Re: [Swprograms] CBC: Protesting "Freestyle"

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> In today's Toronto Star, embedded in an article about Sirius satellite
> radio, was this item:
> 
> "Elsewhere, a storm of protest is looming over programming changes
> made in November at CBC Radio One, with the abolition of the popular
> and longstanding post-lunchtime music program Round Up, and its
> replacement by Freestyle.
> 
> The show is hosted by the chatty team of Kelly Ryan and Cameron
> Phillips and is billed as "water-cooler fodder at its finest."
> 
> Its not-necessarily-Canadian, pop-lite tone and fizzy music play list,
> and its insubstantial, gossip-friendly information content have
> offended many public radio supporters, who see the hour-long program
> as yet another attempt to dumb down the CBC with non-original, ad-hoc
> programming in an effort to make it more hip and competitive in an age
> of shortened attention spans and abundant entertainment choices.

  Dan Say writes:
	It's two hours, replacing the Roundup program,
	and there are numerous blogs about Freestyle too.
	Running from 1 pm to 3 local it leads into
	a longer (earlier start) regional driving home
	programme.

	Many people on hiatus during a Christmas break
	are getting a first fill of the New CBC daytime 
	after the long CBC lockout.

	The TV will start a new season on second week
	of January < http://teamakers.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-look-for-newsworld.html >
	and already there are a few changes
	bruited about for radio as series end, but
	nothing so far about Freestyle.
> 
> They've mounted a national Internet petition at
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stopcbcpop.";

	See also
	   Linkname: A VOICE AGAINST THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE CBC
        URL: http://www.stopcbcpop.ca/

	   Linkname: Planet CBC
        URL: http://peterjanes.homeip.net/cbc/
	and its right rail.  Otherwise it is an attempt
	at tracking the CBC-related (weakly) blog entries.	
	Quote: "This site is an automated digest of all
	known CBC employee weblogs that publish syndicated
	feeds (aka Live Bookmarks or Web Feeds). The
	original list was retrieved from
	[4]CBCunplugged.com but has been updated and
	modified since then. You can subscribe to the
	complete set of feeds ([5]Atom, [6]RSS) or choose
	some from the list at right."
	
	And on the French side, there are similar things
	but French CBC (SRC) is largely ignored for more
	populist radio.

	Back to the new invigorated by Sirius RCI and its
	language spectrum on air.  Things sound so much
	better in Portuguese.
> 
> See http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1135723812679&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
> or http://www.shorl.com/godryjatravyve
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> 
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