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Coverage of former cabinet minister Ernie Fage’s fender-bender and the drug crime scene in Cape Breton have netted CBC Nova Scotia journalists three Atlantic Journalism Awards. [details]
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| Email this | Posted at 11:24 am (05 May 2008) |
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Former CBC broadcaster and executive John O’Mara, 63, passed away Sunday in hospital in St. John’s after a brief illness.
O’Mara began his career with the CBC as an announcer in Corner Brook in 1964 and later moved to St. John’s. After 20 years in the business, O’Mara worked his way to the top job at CBC Radio in Newfoundland and Labrador, serving as director of radio for nine years.
During his time with CBC, he hosted many programs and specials for both radio and television, including On the Go, Newfoundland and Labrador’s weekday afternoon radio current events program, which he hosted from 1973 to 1975. He also hosted Weekend Arts Magazine from 1976 to 1978, and the popular program, The Fisheries Broadcast, from 1978 to 1979.
Historian and former broadcaster Paul O’Neill was a friend and former co-worker of O’Mara’s. On Monday, he spoke with CBC Morning Show host Jeff Gilhooly about O’Mara, and the legacy he has left as a well-known broadcaster and local community volunteer.
O’Neill told CBC that O’Mara’s volunteer projects were too numerous to mention.
“Most active volunteer person I think I ever knew in Newfoundland,” O’Neill said. “You could hardly mention something that John wasn’t involved in in some way.”
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| Email this | Posted at 2:59 pm (27 Aug 2007) |
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From the Cape Breton Post:
Bill Doyle made a career out of sound, and after 34 years, he’s looking forward to some peace and quiet. he producer for CBC Radio One in Sydney retired Aug. 1….
Doyle said career highlights included working on the original IWK Telethon that is now done by CTV, the Fresh Air show on Saturday mornings, the Talent Cape Breton show on Saturday afternoons, Island Echoes shows and both Information Morning and Mainstreet shows.
He has been an associate producer, a director and a producer. He has called people to line up interviews for on-air personalities, worked on budgets and pitched story ideas, and done technical surveys to make sure remotes were technically possible.
Full story (photo by Tom Ayers, Cape Breton Post)
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| Email this | Posted at 11:44 am (16 Aug 2007) |
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The CRTC this morning approved a CBC request to install a transmitter in Elmira to broadcast a CBC Radio One signal. The new FM transmitter will provide Radio One service to the eastern tip of Prince Edward Island, including the community of Souris — currently just outside of the Charlottetown transmitter’s coverage area. The new transmitter will operate at 92.3 MHz. <geek>It has an average effective radiated power of 940 watts.</geek>
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| Email this | Posted at 11:44 am (10 Aug 2007) |
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A children’s television program producer has been hired as the new Regional Director for the CBC in the maritimes.
Andrew Cochran, executive producer of Theodore Tugboat and Pit Pony. He replaces Ron Crocker, who retired from the CBC earlier this month.
His production firm, Cochran Entertainment, was a key player for 12 years on the east coast television scene. But after Pit Pony was not renewed by the CBC and Theodore Tugboat ended its nine-season run, Cochran Entertainment went into receivership in 2002.
The Halifax Chronicle Herald picks up the story:
At that time Cochran told The Chronicle Herald the company’s problems began when it got into the U.S. market in 1997, after Theodore Tugboat joined the prestigious lineup of PBS pre-school programs like Sesame Street, Teletubbies and Arthur. The expansion into the U.S., with merchandising attached, was too much for the company to handle.
Cochrane will start his new job Tuesday.
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| Email this | Posted at 11:58 am (02 Aug 2007) |
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A spider has spun a web smack-dab in front of the CBC.ca webcam in St. John’s.
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.
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| Email this | Posted at 2:42 pm (24 Jul 2007) |
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The Ceeb has asked the CRTC for permission to extend its radio coverage across the eastern tip of P.E.I. Currently, people east of Souris are outside the CBC’s broadcast range.
The problem of local radio reception was made worse last year when the Island’s last AM station, CFCY, switched to the FM band. That meant people in both the eastern and western ends of the province were unable to pick up any local radio signals.
