When people discuss satellite radio in Canada, CanCon is one of the big issues. To put things into some historical perspective, here’s the CRTC and Canadian Content (from the CBC Archives).
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Monthly Archives November 2004
Audio lomography
Ever since I first heard about it last November, I’ve liked the idea of lomography – people documenting their lives with toy cameras. Moreso than the lo-tech approach, it’s the philosophy that appeals to me:
Lomography emphasizes shoot-from-the-hip photography. Over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are used to produce artistic, abstract effects and are prized [...]
Make a nuisance of yourself
From Poynter, Tips for Getting Started in Broadcast Journalism. Nothing you don’t already know, but a few pretty good reminders.
Narrationless stories
Read David Kattenburg’s The Art of the Narrationless Documentary tonight, and was reminded of something I read in Ira Glass’s Manifesto on Transom.
Early in his career, Ira “invented this series of stories where I’d interview people and then edit myself out of the tape completely. They’d tell stories and reflect on what the stories meant. [...]
Pitching
This past week, I started my part-time job as a “Digital Media Assistant” here at Ryerson. My job is to sit in the 229 digital media lab and help people with software. Since I work evenings and weekends, there is rarely anyone in the lab. So it’s a great opportunity for me to work on [...]
Story meetings, vetting scripts
Earlier this week, I was invited to sit in on two regional program story meetings — one for Metro Morning, another for Here and Now. I’ve attended a few “real life” story meetings, and I always find it amazing and impressive that these meetings somehow turn into a radio show in a matter of hours. [...]
The CBC internship run-around
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been trying very hard over the past couple of months to get some type of CBC Radio internship. This is partly on the suggestion of Deb Woolway in Halifax, who listed an internship as a requirement for me to be considered for any type of Halifax summertime [...]
Can satellite CBC Radio still be CBC Radio?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the proposed CBC/Standard/Sirius subscription-based satellite radio service lately. The CRTC public hearings started this week, and details have surfaced about the CBC’s programming contributions. According to Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2004-6:
The proposed service would initially offer 78 channels, four of which would be produced in Canada by [...]
Good news and bad news
The Good: Yesterday I got word that I won Tod Maffin’s Third Coast International Audio Festival t-shirt contest.
The Bad: Yesterday I took my tape recorder (Sony TCM-5000EV) to an electronics repair shop, and they basically told me that it was irreparable. There is some sort of weird hiss coming through the speaker and headphone jack [...]