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Monthly Archives: October 2009
CBC Newsworld now ‘CBC News Network’
John Bowman snaps a photo of CBC News Network poster
Timeline of open letter
What happened in the creation and publication of the Open Letter to the President from Concerned CBC Staff
Vapourware CBC Sports Plus to receive vapourware analogue in Other Solitude
‘Radio-Canada announced yesterday is has submitted an application for a new licence to operate a new national french specialty channel to be called RADIO-CANADA SPORTS’
‘Funkytown’
Disco Delivery notes Inside the Music’s episode “Funkytown: The Montreal Disco Eraâ€
I sometimes feel sorry for John Doyle
Why won’t John Doyle disclose where he gets his “leaked†open letters to CBC management?
NFB iApp lets you save up shit for later
Load a movie while you’ve got a connection, watch it up to a day later
James Wicks
Jill Troyer, Director of Regional Programming? WTF?! She was my 11:00 PM producer when I anchored the late news in Toronto. Maybe I should have stayed in Canada – and stayed with the CBC. Who knows what I would have been manager of? – James Wicks at Medium Close-Up
This week’s slagging of CBC
Another week, another slag of CBC News by Medium Close-Up
Joe
“I can’t believe anyone has fallen for this. It’s so obvious that Mike Linder himself wrote this ‘open letter.’ †– Joe (no relation) in An open letter to the President from concerned CBC staff
‘FREE TICKETS FOR BATTLE OF THE BLADES TONIGHT! (Maple Leaf Gardens (Toronto))’
Free Battle of the Gay Blades tix. Via Craigslist, which of course makes things so much more reassuring
Shocker: Gay host handles gay segment properly
Actual gay Brent Bambury handles actual-gay subject-matter correctly, for the first and only time on this topic
‘Must you run photographs of Jian Ghomeshi?’
Eric Morris writes to Toronto Life: ‘Must you run photographs of Jian Ghomeshi?’