Hat tip to Truro NS web designer Daniel MacDonald who spotted this and took a screenshot.

Unless, of course, Microsoft hired them right after the CBC shoot was done…

Scott Moore, CBC’s relatively new head of CBC sports, ate a bit of Saskatchewan humble pie yesterday,

Looks like a comedy of errors had it in for the broadcast.

First, it was delayed nearly an hour after a lightning strike knocked out power and phone lines to Mosaic Stadium and the CBC’s broadcast truck. Edmonton was ahead 32-27 when the lights went out.

That’s when goof #2 happened: Someone in the CBC programming department decided to switched to a Nick Nolte [ed: of all actors] movie. When the power finally came back on, only viewers in Saskatchewan got to see the final 13 minutes when the Riders scored 12 points.

And finally, Moore said he turned his cell phone off that night (and, having recently moved, nobody at CBC had his landline number) so technicians couldn’t reach him to make a decision on broadcasting.

CBC will rebroadcast the final quarter of the game across Canada early Monday morning — starting at 12:30 a.m. local time.

(Some newspaper commentators said the incident was reminiscent of 1968′s so-called Heidi Bowl. U.S. football fans were outraged that year when they missed the last 65 seconds of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders NFL game after NBC switched to a made-for-TV Heidi movie.)

National Reporter / Reporter national (not a real job – don’t apply) -CAL00120

On a continuing and regular basis, performs reporting and editorial assignments for radio, television, or other media which involve the gathering, writing and presentation of information related to national and international issues, the Parliament of Canada, and regional issues judged to be of national import. Work adheres to CBC journalistic and programming policies, standards and practices. General direction is provided but there is a high expectation for initiative and independent judgement. Work regularly requires the co-ordination of the activities of others.

I guess they were testing the system?

Anyway, the listing has been taken down. In case, you know, you wanted to not apply for it.

We called it the Sanity Checker. It was like the program was concerned about us — “Are you okay?”  “Yes, thank you for checking in again. I’m ok.” Click. Then we could go back to work.

Seems DaletPlus has a funny little bug that’s similar. You probably won’t see it unless you’re an administrator, since it’s not in the regular users’

Pierre-Hugues Pelletier in Desktop Radio Support in Montreal noticed it this morning:

The spider, which has been on the scene since at least this weekend, has spun a web that measures about a metre long, outside the window where the webcam is anchored.

The webcam is pointed at the Prince Philip Parkway and the north side of Memorial University’s campus.

On Tuesday, a second, smaller spider spun its web nearby. A number of flies — which look like specks of dust on the webcam screen — dot the two webs.

The larger spider has attracted enough interest for CBC Radio’s Ted Blades to solicit possible names from his listeners. Early suggestions include famous spiders like Charlotte, the heroine of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, and Boris, the subject of the rumbling 1966 Who song Boris the Spider.

Text from cbc.ca

Usually, the video is of a talking head so it’s fine.

Every once in a while, though, something like this shadow-puppet scene happens.

CBC Radio’s new daily arts show, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, will launch on April 16, according to radio veep Jane Chalmers. (In the meantime, Freestyle will be extended.)

Mark O’Neill has been hired as Executive Producer of the show. Mark has had a distinguished career at CBC Radio and was most recently Executive Producer of Radio One on Sirius, and prior to this he led the Toronto afternoon show, Here and Now. Mark also has a long history in the arts as an arts reporter and producer.

Problem is, the Jian show still doesn’t have a name. It’s a daily show that covers the arts in Canada. So, any ideas for a name for the show?

The Arts Tonight, Freestyle and Between the Covers will remain on the air until April 16. All of the other changes to Radio One that were announced, including the launch of the one-hour version of Dispatches, will happen March 19.

Can anyone identify? What’s your worst experience with members of the public while doing a live report?

a. George Stroumboulopoulos’ skit on the Geminis this weekend generated an enormous amount of traffic from curious Welsh people and furious Greek people.
b. The Prime Minister’s office has a “Kill It” switch installed to bring down the site any time Stephen Harper is mentioned on the site.
c. The system is having a difficult time reading from a network drive.
d. The site isn’t actually down. It just failed to reach an audience share of one million visitors and has been, er, postponed.

Answer: c

Blog reaction so far:

• R. Ouimet (the real one) : “Actually, the ’scaled back’ version of CBC.CA is delightfully easier to use than the real thing. I say if this is broken, don’t fix it!”

• A. Ouimet (the fake one): “Let’s all work together to get CBC.ca back online. In this spirit here are the instructions from my CBC.ca Troubleshooting Guide.”

My worst fear co-hosting Freestyle came true today. I referred to the show, on air, as “The Roundup.”

You can listen here: Freestyle blooper audio [MP3] Thanks to Bill Deys for the clip.

Have any favourite CBC bloopers you remember?

P.S. I took the picture on the right this morning about two minutes before we went to air. That’s co-host Kelly Ryan. Click the picture to see the annotated notes.

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