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Kim Fox, the social media guru at the CBC pointed out how much she likes this promotional poster for CBC Radio’s Wiretap. I have to agree, it’s a fantastic poster.
The poster was done by Montreal artist Jack Dylan for a live show in 2009. You can find out more about Jack and his work at his web site. I love how he incorporates the super hero references into his work.
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| Asides, Wiretap | Posted at 1:35 pm (17 Sep 2010) |
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Ross McAuley, a Toronto photographer, recently uploaded this drawing of Jonathan Goldstein, the multi-tasking host of CBC Radio One’s Wiretap.
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| Wiretap | Posted at 6:44 am (10 Jun 2010) |
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Three CBC radio shows have been picked for distribution in the United States by Public Radio International.
The deal with see PRI offer Q, Wiretap, and As it Happens to public radio affiliates across the U.S.
The news follows a week-long trial broadcast of Q in several radio markets in the States last January.
I had the opportunity to discuss the news with the Executive Director of Q, Arif Noorani:
Q seems to be on a bit of a roll lately, what does the distribution deal mean for the show?
I think the deal is very exciting for the show, because it opens up our content to an even broader audience.
One of Q’s main goals is not only to create the show but to get that content to wherever people consume it, Youtube, podcasts, whatever, because there’s a huge audience online, and now there’s a huge potential audience in the United States.
How much of a factor was Q’s cross-platform strategy in this? And did the Billy Bob play into this as well?
I think our visibility on many platforms is a factor. They’ve never mentioned Billy Bob, but they’ve been introduced to Jian as a host, the mix of conversation, the style of in-depth interviews. There was awareness of the show. We didn’t have to sell them very much, because they already knew the show.
How will you balance the show for both a Canadian and American audience?
The mix we have right now is a good one. I don’t see changing that. It’s a show that has appeal to Canadians but also to an international audience.
Will the show in the States be the same as the CBC version, or is it being revised for the American distribution?
There’s no plans to change it. We’re committed to producing the show with Canadian content but also an international outlook. There’s no plans to change that.
But the version of the show will be an one hour version, just because that’s the U.S. format. We may have to take out some of smaller features to get it down to a one-hour version, but it’s no different than what we do already for the evening broadcast on CBC.
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| As It Happens, Q, Wiretap | Posted at 5:38 pm (20 Apr 2010) |
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Amidst all the hoopla around CBC Television’s decisions on budgets given for promotion, some CBC Radio shows are independently producing their own viral videos and putting them online.
CBC Radio 3 has a headstart in this respect, with its popular and entertaining R3TV video podcast. But some Radio One shows are also quietly hitting the web.
Jonathan Goldstein, host of Wiretap, produced this short video around the holidays. What I like about it is it maintains the dry humour of the show, shows a bit behind the scenes, and… okay I’ll say it, it features a pug.
It’s not the only foray into video that Wiretap has made and probably won’t be the last. But the first Wiretap video came as a surprise to Goldstein and his producers. Some fan posted a bizarre video shot, apparently, in his home while listening to Wiretap. “I must admit when I initially watched it it sort of freaked me out,” he told me. “The radio is playing and it’s sort of a shaky cam, this guy shooting in his house. And I felt from everything I’ve learned from CSI Miami, I thought the final shot would be someone tied in a corner or something.”But Jonathan’s crew has gone on to produce a number of other videos. Jonathan says they check in periodically to see how many people have watched it, but “Howard’s mother-in-law kept checking and updating him most every time someone new watched it.”
Who needs the BBM?
Has your radio show used viral video to spread the word about your program? Was it successful?
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| CBC Radio 1, Wiretap | Posted at 1:47 pm (07 Jan 2008) |
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The blogosphere is full of people who love CBC and hate CBC. At Vancouver’s BarCamp, the session I led about CBC’s future (“Hacking the Mothercorp“) was extremely well attended and you could tell that even people who disagreed with the direction CBC is going were still passionate about their public broadcaster. The more voices, the better, in my books.
That’s why I was really interested to find a compelling point/counterpoint of CBC Radio’s programming policies on the popular blog Steel White Table.
His brother, Phillip, then weighed in with his own thoughts:
Personally, I love Wiretap. Jonathan Goldstein and I both hosted own own summer shows back in 2000 on the network and I immediately grew to admire his storytelling. He went off to work with Ira Glass (one of my radio heros) for a few years at This American Life, and you can hear that influence (and, I think, that of Joe Frank) in Wiretap today. Both providing outstanding lineages.
(If you have 20 minutes free, you must listen to Jonathan’s hilarious documentary “The Greatest Voicemail of All Time” — audio link is here; fast-forward to the last half of the show.)
What do you think of Wiretap? What aspects of it do you think we should be doing more (or less) of?
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| Media Coverage, Programming, Wiretap | Posted at 10:22 am (06 Sep 2006) |
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