Ken Gibson and Peggy Oldfield have put together a comprehensive online newsletter under the Employee Assistance Program for CBC staffers and retirees living in Vancouver and B.C.

The site offers memories from CBC archives, provides a home to the CBC 20 Year association, and helpful information on the EAP. The newsletters are composed quarterly, corresponding with each season, and are packed with CBC news and interesting tidbits.

It also provides the service “Where Are They Now?“, on which the authors post the current careers and whereabouts of past CBC B.C. colleagues. This is definitely a site worth subscribing to for any employee or alumni in the B.C. area.

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	Email this	Posted at 10:28 am (21 May 2008)

What caption is missing here? Add your suggestion in the comments!

Photo taken in 1991 at CHMR-FM, a campus station at Memorial University. Russell Bowers, now the northern B.C. CBC Radio One morning show host, is the guy in the tie and moustache. Bill Gregory is the guy behind the mic.

Entries so far:

“Bill, does this mustache make me look fat?”
“Uh, Russell, I’m about to go on the air…”
“Oh… OK, OK, may-maybe later then…”

“I’m going to need you to come in
on Sunday… mmmkay thanks”

“You think this mustache makes makes me
look like Burton Cummings?”

“So, is your Twitter doing?”
“Well, my doctor says it should be cleared up in a week.”

“Oh, you’re a left-hander? I’m from the union.
We already have several lefties who could be doing that job…”

“Uh Russell? Your fly is open and your ‘mic’ is on.”

Do you have a photo you think would make a great Add Your Caption contest? Email it to insidecbcblog@gmail.com

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	Email this	Posted at 1:55 pm (07 Feb 2008)

CBC British Columbia is the first region to get a spanky new web site. The design has borrowed heavily from the main cbcnews.ca web site.

No surprise that B.C. is the first region — Vancouver is the initial launch city for the myCBC project, CBC’s exploration into citizen-generated content.

What do you think of the new design?

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	Email this	Posted at 8:12 am (11 Sep 2007)

The CBC has hired Johnny Michel to the newly created position of regional director for the British Columbia region, responsible for an integrated approach to all of CBC’s media platforms, effective July 3, 2007. Formerly, there were separate regional directors for radio and television.

A familiar name in the West Coast media world, Michel will report to Radio VP Jane Chalmers and Fred Mattocks, head of regional programming for English Television. His job will be to set the strategic direction and objectives for radio, television and digital platforms, including the news innovation project known as MyCBC.

Before joining CBC, Michel was vice-president of programming and production at Channel M, Vancouver’s multilingual television station, where his contributions ranged from establishing brand and market positioning and developing a competitive programming strategy, to creating over 55 hours a week of local programming, including news.

Michel launched his career in television management in 1990, serving as director of creative services for U-TV (CKVU Television), before assuming the same role for Global Television in western Canada, and eventually BCTV, where he created the highly recognized “TV for BC” brand campaign. The recipient of numerous marketing and programming awards, Michel was promoted to vice-president, production and brand communication for BCTV and CHEK-TV. He also spent two years providing freelance services to a wide variety of media clients, including Corus Communications and stockhouse.com

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	Email this	Posted at 12:15 pm (16 May 2007)

Turns out Living in Toronto isn’t the only show that will launch soon (see previous post). The total list is:

• Living Vancouver

• Living Calgary
• Living Saskatchewan
• Living Winnipeg
• Living in Ottawa
• Living in Toronto
• Living Montreal
• Living East (based in Halifax with content from Nova Scotia, PEI, & N.B.)
• Living Newfoundland & Labrador

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	Email this	Posted at 2:27 pm (05 Jan 2007)

CBC can’t justify the expense that would be required to deliver CBC-TV to Kamloops B.C. residents over the air, says a senior CBC TV executive. Residents without cablevision or satellite have been without CBC Television since CFJC-TV “disaffiliated” from CBC.
     Fred Mattocks, head of English language programming, says 95 per cent of residents in the Kamloops area receive their TV via cable or satellite. “We’re just not going to invest the millions it would cost to provide relatively few viewers with over-the-air transmission,” he said.
     Since CFJC-TV’s disaffiliation from the CBC, viewers who do not subscribe to cable or satellite now have only two television channels available: CFJC-TV or Global, which are affiliated and share programming.
     Shaw Cablevision is required to ensure cable delivery where analog is not available. For those subscribers, they can receive the full CBC TV network, not a portion previously provided by CFJC.
     A group of residences who want a return of over-the-air service have established an e-mail account (cbckamloops@hotmail.com) to communicate with each other.

Should towers exist at all?
Mattocks also said that the CBC may not be able to afford to continue building transmission towers to reach a shrinking TV audience. “One of the questions [in the current CRTC review of broadcast technology] is whether public broadcasters should provide over-the-air transmission at all.”
     It’s just simply not economical,” he told the Kamloops Daily News.

Kamloops Daily News

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	Email this	Posted at 1:18 pm (16 Aug 2006)