CBC recording engineer Joe Mahoney has a great description of the harrowing first day of Jian Ghomeshi’s daily Q arts show on CBC Radio One:
At one o’clock there’s a newscast. According to our information on this first day, the newscast was six minutes long. There’s a countdown clock in the studio that tells us when we’re supposed to be live on air. It gives us a twenty second countdown.
At 1:04:40 we were enjoying this brief respite, anticipating another minute and twenty seconds before going live again, when suddenly the exec cried out. I looked up and the countdown clock was counting down, one minute early.
Was the clock wrong? Were we going to be live at 1:05?
We hastily decided to trust the clock and start the show. I called master control at the same time to ask them if the clock was right. I needed an answer before 1:06, because if the clock was wrong we would have to restart the show at 1:06. Master told us that as far as they knew the clock was right. So we carried on with the show.
Afterward we learned that we had the wrong information, and that the start time for part three of the show is indeed 1:05.
You can read the full gory details of that first day on air on his blog at http://www.assortednonsense.com
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How self-confident is Ghomeshi when Jian has to bring in someone to describe his looks to listeners- that he has just had a haircut? I find he comes across as being too self-obsessed and just another Torontosaurus Wrecks. Pop Culture is not Culture… it is primarily juvenile and almost always counter-culture… unless you’re Avril LaSongYah. There’s too much oggle of adolescent nightmare music and second-hand blogged internet banter to keep me welded to 2 pm. I don’t know how many times he says ‘Jian Ghomeshi’… but he constantly puts himself above the show. It looks like I’ve become too old for CBC. For me (pardon my French)… Q. stands for Qua?