Kevin O’Leary Joins Amanda Lang at CBC Newsworld
Kevin O’Leary, best know as the brash, outspoken venture capitalist on Dragon’s Den and a frequent guest on Business News Netowork (BNN), will host a new business show on CBC Newsworld this fall.
O’Leary will join Amanda Lang, who also left BNN recently, at the helm of the new show. Their new show will air weekday afternoons. “Amanda Lang left alone in a show with her liberal views is dangerous,” he joked to the Globe and Mail. “I have been hired on behalf of all Canadians who believe in the capitalist system to keep her in check.”
More seriously O’Leary told the paper “We built something together and I didn’t want to lose it – I like working with her.”
The new show is part of a massive overhaul of CBC News, that is being described internally as the news renewal project. Other changes as part of the project include a new politics show from Ottawa, hosted by Evan Solomon, a new prime-time Newsworld show hosted by Mark Kelly and integrating the news division to improve coordination and communication. The changes are intended to make the news division more nimble, better coordinated with cbcnews.ca, and to improving and expanding local news.
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That’s unfortunate that O’Leary is joining Amanda. I was hoping she had rid herself of him.
I wonder how Mr. O’Leary feels being ‘shackled’…
Richard Stursberg on Report on Business TV’s Squeezeplay
with hosts Amanda Lang and Kevin O’Leary
June 29, 2006
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Amanda: So — I don’t know if you paid attention to the math but the bottom line is it is nearly impossible to live next to the market that we do in America with the production capabilities of content and make money at producing Canadian shows.
Kevin: Then I have one answer, don’t do it.
Amanda: I don’t know if all Canadians would agree with that answer.
Kevin: You know Amanda, all things in life, if you can’t make money, why are you doing it?
Amanda: Kevin, you have children, you plant trees, you pave roads. It’s not all about making money.
Kevin: But you’re talking about a business where people get up in the morning to go to work.
Amanda: It’s your culture, culture of protection. Every country in the world except America.
Kevin: If you make people get up and go to work and you don’t let them profit, you are evil.
Amanda: That’s the point he is making. You can let them profit. It’s just you have to marry it so you have a loss leader, can con and marry it with the profit generation of carrying some American programming. Necessary evil that allows a flourishing Canadian culture. When you hear the numbers, I don’t see how else we produce good Canadian programming that gets seen.
Kevin: Right answer is set the CBC free from the shackles and burden of government and let it do what it has to do to profit like every other business where people toil in the bowels.
Amanda: How will they be different from CTV or Global?
Kevin: I don’t care. They’ll find their niche, they’ll make their money. It is a criminal offence to make people toil and not make money. In my mind it’s a crime.
Amanda: I should clarify that the CBC doesn’t consistently beat in the news. It’s just not recently they certainly haven’t. They do sometimes is what I meant.
Kevin: Set them free. Unshackle them. Set them free.
Amanda: I don’t know if Canadians agree.
Kevin: I think they do. Many feel the same way I do. Take it off the government dole and let it fly, let it soar.
thanks kevin for joining amanda you are a great team..and you tellit the way it is ..we love you..
hopeing for a successful duo….