Last night I paid a visit to the “about” page for our board of directors. No doubt, they are all fine people who have excelled in their fields. But what CBC is facing right now is a perfect storm, and I’m not sure they’re prepared, or even qualified, to make the choices CBC needs to […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
The New Tod Maffin
March 18, 2009 – 10:46 am
Comic relief.Four minutes of a homemade, too tightly edited, fake “podcast“. Learn more about the candidates!Well, one candidate. “I’ll push Van City to help people connect with each other, something that seems to be missing in today’s Facebook world.” And now you’ve heard everything.
‘Sweatersss!’
March 18, 2009 – 10:32 am
Or, more accurately, “Diamondsss!†Whatever happened to those double-breasted black shirts with pearlized buttons and matching brutal belt buckle? (Crisis? What crisis?)
Seize The Time: Let’s Fight Back
March 17, 2009 – 6:18 pm
The night of the long knives approaches. You can feel the tension in the broadcast centre in Toronto. Every unit wonders if they will be hit, and whom among them will have to go? It’s at times like these that the Tea Makers have a role to play. Forget rumours or gossip, how about alternative […]
Moore interview, anyone?
March 17, 2009 – 11:44 am
Listen, can somebody who can handle MS Silverlight – the Other Solitude’s “accessible, platform-agnostic†technology of choice – please make any kind of usable audio or video recording of James Moore’s appearance on Tout le monde en parle?
Report Card Of The Under-Performing Coming Due
March 16, 2009 – 8:06 pm
What can we now, suddenly, live without? It’s day two of the head honchos meeting behind closed doors to resolve the CBC budget shortfall, and hardly an hour goes by without yet another news article about the good and bad and ugly of our taxpayer-subsidized national broadcaster. There’s lots of griping, but discussing real solutions […]
How do you make money from CanCon online?
March 16, 2009 – 2:22 pm
You pretty much can’t, argues Jaron Lanier, unless you tie your content to a hardware device. (Excerpts from a submission to the CRTC that’s almost impossible to find.)
Judy Maddren retires
March 16, 2009 – 11:48 am
She was always a voice, never a person. But what a re-assuring and familiar sound.World Report was the most-listened to program on CBC Radio.At least she still has a small business/hobby to keep exercising her formidable aural skills.
Fund stew
March 16, 2009 – 6:57 am
Now the Corpse is gonna have to fight for government funding alongside the Privates (and educational broadcasters like TVO). Stursberg is OK with it “provided everyone is one equal footing when it comes to the mechanism for measuring audience numbers.†OK, wait. Everyone has the same holes in their measurement system. We don’t know how […]
Sticky Wicket
March 15, 2009 – 2:03 pm
A manly Toronto Sun writer who wants more graphic sex scenes?Gee, who would have thunk. (bet “prodding” wasn’t your first choice, Bill)
CBC & The Arts: They’re really not that into it
March 15, 2009 – 12:57 pm
For all the pretensions the CBC makes about being into “the arts”, you really have to turn anywhere else to find out what’s going on.You can walk into HMV and see new Canadian artists, new movies and new video games being released every week.Over to the World’s Biggest Book Store and you’ll see a dozen […]
