Over on alt.radio.networks.cbc, Dan Say says CBC Radio’s summer schedule is “almost like CBCOvernightOverflow.” And I have to agree.
Browse through the lineup, and many of the shows start to look a little, um… similar.
Crossing Boundaries is
A 30 minute program featuring the best documentaries from public broadcasters around the world, including the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain.
Global Perspectives is
Global Perspectives is a theme-based program featuring documentaries from around the world.
Spotlight is made up of
The best programs from public broadcasters worldwide, presented in their entirety.
WorldPlay is
Our annual International Festival of Original Radio Drama brings you original works from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, The USA, Ireland and Britain.
I honestly wonder what the nation’s appetite for international programming is, and whether it’s not currently served by the Overnight service. Or podcasts. Or, uh… shortwave.
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Except that, in general, shortwave broadcasts are not as varied.
A few stations such as RNW, DW, RA, RMongolia produce good magazine programmes, often a reflection of a good local national network, or a long tradition of (CBC-like?) long form current affairs (and drama).
Much of shortwave is news, musical interludes and then reading or sight-translating the current papers or government releases.
It is good that CBC Summer is featuring these.
Then you wonder why they have Freestyle, the execrable Q show with the unbelievably dense Mr. Ghomeshi, and the logrolling Writers and Co., while Radio 2 has clips and a lightness of being in poorly programmed jazz and a fill of concert programs and Laurie Brown’s telephoning in her spacier comments on whatever is on the lineup that night. One wonders if the latter is in the studio at all.
We do need a CBCOvernightOverflow as you put it. A couple of days of such from around the world would make us question the drivel we get sometimes with CBC.
And can get we get two or more new networks, especially if they go all digital and can squeeze more in one frequency, along the lines of Radio National and Triple J from the Australian ABC?
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