Ryerson Review of Journalism, 2005
“Jennifer Dettman, executive producer, helped create the show’s concept by targeting audiences with Stroumbo’s youthful personality. “I suppose that’s cool,” says Stroumbo, “because for the longest time, getting people under the age of 15 engaged on a Newsworld program was rare.” Doyle, on the other hand, argues that no program on [...]
If Mesley, Mansbridge and the whole lot of them are so gung ho on public broadcasting, why don’t they quit and run for Federal office?
Nothing could be easier or more effective to bolster funding for the CBC.
It’s a given that celebrities are easily elected. People assume they know them almost personally. All that’s necessary for [...]
In the corner with George Stroumboulopoulos at the lead-up to the Haiti Relief Telethon.
Nosey camera guy interrupts George’s attempt to fly the friendly skies
If you’re eager to learn more about the many accomplishments of Jian Ghomeshi and the high regard in which he holds himself, there are three presumably reliable places to go.
There’s the CBC page of his biography.
There’s Jian’s own home page.
And there’s good old Wikipedia.
And if you do go to each of these three pages, you’ll [...]
Four months later, News Network still touts itself as new and improved. As compared to it’s more obvious condition,”not much better”.
The promo they run has images and words flying by quickly to convey urgency and drama. Also behind the scenes pictures of the photo shoot for the announcers’ glossy stills for web pages and other [...]
It’s more than lies and spin that can control a nation.
It can be done by omission.
By what’s not being said.
The Hour and re-branding of Newsworld has been shown to be empty heroics, and resulted in both a dumbing down and slowing down of any vitality and daring in news coverage and broadcast arts.
CBC’s radio music [...]
As the country went wild with jubilation, CBC News had nothing.
Not even the smallest effort to be part of the excitement.
A giant expensive broadcasting facility in Vancouver sat idle.
No man-in-the-street interviews, no commentary, nothing LIVE from Vancouver or anywhere.
In fact it seemed as if the CBC went out of its way to make sure that [...]
We all know and accept that celebrity interviews are almost entirely a charade, but it’s always fun to hear Charlie Brooker dissect it once again.
It would be awkward for anyone at the CBC to publicly condemn the actions of a competing broadcaster.
But this is not a matter of business or politics, but rather of prejudice.
When Johnny Weir took to the ice in the Men’s Figure Skating competition last Wedneswday, two male talking heads from RDS were ready to add [...]
“…the user points the camera at a person across the room. Face recognition software creates a 3-D model of the person’s mug and sends it across a server where it’s matched with an identity in the database. A cloud server conducts the facial recognition since and sends back the subject’s name as well as links [...]
This is what you’re paying for Canada.
This is what Strombo is taking money for.
Feeling ripped off yet?
Has the CBC no shame?
Richard Stursberg whines that people in Canada are not paying enough in taxes to support its public broadcaster.
Money for what?
Taxes being used to pay Strombo to sit for four hours playing requests from listeners?
How is [...]
“A spokesperson for CBC-TV has acknowledged to The Canadian Press that an error caused CBC News Network to broadcast about 45 minutes of Olympic footage.
“It was a technical issue,” CBC spokesperson Chris Ball said in a telephone interview.
CTV and Rogers Media paid US$93 million for the rights to broadcast the Vancouver Games.
“Our Olympic Games [...]
Canadian Women in Communications 2010 Woman of the Year
Kirstine Stewart
“… one of the brightest stars in Canada’s televison industry. Since joining the CBC in 2006 as general manager of CBC English Television, she has revitalized ratings and generated new revenue streams. As the network’s chief creative officer, she has overseen the launch of such hits [...]
His own blog is boring and attracts no readers whatsoever.
He misses the good old days of having thousands of people, though only a few, reading all about him and the CBC when he had control of the “Official Blog” insidecbc.com.
But he blew that when he had it, proving himself to be a petty, mean-spirited nutbar, [...]
Advertisement: