http://www.insidethecbc.com The official blog of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:13:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent report from the lobby group 'Friends of Canadian Broadcasting' exaggerates the amount of foreign programming on the CBC. According to Ian Morrison, a spokesperson for the group, "A full 25% of CBC’s prime time schedule is now devoted to foreign, mostly American, programs." A graph showing the number of hours ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/cbc-airs-less-foreign-content-than-reported Yahoo has decided to stop supporting the CBC's online video content management system, known as Maven. The California-based search and web services company made the decision to shelve Maven last week. The sudden move will force the CBC to find a new video software provider by year-end. The CBC had ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/yahoo-shelves-the-cbcs-video-system The face of CBC News, whether it be online, on radio or on television will be dramatically different this fall as the monumental task of renewing CBC News picks up steam. In a note to staff today, Jennifer McGuire, the general manager and editor in chief of CBC News, outlined some ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/big-changes-underway-at-cbc-news The consensus that teenagers are abandoning television for the internet is not true. This is to one of the findings from a new report by Nielsen. According to the study television viewing rates among teens in the U.S. have actually gone up 6 per cent in the last five years, despite ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/teens-still-watch-tv A shot from a user-generated video of the protest in Iran, dubbed the Neda video When you look at the blurry, shaky, low-resolutions videos that have dominated coverage of from Iran recently, you may be looking at the future of broadcast journalism. "I've never seen anything to this extent - the Mumbai ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/iran-the-model-citizen-journalism Despite a celebrity-studded lineup that included the Jonas Brothers and Lady Gaga, the ratings for the Much Music Video Awards weren't very impressive. As Bill Brioux explains on his blog, the awards averaged 219,000, around half of what TSN drew for the U.S. open at 423,000, and a quarter of what CBC got ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/happy-gilmore-outdraws-mmvas The CBC's falcon cam page have become immensely popular. This week the page passed a million hits. The page streams the current activities of a family of peregrine falcons in Winnipeg. THURSDAY UPDATE: Looks like the banding operation may be underway. I saw a couple of safety lines near the nest this ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-falcon-cam-passes-a-million-hits On the eve of his last day at the CBC, Don Newman is hosting a live chat today at noon Eastern Time. Newman is widely respected for his parliamentary analysis and long-standing coverage of Parliament Hill. In 1989 he helped launched CBC Newsworld, since then he's covered every political story and ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/live-chat-with-don-newman-today Richard Stursberg says the CBC is well on its way to transforming itself from a broadcaster to a content provider. "We will be there on whatever platform you need us to be on," Stursberg said at a Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto on Tuesday. Strursberg highlighted a couple portable platforms that have ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-canadian-broadcasting-content-company An internal memo released today says that a CBC employee in Iqaliut has contracted swine flu. It is the first confirmed case amongst CBC employees, Michèle Parent, executive director, organizational health and wellness said "There are a few other suspected, but unconfirmed cases there too, and one possible case at ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/swine-flu-strikes-first-cbc-employee Yesterday, the Globe published an article by Guy Dixon about staff changes at CBC News arising from the news renewal process. The article was mostly correct, but this one line stuck out: Newsworld, which is one of the CBC's few areas which attract advertising revenue, will be up for a licence renewal ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-truth-in-advertising Daniel Schwartz, one of the founding members of CBC cycling group in Toronto, was hit by a car and seriously hurt while riding his bike last Wednesday. Paddi-Anne Crossin is putting together a small package to send to Daniel, "to let him know that we're thinking of him," she said ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/cbc-employee-seriously-hurt-in-cycling-accident It's generally assumed that a viral video is a momentary diversion. It's something that pops up out of the blue, entertains you for a few minutes and then disappears as quickly as it arrived. But what if you or your show is the source of that video? Can a video ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-power-of-viral-video-and-how-to-take-advantage-of-it With the CBC News renewal process well underway, I thought it might be interesting to look at some of the opening animations of The National over the years. This one's pretty wild, it's from 1978 when Knowlton Nash was still anchoring the broadcast, the description says the announcer is Allan McFee, ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-national-openings-through-the-years Current TV has been granted a channel license by the CRTC. In Current TV will be joint venture between Al Gore's Current TV channel and the CBC. According to the CRTC decision the CBC owns an 80 per cent interest of Current TV's Canadian branch corporation. Current TV is a hybrid television ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/current-tv-approved-by-crtc Several new appointments were announced today at the CBC. Two of the appointments were in the news department as part of the renewal process. "Neil Morrison will move into a major program development role with CBC News." Jennifer McGuire, general manager of CBC News, said in a note to staff. "Later in the week, ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/several-new-appointments-at-cbc MONDAY UPDATE: The results are in. Radio 3 listeners have voted 77% to 23% in favor of a 100% all Canadian CBC Radio 3. For the last few days a debate was raging over at CBC Radio 3 about how much non-Canadian content should be on the "air" at their single ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/radio-3-at-a-cross-roads CBC President Hubert Lacroix sat down with Allison Saunders this morning to discuss the impact of the layoffs. Below is a transcript of the interview. Saunders: It's been a tough couple of weeks, can you give me a sense of where we're at? Lacroix: It's been really tough at CBC/Radio Canada. We ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/interview-with-the-president Don Newman, in an interview with The Hill Times, said the CBC should be careful with changing the format of the CBC News: Politics. Newman said the shows maintains a comfortable ratings lead over its time slot competitors, and his advice to the network is that "if it's not broke don't ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/don-newman-says-cbc-should-be-careful The CBC could pick up a few pointers from NPR, who have been earning accolades recently for their strategic vision. Fast Company recently called NPR "the most successful hybrid of old and new media," speculating that the organization may well end up "saving the news." A recent post in Mashable titled "Why NPR is ... http://www.insidethecbc.com/what-the-cbc-can-learn-from-npr