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electriclandRegarding the CBC's agreement in principle, I can only say: Oh please oh please oh please.
I miss my CBC. (SK, my hostess, also misses her CBC. I explained that even though TiW and Da Vinci's City Hall are produced by independent production companies I don't want TPTB to get the idea they can just get rid of their in-house staff by buying everything, so even though it'll be a wrench, I can't watch them either until this is settled. She's just sick of the boring music selections on CBC Radio Two.)
According to John Doyle's column this morning, the lockout has been a tremendous black eye for Canada around the world, at least in countries where they have a public broadcaster they love and value. His message was basically: Get it together, guys. Enough with the navel-gazing. Get an agreement fast and move on to getting back the viewers and listeners you've lost in the last six weeks. Figure out what you do well and then get on and do it, and quit trying to ape the major U.S. networks because it's never going to work. But it wouldn't hurt you to see how well CTV's doing with Corner Gas.
I mostly agree, I think. The timing of this lockout, and the thinking behind it, were just bizarre. The foot-dragging that followed was almost as bad. The network completely lost the PR battle. When every other network and station was rolling out its fall lineup, CBC was twiddling its thumbs. On the news side, they completely missed out on at least two major news events, Hurricane Katrina and the investiture of the new G-G, and countless small ones. Northern Canada has been effectively without a news service for six weeks, as have remoter parts of the rest of the country.
Regardless of that 61% of the country who said the lockout hadn't affected them one bit (and who are you, you idiots?), we need the CBC. I really, really hope they'll be back soon, where they're supposed to be.
(Hopefully whoever designs their ad campaigns will be unlocked as well, because their latest subway campaign is just godawful. Not as godawful as those "Now! A whole hour of Coronation Street weekdays at 7! Aren't you overjoyed?" black and white things, but close to it.)
I miss my CBC. (SK, my hostess, also misses her CBC. I explained that even though TiW and Da Vinci's City Hall are produced by independent production companies I don't want TPTB to get the idea they can just get rid of their in-house staff by buying everything, so even though it'll be a wrench, I can't watch them either until this is settled. She's just sick of the boring music selections on CBC Radio Two.)
According to John Doyle's column this morning, the lockout has been a tremendous black eye for Canada around the world, at least in countries where they have a public broadcaster they love and value. His message was basically: Get it together, guys. Enough with the navel-gazing. Get an agreement fast and move on to getting back the viewers and listeners you've lost in the last six weeks. Figure out what you do well and then get on and do it, and quit trying to ape the major U.S. networks because it's never going to work. But it wouldn't hurt you to see how well CTV's doing with Corner Gas.
I mostly agree, I think. The timing of this lockout, and the thinking behind it, were just bizarre. The foot-dragging that followed was almost as bad. The network completely lost the PR battle. When every other network and station was rolling out its fall lineup, CBC was twiddling its thumbs. On the news side, they completely missed out on at least two major news events, Hurricane Katrina and the investiture of the new G-G, and countless small ones. Northern Canada has been effectively without a news service for six weeks, as have remoter parts of the rest of the country.
Regardless of that 61% of the country who said the lockout hadn't affected them one bit (and who are you, you idiots?), we need the CBC. I really, really hope they'll be back soon, where they're supposed to be.
(Hopefully whoever designs their ad campaigns will be unlocked as well, because their latest subway campaign is just godawful. Not as godawful as those "Now! A whole hour of Coronation Street weekdays at 7! Aren't you overjoyed?" black and white things, but close to it.)
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Date: 2005-10-03 10:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-04 01:21 pm (UTC)Which are the others? Robson Arms?
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Date: 2005-10-03 11:12 pm (UTC)... and time to read the Globe and Mail/Economist/Things besides theory and my correspondance.
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Date: 2005-10-04 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-04 01:04 am (UTC)Don't look at me. I'd be in danger of going postal if I couldn't watch my Leafs on Saturday nights. It's bad enough that we lost an entire season due to that lockout, but to lose another due to the CBC lockout? Definitely postal. ;)
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Date: 2005-10-04 01:19 pm (UTC)(and yes, I'm sure there would be a different number if the lockout had continued another month...)