I’ve really been enjoying my time here in Toronto. I’m halfway through my twenty hours, and have been meeting some very cool people on the line; people I otherwise would never have met: audio post-production television workers, people from corporate communications, graphic designers, national television producers… the list goes on. Plus, a couple people have [...]
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The lockout web, tagged and fed
Some “tagged web” sites (and their associated feeds) worth checking out:
the del.icio.us cbclockout tag (rss)
the del.icio.us cbc tag (rss)
Technorati’s cbc tag (rss)
And, two news search sites that aren’t tagged, but deliver decent feeds:
MSN Search news: cbc (rss)
Google News Search: cbc (rss)
Is “alternative programming” a good idea?
I just finished listening to CBC Unplugged from Studio Zero. And I got to thinking about CBC workers generating “alternative programming” during the lockout. What does that really mean? And is it necessarily a good idea?
As far as I understand, the lockout has prompted two different programming strategies. There’s the “business as usual” camp, which [...]
More From the East Coast
From Warren comes a link to cbclockout.org, a website run by the Halifax local of the CMG.
At the centre of the universe
I’m in Toronto now.
I arrived late Saturday night, and checked in with the CMG folks outside the Broadcast Centre yesterday. I plan to picket here this week, and am keen to compare/contrast my experience with union-friendly Windsor, Ontario.
Pickets run 24/7 here, and it’s a “show up whenever, stay as long as you want” system. Apparently, [...]
Lockout report from my hometown
Stephanie Domet has a lockout story in this week’s issue of The Coast:
I am, unbelievably, deeply sad about being locked out. It doesn’t feel like a vacation. It feels like a betrayal.
Management Killed the Radio Star
In a cleverly-titled post, elated? points to a good CMG/CBC lockout primer from rabble.ca.
Open Letter From a Locked-Out CBC Radio Employee
Just read Caitlin’s Open Letter From a Locked-Out CBC Radio Employee:
The CBC is only as good as its programming, and therefore only as good as the people who create that programming. Having zero security and always worrying about where we will work next week means we can’t fully concentrate on our jobs. We can’t be [...]
Locked-out CBC workers back on air… via campus radio!
Wouldn’t it be great if CBC radio newsroom staff continued to do their jobs? If we continued to file reports, conduct interviews, and produce news items? What if we kept doing newscasts, same as always? We could use our own personal minidisc recorders, computers, and editing equipment. We could air the news on CJAM (Windsor’s [...]
The lockout unlocks the ideal CBC
Russell from the Globe and Mail thinks that Radio Two sounds better during the lockout:
“No announcers. No letters being read about people’s pets or retirements. No giggling ‘personalities.’ No folk-jazz, folk-pop or folk-classical. It’s uninterrupted heaven — and exactly what Radio Two should be.”
(A Globe INSIDER Edition subscription is required to access this story. You [...]