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Courrier du lecteur: Pour ne plus répéter les mêmes erreurs du diffuseur public

“Si nous n’arrivons pas à vendre 125 millions , il faudra faire des coupures additionnelles pour équilibrer le budget.”
Hubert Lacroix, PDG de CBC/Radio-Canada

J’aurais préféré “il faudrait vraiment que nous consultions notre auditoire pour identifier de nouvelles priorités. Nous avons failli de le faire dans le passé et ne répéterons plus jamais les mêmes erreurs”.

En effet, en 2007, Radio-Canada/CBC n’a pas consulté son auditoire lors de l’enquête du comité parlementaire portant sur le rôle d’un diffuseur public au XXIième siècle. Nous payons maintenant pour cette faillite de gouvernance. Apprendrons-nous éventuellement les leçons de l’arrogance de nos dirigeants déconnectés de la population déservie?

Je réclame donc par la présente auprès de James Moore, Ministre au Patrimoine canadien, le congédiement du PDG ainsi que du Conseil d’Administration de CBC/Radio-Canada.

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Référence-web: Radio-Canada: la situation pourrait s’aggraver

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I hope the moderator can stomach this post!

Just a small correction (unless you are speaking to us from the future year, 2011). Analog TV will notdie in Canada until August 2011, at the earliest. That is not this year!

Don’t worry it’s a commin misconception caused usually by listening to too much ‘merican TV. See we still need Canadian TV to get to the truth!

Have a food day, eh!

tx guy

Holy skewed facts, Batman!! Do you even live in Kamloops?

I worked in Kamloops when CFJC (the local TV station) disaffiliated from the CBC in order to make higher profits from a lucrative advertising deal with CanWest Global. Somewhat ironically they’re now affiliated with Global’s E! Network which is now on its last legs.

95% of people in Kamloops have access to CBC TV on cable or satellite (not to mention the internet). The only people who lost it were a couple hundred homes in the region who were still receiving analog TV (rabbit ears).

Yes, they’re taxpayers too, but you very conveniently forgot to mention the fact that it would have cost taxpayers like you MILLIONS and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to build a new analog TV transmission tower near Kamloops to ONLY serve a couple hundred rabbit ears users.

It’s a safe bet that you’d have been the first and loudest to complain what a waste of money it was to build a multi-million dollar tower to maintain a long-since-archaic system for a few hundred people.

Oh…and analog TV is going to be extinct in Canada this year. What a great use of my tax dollars, B! You should be a politician!

And, not to gloss over this other idea of yours- You’re telling me Global should be the prototype for the future of broadcast television??? You obviously don’t live in a region where the newscast is about to go belly up because of their sad, sad ratings.

That’s what happens when you staff an an entire province with 2 journalists and have an anchor who sits alone in a room in front of a green screen with a robotic studio camera, pretending to be in a newsroom full of gainfully-employed coworkers. You think viewers can’t tell? You don’t think much of people, do you?

Funny how Global has got a “1-share” in the last ratings period out here. And in case you’re not in the know, no, a 1 share does not mean they’re first in the ratings, friend.

It’s a race to the bottom, with Mr.”B” leading us there. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

PS- If you insist on pushing your BS here, please stop calling me “Pumpkin”. It makes you sound like a real m***n.

Are we selling off chunks of parking lots for condos again?

I started 8 years ago, at age 22. I’ve been a gofer, a chaser, a reporter, a writer-broadcaster, an announcer, and a producer.

If I’m lucky, I’ll maybe get hired as a secretary somewhere. A secretary with really great “communication skills.”

A Channel…. we all know it’s known as “Alberta Channel”… so why does it have NO full-time affiliates in this province? re-branding as A didn’t help it at all, other than gain viewer confusion instead of attention…. why not just rename it “Eh?” and be done with it?

Global and the others created their own problems over years and don’t deserve anything. For the most part there is nothing new or special about the specialty channels they run. They are just collections of similarly themed programs lumped together that 20 years ago would be seen for free over the air, on stations like CHCH in Hamilton ON or the Global Television Network before Canwest took them over. The big media companies discovered that if they package things right people will happily pay for stuff they got for free before, so they bought up independent stations and replaced the Sunday afternoon movie with a infomercial and put the movie on Movietime etc. They’ve been gutting their networks for years on purpose well before the rise of the internet and new media so if they die good riddance.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that tax payers should bail out these networks. The dissatisfaction with Global and CTV is richly deserved. What a useless bunch of inepts running their ships, pirating American shows left and right. Disgusting.

I guess what really bothers me is that the mouthpieces, (Dube in this article), keep forgetting or ignoring the portion fg their audience (us) that is totally aware of the internal operation of the CBC. The broad comments just don’t pass the vetting process.

They must think that we are :

a)robots with no awareness of anything outside our jobs.
b)naieve enough to be bamboozled by their spin and dull enough to fall prey to their attempts at secrecy.
c)too bitter to see any other point of view.
or
d) to insignificant to matter.

Now, these may apply in a few cases (and many outside the Corp may think all apply all of the time). In reality they are not that common.

Most of us are conscientous and motivated to improve.

We also have eyes and ears and can count.

We work here, we are all over all the buildings. Some of our friends work directly in the Star Chambers and we occasionally go out to dinner. When we are fixing your problems or obeying your orders, we can hear you.

I’m am not saying that some Sr. Mgm’t does not earn their keep, but C’mon. We know what you do. We. Get. It.

CBC seems to have gone for quantity over quality and, unfortunately, lost a lof of good people in the process.

Saying all Sr. Mgm’t plays an important role, may wash in the papers, or in sound bites. But after years and years, you better back up that statement for anybody who uses a passcard to get into our buildings.

Sometimes we will agree, but we have hall seen too much and a lot of us are of an investigative and enquiring mind by both nature and training.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5irva0_ZTubOLDWe_eqv2gZVUJU8A

Mr Lacroix here’s an idea.

The executives should forego the bonuses all together and take the small 1.5% increase we all deserve. I’ll take a week with out pay but I would like it spread over my pay check all year.

Also let’s stop trying to get 20 lbs (9.07 kg) of you know what in that 5 pound (2.267 kg) bag you keep asking us to do on a daily basis.