The CRTC has already approved an application for new transmitter in western P.E.I., and Coffin is impatient for a new signal to reach into eastern Kings County.
The CBC hopes to have new transmitters up in the eastern and western ends of the province by the summer of 2008.
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| Email this | Posted at 7:46 am (12 Jun 2007) |
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C’est ironique, non?
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| Email this | Posted at 10:42 am (11 Jun 2007) |
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Karl Wells, Atlantic Canda’s Here & Now’s weatherperson for almost 30 years, is retiring from the CBC.
Karl plans to pursue freelance writing. He already writes a regular column for The Telegram and he hopes to expand into magazine writing.
Karl began his 31-year career with the CBC in 1976 as an announcer in radio and television. In Radio, he was the first host of Weekend AM and the voice of the Morning Show’s satirical segment, His Worship, an impersonation of former St. John’s mayor John Murphy. In 1978 he moved to television to begin his Here and Now weather assignment and to anchor the very successful late night news program, Newsfinal. In 2001 he went national for two years as the Country Canada channel’s morning weatherperson on CountryWide.
During the past 31 years Karl has spent almost 30 years reporting the weather on Here and Now, becoming an icon across the province for his weather knowledge. During that time he became one of our most visible CBC personalities, in large part because of the highly successful live community segment he helped develop during the early nineties, reporting from winter carnivals, fire stations, church basements, fishing boats and live from the Hibernia platform, over 350 km offshore!
As well as the weather, Karl used his passion for arts and food to bring many arts personalities to our show and to launch the popular ‘Cooking with Karl’ series. And he has always been an ambassador for the CBC at community events, including his role as volunteer host of the CBC Janeway Telethon.
Do you have any memories of Karl you’d like to share?
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| Email this | Posted at 10:36 pm (28 May 2007) |
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A Cape Breton newspaper columnist is calling on the CRTC to deny a CBC request to switch frequencies of its Sydney NS station, until the CBC extends its Sydney programming to all parts of Cape Breton. (Right now, people living in south and west Cape Breton receive programming from the Halifax station.)
Bill Dunphy wants the broadcast transmitter in Mulgrave to be switched from Halifax programming to Cape Breton programming. (The Mulgrave transmitter is actually on the mainland, but the local community has an affinity to Cape Breton Island.)
* Note: The photograph of Cape Breton in this image has been digitally altered.
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| Email this | Posted at 2:18 pm (29 Apr 2007) |
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CBC Radio’s Radio Noon program in Newfoundland and Labrador is losing its well-liked host. Ann Budgell will retire on Friday. She’s been with the CBC for 34 years and has held pretty much every job in the book: Reporter, first female host on ‘The Fisheries Broadcast’ (if you’re “from away,” it really can’t be explained how big and important this show is), host of several CBC TV shows, and eventually was tapped as executive producer of radio news and current affairs.
As the popular local blog Meeker on Media notes:
As the host of the call-in program Crosstalk, Budgell figures that “by now she’s probably spoken to you on the air and if not you, then someone in your family.”
Although she is well known for her aggressive interview style (when it is called for), Budgell also has a soft side which is apparent whenever she deals with sensitive or light-hearted subjects. The recent Crosstalk about ‘What Makes You Happy’ (March 26) was pretty off-the-wall and had the potential to fall on its face, but Anne pulled it off in style, delivering one of her most entertaining programs ever.
In other CBC Newsfoundland news, the radio and TV units are finally merging. CBC will close the radio building on Duckworth street in downtown St. John’s on Friday; those people will move in with the TV folks who have a building out in the boonies.
Kinda sad. I really think we should have more CBC locations in front of people and on the “main drag” like CBC Edmonton (in a mall) and CBC Ottawa (right downtown).
Thanks to Peter Cowan for sending me news from his region! If you have any news from your region you’d like to get out, please drop me (Tod Maffin) a line in Groupwise!
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| Email this | Posted at 2:52 pm (23 Apr 2007) |
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The Halifax division of DHX Media has been commissioned by the CBC to produce 26 half-hour episodes of a new preschool show entitled Bo on the Go! The series will be delivered for an autumn launch on CBC.
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| Email this | Posted at 12:41 pm (11 Apr 2007) |
