I won’t say that all the music on the new CBC 2 is bad, in fact much of it is good, what I object to is the commercial sheen that has been added to the broadcast. I love “The Signal” and I often hear things that I like during the day, but why all the hype and chatter; how is this helping the bottom line? If I want to relax a little and possibly hear some good quality music that I don’t know, I now usually turn to Radio Canada “Espace Musique” – at least they’ve maintained their dignity while still playing (mostly) interesting music of many genres.

This decision to homogenize the entire schedule of broadcast with a single signature voice has made it so that I can’t stand listening to most of the shows during the day. The once unique Radio 2 character has begun to sound ever more like straight-up commercial radio with all the ridiculous and unnecessary hype one expects from commercial youth-oriented radio created by Clear Channel.

What is the real problem with Lorie Brown or any other skilled announcer creating her own preview of the upcoming show or mentioning what the next show is going to be?

Please, please, please reconsider this misguided approach to radio sound design and return to a more dignified, individuated style of broadcasting.

Now it has all but disappeared – if I want to listen to ‘pop music’ – there are 15 other stations I can tune into and most do a better job! Now we cannot get any classical music radio on our long commutes unless we go with satelite.

We are both highly educated individuals (MBA/accounting degree for husband in 30s, and medical doctor for wife in late 20s). We are both very disappointed and really wish our taxes did not support these kind of ‘progeressive’ changes which bring programming to lowest common denominator … or no denominator at all.

Shame on you CBC! Lets have a survey to see what your listeners really want!

Michael & Magdalena

Please re-establish your good reputation, don’t be proud, and reinstate classical from 6AM-3PM at least..meanwhile, i have to switch off the CBC until 10AM…and my whole day is affected negatively …aren’t we taxpayers have any saying in the matter? Why don’t you conduct a referendum on line?

Thanks

While we’re on the subject of ads, there’s a Radio 2 ad on the radio that is misleading. “Tempo” is being advertised as “a mix of classical music you won’t hear anywhere else.” This is untrue. You can hear an extremely similar “mix” of popular, overplayed classical music on the local classical station here in Montreal.

Hence – here is a solution for you – as you obviously are after an audience who tends to have all of the above on their litlle amazing gadgets put your new programs tailored to them on the internet and restore our wonderful programs on plain old radio which we CAN access from our bedrooms, cars and kitchens .Now wouldnt that be more fair ?

Hey I wonder if we could hold back some of our income tax revenue as a protest – just for the amount that it costs to run the new CBC2 ??

I did enjoy the classical music and the informative chatter of the various hosts. However I have to say that after such a long time of the same format, I am sure I have heard every imaginable quality recording of both famous and obscure classical compositions at least twice!

The first week of the New CBC 2 brought to the forefront music previously overlooked by mainstream media; whether alternative recordings of the 1980′s and 90′s or current not-very-well-known Canadian artists. The new format fills a hole sorely missed on the airwaves since the old Coast 1040 shut down. Finally! Something tailored for my own, generally ignored, generation (born 1966).

Give it time people; there’s enough of a music mix to appeal to everyone, and the middle part of the day is still classical. I think time will prove the New CBC 2 to have broad appeal.

-Keta

Well….my constant companion has abandoned me and many other people throughout our great country. I live in a small community in Northern Ontario and, like many small communities throughout Canada, CBC Radio is the only option for classical music.

The loss to me, my family and people living in communities throughout our region and rural Canada is significant. I am sure this will have a lasting and negative impact on future generations. This is a backward step at a time when we are trying to build ecclictic music appreciation within our youth.

Good bye CBC Radio Two and Tom Allen, Jergen Gothe and others. I have just eliminated FM 101.7 from all the preset radio stations in my home, office and vehicles. There is no point in listening any more.

I really like the new Drive show, myself. It’s cool enough for a young male (demographic alert!) like myself but more accessible to more mature listeners than, say, the Edge. And it’s far far less vacuous than the easy listening stations.

Now if we could just get Radio 3 actually on the radio…

Dear Tom,

I have tried, but wake up angry as a result of the raucous, repetitive **** you are now required to program.

I am leaving you, and CBC, forever. Once the dial has moved, there is no incentive to turn it back.

Young Canadians will never know what they have missed, and the Canadian music world will be diminished as a result. What used to be “world class” (CBC Radio 2) is now unmemorable.

Radio Two was an integral part of my life, in the house, in the car, in my class room, on the cottage deck. I do not sit chained to a desk all day staring at a computer in oreder to get my classical music “fix”. What a pathetic future for Canadians.

I don’t know how you can do your job. Lucky are all my CBC friends who are now unemployed. At least they are free to chart a new course.

A tax rebellion (Why should we be paying for this?????); our own radio station?????

Looking for leaders! (and trying to figure out how to set my in house stereo system to wake us up. I won’t miss the watered down news, but I will miss you).

When I visit Montreal, I listen to 99.5 CJPX; a classical station that is one of the fastest growing stations in the area… and for a reason – there’s a market for classical music.

I hope the CBC will wake up and realize that pissing off its current listeners (and there’s quite a few – http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=14c3d53b-cdee-4969-ab72-b329b3c9457d) in hope of capturing a would-be audience is not the way forward…