Sweet! Tax cuts benefiting the wealthy and new spending!
Joking aside: juicing CBC’s mandate to cover local news is great. There are strong arguments that it should stop selling ads for some services (like podcasts and local news) so small producers have a shot at getting started. Hopefully that’ll be included in the mandate change.
I don’t own a tv, but what are the gimmick-based shows? Schitt’s Creek, Baroness von Sketch Show, and Kim’s Convenience are recent(ish) CBC shows that did very well.
CBC’s news seems fine. They do a decent job on local reporting.
But I stopped enjoying their analysis and current affairs programming in the early 2000s. I’m not sure what changed, but the presenters and format really turned me off.
The first paragraph is based on my news listening habits.
The second paragraph is based on my desire to turn on CBC radio or a podcast. I used to enjoy Morningside, the House, Basic Black, As It Happens, Prime Time, Vinyl Cafe, and Ideas.
Around the time Definitely Not the Opera started, and Michael Enright got the Sunday morning show, I found that I just didn’t want to listen as much. Shows started to be vehicles for their hosts. Some interviewers seemed to be reading from a prepared list of questions. Interviewees don’t seem to be experts, so much as partisans (I don’t need an LPC/CPC hack telling me how they’re doing in the polls).
Local news programming remains fine. White Coat/Black Art provides a novel perspective. The Debaters is still funny. I have no desire to listen to other shows.
Sweet! Tax cuts benefiting the wealthy and new spending!
Joking aside: juicing CBC’s mandate to cover local news is great. There are strong arguments that it should stop selling ads for some services (like podcasts and local news) so small producers have a shot at getting started. Hopefully that’ll be included in the mandate change.
The CBC needs to be cleaned out and returned to a fact based news company, local news and made in Canada shows that aren’t stupid gimmicks.
But there is definitely a ton of money being wasted.
I don’t own a tv, but what are the gimmick-based shows? Schitt’s Creek, Baroness von Sketch Show, and Kim’s Convenience are recent(ish) CBC shows that did very well.
CBC’s news seems fine. They do a decent job on local reporting.
But I stopped enjoying their analysis and current affairs programming in the early 2000s. I’m not sure what changed, but the presenters and format really turned me off.
What do you base that statement on?
The first paragraph is based on my news listening habits.
The second paragraph is based on my desire to turn on CBC radio or a podcast. I used to enjoy Morningside, the House, Basic Black, As It Happens, Prime Time, Vinyl Cafe, and Ideas.
Around the time Definitely Not the Opera started, and Michael Enright got the Sunday morning show, I found that I just didn’t want to listen as much. Shows started to be vehicles for their hosts. Some interviewers seemed to be reading from a prepared list of questions. Interviewees don’t seem to be experts, so much as partisans (I don’t need an LPC/CPC hack telling me how they’re doing in the polls).
Local news programming remains fine. White Coat/Black Art provides a novel perspective. The Debaters is still funny. I have no desire to listen to other shows.
Sorry…the question was for the commenter above who said that a ton of money was wasted. My mistake.