Today in CBC History: CBC Television goes 24 hours
On this date only a year ago…
CBC Television went to a 24-hour schedule. It was one of the last major English-language broadcasters to do so.
And yesterday happened to mark the 14th anniversary of Peter Mansbridge reporting about a new kind of computer network — a “revolution” called “Internet.”
The clip has become somewhat famous online, mostly because back then, people didn’t put the word “The” in front of “Internet.” It just sounds so, I don’t know, hokey now. It’s worth watching on the CBC Archives site if you have a moment.
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The line “one of the last major English-language broadcasters to do so” is so indicative and a historical characteristic of the CBC – it doesn’t lead, it follows … near the back of the line.
Remember that when you think the CBC is right up to date in anything it’s currently doing.
the minute they started the 24 hour schedule they stopped repeating the National. great.
I miss the old signoff with the national anthem [sigh]
Whenever I run across (or pass thru) a small BC town like Yahk, Tahsis, Sparwood or Masset, I always think of the “start of the broadcast day” message that ran on CBC Sunday mornings at 8AM.
IN the 80′s CBC in Vancouver opened with a graphic tour of the province that displayed all the transmitter sites.
Now when I think of 24 hour CBC I wonder if the money would be better spent on a 12 hour day.
How about 7AM – 1PM and 6PM to 12PM.
Why bother broadcasting when no one is watching?
Michael,
George and I had a little discussion about that recently.
He has a show on at 4 am as you may know.
He argued both for and against it.
I argued for original content.
As a futurist, I predict that all content will be time-shifted in due course anyway, with the exception of news, so why not all new programs 24 hrs a day?