Star because I want to go back to newspapers […]
The CTV Memo II
November 27, 2008 – 7:16 pm
From: CTVglobemedia CommunicationsSent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:54 AMSubject: A Message from Dawn Fell/Avis de Dawn Fell Following Ivan Fecan’s message and Town Hall last week, layoffs are taking place today affecting approximately 105 positions. Virtually all of these positions are in Toronto. The various collective agreements that cover some of the affected positions allow […]
Is $600 dinner outrageous to keep your highest grossing personalities happy?
November 27, 2008 – 12:32 pm
Paul McGrath defends Stursberg’s expenses and motives.Legitimate excess.Laughs guaranteed.
Yes, Jim Shaw can remove CBC Regina from Star Choice
November 27, 2008 – 11:03 am
Because Star Choice isn’t offering a higher number of CTV stations than CBC stations. (Bureaucratic?)
Exit Interview?
November 26, 2008 – 4:44 pm
This afternoon, CBC announced the resignation of CBC News publisher John Cruickshank. The former publisher of the Chicago Sun Times and chief operating officer of Sun Times Media Group joined CBC News in September of 2007. He leaves to accept the position of publisher of The Toronto Star, the country’s largest newspaper. Jennifer McGuire named […]
Cruickshank Bails
November 26, 2008 – 3:15 pm
After one year on the job as Publisher, John Cruickshank announces his move to the Toronto Star.
‘How football without announcers changed Canada forever’
November 26, 2008 – 1:26 pm
Comment submitted to TV Barn: You suggested that [football broadcasting without announcers] would be interesting. Well, it happened in Canada in 2005. The CBC was going through a strike, but the bosses wanted to carry on with [CFL] broadcasts. Management manned the cameras, etc., but there was no commentary, just the natural crowd noise and […]
‘How football without announcers changed Canada forever’
November 26, 2008 – 1:26 pm
Comment submitted to TV Barn: You suggested that [football broadcasting without announcers] would be interesting. Well, it happened in Canada in 2005. The CBC was going through a strike, but the bosses wanted to carry on with [CFL] broadcasts. Management manned the cameras, etc., but there was no commentary, just the natural crowd noise and […]
Ken Rubin: the new James Bond
November 26, 2008 – 11:03 am
Is it really “the competition” that’s behind the Access To Information requests revealing the expense accounts of CBC management, as Chairman Casgrain claims?It appears to be Ottawa activist Ken Rubin, a researcher-for-hire who’s on a mission.
Dining with The Culture Makers
November 25, 2008 – 7:14 am
Outrage over CBC executives’ expense accounts is all the rage this season. Much as it was in the 40s, when execs regularly used these accounts to double their salaries. Most of it was spent on hard liquor in the prairies. Those were the days! Nowadays you spend it on a Harvard education and the media […]
Seeing our way through tough financial times
November 24, 2008 – 7:20 pm
Many of you will know that, as early as September, we forecasted a worsening of the economic climate and, in fact, Richard Stursberg went as far as informing all his staff of actions taken to respond. On October 31, Richard further announced to his staff his assessment of the effect of the widening economic crisis […]
