Comments on: CBC Radio gets new executive director

By: Allan Sorensen

Allan Sorensen — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:48:31 +0000

Goodbye CBC blog.
As bad as it was, it at least made the CBC seem more interesting for a while.
Toodles, Tod!

By: Roger Cann

Roger Cann — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:33:58 +0000

I used to have two spots on the car radio dial, CBC Radio one and CBC Radio 2. In the morning there are a lot of interesting and reflective moments on Radio one. Noon time its a toss up, but from 3 to 6 it was Jurgen all the way. Now I have lost that evening slot. On Wednesday afternoon driving back from Halifax I was “treated” to some person’s idea of music, and the piece was about “looking through your garbage”. Now I ask you, who is in charge? Jurgen did have a few current songs sprinkled in the mix, but he was slective. Like the National News at 9.00 pm.

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:59:39 +0000

Great to see… Donlon is an excellent leader and a great broadcaster. I can’t wait to continue to see the development of CBC Radio under her leadership.

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:06:59 +0000

Ms. Donland is a smart, business-savy woman.

I give her two years before she quits the CBC in frustration.

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:27:49 +0000

Yeah … I can read this on Canada Newswire or Marketwire, thanks. If this “blog” simply because a cross-posting location for CBC media releases, why bother? Why bother reading, why both posting? Why bother even paying to keep the domain active? Seriously.

By: John Wilson

John Wilson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:02:12 +0000

I sincerely wish Ms Donlon luck.

Given her background she’ll fit in with the MuchMusic and MoreMuchMusic lite fiasco that CBC Radio 2 has become.

I trust she’ll forgive me for being wary of yet another Toronto native at the helm of CBC Radio, given the exodus of quality programming from Vancouver in the last 6 months and the undeserved and foolish death of the CBC Radio Orchestra.

(You have a long way to go to convince me that had the Orchestra been in the self proclaimed centre-of-the-universe that it would still be funded and as heavily and annoyingly promoted as Radio 2 is being.)

I guess it’s too late to reverse the horrible decision to move Q to a morning slot rather than cancelling it altogether, which it so richly deserves to be. Or at least put on regionally in Toronto which appears to be it’s true audience being that the rest of the country never seems to figure much in the show.

Sad to say that on September 29th, you’ll have lost me as a listener from 10am to 3pm, except for BC Almanac. I don’t really care what you come up with to replace Q in the afternoon as it will undoubtedly target the same phantom demographic Radio 2 and Q are pitched at. Radio 2 went off my list on September 2nd.

I must repeat that I have little faith that yet another Torontonian in charge of CBC Radio can revive what was a national institution and is rapidly becoming a national irrelevance.

At least, I trust, she’ll have the sense to leave regional programming alone. That still seems to remember what the mandate of the CBC really is.

I hope I’m wrong. Given what has happened in the last 18 months it’s likely a vain hope. I really, really hope I’m wrong.

Maybe the Mother Corp does need someone from the private sector to give it and it’s awful programming decisions of late a good swift kick in the pants that it so richly deserves and needs.

By: Philip Elliott

Philip Elliott — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:58:05 +0000

All I can say is I hope something is done about this new foramt and FOR THE BETTER.

I HAVE NOT listened to CBC Radio 2 since Labour Day and refuse to do so untii things, which I doubt will happen.

I have seen nore negative than positive comments about the new format & that should say something.

I really do hope that MS Donlan reads the comments posted on the CBC Blog and other sites to see how unhappy we are

By: Fake Ouimet

Fake Ouimet — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:46:41 +0000

I think it’s great how Inside the CBC is now a publishing platform for stultifying news releases.

Can you verify that the direct quotes were actually uttered as written?

By: Emily G

Emily G — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:53:16 +0000

Will this be the absolute, final end of classical music on CBC radio?

By: amanda thrush

amanda thrush — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:13:46 +0000

So…. another Radio Head who’s never worked in radio.

Combined with the current influx of announcers who haven’t worked in radio either, you have to wonder how seriously the CBC takes its senior service these days.

I believe we’ve lost our Vice President too.

By: leithcam

leithcam — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:05:11 +0000

“CBC Radio is on a tremendous roll right now, launching exciting new programming that is engaging and meaningful to diverse audiences, reflecting all Canadians” says Donlon. Ah, buy the party line and you get a job!