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	<title>InsideTheCBC.com</title>
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	<description>The official blog of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation</description>
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		<title>The CBC Gets its One Time Funding. Again.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the eight year in a row, the CBC received its &#8220;one-time&#8221; funding of $60 million from the government today. 
CBC President Hubert Lacroix confirmed the funding in a note to staff this afternoon. This year the funding announcement was confirmed quite quickly after the budget. Last year staff endured several weeks of nail-biting before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-cbc-gets-its-one-time-funding-again/</link>
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		<title>Five Tools to Super Charge Your Story Pitches</title>
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Say you&#8217;ve got a great story idea.
You know it will hit a nerve with the public.
So how do you prove it to your boss?
There are several tools on the internet that you can use to back up your story pitches. They provide a gauge of what the public is concerned about; a way to listen in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/fiv-tools-to-super-charge-your-story-pitches/</link>
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		<title>Nancy Wood Goes Silent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost a two weeks after the news first leaked, fans on CBC Montreal morning show, Daybreak, are still upset that Nancy Wood will not be staying with the show.
According to Henry Aubin, at the Gazette, the CBC decided not to renew her hosting contract two weeks ago. She has not been heard on the air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/nancy-wood-goes-silent/</link>
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		<title>Federal Budget &#8216;Good News&#8217; for CBC: President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the complete text of CBC President Hubert Lacroix&#8217;s note to CBC staff on the federal budget that was tabled yesterday. Lacroix says he&#8217;s pleased that the ceeb&#8217;s budget wasn&#8217;t cut like other departments, however there are other issues affecting the CBC&#8217;s finances. 
March 5, 2010 &#8211; The Federal Budget was tabled yesterday. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/federal-budget-good-news-for-cbc-president/</link>
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		<title>The CBC Dodges a Budget Bullet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBC dodged a bullet this afternoon. The federal budget that was released today spared the CBC, and three other crown corporations. CBC staff widely feared this budget would include some painful structural cuts.
The worry arose from the strategic review process that was launched last May. That process could well have resulted in deep budget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/cbc-dodges-a-budget-bullet/</link>
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		<title>Canadians Actually Watch Canadian TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denis McGrath, a Canadian TV writer, says last night&#8217;s ratings for four Canadian comedies, 18 to Life and Little Mosque on the Prairie on CBC, and Hiccups and Dan for Mayor on CTV proves that, *gasp*, Canadians actually watch Canadian TV: 
Almost two million five hundred thousand Canadians chose to watch Canadian-produced comedies on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/canadians-actually-watch-canadian-tv/</link>
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		<title>Barrie Passes the Torch</title>
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Photo credit: Metaviews Flickr photo stream.
Here are a couple pictures from the reception this morning as Andy Barrie, the long-standing host of CBC Toronto&#8217;s Metro Morning, passed the host chair to Matt Galloway. As you can see in the picture above, a lot of people showed up wish Barrie well. 

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		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/barrie-passes-the-torch/</link>
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		<title>The Internet Isn&#8217;t Killing TV, It&#8217;s Helping It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both the New York Times and the Globe and Mail had interesting articles yesterday on record ratings for big events like the Olympics and the Superbowl and how the internet is helping drive those ratings. To some this may come as a big surprise.
The Times article rightly pointed out that a few years ago the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-internet-isnt-killing-tv-its-helping-it/</link>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Trying to Phone the CBC in Toronto, Try Emailing Instead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[***UPDATE*** the phone system is back to normal again. It was something to do with &#8216;database corruption.&#8217; 
If you&#8217;re trying to phone the CBC in Toronto, try emailing instead.
Apparently the phone lines in the whole Toronto building are out. This just came into my inbox, &#8220;The telephone situation has degraded to a system-wide outage. However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/if-youre-trying-to-phone-the-cbc-in-toronto-try-emailing-instead/</link>
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		<title>Mesley as a modern day Mary Tyler Moore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Dunn, who anchored CBC news shows in the maritimes and Toronto, is a big fan of Wendy Mesley. Dunn says she&#8217;s got what it takes to become the first female permanent national news Canadian anchor. 
