CBC Radio Nerdz V

So, as far as I know there were no summer series this year.  Mashup is being used as a re-run on my local Ceeb.  Was this cancellation of usual summer programming ever announced?   

Ontario Morning continues to mystify me.  As I said to one fellow Ceeb radio fan: Ontario Morning is like the weekend show Fresh Air, five days a week.  The show is so soft it could be used as a pillow.

I asked a CBC news person how the new vision CBC news - integrated, delivering content across all platforms - will affect her job.  She didn't know, hadn't heard a thing.

CBC just released a statement talking about more local news:   http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/07/29/supper-hour-news... minute daily newscasts?  That's TV, though.  And I can't really understand the emphasis on bigger daily tv news.  TV is very expensive and relatively slow.  And this at a time when the Ceeb is having to cut jobs? How can this work?

I'd like to see how much the new cast schedules will cost, then figure out how that money could be used to boost the radio side's newsgathering.

There was an interesting comment on insidethecbc. A person wrote in with a comment that she and her family had drove from Ontario westwards, listening to the Ceeb the entire way. One kid said something along the lines of "The Ceeb is way better out west." Thoughts?

Thanks, I was wondering what people meant by the Ceeb. Someyimes CBC listeners sound and act like a cult.

All I can say a lot of the time now is thank goodness for satellite radio.

Ceeb, Beeb, whatever, pfft.  You're using the wrong medium - the net - if you don't like mangled word useage, QaBong.  And comparing the CBC to the BBC?  Jeez, no one ever does that....

CBC Radio is on satelite radio, NorthReport.  So you can join the cult, if you so desire.

George, I've heard a fair number of the Music that Changed the world.  I thought it was neat radio, but it's not Enright's series, and it sounded a little similiar to other music, arts and entertainment segments that pop up with annoying regularity on Ceeb One.  There are two other CBC services that deal exclusively with music. 

I like it too.  The series is done by Robert Harris (formerly of I Hear Music) with Michael Enright.  Today, it was Bob Dylan which was very interesting.

I notice I'm turning the radio off during weekday afternoons quite often, however.  I have never been a listener to DNTO, even when it's on Saturday.  I have no interest in listening to old DNTOs on weekdays.  And Ideas is an excellent program but doesn't suit my afternoons and somehow, just doesn't seem appropriate at 2:00 p.m.

Thanks Farmpunk, and I do listen to it on satellite.

Saturday evenings is superb for music in Vancouver what with Backman, Cocoran, and Petterson.

I agree Tommy_Paine that it depends on your activity, including your mental activity. 

I am looking forward to the day Jenna Chow gets her own show - poor kid is stuck doing traffic right now.

I lnow it's corny, but it's creative, and DNTO is my fav discussion show though, sorry Sharon.

Never been a fan of the Debaters or Go, though many CBC listening friends enjoy both.  I used to like DNTO, but that was back in the Nora Young days (come back, Nora, come back...).  Still, DNTO gets some interesting guests and Sook-Yin does celeb-style, Strombo-esque interviews well.  I'm going to start listening to DNTO again this fall, because I understand the show is trying to move towards more of a humourous personal storytelling angle.  It's been on the radio a long while now, and I think it could, or should, be refreshed with a new format.  Most episodes I listened to last year sounded very similar.   

Wiretap continues to evade my sense of humour.  Also, a friend who's a fan said it's not availible online?  What's up with that? 

I wonder what's going to replace The Point, Inside Track, and what's going to fill time in the afternoon when most regional new hour shows are cut back to an hour.  Ontario Today with Rita Celli (Chelli?) is a quality program, clearly run on bare bones.  When Ed Lawrence is on there are endless calls for his sage advice with garden and household plants.  If Ed doesn't get on-air, loyal listeners will tear the ass off of some Ceeb exec.

I did enjoy the Sunday Edition's music series with Harris.  But it seems to me that it simply mimicked a number of other radio programs doing the same sort of thing.  All major radio operations (Astral, Chorus) now have music storytellers, highlighted by Alan Cross, who blows the doors off the Harris series.  Seems to me TSE would have done better to have a series on Books that Changed the world, or weapons that changed the world. 

Anyhow, the "soft" stuff on CBC radio appears to be deeply entrenched.  It's the news and current affairs programming which has me concerned.  If I start hearing obvious tv packs being played on my radio I'm going to get angry.

Plus, on a side-note.  I was speaking with a farmer the other day, one of the organizers for a beginning farmer's group of pork producers who, because of the way gov aid has been rolled out to hog farmers, they haven't been eligible for a dime when deceased farmers have been cut cheques.  This group held a protest outside the provincial and federal ag ministers meeting in Niagara three weeks back.  The organizer told me he notified the CBC and was told that news doesn't happen outside of Toronto or Montreal.  The farmer had better things to say about CTV, Global, and City TV than the CBC, and that's not good news.

The Louis Armstrong and ODJB piece was nice to hear this morning; I play exactly this music on my own show, which is not, as one might expect, called "The Radio Programme that Changed the World."

I would have preferred if Harris had dummied up during the music, though. I don't need someone to say, "Listen to this, he's holding the note" over and over again during the tunes.

Satchel-mouth.

I'm probably just indicating my age with that farm radio noon stockyard report, FP.

Be glad you're just a tad.

CBC radio just gave us one hour of the very first "As it Happens" program from late Autumn of 1968, thanks to Michael  Enright's "Rewind".

Harry Brown and Philip Forsyth were doing a 6-hour marathon, beginning on the east coast, and I heard the one-hour Ontario portion with an incredible list of radical goings on across North America - including Trudeau's call for a "Just Society" to avoid the  social upheaval occurring in the U.S.

And the music of the day........

(And we had just struck the Peterborough Examiner, and 200 student picketers were being fed chili in a church basement by a catering firm employed by the American Newspaper Guild, and some had been busted by the police, and after events in Paris there was talk of revolution, and you didn't eat California grapes (where the Farm Workers feared new legislation by Governor Reagan), and it was all too much coming back at you....

As a state radio outlet it is mediocre and as a public broadcaster (its claim) it is abysmal.

Summer programming is over.

Apprently regional highlights will be replayed as a show in the spot The Point used to occupy.  I think it's a good idea.

Other changes to national or regional in your area?

Radio Two is running The Great Canadian Songquest to determine which Canadian places need their own song (if they don't already have one). It's part geographical trivia and part musical celebration, something that only the CBC could pull off.

And Naomi was not given the time to properly address the charges of anti-Semitism from the slimebag Israeli filmaker in the minute and a half left to her, as she observed . 

I've been neglecting this thread.

Back to T-P.  You must have been listening to Tapestry.  Franti was featured on the show around that time.  Pretty cool episode, and an very under-rated show.  I like Hines' style.

I have just started listeing more to Radio 2.  And... I know earlier variants of this thread smacked the change in format, but it's very listenable.  I'm tuning it in more and more to escape from the incredibly scripted music formats of big private stations - and there are very few indies left.  Tefry and Drive is pretty good for a wide variety of tunes. 

The biggest change in radio 1 seems to be the new, nationally gathered, early afternoon show.  Can't even remember it's name, but it just gathers interviews and pieces and whatnot from regional shows.  A great idea, really, given the budget conditions. 

The political panel was back on As It Happens, then it wasn't there last Friday, unless it was early on.  I used to love the old political panel, despite Peter Denolo (sp err likely) annoying the hell out of me.

The Current has ran some nice pieces, too.  Tremonti did a solid set of interviews about the pork situation.