Failed TV pilot for popular nerd podcast the Sound of Young America (q.v.; at iTunes): (A pilot for whom? CurrentTV.) Q (“TVâ€) with Jee-ahn Go-meshee: Champion of this updated contest of filming a stageplay and calling it television? None: It’s a tie. UPDATE (2009.05.21): Now teh Gays are doing it (the Proud FM to be […]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Give the Olympics to CBC French, KvF pleads
May 13, 2009 – 9:36 am
Really: He thinks the tiny number of Francophones without cable or satellite need to watch the Olympics, solely on TV, solely in French, and the only way to do that is to hand the programming over to Radio-Canada. Not just the National Governing Broadcaster, CBC is the National Olympics Broadcaster, KvF essentially states. But heck, […]
Give the Olympics to CBC French, KvF pleads
May 13, 2009 – 9:36 am
Really: He thinks the tiny number of Francophones without cable or satellite need to watch the Olympics, solely on TV, solely in French, and the only way to do that is to hand the programming over to Radio-Canada. Not just the National Governing Broadcaster, CBC is the National Olympics Broadcaster, KvF essentially states. But heck, […]
How to turn a profit on Canadian programming
May 12, 2009 – 10:53 am
Run 40 repeats on another channel. The Usual Suspects of the CanCon lobby paid Nordicity to research and write a study (PDF) on the economics of TV programming. The study gives the appearance of marshalling a huge range of plausible assumptions to arrive at the preordained conclusion that Canadian programming can be profitable for broadcasters. […]
Scott Moore now officially empowered to harass and defame CBC Sports business partners
May 9, 2009 – 1:25 pm
Only now, with “interim†removed from his added job title, he doesn’t have to limit himself to levelling accusations at octogenarian composers.
Help CTV save local television
May 9, 2009 – 12:59 pm
By reading pro-fee-for-carriage propaganda (and signing an E-petition).
The $87,000 expense account
May 8, 2009 – 4:40 pm
New expenses reports have been posted, showing that in the closing months of ’08, as the CBC was losing millions, Stursberg’s self-entitled billings didn’t just stay the same, they actually went up!Though we assume that he has an office, he still finds it necessary to have dinner with a “broadcast executive” and pick up the […]
Hey you! Tech nuts!
May 8, 2009 – 7:39 am
Who you calling tech nuts, Dianne Buckner? Look, I don’t have any time for the Facebook Phenomenon right now. I’m right in the middle of the Tweethole Meltdown. And I’ve a whole bag of tweets to get through before the Amazon buys twitter and teamakers and puts it all on the Big Kindle and behind […]
‘I’m not here this afternoon to blackmail you’
May 7, 2009 – 10:26 am
When not rewriting Tea Makers posts a couple of days after the fact, near-useless official CBC blog Inside the CBC can occasionally deign to cover real events, like Hubie’s appearance before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on April 27. That blog gave us 343 words. Meanwhile, I printed out and read all 56 pages […]
‘Search Engine’ unshackled
May 6, 2009 – 1:57 pm
In an interview with the Torontoist, Search Engine host Jesse Brown admits the show was inspired by copyleftists Cory Doctorow and Michael Geist. At its new home on TVO.org, the podcast can now spread its wings free of CBC’s meddlesome rules on journalistic fairness and balance – the rules still tying the hands of Spark’s […]
JS&P to be updated at a future date to accommodate all this Googling
May 6, 2009 – 1:23 pm
Now you too can attend a pointless, long-ass strategy meeting, just like a real CBCer! Esther Enkin throws open the doors to a public discussion on rewriting the Journalistic Standards and Practices to bring it up to date. First on the agenda: comments. When should they be deleted? If you ever wanted an example of […]
CBC-inspired shoes
May 5, 2009 – 11:00 am
The unsanctioned CBC shoe is part of Fluevog’s Radio line.Can we sue them over this?
From three bucks to $200K
May 4, 2009 – 1:38 pm
Jim Shaw bought three “unprofitable†CTV outlets for a dollar each. But his Kenora station already clears $200,000 a year. Crisis? What crisis?