In a post on the MacLeans blog Dunn says: 
Known mainly for her work on CBC’s Marketplace, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/mesley-as-a-modern-day-mary-tyler-moore/</link>
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		<title>How Much TV is Green Screen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This YouTube video clearly shows just many shots in popular TV shows are green screen composites, as opposed to being shot on location.

In case you don&#8217;t know, a green screen, or sometimes a blue screen, is used in digital editing to replace one background with another. It&#8217;s commonly used in weather forecasts where weather images [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/how-much-tv-is-green-screen/</link>
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		<title>More Radio 3 Swag</title>
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Radio 3 has more hipster approved swag than any other department at the ceeb, the ironic cardigan, the tuques, the scarves, and now the buttons. 
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		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/more-radio-3-swag/</link>
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		<title>The CBC&#8217;s Digital Content Strategy</title>
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The CBC intends to aggressively push its content onto multiple digital platforms by negotiating deals with the cable and satellite companies while building on partnerships with the major digital players like iTunes and Google.
&#8220;You gotta be in all these places, because that&#8217;s where the audience is going,&#8221; Richard Stursberg, the executive vice president of English [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/the-cbcs-digital-content-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Sick and Back Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I hadn&#8217;t updated much recently. I was sick as a dog last week. I&#8217;m on the mend now, so I&#8217;ll take a little time to catch up with a few things that caught my eye last week. 
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		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/sick-and-back-again/</link>
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		<title>Lloyd Robertson Quashes Retirement Rumours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lloyd Robertson quashed rumours that he was feeling overloaded by the Olympics and planned to retire. Robertson called the rumour a &#8220;a fascinating work of fiction,&#8221; that isn&#8217;t true. 
The rumour was first published on the Medium Close Up blog yesterday. 
Robertson quashed the rumours today on the Bill Good Show, a Vancouver news talk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/rumours-say-lloyd-robertson-may-be-retiring/</link>
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		<title>Flying High</title>
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Awesome photo via Bruce K. Flickr photostream
A couple of CBC employees toss paper airplanes off the 9th floor atrium balcony in Toronto yesterday. The annual event is a fundraiser for charity. 
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		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/flying-high/</link>
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		<title>Three Important Digital Trends from 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the internet research firm comScore published a review of the major digital trends of 2009 in the U.S., and, although internet usage in Canada can be quite different, the report still has some interesting insights for digital producers at the CBC. 
1.  Video Viewing is Fragmenting:  Video viewing is still growing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/three-important-digital-trends-from-2009/</link>
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		<title>BBC News Staff Told Get With Social Media or Get Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CBC Digital Research Blog pointed me to this story in the Guardian about Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News. 
BBC news journalists have been told to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/bbc-news-staff-told-get-with-social-media-or-get-out/</link>
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		<title>Big Changes at CBC News Network, Lang gets new time slot, expanded role</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CBC News Network announced some big changes to the afternoon and evenings schedule today. The highlight is an increase in air-time for Amanda Lang and the show she hosts the Lang and O&#8217;Leary Exchange, which will now run a full hour in a new prime-time time-slot. 
When the show launched in October the Lang and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/big-changes-at-cbc-news-network-lang-gets-new-time-slot-expanded-role/</link>
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		<title>Got the Next Million Dollar Idea? Wanna be on Dragons&#8217; Den?</title>
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Props to the Dragons
If you think you&#8217;ve got the next million dollar idea, or you&#8217;ve invented a better mouse trap, or even some wacky board game, you could pitch it on Dragons&#8217; Den. 
The hit CBC show is holding auditions across the country. A post on the show&#8217;s web site says, &#8220;due to overwhelming demand, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insidethecbc.com/million-dollar-idea-dragons-den/</link>
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