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The CBC Sky Is Falling! (redux)

Forecasting the looming death of the MotherCorp seems to be something of a pastime among Canadian pundits.

Check out this issue of TV Guide about 20 years ago.

Little could they know, we’re still alive.

In case you want to buy this classic issue, it’s available on eBay for $5.

Maybe make a poster out of it?…

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3 Responses to “The CBC Sky Is Falling! (redux)”

Dwight Williams says:

I wonder if I’ve still got a copy of that issue. And what shape it’s in. For a while there, I was obsessive about that magazine, and about getting editions from as many different parts of North America as I could. That obsessive streak lessened as time went on, which may partly explain why the Canadian print edition went under.

Paul says:

Doubly ironic given that TV Guide no longer exists (as a print edition in Canada anyway), while the CBC is still going.

Dwight Williams says:

There is a certain evil joy in that irony.

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