Have you ever been listening to CBC Radio and heard something so good you wanted to hear again? Maybe it’s an interview that excited you. Or a documentary that touched you. Or maybe it’s something you remember from years ago that you just want to hear one more time. CBC Radio One’s Sirius channel and CBC’s podcasting group are coming out with a new show called Listener’s Choice. To get your pick selected, fill this form out and tell them what you’d like to hear, and why.

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	Podcasting, Sirius Satellite	Posted at 7:29 pm (31 Jan 2007)

Here’s a neato little tip if you want to go back in time through the news. Type this into your web browser’s address bar:

http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/YYYYMMDD.jhtml

Be sure to substitute the “YYYYMMDD” with the actual year, month, and day you’d like to look up. For instance:

http://www.cbc.ca/news_archives/20010911.jhtml

There’s even a shortcut to this on the CBC News page — it’s near the very bottom-right of the page. Pretty nice touch, considering nearly all other national news outlets charge you to read content older than a month or so.

The page you see in the news archive is just a “snapshot” of what www.cbc.ca/news/ looked like at some point during that day. If you want to see all of the news that was published on a particular day, you can use the searge engine: type the follwing search query in: “inurl:story/2001/09/11″ (without the quotes) This will return all news stories written on September 11, 2001.

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	CBC.ca web site, Secret Nerd Tips	Posted at 12:36 pm (30 Jan 2007)

CBC plans to add social media elements into its web site, according to a memo to staff sent this morning by CBC TV executive Richard Stursberg.

“We want to move to a [web] 2.0 environment,” he wrote, “Providing our audiences with the ability to

• comment on items
• rate them
• link to them from their blog or website
• subscribe to specific types of content
• search for specific video content
• submit user-generated content.”

What else should we be doing? Let me know in the comments.

No word yet if CBC will redesign its logo to this:

televisionCBC 2.0 beta

Stursberg also struck back at critics who say CBC TV is under siege. “We still have work to do, but we are by no means “beleaguered”, as some of the country’s television columnists — many of whom work, ultimately, for companies that have a commercial interest in our success or failure — would have people believe.”

Stursberg noted that CBC Televisions primetime share for the regular season to date is 7.3%. Our share for the ’05-’06 regular season was 7.3%. In ’04-’05 it was 6.7%; in ’03-’04 it was 7.3%; and in ’02-’03 it was 6.9%.

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	CBC.ca web site	Posted at 11:44 am (30 Jan 2007)

If you’re enjoying the content on here, but forget to visit each day to get the latest news about the CBC, let me deliver it to you! Get a summary of headlines from Inside the CBC — waiting for you in your email box each morning.

Enter your email address:

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	About This Blog	Posted at 12:48 am (29 Jan 2007)

The Globe and Mail is reporting that a new NHL rights deal involving the CBC and TSN is close to being done. “The agreement, which would start in 2008-09, would give TSN a stronger national package with more games involving Canadian teams and also a Canadian series in at least one round of the NHL playoffs,” said the newspaper.

It reported that Hockey Night in Canada would stay on the air, but that the CBC would lose some Canadian playoff content to TSN. CBC would “get most of the postseason, including the Stanley Cup final.”

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	Hockey Night in Canada	Posted at 12:16 am (29 Jan 2007)

All this week on Inside the CBC, you’ll get an insiders’ view of three of the most interesting rooms at CBC Vancouver:

Tuesday: CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio three operates on the Sirius satellite network and through its nationally recognized podcast. You’ll get a look inside their workspace and the Alexis Mazurin studio, and meet the people who put Radio 3 on the air.


Wednesday: Studio 3: Drama and Foley
I think Studio 3 is the most interesting studio in the Vancouver broadcast centre: It’s where radio dramas are recorded, and include all the fun sound effect machines (like the door of a thousand doors!).


Thursday: Radio Master Control
This is where it all gets put together: in Master Control. You’ll learn what it takes to get a radio network on the air, and what happens if I yank out the two cables plugged into the main patch-bay.


So, as they say, stay tuned! Or, subscribe to summary of new articles every day in your email box.

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	How Shows Work, Vancouver	Posted at 12:01 am (29 Jan 2007)

Clearly, the CBC logo is setting logo-fashion trends?!

Photo: “Exploding pizza squared?” by duncanmm

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	, The Odd File	Posted at 11:47 pm (28 Jan 2007)

Here’s a little tip for the tech-savvy: If you ever want to find all the links to a specific person or show on the CBC Archives site, just use the site’s advanced search, then View Source. The URL that links to the full results page is displayed at the top, commented out. (They’re planning to re-jig the page to include an, er, easier way to do this.)

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	Asides, CBC.ca web site	Posted at 11:46 pm (28 Jan 2007)

CBC Radio’s Jian Ghomeshi told fans on his newsletter that he’s going to try not to “suck” as host of his new network afternoon show, due to launch in March.

“I will be the host, “he wrote. “And I desperately hope to be a very good host. Of course, it may suck. In which case, I shall become the Chevy Chase of the talk show world. Not good. But I will try to work at not being the Persian-Canadian Chevy Chase. And I don’t expect it to suck.

Jian’s show, unnamed at yet, will be a live 90-minute program in the afternoon, replacing Freestyle (speaking of which, I’ll be co-hosting today/Friday).

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	Personalities	Posted at 9:57 pm (25 Jan 2007)

Shelagh Rogers, host of CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada, who worked with Peter Gzowski in Toronto, spent a few moments with me yesterday (the fifth anniversary of his death) talking about his legacy, career, and passion. It runs less than 12 minutes.

Video quality: Remember, I’m a radio guy, not television, so my camera work and the lighting isn’t particularly good. But it’s the content that matters anyway, right?

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	Obits, Personalities	Posted at 12:30 am (25 Jan 2007)