6 Responses to “Today in Retro: CBC Winnipeg gets Newsworld Show”
I’m amazed at the earnestness of this report. It has a very utopian view of the future of the CBC. I think journalism is more cynical nowadays. It’s also interesting how the smaller Newsworld production centres were dropped over the years. Now most of Newsworld originates in Toronto. I’m also a little unclear why Izzy Asper is interviewed. Is he there for balance? Is he complaining about the CBC? It’s a very CBC thing to interview someone who hates the CBC and put the comments on the air, in an effort to show the neutrality of the corporation. Certainly the private networks don’t engage in such self-destructive efforts.
-- Newsworld Viewer
Can anyone put a date on this?
-- Stuart
what year was this? i loved the typewriters and people carefully looking at the keys.
-- Jane
Using Izzy almost seems like lazy journalism though. He would have been the most obvious anti-CBC’er for an interview. It probably also have something to do with the fact that Izzy’s office would have been in Winnipeg much like this reporter’s.
Also, did Can-West Global not apply for a 24-hour news service as well at the same time CBC Newsworld was awarded a license?
Newsworld went on the air in mid-1989, which puts the report somewhere in early 1989. That’s Rosemary Thompson of CTV News.
As for Izzy, it was ever thus. He bitched and whined about the fragmenting of “his” audience, and lost out on the specialty-channel bonanza of the 90s. Now his sons are forced to spend billions to acquire Alliance Atlantis.
-- estragon
The timeframe of the clip on my videotape would place it somewhere in October 1988.
“Funny to see Owen Pallett’s name in there. Early promos for “The Signal” had his name attached to them, until he asked them to stop……” [read]
“wait, never mind the format, we’re going back to local news at 11:00 PM again? We’re not even supporting the 6 PM news well enough.
Further, if we’re really going to have 11pm local news, why make it just like the…” [read]
“Gah. That last link should be: http://adage.com/brightcove/single.php?bcpid=1370868150&bctid=1655754265…” [read]
“Hey Tod,
I am worried that some of your contributors may be taking your synopsis of our submission, which highlights only a couple of its points, as the sum total of our position.
To be clear, CBC/Radio-Canada believes that…” [read]
“The real challenge should not be how to make ourselves more like the other guys….it should be, in a highly competitive news culture, how to make sure we are not just like them….” [read]
“I noticed something similar with CBC News “The National”, and it annoyed me enough that I decided not to watch the program. After introducing the news items for the broadcast, a deep voice (seemingly imitating James Earl Jones) cuts in…” [read]
“CBC management seems to be burning both ends at once: first they’re chopping vigorously into the programming that typically appeals to the older crowd, now they’re completely ignoring the big push from the younger demo. It’s getting harder to resist…” [read]
“Doesn’t the premise of getting CBC news on your iphone contradict the study (next story) that new media or technology will not overtake traditional broadcasters?
The CBC has seen its numbers decline steadily since, well, since “the restructuring” was implemented and…” [read]
I’m amazed at the earnestness of this report. It has a very utopian view of the future of the CBC. I think journalism is more cynical nowadays. It’s also interesting how the smaller Newsworld production centres were dropped over the years. Now most of Newsworld originates in Toronto. I’m also a little unclear why Izzy Asper is interviewed. Is he there for balance? Is he complaining about the CBC? It’s a very CBC thing to interview someone who hates the CBC and put the comments on the air, in an effort to show the neutrality of the corporation. Certainly the private networks don’t engage in such self-destructive efforts.
Can anyone put a date on this?
what year was this? i loved the typewriters and people carefully looking at the keys.
Using Izzy almost seems like lazy journalism though. He would have been the most obvious anti-CBC’er for an interview. It probably also have something to do with the fact that Izzy’s office would have been in Winnipeg much like this reporter’s.
Also, did Can-West Global not apply for a 24-hour news service as well at the same time CBC Newsworld was awarded a license?
Newsworld went on the air in mid-1989, which puts the report somewhere in early 1989. That’s Rosemary Thompson of CTV News.
As for Izzy, it was ever thus. He bitched and whined about the fragmenting of “his” audience, and lost out on the specialty-channel bonanza of the 90s. Now his sons are forced to spend billions to acquire Alliance Atlantis.
The timeframe of the clip on my videotape would place it somewhere in October 1988.