My favourite audience feedback this week
I’m always amazed at the volume of audience feedback we get. One of the best perks of working here is to follow the audience reaction reports which are generated weekly for senior managers (and anyone else who wants to follow them).
The comments aren’t always kind (I personally had more than a dozen complaints one week when I mispronouced kilometer — it’s KILL-o-meter, not kil-AH-meter) but they’re always insightful and a good gauge on how we’re doing.
These are my favourite from the latest report:
- “PLEASE STOP showing that disgusting spider or I will stop watching your network. It is unfair because there is no warning and therefore can’t be avoided.”
- “The Whiskas commercial is disgusting. There’s sexual innuendo. And it’s on a million times a day.”
- “My family said the tornado warning was lifted by 6:30 but you repeated it at 7:00. Should we still be worried?”
- “Gill Deacon wears too many jackets.”
- “Five minutes into your one-hour flagship newscast we are given a story about the “Tour de Farce” (quoting your newsreader). Why not just tell us that there is no news today instead of making a pathetic attempt at humour or cleverness.”
- “When did CBC announcers/reporters start using American pronunciation? When did Missile (as in MISS AISLE) becoming missile (rhymes with thistle)?”
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Gill Deacon wears too many jackets it by far – the funniest feedback I’ve ever read.
Please review the following complaints I have sent to the CBC:
Luba Goy’s name is too short. Please lengthen it.
Please make Just for Laughs Gags funnier.
Montreal news anchor Michel Godbout shouldn’t wear brown with pin stripes.
Strombo’s hands are too far down his pockets. It looks pervy. Also, please make him comb his hair.
Please review my Street Legal spec script where Chuck Tchobanian is still a drunk rebel, Carrie Barr is on the Supreme Court, and Leon Rabinovitch is leader of the NDP.
I love these. Do you know if Radio-Canada does the same thing too?
I love reading them, but it’s a little frightening how freaky violent some people get – telling hosts they should die, and stuff like that. People, relax!
Wait until the Corp’s broadcasting licence is up for renewal. All of the aluminum-hat brigade crawl out of the woodwork to send in their comments to the CRTC.
Totally off-topic but did anyone see the crazy headline on cbc.ca yesterday? The headline read “Half of Western Canadians Dying in Hospital”. Thankfully, someone changed it to read “Western Canadians’ end-of-life wishes not fulfilled: study” which makes a lot more sense.
Silly headlines always make me smile. The best one I ever saw (sorry CBC, it wasn’t you) was “Low Altitude Played Major Role In Plane Crash: Expert Says”.
About that “MISS AISLE” comment. Someone must be missing Knowlton Nash!
Well if we’re on to bad headlines here are two of my faves, not from the CBC:
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms, and Prostitutes Apeal to Pope
I gotta agree with the first one….
There should be special warnings before showing a spider so up close that it fills the screen on my television.
Ooh, where can I make these complaints to?
I have a problem with CBC Montreal always using that nauseating phrase, “So Montreal.” The word “Montreal” is not an adjective. I wish they would stop using it as such.
Especially when they use the same promo in other parts of the country. Like here: “So Nova Scotia.” We can stream and timeshift, people, so we can spot faux regionalism a lot easier now.
I guess this is no longer relevant to the original post, so let me add that I loved having the opportunity to read these comments. Anything that gets people so worked up has to be fairly close to their hearts.
don’t get me started about citynews.ca. there have been such horrible headlines, i was sure it was a joke. the only one i have documented was from the cp24.com site: “Conjoined Twins Not Common”
cbc.ca/news has had some unintentionally funny headlines though
After a week of “Totally Toronto” and I want to take a hammer to my radio and smash it!
Like, that’s so, like, really annoying to, like, listen to all the time! Like totally!!
I must agree…
the Totally Toronto promo….
is totally annoying
Wow, I feel sorry for you Toronto people. I thought “So Montreal” was annoying. “Totally Toronto” is not only using a noun as an adjective, it’s unnecessarily alliterative too! I imagine it must be totally annoying to keep hearing that phrase.
Why don’t they just come up with original (and grammatically correct) slogans for the different CBC regional stations?
Where can I send in comments for CBC Radio?
You can send any comments or questions to CBC using this form: cbc.ca/contact