What's do you like about CBC? (split from Media: Bias, errors, follies, etc.)

[RedcapCrusader]

Yes more chicanery in the CBC, this time it's Evan Solomon who has been let go due to breaching the "code of ethics" (loose though it must be).

There are some wonderful people and programmes on CBC: Mary Hynes and Tapestry, Eleanor Wachtel  and Writers and Company and Paul Kennedy and Ideas to name just three, but most of CBC, ALL of CBC TV, is a waste of bandwidth.

Good riddance.

Also: Vinyl Cafe was pretty good. Sometime Marketplace. Otherwise I avoided CBC altogether.

 

[OldSolduer]

I won't miss him.  I was getting tired of his biased reporting and it's good to see him smacked down.  Especially if he was playing all Mike Duffy with feathering his nest.

I never liked him and refused to watch him. A Liberal shill. Good riddance......

 

[Brad Sallows]

99 bottles of beer on the wall,
99 bottles of beer.
...

 

[Loachman]

The announcement made me happy.

He is an obnoxious twit.

 

[Good2Golf]

Good riddance.

Also: Vinyl Cafe was pretty good. Sometime Marketplace. Otherwise I avoided CBC altogether.

Stuart McLean is a particular high point of CBC.  :nod:

 

[jollyjacktar]

I also like Day 6, As it Happens, The Irrelevant Show, The Debaters and Under the Influence.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

When I'm bored, I'll use CBC to carry Coronation Street into my house and drive my wife crazy.

Their social experiment has failed, however, thanks to them, mine continues. 8)

 

[The Bread Guy]

And let's not forget Canada's National Treasure ....

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Stuart McLean is a particular high point of CBC.  :nod:

I only started listening to Mclean a couple of years ago and I think he is hilarious!! Can't get enough of his stories featuring Dave and Morley and the rest their friends. Plus, if I miss him on Sunday I can catch him on NPR at three o'clock.

I also like Day 6, As it Happens, The Irrelevant Show, The Debaters and Under the Influence.

Don't forget "Quirks and Quarks."

 

[Good2Golf]

I only started listening to Mclean a couple of years ago and I think he is hilarious!! Can't get enough of his stories featuring Dave and Morley and the rest their friends. Plus, if I miss him on Sunday I can catch him on NPR at three o'clock...

[tangent]
"Dave cooks the Turkey"

Pure gold!
[/tangent]

 

[RedcapCrusader]

Stuart McLean is a particular high point of CBC.  :nod:

I am a young guy, my grandfather introduced me to Stuart McLean and I have never looked back. My wife blew my mind when he picked up his collection for Christmas one year. I love it, many of my peers think I'm crazy and can't understand what is so good about it.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

And let's not forget Canada's National Treasure ....

I am afraid, dear Milnews, that your recognition of the contribution to our national psyche of the professor from the Rock is not conflated or confabulated enough to provide for the imagery we have come to expect from such distinguished and inexhaustible source of grammar and vocabulary as he. I am Max Pointy and ... 

;D

And we must not forget that CBC has Don Cherry !!!

 

[The Bread Guy]

And we must not forget that CBC has Don Cherry !!!

Since (standby for accusations of "Heretic!") I'm not into hockey, the Rex-meister is higher on my scale than Cherry.
:whiteflag:

 

[Strike]

Love Under the Influence.  And when listening to The Debaters I have to remember not to be drinking anything otherwise I risk it making its way through my sinuses to my nose.

 

[Edward Campbell]

The whole universe within which CBC, and all the private "broadcasters" (mostly very "narrowcasters" now) operate is changing far more rapidly than many of us appreciate. Gross revenues for public and private broadcasters have been either stable or, often, in decline for years and, to make matters more complicated, those stable revenues must not be shared amongst many, many more broadcasters/entertainment and information outlets than in the past. There is no way that the CBC, even with $1.2 Billion in taxpayer funding, can survive in its current form.

Someone needs to look very, very closely at the Broadcasting Act (1991), especially at §3 and §46 and sift through all the shalls and shoulds and mays to determine if that's still what Canadians need in the 21st century.

    My own, highly personal, view is that Canada needs:

          1. An English language radio service ~ over the air in rural and remote regions, and internet in urban/suburban areas;

          2. A French language radio service ~ over the air and internet, as above;

          3. A multilingual, over the air and satellite/redistributed, Northern service; and

          4. A multilingual, over the air and internet, World service.

    That's all that I think we need; obviously I believe that the CBC televisions services, all of them should be sold off.

    I think that bits, say five hours a week, of CBC radio are as good as anything anywhere in the world. I believe that some of the rest, say another 10-15 hours can be made "world class." In my view, 20 hours a week of first rate radio.
    programming is about all that anyone should expect of any service, anywhere in the world (and it's about all that the vaunted BBC produces). There are 168 hours to fill in a week; a normal radio service should rebroadcast almost all of
    its programmes at least once a week, so say there is up to 75 hours of original programming a week to be produced; say 5 hours (3 news casts a day, each of 15 minutes) of that is national news, that leaves 60-70 hours of original, Canadian
    programming to be produced. Let's say that 20 of those hours are first rate and 40-50 are second or third rate ~ that's adequate in quality and quantity and Canadians might be asked to fund that.

 

[jollyjacktar]

Since (standby for accusations of "Heretic!") I'm not into hockey, the Rex-meister is higher on my scale than Cherry.
:whiteflag:

:goodpost:

 

[jollyjacktar]

Don't forget "Quirks and Quarks."

Yes, forgot about that one too. 

If you like Stuart, it's a laugh to hear The Irrelevant Show do some of their skits while impersonating him.  Such as "Stuart MacLean reads Ransom Notes".  Funny, funny stuff.  :nod:

 

[The Bread Guy]

Good stuff, all - just splitting this from the general media overview thread.

Milnet.ca Staff

 

[Blackadder1916]

Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap

Yeah, it shows my age and taste in music.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap

Yeah, it shows my age and taste in music.

I am only 36 this is one of my favs too.  I also like Cross Country Checkup, The Debaters,  As It Happens, Defiantly Not The Opera (DNTO) and of course Vinyl Cafe